We should delude our readers if we encouraged them to
believe that the trade of the country this winter would not be universally had. It still be so. Every department will stiffer. The great cotton district is at this moment in severe distress ; the great woollen district is not much better ; the cutlery of Sheffield, the lace and stocking manufacturers of Nottinghtun, the hosiers of Leicester and Derby, the hardware manu- facturers of Birmingham and Wolverhampton, the potters of Stafford- shire, the cotton-spinners and weavers of Glasgow and Paislev' the linen weavers of Dundee, and the great trading communities of Lon- don, Liverpool, Bristol, Hull, and Newcastle, are all labouring under a degree of stagnation which will destroy the profits of capital, and leave scores of thousands of workmen without work and bread.—Leeds Mer- cury.
The Leicester Chronicle says—" We wish we could make a more favour- able report of the state of the trade, but at present we are not able to do so. The country trade is rather flatter than it was, and, we fear, is likely to be still worse. Great numbers of framework-knitters are out of work. In wool there is but little doing, and the farmers hold firm; but what is selling by the staplers is at somewhat lower rates. Some of the mills are working short time, and the demand far yarn is very slack : prices about the same, although some descriptions may be bought a shade lower."
The Wolverhampton trade has not improved, and the distress amongst the smaller manufacturers appears to be increasing rather than other- wise. No large orders, and a very few small ones have been received by the factors.—Stufford Examiner.
We regret to say that a considerable number of' failures have been announced within the last few days ; but the majority of them are of firms not very directly connected with the staple business of the town, though two or three are so.-21/anekeeter Guardian, Dee. 3 I. The pavilion for the 9th January (the day fixed for the Anti-Corn- law dinner) is to be erected in Peter Street, on a piece of waste ground belonging to Mr. Alderman Cobden, between By water's notA and the Methodist Chapel. It is to be 50 yards in length by 35 io width— dimensions which will afford accommodation, it is expected, to three thousand persons. The ground is now being enclosed with a wall. We understand that on the 10th January, the evening following, the dinner, the Working Men's Anti-Corn-law Association of Manchester purpose having an entertainment in the pavilion ; and that there is also to be a soiree on some subsequent evening, at which ladies are to be present.—Manekcster Guard/ctn.
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