The state of trade in Nottingham is still very deplorable.
The appli- cations from unemployed frame-work knitters, and especially silk glove hands, to the Board of Guardians, have been so numerous, that the Guardians have been compelled to find labour for those with three chit- .dren and upwards. It is melancholy to think of the unfortunate con- 4ition of these persons, possessed in the main of good characters, with wives destitute of the common necessaries of life and children crying for bread, having no work at their own calling, and therefore being compelled, at this inclement season of the year, to turn from the deli- cate employment of working in silk frames at their own houses, to that of labouring with spade and barrow upon the bleak hills of Mapperley, at the latter end of November, to obtain the mere necessaries of life. The men not belonging to the Nottingham parishes who are thrown out of work are in a most deplorable condition ; they have nothing before them but starvation, or becoming inmates of some of the surrounding union workhouses. Those also with small families are in a wretched state, and there is plenty for time hand. of charity to accomplish. Our worthy chief magistrate has a list of 367 men, not employed by the Board of Guardians, who, with their wives and children, amount to more than 1,000 persons, and they are literally starving. The scenes with which the streets of Nottingham abound are truly heart-rending.— Nottingham Review.
Trade in the Staffordshire Potteries is, we regret to learn, in a very indifferent state, owing chiefly to the derangements in. the American markets. In a few instances the manufacturers are only keeping their works open three days a week. We have heard that one extensive firm has, this week, received large orders of a satisfactory nature from America, which will be of essential service.—Stafford Advertiser.
It is a lamentable fact, that in various remote Parts of the counties of Durham and Northumberland whole fields of unripe wheat, oats, and beans are yet to he seen.—Cumberland Petcguel.
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