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on special occasions, as may be thought most ad- 
yisable. 
On the 8th of April the first stone of a new 
church was laid at New Mill, in the parish of 
Kirk-burton. 
On Sunday evening, the 12th of April, during 
evening service at the Methodist chapel, Keck- 
wardwicke, part of the stone pipe fell down, and 
the congregation were so alarmed, that a rush to 
the door took place, and six persons were trodden 
to death. 
A woman named Elizabeth Edwards, an inmate 
of the seamens’ hospital, Whitby, lost her speech, 
by a paralytic affection, 18 years ago. On the 6th 
of April she was reading the 5th chapter of St. 
John’s Gospel: and whilst meditating on the 
miracle performed at the pool of Bethesda, she 
prayed that God would restore her her speech 
again. Her prayer was answered, and her 
speech restored! 
Trade is in a very depressed state in all parts 
of Yorkshire. The manufacturing and agricul- 
tural interests are equally on the decline; and the 
general trader, of course, must suffer with the 
falling fortunes of his customers. 
The Fifteenth Anniversary of the Wesleyan 
Missionary Society was lately held at Hull, when 
#151. 9s. 54d. was collected ; and the general re- 
port of their proceedings was read, when it ap- 
peared that, exclusive of catechists, local preach- 
ers, and a great number of persons, diligently 
employed in the religious instruction of the chil- 
dren, there are, at present, 190 missionaries em- 
ployed on 138 different stations; some of which 
are important in a very high degree, extending 
instruction to various towns and villages, con- 
taining a population of many thousands. ‘ In 
Ireland, we have 21 missionaries; in France, 
Gibraltar, Malta, Egypt, and the Ionian Isles, 
12, 12 are employed in the Islands of the South 
Sea; 16 in Southern and Western Africa; 27 in 
Ceylon and Continental India; 47 in British 
North America ; and 55 in the Islands and Colo- 
£50,000 have been received by the treasurers of 
arent Institution, being an advance of nearly 
languages) and to more than 100,000 beings. 
36,917 of these are members of the Methodist So- 
ciety. In addition to the adult population com- 
mitted to the care of your missionaries, there are 
16,917 children regularly and carefully instructed 
the great truths of Christianity; and those 
aborious men have already translated the living 
oracles of truth into the Cingalese, the Indo-Por- 
tuguese, and the Pali languages.” 
. LANCASHIRE.—We are sorry we are still 
_udableto announce any material improvement in 
_ the demand for cotton goods, ‘There las been a 
_considerable number of drapers in town, and 
_ several wholesale purchasers from London; but 
they bave purchased yery cautiouly and sparing- 
ly, and in general not above one third of what 
hey have usually taken at this season, The 
ipping trade is exceedingly dull, except in 
ns of low numbers. We are sorry to add, 
e spinners of eighteen mills, employed in 
fine numbers, have turned out against a 
“of wages. By this proceeding, from 
Yorkshire and Lancashire. 
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ten to twelve thousand pérsons have been de- 
prived of employment. It is one of the unfortu- 
nate circumstances attending a dispute between 
the higher class of workmen in cotton mills and 
their employers, that it involves in its conse- 
quences the comforts of thousands who are not 
otherwise concerned in the quarrel. The women 
and children who receive weekly wages are all 
thrown out of employment along with the spin- 
ners, thongh they have nothing to gain by the 
triumph of either party. We fear that the suf- 
ferings of this class will be great, as there is no 
prospect of a speedy settlement of differences.— 
Manchester Herald, April 9. 
The turn-out cotton-spinners, at Stockport, 
amounting to no less than 10,060 persons, haye 
been supported, since they left their work, prin- 
cipally by the contributions of those spinners who 
remained in full work in other places, particu- 
larly in Manchester, Hyde, and the neighbour- 
hood. The master manufacturers have had se- 
veral meetings to concert measures for destroying 
that combination ; and they came to the resolu- 
tion, of making a progressive reduction in the 
wages of their hands while the Stockport turn- 
out should continue. They also issued an address, 
calling upon the men who are in work, to sign a 
declaration, that they will not contribute to the 
support of the turn-outs. For the purpose of con- 
sidering this address, a numerous meeting of the 
operative spinners and weavers in Hyde took 
place on Wednesday evening, April 1, in a large 
room at the Norfolk Arms, which was attended 
by between 600 and 700 persons, including a pro- 
portion of females, when suddenly the two large 
beams, which supported that part of the floor 
which extended over the travellers’ room, sud- 
denly gave way, and about 300 persons were pre- 
cipitated into the room below. The floor of the 
travellers’ room also gave way, and the whole 
descended in one mass into the cellar, and no less 
than 30 persons lost their lives, actually dying 
from suffocation ! 
An unparalleled stagnation pervades all com- 
mercial pursuits ; transactions are on a very re- 
duced scale, and are, for the most part, wholly 
without profit. In some articles, and those the 
most important, the trade is attended with very 
serious loss. We have heard the loss on the im- 
port of cotton into Liverpool stated at £20,000 
per week, and we believe the estimate is not 
exaggerated, though the price is lower than was 
ever before known. All commodities are daily 
sinking in price, the demand is decreasing, and 
the confidence which formerly induced specula- 
tions is entirely at an end.* 
The expenditure of the parish of Liverpool, 
“ It is scarcely possible to convey an adequate 
idea of the distressed state of trade both in town 
and country. What tends materially to keep 
what is going on from the knowledge of the pub- 
lic is, thata multitude of insolvencies, which in 
ordinary times would tind their way into the 
“ Gazette,” are disposed by private compromise 
among the creditors, becanse it would only tend 
to make the mischief greater to reveal its extent ; 
as the heavy law expenses contingent upon bank- 
ruptcies cannot in many casesbe afforded. There 
is scarcely a staple article of consumption which 
has not fallen. within five or six months 20 per 
cent. or more in yalue; and persons connected 
with the management of our great canals ob- 
serve, that on most of these there is literally no- 
thing doing. 
