Accounts from Nottingham, received this morning, mention that numbers of
unemployed workmen, with women carrying children in -their arms, were parading the streets, asking for bread, and that in some instances bakers' ehops had been broken open. Many of the inha- bitants were actively distributing relief. Mr. Smith, a grocer, supplied rice gratis to upwards of six hundred families.
From the Leeds papers of this day's date, it appears that the woollen trade continues in a very depressed state. The Leeds Mercury says- " Many of the respectable manuflicturers who have been in the habit of making largely for the market, have now not a single loom at work, and the country mills are scarcely half employed." From Hudders- field, Bradford, Dewsbury, Halifax, Wakefield, Rochdale, and Barnsley, the reports are similar. At Huddersfield, "nothing is heard of but failures and distress," and "every day adds to the number of unem- ployed operatives."
A public meeting is to be held in Leeds on Thursday next, to "take into consideration the distressed condition of unemployed poor." A committee, appointed to make inquiry into their numbers, reports 2,515 heads of families as without work ; but the Leeds haelligencer is "per- suaded that the number of those suffering under very severe privation greatly exceeds" that nutnber.
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