On Thursday week, the line of railway between Manchester and
Bolton was formally opened, by the passage of two trains conveying a number of shareholders and their friends from Manchester to Bolton and back.—Manchester Guardian.
The general rate of travelling of the first class coaches on the Liver- pool and Manchester Railway is now thirty miles an hour ; and within the last fortnight the whole thirty miles have been performed in forty- seven minutes.
The cloth, markets at both halls in Leeds have rather improved this week, as regards the quantity of goods sold, but prices remain the same : in the warehouses, there continues to be a pretty fair business doing for the season.
The wheats in the neighbourhood of East Retford on strong clay soils are looking remarkably healthy, being well set, and of a good colour ; but upon the sands they are thin and looking yellow ; in some places they are nearly brown ; and in low swampy situations the frost has been so severe as to kill the blade and roots by acres together. Barley on the forest land is generally looking well ; though upon poor soils it looks starved, and presents a very patchy appearance ; and, like wheat, it has received injury in wet and swampy situations. A similar remark will apply to Oats. Beans and peas are both looking well, but they do not progress so fast as could be desired. Seeds are also looking well ; but where sheep and cattle have been suffered to pasture, the frost has made a serious havoc, and a want of verdure is very generally complained of.—Doncaster Gazette.
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