MARKET AND TRADE REPORT.
City.—The deportation of such large numbers of shirt hands, to which we have before alluded, has caused an unparallelled rise in wages, amounting, we are assured, in some cases, to as much as a farthing per dozen on "gents' dress." It is rumoured that the "United Distressed Needle-women" contemplate striking for a reduction of the hours of labour. Twenty-one hours a day, with three intervals of two minutes each for meals, except during the busy season which comprises only about eleven months in the year, is spoken of as likely to be their stipulation.
Manchester.—Policemen are in rather better demand, at a slight advance on former prices. Good stout articles are quoted at from 13s. to 17s. per week; sergeants 19s. to 21s.; best blues, strong, full length, 23s.