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Silk Goode and Foreign Thies n Silk, im ported during the fret fourteen days of Sep tember. 1831: £. s. d. 154 Aids of Tulle Lace at 10s 72 0 0 reiBllk Goods, ad valorem ..... 26,235 0 0 2,120 pee. Nem bats Bandannas at 21s 2,249 10 0 31 do. ditto Broad Goods at 71 217 0 0 27,773 10 0 18,050 lbs. Foreign Thrown Silk at 24a 01,••••••=.11ED £4,029 10 0 As above, the public have again an extract from the Customs' Returns, showing the melancholy results of Mr. Heakijesee measures being still emeniseed in. • ' The Silk Trade is &tea into a dreadful state o esehernewenent; most of the Manufacture's sad Throwsters are coming to a stand-still ; some Mills are totally closed • others reducing their employment to a half; and all are obliged to con tract the small pittance of wages and all for what ? Because Mr. Huskisson's scheme is to be tried a little longer ; and a year ap, Mr. Fitzgerald (by the advice of a Political Empiric) gave the grinding screw another turn, by a fur ther reduction of the Duties on Foreign Silks. We trust the Board of Trade are alive to the ruinous importations which are crushing the Ma nufacturers, and that something will be done to relieve them, or a wretched winter, we forebode, awaits this neighbourhood . — Macc lesfield Courier. A LUCBA, 1 14NOVEX.14MdflICA. At a namerous and respectable meeting of the inhabitants of Hanover, held -at the Court-house, in the town of Loam, on Saturday, the 30th July, 1831, convened by the Hon. Robert Allwood, Castes of the said perish, in conformity to a requi sition from the said inhabitants addressed to him, for the purpose of taking into consideration the, alarming state of the colony ; the following reso lutions were proposed and agreed to : That this meeting, taking into consideration the alarming state of the 'country, look upon an open and fearless avowal of our sentiments as the only means in our power for the preservation of our lives and the security of our property, as nothing short of our destruction and annihilation is aimed at by the malevolent and interested views of a ma lignant party in Britain, who, under an assump tion of sanctity, conceal the greatest depravity, and beneath the garb of religion and philanthropy promote their schemes of political advancement and pecuniary interest to.our ruin. That we have been most grossly traduced and calumniated by the Anti-Slavery Society, who Mis represent the actual Mtn . 0 00111d411.0tOorl negro population, and that the teeliegs of our fel low subjects at home are wound up to the highest pitch by the basest acts, most wanton Old atro cious falsehoods, relative to the management of our peasantry, notwithstanding we anxioulycoort rigid, inquiry into the real state of our labouring class. That his Majesty's Ministers should be thus con trolled by- such a faction we deeply lament, and until that ceases we can have but little hope of a, fair and impartial hearing. That whereas our property to slaves has been' recognised and guaranteed by repeated acts of the British Parliament, any attempt to destroy pro-I perty thus sanctioned is a violation'of every prin ciple oflaW and justice, unless full Compensation shall be previously awarded by the British nation. That though our fellow subjects have been re lieved Of 30 millions of taxes since the peace, yet the war tas on our staple has, co n t r a r y t o a ll good faith, been continued, and this during the period of most unparalleled distiess : and that as we have every reason to know we have every thing to fear from the policy of the party in Britain, and nothing to hope from its justice, we proceed to elect a de legate or delegates from the meeting, to consult with the delegates or officers that may be appointed by the other parishes in this co u nty, as t o th e b est I and most efficient means to form a colonial union for our mutual preservation. That we are still disposed to evince the same loyal and patriotic feeling to our beloved and re veiled Sovereign, common with the rest of His Majesty's. subjects, we there fore take th's oppor tunity of offering our congratulations to William IV. when we observe n the throne of Great Britain a Monarch who has resided in earlier life on the shores of this once happy and contented island, and who is thus enabled to judge of the real state of our affairs, to whom, 'leder the presetogloomy prospects, we look for countenance . and protect'on. Accounts have been receivelat bublin, by two ships from Antigua, that the dreadful hurricane at Barbadoes has been worse than first represented; more lives and shipping were lost. Some medical men in France are said to have ascertained that gold is preferable to mercury in many diseases. These learned gentlemen must be wags. Mercury, we all know, is the god of gold and of physicians. Gold applied to the palms of the latter has always been a panacea among them. CURL FOR Tilt CHOLRR A Morava.—Several of the clew of the French frigate Arethusa, when lying at Annapolis 12 years ago, were attacked with cholera, and the following simple remedy was .used with the greatest success:—" Rice eater, made very strong, with much sugar and a little laudanum, drank plentifully." Out of 140 sick, only one di: d.—New .York Paper. From the returns presented to the House of Commons it appears that the official value of the imports into the United Kingdom from the British colonies and possessions, in the year ending the 'sth of Jemmy, 1830, was 19,863,8401. 12e. 9d; 'that the British and lrieh pn deco, exported to them in. -the same period,. was, in official value, '15,534,8821..2... 11d. and, m declared value, 10,996,2451:105. 10d. The .Foreign and Colonial s mirchoodiiie exported_ to out coloniskand posses sions, from the United Aingdem during that year was, in official value, 1,765,0781. 17s. Id. THE SPRING GUN MILL. ---. 41 ,..--- TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR., Mr LORD,—I can scarcely dosed% the as tonishment and disgust with which I pertnertin the public papers, a few days ago, the repeal aide in the House of Lords to bring in a bill to legalise the setting of Spring Gene. 111111 thhig-cineld l a , increase those unpleasant f . 4 . it we' .11ffr support which the proposed seas AIR& have received from your .: •: It if new only a few session, since the *well Osaka 1 , - 1 ceitedAfter protracted opposition. What every man of oesncrson -man and common - humanity hailed milelieWlyilaw- • IP* vitroz*ity be considsied fo '611,11111110 country, ihe'Fcrturrstle OF JUSTICE. Is it.tken, *doer. I ask, that a man &ell not may • be eon damned, bet, it may be, snot DEAD? is it not, my Lord, admitted universally in this country, that it is better that twenty guilty men should be ac quitted. than that one wise is innocent should be punished ? But Isere, admitting the crime to be deserving of death, scarcely one really guilty has ever suffered by these inanimate engines, while scores of innocent ones have been shot. Tn. pa nishment would always precede the crime. Are we, my Lord, under any circumstances, give me leave seriously to ask, to do evildm h good may be effected, supposing, which .1 do not admit, that any good can be effected by such means? 1 think that yiur Lordship, will say No. Would it be boron, my lord, in any state, that individuals should' be frullsoriseiti by law to erect a gallows, on partictifir Tiarte of their estates, and set men to watch, day and night, for strangers wandering within those prescribed accessible Limits, authorised, if they could secure suck, to bee( them without asking 'them a angle question? .0: what amounts to much the same thing, to set thorn; men so to watch, armed with guns, with orders to shoot such strangers unchallenged ? I think that your lordship will answer No ! • Death, my lord, is a mellows thing; such, my lord, we shall all oue-day find it •to be. It is of so serious a nature, that under no circumstances, I aver, ought man to inflict it. The man who may beiMight to deserve it the. most, is, of all others, the least fit to meet it. Man ought not, in any case, to extend punishment beyond the 'boundaries of the world in which the . crime was committed ; and death Is of ell punishments, 1 am persuaded, the least calculated to produce any of the legiti mate objeCts which it is intended to effect. It maybe asked, how otherwise, than by spring glia!" am tbn 14041 1 4141. to be peevented from rase** timsir ilibliimal purposes ? I can only an swer—by rational jolt and proper means. lam not bound to say what those means should be, but I will here venture to point out one, which would not only be such, but which would certainly be in a great measure effective. I 'observed, my lord, that the debate which pre ceded the second reading of this most foolish, cruel, and iniquitous bill, was (for, perhaps, the five hun dredth time) a. very long one on the almost squally foolish, cruel, and iniquitous Game Laws.. Now, my Lord, send these at coca, and for over, to those Andes to which alt - unjeit wawa end Modem ought to be sent, -and liundredii. nay, thousands of useless gamekeepers will he'fbrown out of em ployment. • 'Let these, 'my Lord, all be eat‘-if all ebouldhe aseessarpi-to watch inpeacethoire farms, corn stacks, or other prAperty, which may be thought to be in danger. HeM, my Lord, we bare' many good purposes effected at once, without a fart's*/ of expense being incurred, and without violating any lane, human or &Sim. What good does your Lordship or any other No bleman, conceive would be effected by setting: spring guns about your corn stacks ? I'll tell your lordship. what evil, I conceive, would re sult from it. Every one would thereby be re minded of the crime, and many who else would never have thought of it, be led by that means to he guilty of it. The villainous would be roused to desperation ; whilst you would have furnished them with a most effective instrument, ready al ways at hand, and they would often be *sagacious and ingenious enough, to turn the gun against the stacks, instead of against themselves. But ad mit,'nty cord, that out of the hundreds who may be injured by these infernal engines, one real incen diary would suffer. What would be the conse quence? Why in all probability that the crime would be multiplied, perhaps ten-fold. You meat remember, my Lord, that there are means of firing stacks, without coming near them.' It is at all times, my Lord, both dangeroui and impolitic to exasperate unnecessarily. Ler villains see that you are not afraid of them, but never viola's the laws of either. GOD or man, to detect or punish them. Were • this • proposed !sty to pass, u I under stand it, no man, particularly a stranger, could travel in safety. He might be continually coming 'from various causes and necessities, on deadly ground. Neither man, woman, nor child, could be safe. We should be in a more savage state than the inhabi tants of the South Sea Islands formerly were. The King (but not the Nobles) could there take any building, object, or place, i. e. decree it death for any one to treat or come near them ; but then, even in that case, and in that place, they , were first heard, and formally condemned. But here, in this civilised Christian country, not only the King, but the nebles, and even the landowners in general, would be able so to take-asty place, theft it might be ISSTANT ri s tfiTH for tidy !Moir oreirtore tot ap proach within ► certain distance of them. Really, my Lord, I think that, ombidering ;OS airlifts 'lance. of the present tithes, %Vedas offnetteilleb madders. Intlit'haVe seized sou* of the memkos o your liglekbooourable hoax. Do, m y L a m , • - Am pooidolrill not boor 4bio, ••• 141, 021111111 , 118 /I IIHOLDP.R Shlfeld in U. 1831. PRICE SEVENPENCE. SIGNS OF THE TIMES. SPEECHES OF TWO WEAVERS AT THE LATE 'groan MEETING AT MANCHESTER. A man named Ashmore, a weaver, ?resented himself. He said be wished to say a few • wok]. before the resolution was pilt to the vote. He was not come there, as army might suppose, to offer any factious opposition. (Hear.) As a working man he came there to speak his send meats freely, and he hoped he should be allowed, at all events be should demand to be heard, whether allowed or not. He regretted that a meeting of clew inhabitants of Manchester bad been called it tleptTeets. Whroot 021 a meeting in the *an j ahrm.a-- el .ea_. S._ n • T —.•••••••• mom., POW {ialMilL 'ilog of dm inhabitants of Manchester, when:hey eaelclrt *mad! He Mgt adverted to the hour at winch it had been called, and said that the ' people who worked in factories could not possibly attend, and even if they ronld attend, (fired not for fear of being bagged [discharged]. (Laughter.) He contended there was .a material alteration in the minds of the people now, to what there was at first, as regarded the bill. (Cries of no, no.) At all events, in the minds of the working claws: and be was sorry to see so few of that class there. (Hear, hear.) When' the reform bill first Came out, many, glad of any change for the better, approved of it, but now they thought differently. The reform bill gave him nothing, and for that rea son be Was not content with it —(oh, oh !)—but he would take it as a stepping-stone to a still further improvement. (Aye, do.) He wanted annual parliaments, universal suffrage, and election by ballot, and the Reform Bill said nothing about them. The gentlemen who had addressed the people of Manchester on the . subject of the ensu ing election had. said nothing about these things ; but he hoped when the -time mane, the people would demand pledges from those who wished to become their representatives. There was not a word gloat extending the suffrage, and they must expect nothing from either whigs or tories (cheers). Beth agreed that the people should be robbed. The brigs there not rob us now. (laughter.) He next alluded to Mr. Hunt's motion for a repeal of the corn laws, and said that the legislature were averse to the pock man having a cheap loaf, and as a proof of his assertion, instanced the great majority against the motion for their repeal, when there were one hundred and seventy -votes against a cheap loaf, and only eight for it. (Cries of Question.) He was digressing, it was tote, but it would be to the point, (much laughter, and cries of " have done.") In allusion to petitioning the Houseartionis, thi spOsileir laid he did not know if speaking any way disparagingly of the Rouse of Lords would be right or not, but, for his part be could do well enough without them. (Or. der.)—[The Chairmen said he would or t allow any such observations to be made at that meeting. The House of Lords was an integral part of the constitution of this country.]—Mr. Ashmore, in eentinnation, said he was no enemy to th e Lords, but he wished Reform to go forward; rand would say, that he for one would not petition them at all; be would demand Reform as his birthright. He was not opposed to the bill, but it did not go far enough for him. ' Thomas Johnson, (a working man) said it was his wish that every thing at that meeting should be done peaceably and quietly, and that nothing like confusion or uprc'ar should occur at that meet ing. He wished to refer to the resolution then before the meeting, which expressed a desire that the representation of the 'country should be more perfect than at present. He th oug ht th e re f orm bill, if passed, would be of great advantage, even to the working classes, (Much cheering, mingled with a few hisses.) Will the radicals hiss me down ? (No, no, no.) Do they not wish for free discussion, and that every man may state his opinions freely ? (Yes, and applause.) They say that the reform bill will not give them more food, more clothing, or better dwellings to reside in ; but still be would say, let us have the bill, for it would be the means of enabling them to send some men into the house of commons who would do their duty when there, and protect the interests of the labouring classes. (Great applause.) It would be sure to effect good ; for, in proportion as the *forking classes suffered, the other classes would staffer also ; and they would then send members to parliament in whom they could have confidence. If the working man was reduced to ten shillings, a week, whets be should receive twenty, would not the shopkeepers and every person with whom he expended his money, feel the doffereice between receiving ten shillings instead of twenty ? And yet when it would have this effect, could there be any among the working classes aho would say that this bill would do them no good ? (Great applause.) It was his opinion that, limited as the bill was, it would be to the working classes a great advantage. (Applause.) He could not think that the lords and commons could be so stupid as not to see their own interests ; they would not all dins, that their's and the people's interests were the same. Members must get into the bone of com mons at the forthcoming elections who would do the people justice; and the whole "wane would be compelled, from the force of circumstances, to at teed so the wants of the working classes. ( Cheers.) Could there be found any man in the house that would say that four Or five shillings a week was sufficient wages for a working man ? (No, no.) He Would say to all the radicals, receive this bill thankfully, and then get all you can besides. Let Mut look forward to the day w hen they will most assuredly have dials winds rights ; then they should in Itermeay ardism. and goo en in tqle riots Iftly. (Cheers end 'soapier.) .11ry . ght halo; lame comical' ibe duties . was toggled el the labouring chases. Several voicesherocalled out theeMlea. sod Mr. Atheism., in the men in-, 'clout manner imaginable, said to the speaker, ._ ~.... j.- N°. 13,900. . . party , Aienne gnat. Of your so-operation here, but M-. Allinson 'lnwood. " No.l will not go away." %Me was evidently dieteintorted at this vulgar inte,•- /option, and said that Ashmore and his supporter, ware impatient, because he would not introduce atattera irrelevant to the business of the meeting for the sake of causing conks on. He wanted peace and quietness, but they, as was evident by their coodact, preferred the indulgence of a vio lent spirit to au at and glorious advantages to the country at large. (Applause.) SPIRIT OF THIS DAY'S JOURNALS. TINES.—It is "strange, passing strange, - that whilst all the counties in England—for it,e ex ceptions are so few as. not to be worth rrlticiog have their Reform Representatives in Parliament, a youth of contrary principles should be found even to offer himself for Dortetshire. ' But wild amWtlon loves to slide, sot stand, And fornme's iee prefers to virtue's laud," was said by Dryden with as application to one of the family of Cooper, the Lord Ashley and Earl of Shaftesbury of his day ; and the disposition may be inherent in 'the name or title It would havu been better not to move and agitate a county at this olds by a contested election ; it wouiil have been bettor for the anti-reformers to fight disk battle with the mere Weeds of cor- MOO their Malallati“ ZAVRIbeII. even 11411 nemnined PI 41 decided. But atilt eaglets de le *tided, so far as the lower amiss of Parliament is camerae!, to rouse that spirit whieb intuit mightily influence the de cision of the }lOlOO of Lords to pass the bill, afier it has become impossible to add a single vote to the minority in the House of Commons, seems little short of itifateation. We had thought this Mr. Ponsonby would walk over the course quietly t'sr Doreetshite • but Lord Ashley is on the ground. We have no doubt but that the success of the tace will correspond with the wisdom of starting it. If it be said that the contest is only undertaken t.p show that the seal of the people for reform is cooled, this, also, is a'qnsation as much settled ,I 4 the other: the innumerable meetings and petitions are as clear a proof et the spirit of the country, as the late division of that of the House of Commons. The House of Commons bas got rid of the affair of Mr. Bingham Bering and the Deacles. We genius wish the Baring* joy of the result. Hie Abell, however, take knee of the case by merely stating how the matter- ests. There is in sup i rort of our view, the opinion of the judge, the uncontro vertad testimony of witnesses giros upon osth, and the verdict of the jury. We call the testimony • uncontroverted," because as to assertions givers out of Court, and statements of general character, :nrue not worth a farthing, whoa applied to an al case, and the evidence .concerning it produced and sifted in a court. of justice. We re tain, and so no doubt will every impartial person in England, the firm belief that the sworn testimony was true and the verdict just. Cn RON ICLE.—The Edinburgh petition, in favour of reform, received 36,159 signatures, a larger number than ever subscribed any former petition from that city, though it remained open little more than two days. The Caledosign Me, - cury observes, that " if the Peers are inclined to believe men " apse- their own words, there writ be no difficulty, we should think, in persuading their lerdebips,thatthe iwerest taken by the people of &eland is not a jot abated, but rather increased. Since our last we have received so many ration of meetings of communities, eor porations,and public bodies,iu all parts ofScodand, for the purpose of petitioning the Lords, that it is quite impossible to enumerate them ; but it is mate evident that, before the end of the week, the table of their Lordshi. s must groan under the load of petitions from this country. Nut fever than twelve petitions we °name go from the pub. lie bodies in Perth alone." In short the petitions in favour of this bill, as we have already stated, may lie considered neolerably accurate ce..aus of all the male population of age. The anti-reform ers form so small a fractional part of the popula tion, that the resell is Is irdly affected by them. This comes of ill-timed taunts. Had t:.e anti reformers . held their tongues on the •sub ject of the sentiments of the people, the Peers— many of whom know nothing personally of what the people think—might have been spared these formidable demonstrations. Some of them might have conscientiously believed, that as the people were silent, there was something in what Mr. Croton said, in the beginning of the dis cussions, that the absence of petitions for Re form in any number for many years proved that the call for it now was not the result of any settled determination of the people, but a passing impulse, and that the people had returned to a state of indifference. Bot, unfortunately, the as sertion was made in time to allow the people time to give a most striking demonstration of the false hood of it, before the second readiog of the Bill in the Howse of Lords. No noble lord can no • pre tend to have any doubt that the people are united and determined on this great question. Tile peer who votes against the second reading of the bill, must do so on the ground that the opinions and feelings of a nation ought not to influence its go vernment. He must be prepared to at prove of the worst despotism ; for if we know any thing of freedom, it is essential to it that the opinions and wishes of the people should influence their govern ment. He who says that three hundredmen should disregard the opinions and feelings of a nation, must be prepared to maintain the principle, that thirty men, nay that one man, AA aristocrat, may equally disregard the opitiions and wishes of a nation. HCRAL D.—The Dutch papers contain the ave rage share of trashy detail of the backward-and. forward jauntings of the Royal family to and from the Hague—which, from their pertinacity, we take it, must be, next to his pipe, to the Dutch man the best gratification, but cannot' by any chance interest any other creature whatever. The more that one sees of this licensed and formal enyegisteringa-and by an " enlightened Kl•ig" tool-of the " Perils by would hind" of these Royal Parsonages; tin flew are we disposed to sondemn the : cruelty 'aid injustice of that Philip of 'Spain who . Jet his son out of the way for the sole o tore of keeping an albrni„„bs risbch the heckled • none! everyday, wish' no / eater wormy than. rDutch reporteri;" the torney of Von Illt i tjoilbut,the lisenrial." ut there happens, y a s chairut; to lie something in theluesentertimos which deserves a moment's notice. it is -tated that the Princess or % 1 0. ~...... . . ..: A . . C . 1 1. • ' i ~' 1 1 i 1 i , • ' i: tin at a a. a f of w. of r, re- 13 10 is 1$ 4 I Is 6d Ld C 4 1 50 129 3 i6i 2 10. .1 5' 75 0 ' E 4 0 6 1 E 6 c" . 1, . lise.Mea ME