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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1853,

SOME. men, like, pictures, are better adapted for
a corner than a full light. Especially is this_ the
case when applied to corporate bodies. It has
often been said, and with great truth, that indivi-
duals would disdain to act in a private as they
most unblushingly do in a public capacity. But
wo..need not go to the metropolis to become
certified of this fact. We have only to look at
home, and quietly peruse, by our evening fire, the
reports from time
.to time inserted in this journal.
From the days of the eminent Satirist, VERNIAC,
down to this week's Punch, civic dignitaries and
corporate functionaries, have called forth biting
animadversion and`bitter sarcasm, in.ltaly as well
as in England. The genus is the same all the
world "over; • nor •do we believe it will change
until the crack of 'doom ! VEINUC, though ruined
by law-suits, could not be prevailed 'upon to relin-
quish hie vocation, kle satirised a shoemaker--;

" A coxcomb stuffed with pride "—who was so vain
as to purchase a magisterial comthission: = .
" What ! in the judge's awful chair shall we
BARRES, his wax and leather sporting see ?"
Whilst Punch has just been paraphrasing, or in
other words,. adapting a very new song to a very
old tune :

"The days of other Mayors have faded,
And Aldermen are past ;
The Cit who hopes to do as they did,
Is hoping much too fast.
For London dooms the clique to ruin,
She'll mind her own affairs ;
And the Mansion House see no renewing
The days of other Mayors !"
Now if the head be doomed to decapitation, what,
in the name of HERMES ! is to become of the
inferior part? Does this await a more signal
calamity? Or, like the good Saint DENIS, who,.as
ancient Chronicles testify, carried his head under
his arm, will it be permitted to exist in that
abnormal condition ? Really, we do not envy
Mayors, Aldermen, Town-councillors, and id genus
omne, from riding a-cock-horse to Charing-cross—
sWimming in turtle soup—or, like /ESOP's fly,
raising a dust, as they think, during their brief
tenure of office ! No paltry- pageant—no gastro-
nomic • indulgence--no ridiculous assumption of
authority, can possibly -compensate for the irrepa-
rable loss of public estimation ; or of the gloomy
foreboding created by the portentous hand-writing
on the wall which peremptorily and continually
admonishes

" To-morrow be in readiness to go !"
We arc truly grateful to Punch for the intelligence
of the establishment of a " Turtle Soup Kitchen
for Destitute Aldermen and Common-Councilmen"
—the former to be supplied with a bowl of real,
the latter with the same quantity of mock turtle !
We, too, shall be,happy to lay down our mite " as
soon as the casseroles are got into boiling order!"
But this by the way.
In our impression of yesterday we drew attention
to the Town-Council of this borough, in connection
with Mr. BRADLEY'S case; and offered some com-
mentaries thereupon. In performing what we
considered a necessary and imperative duty we
have been actuated by no particular bias. We
haVe no more sympathy for Mr. BRADLEY than for
the RUSSIAN AUTOCRAT. If the gentleman in ques-
tion had been the veriest TOM NoonLE in the Cor-
poration we should have done just the same thing,
and said the very same say. All that we know of
Mr. BRADLEY is that he belongs to the school of
2ESCULAPIUS, and, we suppose, does foolish things,
just like other people. We might make a similar
assertion with reference to the other members of
the Council.

In denouncing the intolerant proceedings of the
Town-Hall Confederacy we stood up, not for an
individual, but for a principle. And we are pre-
pared to defend that principle. The Corporation
of LiVerpool, by a most unwarrantable authority,
has wilfully degraded one of its members—and
thereby virtually disenfranchised numerous Bur-
gesses. The heinous charge of bribery was
preferred. One obstreperous individual, not
satisfied with the finding of the Special Com-
mittee, positively made a motion to the effect
that " legal steps should be immediately taken
against Mr. BRADLEY." However, upon the
Town-Clerk asserting that the evidence on the
charge of bribery was by no means complete, the
NEMESIS of the Corporation readily withdrew his
motion, and subsided into his boots upon that
tantalising defeat. Under such circumstances, we
think the defamed and ill-treated councillor has a
right to exercise his privileges, and attend any
committee he thinks proper. The interests of his
constituents demand that, he should take such an
independent course. Who has the power to hinder
him ? We should be glad to know.
Were such a precedent as that afforded by the
Corporation of this borough, to be adopted, who
can conceive the immense amount of evil that
would ensue ? The majority would have the power
of silencing and degrading the minority ; a clique-
ship and clanship could easily be established; and
the corporations of any city, town, or borough,
might become the instruments of party faction or
political intrigue. Then what is to become of the
interests of the various constituencies thereby dis-
enfranchised, when they no longer possess repre-
sentatives capable of advocating them ? Little by
little degeneracy insidiously creeps into corporate
bodies. All corporations, even those of modern
date, are more or less corrupt; but antiquated ones
are falling asunder from sheer putridity and bloated
peculation. Commissions of Inquiry have
brought hidden things of darkness to light, and
exposed nefarious practices that we once would
have considered scarcely possible out of , a highly-
painted romance. But fact sometimes is stranger
than fiction ! The good old times are gone, when
city chamberlains and others could rob the public
with impunity, and grow fat and fatuous on rich
turtle and richer pelf ; and whose epitaphs, to be
truthful, could boast of no worthier inscription than
that said to be recorded upon the tomb-stone of
TIMOCRATES—" Having eaten a great deal, and
having drank a great deal, and having injured
mankind a great deal, here lie I, TIMOCEATES, of
Rhodes !" Or possibly the Hudibrastic distich,
slightly altered, might be more expressive :
" They knew what's what : and that's as high
As aldermanic art can fly !"

However, if corporations be corporations let
burgesses be men. Whilst the present municipal
law exists, it will be their own fault if they do not
send " good men and true" into the Council-cham-
ber—men who will not debase themselves, or
bring odium on their confederates by paltroonery
of conduct; but with a high and disinterested pur-
pose study the interests of their constituents—
living wisely and acting well.,
With reference to. Mr. BRADLEY, the Council
have done either too little or too much. If guilty
of the malpractices alleged against him, the neces-
sary and obvious steps should have been taken to
procure his expulsion from their body. If not
guilty, he was clearly entitled to. enjoy all the
rights, privileges, and immunities of a member of
that Council.

SINCE the Legislature have admitted the moral
and social obligation of the state to provide for the
education of the great masses of the people, much
valuable time has been lost, and a fearful amount
Of crime has been the result. In every paiiish
throughout the United Kingdom we have a little
education clique, who do not hesitate to declare
that they would rather see our streets filled with
lost women, and our gaols with the worst criminals,
than they would be a party to anything but that
system of teaching, or this line of education. Non-
conformists of every order, Protestants, and Ro-
man Catholics, are all pitted against what the
people want—namely, simple scholastic
struction.

While, this enlightened discussion—and it must
not be forgotten that the education wrangle has its
pecuniary advantages—is going on, the uneducated
are falling with fearful rapidity into the paths of
crime. To establish the right of the people to
education, rwas a work of no small magnitude.
The men who first urged the subject on the consi-
deration of Parliament, were denounced as radicals
in politics, revolutionists in heart, and propagan-
dists in practice. Those who had " sacred"
reasons on which they opposed the education of the

masses, adopted with the utmost avidity tie anti-
educational cry of 'the "finality" side of Parliiment.
Luckily, however, ", finality" has become. a sort of
moveable feast which belongs to the passover
order. The great ball of creation rolls or., and
presently we find Mr. Baron ALDERSON sitting as
Judge upon our bench, contending for eduction
as the panacea which is to save us from the knife
of the assassin, and the profligacy of our streets.
The Latin tongue knew not our wants, anti that
language can give us no axiom to adorn our
views, or guide our actions. We must take
our counsel from our administrators of justice.
Men learned in the law, and profound in the
history of human vice. And what is that counsel?
" Educate the people if you would save them from
the gibbet." The Judge upon the bench•holding
in his hand the lives and liberties of the criminal
portion of our fellow-townsmen, sees the inherent
cause of depravity arraigned before him, and he
draws the finest thread of human ingenuity be-
tween the severity of the statute, and the mercy of
all justice.

MQn are stabbed in our streets without any
shadow of justification. The act with all it horrors
is described and admitted, but it is held, and
justly so, to be the prevailing effect of a recognised
cause—the want of education, or in other words
civijisation. Impressed- with this opinion which
the Judge says is derived from long official experi-
ence, how could he inflict the the extreme penalty
of the law on a victim of a parent's and the legis,
lature's neglect? The knife -is the weapon of an
inhuman brute. To test his hunianity- a question
is put to him in his mother tongue. He cannot
answer it within the widest limits of toleration. He
is arraigned on a written indictment for his life,
in strict accordance with the provisions of the
statute he cannot read. Bah ! we say to such
legislation.

We are legislating for a people who cannot read
our language. There's a want of fruit about this
tree. It's not the thing for our soil. We must go
back to the symbolic ages, and endeavour by means
or art to make the horrors of death by the knife so
appalling that even the worst savage would shrink
from its infliction. Now what is the practical re-
sults of all this. The criminal standing at the bar
of justice was guilty beyond all question. The
Judge knowing his utter ignorance of the law,
under which he had lived, dealt with him
as he. would with a New Zealand cannibal,
and instead of taking the life of the offender
he . merely removes him from society. By this
course the twofold ends of justice are attained.
But where in mercy does the safety of the public
lie ? The Judge, who is no radical, no revolu-
tionist, but a propagandist, says, the public safety
lies in " a more general spread of sound education
amongst the people." The words once recognised
only as the language of Utopia, were scarcely ut-
tered by the sabled sage, than in rushed the grand
jury en masse declaring that " the alarming increase
" in crimes of violence, accompanied by the bar-
" barons use of the knife, the lamentable prevalence
" of strikes among the working-classes, arising from
" the ill-understood relations of work-people and
" their employers, and leading inevitably to
breaches of the peace, and other calamitous re-
" sults, have forcibly impressed upon the minds of
" the Grand Jurythe great importance of extending
" the means of imparting education to all classes of
" the community, for it is their unanimous opinion
that no solid foundation for any abiding and salu-
" tary change in the habits and pursuits of the
" poorer classes in this country can be hoped for,
" unless such change is based upon the education
" and training of the young ; that the charge of edu-
" cation for this class ought not to be allowed to
" rest to so large an extent as it now does, upon
" the benevolent exertions of the wise and good ;
" that there is a duty, and a peculiar responsibility
" as regards education, which should rightfully de-
volve upon the state, and that this responsibility
"is one which the legislature ought no longer to
" shun." His Lordship then addressed the Grand
Jury as follows Gentlemen, I think you have
" conferred a very great service, indeed, upon so.
" ciety by the course you have pursued in submit-
" ting this document. I will take care that it is
"laid before the home secretary. You are now dis-
" charged from your duties, and the country is much
" indebted to you.for your services. "

To this we need scarcely append a single obser-
vation, and yet we are inwardly proMpted to say to
the Scribes and Pharisees of our time, "
mark, learn, and inwardly digest."

Mr. John B. Lloyd, the projector of " The City of Lon-
don Brewing and Malting Compiny," is now going through
the Insolvent Court.

ADVANCE IN THE PRICE OP COAL.—The coal proprietors
of Barnsley and its neighbourhood, have again advanced the
price of coal ls. per ton, and they state that they are sting
them at prices considerably below those of Staffordshire and
other colliery districts.—Leeds Times.

THE " LITSITANIA."—We are rejoiced to learn from a
letter, by a passenger on board the "Lusitania," in her
voyage from this port to Lisbon, that she has fully realised
the expectations which were formed of her. In the letter,
it is stated that they had the winds almost dead against
them, accompanied with very,bad weather, and that, never-
theless, with the aid of steam alone, she has accomplished
from 10 to 111 knots per hour.

SUlClDE.—Yesterday, an inquest was held upon the body
of John Thompson, a baker, living in No. 4 court, Ren-
shaw-street. It appeared that the deceased was 45 years of
age, and being out of work some few months since;his wife
left him, and went to live in Leeds with her, relations.
Latterly, the deceased had taken to drinking-, mid afterwards
was very ill, so much so that he sent for his wife to come
and see him, which she did on Wednesday last, and at night
she left him, to go to her lodging, and in the course of the
night he got up, went to a looking glass, hanging against
the wall, and with a razor cut his throat, he being the next
morning found quite dead. The deceased had appeared in
a low way, and, had been heard to say that he had taken to
drinking in the hopes that it would kill him. The jury, in
the absence of any direct evidence, found a verdict that the
deceased died from cutting his throat, but there was no
evidence to show in what state of mind he was in at the
time.

THE Loss OF THE MARSHALL.—There is no longer any
doubt as to the loss of this unfortunate vessel, but happily
the loss of ,life on board has been exaggerated. The masts
of the unlucky ship are uow visible at low water, about
three miles to seaward at the entrance of the Humber, and
a few miles only from the spot where the collision is known
to have taken place. The " Marshall" had evidently—
comparing the place of the wreck and that of the collision—
been making for the nearest land, in which effort she had not
been successful. But considerable exaggeration has existed
as to the number of souls which went down with the ill-fated
vessel. We have reason to believe that the passengers on
board did not exceed forty, including the emigrants. The
crew was about twenty. A large number of bodies have been
cast ashore near the Humber. [The Eastern Counties Herald
states, "we perceive that there is no over-water trace of the
" Marshall." But wo have our information from a sure and
direct source.—Ed. N. D. T.]
THE ',Asir IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.—At the Cheltenham
county court, on the 6th instant, George John Micenright,
aged 13 years, sued the drill-sergeant of the Cheltenham
grammar school, and Dr. Humphreys, the head master, for
two assults, one in October and the other in Novemberlast.
The assaults complain,d of were floggings administered by
the drill-sergeant, under the directions of the head master.
The first consisted of twelve stripes, inflicted with a riding-
whip, for quarrelling with some of the boys belonging to
Cheltenham college, with whom the grammar boys seem to
have been at feud. The second punishment was for thrOive
ing a cracker in the fire during school time, for which he
was ordered six stripes. The boy, however, refused to take
off his coat, flung himself on the ground, and gave the ser-
geant (as he statd) four or five violent kicks. The doctor
then said, " for his obstinacy give him eighteen, sergeant."
The result was, that the boy's back was; as described by on-
witness, "lashed from the neck to the waist, and had the
appearance of newly-cut meat with a thin skin over it. It
was in a dreadful state. The skin, however, was not broken;;
there was no blood." The boy was confined to his bed the
next
-day, and vat bloods There was a Ttrdiot for 44,

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL
LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY ErlisgNG.,
The movements in our corn market continue to
be received with great interest throughout the
Northern Counties, and indeed by all parts of the
United Kingdom and America. We are, in fact,
the great accumulators and distributors of foreign
bread stuffs, and on our reports of the state of
trade, the operations of the foreign and home corn
market mainly depend; and what is our astonishment
to.find a price current before us from a highly res-
pectable firm, in which we find the following state-
ment :—" During the week there has been a steady
demand for wheat and flour, and the depression
noted in our last (dated Dec. 2) has been fully
recovered." Now we do not dispute the steadiness
of the demand for wheat and flour. We believe
the trade are very steady in their dealings. They
are not at all . speculative. With respect
to the transactions in this, and nearly all
the corn markets of England, however, every
one knows . that prices have receded from
1s: to 2s. per quarter on wheat, and from ls.
to 3s. per barrel on flour, and that the " downward
tendency" noticed on the 2d inst., has continued up
to this day ; and the true report of this day's
business says :—" Both imports and exports of
Foreign grain and flour are light this week. Of
oats and oatmeal from Ireland, fair quantities have
been received. The aspect of the trade since
Tuesday has further brightened, and at' this morn-
ing's market the demand for wheat and flour began
early, and large purchases of both articles were
effected for interior millers, and to hold over on the
spot. At the close of business the advance since
Tuesday last was called 2d. per .bushel on wheat,
and 9d. to ls. per barrel on flour, making the ad-
vance on the forced sales of this day se'nnight fully
4(1. per bushel on wheat, and is. 6d. per barrel on
flour. Indian corn was almost without demand,
and prices stood nominally as quoted on Tuesday.
Oats and oatmeal rather easier to buy. Barley,
beans, and peas dull." By this it will be seen
that the advance of to-day has been 2d. per bushel
on Wheat, against ls. to 2s. decline last week; and
that the advance on Flour has been f'rom Od to is
per barrel, against a declitie of ls. to 3s. in the pre
ceding week. Having pointed out these facts we
leave the trade to judge for themselves, and seeing
the marked change which has taken place in the
American money market in favour of speculators,
we urge upon the trade the greater necessity for
extreme caution. The period is just approaching
for forced sales by farmers, when the question of
supply will be decided.
The Liverpool Cotton Market has been uni-
forrnly steady throughout the week, the sales
averaging 6,000 bales per diem. The receipts are
short, being 285,000 bales less than those for the
same period last year; still, owing to the strin-
gency of the money market, and the " Bearing" of
Threadneedle-street, the supply is quite equal to
the consumption. Americans, under the prevail-
ing estimates, are worth from 5d to 61 per lb.
Brazils are unchanged. Surats are in good de-
mand. Egyptians are heavy. The sales for the
week amount to 3,120 bales American, 40 Pernam,
230 Egyptian, 260 Madras, and 2,820 Surat, ' were
taken on speculation and for export, and 32,610
bales by the trade. The actual export is 630.
American, 60 Brazil, &c., and 2;490 East India—in
:dl 3,180 bales. 2,000 Sea.lslands were offered by
auction on the 7th instant, and only about 500
bags were sold at a decline of fully 2d. per lb.,
but at irregular prices. The sales to-day were 6,000
bales, of which 1,000 were taken on speculation and
for export:

In our provision market a considerable decline
in prices is noticeable. The trade are acting with
great caution and the public are deriving consider-
able benefit from their prudence.
In our produce markets the transactions are of
the most legitimate character, and in the absence
of any speculative demand continues steady and
firm. In London, however, large public sales of
fruit have taken place, but without promoting pur
chases; such is usually their effect at this season.
A. few parcels of old currants, of various qualities
offered at these sales on outport account, to be
cleared in fourteen days, have found purchasers,
and occasionally at full prices. Though they have
tended to weaken the market, they have brought
the article more into consumption. Fine old 1851
fruit has found buyers at 105 s, in cases, but the
holders of such fruit are very firm, and are not
sellers generally. The 1853 Cephalonia fruit shows
generally an improvement upon last year's ; it is
selling at this port at. 90s. per cwt. There has been
as yet an unsual want of demand, but currants can
now he purchased at all prices according to quality.
The stock has lately been considerably augmented
by arrivals, but it cannot be correctly ascertained
before the close of the year, when it will perhaps
be found to be between 9,000 and 10,000 tons,
against 8,200 tons on 31st December, 1852, and
8,700 tons on 31st December, 1851. Since
the 23rd, twelve cargoes of currants chiefly.
the fruit of 1853; have arrived, and also
some further parse's of 1851 fruit from Trieste
Six cargoes are known to be afloat, after which it
is thought there will be a long pause. The clear-
ances for home consumption still present a meagre
appearance, having been 200 tons in all November
against 1190 tons in November, 1852. Those in
bond have been 180 tons, of which 48 tons to our
colonies, 110 to the Continent, and 22 coastwise.
The clearances at this port are on the increase,
composed principally of 1852 fruit. The Board of
Trade returns for the first ten months of this
year ending sth of November, show the importa-
tions into the United Kingdom to have been
1,400 tons less than in 1852, during the corres-
ponding ten months, and the deliveries for home
consumption also have been 7,540 tons less,
8,030 tons in 1853 against 15,570 tons in 1852.
The total consumption of raisins during the same
period exhibits likewise a decrease of 50 tons ;
8,410 tons in 1853 against 8,460 tons in 1852.
Several cargoes of Valentia raisins have latterly
been sold at 475. to 48s. Though the arrivals of
Blacks, and the offering of large quantities at
auction haVe caused a nominal reduction in "price
of 3s. to 4s. per cwt., the only sale which has met
the public eye has been that of 30 barrels of good
fruit, forced off at auction on the Ist inst. at 30s to 325.
at.which there are no other sellers, good to fine fruit;
being held at 355. to 40s. Shipments have com-
menced to Australia. Muscatels are also somewhat
lower. Old Chesmes continue neglected. Denias,
in baskets, are likely to be scarce when wanted hi
January ; present prices nominally 335. to 355.
The stock of figs is much reduced by large clear-
ances in face of very short arrivals. Fine figs
obtain high rates ; low are almost unsaleable.
Present quotation is 50s. to 80s., according to
quality. Greek figs held at 40s.

7 The Liverpool 'hare Market ought under the
present circumstances of the country begin to
assume a respectable " Bull" appearance, and ex-
hibit a little more legitimate activity. Railway
and other shares are surely worth as much in
Liverpool as they are in Manchester or London,
and still the amount of business done here in the
way.of investment is absolutely insignificant when
compared with other places. The market for the
week has been better generally speaking, and this
is all that can be said.

Owing to the extreme pressure on our space we
are compelled to refer to the official quotations of
.the prices in the London Stock Market, which will
be found in another part of our paper. The fol-
lowing are the latest rates of FOreign Exchange :
Amsterdam 11.151 to -71 ; short 11-141 ; Paris 25.25
to 5; three months-25.25 to 27+; Hamburgh 13.5+
to + ; Frankfort 1181 to 19 ; Leghorn 30.20 'to 25;
Genoa 25.2+ to 74. Rates about the same.

BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS

An Aceount, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap.
32, for the Week ending on Saturday, December 1,
1853.

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Credit.
Government
Debt .
Other securities
Gold Coin and
Bullion . . . .

I 1,015,100
2,984,900

14,406,590

Total .... £28,406,690

lEPARTMINT.
Credit.
Government se-
curities .£13,622,039
Other securities 16,586,818
Notes 7,200,790
Gold and silver
coin

Total .... £38,095,624

;how tho following resultw

when compared with the returns far the preceding
week. Notes issued,. increase 12,5651. Bullion,
both descriptions, increase 12,5651. Rest, decrease,
8;511/. Public Deposits increase 125,7451. Other
Deposits increase 467,7301, Seven-day and other
Bills, decrease 40,1251. Active circulation de-
crease, 140,881/. On the credit side the Govern-
ment Securities have increased 133,0021. Other
Securities, increase 270,956/. Unemployed Notes
increase, 150,965/.

THE WIGAN STRIKE.

[PROM OUR OWN REPORTER.]

WIGAN, FRIDAY. —This morning the associated cotton
spinners and manufacturers of Wigan and Hindley held an
adjourned meeting at the Victoria Hotel, Wallgatc, Wigan,
Mr. WM. JOHNSON in the chair. The proceedings, which
lasted about an hour, were conducted privately, but we
believe the substance of what was done was as follows :
Statements were made respecting the number of applications
made at the different mills, by the operatives desirous of
returning to work at the prices offered them. It appeared
that in -a
few cases, almost the full complement of hands
were willing to resume work, but in others only a very small
proportion of the hands had applied. It was decided not to
open th 6 mills on Monday morning, as had been resolved
upon, because the number of hands was not sufficient. But
it was agreed that the time for receiving applications should
be extended to Monday week, and that if any individual
member of the association then considered that he had
enough of hands, he should be at liberty to start his mill
irrespective of the others.

On 'l:hnrsday the Wigan police force was increased by
twelve additional officers, including an inspector and a ser-
geant, making 23 in number altogether.

THE PRESTON STRIKE.

[FRO➢f OUR OWN REPORTER.]
MEETING OF SPINNERS.

PRESTON, FRIDAY.—A very large and enthusiastic meet-
ing was held on Thnrsday evening in the Temperance Hall.
The building was crowded to excess.
Mr. ROBERT RICHARDSON was called to the chair, and
opened the proceedings of the evening by remarking that in
,this county capital had usurped every privilege, and screwed
down the workers to the lowest pitch of endurance. The
spinners of Preston were perfectly justified in their move-
ment to obtain an advance. The speaker then read the fol-
lowing selection from a bill which appeared on the walls
during the week:—
" For the ten months ending. the sth of November, 1852,
the declared value of all kinds of goods exported was
£59,247,104. For the ten months ending the 6th of Novem-
ber, 1853, the declared value of the quantity exported
amounted to the enormous sum of £73,155,755. This sum
represents an extraordinary degree of activity in trade, of
which your branch has certainly derived its proportionate
share of benefit. Now, let D 3 look at the aggregate value
of all kinds of goods exported in the month ending the sth
of November, 1852, and the corresponding month of the
present year. For the month ending the sth of November,
1852, the value of the goods exported was £4,855,666 ; for
the month ending the sth of November, 183, the value is
returned as £6,168,626. For the month ending the sth of
November, 1852, the value of cotton manufactures exported
was £1,460,483 ; for the month ending sth November, 1853,
the value of the same kind of goods was £1,560,791, being
an increase over the corresponding mouth of last year, of
goods to the value of £103,308."
Mr. JOHN WHITTLE moved the first resolution :—" That
we, the operative spinners and minders of Preston, do pledge
ourselves again to stand firm for the ten per cent, and our
'union."

Mr. JOHN RICHARDSON seconded the resolution. The
manufacturers of Preston sent goods to a foreign market, and
the Blackburn manufacturers sent theirs also to the same
market. The manufacturers of Blackburn paid an advance
of wages ; they paid higher wages than the Preston masters,
and yet these two classes of factors had to meet in the mar-
ket of competition. It would be foolish to suppose, if the
masters of Preston succeeded in beating their operatives,
'that the Blackburn masters could continue paying the ad-
vance.xtihre. battleoEs
HOWARTH TiLlieroefooprercAistutboTneile.ame the battle of Blackburn, as well
a s
next addressed the assembly. He
was pleased to find that their hearts did not faint, or their
courage grow less. At one firm in the town policemen were
placed at the gates and ordered only to let four into the
watch-house at a time. The morning came; the books
were opened, and only two went, and one of those ,two was
a sweeper. (Laughter.) It was reported in the town that
some of the masters were got to the last twenty pounds at
the bank. Poor souls ! He could do more than that for
them himself. He bad signed teetotal, and kept it, and
(mild do battle with them for six months to come, although
he had a large family. (Cheers.)
Mr. GwAoLulLdAll.Eoltnthbeen mad a
"domino"
e lonwgpeithsteheeh, in which he
said, it masters. The
condition of the agitation Was such that the operatives would
struggle to the last, feeling assured their cause was that of
truth and justice.
Mr. JOHN WHITTLE proposed a vote of thanks to the
hands of Messrs. Horrocks and Miller for their determina-
tion, which was seconded with three cheers.
Mr. GALLAHER proposed a vote of thanks to the various
trades of Preston and other places, for the noble manner in
which they have assisted .the. operatives, -seconded by Mr.
Gums HOWA.RTII, and approved.
A vote of thanks was proposed to the reporters for their
attendance, which was passed.