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London, England, 1839-04-30 00:00:00

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Walls End Onsfortk
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Walls End Hotspur
Walls End Kiliingworth ;el 1,,
Walls End Northumberland 21 •
Walla End Riddell's
Walls End South Tantield lst f
ilhips arrived since

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

"tleriF tri 7f.,c CITY, 7' WEL O'CLOCK
CorTos MAIMET, MoNDAy.-Notwitintand- -
inn the arrival of the New York packet, wo continue to
have a dull market for Cotton. To-day's ealcs-2 000
bags at the quotations of last Friday.
Arrivals this morning.—French mail, ship letters from
Monte-Video, Pictou, and New York, sth April, by the
Independence, arrived at Liverpool.
We have the arrival this morning of two American
packet ships, of the Ist and Bth in: t.
tTheg i
intelligence
inliugience
they bring are of a pacific nature ; every thing
ae Canadas, and along the northern frontier. General-
Scott has returned from Maine to Washington. The pa-
pers do not speak favourably of the Stock Market, which hart
been depressed during the week, owing to an approben„ioa
that the Southern and South. \Vett Banks would be unable
to continue their resumption of specie payments. United
States Bank Stock receded to 1121 113; Exchange, 8/ to
per cent. prem.
The Great Western had not arrived out when the packet
of the Bth sailed. The Papers have also brought the re-
signation of Mr. Biddle, not owing to political motives,
but to his ill health.
The synagogue of the Jews at Philadelphia was destroyed
by fire on Saturday.
Money was very scarce at New York.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 92k 93 for the AO-
- and 93,1, opened this morning with an improvement
at 93-1 for the Account, and 234 - for Money. Tho favour-
able information on the Boundary Question, no doubt,
gave an impulse to the Market. Exchequer Bills, 40 42 •
India Bonds, 43 45; Bank Stock, 1961 1971 ; India Stork,
2551 2.56 i.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active a shade low( r,
20y b ; Portugleese, ditto, 361 Three per Cents., ;
Belgian, 1031 104 ; Brazilian, 781 f ; Colombian, 81t7I t ;
Mexican, 24k 2b ; Dutch Two-anti-a- Half per CentS.
• s
35,E 56 ; Ftve per Cents., 102}
PRICKS or STOCKS THIS op I' AT ONE O'CLOCL
Bank Stock l97s, 7, India Meek
3 por Coot. lied. Data Sends to
3 per Cent. Cans. its!.i 34 South Sea Steek ......
Spa per Cunt — Old Annuities
I)itte Red
New 114 per Cent 101,4 14 $ per Cent. Annuities, 17a1
New 5 per Cent. - }Ash. Bills, .S 1 ,01)41 40 ea
Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto IWO 40 45 pm
Jan. 5, 19110 1444 346 I Ditto Small 43 42 pm.
Oct. 1,), IMO lt 5-le2(, I Ditto Constaereial —
Jae. 5, 1%0
Jan. 5, MAO lank Stock ter Aseoutit 10$
April 5, MO lndia Stool ter Asestuet ... 2,6
Jan. 5. 1570 1 Consols for Account.... —MN%
11ALF-PAST CIIVA
The bank broker has purchased this mersing about
70,000 Consols, which caused Stock to be rather scarce in
the Market.
Consols may be quoted at 93 for the Account, Age ;
Exchequer Bills 40 42 ; 13ank Stock 107.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, 20k; Portu-
guese, 3Cri ; Three per Cent!. 22 ; Colombian, 301 4 ;
Dutch Two.and.a. Half per Cents. bbi ; Fire per Cam.
102 ; Mexican, 25.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS
Batik Stock .......».» Js7 Indi4Stsek
per Cent. Red
3 per Cent.
3>4 per Cent. lied I4I Ditto New Annuities
New 3,4 per Cent 101,4 Bills, 1,15.0 .2' 44 Pm-
New S per Cent Ditto 904,V. ......
Long Annuities to expire Ditto 54055
191
Jan. 19ii0
Oct. 15159
fir
Jan. 1,5G0
I.
I.
E I " NlF;ilittlj";NgiSi a
.nist7e Portuguese
Dit
per to
p e::: .............at ...................
Itu,sias loath, 6 per cent.... -,••
Ditto, Metallic .................
bper ........
Ditto, Consolidated ......« .
French, 5 per Cent...-•«- —f, ---a.
Exchange .................... . ---o
French, 3 per 5ent..........
Dutch, per cent. 75
Ditto, 5 per cent...... .......
ARES
............. 7ay
..... . ..........
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..... ..... • ....
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Ly ('Trunk)

Asturian, 5 per cent —
Itz•lgion, 5 per cent I OZ
Brazilian Ronde
Buenos Ayr. s, (S per cunt —
Chinon, 6 per cent
Cohunthan, 6 per cent
Ditto, ltii4 1034
Dani,h, 3 per cent ........ 75!ii
Greek Bonds, IVS, Spec ct.
Mexican, 5 per cent
Ditto, li per rent.,
Peruvian, 1525,6 per cent —
Sll.
Eastern Counties Hallway....
Great Western Railway
London and Brighton Bathyal
London and Blackwall Radii
London and CIO don
North Midland ......

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majo.ty rode out on horseback yesterday, attended
by the Viscountess Forbes, Baroness Lehzen, Miss Qu.n.
tin, Marquis of Ileadfort, Colonel Buckley, Earl of
Surrey, Honourable William Cowper, and Lord Mired
Paget.
The Earl of Minto and Viscount Melbourne had as, at-
dience yesterday of the Queen.
The Royal dinner party at the Palace last everieg in.
eluded the Earl of Albemarle, Earl of Surrey, Vim:mat
Falkland, Lord Byron, and Mr. Brand.
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar left town yesterday fey
Sandhurst.
A deputation respecting New Zealand, tontistieg of
rlraernjoziirahandka,,nisil,r,:
Jlr. Fent~ick, and Colonel
tervitw yesterday with the Marquis of Norittaby at the
Colonial-office.
His Excellency Andrem Stevenson,
the American Mi-
nister, transacted business at 'h• e Fore:gaol:fire and the
Treasury, on Saturday.
The Duke of Roxburgh and Mr. Villiers Stuart b"
interviews with Viscount Melbourne yesterday, in D."-
ing. street.

Letters were read—
From Aberdeen—. That so soon as the fate of the peti-
tion shall be known, the Convention shall prepare an
address to her Majesty, expressing the loyalty of the
people, their extreme suffering, their great love for peace,
but at the same time their calm determination to obtain
their rights, declaring their conviction that the conduct of
the Gevernment, in withholding their just demands,
is calculated to endanger the peace of the country and
the stability of the throne ; public meetings to be
held in every county town in England, Wales, and
Scotland on the same day, that day so be the 24th of
May, the birth-day of Queen Victoria; copies of the ad-
drees to be submitted to the meetings, and if approved of,
the names of the members attending such meetings to be
appended to the address and presented to her Majesty in
which way the Convention may think fit." Since this re-
solution has been passed they heard that Mr. Feargus
O'Conner bad introduced this question, and they begged
te submit the foregoing suggestion to the consideration of
the Convention. As thus seen there was a difference
of opinion amongst the Conventionalists as to the
proposition for holding them simultaneously. From
Sirline—lhe Committee of the Association in that
,Place had discussed the propriety of rendering assis-
tance to the Ministers, and they had resolved that the
Convention did wisely in not giving countenance either
directly or indirectly to the factions in Parliament in the
late struggle for political ascendancy. " Were of opinion
that the Committee should employ the time between the
presentation of the petition and the bringing in of the
Charter, in getting up the proposed system of agitation
as general as possible. That so far from approving this
being the last petition for the obtaining the people's politi-
cal rights, they deem it advisable and proper that
the Convention take it into serious consideration the pro.
priety of backing the bill of rights on its introduction
to Parliament by a second petition, requesting and de-
manding that it be passed into a law. This they do from
knowing that such a course of proceeding would strengthen
the hands of the supporters of the Charter in the House of
Corruptions, and tell with double effect that the people of
are in earnest in their endeavours to obtain the political
rights which have been so long and so unrighteously
withheld from them.—( Hear, hear. We are impressed
with the conviction that public opinion will progress, not-
withstanding any coercive measure that may be directed
against it from the citadel of tyranny, having for its object
the suppressing the same. They recommend to the Conven-
tion the necessity of impressing on the Missionaries the use of
temperate language in their addresses at public meetings,
as without which it would be an arduous and difficult
tack to obtain a decided majority of the nation in
favour of the principles laid down in the Charter."
From Kirkaldy—They were sorry for the resignation
of Mr. Mathews, and those others who had resigned, but
they (the people of Kirkaldy) thought that those gentle.
men should wait to test the Convention as to the line of
conduct they would pursue hereafter before they resigned.
They regretted the Convention did not enter into a de-
claration of principles at the commencement of their sittings;
if this were done they would be in a more prosperous condi-
tion. They deprecate all allusion to physical force in
the present circumstances; they ought to strive to con-
vince those opposed to them of the justice of the cause by
by sound and temperate argument, and not by fear.—( Hear
hear.) They were determined to abide by their first
principle of peace, law, and order, and that so far as they
were concerned they had neither the means nor the in-
clination to purchase arms. The conduct of some of the
Delegates is alienating many of their best friends from their
cause, and deterring many from joining their ranks. The
failure of the Corn-law agitation has done much to con- THE POTTERIES.
vince many that an Extension of the Suffrage is necessary, Mr. Ricnaatns, the Missionary from the Potteries, then
and is the only means of obtaining a redress of grievances. rose for the purpose of giving an account of his mission.
(Rear, hear.) And they felt convinced that only for the Ile trusted the Convention would bear with him while he
violent language used by some of the members, nearly all shortly stated the course he had pursued in the Potteries,
the Corn-law agitators would have joined them before this especially as the first part of his statement. would be far
in their demand for Annual Suffrage.—( Hear, hear, from from pleasant. Prior to his coming up on the 4th of
the moral force delegates,) They had a public meeting February to meet the Convention, a deputation bad been
to get up petitions against the Corn-laws, and ail other selected to visit the Potteries—a deputation of what was
! oppressive enactments. The meeting was very large, the called the National Rent Committee of Birmingham.
largest ever held there, and was attended by many Anti- That deputation had made a collection of 101, but which sum
Corn-law men, and moved an amendment to their resolu. was not acknowledged at the time at which he was requested
tints; the resolution was discussed for two hours, and the to return among his constituents. That money, though it
amendment was put, when only 24 hands out of upwards had been paid to the Convention, bad cot been handed over
of IA e.n) were held up for it. --( General cheers.) A by those who had received it, if he was rightly informed,
e resoluon of confidence in the Convention was also passed, but had beer paid by another source. He would now come,
after some opposition. They trusted the breach caused after making these observations, to tee object he had in
by the resignation of the members would soon be filled up. view, which wus to relate to the Convention the result of
They were getting numerous signatures to the general his mission. After spending nine or ten days with his con-
petitien. They sent Missioilaries through the villages, stituents, he was sent out in combination with several
and had established an Association in Kinghorn, which friends to agitate the Potteries and the surrounding dis-
promissd to do well. They considCred that the Convention tricts. The first place lie visited was Leek. The people
were c•ily to superintend the getting up cf the ,petition. there were reduced to almost the lowest possible ebb. Ile
In a postscript they state that they had just heard tnat Mr. found the greater part of the people there, especially the
Matthews, the Delegate who had la•ely resigned for Perth- ribbon weavers, could not earn more than 84. a week,
shire, had consented to resume his duties, at the invitation and distress prevailed there to a great extent, and many
of his constituents. From the Westminster Radical As- praise. worthy individuals were actually starving. Not-
aociation, containing a resolution passed last week—" That withstanding this, he had succeeded in forming an Associ-
the Association, viewing the proceedings of the Conven- abort there, and he hoped it would be productive ef benefit,
tion, as reported from time to time, beg to express its not only to themselves but the cause in which it had been
full eoufidence in the integrity and ability of the Members fi rated. The next place he had visited was Congleton,
of teat body to carry out the business delegated to them by the principal mart for the silk trade. He had found the
their various constituencies, and further hops that people there in a rather better situation than is Leek. At
their hands may be strengthened by judgment and that place he had met with .some opposition from two
determination in their endeavour:; to obtain a just excisemen, a constable, and two drunken men. He sue-
and responsible Government. From Shaftesbury stating eeeded in silencing the Excise officers, but it was with the
shot the) had forwarded the petition sheets ; that greatest difficulty that he had prevailed upon the meeting
they had founded an Association, and requesting rules from at which he had attended nut to bundle the constable down
the Convention fur their government, as they were deter- stairs. He ens happy to say he had succeeded in forming
mined to stand by the national cause—also requesting a Radical Association there. lu Sandbach, in Cheshire,
more signature-sheets, as those which they had were filled. where the shoe trade was principally carried on, he found
many persons who were willing to sign not having vet the people ready prepared. At Naatwich also he had met
:-igned. The Tories and Vs hies were doing their best to with a roost cordial reception , but he found the people suf..
ere.veet. the people signing the National Petition. And from fering- under the effect of unjust leeishition which had caused
Canterbury contributing to the rent, in the collection of which the necessaries of life to be excessively high, while the prices
much progress had been made.—( Hear.) A letter from off labour were greatly reduced. The last place hehadvnid-
81roud signed Thomas Fenn he fou
jun., detailing the spread of sited wes Cheadle, where, he was sorry to say,
Chartist principles in that neighbourhood, as evidenced by the people sunk in ignorance and steeped in misery. It was,
the formation of an Association in Nailsworth, Hampton, true that some of the workmen there were in the reception
Eaetinston, and Stanley, and the formation of a Central of good wages, but the generality of the people were the
Association in conjunction with Gloucester, Cheltenham, most ignorant that he had oar met with. —( Hear,
Cirencester Worcester, Sc.—which deemed it advisable hear, hear.) The consequence was that they were
i_oeudeavour to get up a county dernonsiratien on Whit- easily led away, and he must confess that he had
..k..urea_d_,y, and soliciting the attendance of John Frost, Esq., little or no hopes of t ffecting any good there under such
0- !. ,
his arduous
and Feargus O'Connor, Esq., if the nature circumstances.— Cheers.) As an example of the manner ,
i
! Fattendance of some other popular and powerful speaker.— State that upon one occasion, after he had visited the place,
; torn Kirriemuir, a letter directed to Mr. W. G. Burns, it became necessar to have a Chureh-rate ; the people
1
signed
by the Secretary of the Union of that place, re- were against it, but upon the Minister and Churchwardens
turning him their thanks for his general conduct as a telling them that the y had better be careful what they were
Delegate te the Convention, more particularly for his doing, for if they did not pay Church rate they could
constant attendance to his duty, and expressing their sym_ not be buried in the churchyard, they instantly consented
pefliy for the troubles to which he was exposed when tra- to pay the rate.--( Hear.) He had Uwe endeavoured to
selling as a missionary. The letter further stated that the give an account of his mission, which he trusted would meet
cause was still progressing, and that 1.679 additional sin- with the sanction of the Convention, and he productive of
natures bad been obta!ned to the National Petition, which some good to the great cause they had at heart.
had been sent to Mr. Lovett, together with a statement of Mr. O'CONNOR, in moving a vote of thanks to
of their physical, mental, and moral condition. The state- Mr. Richards, begged to unreel a report that had gone
ment above alluded to was then read. It stated that abroad that the mission of Mr. Richards extended to Hedley
the principal if not the only work carried on in the place and its neighbourhood.
was the manufacture of coarse linens or Osnaburghs ; the Mr. Svvete, who was introduced by Mr. Pitkeithley,
average wages which a working man could earn did not presented a subscription of 101. from Mr. Pena, of Lewis-
essseed 63. Id. a week ; that if he were married, his wife ham.—( Cheers.) A more worthy roan in the cause of
by toiling from morning till night, might eke out the reform did not exist. He was what might properly
sum to about 7s. 6.1. It must therefore be evident, that be denominated a property man, and being so
after paying for house rent, coals, and soap, there could be he gave the lie to those who stated that men
Cube left for food and nothing for clothes. The food was, of of property considered the proceedings of the Contention
course of the meanest description, oat-meal forming the calculated to injure the rights of property. Mr. Penn bad
principal part of it. The children were required also de,ired him to present a second 2/. to the fund to as-
to be put to work long before khey were able, gist ire the defence of Mr. Stephens, stating that he was
owing to their parents being so steeped in poverty ; ready to give more if it was necessary.—(Cheers.)
as regarded their intellectual condition, nine-tenths of them Mr. O'CONNOR moved a vote -of thanks to Mr. Penn,
had the elements of education, and, as a sort of stigma which was ultimately withdrawn upon the suggestion of
was affixed to those who were unable to read and write, Mr. Neesorn, that it would form a bad precedent. After a
the pooeest parents endeavour to send their children to letter had been read from the Chairman of the meeting
school. Their morals were not retrograding, although on Kennington Common,
much immorality abounded, the principal cause of which Mr. BUSSEY rose to bring forward the motion of which
was the want of the physical comforts of life, and a want he had given notice, " That the Convention having de-
of tasse for scientific pursuits, all owing to the abject state cided that simultaneous meetings shall be held in various
of poverty in which they were doomed to toil, as when parts of the kingdom during the early period of Whitsun-
rersons are strieken with poverty and in debt, without week, it therefore becomes necessary that this Convention
means of extrication, they lose respect for themselves, and resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House, to consi-
fall into vices they would otherwise have avoided. The der what advice shall be given by the Delegates at the time to
letter concluded by stating that at a meeting of the Male the various constituencies respecting the conduct to be Pus-
and Female Political Unions, a vote of entire confidence in sued by them in case the People's Charter be rejected by the
theConventionhad passed. From Forfar, urging the necessity 1 House of Commons. The condition of the people of the
of agitation, and stating that a person accused of being a spy, country had been so often brought before the Convention,
and who refused to give any explanation, had been expelled that it would be a waste of time for him now to enter into
the Union. The Union of Forfar had passed certain re- it. It was sufficient for him to say that it was despe-
solutions, declaratory of their determination, by all possible rate, and that they were determined not to be played or
means, to carry into effect the principles contained in the trifled with.—( Cheers.) The entlre hopes of the people
People's Charter, and would recommend to the Members were centered in the Convention, and they had no
of the Convention to adjourn for a limited period after the hopes in any other body.—( Cheera.) It was to the Con-
presentation of the petition, to give an opportunity of agi- vention, and the Convention alone, that they looked for a
tating their different localities, previous to the introduction redress of their grievances. Had it not been for the Con-
of the Charter into the House of Commons ; and that, while vention, the condition of the people was 2116 that they
' shay agree to continue moral agitation, they declare that would have resorted to acts of violence, and yet the Govern-
should the Government make any attack upon the people ment had done *thing to ameliorate their condition, but
in course of that agitation, they recognize the right of had pursued a course that was calculated to oppress, espe-
`,l, People to repel force by force. They also recommend daily with reference to establishing a rural police, which
'air regOective to Unions to exert themselves to the utmost he was sure the people would not submit to.—( Cheering.)
ithsAeneasconctation into their respective districts, and Mr. O'CONNOR seconded the motion.
the n.i.
I _ ...gate.
At the conelusi
the Rev. J. R y expressing their confidence in Mr. Burns, Dr. FLETCHER, thinking the matter of the motion should
Icome before the Convention in a well-areanged shape, would
move that a Committee of seven should be appointed.
R. St°enphoefnthse reading of this communication .
was introduced into the Conven- I Mr. DUNCAN seconded 'the motion. He thought the
;ion, and was received with the most enthusiastic cheering, ; Committee should be formed of men from the middle
which lasted some minutes.
i counties, the North of England, and also from SeetLind,
The reading of the correspondence I
with. was then proceeded the latter of whom had taken great interest in ulterior
i measures.—( Cheers.)