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EAST INDIA ROUSE, SEPT. 4, 1839.
THE COURT of DIRECTO RSof the EASI
INDIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice,
That a GENERAL COURT of the said COMPANY will
be held at their House in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY,
the Bth of April, 1840, for the ELECTION of SIX DIREC-
TORS for FOUR YEARS.
The Forms of a Letter of Attorney, arid of an Affidavit or
Affirmation, which will be required under the 2-th Section of
the Act 3 and 4 Will. IV. Cap. 85, for enabling Proprietors
of East India Stock to Vote by Proxy on thal occasion, may
be obtained upon application at the Treasury in this House.
JAMES C. MELVILL Secretary.

EAST INDIA HOUSE. SEPT. 4, 1839.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the
EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice,
That the LIS I' of such PROPRIETORS of EAST
INDIA STOCK as by the COMPANY'S BOOKS appear
to be QUALIFIED to VOTE at the GENERAL ELEC-
TION on WEDNESDAY, the Bth April, 1840, will be ready to
be delivered on TUESDAY. the sth November, 1839.

JAMES C. INIELVILL, Secretary.

SAILING and STEAM VESSELS WANTED tor PER.
FORMING the MAIL SERVICE between ABERDEEN
or PETERHEAD, and LERWICK, hi the SHETLAND
ISLANDS.

DEPARTMENT OF THE COMPTROLLER FOR
VICTUALLING AN!) THAT.NPORT .%ER
VICES, SOMERSET-PLACE, Atra.29, 1839.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUT-
ING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of
the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby give Notice, That on TUESDAY, the 17th
September next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to receive
Tenders, under Conditions, which may be seen at the above
Office, or upon application to the Collector of Customs at
Aberdeen or Lerwick, or to Lieut. Pitt, R.N., at Leith, for
the CONVEYANCE of MAILS, commencing-, on the 22d of
September next, between PETERHEAD and LERWICK
b a Sailing Vessel, or between ABERDEEN or PETER-
HEAD and LERWICK, by a Steam Vessel or Vessels, or by
Sailing and Steam Vessels.
Persons tendering for more than one of the three above-
named modes of Conveyance, must send a separate Tender for
Itch.

All Tenders are to be made upon the printed form provided
for the purpose, which may be had upon application as above,
and they are to be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
at Somerset-place, with the words " Tender for the Convey-
ance .f Mails," and " Comptroller of Victualling" in the left
Land corner of the envelope.
No Tender will be received after One o'clock on the Day
of Treaty, nor will any be noticed, unless the Party, or an
Agent for him, attends.
Every Tender must be delivered at the above Office, and if
by an agent, be accompanied by the written authority of the
Parties tendering ; and it must also express when the Vessels
will be ready for surrey, and when they will be ready to corn-
Zence the performance of the service required, and also state
e address of the party tendering.

PAPER MILL.
APAPER MILL is WANTED to RENT,
with the NIACIIINERY complete, and in workable
repair, and if within .iaty miles of London the more desirable.
The rent must be moderate.
full particulars may be addressed to F. R. E., No. 34,
Ishngton-terrace, Cloudesley-square. All letters to be paid.
tak nAdvertiser would not object to an eligible Partnership
`44lna." an active part.

T° THE UNITED TRADES
IN MANCHESTER AND ELSEWHERE.
GENTLEMEN—As it is but just that you should be furnished
with a printed record of my opinions on points which are of
importance to you, I take the liberty of effecting it through the
means of an Address.
On the question of the CORN LAWS, I have for many
years done my utmost to impress upon all who are in any way
concerns nin manufactures or commerce, that the restriction on
the
exchange of your manufactures for food, operates precisely
in the same way as would the building of a wall round your
town, for the purpose of obliging you to give two yards of cloth
instead of one for a peck of corn, to the owners of such patches
;',f, ground as were capable of growing corn within the inclosure.
The owners of the land say to you, " Give us two shillings for
fin eek of corn instead of one, and then we will spend two shil-
.es upon you instead of one, and buy two yards of cloth of you
instead of one." Is this anything but saying, " You shall give
us two yards of cloth for a peck of corn instead of one." I should
have thought any man who can keep his fingers out of the
wheels of a machine, could have seen into this.
G-eat numbers of you do see into it. And why is your
seeing of no avail? Because the numerous classes are almost
entirely cut off from any share in making the laws by which
their condition is to be determined. In a market, the poor man
is at liberty to exert the influence of his small property, and
the rich man of his great. Just so would it be if all men were
admitted equally into the great market of legislation ;—which
is UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE.
When the richer classes consult their own comfort, they in-
variably vote by Ballot. An officer sitting on a court-martial is
directed by law to take an oath that he will not reveal the vote
or opinion of any member of the court ; and a medical officer on
a board of medical inquiry, is directed to make a declaration in
still stronger terms, that he will not disclose his own vote or
that of any other member. And what is the reason ? It is
because the law considers the vote of the officer as a trust,
-and therefore gives him the Ballot or what comes to the same
thing, as the means of enabling him to exercise his trust with-
out danger. The law assumes, that he is more likely to exer-
cise his trust faithfully without intimidation than with. Lord
John Russell says he will not give the Ballot to the
people, be-
cause voting is a trust. So much for THE BALLOT.
The lengthened duration of Parliaments is nothing but an
invention to give the people the short end of the lever. There
is to be a stir and hubbub once in seven years, and the man
who wins is to set you at defiance till the end of that term,
like the men who of old were supposed to sell themselves to the
evil spirit. What would you think of anybody who proposed to
. you to settle your accounts every seventh Christmas ; or every
third either ? This, therefore, points all reasonable people to
ANNUAL PARLIAMENTS.
If there was a Jury of which the members had all taken an
oath that they had a pecuniary interest in the case of one class
of disputants that were to come before them, what would be
the opinion of society at large on such a fact? Yet every Mem-
ber of the House of Commons takes an oath, that he has a
pecuniary interest in everything that favours the rich against
the poor. There is no use in Hon. Gentlemen pretending to
bounce at the assertion ; for the visible practical consequence
before our eyes is, that the poor man's shilling's-worth of to-
bacco pays eleven times as much duty as the rich. When there
was some talk of a Property Tax, where the man of ten thou-
sand a-year should pay a slightly higher per-centage than the
man of two hundred, the rich set up the cry of " Confiscation."
But to pay eleven times ;—" think of that when you smoke
tobacco !" Does this point or not, to the propriety of abolish-
ing
the PROPERTY QUALIFICATION for Members of
Parliament ?
When numbers of men spend huge sums to get into a
certain position, it is a reasonable inference that if they do not
take it out in meal they take it in malt. Not only is a poor
wise man kept out of Parliament by a Property Qualification,
but it is by all sorts of other inventions made impossible for any
man to enter the House of Commons without prodigious ex-
pense. The evils arising will never be remedied, till you can
send men into that House who shall not only be poor if you like
it, but shall be paid by you to do your work. No master trades-
man would employ an overseer, who said he would work for
nothing because he should be " aye picking up something
About the decks." Just so there will be no good representation
in the House of Commons, till you come to the PAYMENT
OP MEMBERS.

The laying a finger on the ancient prevision for the poor,
while the Corn-laws are continued which prevent the indus-
trious poor from obtaining their own bread, is such a manifest
outrage on all justice and policy, that it is only miraculous
where themen can be found who will go on not
opposing the
NEW POOR LAW.
Knowledge is power; and those who dislike the power of
the people, dislike their knowledge. Religion, which has in
all ages heen perverted into an instrument of oppression, is
made one here. The different religious sects might get over
the difficulties in the way of appropriating the national
funds to education, in three ways. First, by consent-
ing to introduce such instruction on religious sub-
jects as all can unite in.' Secondly, by agreeing to
leave religious instruction to the teachers of the several
sects at the ordinary times and places. Thirdly, by directing
that those who are to be instructed should pass an hour or other
Axed period in receiving religious instruction from their respec-
tive teachers before they enter the general school ; the teachers
and the parents of the scholars being bound to provide arrange-
rnents for the same. But they will do none of them. They
will do nothing but set up religion as a stalking-horse, the
real object being to prevent the people from being instructed,
or else to keep up a kick-and-jostle match to see who
shall. take most money from other sects to spend upon his
own. The men who do the last, do not trust with your throat
in a dark lane. If they do not cut it, it is only for fear of
being hanged. It is doubtful whether in this country, money
will ever be got from the Government for free education. But
there is other money than the Government's ; for where did
the Government's come from ? The public must subscribe for
itself, to set on foot an education to teach men what is neces-
sary for their civil callings. Religion is not made a source of
squabble at the door of a cook's-shop ; why should it be at the
door of a shop for food for the mind? All this points to the
necessity of an education which is not sectarian ; or, in a single
term, of SECULAR EDUCATION.

One subject more. There has just
.been a great effort made
to forward some of these objects, and it has failed. It failed
because it took the wrong way. Having taken the wrong, is
any body now disposed to take the right, and try to advance
our sauce by the legal and constitutional method of Parliamen-
tary exertion? We act at fearful odds ; but resolution and
perseverance eat through a stone wall. There is a plan for the
purpose stated, going on in different parts of the country. Of
those who join, only two demands are made. One, that they
disavow -violence. The other, that they will follow the Irish
leader's advice, to " take all' they can get, and then ask for
more."
_ Trust no man for what he says he will do, but only for what
he has done. If you think that in working on these and other
subjects for fifteen years I have given you any security, send
one or two from your respective trades to help us in the present
contest. Our colour is white ;—the flag of the
We shall have thirty candidates under it at thnennreePx
rtesenteerdai
election. Organize yourselves for that time
as fast you Len
are able. An
nything we fail in now, shall time,
perfected
othon
er opportuity.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
York Hotel, Manchester, Sept. 2, 1839.

DIARRHCEA—The ill effects deaf Rimptu
dently of fruit, shell-fish, and other food of
ritable nature to the bowels, are immediately removed ibvr-
a
Wine glass dose or two of a pleasant and palatable remedy. The
patient has merely to be possessed of a bottle of BABING
TON'S ELIXIR of RHUBARB, the only equally agreeable
and efficious form in which that invaluable medicine, Rhubarb,
can be administered. From its specific tendency to assist,
rather than force the efforts of nature, it is rapidly superseding
the baneful use of deleterious and violent purgatives, which too
often aggravate the diseases they are expected to cure.
Sold in Bottles 4s. 6d. and 2s. 9d., by J. King, Proprietor,
72, Queen-street' Chea side • Barclay, Farringdon-street ; and
all Chemists. P

Dlt. JOHN ARMSTRONG'S LIVER PILLS.
SUFFERERS from an Inactive Liver—from a
Redundancy or Deficiency of Bile—from Indigestion, Pain
in the Side, or under the Right Shoulder-blade, Sick Head-ache,
Heart-burn, Giddiness, Oppression after Meas. Spasms in the St °-
mach, Loss of Appetite, -Pimples, or Cutaneous Sores, would do
Well to try the LIVER PILLS; as now prepared from the prescr,p-
lion of the late Dr. JOHN ARMSTRONG, of Russell-square, and
Author of th• Works on Typhus and Scarlet Fever, bbyh e
Proprietor's Agents, Messrs. EDWARD WINSTANLEY, of 7,
Poultry; of whom they may be had retail, and of almost every Drug-
gist and Patent Medicine Dealer in London and the United Kingdom,
at ls, 1;irl. per box.
iris For delicate or sedentary Females, and as a Dinner Pill and
geode Aperient, they are incomparable: For Children they are a
cgal. 4perient,
fistge one or two Pills cut into hale pieces,
msd given the hing in the morning, in 'a
little treacle or pre-
se.rve.

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,-tan, o. None else are genuine.
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N.B. Ask far ..Dr. John Armstrong's Liver Pills," ande xam.
on the
the Stamp.
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s. Geneau, Boulogne.