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upwards. About 1 mile.

Mr. Barber's Cutaway, 4 yrs, Est 101 b (R. Challoner 1
Mr. Heathcote's Convent, 8 yrs, Est 131 b (Hibberd 2
Mr. Hugh Smith's Gomera, 3 yrs, 7st 21b...(J. Grimshaw 3
The following also raa :—Pegasus, Armourer, Danaus,
Mildred, Lady Egidia, Glen Isla, and Dovedale.
Betting-5 to 4 agst Gomera, 3to 1 agst Cutaway, 6to
1 agst Convent, and 10 :,o 1 agst Lady Egidia.
Lady Egidia, in company with Cutaway and Gomera,
made the running into the straight, when the former gave
way and the leaders were joined by Convent, who reached
Cutaway at the Stand, 'Jut, failing to improve her position,
she was beaten after a fine race by a short head. There
were three lengths between the second and third ; the
others, who were puffing up as they passed the post, were
headed by Lady Egidia.
Match, 200 sovs h ft. Once round and a distance.

Captain Coventry's King Arthur, 3 yrs, list 101 b, agst
Mr. Wilkinson's Target; 3 yrs, list 31b, off by consent.
The Longleate Handicap of 5 sovs each, for all ages.
Winners extra. , About three furlongs straight. 13
subs.
Mr. S. Thellusson's limper, aged, Bst 121 b (Deacon) 1
Captain Batchellor's Chip of the Old Block, 4 yrs, 7st 31b
.(11. Cove)
Captain Machell's Bella, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (carried 6st 131 b) 2
(J. Grimshaw) 3
The following also ran :—Attraction, Debden, Blue Bell
filly, and Mariana.

Betting- 2 to 1 agst Blue Bell filly, 5 to 1 agst Attrac-
tion, 6 to 1 agst Bella, 8 to 1 agst Hesper.
Upwards of three quarters of an hour was lost at the
post. When the flag was lowered, Hesper, in the centre,
was the first away, having Attraction and Bella as his
immediate followers to the distance, where the latter two
headed him, but when fairly in his stride Hesper again
assumed the command, and won cleverly by three quarters
of a length ; a neck separated the second and third, the
favourite fourth.

A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with 20 added ; for 2-yr-
olds, Bst 121 b each ; the winner to be sold- for £200; if
entered to be sold for £lOO, allowed 71b. About half a
mile, straight. 6 subs.
Mr. Hodgrnau's Venturer (.£1.00), Bst 51b (Parry) 1
Mr. Boadulan's Mariana (X 190), Bst (Clement) 2
Mr. Mackenzio's 13.tisani (.£100);`,8st (Morris) 3
Mr. England's Duchess of St. Albau's (£100), Bst _

J.—Grims) 4
Betting-5 to 4 agst Venturer, 3to I.ag-(st Marianha,aw and
4 to 1 each agst Duchess of St. Alban's, and Balsam.
Mariana was the first away, and led to within a dozen
strides from home, when the favourite came out, and won
a lino race by a neck, a bad third. The winner was bought
in for 150 sovs.

The Hawkstone Welter Cup (handicap), value 150 sovs.,
by subscription of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft., and 5 if declared ;
winners extra. Gentlemen riders; professionals 7lbs
extra. About one mila. 29 subs., 17 of whom declared.
Mr. T. V. Morgan's Flever (in. 141 b extra) 5 yrs, 11st
(Mr. Edwards) 1
Marquis of Hastings Pantaloon (in. 71b extra), 3 yrs,
lOst 91b ...................... ................ (Mr. Wilkinson) 2
Mr. Wilkinson's Target (in. 71b extra), 3 yrs,
_9st 71b

(Daley) 3
Betting-4 to lon P'over, who made all the running,
and won a good race by a head ; a bad third.gner The Lon Hurdle Race, a handicap plate of 50 sous ;
winners extra. One mile and three-quarters, over six
hurdles.
Lord Poulett's Benaze, 5 yrs, 1 Ost (in. 101 b ex.) (Page) 1
Lord Poulett's Ace of Hearts, 5 yrs, 9st 31b (all. 31b)
(A. Sadler) 2
Mr. Wilkinson's Target, 3 yrs, Bst 111 b (all. 31b)
. White) 3
Mr. Weyman's Lemon Drop, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b (W
(Payne) 4
Betting-7 to 2on Benazet.
Ace of Hearts matb strong running to serve his stable
companion, Target lying second, with Lemon Drop and
the favourite following next. They retained these posi-
tions to the turn into tile straight, where Benazet ran past
his horses and won in a canter by six lengths. The others
beaten off. •

The lad Duncan, who was recently apprehended
on a charge of forging cheques on the London and West-
minster Bank to the amount of £2lO, and the men impli-
cated in receiving portions of that sum, were yesterday
brought up at the Mansion House and remanded for a
week. It is understood that Duncan is willing to become
Queen's evidence against the other prisoners.
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all. Important article stand the Messrs. II otherspoon ; be-
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tional manner, they have devoted both time and money to
the improvement and production of an article of commerce
which has seeured to them the patronage of royalty, and
which has become one,we might almost say, of universal use.
From the Royal laundry down to the humblest establishment
of the same desc iption Glerifield Starch is in daily use, and,
did space permit us to give the statistics of the amount pro-
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mai of taste bears unmistakeable evidence, because none but
an article of first-rate quality would impart that unimpeach-
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guishes the linen of "young England." The ma iufacturing
establishment of the Messrs. Wother poon must be one of
great extent, because wit only do they produce starch in
enormous quantities, but they provide the public with con-
fections and biscuit to an extent almost incalculable. The
purity of the articles is undoubted, because in each of the
Great Exhibitions of Englanil, France, and America, in
contri-
butions.
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Sir Morton Peto on American Affairs.

Sir M. Peto, who has just returned from America,
addressed his constituents at the Colston Festival, at Bris-
tol, on the 14th inst., Mr. L. Leonard in the chair.
Sir MORTON PETO, whose health was drank amidst great
enthusiasm, replied as follows :—Sir, on rising to return
thanks for the kind manner in which I have been received
this night, I cannot but recollect that it was on a similar
occasion last year that I had the honour of first addressing
the electors of Bristol. On that occasion I was a stranger
almost to you, but I feel that upon the present occasion I
am a friend among you. I must say that I was gratified at
the result of the election, because while it proved that the
Liberal party could accomplish all it desired, it showed also
that you had those who could and did work to produce
the glorious result. Shortly after that election I left this
country. I said so much to you during the long summer
evenings in the last election, that 1 am sure you will not
expect or require of me that I should enter into a general
statement of politics on the present occasion, but I will
for a few minutes take you in imagination across the At-
lantic, to that country from which I have so recently re-
turned. And, in the first place, let me say that my visit to
America was not one made with a view to politics at all.
I went there simply as a man of business. I went there
purely and simply to see certain things in which my in-
terest and my duty were alike concerned, and I had not
the slightest idea of the magnificent reception with which
I and my party were greeted. Let me also add another
thing, that I went to that country as a perfectly indepen-
dent observe; not with the idea of flattering our American
friends. (Hear, hear.) I never flattered any one. I told
them what I believed to be right. On no public occasion
in addressing them did I admit that the Government of
this country had done other than maintain the most per-
fect independence and neutrality ; but that they had from
the first to the last done what they conceived to be justice
to those whom they had represented, and they had taken
the greatest care never to infringe on the independence of
America. (Cheers.) Before, however, I speak of America,
let me say a word on Canada. I went through the whole
of that province, and I had the most ample opportunity of
witnessing its loyalty to the mother country, and I assure
you there is no part of this island in which the feeling of
loyalty towards the Queen, or the affection for British in-
stitutions, is stronger than it is in Canada. (Cheers.) I
may also add, that in my visit to that province, not only
was I delighted with the groat public hospitals, especially
in Toronto, but with the general spread of education, as
manifested by the number of excellent schools in which
education was offered indiscriminately to all classes of the
community. That shows the advance which is making
in the intelligence of that province, and the growth of
education will but keep pace with the progress of industry.
In America I received the most unbounded hospitality
and kindness without precedent. I had the amplest op-
portunity given me of knowing everything I could desire
to know, and every desire was more than gratified. What
did I find? I went to America at an important and inte-
resting epoch of its history. I went there at the close of
one of the most tremendous struggles known in modern
times, and when I certainly did expect to find the country
exhausted and society disorganised. I declare to you that I
saw nothing in that portion of that great country through
which we passed which could for a moment remind us that
such a struggle had arisen ; and I was still more aston-
ished when I came to learn the advance which had been
made in the Western States of America, within the last
ten years. Why, sir, within that period 25,145,000 ad-
ditional acres of ground have been brought into cultivation;
on the average 210,000,000 bushels of wheat were grown,
and the population of those eight Western States had ad-
vanced 3,450,000. It may bo interesting to my Lord
Ducie, as an agriculturist, to know that more than
3,000,000 of the population in the Western States are
employed in the cultivation of land ; but it may be
equally interesting to you to hear that Chicago, which a
few years since was a mere village, a dot upon the map,
has now a population exceeding a quarter of a million,
and public buildings finer than any that I know of in
any provincial city in this country—(hear, hear)—while
its public works, its bridges, and its roads, its universi-
ties, its hospitals, are all on a most magnificent scale. But
not to confine myself to the Western States I went to Bos-
ton, and what did I find there ? I found that ever since
the commencement of the war five millions sterling bad
been spent in that city in the extension of public build-
ings. Gentlemen, surely that was no sign of exhaustion.
Well, then we went to New York, and there we found
one of the most magnificent parks in the world, the
greater part of the works connected with which had been
actually constructed during the war, and on referring to
statistics we found that the interest on the debt, and the
whole of the municipal taxes, only amounted to something
like 3 per cent on the rental. Gentlemen, I say fearlessly
that no young man who intends to enter life as a man of
business ought to consider his education complete without
paying a visit to America, and without mentioning names
I can assure you that one of the largest merchants of my
acquaintance, a man who does an immense business, dates
his success in life from the time he visited America. No
person who has the least information on the subject can
doubt the ability of the Americans to pay their national
debt, and any one who expressed a doubt of their willing-
ness to do so would be treated with merited contempt. I
now come to the question of slavery, which, after all, was
at the bottom of the late struggle, and which was inti-
mately connected with it from the first commencement to
its final termination. Now, sir, there is an extract from a
letter by President Lincoln, to which I wish to call your
attention, and it really appears to me that the qualities of
that great man have never thoroughly been appreciated in
this country. It seems to me that the question of the
abolition of slavery having been once brought forward,
Providence itself had not permitted it to stop until slavery
was finally abolished. President Lincoln, in a letter dated
4th April, said :
"I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity, I claim
not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that
events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three
years struggle the nation's condition is not what either
party or any man desired or expected. God alone can
claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now
wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we
of the North as well as you of the South shall pay fairly
for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will
find therein new causes to attest and revere the justice and
goodness of God."

Now, sir, there has been an impression in England that
the war in America has been fought by mercenaries ; but
facts, which cannot be questioned, prove that 90 per cent.
of those who declared themselves for war engaged in it,
and that two-thirds only of the remainder were Germans
or Irish. That shows that the country itself engaged in
hostilities ; and if further proof were wanting, it is to ba
found in the fact that almost every family with whom we
were brought in contact were mourning for some friend or
relative. Let me say a word about the railways in this
great country. (Hear, hear.) I remember meeting General
341‘Oullum, who conducted the commissariat department,
and who, I am glad to say, is coming here next as a guest

of mine, and I went into the whole question of the railways

with him.. I found that on the termination of this. great

struggle there were actually connected with the supply of
the armies 2,500 miles of railway, 387 engines, 6,000 cars,

and 70,000 employes. I ascertained also that when the

Southerners destroyed the bridges throughout 150 miles of

country, General Sherman only allowed General M'Cullum
seven days to reconstruct them; that one 1,200 ft. long

and 15 ft. wide was constructed in three and a half days ;
and that General Sherman was moving his army over the
whole of them in six days. (Hear, hear.) Let me say a

word respecting another matter that occurred in the

course of the war. When the news reached Philadelphia

by telegraph of what was taking place before Petersburgh

a subscription was raised, and no less than 120 ministers,
under the organisation of an eminent philanthropist—
George Stewart —went thither, and with Christian bravery

in the midst of the carnage administered the consolations

of religion to the wounded and the dying. Well, sir, my
friend George Stewart told me that on one occasion they

found that their funds were coming to an end, so. he
went to Boston, to Philadelphia, and to New York, and

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in four days returned with a sum equal to £92,000.
(Cheers.) Now, lot me ask what has been the result of

this war ? I will tell you what the General said who fired

the first gun at Fort Sumter, a man who knows more
with regard to the army of the South than any other—l

refer to General Anderson. I met him at the house of a

friend in New York, where ho met with a reception which
as a Southerner I am sure he did not expect. He had
been to the President and had taken the oath of loyalty,

and coming North was treated as a friend and Brother.
I asked him what was the feeling of his friends in the

South. Ho said "You may go home and tell your friends

in England from me that we made a good fight and did
our best. We appealed to the argument of the sword, that

has decided, and now we are loyal men to the North,
because having taken the oath, feeling that to be our duty
after the decision to which we have appealed, as men of
honour, we feel that is our course, and we never again
wish to disturb the Union." In fact now there is a

feeling of confidence throughout the North which never
existed before--confidence in their almost unlimited
resources. They feel that the dark spot which hindered
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everything in the shape of good legislation is now and for
ever at an end. I believe that will affect the whole South

as well as tho North in the future, not only in their deal-

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ivgs with each other, but with every other nation of the
world. The next point to which I will refer is tho wonderful

power which they have shown of absprbing into tho int
dustrial occupations of tho country their enormous army.
Pour months before I reached the country the army of
the United States was nearly 1,100,000 men. General
Grant told me when I saw him in St. Louis that he had
mustered out 875,000 men up to that day, and he said,
"We do not mean to have more than an army of 50,000

men ; and if our fi lends of the South aro sincere we intend

to bring it down to 30,000 men." I say that such a nation

which has such confidence in itself, which, instead of keeping

a standing army to tax the energies of the people, can at
once sent them back to the ranks of industry, set an

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example which European nations would do well to imitate.
(Cheers.) It is something wonderful to see the way in
which the men. have been absorbed into private life. When

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at Chicago I went over a large printing establishment

belonging to a gentlemanwho was for some years secretary
to the Embassy in London. Talking to me about the war,
120 glad that glarty-sayon of thok compositors woro soldiors

That man was a major. That one was a captain. This
was a lieutenant. The next was a sergeant. They were
all at work as quietly as if they had never left the com-
positor's desk. I said, " What did you do when the men
left you?" He replied, " I gave every one of them a
written understanding that when ho came back his place
was ready for him. Not one of them had a shilling of
pension, and they would have been insulted if it had been
offered to theni." I will now say a few words on the re
construction of the South. One thing which very much
gratified me in my visit to America was my interview with
the President. I was with him for some time, and I will
say at once that he is a man who, once seen, is never for-
gotten, for he is one of nature's true nobility—(cheers)--
a man who not only has talent and mind, but who, thank
God, has a heart. Andrew Johnson was himself a South-
erner, and was not very well treated by his countrymen
there, from his determination to uphold the cause of the
Union. But it is well for them that Andrew Johnson
knows how to forget and forgive. He has met his brethren
of the South in the only way in which they could be met
to be conciliatory. He does not make them sacrifice their
self-respect in passing them back to his confidence. A man
goes to him and says "I am very sorry for what I have
done. lam perfectly willing to take the oath." His reply
is, "My friend you are pardoned." I myself read one of
those pardons, and the only condition is this, if the person
so pardoned ever possesses a slave or abets slavery that
pardon ceases. (Cheers.) In cases of this kind it
is desirable that facts should be verified, I will say that it
refers to Colonel Drury, who was one of the foremost men
of the South. On the day that Lee surrendered he called
together 1,000 slaves and. said to them, " Ypu know that I
have done my best to keep you as slaves, but you are now
free men. If you will continue to work for me I will
give you as high wages as any one else. I will put your
children to school, and do what I can to make you comfort-
able." I have reason to know that only three out of the
1,000 left Colonel Drury. I came home in the Scotia with
one of those gentlemen who, like our dear friend, George
Thomas—(cheers)—is one of the Society of Friends. He
told me that Colonel Drury had informed him that the men
had done more work since they had hired to him as
workmen than they ever had as slaves. This gentleman
to whom I referred as a fellow passenger had been sent
on a mission to the South to distribute a sum equal to
£15,000 collected by the Society of Friends. This he had
done in the most judicious way amongst the freedmen of
the South, and I think you will agree with me that it
would be well if we of all other religious denominations
were to imitate the example of the Society of Friends, and
go and do likewise. (Hear, hear.) I think it would be a
right, a graceful, and a proper thing if the whole Church,
of every denomination—Episcopalians, and all others—
were to join in doing something in this good work. You
recollect what the North did for our starving operatives
during the cotton famine. The North wants no help of us,
but I think it would only be graceful and right for us,
now to do the best we can to assist the suffering masses of
their lately freed slaves. (Hear.) Let me say now that I
have no fear for the South, because it is not handed over
to the care of overseers and middle men as was the case in
Jamaica. The owners are themselves brought into contact
with their own workmen. Their interest therefore bids
them treat the workmen fairly. But if they do not, what
has the President done ? He has appointed a commission
of three in each district--one appointed by himself, one
elected by the planters, and one selected by the freedmen.
To this commission every question of dispute between the
owners and their workmen is referred. With regard to
wages, cases of such disputes have arisen, and men have
received notice from this commission to give their work-
men a fair rate of wages or the Government would with-
draw such men from their employ. The North have
determined, in regard to this matter, that the men who
work should be treated fairly, while at the same time they
desire to treat employers in the spirit of reconciliation, of
fairness, and of equity. I will tell you what one of the
first men in New York said to me when he came on board
the Scotia to bid me good bye. No man in Bristol does
one quarter the business that this gentleman did with the
South. I asked how he would get on with his Southern
customers. He said " I have sent for them all to New
York, and told them that the debts they owed must be
paid as soon as they could, and in the mean time their old
credit could be reopened on condition that they took off
their coats and went to work. And," he added, " they are
doing so." Now, if such is the case, if the policy of the
President and the feeling of the people is working
together in this harmonious way, and if at the same
time a strong hand is kept on the colored man, and ho is
made to feel that while he will be protected in all that
is right, but the hand of power will be laid on him if he
does that which is wrong, things will not be in America
as they are in Jamaica, where we emancipated our slaves
and let them take their chance. The slaves are emanci-
pated, but they will be made to understand that they must
do their share in the shape of work as well as the rest of
the community. (Cheers.) Now one word with regard
to Fenianism. (Cheers and laughter.) Now what does
Fenianism in America mean ? It means that a number of
poor foolish Irishmen in America, having more money than
they know what to do with, allow others to pick their
pockets. (Hear, hear.) An Irishman in America is iu a
different position to what he is at home. In America he
is entirely his own master, and is easily led away by such
men as Train—a man of some notoriety hera—(laughter)
—who lectures and spouts and turns poor Pat's heal.
When I spoke to my American friends on the subject they
said, " You are not foolish enough to attach any impor-
tance to this stupid nonsense ?" When I came to inquire
further I found that there was not an Irishman in Con-
gress, either in the House of Representatives or in the
Senate, or in any office of trust, who had anything to do
with the movement. It is strictly confined to hewers of
wood and drawers of water for the American people. It
excites their contempt. These poor Fenians aro not in a
position to do us any injury, and we can afford to show
them pity here. (Cheers.) With regard to the question
which has agitated men's minds more than any other
during the last few months, viz., the correspondence
between Earl Russell and Mr. Adams, I shall say at once
that I do not believe in the remotest degree that it can
ever end in war. (Cheers.) The American people have
no idea of such a kind. In addressing the Union League
at New York I laboured hard to show how impossible it
was that two such nations—in.advance of all other Powers
in civilisation, possessing the mast valuable commerce in
the world, of the same race and ancestry, speaking the
same language, having the same laws, bound together by
the same religious ties—could imbue their hands in each
other's blood.• It would be going back to the days when
barbarism ruled, instead of Christianity and civilisation,
(Cheers.) The question, however, is one of the deepest
interest, as regards the rights of neutrals and belligerents
and I, as member for one of the great commercial centres
will not let it rest. I say that the course of true state-

manship is to remove it out of the path of the future,
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(Cheers.) Difficult it may be to say who is right and
who is wrong ; that is not my province, but thore are
authorities —there is Grotius, there is Puffendorff, there is
Wheatstone, there are great constitutional lawyers, who,
in the decision of the question, would not bo biassed by
any political feeling. I say the idea of Earl Russell for a

commission is an admirable one, but it must bo fairly ap-
pointed, and competent to judge of the difficult questions
submitted to it. But when its verdict is delivered, whether
for right or wrong, England must abide by it. (Cheers.)
I know the feeling of my countrymen is, that we should
never be asked to pay for the damages done by the Ala-
bama; but in the case of nation; as in the case of indi-
viduals, the stronger can afford to do right. If one of
your merchants had made a mistake, and had the moral
courage to make reparation, would you think less of him
or think him less worthy of your confidence ? (Cheers.)
It is only the man of small pretensions who cannot afford
to do right. England would do justice to the smallest
nation on the face of the earth ; so she can afford to do it to

the most powerful. She cannot afford, now that a ques-
tion of difference arises, to put her back to the wall and
in a fit of obstinacy say we will not have the question dis-
cussed. On this subject the Chief Justice of the United
States three days beforo I left spoke as follows :
" The maxim which underlies our great struggle was
of British origin, and stood at the front of British juris-
prudence—' He is to be held accursed who does not favour
freedom.' By the adjudication of a great English law-
giver, the soil of Great Britain it was declared should
never be trodden by the foot of a slave. That maxim
England has at length applied to all her colonies, and now
we have followed her example of emancipating all our
slaves. Our soldiers on their banner, and our sailors on
the masthead have borne the motto, No slaves for ever
and ever,' and the declaration was soon to be incorporated
in the great fundamental law of the nation. Far distant
then should be the day when two such nations should
meet in strife on the battle-field. There are grave and
important questions now between the two countries, and
full well I know that our people if summoned will respond
as before. Yet in this Christian age I believe that two
such great people could not suffer their Governments to
go to war. They would do justice to the honour and
rights of each other. It was an old principle that when
arbitration was offered no nation should go to war with
one which so offered
I must refer for a moment again to the close of the
last message which Mr. Lincoln ever delivered, and it was
this

" With malice towards none, with charity for all, firm-
ness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us
strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the
nation's wounds, and • care for him who shall have borne
the battle, and for his widow and his orphans. To do all
which may we achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace
among ourselves and with all nations."
I close with that. That is what America wants. I
believe that at the present moment, in binding up the
wounds of the South, in doing justice to herself, in put-
ting her finances in order, sho is most anxious to settle

this question on terms of amity and fairness. Slavery
being abolished, I feel convinced that two such nations will
continuo to preserve peace and goodwill to each other
and to the world. (The hon. baronet resumed his seat
amid the cheers of the meeting.)

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.--The Mayor of Brad-
ford has convened a public meeting of the inhabitants of
that town, for Wednesday evening next, to "consider the
propriety of urging upon the Government the introduction
of a substantial measure of Parliamentary reform, on the
opening of the first session of the new Parliament." The
requisition for the meeting is signed by no fewer than
2,000 inhabitants, including merchauts, manufacturers,
trade, artisans, and others.