The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-01 00:00:00

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A memorial, praying the Queen not to prorogue Par-
Limon; has been forwarded to the Home-office. -
MOSSLEY.
' A memorial from the inhabitants of Mossley, in the
county of Lancashire, with 1,074 signaturesrpraying the
Queen not to prorogueTailiament, has been forwarded
to Sir James Graham for presentation to her Majesty.
BACUP, LANCASHIRE.

A public meeting was held here on Friday, Sept. 24,
.T. Earnshaw, Esq., in the Chair. About 600 or 700
persons attended, and a memorial to her Majesty unani-
mously adopted.

DUNDEE.
We understand that a requisition to the Provost, to
call a meeting of the electors to petition her Majesty not
to prorogue Parliament, has been already signed by up—. 4
wards of 160 of the leading meraikanta, mannfacturer6,
and s,hi.powners.
PORTLAND,.
An adjourned public meeting of the inhabitants of
Portland Town and the neighbourhood was held on Wed-
nesdaynight, at the Crown; Henry-street, Portland-town,
to consider the propriety of memorialising her Majesty
not to prorogue Parliament.
Mr. SIDNEY SAWA—dime- forward and addressed
the meeting. They (the Tories) were impatient
to turn out the late Ministry, because they did not
like the Budget, and now they had turned round and
adopted the very Budget prepared by the late Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer; the only difference being that the
present Chancellor of the Exchequer had borrowed five
millions of money, with the addition of a promise that
next February he would come prepared with a list of ad-
ditional taxes to be laid upon a people who were already
burdened with taxes to an extent greater than they could
bear.—(hear.) There were no less than seven public
meetings held in opposition to the Corn-laws in different
parts of the metropolis on the previous evening.—(Loud
cheers.) There were three that night.--(Hear, hear.)
The meetings on the subject had been three deep every
evening during the preceding week, and notices of the
same number of public meetings stood for almost every
evening in the present week.--(Cheers.) Mr. Smith sat
down amidst great applause.
A resolution to memorialise the Queen not to pro-
rogue Parliament till the Corn-laws were considered was
unanimously adopted.

_
A memorial was then read and agreed to, and signed
by above a hundred of the inhabitants.

PARISH OF LAMBETH.
A numerous and highly respectable meeting of the rate-
payers took place on Wednesday night at the York Hotel,
Waterloo-road, relative to the election of overseers, now
going on, when the fact that this parish had not come
forward in common with other metropolitan parishes, to
present an address to her Majesty not to prorogue the
Parliament until the Corn-slaw question had been dis-
cussed, was brought forward. The reason was statcsi to
be the hostility of the present churchwardens and oser-
seers ; and after some discussion, a committee of gentle-
men agreed that the signing of .the . requisition for ao
-public meeting should be proceeded with. . -
DEPTFORD.
A densely-crowded meeting took place on Tuesday
evening last, to hear a lecture from J. C. Symons, Esq.,
the author of " Arts and Artisans," on the Corn-laws,
which afterwards formed itself into one. of the inha-
bitants of Deptford, and a memorial to the -i4tioen was
proposed and carried nnanimously.
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thheelodrgaatntish
organisation of Windsori
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emveeneitningf
Association, proposed at the public meting held on
Wednesday last, at the Latymer school-room. The
siociation was formed, andmeeting
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It` the followine.
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.0 ts Monday, at eight o'clock.
• ISTRESS IN SPITALFIELD
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oe.
The folis. swin account of the distressed condition of
the weavers in Spitaltields, Bethnal-green &c., was
drawn up by a gt. ntleman well acquainted with' that dis-
trict, and handed to Mr. Sidney Smith at the Shore-
ditch meeting on Monde; night. We are assured that it
may be relied on :
STATE OF THE WEAVEHii.-.. There are about 14,70
looms in Bethnal-green, Spitalfieisis, ,Shoredittoot .
01.
about 3,000 are quite out of work, aes; the 1
work are only three-fourths of their tia'e employed,
s s°
which causes great distress and privation
IT:lstria..
who are considered the respectable portion
oaibout 7s. 6d..
The average earnings when at work are_.
deducted 4s. 6d.
per week each loom;_ from this is to be
expenses
_.,, aoottin...._
per month, or Is. lid. per week, for expeelra,s,.`:is`tarvinbz.
in and twisting in, which leaves the nns oi.
income of 6s. 4id. per week.
Bethnal-green
_poor-
There are about 800 souls in
the
outdoor relief. There
house, and about 1,600 receiving
nhaving parted with.
are hundreds without a bed to lieeove,ry day that weavers
it for food. Cases arc occurring;
.0016
to
obtain food for
are parting with their looms abodintg
the only things left
those
their starving familir—
dispose of ; and when they
of any value that t le can .
te—not a bid to lie on—.
quite destitu
work with. This is
are gone they are
tools to
not a chair to rest on, norsituation of many hundreds of the
the heartbreaking
' itields weavers.
useful industrious Spita
Pawnbrokers and furniture-brokers are so stocked with
goods, they have great difficulty to find room to put them
in their warehouses.
shopkeepers are insolvent—rents
Th ee-fourths of the .
no r
forto distrtun is of use. All that could
cannot be be got i
food.
be sold is gone
1 ed, at is. Gd. Pe - k
r ‘‘ee , £4,125
11,000 looms amp oXo .
_,
do.
3,000 do, unempl
,). ed do. 1,195

14,000

X 5,25

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