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London, England, 1846-02-09 00:00:00

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NorrniGHAN, FnmAy.—Last evening a publick -3,-,,.._-_-,.. 'l'k.- /V
convened by the Mayor (Thomas Herbert, Esq.),is _ -'rl
in the Ezell-singe-rooms, which were crowded to excel.ll(aß ,—
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The business of the meeting commenced soon after seven
o'clock by the Mayor taking the chair.
The MAYOR said, that in compliance with a requisition,
he had felt it his duty to convene the present meeting, which
might be viewed as one of congratulation.—(Hear, hear )
But two months ago there had been a meeting in the same
hall, to memorialise her Majesty's Government to open the
ports, and to petition for an object which they might now
regard as consummated.—(Applause.) It was interesting r o
note the progress of public opinion ; one convert after an-
other had been added to their ranks—change had succeeded
change—and a general conviction of the impolicy of the re-
strictive system was now prevalent.
Mr. W. Csurre, merchant, on rising to move the first re-
solution, said, he bad long looked upon the cern-laws as en-
-1 tailing evils upon the merchants, manufacturers, artisans,
and labourers, and he verily believed while they inflicted se-
rious injury upon these parties, they had never done the
slightest good to any one class, not even to the landholders
themselves.—(Applause.) He expected, if they lived twenty
years longer that the trade of this country would be doubled ;
at least he saw no reason why it should not. He had tra-
velled many hundred miles through the farming districts in
the Illinois, Indiana, and the Missouri, where he found an
immense quantity of agricultural produce and food, such as
Indian cern, wheat, and maize; but as a class of farmers,
he hed no hesitation in saying, there are no people in the
whole of the United States of America who have so few com-
forts as these farmers have. They have everything they
want in the shape of food, and they have nothing of those
things which we sell.—(Bear, hear.) He went into many
farm- houses there, and lie saw abundance of food, but at the
same time he saw the farmer, his wife, and children, desti-
tute and in rags, and without knife, fork, glass, crockery,
and other comforts, the produce of the towns in this country.
—(Hear, hear.) Why is this the cage Because our laws
have stepped in and forbidden an interchange. But now
there will be free interchange, and there will be a wide field
open for trade and commercial enterprise.—(Applause.) He
would not trouble the tneeting farther, but at once read his
resolution, which he begged to move, namely :
" That the thanks of the meeting are due to Sir Robert
Peel and her Majesty's Government, for the important and
statesmanlike, commercial, and social measures proposed by
them for adoption by Parliament."
Mr.IT. BAILEY (au influential Conservative) very cordially
seconded the motion.

The rPßolutionWs then put, and unanimously adopted.
The Rev. W. Lptwoon rose and was received with loud
applause. There was one good result, he said, which had
already followed the announcement of the measure proposed
by Sir li. Peel ; a result almost as grand in itself as the
results that they believed would follow the accomplishment
of free trade; namely, that it had already destroyed party.—
(Hear.) They heard nothing now of those factions that
used to disturb the political world with their everlasting
wrangling.. Instead of that, they saw Whig joining Tory,
and Tory joining Whig; all willing to unite in drawing the
funeral car of monopoly.—(Applause.) lie had to move that
a petition be sent to the House of Cominons in support of the
measure proposed by her Majesty's Ministers. It paid full
honour to the man who brought the measure forward.
" The petition of the undersigned inhabitants of the borough
of Nottingham,
" Showeth—That your petitioners have learned with the
highest satisfaction the introduction into your Honourable
House by her Majesty's Ministers, of most important mea-
sures as to the free importation of food, as to the tariff,
and as to other matters of legislative regulations. Your
petitioners consider these measures to be based on true
and sound principles, and to be calculated to improve the
agricultural and commercial interests, advance the social
condition, and strengthen the political relations of Great
Britain.
" That your petitioners deem it wiser and more for the
benefit of all classes to repeal the existing corn-laws at once,
but that if the advocates of protection to agriculture, though,
as we believe, with mistaken views, prefer the proposed re-
duced duties, and the postponement of total repeal for three
years, your petitioner would confine her Majesty's Govern-
ment to carry out their proposed measures in the most prac-
ticable mode.
Your petitioners, without referring specially to the other
proposed accompanying matters, desire most earnestly the
, cordial support of your Honourable House to these measures
of Government as a whole.
" And your petitioners will ever pray, tkc."
In conclusion, he had great pleasure in moving that the peti-
tion be forwarded to the House of Commons.—(Applause.)
The proposition was seconded by Mr. BEAN, and carried
unanimously.
Mr. Alderman HEAnn moved, " That although this meet-
ing considers the immediate repeal of all restrictions on the
free importation of food as the course most for the advantage
of all classes of the cammunity, they deem the measures pro-
posed far too important not to be accepted and cordially sup-
ported."
The motion was carried, and after the transaction of some
further business, the meeting broke up at twenty minutes to
nine o'clock.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
MANCHESTER, Faa. 6.
SrociExcaksoz.-The sales are -Blackburn, Chorley, Liver-
pool, Ste., % dis.-Churnet and Blythe, 14 dis.-East Lancashire,
No. 2, 4 p.-Exeter and Exmouth, I Is. dis.-Great Grimsby and
Sheffield, 51.4 p.-Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 14 p.-Manches-
ter, Buxton, Matlock, &e., 13( p.-Manchester and Birmingham,
Quarters, 734 p.-Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 11% p.-Ditto,
Extension, 334 p.-North Eastern, 74 dis.-North Staffordshire, 234
p. -Oldham District, 13s. p.-Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction,
2% p.-Ditto, Extension, li p. -South-Eastern and Dover, 39%
-Ditto, Consolidated, 2% p.-Ditto, Halves, 1% p.
LEEDS, Fix. 6.
STOCK EXORANGI. -The sales are-Manchester and Leeds, Fifth
Shares, 11% p.-Newcastle and Darlington Janction Extensions,
10 p. -East Lancashire, No. 2 (late Accrington), 4% p.-Great
Grimsby and Sheffield Extensions, 20s. p.-Huddersfield and Shef-
field, 21% cash-Leeds and Bradford, 66 -Leeds and Dewsbury, 17%
-Ditto, New Shares, 2% p.-Leeds and Th.rsk, New, 2s. dis.-
Liverpool and Bury, New, 3% p.-Nerth British, New Carlisle
Branch, 334-Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 7s. 6d. p.-Glasgow
and Dumfries, 2-Liverpool, Orinskirk, and Preston, 514-west
Riding Union, 6 -Buckinghamshire (late Rugby), 55. p.- Clitheroe
Junction, 2%-Lancashire and North Yorkshire, par-Leeds, Wake-.
Mad, and Midland, 10s. p.-Northumberland and Lancashire
Junction, ins. dts.- worth Staffordshire, 3% p.-North Wester', 2%
-Eastern Counties (York Extension), 255. p.
Sit EFFI ELI), FEB. 6.
STecir EXCHANGE.-The sales are- London and Birmingham,
230-London and Croydon, 2234-Sheffield ana manchester, Quarter
Shares, No. 3, scrip, 6%-Caledonian Extension, M.-Grimsby and
Uheffield, Extension, 31. Os. 6d. - Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland,
21. am-Midland and Think Junction, 21. Bs.- Sheffield and Lincoln-
shire, 41. Is.-Sheffield and Lincolnshire Extension, 2% -Sheffield,
Buxton, Leek, &c., 16s. -Sheffield, Rotherham, &c., 2%-South
Yorkshire Coal Railway, 2%.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TINE, Fos. 6.
STOCK EXCLIANGI.-The sales are-Caledonian, New, 1% p.-.
North British, 7% p.-Ditto, Halves (Carlisle), 345. p.
HULL, FEs. 6.
fiToat EICIIANGI.-The sales are-Hull and Selby, Half Shares,
27-Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 934-North
British, Half Shares, 7%-Ditto, Carlisle, 31. lg.-Ditto, Dalkeith,
29 % -Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, ice., Old Scrip, 2%-Derby
and Gainsborough, 195.-Grand Union, 322. 6d.-Great North and
South Wales and Worcester, 275. 6d.-Hull and Barnsley Junction,
345.-Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 214-Lincoln and Wainfleet,
275.-London and York, 41. 6s. 6d.-North Staffordshire, 51. 211.-
North Kent, 3-South Midland, 41. 1211.-Shrewsbury and Birming-
ham, 33(,-Teen and Dove Valley, 205.-West Riding Union, 61. 6s.
YORE, Fan. 6.
Sive,' ExcalNG2.-The sales are-Grand Union, 11. 135. 6d.-
Ipswich and Bury, Extension (Norwich), 2%-Leicester and Bed-
flard, 1%-London and York, 4%-Manchester, Buxton, Matlock,
and Midland, 31. 145.-Newcastle and Berwick, 22%-Newcastle
and Darlington Extensions, HA-North British (Carlisle Exten-
sion), 3-North Staffordshire, 4% -Welsh Midland, 1% -York and
North Midland Extension, 3134-Ditto (East and West Riding), 1011.
BRISTOL, Fan. 6.
STOCK Excnalloz.-The sales are-Bristol and Exeter, New, 13-
Caledonian, 16-Ditto, New, 414-Great Western, Quarter Shares,
2034 -Midland, 162-Taff Vale, New, 1%.
EDINBURGH, FEB. 4.
Srocx Excnamin.-The sales are-Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin,
M.-British and Irish Union, 655. 6d-Caledonian Extension, 645.
-Dundee and Perth, 14%-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton,
16s.-Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric, 275. 6d.-Edinburgh and
Granton, Preference, 20%-Edinburgh and Northern, 61. U.-Ditto,
Lochgelly, 295. Oct.-Edinburgh and Peebles. 385.-Edinburgh and
Perth, 755.-Great North and South Wales, Ss. 6d.-Lanark and
Lothians, 50L-North British, Extension to Carlisle, W.-Perth
and Inverness, 345.-Scettish Central, New, 8%.
GLASGOW, Fan 5.
STOCK Excitaros.-The sales are-Airdrie and Bathgate, 475.-
Ayr and Dumfries Junction, 402.-British and Irish Union, 84s. 6d.
-Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction, 455.-East Indian Rail-
way, 25s -Edinburgh and Perth, 705.-Forth and Clyde Junction,
435.-Glasgow General Terminus, 131.-Glasgew and Belfast Unfelt,
455.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 761.-Ditto, New, 27%-
Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 19% -Glasgow and Greeneck,Zre-
ference (6 per cent. till 1853, and 5 per cent. afterwards), s
tl.Dandasee-
gow, Kilmarnock, and Ardressaa, 525. 6d. -Ghia
Junction, 40s. 6d.-Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 405.7Graeat Indian
Peninsular, Ifs.-Lesmahagow, 515.-Perth
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ineds 1 M, 3i
dIBIM-d
Scottish Central, 1514-South Midland,
and Dunfbrinun;,Bs44s.-Stratbern Juno..
Junction, 251.-Stirling
Sion, 51s.
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The schoooner Lady Basset, of Falmouth, J. Stevens
master, from St. Ives, for the Adriatic, with a cargo of fish,
went on shore, to the eastward of Conil, near Cadiz, during
a heavy gale of wind from the S.W., and is likely to become
a wreck. The crow were saved, and the ship's stores and
materials. The cargo is likely to be a total loss.-Penzance
Gazette.
Loss OF THE SCHOONER " ZILLI," OF PENZANCE.
We regret to state that the schooner Zilli, of this port, Cap-
tain Thomas Barnes, was abandoned off Lisbon, on Tuesday,
the 17th January last, This vessel belonged to the Pen-
zance Shipping Company, and left St. Ives on the 3rd of
Jan. with a cargo of 3945 hhds. of Pilchards, bound to Civita
Vecchia.-Penzance Gazette.
SALMON Frsßntc.-The salmon fishing for the sea-
son commenced on Monday. Mr. Tait, the enterprising lea-
see of the Ness fishings, captured four salmon on that day,
and four more yesterday. They were all sold at 2s. 6d. per
pound. From appearances it is expected that the ensuing
season will be a prosperous one. Meantime the river is too
1 high to insure much success.-Inverness Courier.
ALARMING FIRE AT BETHNAL-GREEN.-On Friday
morning, between the hours of one and two, the premises
belonging to . Mr. George Sheppard, pork butcher, No. 6,
Patush-row, were discovered to be on fire. Engines having
arrived, and there being a good supply of water procured
from the East London works, the firemen set to work most
vigorously, but they were unable to get the fire extinguished.
before Mr. Sheppard's premises were destroyed and the con-
tents of the stock-in-trade and the furniture were consumed.
Fortunately the occupier is insured.
MILITARY.- A company of the 30th, from Loughrea,
has marched to Galway, to augment the garrison, in the ap-
prehension of popular disturbance from the export of provi-
sions. Captain Batesons troop 13th Light Dragoons, arrived
on Monday, from Cahir, in this garrison, and with Captain
Doherty's troop, remain until further orders. The troop of
the 13th Light Dragoons has not been replaced at Gort,
where a detachment of the 76th ia.stationed.
A QUEER CUSTOMER.-011 Thursday morning, a
racoon, of an unusually large size, was discovered in the
hen-roost of Mr. Clark, farmer at Watnall, near Nottinti
ham. On examination it was found that the intrud r,
ha
made a meal of two game cocks, five fowls, and case there°
Where the animal had come from, or how it go
nobody knows.
; Time is telling
DAILY BREAD AND LEGISLATIoNi _y 1 sixty arithou-
against our supplies of food at the rat
and
ton.
weight per
sand quarters of corn, or twelve t
biftue carries off five hun-
day. Each hour adjourning a d
minutes passed in telling the
dred tons weight of bread ;
praathe;vaste exceeding eight tons, or
votes, make, each,
-a-na:econds drop through the hour-
forty quarters of wheat; and
glass in atoms that are sacks of flour, or batches of a hun-
dred (111101011 1011‘m.g.9r.T.
--During Friday afternoon s
RASH ATTN.
man of a gentlemanly appearance applied at the Police- -
office, Chester, for protection, saying he had money in his
possession and' that two men were following him, &c. The
police took him to the railway station at his request and
Saw him receive his ticket on the Chester and Crewe line.
lie got into a first-class carriage, in which was another gen-
tleman ; but a few miles on the road he would get outside,
though remonstrated with by the gentleman with him.
However he did get outside near a place called Tattenhall,
and made a spring off the steps, the train going at the rate of
35 miles per hour ;he fell with his head against the opposite,
irail, and received- so severe a contusion at his life is de-
spaired of ; in all probability the man was insane, at least
his conduct appears to justify that inference.