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business willin future be carried on at Leek
special order, as
alone, and on behalf o.the subscriber,

JOHN GAUNT.

tember, 1846.
Leek, Staffordshire, 17th Se''

GLOUCESTER, AM:I3
ICSTWITH, AND
CENTRAL WALES RAILWAY COMPANY.
At a Meeting held at the London Tavern, 51shopsgate-street, on
Famay, Sept. 18, 1246, at the requisition of five Shareholderstermining, the
Hon. Henry F. Berkeley in the chair, for the purpose of de
li
whether the above Company should be dissolved pursuant to Act 9
and 10 Vic., cap. 28, the total number of Shares represented amount-
ing to 2,293, and the number required to fenn q oruum be
iIIAVY
ing
9,625, the Chairman declared the meeting adjoura ned to F
NEXT, the 25th inst., at One o'clock precisely, at the seine place, for
the purpose of taking the votes of the Shareholders on the question
of the dissolution of the Conipany.
Shareholders intending to vote for dissolution, who Rannot attend
the meeting, are earnestly requested to send their scrip or proxy to
the undersigned.

G. D. CLARK, Agent to the Requisitioniota..
11, Bucklersbury, Sept. 18, 1846.

PUBLICATIONS.

NEW VOLUME of MR. JAMES'S WORKS.
On the 30th instant will be published,
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LEON'.
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VI. Henry of Guise.
VII. Morley Einstein.
VIII. The Robber; and
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TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Edinburgh.
EdinburghTegiment of Militia—John Fletcher, jun., Esq.,
to be Captain, vice William Fraser, resigned, June 27.
CGmmissiens by the Lord-Lieutenant of Northumberland.
Northumberland and Newcastle Yeomanry Cavalry— Lieu-
tenant John Cookson to be Captain, vice Weaverson, deceased ;
Cornet Adam Atkinson to be Lieutenant, vice Cookson, pro-
moted ; Cornet James Henry Hollis Bradford Atkinson to be
Lieutenant, vice Parker, resigned, Sept.lo.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
David Marks, pen manufacturer, Houndsditch.
BANKSRUPTS.
John Lamont, ship-owner, Wellclose- square, to surrender
Sept. 30, at two, and Nov. 5, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lom-
bard-street ; Linklater, Leadenhall-street.
John Richards, jun., banker, Reading, Oct. 2, at half-past
two, and Nov. 2, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Tur-
quand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers; Holmes, Great
James-street, Bedford-row. •
William Evans, draper, Piccadilly, Oct. 7, at one, and
Nov. 5, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards,
official assignee, Frederick's- place, Old Jewry ; Lloyd, Milk.
street, Cheapside.
Richard Benbow Bradly,jeweller, Bishopsgate-street With-
out, Oct. 2, at two, and Nov. 2, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street;
Lepard and Co., Cloak-faneSity.
Peter Thorn, bottled ale merchant, Castle-street, Leicester-
square, Sept. 30 and Oct. 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Philp,
Great St. Helen's.
William Aston, malster, Lapley, Staffordshire, Oat. 3
and 31, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie,
official assignee, Birmingham; Jackson, Gray's Inn ; Great-
wood, Birmingham.
George Grant, tailor, Kidderminster, Oct. 13, at ten, and
27, at half-past twelve, at the Birmingham District Court.
Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Boycot, jun., Kidder-
minster.
Edward Swanrick Boult, stock broker, Liverpool, Oct. 6,
and Nov. 3, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Morgan, official assignee, Cook-street, Liverpool ; Humphries
and Co., Gray's Inn-square, London; Forshaw and Co.,
Sweeting-street, Liverpool.
John Orange, boot maker, Liverpool, Oct. 6, at one, and
Nov. 5, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cozenove,
official assignee, Liverpool ; Oliver, Old Jewry, London ;
Evans and Son, Liverpool.
William Lancaster, ship owner, Liverpool, Oct. 6 and Nov.
3, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan,
official assignee, Liverpool ; Cornthwaite and Co., Old Jewry-
chambers, London ; Pemberton, Liverpool.
Matthew Norman, jun., cubinet maker, Richmond, York,
Oct. 8 and Nov. 5, at eleven, at the Leeds District Courts-
Freeman, official assignee, Leeds ; Jones and Co., John-street,
Bedford-row, London ; Harle and Clarke, Leeds.
Ebenezer Hodgson, ironmonger, Richmond, Yorkshire.
Oct. 7, and Nov. 5, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court,
Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Fiddey, Temple, London ;
Simpson, Richmond ; Barr Lofthous
NDS.e, and Nelson, Leeds.
DIVIDE
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
J. Bird, timber merchant, Club-row, Bethnal-green,
Oct. 15, at eleven—W. M. Smithson, printer, Canterbury,
Oct. 15, at one—H. and J. Wilkins, wool merchants, London-
wall, Oct. 15, at twelve—C. C. Barley, grocer, Wisbeach St.
Peter's, Cambridgeshire, Oct. 20, at twelve—J. Rudman,
oilman, Bath, Oct. 23, at twelve—R. Nelson, hotel keeper,
Great Portland-street, Oct. 23, at half-past,eleven—C. Clarke,
draper, Goswell-road, Oct. 23, at eleven.
In the Country.
H. Parker, 0. Shore, J. Brewin, and J. Rodgers 4 general
dealers, Sheffield, Oct. 30, at eleven, at the Town-ball,Shef--
field—A. Hall, innkeeper, Manchester, Oct. 16, at twelve, at
the Manchester District Court—G. W. and J. F. Gee,
drapers, Leeds, Oct. 14, at one; at the Manchester District
Court—J. Taylor, A: Adshead; S. Garner, J. Warren, W.
Hulme, and W. Barnes, cotton manufacturers, Stockport,
Lancashire, Oct. 14, at twelve,' at the Manchester District
Court—W. Rolfe, music seller, Manchester, Oct. 14, at
twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to
the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.
T. B. and J. Waller, :grocers, Ipswich. Suffolk, Oct. 16—
W. Rouse, baker, Neptune-street, Rotherhite, Oct. 16—F.
C. Gray, lodginghouse keeper, Dalston, Oct. 16—J. R.
Miskin, grocer, Chatham, Oct. 16—R. Spooner, licensed
victualler, Buckingham-street, Oct. 16—W. M. Smithson,
printer, Canterbury, Oct. 15—H. Elkington, chemist, Maida-
hill. East, Oct. 23—8. L. M. Rothschild, diamond merchant,
Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn fields, Oct. 21—D. A.
Morel, dentist, Langham-place, Marylebone, Oct. 21—T.
Moger, poulterer, Holborn-hill, Oct. 14--G. Prince, wine
merchant, Romsey, Hampshire, Oct. 14—T. Kempster,
builder, Blackman-street, Southwark, Oct. 14—P. Garbanati,
carver and gilder, Woolwich; Oct. 22—E. Hodges, wine
merchant, New-road, Oct. 22—S. Puckering and W. T.
Makins, woollen merchants, Hull, Oct. 14—T. P. Derham,
linendraper, Bristol, Oct. 140 V. Watts, builder, Chelten-
ham, Oct. 15—J. Hill, sh roker, Leeds, Oct. 15—R.
Bleakley, builder, Liverpool, "Oct. 13—R. A. F. Kingscote,
merchant, Sandgate; Kent, 'Oct 13—J. Scholes, general
dealer, Manchester, Oct. 13—C. Allen, malster, Tadley,
Southampton, Oct. 13—G. Longfield, tailor, West Bromwich,
Staffordshire, Oct. 13.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
W. and H. Hayes, licensed victuallers, Liverpool—A. Nord-
bled and W. Newton, cement manufacturers, Liverpool —G.
Stockbridge and J. Kay, drapers, Oxford-street—W. Caul-
field and H. Hunter, confectioners, Old-street—J. Boothroyd
and T. Cliffe, linendrapers, Huddersfield—H. and J. White,
silk dyers, Macclesfield, Cheshire—J. and P. Rogers,
wharfingers, Penryn, Cornwall—J. Brown and J. Anderson,
tea dealers, East Stonehouse, Devonshire—T. and J. Church,
corn dealers, Bracknell, Berkshire—F. W. Simeon and J.
Newman, printers, Bristol—J. and G. Blakey, hair dressers,
Lincoln—R. C. Beck and T. Holcroft, oil refiners, Manchester
—S. Beall and J. Webster, pawnbrokers, Great Charlotte-
street, Blackfriars-road—W. Butcher, T. Hodgkinson, and
J. Partington, cotton manufacturers, Manchester—B. Payne
and A. Bentall, drapers, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire
—W. Clark, G. Maugham, J. Brown, L. Tomlinson, J.
Harker, G. Kendall, and T. Pickles, lead miners, Grassing-
ton, Yorkshire--J. 0. Williams and G. F. Keed, ironmongers,
Crawford-street, Marylebone—T. D. Marsh and J. Godden,
linendrapers, Goswell-street, St. Luke's—W. A. Reeves and
J. Richardson, brokers, Maidstone—H. Minton, M. D. Hol-
lins, and S. Hollins, patent button manufacturers, Stake-
upon-Trent—J. D:Awde and G. Highmoor, cattle dealers,
Lartington, Yorkshire.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
James Smith, manufacturer, Glasgow, Sept. 24 and
Oct. 15, at two, at the office of Messrs. Taylor and Kirkland,
Glasgow.
R. and R. Watt, merchants, Glasgow, Sept. 25, and
Oct. 15, at two, at the chambers of Mr. Steele, jun., Glasgow.

GREAT Toiw-'---or Oxrouu.—This new work, by
the author of " Peter Priggins," will perhaps be con-
sidered as the most amusing of all his lively narratives.
We understand it will be found to convoy various ex-
tremely curious pictures of college life, in which under-
graduates and masters, proctors and scouts, learned
doctors and idle students, are made to pass in review be-
fore the reader, and in all the picturesque features of
life at Oxford. The author, it is well known, has had
peculiar advantages for observing all that is going on
behind the scenes of that vast educational institution,
and it is to be hoped that the result will be attended
with equal pleasure and profit to the reader.
MIGRATION OF SWALLOWS AND LAPWINGS.—The
principal families of migratory birds are beginning to
collect in large flocks, previous to their flight to their
winter quarters in the " sweet south." For the last
fortnight the swallows have held daily councils about
the old farm houses on the banks of the river Irwell,
where they usually build their nests ; and for a longer
time the lapwings have left their solitary dwelling places
on the moors, and have assembled in flocks of several
hundreds on the pastures and ploughed lands. A very
favourite resort for the latter birds at this season is the
public field at Newton, which has been pastured for cen-
turies, and which must swarm with insects and worms.
I have seen them there in very large flocks many times
during the last month. The failure of the accustomed
supplies of food in their usual feeding grounds is no
doubt the cause of the movements of both these families
of birds, and in a few days the increasing pressure of
scarcity will drive them away to ilder climates and
more fruitful pastures.—Liverpool Tm
imes.
PHENOMENON AT WAINYBROLCH, MONMOUTu-
smum—On Monday the bees and wasps congregated
from east, west, north, and south, and engaged in deadly
warfare. They appeared in swarms as far as the eye
could see, and the ground for a large space underneath
was covered with the dead, mostly wasps.
PROLIFIC POTATO.—The Superintendent of the
Stockton and Darlington .Railway sowed in his garden
a single potato, in a handful of guano, and it has pro-
duced sixty-two good and sound potatoes.—Newcastle
Journal.
[AuvEnTisEmErrr.]—A LIVER AND STOMACH
COMPLAINT.---WONDERFUL EFFICACY or HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—
The son of Mr. Thompson, national schoolmaster, Stokesley,
had been in a most precarious way for upwards of three
years, and at last became so consumptive as to be appa-
rently in a dying state. Three flstulous cores formed in his
chest, so that the stomach usually rejected both food and me-
dicine. Mr. Robert Calvert, chemist, Stokesley, bears testimony
that by the use of Holloway's Pills, the youth is now nearly cured
of his ailments, his appetite and digestion being good, besides re-
gaining strength and flesh; yet, be it remembered, this sufferer was
nearly at death's door. Is not this truly extraordinary? These
Pills are sold by all druggists, and at the Proprietor's Establishment,
244, Strsudf London.

THE GOVERNMENT AND THE
IRISH DISTRESS.

DEPUTATION FROM THE COUNTY OF CORK
TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL.
The deputation consisted of Edward Deane Freeman,
Esq., High Sheriff of the county of' C)rk ; Sir James
Anderson, Bart. ; the Very Rev. D. M. Collins' P.P. of
'
Mallow • the Rev. H. Somerville, Rector of Doneraile,
and the Rev. C. B. Gibson, Secretary to the Mallow
Relief Committee.
The deputation were received by his Lordship and the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his Lordship's house,
°hasher's- place, at ten o'clock on Tuesday, the 15th inst.
The interview lasted for an hour and a half. His Lord-
ship and the Chancellor of the Exchequer gave a patient
hearing to each member of the deputation, and appeared
not only disposed and anxious to hear their statements
respecting the condition of the county, but also to re-
calve any hints they were prepared to offer respecting
future and more permanent legislation, -
CA memorial detailing the prevalence of distress in
Cork, and suggesting the remedies applicable to its
relief, was then read. The substance of the document
will be gleaned from the proceedings that followed.]
The Rev. Mr. GIBSON, who spoke first, explained the
objects of the deputation. He said—We are, my Lord,
a deputation appointed to wait upon your Lordship and
other members of her Majesty's Government, by a public
meeting held in the county of Cork, at which deputa-
tions
attended from the baronies of Duhallow, Orrery,
Kilmore, and Fermoy, representing about 400,000 per-
sons. It is the decided opinion of' this deputation— we
say it with respect my Lord, but with a full conviction
of its truth—that neither the English people nor her
Majesty's Government are acquainted with the real
social condition of the country, either as it regards the
extent or the degree of distress. The members of the
deputation, although living in thamidst of the distress,-
were not fully sensible of or impressed with its nature
until they set about instituting inquiries on the subject.
I beg to direct your Lordship's attention to the report I
hold in my hand.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL—Yes, I have read that report.
The Rev. Mr. GlBSON—Although the report I hold
in my hand has been drawn up with the greatest care,
this deputation feel your Lordship would not act or le-
gislate upon un-official information of this kind. The
deputation would therefore press upon your Lordship
and the other members of the Government the necessity
that exists of forming a commission for inquiring into
the social condition of Ireland. The Devon Commis-
sion was a land commission, and therefore did not treat,
except incidentally, of the condition of those who have
no land. Mr. Nichol's report had respect to the distress
of the people in an artificial state of society, not in the
natural state. What the country wants is a Cabin
Commission—such a commission the deputation con-
ceive might be formed, and accomplish its work without
much delay or a penny expense, as it would not be ne-
cessary to prosecute inquiries in more than the pro-
vinces of Munster and Connaught, as the legislation
which would meet the destitution in these two provinces
could not fail to meet the distress iu Leinster and Ulster.
The deputation also desire to call your Lordship's at-
tention to the Acts passed by the Government to meet
the present distress. It is the pious conviction of the
deputation, that works will not be passed commensurate
with the distress. Neither landlords nor farmers feel
disposed to tax the counties for such works. There are
many unemployed and starving for want of
public works which were thrown out at the ses-
sions. Those works are considered of questionable
utility (and perhaps this may be the case with many
of them already considered). The deputation would
direct the special attention of your Lordship to
the importance of employing the people on the im-
provement of the land; Those who require money to
improve their properties will not be able to take advan-
tage of the million under the Drainage Act, inasmuch
as they cannot receive the money until two-thirds of
the work be executed. And as they are to pay the
labourer each week, they must go to the bank and raise
money at about (with expense of stamp) 64 or 7 per
cent. ; they must pay 3i per cent. to Government, and
if we include the enginerring expense, and other ex-
penses; the landholder who borrows under this Act
must do so in the first instance at a rate of interest
amounting to from 10 to 12 per cent. As other mem-
bers of the deputation are to address your Lordship and
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, I shall, leave the
further illustration of the subject I have laid before you
to them.
The than SHERIFF begged to direct the particular
attention of his Lordship and the Chancellor of the
Exchequer to the working of the Drainage Act. He
possessed property which he was desirous of improving ;
but under present circumstances it was impossible to
take advantage of the Act. He was also of opinion
that public works would be opposed at the presentment
sessions in Ireland. Gentlemen might agree to small
works near their own demesnes, but, not to the opening
of good lines of road which would improve the country
and give sufficient .erwaaibte"lglalthought.tha wages-
of the country too low, itailiat they should in no case,
on public works, be less than 10d. or ls. a day.
The Rev. Mr. COLLINS, P.P., Mallow—My colleagues
on this mission from Ireland to your Lordship have said
that the facts mentioned by them have broken suddenly
and unexpectedly on their minds, and that it was by
minute investigation that they became acquainted with
the extensive distress by which they were surrounded.
I cannot say the same ; unfortunately, I am acquainted
"with wretchedness all my life, and, as a Roman Catholic
clergyman, in daily contact with the poor, my feelings
are worn raw by the pressure of the hard old harness of
misery under which my afflicted countrymen groan.
Sustained as I now am by the p:esence of gentlemen
differing from me in creed and politics, I can make state-
ments to your Lordship which in their absence I would
not venture to notice ; for I would thereby only bring my
own veracity into question, without effecting the good
that may possibly arise from the interview with which I
am honoured by your Lordship. The hotel where the
Relief Committee of Mallow hold their sittings was a short
time since surrounded by about five hundred persons, re-
presenting three thousand mouths, seeking employment
or relief. I, as parish priest, was deputed by the com-
mittee to -address them, inculcating patience, peace, and
submission to the law. I did so, saying that the Go-
vernment after a few days would do something. I
was met by exclamations from them, declaring " that
every day was a fortnight, that the hunger was going
like thorns through their sides; that they could not go
home from excessive weakness, that they were miserable,
and their wives and children." My Lord, the potatoes
are so bad that the " stoinath rejected them; they were
wild, and black, and offensive to the taste—and that it
was by a mixture of salt and water they were able to
swallow them." I, my Lord, have seen a mother feed-
ing her fever-stricken child with her own suck, adminis-
tered with a cup and spoon, and have seen a man go
three miles to earn eightpence a day, while he left his
wife and children in fever, with the house closed up, and
no one to give them a drink of cold water during his ab-
sence, and his mind weighed down with the apprehen-
sion that some of the patients may set fire to the house
in paroxysms of the disease, and all be a heap of cinders
on his return. These and the like scenes, harrowing as
is the mere announcement of them to your Lordship's
feelings, are not new to me nor to any of my reverend
brethren of the same persuasion. The recurrence of
them is as frequent and uniform as it is affecting.
The time is come for the mind of a great
statesman to act in regard to Ireland. The whole
social condition of that country ought to be closely re-
viewed and analysed, nor ought reference be made
to maxims of legislation growing out of a highly arti-
ficial state of society. The mere elementary principles
on which human society is based ought to be brought
into action to serve as a foundation for a new system of
things in Ireland. To effect this, as well as to meet the
pressing wants of the people, I would with due humility
pray your Lordship to seek from the Legislature some-
thing like despotic power over landed "property, so that
you could enter any lands to reclaim and improve them,
thereby to employ the people, and charge the expenses
on the lands thus reclaimed ; such a power ought to be
used with moderation by the Government, by their say-
ing•to a landed proprietor, "improve your lands, they
are waste, or nearly waste for centuries; if not, we will
do it for yon, making it the first charge on the lands."
The country
.gentlemen now dissipating their revenues
as absentees in foreign countries, or at home as loungers
in clubs, kennels, and news rooms, will be stimulated to
exertion, and the Government would achieve the great
work of raising the condition of the people by employ-
ment and wholesome industry. All classes connected
with land in:lreland are in a state of bankruptcy, in-
capable of discharging their engagements to each other.
Things must come to a scramble, which among
large masses of mankind is always a work of blood.
Therefore the intervention of Government ought to be
prompt and decided. A doctrine was laid down that the
rate of labour on the Government works ought to be
under that of the country. Nothing can be more fal-
lacious and unjust to the working classes than that doc-
trine. The price of labour is already too low in Ireland,
and it ought to be the endeavour of Government to give
it an improved direction. The supply there is excessive,
and the demand almost nothing. Hence labour cannot
in the market bring a fair price no more than the air we
breathe or the water we drink. Hence the principle on
which the wages of a working man should be calculated
is—what is necessary for the support of himself and
family.—( Here his Lordship gave a marked assent, on
which the Rev. Gentleman sat down.)
Rev. Mr. SOMERVILLE—My Lord, it appears to me as
if it would be an unnecessary consumption of your Lord-
ship's time were I to attempt to add to the statements
which have been made to you with regard to the fearful
state of distress which exists in the different localities
which we represent on the present occasion. I am a
clergyman of the Established Church. lam located
in Doneraile ; I mix very much with the lower
classes of the people of the parish, and I can assure
your Lordship it would be impossible to exaggerate
the state of the destitution which exists there as well
as in the adjoinine•. parishes. Sincerely indeed do I
may be adequate to meet the wants of
thepeople ; for,
my
hope, my Lord, that such measures may be adopted, such
stepstaken, a
Lord, I will not conceal it from
you, that unless some such measurerbe at once adopted,
s
I vastly apprehend that the peace of the country cannot
be preserved. Hitherto the patience of the people under
their great privation has been above praise, but I more
than doubt the wisdom of stretching their patience be-