The Sun.
London, England, 1834-02-27 00:00:00

ars OPENING OF THE CHINA TRADE.

A very numerous and highly respectable meeting of the 10
tea trade was held at the London Tavern yesterday, for
the purpose of receiving a report from the Committee ap-
pointed by the trade to watch the proceedings in Parlia-
ment relative to the tea duties, and other matters. Mr.
CRAWFORD, M.P., in the Chair. _

Mr. W. I. Fay, secretary, read the report of the com-
:nit•ee, which went into a lengthened detail of the pro-
ceedings of the committee to obtain from government the
fixing of duties to be laid on teas on the opening of the
trade. The report deprecated the laying of duties on low
teas equal to those on the finer qualities. The committee
)ad been received by Lord Althorp with much kindness,
but he had expressed his determination to adhere to the
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committee therefore recommended a petition toParliament,
playing that one uniform duty might be laid on teas.
Mr. TWINING rose to move the adoption of the report,
and said, as the tea trade had, since the Commutation Act
passed fifty years ago, increa.ed from three to eight
millions of pounds quarterly, it ought to be left without
change. He proceeded to state it was made a point of
pre-eminent importance with government that cheap tea
should be provided for the poor ; but the trade were fully
satisfied that they were not consulted by the new scale of
duties, and he hoped ministers would be induced again to
consider the subject. He concluded by moving the first
resolution, which was to the effect that the report be re-
ceived and adopted.
Mr. DELAFOSSE seconded the motion.

Mr. Nice°Lsow .ould not concur in the last paragraph
inserted in the report. All former law-makers bad not
c ,nsidered it just to lay a tax upon a low commodity equal
to that imposed upon a superior article. The consump-
tion of the poor consisted chiefly of Boheas.—(No. no.)
It amounted to full 6,000,000 lbs. a year. He concluded
with proposing two resolutions as an amendment to those
to be submitted. They were to the effect that the system
hitherto acted upon by the East India Company has in..
creased the consumption of tea, and maintained the reve-
nue; that to sustain that system the trade should be con-
ducted on the same principle, in order to prevent fraud ;
that all teas should be sold by public sale, notice being
given in the Gazette ; that an ad valorem duty be levied
on all teas, as the only equitable principle to the merchant
and the consumer; and that this will be the best plan to
carry the objects of Government into operation. He (Mr.
Nicholson) said the machinery under the new act would
give the Whigs an opportunity of appointing numberhas
commissioners, inspectors, &c., at the expense of the
nation, and the probability was that the nation would be
half poisoned by the introduction of low trashy teas.
Mr. HOOPER seconded the amendment. He felt confi-
dent a fixed rate of duty would be injurious to the poorer
classes by increasing the price of teas. He thought an
ad valorem duty would prevent smuggling.

The amendment was put and negatived, and the report
was adopted.
Mr. SANDERSON considered if teas were introduced at
an ad valorem duty it would be impossible to carry on the
trade. The bill passed last session would be injurious to
the trade and the revenue. The article of tea bad
become of great importance to the country, whether
the shipping or mercantile interests were concerned. The
price of low teas here would regulate the price in China,
and the British public would not be gainers, but the Chi-
nese, by the low duty levied. Besides, the impossibility
of discriminating the grades of teas would afford ample
room for fraud and bribery. A cargo of Boheas coming
in might be considered to be Congous by the inspector,
and the extra duty would make a difference of 50,0001, to
the importer, who would not hesitate to give a bribe of
from 10,0001. to 20,0001. to obtain a declaration that
the teas were Boheas. In fact, the grades were so nice
that great difficulties would exist in detecting the various
qualities. The Ministers had done some things well for
the country, but they had not attended to the welfare of
commerce. He concluded by proposing the second reso-
lution, declaring the scale of duties alike injurious to the
trade and the country at large, and that the act hail
passed without due deliberation.

Mr. F. TRADERS seconded the resolution. The prin-
ciples of free trade would not, he contended, admit of high
duties ; be.idea, the poorer classes would not drink the
low teas if they could get better. The classification of the
teas would lead to perjury, to a defalcation in the revenue,
and disappointment to all classes. No parties would be
benefitted by the change.
The resolution was carried.

Mr. COUSINS proposed the next resolution, which
stated that the consumption of tea depended on the qua-
lity; but the scale of duties would tend to encourage the
growth and importation of low teas, to bring the article
into discredit, and to affect the revenue. The scale of
duties as no,v adopted would increase smuggling. The
schedule of duties was deprecated' by the trade, and he
might say, by the Eist India Company.—(llear, hear.)
Mr. Hovaxinsorr, in seconding the motion, referred
to dettils to show ibat the Interests of the poorer classes
would be compromised by the new scale of duties.
The resolution was passed.

Air. BUTLER proposed the next resolution, and said, to
show the pour did not use Boheas extensively, he might
state that while he exported to Ireland one chest of Buhea
he sent eight chests of Cungou.

Mr. STYAN seconded tt.eresolution, and described the
scale as a complete delusion.
The resolution was adopted.

➢lr. EDWARDS moved the fifth resolution, which stated
that the high rate of duties on fine teas would encourage
smoggling,&c.

The resolution was seconded by Mr. WILLIAMS, and
adopted.

The next resolution was proposed by Mr. VARNHAM,
and expressed the opinion of the meeting that the ma-
chinery of the plan would be inefficient, leading to dis-
putes, &c., and to increase greatly the number of officers,
so that the surplus of the high duties would pay the ex-
penses of collection.

- The resolution was seconded by Mr. MILLER, and
adopted.

Mr. Tllomesox proposed the next resolution, to the
effect that a uniform duty on all teas would be the best
mode of insuring to the public good tea, to protect the
revenue, and act as a safeguard to the fair trader ; and that
a petition be presented to Parliament stating the convic-
tions of the trade.

The resolution was seconded by Mr. HittHousr, and
adept. d.

A petition to Parliament was then agreed to, after
which thanks were returned to the Committee and Chair..
man, and the meeting adjourned.

A meeting of upwards of 200 proprietors and
occupiers of land of the eastern division of Cornwall was
held at the Town Hall, St. Germain's, on the 14th inst.,
when a petition against the abolition of the corn laws was
carried unanimously. C. Roberts, Eyq., of Trevat, said,
if these laws were abolished a great part of the 600,000
agricultural labourers of the kingdom would be reduced to
destitution.

TORRINGTON.—A meeting, convened by the
Worshipful the Mayor of this town, C. W. Johnson,
Esq., in compliance with a requisition signed by several
highly_respectable inhabitants, took place at the Guildhall
on Saturday last, for the purpose of adopting a declaration
to his Majesty on the subject of the Established Church.
It was proposed by Captain Cutcliffe, and seconded by
E. H. CAddy, Esq., that the declaration already in circu-
lation be adopted as the sentiments of the present meet-
ing. This was unanimously agreed to.
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gravings, in Bvo., for Is., royal quarto, 2s. 6d. The spe-
cimens and show boards, we are requested to state, will be
issued on the Ist March, but Part I. will not be delivered
before the old of the month, to allow time for supplying
the demands throughout the kingdom simultaneously.
All orders should therefore be cent at latest by the 20th of
March. Published by Bull and Churton, Hulles.street,
London. Agents are established in all the principal towns
of England and Wales. For Scotland, Bell and Bradtute,
h.dinburgh ; Ireland, Wakeman, Dublin, of whom spe-
citnens and show-boards can be had by the trade.

A FIRE OCCASIONED BY A MAD DOG.--
Friday a dog belonging to a shepherd, in the employ of
Mr. Snazell, of Woodditton, which had been tie 1 up
from a supposition of its being mad, broke loose and ran
In the course of its progress it bit several dogs.
It was pursued by many persona for the purpose of destroy-
ing it, but it managed to escape, and was not heard of till
the following morning, when it entered the stable of Mrs,
'l'utsall, of Woliditton. On its entrance, a man, em.
;;toyed looking after the horses, ran out, leaving a candle
nd lantern behind him, which was upset either by the
iorses or dog amongst the straw. Toe straw immeili-
at, ly caught fire, by which the horses' tails and other parts
61 their bodies were singed. Some harness which had
been fresh oiled was burnt to a crisp. Fortunately, the
lire was soon got under without doing the damage on_
:;finally anticipated. The dog also was killed in the course
“f the day without his having inflicted any further ha.
jury,—Bury .14erald.

BPIRIT fiF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

lord John Russell's proposed bill for the relief
of Dissenters may do for a proof of just and kind
feeling on the part of government, but it is undoubt-
edly defective--Ist, because of the narrowness of its
object; 2cl, because of the complication of its ma-
chinery. A registration of births, as well as mar-
riages, would be desirable, not for Dissenters only,
but for all classes of his Majesty's subjects ; nor do
we fee an unavoidable necessity for that perpetual
intermeddling of the established clergy with the
most important interests of Dissenters, which has
been provided by the noble lord's bill. There is
no reason that we can discover why bans of mar-
riage between Dissenters should be published in
any parish church ; or why the registry of the
marriage should not be placed among tine civil
records of the country, instead of being comtnitted
to the hands of the clergy, by whom it has
been notoriously, and, in many instances, almost
grossly and mischievously neglected. If the fees
on any services rendered by the established clergy
on occasions of naptism or marriage be made now a
bone of cr,ntention, or an obstruction in the way of
any efficient relief bill to the Dissenters, let an equi-
nitnt for such fees be paid into some civil tribunal,
and by it accounted for to the parochial clergy, of
which one advantage must necessarily be, that at
least the amount will be known. We agree, how-
ever, with those of our contemporaries who think
that tithes and other church property afford of
themselves a sufficieut maintenance for the esta-
blished clergy. The spirit of the new bill will of
course be taken by the Dissenters as evidence of a
strong desire to the part of its advocates to break
down those repulsive restraints and disqualifications
by which the Dissenting body has hitherto been
aggrieved, while some of its details may likewise
prove to them the practical difficulty attendant on
even the most reasonable change in long-existing
regulations.—Timer.

An evening contemporary (the Courier)has men-
tioned a report that the Rev. Mr. Gleig, a writer
in Blackwood, and the reputed editor of a violent
Tory paper, the Kentish Gazette, is about to be
appointed chaplain to Chelsea hospital. As this
place is in the gift of Lord John Russell, we can
not believe that he who introduced the Reform
Bill will commit so great a blinder. We trust that
the rumour has originated with come Rev. Tory,
over sanguine in his expectations of preferment ; or
that it has been circulated by some sarcastic radical
in derision of a weakness not unfrequently imputed
so the present ministers, viz , that of promoting
their persecutors, and neglecting the worthiest of
their friends. It is, we make bold to say, impos-
sible that Lord John Russell should bestow so va-
luable, or indeed a far less valuable appointment on
an individual, who though a man of talent has no
clerical merit that we have heard of, and who has
served all his life under Tory banners. Had Lord
Londonderry so rewarded his coadjutor in that
(vapid) history which bears his Lordship's name,
it might have caused little wonder; but Lord John
Russell ! We should rejoice to think that the
Whig ministers were strong enough to afford such
ad vantages to their sworn enemies, though grieved
to suspect, which we cer ainly do not, that the
church of England contained no more meritorious
candidate for the patronage of a reform Government
among those liberal clergy who are held in esteem
by the nation.—Times.
The public are aware that the motion for the
repeal of the window tax, of which Colonel Evans
had given notice, stood for Tuesday evening. It
was equally well known that the government was
under great alarm as to the possible result of that
motion, and, in the last place, it is but too well
known that Colonel Evans, when called upon by
the Speaker to proceed with his motion in a full
house, hushed into expectant silence, did not answer
to the call. Why the gallant colonel did not answer,
nobody could tell. At least nobody did tell. There
is one thing quite certain that the absence of the
hon. member for Westminster on this occasion was
much more convenient and gratifying to the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer than to the gallant colonel's
constituents. Indeed the ministerial papers have
let out the fact, that the intended, or pretended,
motion, we do not know which to call it, caused
so much anxiety to the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, that he thought proper to con-
vene a preparatory meeting, an ex parte Par-
liament, as it were, of the members of the house,
who have the credit of always voting to keep Mi-
nisters in their places when they are not afraid of
losing their own. It is said that the Chancellor of
the Exchequer told them the tax could not be
spared consistently with the service of the State.
We believe it cannot be spared consistently with
the keeping up of the present extravagant scale of
expenditure in the various departments of the State;
nor consistently with the profligate and expensive
abuses of the pension list. But when the house
and window taxes and the malt and hop taxes shall
have been totally repealed, the Ministers will be
compelled to cut down the establishments of the
State to the circumstances of the country, and to
get rid of pension list abuses and sinecures. The
Chancellor of the Exchequer having done his best
to " embarrass" a former Ministry by voting against
the house and window taxes, now modestly requests
the Parliament not to embarrass him by relieving
the country from those unequal and oppressive im-
posts. He has been, indeed, almost frightened into
a surrender of the house tax; indeed, he has made
a sort of promise that he will do so; but as he is
not fastidious about "eating his words" the country
can never be sure of the thing until it is done. The
Chancellor of the Exchequer, as well as Sir John
Hobhouse, when out of office, voted against military
flogging as decidedly as against the assessed taxes,
but the sunshine of the treasury benches threw a
new light upon the minds of both those patriots,
which reconciled them, for their country's good, not
at all for their own personal advantage, to military
torture and fiscal oppression. We supported Colo-
nel Evans as candidate for Westminster, when Sir
John Hobhouse, qualifying himself for his official
distinctions, threw off his old Palace-yard principles,
and, in kicking down the ladder that raised him into
power, brought himself to the ground. We confess
the gallant colonel has, for some time past, not done
as much for his constituents as they did for him.
His tone of opposition appears considerably miti-
gated; but the desertion of his post on Tuesday night
is an act so little in accordance with the professions
which he made, we trust the people of Westminster
will require the fullest explanation of it, and " Hob-
house him" if the most satisfactory solution of that
act of apparent dereliction of duty be not given. Co-
lonel Evans has, at all events, let the " country"
get the start of the " town," for the- motion of Sr
W. Ingilby to abolish the malt tax stands for to-
night. There are some who regard the interests of
the town and country adverse to each other as to
relief from taxation. We are advocates for the
relief of both.We would have the house arid window
taxes repealed, to relieve one great division of the
commun,ty,and we would have the malt tax and the
hop duty abolished to relieve the other. We hope,
therefore, that Sir W. Ingilby will not imitate Co-
lonel Evans, but be ready at his post to endeavour
to obtain relief for the distressed agricultural in-
terests, even at the risk of embarrassing the finan-
cial calculations of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Better is it that the latter should be obliged to make
new calculations, than that the agricultural interests
should perish.—Morning Herald.

The present position of Ministers If most difficult
in relation to their financial measures ; and unless
the different parties in the House of Commons—
the town and agricultural members—display a
little judgment and fairness towards one another,
they may " pull the house down about their ears"
and destroy public credit. The agriculturists are
at some loss respecting their proceedings this day.
One section is for the total repeal of the malt tax.
With that party it is understood that Sir Robert
Peel declines to act, as it would go beyond the sur-
plus of revenue at the disposal of Government.

Another section proposes the repeal of a moiety of
the tax ; and another division who think that they
can combine both Whigs and Tories in a country
party talk of substituting a revived beer duty and
an increased license duty on maltsters, to make good
that difference between the surplus revenue and
the deficiency which would result from the re-
peal of the malt and hop duty. In short, any-
thing save the repeal of the house tax is the angry
cry of the agriculturists : and we advise the metro-
politan and borough members to be on their guard
against these various contrivances to disappoint
the confident expectations of their constituencies.
We have never denied the prostrate condition of
the agricultural interest, but the pressure of taxation
is not confined to their shoulders only; and in any
diminution of the public burdens they are not to
reap all the benefit at the expense of the other op-
pressed classes of the community. We are now in
the middle of the " money question." The saddle
rubs the galled jade. It is clear that we are suf-
fering under the scourge of the Pitt system ; and
doubtless the Tories, out of office, will do their
best to perplex and injure ministers in their neces-
sary dealing with evils created by the " Conserva-
tives" themselves. We trust that the really inde-
pendent and sensible members of parliament will
not lend themselves to party manoeuvres, or to un-
fair and partial sacrifices of one class at the cost of
another. But after all, ministers are not dependent
on those jumbled divisions and interested splits of
parties. No ministry can now, or ought to,
" manage the House of Commons." If the mem-
bers choose to clip the revenue on that side which
best suits their separate interests, and inequitably
to deal with the national taxation, the responsibility
is not with ministers.—lllorning Chronicle.
We inserted yesterday a paragraph from an
evening contemporary (the Courier), respecting
the appointment which it was rumoured there was
an intention to bestow on the Rev. Mr. Gleig, the
author of " The Subaltern," a notorious Tory
writer in Blackwood's Magazine, and the well-
known editor of the Kentish Gazette—the chap-
laincy of Chelsea Hospital. We cannot believe
that Lord John Russell, who has the disposal of
this situation, will be guilty of so enormous a fault
as to bestow it upon a man who, whatever his ta-
lents, has made himself conspicuous by his opposi-
tion to the Reform Bill, and his hostility to all who
supported it. In the year 1832, when the struggle
was at its height, the Kentish Gazette teemed with
articles combating all liberal principles, which every
reformer in the county of Kent attributed to the
envenomed pen of Mr. Gleig. Can it then be
possible, that the noble lord, who deservedly gained
so high a reputation by his able advocacy of the Re-
form Bill, should have selected this rev. gentleman,
the bitter enemy of parliamentary reform and of all
liberal principles, to be the fortunate person on
whom to confer this most desirable church pre-
ferment ? The income of the chaplain to Chelsea
is between five and six hundred pounds a year;
the fixed salary being 3001. per annum, to which
is to be added an excellent house to live in; and the
other emoluments and allowances make up the in-
come to the amount we have stated, without taking
into account all the advantages of an agreeable resi-
dence, and the command it affords of agreeable
London society. How many virtuous and respect-
able Whig clergymen are there, who having been
true to their opinions during the long period of Tory
rule, and who have naturally a right to look up to
their friends now in power for some recompense,
must feel heart-burning; and indignation, to witness
the rank Tory advocates preferred and rewarded,
and themselves overlooked and neglected ? We have
formerly had occasion, more in sorrow than in anger,
to lament the improper distribution of church pa-
tronage, and we are now forced to this renewed
remonstrance, in the hope that Lord J. Russell will
not commit a grievous blunder, and encourage his
enemies, while he disheartens his friends, by naming
a notorious Tory to Chelsea Hospital. Let him
recollect, too, that the Dissenters have their eyes
upon him. The Whigs really cannot afford to throw
away their church patronage. The Tories are no-
toriously the great majority of the aristocracy, and
consequently possess in property many livings. The
church is at present nearly filled with Tortes, be-
cause the government patronage, as well as the pa•
tronage of Tory gentlemen, has been long bestowed
exclusively on Tories. A judicious bestowal of the
government patronage is the only way by which the
Whigs can hope to strengthen themselves in the
church ; and the influence of the church tells again
on the gentry. Ministers injure themselves in an-
other way by this abuse of their patronage. The
Tories do not attribute this conduct to the liberality
of their opponents, but to their fear. How often
has it been our fate to hear the loud laugh raised
at the joke that every parson who has ever written
in John Bull, the Age, or some of the other favourite
journals of the clergy, is sure of church preferment.
These things detract much from the reputation of
Ministers. When it is known that men are so afraid
of attack that they patronise only their enemies,
they will always have enemies.—iWorning Chronicle.
Accounts, we have reason to believe, have
reached the government from Lancashire and the
colleries in the north, as well as from certain agri-
cultural districts in Dorsetshire and elsewhere, cal-
culated to justify the most serious apprehensions for
the peace of those districts, and of the country at
large. It has been for some time past rumoured
that a general strike among the manufacturing
classes was arranged to take place about the end of
this, or the beginning of the next month ; and we
have but too much cause to think that the accounts
we have alluded to are not without foundation.
This was not entirely unexpected by us. It has
been the constant policy of the present Go-
vernment to hold up for admiration, we might
almost say for imitation, the example of our
continental neighbours in every thing. What
wonder, then, if our manufacturing classes take
a leaf from the book of their rulers, and if
the example of the Lyonese workman is not
thrown away upon the Lancashire collier ? What
wonder is it if the correspondence with the
unions, and the franks from Downing-street, have
produced fruit in due season ? What wonder is it, if
political unions were fostered, that trades unions
should spring up ? These unions, we repeat, are but
the offset from this source—these combinations but
the natural result of this correspondence. Can the
King's government now affect to view with astonish-
ment the tide of democratic insurrection which is
rising over the land on all sides, or• have they left to
themselves or to their successors the means of stop-
ping it ? Do they imagine that the regiment of
cavalry which is now on its Nay from Dublin will be
sufficient to protect the lives and properties of the
peaceful and the well-disposed in those districts ?
and, if they do not, from whence are they
to draw others, for this, their bounden duty ?
And yet, amidst this state of things, it is but the
other day we heard the declaration of the Secretary
at War of the proposed reduction of the army, arid
the declamation of the member for Middlesex for
the propounded disbanding of the navy—Mr. El-
lice, because the one was superfluous; Mr. Hume,
because the other was superabundant ; and now we
are obliged to send to Ireland for a regiment, to
demonstrate the inutility of the former; and the
recent treaty of the Porte with Russia, we suppose,
will be adduced as a proof of the absurdity of keep.
ing up the latter. The army is, as we have stated,
to be reduced by 8,000 men. In the teeth of this
reduction, we have no hesitation in declaring our
conviction that, before the end of March, ministers
will be compelled to call out the militia, for the
purpose of protecting the peace, arid the property
of the inhabitants, in those districts from which the
accounts we have alluded to were, yesterday, re-
ceived.—Morning Post.

FUR TRADE.—In consequence of the scar-
city and great consumption of beaver and other foreign
furs, there has lately been an unusual demand for hate
skins, which will now fetch from 121. to 15e. per dozen,
being more than double what they were worth last year.
—Hereford Times,

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT•

HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEB• 96.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at ten minutes past five.
Lord G. SOMERSET brought in a bill for making a
railway from London to Reading, and from Bath to Bristol.
Mr. G. LANGTON s tid the hill would be a most
unjust attack upon the landed interests of the counties
through which it was intended the railway should pass.
Mr. O'CONNELL conceived that the proposed railway
would be a great nuisance to Ireland.
Lord G. SOMERSET hoped hon. members would
suspend their judgments until they should have heard
both sides of the question.
The SPEAKER said the bill had been introduced pur-
suant to the notice given by the noble lord, and with the
understanding that no discussion should take place at that
stage of the bill. The bill was then read a first time.
Mr. BOWES brought in the Durham Railway Bill,
which was read a first time.
Sir G. GREY presented a petition from the landed
proprietors of Langley against the Windsor Railway Bill.
Mr. HANDLEY said it was his intention to call the
attention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to a motion
of which be had given notice, but not seeing the noble
lord in his place, he would postpone it for the present.
Mr. HALCOMB begged to call the attention of the
house to a petition which had been presented, relative to
the Warwick Disfranchisement Bill. From the inquiries
he had made, he could state that a very gross fraud had
been practised upon that house.
The SPEAKER said the hon. member must be aware
that the subject to which he alluded was not then before
the hour,..
Mr. HALCOMB said that he would content himself
with giving notice of a motion for to-morrow for an in-
quiry into the merits of the petition.
Mr. GILLON moved for copies of the resolutions
adopted by the justices of the peace for the county of Lin-
lithgow relative to the vendors of beer, spirits, wine, &c.
Mr. BERNAL brought up the report of the Committee
on the expiring laws.
Mr. JEPHSON moved for returns of the receipts and
expenditure of the office for the registration of deeds in
Ireland.

Lord EASTNOR presented a petition from the rate
payers above 101. a year from the town of Leamington
Priors, against the bill for joining that town with the
borough of Warwick, and praying that they might be
heard by counsel at the bar upo❑ the subject. It
bad been said that the subject of the bill was to confer a
bonus upon the town of Leamington Priors. The peti-
tioners, 650 of the inhabitants of that town, thought
otherwise, and begged of him (Lord Easrnor) to state
to the house how strong the feeling was against the unio❑
of that town with the borough of Warwick. As a proof
of the strength of the feeling upon the subject, he begged
to state to the house, that out of 850 of the rate pavers of
the town of Leamington, no less a number tha❑ 757 had
signed the petition which was presented to the house dur-
ing the last session. The noble lord thought this a
strong circumstance, calling upon the house to well
consider the subject before they gave their sanction
to a bill for uniting the two places.—(Hear, bear )
The noble lord concluded by saying, that the good of the
town would be advanced by considering the prayer of the
petition, with the view of acceding to what it prayed for.