The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-20 00:00:00

THE NOTTINGHAM OPERATIVES.

NOTTINGHAM THURSDAY.
In consequence of the disturbance which took
place after the meeting of the operatives on Tues-
day night, the mayor has forbidden such meetings
for the futura. Last night a great number of
special constables were called out, and the coupty
police strengthened in the neighbouring villages.
Yesterday the mayor issued the following notice :
.‘ Whereas, a public meeting took place in the market-
place of this town yesterday, and convened widiout the
authority and contrary to the advice of the mayor and
magistrates, and which was used by many evil disposed
inhabitants of Nottingham and its vicinity as a pretext for
riot and disorder, this is to give notice that the mayor and
magistrates feel it their duty to prohibit such meetings
for the future, and deeply sympathise with the
industrious and well-disposed of their fellow-citizens
who, in consequence of the present depressed state
of trade are at this time deprived of the means
of subsistence by honest labour. They call upon
them and the public at large to refrain from such
assemblages, as being only calculated still further to
injure the trade of the town, by exciting distrust and
alarm,, and to frustrate any endeavours to mitigate tie
distress which all so much deplore. The mayor and
magistrates are happy to learn that arrangements are in
progress in the varit u : parochial unions of the neigh-
bourhood for a suspension of the provisions of the law
which prevents out-door relief to able-bodied persons
and their families ; and they feel assured that they will
meet with the assistance of their fellow-townsmen in
their determination at once firmly to suppress ail
turbulent and riotous proceedings on the part of that
reckless and unthinking portion of the population who
are excited into excesses only serving ro cover the
designs of those whose occupation is crime and not '
labour.

" L HEYMANN, Mayor."
The town was perfectly quiet last night, and
continues so. _ _

Special constables are summoned to assemble on
Friday aft,,Tooota, at half-past two, and every
means will be adopted to prevent the operatives
holding the adjourned meeting which was fixed to
take phce on Friday (to-day) in the market place
at three o'clock.

Lady Harriet Cowper will leave Panshanger, Herts,
where oer ladyship has been staying on a visit with the
Countess Cowper, to-morrow, for Paris. The lion. S.
Cowper has gone to his seat in Norfolk, where he it -
tends to receive a shooting party.
Mr. Bentley's annual dinner rale at the Albion took
place on Wednesday, and not .vithstanding the gloomy
appearance of the money inaikett, that day, more than
ever gloomy, a larger number of the principal book-
sellers of London were assembled than last year, a.:d
the result, on the whole, was very satisfactory. The
new and beautiful five shilling edition of the far-famed
Ingoldsby Legends was so very largely ordered as to
render it necessary to postpone the delivery fur a few
days until it can be get ready. D. Demo's new work,
" Court Fools," another of the entertaining works of this
very popular author, was, as usual, taken in large nuns.
hers. The Bentley Ballads, in a similar volume to the
Ingoldsby Legends, which include the choice productions
of Father Front, Dr. Majun, Inman's noble ballade,
the Bold Buccaneers, and the Monks of Old, and numer-
ous other wcr,hy companions of the Ingol.isby L gendr,
was also largely sold. A beautiful Christmas book, the
Fairy Fables, by Cuthbert Bede, illustrated by Alfred
Crowquill, was much admired, and no doubt will be a
great favourite as a gift book at the approaching festive
season. Mr. Bentley's sale promises well for literary
entertainment during the approaching lorg winter nights
EMIGRATION TO AIISTRALIA.—LIVERPOOL, Thursday.
—Notwithstanding the depression in trade in genera',
owing to the stringency in money, the shipments to
Australia are large, and to-morrow the celebrated clipper
Red Jacket, Captain M. H. O'Halloran, belonging to
the White Star line of Australian packets, owned by
Messrs. H. T. Wilson and Chambere, of this port, sails
for Melbourne with the most valuable cargo which
.ever
left Liverpool in a sailing vessel, being. almost entirely
conipsed of fine merchandise. In addition she carries
out 500 passengers, and a ships letter mail. She is ex-
tremely likely to carry.outthe latest intelligence Aus-
tralia from England, judging by her former passages,
and her present capital sailing trim.