The Sun.
London, England, 1826-09-30 00:00:00

LANARKSHIRE COUNTY MEETING.

On Saturday, a meeting of the Noblemen, Freeholders,
Justices of the Peace, and Commissioners of Supply of
the County of Lanark, was held in the Court-house,
Hamilton, for the purpose of drawing up, and transmit-
ting to overnment, a representation of the distress ex-
isting generally throughout the country. His Grace the
Duke of Hamilton in, the Chair.

The Clerk read over a report, of which the following
is an abstract :

" From the commencement of the distress, no alleviation had
taken place until the time of harvest, when the number of opera-
tives requiring assistance had rather diminished'; but it could
hardly be said,' that, during the last six months, there had been
any diminution in the actual sufferings of the weaving population.
—A good wexver could tot saris more than one shilling per day,
which sum could not support existence, especially if that man bed
wife and a family ; and it was the opinion of medical men, that
fevers and other diseases must be produced by the scantiness of
the fare. The iniprovements which had been made iu nuichinery
were considered as tending to diminislt'the comforts of the 'show-
ing classes, by eating up their employment.
"The report also stated, that during timer of mercantile prosperi-
ty, great numbers of Irishmen' were constantly attracted over to assist
in our manufactures. This had, no doubt, increased that die-
tress, which was now come to such a height, that great numbers
of the natives of this country were petitioning to be sent to Ame-
rica, leaving their places to be occupied by an entirely new and
extraneous population, the purity of whose morals could bear no
comparison with the sober and steady habits of the former natives
of the district.

" It is stated further, that there were 30,000 hand-weavers in
the county, and it was vain to suppose that voluntary bubserip.,
tions for such a mass of people could be procured. The only
plan that could be adopted was,—first, after having obtained ac-
curate lists of the whole hand-loom weavers in the county, speci-
fying the number of men, women, and 'children so occupied, to
prepare a petition to Parliament, craving the immediate interfer-
ence of his Majesty's Government, lamenting that the state of the
country should be such as to compel a large and industrious popu-
lation to seek the means of existence in a foreign country : second,
to induce the heritors of the different parishes to ascertain the
number of houses and workshops occupied by the cotton-weavers,
to whom such premises belong, and to whom they are fermi ; and
to recommend to all land-proprietor not to grant any feus of
ground, without expressly prohibiting the erection of hand-looms,
unless sufficient security is given to them for the feuars not falling
upon the parish for their support ; third, to correspond with the
different counties of Scotland, similarly situated with the county
of Lanark, and to obtain the assistance and co-operation of these
counties in bringing a bill into Parliament, and carrying it into a
law, for the purpose of regulating or preventing parish settle-
runts of paupers not natives, and for making the owners of houses
or buildings, wherein, by means of residence, parish settlements
are first obtained, liable to relieve the parish i►► the maintenance
of such poor, to the extent of the rent of such houses or build-
ings, while they remain a charge on the parish."
The report was carried.
Mr. MoNTErrlt 'dissented to it, but did not press for a
division.
The Duke of HAMILTON said, lie had on various occa•
aims made a statement of the case of the manufacturing
population to his Majesty's Government, and urged them
to the consideration of the evil ; he had likewise stated
the inefficiency of all partial aid ; but he had received for
answer, that Ministers did not consider themselves justi,
tied in giving any relief to the Weavers in the west of
Scotland. _

A---st;ies of resolutions, embracing the substance of the
report, and a petition to Parliament, founded upon them,
were agreed to.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

OXFORD, SEPT. 30.—The Rev. Dr. Forster to the
Rectory of Quanington, in Lincolnshire; patron, the Mar-
quis of Bristol.
ur.,Fg.
On Thursday the Rev. .B. Boraston was elected a
Fellow of Queen's College, on Mr. Michel's foundation.
The Rev. C. W. Hughes, B.A. of Corpus Christi Col-
lege, Cambridge, has been licensed by the Lord Bishop
of Lincoln to the Perpetual Curacy of the Chapel of St.
John the Evangelist, at Lacey Green, in the County of
Bucks.

The Rev. Edward Swatman, M.A. has been instituted
of Dulverton, on the preeentatipn of the Dean and Chap-
by the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells to the Vicarage
ter of Wells.

The Rev. Charles Grey Cotes is instituted by the Lord
Bishop of Salisbury, to the Rectory of Stanton-St.-Quin-
ton, Wilts, on the presentation of the Earl of Radnor.
In consequence of considerable estates, which had been
leased for long terms, having recently fallen into hand, the
Feoffees of the King's School iu Sherborne have esta-
blished four Exhibitions, of GO/. per annum each, for
scholars educated on that foundation proceeding to the
Universities. One of the Exhibitions has been presented
to Mr. D, Evans, of Sherborne,