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who wishes to insure any steam-engine upon his
premises ?—any machine for thrashing his grain ?
Why, here you have your mills filled with
the finest machinery in the world ; and there is not a
working man in Manchester who believes that he would
be better off if this machinery did not exist.—(Applause.)
But here, in the southern counties, if a man has a steam-
engine on his farm, is they have in Scotland, or a thrash-
ing machine, which will thrash rather faster than a man
can do with a flail, he is held to be in danger of the destruc-
tion of his property by fire, from the ignorance and vin-
dictive spirit of the labouring population, and therefore
his property cannot have the sat'eguard of insurance on
the same terms, though heretofore farming property had
been insured at common risks, I believe at Is. 6d. pre-
mium upon 100 L, which is the same as it is upon dwell-
ing-houses in this district, and they have no tax upon
their insurance as we have.—(Applause.) Now they
must pay in all cases, I believe, 35., and in cases where
there is any machinery upon the premises, not less than
ss. per cent. Well, now, that is retributive justice.—
(Applause.) I am not blaming the farmers, except
that they have not had spirit enough to prevent this
state of things ; it is the landowners who are
chiefly to blame ; and to them public indignation will
be turned, and they will be asked, in a language
which they dare not disregard—How is it that
you have neglected the population about your
own estates, legislating in Parliament, almost
without opposition, and administering those laws in
your own parishes paramount in authority, and unop-
posed ; how is it that in your districts such a lamentable
state o things exists ?—(Applause.) But for what has
been already alluded to, it would be impossible to explain
how helpless these unfortunate persons are. I confess,
I pity them from my heart, as I pity all men who, from
ignorance, selfishness, or vice, get into a dilemma and
into a difficulty. They are in difficulties, and their help-
lessness, if it was not to be pitied, would certainly be
greatly to be laughed at.—(Applause.) What are their
remedies ? They propose to put down incendiarism by
giving the people gratuitous exhibitions of fireworks.—
(Loud applause and laughter.) I believe it was a pro-
fessor—Professor Henslow—who proposed this. And
there are a variety of others of a like nature. The
Honourable Gentleman then read some extracts from
an Aylesbury paper, showing the severe treatment of
poor criminals in the county of Bucks, and then pro-
ceeded :—And these are the men to whom Mr. Birley
and the monopolist manufacturers of this district are
looking up for an approving smile, and for a nod
from whom they would endure almost a very agony.
—(Cheers and laughter.) These men are those who
' are helping to thin the slices three times a day for
these poor children and suffering parents. Oh, I do
wonder, after all the discussion we have had on this
question, that there are men to be found who are net
heartily ashamed that they ever said a syllable in favour
of such an accursed system.—(Loud cheers.) He says,
" If ever a committee should sit on the distress of the
agricultural labourer"—but they took care last session,
when a committee was asked for, that they would not
have one—(Hear, hear)—" I would find them plenty of
cases in which single men, of thirty-seven years of age,
are only paid 6s. a week. I would prove that many
farmers only give 6d. a day to men of three and four
and twenty, who have worked from childhood with them,
and are known to be as useful as the best men they
have !" And so they are. In this book there are many
things of a similar description—many not suitable to
read in an assembly like this—but there is one more
extract I would read. He says, the agricultural labourer
is generally paid on the principle of giving him just that
amount of sustenance that will keep him from claiming
relief from the union house. " That as a dweller he :s
considered as an incumbrance on the soil, I think is but
' a fair deduction from the fact of the pains taken to
diminish the number of dwellings. And when I com-
pare the trouble taken to get the best plans for stables,
cowsheds, and pigsties, and the money expended
in their improvement, with the little effort bestowed on
the improvement of the labourer's dwelling, I am forced
also to the conviction that he is the last living
, thing upon the farm whose physical condition is re-
garded." And yet, he says, while it is allowed by all,

that the labourer is physically and morally oppressed,
" to take up his cause is, alas ! but to unite all parties
against you ; so much as a matter of course, are the
worst features of his condition considered, that you are
at once considered as a conspirator, both as against land-
owner and occupier, if you venture to speak a word in
his favour ; that he is pauperised from the low wages
paid him, demoralised by the circumstances that sur-
round him, as a matter of general conversation is allowed.
Make but the feeblest attempt to enforce his claim to a
better treatment, and you are at once set down as a pro-
pagator of dangerous ideas—one who threatens all man-
ner of evil—and you will probably be told that you have
some party motive or private pique at the bottom of
your philanthropy." It appears, by what he says
here, that it happens there much, as in this part of
the country, that if any man speak of those dis-
tressed, and presumes to interfere with the profits
or amusements of another class, then that class say
he is a dangerous man, and that the Association he
is connected with ought to be put down by law
Now, I have taken this pamphlet on these grounds : it
speaks of the county of Dorset ; it is given by a revereud
gentleman, an.l a man not likely to have been readily
moved to take the course he has. And when we recol-
lect that there has been down in the neighbourhood a
Noble Lord who lays claim to feelings of philanthropy,
and who professes a desire to improve the state of the
working classes generally, there is something surprising_
about these statements. I can appreciate the motives of
a man who seeks to do justice any where, yet I should
admire it more if it were not of that expansive character
which looks abroad for its objects, whilst it never sees
the evils which exist nearer home.—(Loud applause.)
Mr. Bright concluded by saying, that if such was the
state of the agricultural districts after thirty years of
protection, surely this was not a time to abandon the
struggle in which they had so far advanced towards suc
cess.

Mr. BAZLEY. President of the Chamber of Commerce,

then moved a 'vote of thanks to Mr. Cobden and Mr.
Bright, and the meeting, after giving three enthusiastic
cheers, separated.

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, OCT. 19, 1844.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Kincaid,
Esq., late Captain in the Rifle Brigade, Exon of her Ma-
jesty's Guard of the Yeomen of her Guard, in the room
of John Parker Nuttal, Esq., deceased.
WHITEHALL, OCT. 23.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev.
Algernon Coote, B.A. to the rectory of Marsh Gibbons,
in the county of Buckingham and diocese of Lincoln,
the same being void by the resignation of the Hon. and
Rev. James Douglas, the last incumbent.
WHITEHALL, OCT. 24.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend
Donald M`Kinnon to the church and parish of Fearn, in
the presbytery of Tain and county of Ross, vacant by the
death of the Rev. Hugh Ross, late minister thereof.
The Queen has also been pleased to present the Rev.
James Hemery, M.A., to the deanery of the island of
Jersey, void by the resignation of Dr. Francis Jeune,
late Dean thereof.
WAR-OFFICE, OCT. 25.
Bth Light Dragooni— Captain D. W. Battley, from
64th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice W. Jones, who reverts
to his former half-pay, Oct. 25.
11th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant J. R. Wilton,
from 55th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Goold, promoted.
Oct. 25.
19th Foot—Lieutenant J. Maguire, from 55th Foo
to be Lieutenant, vice R. A. M. Franklin, who retires on
half-pay 55th Foct, Oct. 25.
24th Foot—Ensign W. Hartshorn to be Adjutant,
vice Williams, who resigns the Adjutantcy only, Oct. 25.
42d Foot—Lieutenant G. W. Macquarie to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Kinlock, who retires ; Ensign E.
F. G. Clavering to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Afacquairie ; W. J. Cunninghame, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Clavering, Oct. 25.
93d Foot—Lieut. L. Skynner, from the 55th Foot, to
be Lieutenant, vice Pole, promoted, Oct. 25.
UNATTACHED.—Lieut. W. Ward, from the 35th Foot,
to be Captain, without purchase, Oct. 25.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Somersetshire.
West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—
Cornet P. P. Bouverie, to be Lieutenant, vice Honey-
wood, resigned, Oct. 19 ; ?J. V. Maher, Gent., to be
Cornet, vice Bouverie, promoted, Oct. 21.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire.
Royal Wilts Yeomanry Cavalry—A. L. Goddard,
Esq., to be Captain, vice Calley, resigned ; The Hon.
G. Barrington to be Lieutenant, vice Goddard, promoted,
Oct. 12.
RAILWAY DEPARTMENT, BOARD OF TRADE.
WHITEHALL, OCT. 24.
Referring to the notice in the Gazette of the 23d of
August, announcing the intention of the Railway Board
to examine into certain schemes therein enumerated,
with a view to the presentation to Parliament of minutes
or reports thereon, in the event of their becoming the
subjects of application to Parliament, the Board hereby
give notice, that it is further their intention to examine,
with a similar view, into the following schemes, viz. :
I. Schemes for extending railway communication to
Goole and to Great Grimsby.
11. Branches from and extensions of the Eastern
Counties and Northern and Eastern Railways.
111. Railway communication between London and
Norwich, and other schemes, in the counties of Norfolk,
Suffolk, Cambridge, and Essex.
IV. Branches from the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail-
way, Clydesdale Junction, and Edinburgh and Galashiels
schemes.
Ees.
x
tension of the York and Scarborough and Hull
and Selby Railways to Bridlington and Driflield.
VI. Schemes for connecting Birkenhead with Man-
thester and Stockport.
VII. South Junction through Manchester, Ashton
and Stockport J unction, and Manchester and Buxton.
VIII. Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, and other
schemes, in the district between the Bolton and Preston
and the Liverpool and Manchester Railways.
IX. Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, and other
railway schemes, in the district between the Bolton and
Preston and Manchester and Leeds Railways.
X. Birmingham and Shrewsbury and Shrewsbury and
Chester schemes.
XI. Worcester and Wolverhampton and other schemes
for extending railway communication in Worcestershire
and Staffordshire.
XII. Schemes for extending railway communications
to the Potteries.
XIII. Schemes for extending railway communications
to Falmouth.
XIV. Schemes for extending railway communication
to Staines and Windsor.
XV. Schemes for making railway communication in
Ireland from Dublin to Cork, Limerick, Cavan, Galway,
Enniskillen, Londonderry, and Waterford •, between
Londonderry and Enniskillen ; between Cork and Ban-
don ; between Cork and Waterford ; between Cork and
Limerick; and completing railway communication be-
tween Dublin and Belfast.

The principal points into which the inquiry will be
made, in connexion with the above schemes, are as
follows:-
Ist. The ability and bona fide intention of the pro-
moters to prosecute their application to Parliament next
session for bills to authorise the several undertakings.
2d. The advantages to be obtained, in a national
point of view, in completing or extending important
lines of railway communication.
3d. The amount of local advantage afforded to the
towns and districts more immediately affected.
4th. The engineering circumstances of the line, so far
as may be necessary to form a general judgment of the
character of the undertaking.
sth. The estimates of cost of construction, and of
traffic and working expenses, so far as may be necessary
to judge of the probability of the line being completed
and efficiently worked in the event of its being sanc-
tioned by Parliament, and with a view to drawing a
comparison between the merit of competing lines of
railway.
The inquiry, in conformity with the recommendation
of the fifth report of the Select Committee on Railways,
will not embrace questions of private property or inte-
rest, which will be reserved altogether for the con-
sideration of the Legislature.
(Signed) DALHOUSIE.
C. W. PASLEY. G. R. PORTER.
D. O'BRIEN. S. LAING.
BANKRUPTS.

JOSEPH SIMPSON, builder, Stockwell, Surrey, to
surrender Nov. 5, at half-past eleven, and Dec. 6, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official
assignee; Alexander, South-street, Finsbury.
WALTER WESTRUP and THOMAS MARTIN
COCKSEDGE, millers, Shadweli, Nov. 6, at two, and
Dec. 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell,
official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings ; Shearman
and Slater, Great Tower-street.
JAMES WATSON CARTER, coach plater, Long-
acre, Nov. 6, at one, and Doc. 4, at two, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; Beaumont and Thompson, Lincoln's Inn. fields.
ALFRED FOWLER, carpenter, Leamington Priors,
Warwick, Nov. 2 and 29, at eleven, at the Manchester
District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birming-
ham ; Russells, Leamington Priors.
JOHN GOULD, cattle-salesman, Cengresbury, So-
mersetshire, Nov. 11, at half-past twelve, and Dec. 6, at
eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official
assignee, Bristol. A'Beckett and Co., Golden-square,
London.
BENJAMIN JONES, victualler,Birmingham, Nov. 7
and Dec. 4, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Chilton and
Co., Chancery-lane, London ; Suckling, Birmingham.
WILLIAM WALKER, hatter, Birmingham, Nov. 7,
at half-past eleven, and Dec. 6, at one, at the B►rming-
ham District Court. Valpy, official assighee, Birming-
ham ; Jackson, Field-court, Gray's Inn, London ; Har-
rison and Smith, Birmingham.
INSOLVENT PETITIONS.

R. Shepherd, shoemaker, Carnaby-street, Golden-
square, Nov. 12, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Bell, official assignee.
D. Thornton, clerk, Trinity-terrace, Tower-hill.
Nov. 12, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell,

official assignee.
W. Clark, grocer, Aldenham, Hertfordshire, Nov. 12,
at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson,
official assignee.
R. Jones, grocer, Canterbury, Nov. 12, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee.
W. Brice, turf-vendor, Peterborough, Nov. 18, at half-
past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand,
official assignee.
W. Jackson, licensed victualler, Brick-street, Picca-
dilly, Nov. 18, at half-past one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Graham, official assignee.
J. D. Earles, surgical-instrument-maker, Marshall-
street, Golden-square, Nov. 18, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee.
T. Packer, law-writer, Liverpool street, Walworth-
common, Nov. 12, at half-past twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee.
J. J. Blunden, stonemason, Bury-street, Fulham-
road, Nov. 12, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Johnson, official assignee.
Daniel Gooddin, butcher, Dunkerton, Somersetshire,
Nov. 15, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton,
official assignee.
J. H. Randell, beer-retailer, Bristol, Nov. 12, at eleven,
at the Bristol District Court. Kynaston, official assignee.
H. Gratton, butcher, Ripley, Yorkshire, Nov. 15, at
eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official
assignee.
J. Whitley, gardener, Wakefield, Nov. 14, at eleven,
at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee.
T. Webster, builder, Wakefield, Nov. 14, at eleven, at
the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee.
J. Soston, shoemaker, Norton, Derbyshire, Nov. 7, at
twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official
assignee.
J. Taylor, surgeon, Manchester, Nov. 12, at twelve, at
the Manchester District Court. Stanway, official assignee.
T. J. Stevens, Dolgelly, Merionethshire, Nov. 22, at
eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove,
official assignee.
J. Lord, Birmingham, Nov. 2, at one, at the Birming-
ham District Court. Valpy, official assignee.
T. Johnson, provision- dealer, Manchester, Nov. 8, at
twelve, at the Manchester Distinct; Court. Hobson,
official assignee.

DIVIDENDS.
lit the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
S. Sly, engraver, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street, Nov. 16,
at eleven—T. J. Lancaster, merchant, Barge-yard,
Bucklersbury, Nov. 16, at eleven—A. Blazdell, harp
maker, Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, Nov. 16,
at one—J. G. Foster, taller, Aldgate High-street, Nov.
16, at two—C. Teesdale and R. Toulson, furnishing
warehousemen, Westminster-bridge-road, Nov. 16, at
twelve—J. Milner, engine manufacturer, Brook-street,
New-road, Nov. 16, at eleven—R. Burton, silk ware-
houseman, Wood-street, Cheapside, Nov. 15, at half-
past eleven—G. Wightman, bookseller, Paternoster-row,
Nov. 15, at twelve—C. Dod and H. Bent, ship brokers,
Riches-court, Lime-street, Nov. 15, at eleven—E. Golds-
bury, draper, Hastings, Nov. 15, at twelve—R. J.
Makins, grocer, Blandford-street, Manchester-square,
Nov. 19, at half-past twelve—J. and W. Field, wine
brokers, Mincing-lane, Nov. 20, at oie—W. Gooding,
13Jotmaker, Chatham, Nov. 20, at half-past eleven.
In the Country.

E. Hipkins, coal dealer, Egremoiit, Cheshire, Nov. 15,
at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court—J. Cecil, T.
Dennison, J. Batson, and M. Dennison, merchants, Li-
verpool, Nov. 15, at twelve, at the Liverpool District
Court—R. Rimmer, tailor, Liverpool, Nov. 19, at twelve,
at the Liverpool District Court—R. D. Sothern, ship
builder, St. Helen's, Lancashire, Nov. 16, at twelve, at
the Liverpool District Court—W. Denver and W. Nixey,
woollen drapers, Liverpool, Nov. 15. at eleven, at the
Liverpool District Court—W. A. Brooks, quarryman,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nov. 19, at eleven, at the New-
castle-upon-Tyne District Court—J. Hudson and J.
Broadbent, jun., calico printers, Manchester, Nov. 19, at
twelve, at the Manchester District Court—D. Dakeyne
and T. Wanklyn, flax spinners, Manchester, Nov. 20, at
twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown
to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned.
C. Bond, leather seller, March, Cambridgeshire, Nov.
18—J. Robertson, draper, Wotton-under-Edge, Glou-
cestershire, Nov. 15-11. and J. Peacock, grocers,
Stockton-upon-Tees, Durham, Nov. 18—W. A. Brooks,
quarryman, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nov. 18—J. and E.
Yeardley, flax spinners, EcelQsfield, Yorkshire, Nov. 15
—W. Weir, iron merchant, Carlisle,' Nov. 15—W.
Baker, surgeon, Lower Grosvenor-street, Bond-street,
Nov. 15—II. Lake, printer, Cheltenham, Nov. 15—M.
Tildesley, timber dealer, Wolverhampton, Nov. 15—G.
Grantham, grocer, Manchester, Nov. 15—J. Barnard,
clothes dealer, Cheltenham, Nov. 15—J. Howden, iron-
founder, Wakefield, Yorkshire, Nov. 15—H. Edwards,
draper, Aberdovey, Merionethshire, Nov. 15.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

J. Smith and G. Gillott, wood cutters, Hathersage,
Derbyshire—S. A. Lester and 11. Watkins, milliners,
Manchester—J. Crabtree and H. Scott, Liverpool—E.
and F. Brown, stone masons, Leeds—J. and G. Whalley,
grocers, Little Bolton, Lancashire—M. Silverwood and
G. Gill, manufacturers of fancy waistcoating, Kirkbur-
ton, Yorkshire—T. Benton, T. H. Pemberton, and J.
Colbourn, iron masters, Sedgley, Staffordshire—H. and
W. Mowbray, plumbers, Leicester—E. Wylam and W.
French, wharfingers, Sunderland, Durham—W. Spencer,
J. Spencer, and J. Brown, drapers, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne (so far as regards W. Spencer)—ll. Levy and
G. H. Newton, cigar manufacturers, Plymouth—E.
Taylor, M. A. Taylor, and E. H. Ray, schoolmistresses.
-Uxbridge—A. and J. P. Bowrine., hosiers, Fenchurch-
street—J. G. Anthony and H. G. Erlam, shipping
agents, Cornhill—E. L. Bousfield, W. Bousfield, and
W. G. Strong, ironmongers, Newark-upon-Trent, Not-
tinghamshire—S. de A. Abecasis, J. Aloof, and S.
Aloof, merchants, Leman-street, Goodman's-fields—E.
and P. Ground, drapers, Wisbech,
Cambridgeshire—
J. R. Hancorn and A. Kitt, surgeons, Islington.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
ANDREW STEWART, horse dealer, Edinburgh,
Oct. 28 and Nov. 21, at two, at the rooms of T. Steven.
son, Edinburgh.
A. and P. TOWART, -grocers, Glasgow, Oct. 30 and
Nov. 20, at twelve, at the Rainbow Hotel, Glasgow.
JOHN RUNCIMAN, draper, Leith, Oct. 30 and
Nor. 20, at twelve, at the chambers of S. and P. S. Be-
veridge, Leith.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the
week ending Oct. 22, 1844, is 335. lid. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

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siding at Ancoates, Manchester, had been asthmatical
for the last three years ; he was frequently so bad that,
when rising from his bed, he could scarcely speak or
draw his breath, and would cough and spit for half an
hour together, and often thought he should be choked.
He was much reduced in strength ; and, after every
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gratis), and by almost all respectable medicine vendors
throughout the civilised world.
A little boy has been sentenced to be imprisoned
and kept to hard labour for fourteen days, by the Ports-
mouth magistrates, for stealing three walnuts, the pro-
perty of Colonel H. D. Campbell, valued at one farthing I
Four boys were engaged in this nefarious proceeding ;
one was allowed to turn Queen's evidence, and the other
two have not yet been caught ; but these criminals need
not expect to escape the vigilance of the Hampshire po,
lice, as " a sharp look out will be had in order to bring
them to justice."— Wiltshire Independent.