The Sun.
London, England, 1826-09-13 00:00:00

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.

T. Nunn, London, merchant.
R. Wriiht, the younger, Stockport, Cheshire, grocer.
J. G. torster, Lower Phillimore-place, Kensington.
BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED.
H. H. Griddle, New:Bond-streei, hatter, from Sept. 1, to Oct,
20, at eleien, at the Court of Commissioners.

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11. MoOre, Cross-street, Islington, grocer, &pt. 12, to Sept.
ii: 16, at ten at the 'Court of e,otmnissioners.
S. La man, jun.,, Dartmouth, Devonshire, maltster, Aug.
28, to Oc . 6, at eleven, at the (;curt of Commissioners.

BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED,
T. Bower and R. Guest, Manchester, cotton-wandacturere.
J. Holdles and F. E. Edwards, Derby, booksellers.
BANKRUPTS.

J. Holmes and F. E. Edwards, Derby, booksellers, Sept. 21,
at six, 22 at
.eleven, and Oct. g 4, at nine, at the Court of Corn-
missionersi Solicito?•s, Messrs. Adlington, Gregory and Faulk.
ner, Bedford-row.

W. Aldersley, Gravesend, cnach-maker, Sept. 22, at eleven,
29, and (act. 24, at'.ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Solici-
tor, Mr. satman, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury.
J. Powlll, Wellington-terrace, Waterloo-road, draper, Sept. 18,
at one, 19,, and Oct. 24, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners.
Solicitor, ifr.,Cregeon, Inner Teniple-kne.

J. Bardsley, Heaton Norris, Lancashire, hat-manufacturer,
Oct. 4,6, and 24, at five, at the Warren %Ikeley Arms, Stock-
port. Solicitors, Messrs. J. and 11. Lowe, Southampton-buildings,
Chancery-lane; and Messrs. Newton and Winterbottotn, Heaton
Norris.

" T. Wood, Basford, Nottinghamshire, tallow-chandler, Sept.
25, t 7, mid Oct. 24, at eleven, at the Punch Bowl, Nottingham.
Solicitors, Air.Hurat, Nottingham; and Mr. Knowles, New-lim.
T. Cox Ensham, Oxfordshire, innkeeper, Sept. 26, 27, and
Oct. 24, 4 eleven, Town-hall, Oxford. Solicitors, Mr. Looker,
Oxford ; Mr.. Thos. Miller, Ely-place, Holborn.
J. Norman, Tokenhouse-yard, broker, Sept. 15, 26, and Oct.
24, at eren, at the Court of Commissioners. Solicitors,.
Messrs. T ttie,. Richardson and Gaunt, 33, Poultry, London,
and at Lids. •
R. Bally, late of the Cumberland-gardens, Vauxhall, tavern-
keeper and wine-merchant (in partnership with W. Knott and C.
Gibbs), Shpt. 21, at twelve, 22, at eleven, and Oct. 24, at
twelve, atthe. Court of Commissioners. Solicitor, Mr. F. Boson.
Pinner's-hall, 014 Broad-street.

R. Curtis, Bleasdale, Lancashire, paper-manufacturer, Sept.
26, 27, *MI Oct. 24, at eleven, at. the Commercial Inn, Lancaster.
Solieitors, Mr. W. Norris, John-street, Bedford-row ; and Mr. J.
Hall, Lancaster.

C. Smith, Sible Iredingliam, Essex, straw-plat-dealer, Sept.
15, at twelve, 26, *id Oct. 24, at eleven, at the Court of Com-
missiouersj, Solicitor, Mr. Fawcett, South Sea Chambers, Thread-
ntedle-street. . e

T. Fowler, St. Allan's, Hertfordshire, brickmaker, Sept. 19,
26, and Oil. 24, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Solici-
tors, Messrs. Alexander and Son, Carey •street.
,J.' 1). Browne, Walthatustow, Rex, surgeon and apothecary,
Sept. 21, pt six, 22, at eleven, and Oct.. 94, at nine, at tile' Cowrt
iif Qinuniapioners. Solicitor, 11r. Twynam, Regent-street.
O. C. Wright, Islington, grocer, Sept. 19, 26, and Oct. 24,
at ten, at the (;off„ tof Commissioners. Solicitor, Mr. Bennett,
TOkentioutie-yard.
J. /blur, Raveley, Huntingdonshire, farmer; Sept. 21, at six,
'22, at elevien, and October 24, at nine, at the Court of Com-
tuissioners.l Solicitor, .Mr. Cole, Great Charlotte-street, Black-
friars-road;

DIVIDENDS.
.1. Brown, Liverpool, cabinet-Maker, October 10,, at eleven,
at the
.Office of Mr. Finlow, Liverpool-,J. Woolfall, jun. Liver-
pool, grocer, October 10, at twelve, at the Office of Mr. Finlow,
Liverpool-HA.• Marmion and E. Carr, Preston, Lancashire, corn-
merchantsj Nov. 10, at one, at the Golden Lion burs, Liverpool
11. Warlatul, Lad-lane, agenti.Oetober 7, at ten, at the Courtof
Conunissioners—T. Burwasb, Bishopagate-street Without, silver-
smith, October 3,, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners--T.
Bodenham; Conunercial-road, grocer, Oct. 3, at eleven, at the
Court of .Commissioners--J.. Blake, Zeales-Green, Wiltshire,
draper, Oat. 3,' at ten, at the Court of Commissioner,..-J.
Diu-
ham, Exeter, grocer, Oct. 5, at eleven, at the Globe Hotel, Exeter
Gorton, Tottington, cotton-spinner, Oct: 6, at ten, at the Star
Inn, Manchester—M. Myth,
.Usk, Monnioutlishire, shopkeeper,
Oct. 5, at two, at the Bush Tavern, Bristol—W. Seagrove,
Common-Hard, Portsea,.Hante, draper, Oct. 6, at eleven, at the
White Hart Inn, Bath—A. Shaw, Delph,'Yorkshire, grocer, Oct.
21, at nine, at the Star Inn, Manchester--Sir W. Elford, Bart.,
J. Tingeombe,, and. J. W. .Clarke, Plymouth, hankers, Oct. 3,
at eleven, at. the Royal Hotel, Plytnouth—J, Rutter, Winterton,
Suffolk, merchant, Oct. 3, at eleven, at the Dog and Duck Tavern,
Kingston-upon-Hull—Al. Whitehead, Preston, Lancashire, 'inn-
keeper, 04. 2, at twelve, at the office of Aleasrs. Blanchard Anti
Bickerstaff, Preston-'--E. and G. Lunn, Halifax, Yorkshire,
chemists, Sept. 26, at eleven, at the White Swan bin, Halifax—
Thurtell, Norwich, bonffiaiine-manufacturer, Oct. 4, at four,
at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich—J. Clarke, deceased, Liverpool,
banker, Oct. 6, at one, at the George Inn, Liverpool.
CERTIFICATES.-Oct. S.
W. Came, jun., Penzance, Corn Wall, Merchant-41. Riding,
Derby, builder--.-J. Wilsoni.Cockbrook Mill, Aah'ton-under-Lyos,
Lancashire, cotton-spinner—C. J. Spencer, Carlide, upholsterer
—R. Owen, Warrington, Lancashire, corn-dealer—T. Porches,
Bond-street, brandy-mercbant-G. Harrison, Wooburn, Bucking-
hamshire, paper-manufacturer—J. R. de Allred°, Bank-buildings,
merchant-.:-W. Mead and C. E. Macomb, Battersea, Surrey,
Lipper Stainfo:A-street, Black-04n,
colour-tankers--J. ConwaY)
Surrey, builder 1. Bl'Dowall, Regent-street, Pimadilly, Awe.
maker W. Turner, Coleman-street, plasterer—J. and T. Brind-
ley, Commercial Sale-rooms, Mincing-lane, ship-builders-:...p. B.
maker Router, Liverpool, merchant—W. Marsden, Salford,
keeper—ll.—jle; . EodrlwiVgecuhmkertiFl-niTnuaerwuktueFerbielu'sr—rb;,ErY.G.4ll(olluittlacrilreesi:therrise)hLisr,r.ed,SiniEbililFelste!'
Manchester, marline-maker—D. Jackson, Birmingham, button-
factor.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. .
n 1,:. Rei" and E. H. Levyssohn, Manchester, merchants-1
,-"trY. and 1,-). ViekerY, Bristol, coal-merchants.—G. and W. Pearse,
s-if-road,,' smiths--11. Wunderly, F. Wunderly nd J.. Glatt,
draperg—O. Italylex
Manchester, clock-makers-.-W. Osmar and 3. Hamilton, Brom-
Ll', Keut, :shoeiniim,
isfilesmen-411. Blizard and T. II
H. Dean and T Dudley, Altlgate, linen-
New gate-market, poultry
and T.' Pi ott,
Kerly,'New Sydney-place,
Clerkenwep ' eppe. , _
Simpson, St. Ann's-
-, upoolsterera-,-J. Kemot and A. •place, Linxhouse, • Italian warehouSemen-4S. -Allen and R. W.
gII Guildford-place, St. James,
—l% Hui4iert and J. P. Pranks, Nottingham, drapers—T. Ilowd-
ler and J. Nit 11 . a Bathwick, Somersetahire, schoolmasters
,-•'• -4'wed, 8
hrewitbury Shropshire, attorneys—H.
Coldwell and J. 4nekson, 'Wakefield: Yorkshire, woolstaplers—J.
Gnuidamit'lt and c' Burls, Old Jewry,warehousemen—J. and P.
Kenway, Bridpm t, Dorsetshire,-twituanuracturenh
.....--_

During the past week seven vessels have arrived at
grain from the Baltic. The cargoes amount
tPrtoe4oh withOqttt:rters of, wheat, 1,290 quarters of barley, and
3,490 quarters of oats. Two vessels had arrived
previously, their cargoes amounting to nearly 2,000
quarters of wheat. Five vessels more are daily ex-
pected. The importers have madeAt • most fortunate
speculation,—EdinOurah Evening Courant,

Copy or MR. nusirissotex REPLY.

" Somerset-place, Aug. 29.
" Sir—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
of the 23d inst., in which, after calling my attention to the
lamentable distress which now unfortunately exists among
the hand-loon weavers in the cotton trade, you request,
on the behalf of the Committee orManufacturers at Bol-
ton, of which you are the. Secretary, my advice and opinion,
in respect to their suggestion of fixing, from time to time,
by a certain majority of manufacturers, the rate of wages
to be paid to the weavers, and of making it binding by law,
upon all masters, under a heavy penalty, not to give less
than the rate so fixed.

" The Committee will do me the justice to believe, that,
in common with the other members of his Majesty's Go-
vernment, I witness with deep concern, the severe priva-
tions which the hand-loom weavers are now suffering from
the great reduction of wages,
" If any measure within our 'Sower could prevent this
reduction, we certainly should feel it a duty to interfere;
and our anxiety to discharge that duty could not but be in-
creased from our knowledge of the orderly and peaceable
demeanour with which so large a portion of the manufac-
turing population continue to bear the difficulties of their
situation.

." If the Committee of. Manufacturers, and the Weavers,
in whose behalf they Make the present application, are
disposed to give me credit for these feelings, I am sure they
will admit my inability to concur in their views can only
arise from a conviction that the plan recommended by. them
to remedy the present evil Would not be attended with that
effect. This plan could not, lam persuaded, be effectually
enforced by legislative interference, and even if attempted
to be so enforced, would, ere long, aggravate the mischief
which it is proposed to obviate
" The Committee mot be aware, that in the weaving
of cotton cloth, the competition is confined to 'the hand
looms, but that those looms have to contend with more
powerful machinery. Should'the effect of that machinery,
either in the facility with which the cloth is wrought, or its
superior quality, be such as to render-it cheaper than cloth
produced by at hand.4oom, at 'a given rate of wages, how
is the proposed remedy of! a minimum to be extended to
this machinery
If it beonot so extended, how can it be expected that.
the capital which puts band-looms in motion will continue
to give them. employment ? If it be extended to this more
powerful machinery, how can such a restraint be made to
reach the like machinery in other countries ?
" In turning their 'attention .to these and other ques-
tions which will suggest themselves to the minds of the
Members of the Committee, as naturally arising out of the
view which they have taken of the subject, they will at
once perceive that their plan involves the whole considera-
tion, not only of the vain and hazardous attempt to inter-
pose the authority of law between the labourer and his em-
ployer, in regulating the demand for labour, and the price
to be paid for it, but also of calling in the aid of that audio. ,
rity, to check the progress- of those improvements in me-
chaniCal and chemical science by which manual labour is
so often abridged and superseded.
" I am sure that, upon mature reflection, the Committee
will be satisfied of the hopelessness, as well as of the dan-
ger,
of such an interference._

".That it would be hopeless, as well as_ dangerous, is
my decided opinion ; but, at the same time that I state it.
explicitly, ,to,the Conimittee, I cannot help expressing my
sincere regret at the difficulties in which they. are placed;
and my. entire conviction, that in seeking a remedy for.
those difficulties, they could have no object but a feeling of
benevplence towards the persons who look up to them for
employment.
" I am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,
" W. HUSKISSON.
" Thomas Brodbelt, Esq., Secretary to the Com-
mittee of Manufacturers, &e., Bolton."

COPY. OF ma. IiIiODSEiT'N SECOND r.;Errita TO mR. mosussaN.
~ , . " Bolton, Sept. 2. ,
" Sir,---I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your
esteemed favour, and feel greatly obliged by your opinion,
in reference to the proposed plan of relief for the distressed
operatives. Being actuated by feelings of commiseration
towards them in their unparalleled distress, I trust you
will not deem me obtrusive by again addressing you on
the subject. As to the plan of the band-loom manufac-
' timers fixing such a :rate of wages, froiri time to time, as
i the demand for their manufactured cloth will alloW, I most
respectfully submit, with all due deference, that it will not
at all interfere with the power-loom manufacturers either
at home or abroad, inasmuch as thale who have already or
may; hereafter embark in the hand-loom manufactory, mina
naturally be actuated by a proper regard to.their own in-
terests, and consequently protect their own property, by
every proper attention to the mutual interests of themselves
and the operatives. The principal design is to get a legis-
lative enaetinent, empowering a majority of manufacturers
to equalize wages, so as to .check the destructive tendency
of continual reduction, below the fair trader—to secure to
the capitalist nothing more than an opial chance of trade
with those, who, in consequence of the facilities of getting
into business upon mere credit alone, Without any money
whatever,"and being so numerous, controul the respectable
part in every point. of view; and not only so, but they do
and will Continue to frustrate the designs of the benevolent,
render nugatory every thing that may. be attempted by the
revision ofthe corn laws &c., and availing them sel vea Of every
thingilesigned for the amelioration of the distressed, by the
cruel system of reducing the price of labour. Thus the labour-
ing poor Will continue to experience increasing misery,hunger,
and nakedness, and the respectable part of the manufac-
turers will be forced out of business altogether.. In short,
some plan must be adopted to check this cruel system;
extent.
for it must be 'admitted, that if this cannot be effected,
ruin must, come upon the country
,to an alarming
yloilliavtheetlefenetlin:Lortmhee manufacturersprinte uminetnht documents
s ritheiagthwiboitlirlsihoZ,
whe-
-
and I have .respectfully to solicit your :opinion,. es to
tiler, if
,we are first agreed among ourselves in Lancashire--
I mean the weighty andrespectable ' part and you are
satisfied that we shall not interfere with power-looms, nor
yet with the free principles of trade; beyond 'that of alike
protecting the property embarked, and :the distressed
operative, from this alarming reducing system,-....we alight
not, succeed in our applieution to Parliament for such it law.
I bed leave to say, that such is the state of society with us,
that it is highly expedient' to do something either -in this
or some other way, as may appear best to your judgment,
and the other :members of :His Majesty's Cileivernment. ' I
shall, therefore, feel greatly, obliged by your reply, and trust .
you will excuse my importunityi as I am actuated by a

" TO THE EDITOR OF TOR BOLTON CHRONICI.R."

" Bolton, Sept, 8.
" Sir,—As the. meastireproposed relative to the regu-
lation of wages, by legislative enactment, is considered by
the Right Hon. W. HuskiSson as inexpedient, I have
particularly to request that the disiresokhl operatir.› do not
come to any 'premature conclusions tending to &press
their spirits, but indulge in those proper and, friendly dis-
positions, for which they are so deservedly applauded, and
contimie to avail themselves of the co-operation of the
respectable manufacturers, in devising and Carrying into
effect some salutary measure, alike beneficial to all. It
now remains with the manufacturers and weavers to judge
of the propriety of persevering.in seeking the adoption of
the plan proposed, by an application to, Parliament. lam
fully persuaded that the leading and respectable houses
not only deprecate the cruel conduct of those who have
unfeelingly reduced the weavers' wagers, and compelled
others to follow them, whO are averse to such conduct, as a
matter of dire necessity,but that they are ready and willing to
do all they can to extricate the poor weavers out of the hands
of such callous and unprincipled masters. I have to ob-
serve, that the effort must not be confined to Bolton alone
but extend through the manufacturing districts generally;
and in every place, I am. satisfied, the weavers will meet
with kind attention on the part of the leading limisas, and
every possible assistance will be afforded them. Assuring
the suffering poor of my sincere feelings of commiseration
for them, and my best services in doing all I can,
" l remain; Sir, your obedient servant,
"THOMAS BR ODBEI.T."