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AT THE MANUFAC
A_IL) TION, REGENT-STREET.—MORNINGS anti , MEAN • Ti) DO. TURERS
EVENINGS except SATURDAY EVENINGS. .
NEW and VARIED LECTURES DAILY, with beau- (Abridged from the Manchester Guarcian.) -
tiful ILLUSTRATIONS. NE A, DISSOLVING VIEWS.
On Thursday last a meeting of merdhantS, manufac-
Messrs. BARWISE and !JAIN'S ELECTROMAGNETIC turers, and others, of the town and neighbourhood,
CLOCKS, on which principle one, on a large scale, is now held in the large room of the:Spread i';agle In
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n, Hawas
ngs
at wink in front of the Institution. WRIGHT and BAIN'S
NEW PATENT ELECTROMAGNETIC RAILWAY .is a co ing Dipytch,
:convened by circulars, of which the follow
TRAIN CON "ROLLER. TheMICROSCOPE, DIVING " We, the undersignee, respectfully invite you to at-
BELL and DIVER, ORREY, &e. &c., including 2,000 tend a meeting of merchants; manufacturers, and others
Works of eminent Art, Science, and Ingenuity. A VIEW of 1 to be held at eleven o'clock on:Thursday Morning next,
CANTON, by a CHINEsE ARTIST. The MODEL of the at the Spread Eagle Inn, Hanging Ditch 'or the purpose
1
of considering the propriety of calling'.
.upon the free-
UNDERCLIFF, Isle of Wight, and various COS NIORAMIC
PICTURES, arc added to the Evening Exhibition.
trade members of the House cif'Cornmons to adopt all the
Admission to the whole, One Shilling.
means which the forms of the House will allow, to pre-
vent the proposition of Sir Robert Peel upon the Corn-
laws passing into a law."
This circular was signed by 40smercantile and manu-
facturing houses and firms, ...• headed by Sir Thomas
Potter and Sir Ralph Pendlebury. The meeting was a
tolerably numerous one : probably upwards of 100 -gen-
tlemen were present. Amongst• them we observed Sir
Thomas Potter, Mr Alderman-Ctillender, Mr. Alderman
Brooks, Mr. Alderman Kershaw e Messrs. W. R.
Greg,
T. Bazley, jun., Edniund Aahworth, William Bick- • ham, George Wilson, John Hawsthorne, Lawrence
Rostron, Edward Evans, Thomas Gosquoine, Peter Ar-
rowsmith, of Bolton, John Standring, James Chapman,
Thomas Woolley, Robert Nicholson, James Chadwick,
William Woodcock, Andrew Hall, John Brewers Edward
Hall, Henry Wilson, Joshua •Milnes, Alfred Reyner,
William Gibbons, James Kershaw of Newmarket, Payant,
Harvey-, Robert Rider, William Dixon, of Accrington,
William Evans,- EdWin ,Stott e.. setitturtly after eleven
o'clock, serirlhe motion 'of 'Mr. Alderman CALLENDER,
Afr. TuomAs BAZLEY, jun., was called to the Chair.
Having read the circular convening the meeting, he said : j
—" Our manufacturing and mercantile distress, and the
privations of our labouring classes, have been authori-
tatively mentioned by her Majesty in her speech from
the Throne ; but the Prime Minister of thb landlords,
for I humbly opine that the Queen and the people
have no Premier at present—(Bear, hear)--has de-
clared that the measure which he has thought fit to
bring forward, is not intended to remove the embarass-
ments which at present afflict our commerce.—(Hear.)
We claim the right of exchanging the produce of our
industry for those comforts which we require, and with
which we can be amply supplied through our commer-
cial intercourse with every part of the world. Our
foreign trade is unhappily a reproach 'to the country ;
and 1 charge upon our Government, and upon the Legis-
lature, a direct tendency to immorally in the system
that has been pursued. The sliding scale itself is a plan
that promotes gambling ; and, if we look at the com-
modities we now receive in exchange for our exports, we
find that we may bring back the means of vicious indul-
gence, as tobacco, spirits or deleterous drugs—all those
articles which administer to vice and to luxury ; but we
must not bring those substantial and legitimate articles
of trade that would give support to our starving popula
tion.—(Hear.) We -must not bring bread or beef in
return for our manufactures.—(Hear, hear.) I charge,
therefore, upon our legislature a tendency in their coun-
cils and laws, that will ultimately subvert the institutions
of the country, and lead to our national annihilation,
unless something like virtuous principle and intention
again be asserted, and connected with the making and
administering of our laws.—(Hear.) Perhaps some gen-
tlemen present may have suggestions to offer for the con-
sideration of the meeting. I fear there are individuals
amongst .us who have given a political character and
tinge to proceedings affecting the mere science of trade,
and have thus done us more harm than even our thought•
less legislature."—(Hear.)
Mr. Alderman Bitooits thought Sir Robert Peel should
be called upon, before he proceeded with his measure, to
show the House what substantial burdens there are
upon the land, whick did not also fall upon the manufac-
turers and other parts of the community. He told a
.ientleman. the other day, as he did tell every public
meeting, that this was a robbery, and that all the money
treat into the pockets of the landowners. " Yes," said
the gentleman, " but that is for the benefit of the
people."—(Laughter.) He (Mr. Brooks) rejoined,
" Then, suppose a robber takes your purse, teling you
that he is not going to quit the country, but will spend
its contents is England, and that it would benefit the
people—(Laughter)—whatwould you say to that ?"
Mr. Alderman CALLENDER said, they had not assent-
ided to discuss the Corn-laws.—(Hear.) They were all
persua_cle 1 that of all laws they were the very worst—bad
;n the beginning, bad in the middle, and bad in the end. '
Their object was therefore to try to get rid of them,
and to devise proper measures to show their determine,- '
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.not to sit 'quietly down. to be ruined—(Hear)—for '
under such laws they saw nothing but ratiasaLcunl flap
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iinct resolutions had been preferred ; and the meeting '
was - rather intended to be of a conversational
sharacter, to see • how far gentlemen agreed upon
,any one line of conduct. He held in his hand a
pamphlet, that gave such excellent .reasons for trying
zo get rid of those laws, that he would read a
passage or two. This was delivered in America:—" The
grand doctrine, that. every human being should have the
means of self-culture; of progress in knowledge and
virtue; of health, comfort, and happiness; of exercising
he powers and affections of a man—this is slowly taking
its place, as the highest social truth."—Ho says again—
" Free trade !—This is -the plain duty and the plain in-
terest of the human race. To level all barriers to free
exchange; to cut up the system of restriction, root and
branch ; to open every port on earth to every product—
:.his is the office of enlightened humanity. To this a free
nation should especially pledge itself. Freedom of the
seas—freedom of harbours—an intercourse of nations free
as the winds—this is not a dream of philanthropists."
These were the remarks of Dr. Charming.
Mr. EDMUND ASUWORTH said, if he understood the
object of the meeting, as: expressed by the circular, it
was to urge the liberal and tree-trade members in the
House of Commons, to prevent or hinder, by every le-
gitimate means:in their power, the passing of . the pro-
oosed measure into the law of the land.—([lsar.) lie
,
should be glad for some gentlemen to propose a defi-
nite resolution of that kind to the meeting, .which,
composed as it was, not of the -labouring classes, but of.
extensive spinners, manufacturers, and other employers
of the people, and of merchants, hind' no need to assem-
ble to convince each other of the impollcy of the proposed
measure—(Hear)—but rather to speak of its unjust
effects upon them, and, through them, upon the labour-
ing portion of the community. He, therefore, hoped,
that the free-trade members would do all they conld to
prevent its passing. If passed, it must depend on cir-
cumstances whether we existed under it two years, or
seven years, or ten years longer. Having therefore both
political parties in the State committed to the fact that a
change was needed, we could not suffer anything by de-
ferring the day for the measure passing till the whole
community should be of opinion that it ought either to
be very greatly altered, or wholly abrogated ; so that
by delay we should be gaining strength. The question
with Ministers and the Parliament had been, not why
there should be any Corn -law put on at all, but, being .
on, whether it should be a sliding scale or a fixed duty.
They had never discussed why a Corn-law of any kind
should be on the statute book.—(Hear.) But what had
the Prime Minister insultingly said ? -It was the most .
prominent part of the speech, in his (Mr. Ashworth's)
recollection. " You say you are starved ; but I'll find
you a people worse starved than yourselves— the•
Prussians—and therefore this law may be continued
a little longer s you are not quite starved to death."—
(Hear, hear.) And what said the Home Secretary
of State ? " These people are not quite done up yet.
Mr. Horner says that they have built 90 mills and fac-
tories in three years." He overlooked the fact, that
there were 15,000 more people requiring employment
in those three years ; and if he had referred to flue sta-
tistics showing the progress of the population, he would
have found that we really had not kept pace with our
own population, and the demand for employment, in the
erect on of buildings and machinery, in the last three
years. It was perfectly insulting to be told these laws
must continue because we could still build mills, and
were not so badly starved as the Prussians. But that
honest Baronet, the Member for Kent, did not cover up
the fact with sophistries. He said, " These laws are
essential for the landed interest, that we, the landed in-
terest, may keep up our station in society."—(Hear.)
There came out the whole truth at once. But surely the
labouring man had as great a right to the means of sub-
sistence: as Sir Edward Knatchbull had to keep up a
law to maintain him in his own station ; in society.—
(Hear.) What was the state of his (Mr. Ashivorth's)
own neighbourhood ? The Chairman of the Board of
Guardians a brother of the late Conservative member
(Mr. Bolling), had acknowledged that one-ninth of the
whole population were receiving relief from that board.
—(Hear.) Another board was sitting daily, of which
the Vicar of Bolton was chairman, and which was espe-
cially established for the relief of strangers in Bolton.
This board was relieving between 2,000 and 3,000 fami-
lies, say at least 4,000 persons, making 14,000 persons '
out of a population of 90;000, receiving either parochial
or charitable relief in aid of existence.—(Hear, hear.)
Still we were to be told by the Prime Minister that
there was a country found where they ate less food than '
in England, and, by the Home Secretary, that we could
still afford to build more mills, and, therefor., we were
not done up yet.—(Hear, hear.) We should, as a com-
munity, cement Ourselves together by every possible
means, so as to prevent this passing into a law
for twelve months' more.; and if for that period the
pie • ssure continued, there would be a much greater num-
ber of people of the same mind. They would not then see
Conservative societies, as was the case in his own neigh-
bourhood, printing the speech of Mr. Ferr and as the
speecb, the only speech in the debate; stating at the top,
"printed by the Conservative Society for distribution,"
and of which he and others received anonymous and
gratuitous copies.—(Hear.): There were certain'modes
of procrastinating the debates, of eccepyiag.the time and
attention of the House, so as to prevent this' question
coming on in the course of the session. 'lf :40 members,
for instance, were determined to do all they. could to pre-
vent its passing, although they might be stigmatised as
preventing the business of the House, they would be

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successful. But they would not be justified in doing so,
unless their constieuenties in Yorkshire, Lancashire, and
elsewhere, would join he
requiring them to use their ut-
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most influence in that way. Other members might think
yirtei objectionable
t;ly still,ju stibfieeiongin constitu-
tional, tgi tali
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constitutional means to prevent a bad law passing ; and
ho, for one, should not hesitate to propose such a re-
solution.
Mr. W. V. GnEo: nende no apology for offering some
suggestions, not stiffing them as his fixed or matured
opinions. Mr. Ashworth's plan was, he supposed. for
Members .to more the -adjournment, till the opposite
party were wearied out Then Sir Robert Peel would
threw up his Bill, and ' ," I will let it alone." In that
case, we should have il present law without alteration.
Now, unless our Membeellevere prepared to follow out that
principle, so as to prevent any business being carried on,
and to prevent the supplies being voted.—(Mr. Ashworth
e--". I would have it carried out fully.") That might be a
very effectual, but it certainly-was a very desperate mea-
sure. But before any decided mode of warfare as that
was adopted, we mast consider another point. Taking
corn at its present price, he presumed there could be no
doubt that Peel's measure would be immediately a great
benefit to the country ; because a very considerable
quantity of bonded corn would be admitted at a lower
duty than at present4could be. Considering that, at the
lowest estimate, waeelsad 30,000 people in a - state of
starvation, we shoul4ause seriously before we adopted
R. measure—howeveiit might be approved as a mode of
warfare on this
..great. question--which would have the
effect of enhancing ihe:pridef coin. It
.would be a se-
ed-ens-step, an empopuhir ins sure ; and he did not feel
that we should be justified in taking it. If Peel's mea-
sure should pass, we should have the whole of the
bonded corn liberated at a duty of 10s., and that must
necessarily depress the price of corn very much, while it
must pro tan to put our depressed starving population in
a better condition than at present. He did not feel.
therefore, justified in adopting a measure which would
enhance their suffering, in order to carry on their strug-•
On with the landed interest more successfully. But he
did feel strongly that this question had arrived at a
point where all argument was perfectly useless. He was
not prepared to propose any plan, but was disposed to
think the game was iu our hands, if we were united our-
selves, and could raise a sufficient degree of sterling and
stubborn enthusiasm in the people to support us.—
(hear, hear.) [Mr. Greg then referred to a plan which
he intimated.a* intention not to state in the presence of
the reporters ; but, as the meeting seemed desirous to
hear it, he subsequently stated it, • on the understanding
that it should not have publicity given to it. As the
meeting was one of merchants and manufacturers, and
not strictly a public one, reporters being permitted to be
present, rather than having. the right to be there, we omit
all notice of the plan, which Mr. Greg said he hoped
would be matured by wiser heads than his, and given
forth in a fitter shape in due time.]
Mr. EDMUND ASIIWORTH thought there would be
time enough to consider Mr. Greg's proposition when
the landed aristocracy had forced Peel's Bill upon us.
But ise the object of this meeting was to consider whe—
ther or not we would advise our friends in Parliament to
prevent the paceing of this Bill into a law, he thought
they ought not to separate without adopting some reso-
lution of the kind.
Mr. J. CIIADWICK saw insuperable difficulties in the
way of the plans bo h of Mr. Ashworth and Mr. Greg.
He would earnestly press upon the consideration of the
meeting, whether it was not better for them to call upon
all the Members who were advocates either for a total
repeal or a moderate fixed duty, and get them to wait
upon Sir Robert Peel, and endeavour to mitigate the evil•
which they all agreed must result if the Bill were passed..
If they could nut obtain any mitigation of it, for his part,
lie did not know what they could do, but sit down and
abide by it.—(General manifestations of disapproval, and
some cries of " No, no.")
Mr. Alderman Bnooas differed wholly with Mr. Chad-
wick. The Corn-laws were a downright robbery ; and
he would sooner sacrifice 503. a-year for life than submit
to for any thing less than their total. and immediate
repeal.—(Great applause.) lt was as complete a rob-
bery as that of the men MI6, the other day, stole 2,0004
of his brother's out of a coach.'
Mr. J. MILNE—It's worse ; for that was only robbing
the rich ; but the Corn-laws rob the poor.e-elsaughter).
The Roy. WM. SHUTTLEWORTH thought Mr. Chad-
wiek's proposition was like an abandonment of principle. .'
We had asserted that the laws of which they sought the
abrogation were unjust. Let us stand on this ground.
We had the people with us ; and, while our circum-
stances were, in this and other respects, becoming better
;tad better, let us determine, as Manchester men and as
tritons -l'E Mil N(lSv deviate bee tkeim!; te,; Ay Leapee.lieci
like men.—(Near, and applause.)
Mr. EDMUND- si/SIIWORTH then moved—" That this
meeting unhesitatingly disapproves of the alteration
proposed by Sir Robert Peel in the Corn-laws;
and, therefore, acting upon these broad principles of jus-
tice upon which free trade is founded, now declares and
recommends that an uncompromising rejection of the
proposition be demanded from the Legislature ; and that
all the liberal,and free-trade members of the llouse of
Commons be requested to use all the legal and constitu-.
tionaloseane in their power to prevent its being passed ;
and that the followinergentlemen be appointed a committee
to draw up a memorial, and. to carry out the objects of this
meeting :—The Chairman, Sir Thomas Potter, Messrs.
W. R. Callender, Edmund Ashworth James Chadwick,
I
George Wilson, and John Brooks." f this measure were
ineffectual, let us then have another meeting to request
them to stop the supplies ; and by that time we shesuld
be upon short time, and let us have half a million of
people upon Kersal Moor.
Sir THOMAS PorrEn had great pleasure in seconding
the resolution.
Mr WILLIAM EVANS objected to the terms 6' every
legal and constitutional means." He did not think this.
was a time when we should be particularly nice in our
phraseology. -He-came from London the preceding eve-
ning, and had been in the House of Commons every night
during this debate ; and it was disgusting for any man
of sense to witness such conduct. . It was with the ut-
most difficulty our Members could get a hearing ; so
loud and noisy were the cries of " divide," the cat-calls,
and coughing and shuffling of. feet and cheering, to pre-
vent them being heard.---(" Shame, shame !") The use
of such terms " legal and constitutional" was therefore,
he. thought, unnecessary ; because if they would use all
the means in their power, he thought that was sufficient.
He would therefore move, as en amendment, that those
words be omitted.
Mr. W. E. GREG said, he could not stand by and
have his simile reported as haring attended a meeting of
this kind, without expressing his strong reprobation of
the meaning of the last speaker. The use of such lan-
guage on our part would give immense advantage to our
opponents ; and it must be recollected,- that measures
were carried, not by hard words, but by stern deeds ;
and the mere reporting of the proposition of the last
speaker would give a tone to the meeting which would
very much clamp its character and influence. He (Mr.
Greg) did not agree with the resolution, and did not
wish it to pass, for the simple reason that by so doing
they would throw an argument into the hands of Peel,
which he Would not be slow in availing himself of. He
would predict that Sir Robert would say—" Here you
oppose a measure which will, pro tempore and pro tanto,
relieve the sufferings of the people ; which sufferings
you have been professing to regard as one of the'
greatest evils of the Corn-laws, and yet you reject the
very measure I bring forward to relieve them." Depend
upon it, that was one false step.
Mr. T. GASQUOINE perfectly agreed with Mr. Greg in
every word he had uttered. Could they suppose such a
measure could be carried out ? Ile did not believe they
could find forty members with such a degree of moral
courage as to give a factious opposition to the proceed-
ings of the House, and the business of the country. He
thought a much better plan would be to advise the free-
trade Members quietly to withdraw from their places,
and leave the landed aristocracy to pass the measure alone.
Mr. W. R. GREG had no hesitation in coming for-
ward again to moderate the tone of excitement which
prevailed. His motives could not be doubted, for he be-
lieved no man had suffered more by the Corn-laws than
as the first blow given to
a system he had, and no one was- more desirous to get rid of them.
But if Pi. el got up his measure, they would be in no better
bring
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pretence of vested in-
terests in its favour. Let Sir R. Peel give that blow
to the system ; they need not relax their exertions. It
would not place them in a bit worse position than before;
but, if they compelled him to throw up that measure,
-they put themselves in a false position, e ,I;
asgusted many
men who had hitherto gone with them, and did no sort
of good. If they chose to wait till the time came for
passing the.supplies, and then saw that it was desirable,
and that they had the power to do so, they might then
suggest to their Members to adjourn the House, and stop
the supplies.. Then they would have got a boon for
our starving population,
if it were none to trade ; and
they would still have the means of stopping the supplies.
- Mr. WILLIAM Wiirrwonvi wished to show that Mr.
Greg's fallacy was in supposing the proposed Bill to be
an advantage. Thetford was a well-known market
town in Norfolk. Nine-tenths of the corn grown in
Norfolk was sent to the London, Hull, Wakefield, and
Liverpool markets. Under the proposed bill the whole
of the -corn grown in • Norfolk would be returned at the'
market towns in that county, say at 50s. If he bought 100
quarters at Wakefield, it was returned at 58s. and the
averages were thus raised throughout the country.
Mr. LAWRENCE ROSTRON thought forty determined
Members had it in their power to stop the present course
of Government. If we must use constitutional means,
that might be a ease of years, and we were sinking daily
and hourly. He thought, if there were forty Cobdens in
the House, they might bring Government to their senses.
By the present forms of the House, they mild keep
moving the adjournment; and he for one would say, that
the sooner the present- course of Government was
stopped the bettere--e(Loud applaese.) He would sup-
port Mr. Ashworth's motion, but would like to add to it
a recommendation to stop the supplies.
Mr. EVANS had merely thrown out a suggestion, and

vould offer no amendment; but he wished it to he under-
stood, that it was the opinion of our Liberal Mi:mbers in
London, that, unless they were supported by the people,
they could not take such steps as the resoltution re-
ferred to.
Mr. Alderman CALLENDER said it was a regular
course of argument in Parliament, when a new law of
any kind passed, a large number of Ministerial ad-
herents would say, "Let us try this law before we con-
demn it. We have not had it yet two yeais or three
years ; give it a fair trial." And thus it would be car-
ried over a space of two, three, or four years, and we
should be ruined while the law was on its trial,— (Hear.)
Our case, as to the landowners, was that of the boy in
the old man's apple-tree. First, the owner tried fair
words to get him to come down and desist fromplunder-
ing it, but the lad only laughed at him ; next, le thre*
clods of grass at him, but these were soft, and did not
hurt the young thief ; but next, the old man gathered
some stones, and then the lad came down immediately.
(Hear.) Now we have tried fair words and grass for
a lung time; we have been talking and arguing, but
they have put it all aside ; and we must now show that
we are a combined body, for the landowners virere com-
bined against us ; and we must show them tjiat such
laws shall not be passed, or, if passed, shall not continue.
If we show that we were in earnest, we should be certain
to get a better law than this, and therefore he supported
Mr. Ashworth's motion.—(Applguse.)
Mr. Wm. DIXON, of Accrington, said, he came from a
p;t-eat manufacturing district, of which Accrington was
the centre; and he was specially instructed te. support
he resolution now befinv the meeting, and, if no gentle-
man had proposed such a one, he was instructed to pro-
pose it himself; and to cal/ on the free-trade Members to
obstruct in every manner, form, shape, way, and twist
that could be advised, Sir Robert Peel's Bill, and try to
throw it out altogether; to maintain their ailvoeacy of a
total and unconditional repeal of the Corn-laws, and "no ,
surrender."—(Applause.)
The CHAIRMAN ti
which passed wit'.
was one.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE

et_.
FFICE of .the GOVERNOR and COMPANY
of COPPER' MINERS in ENGLAND, Old Broad-
street, London, Feb. 23, 1842.
The COURT of ASSISTANTS of the GOVERNOR and
COMPANY of COPPER MINERS in ENGLAND;
hereby give notice, that they have made a CALL of 101. a
SH ARE upon all Shares on which no more than 23/. a Share
has beep paid ; the said Call to be paid on or before the 15th
da: of Anril next, at the Banking-house of Messrs. Glyn,
Hallifax, 'Mills, and Co., Lombard-street, or at the Office of
the Company.

JOHN DONNITHORNE TAYLOR., of
1 Woodlands, in the County of Middlesex, now at NICE,
in Piedmont, do -hereby give NOTICE, that I allow
ELIZABETH HENRIETTA TAYLOR, of Southgate, in
the County of Middlesex, the following Sums of Money per.
annum; viz., Fifty Pounds on 10th May; Fifty Pounds on
10th August ; Fifty Pounds on 10th November; and Fifty.,
Pounds on 10th February ; making, in all, TWO HUNDRED
POUNDS per annum; and • that- I will not be answerable for 1
any Debt of any kind that she may contract.
JOHN DONNITHORNE TAYLOR
Nice, February 19th, 1842.

0 BUILDERS, SURVEYORS, AND OTHERS.
AO
YOUNG MAN who has had Five Years' expe-
rience in a BUILDER'S OFFICE, is competent to
assist in DRAWING and SURVEYING, a good Penman,
and correct at Accounts. If a permanent Situation, a Small
Salary will be accepted. The most respectable references can
be given. _ _

sh or th's
whom Mr. Gr.eg

Address A. Z., gr. Thomas Coe's, Grocer, &c., Sudbury,

lIE CEPHALOSCOPE.—This Instrument, for
ascertaining the Normal and Abnormal Sounds in the
Organ of Hearing, and capable of being used as a Stethoscope,
recently invented by Mr. CURTIS, Surgeon to the Royal
Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear, may be had of E. EINSLE,
Surgical Instrument Maker, 4G, St. Martin's-lane, Manufac-
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whom may likewise be had, Surgical Instruments of the beat
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Cutlery of every description.

The CHAIRMAN Committee ap-
pointed to glve effec. 'ld immediately
prepare a memorial; I, ;ts convening
the meeting would be req. ic sheets, and
procere signatures; and, a,.. nromptitude
were desirable, he trusted g, dug sheets
would lose no time. For the purr . ng all due
effect to the signatures, it was reque. ' every one
signing would also add to his signature ,mount of
his asessment, and thus show an aggregate .. •unt exhi-
biting the majority of property in this town, as it was
already clear the opponents of the Corn-laws were a vas
majority of persons.
After thanks the proceedings terminated.
Ti

MARYLEBONE VESTRY.
On Saturday, at the meeting of the Marylebone Vestry
Mr. Lowe in the chair), a deputation of parishioners of
he parish of St. Marylebone, supported by Messrs. Un-
derwood, Bell, and Green, on the part of the inhabitants
of Oxford-street, presented a memorial, signed by up-
wards of 3,000 rate-payers, to the following effect
'We, the undersigned. rate-payers of the parish
of St. Marylebone, respectfully address you in
favour of the motion for paving Oxford-street
with wood.
" The grounds on which wo urge this petition are—
" 1. On account of the saving which the wood-paving
will effect in the funds of the parish, which is shown by
the estimates already submitted to you.
" 2. From a belief that the wood paving possesses ad-
vantages superior to other methods, which we consider
proved by the trials made in various parts of the metro-
polis.

" 3. We- think the repeated memorials of the inhabi-
tants of. Oxford-street, supported as they have been by
satisfactory evidence, entitled to consideration." -
After some remarks from Mr. Underwood and Mr.
.G reen, members of the deputation,
• Mr. JOSEPII then moved, " That the vestry are ready
to accept tenders for paving Oxford-street with wood,
from Wells-street. to Vere-street."
Mr. Bmas moved, " That the vestry having already
expended upwards of 3,0001. in experiments in Oxford-
street, it was deemed inexpedient that any further ex-
pense should be incerred with regard to wood paving
until a further test of two years had been completed."
The motion Was then put and declared to be carried,
on which a division was demanded, when there appeared :
For the motion
For the amendment
Majority hi favour of the wood
moved
14
~,101110nOntawni; rai aineattnient iv.4.s. moved to make it
a commitk!e of the whole Board, upon which a seed
division took place, the numbers being—
For the original motion 25
Against it
Majority in favour of wood paving

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