The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 12, 184‘z.

they returned, instead of him, the man who said that he would
protect the agricultural interest, at the expense of other inte-
rests?—( Hear, hear.) Now he had shown how it was in their
power to bring the Government to terms without doing any-
thing illegal. But if they were to combine to resist the payment
of the assessed taxes they would be liable to prosecution.—
(" Hear, hear," and " No, no.") He had pointed out twenty
millions of taxes, of which every man had the power to withhold
his portion—( Hear, hear.) As to the landed Troprietors—
and on this part of the subject he could not say that he
was disinterested, for he and those belonging to him de-
pended upon the land— but he would tell the meeting
that what made the land of England valuable
and enabled the country to bear up against long-continued
and wicked wars, was commerce and manufactures.—( Cheers.)
To them was owing the competition in the neighbourhood of
manufacturing towns, which raised the value of land three or
four hundred fold.—( Hear, hear.) He questioned therefore
the policy of the landowners, even for their own sake, in im-
peding commerce and manufactures.—( Her, hear.) The
moment trade fell, revenue declined; and if the landowners
persisted in their present policy, they would find themselves
with diminished rent in a ruined country, amidst a beggarly
population.--(Cheers.) 'I he people were told that they had
a heavy debt, and for that they had to thank the
aristocracy of former times.—( Hear, hear, hear.) But did
the Conference think that the landed proprietors would consent
to tax their own property to save the fundholders ?—( Hear. )
He had visited many of the manufacturing towns on the Conti
trent, and he was convinced that nothing could save England
from further destitution and misery, but taking off the shackles
from trade, and giving the people a fairchance of getting bread,
instead of living upon begging and subscriptions.—( hear. )
A DELEGATE asked what did Mr. Hume think of Extension
of the Suffrage as a remedy ?—( Cries of " Order.")
Mr. HUME had no objection to tell the Conference that be
was a staunch Suffrage man, and he trusted that he would see
such an extension of the suffrage as would give the people a
lair representation—( Hear, hear)----they wanted nothing but
equal rights to all.—( Hear.) He could only tell the gentle-
man who put the ques, ion, that when the time came he would
not fail to state his opinion, and to assist in obtaining such an
extension. In the mean time he wished every man to do his
duty and become an agitator. He wished every one to do as he
had recommended, and he could tell the Right Hon. Member
for Ireland that perhaps on him alone might depend the
turning the scale in favour of justice to England.—( Cheers,
and loud cries of" O'Connell," " O'Connell.")
Mr. G. THOMPSON came forward and said that it was for
tie meeting to determine to whom it would be pleased to give
a hearing. But he wished to tell them that it had been
determined by the Executive,Committee, that before the Mem-
bers of Parliament spoke a statement should be laid before the
Conference as to the destitute condition of their fellow-coun-
trymen in different parts -of the kingdom. But having given
this explanation, he was bound to say at the same time, that
it was for the meeting to hear Mr. O'Connell, or any other
gentleman first, or hear a gentleman from Bolton, who was
deputed by the Committee to inform the Conference of the
state of things in that and other parts of the country.—( Hear,
hear.) That gentleman would also explain to them the known
cause of the distress. But if they preferred to hear Mr.
O'Connell, very well.
Mr. O'Cowiaese said he hoped the meeting would allow
him to remain silent until the statement of the Executive Com-
mittee had been made.—(flear, hear.)
The CHAIRMAN then said that the task of communicating
the information of the Committee to the Conference, was
entrusted to Mr. Henry Ashworth, of Bolton, the well-known
correspondent of Sir Robert Peel.—( Cheers. )
Mr. ASHWORTH then came forward amidst laud cheers. He
said he was aware under what disadvantages he appeared before
them after the exciting topics they had heard this morning ;
but notwithstanding that, he believed it would be his duty to
lay before them some disclosures which had reached the Com-
mittee this morning. On the first morning of the Confe-
rence, permission was asked that the Delegates should give
information to Sir R. Peel of the state of the places which they
represented, and that the Delegates would show that the Corn-
laws produced the distress, and not Joint Stock Banks—( A
laugh)—nor the over-production oflmanufactures—( A laugh) ...
nor the immigration of agricultural labourers—nor improvements
of machinery—nor fluctuations of the fashions.—(Cheers.)
In order that the meeting might
.arrive at a proper conclusion
with respect to the real state of trade in the country, he (Air.
Ashworth) would draw their attention to the state of trade in
the county of Leicester, which was one of those places where
the hosiery trade was the principal business, and which would
show what were the effects of joint-stock banks, improvement
in machinery, or immigration of the poor working classes in that
county. In 1815 there were, in Leicestershire, 16,000 frames ;
now there are only 14,000 ; therefore the increase of joint-
stock banks, improvement in machinery, or immigration of the
working classes, had not much effect upon that branch of trade
in Leicestershire. In 1815 there were, in Saxony, not more
than 4,500 frames; in 1841 they had become 25,000. From
that the meeting must infer whether joint-stock banks, or the
increase of machinery, had produced any changes in Leicester-
shire and Saxony. There has been no improvement in the
stocking frames of Leicestershire, nor are they worked by
power ; in Hinkley, the population was 15,217 • the state of
pauperism there was most distressing, and might be exempli-
fied by stating these facts—the sum spent in relieving the
poor in 1t336 was only 2,000/. ; in 1841 it amounted to 4,2401.
—an increase 110 per cent.—( Hear, hear.) In that town
thirteen of the friendly clubs were shut up from inability of the
members to pay up their subscriptions—one- third of the work-
men of that town were out of employment, and 500 heads of
families in it are in the workhouse breaking stones.—( Loud
cries of " Hear, hear.") In Loughborough the population
amounted to 19,589 human beings—it was pretty much
in the same situation as Hinkley—pauperism and want of em-
ployment were equally harrassing irs both. In Derby wages
had fallen 40 per cent, since 1836. In Nottingham the popu-
lation was 53,080; the number of persons relieved in the week
ending on the 22d of January, 1842, was 10,580, about one-
fifth of the entire population—( Hear, hear)—wages had fallen
considerably since 1836; although there had been no improve-
ment in the machinery employed in their trade for the last
forty or fifty years. In the workhouse there was a large
number of young persons in good health, and well able to earn
the means of subsistence, if they got employment. Be would
next call the attention of the meeting to the state of manu-
factures in the West of England. In the woollen districts of
England—Frome and Somersetshire ; a few years ago amongst
he most flout ishing in the kingdom ; but now the; were last
declining—the population in 1831 was 14,300 ; in 1841 it
amounted to 12,200, being a decrease of 2,100 ; the Poor-
rates in 1826 were 5,391/. ; in 1840, they amounted to 6,661/. ;
one-sixth of the houses were uninhabited, the rents reduced
by 50 per cent.—( Hear, hear)—out of twenty-eight woollen
mills in those towns twenty are only partially em-
ployed, five are void altogether, and three of them con-
verted into corn-mills. The fact was that mill property was
worth only one-third of its value a few years ago In Bradford,
in Wiltshire in 1820, there were 19 manufacturers, of those
nine had failed altogether—eight had withdrawn from business,
old only two existed at present.—(Hear, hear.) Mills and
premises there which 20 years ago, were let at 1,2001. a-
year, were now rented at 300/. a-year. Cottages which in
1820 produced 90/. a-year, were let in 1840 for 20/. a-year.
There were then 462 looms upon broad-cloths, of that number
there are now 316 idle, and only eleven are fully employed—
( Hear, hear)—in 1820 the average production was 620 pieces
per week, and last year it was under 100 pieces a week—the
quantity of meat and bread consumed in 1820 was
four times the amount in 1840.—( Hear, hear.) In Stroud
and its districts there were 100 mills at work in 1831 ; in
1841 they were reduced to 63. The total, in 1831, was 8,1701.;
is 1841 it had declined to 1,425/. In the County of Glouces-
ter in 1831 they had 3,200 looms at work; in 1841 they were
reduced to 1,333—a decrease of 50 per cent. The number of
manufacturers in the County of Gloucestershire in 1830 was
80; in 1841 they were only 42 ; those which had failed since
1831 were 50. lhe number of inhabited houses in Stroud was
1,602. The reduction of purchases in groceries and plain
apparel there had decreased 40 per cent. for the last 5 years.
in full 1,000 persons had emigrated since the decline of the
woollen trade. The number of looms employed in 1131 were
410 ; in 1841 they were only 12—( Hear, hear)—and poor-
rates had advanced immensely. At Westbury, a dealer in
ready-made clothes used to sell to the amount of 40/. per
month in 1831, now he did not sell 21. worth in the month.
All these facts tended to corroborate the statement he (Mr.
Ashworth) had made, that those changes were not attributable
to the operation
or of
the ipemjoint-stockbanks,royento machinery. i mthaein ry. emigrationAg ,
in
of n
the
wor
king classes,
Kendal, the population was 11,700; the original and principal
trade of that borough was manufacture o f woollen goods, called
endal cottons. The export trade was chiefly with America;
but since the home trade had been restricted, the manufacture
of Kendal cottons had diminished from 33,009 pieces to
below 1000 pieces per annum. Rochdale, which had a large
export trade of flannels to the United States of America, had
undertaken an extension of the cotton manufacture; but Kendal
being placed more remote from the seat of the cotton manufac-
ture, and not possessed of cheap coals, had not been able to sub-
stitute any other class of employment for her industrious
people. Therefore, the result was, that the population
of Kendal had continued almost stationary, or he (Mr. Ash-
worth) might say it had retrograded, for it had actually in-
creased only 137 for the last ten years. The amount paid in
wages has been computed at a reduction of 15,4n0/. per annum.
Since the period when the trade was considered in a healthy
state, towards which the working classes had received in ad-
dition to poor rates the sum of 1,120/., which had the effect
of eonverting honest workmen into poor broken-spirited paupers.
Those poor people were compelled to flee to the workhouses
for the means of subsistence—the result of that state of things
was, that the butchers sold one-third less meat, the provision
dealers less of flour, cheese and the superior class of food, and
more of the coarser classes of food than formerly. The sale of
clothing, &c, for the poor was reduced three-fourths, but it was
increased for charitable distribution.—.(}fear, hear.) The
poor would not in their present distressed and miserable •condi-
tion be trusted. One-tenth of the whole population in Kendal
were receiving relief. During the last three years the expenditure
'or the support of the poor had become nearly doublod.—( Hear,
hear.) In the Dispensary of Kendal, in 1837, there were
2,723 cases, in 1840, 4,050. Mr, Ashworth then proceeded to
state that the exponents of these Nuts, which he had stated, very
properly asserted—" That the strength and sinews of the poor
man are his patrimony, the liberty to use them his birth-
right, and that it is consistent with the principles
of the British Constitution, and the general laws. of an all-wise
Creator, that he should not be crippled in, soiling his labour to
whom he best can."—(Hear, hear, and loud applause.) As to
the borough of Kendal, he (Mr. Ashworth) should also state,
ith reference to the Poor-law Unions of that borough, which
consisted of 55 townships engaged in agricultural pursuits, there
was an increase of pauperism in 45 of them ; and the sum
raised for the relief of the poor had increased in some
instances 7a per cent., and probably as much as 30 per cent.
in a large number of those townships.—(Hear, hear.)
ft was asserted, that such benefits as were derivable from the
Corn-laws, applied chiefly to Essex and other agricultural dis-
tricts in the South, whose cups were early, and sold at high
prices, perhaps 70s. a quarter, immediately after the harvest.
The crops in the north were late, and are greatly influenced by
the depressions of trade. The town of Prescott, which, as a
watch-making town, was connected with manufactures gene-
rally, had been reduced, to an unequal axtent, with the other
places to which he had referred ; and he adduced these in-
stances to show that whatever distress might have existed in
the country, it had not been greater where joint-stock banks
had influenced trade, than in other places; on the contrary, he
believed that where those banks had exercised an influence,
and where machinery had been most improved, there the de-
pression had been least felt. Leeds was a weAlleu dis-
trict, it had been more or less inAtIPIICed by jointsatock
banks ; and in that toms there Were about 13,000 people,
whose average weekly earnings were computed at under a
shilling a head per week. The deterioration of mill property,
within the last three years, was such that it only retained one-
third of its original value. There had been closed, from mg
to 1841 thirty-nine houses in the Wt 151411 444, eighieea in
the flax trade, sly, teilu io fifemaking trade, sixteen in the
wool trade (beades sixteen retired from business), nine in the
worsted spinning and stuff trade, whose united liabilitie
amounted to 1,451,000/., exclusive of failures in the neigh-
bourhood, which would raise the amount probably to two ;oil.
lions, or upwards. Two hundred thousaiid vounda was
paid in wages now, titan artd't 816. The production
of cloth from that district was about two-thirds what it was
from 1833 to 1835. In Bradford thirty failures, all connected
ithin
with the wollen trade, had taken place in one street within the
thelast
last
tefeo yearso r
year;. t h e
t,de debts amountedd,ita ..tycolei4ets,
on short time. With l'egir'd to 'the loss of our woollen
trade, some idea might be formed of the advance cf
the trade on the Continent and in America. From a wool
broker's circular which he held in his hand, it appearedthat the
wool exported from this country in 1839 was 600,000 weight ; in

• 1840, 900,000 weight ; in 1841,4,130,000 weight. The•cotton
manufacture had also been stimulated by joint. stock banks, influ-
enced by improvement in machinery, and still more largely in-
fluenced by the influx of agricultural poor. Many parts of the
country were in a dreadful state of distress ; but all branches
of trade had not felt it to the same extent, and on the whole
he did not think the depression of that trade exceeded that on
the hosiery and West of England trades. In Manchester the
sum expended for the relief of the poor in 1826 was 25,000/,
in the last year it was 38,000/. The patients admitted into
the dispensary in the Manchester district during the six years
of cheap food, ending 1835, amounted to 54,000 ; the number
admitted in the six years of dear food, ending 1841,
was increased to 169,000. The deaths in the dispensary
had increased in the same proportion. He would not detain the
meeting by going through the whole of these important details,
as they would probably be laid before the Delegates in some
other form ; but he could not conclude without making one
or two statements with respect to the town, of Bolton. In seven
of the principal branches of trade, there had been a falling off
of wages to the amount of 1,700/. a year. There were other
trades in which the falling off amounted to 30,000/. more. Com-
paring the condition of the people in 1635 and 1636, and their
condition in 1840 and 1841, it appeared that they were worse
off in their purchasing power now than formerly by 140,000/.
a year. There were now in Bolton upwards of 5,000 persons
w hose earnings were not more than 141 d. a week, and if they
allowed for fuel, soap, and one or two other articles, they had
about 11d. a week for fond. At the same time, in their
prisons the cost of food for each prisoner was twenty-three
pence. It would not be wonderful if the working people of
Bolton should ask double amount of sustenance in a prison ra-
ther than starve upon their present wages.--( Hear.)
Mr. STUEGE rose, and was

(LEFT SPEA KING.)

_
ANTI-CORN-LAZY DELEGATES.
ADDITIONAL NAMES OF DELEGATES.
NAMES OF DEPUTY, NAME OF ASSOCIATION OR CONORE•
OATION, PLACE OF RESIDENCE, AND COUNTY..
Balm, James. Scotch Secession Church, Pell-street, Ratcliff.
highway, Middlesex
Bower, William, A.C.L. A., Chelsea, Middlesex
Brewer, Nicholas, A.C.L A., Southwark, Surrey

Cox, Edward William, A. C. L.A., Taunton and Wellington
Somerset

Dyke, Mr., A.C.L. A., West Pancras, Middlesex
Doran, J. L., Esq., A.C. L.A., Christ Church, Marylebone,
Middlesex

Fowler, John, A.C.L.A., Oxford

Harding, Jonathan, A. C.L. A., Mitcham, Surrey
Hayes, Thomas, A. C. L. A., Bethnal-green, Middledex

Levan, Peter, West Relief Church, Paisley, Renfrewshire

APConnell, A.C.L.A., Marylebone, Middlesex
Aliall, Edward, Inhabitants of Cupar, Fifeehire
Pulling, John, Independent Congregation, Deptford, Kent
Poulton, J., A.C.L.A., Camberwell, Surrey
Renton, Henry, A. C.L.A., Kelso, Roxburgh
Rayre, Charles, A. C.L. A., Newcastle and Gateshead, Nor,
thumberland

Sturges, Jcseph, Esq., Inhabitants of Cupar, Fifeshire
Scoble, John, Secession Church, Cupar, Fifeshire

Thomson, Adam, A.C.L.A., Hawick, Roxburgh
Turner, T., Hope Chapel, Providendo, Rochdale, Lancashire

Walker, David, A.C.L. A., Linlithgow, Scotland

ADDITIONAL NAMES OF MINISTERS,
NAME OF MINISTER, DENOMINATION, PLACE OF RESIDENCE,
AND COUNTS.
Archer, Thomas, United Secession, Gray Friars, Glasgow,
Lanarkshire

Beaumont, John, Relief Congregation, Cerei, Fifeshire
Benson, Williams, Baptist Congregation, and British and Fo
reign Sailors' Society, Welling, Kent

Cairns, Peter, United Secession, Stewarton, Ayrshire
Carlile, James, Secession Church, Cupar, Fifeshire
Garnsnay, Smith P,, Congregational, Newport, United States,
America

Hinton, John H., Baptist Free Communion, Cupar, Fifeshire

Tiler, W., Independent, Hope Chapel, SpitaWelds, ➢liddlesei

Mirams, James, Independent, Kennington, Surrey

THE MEXICAN LOANS.
Yeaterday a meeting of Mexican Bondholders was held at
the London Tavern, convened by the Committee of Spanish
American Stockholders, for the purpose of laying before them
certain propositions made by the Government of Mexico, re-
lative to the future payment of dividends, &c.
The CHAIRMAN (Mr. G. R. Robinson) explained the
objects for which the meeting had been convened, and then
read the agreement which was signed that day by himself and
the agents of the Mexican Government, the Messrs. Lizard' and
Co. The first article stated that the Congress of Mexico, by
the decree of the 3d August, 1841, authorised the Government
to appropriate one-fifth of the Customs' duties of Vera Cruz
and lampico in lieu of one-sixth, as before provided, for the
payment of the future interest on the Mexican foreign debt.
The second article states that Messrs. Lizardi will pay the inter-
terest on the Consolidated Bonds which will become due on the
Ist of April next, certificates upon which have not been taken
from the Custom-houses in Mexico. The third article pledges
the Mexican Government, through Messrs. Lizardi, to grant
debentures to the amount of So per cent, to be received in
satisfaction of the four years' arrears of interest which have ac-
crued up to the Ist of October last. The sixth declares, that
unless the next four had-years' payments of interest, com-
mencing on the Ist of April next, be successively paid
in London, the said Debentures shall represent the full
amount of the four years' interest instead of one-halt the amount
thereof, so that in that case the concession proposed to be made
by article 3 shall not in any manner take effect. The seventh
article, provides, that a fund shall be obtained equal to five per
cent. from Mexico, for the gradual reduction of the present
Mexican foreign debt. The ninth promises, that if the agree-
ment be sanctioned by the Bondholders, the interest due on the
Ist April should be immediately advertised for payment. The
eleventh article remarks, " that nothing contained in the agree-
ment should affect the provisions of the existing agreement
between the Mexican Government and the holders of-Mexican
bonds, dated Sept. 14th, 1837." An additional article had
been drawn up to the following effect :
" The debentures to be issued in the payment of arrears of
interest, in the manner set forth in article 3, shall commence to
bear interest on the Ist of April, 1845, provided that any part
thereof shall at that date remain unliquidated, such interest to
be added to the principal sums of the said debentures, and paid
off in the manner prescribed in article 4th. Dated in London
the 11th Feb., 1842."
The CHAIRMAN concluded with moving a resolution, to the
effect, "that the meeting concur in the agreement," which was
carried by a great majority.

PEEL'S SLIDING SCALE.
GRAND DEMONSTRATION IN DERBY.
By breakfast time on Thursday morning, the people of Derby
were put in possession of Sir Robert Peel's speech through the
medium of the Derby Reporter, which acknowledged itself indebted
to the Proprietor of Tbe SW; for the extraordinary early Intel.
ligence. One general feeling of disappointment prevailed; and the
cry might be heard from the working classes, " No Sliding Scales,"
"No accursed Corn.laws," At eleven o'clock the Council as-
sembled to discuss some business left over at a former meeting,
and a petition couched in strong terms against Peel's humbug,
was and immediately transmitted to the
lion passed
mseeirller
Commons the next night. During the sitting of the Council, a
ib bys
for acclamation,
theborough, for presentation in the House of
written paper was handed to the Mayor, stating that it was the
intention of the people to burn Peel in effigy.
The matter died away, and nothing further was heard of it until
about seven o'clock, a tremendous procession of people was seen
advancing down St. Peter's.street, with the effigy suspended from
two upright poles and a cross pole, forming a gallows, a number
of men heading the procession with torches; The shouting was
tremendous, and as the immense rriass passed the residences of con.
splcuous Tories three groans were given (especially whilst passing
the Tory newspaper-ofneo, and here the groaning and booting was
deafening). With the exception of this the greatest order pre.
veiled, and after perambulating the principal streets the procession
entered the market-place, where the Magistrates and police were
assembled ; but as there appeared no menacing intention on the
part of the populace, it was thought the wisest course to let them
alone, for a handful of police against 10,000 people armed could be
but of slight avail; and in nine eases out of ten violence on the
part of the ruling powers is returned by violence. This wise de-
termination prevented any mischief.

The effigy was decorated with blue ribbons, and in one of the
hands was a cody of the Times paper, containing a report of the
speech and sliding-scale. Order having been claimed, a working
man was appointed to act in the capacity of Judge, and the trial of
Peel then commenced. In a loud and emphatic voice the Judge
pronounced sentence from a written paper, as follows :-.;•
"In the first place, you, air, the great Quack Doctor, stand
charged with having wickedly, selfishly, and cruelly lent your as-
sistance to plunder thts working milliotti of this country of their
property, which is their labour, and by which means you hare sapped
the very fact dations of their Industry, by the laying. on of wicked;
cruel; and unathrhtian Vora Jaws, and that at vitae whett the maple
expected very difibrent treatment ; for beitinown unto the Jury
that It was at a time when the people'werw'retaiadriii ' *from
victoriously fighting the battle of the landownersohat you 'acted
thus cruelly towards them. In the second place you are charged
with having wickedly and cruelly prevented relief, when the late
Administration would have granted it, by destroying that Ministry,
their last prayer for
and building upon its ruins one of the most base, selwflsolif,uallnydsttayrrtaedn.
nical Administrations that ever disgraced the British nation ; and
that you also stand further charged with having
many thousands of her Majesty's virtuous and loyal subject* daring
the last four or five months, by refusing to administer relief, and
have been adding insult to cruelty in leaving them 'to perish of
hunger. And now—even so late as last night—.you have You crowned
bread, and giving theist instead an insulting mockery in
o am.itdst derisive shouts; and
the shape
all your iniquitous proceedings by
of a new sliding-scale. How say you,prisoner at the bar—Do you
plead guilty or not guilty lo"
the . '
A tremendous shout of " Guilty," from multitude.
The Judge then added—" It now becomes my painful duty to '
pass the awful sentence of the law upon you, that your body be
rejecting
committed to the flames, and so, perish all: the enemies of the
people:"—(Vehement shouting.)
somTehetuerflipegnytiwneashihaveninsglihdee(dnlopauntdtnhirne
people
y dispersed; not
(and the Times too). The shouting was deafening. f
The windows were all lined with people, and as the blaze ex-
tended, it exhibited a large mass of beings ccolgregated on the
spot. It is admitted by the Tories that there could not be less than
8,000 people, but the general calculation is from 10,000 to 12,000.
After the effigy was destroyed,
the least disturbatice took place.
It was one of the most solemn pieces of mockery, perhaps,
ever seen, p'lewgausiestilvedii.
in
names

ll:mediate repeal of
a meeting of the
gratuitous teachers of
Sunday School
SUNDAY SCHOOL TEAcuts
ictioleiliary ANDTHE
theCo CORN-rtnA. wi
a• sw. —s
wPeertei t i,oaon s
pftoerathiLt totalnigahnt dat
eVcitliTTn,itwtriethi rtehpereSseonuttsh nierldy°l2l
the young—the petition to the to) las to be presented b Earl
Fitzwilliam, and that tl 0..; onani,ons by the
Members for
Southwark.
on the 9th
.01, a. iiitta •girl, five years old, while
v.^: xt
ilkig4
.iitb bur father at Lyons, was bitten
by h
a dog on the
44'4 . aud the poor man, in defending his child, also received a
bite on the arm. On returning home, their wounds Were dressed
Alld soon healed. The child, however, gradually 1%4 its health; and
complained of constant thirst until the 2d j'abt, When she became
enraged on being pkqrcck okipic and continued showing sit the
11(4001R 5Y1.1.109;94 of hydrophobia till the morning of the 4th.
ii!bo Ihe expired,
, .
A letter from Mostaganem, in the illaniteur Parisien
says that offers of submission continue to be made by the na-
tive tribes, sad that a chief named Babibdes Iladji. who is of
much religious influence in the
produce, has assured the
French authorities that almost all the tribes are read, to aban-
don ANA-et-14(1m

CORN AVERAGES.
LIST or TowNs, and the COUNTIES in which they arc
situated, from which it is proposed that Returns of
the quantities and prices of various descriptions of
CORN sold, shall be made to the Comptroller of Corn
Returns, in order to determine the general Average
Prices, whereby the rates of Duty shall be governed
Note.—The Towns to the names of Nt hich an Asterisk
is prefixed, are those from which Returus have uoi
hitherto been obtained.
CHESHIRE.
Chester
Nantwielt
Aliddlewich
Fontana Ends

*Congleton
*Knutsford
*Muclestield
*Stockport

LANCASTER
Liverpool
ITlverston
Lanc.gater
PresMi
Wigan
Warrington
Manchester
Bolton
*Ashton under Lyne
*Blackburn
*Bury
*Oldham
*Ormskirk
*Rochdale

SURREY.
G uild ford
*Croydon
*Kingston
*Ryegate

DERBY.
Derby
*Bakewell
*Chesterfield

NOTTINGHAM.
Nottingham
Newark
*Mansfield
*lletford
*Worksop

LEICESTER.
Leicester
*Loughborough
*Hinckley
*Lutterworth
*Market Harbro'.
*Melton Mowbray

NORTHAMPTON.
Northampton
*Peterborough
*Daventry
*Oundle

ESSEX.
Chelmsford
Colchester
Romford
*Chipping Ongur
*Epping
*Maldon
*Saffron Walden

KENT.
Maidstone
Canterbury
Wit ford
*Bromley
*Chatham or Rochester
*Dovor
*Gravesend
*llimuney
*Seveitoaks
*'Tunbridge (Town)

SUSSEX.
Chichester
Lewes
Rye
*Brighton
*Rorihani
4Petworth

WARWICKSHIRE.
Coventry
Birmingham
*Coleshill
*Dunchurch
*Stratford on Avon
* War wick

WORCESTER.
Worcester
*Bromsgrove
*Droitwich
*Dudley
*Kidderminster
*Stourbridge
*Stourport

BEDFORD.
Bedford
*Biggleswade
*Dnnstable

BERKSHIRE.
Windsor
Heading
*Abingdon
*Farringdon
*Maidenhead
*Newbury
*Wallingford

• BUCKS.
Aylesbury
*Beaconsfield
*Buckingham
*High Wycombe
*Stoney Stratford

OXFORDSHIRE.
Oxford
*Banbury
*Burford
*Henley
*Witney

HUNTINGDON.
Huntingdon
St. Neot'B

GLOUCESTER.
Gloucester
Cirencester
Tetbury
Stow on the Wold
Tewkesbury
*Cheltenham
*Dursley
*North Leach
*Stroud

CAMBRID
Cambridge
Ely •
Wisbeach
*Newmarket

SOMERSETSITTRE
Bristol
Taunton
IVells
Bridgewater
Frome
Chard
*Bath
*Yeovil

MONMOUTHSHIRE.
Monmouth
Abergavenny
Chepstow
Pontypool
*Newport

SUFFOLK►.
Ipswich
Woodbridge
Sudbury
Hadleigh
Stow Market
Beccles
Bungay
Lowestoft
Bury St. Edmund's

DEVONSHIRE.
Exeter
Barnstaple
Plymouth
Totness
Tavistoek
Kingsbridge
*Ashburton
*Axminster
*South Moltou
*Oakhampton
*Tiverton

NORFOLK.
Nor w ich
Yarmouth
Lynn
Thetford
Watton
Diss
East Derehana
liarleston
Holt
Aylsharn
Fakenhant
North Walskata
*Sw•affharn

CORNWALL.
Truro
Bodmin
Launceston
Redruth
lielston
St. Austell
*Falmouth
*Penzance

LINCOLN.
Lincoln
G Hillsborough
Glan ford Bridge
Louth
Boston
Sleaford
Stamford
Spalding
*Barton on Humber
*New Bolingbroke
*Bourne
*Grantham
*Grimsby
*llorneastle
*hfarket Deeping
*Spilsby

DORSETSHIRE.
Blandford
Bridport
Dorchester
Sherborne
Shaftesbury
Wareham
*Poole
*Weymouth

HAMPSHIRE.
Winchester
Andover
Basingstoke
Fareham
Havant
Newport
Ringwood
Southampton
Portsmouth
*Christchurch

RUTLAND.
*Okeham
*Uppingham

YORK.
York
Leeds
Wakefield
Bridlington
Beverley
Hamden
Shetlichl
Hull
Whitby
NeW Mahon
*Barnsley
*Bedale
*Bradford
*Doncaster
*Guisborough
*Halifax
*Huddersfield
*Keighley
*Knaresborough
*Northallerton
*.Pickering
*Pontefract
*Richmond
*Ripon
*Selby
*Skipton
*Thirsk
*Wetherby
*Yarm

HEREFORD.
*Hereford
*Leominster
*Ross

DURHAM.
Durham
Stockton
Darlington
Sunderland
Barnard Castle

SHROPSHIRE.
*Shrewsbury
*Bridgenorth
*Elmsmere
*Ludlow
*Newport
*Oswestry
*Wellington
*Wenlock
*Whitehurch

WILTSHIRE.
*Bradford
*Swindon
*Chitpenbani
*Devizes
*Salisbury
*Marlborough
*Trowbridge
Warminster

STAFFORDSHIRE.
*Stafford
*Burton on Trent
*Newcastle under Lyme
*Stowe
*Tamworth
*Uttoxeter
*Walsall
*Wolierhampton

NORTHUMBERLAND.
Walsingharn
Belford
Hexham
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Morpeth
Alnwick
Berwick
*Wooller
CUMBERLAND.
Carlisle
Whitehaven
Cbckermouth
Penrith
Egremont
*Wigton

WESTMORELAND.
Appleby
Kendal
*Kirby Lonsdale

MIDDLESEX.
London
Uxbridge

HERTFORDSHIRE.
Hertford
Royston
*Bishop Stortford
*St Alban's
*Ware
*Tring
*Watford

WALES.
Carmarthen
.Carnaryon
Haverfordwest
Cardiff
Denbigh
Wrexham
*Brecon
*Mold
*Bangor
*Cowbridge
*Newbridge
*Newtown
*.Now Radnor

CONTROVERTED ELECTIONS.
MR. SPEAKER'S WARRANT FOR THE APPOINT-
MENT OF MEMBERS TO SERVE ON THE GENE.
RAL COMMITTEE OF ELECTIONS for 1842.
Pursuant to an Act passed in the 4th and sth year if the
reign of her present Majesty, intituled, "An Act to amend
the Law for the Trial of Controverted Elections," I do hereby
appoint the Right Hon. Granville Charles Henry Somerset,
commonly called Lord Granville Somerset, Member for Mon-
mouthshire; the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Member for
Devonport ; the Right Hon. Dudley Ryder, commonly called
Viscount Sandon, Member for Liverpool ; James Loch, Esq.,
Member for the Wick District of Burghs ; John Wilson Patten,
Esq., Member for the Northern Division of the County Palatine
of Lancaster; and Sir William Meredyth Somerville, Member
for the Borough of Drogheda ; to be Members of the General
Committee of Elections for the present Session.
Given under my hand this 9th day of February, 1842
CHARLES SHAW LEFEVRE Speaker.'

Learning appears to be making great progress in
the Island of Sardinia. At the University of Cagliari, which
in 1825 reckoned only 270 students, the number increased in
1832 to 302, and in the present year amounts to 499.

LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM
RAILWAY.

The eleventh half-yearly meeting of the Proprietors of this un-
dertaking was held yesterday, at the Qtteen's Hotel, Birmingham,
for the purpose of receiving the half.yearly Report of the Directors,
end electing four Directors for the ensuing half year, George Carr
Glynn, Esq., in the Chair.

The common seal of the Company basing been, in conformity
with the Act of Parliament, affixed to the register, by the consent
of the Court of Proprietors,
The CHAIRM•N opened the business of the meeting with a few
preliminary observations, in which he congratulated the Proprietors
on the successful working of the line during the past half year ;
which was the more satisfactory when considered in conjunction
with the present disastrous state of commerce in this country, by
which the interests of all undertakings of this sort were, snore
or less, injuriously affected. Although the interests of this railway had
suffered somewhat in that respect, a steady increase in the traffic of
the line had been kept up; in addition to which the Directors had
been able to carry out their great object—a decrease of the charge of
working the line—not, however, affected in any way by a decrease
of the stock capital of the Company. In compliance with the ex-
pressed intention of the Directors, at the last half-yearly meeting,
in which the Proprietors present coincided, a valuation of the stock
of the Company had been made, in the engine stock, by Mr. Bury,
checked by Mr. Hill, of Bolton; and in the carriage stock, by Mr.
Wright, checked by Mr. N. Worsdale, the mention of whose names
would carry conviction, that the duties assigned to those gentle-
men could not have been entrusted to men of more skill and com-
peteney to discharge, satisfactorily, the duties that devolved upon
them. The result of their labours had been that the system of per
tentage, already agreed upon, was not effectually met by their cal-
culations as compared with the first cost. The Directors, however,were
not prepared to offer to the Proprietors any variation of the present
principle of depreciation, which was found to be fair, equitable, and
in every way satisfactory, and which, if worked for a sufficient length
of time, would certainly bring about the natural results that must
flow from it. At any time, however, when a change should be-
come necessary, the Directors would feel it their duty to bring the
subject before the Proprietors. He alluded with very great plea-
sure to the liberality of the Proprietors, who have allowed the Di-
rectors to erect schools at Wolverton. He did so with peculiar
gratification, because nothing could exceed the satisfaction which
was felt by the inhabitants in their establishment, not only by one
class of inhabitants, but by all denominations in the neighbour.
hood, who all expressed their cordial approbation of the conduct
of the clergyman appointed to conduct the schools. As an instance
of the kindly feeling expressed, he mentioned that many Dissen-
tors had put their Sunday schools under the direction of the minis.
ter appointed by the Company. Allusion having been made a
few nights ago to the unfortunate accident at Harrow, which
arose entirely from the negligence of two of the Company's
servants, who paid3the forfeit of their lives, he referred
with satisfaction to the fact, that not only did that accident arise
from a positive disregard of the orders laid down by the Directors,
but that during the last twelve months not a single passenger, tra-
velling by the railway, had met with any accident whatever. In
congratulating the Proprietors upon the state of their affairs, which
permitted them to receive, at this periodical declaration, an increase
in the amount of their dividend, namely, 4/. 155., per share on the
100/. shares, he begged to say that this was a dividend arising from
the best working half of the year, and it would not be fair to raise
undue expectations by inferring the same result upon the next half.
year's working.

The SECRETARY then read the half yearly Report, from which It
appeared that the ordinary traffic of the railway has exceeded that
of the corresponding half-year of 1840, by a sum of 23,982/. 7s. Bd.,
and that this increase extends over every head of receipt, but
principally the conveyance ofmerchandise and cattle. The net rent
of the Company's estate, in lands and houses, exceeds by 1,392/.
l Os. Id., the rental of the corresponding half-year; the charge on the
traffic, including parish rates, taxes, and an allowance of 14,6431.,
for depreciation of the Company's carrying stock (excluding interest
on loans, is 8,873/. I is. less than in the half-year ending December
31st, 1840, notwithstanding an extension of the general business of
the railway, and the running of additional trains. The balance of
interest paid by the Company is also less by 6,986/. 6s. Id. The
aggregate increase of revenue, and decrease of expense, exhibited
a total of 41,134/. 19s. 10d. in favour of the half-year 1841. The
net profit of 227,61244 Ils. 6d., added to the undivided residue of
the balance of 30th !June, 4,117/. 45. Od., gives an amount of
231,9411. Iss. id. applicable to the dividend; and out of this the
Directors recommended a dividend of 4/. Iss. upon each 100/.
share; 1/, 3s. 9d. on each 25/. share; 1/. 10s. 4 4-sd. on each 32/.
share ; and 15s. 4 4.5 d. on the new 32/. shares, amounting to
227,967/. 19s. 2d., and leaving a residue to the credit of the cur-
rent half-year, of 3,973/. 15s. 6d.
The Report was then unanimonsly received and adopted by the
Company, and ordered to be printed and circulated.
It was then agreed that power be given to the Directors to con.
elude ass agreement for renting the Branch Line from Leamington
and Warwick to Coventry, when made at the rate of Si. per cent.
per annum on the estimated cost, not to exceed 130,000/., and
subject to ass equal division of the excess of profit over and above
such rent, between the two Companies. It was stated by the
Chairman that two years would be the maximum term of the lease.
The following Directsors were then re-elected, viz. :—J. B.
Boothby, Esq. ; Thomas Cooke, Esq.; Christopher H. Jones, Esq. ;
J F. Ledtam, Esq.; and Christopher Saltmarshe, Esq.
The CHAIRMAN then stated that the dividend would be payable
on the 17th Inst., and also informed the Proprietors that it was the
intention of the Directors to provide for the present want of ac.
comodation at the Euston-station, London, by making very exten.
sive alterations in those premises; in fact, to complete the station
in the way in which it was originally intended. He also stated in
answer to a Proprietor, that the local stations, particularly that at
Leighton Buzzard, were before the Board of Directors, with a view
of effecting their completeness.
A'vote of thanks was then given to the Chairman and Directors,
after which the meeting separated.