The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-16 00:00:00

ABOLITION OF' BARTHOLOMEW
FAIR.
On Saturday Deputy Hicks (the Chairman of the
Market Committee of the corporation of the City of
London) appeared at the Mansion-house, when Al-
derman Wilson was sitting as locum tenons for the
Lord Mayor, who is now at Berwick-upon-Twee 1,
and stated that he had been deputed to wait upon his
Lordship, or the Alderman who represented the
Chief '_Magistrate, to confer with him upon the•sub-
ject of Bartholomew Fair, and to request his concur-
rence in the resolutions of the Committee, which were
as follow :
Resolved and ordered,—That Bartholomew Fair
in future be not proclaimed till the afternoon of the
eve of St. Bartholomew, instead of half-past twelve
o'clock on the preceding night, as has been the prac-
tice heretofore generally adopted.
That it is the opinion of this Committee that this
proc:lamation by 'the Lord Mayor (if necessary)
should be made at the same time, and unattended by
'the state with which the fair has ,een heretofore pro-
claimed by his Lordship and the other city authorities.
That the fair be permitted to continue only during
the remainder of that day and the two following days.
" That booths for the exhibition of plays, interludes,
pantomimes, and other 'theatrical representations, be
_henceforth entirely excluded from the fair.
" That a deputation of this Committee do wait
upon the Lord Mayor and Magistrates of the city, to
request their assistance in carrying into effect the
resolutions of the Court of Common Council referred
to this Committee for execution.
That the deputation do likewise hold a conference
with the Commissioner of Police, informing him of
the course of proceeding intended to be pursued by
this Committee, and requesting lie will make such;
police regulations as may be necessary to preserve
the public peace, and give effect to the objects of the

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_
J. GHAGAN, removed froXl 31 to No. 9, late manager, ; Committee.
sole purchaser, and seller sinee 1839, to the following gentle- 1 . " That during the ensuing fair no part of the pave-
men, all of whom have left 31, except two. ment of Smithfield be permitted to be taken up or
\V. Ewalt E,,q. M.P. - --I G. Pryme, Esq., ex.3l. P. . disturbed for the placing or fixing of any booth, stall,
A. T. Holroyd:Esq.. G. Ren Esq.. es-M.P. •
J. T. Leader, Esq„ M.P. Si W. Rotham, Esq. or other article for the purposes of the said fair, or
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.
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mitted to have a standing at the ensuing ~ uni_tss
the City's charges for such standing shall be first paid.
"That the ground which shall be let at the ensuing
fair be let subject to the tenant's removing and clear-
ing away the dirt and soil about the same, every night
and morning during the fair.
" That exhibitions of wild beasts be not permitted,
in consequence of complaints having been made of the

same.
" Ordered, that notice of the last resolution be forth-
with sent to Mess. Wombwell, and other exhibitors
of wild beasts.
" Resolved, that Mr. Richard Hicks, the Chairman
of the Committee, Mr. Rutter, Mr. Bonser, and
Mr. Deputy Godson, be appointed the deputation,
for the'purposes above-mentioned, and also for
making the necessary arrangements for letting the
said ground.
" Ordered, that Mr. Comptroller do transmit a copy
of the foregoing resolutions to the Right Hon. the
Lord Mayor, and also to the Commissioner of the City
Pol ice."
After some discussion,
Alderman Wilson said it gave him sincere pleasure
to represent the Lord Mayor on such an occasion.
He had long entertained the opinion that no means
should be left unattempted to put an end to the filthy
debaucheries of Bartholomew Fair, and he enter-
tained no doubt that all, with the exception of the
depraved of both sexes, who lived by plunder, and
spent the produce of that plunder in rioting, would
be rejoiced at the entire closing up of such a sink of
iniquity. He thought that by virtue of the resolu-
tions, and the extraordinary change which had taken
place in the tastes of the great mass of the people.
Bartholomew Fair would soon be spoken of amongst
things that have been, but are not. He thought the
evil would be very soon completely at an end ; and
was convinced that the press would aid the Magis-
tracy in their efforts to suppress it. The Lord Mayor,
would open the approaching fair privately, and care
should be taken to let the public know that the Ma-
gistrates sanction it only for mercantile purposes.
Mr. Hicks returned thanks for the Committee,
who, he said, would feel high gratification at such a
conclusion to their labours for the abolition of the
nuisance.

STATE OF T tiE
DISTRICT.
(Abridged from the Stair i/ - • :examiner of
STAFFORDSHIRE
, vorcsilic • .
Saturday.)
The turn-nut among
the colliers, still continues ;
and there is but little prospect of their resuming
work. They declare that they would rather .eat the
grass by the road sidestha.n work for two and sixpence
per day. The masters, oli the other hand, resolutely
maintain their inability to accede to the terms of
the men. Meetings eontinue to be held in various
parts of the district, when resolutions similar to those
passed at Westbromwieh, on Monday week, are
;
adopted. At a meeting in Stafford.street, this morn-
bled, and were addressed hy Cooper, a Chartist
from Leicester. He decried the aristocracy, the
in (Friday) about two thousand colliers assent.
bishops. and the Anti-
Corn-law agitation ; and
extolled the Charter as an unfailing panacea. The
meet:ng was also addressed by Linnet', a power-
loom weaver, from Manchester, and Candy, who
we regret to hear, has broken a blood-vessel during
the week. On Wednesday morning a body of col
Tiers assembled at Wednesbury. About twelve or
fourteen thousand men from the neighbourhood of
Lye-waste, Rowley, &c., marched through Dudley,
on their way to the place of meeting : they were
joined by immense numbers from the surrounding
districts ; and at Wednesbury about twenty .thou-
sathisdisposition to violence ;
neighbourhood do not ap-
pear lid.
to The
evince men n
the
hi
e slightest
but listen with a 'kind of dogged indifference to the
harangues delivered to them, except as far as relates
to the resolution not to work at the reduced wages.—
A meeting- of the most influential iron and coal mas-
ters was held at the hotel, Dudley ; and a very nume-
rous body of colliers was in the neighbourhood. The
terms of the men were not acceded to ; and they ex-
pressed their disapprobation of the masters by hisses.
A party attacked the George Inn, kept by Mr.
William Barlow, and 135 sash squares were quickly
demolished, and much internal mischief done to his
premises. Mr. Alcock's shop also was partially as-
sailed,and sixteen squares broken. Igr. Ryles's house
was beset by a party oF sixty colliers, .and eighty-four
squares broken, and the panels of his doors and shut-
ters beaten in. The furniture was much injured in-
side the house, looking-glasses were split, tables
broken, and indentations in the wall over the child-
ren's beds, almost deep enough to hold a pullet's egg.
A pistol was fired, and the party obeyed the signal,
and left the town by the Waterloo-road, towards
Henley, leaving a number of their bludgeons on
the ground. They had remained longer absent
than was expected by their fellows in the other parts;
fur, after the firing of the pistol, when going to
attack the George Inn and Alie Ryles's' two sky-
rockets were sent up in the direction of Cowbridge
between Burslem and Hanley, and
little doubt can
be entertained that they were informed of the military
having been sent for. In consequence of an express
sent as soon as could with safety be done, to New•
castle, the Rifle company was brought, and arrived
about three o'clock.
During the afternoon a party of colliers from Long-
ton and the neighbourhood turned out those at
Norton, three miles from Burslem. One of the pro.
prietors, Mr. Dean, . was severely injured by a stone;
and the " turn-outs" ducked two of his bai' ill's in a
- dirty puddle, and then in a water-pit belonging to
one of the engines.

A.RS.
SFTRPIDAAYRTgoUL
DUNFERMLINE.
RNING AUG. 12.—
remained quiet as far
as property vvo concerned ; but the imprisonment of I
several of `the rioters seemed to cause loud murmurings
DUNFERMLINE,I7esaIy' Aa
and general discontent amongst the equally guilty at
TftEernoon things
liberty, and some fears are entertained that unless
the troy of Enniskillen
they are liberated fresh disturbances may arise.
Dragoons whi6h arrived
here (Dunfermline); on the application of -Mr.
Sheriff Mont ith, from Edinburgh, on Wednesday
moment's 4 ice,
ot-shotild,purpose of acting on a
morning, still remain, for the
unfortunately, the tnisgttided
ri2eu be so Watuated 33 to vildire an attempt at a re,-
newai of the past seriomilitaryforce
outrages
In addition to the temporarily sta•

The General Steam Navigation Company's Mai
Steam Packet Giraff,, Capt. R. Stranack, arrived at the
Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall, on Sunday, at half-past
one from Rotterdam, having had a quick passage ; she
landed an unusual quantity. of passengers, besides car-
riages, &e. The Soho had just previously arrived from
Antwerp ; and although the Wilberforce was taking in
her passengers for Antwerp, among whom we thought
we observed Lord Campbell, Lord Fortescue, Sir J. Sey-
mour, Lady A. Churchill, Beresford Brooke, Esq., Col.
Gascoyne, and Capt. Holt, R,N., the utmost regularity
prevailed.
IrswicH.—This borough, 'which has excited so
much interest of late in an electioneering point of view,
did not escape the raillery of the merry monarch, Charles
11., who, upon one occasion, as he was passing through
the town, quaintly observed to Buckingham that it was
indeei a " strange place," for, "it was a town without
inhabitants, possessed of a river without any water in it,
with streets without names, and that the asses had boots
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afforded them, were obliged to traverse the outskirts,
knee-deep in mud, for that purpose, so that when the
latter became somewhat dry, and incrusted, the legs of
the animals appeared furnished with mud-boots.--Cam-
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