The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-16 00:00:00

Total L 870,727 912

84S 745

It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the
32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon-
don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of
Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality—,
and the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras. Kensington,
Fulham, Hammersmith Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad-
dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (Brom-
ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas
and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890, and in June 1841, was
1,870,727. The weekly average tor 1838, 1839, 1840. and
1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the four years by
208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52.
TEaIPEItATUISE IN THE WEEK'S ENDING
Ju'y 2. July 9.
84n 79
52 52
66 64
14, 1812.

Highest

Lo7se3t .

Daily Mean .
General Register Office, July

BuRKE's Hlir.ALDßY.—Under the title of " A
General Armory of England, Scotland, and Ireland," by John
Burke, E.q., author of the ‘• Peerage," ts.c., and John Ber-
nard Burke, Esq., of the Middle Temple, we hare obtained a
work which should have b en !ong since, and it is marvellous
that it has not been, one of the standard works of our litera-
ture. How anxiously and how dearly have the old authorities
on the subject been sought after and purchased. Guillim, we
believe, out of date as the book is now more than a century,
fetches so ne ten or a dozen guineas, and Edmondson and the
other writers upon heraldry and the science of arms, when
they can be procured at the old bookshops, which is not always,
bring equally high prices ; while here, in one very au, erb vo-
lume, we have the whole of what those authors collected, with
the hiatus of probably a hundred years filled up, so as to bring
the researches down to the year of our Lord 1842, arranged
alphabetically, and printed admirably, at comparatively a very
inconsiderable charge. But this work comprises much more
than the old heralds contemplated ; it gives brief genealogies of
frost of the eminent families, particularly where quarterings
have been obtained through intermarriages. It is, indeed, a
most complete dictionary of heraldry, and register of armorial
bearings.— Standard.
UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.—
Annual General Meeting of Proprietors.—This Meeting was
held in the Office of the Company, No 8, Waterloo-place, on
the Bth July, James Stuart, Esq., Chairman of the Board of
Directors, in the Chair. The Report of Receipts and Dis-
bursements of the Company, and of the amount of their Funds,
required by their Deed of Settlement. having been laid before
the Meeting, the Chairman called their attention to the con-
tinued progressive success of the Company, which was esta-
blished by the fact, that their books showed an increase of
3,3751. 7s. 3d. of Premiums, received for the year from Ist
July, 1811, when the First General Meeting of Proprietors
and Division of Profits took place, to Ist July, 1842, over the
Amount of Premiums of the preceding year, to Ist July, 1841.
This fact was the more worthy of notice, because it had been
publicly stated by the Chairman of the Scottish Widows Fund
Assurance Company, one of the greatest in the empire, and is
recorded in their Report of March, 1842, that the Business of
Life Offices in London generally, had diminished one-half in
1841, as compared with 1840, and that their business had,
during the same time, not diminished much more than one-
fourth. The thanks of the meeting were, on the motion of M.
D. Lind°. Esq., seconded by John Connell, Esq., unanimously
voted to the Directors, and especially to the Resident Director,
Edward Boyd, Esq., for his unremitting exertions to promote
the interest of the Company.
The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel
Caledonia, Captain H. Cheesman, made her last passage from
London to Hamburgh in the short space of 411 A hours.
GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.—SERIOUS
ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday evening last, the 13th instant,
great alarm was caused by the non-arrival of the Through
Train from London, which was due at seven o'clock at the sta-
tion at Darlington, and at half•past seven an engine was
dispatched, when it was ascertained that a sad accident had hap •
pened at Alne station. It appears from the best information
we can gain that the policeman at the above train had in-
cautiously lent the key to a man to open the switches at the
entrance to the depots, and which was not properly adjusted
when the passenger train arrived; conseqsently the engine and
coaches, instead of keeping the main line of railway, took the
branch leading to the depots, which are about twelve feet above
the level of the coal-yard, and the engine forced two trucks in
the line into the coal depots, and the engine and the next coach
attached went down as far as they could, which caused a severe
shock through the whole train. The passengers in the first
coach were dreadfully injured. One gentleman had three of
his ribs broken, and a little boy, it was feared, had sustained a
concussion of the brain. However, we are glad to say, that no
lives were lost, and the passengers were able to proceed on the
journey, with the exception of five or six. The train arrived
at the Darlington station abeut ten o'clock, and this morning
( Thursday) the Directors, Secretary, and Superintendent went
down to investigate the case. The train was a very large one,
and two gentlemen's carriages were attached, one belonging to
Mr Ogle, the Member for Northumberland.
SulcinE.—At an early hour yesterday morning an
unforturafr fernale. named Jane Da,es, threw herself into the
r_tl;t. n- titne
01,,e, Ir, a (.1 f,er aL the time, but they were so
I drunk as to be unable to give an alarm.

....
His Royal Hightails would not have undertaken this painful
task, were he not fully tw.presArd with the great importance of
the subject, as well as with the loyalty and honest attachment
of thwe individuals towards the sacred person of the Sovereign,
and which have dictated to them to adopt such a course.
From the conversation which the Duke of Sussex has held
with the Deputation, both on Friday and Saturday last, he is
firmly convinced of the melancholy truth contained in the in-
closed statement, which he considers of such importance, that
he deems it right that her Majesty should be made acquainted
with its contents, especially as the petition is drawn up in strong
though respectful language.

While his Royal iligbness does not presume to give an
opinion on the mode of meeting this momentous question, he
cannot, however, avoid availing himself of the present oppor-
tunity to express to Sir James Graham his sincere sympathy
with the sufferings of so numerous and industrious a class of
her Majesty's subj,cts, and his serious alarm at the distressing
consequences which are likely to result should neither the Go-
vernment nor Parliament be able to devise a means for the
employment of so large a portion of the community as is now
out of work.

The Duke of Sussex is confident, that after the observations
which he has considered himself imperiously called upon to
mike to Sir James Graham, that the Right Hon. Secretary of
State for the Home Department will take the earliest opportu-
nity of laying the said pea:ion before her Majesty, with the as-
surance of the loyalty and devotion which the petitioners enter-
tain for the person of their Sovereign, and which have prompted
them to lay their respectful ant constitutional statement of
their actual distress at the foot of the throne.
Kensir►eton Palace, July 10.1841
COPY OF SIR JAMES GRAHAM'S REPLY.

Whitehall, July 11, 1842.
Sir,—l have received from your Royal Highness a petition
addressed to her Majesty, anal also a letter, which your Royal
Highness has been pleased to write to me.
It will be my duty to lay the petition before her Majesty
without delay.-1 have the honour to be your Royal Highness's
obedient servant,
( Signed) J. R. G. GRAHAM.
To his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, K. G.
FROM SIR JAMES GRAHAM TO HIS ROYAL
HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF SUSSEX.
Whitehall, July 13, 1842.
Sir,—l have the honour to inform your Royal Highness that
I have not failed to lay before the Queen the petition signed
by a numerous body of persons, which was transmitted to me
for presentation to her Alajesty, by your Royal Highness on the
10th instant —I am, Sir, your Royal Highness's dutiful and
obedient servant,
(Signed) J. R. G. GRAHAM.
To his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, K. G.
The CHAIRMAN then read the following letters, or ex-
tracts of letters, from correspondents in the provinces :
Haslingden, July 14.
TO P. A. TAYLOR, ESQ.,CHAIRMAN OF THE ANTI-CORN-LAW

CONFERENCE, LONDON.
My dear Sir,—l am extremely happy to inform you and the
Delegates who remain in London, that we had a most glorious
public meeting, last night, in the open air. We had decidedly
the largest assembly ever known to be brought together in this
town. The object of the meeting was to receive an account
of my mission to London, as member for this town. I suppose
we had upwards of 3,000 present—some say we must have had
8,000, for many came from Blackburn, Burnley, Bacup,
Acrington, Edenfield, &c.
After I had given an account of your proceedings up to Sa-
turday evening, at which time I left the Conference, the meet-
ing passed, with three cheers, the following Resolution :
" That this meeting views with indignation the unfeeling and
unmsnly conduct of the majority of the present House of Com-
mons, for refusing to afford that help which is in their power
to the manufacturing and labouring population of this country.
We therefore pledge ourselves never to give up our efforts un-
til the unrighteous and unjust laws which prohibit the free
importation of food is totally repealed.
" And as no confidence can be placed in the House of Com-
mons, as at present constituted (for future safety), we deter-
mine to agitate until the principles of the document, denomi-
nated the People's Charter, become the law of the laud.

" In order to effect so desirable an end this meeting recom-
mends the unity of the middle and lower orders of the people,
well knowing that unity is strength; and it a people would be
free they must will it."
Wishing rou and the Deputies every success, I am, my dear
Sir, yours, 'ice.,

S. SMITH, Deputy for Haslingden.
Carlisle, July 14, 1842.
Sir,—On the other side I transmit a copy of a resolution,
passed at a meeting, held last evening, of the Council of our
Anti-Corn-law Association, and which by a subsequent resolu-
tion I was directed to forward to you, for the purpose of being
laid before the Conference.
I have only time to add that the Association much regret that
they hlve been unable, from various circumstances, to procure
the attendance of a Deputy from this place.
I am Sir, J. D. CARR, Secretary.?
To George Thompson, Esq., Secretary to the Anti-Corn-law
- -

Conference, now sitting in London.
" Resolved,—That inasmuch as the state of trade in this city
is still equally depressed, and the pressure of distress upon the
labouring classes continues equally severe as at the period when
the Deputies met in London in the spring of the present year,
except only in so far as the condition of the poor has been
alleviated by the advance of the season, and inasmuch as this
Association still continues deeply impressed with a conviction of
the injustice of the Corn and Provision-laws, and the increasing
necessity for their total repeal. This Association would have
felt it their duty, had they not been prevented by unavoidable
circumstances, to send a Deputy or Deputies to the Conference
now sitting in London. That this Association offer their best
thanks to the Conference for the course they have pursued, and
for the exertions they have made, and urge upon them to con-
tinue to use every means within the bounds of the law and the
Constitution, to torte the adoption of a free trade in corn and
previsions upon the Government of this country."
Dear Friond,—The shopkeepers of this neighbourhood agreed
at their meeting last night to make their situation known to
Government; bet wixt one and two hundred assembled and were
quite unanimous in oiinion, that unless something be imme-
diately done to alev]ate the distress they cannot get through
the corning winter. JOHN BEEVERS.
Todmorden, July 12.
TO JOHN MORRIS, ESQ., 99, MOUNT-STREET, GROSVENOR-

SQUARE, LONDON
My DEAR have much pleasure inicknowledging
receipt of your various communications. It was intended by
the Association here to have dispatched one of their own num-
ber, with full particulars, as a delegate, to assist the other De-
legates in London representing Paisley. This, however, was
found impracticable; and the embarrassments of Paisley were
so notorious that any written statement transmitted to London
was deemed superfluous.
Provost Henderson and Bailie Smith, both of whom are
members of the Paisley Association, set out for London last
night, as a deputation from the Relief Committee here, to
represent to the Government the wretched condition of the
operatives of Paisley, and the inadequacy of the funds placed
at the disposal of the local authorit es for the relief of the un-
employed. I have shown Provost Henderson and Bailie Smith
your letters, and those which I have received from the other
delegates, and they have agreed to meet with you and the other
delegates, and communicate all necessary information.
I shall he glad to hear from you from time to time as to how
the good cause prospers, for I am much delighted with your at-
tention to the duties devolved upon you by the Pai,ley Asso-
ciation.-1 am, my dear Sir, yuur's truly,
Paisley, July 13, 1842. ROB. WILSON.
Dear Sir,—My object in writing these few lines, is to inform
you that I visited Stockport on Tuesday last, and it is impos-
sible for the mind of man to conceive a more miserable place ;
the houses unoccupied are almost innumerable. I walked
through one of the streets which branches from Hill-gate, and
there were only three houses inhabited on one side of the
street. Stockport appears to me like a town visited with the
plague. If Government will not endeavour to remedy this
state of things, I shall consider the country in danger, and a
civil war is of all things to be dreaded.
Bury, July 14, 1842.
The mills are doing very little, and all the manufacturers are
determined to give over as near as possible, if there is not a
speedy alteration. Trade is no better, and the reports from
Manchester yesterday were of a gloomy cast. There is to-day
more applications to the board (now sitting) than there ever
were before, and but for the funds sent down from the Relief
Committee, I do not know what could be done. The number
of paupers are daily increasing.
o,lne, 13th July, 1842.
Mr. WmcocK, of Blackburn, then proceeded to ad-
dress the meeting. The people of the neighbourhood
which he represented were perhaps better off than the
inhabitants of other towns in Lancaster ; but still their
condition was far from being prosperous. If it were 50.3
they should not now have eight or nine mills totally stand'`
ing. The first of these mills to which he should refer was
what was called a wide-mill, built with new machinery,
about seven years ago. The two partners had since
failed, and had gone to the United states. The ma-
chinery of the mill had been sold, and most of it had
since been broken up. The machinery of another mill,
which had closed about the year 1839, had also been
broken up ; the proprietor had since died, and died of a
broken heart, as it was believed. The third mill to which
he would refer, had its machinery built about the year
1833; the parties who worked it failed a short time since;
and another gentleman had since carried it on, but at a
loss, it was thought. to himself, and he was now desirous
to dispose of it. The fourth mill was situated a few
miles out of town ; it was built in the year 1834
1.1. mat;_ya C
,;111• a!:16. pit
Ithe erto:ohle. The nun mill to which he should
refer, had had new machinery built in the year 1834 ;

the parties had since failed, and the place is now shut
up. In the sixth mill two parties had failed at different
tunes, and the machinery had since been broken up.
The seventh mill which he should mention, was what was
called a power-loom
,shed, which had been built
in 1837 or 1838 at a cost of 5,0001. ; it
was sold the other day for 2,0001. One of the
parties, of the name of Wallace, went to the United
States.. He was made a bankrupt, but did not
appear at his second meeting. He gathered up all he
possessed, 3001. or 4001., and diddled his creditors, and
went away. The next was one of the most considerable
millowners in Blackburn, and he became bankrupt last
March. A large machine-shop, which used to employ
two or three hundred men in 1833, when provisions were
low, and those parties were then earning from 30s. to bOs.
a week. That shop had been standing during the whole
of 1839 and 1840. What had become of the work-people
he could not tell because those artizans would not stop
to beg at home, for if they went round a town with salt
in a whe::lbarrow to exchange it for bones, they would
not do so at home ; they would go to another town. -
(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Wilcock) had received yesterday
two letters from his town, which he begged leave to call
the attention cf the meeting to :
Blackburn, July 11, 1842.
Dear Sir,--John Hindle, in the beginning of spring, had
eight farms untenanted, three of which he has let at a reduc-
tion of :25 per cent., the other five he cannot let. It appears
from what I can learn from Thomas Thwaites that there are
from fifteen to twenty public-houses to let, or one-fifth of those
in the town. Messrs. T. and W. Thwaites have twelve pub-
licans petitioning for the benefit of the Insolvent Act this
Court, July 14. The Black Dog public-house, formerly let
for 751., is now let for 401., and too dear. A public-house, be-
lrgieg to J. J. Livesey, let in 1839 for 351, was let a fortnight
since for 14/. per annum. The information about empty pro.
perty I can get through no one but the overseer, and might
have to wait a week fur it. The reduction in the price of
new milk is a halfpenny, that in blue and buttermilk a farthing.
generally, some places a halfpenny in blue. Butter at the be-
ginning of April was 111,0. to ls., now 91 to 91/yd., has been
at Bd. and 81,0. to the farmer. In conclusion, I may add that
we hare hare three or four shopkeepers failing every week,
with the prospect generally of a very small dividend.
That letter was from a gentleman who was one of the
largest provision merchants in the town. He should
say he dill as much business as all the town put together.
The next letter was as follows :

I received your letter and newspaper, and have to thank you
for them. You appear to be going in the right direction for
making an impression upon Sir Robert, as well as to satisfy
the country that the delegates are in earnest, and are deter-
mined not to look on supinely while the people are starving.
You an t
giveyou what I can, a
information
ndu will
up what
I
elort from your own information. I can tell you our state in a
few words ; and that is, we get worse every day, more and
more people are being out of employ, consequently more desti-
tution and want is the result; scarce a day passes but some
tale of woe, either of suicide committed, or actual starvation
having taken place, for want of employ. Hundreds of fami-
lies who, two years ago, were in good circumstances and had
plenty, are now in the most wretched state. Manufacturers,
grocers, butchers, shoemakers, publicans, in fact., all who re-
tail, are ruined, or being ruined. The hand-loom weavers are
wretched in the extreme, they cannot average more than 3s.
per week—a portion of them were better employed a few weeks
ago at fancy work, but within the last fortnight that sort of
work has been so depressed, that the manufacturers have re.
duced wages fifteen per cent. ; besides hundreds cannot get
work. I know that weavers have come from Sabden to Black-
burn six times for a warp, which is eighteen miles, both ways,
and when wove received only 65., thus you see the poor
creatures received only 6s. for walking 108 miles, and
weaving 220 yards of cloth, and bear in mind these are not
isolated cases but of frequent occurrence.
We have seven cotton mills less working now than we had
two years ago ; we have 300 mechanics, less employed ; three-
fourths of the joiners are unemployed • masons, bricklayers,
,
tailors, shoemakers, labourers, and indeed
all trades, and
callings, are three-fourths unemployed in the same proportion.
Great falling off with butchers, publicans, small shopkeepers,
and in fact with all descriptions of trades.
Cottage property is worth nothing to the owners, especially
at the outskirts of the town, and rents of shops, public-houses,
are greatly reduced. The number of poor at present in our
workhouse is 700, a year ago we had 260; the rates are in-
creasing, and the rate-payers' means of paying them are
rapidly decreasing ; what the end will be God only knows. A
great change also is taking place for the worse in the morals
of the people. The middle class, formerly so honest and punc-
tual in all their dealings with creditors, are becoming wreck-
less, and dishonest, the working operative openly and boast-
ingly declares his hatred of, and his plans to destroy, the
Government which so grievously oppress him ; indeed nothing
but curses, and imprecations are common topics of conversation
amongst the industrious classes.
Breaches of the law by the unempolyed are of frequent occur-
rence, that they may get into prison and get bread ; one in-
stance out of many I will give you :—an Thursday list, about
bed-time, crash goes the room-window of Mr. Carruthers. He
got out of bed, and threw up the window to ascertain the
cause, when an emaciated creature stood in the street. When
asked why he had broken the windows? he replied, " I am
nearly hungered to death, and want to get into prison, to get
something to eat." A police-cfficer was called, the man was
taken to the police station, and taken care of, rejoicing in what
he had done.

I will now briefly recapitulate what I have stated above, and
leave you to draw your own conclusions. Two years ago we
thought trade very bad, and the operative miserably
paid for his labour, then the weaver had 4s. for what he
now receives ls. 4.1. The mechanics then were well paid, and
plenty of work ; now three-fourths are out of work, and badly
paid. Then publicans, shopkeepers, butchers, tailors, shoe-
makers, and other businesses could make a lining; now they
are all distracted, not knowing what to do to save themselves
from pauperism. Two years ago rents of cottages were paid,
and no empty shops or cottages : now no cottage rents paid,
and numbers of shops, public-houses, and factories to let. Our
union workhouse had then 260 inmates, now we have 700 ; our
working population then were comparatively comfortable, with
the exception of the hand-loom weavers; now they are wretched
and miserable in the extreme. Publicans are doing very bad,
numbers are in the hands of the brewers, so that you may judge
the depreciation of such property. The Black Dog, which let
for 751. six months ago, has been re-let for 401. ; in fact, we
cannot go on much longer without a great change for the better.
Yon wrote to Mr. G. Briggs, requesting him to answer cer-
tain questions, which he has handed over to me, himself not
having had time to write to you. You may gather from what
I hare written answers to the questions propounded by you.
1 have omitted to mention the destitute state of the working
classes. They are hungered, without clothing, without bed-
ding, without furniture, and altogether in a most woeful state.
Mr. Briggs has handedme a list of wages ; what he is payins-
nuw, and what he was paying two years ago :-6.4 super he
was paying in 1840, 2s. 6d. per cut of 24 yards, and lie is now
paying is. 2d. ; 6-4 40 laconet he was paying in 183/, 45., in
184.2, Is. led., and all other sorts reduced in the same
proportion. I have given you a rough sketch of the state of
Blackburn, and not an exaggerated one ; it will refresh your
memory, while stating to the meeting your opinions. James
rilkington is not at home, consequently I cannot tell you who
will replace you at the Conference. A meeting is being held
to-night, when a Delegate will be named to replace you. We are
much in the state as we were when you left. Another letter
will follow this to-morrow, when I will report was is going for-
ward. The Conference resolutions have revived our drooping
spirits ; all approve of their proceedings. Until you hear from
me again, 1 am, &c.
The population of Blackburn was upwards of 37,000.
He should say that the gentleman, who had eight farms
in the beginning of the spring, and had now only five,
had now six houses in King-street, which was considered
the best part of Blackburn, varying in rent from 201. to
25/., all empty. He was a Tory, however, and perhaps
it served him right.
Mr. MOORE begged to ask Mr. Wilcock if there
were not some mobs of people in the year 1826 who
broke the mills and machinery ?
Mr. WILCOCK—Oh yes ; we were great people then.
They came in their thousands from the mountains, and
were called " the blue mountaineers ;" they came with
large sledge hammers, and with pikes having loaves of
bread stuck on them, and some had guns, and they went
to the mills, where they used power looms which had
just been set to work. The people said, " These looms
have deprived us of our bread, and we'll serve them so
that they'll not work any more ;" and they made good
their threat. He thought Sir Robert Peel was
Home Secretary then. They were in great distress
then, and George IV. sent them 1,000/. Sir R. Peel was
inviting them to do the same thing now, for he attributed
a great deal of the distress to machinery. He wondered
if the populace should act upon the Premier's sugges-
tion, whether they would arraign him for high treason?
The agriculturists and the manufacturing interests must
go together ; together they must sink or swim ; like
the Siamese twins, they could not destroy one without
aiming a deadly blow at the other.—(Cheers.) The
other day Mr. Sidney Smith said it was a great shame
that Blackburn should send two Tories to Parliament.
So it was a great shame. The majorities, however, were
small over the Reformer, Mr. Fielden having a majority
of 15, and Mr. Hornby only 1, over Mr. Turner, the
Reformer.—(Hear, hear.) When Mr. Fielden, who was
a large manufacturer, left home for London, he had 200
or 300 looms standing still ; if trade had been healthy
and profitable, he (Mr. Wilcock) apprehended they
would not have been in that condition—and yet Mr.
Fielden voted on thoside of monopoly.
Mr. MooeE wished to know what was the feeling of
the people—whether there was any under-current going
ou ; whether, in fact, the peace was safe in Blackburn
Mr. WILCOCK was glad the question had been put to
them, because he could inform that meeting, and he
could inform the country, that the peace was anything
but safe. The soldiers in the barracks were on duty
night and day ; each soldier was provided with ten
rounds of ball cartridge, and, indeed, an outbreak was
daily expected. On the 13th of June, Feargus O'Connor
went to the town of Blackburn ; of course there was a
procession, and upwards of 15,000 full-grown men ap-
peared in it. Mr. O'Connor lectured in the theatre in
the evening, and the place was crammed to suffocati,-)n.
They, as Corn-law Deputies, had been told that they had
not the people with them. How was that ? What did the
people say ? "Faugh, why you may as well whistle jigs to
a mile-stone as to expect to get anything from the House
of Commons—come along with us, go along with us in
all our measures and we will get you what you want—
we will get you cheap bread."—(Cheers.) It was a ques-
tion, however with him whether they ought to go with
the Chartists in all their measures. In February last
year.. he (Mr. Wilcock) sold engines equal to 86
horse 110"1', `2,000 spindles; 500 power-leonis, 50 cot.
Cage-hout:.:::.,, two excellent dvalling-hugs:..), iu one of
which he resided himself, for 13,000/. ; and, if they had
to be sold now, he should most probably not be able to

find a purchaser for them. Some part of those premises
were erected in 118, and the remainder, including must
of the machinery, was put up in 1832, the whole expense
being 50,000/. He hail met an attorney, a few days
before he left Blackburn, who was a large rent-collector,
and he was congratulating him (Mr. IV ilcock) on being
out of business; he said he was a lucky man. He asked •
him why? The attorney answered--" I've)een a re-
ceiver of rents for, thirty years, but never saw such a
rent-day as this ; 10s. where we ought to have 205., and
we can't get more ; what it will come to, I don't know."
Now, this gentleman was a high Tory, and he (Mr. '
Wilcock) told him, it serves you right, and, next year,
I hope you will get ss. instead of 20s. A short time ago
he met a large spinner belonging to the neighbourhood,
and he asked him when they were geeing to have
an end of this dreadful state of things, and what was to
become of the labouring population ? He replied, " Oh.
I find that they're working very well—l have great faith
in poverty." He was a high Tory, and said that the
repeal of the Corn-laws would not -benefit them at all.
But then with the sugar and coffee duties. " Oh," said
he, " that's another case, quite. I think they ought to
be repealed." And why should he think so ? Because
he sent out goods to Brazil, and was obliged to take
sugar and coffee in return ; and he could not brine. these
to our shores, but was obliged to take them to Belgium
and Holland.—(Hear.) Where the shoe pinched he
could feel.—(" Hear, hear," and laughter.) He (Mr.
W.) met that gentleman the other day, and he said, "No
matter what it is, something must be done in our pre-
sent distressed state, or we shall not be able to get
over the winter."—(Hear.) In that part of the country
there had been several daring burglaries, and that too
during midsummer, a thing which was never heard of
before.—(Hear, hear.) About three miles from Black-
burn there was a Roman Catholic priest- residing at a
place called Pleasington Priory. In the latter part of
May last, about two o'clock in the morning, he was
awoke by the crashing in of one of his windows. He
had a pistol with him, and, with it in his hand, he jumped
up out of bed, and called out, " What's to do ? " He was
answered " We'll let thee know what's to do ?" There
were eight men. They had black crape hanging from
their hats and caps, over their faces. First they told him
to get into bed again ; then to tell them where his
money was ; and he did so. But one of the fellows,
thinking that the clergyman was observing him too much,
struck him a violent blow on the head, from which he was
slightly protected by the bed clothes. They took away
the chalice, the pix, and other utensils of the altar, his
plate, watch, and money, about 501. worth, which was as
much as the house itself was worth. The -house of
another Catholic priest. at a place called Long-
redy, was attacked on the same night. They
drove in the window ; for they do not now-proceed very
secretly, but smash in the windows at once. The priest
was from home, and the housekeeper had a person to
keep her company. The fellows who broke into the
house used those two women very badly. In the former
case the priest and his housekeeper, however, took some
notice of one of them, who had an old black veil over
his face, in which there
.were some holes. From the de-
scription they gave of him a policeman said, " That's
Rawlinsen ;" and in a few days he was taken. The
fellow was tried at Preston at the last assizes, was con-
victed, and sentenced to be transported for life. Mr.
Wilcock concluded by thanking the meeting for the at-
tention with which they had heard him.
A Lady who has attended the Conference for some
days, and has appeared to take great interest in its
cause, was desirous of making some observations, but the
Chairman politely informed her that although there was
no objection to a lady's presence at their meetings she
could not take part in their proceedings.
Mr. Wthcocie said, he had omitted to read an extract
from a Blackburn newspaper, to which he had alluded.

It was :

He has completely deceived them ; and they richly merit
the deception which has been practised upon them ; it will be
for the country to take advantage of it. For our part we are
heartily sick of both ; the farce has been kept up too long ' • and
we should advise the whole band of monopolists, with Peel,
and all his company of political mountebanks, to clear the stage,
and take ih,mselves off, ere an enraged and starving multitude
" put out the lights," ar.d demolish their whole paraphernalia
of political jugglery. There are some queer signs abroad—
some ugly breakers a-head ; and let but a storm arise, such
tinkering top-sail men as Peel, Stanley, Graham. and that
szurvy crew, will be totally incapable of steering the national
bark into a safe and secure anchoring place. It will require
more skilful hands than such a lubberly set as they are.
Mr. 11.4Lu00, Delegate from Lambeth, said that the
distress was universally admitted by all parties, not only
by the advocates of the repeal, but by every class of
persons, friends and foes. The distress was not so great
in the metropolis as in the other parts of the country ;
and when they considered the wealth accumulated here,
it was not to be wondered at. But in the trade to which
he belonged, and which was intimately connected with
the condition of the working classes, upon whom it very
much depended—for when he mentioned that the trade
was beer, they would see its connection with the work-
ing classes—(Bear, and a laugh)—he was very far
from wishing to see men make themselves drunkards, or
waste their earnings in the public-houses ; still it was
well known, that in the metropolis at least the working
classes, for the most part, lo9ked upon beer as one of the
necessaries of life, and as far as they used it only as
such, he thought the poor working man was as en-
titled to his beer, as any gentleman in the land
was to his wine.—(Hear.) At all events, it was
a fact that the public-houses of London would afford a
test of the earnings of the working classes in the metro-
Ai • Their value had greatly fallen off in the last few
years. HouSes that would, not long ago, sell for 6,0001.
or 7,0001., were at present worth no more than 2,0001.
Numbers of publicans were lately bankrupt or insolvent,
and the brewers had been severe losers. This was to
be attributed to the inability of the working men of the
metropolis generally to supply themselves with what
they considered a necessary of life. Sir , Robert Peel
had alleged that the cause of the distress was chiefly
that foreign nations, since the termination of the general
war, had been able to turn their attention to manufac-
tures instead of spending their money upon war. But
the Right Hon. Baronet omitted to say that this was an
additional reason why there should be no clogs upon
the manufacturing industry of this country.—(Hear,
hear.) We do not object that foreigners should endea-
vour to employ themselves in manufactures ; but we did
and do object to our lawmakers creating laws which dis-
able us from fair and free competition.—(Applause.)
He did nut regret the long continuance of peace. On
the contrary, he hoped most earnestly that it would con-
tinue, and that nations would so understand its value as
nut to allow themselves to be led into the plains to be
slaughtered for the gratification of their rulers.—(Ap-
plause.) He was intimately acquainted with the coun-
ties of the north, especially Northumberland, Cumber-
land, and Durham ; and in them the people were in
the most distressed state. The labouring men subsisted
upon a little weak tea and Mack bread, not fit for dogs.
A DELEGATE—The dogs won't eat it. I have made
the exporitnent.—(Hear, hear.)

Mr. M•LEoD didn't doubt it. The question was how
were they to remedy their present evils ? He thought
the League had already done much to enlighten the peo-
ple—(Hear, hear.)—and when the people came to un-
derstand the question, he thought they would knock so
loudly at the doors of the House of Commons, that those
within would not have courage to resist the call.—
(Great applause.) He had been present when, the Bight
Hon. Baronet made his magnificent speech against the
Catholic Emancipation Act, in which he predicted that
if the measure passed the Crown would be- destroyed,
and that the Church would crumble into dust. He had
afterwards heard him propose that very Bill as the Mi-
nister of the Crown. And on what ground did he pro-
pose it ? Not because it was just, but because it was
expedient.—(Hear.) The Irish party had wrung it from
his fears ; let them take the same course with respect to
the Corn-laws.—(Hear, hear.) For his own part, he
was hardly surprised at the course pursued by the aris-
tocracy. They had all the power, and nearly all the
wealth, in their own hands, and as they thought that
the repeal of the Corn-laws would reduce their income,
it was very natural that they should oppose it. It was a
principle of human nature ; all persons had it more or
less.—(Hear, hear) There might, indeed, be some
splendid exceptions, some few persons who were so be-
nevolent and kind-hearted that they would not aggran-
dise themselves at the expense of the whole community,
but the rule was what he bad stated. He believed
that Sir Robert Peel was fast losing his popularity.
The Chartists no longer viewed him with favour,
the Church party had never done so, and the great body
of the Tories, if they. might judge by their own organs
in the Press, entertained for him no great affection.
The CHAIRMAN said he must be allowed to interrupt
the speaker by reminding him that they were not assem-
bled for the purpose of discussing general politics.
Their object was to obtain justice from that Government,
or any other Government which might come into power.
It was not desirable, he thought, to allude to the unpo-
pularity of the Government separately from this ques-
tion.—(Bear, hear.)

Mr. M'LEon said he had concluded the observations
which he intended to make.

The CH AIR3IAN said he felt disinclined, as an indivi-
dual, to sit quietly under the imputation that they, as a
body, would starve the people if they had it in their
power.—(Hear, hear.) It did appear to him that that
mode of speaking struck at the root of all public and pri-
vate morality.—(Hear, hear.) It was not the right way
to state the matter. They should declare a wrong to be
a wrong, an injustice to be an injustice ; they should
never attempt to debate injustice, or to lower the stan-
dard of national morality, by acknowledging that cer-
tcer-
tainunjust men were not worse than others, or that they,
if placed in the same position, would act, in a similar
manner. He trusted it would not be the case with
him-
self ; he believed there were hundreds and thousands of
honest hearts who would never be guilty of such con-
duct.—(Cheers.)
Mr. M‘LEop explained.
The CHAIRMAN said, the meeting should not omit to
observe the injury which was done to the entire Bench
of Bishops. Would it be imagined for one moment that
they would be guilty
of such atrocious conduct.
Mr. larso
of Birmingham, believed that half the
rr,

manufacturers of that town had' been ruined by the
Bread-tax-makers and bad legislation.
Mr. Btacti, a Deputy from the shopkeepers or Me
. chester, . next addressed the meeting. Re was 3"
of the Deputation appointed by the s
keepers of Manchester to wait on Sir RoPert
Peel, to state to. him the condition of the sits *P-
keepers and others of Manchester. That Deputatie
directed a letter to Sir R. Peel, requesting an interview es
in answer to which he stated, that such was the
pressure of pal& business that it was impossible to fur-
nish the opportunity required. They had applied like-
wise to the Earl of Ripon, and they were to wait upon
him at half-past twelve to-morrow. They had also Ap-
plied to their Members, Mr. M. Philips and Mr. lksvelner
Gibson, and the latter had taken upon himself to being
their case before the House of Commons this eveni,
They had drawn up a petitiolt, which Mr. M. Gibs, -s!t
would present to the House this evening. Ile begged
to be understood that he did pot appear at the in-
stigation of the League, or 55 eletviug any connec-
tion with it. What he appeared wthere for wus to
state facts to the League, and to have those facts
circulated through the Press. The Deputation of
which he was a member, had been to al parts of
Deputation
the town, and they had mule inquiries of ina;eiduals in
every species of business. They had asked their condi-
tion with reference to what it was in 1333 and 11PW ;
and they bad stated that the falling off of their bum leEs
was full a half, and that there was a falling off of tk sir
profits full a half, upon that half amount of business.- -
(Cheers.) Now. he had some statements to lay beforee
the meeting with respect to a clothier, who had been in
business sixteen years ; he had been in the finer parts of
the trade, and he stated that his trade in 041 and 1842,
was not halt' what it was in 1835 and 1836. „lie stated
also, that the principal, and most profitable
parts of his business in 1835 and 1836, consia'.ed of
trade with the working men, who used to comes with
money in their hands to purchase cloth from him. and
that they did not mind what they gave for it ; but. t tilt
now he never saw a working man—(Hear, bear)—as.
that now men of that kind never came to his shop.- -
(Hear, hear.) The next individual they called upon
was a grocer, s.hose shop was situated in what was con-
sidered one of the best situations in Manchester for tise,
business he carried on. This individual had been hes
business fifteen years. He did half the business now •
that he did in 1835, and only one-third of what he did 1
in 1836 ; that his profits in 1839 were seven-and-a-half,
but that in 1842 they were only three-and-a,-half, or
four—(Hear, hear)—and that during the last five years
he had made debts to the amount of 5001. Th-at on
Saturdays formerly We sold goods to the amount of 501.,
and on other days in the week to the amount of
101., and that now he did not take on a Saturday
20/., and on die other days in the week not 41.—(Hear,
hear.) That he employed now in his business three
young men, the same as formerly, and thin he was losing
every week in his business Si. Such was his stew after
15 or 16 years labour, that he was about to gather the
wreck of 'his property together to purchase an as. nuity,
and live in a cottage.—(Hear.) He stated furthese that
parties who had formerly bought several poune's of
sugar, now came for ounces—(Hear, hear)- and t hey
had the smallest quantity they possibly could buy of ,the
other articles in which he dealt ; but notwithstanding &
this, the shopkeepers were obliged to keep up the same,
although they were losing by it. The next individual!
to which he would allude was a bread-baker, who heed
the next shop. He was in the best situation in then
town ; he did the largest business in the town. He•
stated the distress was lamentable. He knew families
who formerly took from 4 to 6 loaves a week, now
only took one ; and that where .he used to
cut up one loaf, he now cut up 200.—(11ear, hear.)
The consequence was, he had to employ a greater num-
ber of hands to do the same business, and his profits
.were considerably less. The next person to whom he
would allude was a grocer, who stated that he now sold
halfpennyworth's of sugar, tea, and tobacco—(Hear)--
that it required a greater amount of labour to draw the
same money, by two or three time, which they formerly
used to employ. They found upon inquiry at the prove
sion dealers, thew almost uniformly bore out this fact,
that there had been a decrease of the consumption of
cheese and bacon, and a greater consumption of oatmeal.
—(Hear.) The next individual was an ironmonger. He
should suppose he was the oldest manufacturer in Man-
chester. This party had not been' in business less
than 30 or 40 years. This individual exhibited a re-
markable falling off in his business. There had
been a regular falling off since 1837. In 1837
he stated his business as 80 ; in 1838 as 70
in 1839 us 50 ; in 1840 as 30 ; in 1841 as 27 ; andl
in 1842 as 15.—(Hear.) He stated as a positive fact:,
that almost all the iron-manufacturers in the large towns
of Salford and Manchester, had been living out of their
stocks for the last twelve months, owing to building ope-
rations being suspended. The next individual was in
the respectable business of a flour-dealer and bread-
baker, and he stated that his trade had greatly fallen off.
that he had made large and'bad debts, and that he had
totally lost all confidence in the public as his customers.
ilnother baker in another part of the town made similar
statements with respect to the small quantity of bread he
sold. He stated that individuals to whom he formerly
sold two loaves now came for pounds—(Hear, hear)--
and he even often gave to the little boys and girls who
came for the bread pieces to satsfy their hunger. The
next case was that of a butcher, who stated that he had
been fifteen years in business, that in 1835 he drew 80/.
in a week, and in 1842 not more than thirty pounds.
It might be asked in what kind of spirit the people bore
the sufferings to which they were subjected. He was its
possession of a document, which he was not at liberty to
bring before the meeting, relating to the condition of the
brokers of Manchester, which showed that parties in ple-
a large stock in their houses were actually starving.
Those parties could not even relieve themselves by sell-
ing thew goods ; for when an auction for that purpose,
was called it was mere dumb show. The auctioneer
held up the goods for sale, but no bidding took place ;
people were unable to buy them. There was one party
possessed of stock to the amount of 4000/. and yet he was
in such a state of poverty that lie could not meet trifling
expenses of the most necessary kind. The people of
Manchester bore this state of things very hardly. They
seemed to be, as it were, preparing for some desperate
movement. He did not throw out this as a threat. Nei
man more regretted such a state of things than he did-
The people could not bear to be ground to the dust. It
was not to be expected that men of intelligence—
men of skill, men of mind, and of independent feelings
would quietly submit to a state of things which without
any fault of their own, sunk them to the condition of a
class beneath them—brought: them to a level with the
labourer who sought employment, only to find them-
selves disappointed. And who were the men that found
their position thus becoming lowered every day ? They
were the men forming that class which supported Me-
chanics' Institutions, Lyceums, and Sunday schools—that
class which formed an essentially religious, moral, and
intelligent section of the community. This was the class
which the operation of restrictive commercial laws were
grinding down and depriving of that spirit which cha-
racterised the middle classes of England hitherto. Be
need not tell them how opposed those restrictive laws
were to the feelings of that class. It was not for him
to propose a remedy for the dangerous position in
which so influential a class of the community stood. He
heard some persons in Manchester say that they would
not consume any article front which Government de-
rived the means of carrying out their restrictive mea-
sures ; and he knew sufficient of the people of Man-
chester to feel assured that they would act up to their
say iug in this respect.
The CHAIRMAN said, that he had been requested to
read the following letter from the Rev. 1)1.. Joseph
Fletcher. It referred to a meeting held at a Chapel in
Finsbury, on Friday last, and was printed in The Chris-
tian Examiner .

My Dear Sir, —We have a Church-meeting on Friday, which
will render it impossible for me to attend your public Conven-
tion. Most sincerely I sympathise with the object you have
in view ; 1 trust you will be led to adept wise and well-adapted
measures for its attainment. Were it in my power to render
effective service I would gladly co-operate; but the pressure
of immediate duties, and the frequent ill state of my health,
render it necessary for me to live under great restrictions. I
cannot bear continuous excitement. The times are indeed
marked by unprecented calamity and suffering; and we seem
to be approaching- the state of things described by Tacttus.
when we can bear "neither our evils nor their remedies."
Conflicting interests and parties prevent the progress of true
patriotism ; arid selfishness opposes humanity in innumerable
forms. One thing, however, seems most evident, that what-
ever other causes of evil-working may be specified, as account-
ing for a large portion of our distresses, the gigantic and
most monstrous evil is the operation of unrighteous
lir.rs restricting our trade in corn and pro-
visions. Surely our present inf.tuated Government, self-con-
tradictory and suicidal in its policy, and rampant in its domi-
nation, by the very patience and forbearance of suffering mil-
lions, will at length yield that to necessity which they deny to
justice. Fear is often more powerful than principle ; and if
ever there were reason for apprehension, the present is the
crisis. The Premier sees enough to prove that ignorance can-
not shield him from responsibility ; but he has neither the for-
titude nor the rectitude which ought to result from knowledge.
In the meanwhile distress and misery are becoming most ex-
tended and appalling ; and I should like to sae such a plan of
relief as would not even appear to be a scheme for supporting
the present Administration, but so contribute to suffering
humanity as to keep its prominent and principal causes before
the public mind till political quackery shall be fully exposed and
abandoned for ever. May God in his merciful providence
deliver our country from its internal enemies—preserve us from
anarchy and misrule—continue to us the mighty power of passive
submission, that reason, and wisdom, and truth may ultimately
subdue all opposition, and righteousness may prevail. e
want not charity in this cause so much as justice.
Be assured that I am, my dear Sir, yours truly,
J. FLETCHER.

Cottage Grove, Mile End, July 7, 1842.
Mr. BRIGIIT said lie had been intrusted by the Com-
mittee with a resolution expressive of their sense of the
urbanity and kindness of the Duke of Sussex, in receiving
the deputation that had waited on him with a memorial
to the
them toger. lie re
Queen, ande hoitssympathyialid th
thet resolution he ob.ecs.jctutthiaotn aha
called d s
follows :
That this Conference acknowledges the great kindness and
urbanity with which his Royal Highness, the Duke of
Sussex, received the deputation appointed_ to wait upon him
with the memorial to the Queen. That it regards the sympathy
expressed by the illustrious Prince for the sufferings of the
people, and his willingness to aid in their alleviation displayed
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of this Conference.

He had been one of the deputation who waited on the
Duke of Sussex, and he could say everything of the
favourable reception they met with, and the warmth and
earnestness of feeling manifested by him for the subjects
connected with the purpose of the Conference. He could
Only say that he had been most favourably impressed
with his character, though he had a very favourable opi-
nion of him before. He begged leave to move that the
resolution be adopted by the Conference, and that the

•
Chairman be requested to have it copied and inclosed to
the Duke of Sussex.
GRUNDY seconded the resolution, which was then
put and carried unanimously.
Mr. H. RAwsoN, of Manchester, moved that the fol-
lowing petition be adopted for presentation to the House
Of Commons :
To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland
in Parliament assemble,'.
The representation of the undersigned members of a Confer-
ence at present assembled at Palace-yard, Westminster.
Showeth,—That the long protracted distress of this nation
is generally increasing, and has become intolerable. That
without an immediate change in the policy of the Legislature
there is no hope of a restoration of public prosperity. The
disruption of the very elements of society is threatened, the
stability and the good order of the State are hastening to an end.
The industrious classes are starving, and your laws prevent
them from earning bread.
We call upon your House instantly to abolish all monopolies
which interfere with the rights of labour, and to take means,
that you shall net separate until the Corn-laws ate entirely
rf..apeaded.
Aeel while we deliberately declare our belief that the remedy
for the existing public (heiress is within the powers of Par-
liament, we hereby record our solemn warning that the con-
sequences of rejecting the application of that remedy will Le
at the dour of your lionouraWe House.
And your petitioners will ever pray.
It had been intended that this petition should be pre-
sented by Mr. Villiers, and that he should make some
motion that would bring the subject before the Howie
in some way or other. The advantages of this were so
clear, that •he need seereely mention them. The great
advantage that had arisen from the debates in the House
of Commons, hart been the constant admission 0.: their
Opponents, of the truth of the principles they main-
tamed. On every motion that had been brought for-
ward, they had made seine achnission or other, tali! espe-
cially their leader, Sir R. Peel. (hi one motion, he ad-
mitted that agricultural prosperity depended on com-
mercial prosperity. In another debate, he admitted that
the people ought to have the advaetage of buying in the
cheapeet, and selling in the dcareet market. Seareely
one of the principles maintained by tbe free-tradere, but
..viett they hail athuhltitl ; and the only objection they
lion seemed dr; fall back upon was that of the Sucialiste.
The only anewer they seemed to bring forward as an an-
swer to their principles, was the evils of machinery—this
was tlie staple commodity in which the monopolists now
dalt. Ile moved that the peti'_ion be signed by the
Chairman, on behalf of do! Con ferceei
Mr. Mount,

seconded the petitior , he said it:;
object wets to net IT a diseuesiou that evening, which
should iaterrupt or delay the granting of the supplies.
It would be brought lOrward on. the motion that the
-peaker leave the Chair, and that the House go into
ti emnitiee, stated that the .distress had g;oec on
steadily increasing,; f.)r the last three •or four years ; in
Mauchester it had gone on ieereasing for a year, and the
eenditioa of the eperatives there was destitiem in the
extreme, particularly the poor Irish, who had no legal
title to perochial relief. The law made their bread dear,
and prevented them from gezting employment, but it
vvould not allow that to beg, nor give them relief. Ile
had visited the families of the per, and he found, from
inquiries, that they had only subsisted for a long period
by pawning end selling all they had, and purchasing
eonp tiekets, which were sold at 1 each, and. by
means of which, 1,300 gallons td soup were distributed
dlity, and yet it was not enough fir one-half, or one-
e'erd of the applicants for it. 'File people wimil have
been dead if it had net been for this assistance from
i,;:ivate charity. The Government had dent nettling for
,I,lll—the its had done ;,-,.!:i lee or them. They might
}tare starved in their e , cellars fee. what the
j,4 w 4)1. the Governee-e: ; dene for them. Ile had had
worth of soup ticket-. e-hieti ha had distributed to 133
peo?le. That was not ee-etwentieth part of the people
who asked for them ; they came day after day to him
for thou. They hail, in meny instances, wily one quart
of soup for a whole family for a day. Day after slay
they were without next and withwit work, although
they were willing to work. Typhus was becoming very
ye:vale:it among them. He would mention the case of
Joseph ho had a wife and live children. Two
of his children and his wire had (lied within two dap.
Ile hail seen the certificate sent by the medical officer of ,
the ititirmary where one 01 the children had died, and
which stated that the child had died from fever brought
fait through want of clothing and want of food. The
peer man himself was so weak as to be scarcely able to
walk. He had already related the case of a poor man
who had been found lying -on a lock of shavings on a
clay floor. That man, it had been said, had died of
phthisis, but what had occasioned the phthisis ?. The
man had been without clothing, he had been thirty-eix
hours without food—he bad had no tire—and were not
these privations sufficient to produce phthisis ?The Hon.and
Learned Gentleman alluded to the case of a man named
Peoley, who had died of inflammation of the brain,
br.eight on by want and . suffering. There was a poor
man, named Richard Conner, who was ill of consump-
tioa, who resided in Mount-street, Manchester ; that
nian had applied for parochial relief ; he said his settle-
ment was in Manchester ; that he had been torn in
Manchester, but could not prove it. -The officer neg-
lected to relieve him—he had forgotten liiin-7and when
he was ultimately taken into the workhouse he was past
hope of recovery. But the most painful thing was to
'see the little children, at an age when they ought to
know nothing but enjoyment—there they were with
• wait and masted looks, their faces stamped with the
cares of old age, and themselves piteously asking every
one they saw for food ; they were naked, they were cold,
they were diseased, they Wad.scarcely food sufficient to
keep soul and body together. 'Filings were growing worse.
.If a-mill were. shut' up but for one day, the people were
us'iing For soup-tickets. They were barely able by
constantly working to earn sufficient to live—they were
even then obliged to pawn their clothes, and the weavers
bad almost all pawned their shuttles. If a weaver got
work, he was generally obliged to beg money to get his
shuttle out of pawn, anti then to beg food to give him
strength to throw his shuttle. • lie knew that in many of
.their houses which he had visited, there was not one
morsel of food. Dr. Howard, the Physician to the Man-
chester Infirmary, -had given it as his opinion that many
of these persons were so reduced by starvation, that if
they were suddenly called upon to do full work, they
would die. He had urged the Board of Guardians to
Consider this, when they were testing men in the stone-
yard. He had represented to them that the men had
been sulfering from hunger, from mental agony, from
privatious ,of all sorts, and that the effect of
• setting them to work might be to kill them. Then
they were tolithat the markets of the world were glutted.
Yes—snot because people did not want the goods, but
because we would not take payment for them in the only
way in which they could pay us.—(Cheers.) If a shop-
keeper had been in the habit of supplying a baker with
goods, and of taking payment in loaves, and he were sud-
denly to refuse to take the loaves, the only thing the
biker had to give him, he might continue to send his

e•xids to the baker until he blocked up his house. Then
there would be over-production, not because the baker
did not want the goods, but because the shopkeeper was
so absurd as to refuse payment in the only manner in
which payment could be made to him. The people in
general were not half clothed ; they had not the clothing
they wanted ; they were desirous of having inure ; how
then could there be over-production? The reason was the
r.eple could not earn money sufficient to pay for them.
There were nut too many goods in the world ; but it was
oin- own folly, in refusing to take • payment for them
in the only way in which purchasers could pay
for them that eteised - over-production.—(Cheers.)
• There was over-production, because parties could not
pay for goods, and not because too much goods were
manufactured. The petitioners stated that there was
threatened disruption of the elements of society. Now
he was himself an advocate for peace under all eiream-
st times ; but he could not but look forward to the possi-
lel.ty of the people being driven by famine to the despe-
rJ•,o resource of risking their lives and liberties for the
purpose of endeavouring to obtain bread for themselves,
their wives, and their children ; and under such circum-
stances it was the duiy of every honest man to use his
best exertions to obtain that justice for the people which
would avert the threatened calamity. The petitioners
called upon the House of Commons to try a repeal of the
Corn-laws, us a remedy for the prevailing distress. That
trial was all they required ; and if it did not su2ceed
they would at once consent to a re-imposition of the
• burden. The petitioners concluded by "recording their
snlemn warning that the consequences of rejecting the
application of the proposed remedy would lie at the doors
of the House." There could be t:o doubt but that the
consequences which might result from the sufferings of
the people, would be' attributable to the authors of the
system in which those sufferings originated. These were
the paltry arguments that were brought forward by Sir
}L. Peel ; and he admitted the other night, that if the
distress continued it would be necessary to have an early
revision of the Corn-laws—another revision of the tariff

One would think that the simTlest revision of the tariff
on earth would lie for the Government to let it alone—
to leave those who were in trade to trade in their own
way ; to leave those who earned their living i.oy the
sweat of their brow to earn it in their own way. It had
often.oecurred to him that trade was like the sensitive

plaat. If they brough; their hands near it its leaves
• dr ,oped, and withered, and hung down, and if they kept.
their hands there the plant fell prostrate. So it was
with trade. Whenever Government brought its hot
hand near it it drooped ; and if they kept their hands
there it died at last. They ought •to leave
trade alone, and leave God to govern it. He,
(lid not like speaking to the Government in peti-
tions, that because there was distress and suffering
there mtvt be something done.. The distress and suffer-
ing wera good reasons why something should be done
at Once. That distress, and difficulty, and danger, did
mit make their cause any stronger ; they were only so
ma:ly proofs of the strength of their arguments. If this
year should be a year of plenty, greatve than had ever
occurred before, the COM-I;MS would still be unjust.
They would still represent man, holding up his strength
against God—man making laws in contempt of the laws
of 'God. He (Mr. Moo:-e) liked that free trade question
from its being a peace question, fur free trade made
every country have an interest in the other countries of
the earth. and of nicking all prosperous together. They
woldd then want no taxation for the army, they would
wAnt no ships of war—every ship of Ivar would become
a merchant vessel. The people were now taxed beyond
at they could hear to keep up a readiness for shedding
human Wood. oh —..ange that syst eat and they ,would hav,,
im!reasing Plenty. It was hard that betwjen them -nd
th;tt change there slmuld stand in countrydr-. one
One who was raw:erre!, and 0.-irtd y not only the
people, but, to dery God. Non 'et'fort was too ;rent to he
Made in that cause. Nothing was too crest to be
done to accomplish if. it coild be Pr lied; Alr.
Thompson had told them how it could be accomplished.
it was in the power of the people. By selftlental the
people could precluda the possibility of continuing their
.tyratiny. Their whole strength depended on the people.
The resolution was Ulm' put mid carried unanimously.
The 011111.11.1 N said. ho .had inentiowa ,an early
part of the nteetitig that a •letter d froLn
the Potteries, wh.L.!l :vou!,i than read to them
Fenton, Staffordshire Potteries, July 14,1842.
large bodies of ealliers have been
My Dear fir,—Allthrs day

passing this way to Langton and Cheadle, with the intention
of turning out all the colliers in the district, the great body in
quiet order, but followed by straggling parties, demandingbread
and alms as they pass along. In the last three or four Sundays,
per:ozis have been preaching to the people in this district, be-
ginning with a verse from the Bible, and then branching out
and asking their hearers if they have money to purchase guns,
if not pistols, and, as a last resource, If they have not a penny,
to buy lucifer matches. Pray, excuse me for not writing more
particulars, but this moment, the Magistrates of the county
have passed by my manufactory, backed by three companies of
the I2th Foot, and three companies of yeomanry
cavalry. God knows what will be the result. To-
morrow, it may be my unhappy task to give returns of killed
and wounded. So much for filo horrid bread-tax. When will
our class-legislators have mercy and wisdom?—Yours truly,
CHARLES MASON.

Mr. Owrx, of Manchester, next addressed the meeting. 1
He said, that after the very eloquent speeches which
they had heard in support of the petition, he would not
detain the meeting long. Suffice it to say, he concurred in
what had fallen from. the previous speakers. He did not
hesitate to say that he was one of a deputation from the
shop keepers of Manchester. They had .waited on Sir
IZobert Peel, but he had refused to hear them. lie
(Mr. Oven) supposed they had heard what passed from
Mr. Birch. He (Mr. Owen) had heard some remarks re-
vecting the evils inflicted on hand-loom weavers, and
that a great deal had been said about machinery being
the cause. This was the cause assigned by the Premier
himself. Now he (Mr.. Owen) happened to be intimately
connected with that branch of the business. His opinion
of the Corn-laws was that they were subversive of the
best interests of the country.—(Hear, hear.) If a poor
man was obliged to give 2s. Bd. a dozen lb. for his flour,
when the price ought to be ls. Bd. a dozen, and the fa-
mily usta-I.three dozen lb. a-week, there would be 3s. a
week taken from that. family by this legitima-
tized robhery. Machinery was blamed as the cause,
lalienevtr wages were reduced ; but he believed -
they were blamed wrongly. lie believed wages of •the
Manchester weavers hart just been reduced Id. in every
Ginghams, for which the operatives were paid Iss.
eut a few years ago, were only paid for at the rate of
is. a cut now, although the cut was now 58 yards long,
instead of 52, as it was when the price was 15s. The
number of men employed as silk handloom weavers in
Manchester,was not less than 20,000, and the reduction of
Id. in every Od• on their wages must amount to an
immense sum. lie hoped. Sir H. Peel would not blame ,
machinery for that reduction; neither could it be said
that the article had .given way to others which had
become more popular;
,that was not the case, for the re-
duction in the price of- ginghams had not taken place
till four years after the duty was taken off caliciaprints.
Ile hoped he should hear no more about machinery
j being the cause of all this. In reference to the state of
the people, he •should say, that he knew whole
familiea who were unable to obtain food for themselves by
their own exertions. Those were not drunken people,
but respectable hard wanking people ; the rags they wore
were clean—it was quite surprising to witness their
cleanliness in the midst of their poverty ; they were peo-
ple that would be a 'credit to any ration. He daily
heard tales at' starvation—the people lived on nothing
but potatoes, eaten with salt ; the children cried for bread,
and, with tears in their eyes, asked their heart-broken
par,:!:its," Why there was no bread now."—(Hear, hear.)
Thin
.were daily getting worse in Lancashire. In
Stovkport, bad as they were, they were positively get-
ting- worse. One firm, which was said to be rich, stop-
ped 200 narrow looms the other day, by which means
between 60 and 70 hands would be thrown out of
employment.

The
CHAIRMAN interrupted the speaker to state, as
Deie!.rates were leaving the room, that on Monday, after
the Conference, there would be a dinner at four o'clock
at that house, at which it was hoped that as many De-
puties; would give their attendance as possible. The
cost would be very moderate, and the object was that
they right have a general conversation after dinner. •
Mr. OwEN continued.—Another fact, which was not
generally known to a stranger, was, that though the en-
gine might go round and appear to be working full
time, the men were not doing so; in many cases working
one 'or two looms, when they could attend
to four if they had full work. (Hear, hear.)
It hatt been been stated that in Manchester a hand loom
weaver had been obliged to borrow money to release his
shuttles from pawn. A speaker bad also said that he
knew some weavers who were in receipt of very good
• wages. But that was a hard battle in which every man
was killed. In a population of upwards of 300,000, it
was impossible there should not be some good workmen
and some good employment.—(Hear, hear.) A gentle-
man had recommended that the Conference should wait.
Why they ought not to wait for an hour.—(Hear, hear.)
Even amongst the Tories, abtut Manchester, there were
many who wished to -be rid of the party, and certainly
they would not vote for a Tory now.
A DELEGATE asked whether it had been ascertained
what was the number of the work people in the whole
of the North? _

The CHAIRMAN said it was impossible to answer the
question, but the number was increasing very rapidly ;
and be thought it would be advisable to take measures
tin• ascertaining the number unemployed at this moment,
anil the progress of thf3 increase in the number.—(Hear.)
After a short and desultory conversation, the meeting
adjourned till Monday, at eleven o'c'oeli.

AFFAIIi OF HONOUR. BETWEEN
CAPTAIN 13OLDERO. M.P., AND THE HON.
CRAVEN BERKELEY,
, A hostile meeting took place yesterday morning be-
tween the Hon. Craven Berkeley, M.P., and Capt.
Boldero, M.P. The dispute arose in consequence of
Mr. Berkeley having attributed to Captain Boldero the
use of certain expressions disrespectful to her Majesty,
which the latter peremptorily denied. The parties
met this morning at five o'clock in the neighbourhood
of Osterley Park, Mr. Berkeley accompanied by the
lion. W. Ridley Colborne, M.P., and Capt. Boldero
by Mr. W. F. Mackenzie, -M.P., and having ex-
changed shots without effect they left the ground. The
following letters have passed on this subject :

CIRCULAR ADDRESSED TO THE GENTLEMEN WHOSE

ANSWERS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW :-
(PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL.)
" House of Commons, July 12, 1842.
"My dear Sir,--1 find it has been stated that I
used an expression last night in your presence (the
words of which I perfectly recollect) which has led
to my loyalty and attachment to my Sovereign being
questioned ; this has caused ine much pain, as I did
not think my words could he so misunderstood. I
have, in consequence of this unjust report, to request
of you, as one of the gentlemen present, to state
what passed, in the precise words if you recollect them,
or the substancp of them, if not.

" Your early reply will favour yours very sincerely,
" 11. G. BOLDERO."
" Carlton Club, July 13, 1842.

" Dear Boldero,—As an anonymous letter has ap-
peared in the Morning Chronicle of to-day, reflecting
upon the language you made use of the night before
last in my presence, in the lobby of the House of
Commons. I willingly comply with your request, by
putting into writing my recollection of what passed..
" :Kr. Craven Berkeley, in a tone something be-
tween joking and earnest, and in a noisy manner,
questioned yon as to what your conduct would be if
a man were to damn the Queen in your presence at
a convivial meeting ?'
"The question appeared to have reference to other
discourse which had passed between you, and which
I had not heard; and I think allusion was made to
a similar coarse expression, hypothetically applied
Sir Robert Peel, or the Duke of Wellington.
Your reply was both calm and judicious, and to this
effect, almost in these very words ; you said, that
you would take no notice of it at the time if the
man was drunk; but that you should call upon him the
next morning, tell him that he had made a feol of
himself the night before, and that you gave him the
opportunity of expressing his contrition now that he
was sober, and had had time for reflection.' It is
needless to repeat what followed from Mr. Craven
Berkeley, but I..am prepared to state, upon oath, if
necessary, that you never deviated from the sense or
-substance of the reply quoted.
" The language put into your mouth in the
3Prning Chronicle is incorrect in one important par-
ticular, and the latter portion of
.your answer is en-
tirely omitted,•which is like the Atheist taking his
text from Scripture, "There is no God,' omitting the
previous words of the Psalmist The fool hath said
in his heart.' " Yours very sincerely,
" HENRY THOMAS LIDDELL.
" Captain Boldero, &c., &c."'
" Whitehall Place, July 12, 1842.
" My dear Sir,—l have not the least hesitation in
complying with your request, and stating the sub-
stance of what you declare,' to Mr. Craven Berkeley,
in the course of a conversation with him in the ante-
room of the lobby of the House of Commons last
night, which was to the following effect :—That if any
eerson in your presence should state anything which
was disrespectful of the Duke of Wellington, Sir
Robert Peel, or even of the Queen herself, such per-
son at the time when such disrespectful language was
used being in a state of intoxication, that you would
not feel yourself justified, under such circumstances,
to call the party to account, but that you would
await the opportunity of his sober'moments to afford
him the means of explanation before you stigmatised
him with disloyalty and disrespect to the distinguished
persons before-mentioned. This declaration on your
part was strongly impressed upon my mind from the
circumstance of my feelings being quite in accordance
with your own upon this subject, though Mr. Craven
Berkeley dissented therefrom—l am, my dear Sir,
yours, very truly, " W. THOMPSON.
" Capt. Boldero, M.P., &c. &c."
"House of Commons, July 12, 1842.
"My dear Sir,—l have this instant read your
letter which you put into my hands a few moments
Igo, and hasten to comply with, your request, that I
would state what passed in my hearing in the ante-
room of the House of Commons last night, respecting
in expression used by you, and which you say has
led to Your loyalty and attachment to your Sovereign
4eing questioned ; you further wish me to state in
the precise terms, if .1 recollect them, or the substance
of them, if not with that also I will comply.
" You said that, any man, beingdrunk,
damned the Queen in your presence, you would not
notice it at the time ; but that you would call upon
'aim the next morning, acquaint him that he had used
'such language, and give him the opportunity of re-
i.radting it b 3 ore you named it to any one. .
" I do not suppose you wish me to state what was
said by any one else, and therefore will only add

that the construction which I placed on the words
o used by you (and which could not be fairly
misconstrued by any one who observed your tone
and manner) was, that you would notice any language
disrespectful towards the Queen, in such a way as
would be most becoming in an officer holding her
Majesty's commission, and most consonant with those
feelings of loyalty and honour, which belong to' an
English gentleman.—l am, dear Sir, most respectfully
yours, "CHARLES DOUGLAS.
"To Captain Boldero, &c." .
"My dear Sir,—ln reply to your note of last night,
I believe that the words you used were, that if any
man were to damn the Queen, to damn the Duke of
Wellington, or to damn Sir R. Peel, that pill would
not notice such words, if used when drunk, preferring
a remonstrance on the following morning—in short,
that you would not consider it necessary to call any
man to account for expressions used under the influ-
ence of intoxication ; upon which Mr. Craven
Berkeley said he would kick or shoot any man who
should damn the Queen in his presence. This led to
some altercation, which I did not view seriously at
the time, and out of which, as it appeared to me, no
question could arise as to your loyalty and attachment
to your Sovereign.—Believe me, my dear Sir, faith-
fully yours " BERIAH BOTFIELD.

_
" 9„ Stratton-Street, Wednesday morning."
"My dear Sir,—l should have been much con-
cerned at the receipt of your letter of yesterday's
date, had I felt that in answering the questions which
are asked in it I should in any degree countenance
the interpretation which you say has been put upon
some expressions of yours used in my presence. lam
aware of the occasion to which you refer, as 'I have
been already asked a question on the subject.
" You said that if you. heard a man who was drunk
d—n Sir Robert Peel, or the Duke of Wellington,
or even the Queen herself, although you held her
commission and received her salary beside, and
were therefore bound to be especially jealous of any
disrespectful words used towards her, that you could
not feel yourself justified in reporting them, until you
had remonstrated with the party uttering them, when
sober, and giving him an opportunity of recalling
them.

" I cannot be answerable for the very words you
used, but I am sure I have given the only meaning
which can by possibility be attributable to them, and
trust that this answer may be satisfactory to you ;
and "Believe me, yours very truly,
• "WILLIAM CRIPPS.
" 38, St. James's-place, July 13."
". 6, Grosvenor-square, July 13, 1842.
" Sir,—Observing in the Morning Chronicle of this
day a statement pretending to detail. a conversation
that passed between us on Monday night, I beg to ask
you, if you can assist me in detecting the author of
so base,; false, and malicious a calumny.
" Your obedient servant,

" H. G. BOLDERO.
" The Hon. Craven Berkeley."
" Spring-gardens, Thursday morning,
July 14, 1842.
• " Sir,-1 found your letter of yesterday's date lying
upon my table on my arrival at home in the evening,
at half-past 11 o'clock.
"In answer to your application to assist you
in detecting the author of the letter in the
Jlorning Chronicle, headed ' More Tory Loyalty,'
and signed with the letter 'M.,' I have to assure
vou that I have not the most remote idea who was
the writer of that letter, and that I was not in
any way privy to the publication of it. At the same
time, I feel it right to state, that the report in that
letter of the words used by you, in the conversation
which passed between us upon the occasion referred
to, is substantially correct.
" I am, your obedient servant,
" CRAVEN F. BERKELEY.
" To Captain Boldero, M.P., &c. &c."
" 14th July, 1842, half-past three.
" Sir,—l am glad to find you have not the most
remote idea who was the writer of the letter marked
M.' in the Morning Chronicle, and that you were
not in any way privy to the publication of it.
" I have only further to say, that I did not use the
words imputed to me in that letter, and that the
words actually used by me in the conversation that
passed between us on the occasion alluded to, are not
capable in the slightest degree of bearing the construc-
tion there put upon them ; and that, when you state
that the report of the words used by me is substan-
tially correct, either your memory must have failed
you in a very extraordinary manner, or you are in-
tentionally perverting the true fact of the case.

" YOur obedient servant,
" H. G. BOLDERO.
" My friend Mr. Mackqnzie will deliver this letter
into your hands."
Spring-gardens, Thursday, six o'clock, July 14.
" Sir,-1 have to acknowledge the receipt of your
'letter of this day's date, which has been delivered to
me by Mr. Mackenzie, and in reply, to state, that
the words which you used in the conversation
with me to which your letter relates were, If
any man in my presence, drunk or sober, was to
damn the Queen, 1 should take no notice of it—l am
no eaves-dropper !' I have to add, that I copy these
words from a memorandum which I wrote at the
time, and which I showed to Lord Palmerston and
Mr. James Howard (Malmesbury) a minute after the
occurrence, and whilst the ink was yet wet, and that
I am not therefore trusting to memory.
" With respect to the last paragraph of your letter,
viz., that I have intentionally misrepresented your
words, I must at once request the withdrawal of so
unfounded a charge, and I beg that all further com-
munication may be addressee' to my friend, Mr. Rid-
ley Colborne.
" I am, your obedient servant,
• " CRAVEN F. BERKELEY.

To Captain Boldero, tkc."
On Thursday evening Mr. Ridley Colborne proposed
to Mr. Mackenzie that the affair should be accommo-
dated on the basis of the following memorandum :
" Though I am still convinced that the words used
in my letter were uttered by Captain Boldero, I have
no hesitation in declaring that I can never have im-
puted any disloyal motives to Captain Boldero, not
having been, as I before stated, either directly or in-
directly the author of the paragraph in the :Morning
Chronicle."

This however, being declined by Mr. Mackenzie,
the meeting was immediately arranged.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Surrey.
Surrey Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry—V. Morris, Esq., to
be Captain, vice A. Francis ; R. A. C. Austen, Gent., to be
Lieutenant, July 31, 1841.
DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.

WILLIAM LEIGH JOLLIFFE, grocer Portsea.
HENRY TRIHBEY GRAY, rope maker, Grosvenor-
place, Commercial-road, East.
WILLIAM SA\VARD, corn merchant, Saint Leonarda's,
Boulogne.
BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.

JOSEPH WADE. currier, Warwickshire_
DEANE SAMUEL WALKER, india rubber manufac-
turer, Great St. Helen's, London.

BANKRUPTS.
WILLIAM FLETCHER, oilman, Birmingham, to sur-
render, July 26, and August 26, at twelve, at the Waterloo-
rooms' Birmingham. Austen and Hobson, Raymond-bu:ld-
ings, Gray's Inn, London ; Reece, Birmingham.
WILLIAM DOWNING, draper, Sheffield, July 29. and
August 26, at twelve, at the Town hall, Sheffield. Wilson,
Southampton-street, Bloomsbury, London ; Wilson and
Younge, or Pierson, Sheffield.

ED-WARD ROGERS, surgeon, Great Witley, Worcester-
shire. July 30, and August 26, at ten, at the White Lion Inn,
Kidderminster. Benbow, Stone-buildings, Lincoln's Inn,
London ; Wormall and Prichard, Stourport.
CHRISTOPHER BRAYSHAW, tailor, Great Castle-
street,. Regent-street, July 22, and Aug. 26, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane ;
Rutter and Trotter, Ely -place, Holborn.
THOMAS LEDIARD, money scrivener, Cirencester, July
25 and Aug. 26, at twelve, at the King's Head Inn, Ciren-
cester. Mulling,. Cirencester Jones, Trinder, and Tudway,
John-street, Bedford .row, London.

JOHN HANFORD JACKSON, grocer, Eastwood, Not-
tinghamshire, July 26, and August 26, at eleven, at the
George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham. Campbell and Witty,
Essex-street, Strand, London ; Fox, Nottingham.
EDWARD MOSS, draper, Liverpool, July 28, and August
26, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Winstanley,
Manchester ; Milne, Parry, Mine, and Morris, Temple, London.
ALEXANDER BOWER, banker, Manchester, August 10,
at three, and August 26, at two, at the Commissioner's-rooms,
!Manchester. Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, Temple, London;
Iligeon and Son, Manchester.

WILLIANI MILLS, innholder, Caterham, Surrey, July 26,
at one, and Aug. 26, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Groom, Abehurch-lane, Lombard-street, official assignee;
Dyne, Lincoln's Inn-fields; Drummond and Sons, Croydon.
JOHN WESTON PALMER, grocer, Old Buckenham,
Norfolk, July 23 and Aug. 26, at ten, at the Royal Hotel,
Norwich. Fillett, Norwich ; Storey, Field-court, Gray's Inn,
London.

EDNI UND FRANCIS GREEN, merchant, Leadenhall-
street, July 26, and August :16, at two, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. 'l'urquand, official assignee, Copthall-buildings; Bor-
radaile, King's Arms-yard.
GEORGE HENRY WATSON, apothecary, Stourmount-
cottage, Moscow .road, BaS•swater, July 21, at half-past twelve,
anti August 26, at twelve, at. the Coui tof Bankruptcy. Tur-
quancl, official assignee, Copthall-buildings ; Watson and
Broughton, Falcon-square.
DIVIDENDS.

At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basingball-street.
L. Bryant, coal merchant, Stamford-hill, Aug. 6, at half-
past twelve—lt. Speedily, commission agent, Fenchurch-
street, Aug. 6, at twelve—W. R. Webb, wine merchant,
Knightsbridge, Aug. 6, at eleven.
In the Country.
W. Gibb, currier, Alnwick, Northumberland, Aug. 8, at one,
at the Star Inn, Alnwick—.l. Heywood, cotton spinner, Heaton
Norris, Lancashire, Aug. 22, at eleven, Commissioners'-reoms,
Manchester—R. Maitin, carpenter, Beccles, Suffolk, Aug. 8,
at one , at the White Lion Inn, Bcccles—J. and H. Noble,
cloth finishers, Brighouse, Yorkshire, Aug. 5, at eleven, at the
North Gate Hotel, Halifax—C. S. Jackson, woollen cloth mer-
chant, Leeds, Aug. 13, .at four, at the Commissioners'-rooms,
Leeds—D. Cook, rclip.malter, Liverpool, Aug. 8, at one, at the
Clarendon-rooms, LiAterpool-G. Wilson, cloth manufacturer,
Lindley, Yorkshire, Aug. 9, at nine, at the Pack Horse Inn,
Huddersfield—P. Brooke, grocer, Leeds, Aug. 12, at five, at
the Commissioners -rooms, Leeds—W. B. Price and J. Ed-
wards, bankers, Shrewsbury, Aug. 9, at twelve, at the Shire-
hall, Shrewsbury—F. Willett, B. Willett, and R. Willett,
bankers, Thetford, Norfolk, Aug. A. at on., at the Bell Inn,
Thetford--H. and R. Iliklyaid, wine t., Lin-
colnshire, Aug. 2, at eleven, at the Angel Inn, 13rigg—J. El-
iott, currier, Derby, Aug. 11, at one, at the New Inn, Derby