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vest it being carried, the Ministers and the Ring will at once appeal to
the people,—(lond cheers)_-and that appeal will be answered ; (con-
tinued cheers]—it will be answered in such a way, that the borough.
mongers *ball not again have the power of thwarting this measure.
Aldermen Barber and Oldknow, Mr.W. P. Smith, Mr. Callow, Mr.
Robinson, Mr. Hart, Mr. W. Taylor. and Mr. W. B. Martin, also
supported the object of the meeting, and during the remainder of the
afternoon and evening, more than two thousand signatures were put
to the petition.
Leicester has done its duty, like Nottingham, by publicly coming
forward to express its approbation of the plan of reform brought forward
by the present ministers. On Wednesday a numerous and respectable
meeting was held for the purpose, in pursuance of a requisition signed
by more than a hundred householders, T. Paget, Esq. in the chair,
when that gentleman, and Meseta. Brewin, Babington, Ryley, and
several other gentlemen, addressed the assemblage in excellent
spathes.
The Rev. S. C. Hope, mayor of Derby, and chairman of the Pitt
club, has convened a public meeting, in favour of the reform bill, to be
held on Monday ; and also a common hall of the corporation.

The cap-and-drawer hands, who have turned out for an advance of
wages, to the number of about 300, went in procession through the
streets yesterday, from Mary-gate to the Exchange-hall, to sign the pe-
tition in favour of the reform bill ; and we are told that a number of the
men belonging to the 15th Hussars now lying at the Barracks, have
also signed the same petition.
Nottingham March fair commenced on Monday. A large store of
cheese was laid on the atones, the prices taked at first, were from 60s.
to 655.; much however, remained unsold, and on Tuesday, a depres-
sion was submitted to, .nd prices may be quoted at from 541. to 60s.
If the annual averages of wheat from 1721 to 1776, be put together,
and a mean price taken therefrom, it will be found that the mean price
was 36 shillings per quarter during that time, a period of 55 years
before the American war.—lf the averages of wheat from 1776 to 1831,
in like manner be put together, and a mean price Omit therefrom, It
will be found that the mean price has been 69 shillings per quarter,
fitly-five years after that war. Thus the price of wheat has been nearly
double during the last fifty-five years, by the comparison of those
mean rates. .

NOTTINGHAM MARKET.—Wheat, (average per qr.) 4L 06:8141.
Barley, 21. 2s. hid. Oats, 11.9.. 100. Beans, 11. Ills. 7d. Rye.
21. 11s. Flour (second quality, per sack), 31. Is.
DIED.-64. Robert Toplia, of Mansfield Woodhouse, (lent.—At
Wimeswould, 32, after hiving given birth to a daughter, Mary, wife ,
of Mr. Wm. Lacy, of that place, and daughter of J. Hadley, Gent.
of Birmingham.—At Loughborough, Elizabeth, relict of Captain
Simpson, of Alountsorrel, bB.
SHEFFIELD COURANT, Attacit 11.

On Monday, at noon, a public meeting of the inhabitants of the
town end parish of Sheffield, convened by a requisition addressed to
the Master Cutler, was held at the Town-hall, and by adjournment. in
Paratlise.squue, to express their approbation of the Reform Bill intro.
duced to Parliament by Lord John Russell, and to pray that the same
might pass into a law. The meeting was one of the most numerous
ever witnessed at this place. Enoch Barber, Esq. the Master Cutler,
occupied the Chair. Eloquent speeches were made by Messrs. Parker,
Shore, Palfreyman, Bailey, T. A. Wood, Branunall, Emerson,
Bramley, Rodgers, Ellison, Dr. Knight, and the Rev. Dr. Philipps.

At meetings of the Cuders' Company and Town Trustees, held ex-
pressly for the purpose of considering the subject, on Wednesday last,
the Address and Petition in favour of the Ministerial Plan of Puna-
inentary Reform, were unanimously approved, and the seals of the
two bodies were ordered to be affixed. A very few years ago, such a
question would hardly have found a seconder.
The address and petition from this town, in favour of the plan of
Reform introduced into Parliament by his Majesty's Ministers, ob-
tained in two days upwards of 13,200 signatures, to which, by unani-
mous consent, have been added the corporate seals of the Cutlers' Coro-
pany and the Town Trustees. A meeting of the requisitionists was
held at the Town Hall yesterday, when it was unanimously agreed,
that a deputation consisting of H. Parker and Michael Ellison, Esqrs.
should immediately proceed to London with the address and petition,
and that our noble and patriotic townsman, the Duke of Norfolk,
should be requested to present the former to his Majesty, if possible,
without the intervention of any other person.
The perish of Sheffield r.onsisu of six townships, five of which may
be said to constitute the town, as is the case with Leeds and Hunslet,
Manchester and Salford, lice. The five townships constituting the
" Town of Sheffield " are
Sheffield ..
&desalt Bierlow
Brightside Bierlow ......
Atterelire
Nether Hallam ••• .. ..• • 5,700
Upper Hallam (suburbs) 1,200
—87,600
Th annual amount of the County Rate is according to the following
scale for the several Townships, being at the rate of about 7jd in the
pound, or 7,7031. on 90,052 rental. Poor's rate (per book) on 78,0401.
Rate payers, 8.930. The real number rated is about 19,500. The
description of rate payers are-61. and under, 15,990 ; 61. to 101. 1900;
101. to ISL 630; 151. to 201. 250. Upwards of 201.-1,500.

We have long opposed all systems of emigration. But the scheme of
Lord Howick's is, without an particle of exception, the most de-
grading to moral feeling and sting in principle, that ever yet
offered a bait to the suffering an easily-tempted rural population of
England. It proposes to empower a committee to appoint Commis.
*Ma to regulate the outfit of emigrants—the expenses to be paid
out of the poor's rates. The privilege of leaving their native country
at the public expense is extended to emigrants; with a proviso, that
shonld they ever find it ne ary to return, they shall never again
be entitled to parochial relief. This plan of Lord Howick's ought
to be called the Banishment Bill.
Dreadful distress, after gradually growing greater and greater through-
out many years, is now suffered by all the working miners in the High
Peak of Derbyshire—a distress which has become almost inconceivably
grat, and yet, has been borne, not only without turbulent proceedings,
but almost without complalnt, and in most instances without claiming,
or even accepting of, relief from the parish, though it has been stated
by respectable residents, that numbers, both of old and :young, have
already fallen victims to want.—One fatal recent instance of the effect of
distress occurred during the late storm when a poor man went in the morn-
ing into a mine near t astleton, it has been stated without food,and was
there labouring, almost in vain, excluded from the light of day in the
bowels of the earth—his own sad melancholy thoughts his only compa-
nions—till night, when, on ascending from his dreadful prison-house,
he found the surface of the earth deep covered with snow, and the storm
then raging most furiously. He had about two miles to go to his me-
lancholy home. It was not the first storm that he had had to brave, and
be probably did not then fear it much; however, he never reached his
home alive. Weakened by long starvation' and recent abstinence, his
strength failed him, and he fell a victim, more perhaps to want than to
the storm.
Under the present circumstances, the utmost that the aforesaid poor
creature could have earned by his hard day's labour, would not have
exceeded thirteen pence.
Lead has been bought for twelve pounds per ton (the mines being at
the same time poor), no man can be remunerated by the product for
labour and tools only, even valuing an able man's labour at no more
than six shillings per week. A respectable mine owner at Bradwell,
is willing to permit any of the miners to get ore, on their own ac-
count, in one of the best mines, without paying him any thing. The
fact is, that the mines cannot be worked at all, if they are to be taxed
in any way.
DlED.—Leamington, Mrs. Shore, relict of the late Sydney Shore,
Esq. of Tickhill Castle, and Norton Hall.
TYNE MERCURY, MARCH 8.
Such is the enthusiasm in the cause of reform, that on Saturday last,
about noon, several printed copies of a petition appeared in our streets,
and before eight o'clock the same evening, the petition was forwarded
to Sir M. W. Ridley', with 3820 names, one of the skins having been
omitted, which would have swelled the number to above 44100. The pe-
tition was altogether unpremeditated, and written on the impulse of the
moment by two or three friends of reform, who assert that 4000 names
would have been added every day for a week could they have restrained
the general impatience to press it on the house.
The Vice-Chancellor has decided that the proprietors of the Man.
cheater, Bolton, and Bury Canal cannot apply to Parliament for leave to
convert it into a Railway, because one (and one only) of the proprietors
dissents from the measure. This was intended to form a part of the
intended Liverpool and Leeds Railway.
MARRI RD.—At Sunderland, Mr. David Joseph, to Frances, el-
dest daughter of Mr. Philip Samuel, of North Shields; and 3lr. Lion
Joseph, to Sarah, youngest daughter of Mr. P. Samuel, of North
Shields.—Anthony Nicol. Esq. of this town, to Mary, eldest daughter
of Rdward Cook, EAq. of Demerara.—Mr. Evan Hunter, of houth
Shields, to Miss Elizabeth Robson.
Short-Flatt, Wan. Dent, Esq. late lieut.-colonel of the
Northumberland militia, and justice of the peace and deputplieute-
nut, aged 83.

CLERICAL LEGISLATORS.- -The clergy ought to have
a seat in Parliament, lest, instead of being subjects, they become slaves
to the State. [ Wastowiets's Divim Alfissoo, I), 78.] It is of nn
avail to give the clergy a seat in Parliament, unless, they be furnished
with a negative. All the lay members nay differ rom them in rely.
glom matters, a
p. 170nd earry measures without redress. [Pries*, on Go-
vernment, .]
SNELZING.II ill a singular Rabbinical tradition that
sussing, from the time of Adam's fall, wag as certain sign of deal,
until this was taken off by a special supplkodon of Jacob. It hence
became a matter of thanksgiving to salute it, and bless the sneesii.
Ro A/4 THEATRICA Ls4,-Abliiat 390 years after the
building of Rome, the city was Assaassil by the plague.* and, in order
to stay its ravages, the Senate ordered plays to be sereillasd. MON the
notion that amusements banish disease. In this cam, the remedy was
triumphantly successful.