Star.
London, England, 1830-12-10 00:00:00

CAUTION.

The high repute and extensive sale of Price and Gosnell's Macassar
Oil have induced some unprincipled shopkeepers to offer base imits-
does, injurious to the hair, when the genuine is asked for. Messes.
Price and Gana, sole Proprietors and importers of the Genuine Ma-
cassar Oil, for the growth of Hair, (which has been proved by the
Import List, and sworn before the Lord Mayor,) respectfully solicit
Ladies and Gentlemen, when they purchase, not to take any without
the label en the outside of each bottle having affixed to it an address-
stamp, of extreme difficulty of execution, resembling a Government
Staves, having in its centre the words " 160, Regent-street, and 12,
Threi King-court, Lombard-street," also underneath the signature of
" Price and Gosnell," to counterfeit which is felony. The Genuine
can only be had in London, at 160, Regent-street, and 12, Three
Meg-court, Lombard-street. But as a spurious article, In imitation
of the genuine, which destroys, without the possibility of recovery,
the roots of the hair, thereby producing baldness, head-ache, &c.
is generally sold by petty hair-dressers and perfumers, purchasers
should be particular in asking for Price and Gosnell's Macassar OM
JOHNSTONE'S PATENT WINDSOR SOAP (prepared by his
summon, Price and Gosnell) is delightfully fragrant and pleasant in
ale. It possesses peculiar balsamic and emollient properties, ren-
dering the akin luxuriantly white, soft, and even ; counteracting the
injurious effects produced.by intense solar heat, or cold winds. Price
Is. 6d. or 2s. 6d per packet.
PRICE and GOSNELL'S PATENT NAPLES CREAM ef-
fectually exterminates eruptions, tan, pimples, freckles, redness, and
all cutaneous imperfections whatever; arrays the neck, hands, and
arms, in matchless whiteness ; bestows on the complexion a juvenile
bloom, renovates beauty when on the decline, and sustains It in pris-
tine splendour to the latest period of life.
HER MAJESTY QUEEN ADELAIDE'S REFRESHING
PERFUME, possessing a most delicate odour, refreshing and enliven-
ing when oppressed by heat, &c. and is universally admired. -
PRICE and GOSNELL'S ESSENCE of ROSES, made from
the finest Persian Otto of Roses, and more than triple the strength of
what has long been known as Esprit or Extralt de Rose. It imparts
to the handkerchief and fills the atmosphere of the largest room with
the genuine fragrance of the admired rose perfume. Sold in bottles,
price 59. 7s. 6d. and lOs. 6d.

- PRICE and GOSNELL'S TREBLE DISTILLED LAVEN-
DER, or concentrated Essence of Lavender, six times the strength of
the hest Lavender Water, and unsophisticated with the sickly admix-
ture of musk, ambergris, /cc. is particularly adapted for sick or
crowded rooms, and recommended to the admirers of the genuine
lavender perfume. It is distilled from lavender dowers, selected for
their exceeding sweetness and aromatic properties, when those
flowers are in their fullest vigour. In bottles.3.66d. ss. and 7s.bd. each.
DR. VERDIGON'S VEGETABLE TOOTH POWDER,
composed of vegetables without the admixture of any mineral or per.
nieious ingredient whatever, has so long been in general use, and an
appendage to the fashionable toilet, that it is unnecessary to offer any fur
ther recommendation in favour of it. In boxes, at 21.9 d. and 4a.6d. each.
PRICE and GOSNELL'S MARKING INK, very superior to
what is usually offered for sale, and recommended to the Heads of Fa•
'utiles, for the prevention of tbeft and Imposition. In bottles, at 2s. 6d.
and Ss each.

DR. VERDIGON'S ALSANA EXTRACT, for beautifying and
preserving the Teeth and Gums, and fastening those teeth that are loose.
DEVEItEAUX'S VEGETABLE DYE, for changing Red or
Gray (lair, Eyebrows, and Whiskers, to beautiful shades of Brown or
Black, which experience has proved to be the must effectual appllca-
nos ever offered for that purpose. In bottles at Ss
PRICK and GOSNELL'S COLD CREAM, composed of mild
emollient balsam, quite different to what is usually sold under a similar
name. It stands unrivalled for- preventing the skin chapping, and'
gives instant relief to the smarting pain occasioned by inclement wea-
ther, the use of Alkaline Soap, &saving, es any other causes it emits
in use a most delightful perfume*: the Hates atc.•
PRICE and GosNELL:,s real. OLD BROWN WINDSOR
SOAP, prepared by a new process, is particularly mild, old, and coo-
cnical; it corrects every hardness, reknit, kc. of the skin, and
makes it stir, white, and even. The :kiln by its sonatas* application,
will become perceptibly soft and clear, and the. sapheasees sensation
derived (rum sudden chops of climate and apareel, ea . well aa • the
harshness which it generally acquires from sea-bathing, will speedily
be removed. Also their COCOA-NUT OIL, CAMPHOR, OTTO
OF ROSE, and other celebrated SOAP&
Messrs. PRICE and GOSNIILL, Pariesure ) too
their Majesties. 100, Regan-street,. . Londe% respect/ rialarna the,
Nobility, Gentry, and Residents ofe Idvespool and, its Vicinity, that
they have jest supplied Mr. Denson, Perfdmer, Bold-street, with an
elegant Assortment of the above superior Articles, which having bear
bog used by the first circles of Nobility and Gentr in the Metropolis
have now become indispeosible articles FOR THE TOILET.

The following is an abstract of the Pamphlet to which we referred in I
our leading article of yesterday :
better from Twenty Members of the London Mechanics' Institution
to the Right Hon. It. Wilmot Horton.
London Mechanics' Institution,
29, Southampton-buildings, October, 1830.
Sir,—We, the undersigned Members of the London Mechanics'
Institution, have received the Reports of the Emigration Committees,
as well as your various " Series on the Causes and Remedies of .Pau.
perism," &c. which you transmitted to Dr. Birkbeck for the use of this
Institution, and for which we beg to return you our best thanks.
In pursuing the investigation of the causes of the pressing distress
prevailing among the labouring classes, we are desirous of having your
assistance, with a view to ascertain what are the most efficient and most
practicable remedies alpdge of Immediate adoption. We understand
that you would not be imligismsd to assist us in such investigation. We
therefore respectfully lapse dist yen will Amur us with the advan.
tart of your lang.soadnwsi applauds. to this Important subject, by
pointing out portienlar pardon of it for our consideration, at occasional
meetings to be appointed at your own convenience.
We have the honour to be, Sir,

Your most obedient hutirble Servants,
James F. Blake, John Davis, R. A. Phelps, Charles J. Reader.
Samuel Hough, John Nichols, Thomas Dakin, Thomas Smythe, J.
Logan Grover, Thomas Holmes, Henry Howell, G. G. Ward, John
Morris, Samuel Preston, Charles Lane, John Gregory, John Hemming,
Henry Hetherington, P. W. Piggott, John M'Duif.
To the Right Hon. R. Wilmot Horton.
The Right Honourable R. Wilmot Horton's Answer to the preced-
ing Letter.
Sudbrook Park, Petersham, October, 1830.
Gentlemen,—ln answer to your letter, in which you request me to
assist you in investigating the causes of the present distress among por-
tions of the labouring classes, I beg to assure you that I shall have the
greatest satisfaction in affording you all the assistance in my power.
I feel confident that I shall be able to impress upon your minds cer-
tain important and vital truths, universally affecttng the condition of
those classes which depend mainly on the wages of labour for their well-
being ; such truths being equally applicable in countries, whether taxed
or untaxed, or with or without fixed capital, operating In combination
with labour.

I hope also that 1 shall, by pointing out a very simple and practical
system of analysis, not only enable you to detect many fallacies which
are now prevalent, but facilitate the means of your detecting any falla-
cies of a similar nature which may in future be attempted. Ido not
advert to fallacies dependant on mere moral reasoning. Although I
may consider certain prevalent opinions of that nature as fallacious, I
have not the presumpdon to put myself forward to attempt to work any
change in your minds on such subjects. I advert to fallacies which are
promulgated in direct defiance of positive testimony and arithmetical
calculation, and which only require to be exposed, to compel the assent
to their refutation of every reasonable and honest mind.
The tenor of any explanation which I may give you would be just as
applicable, if given to a select class of mechanics in the most democra.
tical state of the American Union, as It is to yourselves, living under
monarchical institutions. My opinions will not relate to forms of go-
vernment or to the policy of changes of institutions, but to mere matters
of fact.

-.—
In the course of these inquiries I shall always state, in clear terms,
the precise propositions which I am attempting to prove, upon each par-
denier branch of the subject under investigation. You are welcome to
interrogate me, in the closest manner, upon each proposition. When I
have completely developed my opinions, and furnished you with the
data upon which those opinions are formed, and after you have interro-
gated me sufficiently on the subject, so as to leave no point without as
much explanation as I can give, I shall call upon you to expres your
unqualified assent to each proposition separately, or your dissent at-
tended with explanation.
1 am also extremely desirous that you should draw up :a declaration
among yourselves. expressive of your desire to pulses the truth, fide.
pendently of its collateral effect on any opinions that you may entertain.
I remain, Gentemen,
Your faithful humble Servant,
R. W. HORTON.

Letter from the Members of the Class to the Right Hon. R. Wilmot
Horton, in reply to the preceding.
London Measnics' Institution,
29, Southampton Buildings, October 1830.
Sir,—ln reference to your suggestion, we, the Mernbers of the Class
for investigating the causes and remedies of the pressing distress pre-
vailing among the labouring classes, have no hesitation in individually
assuring you that we shall pursue the inquiry with the exclusive desire
of arriving at the truth.
We have the honour to be, Sir, Re.

RESOLUTIONS
AGIZILD TO lIT THE CLAIM

London Mechanics' Institution, Southampton-buildings,
Thursday, November 18, 1890.
The Members of a Class for studying, under the superintendence of
the Right Hon. R. Wilmot Horton, that branch of the Science of Po-
litical Economy which comprehends an investigation of the circuits-
stances influencing the Kate of Wages, together with the causes of dis-
tress amongst those classes of society which depend exclusively upon
labour for their subsistence, and the most efficient remedies for the evil
(particularly with reference to the distress at present existing amongst
the labouring classes in the United Kingdom), have examined the
work entitled " Causes and Remedies of Pauperism," by the Right
Hon. Wilmot Horton, the Reports of the Emigration Committees, with
the evidence given before them, and other documents submitted to their
inspection by that gentleman; and have also attentively listened to his
illustrations of the subject, together with his replies to the numerous
questions proposed to him by different Members of the Class at several
successive interviews, during which he has minutely explained his own
views of Emigration and Colonization, as efficient and practicable re-
medies for the privations of the labouring classes of the community ;
and, after giving to the investigation all the attention which its im-
portance demanded, they have unanimously agreed, at a numerous
meeting of the clans held here this evening, to the under-mentioned pro-
p4llone, sic
I. That commodities in excess, as compared with the demand for tLem,
are inevitably depreciated in value, if they are brought into the market
for sale : and that labour when brought into the market, so far partakes
of the nature of commodities, that it is inevitably dgreciated in value
whenever it is in excess, as compared with the demaW.
2. That there is an excess of the supply of labour, as compared with
the demand for it, amongst many of the operative and labouring classes
in the United Kingdom • andthat pauperism, degtadation, and suffering
are the c.msequences of ;hat sate of things.
3. That, to remedy such evils, either more labour must be demand-
ed, or lees labour supplied ; and that, unless one or other of these
conditions can be satisfied. the evil is without remedy.
4. That there do not appear to be any natural and unforced means of
profitably increasing the demand for labour in the United Kingdom to
such an extent as to absorb the existing redundancy of the supply of
labour, end thereby afford an effectual remedy for the evil by the first
of the alternatives proposed, viz. sor increase of demand for labour.
6. That for the purpose of remedying the evil by the second of those
alternatives, via. the diminution of the supply of labour, emigration.
upon an extended scale, to our colonial possessions, if regulated and
assisted, and conducted upon those sound principles already acted upon,
present* an immediate, certain, humane, and specific remedy for the
evil in question, so fax as those who are totally suffering under it are
concerned ; with the certainty that the remove] of the redundant labour-
erA could occasion no Injury to the labouring classes remaining at home,
and the probability that the latter might be materially benefited by the
measure.
6. That the humanity of the proposed measure's unquestionable, be.
cause the voluntary location of industrieue•sed able.bediedlabothers on
a fertile soil, and in a healthy elimete, in any of the colonies: is infi-
nitely preferable to the involuntary idleness, poverty, and degradation
of the pauperized' labourers • of the UnitedEingdom • and presents, in
• striking. polar of view, the tannest betltuW elit4eietutv=.
dents, and. happinem • so the one bud, . wit distitudon, • ;
and misery on the other. Aul.iurthss,•tbsaitMNsts IlocalaMMhesente
may induce some to prefer hopeless wretchedliese, for themselves and'
theft posterity, on the spot -where they bappeli Iti slat, to die titiotydriel
mantel toesdiet and seeurisrld with& estlifer,
nir reason for withholding frau adios- the' ("pert**, dresllllll4ll
themselves of the snore beseficialalteramilvet
.* That lOokfisg at the proposed remedy simply7' as a mea-
sure of national policy, it would be objectionable, unless it
could be satisfactorily proved, that the total expense of re.

moving the redundant labourers by emigration would be less than the
expense which must inevitably be incurred for maintaining them at
home at the cheapest possible rate.
8. That, were not this the case, the funds for the employment of
labour, upon which the prosperity of the labouring classes so much de-
pends, would be diminished by the application of the proposed renwdy.
In reference, therefore, to national wealth, if the exper.‘e of emigration
be less than the expense of home-maintenance, there would be a decided
economy, instead of an apparent expense, in the application of national
capital to the purposes of regulated and assisted emigration.
9. That we have examined the evidence which was taken upon the
subject of home colonization before the Emigration Committees ; but a%
the expense of that measure depends upon estimate and not upon ex-
perience, we have no correct data upon which to institute a precise cont.
parison. We find, however, in page 28 of the 4th Series of the " Causes
and Remedies of Pauperism," that the rate of relief granted in the hun-
dred of Redbornstoke, to an able-bodied pauper, or labourer, with
wife and three children, is 10s. per week, or 261. per annum ; whereas
the interest, at. 4 per cent. of the sum necessary, at the highest estimate,
to effect the removal and colonisation of that labourer and his family in
British North Ameria, via. 801. would only be 31. 4s. at the highest
estinmk. Taking, therefore, both sums as perpetual annuities, the
gain Iff colonisation would be 221. Itle. per annum ; but, supposing
that an annual payment of 91. 17s. 3d. were to be made for ten years in
liquidation of the capital debt of 801. (at the end of which patiod the
debt would be wholly discharged), the gain would be 161. 2s. 9d. At
Frome, where the expense of maintenance has actually been brought
down to 161. per family, the gain, when taken upon a comparison of a
perpetual annuity, would be 111. Ifis ; and when taken as compared
with an instalment payment liquidating the debt in ten years, the gain,
even at the low estimate of 151. would amount to 51.45. Od.
10. That the true test by which the relative condition of
the operative and labouring clauses in two different countries
may be accurately compared, is not to be found in a compara-
tive estimate of the degree of taxation in those two countries,
nor of the quantity of money which the labourer may receive in each
country during the year; but in the power of purchasing necessaries
and comforts which the money-wages in each country actually give.
11. That no diminution of the taxes can permanently benefit any
labouring class, while the number of labourers in that clam remains in
excess, as compared with the demand for their labour because the
competition among labourers to obtain employment will always have a
tendency to reduce wages to the lowest point at which the labourers can
subsist.

12. That, whenever a tax is remitted upon a commodity entering
into the habitual consumption of the manual labourer, in consequence
of which remission his wages become more valuable In exchange against
such commodity, should the labour-market be decidedly overstocked at
the period of such remission, it Is contrary to all theoretical reasor.ing
in respect to the effects of competition in reducing price, and unsup.
ported by experience, that the manual labourer should retain the benefit
of the diminution of price ; in other words, that his wages should not
fall, after a short time, in consequence of the unemployed labourer being
willing to work for a rate of wages, minus the gain of the remitted
tax.

13. That permanent redundancy of labouring population, producing
such evils, could not exist in any country where there was an unlimited
supply of unoccupied fertile land, within the reach of parties beginning
to suffer from such redundancy. Consequently, if that unlimited sup.
ply of fertile land is to be found in the Colonies, there need be no re.
dundancy for the future in the United Kingdom, if the difficulty of the
intervention of the sea can be overcome.

14. That in the first instance, a national effort ought to be made to
remove the present accumulation, which is too large to be absorbed in
the Colonies as mere labour (which It would have been had the emigrants
been gradually poured in), but requires to be disposed ef in actuskloca.
don and settlement. In the second instance, If means be adopted by
which, for the future, the Colonies may themselves pay (for the purpose
of supplying themselves with labour) the expense of the passage
of emigrants from the mother country, the only impediment to that
natural and spontaneous spread of labour, which would take place of
itself but fur the intervention of the sea, will be effectually and per-
manantly removed.
18. T here are two different sorts of prejudicial ;consequences at.
tributed to emigration by Its opponents, which are utterly incom-
patibk one with the other :—ooe party contending that the vacuum
(as it is called) will be filled up, an.l all the evils of pauperism re-in-
traduced ; while the other maintains that there will be no labour forth-
comir.g, and that the rise of wages will entinguish profits.
16. That In reply to the first class of objectors, it may be stated,
that if the debt incurred by the removal of paupers be paid of before
fresh pauperism can, by the laws of nature, be reproduced as the direct
or indirect consequence of emigration, the possibility of its ultimate re.
production is no argument against the measure, because that reproduc•
Lion will neither diminish the sum of actual happiness which will
be created by the tneasure in the first instance, nor the actual saving
effected by it. And again, that if reproduced at all, pauperism
will not be reproduced in masses, hut slowly and progressively ;
when it may be drained off without the possibility of accumulation.
insfkad of its remaining, as it has done, a dead weight and expense
to the country.
17.—That it may be urged, in answer to the second class of
objectors, that machinery will always supply the want of any
portion of emigrated labour, should such an inconvenience (which is
very improbable) ever occur ; and that, in point of fact, at this
moment, owing to the redundancy and consequent cheapness of la-
bour, machinery is absolutely kept back, both in manufactures and
agriculture.
18.—That, for the preceding reasons, emigration, upon the princi-
ples laid down in the Reports and Evidence of the Emigration Corn.
mittens, and in the Right lion. R. Wilmot Horton's work, entitled
" Causes and Remedies of Pauperism," as a national measure of
relief for able-bodied pauperism, descries the support of parliament and
the country.

NOTTINGHAM DEC. 7.—The disturbances so rrivalent in the
south of the kingdom have at length approached ne :r to this town but
the utmost vigilance and promptness is manifested, and it is thrrefore
hoped any tumultuous proceedings will be checked in the bud.
act or the incendiaries took place on Sunday morning List, at levly,
Eaton, eight miles front Nottingham, on the premises of John C1i.1.3
berlayne Hopkins, &.q. where two stacks of wheat were consumed MI
:;unday morning last. Every assistance was afforded, and al.liou::h
barn contiguous caught fire twice, it sustained little Varioue
r,:posis are in circulation, but they are more owing to the fevetish slam
of the public mind titan any real circumstances Yesterday the 'dock •
mg-makes at Loughborough (the staple trade of that town) struck
roe wages. Considerable tumult was shown all the day, and it te•As
deemed to send for two troops of the 3d Drat 4,..:
Guards, station at our barracks ; but, this morning, lam happy
to say, all was quiet, and the mo have done no mischief. l'att
of the soldiers have been ordered home again. Two troop. of the
yeomanry are out, so that every measure will instantly he re-
sorted to, should the slightest indication of a disenderly spiri: he
perceived.
11111iPazoti Hoai.—Ori•Tuesda night, shout eight o'clock, the
inhabitants of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Deptford, were thrown into
the most indescribable alarm, caused by an infamous hoax that wa.
played off upon them by some unknown vagabond ; but ions expected,
from some clue that has been obtained, he will be snot discovered.—
About the time stated, a fellow, mounted on a gray horse, came gal-
loping into Greenwich, from wisham, and stated, as he proceeded,
that some incendiaries bad set fire to a quantity of hay-ricks, and °tit:T.
property, belonging to Mr. Richard Tyler, at Southend, and that they
were then burning furiously. Numbers of persons flocked with ::11
speed from the places the fellow bad passed through to Southend, and
the Deptford engine proceeded with rat-horses to the spot ; also a pa:ly
of the new police, to protect the adjoining property. Mr. Tyler hap-
pened to be, at the moment the alarm was made in Greenwich, sitting i 3
the coffee-room of the Greyhound inn; and, upon the intelligence being
made known to hlm,be rushed out of the house in a state of distraction ;
and, having procured one of the horses belonging to Mr. Wheatley,
the coach-proprietor, he galloped off towards his farm, fully capectit,f,
to meet his total ruin. However, before he entered the village, he wet
the engine returning, together with a vast concourse of persons. who
had repaired to Southend in consequence of the ::farm, and was i:..
formed, to his indescribable joy and satisfaction, that his premises am!
property were perfectly safe, and that the whole originated in a nt
villainous hoax.—Upwards of 300 householders of Lewisham have et
rolled themselves to serve as special cor.rahles for the protection of pro-
perty, and 4001. have already beer. sulscri ted to /ay the expenses.

Extract from a letter elated °llford, Co. Doan, sth Dec. 1830.
" Yesterday there was another large meeting of the populace at Shane's
Hill. There could not have been less than 4,000 persons present, the
greater number of whom were armed. The ostersible object which the
deluded people had in vices was to obtain a reduce on of rents, and an
increase of labourers wages. Several of the ger.a.men of the neigh-
bourhood attended, and addressed the assemblage, pointing out to the
people the folly of the course which they were puriung, and prom:sirs,:,
that if they quietly dispersed, the grievarc:s of which they complained
should be remedied. l'he appeal, however, had s.o effect, and the gentry
were obliged to retire. The whole body then moved off through Gil.
ford, to the residence of Henry Hamilton, Esq. Having had an
interview with the above-named gentleman, they demanded a re-
duction of rents, and gave him a fortnight either to com-
ply or quit the county. They next proceeded to the residence
of two Quakers, who had lowered their labourers' wages. :old gave them
the same time to increase the wages again or to leave the country. Trice
then returned to this village, and demanded a reduction of rents fron.
Mr. Warburton, who possesses a small property here. Several cell, r
gentlemen we also visited, and a limited time alltow,il them either 1.,
reduce their rents or quit the county. Several shops in this village
were attacked, and bread. spirits, &c. taken. A continual firing of
guns, &c. was kept up during Friday night A flag was also twisted.
I and a fire was lighted during the night on a rock close to the place which
was occupied by the people.
" This meeting has created a violent sensation in this neighbour.
hood ; and, I regret to add, that the spirit of'r. s:stance against landlords
is fastencreaslng. A similar meet ng isalsr called on the Maze Coupe,
and othem are projecting."

LONDON 711 liteH A

IN,TITJTION.

IVednesday evening the seventh anniversary tr: the establishment of
this institution wax celebrated by a public ng in the Nlechanies'
Lecture Theatre. Southampton-buildings. The dlr.', was taken by Dr.
Birkbeck, the Presitlent, who was aecompaMed by the Right lion.
Wilmot Horton, John Cam liohhoese, Rsq .lI.P. the Right Hun. the
Lord Mayor, Cul Jones, Dr. Lardner, of the London University, Major.
General Viney, &c.
The PIEsIDIX r delivered an address explanatory of the progo as of
m• changes' Institutions iu different parts of the kingdom ; in the course
of which he presented voo prises of 101. each, which had been given t •
the institution by Dr. Fellowes; one of which had been gained by Thes.
Anderson, a journeyman millwright, for an improvement in the turning.
lathe, by which it is rendered capable, through a ..lids-rest on thepr p-
elvic of the bevel, of turning with the greatest precision matinees of any
required convexity or concavity; and the other to John Newcomb. a
journeyman printer, for having prothmed " An Essay on the Theory and
Application of Ply-wheels and Governors."
After the presentation of these prises, several resolutions, deela•amry
of the progress and present state of this and similar establishineuts, w. r.
moved by Mr. Hobhouac, Dr. Lardner, and the Right Hon Wilmot
Horton, who in the course of his speech, promised to the Institution a
series of lectures on statistics and political economy, especially aff c'.
ing the condition and interests of the operative anelabouring class a
He stated at the same time, that these lectures should be...-as all the
proceedings of the institution ought to be--eutirely free from personal
politics. These observations of the right hon. gentleman were received
with great applause by the meeting, which seemed to agree with the
opinion that some efficient measures must he immediately adopted o
remedy the urgent distress at present prevailing in this country. Indere,
all the speakers dwelt on this topic, an I contended that want of intelli-
gence was one of the principal sources of the destruction to agricultural
property. Many compliments and votes of thanks were passed, as is
usual on such occasions, and the meeting-•a very numerous one,
for there were upwards of 1,000 persons present—separated at a
late hour.

The following is a copy of a Petition which was mast numercualt
signed by the principal inhabitants of Reading in the comes of a fex
hours, on Tuesday last, and was presented to the House last night r—
" To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland it
Parliament assembled.
" The Petition of the undersigned inhabitants of the borough of
Reading, in the county of Bats,
" Showeth—That your petitioners have observed with sincere plea.
sure the introduction of a bill in the upper house of Parliament to ado.
blish local courts. for the better and more speedy administration of jus-
tice throughout the country. "l'he law's delays' have long been pro.
verbial ; but the difficulty and vexation and expense of procuring jts.
rice have at last become so intolerable, that what was intended to br a
remedy and a benefit, is in very many instances considered an evil and a
nuisance ; for a large proportion of the community would rather submit
to be wronged and defrauded than seek redress in the tedious, tor nous,
and, in many instances, ruinous processes of law. Of all existing ahus.s.
none call more loudly for speedy and effectual reform, than those which
have grown up with, or crept into, our legal system, or law practiec,
which ought not to shelter dishonesty, or defeat the ends of justice, but
to be a tenor to evil-doers and the praise and protection of them he
do well.
" Your petitioners therefore hail a measure of law reform emanating
from the luminous and comprehensive mind of a member of the legal
profession, highly distinguished both in the Senate and in the Forum,
and presented to the British Legislature by the Lord High Chan-
cellor-of England, and in a strain of powerful eloquence, convincing
reasoning. and impressive wisdom, which reminded your petitioners of
his illustrious . predecessor, who enforced needful alteration by pro.
rioandog Time the (dell innovaton." There are many things
oft e --red'. which require to he
'establishing in their
at, and a lea; vex-
prosecuting rights.
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