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London, England, 1829-09-16 00:00:00

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CONTRACTS FOR BISCUIT BAGS AND
SLOP CLOTHING.
VICTUALLING OFFICE, Avast 26, 1829.
THE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUALLING
tat ILLIES2'Y'S NAVY, le. do hereby ghat Melee,
That on Tnonsixtr, the 17th September next, they will be
ready to receive Tenders in snide, (sealed up), and treat for the
following Articles, to be delivered into his Majesty's Victualling
Stores at Deptford, viz.
Eighty Thousand BISCUIT BAGS, to be delivered In the
propordon. of Twenty Thousand In every Three Months, from •
the Ist day of January nest.
One Hundred Thousand Yetis el BRITISH DUCK CLOTH
,One.lialf thereof to be delivered by the 80th November nest,
and the remainder by the emit, December follawing..
Five Thousand Pairs of DUCK. TROWSBRS. •
Five Thestmed DUCK FROCKS;
r •
Tee Themend SHIRTS,
One Thousand CAPS for Botts' Crews,

Ten Thousand BLACK SILK HANDKERCHIEFS,
Four Thousand Yards of HESSEN, Forty Inches wide,
Four Thousand Yards of HESSEN, Thirty-six Inches wide,

Two Thousand Gross of BUTTONS,
Three Thousand Pounds of THREAD, and
Two Thousand Half-Pounds of THREAD,
To be delivered on or before the 30th Day of November next.
Patterns sod Samples of each of the above-mentioned Articles,
and the Conditions of the Contracts may be seen at this Office.
Each Tender must specify the price in words at length, and be
delivered before One o'Clock on the Day appointed; and the
Person who makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf,
must attend to answer when called for.
M. WALLER CLIFTON.

KING'S HEAD, POULTRY, San. 1329.
THE STOCKPORT atm MANCHESTER OPERATIVES-
THE SOCIETY for ENCOURAGEMENT of IN-
DUSTRY, and REDUCTION of POOR RATES, pre-
sumes that all who consider the causes of Distress, now become so
general, are convinced that the Nation, throughout all its ramifi-
cations, is now suffering from the neglected condition of the lower
classes, and our Trade is destroyed by the inability of our indus-
trious Fellow Subjects to consume what is requisite for their own
comfort and the common interest. Is the protection afforded to
others withheld from them? and are our manufacturing and la-
bouring population yearly receiving less by one hundred millions
than the due reward of their labours ? and do we at length per-
ceive thit the retributive justice of GOD is thus visiting the wrongs
of our brethren, and that our shopkeepers and dealers, merchants
and traders, thus shorn of their means of existence and enjoyment,
are summoned to reflection and to action. Be it, then, our imme-
diate occupation to remedy a state of things daily increasing in in-
tensity, and fast hastening to the most frightful dls'rder. Let pe-
titions be prepared for Pargament, praying that a minima pro-
tection be granted to the wages of labour, and that such should in
governed by the price of wheat : tin then we recommend to the
Manchester and Stockport Operatives, and all other Trades, to
agree among each other ; that the minims or lowest price of labour
should be the value of two bushels of wheat a week, for their daily
labour of ten hours a day ; thus, without fixing the rate of wages,
it would be prevented from going down to a starving point ; and,
by limiting the hours of labour, an excess of accumulation of goods
in the market, which has proved so eminently ruinous, would be
restrained.

We have already recommended to workmen, in lieu of their pre-
sent mode of spending the money allowed them at a strike, in
inactivity and want, that they should purchase raw materials, and
manufacture and sell for themselves, which the law entiles them
to do without a license, and so proceed in this manner (part of the
profits being divided with the party advancing the original outlay),
till, at least, they are able to maintain the minims price of their
labour.

The Society has no need to call the public attention of the
alarming state of Poor Rates. nor that the protection of our agri-
cultural labourers by a minimum would arrest their desolating pro-
gress ; while at the same time proving a more effective remedy for
poaching than the threatened steel-trap and spring-pen, or the
other reproachful and disgusting mechanism of the Game Laws.

STEAM pHE GENERAL STEAM
A. NAVIGATION COM.
P ANY'S PACKETS leave London—
For LISBON, CADIZ, GI BRA LTA R, &c. on the 15th October

For BOULOGNE,
Every Monday and Thursday morning.
For CALAIS,
Every Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday morning.
Fur OSTEND,
Every Tuesday and Saturday morning.
For ANTWERP,
On Thursday, 17th September, at Fight o'Clock, morning.
For ROTTERDAM,
With the Post Mee Bag, Saturday, 19th September, Ten
&Clock morning.

For HAMBURGH,
With the Post Mee bag, every Saturday morning early.
For MARGATE,
Daily at Nine, with an extra packet on Saturdays. at Eleven
o'Cleck.

Season Tickets ,E 5 31. each, available in all the packets of both
Companies on the Margate station.
For RAMSGATE,
Every Wednesday and Saturday morning, at Eight o'Clock.
For BRIGHTON and DIEPPE,
Every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday morning.
Powerful ♦essels always ready for towing.
Elegant steam packets for dons.
Offices, 337, rue St. Honors, Paris ; Mr. Underwood's, 56,
Ilaymarket ; and 24, Crutchedfriars, London; where bills may
be had, containing every Information.
CHAS. BESSELL, Sec.

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the Rev. E. C. Daniell, of Frome, and the Rev. R. Barton.
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