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      Re-Oruamsation Of Cha.Rtissj . Meeting E...

      RE-ORUAMSATION OF CHA . _RTISSJ . MEETING Ef _WEST _50 XSTER , A public meeting was held in the Temperance Hall , Broadway , Westminster , on Monday evening , _"November 26 th . a ' Mr . Jons _Anxorr was unanimously called to the ehair _. and ia brief and suitable terms , opened the Business ofthe evening . G . W . 31 . Key-volds , Esq ., moved the first resolution as follows : —¦ " That this meeting , heing- convinced of the truth and justice of the principles contained in the document called the People ' s Charter , and believing that its recognition as the basis of society would affect not only the poli tical _emancipationbut also tbe social

      ameliora-, tion of the toiling masses , we therefore hail with great satisfaction tbe prospect of a renewed , peaceful , and energetic agitation for its enactment . "Mr . Reynolds was greeted with load applause , and said , the persons present wero doubtless determined on the adoption and carrying out of tbe principles contained in _thatrcsolution , and to make proselytes to their cause . He was sure that thc people of England did not like tbe idea of Russian serfdom , but that they were determined to have rights to exercise for themselves . They stood there not to talk of pikes and guns , but in peaceful , legal , and constitutional terms to demand tbeir rights . ( Cheers . ) Bad as their institutions were , there was enough to enable them to wrest their righteous

      demands from an unwilling government . ( Loud cheers . ) Thc Tress was not yet put down , and they wonld proclaim their thoughts to the world . Hcshouldgo to the Conference witha determination to do his duty boldly and fearlessly , yet should any one act illegally , so as to endanger the cause , he should be one of the first to leave the Conference . ( Hear , hear . ) This agitation would act concurrently with that of which Sir J . Walmesleywas at the head—standing at its back and pushing it onwards —but still , as of days of yore , demanding the whole , and proclaiming in a voice of thunder that this moral , peaceful , and legal struggle , should never cease until the Charter became the law of the land . ( Loud cheers . ) Be had frequently put the question to the middle classes _« 'is not universal sum-Age the rig ht of man V and invariably elicited

      answers in the affirmative : and so with tbe other points of the Charter . ( Applause . ) As regards the Property Qualification , he had pictured a mendicant physically and mentally , miserable and wretched , then imagined a shower of gold to have accidentally descended on him , and behold his power of mind and body are restored aa if by mairie , and he has all tbe qualifications befitting a High and mighty legislator . ( loud cheers . ) Take tbe other side of the picture ; behold Sir Robert Peel , great in wealth and intellectual requirements , a panic comes—his wealth is swept away—Ms intellect remains—but alas , he no longer possesses thc qualification , simply , because that wealth created by him has changed hands . ( Loud cheers . ) Oh , preposterous legislation ? ( Cheers . ) After cool and deliberate reasons and reflections , the middle-class men -were constrained to admit

      thai the People ' s Charter contained principles which were the very beau ideal of political perfection . It was the beauty of its truths , and the ' sublimities deducible therefrom , that had caused a base press to attempt to run it down , knowing well , that let it once succeed , all the abuses on v ? hich their employers battened would cease for ever . ( Great applause . ) Give but the Charter as tbe means to a social end , and England might tben become the very paragon of p lenty and hapniness . ( Loud cheers . ) Mr . Reynolds here entered into a statement of the mode of action proposed for the revised assoeiation , and said : At the meeting ofthe Conference the provisional committee would be prepared with a plan of organisation , to submit for

      its consideration . Society at present was in a most vitiated state , made so by the so-called upper classes . At the present time we had only about one million of voters , and on an average , it would make the price of a seat about £ 1 , 000 . Rotten boroughs hecame a good investment ior capital , and in this way was a million of capital expended at a general election , and another million on registration , & c . Thus , on such an investment of two millions of capital did fathers send their sons into the House of Commons to hang on ihe tails ofthe ministry , to grasp at emoluments arising from places , sinecures , and pensions that are wrung from the very vitals of the working classes . ( Loud cheers . ) No measures likely to benefit the wealth producers could be expected from them ; rather cspect labour to be still more

      down-trodden and oppressed . ( Hear , hear . ) Hence it was that when a man lifted his voice in favour of the rights of the masses , whether continental or British , he was sure to be cried down . He asked the working classes to unite with all that would unite with them for any portion of their just rights . He was fully aware of the interested motives of the middle classes . They ( the middle classes , ) had seen the effects of convulsions on the continent , nnd they wished to avert similar storms here ; hence , they said , let us avert the catastrophe , by granting concessions : but , whilst going with them , it was their ( the people ' s ) duty , to state that they were no longer willing to be the mere producers of all the nccesseries , luxuries , and elegancies of life , but that they resolved also to become partakers of that which they produced . ( Loud cheers . )

      Mr . D . _Walforu , in seconding the motion , said , he was much pleased to sec an attempt made to resuscitate the Chartist agitation . Se thought the besetting sin of drunkenness had much to do with failures of political agitations . He believed that had the masses demanded their rights in a proper spirit , there was no power that could long withhold them , lie would like to see the temples now dedicated to " gin " converted into Mechanics' Institutions , and their gilded " rum " and " brandy " tubs into library shelves to hold Paine ' s " Rights of 3 Uan , " Volney ' s " Ruins of Empires , " and Voltaire ' s " Philosophical Dictionary . " Mr . Walford here paid a well-merited compliment to T . S . Duncombe , Esq ., M . P ., aud his brother Chartists , for their exertions in throwing out thc atrocious "Master and Servants * Bill ; " and complimented his brother Teetotallers on having paid down the sum of £ 500 , and thus secured the magnificent Hall in which they were now assembled . Tectotalism had

      secured that Hall to them for the next fourteen years , and he entreated his brother Democrats to do likewise . Mr . Walford here drew a picture of the benches ofthe House of Commons daring an important debate , affecting the interest of thc wealth producers . Ought they not to obtain the Charter , and send men to that house who knew their wants , and had the knowledge and courage to apply tho social remedy to their social grievances ? ( Loud cheers . ) He wished the delegates to press those matters on the attention of Congress . By his sobriety he had become possessed ofthe franchise , and he wished others to do the same , ne had also witnessed with delight the progress of the Forty Shilling Freehold movement , set in motion by that g lorious Teetotaller , Mr . James Taylor , of Birmingham . ( Loud cheers . ) In conclusion , in the words of the immortal Milton , he invoked them to "Awake , arise , or be for ever fallen . "

      Mr . T . Clark in supporting the motion said , in wishing for liberality for themselves they should be prepared to deal out a little to others , and he cared not how many persons might be present from her Majesty's government , in fact , he should like to see a- vast number of her Majesty ' s officers , of all descriptions , present , to listen _^ to dissertations on their broad humanising principles . He was sure that previous speakers could on l y have intended to denounce those base spies who had come amongst the people under false colours for the purpose of _strapping their fellow men . ( Repeated cheering . ) The House of Commons , so called , was composcdlof 65 S men , who made the laws over which they ( the people ) had not the least control ; but he contended

      that these men had no more right to take away the people ' s money than any strong man had to meet a feeble one on the highway and take his , as might did not constitute right—( hear , hear)—let but the Charter prevail and then their property could not be taken without prior consent Although tbey had no paper constitution , he was ready to maintain that they had more practical liberty than had France under her Republic , with Universal Suffrage . ( Hear , hear . ) Yet with all their practical liberty they had great social wants , misery , and wretchedness—as was traly illustrated in the pages of the Morning Chronicle . Even this was but a speck as compared with the miseries , wretchedness , and degradation of Irelandas his own eyes had recently an

      opportu-, nity of witnessing . ( Hear , hear . ) It was to be hoped that Ireland had seen the worst , and that her circumst ances would now mend . He was happy to say that the more democratic the sentiments uttered last week , at the Music Hall , Dublin , the more enthusiastically they were received . ( Loud cheers . ) "What the working classes wanted was a proper control over their own labour , and be ( Mr . Clark ) had much pleasure in calling their attention to a philosophical work , just published , on the subject by " Sidney Smith . " They asked for representation as a means of protecting their property—not as a means of destroying the property of others—simply irishin" to carry out the great moral doctrine of St .

      Paul— "The " abourershallbethefirstpartakerof the fruits ; " and if they did not obtain speedy remedial measures , he thought no man could be responsible for the convulsion tbat would inevitably follow . ( lioud cheers . ) lie would tako this meeting as a _foir average specimen of intelligence , and yet he would venture to say that not one in ten had the fr anchise . ( A Voice—not ono in twenty . ) A friend said not one in twenty ; well , he would like to know by what right the twentieth person made rules to govern the other nineteen . He would conclude bv _aeconding the resolution , hoping , after the Confc * - rence , to meet them again in that Hall frcqiientlv loud cheers . )

      The resolution was then put and carried unanimously . Mr . CS _4 RfESUrnSGmovedthc second resolution : — Tbat ap pier of the objects and _intention of

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      the proposed Metropolitan Chartist Conference , we hereby resolve to elect four delegates to represent the meeting in such assembly . " Mr . Utiixo said other associations and their leaders had been alluded to , but the good men on the councils of these associations were like the good men in another assembly—they were in a minority , and wanted support frora without . Capital had hitherto been legislated for , whilst Labour had been neglected . Westminster herself was an apt illustration of this : look at her , with her mean , miserable , dirty hovels on the one hand , and her splendid , magnificent mansions and palaces onthe other . The wealthy told us to improre our mental condition by reading history ; but suppose wc were to take them at their word—would past history redound to their credit ? No ; we should onlfind

      y how many robberies they had committed on us . ( Cheers . ) We could never expect to see England calm , happy , and contented , until she shall have obtained the Charter . ( Cheers . ) Lord Palmerston had said " Opinion was stronger than armies ; " hut he knew in applying this to present circumstances , he was propagating a fallacy . ( Hear , hear . ) If it were true , why did Rome and Hungary fall r—why call out an army of special constables on the 10 th of April?—why _kcepiup an army of 40 , 000 men in Ireland ? ( Loud cheers . ) He joined with them in their peaceful and moral crusade for their political rights , feeling convinced that political rights once gained , social rights must follow . Mr . Tow . \ SE . \ n , in an eloquent speech , seconded the motion .

      Mr . P . _M'GRAin said he had much satisfaction in tendering his meed of support to the resolution . He would recommend every working man to read the revelations of the Morning Chronicle , and if it did not make them take steps for the obtainment of remedial measures , he should be compelled to say they had neither hearts nor souls amongst them . The Charter was to them what the sword was to the soldier in battle—the means to an end ; and until they obtained it , never would they get " a fair day ' s wage for a fair day ' s work . " What they wanted was , such a change as would prevent the overreaching landlord from getting too much rent , and the grasping capitalist too much profit . He

      called upon them to look at their own order , and sure he was they would say , they were not what they ought to be . He ( Mr . M'Grath ) was not one of those who thought that a man should be content in a coarse hovel , and with a crust of bread . They were told the people of France had committed blunders . He had faith that with Universal Suffrage those blunders would yet be corrected . ( Loud cheers . ) He had heard it said , democracy would have been in a better condition , had its adherents taken off a few more tyrants' heads when they had them in their power ; but he repudiated such doctrines , and thought their moderation was their greatest glory . The resolution was then put , and , like the former , was unanimously adopted .

      The following persons were then placed in nomination , tho names being greeted with loud applause : —G . Julian Harney , J . Grassby , J . Arnott , and John Milne . No other nomination being tendered , they were put to the vote , and declared to be unanimously elected . —A vote of thanks was given to the chairman , and the meeting dissolved .

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      TOWER HAMLETS . A public meeting for the election o ? delegates to the ensuing conference was held at the School Room , Princes-square , St . George ' s in the East , on Tuesday evening , November 27 th ; Mr . Stiles in the chair . The Chairman having briefly alluded to the husiof the meeting , introduced Mr . Clark , who moved the following resolution : — " That , in the opinion of this meeting , the circumstances of the present times are eminently favourable to the establishment of an energetic , determined , but peaceful and temperate agitation for the accomplishment of those fundamental principles of an equitable constitution which are contained in the People ' s Charter , and upon the realisation of

      which depends the future well-being aud liberty of the industrial classes of the united kingdom . This meeting , however , declares that the establishment of such a movement is net intended in any way to interfere witb , or impede the progress of , agitations for minor reforms , but simply to obtain , in the shortest time possible , the complete representation of the whole people in parliament . " Mr . Clark said , it was intended to carry the Chartist agitation from end to end of England . He saw around him the active , intelligent men who had conducted the Chartist agitation in that borough for years past , and it was to such intelligence that thc guidance of their future movements must be entrusted . He believed that all present understood thc

      principles contained in the People ' s Charter , the resolution was drawn so as to interfere with other existing associations as little as possible . Chartism was that great all engrossing principle without which they never would be satisfied . It was alike their duty and interest to obtain such a representation as should embrace the whole people—and right happy he was to think that the people of the three kingdoms seemed equally bent ou effecting that ohjeefc . At the Edinburgh meeting , over which the Lord Provost presided , and at which the honourable member for this borough ( Mr . George Thompson ) made such an eloquent and excellent speech , Mr . Tait , one ofthe greatest of Scotch literati , had complained , not that the Parliamentary Reform

      Association went too far , but that it did not go far enough , and demanded the principles advocated hy the Chartists . In Dublin , too , it was pleasing to know that at the " national" meeting , held in the Music Hall , they went for " a full , free , and fair representation ofthe people ; " and at the numerous meetings held in this metropolis , ofa kindred tendency to the same object ; hence it was but a fair deduction to say , that the metropolises of the three kingdoms were unanimous in calling together for universal liberty . ( Loud cheers . ) Let them press onward then , and engage and absorb the whole mind of the country in the great truths of Chartism . It was only necessary to indoctrinate the people with their faith in order to obtain

      that which was required ; because their plans of organisation had failed in one or two instances that was no reason why the proposed one should fail ; what they wanted to insure its success was an active , intelligent propaganda , that should persevere in a peaceful legal manner , and keep up such a state of organisation as must ultimately win the Charter . ( Loud cheers . ) lie believed it perfectly practicable to link thc working classes of England , Ireland , and Scotland together , for this great object . He thought this was illustrated by the brilliant and enthusiastic reception Mr . O'Connor recently met with in Dublin . ( Loud cheers . ) Merchants , bankers , and shipowners , could not have a common interest with the wealth producers .

      It was their interest to get labour as cheap as possible , and it was the interest of the workers to sell their labour as dear as possible , ( near , hear . ) Under a despotism like that of Russia , such a monstrous amount of taxes could not be exacted as is taken from the masses in this country under the fiction of the English constitution . Such a system as the present could not , and did not , obtain the moral support of Englishmen . ( Cheers . ) Aristocracy was a traitor , and would , ere long , be arraigned for high treason by an intelligent democracy , who must , and would he the rulers of Britain in the future . ( Great applause . ) Mr . TowxsExn seconded the motion , and thought it would require but little exertion to set agoing a moral and peaceful agitation for the Charter .

      Thomas Carlyle had said , — " This which they call the organisation of labour , is the whole question of the future ; " and he thought working men the most capable of handling this question , because they best understood it . Those whose chief occupation consisted of killing hares , pheasants , etc ., could know little or nothing about it . Their deliverers must come from thc loom , the swindle , the last , and the bench . ( Loud cheers . ) The resolution was put , and carried unanimously . The _CuAimtAS said he had four persons to nominate - , they were : —G . W . M . R < vf nolds , p . M'Grath . W . Davies , and J . J . Ferdinando . ( Loud cheers . ) Of course , these were only nominations ; any one else was at liberty to put others in nomination , if they thought fit , and the election lay with the meeting .

      Mr . W . Drake was then nominated in addition to the foregoing . The candidates then proceeded to address the meeting , in order , as they were nominated . Mr . _Retxolds said : From the earliest moment he had been enabled to form an opinion for himself , he had been a consistent Republican , and , therefore , a thorough advocate for the Charter , as a great means to a grand social end . ( Loud cheers . ) De looked around him and saw six millions of persons outside the barrier of political power , and thought it hi gh time that such an organisation should bo established as would bring about a change . He should like to know if they wished to stand behind their Transatlantic brethren , who had for more than half a century enjoyed a Republican form of government ; or if they desired to be behind that Republic which was only twenty-one miles from

      their own coast , and which contained glorious men , who bad thrown down vulture thrones—prostrated mighty potentates—and raised up such glorious heroe 3 as Kossuth , Mazzini , and others ? ( Loud cheers . ) If they elected him to that Conference , he should bring to bear all the sagacitv , wisdom , and prudence ot which he was the master—with a view to achieve the mighty end thev had in view . He should not recommend phvsical force ; but , in the event of any such recommendation bcin ««' vei ) repel it ; for although he did think force necessarv to expel the miscreant holders of continental thrones , bethought such things would be entirelv mispjaced here , and that moral force alone would be effective . Mr . Reynolds then expatiated in is usual eloquent manner in the same spirit k which he had done on several previous meetings on politt-

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      cal matters—and resumed his seat amidst gre ap | _jp p * _ji'Giuta said it was not the first or second time he had stood before tho men ofthe Hamlets as a candidate for political honours . The men of the Hamlets had conferred on him his first political distinctions , and he had been ever since then their devoted friend and servant in the good cause , and should he be elected he would bring his whole powers to perfect a good system of organisation . He was delig hted to hear that an opportunity now presented itself of effecting an union between veritable democrats of England and Ireland , as all knew tbe thunder that used to be hurled at the Saxon by the old Ivelanders under Daniel O'Conneil , and the slanderous and gratuitous untruths these thunders contained against the working

      people of England . ( Loud cheers . ) He ( Mr . M'Grath ) wished them to work contemporaneously and concurrently with all other political and social reformers , but still to work for , and keep before them , the great principles of Chartism . There were many even in this metropolis who did not understand the principles of Chartism , and it would bo the duty of the Conference to take such steps as would bring the knowledge home to them ; and sure he was if they looked around their housesat their larders—and their wardrobes—you would at once see that things are not as they should be . Like Messrs . Reynolds and Townsend , he was opposed to violence , and beliered that if the Chartists only hecame propagandists they must

      succeed . Marylebone , Lambeth , Finsbury , and Westminster , had done their duty , and he believed tonight the men of the Tower Hamlets would do theirs . Let these examples be followed , and then the chains would be removed from their limbs , and they would he freemen , as God intended they should be . ( Loud cheers . ) Mr . W . Davis said , his candidature was not of his seeking , he was put forward by the committee , but if better men could be found he would * t 'll make himself useful . Mr . Cobden had told them they must get forty shilling _freeholds before they could obtain the franchise , but if they waited for this it would bo thirty years , and tbe present generation would be in their graves before the Charter would bo obtained . He agreed in the _doctrine , not

      to rely solely on leaders , hut to trust implicitly to themselves . If elected lie would discharge his duty by a punctual attendance , and a faithful advecaoy ofthe principles of Democracy . ( Loud cheers . ) Mr . _Fbbdisaxdo said , he had been for the last eight or nine years amongst them , and knew their wants and wishes . He was alike opposed to aristocracy and moneyocracy . ( Cheers . ) He was not offering opposition to the parliamentarians , neither could he join that body , seeing that they fell short ofthe People ' s Charter . He believed if the people acted with moderation and firmness the parliamentarians would yet be induced to make the Charter their polar star ; should he be elected he would be as he ever had been , faithful to the cause . ( Loud cheers . )

      Mr . _AV . Brake said ho had been for twenty-one years amongst them . The new organisation should be one of watchfulness , taking care that no one deceive the people . If elected ho would do his duty fearlessly and honestly . The Chairman proceeded to put the candidates to thc vote—for Messrs . Reynolds , M'Grath , and Davis ; the shew of hands was unmistakeable , but the contest was close between Messrs . Ferdinando and Drake . Tho chairman believing the shew of hands to be equal , a division to the left and right sides of the room was determined on . The chairman ultimately decided that tbe election had fallen on Messrs . G . W . M . Reynolds , P . M'Grath , W . Davis , and W . Drake . A vote of thanks was then given to the chairman , and the meeting quietly dispersed .

      The Widows And Orphans Of Theiate Joseph...

      THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF THEIATE JOSEPH WILLIAMS AND ALEXANDER SHARP . A public meeting to consider the best means of supporting these bereaved families was held at the School-room , Cowper-street , City-road , on Wednesday evening , November 28 th . Luke James Hansard , Esq ., was called to the chair amidst loud cheers . Thc chairman said they had met to sympathise practically with the widows and orphans of Williams and Sharp . They were Chartists widows and orphans , and their husbands and fathers had been convicted by a jury of their country , but we were in duty bound to consider the circumstances under which they were convicted . ( Loud cheers . ) These men , the one a baker , and the other a copper plato printer , had suffered great

      privations , had seen their wives and children want , —not from any inherent vices which they ( the husbands and fathers possessed ) but because they could not find that employment they were so willing to obtain . They wero of honest industrious repute ; they saw that property was not distributed as God had ordained it should be , they desired a change for the better ; they , in conjunction with their fellow men , met and humbly petitioned- ; but their petitions were unheeded , their wrongs ' unredressed , whilst their grievances were accumulating . ( Hear , hear . ) He ( Mr . Hansard ) had been an eye witness of two of their quiet peaceable meetings in Lincolns Inn Fields ; and so truly haggard and wretched were their condition , that it had prompted

      him ( Mr . Hansard ) to do what he could to elevate the condition of his wealth producing fellow men . ( Loud cheers . ) He could not forget that his ( Mr . Hansard ' s ) revered grandsire , who had a heart to feel , and a hand to relieve , was a working man , and that he possessed like these departed men , the enabling sentiment to elevate his co-workers condition . ( Great applause . ) What were the crimes these oppressed men had committed ? Goaded by their accumulating burdens they had met , their complaints became louder and louder , they became what was called seditions , their proceedings were said to be dangerous to the ruling powers , they were arrested , and tried under the peculiar exciting circumstances of the times , found guilty ,

      and sentenced to two years' imprisonment . Their prison treatment appeared to have induced cholera , that fearful pestilence of wliich they had died . Had not the present Prime Minister set them the example , by the agitation for the Reform Bill ? Did not he talk of the men of Birmingham coming to London and walking down to the House five a breast ? Did not men who were held in great esteem , and who had the confidence to a very large extent of their fellow men , constantly tell them that if they wanted a bad law rep ealed , or a good one enacted , that they , ( the peoples ) only chance of obtaining it was by agitation ? ( Cheers . 1 It should be remembered that the lordly and wealthy agitators were learned educated men who knew the application of words , and kept within the pale of the law . Williams , Sharp , and their com-patriots were uneducated , and were ground down by want ,

      contumely , and oppression . Surely these were mitigating circumstances ? and he , ( Mr . Hansard , ) could only look at these men as self-sacrificing devoted patriots . ( Loud cheers . ) He held in his hand the prayer issued at the recent thanksgiving to the Lord and giver of life , for tho deliveranco from pestilence , and he perceived from that that we could only expect forgiveness by forgiving others ; hence he inferred that we should forgive and release the prison-hound , whom he ( Mr . Hansard , ) considered had sufficiently suffered . ( Loud cheers . ) Embued with these convictions he had felt it his duty to preside at this meeting , and to sympathise with the unfortunate widows and orphans of Williams and Sharp . He regretted it was not in his power to give more , but he freely contributed five pounds , and trusted that every philantropist would be induced to contribute something to this benevolent object . ( Greatcheering . )

      The following resolutions were then moved , se couded , and supported in excellent speeches , by Messrs . G . W . M . Reynolds , T . Brown , TV Clark , J . B . Maskeli , Bishop , W . Davies , Pettie , Stallwood , and P . M'Grath : — " That this meeting expresses its mingled sorrow and g rief at thc fact that in civilised England , and in the middle ofthe nineteenth century , it could have been possible for two English citizens to experience in gaol such a treatment as rendered them ready and easily accessible victims to a malignant pestilence , instead of receiving that care and those attentions , which common humanity at least dictated as the only means of saving thtir lives . " " That this meeting , deeply sympathising with the widows and orphans of the late Joseph Williams and Alexander Sharp , in the sad

      bereavement which they have experienced , consider the case of those unfortunate families to be well deserving the attention of the benevolent of all classes of Society . " " That this meeting recognising tho power which disunion amongst the oppressed gives to the oppressor _, to single out and strike to the earth the men who urged by philanthropy , or goaded by despair and suffering , dare to remonstrate against the evil administration of a vicious , unnatural , and unjust system of laws and government , deprecates such disunion , and pledges itself to support anv movement , having for its objects the fraternal union _ofali-eformers mtus country , and the extension of that bond of fraternity to the reformers of all nations , who are alread y linked with us in the bond oi _butterinc .

      | A vote of thanks was then , on thc motion of toLuko James Hansard , for piesidiu « - at tin meeting , and for his philanthropy in general & -tE _« _ih _^;^' _S _, _, _d _?^ _cloquent , _yallufled to uit " laternal resolution moved bv Messrs During the proceedings , it was announced thit in addition to the ChairnKm , ' Baron JSSSk M . V " & . W . M . Reynolds , Esq ., Sir J _W-ilmeW iid Lord D . _«» _«* M : P ., _\ william _^; iff ,

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      The Proprietors ofthe . Weekly Dispatch , and other friends had liberally contributed to the proposed fund . - " '

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      Carlisle . —The advocates of Democracy m this citv contemplate holding a Democratic Festival on Christmas Day ; in fact , a committee has already been formed , and tho large room at Mr . Clarkson s , Royal Oak Inn , has been secured as the place of meeting . A considerable number of the Friends of Progress have already subscribed their names and aid to the project , and a very numerous company is expected to be present . It is a good step towards advancement when men , on holiday times , meet together to exercise the mind and reason for the progress of liberty and justice . Let our Christmas be Held as a holiday , and let those feast who can ; but while ' doing so let them think of means to remove

      the poverty which afflicts others , and let them also remember that there are men who have served them suffering persecution within the limits of a dungeon , to whom such a time can bring only pain when the joys of thc days of liberty are presented to their minds . Tickets can bo obtained by applying to the secretary , Joseph Smith , 75 , Unionstreet , Botchergate ; John Gilbertson , Caldewgate ; and of any ofthe Committee . Brighton .--The PotmcAL Piusokbrs . —A public meeting was held in tho large room ofthe Artichoke Inn , William-street , on Friday Evening , November 23 rd , "to take into consideration the propriety of memorialising her Majesty to grant an amnesty to all political prisoners / ' Mr . Giles was unanimously

      voted to the chair . Mr . Woodward , in an able manner , moved , and Mr . _Nieaas seconded , the following resolution : — " That this meeting is decidedly of opinion that the imprisonment of men for expressing their honest conviction upon political subjects is directly at variance with that spirit of freedom said to be inherent in the British Constitution , and contrary to that liberty of speech in the expression of political opinions which is considered to be tho right of . ill British subjects . This meeting considers that an enlightened public op inion is the safest and most effectual way to attain the nation ' s rig hts ; and that the expression of thought on all questions of relig ious and civil polity should be free and unfettered . This meeting is also of opinion ,

      that tho tyrannical and persecuting spirit of our undefined sedition laws calls loudly upon Parliament for their liberal revision or immediate repeal /' The resolution having been put was carried unanimously . Mr . John Page , in a brief speech , moved the adoption ofa memorial in accordance with the resolution , which was seconded by Dr . Marriot in a soul-stirring and eloquent address . Mr . Kydd , upon rising to support the same was received with rounds of applause , and after delivering one of his powerful orations ho resumed his seat amidst the plaudits of the meeting . The resolution was carried without a dissentient . Mr . Sinnock moved , and Mr . Wright seconded . — * That tho Chairman , and such influential electors as seem fit , sign the

      memorial on behalf of this meeting . "—Carried . Proposed by Mr . Holmwood _, and seconded by Mr . Dean ;—" That Sir G . R . Pechell bo requested to present the memorial to her Majesty . " —Carried . A vote of thanks having been given to the chairman the meeting broke up . Giibeswicii . —At a meeting held at tho Earl Grey , on Sunday , November 25 th , it was moved by Mr . Cooper , and seconded by Mr . Brown : — " That the Chartists generally be requested to attend at the above place on Sunday evening , December 2 nd , to take into consideration the necessity of holding a general public mooting for the purpose of thoroughly

      re-organising the Chartist Association of the borough , and other business of importance . " Birmingham . — On Tuesday evening , Mr . A . G . O'Noil delivered , in the public office , a lengthy and instructive lecture on the People ' s Charter , which gave great satisfaction . Gorgie Mills . —A soiree got up by a few of the Democrats of this place , was held on Wednesday evening , November 21 st ., in the Gorgie Mills , school room , for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the political martyrs , Alexander Sharp and Joseph Williams , on which occasion we received tho invaluable services of Messrs . Frazier , Crybies , and Wallace , from Edinburgh .

      _Staia-bridge . —A tea party and ball was held on November 24 th , when One Pound was realised for the Printer ' s Bill , which has been duly forwarded . Rights of Woman . — At the Social Institution , John-street , on Sunday evening , November 25 th , Mrs . Matthews delivered an able and argumentative address , proving the right of the female sex to the elective franchise , to a crowded auditory . Tho lecture gave great satisfaction . We understand that the lady wfi" shortly make her second essay .

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      TIIE LABOUR QUESTION . _Briguiox . —Mr . S . Kydd , of London , delivered a lecture in the Town-hall , on Thursday , the 22 nd ult ., to the members of the Working Man ' s Institute , on " Labour—its nature , tendency , and influence on civilisation . Mr . Good in tho chair . After a few preliminary observations , the lecturer commenced by stating thatthe subject he was about to introduce was of vital importance to all classes of society . Labour was tho producer of wealth and of all social and domestic comforts . " Man shall earn his bread by the sweat of his brow , " was a lesson taught by , and a great law of , nature . The lo \ c of action was so implanted within us , that wo could not be healthy and happy without obeying it . Labour , both physically and morally ,

      conduced to happiness—Idleness to discontent and misery ; and all this proved that labour was natural to man . But , like other things , it had its limits ; it should not be carried to excess , or it produced mental and physical prostration , and converted life into a curse instead of a blessing . Thc labourer was a worthy and an honourable man , the producer of that wealth which often caused its possessor to despise those by whom it was obtained . " The labourer was worthy of his hire ; " and it was an honour to a man , and not a degradation , to say 1 earn my bread by " the sweat of my brow . " There were two kinds of labour—the mental and physical ; but all labour was the exercise of power for the service of utility . The writers of books , newspapers

      & c , the teachers of their fellow-men , and all who strove to improve and better the condition of others , were as worthy , if not more so , of the appellation of labourers as those who held tho plough , sowed the seed , and reaped the harvest . The value of mental labour was highly esteemed , because much more rare than that of physical . There were many men of limited intellects to be found in society ; but men of extraordinary genius , who brought others to think , aud felt and acted as their pioneers to the temple of knowledge , were seldom met with . This was why tho mental was preferred—and justly , too , —to the physical . But he would not contemn physical labour -, it was tills tha , t produced , _ttic fruits of the earth , and sustained life , under the

      guidance of the mental . They should go hand in hand—one inventing , the other putting that invention into practice—for the benefit of humanity . The practical utility of labour was , as yet , ill understood by the working classes themselves . Thoy had long slumbered in ignorance , and were now but " ust awakening to this great truth—'' that if there were not men who would be slaves , there would be no tyrants to make them such . " The lecturer next adverted to Guizot's celebrated work , " On European Civilisation "—passing a high eulogium on it . Feudalism had been valuable , because it localised man : it taught him to cultivate the soil under thc protection of the feudal lord ; villages and towns thus originated , in consequence of winch man progressed

      in the social scale . Lahour was the great producing power , without which the earth would bo a barren and desolate waste indeed ! Look at the soil of America—200 years ago thc aboriginal kings of that great continent were physically in no better condition than aro the peasants of our own country at the present time . But what wonders had not the European labourers achieved by their mental and manual skill ! Cities had arisen , canals and railways have been constructed , immense forests cleared , the soil rendered productive , commerce has flourished , and the sea teems with both wind-impelled and steam-impelled ships , bearingand hrinwin » cargoes to and from every country ofthe hospitable world . And who had effected this great and mighty change ? Why , the labourer , who had also laid the foundation-stone , and built the superstructure of his independence ! The history of the rise and progress of America , as a nation , was but that of the whole

      world , Man , by labour , has attained his present position , and by labour would ultimately reach a higher degree of perfection . The present age was characterised as the Age of Industry , by its wonderful discoveries in the science , * , and the application of these sciences to the good of all . in the seim of Elizabeth , England depended upon the Dutch for _fed _^ fland S : " ° _f , e atlenSth _snatche" _the tnde . it from Holland , and was soon able to produce and export the fruits of her own industry ! En « lish labourers , by head and hand , had done this work and had given her the command of that mi _^ htv ocean over which her ships ride triumphantly . " And what was the result of all this ? Why , that our fathev-liind had become the leader of modern civilisation ; for America , though a great and _mkhtv nation , was still but a part of our own . The An » Io-American was still but the child of England _ ° thc offspring of those sturd y men who left our snores for conscience sake , and turned tho still wilderness into the populous city . tcemin _* with M

      ana activit y . Who had written the songs of our country those choice lays , spirit-stirrin * and mind _^™ g ? _mt - ifowexMpW 8 and working classes . All our poet _labourers-our Burns and Wordsworth - had donethe mo _* 7 to war _shui ding _themighty fabric of _% ndepfntn _° Genius , like sunshine , lighted all classes of _socictr _£ _ta _^ h ? 5 CaSS _- _* itB _^ are Sk again at the most eminent statesmen-ike Peek

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      1 the Cohdens , the Brights , and the Humes—of our own time ,- our " mechanics ; and those who in time of need fought our . battles . The working men could say , and justly too , that they sprang from themselves , and that they were but a part of their own flesh and blood . The aristocratic class had supplied someclever men ; but few in comparison , with all their boasted acquirements of education , with the other two . Mr . Kydd next adverted to the condidition of the working men in the present day ami that of past years , when the Saxon serfs were sold as a part and p arcel of the stock belonging to the soil . No doubt but that their physical condition was better than it is at present , as it was to the interest of their masters that they should be well

      clothed and fed ; but tlieir life was then that of the mere animal ; their mental natures lay sleeping in darkness . Printing had now given to the working men science , literature , and Institutions such as this , and the result has been to raise them in the moral and intellectual scale ; and it is doubtful whether happiness does not more depend upon the mental than the physical condition ot a people Carlyle had , indeed , shewn , in his forcible and beautiful language , that the Saxon slares were now emancipated , that they had liberty now to die of starvation , and that the working classes suffered more now than they did formerly . But it must be remembered that labour had produced more wealth , and if this wealth had not increasedpower would

      , not be in tho same condition as at present . Increase of wealth , then , on the one hand , and intelligence on the other , must have bettered the lot of all . What is the use of being well fed and a slave ? Man had hig her rights to _aspire to , which , in this 1849 , he was fast obtaining — civil and constitutional rights . In the past , all was involved in shade and mist , through which the mental eye of the slave could not discern ono ray of light to guide him onward . But the emancipated slave had now future greatness in prospect , and mental guides towards its attainment . But the physical condition of the people must be cared for ; their bad dwellings , huddled closely together , and mnaie airmust i

      m whicn tney impure , oe _mproveu . We mutt bring back all the good of the past , and cast away the evils ofthe present . Look at the late sufferings and deaths of the ill-clad , ill-fed labourers from the ravage of cholera , which had been more fatal to their class than to the other two . The duration of life to the labourer during the ravages of this fatal epidemic was seventeen years ; tbat of the members of the middle class , thirty-two years - , whilst that of the rich was forty-five years . Death , you see , knocks twice at the poor man ' s door , to once at the door of the rich . Something in the physical condition of the working classes must be wrong . The labourer of old inhaled fresh air in the _ooen fields , the same as his descendants in the rural

      districts at the present time , whose attacks from cholera had been but comparatively small ; but it was in the dirty , densely-crowded , ill-ventilated alleys , g loated on filth and poverty , where this disease loved to dwell . Remove the causo ; give the labourers better constructed dwellings and purer air ; good food and clothing ; and you would eradicate these plague spots , and the plague itself would cease . Tho late visitation was a lesson—and an awful one—which should be treasured up and acted upon in future . The aristocrat depends upon the labourer for his dwelling , his furniture , clothes , and his food , and even for assistance to equip himself in his peacock plumage ; strip him Of these borrowed plumes , and of this assistance , and he would

      be more helpless , and in a worse condition than was Robinson Crusoe on his uninhabited island . The producers of wealth have given him riches and comforts , and what has he bestowed upon tbem in return?—habitations of the vilest descriptions , packed together , and excluding the free air and light of Heaven , squallor , wretchedness , and poverty ! whilst he reigns lord-like in his domicile , surrounded with every blessing that earth , by labour , can bestow—removed to the aristocratic west end of thc town , free from the dire contagions that poverty engenders ! Now , if the upper classes will not attend to the physical comforts of their poorer brethren in providing for thorn better homes , all the teachings of the _protessors of religion will he

      useless . Let them club their money to provide them better homes , and much of the discontent , as well as typhus and cholera , will disappear . Nature has stamped certain laws upon this world , which are inviolable , and if infringed , punishment is the result 1 This punishment , though inflicted first upon the poorer members of society , will , in the end , reach , and fall heavily on those whose hearts are callous to the cries of suffering humanity . Would that genius , —that precious gift , bestowed but upon a few of Nature ' s more favoured children , —did oftener sing of the joys of home , the domestic hearth , around which the little family , doomed to figure in the world's future history , and become useful members of society , receive their first lessons

      from the lips of thoso who gave them birth . The immortal Burns had done this in his " Cotter ' s Saturday Night , " a poom which describes the joys and _sacredness of home in such language that hallows the feelings of every one who reads it . Tho working man loves home ; but if that home be wretched and cheerless he resorts to tho alehouse , and there imbibes those habits which degrade and ruin him . The erection of good and well-ventilated homes for the working classes wohW do more towards the removal of those evils , which now beset them , than all the theories of the philosopher , the orations of preachers , or the speeches of _legislators upon this subject . The educated class of ° so eiety know little of the wants and feelings of the

      working men . They gaze at tbem through their quizzing glasses , and then write novels , ana exaggerate every thing they have seen . But after all , they ave like other men , pure flesh and blood . The rich bedecked in their borrowed plumage , hiding nature ' s exquisite piece of workmanship , and the hand with their kid gloves , less the sun ' s bright rays should mar its beauty ; strip them of this clothing , and they are like the poor . Mr . Kydd next alluded to the organisation of labour , referring to two remarkable books upon tho subject—that of Louis Blanc , and Chevalier ' s reply to it—both of which have obtained universal celebrity for tbe writers ; thc fundamental idea of the first bein" _- that thc physical comfort of man must be eare " d ' for ; and the writer lifts the veil , and shews the true state of society , arguing that man is a

      physical as wen as a spiritual being . The lecturer expatiated onthe theory of Louis Blanc , at some length and stated that tbe want competition was the ruin of this land ; the man of £ 20 , 000 ruins the possessor of £ 10 , 000 ; he again , the one , who possessed but £ 5 , 000 ; and eo on , in a descending scale , till hundreds of the industrious classes were driven upon the wide world , to prey upon society , or starve ! If the man be honest , he is forced to take refuge in the Union , and is obliged to subsist upon a diet worse than that of the vilest criminal ' Chevalier , in his reply to Louis Blanc , admits aii existing evil in society , upon the question of labour but denies capital to be the enemy of it , and which he considers the . child produced by it . This was

      illustrated in a clear and succinct manner The working classes had been greatly belied as the destroyers of property ; they constituted the most trustworthy servants in banks and other offices of trust , and they had too much good sense ever to destroy the fund from which their labour was paid It is not capital that is at war with labour but it is ignorance whieh is at war with _intelligence for labour is captal itself , tho labour ofa man was that man s capital . If a man was hired for twentv shillings a week , his labour was rented on the same condition , as he , on the other band , rents a house This was illustrated by the cases of M . Le Clere and his men , the fishermen of Scotland , and from our

      own knowledge , thoso of Bri ghton who shave and share alike ! This was shewn to be the practical organisation of labour ; and if this were generally adopted , the condition of England would be different from what it is at present ; the poor instead of becoming poorer , would have become richer . The Poor Laws were spoken of as an inscrutable necessity , a kind of organisation . Theeld Poor Law agreed that as God intended there should always be poor it was the duty of the rich to support them . Lord Brougham , and the trainers of the New Poor Law on the other hand , argued , that if the poor were treated badl y , thoy would cease to be poor but this theory had proved fallacious . Now this w . n < . n

      subject ol vital interest , and required _thorough investigation—both the old and new had failed—both were wrong-fov the one argued that the rich should keep the poor-wlnlst the other wished to deter others from becoming so , by _starving tho ** who had . The Yorkshire and Laneashre neli _E moveof _vtoPMosophy of this subject ; the ,- Z has been eminently successful . It ! had heen said that it was Chartism that destroyed proDortv which was not true , it was hunger . Ifc was a wise and true saying , " that as hungry man makes in angry one" and if something wlL _TlZfXo starving thousands of our poor countrvmen a _™

      petition ofthe same bad conduct would again ensue He was sorry that the working classes did not shew a sufficient degree of self-respect ; thev had too long been the slaves of their own feeliS and honoured rich _pockety rather than wisdom the man of wealth had been their idol , before which S had been accustomed to bow , buD " knowled . ro ft power " and the only _<«* thoy should reveSo untd they , tho working classes , obtainedUnteffl ! pnee , they would not mend their _condition they Had now the means , and had onl y to apX' their minds to the task ; power would be , of lit Ervfc " to thorn without tho intelligence necessary toSet it , ihe most intelligent men were the lW _ZT

      men . _Uivil and political ri ghts were to he obtained only by mora means ; _physical force the trin l _. f Jrute , strength _wnsrepldhitcd ; nothing _cSuUrJ medy the existing evils sooner than the increasina tlie adult oi thirty acquire edueation ~ we arc _nevov too old to grow wise and hotter . _Menta an , _manuallahourorshad ever been the went eSe _£ those who had left mementoes behind ts land Ski for tho guide of future _genmtious . Mr 7 yd

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      concluded a most able and talented lecture , which had lasted one hour and a half , and been listened to throughout with the profoundest attention , by quoting an appropriate poem of Sir William Jones . A vote of thanks was passed unanimously by a highly respectable and intelligent assembly , to Mr Kydd , for his eloquent lecture _.

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      TnE RocnDALB Savings Bank . —An almost unparalleled case of iraud has come to lig ht in eon < sequence of tbe death of Mr . George llaworth , who for more than twenty years had held the office of actuary to the savings bank in Rochdale . Mr . Haworth died on the 19 th of November , and on an investigation being made on Tuesday last a discovery was made oi embezzlements extending over many years , and amounting to a larger sum than was actually deposited in the bank . The deceased actuary had kept a private ledger , in which were entered numbers of the accounts of depositors , which accounts never appeared in the books of the bank at all . Haworth appropriated this money to his own purposes , and it is supposed that before the investigation , which is still holding , is concluded , the amount embezzled will be found greatly to exceed the sum of £ 30 , 000 .

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      CORN . Mabk Lane , November 26 .-The show of samples o _Fnclish wheat this morning was small , but all but thc best _nualities sold slowly at is per qr . reduction upon last Wondav ' s prices . Of foreign the arrival was large , and the sale in retail at barely last ' s week ' s quotations , _Flonidull . English barley was fully Is per qr . cheaper , but foreign grinding and distilling , notwithstanding the largo arrival , sold pretty readily , with change in value . Uean 3 dull , but peas unaltered . Of foreign oats we have to rcnort a large arrival ; though moderate of home growth . Good samples of old corn maintained last Monday ' s quotations ; hut new were slow sale and 6 d to Is per qr . cheaper . Rye without inquiry . Linseed cakes quite as dear . _ „ „ .. , „ .... . _ .. „ . and Kentred 38

      British . —Wheat . —Essex , Suffolk , , , new s to 44 s , ditto white 40 s to _SUs , Lincoln , Norfolk , and York . _Bhire , red 35 a to 39 s , Northumberland and Scotch , white 8 Zs to 37 s , ditto red 34 s to 37 s , Devonshire and Somersetshire , red , —s to —s , ditto white — to —s , rye , 21 s to 2 tis , barley , 24 s to 32 s , Scotch 23 s to 20 s , Angus—s to —s , Malt ordinary , —s to —s , pale 52 s to 55 s , peas , grey , ! new 26 s to 28 s , maple 28 s to SOs , white 24 s to 20 s , boilers new 28 s to 31 s , beans , large , new 24 s to 2 Gs , ticks 2 fls to 28 s , harrow , 27 s to SOs , pigeon , 30 s to 32 s , oats , Lincoln and Yorkshire , feed 15 s to 20 s , ditto Poland and potato , 19 s to 23 s , Berwick and Scotch , 17 s to 21 s , Scotch feed , 17 s to 22 s , Irish feed , and black 15 s to 20 s , ditto potato , 17 s to 23 s , linseed ( sowing ) 50 s to SSs , rapeseed , Essex , new £ 27 to £ 30 per lust , carraway seed , Essex , new 26 s to 30 s per cwt , rape cake , £ 4 to £ 410 s per ton , linseed , £ 910 s to £ 10 10 s . per 1 , 000 , flour , per sack of 2801 bs _, ship , 28 s to 30 s , town , 38 s to 40 s .

      Foreign . — Wheat . — Dantzig , 44 s to 52 s , Anhalt and Marks , 30 to 43 s , ditto white , 40 s to 44 s , Pomeranian red , 38 s to 42 s , Rostock 42 s to 48 s , Danish , Holstein , and Friesland , 30 s to 35 s , Petersburgh , Archangel , and _Iiiga _, 32 s to 34 s , PoHsh Odessa , 32 s to 38 s , Uarianopoli , and 15 erdianski , 32 s to 35 s , Taganrog , 33 s to 34 s , Brahant and French , 33 s to 38 s , ditto white , 38 s to 42 s , Salonica , 30 s to 33 s , Egyptian , 23 s to 20 s , rye , 20 s to 22 s , barley , 'Wismar and Rostock , 18 s to 22 s , Danish , 18 s to 23 s , Saal , 20 s to 24 s , East Friesland , 15 s to 17 s , Egyptian , 14 s to 15 s , Danube , 14 s to 15 s , peas , white , 25 s to 27 s , new boilers , 2 Ss to 30 s , beans , horse , 24 s to 30 s , pigeon , 30 s to 32 s , Egyptian , 22 s to 24 s , oats , Groningen , Danish , Bremen , and Friesland , feed and black , lis to 16 s , ditto , thick and brew , _lss _^ to 22 s , Riga , Petersburg !] , Archangel , and Swedish , 14 s

      to 16 s , flour , United States , per 19 Glbs ., 21 s to 23 s , Hamburg 20 s to 22 s , Dantzig and Stettin , 20 s to 23 s , French per 2801 bs ., 32 s to 35 s . Wednesday , November 28 . —Of foreign grain there is a very large arrival this week , being nearly 70 , 000 qrs . Tho business doing to-day is very limited , though a reduction in prices would be submitted to . Mark-lane , Friday , November 30 . — The change from severe fl'OSt to very wet weather has tended to depress the trade , and prices of all articles tend downwards . Old foreign wheat was held for about Monday ' s quotations ; hut the busiuess done was very trifling . New very unsaleable . Barley was in _lai-ge supply from abroad . Choice old and _heary oats _supported late rates ; but all other descriptions were very unsaleable . Beans and peas unaltered in value .

      Richmond ( Yorkshire , ) November 24 . —We had a large supply of grain in our market this morning . Wheat sold from 4 s Gd to 5 s 9 d ; oats , 2 s Od to 3 s Od ; barley , 3 s Od to 4 s 0 d ; beans , 4 s Od to 4 s Gd , per bushel . Arrivals this week : — Wheat — English , 530 quarters ; foreign , 10 , 080 quarters . Barley—English , 460 quarters ; foreign , 24 , 450 quarters . Oats—English , 220 quarters ; Irish , 1 , 040 qrs . ; foreign , 32 , 610 quarters . Flour—8 !> i ) _savk 8 .

      BREAD . The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis arefron _. 6 _Jd . to 7 d _.- , of household ditto , 5 d . toGd . per 4 lbs . loaf .

      CA . TTLE . _Smitbfield , Monday , November 2 G . — The supply of fereign stock on offer here this morning was seasonably good as to number , hut of very middling quality . From our grazing districts a full average supply of beasts came fresh tohand to-day , and there was a decided _improevmenc in quality . The attendance of both town and country buyers was tolerably good ; nevertheless , as the dead markets were fairly supplied , the beef trade was in a very sluggish state , at , in most instances , a decline in the quotations of Monday last at 2 d per 8 lbs . The highest figure realised for the best Scots was 4 s per Slbs . There was a _slight increase in the number of sheep , the general quality of which was tolerably good . Prime old _Doivns _, wliich were scarce , moved Off Steadily , at full rates of currency , viz ., from-Is to is 2 d . per 81 bs . All other breeds of sheep sold slowly , at Friday's decline in the quotations of 2 d per Slbs . Calves , the supply of which was small , commanded a steady sale , at fully last week ' s prices . There was a slight improvement in the demand for pigsat full currencies .

      , Head of Cattle at Smithfield . —Friday . —Beasts , 90 G sheep , 7 , 950 ; calves , 120 ; pigs , 330 . Mondaj . —Beasts , 4 , 220 ; sheep , 25 , 759 ; calves , 106 ; pigs , 290 . Price per stone of Slbs . ( sinking the offal . )—Beef , 2 s Sd to 4 s Od ; mutton , 3 s Od to 4 s 2 d ; veal , 3 s 4 _i to 4 sOd ; pork , 3 s Gd to 4 s 2 d . Aewcjte and _Leadenuall , Monday . Nov . 26 . —Interior beef , 2 s 4 d to 2 s Od ; middling ditto , 2 s 8 d to 2 s lOd ; prima large , 3 s Od to 3 s 2 d ; prime small , 3 s 4 d to 3 s Gd ; forgo pork , os 4 d to Ss 8 d ; inferior mutton , 2 s fid to 2 s lOd ; middling ditto , 3 s Od to 3 s 4 d ; prime ditto , 3 s Gd to 3 s 103 : veal , 3 s id to 4 s Od ; small pork , 3 s lOd to 4 s 4 d ; per 81 bs . by the carcase . Smithfield , Friday , November 30 . —The supply of boasts was large , and the demand small ; in consequence a considerable number was turned out . There was a reduction of quite 2 d per 8 Ibs . on those that were sold . We had an increase number of sheep , consequently trade was very bad , at lower rates . The supply of calves and pigs was also far greater than the demand .

      PROVISIONS . The arrivals last week from Ireland were 8 , 850 firkins butter , and 2 , 210 bales of bacon ; and from foreign ports MaO casks of butter , and 510 boxes and bales ot bacon . The butter market generally remains dull , and the transactions passing of little moment ; tho finest descriptions are rather more inquired for , also low priced . Holders arc very firm . The bacon market also rules dull , and we can ' not yot notice an improvement iii the demand . Prices have declined about 2 s per cwt . Stock and delireries for the week ending Nov . 21 : —

      _% ™ P- - ,. B _*«»* _' io ., ? t 0 _^ DeJ '' 'e' 7 . Stock . Delivery . 1847 .... 15 , 610 12 , 020 1 , 750 1040 1848 .... 6 S , 40 e 11 , 650 I _. flSO 1 , 200 1849 .... fi 7 , 710 10 , 000 1 , 710 1 , 390 bNCLisii Butter Market , Nov . 26 . — Our trade generally is in a state of extreme dulncss ; nothing is inquired tor except fine new made butter , which is now very scantily supplied to us . Prices of all stale butter is drooping . Dorset , fine weely , 92 s to Dis per cwt ., ditto stale and middling cos to SUs ; Devon , new , 80 s to 84 s ; Fresh , 8 s to 12 s per dozen lbs .

      FRUIT AJfD VEGETABLES . Covext Garden _MARKET-. _—Hotuouse grapes continue to be plentiful . Pmc-applesare hardly sufficient for the demand . Iilberts and walnuts are abundant . Chesnuts p . entiful . Oranges and lemons more abundant . Pomegranates may still be obtained at 4 d each . Among vegetables , turnips are good and plentiful . Carrots the same . Cauliflowers less plentiful . Potatoes have not altered since _, our last account . Lettuces and other saladiug are sufficient for the demand . Mushrooms fetch from Is to Is 3 d per pottle . Cut flowers consist of heaths , pelargoniums , garilenms , bignonia , venusta , _tropajo ' ums _, chrysanthemums , fuschsias , primulas , camellias , cinerarias and roses .

      POTATOES . SourmvARE _, Waterside , Nov . 20 .-The arrivals of the past week have been considerable ; particularly from the caratanimL which exceeds tliree thousand tons ; all potatoes have sold heavily the last week with the exception of choice lorkshire Regents . The following ave this day ' s quota ; tions : _\ 0 rk Regents 90 s to 100 s per ton ; _IVishech _Oit « French Whites 60 s to 70 s ; _lUieuish ditto 50 . to Gas- _; _feian ditto SOs to G 5 s . '

      SEEDS . _lii' _? _. _?'• . Mo"Y _* ay .-C ' _ovei-sccd lias lately excited some _™ _t' ? i . % _£ ' vithouf " eadingto business , and quota .. - _™* _?™ . st st"u be _considei-ed nominal . An atrempt was 5 ma e this morning , without success , to establish an ad- - _foZwta « _S _° _2 l ? bl , siness cIosin '" slmv ilt i , U 0 UJ ' _othe , _r , _&« Murtard soed moved oft tardily ; and in i othei articles there was very little doing . BRmsii-Cloverseed , red 35 s to 10 s ; fine 45 s to 30 s ; ; white 31 s to 42 s ; cow grass [ nominal ] —s to —s ; linseed 1 ( per qr . ) sowing 54 s to 56 s ; crushing 40 s to 42 s linseed i cakes ( per 1 000 of Slbs . each ) £ > J _Q £ 10 0 s ' , Trefoil _\ W ¦" - ' C \ U . ) lis to ISs ; rapeseed new ( per last ) £ 28 0 s to £ -20 0 s ; '» 5 T * few ton ) U us to £ 410 s ; mustard ( per bushel ) i ) white Os to 9 s ; brown 8 s to lis ; Coriander ( per cwt . ) 16 s _Js wi ? i _\ Can ? vy < Per _

      OBEION . -Uover , red ( duty 5 s per cwt . ) per cwt . vt . _oiL ° _4 \ . dltto vvhUc _Wuty 5 s per cwt . ) per cwt . xi . :: \ l ° % " , sec < 1 ( Per qr . ) Dultic 38 s to 44 s ; Odessa 42 s 12 s £ 4 * t ' £ 410 C ! tlle ( Pe *' toHj £ G t 0 £ 8 ' rape Cake ( _per * ° ' °

      HOPS . _BoKooun , Monday , Nov . 19 . —Our makket continues in a i a _\ eiy inactive state , and the demand is limited to the wants mis of consumption . Wo notc no alteration in prices . WOOL . City , "Monday , Nov . 20 . —The wool sale 3 which com _iom meiiee next llmrsday will be larger than was expected . : wd . _ine further arrivals last week included 221 bales from ' ror _. i Germany 100 from Italy , 1 , 179 from Portland Day , audi * mU tew bale 3 from _Mogadore , & c . _Liykrpooi ., Nov . 21 . —Scotch—thero is no _improveim-nt _m-nt to note in tho demand for laid Highland wool ; white _nte n _'ii- so _uuil . t or the best Cheviot and crossod wool there is ; ' e is _;« tau- demand at our quotations .

      I Printed By William Rider, Of Ko. 5, Maeclcskctd-Iw Ef. Tn E

      i Printed by WILLIAM RIDER , of Ko . 5 , _MaeclcsKctd-iW ef . _tn e

      N Xne Parish Oi St. Aniin, Westminster, ...

      n _xne parish oi St . Aniin , Westminster , at tlie l _' rintir . _fr-. omcc , W , _, Great Windmill-street , llavmnritct , in the _* _''">"; _O onVest > _iHnstci- _foi-tliet roprietor FfiAl _! _Gli'SO'COX _> ' (> ;' ; . _''<*> _r-sq . M . P ., and published by the said William ILiukk- ••' ek . the Ottice , in the same _stveeunu parish .- Sati . _** _- . i _« _- December 1 st , 1349 .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 1, 1849, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_01121849/page/8/