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therefore , at the committee were una . imoas on tbat point , he should support the second reading of tlie bill , Which was then read a second time . Hosim . -LtK-FAcr-BE Bill . —Sir H . _HiiroBD , in rising to move the second reading _oftlik hill , ebserved , that he conld have no di __* c _ Ity * nmaking . _ ttbeex--me distress and misery of these workpeople . The degradotioa and distress of tie framework _Imittera became a subject of comniisseration and . jmjj-thj many years _ainee . In 1819 a man , to whose memory ieicestersbire looked back as to that of one of the first of her wen- its —Robert Hall , then a minister of religion _«* I _* i « _- «< -r - ( _hearl-made an appeal on behalf ot the suffering framework - _ itt « ¥ , and spoke of " redaction of wages snch as to place the means of _.- bslstence tetaHy out That
ofthe reach ofthe indaslrions poor , " adding ,- " theUtoareris wortl . yof . bU hire , is as _mnch the dictate of reason as it is of Scripture ; and if there be any spectacle which diocks the natural feeling of justice it is the sight of industry rewarded with famine , ofa life devoted to severe and incessant toil without the power of _procurin-j the means of its own support . " ( Hear , hear . ) Tbe _distreis retamed afterwards with aggravated force , and badcomin _. cd to the present time . In IS . * a commission was appointed by the Crown to investigate the subject f _. Hv , and tbe commissioner made an able and elaborate report . He adopted in that report the statement of a witness : " That while stocking-making had been unpressed by any competition with inanimate power , or even factory regulations or influence , it
remaininjr s hand domestic employment almost without exception , tiie rate of wages waa piobably of less average amount than that realized in any other department whether ' of skilled or even unskilled labour" The commis doner added , that within tbe last 30 years , the progressive reduction of wages would average , through the whole range ofthe manufactaie _, SO to 40 per cent . The wages , which were 7 s . when Robert Hall wrote , had fallen to __ s . 6 d . for the same article in the three yean ending inlSil . The commission had issued , after a period of fuller employment than nsual , but the commissioner stated the average earnings of each frame at from Ss . to . s . per week , and there had been a great reduction since then . The commissioner took , net a fancy article , which might have par-ally gone ont , bnt one ofthe most
_staple , and regular , and ordinary articles in the trade , made in narrow frames by manual labonr , and which had never beea interfered with by the application of improved machinery or steam power ; and the gradual depredation of this article was from 7 s . Gd . per dozen in 1 S 15 to -is . Cd . in 1811 . The commissioner remarked the consequence * snch low and scanty wages in tbs want of comfort in the dwellings of these people , and in their wretched supply of clothing . In the evidence which he took , Ur Allen , chairman of 8 board of guardians , stated that the women , in their confinements , were often altogether without clothes and bedding , and that the destitution and wretchedness of knitters were so great that relief had been granted them although in work , the objection to grant relief in aid of wages being *
overruled by the hardshi p * and sufferings of the applicants . Another witness said , " Wages are reduced to the ministtimofexis-tence ; ne set of men in the conntrybave to endure such privations as the _stotkingmakers of Hinckley and the neighbourhood . " Mr Biggs said , —" Hun . ger and distress are fast destroying all honesty in one sex and chastity and decency in the other *** another witness— "Females are in that state of wretchedness that they are indifferent abont appearances altogether ; their spirits are depressed and broken . " The Bev . TStapleton— "Whole families sleep in the same room , and sometimes three and even five in abed . " ( Hear . ) Another witness , T . Chaplin , said— "There are hundreds of people ia'Hinckley who have ns bed to lie on , and scarcely any furniture of any sort in their houses ; there
are many families who exist on about lid ., and from that to Is . a head per week . The increase of demand brings so increase of wages . There is no more work to be done than men are able to perform , and bas been for a length of time ; bnt wages kept falling , notwithstanding thenis Ench a demand , and the quality of the goodsincrea . es . The goods are superior every week to what they were . " Again : —** Almost invariably the framework knitter is wedded to histauU * , and by his poverty-stricken state all his family are so too ; they are born to it , they remain tbere , and they die . * ' ( Hear , hear . ) Education was ont of the question , except at the Sunday _schoel ; the parents could not spare tbeir children ' s labonr ; aad frequently they were kept from the Sunday . _sohool for want of clothing . The Rev . G . Dealt , j -stated , "the
children of framework knitters do not attend the Sunday-schools in proportion to their numbers . National schools , if established here , wonld be utterly useless , the parents being too poor to spare their children from work after 5 or C years of age . " Bow these being the facts , would the bouse refuse all considerations of the case t ( Hear . ) Ha ( Sir H . Halford ) did not ask any hon . member to pledge himself as to details ; he only asked tiie second reading of the bill , and proposed then to refer it to a select committee , that tbe responsibility might be shared moreextensively , and & foundation well laid for legislating npon the subject . ( Hear , hear . ) The causes of the distress he had described were not inherent in tbis manufacture ; it was the manufacture of staple commodity , an article of universal . use . it
might almost be said of absolute necessity . It was pressed by no competition with power ; and fashion bad not affected themain articles of production , those used by the mass of the people .: ( Hear , hear . ) Compare the condition of the same class of artisans in Saxoney with our own . The Saxons had supplanted ns innearly all third markets ; their exports to the United States alone in 1843 were three times the amount of oars to ail the world , and Mr Felton stated in his evidence that that the dwellings ofthe Saxon artisans were mnch better fnrnished than those of our own , and tbe workmen appeared clean and decent in their condition and circ __ is _ i _ . es . It was the same also in Scotland , as to which he _( SirH . Halford ) had the evidence of a Ltieesterman , who went thsre and examined into the
condition of the knitters ; the . wsges there were a third more for hosiery goods than in England , and the trade was free from the vicious practices this bill was intended to snppress . ( Hear . ) A petition had teen presented to that house b y the Leicester framework knitters engaged nnder a system of no frame-rent and charges , and working in frames belonging to manufacturers with _, ont being subjecUd to any deduction from their wages , and theyfrom their own experience prayed the house to pass tins bill and place others onalevel with themselves . ( Hear . ) The great complaint of the workmen was founded on the heavy deductions made from their wages ; there _was 40 percent difference , jbetweenJtheir ' grossearn . ings and what they actually received A heavy rent was chargedfor each frame , and the workmen were obliged I
to find a placefor it to stand in , and to pay for this if he had it notinhis own honse , and sometimes even if he had . He had also topay the middleman . Frame-rent varied in amount , and was very often excessive ; it formed a deduction from the wages , regulated by no fixed rale . Many employers were themselves hostile to the system , but had not been able to meet the undue advantage which its discontinuance wonld give others , ( Hear . ) Mr Biggs stated that frames were a good investment for a manufacturer , if he could sell the produce ofthem as it was made . He himself employed 1 , 000 frames in 1885 and 16 $ .. The demand , he observed , was greater than conld he supplied , though wages did net appear to have risen .
The frame rent paid in for tbe two years was £ ., 100 , against which he tet interest of a capital of £ 8 , 000 , supposed to be the value of the frames , at S per cent , for two years , £ M 9 , and cost of repairs £ 2 , 45 ., tbat sum _covering wear aad tear , and patting depreciation of the property , according to his own admission , ont of question ; in all , £ 1 , 250 had tobe deducted from £ 5 , 119 , which l « ft £ 1 , 950 forthe two years , or £ 97 . a-year net profit , besides £ 5 per cent , interest on the capital invested , and all tbe profits from the sale ofthe article ; making in all 17 i per cent , interest " on the capital . In tiie case ofagreatb -nkraptcy the frames , _amottntibgto 490 , ware soldfor £ 1 , 35-.
" The rent ef these frames , if employed , " said the com . mlssioBer , " would , according to the custom of Leicester , range from Is 3 week upwards , according to width and gauge , and therefore would have realised a rental of £ 21 awaek _, at least , or upwards of £ 1 , 009 peran . onaproperty the intrinsic value of which was proved to hava been bnt £ 1 , 350 ; the expenses of keeping them in repair would have to be deducted , and of _course the rental at any periods they may happen to bs totally unemployed . " Ms Bouitbee 8 r . _o-i , a frameimith at Hine-2 _sy was asked— "What do you think is the fair
average expense of repairs in a year , one frame with another— -ie common narrow frame !—3 d . or ' . _£ _ . _ _-week wonld keep them in capital good repair ; that would allow them good _insides , and every thing to keep th « m ap to tbe mark . " " And would yon undertake te do a large number for that 1 " To be sure I wonld , and _should like to do it : — £ s . d . £ . t . d . . 00 frames for ... 1 , 85 _» 6 0 3 T 6 Runt _ t ... _ _- wee _ ... 1 , 600 0 0 Bedactrep-u _ -t 3 jd . _ -week . 03 6 8 695 W 4 Mora than » per cent , " Mr John Alvey said—" The total number of frames in Bui well making gloves and long hose , which are made in one kind of frame , is 550 , and the average value is £ 6 a frame , making the aggregate value £ 3 , 300 . Each frame will pay Is . 6 d . rent , th-spaying annually for the 556 frames tha sum of £ 2 , 140 . Tbe bagman ' s charge is ls . a-week for taking in one man ' s work , amounting annually to £ 1 , 430 , so that for a capital of £ 3 , 800 invested in frames , the rent is £ 2 , 145 , and all that bas to coma ont of th » workmen ' s annual wages . The grievance wat greatly aggravated b y Sie system of middlemen , who took work from tke _mannf-cturers , making one bargain with the manufacturers and another with tbe workman . These ptraons iad tha workmen absolutely in tbeir power . A case c f _DEpresriea was mentioned in evidence by Mr lbs-lorn Harnett , wbo as chairman of a board } f guardians , had an opportunity of becoming acinai-ted with tha circumstances . A man resided with " . pauper widow ; himself , wife , and two children com-Josed his family ; he rented a room upon condition that ie should also rent two narrow coarse stocking frames . Each of those frames was stinted to 12 a week ; he paid Jd a week rent for each frame , standing * d . each , inn-i _ g 6 d . each , and taking in 6 d . ; and the rent of lis room was is . 3 d . To a young man in bis cirenmitances , the stint to both frames was aot sufficient work ' or we frame . Tha distribution of work « ras in the isnds of the middlemen , who went to the manufacturer nd took out the _wsrk . By means ofthe _irregolar ] pitta th ** _au-fthwwm __ _Ui ta _«____ - __ -tha fair
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manufacturer ; and hence depreciation and depression in the trade . Thc objects of tht bill were three—first , to do away _trilb the subcontractors ; secondl y , to do away with frame-rents ; and thirdly , to require manufactures to make entry m their books of tho wages actually paid . They bad been told that they would find a panacea for their grievances in tha . repeal of the Corn Laws . The repeal of tbe Corn Laws , however , had brought no relief ; and . he thought it would be easy to show , that the adoption of a system of free trade added infinite strength to theiv claims . Free trade was a national challenge to _-on-p-tition . He had alread y shown tbat the hosiery
manufacturers of tins connttybad beeb supplanted by Saxon competition ; and , if free trade were adopted , it wonld be still worse , for there would then be an entire absence of protection to thtir manufacturers . What he ( Sir H . Halford ) " asked for on behalf of the stockingmakers was nothing more than fair play . He wanted them to be on an equal footing with their Saxon competitors . Ho believed that the main _provic _aatof the bill were suth as wonld be found absolutely necessary ; but , being anxious tbat the subject should undergo the fullest consideration , and that nothing should be done rashly , he should propose , if his bill was read a second time , to remit it to a select Committee .
Mr W . Ettis said that such full evidence had already been taken on the subject , that he saw no occasion for referring it to a select committee . The distress of these unfortunate wearers was attributable to tbe state of tbeir trade , rather than to any circumstances which legislative interference could obviate . No slight amount of their misery , indeed , was owing to their own improvi . dence , to tbe early marriages into which they rushed without any means whatever of maintaining their progeny , the consequence of wbich was , a constant large increase to the population connected with a branch of industry , the demand for tbe products of which so far from extending , was diminishing . There were , no doubt , abuses in the present system , but there were advan-. tages in it which far more than counterbalanced the evils . He denied that the middlemen were tbe exacting and oppressive persons described by tbe honourable baronet
As to tha actual wages received by these operatives , though , doubtless some branches of the trade were very lowpaid , yet , on the other hand , there were branches ol it which produced the operative from 15 s . to 25 s . per week . The improvement of the condition of the operative classes rested forthe most part with themselves ; they would find no benefit from legislative interference ; lhcy must improve , they must elevate themselves ; they must abandon tbeir reckless , improvident habits . The extinction of the frame-rents * proposed by hen . baronet , wouid be most cruelly to many induftrious men who had purchased frames oat of their former savings , and now made a little income out of them . It was a delusion to expect that any good could be derived frora sending the btll to a committee . The hon . member concluded by moving that the bill be read a second time that day six months .
Mr Gisbobkb did not see how the house could obtain more information than _> t already possessed . The bill before the house was , in truth , another factory bill , being supported by those who bad undertaken to show what was , " a fair day ' s wages for a fair day . work . " ( Hear , hear . ) He Admitted that it was sometimes necessary to make up the wages of framework-knitters out of the rates . The real truth was that the trade was so Excessively overstocked that no improvement could be looked forin the condition of thekmtters _. exceptfromthe diminution of tiuir number . All the education grants , factory bills , and other measures of the same kind , includinir this
hosiery bill , were attempts to solve the same problem . Hitherto tiie working classes had struggled manfully with their position , buthe now saw the commencement' of another , tale . f things . Persons from amongst the working classes had been found in all the highest classes of society , including the bench and the walks of art aud science ; and he prayed the honse to take care aot to interfere with the natural state of things . He called upon her Majesto ' s Ministers to express then-views on the question before thehouse . Mr M . Gibson rose about half-past five to address tbe house , but he was interrupted by
Mr Greene , who said that unless tbo house intended to divide tbat evening , it was not desirable to proceed with the debate , as tiiere was other business on the paper . The debate was then _adjonrued until Thursday . The other business on the paper was disposed of and the house adjourned at six o ' clock . THURSDAY , May 6 . HOUSE OF LORDS . —Lobd _Biodohak asked if it were true , as reported , that a deputation of bankers had waited upon the Prime Minister upon tbe subject of the money . panic , and , if so , what was the result ! Hehad heard that di 6 co __ _nts had risen to twelve and thirteen per cent , and he knew that several manufacturers in tbe north had stopped their mills , and refused to execute orders sent from America , because they feared they eould not obtain money to pay their kands . The Marquis of Lansdowne answered tbat a deputation of bankers had waited upon Lord John Russell that day , but he did not know the result of the conference .
Poos . Law Relief _Ibe _. and Bill . — On the house going into committee on this bill , Lord Monteagie moved an amendment on the first clause , tbe object of whicli was to limit the bill to a certain period , to be thereinafter named . Tbe noble lord contended tbat , as the government had admitted tbe measure to be a most perilous experiment , they could not , with any show of reason , object to making the bill temporary . The original clause was supported by tbe Marquis of Lansdowne , the Marquis of Clanricarde , the Earl of Devon and Earl Grey . Tbe amendment was supported by the Archbishop of Dublin , Lord Brougham , the Earl of Ross , the Marquis of _Westmeath , the Earl of Haddington , the Earl _Fitznilliam , and tbe Earl of _Sbrswsbury . Their Lordships'committee divided—For tbe amendment—Content 63 Non-Content ... 50
Majority against the Government ... 13 . The clauses limiting that portion of the bill which introduces the new principal of outdoor relief , as amended by Lord _Mo-I-acee , were then agreed to . . ' Lord Star ... moved an amendment , the effect of which would be to give the power of appointment of tbe relieving officers to the Poor Law Commissioners instead of to the Board of Guardians . This amendment was lost . The house adjourned at a quarter past twelve o ' clock . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Sir Wi __ iah Tebneb called attention to the importation firearms into Ireland . Mr La-OCoheb- assured ths honourable baronet that tbe state of Ireland was most anxiously considered by the government , and the prevalence of the sale of arms had not been overlooked ; but they had not deemed it necessary t * retort to an ; extraordinary measures to secure the public peace , such as an Arms Bill or a Coercion
Bill-Mr Bright moved for a select committee to inquire into the progress of the cultivation of cotton in India . " Sir 3 Ho _* aa < i _. &_ weuld _» t oppa-b tbe _appoVntment oi th * committee . Lord G . _Bcti-iKCE was proceeding to speak on tho subject , wben tbe boase was counted oat , and tha membera present adjourned . FRIDAY , Mat 7 . HOUSE OF LORDS . — A few clauses in the Irish Poor { Law Bill were agreed to . Nothing of public im . portaucs transpired , On the Uth clause , which provided that whenever tha rate on the electoral division should exceed 2 s . 63 . in the pound for the year , any surplus rate should fall on the union at large— .
Lord S _. AX-E _. moved the omission of the clause , Tbe noble lord showed that the mode of rating proposed by the bill was unjust , and one whereby the good landlord would be made to pay for the defaults and neglects of the bad landlord . This clause wonld operate se as to exonerate the towns at the expense ef the rural districts . Half-a-crowninthe pound was , in the present state of tbe country , a very low figure t . consider an extreme amount , and was very far from what conld be called a confiscation of property . Earl Gair objected to the principle that erery proprietor ought to be liable to maintain the poor on his estate , which was the principle contended for by Lord Stanley . This clause was framed by the government as a fair compromise between contending difficulties . Tbeir lordships ' committee divided—For the clause . . ' ** Againstit . , 73 Majority against the _govtrnmeut —10 Th « clause was , therefore , a truck out ofthe Bill .
FRt » AY , Max 7 . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —To a question from Sir B . Hail , Sir G . Gret stated that hehad received information that since J _ nury last , 180 , 000 Irish paupers had been landed In Liverpool ; that of these between forty and fifty thousand had emigrated ; and that from sixty to eighty thousand remained in Liverpool . Ia conic * _quence of statements mad * to the Home Office that steamboats bad brought over paupers in a stato of fever , instructions had been forwarded to the authorities and Custom House oSoers in _Liverposl to provide for the establishment of hospital ships , and to take other sanitary precautions . To a question from Major Lai aid , Mr F , _Macii said that it was resolved that the soldiets' minimum ptntioa _« f 6 d . a day should be raised to 8 d ., and that , in addition , heshould be entitled to his good conduct pay .
On the order of the day being read fer going into Committee on the Punishment of Vagrants ( Ireland ) BUI , Lord J . Russell , in answer to Mr P , Sccope , said that it was not his intention to presB the measure , unless the general Poor-law Bill became law , as It would be unjust to deprive persons ofthe privilege of asking alms for their support who received none nnder the present law . The bill then passed through Committee , at did also the Poor Removal Supervision ( England and Scotland ) Bill . Tb * Poor Relief Superintendence ( Ireland ) Bill was reads second time .
The remainder of the night was taken up in Committee of Supply on the miscellaneous estimates , and the house adjourned till Monday .
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II ___ . —The shareholders of tins branch will meet at the house of Mr Wm . -leaning , Hyde-lane , on Sunday , May Oth , at two o ' clock in the afternoon . noli . —The shareholders meet every Monday evening , at . the Ship Inn , _Chorch-lane , at half-past seven o ' clock . Haiipax . —The _Bhareholders are requested to attend a general meeting in the large room , Ball Close Lane , oa Sunday , May the 9 tb , at two o clock in tho afternoon .
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GUILDHALL . —R ichard Hart , a _paperstainer , was summoned by his employers , Messrs Williams and Co ., of Smithfield , forrefusing to fulfil a contract he hnd en * teredinto with them to work as a . journeyman for a year , at tbe prices set forth in a list , Mr Cooper sapported the complaint , and Mr Ashley appeared for the defendant , or rather the Trades' Union to which h * belongs . Joseph Boyle , a foreman , was called to prove th _« refusal to work . On the 18 th ult . he took tbe defendant some border work of . the description "included iii the item 29 in the contract li- t . fpriceB . He told the defendant it was an order taken extremely low , and he could not afford to giva him more than l _ d , ptr piece , according to the list . He did aot make any answer then ,
and witness went to him again in the afternoon , when be said he would not do Ihe werkat that price . Witness said he had no other job to give him , and be put on bis clothes and went away . He produced Ihe pattern the defendant had refused to work . One w „ s a border for a room , and there was another ofa corner to match . Two _corners occupied tbe whole breadth of the paper . Of tbe borders , fonr were printed . n the breadth , Bo that the piece ef 12 yards would make 48 yards of the border . He explained that the question raised by the workmen wa ' whether these corners were to be deemed " decorations ' as by the list works coming within that description were ' to be paid by the day , instead of by tbe piece . He contended tbat a corner to match a border , and delivered witb the border , was a part of it . "Borders" were to be
done at _l _£ d . per piece . Mr _Hessetline _. of the firm of _Hinchcl _' _n . and Co ., _paperstalners , consider the corners part of tbe borders , and the same price was paid for making a piece of each at his works . When a man bad to mix his colours for a small quantity af aay pattern he was always paid by the day . The price per piece would not be a compensation . What he called decoration work was where paper was prepared for a whole side ef a room , and from 159 to 500 different blocks were used . Mr Aubert , a paper _stainer , said tbat there were borders without corners , and borders with them , but it was all border work . In answer to a question from Mr Alderman Hunter , he said the public were required topay a trifle more for corners than for borders only . William Cooper , jun ., a member of tha firm of Williams and Co ., stated tbat at tbe same price per piece corners were more profitable to the workman than
herders _. The work refused by the defendant was done by another hand wbo earned £ 2 a week at it . . For tbe defendant , Thomas Cox , of Fair-street , Horslejdown , defined decoration . A corner was a decoration , because it waB _uselessby itself , and a border was complete by itself witbout it ; it was an unnecessary addition , ' and therefore , ornament or decoration . \ Alfred Gilchrist urged that corner work should be paid for at 6 s . per day instead of by the piece , because it required much more care and patience to produce the best effect . A man working by the piece could not be expected to bestow the necessary pains . Other witnesses were examined . Mr Alderman Hunter , after a very long investigation , said it was a nice matter , which would be much better determined by the arbitration of a respectable workman and master . Mr Asbley and Mr Cooper assented to this coarse , and the arbitrators were _named .
MANSION-HOUSE .-Stamino bt . a Bot . —James Whitehead , aged 12 , was brought before the Lord Mayor npon the charge of stabbing Elizabeth Corbet , a girl , aged 15 . The prosecutrix stated tbat she was servant to Mr Fletcher , of _Widegatcstreet , Bishopgate . Last Sunday evening , about nine o ' clock , while she was conveying some mugs of tea through Widegate . street the prisoner spat in one ofthem ; on her return sbe boxed bis ears , upon which he deliberately stabbed ber in the arm with some sharp instrument . City _polict-constable Jobn Spittle , 671 , stated that , having heard that prosecutrix bad been stabbed by a boy , he went in pursuit of tke latter , and apprehended him ( prisoner ) about nine
o'clock , it-en he admitted' tbe stabbing , but said be did it with a piece of tin ; but at the same time handed over a small bnt sharp penknife which be said he took out of his father ' s drawer a few days before , bnt said be did not inflict the wound with tbat . The surgeon to whom tb * prosecutrix went , said that she was covered with blood , which flowed from a deeplong wound in tbe arm ; the wound was one inch and a quarter long , and three quarters of an inch deep , and although not dangerous , yet _theinstrnrnentbad gone very near the main artery , aud had that been penetrated , the result would doubtless have proved fatal . The Lord Mayor said be would again remand the prisoner , and he had no doubt it weuld be his duty to commit him for trial ,
CLERKENWELL . — SwiroiiKG an » Foboekt . — Charles Madell and Henry Edwards were placed at the bar before Mr Combe , charged with having been con . cerned in various swindling transactions , to a considerable extent . Madell was also charged with having a forged bill of exchange . Mr Wontner attended for the prosecution , and Mr Byard , from the office of Mr Sidney , successor to the late Mr Flower , of Hatton-garden _, for the prisoners . The court was crowded by tradesman who had baen swindled , and the greatest interest was manifested , Theprisoner * it appeared , havebeen for a considerable time past practising their deceptions about town as " duffers , " and obtaining goods under faleo pretences ; Madell being tbe principal actor , but each prisoner taking by turns the prominent part . Their plan was to call npon jewellers and other tradesmen to
request gold chains and otber articles in . tbeir trade , to be shown on approbation , representing tbat they would introduce ready money customers , but on obtaining the goods they were instantly pledged . Tbe prisoners were at length detected by Mr Samuel Elliot , dressing-case maker , of Jewin-street , City , and given into custody for stealing a morocco dressing-case under the above circumstances , when , in consequence of the report of their examination , a host ef tradesmen came forward to exhibit charges against them , on several of which they were fully committed to Newgale for trial . Mr Joseph Robins , German doll-maker , of _Crown-street , Finsbury , then preferred a charge against Madell of uttering a forged bill of exchange . for £ 11 . Evidence being adduced in proof ofthe charge . Mr Combe decided on committing bim for trial , buthe will be brought up again for the case to be completed .
GUILDHALL . —Is A Son bound to Maintain his Motheb . —William Mark Clarke , printer and publisher , of Warwick-lane , was summoned at tbe instance of the parochial officers , of Horsmonden in Kent , for refusing to allow bis aged mother a weekly maintenance . Atthe onset the defendant objected to the summons , as it had sot been properly described , and therefore the case could not be heard . The Alderman told bim be had appeared to it , and that was aU that was required . The defendant then gave his right name . Mr Joy , the ' assistant overseer of Horsmonden , said tbat the defendant's _mother , who was eigbty years of age , was in th * receipt of Ss . a week from tbat parish . He had been to the defendant's , and told him it was a pity he did not support his aged mother . Defendant remarked thathe bad a fa ; milyof bis own , that he could not allow her anything , and that they conld not make him , The mother ' s husband was also liable to tbe parish . She bad tnice been married . The defendant was by the first maTiage .
With considerable _accuteness the defendant argued that the " woman" had not been proved to be his mother , but even if she was , bis business was net in so promis _. lag a state as to enable him to support her . Iu answer to Mr Alderman Wood , he stated tbat he rented a house in _Warwick-lane at £ 6 Q , and another place , at £ 40 a year . Bid not know whether he employed fifty or ten bands . He would show tbe magistrates privately that bis pecuniary affairs prevented him ' maintaining her . Tbe ma . gistrateB accordingly retired to their private room with the defendant . In ten minutes they returned , when Mr Alderman Musgrove observed that , after consulting Mr Alderman Wood , he was of opinion that , by the mother ' s second marriage , the son was reliered of all liability of maintaining ber . 1 ? hat law was clearly expressed in the act under which tha information wa * laid . Tbeir decision was not on the merits ofthe case , but solely on a point of law . Mr Alderman Wood briefly , and in a rery pointed manner , confirmed the judgment of his brother magistrate .
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Leeds . — A branch of the National Land and Labour Bank has been commenced here : ; Mr , Joseph Hewitt , agent . Meetings as usual on Monday evenings , 'to receive contributions for the land , from eight to nine o ' clock ; and for the Bank , from niae to ten o'clock . _Mari-eboni . —At a meeting _« f shareholders held at the Coach Painter's Arms , Circus-street , on Sunday erening , May 2 . The accounts of the district wa audited and found correct . Messrs Bayeton , Corderry , and Hutchins wereappointed Scrutineers , and Mr Aldon ' s Treasurer . The thirteenth rule wiil be discussed on Sunday evening next . The chair to be taken at 6 o ' clock .
_ Mbtbopoiixak Commiiibe . —On Wednesday _evenr int last this body held its usual , weekly meeting . Several sums of mosey were handed in on account of thelateBenefit . After going through some other business , Mr Tapp gave notice of a . very important subject for discussion on the next night of meeting . It is expeeted that every member will be present . The committee adjourned till Wednesday evenin- ; , at 8 o ' clock . Oldham . —On Sunday last , Mr James Williams , delivered a lecture in the school room ofthe Working Man ' s Hall , in which he exposed the evil results of the present artificial state of society , and recommended tha labouring class to union and co-operation as the only means of bettering their condition . Pktbbboro . — A meeting was held here on Monday
week , for the adoption « f the National Petition , Mr A . Scholey , Methodist local . preacher presided , Mr C . Theobald , moved tke first resolution in an effective speech , which was seconded by . Mr S . Auckland , _MrThomns Clark , of the Chartist Executive , supported the resolution in a speech of great length and eloquence , which was enthusiastically responded to . The petition was unanimously adopted . Pudsbt . —Lately Mr Shaw of Leeds lectured here on the principles ofthe National Land Company . _Pudsey until lately has been too oelebrated for vice and ignorance , but a better state of things has commence .. Temperance , Chartism , and the agitation ofthe Small Farm System , as embodied in the Land plan , have done and are doing much to effect a reformation . There are CO members of tke Laid Company in thia _village .
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_RADJOBD _' -Mr Douse delivered a very _wtwcsting and instructive lecture in t _^ P _TV S _.: _« : pie , on _. Monday evening last .. A _votorfthanksja s - nanimously passed to the lecturer . The following officers _werechosen --Joseph Simmon s , W . Ly go and W . Sheppard _, Committee ; S . Cotter , Scrutineer , James Saunder ., Treasurer ; Samuel Saunders , beeretary ; Joseph Sandom and' Thomas Lowe , Auditors . / - , -ni * . _*« So __ o .-The Central Registration and Election Committee met at the Assembly Rooms , 83 , Deanstreet , Soho ,, on Tuesday evening , May 4 th . Mr J . Milne in tbeobair . Mr Stallwood read a letter he had received from Sir B . Hall , Bart ., M . P _., enclosine acheauefor £ 5 , towards the funds for
promoting the agitation for Repealing the Ratepaying Clauses in the Reform and Registration Act . ' . Some very pleasing information was reported of tho propress made in the ; borough of Nottingham . Mr Ernest Joiies applied for , and received , some addresses and claims to register for the borough of Halifax ; Some information was also _requested and ordered to be obtained respecting the borough of Carlisle . Mr Stallwood was authori _ ed to write to several members of Parliament and others for pecuniary assistance to carry on tbe agitation , and the meeting was adjourned until Tuesday evening next , May Hth , at eight o ' clock . Thk Metropouta . Dei-gats _Coumiit-e will assemble forthe transaction of business , on Wednesday
evening next , at 83 , Dean-street , Soho . All parties holding tickets forthe late benefit , are requested to settle for them at thc meeting aforesaid . Tbe ballot for the O'Connorville print announced to take place on the 10 th inst , is defercd till the 19 th . Mr M'Grath will lecture atthe Assembly Room , Dean _, street , Soho , on Sunday evening next , To commence athalf-past-geven o'clock . The adjourneddiscussion on the propriety _« f permitting the sale of allotments in the National Land Company , will be resumed in the assembly room , 83 , Dean-street , on Sunday even _, ing next , the chair will be taken at six o ' clock . Wakefield . —Resolution passed ' . —Moved by Mr Thos . Gill , and seconded by Mr Ellis . — "That
allottees selling their allotments to non-members will prove injurious to the company as tending to open a field for speculators and gamblers . " _Yorksbirb . —The West Riding delegate meeting wai held on Sunday , May 2 nd , at Littletown , delegates present : —Halifax , J . _Crostand ; Bradford , W . Clark ; Dewsbury . E . Newsome ; Littletown , J . Hadfield . J . Hadfield in the chair . It was resolved , " That Mr W . lBrooke of Leeds , be invited to _pregide atthe Peep-green meeting" "That localities intending to hold camp meetings may have the names ofthe local lectures , by applying to the West Riding secretary . '' 2 nd . That the next West Riding meeting be holden on July 4 th , at the association room . Bradford . "
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FORTHCOMING MEETINGS . Bf . rmon _ . ~ t . —The member- of ihe Chartist Association will meet on Tuesday erening , to appoint officers , Ac . for the _ensuin _? quarter . Li---AM _Imb-noTioN , _Jobn-street , Fiizr _» y-square . —On Friday , May Utb , Elihu Burritt will deliver a lecture . on the "Philosophy of Labour . " Ma-Y--bo _** _ Locality . —A members' meeting will take plaee oa Monday ereniag , May 10 , at the Coach Painters' Arms , Circus-street , New Road , at eight
o ' clock , for the purpose of nominating the new council and a secretary . : . Martxeb-ke . —Oa Sunday erening , May 9 th , Mr C . Doyle will deliver a lecture at tbe Coach Painters - Arms , Circus-street , subject , '' The present state of the Country . " Chair to be taken a 8 o ' clock precisely . SHOR _ DiTcn .--. On Wednesday eroning _^ next , May the L 2 tb , Mr Broome will lecture at the Railway En _* - fiie Coffee-house , 132 , Brick-lane , sear Churchstreet . Chair to be taken at 8 o ' clock . Subject : " Home _Coloni-ation . "
Tower H . mlbis . —Mr W . W . Broom will lecture at the Globe and Friends , Morgan-street , Commercial-road , oh Sunday evening , May 9 th—subject , "Monarchy ; its influence . " To commence at 8 _O-lock . U-H . ITABIAN Socisiy , Hall of Scienoe , near Finsbury-square , City-road . —Next Sunday , May 9 , Mr G . J . _ lo ] yo « ke will lecture . Subject ; " Unseen Enemies . " The erening reading by Eugene .
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BILSTON . On Tuesday evening week a public supper was held at the house of Mr Linney , Hig __ -street _, BiIstoH , to present the secretary to the Land Company with an engraved plate of O'Connorville , beautifully framed , as a token of esteem ; and to celebrate the departure of Mr Short to O'Connorville . The supper was served un in first-rate style by Mr Linney ; after which Mr Vero was appointed to the chair _. and proposed tbe following toasts and sentiments : — 1 . " The directors ofthe National Land Com-Eany . " Responded to in an able manner by Mr linney . . 2 . " The National Co-operative Land Company , may it progress rapidly , and raise the toiling millions to a state of independence and comfort . " Responded to in ah eloquent and impressive speech by Mr Jennings . i . " The officers of the Bilston branch of the National Charter Association , and thanks to them for their past services . " Responded to in an able manner by Mr Beddows _;
5 . _"ThevictimB of class-made oppression ; may they live to see the Charter made law ; together with the political exiles , and a speedy return to their native land ; also to the memory of the illustrious dead of every age and clime . " Responded to in an impressive and energetic strain by the old and venerated viotim _, Daddy Richards . ., _! _.-,. 6 . ** Mr Short and his free brethren of 0 'Co _ norville , may they , by their industry and exemplary conduct , accelerate the progress of the Land plan . " Briefly responded to by Thomas Almond . 7 . . ' Our worthy host ( Mr Linney ) may he long live to disseminate tbe principles of the Charter . '' Responded to in an eloquent and powerful speech by Mr Jennings . 8 . "The health of Feargus _O'Conuor , Esq ., audi
success to the 'Northern Star . '" Responded in a speech couched in sublime and powenul language by Daddy Richards . "We ' ll rally around him , " was then sung , and after thanking the chairman , the company dispersed , all highly pleased with the night ' s proceedings . " " Birmingham . —At a meeting held atthe Ship Inn , on Thursday evening , April 29 th , Mr Stephenson in the chair , for the purpose of considering the best means of supporting the Land Bank , the following resolutions wera unanimously passed : —Moved by Mr Fussell , seconded by Mr Witheridge : — " That the members ofthe Land Company , meeting at the Ship Inn , agree to form a money club , for the purpose of assb-tiug the Land and Labour Bank , and
a subcommittee be now elected for carrying out the above object . " _MeBsrs Fussell , Potto , and Jearn were elected as the committee . After a lengthened discussion as tothe weekly amount of subscriptions , it was moved by Mr Newhouse , and seconded by Mr Lyndon : —That the lowest amount subscribed , regulate the weekl y contributions , but that anyone may take an unlimited numberof shares . " Sunday Evening , May 2 . —Mr Stephenson inthe chair . After the secretary had done _receivinc the subscriptions of the Land members , the chairmau announced that there was a subscription open for the purpose of assisting the Central Eleetioneerin _. Com .
mittee . The sum of thirteen shillings and sixpence was coUected ' and ordered to be _forwardddto the committee , and several names were then entered for the Bilston ballot . The members meeting at the Ship erneatly recommend to their brother democrats throughout the country , to support the ballot . Blackburn . —At the weekly meeting Joseph Bibby was appointed secretary , The books was audited and found correct . * _ Boltok : — At the general monthly meeting the Local and Land accounts were declared satisfactory _andpaBaed . James Lord was re-elected scrutineer ; with thanks for his past service .. The local levy was ordered to be ono penny per week per member .
_Cirenc-sikr . —Atthe monthly ' meeting avote of thanks was carried unanimously to Christopher Bowly Esq .. for granting the use of the Temperance room , and finding gas and firing through the winter . The meetings will take place the first Wednesday in every month , at the Temperance room , Sheep-street Lane , at eight o ' clock in the evening . Ob-Bnwich and Dktfori ) . —The Chartists and members ofthe National Land Company residing i _ the above locality , have commenced subscribing to the Ballot for "The _O'ConnorvilleJTea-tray , " oa behalf of the Widows , Orphans , Veterans , and Victims Fund ; and they earnestly implore their
_bratherChartiat _. and friends in every looahty throughout the united kingdom , to give their support to the above noble and praiseworthy objeot . _P-terbqro ' . —Oa Tuesday week Mr Clark one of the directors of the Land Company , delivered a lecture here on " The _objects and progress ofthe Land plan . " The lecture lafted two hours , interrupted only by the cheers of the meeting , and a vote of thanks to Mr Clark , testified the satisfaction of his audience . A like compliment was paid tothe worthy chairman , Mr S . Auckland . Another -visit from Clark on an early occasion , is earnestly hoped for by the democrats of Peterboto ' -
Rochdaie . —bn Sunday afternoon , we had a good meeting of land members , when we enrolled ten new members . Daniel Nuttall was appointed scrutineer . _Somehs Tows . —Tbe following resolution has beeadopted : — ' * That it is the opinion of this meeting that the preseut system of selling allotments is in juriouB ; and we are of opinion that more satisfaction _" _aSado ted » ° rigmal plan ° f areae _** iH 8 t _Valboit LavEK . ~ The shareholder , of the Alexandria branch have passed resolutions in favour of the next Conference being held at Lowbands in July next ; and of _c-nfideale in M OW _. _' _a-d thank * to him aud the other Directors . '
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Furthcoming meetings . _Berhob-set . —A public meeting will be held at the Paragon Chapel , Bermondsey New-road , on Mondayevening May 10 th , at 8 o ' clock , to explain the principles of the National Co-operate Land Company ; Ernest Jones , Esq ., and Messrs M'Grath and Thomas . Clark will attend , and address the meeting . _B-BMOkdsbt , —A public meeting will be held at the Paragon Chapel , Bermondsey New-road , near the Bricklayers' Arms , on _Mondayevening , the 10 th inst . at 8 o ' clock precisely , for the purpose of explaining the principles and objects of the National Land Company , when Messrs M ' Grath , Doyle , Kydd , Gathard , Stallwood , and other friends of the peoplo will attend .
C a __ . k _ we __ and Walworth . —A public meeting ofthe shareholders of tho Chartist Land Company and National Charter Association , will be held at Harrison ' s Assembly Rooms , _East-lane , Walworth , on Monday evening , May 15 th , to elect officers for the locality ; to commence at eight o ' clock . Mb Clark will visit Boston , Spilsby , Louth , and Lincoln during the ensuing week . _Norion-Foloatb .-Mr M'Grath will lecture at the _PewterPJatter , White Lion-street , Norton-Folgate , on Tuesday evening , May 11 th , at 8 o'clock . C . Doyle -will lecture on the following Tuesday evening . The members are requested to attend next Thursday . The Committee for getting up an excursion to O'Connorville , will meet at the same time and place . South Loudon Hall . —Mr Gathard will deliver a lecture in the above Hail on Sunday evening next , at eight o'clock precisely . Subject : — " Practical Agriculture as applied to Small Farms . "
To O'CoKNORra-E . —A party of friends belonging to the Land Company , will start from the _. Volunteer Ta ? eru , Limehouse , at six o ' clock , on Whit Sunday morning , for O'Connerville . Every place in the van has been taken for weeks past . . Such is the tide of opinion setting in , in favour of the company , that the same parties could fill two other vans with friends . Towhr Hamlets . —A general meeting ofthe Whittington and Cat branch will be held en Sunday evening , at seven o ' clock precisely , when business of the utmost importance will be brought before the members . The paid-up members are particularly requested to attend . : Wandsworth . —A public meeting in Bupporl of the National Land Company-will be held in the National School Rooms , oorner of Garratt-lane , on Tuesday evening , May the 11 th . Messrs . Philip M'Grath and Edmund Stallwood will address the meeting
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THE BALLOT ' . The ballot for fifty-fire prizes on one hundred and seventy-seven acres of the Mathon Estate , commenced at Dean street , Soho , on Monday evening , the 3 rd Hay i' The chair was taken at six o ' clock , by Mr William Cuffay ; and Messrs Watson , Hopkins , Kingsnought , Boaz , Pocock , Humphries , and Gardener , were appointed a committee for conducting the ballot . The prizes to be drawn were as follows : Section No . 1 , —Eight four acres ; three three acres ; four two acres . Section No . 2 . —Thirteen four acres ; four three acres ; eight two acres . Section No . 3 . —Eight four acres ; three three acres ; four two acres . ¦ The ballot commenced with the two acres in
Section No . 3 . The prizes were drawn as follows : — Thomas Ashman Mells , Somerset 161 Robert _Heppinstall Hull 3 _ Robert Baines Newcastle-upon-Tyne - ? 0 Jobn West Wheeler ' s List 11
THREE ACRES . Robert Winter Hull 18 Henry Oliver Newport _Pagnell 26 Mathew Brown Wheeler ' s List 64
FOUR ACRES ; Stephen Cox Smethwick 548 Williiim Colston Derby 4 . 9 ThomaBNewssome Dewsbury 631 William Lambert HI Thomas Lambert , and John Tattersal ( Family Ticket ) Burnley 411 , 412 , 413 Thomas Franklin Limhouse 514 Robert Jarvis Wheelers _. List 506 The Family Ticket , engrossing three prises . This concluded the third Section . * The Two Acres in the first Section was next proceeded with , the prizes falling as follows _;—John Robertson Stalybridge 35 Thomas Hallsale Chorley 1567 Richard Daniels Wheeler ' s List 1976 Dennis O ' Brien Alva 1383
POUR ACRES . Edmund Gee 'Wigan 350 * 7 , 3509 John Ramsey Glasgow 177 Joseph Smith . Rouen 6061 Thomas Barlew Manchester 1661 Walter Kenworthy Manchester 585 . 586 Williams James Merthyr Tydvil 1929 John Livesey Simpson And Esther Hunt , _„„_ -:-:- ' . ( Family Ticket ) Manchester __ 65 , 1087 One o ' clock having arrived , it was moved _. seconded , and carried , that the further proceedings of the Ballot stand adjourned until Wednesday evening , at eighto'clock precisely . __ _., -. „ _, Ws-kesdat Evekis « , May the 6 th—The Ballot was resumed at eight o ' clock . Mr William Cuffay again occupying the chair . and Messrs _Souttr , Milne , S . Ford , Jun ., and D . Watson , acting for tho absent members of the Committee .
The Three Acres , First Section was then drawB , tlie prizes falling as follows •—John Kay Ashton 32 James Watson Dewsbury 1 , 624 , 407 Alexander Cleland GlaBgow 55 The Two Acres , Second Section , next followed , the prizes falling to the following : — JohnTeague Bilston 649 Mary Clarkson Addingham , Yorkshire 20 Isaac Goodall Market Lavington 707 William Grey Market Lavington 690 6 . H . Buddlecombe Southampton 32 Edward _Edesbury Wheeler ' s List 2 , 038 William Dart Exeter 2376 Thomas Hope Ledbury 2167
THREE ACRES . John Buswell Banbury 9 George Cox Nottingham 1080 , 1090 Thomas Savill Halifax 1607 , 138 Donald Robinson . Edinburgh 793 , 62
__* 0 * _"R ACBKS . Thomas Lainchbury Kidderminster 1965 , 1966 J . E . Benton Greenwich : 1030 , 1031 Daniel Powell Merthyr Tydvil 1878 , 1879 Charles Richardson Sheffield 112 , 113 William Jarrett Wheeler ' s List 1390 , 1391 John Lawton Retford 1564 , 1565 JoitnRice Bradford , Yorks . 65 John Kinross . _andS 861 , 362 Andrew Kinross 2351 , 2352 ( Family Ticket ) Alva James Brand Sleaford 1520 , 1521 James Carew Manchester 921 , 922 Jobn Miller Newton Abbott 75 , 76 James Wakeman Torquay 273 , 274 The Ballot being now concluded , a vote of thanks was given to the committee and ohairman , forthe impartial manner in which they had conducted the Ballot , and the meeting dissolved .
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COR _5 , & c . - Mabk _ ai _* i _ , _Monday , May 3 rd . —The _ttmperaturc c » ntinues very low , - and the accounts received from th _» _ngricultural dUtricts begin to speak with less . confidence of our future prospects . Under existing circumstances , a bad or even an indifferent harvest wonld place this coun . try in a dreadful position . . That the quantity of grain remaining in tlie hands of the farmers is Mtremely short can no longer be questioned ; every day furnishes fresh evidence of . tbe fact . Whether prices rite , or whether they show s tendency to decl ' ne _, no increase takes place in the deliveries from the growers , and we can therefore come to no other conclusion but that the stocks are so far reduced as to render the _Holders indifferent about _realising . Tlw reports from the northern and eastern parts of turope are of a very exciting character , and it appears but too evident thatthe scarcity of food is as great in many parts of tho continent as in Ireland . _FromDantzic we learn ,
under date of 3 _< th of April , that wheat of inequality had been actually sold at equal to 77 s per qr . free on board , and that many holders had declined selling at that price . It was sail that thc sending of Spring corn from Peland _diwn the Vistula had been prohibited . The accounts from Konigsberg are of a similar character ; and at Rostock , Stettin , and other places in tbe Baltic , the excitement appears to have been to the full as great as at Dantzic . To-day a very limited quantity of English wheat came to hand either coastwise or by land carnage , hence the show of samples of that description of produce was trifling . This circumstance , together with the presence of several buyers from France / caused tlio English wheat trade to rule very brisk , at an advance in the quotations paid on Monday last of from 5 s to , in some instances , 6 s per qr , and at that amount of improvement the whole of ? he supply was speedily cleared off without the slightest and observe that
difficulty ; we may we never witnessed more excitement in the market than was the case to-day The quantity of foreign wheat on offer was very trifling ' hence the sale was extremely brisk , at the rise in the curl _rencies oflast week of from 4 s to 5 s per qr . Barloy rose 2 s ; malt , from ls to 2 s ; oats , 2 s per qr . flour adva need vb per sack . M a __ _- _ ani , Friday , May 7 . —The supplies latelybrought forward byfarmers have proved « i _ vtt . im \ _-lequiit to meet the consumptive demand , aud , as the millers and dealers are nearly out of stocks , whist merchants hold very little grain of any sort , there is certainly no prospect of bread stuffs receding in valuo until supplies on a large _scalo reach this country from abroad . . The rise since Monday may be estimated at 2 s per quarter on all qualities . . British . —" iVhcat : Kent , Essex , and Suffolk , old red , 84 s to 88 s ; new red , 87 a to 81 s ; old white , 87 s to 93 s ; new ditto , 90 s to 95 s , Norfolk and Lincoln old reds , 81 s to 80 ; old white , 87 _» to 90 . Rye , 48 s to 54 s . Barley , griuding 44 s to 47 s ; distilling , 48 e to 54 s ; malting , _49 B to & lB . Malt ,
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Brown , _« 7 s to C 9 s ; pale , 72 s to 75 s . Oats , _EngUih t * ., 83 s to 37 b ; Poland , 3 _ls to 33 s ; Scotch feed , 33 s tov ' Flour , town made , 70 s per . 80 _ _i 8 . _¦*¦* _FoR-ior-. —Free wheat , Dantzic and Konigsbunr 7 „ , 78 s ; Mecklenburg , 70 s to 75 s ; Russian , Ms to » - , Barley , grinding , 42 b to 45 s ; malting , 45 s to 50 s . Oat ]' Russian , 28 s to 32 s . American flour , 40 s to 42 s per 1691 k , ' Richmond , _-okkshibk , May 1 . —We had a _tolera . _ t supply of grain in our market this morning , which had a brisk sale , at an advance on last week ' s . ' prices . * lVh « ? sold from 10 s to 13 s ; oats ,. 3 s Cd to st ; barley , 6 s to 6 s 3 d * _beansfisO- to 7 s , per bushel . ¦ » CATTLE , < 5 sc , _Smitufisld , Monday , May 3 . —There was avcryl W (( ft number of foreign beasts hero today , or nearly 705 head * but that of sheep and calves was small , viz .. 120 of th * former , and 18 of the latter . Nearly the whole found buyers at very full prices , From our own grazing dis
triets the arrivals of beasts fresh up this morning were moderately extensive , but th « quality was not equal _s that exhibited on thisday week . The attendance of town and country dealers was tolerably numerous , while tbo beeftradewas steady , though not to say brisk , at _fuu , but at nothing quotable beyond last week ' s prices . The supply of lambs was large , occasioning adirline of 2 d per 81 . 9 . Course and inferior beasts 3 s 2 d to . 3 s * Id , second quality ditto 3 s fid to ts Sd , prime large oxen 3 s 10 ' to 4 s 2 d , prime Scots 4 s 4 d to 4 s fid , coarse and inferior sheep 4 s 2 d to 4 b 6 d , second quality ditto 4 s 8 d to 6 s , prime coarse woollen sheep 5 s 2 d to 5 s . Gd , prime south donn ditto 5 s 8 d to 6 s , large coarse calves 4 s 4 d to Ss , prima small ditto 5 s 3 d to 5 s 6 d , large hogs 3 s 8 d to 4 s 4 d . neat small porkers 4 s Cd to 5 s , lamb 5 s 2 d to Cs 2 d , per 8 Ibs to sink the offal , suckling calves 19 s to 30 s , and quarter old storo pigs lCs to 21 s each .
POTATOES . _Bonoran and Spitalfie _. _ds , Monday , May 8 . —Coastwise , as well as from abroad , the arrivals of potatoes have been on the increase during the past week . All kinds aro in heavy requests , at barley stationary prices . York reds 240 s to -Cos , ditto Regents _SOOs to 210 s , Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire _Regents 220 s to 240 s , ditto kidneys 200 s to to 220 s , Dutch 180 s to 200 s per ton . -A— .
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STATE OF TRADE . Manchester , Saturday . —During the week tho market has _continued to feel screrely the effects of the monetary pressure . Experienced men say that there was probably a less amount of business transacted in Manchester last week than for several years . The want _' of confidence and general stagnation increased as the week advanced , _untiS it may be said that business was brought to a complete stand . So material change can be reported in the price _, of goods , but yarns may be bought at somewhat easier terms than those of last week . The cotton market participates in thc general depression .
Leeds , Saturday . —The state of the money market , the high price of alt kinds of provisions , and the , backwardness of the spriug , tend very much to restrict operations in the woolen market , ' - All parties act with the greatest caution . _Bradfobd , Saturday . —The unsettled state of the _monej market lias tended to depress the spirits of the buyers _^ who are how only supplying their immediate wants on a very limited scale . Nottingham , Saturday . —The improvement in the laee trade during the past week has not baen commenturato with our wishes . Therehas been a slight but by no means brisk demand in muslin , both edgings and dresses , for the American markets ; but that for Germany haa been unusually flat for this season . The Belgian orders are very limited , and one house at Brussels ( not a very " e _ tensive ) one ) has recalled its agent and suspended its regular du __ .
chaseforsix weeks . The high price of provision , both _afi home and abroad , and the tightness of the money market * must necessarily operate injuriously upon such a peculiar business as the lace trade ; and we hear that several machine holders have still further stinted their hands so as to limit the supply tothe demand . Hosiery . —We have experienced another week of depression throughout tho most branches ofthe trade , with scarcely any _amoant 08 basiness doing in any department , the general trade being , for the season , far worse than even could havo been anticipated . Leicester , Saturday . —There is not the slightest im . provementto be noted in the home demand , which , if anything , is still more depressed than it was last week . Employmcnt is , consequently , becoming more scarce , and many more bands , we hear , . will be turned off this week ; This state of affairs seems likely , to continue for soma
time . _S-OC-pobt , Saturday _.-r-The condition of the working class here is nearly as bad as it was in tho years of I 8 U and 1812 , that fearful period wben " Stockport was to let , ** and when the overseers of the poor had upwards of 2 , W 0 empty dwellings on tlieir books 1 And well taay it be the case , when we consider that nine-tenths of the labourers are connected with the cotton mills , which are affording only half work , with provisions double the price , and reati and local taxes as high as at any period when the necessaries of life were only half the price , and wages wero double .
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ALARMING STATE OP THE MANPFACTnillNff DISTRICTS . The following account of the condition of Lancashire and its trade is abridged from the monthly trade circular of Messrs Fergusson and Taylor , of Manchester : — " When it had been ascertained that the failure ia the potato crop , and the deficiency of yield of certain cereals last harvest , amounted in money value to a loss by tho nation of more than twenty millions sterling in one year , it became evident to all who reasoned on the matter , that such a calamity must inevitably derange our monetary affairs , and lead to a temporary prostration , at least , of our manufacturing industry , and some embarrassment to our ordinary commercial enterprise . It was clear that tills deficiency in the native supply of the food of tbe people , would have , to a large extent , to be met by imporU ations from foreign sources , and whether such supplies
were paid for by commodities or money , the nation would be impoverished in its resources to the extent of th _. deficiency in the returns ' of her own fields ; since those importations would not be , as in the case ofan abundant harvest , an increment to previously existing wealth , but , on the contrary , would have to be balanced by a draft on past savings , and the future products of our industry , The crisis has at length arrived . The effect of the tightness in the money market has completely paralysed the trade during the past week . Buyers are unwilling to ex . tend their liabilities , and therefore contract their operations within the most limited compass , confining their investments principally to mere parcels for assorting stocks _. Spinners and manafacturers , on . the other hand , viewing no probability of an immediate revival of demand , are reducing production as much as possible , by working short time or closing their mills . In Manchester , out of 177 mills , employing 41 , 000 hands , 51 mills , employing 12 , 500 hands , are working short time , _and' 24 mills , emi " E loying 7 , 500 hands , entirely stopped ; in _Ashton-underyne , Stalybridge , Dukinfield , Mossley , Fairfield , & c .,
out of 211 mills , of 6 , 470 horsepower , employing 27 , 500 hands , there are -1 , 301 horse power , with 18 _. 0 S 2 hands , only working four days per week ; in Stockport , out of 55 mills of 3 , 648 horse power , and employing 14 , 592 hands , there are 40 mills , of 3 , 165 horse power , employing 12 , 860 hands , that are only working three days a week , and 15 mills , of 423 horse power , and 1 , 092 hands , are entirely stopped ; in Bolton , out of 53 mills , of 1 , 425 horse power , employing 7 , 070 bunds , there aro 3 S mills , of 842 horse _oower , aud employing 4 , 250 hands , working on average 4 "; days per week ; in Oldham , Crompton , Royton , Chadderton , Lees , and neighbourhood , out 182 mills , above 100 , employing 17 , 000 hands , lire working only six and eight hours per day , and about 12 mills , employing 2 , 000 hands , ave stopped altogether ; in Rochdale , Royton _^ Todmorden , Whitwortb , and neighbourhood , out of 3 t 5 mills , employing 10 . 061 hands , there arc 109 mills , _wit-13 , 011 hands , working short timo , and . 1 mills , with . 3 , 141 hands , entirely stopped . In Blackburn , Preston , and Wigan , ' short time' and stoppages are . extending . It is calculated by many who are now running full time to stop entirely , for a short time , at Whitsuntide . "
Food Disturbance On The Continent. Sieit...
FOOD DISTURBANCE ON THE CONTINENT . Sieiti ** , April 24 . — This morning a mob made an attack on the supplies of potatoes brought to market and accompanied by a countless multitude of women __ __ and boys , proceeded to almost all the bakers' shops , j * seized the bread , and destroyed the furniture and other articles . It happening to be the day of the fair : the stalls were not spared , those with provisions were plun- > dered , and many excesses committed . It was not till the 1 drums beat to arms , and till tho troops assembled at the _s places that were threatened , and patrolled the streets , and I several of the desperate rioters were arrested , thattran- . quiility was in some measure restored . A proclamation 1 is _everywhere posted in thc streets ; tlie citizens , dis- - tinguished by a white ribbon on their arms , act as a guard ; ;
the military were provided with ball cartridge , and a hope a was expressed that the public tranquillity will not be 3 further interrupted . _Apiiii 25 . —The military not being able to quell tho 0 riot , and thc soldiers , officers , and general , being pelted 1 with mud and stones , it was at length necessary to fire , by y wbich several persons were wounded and two killed . The e violence of tiie rioters surpasses all belief . A drumine _. _ was attacked , and so dre . dfully ill-treated thathe died d soon afterwards ; the perpetrators escaped . Som e fears , ' 8 of incendiary fires wera entertained , so that patrols of if tbe citizens and military have pervaded the streets ts during the whole night . This morning onr garrison in has been reinforced by detachments of troops and id cavalry .
_NU-gUnUBO , April , 27 . —An _ti-txule , caused by the dear- __• - ness of provisions , took place in the city yesterday even . m . ing . Public rumour had pointed out M . Sclilee _, a bour-irgcois ot the town , ns a forestaller of corn , and it was de-letermined to give him a charivari . A large mob _asaem-mbled in consequence before bis residence , and on the policeice interfering to disperse thtm a shower of stones was sud . id . denly discharged -against the house . The military _werene then summoned , and the place cleared' by charges of of cavalry . The populace , nevertheless , raised a barricadeide atthe entrance to a bridge , and repulsed tkesoldiersers with stones ; but on the cavalry attacking , the barricadeide in flank , the mob took flight , and in their retroat brokeAe the windows ofthe houses of two corn merchants . . 0-1 * 0-wards midnight the rioters were dispersed , and the sol-soldiers returned to their barracks . _Sixty-one individuataate have been arrested .
Berm * _-, April 27 . —Investigations respecting the _dis-ilis turbancesare continued with great activity . It is uni-miversally reported that among the persons arrested ther _. _ier _. nre many students from the Gymadsiura . J __ -S-e ., April 24 . —For some days past the bakers ofs oi this city have not had sufficient flour to furnish an an adequate supply of bread to their customers , whichhich has caused a considerable excitement amongst all all classes .
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( From the Gazette ot Tuesday , May * . ) Ann Collyer , Stoke Hammond , Buckinghamshire , cowcow » keeper—George Home and Alexandor Macleod Burgherghe _!! _Clienpside _, City , booksellers—Thomas Stirling , sen ., and and ) William Stirling , Strattord , Essex , _slaters—RobertCoganigani Leicester-square , glass merchant — George Southwellwelll Whitstable , Kent , baker-William Rolph , Billericay ' _cay-Essex , innkeeper—James Cooper , Billericay , Essex , catucatuii salesmen—John Alfred Trimmer , Brentford , victualler-tler--Johu _. _' ulleine , jun ., Sc'by , Yorkshire , _brewer—Franciianciu IUppingale , Thrampton , _iNottinghamshire _, auctioneer-eer—John Munks , Sheffield , licensed victualler — Bicharchani _Burkiiisha-v , Sheffiel I , shurobroker—Thomas Robinsomisoai Liverpool , Wacksmirti .
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street , Haymarket , in the City of Westminster , at that tin 0 _ k'e ,. iii the §„ me Street ami Parish , for the Pro l ? roo prietor , FEARGUS O'CONNOR , Esq ., and publishelishee by WiLMAU Uewirr , of No . 18 , _CliarJes-street _, UraDUram _don-strett , Walworth , iu the parish of St . Mary , New , New * ington , inthe County of Surrey , at tho Office , So . lto . Itt Grcat _Windinill-. _treot , Haymarket , iu tho City ot"i \' est " i \' est 1 _ini-ster . Saturday / May 8 th . 1 M 7 ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 8, 1847, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_08051847/page/8/
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