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Che peat question which now oecupied thei pubhc _j-iarl ( Here the ma-fled shoate of oPP _** _- _"" and _Ar _^ lieame so loudthat Mr Bright w _« unable _towoseedforaahort time , and both Mr Denison wpr-j _^ _iuraauo . _^ rf totne meeting to Sf _sfood _ffihern « the advocate of those _S-dE which Sir C Bardie , had propounded to Sectors- ( Censiderable uproar . ) He was sure Sat therespectable portion of his opponents did not _ponatenauce _*^ 0 Utc * T n ° _*** _% made * Th e was no man favourable to free election and to public discussion who would make such an unseemly outer ? as proceeded from that comer . ( Mr Bright winced to a part of tbe hustings occupied by a
porav _. _ . - ~ __ _ .. _ A ____ \ Ifl _* . _nnathfVinntion of Mr Denison * * supporters . ) Alter speaking against the' Church Endowment Bill , ' and lauding the benefits of 'Free Trade . ' Mr Bright called on the electors before next Thursday to use their utmost exertions in favour of their candidate ( Sir C . Eardley ) . York and Lucaster , with their millions of population , their industry , and their intelligence , had worked ogetber before now . having the help of the liberals in every part of tne country . There were still great things in store for them ; great principles fo be upheld , and great victories to be obtainedgreater epulence and content remained to be spread over the vast extent of this great empire . He came forward to support SirC . Eardley because be believed him honest aud intelligent , ( Cheers and
interruption . ) Mr S . Dbnisok next presented himself , and was received with great cheering , which was met with cries of disapprobation from the opposite party . After some time he proceeded , amidst conflicting shouts , to state , that with respect to Free Trade , he never yet when in Parliament opposed any proposition in furtherance of the reduction of duties . _^ But he _suspected that there were many persons in this kingdom who did not think tbat they had got all tbose advantages which had been predicted from tbe application of the principles of Free Trade . ( Hear . ) Tbe manufacturers of Bradford and Manchester
ealled out for Free Trade in com because the Corn law made wages high- ( Cheers and hisses . ) The Corn Law bad been abandoned , and he said now deal out equaljnstice to alL ( Cheers . ) He said to the manufacturers , ' You have got the abolition of protection as regards the agriculturists , now give up in your tarn all duties which protect your manafac _. turesjand prevent ns dealing tvith foreign manufacturers . ' ( Great applause . ) They had no Radicals aad Chartists in the _agricaltoral districts . Those parties were all fostered in the hotbeds of seditionin the . msnufacturing towns . There they were told tbat the ballot , universal suffrage , and tbe voluntary system , wonld be a great means of relieving them from oppression , and that if those measures were carried , they would live in a land of milk and
honey . He did not believe it . ( Hear , hear . ) Man was doomed to labour . Some mig ht be rich , but many must be poor , and the labouring classes were the foundation of society . They were the workinr * bees of the hive , and he advised them that while they took what part of the honey of their own _construction they could get , still to work hard in industry , and not to be deluded by the gewgaws of Political Economy , and not to be blinded by the notion that the ballot or universal suffrage wonld relieve them from that necessity to exertion and labour which was the lot of the great mass of mankind . Mr Denison then stated his views on Retrenchment' and' State Education , ' and made a premiss tbat no temptation should ever induce him to give a vote which should tend to endanger the Constitution in Church and State . ( Loud cheers . )
An Elector inquired whether Mr Denison , if a measure to which he was opposed were supported by the party with which be coincided , would adopt the measure , or vote in respect to it on principle ? MtDbnison replied , that principle would be his guide . ( Cheers . ) The Elector then inquired why Mr Denison bad abandoned his colour and his principle at the present election ?
. Mr Denison denied tbat he bad abandoned his principle , and said be had nothing to do with the colour . If hon . gentlemen who _hadbeen in tbe habit of opposing him formerly now thought proper to vote for him , he shonld thank them , and think they did right . He wonld even thank the present querist if be should vote for him . ( 'Hear , hear , ' and laughter . ) In answer to another question ,
Mr Denison said he would not support , a measure far the emancipation of the Jews . Mr Ktdd then came forward and was received with tbe most enthusiastic applause . When silence was obtained , he said—Electors and non-electors of the "West Biding of Yorkshire : It has never been my lot to hear better sentiments , than some of those I have just beard . Sir Calling Eardley bas sent you an address clothed in the classical diction of refined language , and rich in tbe sublimity and philosophy oi Christianity . It contains the golden sentiment , 'Whatsoever yon wonld that men should do unto yon , do ye even so onto them , for this is
the law and the prophets . ' By this standard , then , wUl I judge the honourable baronet . Why does tbis professing Christian refuse to grant to bis neighbours the privileges and rights he claims for himself ? Tbe words ef the text are unmistakeable and expressive This is thelaw ; ' then why not establish it ? Is it tbe law of God given for the guidance of manthe standard of perfection , we are to endeavour to approach as nearly as frail humanity can approximate to divine perfection ? Does the honourable baronet believe these words to be the law of God ? Then why is he false to the object of his adoration—can be be in tbe same breath false to God and true to
man , or can he be false to man and trne to God ? Oh gentlemen ! how men—vain , ambitious men—will quote holy writ for the most infamous of purposeshow they will interpret and deceive nnder the guise of religion . Beware of them , I beseech yoa—• They are wolves in sheep ' s clothing . ' They assume the cloak of virtue as the covering for vicetheir professions are false—their prayers a mockerytheir aspirations an insult—their assumed devotion a blasphemy , and will you dare to elect such men to represent you in parliament ? Mr Denison , on the other band , has—for once in his life—attempted to be poetical and eloquent , and he assures you , that
the Radicals and Chartists bave promised to lead their followers into a land 'flowing with milk and honey ; ' and , he continued' I do not believe this : man is doomed to labour ; some must be rich and many mnst be poor . What means this learned gentleman 2 Is the term man universal ? if go , are not all men doomed to labour—and if the many labour they perform their part of Nature ' s contract—and if the few do not labour , but live consuming in wanton extravagance and idleness tbe produce of the many , they violate Nature ' s contract—tbey plunder , pilfer , and destroy . Tbe Chartists offer their followers no ' bind of milk and honey ; ' they say man is related
te the material universe—as the great worker and _regenerater _, for bim tbe earth is filled with minerals , the air witb gases , and it is his right and duty to wield the bounties of Nature by bis intelligence , and to earn bis bread by tbe sweat of lis brow . This is no new doctrine—the dream of no enthusiast _~ _rthe ravings of no fanatic . It is a fundamental truism , subscribed to by heathen and Christian philosophers , and , like all other great troths , it is imprinted in tbe every-day actions of men—that in England the few are rich and many are poor , is a sad and ominous truth . If it were not so , you would have been spared the trouble of listening to the speeches of
both parties , for without tbe influence of wealth both gentlemen wonld be unnoticed and unknown ; neither their genius nar learning would distinguish them from the commoa herd of men , and strip them of their propertied dignity , and they stand before you fallen , naked , and dependent things . Mr Denison is avowedly the apologist and defender otthe bind owners of England . They are bis clients , and he is to be specially retained for their defence , Let me remind Um of their position how and tbeir positisn some thirty years back . The rental of land in England in 1814 was £ 37 , 666 , 347 . In 1843 . £ 45 , 753 , 615 , showing an increase of rental
annually of not less than £ 8 , 000 , 000 . The rich have grown richer the poor poorer . Strange enough , too , there are 287 , 000 persons fewer employed in _eoltivating the land atthe bitter period , compared with the former . From the reign of George III ., to the death of William IV ., there were passed in England , by ber landlord Parliament , not fewer than 2 , 000 Enclosure Bills , robbing the labourers oi 6 , 000 , 000 acres of common lands , every inch of which has been added to the fields of tbe rich , and
pilfeied from the _paor . England ' s landlords bave ousted her yeomanry from their homesteads—her cottagers from their hearths—and , after having vio . lated every tie that conld unite labour in allegiance to property , they spoke of the landlord interest as the great interest of the empire , and Mr Denison is here as tbeir especial representative . The Tories had governed . Theirs was the government in the reigns of George III . and George IV ., and Eagland had now a recollection of the days of Sidmouth and Castlereajb . We cannot forget the Tory legacy ol
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war , which has left us a debt in perpetuity , burthen ing at the same moment our industrial powers of production , and our commercial enterprise , The Tories have governed , and theirs was the government of brute power and thumb-screw persecution . Mr Denison assures you that York Minster will tumble to decay , aad St Paul ' s Cathedral be ground to dust if you give not to hia your unqualified support . One would fancy that he was the great star of the Church , and that broad pillars , massive arches , aud Gothic windows , could not exist provided you refused to support his pet mammo th monopoly . Do not tremble , I beg of you , at this _iile threat . The Church is a grave for reason , and a
sepulchre for spiritual life , if she administer not to the wants of the age , and be not supported by the suffrages of the people . If returned to Parl ' _ament- (« ! aug b ) -be liked that laugh , it shook the bile off tbe stomach of Toryism , and relaxed the muscles of long-faced hypoensy-( laughter ) -he should feel it his duty to move for the total abolition of the New Poor Law , and the establishment of the principle of the 43 rd of hlizabeth . Lord Brougham's name had been mentioned with eulogy . His lordship had , years ago , earned for himself the charactet of England ' s most erratic and eloquen t babbler , and it would be a prodigy in politics provided the same
constituency could elect the sceptical barrister and the pious missionary . His lordship and his coadjutors had promised that the New Poor Law woald save England from mm , cultivate self-reliance among her peasantry , abolish poor-rates , increase the value of property , and banish vagrancy from her shores . The experiment had been tried at the cost ofdElOO . 000 , 000 sterling . Sixteen years haveprovedit to be a costly and most undoubted failure . We bave this hour in England , one million and a half of ablebodied unemployed poor , which may be said to represent some thiee or four millions of paupers ; eur streets and gtols are filled with vagrants—property is decreasing in value , and the _rate-payeis
were doing their best to pinch and starve them to save their own incomes —( Cries of No . ' ) No I no ! you cry . He called tbe silent but fearful annals of the past to witness . —Let St Pancras and Andover speak . ( Cries of'Hear , bear * . ) If each parish had the whole and sole management of their own affairs they would devise some means for tbe profitable employment of the poor . ( Cries of Hear , hear , ' and' No , no . ' ) Remember , you negative gentlemen , that I am in Yorkshire , sui rounded by many gentlemen who know Huddersfield . —In 1842 , a small sum of money was advanced by the London Relief Committee , for the support of a few necessitous families . Tbe committee of management rented a barren piece of ground named Farnly _Tyas ,
on which they employed the men they otherwise mnst have maintained in idleness . The experiment was most successful , and yielded an actual theugh not a great surplus . In Sheffield , not eight months ago , the paupers were grinding corn with handmills in the workhouse—aud they became riotous and unmanageable ; they had since been employed in cultivating the land ; and I speak on the authority of Mr Orerend , who I believe is Chairman of the Board of Guardians , and declare that the results have been gratifying—morally , physically and financially . Is this correct , gentlemen of Sheffield and Huddersfield ?( Cries of'Hear , hear . ' ) Never again then affirm tbat tfae poor must starve , whilst you bave an acre of uncultivated or half-cultivated land in the
realm . Whether the Church should govern or the Chapel should rule , was of importance , but a much more important question was , how could tbe people be most profitably employed ? ( hear , hear . ) He would now come to the question of Free Trade , referred to by both candidates , and he was the more pleased to do eo in the hearing of some of tbe leaders of the Free Trade party . He did not accuse those gentlemen of insincerity , they may have been honest in their intentions—and we are now in a position to fairly judge of their principles and policy . The advocates of tbe measure promised that good trade and employment of tbe people would be its results . The first sue months of this year , according to the returns
of the Board of Trade , showed a decrease in the official value ot our exports amounting to £ 5 , 286 , 969 sterling . Have our workmen yet bad the high wages and plenty to do—the specious promises of the professed followers ofthe Smiths and Says ? Where , I ask , are the triumphs of tbe measure ? Where are its benefits ? Look to this island—for whose wealth tbe winds of Heaven seem to blow—covered as she is with the mantle of agriculture , and studded with the gems of arts and manufacture , and you everywhere behold indigence in rags , and patience ia desspair ; tbe shop 3 without a customer—tbe merchants without aledger—the Exchange deserted—tbe Gazette crowded , and the people without food . These things
exist—yon see them before you , and your vaunted commercial policy affords no relief . A moment's reflection would prove that Free Trade could in no way improve the condition of our people . A peace of upwards of thirty years had changed the internal industry of every civilised nation . Belgium , France , and America were no longer our customers , bnt onr rivals ; the improvements of Arkwright , Hargreaves , and Watts belonged to others ; genius cannot be monopolised , its influence is universal . America , possessing an inexhaustible land and water power , her bowels rich in mineral resources , and her navy commanding justice in all national treaties , was destined to ruin us in the race of international
competition . America competing against England-England against America . Bright against Fielden—Fielden against Bright . The results were cheap goods , lor * wages , and excessive labour , followed in turn by protracted idleness . I challenge the Free Traders to point me to a single instance in the history ofthe world , in which a nation continued to be great , depending upon foreign demand for the employment of her people . Such an illustration is nowhere to be found . Lord Bacon—with the correctness of a great thinker—has prognosticated tbe decay of all states chiefly depending on trade for their success , and England will prove no exception to the rule . I bave read of nations being ruined by
war and conquest ; other states bave decayed because of sloth and gold ; but it bas been reserved for England to nun herself—to become impoverished by spoils , and conquered by ber successes . She has fought the fight of Europe ; she has subsidised all its dependencies ; sbe has bombarded every refractory empire ; she bas looked for markets east , west , north , and south ; she bas been successful ; ber manufacturers bave bought all the coinable blood of her women , and children ; and here she is a bloated giant , shivering in a tempest , afraid of ber shadow , and sinking into decay . Free Trade exists as a monument of commercial and legislative ignorance and imbecility .
The remedy for England was to be found in employing ber labourers on her waste and uncultivated lands , encouraging her home trade , and thereby employing her people , andincreasing their means of subsistence . Give up , then , and for ever , yonr newborn theories of 'Let everything alone , ' which deserve no otber name than philosophic barbarity . Your fundamental doctrine of laissez faire is an end ot all law , order , and government , and to reduce it to practice is to apply the necessities of savagism ta civilisation , and must for ever prove a failure . ( Cries of' Time' from tbe Liberals . ) Tbis is the time—one of tbose times wben Englishmen speakboldly , in defiance of Whig Gagging acts
_^ , passed by the votes of professing Liberals . This is one of those times when _Maramon-worsbipping hypocrisy is unmasked , and stands exposed in its hideous deformity—a monster of inhuman shape . Shout 'time , ' ye miserable drivellers and sunken sycophants . This is my time ; and take warning , and remember there is another time coming , when Labour will demand a recognition of its ri ghts in apite of all of you . It bas been tbis day made a matter of rejoicing , that we have had peace in England , amidst the crumbling of thrones and the fall of dynasties . Such a peace is to be feared . Our peasantry are cursing at their hearths , in the hopelessness of despair . And how long may this dreadful
suspicion remain to slumber ? You everyday fear a reprisal , an emeute , a conspiracy , or a conflagration . You can have no security of life , peace , or property , if the people be not fed and employed . Hunger is the spreading root of all convulsive revolutions . Oh God ! it is horrible to contemplate . Already tbe poor are pale from hunger—the rich from fear . ( 'No , no , ' from the Tories . ) Nd!—then wbat meant all tbe display on the 10 th of April ? No!—then why increase the police force ? No I—then why employ spies to entrap end betray
the starving and unwary ? No !—then why so many special constables ? ( A voice from the Tories : ' To put down mischievous persons like you . ' ) He thanked his Tory friend for the c ompliment . Can a young man , then , shake your edifice ? Must not this prove that mischievous politicians are aware of their weakness . A Judas could not make angels fall ; but an honest man may make demons tremble . [ now come to Ireland , which is the acknowledged difficulty of the Whig and Tory adminstrationscertainly no difficulty to my opponents , for they have not breathed a syllable on the subject . Why
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should thej - ' They are party _ftetioofstt , and sot statesman- Already we have given her landlords many millions sterling . It is a waste , and cannot be repea ted . I Bhould propose a tax on her uncultivated and bog lands ; the effect would be the raising of a fund to maintain the unemployed . If the landlords preferred cultivating the lands to paying the tax , the idle men would find work , and eleemosynary relief would be unnecessary .. ( The Tories : The lands are not worth cultivating . ' ) What ! the lauds not worth cultivating ? The late Mr Baines , in a letter to Mr _Poulett Scrope , had
said , there were nearly 4 , 000 , 000 acres of bog lands which might be cultivated at an expense of £ 10 per acre and yield a profit of eight percent . This was the opinion of a gentleman who had reclaimed 500 acres ef Chatmoss , laying between Manchester and Liverpool . This was the opinion ofa practical man . These gentlemen on the hustings were not practical agriculturists , tbey were merely good-natured , fox . hunting , _fiYe-bottle politicians . ( Laughter . ) It was no fault of tbe Irish peasantry tbat tbey were a burden to England . Do them justioe , and the men who became industrious settlers in Canada or tbe
United States , would not be less industrious in their own green isle . The laws of Primogeniture and Entail were a source of landlord monopoly and ministerial jobbing , and should be forthwith abolished . His opinions on the vexed questions of Religious Endowments and National Education were easily expressed ; he was the opponent of endowments and would vote for National Education , such education to be purely secular . He would now come to tbe Suffrage . Mr Denison spoke of the wild democracy . Mr Denison - I never said so .
Mr Kydd : Then I am glad I am mistaken . It was tame democracy , then , which certainly could not be worse than rampant _Torjism , (' Hear , ' cheers , and laughter . ) Mr Denison was op posed to him in principle , and be thanked him for being an open and manly opponent . Sir Calling _^ Eardley admitted the principle , and was , therefore , in a very different position . Ihe gentleman who seconded Sir CuIIing ' s nomination assured them that all par ties must bow to public opinion ; then , why not accept of the decision ot public opinion , and , at once support the People ' s Charter . Oh , Sir Culling would _progress as far as it was safe to go—how trimming was this declaration . Who constituted Sir
Culling the great arbitrator of human intelligencethe thermometer of human progress ? The worthy Baronet admitted the principle , but was not quite prepared for tbe practice . We are told that Charles James Fox , like many other great and generous men , was in pecuniary difficulties . His secretary , Mr Hare , was equally unfortunate . Fox , who was an exceedingly jocular man , would f . ometimes ask the rapacious Jews whether they w * re fox or hare hunting this morning—goed nature w' 11 win even a money lender . A number of them resolved to come to some definite arrangement with their unfortunate creditor . So , addressing Mr Fox , tbey said , ' You are exceedingly civil , you always own the debt and admit tbe principal , now we want you to name the day of payment . ' Fox consulted witb
Hare , and they agreed to name a day . The Jews were in _extacies , and said , _< Name yonr own time , but be punctual . ' ' Well . ' said Fox , ' , 1 _m >' . _ne the day of judgment . ' The astonished Jews appealed to him to amend his decision ; be did so , and named the day after the day of judgment . I fear Sir CuIIing ' s progress , principle , and practice will be real on the same day that Fox pays the Jews . I know that I am your representative , and if you were polled to-morrow on ths true principles of the British Constitution I would be elected by an immense majority—would sit in the House of Representatives as your deputy—and my worthy opponents , spite of even the temporary triumph of aa hour , would relapse into their native obscurity . ( Cheers . )
Throughout the proceedings tbe dense mass , far beyond the reach of tbe voices of the speakers , kept their grounds and when the show of hands took place , the whole left side of the hustings , and all down Wood Street , as far as the eye could reach , was a dense mass of people .- When the show of bands in favour of Sir C . Eardley was called for , the whole of that vast space was one forest of bands . When tbe show for Mr Denison was called for , his partisans were confined to the right of the hustings , a space as broad as tbat occupied by the Liberal party , but circumscribed in length by the Music Saloon . On the right side too , tbe crowd was not nearly so dense a 3 on the left . Within that space Mr Denison had a numerous show of bands , but much less than Sir C . Eardley ' s . The show of band- * for Mr Kydd was chiefly in the centre of the meeting and was considerable .
Tbis isthe general statement ofthe press , although we are assured by impartial spectators , that the hands held up for Mr Kydd , were as two to one compared with Denison ' s . The Chartists were closely wedged in the centre of the meeting , while the open columns of the opposite parties occupying a larger area , the supporters of Eardley were declared to have the majority , in opposition to tbe close phalanx in favonr of the Chartist candidate . The Undkr-Sheuiff declared his opinion to be , that tbe show was in favour of SirC . Eardley .
The Honourable Mr Lascellbs demanded a poll on behalf of Mr Denison , which was fixed for Thursday aad Friday ; and thanks having been voted to the Sheriff , tbe parties left tbe hustings and the crowd dispersed .
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THE CHOLERA . On Friday the following fresh oases were reported to the Board of Health - -Islington , 1 , fatal ; Lambeth , 1 ; the provinces , 1 , fatal ; Dumfries , total cases from Nov . 6 to Dec . 6 , 219 cases , 78 deaths ; Edinburgh , Leith , and other parta of Scotland , li cases , 8 deaths . On Monday the following new eases were reported to the Board of Health : —Bromley , St Leonard ' s , I ; Wapping , 1 ; Lambetb , 1 ; Nordelph , 3 ; Stratford , West Ham , 1 fatal ; Edinburgh , 11 fatal ; Glasgow , 16 , 5 fatal ; Dumfries , 31 , 14 fatal ; Ruthwell , i . 2 fatal ; _Cramond , 1 ; Cadder , 1 ; Rothesay , 1 fatal ; Falkirk , 1 ; PreBtonpans . 2 fatal ; Kelso , 2 fatal ; _Larkhall _, 1 fatal ; 76 cases , 39 deaths . On Tuesday , the following oases were reported to
the Board of Health ' .- ' -Bromley , St Leonard ' s , 1 , fatal ; St George ' _s-in-the East , 1 , fatal ; Wands worth , 1 ; Blytb , 8 , fatal ; Edinburgh , 4 , fatal ; Maxwelltown . 8 , 2 fatal ; Glasgow , 3 , fatal ; Fab kirk , 3 ; total new eases , 27 . 19 deaths . —Cholera has , it is stated , made its appearanoe at Wisbeach , and en tbe banks ofthe Medway , both damp situations . Inthe Utter distriot , eleven persons have been attacked—eight of whom bave fallen a sacrifice . These people resided In a nest of cottages , called the Copperas Bexec , situate at Gillingham , and bordering on a creek daily washed by tbe tide . They were persons in a very _hnrnble olaas of life , and perhaps
not very observant of diet or cleanliness . —The Registrar General ' s report gives twenty-one as the number of deaths from cholera in the metropolis _during the past week . Oa Wednesday , the following cases were reported to the Board of Health : —Limehouse 3 ; St George . _in-the-Esit 1 , fatal ; Camberweii 1 , fatal ; Wandsworth 1 . fatal ; Chelsea 1 ; Berwick-upon-Tweed 6 . 2 fatal ; NewoastIeupon _* Tjne 2 . fatal ; _Edinburgh 12 , 5 fatal ; Glasgow 11 , 9 fatal ; Maxwelltown , Dumfries , 8 , 5 fatal ; Lennoxtown , Campsie 1 ; Cumnock 1 , fatal ; Falkirk 2 , 1 fatal ; Castle _DdUglaiT ; Glencairn 1 ; Cranston by Ford 1 ; total , 53 new cases , 23 rleathr .
Thc Total Numbsb of Dbaihs in Lohoox daring the week ending Saturday last , _December 0 th , was 1 , 146 . or eight nnder the average . Soar ' etina is still very prevalent and fatal . Daring the seven days _included is the return , that malady destroyed one hundred and seventeen persons , or nearly six times as many as oholera . The births during the week numbered 1 , 380 . Tbe average temperature was 49 i . _Oni .
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LETTER OP TH * - MARTYR ROBERT BLUM TO HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN . _WWTOW OU THS MORHlHe O ? HW MICUTlOlf . The letter written by Robert Blum to his wife , an hour before his e « eution , has been forwarded from Lsipsic , aad published here ; it is as follows - My dear * good wife , —Farewell , farawell ' _fer the time men call eternity , but wbich will not be bo . Btinf * tt » - > _ttr--nowonWyonr ~ children to be honest m » B ; ao tint they will never disgrace their father ' e TO . ni $ i " , _^ property with tbe » •« of our « i £ LIS ! 1 an d W 8 tt ! d 8 ay at thi _« »•»«•* W * _™™ t SX _IT _? Mldren •» treasure of which you must make the beat nse , and honour thus the
memory ot your faithful husband . Farewell faro . November . 1848 , five o ' clock in the _moraina ataix all will be oyer . 6 ' , ! _;?' . v had f 0 r gotlen l \* ? _* " « " -ha * of our betrothal I press for you a last kiH ; my _seal . _rini-is for Ida , the chain for Alf red , as memorials . All the _restdiTideaa-you please . They are coming ; fare-Tho letter seems to hare baen enolosed in one to a friend , a deputy at Frankfort , iu whioh he begs _MfaiU _' K _' K L _^"" _ta-lly fo _, the shook of hia _ieaAU _, ** hwh . he _saya' isthe fortuoeo . war . '
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BALAlCCfi SHEET OF THB 0 SKTRAL _DBFBITCE AWD TICTIH COHMIITEB , MOM AWffiT 6 th , TO KOTBtlBER mn , 1619 .
_Hoiirrs , * * ¦ offl Bias Office ... ... *™ * I _ Land Offloe ... ... •» " 1 / — Mr Kydd ... ' . ... ... * _ _" — Westminster ... ... 1 i * — South London Hall .. •» J ' -JJ mm Crown aad Anchor ? .. .. , 1 2 — Glob * and Friend * ... ... 2 17 3 ma Ernest Jones looalltv ... ... 8 18 8 _J — Somen Tona ... ... ... 18 0 — Olive Branch 13 0 — Cigar Makers , _Minoriss 2 \ _ — Crlpplfgate , _Ctftwright ' e ... ... 6 12 $ Ship , _Wardour Street ... ... 17 0 — Green Gate , Hackney Road ... 1 8 1 » . _ - * n J 13
—• Themas Paine Brigade ... ... 4 -- Wallace ditto ° - 6 — _rTaiblugtou ditto _O- — Emmett ditto .. — 01 ) e — William Tell ditto 0 5 0 — Hotton „ 0 18 0 — Kentish Town .. 015 2 — Marylebone ... .. ... " M 0 — Finsbury _,. ... .. 0 7 q — Limehouse ... .. — 0 17 6 — Greenwich ... ... ... 0 lo o — D « _ptford ... ... ... 0 7 g — Camberweii ... ... •<• 0 5 0 — King ' s Cross ... ... ... 0 5 0 — Female Chartists , Sboredltoh ... 0 7 0 — Alfred Lodge , Bomer * Town ... 0 2 _s — West End Shoemakers ... ... 0 3 r
— Cli J ditto 0 27 — _Kewoastle-on-Tyns ... ... 8 2 6 — Nottingham ... ... ... 1 310 — _IMgh 1 6 0 — Carlisle ... ... ... 1 0 0 — Kidderminster ... ... .. 0 le 0 — Nornloh ... ... ... 0 13 S — Coventry ... ... ... 0 10 0 — Swallwell ... ... . „ 0 It 5 — Lincoln 0 12 9 — Dewsbury ... 010 0 — Celohester ... 0 3 8 — Oxbridge ... ... ... 0 5 0 — Gainsborough ... ... ... 15 0 — Leicester ... .. ... 0 5 0 — South Shields ... 0 5 6 _ Wooton . onder-Edge ... ... _OiO —» Cupsr Angus ... ... ... 0 3 9 — Shelton 0 7 2 — Peterborough ' .. ... ... 0 3 1 mm Donations ... ... ... 4 5 9 — Strand Theatre ... ... ... 23 i 5 £ 116 2 11
_MMHPITCBi . £ 1 . d . _ToHrsFuMril ... 10 12 0 — ntstt ... 10 4 0 — _Teraoa ... ... ... h It 0 — Williams 9 10 « — _ahara 8 8 0 ¦ - Shaw ... ... ... ... 6 10 6 — Shell , ... 3 8 0 — Tounf ? ,. ... 1 17 0 — Herbert ... 2 7 6
— _Laoey ... ... ... „ , 3 7 0 — Abel . „ , „ 3 0 , 0 — _Oorney 3 10 — ftVtobto 118 0 — Jones 3 19 0 _— Cuffay ... , „ „ . 1 18 0 — Roie 0 18 0 — Toole ... ... 2 7 0 — Soadding ... , „ , „ 2 19 6 — Conway 2 8 6 — Snowball ... _ .. . „ 2 10 0 - « Ernest _Jants ... ... ... i 6 9 _ F / owten . ... ... ... 2 7 0
— _Winspero ... ... ... 2 0 0 — Irani ... ... ... 2 10 0 — M'Douall .. 12 0 — M'C * rthy 010 0 — Brewster 015 0 — Paine ... 0 15 0 — _Qranshaw 0 15 0 — Granshaw ... ... ... 0 15 O Mr J . E _Dancau ... 0 5 0 Strand Theatre ... 12 H 6 Printing ... 012 0 Stationery ... ... .. ... 0 11 0 Postage ... ... ... ... 0 2 9 MrB Cartwright ... ... ... 0 1 0 £ 115129
Total _Rwetpts ,,. ... 116 2 11 } Ditto _Etpsndltare 115 12 9 Balance In hand £ 0 10 2 } Audited aui foundoonect , Die * mber llth , 1848 ,
To The Chartist And
TO THE CHARTIST AND
PHILANTHROPIC PUBLIC . 0 _*—mmm—m—a Friends , — -In presenting the above balance sheet of the National Defence and Victim Committee , appointed for the purpose of dispensing your benevolent contributions amongst those worthy of receiving it , while we most cordially thank you for your past liberality , we feel it to be our duty to lay before you our
position , that you may fairly judge of our ability to carry out the object for which we were formed into a committee . At present we have twenty-five law-made Widows , and sixty Orphans , weekly recipients , dependent on your generous bounty for support in London alone ; and it is with deep regret we add , that through want of funds we have been compelled to reduce their small stipends nearly one-half ; and further , when we
take into account the vast number of victims to Whig misrule in Lancashire , Yorkshire , Scotland , and elsewhere , it is more than probable that , to avoid the gross and brutish insults ofthe iron-hearted Relieving Officer , and the miseries and horrors of the execrated Union 8 _astile , claimants for succour and assistance will considerably increase . Thus circumstanced , we appeal to your generou 9 sympathies for the means of solacing our distressed friends , under their heavy and cruel privation ; and we trust that it will be responded to with that promptitude which the exigency of _, the case requires . : John Arnott , "I . ,. ' _CHAKLES SAAIt , } AudllMS ' John Milne , Treasurer . John J . Merriman _* , Secretary . Dec 11 . 1848 .
Iuetfopolttait Intelligence*
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Suicide .Ov A Schoolmistress.—*An Inques...
Suicide . ov a Schoolmistress . —* An inquest was held on Monday evening ; at the Feathers , Temple Street , Whitefriars , before Mr W . Payne , on the body of Maria Carter , aged 29 , a schoolmistress . It appeared in evidence tbat the deceased kept a dayschool for children , at 43 , Friar Street , _Blackfriars Road ) and was much respected by her neighbours . On Saturday evening last she left one of her friends , to whom she had paid a visit , and promised to return at night and sleep with ber . From there , however , she went to . an old acquaintance , living at
Essexwharf , Strand , and getting intoxicated behaved in an extraordinary and unaccountable manner . Sbe insisted upon seeing a gentleman with whom she was perfectly unacquainted , and with whom she bad no business , . and because she could not obtain an interview with him , said she would drown herself . Though the river was within a few feet of her no one took any notice of her threat , and next morning her body was found floating off the Temple-pier . As there was no positive evidence that she bad committed suicide , thejury returned a verdict of' Found drowned . '
Inquest , Monday . _—Suddsn Dkath of Mr Ttjrnkr , M . P . for Truro . —By Mr Bedford , at the Goat , Arabella Row , Pimlico , on the body of Edmund Turner , aged 56 , member for Truro , Cornwall , who died suddenly on the morning of Sunday last , at tbe residence of his son-in-law ( Mr Beasly ) , 7 , Victoria Square . —Mr Josepbus Farris , of 36 , Sutton Street , Clerkenwell , distiller , identified the body of deceased . He was subject logout ; but witness last saw him alive on Friday afternoon , when he was-in his usual health and spirits . —Elizabeth Davie * , in the service of Mr Beasly , deposed that deceased had been upon a visit at her master ' s house for the last week . During that time be appeared to
enjoy perfect health . She last saw him alive at 12 o ' clock on Saturday night . He came borne about U o ' clock in his usual health . In the morning , at the usual hour , she went to cail him . She received no answer , however , to her repeated knocks , and on entering bis room she found bim lying on his left side quite dead . —Mr Henry Latter , 5 , Melcombe Terrace , surgeon , stated that be had attended tbe deceased since April , dwing which time he had suffered from disease of the heart , resulting from gout . He had made a post mortem examination , and he had no doubt that this disease led to tbe sudden and unlocked for dissolution . —Verdict , ' Natural Death , from spasm ofthe heart . '
Fires . —On Sunday morning , between six and seven o ' clock , a _nre , attended with tbe destruction of some thousand pounds worth of property , broke out in Little Portland Street , Rugent Street . The flames commenced in a range of sheds belonging to Mr Pratt , cabinet-maker and upholsterer , of Bond Street . In the course of a few minutes the whole were in a general blaze . The premises were adjoined by the manufactory of Mr W , Austin , lace and fringe maker , and that propert } was destroyed , and the flames extended rapidly to the private house of Mr Davis . Mr Austin ' s premiies had a short time back upwards of £ 1 , 200 , expended upon them in
improving the working machinery . The damage done is officially reported as follows : —The premises of Mr Pratt , No . 3 , Little Portland Street , burned down . No . 1 in the same street , Mr W . Austin , lace and fringe maker , consumed the whole of the workshops and contents , dwelling-house partially destroyed . No . 2 in the same street , Mr Davis , private , considerable damage by fire , water , and removal , No . 47 , Mortimer Street , Mr J . P . Shaw , cabinet-maker and upholsterer , back portion of premises slightly damaged and furniture injured by removal . No . 50 in tbe same street , Mrs Sibley , dressmaker , roof of back premises damaged . The
cause of the fire has been traced to some lime placed in the sheds , which becoming slaked set the timber on fire . — -During Saturday and Sunday , independent of the abore fire , tbe engines of tbe London Brigade and West of England Company were railed out to attend not fewer than ten other outbreaks in various parti of the metropolis . One was at Messrs Allan and Co ' _s , the silk mercers and haberdashers , Nos . 69 , 70 , and 71 , St Paul ' s Churchyard . Tbe fire originated in the basement floor warehouse , and was occasioned by a moveable gas-burner coming in contact with some boxes filled with artificial flowers and ribbons . The damage done waB , owing to the exertions of the inmates , confined to thc destruction of several boxes of flowers and ribbons . Another fire took place in one ofthe cupboards ol the
Comptroller ' s office , Guildhall . The firemen succeeded in confining the fire to that portion of the premises where it originated . A third fire was at Mr Merick ' _s , tailor ,. 19 , Old Burlington Street , Bond Street . It was caused by a spark from a candle , which set the furniture and wearing apparel in the back room , ground floor , in flames . A fire occurred in Neale ' syard , Cross _Streef , Blackfriars Road , belonging , to Mr W . Goodman , wheelwright . Hot embers from the forge fell upon some wheels , which were destroyed , but no other damage of consequence was done . Late on Sunday evening a fire occurred at 20 , Cumberland Street , Curtain Road , in the _occn . pancy of Mr Evans , which did considerable damage Shortly afterwards considerable alarm waa caused in the _WhUechapple Road by-loud cries of lire '
Suicide .Ov A Schoolmistress.—*An Inques...
proceeding from the premises of Mr Emery , a linendraper , No . 62 in tbe road , The other outbreaks were in Albert Place , Tottenham Court Road ; Toolcy Street , Southwark ; Lillington Street , Vauxhall Bridge Road ; and Moor Lane , Cripplegate ; but the damage done at the latter places waa very trifling . A Prisoner Shot in an Attbhpt to Escape . —On Friday afternoon , Dec . 8 th , the court at the Surrey Sessions reoeived information that one of the prisoners confined in the Brixton House of Correc . tion had attempted to escape , and in so doing waa
shot by the governor . It appeared , from what the reporter could glean , tbat theprisoner bad succeeded in climbing the wall , wben the governor was ap . prised of it . The latter instantly proceeded to the place , and discovered theprisoner creeping along the top of the wall . On his approach he threw down a heavy stone , which struck the governor on his left hand , dislocating one of bi 3 fingers . The latter was armed with a loaded blunderbuss , which he fired at the man and shot bim in the thigh , when he was immediately captured . Two of the magistrates proceeded to the House of Correction to investigate the affair .
Seizure of as Illicit Distillery . —On Tuesday , Mr D . Colquhoun , supervisor of the Stepney district , and several officers , proceeded to a bouse called' Globe Cottage , ' Globe Road , Stepney . Messrs _Vanstone and Chaster went to tbe back to effect an entrance , whilst Messrs Brown and Colquhoun guarded the front . On tbe former officers making their way to the back door they found a large dog tied up in a manner tbat he could reach any one approaching the door , and it required considerable stratagem to keep him from making a noise . Tbe dog was silenced and the window at length reached . On pushing aside a cloth wbicb
covered a broken pane , they saw two men attending to a large still that was at work . For some time tbey were not aware of the presence of the officers , but as soon as they caught sight of them , they immediately rose and started off with lightning speed for the other rooms , followed by Vanstone and Chaster , and a policeman . In a few minutes one of the men leaped from the back room window on to a kitchen roof , closely pressed to the windows by the three officers . The man wa 3 about leaping from the kitchen-roof to adjoining premises , when be caught sight of Mr Thomas , who had now joined the pursuing party in tbe yard , and , finding there was no chance of escape , ' surrendered at discretion . ' Having secured this man , Mr Thomas
went so the front to see if any others had been arrested there * just in time to see a man get out of tbe cellar window and run down tbe street . He was followed by Messrs Thomas and Brown , and after running a great distance with a goed prospect of escape , his career was suddenly stopped by a dog running between bis legs , which brought him with great force to the ground , and he was instantly secured . Two females were also found it . the house , and were taken into custody . Upon examining the house subsequently , they found tbe still ( as above noticed ) , a quantity of spirits , forty over proof , about two gallons of feints , seventy-two under proof , aud the usual apparatus for carrying on the trade of illicit distillation .
SuioiM vt a _Guabwuan . —On Wednesday , an _inqaeBt was held upon the body of Isaac _Phiops , aged 41 , a private in the 2 _ad battalion of the Grenadier Guards , who had cut his throat on Tuesday , at the Military Hospital . Deceased had been _twenty-two ¦ ears in the regiment , and was mnoh respeoted by his comrades . For the last sixteen years he had been subjeot to severe attacks of bronchitis , whioh caused him the most intense agony . The pain which he
Buffered upon these occasions was ao severe as to deprive him of all self-control , and be frequently stated that he thould prefer death to suoh suffering . Mr Brown waa immediately oalled in , and he sewed op the wound , but so bent was tbe unfortunate man upon _gelf-deitruotion tbat he aotually tore it open again , and lest a large quantity of blood before any remedy could be applied . These facta having been deposed to , tbe jury foand a verdiot of' Temporary insanity . .
_Firii _, _AooiDtm to ih _ENo-ma—On Tuesdav William Long , aged 43 , of Joseph Street , Limehouse , foreman in the employ ef Messrs Miller and Raven ' hill , the eminent engineers and government oontraotow of Brook Street , Ratoliffe , was killed K te > ting the strength of an osoillating steam oylinder the Mea-r . Milter and _RvrenMU a _& MtenSefi t _\ gaged in the manufacture of steam machinerv for tho royal navy . The deceased person wa , foreman of h ! engineers , and in the exercise of hia dutv waa li- t
_induing me _teating ot an osoillating _ateam cylinder eighteen inohes in diameter , whiob wa . _aS I , _* 6 ttod to an engine of 135 hone low J a } 0 Htto _i meats of this kind it h usual t " annlv 1 L 5 I ** ?' pressure to the cylinder than _nndSordESi _^' stances it is liable to be exposed' 2 > __ ill _^ L _ _T l _ostance a very _oonaidarSKI _MeSX Ml *™** Wsmm % •; a distance of . t _^ , ffiSlr 3 ? _toEfr without _meetingwith any _otte _p _^ fRKf
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CORN . Mabx Lake , Monday , Dtc ll .-We had a short supply of English wheat to-day , and the arrivals have been only moderate since _lait Monday , orriog to contrary winds At first of thei market good dry new wheat sold more freely and rather dearer , but damp and Inferior _aamoles continued very dall . We hadrather more demand for fo . reign wheat , at lait week ' s price * . Flour , et good _auality , was more inquired after . Fiio _malting Wi-. * BT > d good grinding sorts mat more buyers at fully last week ' s prices , aad fine qualities very scarce . Halt dall sale . Old beans were taken slowly on rather lower terms , but fine dry new held form-r prices . Feasvery dull , and white peas is . cheaper . Good fresh oats were searce , and fullv
aa dear , but inferior _quailiios neglected . Bye heavy sale . Linseed was dull , and cakes In less demand . Tares are * almost nominal : The current prices as under . Wm » t .-Esse * , Suffolk , and Kent , red , 38 s to 52 s -ditto white , tOt to Ms Lln-olo , Nor folk , and York-hire , red , 43 s to Hi ; Northumberland and Seotoh , white , 12 s to tit ; ditto red , iSs to _i 5 s ; Devon and Somersetshire , red , 48 s to 18 s -, ditto white , iSs to 52 s ; flour , per sack iTown ) , its to its ; barley , 3 Ss to 98 s , Scotch , 24 s to 29 s ; malt , ordinary , Ms to 56 b ; fine , 68 s to 60 s ; rye , 38 s to 30 s ; peas , bog , Sis to Sis : maple , 33 a to 36 s ; belter-, new , 34 s to 36 s ; baana , tick , 3 Ua to 3 Ss ; pigeon , 32 a to 33 s ; Harrow , 2 < s to S 6 i ; oats , feed , 17 s to 21 b ; fine , Ms to 2 _ss ; Poland , 18 s to 2 < s ; potato 20 s to 35 s .
, _Wsdnksdat , Dec . 13 . —The supplies of grain and flour this week are moderate . We bave but little doing on our market ; but holders are firm in their demands for Monday's prices . Arrivals tbis week :-Wheat , 1 , 260 _qrs English ; 3 , 930 qrs torelgn . Barley , 1 _. S 50 qrs English ; 3 , 540 qrs foreign : Oats , 2 , 280 qrs EngUsh ; 1 _. 7 S 0 foreign . Flour , 4 , 38 > sacks ,
CATUB & _C . Sxithpibxd , Monday , Dec . 11 . —As might be antic ) _, pated from the numbers of stock brought forward , and tbe somewhat unfavourable wtather for slaughtering largely , the _besf trade , notwithstanding the large attendance of both town and country buyers , was exceedingly heavy . The _primest Scots , Herefords . Serons , & c , were selling at prices va * y ! ng 4 s to Is 4 d per 8 _B >*> , being figures considerably under those _ynii last year . Tha middling and inferior breeds moved off slowly , at comparatively low currencies . 8 ome hundred * of prime beasts were old for consumption at Bristol , Southampton , Binning .
ham , Ac . ; but bf far the largest portion of the supply was taken by the London butchers . Kearly two thousand beasts were , we regret to state , turned out unsold . Fer the best old Down sheep the demand was tolerably steady , at prices about rqual to those paid on Monday last , viz ., from 4 i led to Ss per Bibs ; but all other kinds moved off slowly at barely late currencies . We wera fairly _uppUed witb _calrep . The beat veal was in moderate request , at full prices , Otherwise , tbe trade was in a sluggish state . There was a fair average business doing in pigs ; but we have no _improvement to notice in prices .
Hbad of Cattu at Shitbfielo . Beasts 6 , 912 I Calves 124 Sheep and Lambs ... 21 , 810 1 Figs 209 Price per atone of Sfbi ' linking the offal . ) Beef ... 3 _» . id . to'a . 4 a . I Teal ... 3 s . 6 d . tols . fld . Mutton ... 3 0 ... ' 6 _o j Pork ... i 19 ... 4 8 _Mewoati ai < i > _IiKADENHALi _, Monday , December 11 . — Inferior beef 2 s 2 d to 2 s Id , middling ditto 2 s Sd to 2 s lod , prime large 8 s to 3 s 2 d , prime small 3 s 4 dto 3 s 6 d , large pork 3 s Cd to 4 s id , inferior mutton 3 s 2 d to 3 s Id , mid . _dling ditto 3 s 6 d to as 8 d , prime ditto 3 a l <> d to U 4 sl , _vaal 8 s 4 d to 4 s 4 d , small pork 4 s 6 d to 4 s Sd , per _Slbs by the carcase .
PROVISIONS . London , Monday , Dec . llth—Ne chance occurred in our markets last week . Butter . —Nothing worth notice was done in sales of Irish ; prices quite nominal . Foreign sold slowly at about last quotations . Bacon . —For Irish singed sides tbere was les « demand , the trtmsac _. tions accordingly trifling , and prices 'is per cwt . _' cheaper . Of bale tierce and barrel middles the same may be reported , and of Berwick cut pork a dull sale , and prices reduced , 2 s to 4 s per cwt . American singed sides aold to a moderate extent , at a decline of Is to 4 s per cwt .
Middles , old , _ataadyln prices and demand . Hamt itt abort supply , and saleable at full prices . Lard no alteration . Enou » n BtJTTiB , Dec . _li _.-Erery week seems to increase the gloom in our market ,. and prices of all , except the very best , ara quite nominal . Onr stock of stale batter is accumulating , and tbere is every reason to fear the result of sale will show : _i serious lots to tbe holder . The very large stock of Irish and foreign butter in tbis market , and the low price at which it is offering , _preTnits oar coming at any other _conlcusion . This mild weather , too . operates much against quality . _» e » t Dorset , 98 » to WUa per cnt , ; Dorset middling 80 s te 84 s ; fresh , 10 s to 13 s per dozen .
POTATOES . Sodtbwabx _Wamhsidk , Dec . 11 . —Tbe very mild weather the past week haa caused our trade to be exceedingly heary , and with most samples lower prices have been submitted to . The following are this day ' s quotations : — _Yorkehir * Agent * , 120 s to _ISOi ; Scotch ditto , _lKn to 130 s ; ditto cups , 60 s to 90 s ; ditto reds , 60 s to 80 s ; ditto whites , 6 « s to 80 s ; French whites , 80 s to 95 s ; Dutch , SCg to 75 s .
COTTON . _Lmurooi ., Monday — . The cotton market closed with great firmness this afternoon , compared with Friday ' _s rates , prices ore full . The Bales , 6 , P 0 » bale ? , comprise 5 _, 5 i )() American , oi which 1 , 000 were taken on speculation , at 3 _£ d to 5 _| d ; loO _Uaranham , at 4 _Jd ; 250 Egyp . tian , S | to i _Jd ; 300 Surat , at 2 | d to 3 _} d . COAL . Tbe monthly delivery of coals for November _show 3 that we bare received into the port of London 1 , 041 shipi , _containing 292 , 417 ton * . The trade has been of late quite of a retail character : the supply fully equal to the demand . —Stewart ' s 18 *; Eden , I 7 s Sid ; Wylam , lis , — Fresh arrivals , 9 j left from last day , 31 , —Total . 40 .
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STATE OF TRADE . _Man-chesteb , Tuesday . — There has been again an active market tbis day . Buyers , ef most kinds ot ' _goois , especially of cloth * , manifest a rea < y disposition to enter into large arrangements at last Keek ' s prices . Generally speaking , however , thoir offers are not accepted . Manu . facturers are firmer than ever , and large orders having been given out , and there being every prospect of an in . creasing demand , an advance of price is easily obtained . Shippers are alt _active , and a considerable number of foreign buyers are in the market , who it is expected have law orders to give out . Stocks were never known to be so low , saleable goods being all cleared off ; and as the retailer- generally throughout tbe country hare , for a considerable _. time , kept up their stocks as . lew as possible , very extensive orders are confidently expected . The American news , received by telegraph , by the Acadis , produced little influence on tbe market . Tub _Isok _Taana . — The accounts from Glasgow and
particularly from South Wales , are still of a most dispiriting character . Pig iron is quoted free on board in the Clyde at 41 s per ton , without buyers , and a writer in a Bristol paper , Irom Merthyr , reports tbat ' the iron trade there is in a very depressed state . The staple _manufacture "of this district is selling almost at ruinously low prices , and ramour ( we hope it will not prove true ) has it that we are on the eve of another redaction . ' And again , he says , ' ths wo * kmen employed at Plymouth iron works received a month ' s notice on the 2 " ch ult ., thai a reduction of ten per cent , would take place in a month . ' Extraordinary disclosures also hare been made during the week , plainly showing that _sasjw are not only being forced witbout at ( oh tion to profit , but , under an unprincipled competition ,. fmr below the actual cost of production . While It must be acknowledged that these statements afford a _sufficient cause for dismay , we can , however , congratulate ourselves that at present mo unusual stagnation has been felt in this district-indeed
the immediate local demand continue _> fully as brisk as usual at tbis season of the year ; aod as this is tbe main support of the lesser manufacturers , who would bo unable to continue working to stock during a _scarcity of orders , there has yet been little complaint of want of employ . ment , We should , however , scarcely think that the larger houses are so well supplied with orders , as they are more dependent upon the export trade , and at thia time not only have to contend with tbe Welsh and Scj ' . ch rivalry , bnt _alst with a very serious falling off of foreign shipments , as compared with the transactions of previous years . Tbe pig iron trade remains in about the same position , with but little business doing , prices being represented as so ruinous , that , should the decisions of tbe manufacturers Involve tliem in a further reduction , the deteriorated value of _materl-ds would inevitably seal up again a large moiety ofthe mines at present _worUinir , and thus throw a very _dan-erous portion of the population out of employment .
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BANKRUPTS . John de Levar . te , of 125 , Wood-street , City , shirtmakersr —William Keys , of 6 , Robert ' _s-place , Commarciat-ro & d _. d , East , linen draper— William Trap , of Westminster , ir , mason-Thomas Page of White Lion-street , Spitalfields . _^ , silk manufacturer — Jobn latt , ot _Warwick . road , Pad-ddington , builder-Jobn Parish , of Sible Uedingham _. n _, Essex , brick _makar— Andrew Hewlett , of Abbott ' s _Annin Southampton , carpenter—John Wildey _, of Snenton , Not . it . tlnghnmsblre—Joseph Stephens , jun ., of _Caalbournkrook'k Staffordshire , glass manufacturer—John Harvey , of Weaea _tou-super-tiate , Somersetshire , builder—Jobn Marshal _^ 11 ,, Reuben Marshall , and James Marshall , of _Rastrickpk _,, Yorkshire , fancy manufte turers—Edward Darius , ef New * w- ton , Montgomeryshire , flannel _manufastarer—Thomana ! i Richardson , of lorth Shulds , common brewer .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 16, 1848, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_16121848/page/8/
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