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      ft thf the existing regulations in reference to the bonding of _UritJritisb . spirits in the United Kingdom , and to tie rectSfinatftttfon of British _fflirito for _exportation , when the house , i as i as counted out . WEDNESDAY , Joke 9 . 1 HOUSE OF C 051 " 40 N 3 . _—Paooaiss _os _TUiiwam ___ .-I __ . The CmNCEttoaof the _Excuehoeb . explained to the fooAoose the resolutions which had been agreed toby the - ¦ orcomm ' _attye appointed to consider whether any measures flhoshould be adopted for suspending further proceedings on ¦ ill ill « any of the railroad bills for this session , aamand whether any further provisions In * _ » J *""! tinging orders relative to such bills _*»» _* L * ° _avisvisable . The committee had _unauimonsiy decade * not to to interfere , and stop eompnlsooty alt _«^ "J _£ . _tAHbi . session . It had likewise determ « ed _> no to makea

      Z _7 r \ _£ a _?^™ _£ _^"» _b _fortto _^ _- _- -fafa _« _flft « 5 on with _theoption of commencing in the _winded , the deposit * being meanwhile returned to the ai dep « ta « . _» _*** _*«> * _fff " l _^ T * ' _" __ . _r-Voi presen t and future bills there should be aprovi-Si Sion inserted for the _preidfeition of the payment of any jj _, interest or _divseend _aaat-of capital . 'WithTespectto the 8 . applicatio n for powers to construct branches from , or ei _extensions ef existaasg lines , the committee required a ! su snbscription-contractfcr three-fourths of such additional ct capital as might be -necessary , aud prohibited the paym meet out of formes-capital of deposits on any new _appl _pefcation to Parliament . He then stated the nature of tl the resolutions « f the committee relative to the power

      _oJof sale and lease of railroads , resolutions which proas * Hde that there stall be no power of sale or lease until tithe Railway Commissioners are satisfied that half the « capital authorised to be raised has been actually exppended . The committee proposed further , that except f ( for the execution of the original line , no company should b ba _allowed to _guarantee interest on additional capital to a another company until the original line should be o opened . Having stated that there were also one or two o other restrictions , with a view to prevent the creation of c capital improperly , he proposed the resolutions seriatim , _s and mated that the house de agree to the first _. Sir H . _HtDFoan then moved , and Mr Spoors * se-( conded the motion , tbatthe debate be adjourned , in i order to allow the Hosiery Manufacture Bill to be proi ceededwith . On this -proposition a discussion of some length ensued , : in which several members took part .

      Sir J . E 4 STH 0 PE strongly urged the necessity of attending to tbe claims of the _framewerk knitters . Let the honse recollect that at this moment there were from 50 , 000 te < 80 , 000 persons in a stage of deep distress—persons who had looked to various quarters for relief , and who had now their eyes fixed with just hope upon par-: liamentary interference . ( Hear , hear . ) He was sure that the Chancellor of the Exchequer did not mean to i say tbate « vernment were disposed by a _stie wind to pnt off ihe-question regarding these poor people , and the . consideration of ' whether or no anything could be done for their relief . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) But this putting of the _question off week after week was productive of the greatest practical mischief _.

      _HtT . Ddhcohbe blamed the government for having stolen a march on the honourable baronet who introduced the Hosiery Bill , and who had great reason to thiuk himself _ill-ased . It having been understood that his measur was to come on to-day , he held that government were guilty of a breach of faith in _bringing forward the railway resolutions—resolutions only laid npon the table on Monday last , and for the discussion of which neither the honse nor the public were prepared , ( Hear . ) Alitnatwould be injured by the postponement of that debate was the convenienceof a parcel of railway jobbers —a consideration not for a moment to be put in competition arith that of the distressed population of the midland counties . ( Hear , hear . )

      Tbe discussion was ultimately closed , by a declaration of the Chancellor of the Exchequer that he would accede to the postponement ofthe debate on the railway resoletions , if tbe house wonld meet on Thursday , at 12 o ' clock , tc discuss them . This was agreed to . Before the order of the day for the Hosiery B 11 was read , however , another conversation on the affairs of Portugal took place . Mr B . Osborne , referring to the repeated postponements to which the house had consented , said the hon

      member bad proved himself to be made of more sqneexai > le materials than be thought tbat he was . He wished to know whan he intended to bring on his motion . It was ef great consequence that it shonld be decided before thestartiug ofthe packet for Oporto . The great cause of constitutional liberty all over the _werld might be more seriously affected by these repeated delays than Mr Hume was aware of . He had been much surprised at the cause for delay urged by Lord G . Bentinck—namely , the _Qaccn ' s ball . It pnt him in mind of the well-known

      line—•« And wretches hang , that jurymen may dine , '' which he would be allowed on this _oscasion to paraphrase into— "And patriots may die , that senators may dance , " ( Hear and a laugh . ) He was grieved to see Mr Humo _slicing away from the principles which he had so long maintained , and he wished now to know whether he intended to bring on his motion on Friday or not ! Mr Heme said that he was just as much alive to the importance of the question _asar-sltr Osborne , who had no right to accuse him of wishing to shrink from his duty —a _weakness into which he hoped he did not often fall . The fact was that he had coincided in the propriety of postponing ihe discussion until the papers relating to it should have been before the honse . ( Hear , hear . ) But so far as he was concerned , he was determined on Friday to submit to the house what he had undertaken to do .

      The . talk terminated with the understanding that the debate was certain to come off on Friday . Hobiebi Masdfactcbe Bill . —The order of the day for the resumption of the adjourned debate ( from the 5 th of May ) on the second redding of the above-named tall waB then read . Mr M . Gibson said , he had hoped that , after the discussion which tbe subject had already undergone , it would not have been necessary for the house again to enter npon the consideration of its merits . The hon . member for Leicester , in the speech with which he prefaced his amendment that tbe bill should be read a second time that day six months hence , had discussed the question so fully , and with so much ability , that it was hardly necessary for him to say anything upon the

      subject . Nevertheless , perhaps tbe house would , in consideration of the office which hehadthehononrto fill , ' permit him to explain briefly the grounds on vhich he felt it his dnty to oppose the second reading ofthe bill The hon . baronet , who introduced the measure , proposed that > t should not proceed in tbe ordinary course of a dVU brought before the house , but that it should be re . ferred to a select committee , in order tbatother members of the house might share the responsibility of the measure before it shonld he submitted to tbe final decision of Parliament . It was a plausible argument , that when a case oi distress was made out , and a proposal made for relieving it , the least that could be done wonld be to grant a _committer : to inquire into the matter ; bnt it ought to be borne in mind , that if the bill were to be

      read a second time previously to its being referred to a select committee , the house would stand pledged to its principle , and that principle was the raising and _regulalating of wages by Act oi Parliament . It was impossible for him to give his assent to that principle , and therefore he would oppose the second reading ofthe bill . The bill which Sir H . Halferd introduced last year had been referred to as forming a precedent which would justify the house in adopting the present measure ; but the bill f last session was of a totally different character . It merely supplies regulations , by which workmen could procure evidence of the contracts which they entered into with their masters ; bnt the bill before the house prescribed lhat the contracts themselvee should be . It enacted that certain contracts should not be allowed to

      be made—that a certain mode of employing workmen shonld not be permitted ; and it proposed the confiscation of certain property , consisting of machinery , by prohibiting its owners from receiving rent for it . That was a novel principle in legislation , and therefore the assent which the housegave to the bill , introduced by the hon . baronet last , session could not in fairness be pleaded as areasonforthehouseassenting to the measure now before it . Tbe bill would be injurious to tbe workmen themselves , whom it was its professed object to benefit . The measure proceeded on the assumption tbatthe workmen in the framework districts were helpless and subjected to all kinds ot extortion on the part of their employer ,. ; out if the cost of the manufacture of hosiery should be increased—as it would be by the bill —what

      security could its supporters give that the master manufacturer would not seek compensation for the increased cost in a reduction of the wages of the alleged to be defenceless workman * Invert the proposition , and assume shat legislative interference caused a reduction in the eo 6 t of manufacture , — -was it not reasonable to suppose that the saving wonld go into the pocket of the master , who was represented to be selfish and extortionate 1 Mr _Muggcridge , who was appointed to inquire into the condition of the framework knitters , had made an able re . port on the subject , but he had notsuggested any _measure resembling that now proposed , aB a remedy for the distress under which he fonnd the framework knitters suffering ; on the contrary , Mr Mnggerid ge stated that it would be illusory to imagine that the condition of the _jvorkpeople in that branch of manufacture could be improved by any act of the legislature . The business of a framework knitter could be easily learned , it required no

      apprenticeship , and _conseqaently the number of workers was too great in proportion to the work to be done . The result was , low wages and distress . The supporters ol the bill differed in their views respecting some of its jnain provisions . Mr Duneombe for instance , though he supported the bill generally , doubted the propriety of _abolishing tbe rents at present taken for the use of farms yet that was an essential feature of the bill . If the _frame-r _^ _nts should not be abolished , whence could the hon . member expect to obtain the means of increasing the wages of the workmen t It was proposed to enact hy the bill that no person who was not a _hosiery manufacturer within the meaning of the act should ' be permitted to employ any workmen . Tbat proposal was founded on tbe idea that the money which , under tbe existing system , teas paid to the middleman would be saved aud added to the wages of the workman . Under that clause it would be impossible fa ** a master workma * to employ an apprentice , or eves his owa ohilg _.

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      Each individual in a family must have a separate contract with , the master . In the next place , the hall proposed to raise the wages of the workman . Sir H . Haleobd said that its objeat was to prevent wages being unnaturally acd unnecessaril y Tcduced . Mr Gibson said , it appeared to ham that wages were in a natural state when they were left to be fixed by the employer and the employed . As regarded the middlemen , be thought that tbey were absolutely requisite to act between manufacturers and the workmen who were scattered over the country , 1 f the knitters should employ say one to make contracts for them with tbe manufacturers , they must pay that person for . his trouble . How did the hon . baronet 6 how that the payment to the person making the contract would not cause as great a

      deduction in the workman ' s wages as tbe demand of the middleman ? The same objection to middlemen might be carried into other occupations , and , if done , would afreet the whole system of labour in the country . But , even if the bill were passed , it conld be easily evaded ; the middleman would receive the goods by purchase from the mister , and thus become a master himself within the meaning ofthe act , and would give them back by purchase again . He objected decidedly to the abolition of frame rents ; it was perfectly monstrous that pet sons who bad invested their capital in the purchase of frames shonld be prevented by tbat bouse from receiving rent for them . The same principle , if carried out , might forbid the receipt of rent for lands or houses or a steam engine ; could anything be more unjust than to say a man should not purchase an engine in order to let out steam power ! Were they to tell a man , if he bad not a frame of bis own , he should not hire one to work witb i A greater injustice was lever attempted . But the

      provisUn affecting frame rents weuld be as easily evaded as that respecting middlemen . The interest of the capital invested in frames must como from somewhere . ( Sir II . Halford . — "Fromthe price of tho article . " ) Then it would be paid by the consumer ; but could the boo . baroaet point out any mode of raising the price of the article , so as to cover the interest ! The masters would make a new agreement with the workmen under the act ; and tbe net amount of the men ' s wages would remain exactly the same as at present . The bill was an improper interference with the ri ghts of property , and would _ create great mischiefs , without secnring . the objects the hon . baronet had in view . Re did not think the house would assent to a measure fraught with so many evils ; he admitted the distress of the class it referred to , and he was anxious there should be an improvement in their condition ; but it could not he effected by any legislation it was in the power of tbat heme to originate .

      Mr C . W . Pack said it might be supposed from tbe speech of Mr II . Gibson that the bill was altogether a visionary and impracticable scheme ; bat he contended it was quite in accordance with the statements of Mr Muggeridge ' s report . The hon . gentleman said the same objection might be applied to tbe system of labour on the land ; bnt agricultural labourers received 10 s or I 2 s a week , and the poor framework knitters only is fid or 5 s . Suppose the farmers were to deduct from the wages of their labourers a large part of them for rent for the use of ploughs , carts , and other instruments ! ( Hear , hear . ) He lived in the neighbourhood of these poor people , and knew what they _saifftred . He had offered to assist them

      in subscribing a certain sum monthlyto purchase frames for themselves ; but they said if they did so tbey should be ruined , as the masters would not employ those who bad their own frames at all . It was a perfect system of slavery and tyranny ; the men could not rise from the condition in whieh they were placed . They were recommended to use economy and to bring their children up to other trades ; bnt how could men poBsibly economise on 4 s 6 d a week ? They bad neither money nor moans of educating their children ; they wsro utterly ground down by a system of slavery no othar class of men in tbe kingdom , were subject to . He heartily supported tbe second reading of tho bill .

      Mr Fostee was surprised that any hon member professing tbe principles of Free Trade could support tbis measure . Every clause in the bill seemed to bim to be involved in absurdity . He was astonished that any Legislature should be calmly engaged in the discussion of such a proposition . He should give to it bis most decided opposition . Sir J . _Eabthope . —It woul _£ be in the recollection of the house that on the former occasion , when this bill was under discussion , he had expressed a very decided opinion that it was calculated rather to enhance than to eradicate the evil with which it professed to deal . To that conviction he still adhered ; but to tbe proposal now made by Sir H . Halford , that they should refer the measure to a committee up stairs , he conld have no

      objection . ( Hear , bear . ) If the bill was to have been preceded with in the shape in which it hadbeen introduced he should still have repudiated it , but hewas now only asked , and so far he assented , to enter upon an inquiry into the means or the possibility of ameliorating the distressed condition of 50 , 000 or 66 , 000 ofour fellow subjects . No valid reason could be given or bad been given for hesitating to take that course . They had been furnished with evidence on this subjebt taken before a commission appointed by her Majesty , and that commission reported tbat the regulations at present governing the stocking trade were bad , and were capable of amendment . ( Hear , bear . ) Witnesses , whose interests were deeply concerned in tbe question , had been examiund by the commission , and their statement was , tbe present

      system of carrying on the business by means of middlemen was the bane and curse of the trade , and even deterred honest and repntable men from taking part in it . With this evidence before him he was not prepared to refuse to enter upon an inquiry , if it was in the power of the Legislature to devise more salutary and useful regulations for the artizan than those whioh at present operated . ( Hear , hear . ) It had not been contradicted that there was something defective in tbe existing system , and bow conld he be _askgd not to go into a committee room and see if this defect could not be removed , and if the condition of tbe ariixan of this trad 9 could not be bettered ? The question was one of the utmost importance , and if dismissed on the grounds offered by some hon , gedtlemen , how could they defeud the

      legislative interference which some time since took place in the truck system ! It had never been said that tbe interference with that system was unjustifiable because it was an interference with a trade , and until now it had never been argued that it was going beyond the province oi Parliament to condemn and amend the regulations of any branch of trade or commerce . Wa had already gone far beyond tbat , and intbe artificial stats of this manufacturing country such regulations would often be found absolutely indispensable . ( Hear , hear . ) If the principles of legislation , propounded by Mr M Gibson were to be the guide ofthe conduct of members of that house , they would find themselves in a difficulty at every attempt to interfere with the simplest provisions of trade ; and he rather thought the hon . gentleman would not he bold enough to take that view . He begged it to be

      understood that he was not in favour of this bill , but that he was in favour of tbe proposition to go into a committee , and there examine into the statements which had heen made in reference te the necessity of such a bill . ( Hear , hear . ) That was his sole object , and with this object be was prepared to endure opprobrium for being supposed to support a measure crude in itself , and , in its present framework , ill adapted to accomplish the object in view . ( Hear , hear . ) He was not at all desirous of effecting any compromise for the sake of raising an electioneering cheer ; but he believed that the course he was taking was the only one open to him as an honest man . The people who were engaged in this trade were confessedly exposed to severe hardships ; tbey had appealed to parliament for justice ; and it was now the dnty of the house at least to institute an inquiry . ( Hear , hear . )

      Mr L . Rollzsion could corroborate everything which had been said of tbe exceedingly distressed condition of tbe unfortunate people whose interests were now under discussion , and be was bound to say that , after the patience with which they bad submitted to their sufferings , it would be an actof gross injustice in that house to _tefusa to inquire into their circumstances and condition . Sir J . _IIobuocse could not assent to send tbis bill to a select committee ; for , by so doing , the house would be exciting hopes that this bill , or something like it , would meet theemergency of the presentcase . It was proposed to send this bill into committee ; first , because it was an excessively bad bill , and secondly , because an attempt ought to be made to amend it . To that reasoning he could not assent , as it was the first time tbat he bad heard the second reading of a bill urged on account oi

      its demerits . This bill would destroy the interests of the middlemen , and wonld not benefit those of the artisan . If he thought that going into committee on the bill wonld lead to anything like substantial relief to these unfortunate people , he would at once consent to do so . There waB not a member of that bouse who would refuse in such a case , or whe would grudge any labour bestowed for the good of the people ; for he held tbat no one could justly accuse that house of being indifferent to tbe welfare of the working classes , or disinclined to do all tbat could be done for _thsir relief . ( Hear . ) But it was because be believed it would be only deluding these unfortunate people , that he refused to consent to a committee , and because he believed that ' there was scarcely a clause in the bill tbat would bo of practical advantage to these classes . ( Hear . )

      Mr Doncombe had been found fault with by the right hon . gentleman because he bad said he disapproved of many of the details of this bill , and yet was prepared to vote for a committee . But he would ask how were these details , of which he disapproved , to be altered except in committee ! He maintained that the object of the bill was a good one , and therefore he supported it . Tho right hon . gentleman said its object was to raise and regulate wages ; but tbat be denied ; its object was to protect the honest earnings of a very industrious class of workmen ( hear ) , of which earnings they were robbed by an invasion of the existing law . His right hon . friend had alio saidthatany interference in tbis cast was unnecessary and would be mischievous ; but it was too

      late come forward witb such an argument , for tbey had already admitted the principle of interference betwixt master and workman . ( Hear . ) There seemed to be great anxiety on the part of some honourable gentlemen to look after the interests of that virtuous class ef people of whom the operatives complained ; but _WOTO they _asanxiousfor tho interests of the fra . uio . worR knitters / of whom thera were about 80 , 000 interested in the passing of tbis measure ! He admitted that there was a great interference with the property in thatclavseof the bill which prohibited the hiring or letting of frames : bat that was ] no reason wh y the bill should net be permitted to go before a _ eommittee , where snob , a clause night bo « ompletely altered . Tho great grievance con-

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      plfiined of , was . that by the species of frame rent now existing they were robbed , _an-l tb » t the mnsterB hosiers were not always the persons who possessed those frames ( Hear . ) It was said there were 1 , 700 independent frames—but to whom did they belong ? Those frames belonged to a whole set oi bakers and butchers , and tinkers , and everybody else . This wan the system pursued at Sutton in _Ashfield . A man , perhaps a butcher or baker , hires . those frames at 6 d . a-week , and then charges the ' poor man 2 s . 6 d . a-week for the use of it ; and the fr _.-ime avas let on the condition that the poor man should take his bread or beef , as the case might be , from the person to whom the frame _belonged . ( Hear . ) If a stocklnger wished to take a frame from the butcher , the latter took very good care that he should not bave it ; , but he would let it to

      another man , from whom the knitter obtained it , and and who compelled him to take his beef from the butcher . He would instance the case of a man who had a wife and five small children , and whose earnings for twelve _aveeks amounted to £ 716 $ 6 d . By this system he was compelled to go to a certain place for bread , and when he came to settle witb the bagman he was told that no doubt his wages were £ 7 lCs Gd , hut there was to be stopped for bread , £ 4 3 s 9 _ d ; ond for frame rent , £ 115 s 6 d . In this transaction , too , the man had to pay 25 per cent , more for his bread than if be had the power to actforhimself . ( Hear . ) Did they call this freedom of trade ? and was not this a case calling loudly for protection ? He bad another case where a frame avas

      bought b y a _truckmaster for £ 15 , and let to a man for 2 s 6 d a week , making the whole rent for the year , £ G 6 s 3 d ; tbis frame had been worked for ten years , and during tbat time the rent was £ 63 2 s Gd . the repairs being £ 10 10 s . After giving several cases of a similar nature , the boa . gentleman proceeded to say that he was somewhat surprised at tbe nature of some remedies which he had proposed for the relief of the framework knitters . His right hon . friend ( Sir J , Hobhouse ) bad said , tbe only cure was that they mnst not marry . In that case he did not know very well what waB to be done with them . He supposed they must be turned ever to the hon . member for Birmingham , ( Great laughter . )

      Sir J . _Hobhouse did not say so . He bad referred to the opinions of Mr Muggeiidge . Mr _DoiiceMBE—Mr _Muggeridgc had said over and over agrin that be did not know a more oppressed set of people , but that was no reason why they should not marry . Another hon . gentleman said they ought to give up this trade , and should not teach it to their _children ; but while such language as tbis was held , tbe frame proprietors were going into the agricultural districts and obtaining children for the purpose of teaching them to work their frames . ( Hear . ) ne held that this entire subject was one well worthy of the attention of the house . The sufferings ofthe people engaged in the trade were such that the very Poor Law could not be worked in the districts where it existed ; and he trusted that tbe house would not now add insult to injury by negativing tbe proposal now before the house , ( Hear . )

      Mr Roebuck denied that the workmen in the hosiery trade were robbed , and contended that wages could not _bercgulated by act of Parliament any more than rent . The first result of this b ll , if it became law , avould be the utter annihilation of tho very ciassos who were the objects ofit . Mr Bankes and Mr Ferrand supported the bill . Mr Brotherton disapprovdd ofthe bill in its present shape . Sir H . Halford replied , and the house divided : — For the second reading ... ... ... 87 Against it ... 77 Majority ... 20 The bill was consequently lost .

      The second reading ofthe Seduction and Prostitution Bill was agreed to , on the understanding that the bill would be _teferred to a select committee to consider its clauses . Mr T . Doncohbe moved for and obtained leave to bring in a bill to provide for the better ventilation of mines and collerics _, for the protection and preservation ofthe lives of persons employed in and about the same , and to make other provisiens relating thereto . The bill was brought up and read a first time ; after which the house adjourned ..

      THURSDAY , June 10 . HOUSE OF LORDS . —The Bishopric of Manchester Bill was read a second time . Several unopposed bills on the table were forwarded a stage , and the bouse adjourned , HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Tbe Poor Law _Administraiion Bill was postponed to Monday next . PaisoNs Bill . —The adjourned debate on the motion to go into committee on the Prisons BiU was resumed by Mr _Kewssoatb , who , in a speech of considerable length , pointed out the impolicy and danger ol the changes contemplated by the government in respect to the punish _, ment of persons sentenced to transportation . After a lengthy discussion , in which Sir J . Gbaham , Lord John Russell , and Sir F . Kelli took part—the House divided—the numbers were , for going into Committee on the Bill 121 ; against it , 76 ; majority , 18 . The House then west into Committee pro forma .

      In Committee of the whole House a resolution , to further suspend the duties on corn , was agreed to and reported to the House , and a Bill was ordered to be brought in founded thereon . The other orders of the day were dispossd of , and the House adjourned . FRIDAY , Jose II , HOUSE OF LORDS . —Lord Stanley gave notice that on Tuesday next he would move a resolution to the effect that the papers communicated to the House did not justify the government in the ' armed intervention they bad adopted in the internal affairs of Portugal . Tbe Bishop of Exeter proposed a resolution to the effect that it was the opinion of their Lordships that persons in holy orders not exercising ecclesiastical func . tions , ought not as such to be ineligible to tho office of schoolmaster in schools receiving aid from parliamen . tary grants . After some discussion tbe resolution was withdrawn . Some bills were pasBed and the House adjourned _.

      HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Lord _Palhebstom stated , in reply to a question from Dr Bowring , that tbe British government had offered to mediate between tho United StatcB of America and Mexico , but that the offer had not been accepted . _Postuoal . —Mr Home submitted to the house his resolution— "That , in tbe judgment of this bouse , tbe armed interference of the government between political parties in Portugal is _unwarrantable in principle , and likely to lead to serious and mischievous consequences . " Mr B . Osborne seconded , and spoke strongly in favour of , the motion It was also supported by Lord W . Faulet aud Mr H . J . Baillie . The speakers in favour of interference being Lord H . Vane , Mr M . Milnes , and Lord J . Russell . Mr Wabbdktok was opposed to the principle of intervention , but would not vote in opposition _to < ministers . Tbe debate , on the motion of Mr P , Borthavick , stands adjourned to Monday ,

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      ( From the Gazette of Tuesday , June 8 . ) John Thomas Cremer , St Mary-axe , merchant—William Henry Noyes _, Long-parish , S uthampton _, relieving officer of the Andover Union—J . Webdale , Luton , Bedfordshire , draper—James Parker , Clapham , Surrey , corn chandler —Robert Lavcrs , Southampton , grocer—Joseph Ager , Northampton , boot and shoe manufacturer—William Smith Brown , sen ., and William Smith Brotvn , jun ,, _Broad-strcet , Ratcliffc , sailmakcrs — William Dickiu , Bradford-end , Isleavorth _, grocer—James Holmyard , Oglestreet , Foley-place , furniture broker — William Sims , Great Queen-street , Lincoln ' s Inn-fields , coach and harness maker—Thomas Beavley , Moulsbam _, Chelmsford , iron manufacture—Charles Curme , Hilpeiton , Wiltshire , common brearer—Benjamin Bowen , Bristol , coal mer . chant—Henry Cole , Birkenhead , Cheshire , builder—John Ashcrof t , Toxteth Park , Liverpool , timber broker—Tullius Priest Fay , Liverpool , surgeon dentist—Thomas Cox , Manchester , avine and spirit merchant-Thomas Jamea Birch , Pendleton , Lancashire , . dealer—Edward _Mesnurd and John Hudson . Sunderland , merchants .

      ( From the Gazette of Friday , June 11 . ) Thomas Ackling , Llangoneck , Carmarthenshire , com dealer—Robert Adams and Thomas Banks , Liverpool , cattle salesmen—Philip _lilnckmore _, Little James-street , _Bcdford-roav , saddler—Samuel _Cockings , Torquay , Devonshire , timbermerchaut—William Tomlin Cooke , Aylsham , Norfolk , ironmonger—Joseph Elliott , Davcntry , Northamptonshire , victualler—Thomas Evans , Bristol , stockbroker — John Gapp , _Dukc-street , _Manchester-squarc , livery _stablckecpcr—Richard Hayday _, Milk-strcct , City , silk warehouseman—John Hind and Roger Warbuck , Liverpoolcurriers—Edavard Jones , jun ., Watling-street ,

      , City , paper manufacturer—William Lcavis , Plymouth , Devonshire , grocer—Robert Lund , Blackburn , Lancashire , cotton spinner — -William Marsdon , Urompton , Kent , grocer-John Milthrope Maude , l _' eckham , cement manu . facturcr—Thomas Sadler , Birmingham , licensed vie tuallcr—William Sime , Liverpool , block raiikor —John Stringer , _ _Kingston-upon-IIull , draper — Evan Thomas , _Aldersgate-street _, City , draper—John Walford _, Stamford , Lincolnshire , innkeeper—James Rickctts Weston , Southampton , auctioneer—Thomas Wilson , Bradford , York shire , bootmaker—George Woods , Mansfield , _Nottingham-, lure , salesman .

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      _MsbbFood Riots . —Another company ofthe 5 th Fusiliers , accompanied by a detachment of the Royal Artillery , with tavo Cold pieces , left Plymouth on Wednesday , in the Gonfiancc steamer , for Falmouth . When the order avas issued for their departure , some ofthe artillery men were mounting guns at Bovisand , where a special messenger was despatched , and brought them in hackney coaches to their quarters , such was the despatch used to get them away . A rumour prevails in _Devonport , that one of the

      magistrates has been killed at Redruth . Redruth . —The miners of this district , following the example of those in the cast and west of the county , came into town on Friday afternoon , in numbers , with their wives , exceeding seven thousand . The inhabitants became alarmed , the market was suspended , the shops and public-houses were closed , and business was entirely ata stand-still . The men seized provisions wherever they conld [ ind them ; and ' some of the magistrates and constables were very roughly treated .

      TheTiutlkMchdisr at Mirfibld . —• On Thursday last tho inquest on the bodies of Mr Wraith , bin wife and servant , murdered at Mirfield . was resumed . The additional evidence adduced , though new to the jury , was not new to the . public j it was a repetition of that given , before the magistrates at Dewsbury on Saturday , last . The jury pronounced their unanimous verdict to be . that of "Wilful murder against Michael M'Oabe and Patrick Reid . " '

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      - ¦ J IRELAND . "AUmen _" are Brethren . " Friends ,-A few _monthslgo it became our-dub-to address yon in vindication ofthe sacred rights of the Polish people against the atrocious tyranny ot tne Holy Alliance , " consummated by the confiscation of Cracow . It has now become our painful duty to appeal to you against similar conduct on the part of the British government towards the people ot P _Tor 8 some months past Portugal has been the scene of a frightful civil war , wholly occasioned by the perfidious intrigues of the Court party , to establish a despotism more odious and exacting than has ever before cursed the Portuguese nation . Lond and long was the outcry against Dom Miguel , until revolt succeeded outcry , and revolution , indirectly aided by the English government , exiled that Princeand established instead his niece Donna

      , Maria on what was called a " constitutional throne . But the absolu tism of Dom Miguel was , at least , honest . That Prince professed to rule in virtue of the " rich * divine , " and did , not as his successor has done , veil a horrible tyranny with the covering of _•« constitutionalism . " Moreover , the _absolutism of Dom Miguel pressed heaviest upon the aristocracy and middle class , leaving the masses of the people comparatively free from taxation , ' and unmolested in their ancient civic privileges . The tyranny of the "Constitutional Queen , " on the eontiary , has been the most severely felt by the masses . The despotic authority exercised by Donna Maria has been shared only by unpr i ncipled upstarts , who for their treason to "liberal _^ principles" were raised tothe ranks of

      , the aristocracy ; by brutal military adventurers , who acquired their rank by showing their readiness on al occasions to employ their swords in the service of despotism ; and , lastly , by those modern harpies , the money-swindlers and tax-eaters , who in all " constitutional " countries pull the _strings p f princely puppets , and secretly guide the machinery of government . These three classes , with an ignorant , selrwilied , faithless woman , at their head , called " Queen , " have established a despotism more horrible than that of Absolutism and the Inquisition , under which the peOple have been ground to the dust by taxation , denied the right of free speech , and ruled by the sword of martial law . . _.-. ' It is not our purpose , nor is it necessary , to

      recapitulate the historical events of the reign ot _uonna Maria . The publicjournals have made all nations fully aware of the faithless and tyrannical acts of that princess and her infamous _coadjutors . Scarcely a year has passed wbich has not witnessed one or more revolts or revolutions , blood-dyed protests against the faithlessness of "Her Most Faithful Majesty . " She swore by _fthe " Charter of Dom Pedro , " and then intrigued till she had rendered the said " Charter" utterly valueless . The Portuguese rose in arms , and compelled her acceptance ot a more democratic " Constitution , " which was in its turn subverted by a factious revolt , secretly encouraged and openly rewarded by the Queen . The "Charter " was then nominally restored , and by the help of

      terrorism and corruption was made instrumental m collecting together a gang of knaves and robbers , ready tools ofthe government , who / . as amock Cortes or " parliament , " sanctioned the most cruel plunder of the people . A revolt of the peasantry scattered thi 8 crewof rascals , with their chiefs the Cabrals , and compelled the Queen to choose another administration , whose worse fault _^ was its feebleness . That administration was overthrown by a court plot and the rule of absolute tyranny erected , under which the laws were altogether set aside ; the public press annihilated witb the exception of ono journal , the organ of the government ; and martial law proclaimed as the only arbiter of society . To resist this tvrannous order of things Oporto unfurled

      the flag ' of insurrection , and for several months past Portugal has been the theatre of a desolating civil war . Many hundreds ofthe combatants on both sides have perished in battle ; prisoners of the national party taken in arms have been put to death in cold Wood ; others , surrendering on the faith of conventions entered into with the Queen ' s generals , have been transported to Africa ; the dungeons of Lisbon have been crowded with victims , many of whom have suffered tortures unheard-of , except in Austrian dungeens and Russian fortresses . Menace , force , cruelty and perfidy have been ruthlessly emploved to crush tne _, ' popular movement ; but employed in vain . More than half the army long since revolted against the Queen ; the navy was equally

      zealous in hoisting the national banner ; almost the entire country , with the exception of tbe capital , has acknowledged the authority ol the insurrectionary Junta ; the colonies have transferred their allegiance to the same authority ; and the revolution would , many weeks since , have been terminated by a revolt in Lisbon , but for the British naval force in the Tagus . To the shame of this country—the vaunted representative and defender of freedom—English cannon pointed against ihe Portuguese peopleh & s , for a considerable time past , been the only protection of the Portuguese court against a popular pronouncement . Notwithstanding that protection , alike disgraceful to the protectors and the protected , a 9 hameful flight from the country mu 6 t , _lut / _oa _*/ o » _-

      That foreign intervention has comm enced mder the direction of the British Government . The governments of England , France and Spain have combined to crush the Portuguese insurrection . An English and French fleet , assisted by a Spanish army , are at this moment acting against the Portuguese people . The mission of the allied forces is to " Make a solitude and call it peace ;" create the death of slavery , and call it" pacification . " People of Great Britain and Ireland , we havo characterised the conduct of your government as similar to that of the spoliators of Poland . It is true that thus far the British government has not avowed any intention of appropriating or partitioning the Portuguese kingdom ; but if the liberties of a nation are confiscated , it matters but little who are its nominal rulers . It is not the country , but the institutions of a country , that makes or mars the happiness of a neoDle . If a tyrannical Queen is maintained in her

      despotic power by the might of British arms , that Queen is but the creature of British supremacy—her people are the slaves of a slave . You , People of Great Britain and Ireland , who havo so signally proclaimed your abhorrence of the destroyers of Poland , how can y _« u , without a burning sense of humiliation , witness this act of your government , as unjustifiable in principle as the acts ot the despotisms of Russia , Austria and Prussia towards Poland ? Under precisely similar pretextsthe " pacification" of contending parties—Poland was first invaded by the troops of foreign despots . Tho infamy of the first attempt on Poland is already achieved by the government of England in the case of Portugal ; does that government contemplate dragging England through all the subsequent stages of infamy achieved by the powers of North-Eastern Europe ? Will the English people tamely allow themselves to be made parties to so infamous a procedure ?

      The protocol signed by Lord Palmerston and the representatives ofthe governments of France , Spain and Portugal , is based upon false assertions . It is not true that tbe National Junta refused to put an end to the civil war . The Junta hesitated to accept the terms dictated by Colonel Wylde , the agent of the Coburg interest , merely because those terms were unaccompanied by sufficient guarantees for the good faith ofthe Queen , when once tho organised insurrection was dissolved . The terms offered by the Junta , and the guarantees insisted upon , were indispensable for the security of the proposed arrangement . Experience had taught the Junta the folly of confiding in the word , or even the oath of Donna Maria , Better guarantees were necessary to secure the good faith of her most faithful Majesty . But on other grounds we maintain that the British government wero by every consideration ef _jusiice excluded from interfering between the Portuguese Queen and

      People . Suppose Englishmen in the position that the people of Portugal bave been placed in ;—aohief magistrate , together with a few stooltjobbbers , military ruffians and bastard aristocrats assuming absolute power ; suppose the parliament set aside , the laws suspended , the press extinguished , men dragged to dungeons without regard to judicial forms ; martial law establishcd _. and war made upon the people : suppose this state of things , WHAT WOULD _TUK ENGLISH PEOPLE do ! Let the ghosts of headless Charles and throneless James testify ! Suppose that domestic oppressors failing to subdue the people were to call in the aid of Russian or any other foreign force , what would the enolisu _TEorLE do ? Rather than submit to slavery so degrading , amidst a storm of fire and blood this island would be given to annihilation ! If Portugal is not capable of such resistance to her domestic and foreign foes , the more entitled is she to the sympathy of all good men ! the more worthy of execration are her assailants .

      People of Great Britain and Ireland . it you were really represented in the Parliament said to represent you , wo arc persuaded that no Ministry would dare to disgrace your name by any such act as the present intervention in Portugal ; an act which should ensure the IMPEACHMENT of its authors . Ministers and their supporters are , however , not above the reach of public opinion ; which , we trust , will be properly manifested . Remember that the war waged against Franco aud the liberties of Europe was as injurious to your character as to your

      interests . lou were not merely taxed enormously _, and the labour of yourselves and posterity put under contribution to pay tho cost of that Kuovtioiikl eon . test , but you were also held responsible by the imtions for the restoration o ! ' that tyranny which in every country in Europo your rulors laboured to re establish after the Great French Revolution . It behoves you , therefore , to protest against the armed intervention in Portueal ; and to declare that every arrangement arising therefrom , or enforced byyom rulers , has not your sanction ' ; but shall be over-

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      thrown the moment you have the power to do justice to yourselves and mankind . That power will be yours : when you have established the citizen rights of all , based upon the _princip les of puredemooraej' . Signed by the Secretaries , oh behalf of the Society ;—G . J ulian Harney , Native of Great Britain . Carl Sohafper , Native of Germany . J . Aooustin Michelot , Native of France . Louis Ouohski , Native ot Poland . Peter Holme , Native of Scandinavia . J . SoiABELiiz _, Native of Switzerland . N . Nameii , Native of Hungary . London , June 7 th , 1847 . _fST The members of the Society in London and the Country are requested to make the above Address known as widely as possible _.

      W A meeting of the Society of Fraternal Democrats will take place at eight o ' clock , on Monday evening next , at the German Society ' s Room , White Hart , Drury-lane . Subject for discussion : — " The Affairs of Portugal and the American Land Movement . "

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      Norwich . —Protbst Against _tob British Invasion of Portugal . —At the weekly meeting of the members of the National Charter Association , the following resolution was passed unanimously : — Thut this meeting recognises the right of every nation to manage its oavn affairs ; that we resent the interference of the Whig Government in tbe political affairs of _Portugal as an infringment on the rights-of mankind : ave , therefore , protest against such baseness , and call upon all Chartists and lovers of Liberty to pronounce in a similar manner . Thut the above resolution be sent to the Northern _Star for insertion . C . Sprinoall , Sub-Secretary .

      Cboydon . _—SiMPAinY for Portugal . — At the usual meeting on Monday evening , June 7 th , the following resolution was proposed by Mr Frost , seconded by Mr Hodges , and carried unanimously : — " That we , the democrats of tbis place , view with indignation and disgust jjie interference of the British government with the p _^ ical affairs of Portugal , and we claim the sympaSta ? of every true Chartist for tho Junta and people of tut oppressed country . " _IltlBll COSFEDBRATWN . _—TBT _^/ BWa AND _PoBTUgal . —The Confederates held a _vfcfy intersting meeting on Sunday at Cartwright _' s _' t _^ The chair was occupied by Mr George Ryan . The- _' _-leading article of the : ** Northern Star _*' was read und much ap .

      plauded . Addresses were _delivereiPby Messrs . Clancy , Dwain _. and Sullivan , all urging the . necessity ofthe people of England arousing themselves to save their character from the foul stain that Whig despotism would inflict on it , if that liberty-bating party were permitted with impunity to bunt down the struggling _Portuguese . Comments on tbe very new move in Ireland . _^ called the " National Council , " occupied the remainder of the evening till a late hour . We lament that other engagements precludes ns from doing justice to this very imp ortant meeting of the Confederates by a more ample report . The discussion on the " National Council" will be resumed on Sunday next . Chair taken at eight o ' clock . — _Corrpsnrmdmt .

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      Dbrbt Elkction . —At the meeting of the National Registration and Election Committee , held at the Assembly Rooms , 83 , Dean-street , Soho , on Monday evening , June 7 th , Mr Milne in the chair , it was unanimously resolved that an address be issued from this body , and an appeal be made to the Chartists and members of the National Land Company throughout the United Kingdom for pecuniary aid towards defraying the expenses of carrying Mi * M'Grath to the poll , at the ensujng Derby Election . Lancashire and Yorkshire Delegate Meeting Mat 23 , _1847—Blackstohb Edoe— Mr Wm . Heap of Bacup in the Chair . Delegates present- Charles Shaw , Rooitdale ; Samuel Whithatn , Todmorden ; Thomas Kitcheman , Halifax ; George Ashworth , Bacup . The following resolu tions were adopted—That the annual camp meeting take place near the White House , on Blackstone Edge , on the 11 th of July , to commence at half-past one o ' clock in the afternoon .

      That P . O'Connor and Ernest Jones , together with the rrhole ofthe Executive , be invited to attend tbe meeting * _. That Mr Thomas Livsey of Rochdale , be Invited to take the chair at the camp meeting . That this meeting- lie adjourned until the 11 th of July , at 10 o clock in the forenoon , and that the following places he requested to send delegates - . —Littlebrough , Heywood , Bnry , Manchester , Oldham , Lees , Shaw , Mtlnrow , Saddleavorth _, Middleton , Rarosbottom , Ellenfield , Haslingden , Maeden Paddock , Riponden , Binglcy , BriKghouse , Stainland , Huddersfield , _Cragg , Soavcrby , _Hesden Bridge , Ellund , Rochdale , Halifax , Todmorden , Bacup , Burnley , Whitworth , and every other toavn and village avithin 20 miles ofthe place of meeting . P . S . —All letters fur me must be addressed to James Coup , care of John Massey , Littleborough , Lancashire .

      _MANcnusiiR . — The Observation and Election Committee beg leave to lay before the various localities in i ancashire the following question , in accordance with the decision of the last delegate meeting : —• " Shall we , or shall we not , bring forward a candidate for the county at the ensuing election ; and if so , are the localities prepared to support the same ?" Now , _friendB , we earnestly hope ne unnecessary delay will occur in answering the above . As the time for action is at hand , it behoves every man to bestir himself in aid of the good cause , and show our enemies tbat there is a leaven of the old spirit left . Arouse yourselves then , friends , and let us show to the country that Chartism is not sleeping the sleep of death , in this once practical part of Lancashire . John _O'Hea . P . S . —All answers to be sent on or before Tuesday , June 15 th , directed John O'Hea , 76 , Hardman-street , Deansgate .

      Tower Hamlets . —Mr Broome lectured at the Globe and Friends , Morgan-street , Commercialroad , on Sunday , June tbe Cch . His subject was : — " Words about R . Burns . " The lecture gave general satisfaction . This was the sixth lecture given by this' talented young man , for the benefit of the Victims Funds . The sum collected ( after paying all expenses ) was 12-3 . l | d . Mr Broom has kindly offered to give three lectures every quarter for the above object , in hope that other lecturers will foil owhis example , for the benefit of the victims . A resolution was passed recommending that each member of the Executive give a lecture once a month , for the benefit ofthe Victims' Fund .

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      furthcoming meetings . Assembly Booms , 83 , Dean-st , Soho , Mr Doyle will lecture on Monday evening next , at half-past 7 o ' clock precisely . Banbury . — -Mr T . Clark will deliver two lectures here on Wednesday and Thursday next , One lecture on the Land , and the other in furtherance of the People ' s Charter . Bristol . —A meeting of the members of this branch of the National Charter Association will be held on Monday evening next , June 14 , at Mr NicholPs Coffee-house , Rosemary-street , at 8 o ' clock . Croydon . —A tea party and conversazione is contemplated by the members , in conjunction with the shareholders ofthe Land Company .

      Halifax . —An open air meeting : will bo hold atthe bottom of Range-lane , _Ilayle-hili , to commence at _half-past 9 o ' clock in the morning . Mr Clisit will deliver a lecture in the Working-Man ' s Hall , Bull close-lane , to commence at half-past 0 o ' clock ill the evening , IIowsell , near Malvern . —The shareholders arc informed that a special qeneral meeting will be held on Monday , June 21 st , for the purpose of electing a local treasurer in the room of Mr James Mills , deceased .

      Manchester . —Mr Beesley , oFAccrington , will deliver a lecture in the People ' s Institute , _lleyrodstrcet , Manchester ; on Sunday , June J 3 ib , chair to be taken at half-past six o'clock , r . M . Subject : " The Charter . " Ernest Jones , Esq ., will deliver two lectures in the above place , on Sunday , June 20 th , ono in the afternoon *• at tavo o ' clock . —Subject : " The Land and its capabilities -, " tho other at half-past six o ' clock . —Subject : "The _Charterand no Surrender . " Northampton . —The Chartist of Northampton and its vicinity are earnest y requested to meet at the Temperance-hotel , King-street , on Tuesday evening next , June 15 th , at S o ' clock . Oxford . —Mr T . Clark will attend hero and ileliver a lecture during the ensuing week .

      Rhoistration and Election Committee . — The nest meeting of this body will be held at the Assembly Rooms , 83 , Dean-stteet , Soho , on Wednesday , June 10 th , at eight o ' clock precisely . The Metropolitan Committee will meet at the same time and place , when business of importance will be brought forward . South London Chartist IIall , Blackfriar ' s Road . _i-On Sunday evening , Jnne 13 th , Mr W . \ V . Brown _, will deliver an address on tbe Forthcoming Election to commence at eight o ' clock . South London Chartist _Hali ,, 115 , Blackfriarsroad . —Mr Broome will deliver a public lecture on bunday evening next , June tbe 13 th , at 8 o ' clock precisely-subject : " The duties of the People at the coming Election . " . ,

      Victims Orphans' & c . Committee will meet at the office o the Land Company , 83 , Dean-street , Soho , at 8 o clock on Monday evening next , June 14 th . Westminster . —Mr C Doyie will lecture in the Assembly Rooms , 83 , Dean-street , on Monday eve l nig next , Junel 4 th . Subject , "The course to be pursued at the General Election by the Chartist body . " Chair-to bo taken nt _eujllC o ' clock , precisely , Wk 8 tmisst £ r Election . — Tkmperanck Hall , Broadway . —This evening , Saturday , June the 12 th , Mr Edmund Stallwood will open the following subject 'for . discussion : — " Tlio merits of the several candidates aspiring to the Representation of Westminster . " Chair to be taken nt S o ' clock precisely —free discussion—tho public _inyited—scats for the ladies . - - - •

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      coRir , ' & c . RENEWED ItlSE IK VUlfva MASKLANE ,-Monday , June 7 .-Freshi , nfn , _a usually small quantity of English avheat CS ? « from any quarter , consequentl y , the show ofT ° N « that grain was trifling . The limited _stateVtW ' ' * 4 English wheat , together with the large _avSmta _^ _t « l town and country buyers , caused the demand t 0 n _, ? H brisk at an _advance in the nuotations obtained ? _^ day last , of from "Six Shillings to Eieht _thnP _h . Quarter , " at which a clearance avas speeuilv _>* Notwithstanding the sboav of foreign avheat av « _ecN sale of all kinds was very active , and a lareebiiX ' ' % doing , principally from the country trade a / S ! _% value of from " Four to Five Shillings" per wL _ _*>* k export no transactions took place , but most of tu F _"r was disposed Of . There was a fair rtom » -j ... "" _-SllDlil .

      of barley . The best grinding qualities avere atrM . _i- _^ _J but in the malting and distilling sorts no alteA .- _gI , e _* _' i place . Although the quantity of malt on offer * ' _^ _i what on the increase , the malt trade avas va _* . V W and most of the large holders avould not sell ,, _H , trifle more money . There avas a better inquiry f „ _, lt a corn , especially for floating cargoes , at ]_ . _« 1 " _^ _an more money . We had a . very large supply of for ? _^ _Von shoav , but that of English , Irish , and Scotch _wnP ° The oat trade was in a _a-ery inactive state at bar i aJ ' _- tionary prices . In beans very few sales avere enml ? * yet lbs currencies were supported . Peas moved iff i a i at about last week ' s currencies . The flour _ mh ° » firm , and prices had an upavard tendency . e _*& British . — 'Wheat : Kent , Essex , and Suffolk _„ u 8 Ss to 92 s , new red 87 s to 93 s , old white 9 _ostoC red ditto 92 s to 1008 , Norfolk and Lincoln old red rr 11 * old avliite 67 s to 92 s . —Rye 63 s to 65 s . -Barlev- ,, _r _* * _" 48 s to 50 s , distilling 54 s to _Gls , malting 58 s to 6 ( 1 _Tpi *? Uer 60 sto 62 s .-Malt : Broavn 68 s to 70 s , nale _7-k . , I * _Suffolkand Norfolk 74 sto 7 Cs .-Bcans : Tick 4 ! I * pigeon 55 _s . tof 0 s . —Harrow new , 51 s to 53 s I _> white 60 s to 61 s , grey and muplc 56 s to fils . _—Oatv " p „ , as : feed 32 s to 36 s , Poland 38 s to 35 s , Scotch feed __ H Potato 42 s to 44 s ; Irish , Limerick , and Newrv 31 s * ' Cork and _Youghal black 32 s t 35 s .-Fl . ur - Team Jl _> 70 s to 75 s , Essex and Kent 60 s to 68 s Nor folk ! Stockton S 5 s to 65 s per 2 B 0 lbs . K wi

      Wednesday , June 9 . —The show ' of samples here thi morning avas exceedingly small , while the demand for . 11 kinds was very firm , and in some instances a trifle mf « money avas obtained for selected qualities . Nearir 10 nn » quarters of foreign avheat . have come to hand wtt _' i ,. ! article avas firm at fully Monday ' s advance . ' " m _Maiik-Latje , Friday , June 11 . —The receipts of Ei u _^ a . wheat have been but scanty during tbe week , but from abroad about 11 , 500 qrs have come to hand . Theu . ti _« business done to-day avas at about last . Monday ' s rates Barley , oats , beans , and peas avere in moderate request at previous quotations . _h _FoREiax . —Free Wheat : Dantzic and Kom ' gsburg so . to 958 , Mecklenburg 80 s to 85 s , Russian 70 s to 80 s ,., _Barlej : grinding 48 s to 51 s , malting 51 s to 57 . —Beans . Egyptian 40 s to 42 s , Mediterranean 42 s to 49 s . —Oats ' Russian 3 'is to 35 s , Mecklenburg 32 s to 34 s per qr . —Amen can flour 40 s to 45 s per _ISSlbs .

      CA . TTLE , & c . The folloaving imports of live stock have taken pj _ . _ . into London during the past aveek : — From Whence Oxen Cows Calves Sheep Lam _ . Rotterdam 100 344 98 900 ___ Hamburgh GO " — — — __ Harlingen ...... 194 380 40 600 — Nieudiep 20 40 10 120 40 Flushing — — — 200 30

      Total .. 374 764 148 1 , 820 230 At Hull , Neavcastle , and the various other outports _, the arrivals have amounted to about 150 oxen and coavs 4 . 0 sheep , 30 _laml s , and 40 calves in , for the most part , good condition , and avhieli have commanded aready sale in tbe local markets at advanced quotations .

      GREAT RISE IN PRICES . Smithfield , Monday , June 7 . —The supply of foreign stock on offer here this morning was , eompatatively speaking , small , viz ., 200 oxen and cows , 800 sheep ami lambs , and 20 calves . The whole found buyers at ad . vunced quotations . From ouroavn grazing districts tbe ar . rivals of beasts fresh up avere small and of middling quality This falling off in tbe bullock supply , together with the large attendance of buyers , produced considerable excite ment in the beef trade , and a very great advance took place in the quotations . In some instances tbe primes ! Scots produced as much as six shillings per _Slos ; hut the more general highest figure was 5 s 8 d per _Sfts _, avliich prices were quite 6 d per 8 tt > s _aboa-e those obtained on this day se ' nnight . Previously to the close of the market t total clearance of the beasts had been effected . Thii was decidedly one of the dearest markets on record _. Compared avith those at the corresponding period in 1815

      , tbe quotations of beef ranged from is 8 dto 2 d of mntton is 4 d , of lamb Bd to loa , of veal 6 d to 8 d , and of port 2 d to 4 d per Slbs higher than at that period , and then high rates were in most instances obtained with very little difficulty . From Norfolk , Suffolk , Essex , and Cambridgeshire ave received about 900 Scots , homebreds and short-horns ; from the western and midland counties SM Herefords , runts , Devons , Ac . ; from other parts of England 600 of various breeds ; and from Scotland , 30 . horned and polled Scots . There was a full average _nuoi . ber of sheep on offer . Still , however , the mutton trade avas steady , though ave cannot call it brisk , at last Monday ' s currencies ; the best old doavns , out of the wool , realising 5 s 8 d per 81 bs . The supply of lambs aaas tole . rably extensive . Prime breeds avere in good request at

      extreme figures , vw _., 6 s Md to 7 s per 8 fts _- , but other qualities avere a sloav inquiry at last Friday ' s prices ! With _calres ivc were scantily supplied , yet the voaltraiL avas dull at the late decline in value . We had a sloivi . quirytbr pigs , yet inmost instances late rates _averesu _*) - ported . Coarse and inferior beasts 4 s 4 d to 4 s 8 d , second quality do 4 s lOd to 5 s * Jd , prime large oxen 5 s 4 d to 5 s 6 d , prime Scots 5 s Gd to 5 s 8 d , coarse and inferior sheep 4 S fid to 4 s Sd , second quality do 4 s Sd to 4 s lod , prime coarse aroolled sheep 5 s 2 d to 5 s 4 d , prime South down do 5 s 6 d to 5 s 8 d , large course calves 4 s 4 d to 4 s _l''d , prime small do 5 s to 5 s 4 d , large hogs 4 s to 4 s 6 d , neat small porkers 4 s 8 d to 5 s , lambs as 8 d to 7 s per Slbs to sink the offal , suckling calves 21 s to 31 s , and quarter old store pigs 18 s to 23 s each .

      _jritjD _ ir , June 11 . —There _aa-as an unusually large supply of beasts for a Friday ' s market . A great many avere of middling quality , hastened in by tbe late high prieH . The best descriptions avere mostly disposed of at a reduction of nearly 4 d per 81 b ; but a large number of inferior quality _reinuincd unsold . There were nearly 400 froo Holland and Germany , about 300 from Scotland , 161 miicS cows , and tbe remainder from various parts of the country . Sheep avere more numerous , and prices ratlierloiver , There avere more lambs than ave bave had this season before , and the average quality very inferior ; the choicest qualities avere lower , and a considerable number of second-rate remained unsold . There avus a good supply ei calves , aud the demand avas brisk ; late prices avere pretty avell supported , From Holland and German ? there avere 1 , 650 sheep , aud 135 calves . Pies avere by no means plentiful * , there avas a brisk demand at late rates . POTATOES .

      Bobopch asd _SriTALrtEiDS , Monday , June . —A ten arrivals of potatoes have taken place from Holland since Monday last , but the supply on offer is exceedingly small . All kinds move off heavilv , at next te nominal currencies . York reds _2-iOs to 260 s , ditto Regents 250 s to 280 s , dim Shaavs 20 _» s to 220 s , Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire Regents 25 l ) s to 28 os , ditto Kidneys 180 s to 220 s , Dumb ions to 180 s per tou ,

      WOOL . London , Monday , June 7 . —Since Monday last the imports of avool into London have been large , viz , 2 , 000 bales from Ncav Holland , and 1 , 800 ditto from various other quarters . Although the supplies on offer in the private contract market are large , the trade is Jiearyal barely stationary prices . _COTTOS . Liverpool , Monday , June 7 . —The sales of cotton _tod-. iy have been to a moderate extent , say 4 , 000 to 5 _, 0 H bales . The market bus been quiet , but prices are quite firm aud steady . The business done included 800 Sural . ' , chiefly at 4 _ d _, to the trade .

      Died. James Mills, Eoaeli Painter, Ofmul...

      DIED . James Mills , eoaeli painter , ofMulvern Link , aged _siitjsix years . He avas a just admirer of Feargus O'Ceiiner , Esq ., and a member of tlie Lund Company . He _avasunobtrusive in his manners but firm ia his prineioles . Ill avas ever ready to assist in the protection of his fell . " men ' s rights agidnst all _enci-oaclnneuts . He lias left * avidoav sixty-three years of ago to deplore his loss . Dr Dobbs , at Neavark , ou the 3 rd instant , caused by a full from his gig . lie avas returning home from Carta avhen the accident happened . He avas a sterlisj Democrat , : mda benevolent uiiin , and respected by a , rich and poor . Dut'iu _ r tlie funeral all the shops <« _' _* closed . A large funeral procession followed tlie deceased ' s rcnitiiiis to _tliepi _. iee of burial , including all tl >( clubs , many of _u-liitli tlie doctor attended . _Dt-aiii oi- a Tkuk I _' atuiot . —At Glusgoav , at » minutes past five o ' clock on Sunday morning ; last , _JuK Gth , Joliu _Colquliouti _, avell known for bis honest an < ardent advocacy ol * the principles ol democracy- _f _* _* deceased has left a young avife , but no children .

      We have not been 1 ' urnUhed avith anv particulars of tt « illness , age , & c , of the deceased . John Colquhoun « ss every inch a true _naiaai mail sterling democrat . IVckW * him avell , and _knowing , honoured him for his many W _* ccUent qualities . Of him it may bo truly said that " Even his failings lean ' il to virtue ' s side . " In his private friendship , and bis public _dca-otion to t _« cause of freedom and jii _.-tioe _, he avas alike sincere , tra ' i and open-hearted . His uue . \ pectcd death has fallen _ai » shadoav across our path avliich no sunbeam can altogetbtr dispel . John Culquhouu avill be missed in Glasgo _** When the muster-roll of uur patriots is called over , to * very omission of his name will cause men to remw « l * liim , aud sigh to think that he is no longer avith tlicinU share their toils and aid their struggles , Peace tot * memory . Peace to iier avlio survives liim . IVe mow " the loss of a valued friend , and deplore the untimely dealt of a true patriot . —Kb . aV . £ > ..

      At LEAsisGTKonsE Colliery , on Wednesday IM Gcoi-gc _Vasst-y , aged _•¦!*> _, got killed , by the falling of a lit ? _ttonc from the roof of the pit . The stone had to _beliw _" " to pieces aaitli avoJgcs before the body could _begotuB _** Tlie deceased has left a avife and two children to law " his untimely cud , and avhat makes it more _lieartrciii 11 ? is , tbat his avife avas brought to bed only the diy ueft ber husband ' s ' death . She is lying in a verv _avt \ ikst _; _iKAt Reading , on Wednesday , June 2 nd , died _I-Var . _" - O Connor House , son of E _pliraim House , * a thoroug _ligon-f Democrat . _DeathokAn'Otheii _&* _i-erliscDemocrat . —Itis our _pai- > ful duty to recordthe death of another of" Suture ' s nobles . Mr Wm . _M'Culloch , of Hailme , Manchester . In 1 """ , ' ? cause has lost one of Us most determined friends , and " .

      Manchester locality one of its most useful members . K _' true lie avas not known much beyond tbo _boundries of _ »' oavn locality . He being one of those quiet , though nul j ' - ' - useful members of the goodcauso , avho did the more « _" ' portant part of avoiking , and left the speecliefy iug _tootl" _' hands . J ? ut as a worker lie had few equals . >' u ''" t ' standing he has been _suilering-for the last tavo > ' _««« fr _ S _ " Chronic Rhunintisin , " and at times ho was scarcely _^' to _avivlk ; yet , an the midst of all his suffering , he _« _£ alavays found at his post at the Laiid-ufhVe , a l 1 ' _- _tanec at least of a mile and a half from ' , _V j , house three times a aveek , till avithin ii few days * ' ' death avhich took place on Friday morniivg , tke 1 "' 'I _ j His remains were interred iu the burial ground o > George ' s Church , llulme , ou Sunday last , avhen t _' ° ' _ tists of Manchester adjourned tlieir usual monthlyuw ing , and folloavedbU remains to their last abiding "o : Tlie funeral avas attended likewise by the 1 _' _orestei-v wbich society lie was a member . The deceased ' s B" j _haa-elostan indulgent parent ; the People ' s _L * * '' , determined defender , ami the Land Plan a _nealou- J _»¦ - cate nnd euicientoHicer . W , 1 ) . . .,- _ :

      Printed Bv Doucal. M-Gowan. Of It!. Great Ivnu-* 1 ,. ,

      _Printed bv _DOUCAl . _M-GOWAN . of It ! . Great _IVnu- _* _,.

      Street, Llnymuvket, In The City Of Westi...

      street , llnymuvket , in the City of _Westiniu- . ieii Otliee , in the same Street and _Tarisli , for lll . y . | ,, , „ prietor _. rEAUGliS O'COSSOB , Esq ., and 1 _><*» _*!_ . by William Hewitt , of No . 18 , _Cliarles-street , » J * _don-street , Walworth , iu the UHrisli of St . _M » >'> * ¦¦ _,- _, iigton , in tlie County * f Surrey , at thu Otliee , '\ o- . Great" Windmill-street , _JfayuiM-ket , in Hie . Cit yot » uiiusWi _* . _-Saliml-iy _,-J » ne lath , 1 S 47 .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 12, 1847, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_12061847/page/8/