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      "The Salt-Hill Murder. Biogbathy Of John...

      " the salt-hill murder . _BIOGBATHY OF JOHN TAWELL . The convict John Tawell was born in 1784 , and -iras the second son of Thomas Tawell , who for a considerable number of years kept a general shop in ihe parish of Aldcby , a village ¥ _»/ _C _^ _S 3 ? muesfiom Beccles . In this _ouiet and secluded village the subject ofthUmemoir was bora , ; and soent much of Mschfldliood and early youth . He received s plain and useful education , such as would serve the pursuits of trade for which he was intended , at the _HDage-school , over which a Mr . Shreeye , _anunw-eisnamg butreallv weD-informed man , then presided . At this school John Tawell continued for about seven years , and became a proficient in the humble sciences _ffhich constituted the amount of hia teacher ' s

      proi & ssional stores . __ < ne intervals of school duties were , as he advanced in years , occupied in assisting his father in thc shop , with , a view to preparing him for taking his place behind the counter of some more extensive trader , to whom Ms services might be desirable , and who -would deem them an equivalent for supplying him with food , and training him for the duties of a grocer's or draper ' s shopman , a -post which Lis unambitious parent had already determined he should fill . In _conformify with this purpose , John Tawell , about the year 1798 , entered the service of a widow ( one ofthe Society of Friends ) who kept a general shop in the village of Pakefield , near Lowestoft , in Suffolk . In this situation he remained about five

      years ; and by the activity and industry of his life , " and the strict decorum of his habits , he gained the confidence of bis employer and the respect of her customers , who -were chiefly the inhabitants of that and the adjacent villages . Itwas here that Tawell -was induced to attach himself to the views , and to adopt the garb , _thephraseelogy , and the other general characteristics ofthe Society of Friends , of which , as we have said , his mistress was a member . It may herebe mentioned , that while in this situation Tawell formed a rather close intimacy with Joseph Hunton , the Quaker linen-draper , who in 1828 was executed at Newgate for forgery . At that time Hunton resided at Yarmouth ; Tawell went occasionally there on business for his employer , and also on "first days "

      often went thither for the purpose of attending worship in the Friends' meeting-house in that town . The young men frequently met , and thus an intimacy sprung np between two * persons whose subsequent career in vice , though somewhat varied as to the character of their respective crimes , afterwards procured for ' both an undesirable notoriety , and an ij-j-nominious death on the scaffold . Hunton -was detected and executed after Tawell had been trans ported for an offence of the same class . As Hunton was known to have been long engaged in the practice of forging and negotiating forged bills of exchange , whieh , as they became due , he paid with the proceeds

      « f other forgeries , it is by no means improbable that Tawell ' s intimacy with Hunton , which he continued after his arrival in London , might have gradually undermined his moral principles , and suggested thc idea of forgery as the means of raising pecuniary supplies . Hunton had married a Quaker lady of Yarmouth , of highly respectable connexions there ; and at the time of his apprehension for the forgery for which he was executed , and for some years previously , had been in business as a hncn-draDer in _Norton Folgate . On Tawell ' s return fromSydney he inquired after liis old acquaintance , Hunton , and , on heing informed of his late , expressed much svnipathy _.

      To return to onr narrative of Tawell—whom we left at Pakefield , the industrious and respected assistant in the widow ' s shop . In the latter part of 1803 , or beginning of 1304 , Tawell entered the great metropolis , bringing with him letters of introduction to some of the Society of Friends from their Suffolk connexions . These speedily procured for him a situation with a member of their own community , a Mr . Janson , the proprietor of an extensive linendrapcry establishment in "WhitechapeL It was here that Tawell met with , the young woman whom he nftcrn-ards married i hut under eh _^ _umstaneA _* which tended to diminish the respect he had acquired by his previously correct morals . In short , it was discovered that this young woman , a housemaid in the

      family of his employer , was enceinte , and bv John Tawell . The scandal thus brought on the cloth was hushed up by a marriage between the erring pair—a anion which was forced upon Tawell by the influence of his employer . The turpitude of thisoffenee against morals was considerably increased by the fact , that Tawell was at the time carrying on a correspondence , with a "view to marriage , with a young person of a respectable Quaker family at Yarmouth , with whom he had become intimate when a resident in that county . An intimacy which had commenced in imprudence , and an union which , on his part , wa 3 rather the result of necessity than of choice , was not likely to produce much of that felicity of which marriage was designed to be the source , and will be . when

      affection is the basis , and virtuous confidence in each other-flic self-supplying spring . Tawell and his wife "were unhappy . By his unfortunate and guilty intimacy with her he had lost caste among the Friends , and by his marriage had been , of course , deprived of the advantages which an union with the Yarmouth lady would have heon likely to secure . These consequences—though caused by his own folly , by a process of reasoning but too general under similar circumstances—Tawell attributed to his wife , and visited them upon her by neglect , and by yet more positive indications of unkindness and dislike . The issue of this marriage was two sons , to whom reference has been made in accounts which have been already published .

      On leaving Mr . Janson ' s establishment , which he did soon after his marriage , Tawell obtained temporary employment in his own business . Being intelligent , active , and enterprising , he naturally sought for some pursuit more profitable in its remuneration , and better suited to his taste . At length he was re-COmmcnded to Mr . Marsden , the head of an extensive wholesale drug and patent-medicine establishment in the neighbourhood of Queen-street , Cheapside . He was engaged to travel for the house , and evinced so much activity and business tact , combined -with devoted zeal to the interests of his employers , that he was highly prized by them as an efficient and trustworthy representative . During all this time Tawell -retained his preference for the peculiarities of the

      sect with which he had been early associated , and was known on the road as "the Quaker traveller "an appellation by wliich he is still remembered by the few who remain of those who were wont to meet him at the commercial inns on the journeys he undertook . While in Mr . Marsden ' s employ , Tawell is supposed to have acquired that knowledge of drugs , their properties , and uses , and the mode of preparing them for medicinal purposes , which he subsequently turned to good account in Sydney ; and which subsequently suggested the idea of using prussic aeid to destroy the life of the unfortunate woman whom he murdered . Tawell continued in this situation about seven years , and was again rising into respect . The recollection of his fawx pas at Mr . Janson ' s was fast

      passing away from those who had the most reason to pc annoyed by its occurrence ; by others it was regarded as a __ venial offence , for which his subsequent marriage with the woman had compensated . As an Intelligent and pushing man of business , the confidential representative of a first-rate commercial house , Tawell was deserving of the respect in which he was held by those with whom he was brought into intercourse ; and everything seemed to bo proceeding , month after month , in a way at once satisfactory to his employers and advantageous to "himself . At length _tte forgery on the Uxbridge Bank—the particulars of which were , to a considerable extent , suppressed at the fame of its detection , but wliich the Globe recently supplied from a communication by a party who "knew - ah the circumstances at the time—burst " upon

      Ihe connections of lawelL and produced astonishment , that one in whom so much confidence had been placed -should have been induced to embark in a gckeme , the failure and detection of which , involved not merely the loss of character , but , at that time , the forfeiture _oflife . Having a forged Bank of England note in his possession at thc time of his apprehension on the more serious charge—although there j ** reason to believe he had no guilty knowledge of its charactcr— -it was used as the means of procuring his -escape from the consequences of the capital offence he had actually committed . The benevolent bankers ( who were Quakers ) were thus relieved from the necessity of prosecuting ; the Bank of England took "Dp the case ofthe forged noie on their establishment ; Tawell pleaded guilty by arrangement , and in 1 S 14 _Vas sent , a convict , to Sydney .

      I ;; that colony Tawell arrived in 1815 . Here his _fc . _oivledge of drags immediately availed him . _Injstcad of being assigned to a settler , and sent up the country , he was retained in the service of _Governinent , as one ofthe assistants in the convict hospital at Sydney . Iii this situation he continued rather m ore than three years . His intelligence , assiduity , and carefulness here also acquired for him the favourable regards of his superiors , and by their recommendation , the Governor , Major-General Macquarrie , first granted him a ticket of leave , and shortly afterwards an emancipation ticket . Aided by some friends he liad made among the officials in the colony , Tawell fust commenced business in a small shop in Hunterstreet , Sydney ; and , meeting with encouragement ,

      _suiHequently removed to more commodious premises in _Pittstxeet . Theshop _beinglarge , and having two spacious windows , one side was appropriated to drugs and chemicals , and the other was fitted up as a grocery store . Hera Tawell rapidly grew rich . He _embarked in the shipping trade ; engaged in _oilspeculAto-as ; and -was successful mall . The report of his ; _ra _^ y _tad reached England . His wife , with her SS _^ _Kcewed no aid from him . _Notwith-Evi- ? -f _aS _^ _H _dnaimstances , she had been a _^ £ _^ _-of _* _S _? ao , i ,, ! ailt J _«•* at length obtained fe r _^ _dS _*|^^ em _«^ f a gen lAndon . _^^^ _S _^ _yatd . _Colenm-atreet , _a-adher 8 _onsw _^^^ w as _**> _Provide her _^ Passage _ABEKSttflB ti

      "The Salt-Hill Murder. Biogbathy Of John...

      embarked and arrived at Sydney in 1824—no very welcome visitants to Tawell , who had formed one of those female connexions which are more consistent withconvenience than sanctioned by morality . Tawell made the best of the matter . The house-keeper was provided for , and Mrs . Tawell was installed mistress of the house ; the sons were furnished with employment ; and , to do Tawell justice , he provided them with the necessary instructors , and thus gave them the means of preparing for a respectable station in society . During his early residence in the colony Tawell' s father died : and when his circumstances improved , and he was acquainted with tho fact that his mother required aid , he regularly remitted money to England for the relief of her necessities until her death . ...

      Having accumulated a large amount of wealth—at least between . £ 30 , 000 and £ 40 , 000—Tawell determined on returning to his native country , from which he had been absent more than sixteen years . Upon his arrival in London in 1831 , he , with his family , first resided in a house in Great Prescot-strcet , Whitechapel ; thence he removed to Trinity-square , Southwark , where he domiciled his wife and sons ; but some affairs in Sydney requiring his personal attention , and having an opportvmity of embarking -with a prospect of profit , a sum in the purchase of goods which he know would meet with a ready sale in the Sydney markets , he set sail thither with a valuable cargo . By this speculation Tawell is said to have realised between £ 4 , 000 and £ 6 , 000 . He returned

      home , having settled the business for which he undertook the voyage . Success in this undertaking induced Tawell to engage in another of a yet more extensive kind , and to embark once more for the scene of his success . On this occasion he took with him his wife and sons ; the elder of whom , having completed hia medical studies , he established in business in Sydney as a surgeon and apothecary , where , having first married , and after three or four years' residence , he subsequently died . The death of this son deeply affected Tawell . He _ajrnin determined on returning to England ; and on his arrival took the house in Bridge-street , Southwark , so frequently alluded to on his trial , as that in which Sarah Hart was engaged to nurse Mrs . Tawell in her last illness , and where that guilty intercourse sprang up between the young nurse and her master , which ultimately issued in her murder by her betrayer . Here Tawell assumed yet more strictly his characteristic preference for Quaker

      society , and employed his increased wealth in works of benevolence . As though he sought to hide from himself the criminality of the illicit intercourse he was now indulging with Sarah Hart , who had become pregnant by Mm , and remained with him in his house until , her altered appearance betrayed the fact he would have fain concealod , Tawell was constant in his attendance on public worship at the Friends ' meeting-house , and subscribed liberally to schools and other benevolent objects . We have heard , from a credible source , that to onc school , connected with a Dissenting chapel in the Borough-road , he subscribed not less than £ 30 annually . He at length left thc house in Bridge-street , and lived in retirement in the neighbourhood of Croydon , visiting Sarah Hart at different places where he had placed her in seclusion ; at the same time paying his court most assiduously to the excellent but ill-fated lady who , unfortunately for herself , at length consented to become his wife .

      We have reason to believe that Tawell will make no verbal confession of his guilt . It is , however , satisfactory to know that he does not deny the perpetration ofthe crime for which he is condemned . In such a case silence is a tacit admission , as satisfactory as an avowal , however explicit . It is also stated , on the authority of one who has been admitted to an "interview with him , that it is probable that the wretched man will leave behind hun in writing a full account of every circumstance connected with the murder , including other incidents of his chequered life . —Globe .

      _Atlesbubt , Mondat Evening . No change has taken place in the conduct of Jolm Tawell . It is possible , if not probable , that he is buoyed up hy some latent hope of a commutation of his sentence . * Great exertions are made in his behalf , with a view of obtaining what is termed a '' review " ofthe medical evidence wluch so materially assisted In procuring his conviction . Letters of advice and encouragement pour in from all quarters , both tothe prisoner and to Airs . Tawell , at Berkhampstead . The petition got up in this town on behalf of all persons condemned to death was signed by 164 persons . A tradesman of Aylesbury ( who set it on foot ) took it to London this morning , for the purpose of presented it tothe Home Secretary , Sir James Graham having

      informed Lord Nugent that he could not receive it privately . An answer to this petition was returned on Tuesday , in wliich Sir James Graham states that he can see no sumeient reason to interfere with the sentence passed upon the prisoner . Mrs . Tawell and his daughter , and the brother of the prisoner , visited him to-day , and remained with him for upwards of two hours . Mrs . Tawell has at present determined upon seeing him again on Wednesday next for the last time . Their self-command before , upon , and immediately after such occasions , is e-drr-aorduiary . Out of consideration for the feelings ofthe family of this wretched man , it may be as well to give an authentic and authorised contradiction to many of the false reports wliich have been

      promulgated concerning him , and to which we have before alluded . He never had a partner of any kind , nor did he ever come into possession of property through the sudden death of another person . His first wife was five months on a bed of sickness , during which time she was attended by Dr . Elliotson and other medical gentlemen , and she died of a pulmonary complaint . His eldest son was laid up five months , and his second son nine months , with a similar complaint , of which they both died , the former at Totteridge . Tawell is a Norfolk man ; his grandfather was High-Sheriff of Norwich . He has never attended divine service once during his confinement . Tawell has settled £ 15 a year upon each of the children of the murdered woman .

      Aylesbury , Tuesday Evening . Tawell continues to receive communications upon the medical testimony which was brought against him . Immediately after his execution a full exposition of that subject will appear . Dr . Letheby is industriously engaged upon the disputed points . The convict ' s brother and Mr . Alfred King , one of his professional advisers , are all who have visited him to-day . A statement which appeared in a Sunday paper , that the magistrates had spent two days in deliberating in what dress the prisoner should be executed , is entirely unfounded . The facts are these , — that the visiting magistrates met on Tuesday , the 18 th inst ., and immediately and -unanimously determined that the unfortunate culprit should have every indulgence granted to him for his short remaining period oflife , and that he should not be compelled to wear the prison dress ; and hence the misrepresentation of a dress to be hanged in .

      ArtESBunr , Wednesday EvEMirc . In the course of yesterday evening itwas intimated to the condemned man , John Tawell , that the final event was close at hand . "Upon being , told thathe might regard the remaining interim between himself and eternity more as hours than days , he seemed somewhat shocked , and an exclamation escaped him . Tet he did not inquire the precise day . There can be no doubt but that he clings to life in some degree , notwithstanding the resignation which he evinces . This morning the culprit ' s wife and her daughter , Miss Cutforth , together with the brother , Mr . W . Tawell , arrived to take their final farewell , The prisoner had prepared several memoranda for his wife . His wishes were committed to paper with

      great method and accuracy . Minute commissions were set down , and various small and outstanding accounts were mentioned . There is a chapel at Sydney upon which he has laid out £ -700 or £ 800 , and to this he had given much attention . He at one time resolved upon making this property a present to the Society of Friends ; but he has now determined that they shall only use it rent free for a certain period , and upon condition of their keeping it in repair . TMs and other matters were all adjusted , and having mentioned a trifling debt or two , he congratulated himself upon not owing a penny , and remarked that if anything further should come across his mind he would commit it to paper . Upon this , as upon all former occasions , ho never alluded to lib crimes , nor in any of the numerous and long epistles whieh he has addressed to his wife , and to others of his family , has he mentioned the circumstances of the

      murder . The subject is one which he has always avoided . When pressed to reveal all that he knew concerning it , he always answered , " I am not prepared—I am not prepared , " at thc same time leaving an impression that something in the way of an explanation or confession would ultimately appear . The latter part of the visit of Mrs . Tawell was spent in devotion . Her husband prayed earnestly and eloquently . Miss Cutforth was deeply affected , and wept nearly all the time . Mrs . Tawell was reluctant to abandon all hope or intention of seeing him again , having some vague expectation of a favourable communication from certain personages to whom petitions have been sent . This evening Tawell will be informed by the chaplain that Friday morning ends his earthly career . Independently of any confession of the murder , some extraordinary disclosures will he made relating to the fate of John Tawell .

      Fatal Accmexr. — On Good Friday Afternoo...

      Fatal AccmExr . — On Good Friday afternoon , while a glass coach , contaming a pleasure party , was passing the Lea-bridge station of the North-Eastern Railway , the horses suddenly gallopped off at a rapid rate , depriving tho driver of all control . Between the Lea and the Clapton turnpikes , a respectablelooking man foolishly ventured to arrest the animals * speed , and in doing so he -was knocked down , the off-wheels of the carriage passing over his legs , head , Ac . He was picked up and speedily conveyed home , where he diedon Saturday . The horses were stopped at Clapton-gate . It is a singular fact , that although inany persons -witnessed tie melancholy ; occurrence , no steps -were taken to ascertain the residence ofthe parties in the vehicle . The police hare made fruitms efforts for that purpoae . _* -fi _fo 6 e .

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      LONDON . Metbopolitih District Council , 1 , Turnagainlane , March 23 rd . Mr . Caughlin in the chair . —A letter was read from Jenkin Morgan , acknowledging the half of a five-pound note from Mr . Edward Clark , Secretary to the Victim Fund . The case of Mr . John Llewellyn , the compatriot of John Frost , who has been driven from the Welsh mountains by persecution , was again brought forward , and Mr . John Simpson moved the following resolution : — ' * That Mr . Llewellyn be recommended to . establish a Hat Club ; and this council will render liim

      every support in its power . The motion was seconded by Mr . Stallwood , and carried unanimously-Mr . Llewellyn has accordingly opened a club , and Mr . T . M . Wheeler has . consented to act as treasurer , and to enrol names . The club will be of twenty weeks' duration , renewable at pleasure , contributions tobe either sixpence or one shilling per week , to suit the convenience of members . Subscribers can have cither hats or bonnets ( silk or beaver ) at will , and of any quality , on reasonable terms . The Metropolitan District Council earnestly call on their brother democrats to lend a helping hand to their persecuted andoppressed brother Llewellyn .

      Chartist Hall , Turxagain-lank . — On Sunday evening last a meeting of the operatives of London took place to discuss the propriety of , and probable benefit to be derived from , the forthcoming Conference ; Mr . Duane was called to the chair , and after reading a letter from Mr . P . O'Connor he opened the business by stating , that there was no class of the community , save the working classes , but had its Conferences and Councils to look after its interests . The crowned heads of Europe had their " holt alliance , " and all other classes of the community had a sort of" holt alliance" too , save the most useful , and yet the most degraded of the sons of Adam . As an instance of the necessity of the working men calling public attention to their position in society ,

      he stated that in his own trade , that of a Tauor , there was the most unheard-of cruelties practiced by he masters , and almost ; incredible destitution Buffered by the men . He instanced that portion of the Queen ' s liveries executed by a master in Sackvillestreet , which were made by " sweaters . " These sweaters were a class of men wlio worked on Sundays ; were frequently up all night _y and who employed the most filthy of the _trade—principally men who had been expelled from Trade Societies , and who could not obtain employment on thc premises of any respectable master tailor . Mr . Goodfellow did not expect any beneficial result from tho proposed

      Conference , if all the trades were actuated by the spirit that abounded in his trade . There were quite as many aristocratical distinctions among the _journey men in some trades as in our boasted " constitution " itself . Mr . Wartnaby , Carpenter , contended for the Conference , and observed that it was by union tlicy had maintained their present amount of wages , and he hoped they would still persevere , and even augment them by the same means . Mr . Pa 3 ny , Bootmaker , took the same view of the question , and maintained that a strong and effective union ought to exist amongst all working people without any distinction . Mr . Deane moved the adjournment ofthe question to next Sunday , and the meeting separated .

      OLDHAM . Effects of Union and Resolution . —It will be remembered by the Chartists generally , and by those of Oldham particularly , that the middle-class authorities of that town refused the working men the use of the Town-hall ( built with their own money ) , because Feargus O'Connor was the person announced to lecture on the occasion . This insolent act of monopoly by the " -free-traders" was spiritedly and promptly met by the people with a resolution to budd a hall for themselves ; and Mr . O'Connor , Mr . Roberts , and others , attended , not many months since , to lay the foundation stone . On Sunday _^ last Mr . O'Connor " consecrated the splendid building , " to use his own language , "to the service of Truth and Justice . " The

      hall is built of stone . It stands on an eminence , in an improving part of the town , and constitutes one of the principal features in that locality . The building covers an area of six hundred _square yavdSt It { swell ventilated , having no fewer than twenty-seven windows of great height , whicli give to the building a light and finished appearance . The platform is very spacious , being capable of accommodating between 400 and 500 persons . Thc celling is _tastefully finished , and great judgment has been displayed in arranging the gas burners , wliich are numerous . Attached to the hall are several commodious rooms ; and underneath is a spacious apartment , capable of affording every accommodation for a school . The building has not , up to its present state , cost quite

      £ 1000—a fact which should induce every locality to imitate the example of their determined brethren of Oldham . The hall is substantially a Chartist Hallat the service of the Chartist body—while its application to other perfectly legitimate purposes promises a safe and profitable " investment . " The ceremony of opening the building was performed on Sunday last , with great pomp , by the working classes ; many of the middle classes co-operating with them . From an early hour every train that arrived brought loads of anxious visitors from all parts of Lancashire , Yorkshire , and even of Cheshire , desirous of witnessing the proceedings . At half-past two Mr . O'Connor entered the hall , accompanied by the managing directors . He was loudly and heartily cheered as he

      passed on to the platform . The vast building was filled in every part ; and after Mr . Haslam , the excellent president , had given out the hymn of the day , he introduced Mr . O'Connor , to open and consecrate the building . " As soon as the cheering with whicli hewas received had subsided , that gentleman commenced , and delivered one of the most interesting and instructive lectures it was ever our good fortune to hear . He took for liis subject "The Progress of Parties their respective positions , when the name of Chartism was a bye-word of contempt , * and the _fircsent esteem in whicli the principles of Chartism if not its ' interested leaders' ) arc held . " He explained , most familiarly and convincingly , what the inevitable effect of Sir Robert Peel ' s " free-trade "

      measures must be ; and dwelt very forcibly on the impossibility of doing justice to the working classes , until all were equally represented in thc House of Commons . He explained the fallacies of the Chambers ' p hilosophy ; and showed that " surplus , " " restriction , " and "distribution , " were the three great and all-important questions for the consideration of the Trades' Conference , to whose deliberations he attached vast importance . He explained how the Chartist Conventions had cleared the way for the Trades . He also entered on the question of " finance ; " and asserted that the fact of Chartist principles spreading , while the Chartist exchequer was all but empty , at a time when all other isms were becoming positively contemptible , proved the superiority of those principles over all others . He entered most satisfactorily into the question of the " Fraternization of Nations , " as it is called ; and by a train of rapid and well-sustained reasoning , convinced hia

      audience that Englishmen , Irishmen , Scotchmen , and Welshmen , understanding each other , ahd cognisant of each other's grievances , must do their own work , without foreign "intervention . " While he sympathised with the oppressed of aU nations , he denied the prudence of " mterfering" with any : for that "interference" was calculated to subject our movement to the eaprieo of foreign spies , as had been the case in 1839 , when a foreigner organised the Sheffield outbreak , and then sold his dupes . " If we prefer local lecturers to those who are not as well known , " said Mr , O'Connor , "ia it not reasonable tliat we should rather rely upon natives than upon foreigners to do our work ? " The speaker then impressed on his audienco the necessity of being prepared for the next general election ; and concluded a brilliant display at a quarter past four , when the hall was cleared , and tables laid for strangers who wished to bave tea .

      Evening _Meetlvc . —At half-past six , ihe Grand Hall , brilliantly lighted up , was again crammed ; and after the hymn was sung , the chairman introduced Mr . James Leach , who was received with several rounds of enthusiastic cheering . Mr . Leach selected the question of " Labour and Capital" for his subject ; and in onc of those statistical speeches , for which he is pre-eminently distinguished , he explained tho whole working of the system ; showing from the increase of machinery since 1836 , in Lancashire alone , that the operative class must become pauperised , or they must have recourse to the Land ; that it was utter folly to think of , or look to , any other refuge , as a means of meeting the power of the small Parliaments that sat in Manchester , Oldhani , Rochdale lton

      , Bo , and every manufacturing town ih England ; and who sent up their wishes to the acting Parliament in London , to be moulded into law . " 1 tell you what , " said he , " you ' re all at child ' s playasking every one to do for you , what no party out yourselves ean do . You havo more aristocratic feeling among the Trades than there is amongst your oppressors . The 30 s . a-week man frowns on the 20 s . man ; and the 20 s . man scorns the poor 10 s . man . Yea , even among _street-swoopors there is an aristocracy . ( Greatlaughter . ) I tell you what 1 saw the other day . The driver of a gang of mud-sweepers turned up a halfpenny , and was going to pick it up , when the over-man came up , and , shaking him , said , 'What dost thou know about sweeping round a curb-stone ? Give me that halfpenny ' . ( Roars of laughter . ) Just call the system what you

      like ; Out the name Igire speculation is stealing ; and you can stop it when you wish ; and you must bear it till you are resolved upon correcting it . " The sneaker sat down loudly cheered , Mr , O'Connor then presented liimself , and descanted fully on the principle of Land Monopoly . "Now , " said he , "I am not going to make a detail speech ; I am going to take a review of ' settled interests , ' and what is called " vested rights ; ' andlamgoingto answer the assertion so generally made , that the people now-a-days are better off than their forefathers . In a word , let us see . What , then , ia the meaning of " common fond ? " Does it not imply the possession of something to feed on the common ? such as cows , horses , donkeys , pigs , geese , and so forth ? Well , now , where are they all , and who has got them ? The people have not ; and yet we are

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      told they are ' better off' without common and cow than they were when they had both . " He then entered on the question of laws , and showed why no parties were satisfied with ancient statute law ; while the labouring dupes were compelled to obey caprice and whim , thoug h not law at all . He said that men sought for some common ground upon which to adjust their differences , and were happy if they discovered it . He would say that the land was the one , the only , common ground , on which Trades and the whole working population could meet for the settlement of all their differences . He compared the condition of the population of France , Holland , Bel gium and Switzerland—agricultural countries—with that ' of the English working classes : and contended that the permanence of comparative comfort in the former was preferable to the state of nervous anxiety .. _« .. ... .

      of the latter . He explained the value of the Land over the value of all other properties , thus : —If £ 20 , 000 , 000 worth of manufactured goods went to the bottom of the sea , it would be a " national benefit " , and a ministerial God-send ; but if £ 5 , 000 , 000 are required to make up for a bad harvest , it nearly produces a " national Bankruptcy . " Bad harvests assisted tho Whigs out of office : good harvests have sustained Peel in power . Again , the home trade is the test of all trades ; and the home trade can be only upheld by agricultural employment . Mr . O'Connor then entered fully into the nature ofthe land as a means of testing man ' s individual labour , and concluded a powerful appeal at half-past eight , when he left with his friends tor Manchester . It is needless to state that never was there a more splendid day , even in Oldham , for the Chartists ; and all were highly delighted with the whole proceedings .

      Easter Mondat . —Tea Partt and Ball . —The foregoing proceedings were followed . by a tea party and ball , upon a splendid scale . The applications for tickets being so numerous , the committee were compelled to commence the process of tea drinking as early as four o ' clock ; and this portion of the evening ' s ceremony had not concluded until half-past six , when Mr . James Halliday , a large millowner and shareholder , was called to the chair by a unanimous vote of his townsmen , and amid great applause . He said that their presence there that night in their own building , without the favour of any third party , was the best answer to the absurd assertion that the working classes could de nothing for themselves . He ( Mr . Halliday ) was of opinion that by union and

      reliance on each other , they could do everything for themselves . Not only could they fill that house , but they could fill another , whose proceedings werc of greater importance . He eulogised the good character and increasing spirit of his townsmen , and regretted that all other towns in England had not followed their example . It was " a delusion , a mockery , and a snare , " to tell the working classes to remain apathetic while others did their work . He regretted that their representatives were not present upon that interesting occasion , as the proceedings would no doubt have enhanced the people hi their estimation . That hall had been commenced with spirit , prosecuted with vigour , and , as they now saw , completed with entire success ; and all that he had to say was , that so long

      as he had the honour to he a shareholder , it should be devoted to those purposes for which itwas erected —the moral , social , and political elevation of his townsmen . ( Loud cheers . ) He would not further waste their time , but would at once introduce Jesse Ainsworth , Esq ., as the first speaker . —Mr . Ainsworth presented himself amid loud cheers . He said that the erection of that hall was not only likely to be useful politically , but morally ; and he believed if the drunkard , who thought nothing of spending threepence after threepence in debasing liis intellect , would apply his spare pence to affording similar op-Eo rtunities for discussion , the people would soon _eeome as powerful as their noble character entitled them to be . He loved industry as much as any man

      there : indeed , from the herald ' s office he learned that the derivation of his family ' s name was " Handsworth , " or the worth of hands—the best property , if protected , that the working man could enjoy . He implored all who were looking for tho amelioration of the working classes to bear with each other ' s foibles , _* and _forfcach man to look rather to his own faults and correct them , instead of so minutely criticising the faults of others , The fact was , that wc generally carried the faults of others in a large wallet before us , and our own in a very small one behind . ( Loud cheers . ) He was a very active man , and was becoming a great agriculturist . He was a good working man ; and recollected once shearing with twelve others , whom he had a great desire to exceed ; and in

      order to accomplish his object he got drunk , but the result was that instead of conquering his competitors he cut his own finger . That read him a wholesome lessen , and now he was a confirmed Teetotaller , and therefore a better working man . As the great star of the north , the great luminary of England , their friend , Feargus O'Connor , was present , lie woidd not further trespass upon their indulgence , than to congratulate them on the first fruits of their happy union , and to thank liis townsmen for the kind reception they had given him . ( Loud cheers . )—Mr , James Leach , of Manchester , was next introduced and was most cordially received . " Now , " said ho , " Some people say that tea-parties ought not to be turned into political meetings . " [ This

      observation was made with reference to Mr . _Fielden ' s refusal to be present , upon the ground that it was injudicious to mix -politics up in _teft-pavties , ] " Well , now , let us see , " continued Leach ; " if you sit down , you sit upon a politicalchair ; if you can't have a chair , you sit upon a political stool ; it you go to sleep , and have a bed , you lie down on a political bed , - if you walk , you walk in political shoes ; if you want to smoke a pipe , you must smoke political tobacco ; to drink , you must drink political stuff ; if you don't like to be " in the dark in your house , you must have political light ; and surely , bread is a lump of politics —( great cheers and laughter ) . Well , if you want six-pennyworth of sugar , —though sugar is not quite so political now , —there's a political

      threepence in it ; so with coffee ; so with everything : but we aretohavew _^ _e-fttfc _- * with tea : now , I'll showyou that there ' s more politics in tea than in anything . If you want an ounce of tea you give fourpence for it ; and there ' s threepence of that 2 _> olitics : so that you may see you have politics in the tea-pot , and can't keep them out . ( Roars of laughter . ) Bread , tea , and sugar are the great ingredients of which a tea party is composed , and they arc the very trinity of politics ; and yet some of our political friends tell us that there should be no politics at a tea party . I tell you what , my friends , - your enemies have just enough of ' polities' to enable them to make plunder of your wages ; and until you are upon apolitical equality with them , you may give over all vour talk . " Mr . Leach

      continued at some length in the same telling and impressive style , and retired amid loud applause . —Mr . O'Connor next came forward amid hearty cheers . He said : The one thing that I have been the most abused for is an imputed attempt to cause division between the middle and the lower classes : and yet do they lose a single opportunity of manifesting their utter disregard for you ? I have before accounted for thc unavoidable absence of your true friend , Duncombe , who is at this moment engaged in giving health , vigour , and vitality to the cause ot Labour , by presiding over a Conference of its real representatives . As to Mr . Roberts , I need not apologise for him ; he will be here , and if he is not , you will understand that it is because oppression

      demands his presence this day at Liverpool , to detenu his clients against the tyranny of a noble tyrant ; after wliich lie is to be at Blackburn , to defend the Spinners against then- tyrant masters ; and then he is to be at a delegate meeting at Manchester , to support the coal Icing victims ; and then , if possible , ho is to be here . However , if he cannot attend , it will only be because he is better employed elsewhere . ( Loud cheers . ) Mr . O'Connor then entered on _Jhe consideration ofthe value of public buildings as a means of marshalling public opinion ; and expressed a hope that every one of the 700 shareholders of that hall would testify their approval of the principles to whicli it was to be dedicated , by talcing out their cards and becoming members of the National Charter Association . After descanting on several interesting

      topics , and having paid a well-merited compliment to Messrs . Ainsworth , Halliday , and the Committee of arrangement , he concluded amid loud cheers . —Mr . Quamiby proposed a vote of thanks to Messrs . O'Connor , Leach , and their other friends who had attended , which was seconded by acclamation and carried unanimously . Mr . O'Connor and his friends then departed for Manchester , when the dancing commenced , and was kept up to a late hour , the greatest harmony prevailing . Thus ended one of the most celebrated events in the history of Oldhani politics . The entire proceedings hare given the most unbounded satisfaction . Let every town in England follow the example of the good men of Oldham , and the " people ' s houses" will soon accomplish thc people ' s Charter .

      MANCHESTER . A Piratic Meeting of tho inhabitants of Manchester was held in the Carpenters' Hall , Garretroad , on Good Friday morning , for the purpose of taking into consideration the most effectual means to be adopted for the erection of a public hall . Mr . James Wheeler was unanimously called to the chair , and opened the meeting with a brief address . —Mr . Dixon moved the first resolution— "The opinion of this meeting being , that it would be conducive to the interests ofthe democrats of Manchester to have a building of their own , in which to transact their business and discuss their grievances ; we hereby pledge ourselves to render our utmost aid in the

      accomplishment of such object , by taking up shares and assisting the directors by all practicahle means . " The motion "was seconded by Mr . D . Donovan in an able and lengthy speech ; after which it was agreed to unanimously . The thanks of the meeting were then given to the chairman , and the meeting terminated . Splendid Tea Parit and Ball . —A public tea party and ball was held in Carpenters' Hall , Manchester , on the evening of Good Friday , in honour of Feargus . 0 Connor , Esq . The room was most tasteful _^ decorated with evergreens , flags , banners , due , and upwards of eight hundred persons sat down to tea . At the conclusion of the tea Mr . T . Rankine was unanimously called te the chair , and after a brief address gave the first sentiment— " The people ! the source ot all power . " Air— " Scots wha ha . "

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      Mr . Dixon responded to the sentiment . The next sentiment was— " The people ' s advocates present and absent ; with Frost , Williams , Jones , and Ellis ; may they live to see their labours crowned with success , and the exiles restored to their country . " Air— " With Henry Hunt we'll go . " Mr . J . Leach responded to the sentiment in his usual eloquent and forcible style , and resumed his seat amid repeated rounds of applause . The chairman then gave— " The directors ot the People ' s Institute ; may they soon see their exertions crowned with success . " Air— " Bonny breast knots . " Mr . Doyle responded to the sentiment . His speech was received with much cheering The chairman then gave— " Our worthy guest , Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., and the conductors of the -. r _r .: ! _.-. l .. J t _« il ... „„„ :. „„ ., _t - ' rpi . „ .. _„ ..

      ' . Northern Star : ' may they soon see the principles they have long and honestly promulgated , imbibed by the whole human family . " Ah *— " Exilo of Erin . " Mr . O'Connor , upon rising , was greeted with deafening cheers . As itis impossible for us to give even an outline of his address , we must content ourselves by saying , that notwithstanding he was labouring under a severe hoarseness , he spoke for nearly two hours , in a speech of much force and eloquence . His address was rapturously applauded . At the concluclusion of Mr . O'Connor's address , dancing commenced , and was kept up with great spirit until a late hour , when all retired highly delightedwith the evening ' s entertainments .

      STOCKPORT . Lecture . —A Lecture was delivered in the Association Room , Bomber's Brow , by Mr . Dixon , of Manchester , on Sunday evening . COLNE . Soiree . —On Monday evening a soiree was held in the Chartist Lecture Room to welcome our esteemed friend , Mr . Thomas Tattersall , of Burnley , after his two years' incarceration for advocating the cause of his oppressed and suffering fellow-countrymen . After the cloth was removed , dancing commenced , interspersed at intervals with toasts and sentiments , which werc responded to by Mr . Tattersall , Mr . Thomas Clark ( ofthe Executive Council ) , anl other members ofthe Chartist body .

      SHEFFIELD . On Sunday , March 2 , tbe membDi * s of the General Council met in their Room , Fig-tree-lane , when the following persons were nominated as Council for the ensuing quarter .- —George Gallemore _, Samuel Clayton , Peter France , Warren Smith , William Dyson , G . Birks , William Hawksworth , William Cooper , Matthew Oates , William Holmes , Morton Royston , T . Briggs ( treasurer ) , and G . _Cavill ( sub-secretary ) . Mr . G . Gallemore brought tho case of Mr . Cooper before the Council , when it was resolved that the secretary write for printed slips , to obtain subscriptions for Mr . Cooper .

      BRADFORD . Lecture . —On Sunday evening Mr . C . Doyle lectured in the large room , Butterworth-buildiiigs , on the People ' s Charter . The audience was respectable , and the lecturer gave general satisfaction . On Monday eveni . no Mr . Doyle lectured on Trades ' Unions , and the benefits to be derived from a consolidation ot ' the Trades . At the conclusion of his very eloquent lecture , Mr . Doyle received the thanks of the meeting . _CnARTisi Victory . —On Tuesday a vestrynieeting was held at Horton , for the purpose of electing overseers and a board of surveyors fbr the hamlets of Great and Little Horton . After a very noisy discussion the Whig party were entirely rejected , and a " board composed of nearly all working men were chosen , several members of the Chartist Association being among the elected .

      LONGTON . A Splendid Tea Partt and Ball was held in the Longton Working-Man ' s Hall , on the evening " of Easter Monday . The Hall was beautifully decorated with _evoi ' gi'GGns , portraits , & o ., and about 500 persons sat down to tea . After the cloth was removed , Mr . Dixon , of Manchester , addressed the assembly for a short time . Dancing concluded the evening ' s entertainments . Board of Surveyors . — Last year the working men succeeded in electing a board of surveyors , who , during tlieir term of office , have done good service in reducing the highway rate from scvenpencc-halfpenny to fivepence . To regain their old and evil ascendancy , the Whigs and Tories have this year

      been using every exertion to carry their candidates in opposition to the people ' s _lisi . But thc working men have done and are doing their duty . This morning ( Tuesday ) they turned out with fife and drum , at half-past five o ' clock , to inform the inhabitants that thc vestry meeting would take place at ten o'clock in the forenoon . At the time appointed , notwithstanding the rain fell in torrents , the churchyard was crowded . At . ten o ' clock the vestry door was opened , and business commenced by the Rev . Mr . Ford , perpetual curate , taking the chair . Thc clerk of the board having read the notice issued by the churchwarden , calling the meeting , Mr . Anison moved and Mr . Nicholson seconded , " That we adjourn te the Workhur Man ' s Hall . " Mr . T . H .

      Walker , high , bailiff , moved and Air . P . Wynne , manufacturer , seconded , the following amendment , " That we adjourn to the school room . " On the amendment being put there were three hands held up for it . The chairman then put the original motion , when a forest of hardy fists were up in a moment , and tho chairman announced the motion to be carried by a large majority . At the Working Man ' s Hall the accounts were read by the clerk ; after which , Mr . Wm . Dixon , a rate-payer , moved , " That the accounts just rend do now pass , " The motion was seconded by Mr . Ralph Hammersley . Mr . Wynne moved , and Mi * . P . H . Walker seconded , " That they do not pass . " On being put , thore were five hands , with kid gloves on them , held up for the amendment ; whilst thc original motion was carried by a majority of 150 to one . The next resolution was , " That a board of thirteen persons should be now elected , as a Board of Surveyors for

      the town of Longton , and Lane End , wluch was agreed to , Mr , Nicholson then read tho working men ' s list , and moved that they be the Board of Surveyors for the ensuing year . The motion was seconded by Mr . Timothy Hulse . Mr . Thomas Wynne , manufacturer , moved as an amendment thc list made out by the gents , which was seconded by a Methodist limb of the law , named Robinson . On the lists being put to the vote , thc working men ' s list was carried by a hall-full against four solitary hands ; the Chiui'intui therefore declared them duly elected by a very large majority . Mr . T . H . Walker , "high bailiff , demanded a poll . The poll therefore commenced this afternoon , at three o ' clock . Mr . Dixon moved , and Mr , Nicholson seconded , "That the best thanks of tho rate-payers be given to the reverend chairman for his impartial conduct in the chair . " Thc meeting then broke up . At the time we write this , the working men are a vast number a-hcad , notwithstanding many of the manufacturers have given six votes a-piecc .

      GLASGOW , Mr . _M'Gratu ' s Tour . —On Sunday last , Mr . M'Grath delivered two lectures in thc Lyceum Rooms . These were the first political lectures ever delivered in Glasgow on a Sunday , tho religious scruples ofthe people inducing the belief that meetings for any secular purpose would be a desecration of tho Sabbath . However , the first attack upon this prejudice has been succcssfid , inasmuch as the meetings were well attended , and liberal collections made for the defrayal of expenses . The lecturer , on both occasions , gave the most unqualified satisfaction .

      PAISLEY . On Tuesday _Evuslvo a public meeting , convened by placard , was held in the Chartist Church , for the purpose of hearing a lecture from Mr . M'Grath . At the hour appointed for commencing the proceedings the building was crowded . Mr . Collin Black , a veteran Chartist , was unanimously appointed chairman . After a few pertinent observations , he called upon Mr , M'Grath to address the meeting , on the " probable results of a full and free representation of the people , compared with those of the present narrow and confined system . " He spoke for upwards of two hours in elucidation of the subject . Several friends expressed their _opinious regarding thc movement and the steps that ought to be taken to give celerity to it . A unanimous vote of thanks was most enthusiastically awarded to Mr . M'Grath , and a number of persons canic forward and enrolled themselves members of the Association .

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      _Hollowat s Ointment and Pills . — " Take up thy bed and walk . "—Mary Rouse , aged forty-eight , residing at Tooting , had been bed-ridden for the iasttwo yea , rs Three years ago ( at the turn of life ) , her logs and other parts ofher body swelled most frightfully Ihis was followed by sores and wounds , _covering nearly every part of her person , which rendered he ? helpless . By purifying the blood by moans of these wonderful pills , and the use of the ointment , she was radically cured in four weeks . Females ought not to take auy other medicine than these purifvin " pills . " °

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      London Corn Exchange , Mondat , March 24 . — The supplies of English wheat , barley , and oats were very small during the past week , nor were the arrivals ofthe latter grain from Scotland byany _meanslarge but from Ireland the receipts have increased _matel rially since the shift of wind to the westward * of beans , peas , and flour , the supplies up to Saturday evening were quite moderate . This morning there was a scanty show of wheat by land-carriage samples from the neighbouring counties , and a moderate display of barley , beans , and peas , but the quantity of oats on sale was rather large . The weather has since Thursday been mild , and a considerable quantity ef ram has fallen . The demand for wheat was less active tlm morning than during the nast week , and the advance of ls . pet qr „ realised in partial mstances on Monday last , was barely maintained . In free foreign wheat the transactions were no _^ _extensive , but holders remained verv firm and good qualities were certainly not cheaper . ' Quotations

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      of flour remained as before , the millers having failed last week in raising the top prioe of town made . There was a slightly improved inquiry for choice malting barley , and the finest sorts commanded fully previous rates ; other descriptions sold rather slowlr , at the terms of this day se ' nnight . Malt , though in bat little request , could not be purchased cheaper . The oat trade remained in a very inactive state , the the principal dealers acting on the reserve , e xpecting thereby to reduce prices ; factors , on the other hand , resisted any decline , and the business done was at similar terms to- those current eight days ago . Beans oxeited less attention than of late , and were 3 old with difficulty at previous rates . Peas of all kinds hung on hand , but were not quoted lower ; Thero was rather more inquiry for cloversccd , without , however , leading to any advance in price . Canaryseed was in good supply , and easilyhoughi at late rates . Rapeseedhas rather risen in value of late . Prices of tares . & c , remained much as before . » _CAn .... _.. «« n ; _., n / l _ncs _Vinfmvi tlio _millolM li . ii . ' i . _n ( V . l _„ , _l

      CURRENT PRICES OF GRAIN , PER IMPERIAL QUARTER . —British , s g g ( "Wheat , Essex , « fc Kent , new & old red 42 49 White 50 Si Norfolk and Lincoln . ... do 43 47 Ditto 49 51 Nonthum . and Scotch white 42 47 Ifine 49 53 Irish red old 0 0 Red 42 44 , White * 6 49 Uye Old 31 32 New 30 32 Srank 35 38 Barley Grinding . . 26 28 Distil . 20 31 Malt . 32 3 « Malt Brown .... 54 56 Pale 57 61 " Ware 62 M Beana Ticks old Anew 30 33 Harrow 32 37 Pigeon 38 4 a Peas Grey 32 33 Maple 33 34 White 36 38 Oats Lincolns Si Yorkshire Feed 21 23 Poland 23 25 Scotch Angus 22 24 Potato 24 28 Irish White 20 22 Black 20 21 Per 2801 b . net . s si Per 280 lb . net . «• i Town-made Flour ... 42 44 Norfolk & Stockton _3 i 3 34

      Essex and Kent .... 34 36 | Irish 35 8 « Free . Bond Foreign , _s g is Wheat , Dautsic _, Konigsburg _, & c 53 58 30 S 8 Marks , Mecklenburg . . 48 52 32 St — Danish , Holstein , and Friesland red 44 4 ( 5 2 § t & Russian , Hard 44 46 Soft ... 44 47 28 28 Italian , Red . . 46 48 White ... 50 52 28 32 Spanish , Hard . 46 48 Soft 48 50 28 3 * Rye , Baltic , Dried , ... 30 31 Undried . . 30 32 21 ii Barlev , Grinding . 2 G 27 Malting . . 32 33 20 23 Beans , Ticks . . 30 33 Egyptian . 32 33 24 2 S Peas , White . . 36 38 Maplo . . 32 34 28 39 Oats , Dutch , _Bror and Thick 2 i to 18 3 t Russiau feed 21 22 15 W Danish , Friesland feed 21 23 15 17 Flour , per barrel 24 26 19 20

      Loudon _Suithpield Catti , e _AunnEr , _Moa-dav _, March 24 :. —Since this day se'nnight the importations of live stock from abroad for our market have not exceeded 50 oxen and cows , together with 32 sheep , all from Holland . To-day we had on offer 27 beasts and 20 sheep . Although a slight comparative improvement was noticed in their quality , it was far from first-rate , but there was no appearance of the epidemic amongst either the beasts or sheep . The former sold heavily , at from £ 14 to £ 19 ; the hitter , 28 s . to 47 s . per head ., The weather having become much milder here , as well as in Holland , large Imports may be shortly expected , as we learn that great numbers of stock are now ready in the various distilleries in most of thc shipping ports in that

      country , especially at Rotterdam , waiting a conveyance to England . The , arrivals of beasts , fresh up from our grazing counties , wore somewhat extensive _, for the time of year , as to number ; but then * general quality was inferior . We much regret to observe tliat at least a fourth of them were sutfering severely from disease ; indeed , on no previous market day of the present year have wc noticed so large a portion of the stock thus affected . To show its extent , we may state that upwards of 100 beasts and 300 sheep wore left on the roads , it being impossible , from their lameness , to convey them to the metropolis , _wliile from 20 to 30 beasts and 00 sheep were carted out of the market to-day , alive , and slaughtered , from thc same cause ; hence , of course , great losses have been sustained by the graziers . Many of the beasts left unsold must , we fear , undergo tlic same fate . As we hare before remarked , the supply of beasts was

      good , owingto which , thc dead markets being heavily stocked , and the unwillingness of the butchers to purchase largely during the season of Lent , the beef trade waa again excessively heavy , and Friday ' s depression in the currencies of 2 d per S lb was barely supported—the very highest figure for the best Scots nod exceeding 3 s lOd w 8 II ) . Tlio priincst beasts were nearly all disposed of ; but numbers of the inferior kinds left the market unsold . Fortunately for most parties the numbers of sheep were rather limited , which caused the mutton trade to rule tolerably steady at prices about equal to those obtained on Monday last , the best old Downs selling without much difficulty at 4 s Cd per 8 lb . No lambs came to hand from the Ialo of Wight , "while from other _paiters thc receipts of that description of stock , arising no doubt from the low currencies obtained on Friday last , were rather limited . Down qualities sold slowly , at from 5 s lOd to Cs . Other breeds from 5 s to 5 s Sd

      per 8 lb , being about stationary figures , with calves wc were but moderately supplied ; yet the demand for them , especially the middling and inferior qualities of veal , was in a very sluggish state , at barely , in some instances , a trifle beneath last week ' s quotations . From Ireland we received 120 pigs ; while from our neighbouring counties the supplies were moderate . Neat small porkers sold steadily other of pigs slow !*; , at late rates . The bullock droves from Norfolk , Suffolk , Essex , and Cambridgeshire comprised about 1900 Scots and homebreds , while from the northern districts we received 250 _short-homs , from the western and midland counties 350 Herefords , Devons , runts , ifec ., from other parts of England 40 ' ) of various breeds , and from Scotland 130 horned and polled Scots ,

      By the quantities of Sib ., smkmg the offal . s . d . s . d Inferior coarse "beasts . . 2 6 2 10 Second quality a 0 3 2 Prime large oxen . .. 3436 _Trime Scots , < fcc 3 8 3 10 Coarse inferior sheep . 2 10 3 fi Second quality .... 3 8 3 U Prime coarse woolled ... 4 0 4 2 Lambs 5 0 G 0 Prime Southdown .... 4 4 4 _< _i Large coarse calves . . . . 3 10 4 S Primo small ..... 4 10 5 0 Suckling calves , each . . 13 0 30 0 Large hogs . . . . . 3 0 Si Neat small porkers _. . . 3 10 4 1 Quarter-old store pigs , each . . 18 0 20 0

      HEAD OF CATTLE OS SALE . { From the Rooks ofthe Clerk ofthe Market . ) Beasts , 3 , 904-Sheep and Lambs , 20 , 300—Calves , 11-PigS , 315 . Richmond Corn- Market , March 22 . —Wo had a tolerable supply of grain in our market to-day , the prices much the same as last week .: — "Wheat sold , from 5 s . to 6 s . Gd . ; oats , 2 s , 3 d . to 3 s . ; barley , 3 s . 9 d . to 43 . ; beans , 4 s . to 4 s . 3 s ., per bushel . Manchester Cork Market , Saturdat , _Marcu 22-—The frost has at length disappeared , and is succeeded by a mild temperature and genial rain , giving every promise of a favourable season , whioi will doubtless , erelong , exercise a powerful influence

      oyer the corn trade . During tho weak a steady consumptive demand has been experienced for thc leading asticles of the trade , at fully the previous currency . At our market this morning there waa not niuchactivity in the demand for whoat . Never thclcss , an advance of Id . to 2 d . per 701 bs . must bo quoted . Flour was by no means hi brisk request , but the stocks in first hands liaving become much -reduced , a fcelingofgrc . it confidence was exhibited b y holders , who in some instances required rather higher rates in consequence , which , however , conhl not lie generally realised . Both Oats and Oatmeal met a fair sale , at fully the rates obtainable on tliis day se ' nnight . Beans were rather more inquired for , but not dearer .

      Livbrpool Corx Market , Mo . vdav , March 24 . — Tho week ' s imports of grain , flour , and oatmeal are of fair amount . We have not liad an active demand , but thero has been move disposition to purchase Irish wheat , for which an advance of Id . to 2 d . pec 70 lbs . has 1 ) 0011 obtained , and the trade generally has exhibited more firmness . Oats must be quoted id . per 45 lbs ., oatmeal 3 d . per load , and beans and peas Is . per quarter dearer . Barlev has met with more inquiry . Saok flour has sold on fully as good terms . Holders of American flour , in bond , ' are _dcniauding : 2 s . per barrel above the rates quoted at thc _doac ot last week ; best brands of sweet cannot be had under 20 s . per 196 lbs .

      Liverpool Cattle Market , Monday , March _2 _f-—Thero was little if any alteration fn the price of either beasts or sheep at market to-day , thc demand being similar to that of last week . Beef o _$ d . to Ml , mutton Gld . to fid . per lb . —Cattle imported into Liverpool , from thc 17 thto the 24 th March : —7 * 37 cows , 12 calves , 2-183 sheep , 204 lambs , $ 714 pigs , 11 horses . Leeds Cloth Markets . —During thc past week thero has been a considerable quantity of goods delivered to order , which has reduced the amount ot business transacted at the Cloth Halls . Several large buyers have been in the town , purchasing for the spring trade , and , on the whole , business may l » called m a buoyant state .

      Leeds Corx Market , Tuesday , March 25 . —Our arrivals this week are only small , a change of wind , however , has brought a fair number of vessels into tho river from thc coast . The dull London report this morning ; checks the wheat trade ; the demand for fine qualities has been steady , and to a fair extent , but no further advance can be established , and aU middling qualities must be noted slow sale at last week ' s prices . Barley is still dull , and the demand limited ; in its value no change . Oats , beans and shelling maintain late prices , but the demand is not free . York Corn _Markst , March 22 . —We hare had a short supply of wheat at to-day ' s market , which ff _» a taken off readily at an advance of 6 d . per load . Barley , oats , and beans make rather more money .

      Malton Corn Market , March 22 . —We have experienced a good demandfor the leading articles ia the trade . "Wheat is Is . per qr hi <* her , for all descriptions ; barley without alteration ; oats 6 _i per qr . dearer . Wheat , red 44 s . to 50 s . ; white ditto , 48 s . to 53 s . ; barley , 27 s . to 32 s . per qr . ofS 2 st « Oats , lOd . to lid . per stone .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 29, 1845, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_29031845/page/6/