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      At A Preliminary Trades Conference, Call...

      IMPORTANT MEETING .-THE FIRST BLOW STRUCK AT THE ACCURSED GAME LAWS . On Thursday , the 30 th ult ., a numerous meeting of the fanners and other inhabitant rate-payers of the parish of Ruislip , Middlesex , convened by P ° hc notice , was held in the vestry-room of Ruislip church , " to consider the cruelty , injustice , and ruinous consequences of tiie Game Laws , with a view * , to petition Parliament for tiie repeal or modification ot the same . " Mr . W . Somes , a large landed proprietor in the parish , having been called tothe chair , and the notice calling the meeting having been read , Mr . C . J . _Jesktss , of Eastcott , said , before lie proposed the resolutions he intended to offer to the

      vestry , he would beg to request the chairman to desire the vestry-clerk to read tothe meeting a paragraph -which appeared in the Times newspaper of Friday last , the 24 ik inst ., on the subject ofthe Game Laws , whieh would show them that it was the intention of one of the members ( Mr . Bright ) to bring the question before the Legislature ( loud cries of Hear , hear , and cheers ) , and which described the effects of the working of the Game laws . ( Hear , hear . ) The paragraph alluded to , which contained a copy of Mr . Brightfs notice , as well as an extract from the report of Mr . "Wiuiams , inspector of prisons , having been read , Mr . Jen-joss said , that in addressing the meeting OB the subject for which it had been called , he would _commence by saying , that he considered the Game Laws , hi their operation , to be most cruel , most pernieious , and most-expensive , particularly in that parish . ( Loud cries of Hear , hear , and We know it well . ) Tie had often been an eye-witness to the

      losses sustained by the farmers in that parish from the game—losses , he should say , of from 10 to 30 per cen ' t . ( loud " cries of Hear , hear ); but as there were so many farmers present , he would leave it to them to state what those losses amounted to . He had heard it stated that farmers did not properly employ their labourers ; but he would say , protect the farmer from the ravages of the game , and they would not be obliged to be labourers as well as farmers . ( Hear , hear . ) The farmers have now enough to do to watch _thegame , and even while they were walking over their grounds for their own protection , they were followed about by some of the gamekeepers , who broke down the hedges to watch them , and committed all sorts of damage . ( Hear , hear , and That ' s true . ) Then again , it was not so much what the game ate , as what the keepers destroyed in watching ( Hear , hear . )

      The Chaikman said that was an erroneous opinion , as the law of trespass would prevent that . Mr . Jeskks contended that it was so . There was a farmer in the room who had suffered from the proceedings ofthe gamekeepers . He found them treading down his crops , and tried to prevent them , and eventually gave them into custody , when they employed a wily lawyer , who ran Mr . Eales , for he was the farmer , up to £ 30 expenses . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . _Eat _. _hb declared that what Mr . Jenkins had stated was the truth .

      Mr . Jenkins would tell them of another case which had occurred on his own land . He had a man who went out in the morning to milk his cow , when he saw a hare lying in a snare under the hedge , and he took it up and threw it on one side till he went home with his milk . He then saw one of those wretches called gamekeepers , creeping on all fours after him , under the hedge , who called out to another , and they then brought the man to his house and asked to see him , but he sent word down to them , that if they did not immediately go off his premises , he would send for a policeman , when they took up the hare and went away . ( Hear , hear . ) That was on the Sabbath-day , too . Well , then his man was summoned to _Uxhridj-ee , when he ( Mr . Jenkins ) attended , but

      tiie magistrates would not hear a word the man had to say , but fined him £ 3 . ( Hear , hear , and cries of Shame !) On another occasion he ( Mr . Jenkins ) took out a summons against the same gamekeepers for trespassing on his land , but the magistrates dismissed it , telling him that he ought to have first given them notice , when notice-boards were stuck up at all parts of his property . ( Hear , hear . ) With regard to the cruelty caused by the Game Laws , the sporting gentlemen in that neighbourhood were not perhaps such good shots as some noblemen were who bagged their hundreds and thousands in a week , but _hehad seen -poor animals mutilated , lying on the ground for two or three days together . ( Hear , hear . ) He had lately seen a hare whose leg had been broken by a

      shot , that had been lying on the ground until the leg had been eaten up by vermin . In another instance he had discovered a hare which had been caught in a trap by which two of its legs were broken , and en going up to it ; he saw one of the scoundrel gamekeepers lying in wait , watching to see who would take it up , upon which he said , " I'll put a few shots into yon , " and went to fetch his gun , but whenhe got back be found hare , snare , and man were aU gone . A third instance of the cruelties engendered by the Game Laws in that parish was the murder of the boy John Brill , -from revenge at his having given evidence against poachers . Was it then , he would ask , not

      tame that an end was put to such a state of affairs as ihat ? ( Loud cries of Hear , hear , and Yes , yes . ) They were also saddled with an expense arising out ef the prosecution of poachers , and their maintenance in gaol , whilst at the same time that they were in prison the parish had also to support their families . ( Hear , hear , and cries of Shame . ) He thought , therefore , they had good grounds for petitioning against the _ Game Laws , and he trusted there would not be a city , town , parish , or village throughout England but wonld petition against them , ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) . He then moved tlie following resolutions : —

      " Resolved , —That , in the opinion of this meeting , the tendency and operation of the Game Xaws are fraught with evils of alarming magnitude , and require prompt legislative interference ; that in all parts of the country the cruel consequences resulting from the continuance of those laws are made apparent in tlie extensive destruction of the growing crops of the cultivators of the land ; the fearful demoralisation of the people ; the sanguinary conflicts and deeds of blood ; and the loss of limb and life so frequently recorded hy the public press ; the hatred and contempt engendered in the Tural districts towards the administration of the laws ; the waste of the land hy

      extensive game preserves ; the temptation thus created in the niinds of the poor , destitute , _iU-paid , and ill-fed labourers ( hear , hear ); the serious and increasing costs to the country in county and poor rates , by prosecutions at assizes and sessions , and the maintenance ofthe wives and families of the prisoners out of the rates ; the mercenary Character of those laws since game had heen made a marketable commodity , and the contempt thereby created in . the minds of the great body of the people towards the owners of the soil ( hear , hear ) , aU conspire to render the Game Laws , as at present in operation , a deep and withering stain on the national character , and calls loudly and imperatively for their immediate repeal .

      Kesolved also , that a petition . to both Houses of Parlia ment , embodying the above resolutions , be adopted by this meeting , and he signed by the inhabitants generally of this parish - that to the House of Commons to be presented by Mr . Bright , M . P ., and that to the House of Lords by Lord Radnor . Mr . Dobbidge ( a farmer ) felt great pleasure in seconding the resolutions . The Gbaisuas said , with such resolutions he would have nothing to do . ( Hear , hear . ) He considered that the meeting , as a vestry , could not come te a resolution that the labourers were ill-paid and ill-fed , for if they did , they , as the employers , would stamp themselves as oppressors . ( Cries of " So they are . " ) He wo-ald _havenothing to do with , a petition founded on such resolutions . ( Hear , hear . )}

      Mr . Jesktss was convinced that it was a wellknown feet that in too many cases the labourers were ill-paid and ill-fed . ( Hear , hear . ) He eould adduce numerous eases in point , if the meeting wished it . The Chairman said he had , at the request of Mr . Jenkins , drawn np a petition , which he would read to ihe meeting . It was as follows : — Tothe Hon . the Commons of Great Britain , and Ireland in ¦ « - * ¦ ---- _Parliament assembled . The humble petition of the inhabitants of Ruislip , in : ; the county of Middlesex , Sbowetb _, —That they are much oppressed by _reason of the ' great quantity of game reared and preserved in the said parish for the purposes of sporting . The temptation held out to tiie poor man by the unnatural quantity has a most ruinous and demoralising effect , for , despite of legal theory-npon the subject , persons , especially those occupying the humbler stations in society , cannot be brought to look upon game as private property .

      Tour petitioners beg further to state to your hon . house that they are called upon to pay enormous sums for the maintenance of the police force , and which force is occupied almost wholly in assisting the game-keepers _. The ratepayers also have to pay very heavy expenses for taking poachers to gaol , where they get much evil and no good , inasmuch as they consider themselves unjustly punished and martyrs to the amusement ofthe rich . Your petitioners also beg to represent , that their crops are much injured by the game , which game they cannot legally destroy upon their own land without paying alarge sum for e license , and which the majority of them are woolly unable to do . Tom _petitioners , therefore , humbly veauest that your hon . house will be pleased to take the subject of tbe Game laws-into your early and serious consideration , with a view to making such alterations as shall in your wisdom seem fit to meet so great and crying an evil . g 3 g . And your petitioners vriO ever pray .

      A lengthened argument then ensued as to the point whether the resolutions need be put to the meeting if tiie vestry approved of the petition draw np by the chairman ; during which Mr . Bowles maintained that theresolutions ought to be put , and the petition would then follow . Mr . D . Somes said , that although he was the only preserver of game present , he would contend that the « _sbluUons were not borne out by facts , for not a fermer present had stood forward to say that they were oppressed .- ( Loud cries of Hear , hear , and gr _^ disa pprobation . ) Jfr . _Eipa ' said he would , as a fanner , take up the cudgels wifli Mr . Somes , and he would tell him and the meeting that " when Mr . Pierce ' s gamekeeper trespassed on his land he told him to go off the land . The gamekeeper told him that he had as much

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      ri » ht as he ( Mr . Eales ) had to be on the land , and the gamekeeper then called on another who was on horseback , who trampled all over the land , and because he ( Mr . Eales ) resisted them , he had had to pay 25 guineas expenses ; and to crown the whole , the _lawyer told him to mind he did not get turned out of his land . ( Loud _crieB of Shame , shame ' . ) He told Mr . Oughton , his landlord , last rent-day , that his land was not worth so much by 2 s . Gd . per ' acre since the game had been so numerous . ( Loud cries _TTptv _lipfli * _^ Mr ' D . Somes wished to know if Mr . Dales meant to say that any great damage was done to the crops by the game ? Several of the farmers instantly cried out , " What with the game , and what the keepers' tread down , we are ' nearly mined . " ' _ , Mr . D . Somes said he wished Mr . Durbidge would

      answer the question . Mr . Dehbidge said it decidedly was so , but he could not state to what extent he found the damage , as he had never kept account of it . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . Tiiiott said , on his land he had suffered a great deal . On some parts the game had eaten the crops totally awav , and he had , in consequence , been obliged to givenp part of Ms land . ( Cries of " What do you think of that ! " and loud cheers . ) He could not keep it at any rate , for it was all eaten np . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr D . Somes inquired how much land Mr . Tillott stillheldl , _, _, . Mr . _Tiu-Ott replied he had now got only eighty

      acres . Mr . D . Somes persisted that in his opinion the statements in the resolutions could not be borne out . ( Hear , hear . ) Captain Tite declared that Mr . Somes had better then say that the fanners were all liars . ( Much confusion . ) ' * Mr . Tobit ( another farmer ) declared that no man had suffered more from the game than he had . ( Hear , hear . ) "The year before last he hadsown three acres , three roods , and some odd poles with wheat , at 9 s . per bushel . The rabbits , however , ate it all down inHecember , and he then nut on it fifty bushels of soot , at 8 d . per bushel , but in December last he only got nine sacks of wheat from off it , and sustained a loss of from £ 30 to - £ 40 . ( Hear hear . ) Mr . Podxtox said , he had been obliged to give up the land he had held of Mrs . Somes , as the game quite ate him up , and Mr . D . Somes knew it well . Mr . D . Somes denied that he knew anything of the

      kind . " Mr . Bowles considered that Mr . Pierce ought not to have been alluded to , as he was a gentleman who spent a deal of money in that parish . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . Eales said , but not amongst the labourers of that parish , as he would not employ them . Mr , Bowles thought Mr . Pierce paid very dear for every head of game he preserved . Much confusion here ensued , the majority of farmers calling out , " We have to keep them . " Mr . Bowles said , unfortunately , the game was like poachers , they overrun the land at night . ( Hear . ) "" Mr . Eales thought they had a right to speak of Mr . Pierce , for when the men came Track to Ruislip that he had sent to prison for poaching , Mi * . Pierce told them , ** No , I wont employ you and they , the ratepayers , were obliged to keep them and their families , while Mr . Pierce brought labourers from other parishes to do bis work . ( Hear , hear , and cries of Shame !)

      Mr . D . Somes having moved an adjournment of the meeting , without naming any day , and finding no seconder , The Chairman was pressed to put the resolutions , when he . " put it to the meeting whether they , as fanners , would say that the labourers were ill-fed and ill-paid ? ( Hear . ) A Farmer : Why , yes , they are . Another Fanner : There is no doubt that they are . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . )

      The Chairman said , as it appeared to be the wish ofthe meeting that he should put theresolutions , he would do so . The resolutions were then put to the vote , and carried without a dissentient hand being held up . Mr . Tobit then moved the adoption of the petition drawn up by the chairman . Captain The seconded the motion , which was carried unanimously , amid loud cheering . Thanks were then voted to the chairman , and the meeting broke up .

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      Meeting At Aylesbury. A Public Meeting O...

      MEETING AT AYLESBURY . A public meeting of the inhabitants of Aylesbury and its vicinity was held in the County-hall in this town on Monday evening , for the purpose of adopting a petition to Parliament in favour ofa repeal of tlie Game Laws . The meeting was both numerously and respectably attended . Dr . Lee { of Hartwell-house ) presided , and opened tlie business of the evening _oy stating that the present meeting had been called in consequence of some gentlemen , fanners , and others in the neighbourhood , having long been of opinion that the Game Laws had been most injurious to the general interests of society ; -that -while they afforded amusement and luxury to a few privileged individuals , they -were

      ruinous to the well-being of the nation at large . ( Hear . ) The subject had been growing in public interest year after year , and now many influential gentlemen were determined to press it upon the attention ofthe Legislature . In the course of last summer Sir H . Vemey , one of the magistrates , proposed a resolution that application should be made to lier _ifajesty ' s Government , with a view to induce them to bring forward some measure to modify and improve the Game Laws ; and upon that occasion Sir Ii . Vemey mentioned that nearly one-third of the persons in gaol had been committed for infractions of the Game Laws . That resolution was seconded by himself , and supported by two clei _* gy men and another gentleman ; but he was sorry to

      say that they were but five , with a majority of eighteen or twenty against them . The result , however , had not damped the ardour of the minority . ( Cheers . ) After reading from the Times newspaper the notice of motion given by Mr . Bright for a Select Committee of the Bouse of Commons to inquire into the operation ofthe Game Laws , and also the statements of Mr . Williams , an inspector of prisons , - corroborated by some chaplains of gaols as to the demoralising influence of those laws , the chairman adverted to a return obtained by Mr . Mainwaring of the number of gamekeepers murdered during the ten years ending 1843 , from which it appeared that no fewer than forty-one gamekeepers had lost their lives during that period in protecting the game of lords of

      manors . He was sorry to say that the first on the list was Charles Coles , the gamekeeper of a clergyman of the Church of England , one of those _genflemen who professed to be the descendants ofthe Apostles , though _HolyTVrit did not inform them that the Apostles took out game licenses or went out foxhunting . ( Hear , Hear . ) The next was a gamekeeper to a relative of Lord De Grey , in Bedfordshire ; the next case was in Berkshire ; and then came , he regretted to see , one in Buckinghamshire In Cheshire there had been three sueh murders , in Derbyshire two , in Glocestersliire one . To the disgrace of Buckingham , he was compelled to admit that another gamekeeper had been killed in that county . In Northamptonshire two had been murdered . From

      a return ef the number of persons convicted of offences against tlie Game Laws in 1843 . obtained by Mr . Bright , he found that there were 119 such persons who had been convicted either at the quarter or the petty sessions in Buckingham . ( Hear . ) Those details showed that the present meeting was called for no light purpose , bnt one involving the comfort , happiness , and lives of their fellow-creatures . ( Hear . ) However right it may be thought that dukes , marquises , and baronets should have tlieir amusements and pleasures , those amusements and pleasures were not to be promoted at the expense of the imprisonment , _banioliment , and death of large nunibevs of their fellow-subjects . Sir H . Yemey stated last July , that out of 539 prisoners in * Bucks ,

      apprehended during the preceding year , 169 were offenders under the Game Laws . ( Ilear . ) The recent instance of the mnrdev of the Earl of Lichfield ' s gamekeeper had created a most painful sensation in the public mind ; and so impressed were the coroner ' s jury who sat on the inquest with the fact that the Game Laws were a fruitful source of crime , that they made a unanimous representation in writing to that effect , which had been forwarded by the coroner to the Secretary of State for the Home Department , and he trusted that it would meet with due attention . ( Hear . ) He had hoped that Aylesbury would be the first in this movement , but it had been anticipated by the parish of Ruislip , in Middlesex ; still the men of Bucks had the honour of _behiff second

      in the field . ( Cheers . ) lie was glad to see also that the Earl of Euston had issued an address to the magistracy of Sussex upon the subject . ( Hear . ) To the old style of shooting he did not object . Formerly gentlemen considered shooting a pursuit which united exercise and sport ; they woidd go out with their dogs , and if they killed two or three head of game , they were satisfied . Latterly noblemen and lords of manors had g ot into ine practice of preserving game to the amount of thousands upon thousands , and recently they had adopted a foreign custom , to which they durst not give an English name—the battue . ( Hear , hear , and a laugh . ) He regretted to find that persons of whom he wished to speak respectfully , such as the Marquis of Exeter , the Duke of Rutland ,

      and others , had fallen into the new fashion , which was getting men to surround and drive the game together , so that , instead of sporting , it was downright murder and massacre . ( Hear , hear . ) He was sorry to add , that in that very county there had lately been amost heartless and hrutal battue . ( Hear , hear !) But it was attended with some not very consistent formalities , for it appeared that the parties first went to chapel to say prayer at nine o ' clock , and at ten they were ready for the battue . The massacre was then perpetrated by eight or ten men styled noble ; and to wind up all , the newspapers stated that when it-was over the band played "See the conquering hero comes" as they returned . ( Laughter . ) While he readily acknowledged that the Duke of Buckingham possessed many good qualities , he must

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      say , that his Grace washot likely to keep up his dignity , or to win the esteem of his fellow-subjects , by such proceedings as that . ( Cheers . ) It might look veiy well , while he was surrounded by hussars , and yeomanry , and tenantry , having half-a-crown for their day ' s work , but no true soldier , or sailor , or sportsman , could approve of such wholesale slaughter . Such doings were not confined to the laity ; the clergy patronised them , and he had heard of one clergyman who made the school-boys of his parish beat up game for his battue . ( Shame . } A petition to Parliament was about to be submitted to the meeting , and he thought it would be well if copies of it were sent to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of the diocese , so that in their next milk and water charges they might remonstrate with their clergy upon the subject . ( Hear , and a laugh . ) In the neigbourhood of Salisbury there had recently been three battues , which caused the

      destruction of 1 , 100 head of game . His opinion was , that the Game Laws should be abolished , and that the law of trespass would be quite sufficient to ensure a gentleman sufficient game and snort . His _neighbour wodd protect his land , and his tenants would get rid of a great source of disaffection , ( Hear . ) Any gentleman who would have the moral courage to call upon Parliament to repeal the Game Laws would prove himself to be the farmer ' s friend . The game preserver was not the farmer ' s friend , but his enemy , and the persecutor of the labourer , loading the villages in his neighbourhood with taxation to maintain the wives and children of those he caused to be sent to gaol . The game preserver was indeed the tyrant of liis country , filling the prison with inmates sent from his own domains , and doing mischief to almost every other class of his fellow subjects . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Grace re-echoed the sentiments of the chairman with regard to the Game Laws increasing local taxation , and proposed the first resolution ;—

      That this meeting have long beheld with regret the moral , pecuniary , and social evils arising from the operation of the Game Laws , by which the labourer is degraded , the farmer impoverished , society often disorganized , and the amount of local taxation seriously increased . It was seconded by the Rev . W . _Morlakd , and unanimously adopted . Mr . Scrivener ( a farmer ) said he believed , the Game Laws to be so bad , that it was impossible to amend them , and therefore they should be got rid of altogether . ( Hear , hear . ) He believed them to be a crying evil . ( Cheers . ) Had there been no Game Laws , he thought thoy mi g ht have been spared the expense of a new prison , which would cost something like £ 40 , 000 . ( Avoice , "Ay , and the workhouse too . " ) He moved the second resolution : —

      That a petition to Parliament , praying for the total and immediate repeal of the Game Laws , be adopted and signed by this meeting , and as many of the inhabitants of Aylesbury and its neighbourhood as think proper to affix their signature . Mr . J . Moores ( another farmer ) having seconded the proposition , it was agreed to nem . con . Mr . Gibbs , sen ., said that he was glad to see so numerous an attendance , and to observe the presence of some lads , for there was not a youth of fifteen years and upwards who was not interested in the object of the meeting ; and after making a few remarks on Mr . Berkeley ' s pamohlet , he proposed the adoption ofa petition embracing the sentiments of theresolutions . Mr . Ferris ( a farmer ) observed , that he witnessed so much mischief arising from tlie Game Laws , that he could not refuse to second the petition , which was

      thereupon adopted with loud acclamation . On the motion of Mr . Adcock , seconded by' Mr . Gu . _\* . v , Mr , Bright was requested to present the same to the House of Commons , and support the prayer thereof . Mr . Bright , M . P ., then addressed the meeting at considerable length . Upon the motion of Mr . Cafe , seconded by Mr . Dicrins , a vote of thanks was presented to the High Sheriff for the use of the County-hall , and to the chairman for his services on the present occasion . The Chairman acknowledged the compliment , and said he believed that two-thirds ' --of the gentlemen who sat on the magistrates' benehhad been guilty of poaching when young , and therefore he was surprised at the severity with wliich they treated poachers . He hoped they would learn to be more lenient , particularly the clerical magistates . ( Laughter and cheers . ) The chairman then declared the _meetinsr dissolved .

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      TRIUMPH OFaPHARTISM . _IMPORTANT PUBLIC MEETING AT SHEFFIELD . — _-MK . _WAUD AND ins _COKSTlTUENTS . On Tuesday afternoon , H . G . Ward , Esq ., M . P _., addressed a numerous meeting in the Town Hall . The large Sessions Room was filled before the appointed time ; and a few minutes before two , Mr . Ward entered the room , accompanied-by his friends , and was received with loud applause . On the motion of Mr . Alderman George Turton , seconded by Alderman Butcher , Thomas Abline Ward , Esq ., was called to the chair .

      The Chairmah . —Gentlemen , —I have great pleasure in taking the chair , because I regard the visit of our Member to this town as honourable both to him and to you . ( Notour Member . ) It is honourable to him , because he is come voluntaril-v to give an account ofthe proceedings of the last session ; and it is honourable to you , as attending to hear him . I am sure you will give him a candid and patient hearing ; " and I have great pleasure in now calling upon Mr . Ward to address you . ( Cheers . ) Mr . H . G . Ward ;—( Loud cheers . )—Gentlemen , — If any tiling could make me repent at all the engagement I contracted when I first came among you , that I would pay you an annual visit , for the purpose not merely of stating to you my conduct in Parliament ,

      but also of comparing my views on public subjects with your own , strengthening myself by your concurrence where we agree , and bringing our differences , where wc differ , to the test of public discussion , in an honest and manly manner ; I say , if anything could make mc regret this engagement , it would be the necessity of coming among you at a time like this , when I cannot but feel that there is very little to be done by a liberal man in Parliament , except what is pleasing to the party in power ; because , by one of the most extraordinary effects , we see that the greatest social and political change which was ever earned peaceably—I mean the change effected in 1831 , in the constitution of this country—the result of that change , after the lapse often short years , has been to bring back to power the veiy party which it began b y driving from power , and has brought them back , with

      a majority to support them , as compact , if not quite so large , as that whicli enabled them to defy public opinion up to the year 1830 . It is useless asking by whose fault this has occurred . I was always one who thought that there were great faults on the part of those who led the Liberal party ; that they showed great vacillation and groat timidity . Others say that the faults were those of their followers—of apathy in some , and unreasonable expectation in others . It is useless to inquire into this now . The only thing is , to learn , if it should overcome to our turn again , that we must take care to understand eacli other a little better . To do that , the Whigg themselves must learn , that nothing but broad and intelligible principles can replace them where they once stood in the opinion of the country , * and the country , on the other hand , must not carry its expectations too far , and expect changes too vast to be made at once .

      Mr . Ward proceeded to comment on tho position of Sir Robert Peel , after which he took up the Irish * Church question , and the Corn Laws and Sugar Duties questions . His remarks on these subjects were of no interest . He next touched on the Short Time Bill . — " I now come to a question wliich has excited more interest among you , than many to which I have alluded . I mean Lord Ashley ' s Ten Hours' Bill . ( Hear , hear . ) I wish to speak as plainly about it here as I did in the House of Gommons . I opposed it , because I believed it to be utterly impracticable , and that , if earned out , it would be most fatal to the prosperity and the interests of the working classes . I utterly distrust Lord Ashley as a legislator , because I tell you fairly , that I despise that sort of _snurions

      Dhilaiithropy which is at once reckless on the one side , and calculating on the other : which on the one side is niggardly , and on the other generous at other people ' s expense , although most parsimonious where its own interests are touched . ( Cheers . ) I have no faith in such legislation . Let me see Lord Ashley taking off the tax which he helps to keep upon the people ' s food , and trying to amend the situation of the agricultural labourers in Dorsetshire , who , at the very gates of his father's park , arc earning only 7 s . a week , a miserable pittance out of wliich they can barely sustain life . Let me see Lord Ashley attend to these things first , and then I will give him leave to go into the factory districts , aud remedy the evils there , which I feel quite as strongly as he can do . Now .

      gentlemen , I will tell you as shortly as I can why I refuse to meddle with this question by Parliamentary interference . The direct interests to be affected by it arc enormous . " The wages paid every week to those employed in the cotton manufacture are 4225 , 000 , and there are 450 , 000 persons employed . " The steam power in operation is to the extent of 100 , 000 horse-power , and the goods exported amount to thirty-five millions a year . From all this , Lord Ashley proposed to strike off one-sixth . As far as I can understand the question , it is susceptible of the clearest proof that this would be a deduction of 161 per cent , from the wages of every working-man in

      that employment . __ That is my conviction . But the indirect interests involved are infinitely larger than the direct . Look at your own interests , for instance . It may be asked what you have to do with the cotton factories ? You have much to do with that which they produce . It is to your interest to have cheap and good articles for the use of your wives and your children . That is your interest . You may not like to sell cheap , but jou like to buy cheap as well as anybody . ( Hear , near , and laughter . ) You do not like to pay a shilling a yard for that which you can get for ninepence . ( Hear , hear . ) But it is not merely a question of the supply of yourselves , you must look also to your employment . If the produce of fhe cotton districts be reduced one-sixth , there

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      will be a corresponding reduction in ereiy article used in those districts . I do not know whether there be any colliers here ; but if so , I think they will perceive that a diminution of one-sixth in the demand for coal would require one-sixth less labour to procure it , So it would be in other branches—the _machine-makerSi the iron-founders , the painters , the builders , the dealers in indigo and other die-stuffs , in tallow , oil , and every other article usedin the cotton manufacture . If you strike off one-sixth from the produce , you must strike off also one-sixth of all these —[ " What is to become of the surplus labour then ? " ] —and one-sixth also—I beg pardon ; you rather put me out . ( Laughter . "Answer the question . " ) I will answer any question when I have done . ( Cheers ,

      and some interruption , in the midst of which the chairman requested that any questions to be put to Mr . Ward might be reserved till the close of his address . ) Taking , as I did , this view of the question , you will allow that my course was consistent . On this subject I had the mortification—and that it was one I tell you fairly—of hearing what was called the case of Sheffield stated in the House of Commons , without any previous communication with me . ( Cheers from the Chartists . ) And very gallantly Mr . Duncombe stated it , though , as I think , with a complete misunderstanding of thefactsand circumstances . ( Disapprobation and cheers . ) A most complete misunderstanding , and I told him , as I tell you , that I think so . Yet whilst thus misunderstanding the

      facts and bearings of the case , he stated it , with the most perfect boldness and fairness , to those who had confided their interests to him . At one or two of your subsequent meetings , I was blamed in terms that I did not merit . Somebody said that I attempted to sneer down Mr . Duncombe , in the House . In the first place , Mr . Duncombe is not the man to be sneered down easily —( cheers ); in the next place , he is a great friend of my own , with whom I have a fair agreement on many matters , though we disagree on some others . He is a very fine , gallant fellow , and I would never say one word to disparage him . As to sneering him down , I never dreamt that such a thing was possible . It was stated , at the meeting to which I refer , by Mr . West . I think , my old friend

      —( laughter , )—that Mi * . Duncombe s reception here , last summer , was a complete answer to my calumnies . There never was a more gross misrepresentation than tliis , whieh I will prove out of Mi ' . Duncombe ' s own mouth . When Mi * . Duncombe brought forward that case , there was an unusual amount of agreement between him and me , as to the circumstances , though not as to the conclusion . You know that he brought tho case of Sheffield before the House of Commons , as a proof , that before Parliament proceeded with the Factory Bill , it ought to submit the whole question of wages and employment to a committee up stairs . I seconded that proposal , and I did so , telling Mr . Duncombe fairly , that I did not coincide in his view of the result , if he thought that such a committee

      would report in favour of a Ten Hours' Bill . It was with that view that I seconded the motion ; and I can only say , that I was misrepresented most grossly to that- meeting , when it was stated that I had attempted to sneer Mr . Duncombe down , and had calumniated him , neither of which was possible under the circumstances . There was another bill in which many of you took an interest , which I opposed along with Mr . Duncombe . It was the Masters' and Servants' Bill . I voted against giving an unlimited jurisdiction to two magistrates , because I considered them to be a most improper tribunal . I hope to see the day when we may arrive at the establishment ofa better tribunal , in order to effect an amicable settlement of such questions . I believe that a sort of

      arbitration would be practicable , and would be found to work satisfactorily in nine-tenths of the cases . But sure I am that two magistrates would be the worst sort of tribunal ; on that point I went with Mr . Duncombe ; and when I think Mm right , I shall be haopy to go with him again . But with him , when I think him wrong , I will not go any more than with you , and you have your remedy when you are tired of me . ( Loudcheers . "Nay , wehavnV ) _Thereisagreat difference between your situation now and what it was two or three years ago . You are all moving upwards at present ; you are not as well off as you should be ; but looking at the aspect of the political world , the certainty ofpeacc , and the extension of our foreign intercourse , we have the prospect of a long

      continuance of a good and healthy trade , if not marred by injudicious restraints . ( Cheers and loud disapprobation . ) I know perfectly what that means . You thought I was repeating the arguments used at the Cutlers' Feast , but I was speaking only of legislative restraints . Mr . Ward next said a good deal about the China trade , the Income Tax , the Canada Corn Bill , Ac , and concluded as follows : —I have not the least idea that the Liberal party can , during my time , return to power , though I should be very happy to see it . But we may succeed in promoting the progress of your industry * , and I hope that , at a future day , when the clouds that now exist shall have passed away , you will see , on the whole , that I

      have done my duty by you honestly and fairly , ( Loud cheers . ) . ¦ Mr . _Briqgs said he wished to put a question to Mr . Ward ; and the Chairman announced that Mr . Thomas Briggs , an old friend of Mr . Ward's , was going to ask him a question . Mr . _Briggs's question was—Do you reckon to represent the whole borough , or only a class ? Mr . Ward . —I reckon to represent the whole borough— ( cheers ); and Avhat is more , I endeavour to represent it faithfully . I have the satisfaction , I beg to remind Mr . Briggs , of thinking that at both of my elections I was chosen , not merely by the votes ofthe electoral body , but by the show of hands at the hustings , as you yourselves admitted . ( Cheers . )

      Mr . Briggs . —I deny it , and I will put it to this meeting , whether the show of hands at the Corn Exchange was not in favour of a working man , Mr . Ward . —It was a near thing , but it was given in my favour . Mr . Bnioos . —But who was the judge ? I do not dispute , that , but it might not be done by an impartial judge . If you represent the borough of Sheffield , your conduct should be guided by the majority . ( Hear , hear . ) I have but one charge against fyou , and then I will give you a little advice as to your future conduct . ( Hear , hear , and confusion . ) * He did not find fault with Mr . Ward's vote on the Masters and Servants' Bill , but with Ms vote and manner of speaking on the Short Time Bill . ( Hear , hear . )

      They had sent him proofs from Sheffield that the artisans have had : power to do what the cotton and woollen operatives could not do . The tools of the Sheffield artisans were generally their own , and they could take them up and lay them down at pleasure . But in the cotton and Woollen districts the artisans were a set of peor slaves . ( Hear , hear . ) The machinery and the raw material belonged to the masters , and the poor slaves having only their bare fingers were forced to be in subjection . ( Hear , hear . ) If he had any notion what a legislator should be , it was , that he should be like the fly-wheel of a steamengine , if Mr . Ward understood what that was . — ( Mr . Ward t Yes , I know what that is . }—It was the regulator of the power . The legislature should do iui luu _wimo cuiuu nut iui _ummseives

      _iiuuyiu limy uu . It should assist the operatives . He appealed to the people of Sheffield ; whether . the measures taken by the trades had not been a great benefit to the ratepayers ofthe town . The Government had learned only the art of creation , but he wanted them to learn also that of distribution . ' Mr . Ward did possess popularity , but he was losing ground . ( Loud cheering . ) The working classes had found , from experience , that the short time principle was beneficial to their interests . Demand and supply regulated all things . That they had taught the people . Cause and effect they had yet to put into them . Work alone was not enough . They wanted also remuneration . As to the foreign trade , it appeared it was only to be maintained by superior cheapness , and this he contended

      meant low wages . He called on Mr . Ward to represent the town , and not a portion of the people . If he . came to represent a section , though the most _wealthy—[ _Mt . Wari ) : I don'tcaroatall about wealth ] —hecould notcxpectto maintain his popularity . He asked what would be the condition of all other classes , if the wages of those who supported them were reduced ? Duncombe . was the man of the people—( great cheering ) , _amlhehopedyettoseo Mr . Duncombe in the majority . Mr . Ward complained that he was powerless , audit was because tlie Government of 1831 did not cany out the principles the people approved . They , pleaded the House of Lords , who were no more to be regarded than so many old washerwomen . If Lord John . Russell came into power , he must throw aside finality and go-a-head . [ Mr . Ward : I told him that at first . ] __ He would give Mr . Ward credit for his annual visits to his constituents , for short reckonings made long friends . He would now

      give Mr . Ward some advice , and it was that , if he meant to put up for Shefiield again , he must go-ahead . ( Cheers . ) He must not trust to the part y who had sent for him to do what they could not do for themselves . ( Loud cheers . ) The aristocrats , the priests , the lawyers , and the doctors were all combined , and he advised the working-classes to follow their examnle . ( Loud cheers . ) He thought that the Whigs were more powerful out of office than they were in—oh the same principle that a terrier was enWAv . o when he was at the heels of the bull dog . Let the Whigs therefore stop out of power , for if he understood anything of Lord John Russell he must mind how he got into it again . In Jan . 1831 there was no man who laboured more te put the Whigs in power than himself . He was honest , and _thought then that the Whigs were Radicals . Mr . Ward Sad said that they were going on reforming , but they were going on veiy slow . If ad legislation kept pace with them ? Mr . _WAan . —No .

      Mr . _Bmoos . —Mr . Ward had said also that he could hold out no hopes that the Income and Property Tax would be taken off . He wished all was direct taxation , and should not care if Mr . Ward told Sir Robt Peel what he said . Mr . Ward—I'll see to it , and tell Sir Robert Peel ( Loud laughter . ) A colloquy here took place between Mr . Briggs and Mr . Ward relative to the National Debt Mr Briggs continued— " Well ,, then , you ( Mr . Ward ) should lay down a plan for reducing it ( the debt ) and carry that plan out . His plan would be first to

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      settle the income of the Queen , and then those of the judges , and . of all the sinecurists . Would not the reduction of these things make food cheaper ? He would take a man with £ 100 a year , and supposing food was half its present price , would he not be just as good a man with £ 50 a year as he was now for £ 100 . These things should therefore be probed to the bottom , for we could not now meet foreign nations on equal terms . He would suppose there were to be four men of different countries set to run a race . Put four stone weight on the shoulders ofthe Englishman , three on the Frenchman , two on the German , and one on the American . How could the Englishman , with four stone on his shoulders , be expected to run such a race ? ( Loud cheers . ) He only wanted to hold up the constitution of England

      —that is , that we might have a Queen , Lords , and Commons . It was represented in theory that we had a democratic government—that was a mixed government , and which was the best of all . But who was the House of Lords responsible to ? Nobody . Who was the House of Commons responsible to ? Why , the £ 10 householders and 40 s . freeholders . But were the common people represented in that house ? ( No , no . ) He next recommended Mr . Ward to read Volney ' s Ruins of Empires , and thought England was fast approaching to the state pictured in that remarkable work . He recommended them to read " Arts and Artisans at Home and Abroad , " which would shew that those who were protected were the best remunerated . Mr . Briggs retired amidst loud and general cheering .

      Mr . Otley next addressed the meeting . He commenced by saying that he had to ask three questions ofthe hon . gentleman , who had condescended to give an account of his Parliamentary conduct . The first was , if the labour and skill of a man , or of a number of men , be as much their property as the houses and lands ofthe rich are theirs , have they not a right to disposeofitinsuch quantities and on such terms as they think proper , or as will best suit tlieir own interests ? If an employer or capitalist compels artisans or labourers to work eleven or twelve hours a day , or to starve , when they think ten hours sufficient for the wages , is not the capitalist as culpable and as deserving of punishment by law , as the working man would be if he could earn oidy 10 s ., and forcibly took 15 s .

      by possessing the power , to starve his employer into compliance ? That was the first question . The second was , as to the relation of the employer and the employed . It was well known that , in a time of bad trade , when there was a deficiency of demand , it was immediately , and perhaps of necessity , made the means of reducing the wages of the working classes . But if , as he had stated , the skill and labour of the working man were his property , it was the duty of the Legislature to devise means to protect that property . The third question was of more importance than the rest ; for , until the working classes were represented in Parliament , they were not likely to be protected . He asked Mr . Ward to explain why an Englishman , whose skill and labour brought him in

      £ 100 a year , had not as good and valid title to the franchise as the 40 s . freeholder ? Mr . Otley proceeded to speak at some length , but we have no room for his address . Mr . Ward replied . In noticing the speech of Mr . Briggs he said—Mi * . Brig » s gave me a good humoured lecture , and it appears tliat my only faults in his eyes are , first , that I am not a Chartist , and secondly , that I do not agree with him as to Lord Ashley's bill . I disagree with him totally on the latter subject . I believe it would cut off 25 per cent , from the wages ofthe people , and I refuse to do it . When I am convinced that it would not do so , I may take a different view of it . Mi * . Briggs begs the question on one side , just as I do on the other . I believe , that if tho time be reduced , it will be impossible , except under peculiar circumstances , that the men should receive the same wages . I believe that shorter hours of work means shorter wages ( Loud disapprobation . ) It is my firm and full belief , that short time means short

      wages , and nothing else . I told you before , that I would not be drawn into a discussion on this subject to-day , and , as Mv . Otley remarked , two ofthe questions which he put were such as I could hardly be expected , at this time , to answer , they will be fair subjects for consideration to-morrow , and they shall have my best __ attention . Mr . Otley lias asked me , if a man earning £ 100 a year , is not better than the forty-shilling freeholder ? I told you when I first came hero—though I was informed that the subject was unpopular witli the constituencies—that Ithought the franchise should be extended to household suffrage . We must always have some qualification , for I do not want to see the real working classes overwhelmed by men who bave no stake at all in the country . Give me a constituency composed of men , each of whom has a house over his head , and a family to take caroof ; and I will gladly throw myself upon the intelligence of such a constituency .

      Mr . Briggs again presented himself to speak amidst much uproar and confusion , intermingled with resolute thunders of applause , which lasted five minutes . Mr . Briggs proceeded—You may go on until you calm down , for I will not be done as I was last time . Mr . Ward shan't , shuffle me without answering the questions that I put . ( Cheers , disapprobation , and cries of Good lad , stick to him !) He hasn't answered me ! I only want to remind him of what he has not answered . I put the question of four men running a race with different weights , in comparison with an Englishman ' s ability to open a foreign trade in competition with other nations . I also asked him to say how he would reduce the national debt . This last he has cunningly evaded . 1 know it is the sore place ; but I do not mean hiin to go away as he did at his last visit , saying that he had answered me , when ! he had slipped over the

      principal questions . ( Loud cheers and laughter . ) Mr . Ward again appeared and said : Gentlemen , Mr . Briggs ' s question really makes me the Chancellor of the Exchequer . Upon the question of the national debt , I must tell you that I eanno-fc see that this country would gain anything in imitating Philadelphia , by the destruction of national credit . It would be quite a different thing if we had the original contractors of the national debt to deal with ; we have now to deal with persons who have since purchased stock , and some of whom are entirely dependent for a livelihood for what they thus receive . There are not less than SC ,-5 C 0 persons whose annual receipts do not exceed £ 5 * , you surely would not think of depriving these people of their claim for the sake of reducing the national debt . Tliere are also 45 , 000 persons who receive £ 10 per annum . [ Here Mr Ward was interrupted by

      Mr . Briggs , who said : Will you prescribe a remedy ? that is what I ask you . Will you prescribe a remedy for the deficiency which will arise in thd revenue from carrying out your speculative notions on Free Trade ? Mr . Ward , in reply , contended that if Free Trade was established , no deficiency of revenue would arise The revenue would be collected from taxes , levied differently from those which are now exacted solely for the purpose of protecting the Duke of Richmond and others . MivBriggs . —Are you for direct taxation ?

      lhe _C-oairmats here rose to call Mr . Briggs to order , when he was respectfully requested to sit down , for he " wor worse than an old clog of wood in a eliair -who'dput him up to call order , " Ac , do . Ihe uproar here was indescribable . Mr . Briggs . —I'll have the question answered—vou shall not shuffle me , Mr . Ward . ( Cries of " Stick to him . " ) . Mr . Ward . —Gentlemen , I submit that the question put is not one affecting mv uersoml ermduo . t— . _tn

      answer which I _appear before you this day ;—it is a question ot financial policy . My idea however , is that you will be able to raise your revenue by small taxation m lieu of levying large duties—that is my principle—put it on what you like ; saddle what you call the right horse ; put it on to real property if you please , only do it on a principle of equitable fairness , and then I have no objections to it , and _pi-ovidinn . also that you reduce tlie protecting duties which are levied for the iniquitous purpose of giving unfair advantages to particular interests .

      Mr . Briggs again put forth amidst cheers of disapprobation and discordant uproar . Gentlemen , I am satisfied . Mr . Ward , this day , has likened himself unto a badger , and lam thankful that I have been enabled to draw him out . He has said he will be gmded by public opinion . That is , public opinion , taking the sense of such like meetings as these . ( Cheers . ) I will now move a resolution . Wm . Fisher , Esq ., said he thought he had some slight claim that they should hear him , as he never troubled them with long speeches . He had a resolution to submit to them , whicli he proposed with great confidence . " Ifc uas , that the best thanks of this

      meeting are due to our highly respected representative , Henry George Ward , Esq ., for the veiy full and candid account he has given of his Parliamentarv conduct during the last session , and that his constituents have perfect confidence in him , and hope that this borough may long possess the advantage of lus valuable services . ( Loud cheers . ) Although thev had heard it stated that Mr . Ward was losing his popularity , or was likely to lose it , lie submitted this resolution in confidence that Mr . Ward wasnot losing his popularity . ( Hear , hear . " Yes , he his . " ) That he was not likely to lose it , and that he did not deserve to lose it .

      Mr . Appleby seconded the resolution . Mr . Briggs said , that after the manner in which the resolution had been drawn up , and the insinuation that Mr . Ward was not losing liis popularity he would put it to the test . He moved that , to make Mr . Ward-a good representative ofthe people , the enactment of the People ' s Charter was necessary ( Cheers and disapprobation . ) ' A working-man ; at the extreme point of the Hall seconded the amendment . He was willing to accede to a vote of thanks to Mr . Ward for his visit to Sheffield ; but in justice to himself he could not ag ree with tho original motion , inasmuch as he differed with Mr . Ward materially , in politics . How , therefore , could he be expected to assent to a motion which declared him entitled to his confidence , and when he appeared there to assert that he dissented from the hne of conduct which our member had -pursued during the last session of Parliament . ( Loud cheers from the Chartist party . )

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      Mr . Bkamlky , town clerk , agreed with Mi speaker , and suggestedan alteration in _theoritrfni _^ tion , upon which the opposing party be _^ eo ?; ! _*•<*• - ously turbulent , and kept up continuous cries Te < r _lawyer ' stricks . " " Theamendment . " 8 of X o Mr . W . Fisher considered that he was in order to withdraw a few sentences _fVom l , ; , J _^ t ( Criesof " not a sentence , " " a line » _» 0 n _* word , " "theamendment . " ) ' lot a Some time elapsed ere order could be rest The chairman at length gained a _licavm-j \»' Fisher had altered his motion , and Mr . _BrjL , j " _- consented to withdraw his amendment . ( llenP . * dissatisfaction . ) The motion now stood , that _" _$ best thanks of the meeting are due to _ourhdi respected representative , Henry George Ward p . XV ... _* Tia _irinnrct l _. t , l . oo rrman *\ p hiD T > n .. tZ ' -- 'SO . Mil _TJClTij _iwvi alio i

      _WIC « v . mo g » . . « . iJl < ll ) lCHta i- n duct during the last session . " ( Uproar . ) ° ' _* Mr . Briggs here declared that he would not had he withdrawn his amendment . ( Tremon , _! ' cheering . ) He stated to the Chairman _^ he would leave it to the meeting . lie s ] " _* f stick to lus opponents—he would submit to n 0 hf gling . They should have minded better how _« _, had put their words together . ( Cheers and _Iaimhtwi Mr . W . uid here rose and said—Gentleme n , " ! rite order . I have some little experience in this matt of order . You talk about juggle—I can assure _•? there shall be no juggle in anything with which 1 ' . ' concerned . As to my yielding to public opinion _? has been stated by Mr . Briggs , I tell you that _Vif oi is uic

      puoilC opinion a _jjieeujig nvu jaw ot niv Pa , liamentaiy conduct—( cries of " Oh , oh ! " ) _-anJ wj you to pass twenty resolutions calling up 0 n nie t „ support the Charter , I should not doit . » Had 2 friends at all consulted me about this motion , I _sJjoh ' j have advised them not to attempt to ask men wV had been arguing against me for the last two hml to agree with mc ; it is an error of judgment an 3 i , | a oufof the kindness of my good friends , but to the letter of which I am myself decided . }* opposed . Tlie Chairman * then put the question to the mee ; . ing , when the amendment was carried by a lar _£ majority . = "

      A vote of thanks was subsequently passed to Mr Ward for his visit . He briefly acknowledged _ftj compliment . Thanks were voted to the Chairman , andtheraeo ; ing separated at about half-past five o ' clock .

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      Fire at Chiswick Church . —On Sunday momin » shortly More the commencement of _diyino _scrvi _« the utmost alarm was created throughout the village of Chiswick , in consequence of the sudden _outbreaSj of a fire in the parish church . The first discovert was made by Wright , the beadle . It appears thai $ was engaged in repairing one of the Cell ropes that had broken a few minutes previousl y , when his a * .

      tention was arrested by a piece of burning wood falling upon his head from the spire of the church . TJn _^ making his way into the belfry , he found one side oi the spire , which was composed principally of _wooi and lead , in a bla ? . c . Without loss of time " be raised tlie necessary alarm , and having procured additional assistance , the parish engine was drawn out and _j-j to work , and being well supplied with water the _&* was confined to that portion of the steeple where it or iginated , but it was not entirely extinguished until considerable damage had been effected ; the spire being much burnt and injured by the molten lead flowing down . The ceiling was also damaged down to the ground floor with water . The church _ij in , sured in the Westminster Fire-office to the amount of £ 2 . 000 .

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      BANKRUPTS . ( From Friday ' s Gazette , Jan , 31 J William Burt , Lisson-grove , New-road , hoM < ling . houie keeper—James Argent , Goldeu-hme , Barbican , _victualln —Edward Cooper Flowers , Whitchurch , Buckinghamshiw cattle-dealer—Richard Harris and John Hill " , ye n-gate street , City , tailors—Samuel Brice , St . John-street , tailor —Richard Greenwood , Bradford , Yorkshire , _lviokseUer-Jolm Collins , Sheffield , grocer—John and David Hcpworth _llaisti'lch , Yorkshire , cotton warp dyers—Thomas Whyte Birmingham , hardware-merchant—Edwin LleweHin Ro binson , Moulton , Lincolnshire , fell-mouger—William Up . ton Lester , Aldermanbury , silk-manufacturer—William Blinkliorn , Little Bolton , Lancashire , _manufacturing-cK mist—John Irving , Blackburn , Lancashire , linemlrap » r-Willinm Fielding , Taunton , Lancashire , hat plush mane facturer—Absalom Francis , William Dave . v , and Matthew Francis , Bagillt , Flintshire , ironfounders—Robert Jons ? , Liverpool , bootmaker _.

      BANKRUPTS . ( From Tuesday ' s Gazette . ) James Burton Rayner and Thomas Scarlett Cartor _, Coleman-street , City , lamp manufacturers—Charles Siephen _Haw . ird , Colchester , Essex , grocer—Samuel _JIiwidi _, Brick-lane , Bethnal-green , _silk-hatmanufhcturer—Jaiae Miller , Southampton , boot-maker—Thomas Weston , Southampton , plumber—Joseph Ashbarry , Holm ' _^ My , Herefordshire , farmer—Wiilia-. a Aston , sen ., Bii _' . 'i's ham , victualler—John Whitlow , Manchester , _liiccman-Joseph Hegginbotham and George Peck , Manchester , maebine-iuakeis . . > . .

      DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS , J , C . and O . II . White , Bath , _music-sellers , Ant _diii dend of ( 3 s iu the pound , any Monday , at the office of -Mr Acraman , Bristol . I . Aldevson , Warley , Yorkshire , worsted-spinner , firs ; ami final dividend of 6 s 2 d in the pound , any Tuesday , at the office of Mr . Hope , Leeds . J . Cartledge , Browbridge , Yorkshire , merchant , fe and final dividend of 4 s Gd in the pound , to tlios ? who have proved since the last dividend , any _Tuesday , it the office of Mr . Hope , Leeds . — Lees , — Brassey , — Fan * , and — Lee , Lombard _, street , City , bankers , dividend of Is 4 d in tlie nound , and creditors who proved on Jan . 17 may receive dividemls amounting to 9 s in the pound ( in addition to the above ) , making the sum of 10 s 4 d , any Wednesday , at Hie _offis of Mr . Belcher , King ' s Aims-yard , Coleman-street .

      S . Southey , first dividend of 10 s in the pound , any - * a turday _, at the office of Mr . Edwards , Frcilvrick _' s-p _^ i Old Jewry . J . P . Sporer , second dividend of 6 s in the pound , and first and second dividends of 19 s in the pound os *» proofs , to the joint creditors of Sporer and Miley , any Saturday , at the office of Mv . Edwards , Fveteick's-y ' ice _, Old Jewry . J . F . Sporer , first dividend of 20 s in the pound , asj Saturday , at the office of Mr . Edwards , _Fredeik-k's-ptoj Old Jewry . W . E . Dray , first dividend of 4 s in the pound , nil '' Saturday , at the oiticc of Mr . Edwards , Fredcrick ' _s-piaWi Old Jewry . C . Alderton , first dividend of Is 9 d in the pound , an ' Saturday , at the office of Mr . Edwards , Frederick _' _s-pIaM . Old Jewry .

      D . Pope , first dividend of 2 s in the pound , any Saturday , at the onice of Mr . Edwards , _Frederick's-place , OB Jewry , T . Brand , first dividend of 3 | din the pound , st *? 5 a turday , at the office of Mr . Edwards , Frederick ' s-pla _** Old Jewry . J . Crambrook , first dividend of 4 s * d in the pound , on new proofs , any Saturday , at the office of Mr . _EtKui * _- Frederick ' s-place , Old Jewry .

      DIVIDENDS . Feb . 25 , J . Bull , W . Banks , and G . Ilryscn , Kiefstreet , Cheapside , City , wholesale linen drapers—Feb- '• _' J . Bail , Salisbury , cabinet-maker—Feb . 27 , J . awl J . Simmons and J . Fine , Battersea , prussiate of pota ! h _* manufacturers—Feb . 27 , W . Pearson , Chelmsford , _Es'ft draper—Feb . 27 , R . n . C . Hunt , E . O . Smith , ami H . ";• Hunt , Old Broad-street , City , merchants—Feb . _& . _*• Jones , Cheapside , City , jeweller—Feb . 25 , C-. _«' Gould-square , City ,- wine-merchant—March 5 , V . »••• Hams and C . Mottram , Wood- street , City , Manche- _'W warehousemen—Feb . 25 , D . Roderick , St . Martin ' s-l _!" _''

      Victualler—P _" eb . 25 , T . Pearson , Mitre-court , _I ' crtMmt _* street , City , wine-merchant—Feb . 25 . T . Ginger , LcigWf Buzzard , Bedfordshire , innkeeper—Feb . 26 , T . Re * - *** jun ., Great St . Helen ' s , Bishopsgate-strcet , City , j *' _chant—1 ' ub . 28 , T . Mease , Stoltcsley , Yorkshire . _&*** spinner—Feb . 27 , T . Lakin , Nottingham , builder- _^ _( i , T . Walker , _Kirkstall , Yorkshire , brewer—Feb . * V ' Alsop , Manchester , grocer—Feb . 26 , D . Arthur , _Stf _***' Glamorganshire , ironmaster—Feb . 27 , W . Oliver . l"j ' Hngton , Durham , printer—Feb . 27 , It . Currie , > * eweS _' * _upon-Tyne , bookseller—Feb . 25 , J . Pym , jun ., _^ f Derbyshire , cabinet-maker—Feb . 25 , W . Fletcher . _B _" '

      mmgliam . oilman . _PAKT-SEKSHirs DISSOLVED . . J . Lowry and J . Willson , Kingston-upon-llu ll , _•* merchants—W . Hanncn and J . _llutter , Shaftesbury , _^' setshire , attorneys-at-law—W . Westbury and _<>• _*' . _[ mons , Walbrook , City , lithographic printers—J . B , and J . Glazier , Goodge-street _, Totten ham-court- *** 0 _^ < undertakers—H . Stuart and T . Russell , Liverpool , * manufacturers—R . and W . . Wilding , Padiham . _hanc _'' shire , cotton manufacturers—M . Blyth and S . M il ! bo 1 n ( j Taverham-mills , Norfolk , paper-makers —W . irolt _'l G . Ingram , Kingston-upon-llull , drapers— H . _«¦ M 0 , ftttd H . Hall , _Kingston-upon-Hull , merchantS-l ' . _^ and J . M . Cobb , Margate , wine merchants—J- » nd . Hind . " _Rrirli . 1 fp . il : _fnWmorc _ S and M . Hindc _, Bean- ' J

      plumbers—J . Southan , C . Timms , and "W . Davis , ccster , drapers—T . O'Rorke and W . Birks , Ma ! , cUc l commission agents—G . Browu and I . Best , _VieM common carriers—J . Robin , sen ., C . Robin , and J . i _^ jun ., Liverpool , merchants ; as far as regards 0 . R . and J . Burt , Kingsbridge , Devonshire , ltaen f * f _,,, _' G . Kelk and J . Brookes , Old Compto n-street , _Sonft _^ nishing ironmongers—W . Newman and S . Lofti „ . Lincolnshire , flour dealers—W . and J . Ban * , ¦ ¦ _»' _^ street , Marylebone , builders—A Webster anuU _; , r nunshelf , Yorkshire , coal merchants—J . L . _* w < "' _£ _'j _-Ti and H . M . Naylor , Birmingham , general dea ien Price , T . Backhouse , J . Meek , and J . Spencc , low , i _^ manufacturers L . Redhead and F . T- B * A * _gyes , Mark-lane , City , ship-brokers—J- Bellis , « f J _* ' a vc , Birmingham , linen drapers-J . Barugh , m . ¦ " " _»« , andW . B . Sunley , Ratclifte-highway , ' _^ ( _Z , _^ s , Townson , T . Robinson , and J . Hasvorth _, Knug _5 _^ rtii- Lancashire , _drysalters ; as far as regards J . a plJV W . Williams , J . Walker , R . Scott , and B . _»•»• ¦ * mouth , _beer-brewers ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 8, 1845, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_08021845/page/6/