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      3 SSW POOR LAV . —SERIOUS AFFRAY ATDEWSBX 7 BY . The second adjourned meeting of the Dewsbury Board of Guardians took place on Monday last , T * ea John Beswicke Greenwood , Esq ., Thames iFoEce Magistrate , who is on a visit to his father at Dewsbary , took his seat for . the first time as an Er-Qfiob Member of the Board , and strongly gunported Mr . Ingham , the Chairman , in his determination to eafisirce the law . A large concourse of people had assembled before eleven o ' clock , to hear the proceedinga , who were with very great difficulty restrained from interrupting them , during their whole progress frequently expressing strong marks of disapprobation at the obstinate refusals of the -Chairman to put any motion submitted , to him bv

      .- those members of the Board who were known to ^ -entertain a strong objection , to the law . On a . motion for the appointment of a Treasurer , Mr . Brooke heeged to callthe attention of the Board to •» memoriaTto Lord John Russell , which he wished to gubmit to them , having a reference to the . arbitrary conduct of the Chairman at their previous - -meeting , and showing the deddedfeeling of hostility -torflie law which was entertained by a very large ' propertjon of ihe inhabitants of this district . This memorial , after detailing to his Lordship the pro-¦ ce * tBnp- « f prsvioms meetings , concludes as follows : * Your memorialists beg to submit this account of ^ the tyrannical and uncourteous pToceedings of their ¦ ^ Chairman to your Lordship , and to ask your Lordship if it be the intention of the Government that a .-. Board of popularly elected Guardians shall be forced -to submit to the dictation of one Ex-Qfficio member

      thereof , who takes upon himself to determine what -s law-aid what is not Jaw , and who bbsolutel y le&ses to put axootion of a 4 jollrnin £ nt--w-lien that is wopoBed in accordance with the ninth clause of the ~ ~ Commissioners' orders , and who threatens , the Board with ruling in this district by a minority of three , ag £ nst a majority of twenty-three . * Your memo-JiafistB beg also to assure your Lordship that the feeling qf a very large majority of the inhabitants of this district , is most strongly opposed to . the introduction of this law , and that if it "be the intention of ti ^ Government to support a Chairman who thus ¦ arbitrarily determines to rule the Board , dissatisfac--tiaxL wHlmost certainly increaise , and your memorialists are . of opinion that it would "be wiser altogether to dispense with the future attendance of the Guardians , and leave the management of the busi--ness with the Chairman alone .

      , The Chairman , however , frequently interrupted Mr . Brooke in the progress of his remarks , and positively refused to entertain any motion on" the subject , . and he at last gathered a few gentlemen around him , « nd "without any show of hands , or the majority of the Board being at all aware what they were doing , lie declared that Mr . Jonn " Wilson , manager of the "West "Riding Union Bank , had been . chosen the treasurer . The next process was the fixing upon the number of relieving officers for the Union , when Mr . i * enny rose to submit a motion , whichhe contended -was in strict accordance with the 32 nd section of the

      PoorXaw Act , which gives the power to the Commissioners to dissolve any Union" which may have been ibrmed , or may hereafter be formed , on an application from two-thirds of the members of any Board of Guardians , and after making some judicious observations on the improbability of the affairs of the different parishes being so well managed by the Board as then own Select Vestries , and the interests of the poor being very seriously neglected inconsequence of the probable non-attendance of the Guardians from the different townships , and the business of any one or more township being left solely to the representation of the relieving officer of such township , and the members of the Board who could , not be expectedlo know anything respecting the cases of the

      applicants for relief , he proceeded to put a motion to the effect— " That a memorial be presented by this Board to the Poor Law Commissioners , expressing their conviction and reasons why in their opinion the Act would not work in a district se densely populated as the Dewsbury Union , and praying that the Commissioners would revise their determination to carry out the law , dissolve the newly-formed . Board , and leave the different townships to manage their own affairs as heretofore . And that this meeting do adjourn to the 13 th inst . for the consideration of the above proposition , and

      that in the interim berween now and the next meet ing , the Guardians do call meetings in their respective townships to submit such intended proposition for their approval or disapproval ; and that , if the aaeedng 3 so convened , th-mV ; it necessary , each township b § canvassed to ascertain the opinion of the whole townships in the union upon Ihe said proposition ; and that each Guardian come prepared to state such opinions to the board at itsnext meeting . " Mr . GREErwoonhere observed that the board had nothing to do with public opinion ; therefore that partpf the motion could not be relevant to the proceedings of the board .

      Sir . Pexxt said that if the ¦ board was of that opinion , of course it was competent for any member to move that that part of the resolution be ^ xpunged . Mr . Penny among other observations in support of his motion said that it must be quite , evident , to all who had paid any attention whatever . to town ' s business , that the " local boards must be better calculated to manage the affairs of their several townships than it was possible for a Board of Guardians todor That then , the select vestry / being called from the different _ part 3 of the township made them perfectly acquainted with the local circumstances of their own poor , and therefore , much more likely Zo lawns- -who were the really deserving ,, than it was possible ibraBoard of Guardians to do . That it

      was not in the nature of things out that the Board of Guardians , who were men of business , must necessarily be weary of attending meetings at so great a distance from their homes ; and . that , consequently the whole affairs of 70 , 000 inhabitants must necessarily fall into the hands of two or three Gnardians , or perhaps into the hands of paid officers ; who , he would have the board be aware , were irresponsible officers . He would have the-board be aware that when they appointed officers , they appointed masters ; for let their delinquencies be what they might they have no power of dismissal . That power being lodged in the hands of the commissioners \ for-proof of which , he referred the board to the 4 th page of their instructions . He made an appeal to the

      Guardians of Batley , and a » ked , how , " in case of their unavoidable absence , he , as Guardian of laversedge would know any thing of the poor applicants from Batley , aiid that therefore the pocr applicants _ mu * t necessarily depend upon the representations of the paid officers , or , which was full as likely , be unattended to at all , thereby perpetrating acts of the greatest injustice and inhumanity . He" ( Mr . Penny ) had chosen this time for bringing forward his motion , that , if it could be carried , it would prevent the future breaking up of contracts and interests . and all the confusion that mnst necessarily follow , if it was done after the officers were appointed , and the Union at full work . With these oDservations , he begged to

      move the resolution . Mr . J . Bboor , in a short but powerful address , seconded Jie motion . But Mr . Ingham positively refased to put it . [ It was with great difficulty here that the people could be kept within due bounds . ] But , however , Mr . Penny was not to be got rid of in this summary way , "but insisted , as his motion was clearly contemplated by the . Act , that it should be put . This called into mil play the part which Mr . Greenwood had come to perform . He asked Mr . Penny which part of the law it was upon which he grounded his motion , when Mr . P . referred him to the latter part of the 32 nd section of the Poor Law Amendment Act . Mr . Greenwood having read it , said , ~ Oh , that is one oi the five points that have

      been before the Queen ' s Bench , which " had decreed that it referred only to Unions under Gilbert ' s Act , see . 22 adGeo . HI ., cap . 83 . " Mr . Penny objected to this , and called for proofs , and observed that whenever any part of the law related to Gilbert ' s Act is pabticclab , it referred to it ; and that the first part oitt & Act eleariy fcgfBgaiat it wAned to ^ this , as veil as Gilbert ' s . Wrf ran thus— " That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners , from time to time , as they shall see fit , by order under their hands and seals , to declare akt Uxion , whether formed before or xrriix . t&e passing of this Jet to be dtssoieed . " Mr . Penny also cited the opinion of John Tidd Pratt , Esq ., the Jbaflister , who drew np the B 3 } , who says—f Undertfc » clwi ? e any parish dissatisfied with being part of an Union , may . if it can make its case good Defore the Commissioners , and

      obtain the consent of not lea tfaaitwo-thirds of the viuardians of the Union , be separated from it . Other Pushes may be added with Eke consent , and indeed the whole Union may be dissolved , on complying with the tame provisions . " Mr . Penny also referred to the 21 st section of the Poor Law Amendment Act , to prove that when the Legislature contemplated the Commissioners interposing their authority on Gilbert ' s Ad alohe , it had specifically provided for such interposition . Mr . Penny here read the clause which givea the power to the Commis ^ oneni to govern the Unions , formed under Gilhert ' g Act ^ This posed the m « of-law , and made bun hang his ears like a new-beaten cur . Bnt all would not So . Mr . Ingham was in the chair and pp&tively refused to put the motion , telHne the Guardians they might fake their own course and that if two of them would vote with him , he would carry the Act iato fores in spite of them , though at the risk of his Hfe . This uncalled-for declaration aroused the feelings of-the assembled people to . complete fury , and it was evident to aU that without great discretion it would not be possible to ieep them in order . After begging of the people to be peaceable , and alow them to proceed without interruption , Mr . Penny said that if was now high tune to know the situation in which they , as a ^ Board of Guardians , and Mr . Ingham , as a Chairman

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      felt * ^ W ^ MMtfBoiBi atlMr ' wevirai meeting that he \ Tonld putno motum tLnle » it h » d * reference * fSv !? fet ^ 1 ? flth ? eaI 1 Lane * ^ t » etJ » TOa tl » ncrtmg if * hev pWd , wa if onlj iwoothTgenSwasa wxraldrenum with him , they-wt mldcKiTU out . *^~ "

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      stood . _ With the view of arriving at a knowledge of that situation he should propose the folio wins resolution . Mr . Ingham here demanded to know if it was connected with the choosing of officers ; Mr . P . observed ,-it would develop its connexion as he read it * he then read to the following- effect , — " That in consequence of the Chairman of the Board of Guardians of the Dewsbury Union having repeatedly refused to put motions submitted by members of the said ward , the Poor Law Commissioners be most respectfully requested to particularly define the power and duties of chairman ; and that they wfllTiepleased to be very explicit in the definition of the words 'legal' and ' illegal , ' as relative to such powers and duties . And that this meeting do now adjourn to next oi

      me nay weeKiymeenng ; ana mat trie clerk alone do attend on that and each successive day of meeting , to adjourn the same until such powers and duties t > e defined . And upon" receiving such definition , the clerk do supply each Guardian with a copy of the same . " During the whole ef the time this was reading , Mr . Ingham and a small knot of guardians , were transacting business connected with the Union , without consulting any but themselves . Mr . P . again insisted that his motion should be put , but Mr . Ingham positively refused , and again gathered around him the few parasites who are ever ready to do Ms bidding , and proceeded to fix upon the number of relieving officers in dumb show as before . Finding what they were about , Mr . Penny implored the chairman to adjourn the consideration of this question for a fortnight ,

      pledging himself that as the chairman seemed determined to reject every attempt , however constitutional , to attempt to _ supersede the act j to come prepared on thatdaywith such a proposition on the subject as would , he thought , be for the interest of the Union to be adopted , and also would contribute to render the act as mild as possible in its operation , "begging of him , the chairman , to grant him this , one request , even were it for no other purpose but to say that he had conceded something . But no ! the chairman said , that however much he might have- been disposed to make concession , an attempt had been made to intimidate him ( certainly not by any of the Guardians ) , and he was determined not to be overawed , Trat would enforce the law at the risk of his

      life , if necessary , but if Mr . Penny would name a definite number of relieving officers , to be prepared to appoint at the next meeting , he would adjourn for that purpose . Mr . P . not being prepared to do this , declined ^ it . Mr . Penny then said the law itself had provided that they might put off the orders for thirty days ; and , therefore , he moved "that the fixing of the number and duties of officers be delayed to that day fortnight . " Mr . Ellisos seconded the motion . This roused the man of law and he demanded which section it ¦ was that gave the power of delaying orders for thirty days ? Mr . Pexxy referred him to the 52 d sec . " which empowers Overseers or Guardians to delay the execution of orders for thirty days . " But , continued

      Mr . P ., I admit that we have not complied with one formula of the law , as he would see if he read further ; for it there required that the Guardians , die , delaying orders should give twenty days notice ef theirintention to delay them ; but he hoped , and thought , that the proceedings of that board would be a court of equity as well as law . Mr . Ingham replied , No , vre ' should be only a court of law . " The oth ^ r man of law , Mr . Greenwood , arose with all the importance of a sage who has found a notable mare ' s nest , and said , ' \ Ye lawyers , take the whole law : true , the first part gives yon the power to delay the operation of orders for thirty days ; but having failed to comply vrith the conditions , you are bound to proceed . " " Very well , " said Mr . Penny , "if you take the -whole law , we are still right ; for the latter part of the same section gives us power to delay them without notice , provided we rive notice

      within fifteen days of having delayed them" Here Mr . Greenwood was quite chop-fallen ; but Mr . Ingham stepped in to his relief , by positively refusing to put the motion , although se clearly founded on both law and reason . At this stage of the business , one of the forms on which the people were standing in the _ school-room ( the place of meeting ) gave way , which threw the people into confusion , when Mr Greenwood immediately and in great agitation , said he would read the Riot Act . He was implored not to do so , as it would only tend to make matters worse , but he immediately , and without further consideration commenced—O y « s , O yes , O yes , and proceeded with the rer-ding thereof . This appeared to be the signal for a complete row ; and the magistrates [ Mr . Ingham and Mr . Greenwood , ] we understand , in retreating from the school-room , were very ill treated , stones and missiles of every description flying about in all

      directions . Mr . Greenwood retreated into the New Inn , but was pursued by one section of the mob and dragged out with great violence , hut eventually obtained refuge at Mr . Fletcher ' s , grocer , while Mr . Ingham was followed by another section to the George Hotel . The scene of confusion occurred about halfpast twelve o ' clock , and the attack seemed entirely directed to the two Ex-Qfficio Guardians , who had so obnoxiously determined on carrying out the law ,

      while Mr . Hague , the . other Ex-OJficio Guardian , passed among the people without molestation . ABout half-past two o'clock , after the excitement had subsided , an express was sent to Leeds for the soldiers , and a troop of the lancers arrived about five o ' clock . Their arrival caused anothergathering of the people from curiosity ; and on Mr . Ingham proceeding to his residence " at Blake Hall , he was followed by a large concourse of people and hooted out of town , receiving also , we have heard some severe blows .

      The great body of the working classes seem considerably excited by this law , and many show a most savage and revengeful feeling towards its supporters ; and we cannot avoid expressing our deep regret that the magistracy , the natural guardians of the people , should be called upon to enforce a law which will deprive them of that proper respect and deference , without which , the office they fill , instead of being beneficial , must be the very reverse . r Tis a poor exchange to lose their natural support and protection , founded on the confidence and good will of all men , and have to fall back upon the protection of the army . We are sorry to learn that an attack was made on Monday night , oa the house of the father of J . B . Greenwood , tsq ., and that the military had to be called , before the riotous proceedings could be suppressed .

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      HOUSE OF LORDS . —Tuesday , Jug . 7 . The subject of Lord Durham ' s ordinances relative to some of the Canadian insurgents was again referred to by Lord BROUGHAM , who stated , we think with perfect truth , that though the power given to Lord Durham was very great , yet that no power had been bestowed on him by act of Parliament , to inflict pains and penalties on individuals who had not previously been brought to trial . The Noble Lord was empowered to Issue ordinances for the good government of the province—to make general laws for the good government and -welfare of the colony ; but from the beginning to the end of the bill by whichhe was intrusted with this power , there was a grand exception—which exception tied up the Governor of Canada from altering any act of the British Parliament .

      The defence set up by Lords GLENELG and MELBOURNE was totally destitute of argument , and a sort of appeal to the indulgence of the House . It is , however , a matter of paramount duty in a case of such importance that there should be at once a clear and precise understanding as to the powers delegated to Lord Durham . If there be any doubt on the subject , let a short declaratory act be passed . If the statute already passed be one about which no perfect lawyers can disagree , let the opinion of guch lawyers / be atoncfe promulgalS | 3 b 9 l let hot a subject of such vital interest be left to the discretion of Lord Durham and the two or three briefless barristers whom he has appointed to be his ^ 'law anthor itieB . " -We can only say , ' that if the enormous powers claimed by Lord Durham be really assigned to him in the act under which he governs Canada , it is an act lhaf onght to he rescinded .

      -The-subject is , we see , to be solemnly discussed on formal motion . Lord WHARNCLIFFElaid upon the table the report of-the select committee appointed to inquire into the operation of the New Poor Law Act . He moved that it be printed , together with the evidence . we hope we may assume tha t the evidence will be printed without any omissions . The rest of the evening was occupied in " considering The amendments made b y the House of Commons in the Irish Corporation Bill , and the reasons for dissenting from their Lordships' amendments .

      A division wok place on the qualification clause , and the Lords adhered to the clause altered by them , and defeated the Commons' amendment by thelargemajorityof 77 . _ The clauses relating to the charitable trusts was discussed at-some length , but there -was no division " and , in fact , all the material amendments formerly introduced by the Lords were agreed to . Lord LYtfDHURST then carried the appointment of a committee to manage the conference with the House of Commons . . .... Lord MELBOURNE postponed the consideration of the Irish Tithe Bill till Thursday . The House then adjourned .

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      * HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Tuesday , Aug . 7 . Afterthe presentation of several petitions by different Members , Mr . "P . Scbopb brought up the ^ Kf 1 ^^ 00 * Law Committee . , M ** F \ ELDEN said , he could not let this report be brought up without saying a few words as to the manner in which the Conunfttee had conducted the mvetotwn , and upon that document which was the result of it . His proposition was , that the C om ,

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      mittee should examine those who nobody conld doubt were , the heat witnesset—the labouring people and the rate-payers . He proposed , at the first meeting of the Committee , ' that they should procure certain returns from those Unions in which the rates had beeu reduced 60 per cent This was objected to , on tne ground that me Teturns would be too elaborate and too difficult to procure . He then proposed that they should take those Unions in which the reductions had been 60 per cent , and the" first three on the list of this description Mng Ampthill , Bedford , and Wbburn , die Committee ordered the returns from those Unions . He ( Mr . Fielden ) sent two men down into Bedfordshire , to make inquiries as to the condition of the people whom the returns showed to be

      deprived of parochial relief under the new law ; and he was in hopes that the Committee would have gone into a full examination of the rate-payers and labourers of those Unions , as well as into the examination of Commissioners , Guardians , and officers of the new law . But he had been grievously disappointed . The Honse would find by looking at tae evidence , that the Committee had been engaged no less than 36 days and a half in examining Commissioners and Guardians . Indeed , the Commissioners alone had taken ^ 20 days out of the 52 days that the whole examination had taken up , Four days had been allotted to the medical inquiry , lea-ving ten and a half days for the examination of witnesses against the law ; and this ,. notwithstanding nearly half a

      million of persons had petitioned against it , stating their reasons . The Commissioners , and the Guardians too , were persons actually upon their trial . They : were persons who had been complained of ; and the Committee was originally appointed for the purpose of ascertaining whether those complaints were just Would the House be satisfied , would the country be satisfied ,-that this Committee had conducted an impartial examination , when it was found that 36 days and a half out of 62 had been allotted , to the examination of persons who were oh their trial ? ( Hear , hear . ) His ( Mr . Fielden ' s ) main objection to the law was founded on his firm conviction that it would reduce the wages of the labouring people , and if he had nothing more than even the

      Assistant-Commissioners to satisfy him upon that point , their evidence had shown him that that had already been the result The House should hags -foreseen this before it passed the law . When it affected to throw men upon their resources , it should have been certain that they had these resources ; but the cruelty of this law was now becoming obvious in all times of depression of trade , and in the intervals between the different harvests in the agricultural -parts of the country . This report stated , in contradiction to what was the fact , " that the real interests of all classes of the community have been consulted in the operation of the law . " He ( Mr . Fielden ) was so thoroughly satisfied that this was unfounded—he had seen such strong proof thatit

      had brpughtmisery upon the labouring classes , that he hadthoughtit his duty to move an amendment to this part of the report . Hon . Members would perceive that it was stated on the authority of Mr . Overman , vice-chairman of the Ampthill board , that the wages of the labourers in his neighbourhood had been raised since the law came into operation . Indeed , in illustration of the fact , he stated what he himself paid upon his own farm in 1834 , and what he paid in 1 S 37—that was to say , he gave them a table containing the weekly payments for every week in those years to his labourers , and the totals showed an increase in the gross amount in the year 1837 . So for" Mr . Overman made out the case very well ; but in his previous examination he had stated , not only that wages had been raised , but that many more men

      had been employed on the land . And here Mr . Overman had failedto establish his whole case , but had completely succeeded in establishing the point which he [ Mr . F . ] aimed to prove—namely , a reduction in wages . Mr . Overman , in 1834 and 1835 , employed 20 men and 13 boys , and the gross amount which"he stated he paid to them in the year was £ 775 6 s . Id . He stated in 1837 and 1838 his gross payment in wages was £ 870 Ss ., which was uoubtless a considerable increase in the money spentin wages ; but he employed in the latter year 11 boys and 26 men , which , as any one would find eh calculating it , proved a reduction of lid . per week in money wages . As M r . O verman and his table were cited in the report as the proof of an advance in wages , he [ Mr . Fieluen ] proposed an amendment to that part of the report , which he would read to the House . It was as

      follows : —^' That so far from the real interests of all classes having been consulted by the administration of the Poor Law Amendment Act , as expressed in page 25 of this report , the interests of thepoor have suffered by the withdrawal of relief and reduction of wages , as appears by the evidence [ 15 , 305 , . 15 , 318 , 15 , 3 G 1 . Ceeley ; and 16 , 472 and 16 , 474 , Rawspn ; and 14 , 345 , 14 , 349 , 14 , 353 , 14 , 354 , 14 , 370 , 14 , 479 , and 14 , 480 , Overman ] . The statemerit of weekly wages paid for farm labour during four years , by T . W . Overman , accompanied by the list of labourers in his employment , from July , 1834 , to July , 1835 , and from July , 1837 , to July , 1838 , in the former of which years he had 20 men and 13 boys , and in the latter 26 men and 11 boj-s , shows the following result . In this calculation 5 s . per week only are allowed for tie boys in both years , although Mr . Overman , in his evidence [ 14 , 378 , ] says boys' wages . had bep « advanced .

      " 1 S 34 and 1835 . £ . s , d . 4113 boys , each 52 weeks , or 676 weeks for one boy , at 5 s 169 0 0 " 20 men , each 52 weeks , or 1 , 040 weeks one man , at lls . 8 d 606 13 4

      £ 775 13 4 " Amount paid , as ¥ * Mr . Overman ' s statement £ 775 6 4 ' 1837 and 1838 . " 11 boys , each 52 -weeks , or 572 weeks for one boy , at 5 s 143 0 0 " 26 men , each 52 weeks , or 1 , 352 weeks for one man , utl 0 s . 9 d 726 14 0

      £ 869 14 0 Amount paid , as V Mr . Overman ' s statement ..... .. £ 870 4 0 A reduction of labourers' wages in money , of from lls . 8 d . per week , in 1834-5 to 10 s . 9 d . per week in 1837-8 , or eight per cent ., is thus shown b y Mr . Overman ' s statement ; and lls . 8 d . would buy the labourer 129 i pints of wheat , at the average price of wheat per quarter ( 40 s . 2 d . ) . during the year 1834 : whereas , 10 s . 9 d . would purchase him ouly 99 pints of wheat at the average price of ( 55 s . 9 a . ) during the year 1837 , being a decline in his command over wheat of 25 per cent ., and , taking wheat at the average price of the week ending 5 th July last , his command over wheat then , as compared with 1834 ,

      is reduced 37 i per cent , and this has been going on under the operation of the New Poor Law , notwithstanding Mr . Overman stated in his evidence that there is an increased demand for labour ( 14 , 336 and 14 , 337 ) , no scarcity of work ( 14 , 132 aud 14 , 467 ) , that wages have been advanced but the men do more work ( 14 , 183 , 14 , 185 , and 14 . 209 ) , and that fanning has not been so prosperous for many years' as in 1837 ( 14 , 5 i » 7 . )'_ ' He had moved this resolution , when complaining in the committee of the whole report , and he asked whether he had not a right to complain of such a delusive statement being sent forth to the country as that which he had just pointed out ? ( Hear , hear . ) Such a delusion might deceive the House in some measure , but the country , which

      knew the truth , would not be deceived by it , and would only look with the more dissatisfaction oh the proceedings of the committee . Before he had become a member of this committee , he had imagined that the handlodmweavers and some others in the north were the most miserable of all the English labour ing peop ? e , but he had heard enough , he confessed , in the committee to show him that if the people of the south were not now as badly off as thehandloom weavers , it would take but a short time to bring them to the condition of those miserable people ; and he begged to remind the House that when the destitute , condition of the handlqojii weaTefs was spoken of , it was attributed to ' tiJachirlery Had machinery-produced the misery on " the land ?

      He would pause , in order . to ask the House whether it wag ndt both cruel and impolitic-to continue this wicked and obnoxious law , when it is working such resnlts as he had stated ? He could point out good , honest , and industrious'labanrers , in Bedfordshire ,. men whose . characters were not disputed , who , with their families , were living now upon 3 d . per head per day . Mr . Ceeley , a surgeon from Aylesbury ( whose evidence , by the by , was well worthy of being read ) , stated that he was in considerable practice ; that he was well acquainted with the neighbourhood of Aylesbury and the labouring people in its vicinity , and he gave it as his opinion that , sickly and distressed as they were before , their lot had become considerably worse

      since the new law came" into operation ; that he had inquired in what he deemed the best sources of information , the tradespeople , those who sold to the labourers the food on which they live , and they had told him that they sold now less provisions to this class of parsons than they did before the new law . If this were a fact , he -would ask -whether anything could be more convincing ? ( Hear , hear . ) If the baker , and the grocer , and the cheesemonger , were now selling less food to the labouring man than they did before the new law , was not the conclusion forced npon us , that the new law had dep r ived the labouring man of the means that he had before it passed ? ( Hear . ) In the reports of tae

      committee it would be found , that Mr . Weale , the assistant-commissioner , had made a statement of the wages of the agricultural labourers in Somersetshire , Glocestershire , and Worcestershire , and the average rate of wages per day labour in a considerable number of the unions in those counties is stated to be Is . 5 * d . to Is . Bjd . pw daj . Mr . Rawson , a manufacturer at Leicester , stated , on his own experience , that wages had been reduced one-third since the new law came into operation , and he apprehended a continued reduction . He ( Mr . fielden ) had sent" two men down into the neighbourhood of Ampthill , to make inquiries in [ that Beighbouthood , and they had taken a survey

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      ofthe ^ arisK ^ pf WestBhirig ia particular ; they had obtained the name ; aumber in family ^ sad earat-Wgs . of nearly every labouring man within the ^ parish for the years 1834 and 1837 , and the result , which he wonld « tate as short as possible , was ah average reduction of 16 per cent , on their means of living . The tables ^ establishing these matters had ^ een put uv by Mr ^ Turner , one pC the ; ^ persons * hom % e hadsentto make the inquiries . One of Mr ; Turner ' s tables , ^ describing s the conditionof 48 labourers in Westonmg , was adverted to m the report of the committee , page 4 , as a proof of the goodf working of the new law ; hut , while the committee were discussing this part of the report , he ( Mr . Fielden ) had movel this resolution : / " That although the labourers have

      more money paid , in 1837 than in 1834 V as stated in the report , page 4 , yet the table put in by Mr . Turner showed that the income of those labourers and their families had beftn reduced from Is . Ibid , per head pr week ^ 1834 tQ ls . 6 d . per week in 1837 > These tables had been attacked in the committee , and Mr , nerce , chainnan of the Wobura board , had been brought up to the committee to refutethem , and accordpg to Mr . Pierce , these labourers were in the receipt of much more money than Mr . l- Turner had made out in his tables ? But how was it ? Why , Mr . Pierce found thatthe earnings of the families of the tebjpurers , that , was , the . earnings of the wives and children of the labourers m Westoning , at straw plaiting , made ah ^ important di fference in ttiatn » . i

      earnings of the fathily during the year . Mr , Pierce found httle to dispute as to the wages of the labouring men . All the difference that there was between his table and Mr . Turner ^ consisted in this , that Turner had stated the -earnings of the families at too little , according to Mr . Pierce's account . He ( Mr . Fielden ) was . prepared to disunite the truth of Mr . Pierce ' s statementi He had the : names of the witnesses ready , and amongst ttiem the names of persons who could have spoken from experience and with authority upon the subject —( hear , hear , hear , and loud cheersVbut these witnesses he could not get before the committee . In the absence of them , however , the House might find by turning to Mr . Pierce's evidence , that

      when it was the object of the different Boards of Guardians in Bedfordshire to send families into the north of England to the factories , then the earnings of the wives and children were seKdown in Mr . Muggridge ' s returns ! as amounting to little or nothing . The earnings of a mother and all her children were stated in one instance at 3 s . fid . only per week , whereas Mr ^ Pierce stated that young women in Bedfordshire , of frbtn . thirteen to nineteen years of age , could earn from 5 s . to : 7 s . a week at straw plaiting . As to the men taking their earnings as they were stated by Mr . Pierce himself , the House would find that they were getting no more than would afford Is . lOd . per week per head for themselves and their families . He ( Mr . Fielden ) thought stated

      ne naa enough already , cuing even the authority of Commissioners and Guardians , to prove to the House that it was necessary to keep a watchful eye on the condition of the agricultural labourers He had received letters fromall . parts of the country , frpm so far west as Barnstaple ^ and so far east as Norwich , from Carlisle , and from many places in the interior of the country , addressed to him by magistrates , clergymen , Guurdians of Boards , and by tradesmen , all complaining of the operation of this law , and all stating it to have the effects which he had anticipated with dread ,. and which he had often stated to the House . ( Hear , hear . ) It was only yesterday that he had received a communication out of Devonshire , in which , amongst other things , great laints

      comp -were made of the enormous size of the Unions , causing whrt was equal to a denial of relief to all but those who were able-bodied enough to walk fifteen or twenty miles to wait upon a Board of Guardians ; and this brought him to page sixteen of the report before the House . A compliment is there paid to the Commissioners for the " skilful nnd judicious" arrangements which they had made , and for the groat discrimination which they had shown in adapting their operations to local peculiarities . But this compliment was not in unison with an opinion given in page fourteen , where the report said , " Your committee are of opinion , that it does appear that the size of the medical districts , in many instances , is inconvenientl y large ; " while , in the 24 th page of the report , the House would find a specific

      recommendation to it to give the commissioners powers to reconstruct their own unions ! [ Hear , hear . ] This he [ Mr . Fielden ] apprehended would requireastatute ; so that these able and judicious men had formed a set of unions so inconvenient even to themselves , that they were already applying to Parliament , through this committee , for powers to undo their own work . Why it appeared to him [ Mr . Fielden j that these persons had shown a want of ability in the only part of their duties which required wisdom . It required little ability to send down an order to a Board of Guardians to deny out doir relief to ablebodied labdurers , however much it might affect and distress the objects of the order , and those who are their neighbours , but to alter the

      established divisions of the country , and form a set of new ones that should be more convenient to the poor , was doubtless a matter which required judgment and discrimination ; but these parsons had nhqwn that it was not possessed by them in this p articular at any rate ; and , therefore , he protested strongly against this part of the report , which paid them a compliment m one page on the very subject on which , in another page , it condemned them . At the game time that the report recommended that the commissioners should have the means given to them of reconstructing the unions that they had already formed , it also recommended that they should have power given to them to dissolve all the Gilbert Unions , and to nullify all provisions of local acts all over the country relating to the relief

      of the poor , He [ Mr . Fielden ] hoped that the Gilbert Unions , and those places where the . relief of thepoor was now administered under local acts , would watch this subject well . He hoped that the representatives would be reminded of their duties , and that the country would not be thrown into additional confusion by additional powers being given to those persons who were obliged by their application for a fresh act to coafess their incompetency . He [ Mr . Fielden ] not only hoped that the commissioners would have no further powers given to them , but he hoped that the representatives of the people would come up to Parliament in the next session prepared to negative any proposition that might be made to Parliament for continuing the powers that they at present had .

      Ths statements of the Honourable Member being pf a somewhat unpalatable character , a manoeuvre was here had recourse to , to get rid of them . Lord G . SOMERSET rose to order , on the pretence that Mr * F . was going into a discussion of the merits of the report . The Speaker , though he admitted that he knew nothing about what Mr . F . had been saying , coincided with Lord G . that he was out of order ^ and must hold his tongue . After some altercation , Mr . F . desisted from further remark , and Mr . P . ScRopE endeavoured to make an apology for a most lame and impotent defence .

      On the motion ot Mr . Shaw , leave was given to bring in a . Bill to provide compensation for certain officers of the corporation of Dublin . The Exchequer Bills' Bill , the Exchequer Bills ^ Public Works ) Bill , and the Four-and-a-Half per Centum Duties' Bill , severally went through Committee . - The Lords'amendments on the Royal Exchange Rebuilding Bill were considered and agreed to . The Slave Trade Treaties' Bill was recommitted , and the House having resumed , the report was ordered to be brought up to-day . The Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster Bill was passed through Committee , and ordered to be reported without amendments : to be read a third tiine to-day . . . Lord MORPETH obtained leave toWing in a Bill to restrain the alienation of corporate property in Ireland .

      Mr . SHAW obtained leave to bring in a Bill to provide compensation for certain officers of the corporation of Dublin . The County Treasurers' ( Ireland ) Bill , the Coal Trade ( London ) Bill , and the Church Building Act Amendrneht Bijl , passed , through Committee . On the motion of Lord Morpeth , it was ordered that the House , at its rising , do adjourn to two o ' clock ito ^ morrow . The other orders of the day were disposed of , and at eight o ' clock the House adjourned .

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      HOUSE OF LORDS ; Wednesday , Aug . 8 , The House assembled at a quarter before 5 o'clock . The Earl of Shaftesbtj ry presided , in the absence of the Lord Chancellor . The Bishop of LONDON presented petitions against the encouragement of idolatrous worship in India , from Louth , in Lincolnshire ; from Wesleyan Methodists of Newca 3 tle-on-Tyne ( 2 ); from Clitheroe , and several dther places . Lord REDESDALE presented petitions from Leeds , agreed to at a public meeting , and another place , in favour bf a Ten Hours' Factory Bill . The Transfer of Funds [ War-office ] Bill , the Stamprdies BilL the Stave Trade ( Tuscany ) Bill , the

      Slave Trade ( Sicily ) Bill , the Bank of Ireland Repayment Bill , the Joint Stock Banks Bill , ; and the Ecclesiastical Appointments Suspension Bill , went severally through a committee . Report to-morrow . ¦ TheCustoms Bill , the Fines and Recognizances ( Ireland ) Bill , the County of Clare Treasurer Bill , and the Constables on Public Worka Bill , -were severally read a third time and passed . Lord BROUGHAM presented a Bill for declaring the extent of the powers granted to the Governor-General under the Act of the second of "Victoria , for the Government of Canada . The Noble and Learned Lord said that he would tomorrow explain the nature of the measure .

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      Read a first time , -and . ordered to be printed . ¦' :- . Lord WHARNCLWFE -presented , a petition front Dundee , in fayour : ofrlhe Sheriff ' s Courts ( Scotland ) Bill . ;•• » « 7 ^ v ri ,, : Adjourned . ¦ ..: : -r ' - - ^ ' \ . ' \ .. ' / ' - ;\ ::-- -- ' - ' HOUSE QE COMMONS--Wednesday , Aug .-8 * TheSPEAKEii toofc&e chair at two o'cloct . . The Duchies ¦ of Coiwall and Lancaster Bill vras read a third time and passed . Mr . HARVEY mpved that t ^ order for commit- ; tee of leave for committee on St . Saviour ' s ( Sputhwark ) School Bill sitting on Thursday be discharged . AgreedtoV- .: '" .. . ¦' , / : ¦ ' .. . ; - .- ¦ -.:. " .. ¦ ¦ ¦ ..: ' ¦ .. ' .. ¦ ¦ Oh the motion of Mr . RICE , the Consolidated Fund Bill was reported ; ' •; ' ¦

      . The County Treasurers' ( Ireland ) Bill was reported . . ¦ ¦ ¦ : . " '¦ ¦"• ' : ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦ -. ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦'¦' . '¦ ¦ ¦ . " ¦ ¦' ¦ ¦ '¦¦; ¦ The Coal Trade ( London , &c ., ) Bill was reported . : The Corporate Property ( Ireland ) Bill went through Committee . The Duchy of Cornwall ( tin Duties ) Bill was reported . On the motion of Mr . AGLIONBY , a . retam of the gross annual payments during ten years in respect of coinage duties and also a return of all the cests , charges , and expenses to officers and others , in each year during such period , incurred in and incident to the ascertaining , managing , and collecting of such coinage duties , were ordered . The other orders of the day having been disposed of , the House adjourned at half-past two o'clock .

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      Darlington ^— Spa and Sea Side Fashionable Gazette . —This is a very useful paper to the visitors at Redcar and the surrounding ^ villages , as it contains not merely announcements r he company at the various hotels and boarding . ses , but also a variety of other necessary and wceresting information . ¦ ¦ . ' - - /¦ . Darlington . — -The woolcombers of Darlington are desirous that their brethren the wooleombera of Yorkshire would , when any advance in wages takes place , communicate the same hy means of those papers which advocate the rights of industry . ¦

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      GOODWOOD RACES 1838 . { Continuedfrom our last . ) THURSDAY , August 2 . The Racing Stakes , of 50 sovereigns each , for 3 year olds . One mile . Lord G . Bentinck ' s Gray Momus ...... J . Day 1 Lord Exeter ' s Romania , 2 Duke of Beaufort ' s Inuendo 3 Lord Chesterfield ' s Industry : 4 3 to 1 on Gray Momus . Won by two lengths . The Molecpmb Stakes , of 50 sovereigns each , h . ft , for 2 year olds . T . Y . C . Mr , Wreford ' s Wapiti J . Day , jun . 1 Mr . Stidler ' s Deception 2 Duke of Richmond ' s Vale of Belvoir 3 : — The Currier 4 Lord Chesterfield ' s c . by Priam ...... 5 Captain Berkeley ' s b . f . Falsetto 6 Even on Wapiti , 3 to 1 against Vale of Belv ' oir ^ and 4 to 1 against Deception . Won by a neck . The Gold Cup , value 300 sovereigns , by subscriptions of 20 sovereigns each , with iOO ' added . Cup course . Second to receive £ 100 . • Mr . Ferguson ' s Harkaway Wakefield 1 Lord Exeter ' s Adrian ... . 2 Mr . Worrall ' s Dennouse 3 The following were not placed : — Duke of Richmond ' s Mhs ; I ) ukeofBea . nFort ' s Cetus ; Lord G . Bentinck ' s D'Egville ; Mr . Robertson ' s Berwickshire , Colonel . Wyndham's Prestonjee Bomanjee .

      Betting—Even , and 6 to 5 against Harkaway ( taken ) , 5 to 1 againstD'Egville ( taken ) , 5 to 1 against Berwickshire ( taken ) , 6 to j against Dormouse , and 10 to 1 against Adrian . Won by two lengths . The Queen ' s Plate of 100 guineas . Three miles and five furlongs . Lord Suffield ' s St . Luke ..... Pavis 1 Mr . Osbaldeston ' s Mic Mac 2 Lord G . Bentinck ' s Mulberry Wine 3 Captain Berkeley ' s Bullion ... 4 Duke of Richmond ' s Beggarman 5 Even on St . Luke , 4 to 1 against Mic Mac , 6 . to 1 against Mulberry Wine . Won by 20 lengths .

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      TATTERSALL'S , Monday . The settling for the Goodwood Races took place yesterday , and occupied a considerable pan of the afternoon . It went off well . The St . Leger betting commenced a little bofore five o ' clock , and besides being tolerably brisk , led to changes of some interest to speculators . Ion was backed freely at 7 to 2 and 4 to l , the hrst-mentioned price being the closing one . Don John was also a better favourite , but was not in much demand . The principal alteration was in Lanercost , whose friends were so sweet that he was confirmed as third favourite . before thie doors closed . Cobham and Gray Momus Were on the decline , nor were Appleton Lad or Albemarle , although backed , in much favour . The last prices were as follow : ' — ¦

      DONCASTER ST . LEGER . 7 to 2 agst Colonel Peel ' s Ion - 5 to 1 „ Lord Chesterfield ' s Don John—tk 9 to 1 „ Mr Parkihs's Lanercost—tk 9 to 1 „ Mr Coombe ' s Cobham 10 to 1 „ Lord G Bentinck ' s Gray Momus 15 to 1 „ Mr Bowes ' s Appleton Lad ~ tk 20 to 1 „ Lord Westminster's Albemarle—tk 20 to 1 ,, Mr Thompson ' s Talleyrand ( Voltaire colt ) 30 to 1 „ Mr Fairlie ' s The Hydra 170 to 100 on the field against Ion and Don John 425 to 50 agst Albemarle and Appleton Lad—tk

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      YESTERDAY'S WAKEFfELD CORN MARKET The arrivals of all Grain are again short . Wheat has met ready sale at an advance of fully 8 s . perqr . npon fine fresh qualities , and 6 s . to 7 s . upon all other descriptions . ¦ Oats are 2 d . per stone dearer , ' Beans are in demand , and 3 s . per qr . dearer . Malt is in request at higher prices . Leeds Cloth Markets , —In the Coloured and White Cloth Halls , during the past week j there has been a very extensive demand for every description of manufactured goods . The stock on hand is unusually limited , and is gradually diminishing . In the warehouses the individuals engaged are fully employed ; and very few of the labouring portion of the community are out of work .

      Price op Potatoes in Leeds , from lOd . to Is . per score of 2 libs . Price of Hay at Leeds , 7 d . to 8 d . ; Straw , 5 d . per stone . Bradford Piece Market . —The result of to-day's market does not warrant any material alteration from our last week ' s report , unless-that there has been rather less , business done to-day . The Merchants continue not only indisposed to give any further advance , but they are not disposed freely even to purchase at recent advances . Meanwhile the position of the Manufacturers' is very perplexing , and ere two or three market days elapse , they must either purchase their Yarn lower , or it will become imperative on them to limjt their prodoction .

      Bradford Wool Market , —There has been less business done in this market during the last week . Buyers are decidedly indisposed to give late prices , and wool is certainly easier to purchase . The prospect of an unfavourable harvest has a detrimental effect , aud that coupled with an anticipated importation of foreign corn , render the manufacturers very cautious in their transactions . Bradford Yarn Market . —There has been an average amount of business done to-day-, and the demand continues good ; but there does not appear to be that eagerness to purchase largely which prevailed a short time back . Manufacturers find it difficult to sell goods without loss at the present prices of Yarns .

      Manchester Cattle Market . —^ -We had a very full market to-day , of all kind of Cattle and a great many remained unsold , at a reduction in price . The following are the numbers : —Beef 798 , fromfid . to 6 | d . ; Sheep 3 , 898 , from 5 ^ d . -to 6 £ d . Lambs 5 , 7 * 7-, from 5 $ d . to 6 d . ; Calves 50 , from 5 d . to 6 d . per pound . Halifax Market , August 4 . —No alteration in this market . HUTJDEBSFIELD MARKET ^ August 7 th . — There has been a considerable quantity of goods sold to-day , particularly in fancy doeskins and kerseys suitable for the winter trade . Heavy goods of all descriptions are in good demand , and fair and remunerating prices maybe obtained . Business in the warehouses continQes brisk .

      Rochdale Flannel Market , AuguBtfith .--Our market to-day is much the same as last week , in respect to demand , prices vary hut little , in some kinds of goods we may quote a shade of an advance bnt nothing of consequence . "Wools remain firm in price , demand is much the same m on the previaug market day ; No chaDge in the Oil trade of any moment ,

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      ^ f ^ WALB # WXH | , Y , CATTifcBj 4 ^ CAte- } I There has been : £ ; good shew orCattte ' to ^ daT ^ jtoaverage of busirieiw doDe ^^ rticulariy irf rSi Kiairf " ^ g ^^ S ^^ ISI f ^' ** ' A * 8 s . perqr . J Beans , Ss . ^ gl 5 s . 9 d . per bushel ; Oats , 123 . to I 4 d .: persto ^ ^? | ¦ ;/;¦ ' / HowDBir Corn Mabket , . Atjo ; v ^ : -.: '"; | Totaliimntities , Pr . Qt . i ^ otAmoUnu ^ Imp , Measure . ,- . va 6 i * . d . ' .-s ' S- ., £ . •> . : £ l * M [ Yf heat .. ¦ ..- . ' € 8 ; V , 3 lo ;> . fc ... ¦ 240 o * V . h 1 ii Oats .... ^ . 244 .. 1 1 0 .- ¦'¦ - . our a « - ; . ; f OatsV .. \ - . v 244 .. 1 1 0 w . . 257 « - 'V' I

      . Richmond Cobh MabkbT ) August 4 th . ^ -W ^ had a tolerable supply- of ^ ^ Grain in our market t « W ff day , the sale was rather dulli Wheat gold from * 10 s . Od , to lls . 6 d ,: ; Oats , ^ s . 6 d . to 4 s 4 dv- larv l ley , 4 s . 3 d . to 4 s . 6 i . ; Beans , 5 «; 9 d . to 6 s . ier ^ bushel . " [ , ' '¦¦' - ' ' : . ' i : ' -.:.. ¦' ¦' . '' : ' - ] - ' \ - \ : ¦ ¦; . ¦ ¦ ¦' . ¦ S Parlinoton Markets . —At our Corn marici ^ on mondaylag , the , supply of grain , was Rnall . 1 Wheat , soldfrom 208 ^ to 22 s .: Oats , 6 s ^ to 7 s v ^ Barley , 8 s . to 9 s . ; Beans , 9 s . to 11 s . peir boU * - '& Butter , lOd ; perlb ; / : ' : ~ . . ' -- K - ;\ % Settle . Fortn ^ ht Fair , Aug 6 .- ^ haill an unusual large sBow of primed Fat Cattle andv ^ very ^ large show of Sheep and lambs at this day ^ market , which met with moderate sale : wUxgf rather lower than last fair . ^ ¦ ¦¦ * ¦ r- ?* | -

      ^ Skipton Cattle Market , August 6 -i » We jiad a very large supply otallkinds of J ^ Stock , and plenty of buyers , Prime Fat Beef w ^ l ? readdy sold , but that of inferior quality : ; washeavy Lambs and Sheep met witk a ready sale . We can ^ I not quote any alteration in prices . : ~^ ; l » ?*?• ¦ -f j BN ^ ? 5 T ' ^> gWt , ; 7 . ^ -Wehajft a very limited supply of farmers' Wheat againr . tS I day , which met ready sale at an improvement of fol-1 3 s . per quarter : in some instances a still greater ^ f advance was paid . A fine parcel of Red Wheaf-I obtained / 9 s . per qr . and 80 s . was rpfused for a I :

      fiupenor parcel of White . No . Barley offering 1 Beans must bg noted la . dearer ; the supply waii'i small . Very few Oats on sale , and rather betted I prices were made . Rapeseed , fully maintains its-f value . Linseed supports rte price . | ^ York Corn Market , August 4 .-riWe have ^ had a great deal of rain during the week , hut except '¦ those places where heavy showers have fallen , it hasV been productive of "benefit to the crops all 6 £ which - are progressing , _ it i ? true rather slowly . —tut-Terr " satisfactorily . Very little businessis now transacted in _ our market -the supply , if such it may be called ,- ' being t-pnfined to the very few samples held by the v more wealthy farmers , who are determined to have very high prices for the little they hold . Wheat maTi be called 2 s ., Beans , Is . to 2 s . per qr ., and Oaty ; fully id . perstone higher . i ?

      Newcastle Corn Market , August 4 . —Thfr . f weather still continues very changeable ; throughout il the week it has been cold , andshowery . Owingto ^ J favourable change of wind most of ' the-vessels loadedl for this port within the last two or three weeks have ! arrived at once , we had , therefore , at tb-ddy ' s maiJ ket , a large show of south country Wheat , but si small supply from the farmers . The millers being ! most in wantof Wheat , a considerable clearance ?? was effected at an advance of Is . per qn orithe i prices of this day week , the best samples of NonI folkred being worth 76 s to 77 s . per qr ., 63 lbs . per ^ bushel , and a fine parcel of white having been-soia | . at 80 s . ; bonded wheat was much inquired after , an | must be noted 5 s . to 6 s . per qr . dearer . There is a #

      mcreasea aemana iornne Hye , at fullprices . White Peas of good quality sell readily at an advance of ls . perqr . Barley , Malt , and Beans , unaltereij VVe have again several arrivals of Oats coastwiseL and prices are about the same as last week . Arrival * during this week , coastwise--3 j 586 qrs wheati 268 qrs rj-e , 86 barley , 450 qrs . malt , 1 , 668 qZ oats , 159 qrs . beans , and 3021 sacks of flourt ! foreign , 1 , 426 qrs . wheat . * State of Trade .- —The activity and tins increased firmness observable in theLiyerpbolcottoa market have produced some , effect here . There wij an extensive demand for most descriptions of yam ! yesterday , and an advance of | d . per pound watf pretty generally realized ; but the spmhers complaini

      tdattcw advance does not compensate them for tb * increased price which they must pay for cottonij The . demand for goods was also very tolerably bris ^ especially for printing cloths , which were ratter scarce , and commanded an advance of 1 M . to ~ 3 is per piece on the rates of last week . —ManchesM Chronicle ^ of Wednesday . | ^ The Iron Trade . —The : iron trade in tiij nojghbourhood , we are glad to . find , continues In * cheerful and prosperous state :: and we learn thattW

      principal ironmasters have on hand as many orders as they desire , and there are large contracts yet to be made for railwayiron . The accounts from the continent , ^ as well as from the United States , seem fe " have infused great confidence into those concernedi the manufacture of this important article , wit regard to prices : and there can be no doubt thattfi improved state of things manifested in the iroi districts is extending itself to trade generally j much more activity is prevailing in many of ti branches of hardware than was latterly the case . - Wolverhampton Chronicle . li

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      Leeds > -Pnnted for the Proprietor , Fears * P Connor , Esq ., of Hammersmith , Conn * Middlesex , by Joshua Hobson , at hfi Printing Offices , Nos . 12 , and 13 , Mart « Street , Bnggate ; and Published by flr said Joshua Hobson , ( for , the said FEUk gus O'Connor , ) at his Dwelling-hense , Sfe 5 , Market Street ,. Briggate ; an intenSU Communication existing hetween the 8 aid He , 5 , Market Street , and the said Nos . 12 , andtt Market Street , Bnggate ; thus constitutinetSli whole of the said Printing and Publidjiif Offices , one Premises . -v ^ All Communications must ; be addressed , ( Pejfc paid , ) to J . Hobson , Northern Star Offidb , Leeds . - .. ¦ ¦ . ¦ : : ¦• '•' ¦• ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦;• .. ¦ . - ¦ -:. v Orders and Advertisements received by the nndfc : mentioned Agents : — ' ¦

      Ashton—Joseph Hobson . ' , , '; Barnsiey—lAngsxd , New Street . r JSolton—^ Ainsworth , Sweet Green ; Lawson , Brad-¦ . shaw-Ga ' te . ^ - ¦ . ¦ -. ' .. - . . ' .. - '¦¦' : ' - '?• ' £ .. '¦ Bradford—J . lbbQtaou , ^ Market-Place ; and S . IW ^ ef , Top of Westgate . ^ Bristol—J . Chappell , No . 1 , Southey's Buildinn , Bristol—G . Payne , No . 21 , Castle Mill-Street BrigAouse— -E . S . Keir , Bookseller . ~ £ Burnley—Butterworth , 11 , Carman-streett Bia-y—Chadwicls . andBinns ^ Bird . ; 'i Collumpton—Thomas Mitchell , Post-master . Pdrlihgtohr ? -OYLyer , Printer . / t ' Bewsbury—I . Brooke , Market-Place : anl S .

      • Healey . : / :. :, V : ¦ . ¦ ¦ .. ' , : _^ : t . r Edinburgh—Mr . Frazer , 65 , Princess-stieet . \ Ettand— Richard Grasby and John Tong . i Greenacres Moor—Mr , Holt ; ] i Glasgow-r-Mr . H . Robinson , ^^ Trongate . V ' S-. 6 f / ossopr-Wm . Clark , Howard Town . ; I ; Halifax—B . Barker , Wade-Street ; R . Wilkjwon . Cross-Field ; W ^ Jbbetson , Union-Street iSieu ^ i , W . Midgeley , Russell-Stireet . ; v HebdM Btify ^ T . ' D £ < x 46 n . , , ' Heckmondwike- ^ -J . Hatfield . ; S ' ^ : Heywood—A' Sniith , Brearley-street , and J . K # > ¦ = Church-street , both near Rochdale , . - ' :-V :. ';' HigAtoion—Wm . Lister * Bookseller . >]

      Honley—J . HorsfalL ;? Horbury— GV Holroyd . : ¦ ¦ ; Httdderafield—C . Tinker , Market Walk ^ v& & Whitworth , Pack Horse Coach Office . Hull—Blanshard , Chufch-gidei ' Hyde—John Rather . V ; Keighley—D . Weatherhead . V Knaresbprough—Jj ^ agiale , Bookseller . Leicester—John Seal , Town Hall Lane . Lees—James Greaves . " Liverpool-r-T . Smith , Scotland Place , and 'MPft : and Daly , 43 , Great Cross Hall Street ^ Loitghberovga— Thomas Eveleigh , top oi tte WAP Place . ¦ . ; ¦ ¦ ¦' . . '¦ ¦¦' - ¦ ¦ ¦ . " ¦ - : ¦ ¦ : ' ¦ . ¦ /;• ¦ .: ' ¦ - ¦ : ;

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 11, 1838, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1018/page/8/