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      XiDIClX DEMONSTRATION IN SHEFFIELD . 3 BeffieT 3 , though l ate in tie field , ias not been : Ste wWa « nand for justice . Tbe men of Hal-Im * Mt » iare nobly proved that they know their z % jie » and are detenmned to have them granted . rgfe >' 4 ar was very ¦ unpropitious ,. a great quantity of ^^» = iiTing fallen during the morning and ia the : 33 BW »© f the forenoon , hut hj the time the chairman » M 3 tt deputation from Birmingham reached the £ oudin a carriage drawn by four horses , it cleared xg ^ Siiie , and continued fair while the proceedings HjiQisV On account of the heavy state of the roaog , i £ m- jwdemen from Birmingham did not arrive so

      « B » . was expected , which delayed the commence . 2 » Bfe * f the proceedings for nearly two hours ' . The 3 t « r feeling and the utmost good nature , however , -pmzfal all classes j and with the arrival of the 3 fca& . £ music and the flags , the assemblage saaaSti together in front of the hustings . Owing *> de entrance side of the hustings not being ¦ sSoBBtly provided with supports , it gave way with ~ & * immense pressure , hut sinking gradually and isgaiarrj , we are happy to aid , no one received any autBual injury . At this time there could not be 3 « er sban 20 , 000 persoBrf present in the field of ¦ ii ¦ b ¦ * : Tt rg- ^ more than eleven-twelfths of whom were —yny i menand unrepresented . " This afforded a

      , g » j ** ffiMt argument against the Whigs and Tories , xSriare prophesied that the Sheffield Demonstra tfe »* wld he a failure . Among thote on the hust-5 j »^*/ e-observed Willoughby Wood , Esq . of Camp » ZtBal } , the deputation from Birmingham , consist isysl Messrs . Edmonds , Salt , and- Peirce ; Mr . IScSsr&en , from Manchester ; and different mem * ~ Zu * a £ the "Working Men ' s Association . We ¦ mriti jist add , that the procession was received ¦« r&ttthusmstic cheers throughout the whole route . 3 fe , Ebexezbr Elliott having . been voted to d&n&air , exhorted the multitude to be peaceful , and t > Sseoorage any speaker who might advocate

      " ? SA 3 « e , He then gave-out a hymn ,. which was ssag : \ j the assembly , accompanied" by the band . -3 &aH 9 * res and tune being both exceedingly sol emn jjaatEm-la fine effect . After which , the'chairman , afcjwae length , oomhatted and refuted die lies of tSsrTffci g and Tory press about- the number of the jflaefing in Palace Yard , to which he "had been Sgasii by the people of Sheffield last week . He dbaL-sect on to say—it won ' t do now , and shan ' t 35 j . i » sing the old song of jthe Corn Laws , which 2 W- £ ave laughed at for more than twenty years ; i -3 ! f you said , "it is only the mad poet * ! " 1 tp » wS rather be mad , than see you lose your trade ; SbiooH . rather die in a workhonse-than see you

      withj ni » jiyw for there would be sorrow in heaven , if TrcFTriTes , by thousands , and yoor children , by *»¦ rf thousands , were clamming with them . SSmrsJy . But after having been mocked for years wdr subject of the Corn Laws , and told by Corn Z 2 »* Jtossell that the robbery shall be eternal , it is : SR * b » i , and too late , to throw the Corn X . aw dust ^ s * Sr » ves . Then let me say , that the strongest « 5 prsaentTn favour of Universal Suffrage , is fur-2 & 5 sai by the facts , that the authors of those laws eswawe the whole power of the British Government , s « P-t& # -King , or Queen , for the time being , is only fesr signing clerk . It is notorious that they never vstiShf Thames ob fire by any discoveries in science :

      Isx ^ eWbtfol whether they ever originated one use-^ S-i&a ^ it is ce rtain that they never added a si ngle ^ way to the pablic stocl , but that , on the contrary , iifey'&a-Te been enriched by the progress of commerce , josdfcas contributing in any way to that progress ; rft » sb eternal record , that they have devoured 35 ? £ iBs * royed during the last fifty years , in wars s *> - Sfterty , " * nd by their food-monopoly , more &a £ re- thousand millions sterling- -saj twice as 3 « si . 24 all the estates are worth ; and no man in 3 > aeases doubts that they are of all men the very saxoebom the community could best spare—for if risy were all missing to-morrow , they would only ^ sfcssiswd as a nuisance ia when removed—Cheers .

      — " 5 rt they talk as if they were the land that God -asfry , as if they were God himself , and not the sm-vfeo have converted the land into a curse for = 9 ^ "Whil e , then , such men make your laws , shall ^ s ss ^ - fcid by the Timet , the Herald , and " Wha « s £ * J £ ir « rar $ r ! " that yon must not agitate for the Swas ^ e ? ^ The most sacred of all property " sm ^ ihe greatest of living poets —( Wordsworth)—* 5 ^^ Ss ! property of the poor . " What p ' roperty seav ^ qe but your labour ? " Ana wha t pro portion »>; t 2 « Tr , " Bays the same ^ reat poet , " between the awpp-sf jour W > onr and thVprice of your food ?" Ba 35 sot insult yon by answering the question . "&bf faMing wages in spite of railroad empl oyment ,

      3 ow » > r ; the price of br ^ ad answers it ; the dei ^ fare- of your trade would give it a last and tre-3 BE ^ doo 8 answer , if yon don ' t soon acquire the power -5 * « JaMng good laws , that you may prevent the Aw-ecxacy from nsing bad ones . God showers SfosKBg . * on you , which they convert into plagues 3 s £ = * aa doff your hats to them , forgetting yourselves , TKtd liat in saying , you forget God , who wastes ss&sg , and will not fornuh ' . joo with opportunities , 3 «•© throw them away . What hope , then , have yoy ^ st in yo « irseh ? es ? Will your enemies help p » s ^ From the time of the first murderers they Is * # $ « b what they are . They poisoned Socrates' £ *? ssacified Jesns—and wonld thty help yon ? Htf _ *!» j yon must help yourselves . —Loud 'jheering .

      3 L-. Beal , in moving the firet resolution , said , — 5 » &f Hallam-chireitheK are the times for testing s 2 * prkjfiples of men . This is the first great effort & lie toiling million * , to break down the strong ¦ fe ££ > of oppression and secure to themselves the -33 s *!* aud privileges of freemen . "'Tia liberty *^ 5 « Mr , " says Cowper , " that gives the flower of Aifthfc ; life its lustre and its perfume ; we are ¦ jw *^* without it" The government of this country 3 * i =-3 HS ^ ert »> been chosen by the property classes out s £ &p Aristocracy , who have held the reigns of ? bw < 5 in defiance and contempt of the nation at ii&egai . Under this irresponsible system , the nation 3 & *>> e&a drained of its wealth to carry on

      nnneisitu'j wtrs ; wars ofstggre « aon and extermination , ? 2 & w-iach the flower of our yonth , the pride and ^ 0 * 7 . of our country , were hurried out of being in a ¦ sugar of carnage and blood . —Cheers . —Under this zftyzn *) in which the intelligence of wealth held = ss ? 5 « ied sway , the nation has been loaded with a &h ? * f £ 800 , 000 , 000 sterling ; a debt , which if we ~** ze- all sold up stock and pin to-morrow , could not » -piari off—the property law-makers have , there-: £ e * V brought the eonntry to a state of vi-toal ^ aaSroprcy . —Hear , hear . —The rich law-maiers 5 cs » &iHBer taxed ns beyond endnrance ; they have ^ 83 ^ - p artial and exclusive laws for their own private ss ^ aia a ^ e , which are driving our trade to foreign

      as&Ji ,. and starving our workmen at home . The ^ ws l ^ aw abomination was enacted for the purpose , a »^ ta » been the means of sheltering tie landed ^ 5 wwTacy from all taxation ; and you are all aware T 7 > Kssocceeded u their heirte' content ( Cheers . ) ^ 5 »»* thought by many that the Reform Bill which « s ^« btained in 1832 , would put an end to our pro-3 ^ vt * system of misrule ; but six years experience awproved that the Reform Bill is a complete politiaaNsWrtion . Oar only remedy is the extension of ^ 2 » 533 rage to all classes , and I can assu . e you on ifif asctlwrity of Dr . Bowring , that in aH countries " ^« "Fniver « al Suffrage is in practice , there the 5 ? KfJe are the most contented and happy . I canno :

      iiiBteof detaining you much longer , as there are gen-^ at af iro m Birmingham and other places to address ¦ 5 * - ^ a * dng , but there is oneor two objections raised jaclie middle class against us having the franchise *^ v «^ l . propose to notice . It is said we are ignorant «*«* foul language in seeking for our rights . The JSi&moer newspaper , in noticing the j » roceedingj ? » &ek * took place at the Town Hall a week or two *?^ wlb me " a bally" and " a grossly ignorant * s «» . " This w-tbe blackgoardism of intelligence . Sawy be ignorant , but I would scorn to nse the ^^ r' ^ je , if I tnew it , which would disgrace the ^ i ^ ar and the gentleman . But it is sai d oar 3 p * raoce would lead us to choose improper persons w-fflw-iQ aie .-s . Are we not as capable of choosing *«• tew-makers as our doctors or lawyers . We ^^^^ re about right and wrong than we-do of «^« yPathology the and Practice

      pg , , or Theory * f . Sfidicine , or the statntes atlarge . The fact is , ^ S ^ faey know if we had political-power we should aeae&op oar pockets . Let the rich pull the mote amirf ^ heir own eye before they begin to nick at the osrjsln ours . Let them reform the WaldeRraves S « -IteRoose » , and Ae Waterfords . But intelliaent VPw « nee i * an obstinate disease , if x may be . Awre&sjca a paradoxical expression . The speaker o ^ i » led by moving the adoption of the fi « t resoaoaoo ^ . to . r ¦¦' " That the worees of the national J ^ p rnty are failing , —That oor -Legislators , in ^« seq « ence of their selfishness , their ignorance , M ^ sheir covert bankruptcies , are unwilling , —and car ? fei-toTB , in consequence of their small numbers « # ^ p eudant condi tion , are nnable to help us , — -& »«» it is necessary that the nnivereal people ** feaab- »^ power of voting in the election of memaix * to serve in Parliament . "

      5 ^ Isaac Irok sidb . —Fellow ^ onntrymen , —I Bnjse-forward to second Ae resolntion which has Jfeee ^ red hy Mr . 'Bed , whom I am prbod to call jw&wxJ ; who is in himself a triumphant refataaferf th « calnmny , that the working-classes are ftjtiaatpof | ntdlig « nce . I am told by some of my M ? a& ? £ a > r whose opinions I eorertainahigh regard AflB m cfeag' Hke the present will retard the pro-3 ^ of rational and practical Reform , by caosing

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      the Moderate Reformers to become Conservatives . That the bold poatien we are taking may frighten some of the wavereiv , who , never move unless com * pelled , may be true , but to suppose that their conduct will at all influence Reform , is monntrous and absurd . Eight years ago , the rational and practical Reformers -of Sheffield met in Paradise sqnare , to petition for Reform . Having read and studied the plan propounded by the immortal Jeremy Bentham , and being thoroughly convinced of the utter inefficiency of any plan which went short of Universal Suffrage , I attended that meeting , supported by a few friends , and moved a Radical petition as an amendment to the ratitndl one . The

      same arguments were there brought forward ; we were told that we should do everything to take the Moderate Reformers along with ns ; the unatamped press had not then appeared ; political knowledge was not so well spread then as it is now ; the people believed their old leaden , who are absent to-day ; and the Radical petition was lost by a small majority . Since that time , the Radical Reformer ! have had nearly all their own way . Aided by the people , they passed the Reform Bill ; they have had the reins of government in their own hands nearly the whole time . ( Cheers . ) For fifteen month * , that is since the death of the late monarch , the Court has been decidedly favourable ; and what

      has been the result ? How have the poor felt th « influence of the rational and practical Reforms which have been carried ? The ' answer i » given By a reference to the last two jean , daring which time , although the harvests have been plentiful and abundant , the sufferings , privations , and miseries of the poor have been unparalleled , and let it not he forgotten that in that period , the most shameful and abominable * civil list was passed that history records . Ay ? by whom ? the Tories ? No ; the Rational and Practical Reformers . Ab far as my own experience goes , then , nothing has been done by taking the moderate Reformers along with ns ; can we do less by going alone , standing on our superior position ? Certainly not . But when the late

      distress j » pointed oat , we are told that it arises from causes over which Parliament has no controul . -Now . this xtatement is either trne or false ; if it is trne , then are oar legislators , by their-own confession , ignorant and incapable of managing our affairs ; if it is false , we charge the whole of the misery to their account . Ohl but they say it is easier to point out evils than to remedy them . Give ns the People ' s Charter , or at all events Uhiveraal Suffrage , and we will soon elect a Parliament that will control the destinies of this great empire , in such a manner , that the people shall have an abundant supply of food . What say-they , you have ulterior views have yon ? ( Yes , from the chairman . )

      Yes , we have . Universal Suffrage is not a mere bauble with us ; it is the means to an end ; the lever of Archimedes . I hate mystery of all kinds , and therefore these are some of my ulterior views in supporting Universal Suffrage . The abolition of the Corn Laws;—loud cheering , —the establishment of a thoroughly efficient system of National Education , of wh » ch good diet should be the foundation : the severance of the Church from the State , and the appropriation of the wealth of th « Church to the use for which it was originally intended , namely , a great portion of it to feed the poor : the abolition of all private and Joint Stock Banks , and the establishment of a National one : and last though not

      least , butin my opinion the most important , although we are not all agreed upon it , affording the greatest facilities to the establishment of co-operarive communities . Will these measures benefit the country ? ( Yes , yes , from the crowd . ) Reason , justice , humanity , answer yes . Our present Parliament says no ; and whilst it exists not one of them will be carried . Why ? Becanse " our legislators , in consequence of their ignorance , selfishnegi ' , or covert bankruptcy , are unwilling . " What , then , must be done ? Why , the Universal People who pay the taxes must elect the men who distribute them . In your sick societies , your money clubs and all other institutions you join , you elect the

      committee of management : why not in the far more important institution of the State ? Becanse the working classes have no education , they art- void of intelligence ; this i > now become the fashionable doctrine : out upon such miserable sophistry ! What is Education ? can one in twenty who hold the doctrine answer ? Take one of them who has been to some College , and has learnt a little Latin , and less ( fr&t i and it therefore educated , into that manufactory ( Rosooe Place ) : there show him a stove , grate , or fender of exquisite workmanshi p , and ask him to make one like it : he cannot—he has not been educated ; ask him to make the commonest knife in our cutlery manufacture : he i » tooignorant :

      ask him to do a thousand every-iay things , and yon find that his education is quite deficient ; yon then discover that when he says yoa are not educated , he means you are not book-learned . Nvither is he educated in yoor trade ; you possess sufficient education to enable you , with proper laws , to earn a good living , and to pay yoor taxes ; what more does he do towards the maintenance of the State , with his book-learning ? How would the booklearned argument have told in those ages and countries where there were no books but the great and glorious book of nature , which in spread out for

      all , where the mountains , tile hill * , the rivers , streams , valleys birds , b « a 3 t»—all , all , so many leaves in that book , written by the finger of the Dei ty for the instruction of man . Admitting this book-learning to be of the importance required for it , why do not the rational men support Mr . Wyse in his endeavours to establish a national system of education . ( Cheers . ) 1 am perfectly content to let a certain amonnt of book-learning be the standard for obtaining the franchise , as I have the greatest confidence in the result . But it is idle to suppose that it ia now the standard;—if anv one doubts the

      truth of this , let him be actively engaged on the Canvassing committee of any candidate at the next election , and he will doubt no longer ; for I am strangely mistaken if hi § opinion of human nature will not be much lower than it now is . ( Cheers . ) Our claim then is founded in reason , justice , expediency , and suffering humanity—what more is required ? Authority ? We have that , too . We have the United States , and we point to that great nation as a proof of its rational and practical character . Is the authority of intelligence required ? We point to Jeremy Bentham ; and if more names were wanted , I could adduce a host ; bnt he alone is sufficient . Let the rational and

      practical Reformers show ns hi gher authority let them answer Bentham , and we will join them . ( Cheer ? . ) In conclusion , allow me to give you a little advice . Be clean and temperate in yout habits ; by this means you will add much to your happiness and comfort ; you will become more thoughtfnl and inquiring , and consequently better acquainted with your social and political condition . You will then be far more powerful than mere numbers can ever make you . Brute force may be overpowered—mind cannot . Fixed on the eternal and immoveable pillars of truth , high and majestic it rearsits head ; like the Himmalaya mountains it

      bids defiance to the portentidus storms that assail it on every side , hurling and exhausting their fury upon it;—for a time the clouds of ignorance may hide it from view , but ever and anon its outline may be shadowed forth , struggling to pierce the mista which envelope it;—suddenly it breaks into full sight , looking lovelier than before , r ejoicing in its superior strength , its pristine splendour , its surpassing beauty , ite stupendous majesty—aad with a single glance withering the ' paltry argbmeritB of the selfc styled rational and practical Reformers . I beg most heartily to second the resolution . ( Great cheering . )

      Mr . Salt , of Birmingham , commenced by stating that sometimes when he saw the poverty aiid misery of the labouring classes hi * spirits drooped , because he thought that their case was hopeless , hut that at any rate their success was far remote . But when he saw such meetings as this—when such a port on of the population were standing true to their order , his spirits felt refreshed , and he was bjund to exclaim , " The cause of the people shall not perish . " ( Cheers . ) The men of Sheffield had vindicated their honour this day ; and if there was a stain upon the people of this town , it was that the middle classes had not come amongst them . He wondered wh y they stood aloof , aad what they could say to justify themselves . Let

      them inquire . Had they attempted to bring down wages , and was their plea that their profits were gone ? If their trade and profits were good , why attempt to touch the ' wages ? If they saw the condition of the labouring -classes , did net common humanity , common patriotism , prompt them to stand np for them and give them bread , having , as they must have , recollections of this conntry ^ s ancien t glory and honour ? But they stood by to see a great country perish , and they gave no aid . In Sheffield «> ey had snffered less than many other places ,

      becanse they bad had Trades' Union * , which had maintained and kept np wages ; bat they were bound to assist others also , and tolook forward to the institation of a real Parliamentary Reform . They had fonnd that Trades' Unions kept up wages ; but look at O Connell and others in Mfament who were seeking to put down these Unions by law . ( "They nercratall . ) . He wag told they never should ; hut hetroold tell them how tonrevent it . They had conspired against Trades' Unions , and had turned them all oat ; hat the way to prevent them was by

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      ———^ M——^—Universal Suffrage , tfiat which ^ iSey were met ^ this day to demand , and which , by per « ev < i ? ranee , vigi lance , and always being ready at their po » t , they must and most assuredly would obtain . ' Now / the moderate classes who stood aloof taunted him with coming among them : they said ; that . Universal Suffrage was a dangerous thing . Not content with keeping tbra-poor , they would * insult the- labouring classes , by . telling them they were not fit for the Suffrage . ( Hear , hear . ) Would the labouring classes submit to that insult ? No ! that very insult ought to make them more and more determined to have it . They would not fit for it I they were not educated ; and what plunder if they had it ! He should like to know who it was that

      said the labouring classes would nlunder . Where was there in history an instance ? They told them of Wat Tyler ; hut who was it that first plundecud Wat Tyler , and insulted his daughter ? ( Cries of "theTax-gatherer . " ) Aye , aye , he it was who firet plundered the father and mother , and then insulted the virgin modesty of the daughter . Butthese men talked so much of plunder , that it always made him ( Mr , Salt ) sui « picious . They said , Now , what would you have f" He replied , better wages for the labouring classes , and less taxes . They said again , but that would be ruination —( a laugh)—and how could they ( the middle classes ) get on if they were to nay double : and besides it would do the

      labouring cusses no good , because they woald go and be idle and drunken . Now here was another insult , and another reason why they should insist upon it . Let them take care lest the " poisoned chalice return to their own linn , " and that ^ by plundering and teaching plunder they have not at length the measured which they have meted toothers meted out to them . But they had been go long rolling in rank and wealth that they had forgotten the sympathies of human nature , and thought that the labouring population could only employ what they wished to bad purposes . "Wh y , ( said Mr . Salt ) have you not sympathies and affections like theiro ? Have you not wives and children to be fed , clothed , and educated , as well as they have ? But mark what our doctrine

      is . I preach no disunion among-the iniddte ojlass . es bnt I beg them t » come and aid us . I preach ' xjnlon , on this condition , that they do their duty anfi act like men and Christians . - If they will be thieves and plunderers , and plunder the poor man of bis meal by taxation , we then say why we must treat them like plunderers . And I call upon those of the middle classes that are just and upright , to come and shew themselves amongst us , and do their dnty . Be true to your order , ( said Mr . Salt , ) others are trne to their order ; follow , their example , and be

      true to your * . Look what the wealthy have done . They lifted the property tax from their own shoulders , and put the corn tax upo . ii those of the poor man . Now we want to put the burthens upon the shoulders of those who can best War them . We want to sebd poer men to Partiliament , who would do these things for us . We were now taxed for every thing ; and to give an idea of the relief which would be obtained ; let them remember the high price they used to pay for salt before the tax was taken off . See how comfortable

      they might be . To promote the honour and glory of this country , so boasted of , the people must be fed , clothed , and lightly worked , so that they would rise in splendour and dignity , having a due leisure for education . That was the splendour , the honour , and the glory which they called upon the meeting to insist upon being restored to England . These were the great political results . Hostile nations would then become friendly , and there would be mutual interchange between all countries . They would 1 then really reap the blessings of peace . Never let them forget Universal Suffrage ; it would not he refused if , following up the meeting of this day , they followed

      the example of the wealthy , and stood by their order . Let them do so ; they had good and able men among them , who would do their best . People talked of their loosing their time and their work . N eve * Blind them ; let them take business when it was required , hut devote a day to their country and attend to that duty first . They had elected him to go to London an one of a deputation , and they must appoint another to go with him ; but if they refused to support them when there , he should not call it fair play . Let them but obtain Universal Suffrage , and they would then resign * all their power up which a zealous devotion to their interests had conferred upon them . They would then go to Parliament wiht such a voice as was never

      heard before ; the whole of the people of England demanding justice , and they would be obliged to give an answer . By a moral power , if they wonJd for a time obey him and others with him , they would compel the wealthy class to surrender , but without shedding blood , ( k voice in the crowd : " Death or Glory ! " ) They should not wait three or four Sessions , but should obtain their wants , and tbia without the mark of Cain , butin peaceful , meek , and humble manner . Theirs was the cau * e of the great God above ; He made them brothers , but they were not treated as such . They were called low , uneducated , and vulgar ; but they would be acknowled ged as men and brethren , and should be respected as such by one another . ( Cheers . )

      Mr . Gill then proposed the next resolution , which embodied those principles , and those princi ples alone , which would teed to secure the happiness ol the whole mass of the community . He proposed that every individual in that immense assemblage , and through the country , having the power conceded to him of voting for members of Parliament . ( Cheers . ) Was there an individual before him , whose dwelling or apparel was ever so humble , that did not cortsi 3 er that he had a right , as an Englishman , to have a voice in the making of those laws which controlled him at every moment of his life ? The man who did not consider be had such a right was a self-willed slave , an alien to the constitution—a disgrace to humanity—and a curse to all his children and to

      posterity . ( Cheers . ) In order to carry into effect this noble principle , it was necessary that the right should b » protected b y the Vote by Ballot . It was absolutely necessary , for the purpose of securing an honest election , that the votes should be takWby-Ballot ; and it was their duty to send men to Parliament who should posies * the same inalienable rights . It was a notorious fact , that there were boroughs which sent twenty members to Parliament which did not possess th > amount of population which was now in Birmingham . He then wenton to advocate there being no Property Qualification . This qualification had enabled owners of property to consign thousands to misery during their live *; It was

      advisable that men should he sent who should be paid for their services ; for if the electors were bought with a price , how could it be expected but they would soon be sold again and consequently deceived ? He next spoke in support of Annual Parliaments , as being the most' convenient term . If a servant was a bad one , a year was quite sufficient ; andif good , he could easily be reinstated . With these remarks he should content himself by proposing the resolution , viz . — "That the ¦« People ' s Charter ' containing the principles of Universal Suffrage , Vote by Ballot , Annual Parliament , No Property Qualification , Equal Representation , and Paid Members ia a practical measure calculated to seenre honest

      representation j it is therefore solemnly adopted bv this meeting . " - Mr . G . B . Elliott seconded the motion , and strongly recommended the peaceable and orderly exercise of moral force as the best means to accomplish the objects they contemplated . WIL i . ouoaBY Wood , E 8 q ., bf Ca mpiiarkaii ; Mpportid the-resolutfon , and vindicaied the ofeiriB of the working classes to a fair share of the intelligence possessed by the other classes of society and instanced the Corn Laws—the affairs of Canada ; as

      proots that the Aristocracy were not possessed of the exclusive wisdom they laid claim to . He did not feel with Mr . Ward , who rejoiced when the British troopsrwereTictoriousin Canada . It would not tnable them to feed their wives and children a bit better . ( Cheers . ) The middle classes , he observed , did not know their duty , or they would have been there ; it was . therefore , left to the working classes to adopt a plan which had been proposed by the great Jeremy Bentham , which would produce the greatest happiness to the greatest number and to do unto other men as you would wish them 50 do to you . They had been told , the working classes being the most numerous Would , by means of Universal Suffrage , swamp the power of the other

      classes ; ne would ask why it should not be so ? He then jhewed the injustice of the charge of ignorance which had been levelled at them , when , at the same time , the means of education had been denied themi decknnK his belief , that if a bill vas brought into Parliament for this purpose , it would he defeated on «> me religious pretence , although the parties cared no more about religion than his hat fLoud cheers . ) . ¦ . - .. ,.. ' :- \ .-- , . ¦ ¦ . ¦ . ¦ ¦ .. . . -. - . ; v . -. ¦ . Mr . Buchanak also ably skewed the claims tne working classes have for intelligence , as exhibited in the machinery of the manufactories and the goods produced VtW whilst the rich ^ bad saddled : the c ounfay ^ Ui debt , to put down Uberty in France , and had , thereby , enriched the Jews W ^ S jobber 8 . _ H ^ j then reviewed the conduct of the Rev . formed P ^ amentanf Ministry , condemning their iromine

      raeasores insti Coercion BUI , to the Poor LawBiU ^ andstagmatUed the Aristocracy asganv blergand debauchees , He exhorted them to unity , to be peaceable and firmi and then no power couU pretaxl over an nniied people j the sword of know-

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      j ^ dge b ^^^ rBtronges ^ ower ; i ^ o " then robred ; rt e ^ h . ird resolution , vht . ' :- ^ i That the 4 National Petition , ' now read , ' embodying the principles of tfie ; . ; People ' s Charter , ' be adopted hythw meetlingv ( Cheers . ) ¦ \ f ¦ ¦ '¦ ; . r .- ' . ; - ^ V \ ; - • ¦ ¦ ' ¦¦ ¦• ¦¦ ¦ ;¦ " - ' Mr . PARSER , a member of the Association , seconded the / resolution * v C ^ : ' Mr / WpRTL ^ r tnoved the ^ 4 th res olution , ¦' ^ iz : ' : ~ "That William Gill be appointed- ;' -. by ^ thi ^^ meeting to meet the delegates from other towns in London , to superintend > the presentation ^ of the Natibnal Petitioff , ^ --which was seconded b y Mr . CbaBtkeBj in his most energetic style , deprecatine the small

      sum they received for the large amount of labour they had to peifsrm ; whilst the Dowager Queen received more money yearly than the working popu ^ lation of a neighbouring town , containing 14 , 000 inhabitants . This would not be the case if they were represented :: but as they could not be admitted to the House of Commons ^ they would have a house of their ^ own in the shape of a National Convention where the mrtnbers w 6 uld not quote Greek and Latin to nake up the absence of common HensC ; Mr , Pierce , of Birmingham , detailed the proceedings of the people of that town , which had led to the present movement ; and declared that as Earl

      Grey had determined to stand by hia ^ order , it was now time that they should stand by theirs . He then mentioned several measures that had been before Parliament , which would have ameliorated their condition , none of which had passed into law whilst others haying a contrary tendency had received the sanction of the Legislature . The pro * gres 8 they were making was shown by the large artsemblies taking place through the country , which were very different in Majpr Gartwri ght ' s time , when only two or three attended to listen to an addreea deliTered by him in the ; ' 'Mai : tet . placp , ' at Nottingham . He then described tiie majnc effect

      an address they issued had upon the people of Scotland , who were aroused from one end to the other . Their convention , he said , would meet when Fit liament did , deliberate as it deliberated , andknock * t , \ is door lintil it opened to them . A quarter of a million of men had joined them in Lancashire , and they were certain of ultimate and final sue-CfiS 8 .: i-.- -- . -.. ¦ ¦ .. ¦ ¦ /¦ . - ... - ' :: ¦ : ¦¦' : ¦ . ' . ¦ ¦ , . ¦/¦ . ¦ . Mr .. L 0 MA 8 moved the fifth / resolution , viz . : — " That this meeting do pledge itself to support the National Fund , for the purpose of carrying the foregoiajf retjplutiohs into effect . ^ He said alithe Vyhigs had dene since being in office , was to keep the Tories out , this they had effected , as wel l as keeping the people out teo . :

      Mr . ^ Richardson , of Manchester , in supporting the resolution , stated that they had a meeting yesterday at Manchester , which had amply made up for the deficiency in Palace-yard , on Monday last , inasmuch , an near 300 , 000 persons attended there with forty-one bands of music , and more than two hundred banners , declaring their determination to be free . Indeed , it was a glorious day , it was really and truly a demonstration of popular feeling ini favour of Radical reform . The labouring population of this greaj empire had been top ^ long ^ overtaxed , ovw > worked , nnder-paid , under-clothed , and nnder-fed . r- ^ lioud cheers .-- —From tiieir . labour alone , £ 60 , 000 , 000 in taxes were drawn for the nuroose of

      enconra ging idleness and luxury among those who were now Tatteninu upon and oppressing the poor : and how he asked are these taxes distributed and on whom and for what purpose ? the answer will be found in the estimates for the current year . Under the head of civil conticgencies there ia one item , of £ 120 , 429 paid for thirteen ambassadors and their suites to foreign courts whoae only duty is to foster court intrigues , and carry Messrs . Rudell and Bridge '« gold snuff ' vboxes from one potentate to another . Theamount aijexpended is equal ' -to the whole of the poor-rates for the counties of Westmoreland , Rutland , Monmouth , - Huntingdon , and Caermarthen . There was another item of £ 77 , 710

      paid to our , consuls abroad , ' for the purpose of regulating our commercial intercourse , which all knew was not properly regulated , and Which sum is equal to the p ^ oor-rates of the county of Cornwall . Another item more scandalous than all the rest , was one of £ 35 , 000 paid / for secret service money , — shame—which was equal to the poor-rates for the countyof Derby , and how was this money expended , by whom and for what purpose ? It is a notorious fact that when the late Mr . Cobbett preamted to the House of Commons the petition of the men of Camberwell , a committee was formed , and Mr . Cobbett actually traced secret service monejr from the hands of Lord Melbourne , the prime minister , downwards

      to the hand * of Papay the spy—such was the purposes of the secret service money tken , and he had no 'Joubt , but some of the hired Bourbon police were now in this meeting paid from the same source , to carry back to the minister a poisoned report of your proceedings . There is one item more of £ 54 , 000 Voted to the use of the Poor Law CommiHsioners for the purpose of cramining the New Poor Law down the throats of the half-starved population , and locking them up in Bastiles , as a test of destitution , when they ask for relief . The snm thua villanbusly employed , is equal to the poor-rates of the agricultural county of Hereford . The last item he wonld trouble them withy wan one of £ 83 , 212 paid for

      rettred allowances , one recipient from this grant was no less a person than Lord Brougham , who had openly in the House of Lords taunted the people with ignorance , idleness , and guilt , —the same Henry Brougham whom you hoisted into Parliament—the Radical Brougham , founder and promoter of mechanics' institutes , —^ who strode from the House of Commons to the Woolsack , has dared to taunt you with ignorance and say you were not qualified for want of education , to weild Universal Suffrage so as to promote peace and happiness among all classes ; But he would answer the hereditary lord in the words of the Birmingham banner , " If we are too ignorant to . make taxes , we are too ignorant to pay them . If we are too

      ignorant to make lawsf we are too ignorant to obey them . "—Loud cheers . —The sum voted for retired allowances was equal to the whole of the money received by the poor in the county of Lancaster . These items were only . . . a sample of the manner in which the taxes were expended , and so long as we have to pay a standing army six niillionsto curb the discontented people , and collect the taxes and gabels , so long as we have to pay the navy more than i » now paid to the poor , so long as we nave to support a church who ore bloated with the spoils of the poor , bo long shall we have just cause , and every reason to demand Universal Suffrage asi- .: a . remedy for the many grievances under which we labour .- — Cheers . — 'But the time is come , when these

      demonstrations of the people were no idle assemblies , but they marked the steady , deliberate , determined mind , — they were 'he portentious harbingers of jiberry , and he hoped the next time they met in thousands , it would be amultaneously throughout the empire , demanding in a voice not to j > e misunderstood , Universal Suffrage as the means to universal happiness . —Cheers .- ^ -At that time he hoped to see every shuttle stopped , every anvil silent , every soul engaged in the holy work of rectifying the wrongs of nig country ; one entire week must ^ be devoted to that object ^ when the people / must lay themselves under the guidance of the National Conventibn , and

      contribute cheerfully to the JNational Rent . The best test of Radical spirit lit the people , was the willinjgness with which they contributed from the breeches pocket in support of the cause he advocated . He then recommended that every man do also lay l » y sufficient funds to maintain himself or his family during the holiday week j for without inoney ^ whicB , as O 'Connellsaid , was the 1 sinews of the war , weneyercan maintain our stand j or achieve the glorious triumph we antidpate , or even mitigate the sufferings of the people . —^ Cheers . Three cheers were then proposed b y the Chaibmai » for Birmingham . —Thanks were then voted to the Chairman for his servicei" , which was carried amidst loud acclamation . ;

      ^ . The assembly then quietly dispersed . Iji the evening , a num . tous party of ladies and gentlemen partook of tea , « fec . at the Bath Saloon , Mr > Eheriezer , EUiott in the chair . The meeting was addressed by the Chairman , Messrs . ¦ Wood , Salti &c . &c . ;

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      v THE LIVERPOOL DINNER . It was announced in placards that a public dinner wouldibn Tuesday evening , be given at the Queen ' s Theatre , Liverpool , to Mr . Attwood and the other orators of tljei party . Mr . Attwood did hot attend either the Liverpool or Manchester demonstration , but in accordance with the announcement the dinner took place at six o ' clock . The circle of the theatre was boarded over , a scene was closed in across the stage , immediately behind the proscenium ; In front 61 this was the cross , or principal table , which accommodated about seventeen or eighteen . Five ^ tables , very nearly laid , extended from one end to the other of the apartment thu 8 Tordaed—the boxes formingi three sides , and the scene above-mentioned the fourth . The tickets ,

      pnee 3 * . each , entitled a visitor to alady ' s admission . Accordingly 180 females assembled in the boxes , to witness the ceremony of despatching the dinner , and to hear the oratory . Over the chairman was sns ^ pended an union jack , and four smaller banners of a similar description were placed on each . side . A British ensign and two small union jacks were suspended from the boxes opposite to the chairman . Several painted representatives of shields , oraamented with armorial bearinga , were suspended round the frontbf the low er tier . The dinner did not consist > Sof the ^ eUTOciei of the sea ^ n , " but of very good and substantial staff , and the gaests , who were in number about 220 , did due honour to the ample provision spread before them . The principal supply was of roast beef and plum-pudding , and ale in jabundance , v- ; - ; v ;; V ^ . " : . ' ¦ :. ; : ¦¦; ' . --1 ' - ^ ¦ : - -- -v ; . ; ¦ ' . ¦¦;¦ ¦ ' ; ..: ¦ .: ¦ . ' . ¦ ¦ . .-The chair was occupied by Mr . John Clarke , who was supported on his right by Mr . Feargus O'Con-! nor , ana on We left by Mr . Edmonds . At the crota

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      table were also Mr . Cobbett , Mr . Thomas Smith , Mr . Goodfellow , Mr . Bussey , Mr . Whittle , and others , whose names we could not learn . The Chairman said , they were assembled for the purpose of celebrating : the commence struggle which had for its object restoration of a right which they once : possessed , that of choosing , the individual who should represent them in Parliament , that of choosing the men who were 'to guard their rights and property ia the House ofi Commons . They were now at that time of day struggling for the restitution of what they had been unjustly deprived of . It was a natural and constitutional right , which could not be alienated . It was constitutional because it was declared in an . act of Parliament , and because , according to constitutional law , every man was supposed to bejireBent , by himself or bis but

      representative , when the l ^ iwe were made : how could a man be said to be there , when tnere were two thirds of the people of this kingdom who were not allowed to vote . —^ An individual here started up , and made some observation . We nnderstood him to deny what was advanced by the speaker . Some confusion occurred , but the individual who caused the noise was promptly turned out . —The chairman proceeded . It had been asked , | on what authority could it be said that the people of this country at large once possessed the elective franchise ? The reply was on the statute boot where it stood to this day . There was a petition presented to tiie King in Parliament , reqtiestuag him to restrain the powers of the people in choosing represehtatiyes in Parliament , under the pretence that they exercised it injuriously , ; and ; by the act of 8 th year of Henry

      VI ,, tne prayer 01 ims petition was granted . Before that , every man in England had a right to vote : and every man in England claimed the privilege vnththeproudeBt and most wealthy to vote for the return of those who made the laws foi his protection . That act told that the right was one possessed , or how could it ever have been taken away ? The people had the right by custom , and by the common law of the land . Why should they not persevere in attempting to regain that which they had always a right to enjoy ? Another objection made to tbiB extension of the- suffrage was , that it would cause corruption , and that the humbler Orders had already showed a propensity , for corruption . Corruption at once gave the idea of a corrupter , —for tiere could hot be corruption without a corrupter . ¦ Aad who had been , and who would still endeavour to be the

      corrnptere ? The wealthy and the great landnolder ^ who gained by corruptioni The Chairman went on to remark on the obiection . that was made to the working classes , because they were not men of property , arguing that they had a common property in their labour , without Which all other sorts of property were valuelessj and citing the opinion of Mr . Sharman Crawford , in support of bis assertions . He concluded by telliHg an anecdote of three brothers in Scotland , tenanta of the Duke of Montrose , which brothers voted , in spite of ; the threats of bis grace ' s steward , in oppositiipn to his wishes , and were in consequence turned out of their farms , but were by a gentleman in the neighbourhood , placed on farms double the value . The Chairman gave , as a h ' nish" " tb"hui speech , the first toast , which was " The people—their rightsnothing less . "—Great

      , applause . The Chairman said , the next was an interesting toast : " The Queen—her rights and no more . "Loud cheers . The third toast Was then given : "May the principles of Universal Suffrage , and all the essentialrS to the free exercise of . our political rights become the polar star of every lover of his country . " --Cueers . _ Mr . COBBETT _ rose , ana was received with loud cheer * . Alter some apologiea forhis inadequacy to the task which , had been assigned him , he said—the peculiar situation of capital , and the influence which it possessed , was the greatest evil which existed in this country . This Was an evil which could only be removed by that Reform in Parliament whickthey were now seeking . It was capital , in laud and other tKnca ; which alone was represented in the House of Commons . Those who created the wealth were not represented . That wa « thi >

      KTievahce . If , however , the people followed up properly what they had begun , this grievance they wmH succeed in removing . They had , almost ^^ daily , under their observation throughout the whole of Lancashire and Yorkshire , the horrible evidence that the influence of capital not only deprived the labourers bt what they ought to enjoy , but it went the horrible length of confining men , women , and children , ip prisons of the most nuhea ) th y description , where their lives : were m daily danger , and where they were so worked thit they were deformed iii their personsy their sex almost changed , and their lives shortened . ( Hear . ) He did not hesitate to aar , though this had not , in outward appearance , all the slavery in thw country that appeared in some others , that , virtually , no slaves on the face ot the earth were so infamously tyrannised over as the people of this country . He did not hesitate t 6 say , that the labourers and handlooiu weavers of this country suffered more than had been suffered by the blacks in the 8 inoies

      vrec , tor wnoae emancipation the humanity-mongers had made such a pry , If they turned their eyes amongst the manufacturing ; labourers they would find scenes which would harrow up their souls . The liberal Whig , Lord AHhbrp , once proposed to levy a tax , a very light one—half-a-crown in the pound he believed , on all transfers of stock : ' They knew very well that the Whigs £ cbula carry out the measure if they pleased . What did Lord Althorp do ? A banker got up and taxed him with a breach , of national faith ^ and he immediately withdrew the motion . He asked him , if all the bankers , and , as opposite to them , all the honest men in the kuigdem , could have induced the Whig Ministry to withdraw a tax proposed to be laid on the poor ! ( Cheers . ) He would refer them to the Poor Law Amendment Act , and the coriauct « f the House of Commons in respect to the Factory Labour Question . They passed an act to reduce the hours ot labour in factories and never enforced it . Thev said it was so cnmni ; .

      cated . and he would remark it was of their own framing , that lt . couldnotbe enforced . ( Hear . ) But they could enforc the Poor Law Bill at the point of the bayonet ; yet they never sent any body but . one paid . commissioner to enforce this act of reducing the hours of labour . ( Pheers . ) It was ridiculous then to suppose that they could ever get any good from this House . They woujd never do any good of their own accordthey would iiever do any good till they were compelled . ( Cheers . ) Therefore it was absolutely necessary to tell them what waa wanted by the nation ,, and that if they would not give it in . their way— " we will have it in ours . " As they were entering into a struggle which was to end but with success it was proper to consider of the manner and of the difficulties whicn they would meet with in their path . The mode which had been hitherto used , and to which no dissentient voice had hitherto been raised , was to demand by petition . They claimed Vote by Ballot . Universal Suffrage . Annual ParUamenbi

      and Paid Members . ( Cheers . ) By taking the course recommunded , they were asking for that to which they were entitled b y the very laws which those from whom , the demand was made professed to love and uphold . They were . entitled to Universal Suffrage and Annual Parliaments by law . These were , all he asked for . The others ; were but the details . They had Magna Charta , which said that Parliaments were to be Annual , and that no man in England should be taxed without his own consent . They could not be represented Without Vote by Ballot , and without Paid Members fliey could not have their work properly performed . He had another piece of law to lay down to them , and he should q-uote the authority of Justice Blackstone , who had laid it down that there was no law upon which the punishment of crime could be justified bu ^ this : that the man had by his representativ es in Parhament , made the law under which he was punished . He contended , if that law-were correct that a man executed

      to-nierrow for a crime which was passed l > y a House iiot so constituted , as they contendedit ought to be , was judiciously murdered . He contended , that the judge acting for the Crown , who condemned a man by laws passed hy such a House , committed an act , which , by sound constitutional law » justified rebellion . He liked , on legal questions , to have legal opinions , and he appealed to the gentleman next butone on his left , if he was not right . [ Hear , hear , and assentinas from Mr . O'Connor . ] Mr . Cobbett proceeded to show how peculiarly well England waa situated lot a struggle of this sort . He drew parallels between the aituations of America and France at the commencement of their revolutions , and ^ of England at the present moment , comtending that the reason why France failed was , because she ! had not . laws in support of her assumptions , while America had precisely the same laws which England has . He denounced the condnct of Lord Brougham and othere , who , he said , had for years deluded the neoole

      with false hopes , and exhorted them to trust to themselves to be firm , ana persevere . ' The Chairman proposed the healths of Thomas Attwood Eaq ., and John Fields , Esq ., and success to the Union of which * they had been tha promoters . ' .. : Mr . Edmunds , pi Birmingham , after complimenting the chairman on his speech , expatiated at some length on the importancrof union . He did not know much of Mr . Fields he said , but he eulogised him as a friend to labour and an enemy of oppressive capital . He expressed his pleasure : at seeing 80 many females present , and said in Birminham they had seen a Political Union composed entirely of females , from which he predicted great consequences . Mr . i 3 'Cdnnell had been pocketing the money of the Irish people ! ( Here the speaker was interrupted by cries of " G'Connoil for ever , " and some expressioniof disapprobation , mingled with cheera . There was considerable confusion for some minutes . ' ) : Mr .

      Edmonds proceeded . He insisted upon his right to argue hia own points in hia own way ; no one had any right to dwtatetohim . He would- always support Mr . O'Connell when he supported the cause of the people . The best Way . to get any duty well done was to pay well for it ^/ cheerii)—Sie object of those who had duty to do was b y a perfect discharge thereof to please those who paid them . He would not hold out any alarm . While he would not hold out any'display of their physical power , he would arouse all the passions of the people , if possible , in this great cause , and he would leave the rest to them . ( Cheers . ) : ;¦ ¦ ' ¦ •' . The CHAIBMAN said , the next toast was the health of Mr . Thomas Smith and Mr . James Whittle , the deputation of the Radicals of Liverpool . Mr . THOMAS SMITH said , though ho was a politician ol forty years ' , standing , he had never before seen ed auspicious an opening . In allusion to the law which the chairman said

      had been : introduced in the time of Henry VI ., he said a considerable portion of the nation wero then serfs oralaves . w ) that it could not be said the Suffrage was then enjoyed by all . Before the conquest all were free , and then there was Universal Suffrage , bo that they contended for the times that were made by their Saxon ancestors before the time of the Bbroughmongew . Mr . Smitt informed the meeting , that eight individuals of the Birmingham Political Union , live of the Manchester Union , and two , hir auelf and Mr . Whittla , from the Radicals of Liverpool were to form » deputation to London in order to enforce attention to their claims . ' ' Mr . WHITTLE said , the opulent classes of this town had not felt the pressure , and to their own prejudice the ' y would probably keep aloof . The Ministry , he said , had pondered

      over the demonstration on Kersal Moor , and had at first ordered put the troops . Afterwards they ordered that they should te kept close iii their barracks , in order that they miBht not be contaminated by the population . ¦ - ¦ The CHAIRMAN next proposed , " Real justice to Ireland . " . ¦ ¦ ¦ - . ¦ .- ¦ ..- ¦¦¦ ¦ / ¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦¦ ¦ : - •• ... ' ¦¦ . ' - ' ;•• . '¦ : Mr . FEARGUS O'CONNOR replied at some length , representing what he conceived the wretched state of th « Irish people , from coercion , taxation , and bad Government . He denoanced the policy of Mr . O'Conjiell as useleMjas a mockery , and recommended that the people both of England » nd Ireland should stand up for theraselvea , wheh they wouia . tod leaders who would be wiih them in the council and in tne battle-field ; J

      . . _ ; .. . Mr . COLLINS , ofBirmmgbAm , pr oposed «^ the ladies , " and made a long harangue . ¦ . ' ' ' ¦ '¦ .. / , _ i __ . Vi The memory o ? William Cobbett , Major Cartwright , Henry Hunt . and aU the illustrious departed advocates of the people , was drank insolemn silence . ¦ .... ; , ¦ ¦ - .-^ 'The Great Northern ^^^ Union , andsneeesg to , t , » wa . drank and responded to by Mr . Bussev . ... _ - ^^ b « w »^ i ; = The " follow » i toasU were then . given : — 'The P <> b . bc « l Union ' of Manchester , and may ^ it tow , " " The R » dic » l Man ' iAj 8 od » tion . "

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      YJKtJEJtDAY'S ' WAkmE ^ CORN ^ ¦ ¦ .. ' ¦ . - . ¦ : ¦ . ¦ ¦ . ; . - . ; market ; . ¦ = ¦ : .. .:, - ¦•¦ ¦ ¦ , 7 ¦ ¦ ;¦¦;; ¦• . : ; Thereis a very higei supply of Wneat here ttig morning , a considerable part of which , is Foieigiu The best fresh Old and good dry New Wheat are in demandatfnUy the rates of last week . Soft samplea of New areivery nnaalaable . - : ~ ¦ . ; . Oatsi are vnthontmnch variation . Beans gooff at late rates . Since Sunday we have had broken weather , whicK has suspended Harvest operations the last 3 or 4 days—the weather to-day is tine . Leeds Cloth Mabkets . —^ In the- -Coloured and White Cloth llalls , during the past week , there has been a fair average denjand for every description of maHufactured goods . The stocks on hand are unusually limited , and the labouring portion of the community is fully employed . .

      RpcHUALE Flannel Market , Sept . 24 . — There has been a good d « al of business done to-day , particularly the middling and low- sorts which have nearly all been bought up . Dyed goods have been in good demand , more so than for some length of time . Prices remain . much as usual . The wool trade remains stationary . Oils no alteration . Dewsbury Cloth Hall , September 24 th . To-day , business was nearly at , a stand , and what was done was chiefly in the blanket line , without any advance in price ? . In drnggete and other goods scarcel y any thing was done .

      Bbabfobd Wool Mabket , September 27 ^ . — A che ck has been given to the late attempt to advance prices , which in some degree accounts for less business having been recently done in combing wool there is , however , a prevailing opinion that prices will remain for some time comparatively steady . Bradford Yarn Market :. —The demand for Tarn continues quite equal to . what it has been for several weeks past , still the manufacturers purchas * with much caution , being anxious to obtain it a little lower . They find that they are unable to advance their goods in the same proportjqn that Yarn has advanced , but there is not the least appearance of a decline in price . ?

      Bradford Piecb Market . —there hag been quite an average amount of sales to-day as contrasted with the last four market days . Some are of opinion the market to-day has been rather heavier , whilst other manufacturere state they have sold freely . The continued high price of Yarn restrains them from accepting prices which otiierwise they might feel disposed to accept . Meanwhile the merchants are cautious , and it is scarcely probable at this season of the . year any thing approaching to afurther advance in prices will be obtained .

      Leeds Fortnight Fair , Sept . 26 . —there was an abundant supply , of every description of Cattle at this market ; there being alarger number of Horned Cattle than was ' ever exhibited ; here , ( which was well attended by buy era , ) and they exceeding the demand , a ^ great Quantity returned undisposed of , at the following prices : —Beet 5 s . 6 d . to 6 s . per stone ; Muttoii 6 £ d . to 6 d per lb . Number of Cattle at niarket—Beasts , 396 : Sheep , and Lambs , 3 , 800 ; Pig 8 56 j State of Trade . —There is no change in tte yarn market , which exhibits all the languor and depression that have marked it for some weeks past ; aad the demand for goods is not , quite so active as it has recently been , but there is no alteration in ¦

      prices . . ; . . . . . . : . .. - - . . ¦ - -. . ;¦ : .. ; , Hull Corn Market , Sept . 25 . —Last week was favourable ; weather , and a great prbportionof the crops of Wheat in the southern part : of Holder ness have been secured . In the northern part it it chiefly in the fields . Yesterday , We had a heavy rain , snd no further progress in caritingcan be made for the present . The deliveries of new Wheat since this day week , are vinous in quality and conditioD , weighing from 56 to 631 bs . per bushel , thesampieg brought forward to-day are generally much better ,

      and the farmers have been enabled to realize Is ; to 2 s . above the currency of last week , and some selected samples fit for sowing ranged above the highest quotation . No English Old Wheat worth notice . The importers of foreign have met a freer demand , and considerable sales took place at an advance of Is . to 2 s . per qr . No alteration ih the value of Old Beans Peas , Barley , or Oats . A few samples ot New Oats were sold at prices quoted ; they are good and heavy . The rain : has caused a free demand for Tares for sowing . Flour is 2 s . per sack cheaper . No alteration in Linseed or Kapeseed .

      . York Corn Market , Sept . 22 . —Oar neighbouring millers having , for some time past , been , reducing their stocks , in expectation of jrarcha ? ing at lower rates when the large quantity of foreign Wheat was released from bond , and this , haying been the case during the last week , there haig been a very extensive business transacting ; and holders being by no means eager sellers ^ an ad vance ha 9 been obtained of about 2 s . per quarter ; gopd Foreign Eedaeljing from fi 8 s . to 64 s . ; and "W hite as hi gh as 66 s . per qr . We have but little of any kind of grain offering to-day , the farmers being wishful to take every advantage of the very fine weather . What samples are shewny are in . better condition than those at market last week ; --an"d . though it is difficult to give any correct quotations , until we have better > uj > plie 9 , prices are fully snpported for evervthiiig .

      Newcastle Corn Market , Sep t 22 . —We have had a good arrival ; of Wheat from Norfolk and Suffolk , and a considerable quantity of Foreign , which latter , as well as all thejoreign in the wareh 6 tises , has been cleared in at Is . per qr . duty . Today the duty has advanced to 2 s . 8 d . per qr . and it will be 6 s . 8 d . to 10 s . 8 d . per qr . next Saturday . Although the weather continues as favourable a * possible , and the harvest has been pretty generally commericedin this district , the trade has become much firmer since this day yreek , and a very considerable deal " of business has been transacted at improving prices . At this morning ' s market n e » south country and fresh old Wheat met a brisk saw at an advance of full 2 s . per qr ., but , owing to the reports from many parts of the country s tating hi * yield of the new crops to be deficient , and the pnce « here being at this moment lower than in most of tM leading country markets ; the principal hoye " demanded an advance of 4 s . to fis . per qr ., go ™ and fresh Baltic red Wheat being held at 64 » . to ?» . per qr ., and Danzig at 68 b . to ^ 70 i . perqr ., 61 to 621 * per bush . Fine Rye met a little more demand . "V Oato there was a pretty liberal supplyj prices ratier lower . In Barley , Beana , and Peas , not mo * doing . ATriyed during * ae week , coastwise , 2 , 1 » qrs . Wheat , 40 qrs . Eye , 10 qre . Barle ) j 367 qrs Malt , lVl 83 ftnu Oats , 36 qrs . Beau « , W l , iB 74 tacks Flour ; foreign , 7 , $ 45 qrs . Wh eat .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 29, 1838, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1025/page/8/