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      PUBLIC MEETING AT MACCLESFIELD ON THE CORN LAWS . ( Abridged from the Macdeffidd Courier . ) In consequence of a requisition , presented to the Mayer , a meeting -waa tailed for Wednesday last , in the Town Hall , for the purpose of passing a series of resolutions in favour of a repeal of the Corn Laws . The Mai ob , in opening the proceedings , merely expressed a -srish that a fair hearing should be giTen to all-Mr . Jespeb moved the first resolution , to the effect that it -would be fer the interest of all classes that both the Corn and Sugar duties should be repealed . Mr . David Bowbothah seconded the resolution .

      Mr . Chj . bles Savage next presented himself to oppess the resolution , bat was received with so mach clamour that he could not proceed ; and , in addition , he mzde a mistake , ob reading aa extract , which excited so nanch laughter that he "was compelled to giTe \ rar . bnt sot before he had made a remark which called up Mr . Condron , -who , in reply to it , observed , that be came there merely from curiosity , being neitker for the Corn Lair nor against it . Sir . West ( a wearer ) commenced by observing that on boih sides it was agreed that the working classes had a paramount interest in the question . The persons who opposed the Corn Laws said they opposed them because the interests of the working classes were at stake ; and those who supported these laws did it on

      the rame grounds . He had therefore a right to assume that it was a subject for the consideration of the working classes , and that they ought calmly to weigh it as one bearing upon their interests . He knew that it was contended that the manufacturing interest is the only interest to be considered in England . It was right , therefore , to put the question on fair grounds . He considered that it was a maxim , that it is the duty of every goTernment in the first plsce to provide food and clothing for the people ; in the second place , to keep sufficient employment for labour in ttie country , that both food and clothing may be properly distributed among the people ; and in the third place , te afford to that labour , by means of which the distribution is made , the greatest protection possible . Let

      them see then whether Government had acted on these principles . He should proceed first to consider the two great interests of the conntry . They were told a great deal of the agricultural and manufacturing interests by those who were now traversing the country , in order to get up an agitation in favour of the present Government The people of England are composed of agricultural labourers and manufacturing labourers ; and ha contended that the interests cf the one class were as much entitled to the protection of the legislature and the government as the other . He contended that it would be great partiality and gros 3 injestiee , that the manufacturing labourer should be enriched at the expence of the Jwrricnltaral labourer —particularly as he could prove that the latter class

      formed the majority of the population . This statement he did not make without authority . He was anxious to show that he did not speak only on his own authority , lest he should fall undtr the < - » nH g * - tion of some of those talenttd gentlemen of the present day , who answer those that differ fr « m them by telling them that they are peddling politicians ;"— ( laughter)—and he would require that those gentlemen , who professed not to be peddling politicians , ihould bring authorities for what they asserted , and not merely stare their own opinions . From authentic documents it was found , that the relative merits of tha two interests stood thus : —The total value of the land was ^ 550 , 655 , 658 ; the total amount of farmer ' s capital , £ 65 i , B" 8 , 760 : the annual produce of the land .

      £ 5 iu , 03 G , 2 ? l . He found that theie was a power employed in it of at least three-fifihs of the whole population , or 5 , 500 , 000 effective men . On the other hand , he found that the capital employed in manufacture , was only £ 205 , 773 , 872 , and that its annual produce was £ 259 , 412 , 709—a very great differecca [ We cannot vouch fjr the accuracy of our figures . ] Thus , when they came to pnt things in their proper places , they found that interest , which was setting itself up as the great and proper interest of the country , fell very short of one-third of the capital employed on agriculture ; and above three individuals were employed in agriculture to one that was employed in manufactures ; for they must remember that among the parties engaged in agriculture , they

      must reckon great part of the population of Ireland ; and it was calculated that 686 in every thousand were employed in raising food in Ireland . They mi ^ ht wish perhaps to thro w Ireland out of the question ; but until the Unioa should be repealed—( cries of " Question , question" )—until Ireland should have a separate Parliament tCries of " Question , " continued . ) Why did they call question ? Their crying question now- was a proof that they did not understand anything whatever of the question—until there was a distinct Parliament in Ireland , that country must be t&ken into their consideration . He ¦ would show them that , if this measure were carried into effect , it would throw thousands upon thousands of the population out of employment . It was the duty of the Government to keep the

      population , both agncUituralaud manuiacturing , employed , but not to throw land out of cultivation for the sake of exporting a little more manufactures . The -srhole of our exports of manufactures only amounted to one-seventh of the consumption at home ; and it was , therefore , of much more importance to enlarge the homa tba-n the foreign demand—particularly as he was prepared to show that this country was not under the necessity of depending upon foreigners for its food . In erder to Ehow that he made no statement as to the capability of the country to produce enough of food for its population , he would rtfxi to authorities ; he would do so , that , if his politics should be called peddling , by certain talented gentlemen , they might know thty were not his alone . ( Hear , hear . ) That the

      country does not produce enough food , was no anstver to hia argument . The question was , can it do ? It was no proof that he i Mr . J . West ) could not wear a better coat , to say thit he did not wear a better one . Notv he would refer to an authority which these gentlemen would not dispute—to Mr . G . R . Porter , who had given an account of the cultivated land in ' . lie country , and of the uncultivated and cultivable [ Mr . West then entered i ^ to some details on this subject ] If it was said then , that they had not corn enough , why did they net set about cultivating this uacultiyated land ' : He- knew the erase and he Well knew tLe remedy . He knew tiiat the causs was , that the people were no : fairly represented in Parliament , acd he knew that ths remedy would rery soon follow , if they were .

      But thsy might say , even if this land were put into cultivation , is would not produce enough for our increasing population . He found from the same authority that the land of England is capable ; . f supporting a much greater number of individuals th-. n is now upon it He tbea proceeded to read an extract , from which it appeared tha * . if Englinl were all as well cultivated as the coanties of ^ sortbaj ^ berlaiii and Lincolnshire , it would produce doub ' . e what it does now . Yet he found that in these two counties there was uncultivated laud , whici was capable of cultivation . In Lincolnshire were 160 . 000 acres uncoluTatei , ami in Northumberland ISO , 000 . How then could it be &siu that Englia-i is not-capable of producing f > od for its inhabitants ? There was a very great dialer ia soing

      abroad for iheir corn ; and ha trusted Eicland woa ^ d no : be rsdu := d to depend on foreigners for her daily bread . 'Tremendous applause . ) They hal heard it som = tir . iv 3 said , that God had orcanied that othsr countries tii- ; uld supply E -. glan . l with corn , -while she supi . iiei th . m -Him nianuficrures . Ba : he might appeal to the common saying , thu Qy \ never sen'i-s u mtu : a without m ' . at , acci he believed that GoJ did net allow any one to be bora in in island like this , wiihoat making i : capable of supplying him with fend . Dr . Ciairr .-rs baa told item accordingly ti ^ at , if this country -wrre wiliei round with » da : uan :, it couid pro-luci food enough for seven times its present number of inhabitas-s . He quoted authorities becnu *? he was afrai . i to trust to his o ^ vn epinious in tb . e presence oi

      such consummate politicians—he vraa always afraid of shewing hiaisslf a peddiin * politician in the presence of gentiem = n of snob astounding talents , fls , therefore , r = ferr =-d : a Mr . Hu ? kisson as an authority resj > ecting the a-1 vantage of a steady home production . Mr . Hosklsson had shown that for a hundred jtara , ¦ with & ri'tr ^ ined importation , England had supp : i * l enough to maintain her wcole population ; in eooi \ e- ^ r ~ the even exported a little ; there were never a- ^ y great chao ; s 3 of pries ; and at thi end of a Ceirtiry . daring which s ; e never imparted corn , the price w « actually lower than at the commencement- Since then , her dependence upon foreign countries had always bean increasing . He admitted that , witii a free tr . tde . c > rn might be cbeapei for a year or two ; bat in th- ; c ; ia

      KaJl farmers woalJ be unable to continue in tkri ? business ; improvements would stand still ; hr . d won' 5 be thrown oat of cultivation ; and thus wages would faH even m ? re rapidly thin the price of corn . These , sai ° S Mr . West , were the arguments of Mr . Huskissoa— a man that was considered an authority by tin snti-Cora L * w League . H * d thtsa arguments ever beer answered ? They had not ; for it hid always b = en a !' lowsd thit nothing eouid compensate a counLrj for allowing itself to depend upon foreigners foi its food . He always found that when this argument ¦ was pressed they endeavoured to avoid it That was tha coarse pursued by Dr . Bt > wring when pressed upon this point in his evidence before the Committee of thj Hooae . of Commons . He said , he conceived no be'tei mode of preserving peace than to extend commerce . Whea pressed to say what would be done if a war took place , he could give no satisfactory answer . He had heard it said , Oh ! bat there will be no war But could they cat

      eulate on having no war , with the present state of political government , when wars were not undertaken with the consent of tb « people , bnt at the caprice of individuals ? If the people were everywhere fiirly repre-^ * en : e 1 , there might be a fair decision ot the diifrrenc * - " beswesn one people and another ; ami thf-ref . '< re ce maintained that nothing could prevent ware , but t > give Uie people that political power which their fre 3 ' es ; enemies could not deny to be their ri ^ ht It ba-i be * n argued by the preceding speaker , tnat The Corn Lavrs had beea injurious to Vie woiking cassc-s , because tb- t had ciSjed wages to fail as c-. - uipir ^ i -witf , ttt : period before 181 o WDtn ths ( J ; rn Lavrs « i . r- ^ -rw . ^ i fi repiy toBfi » Sfe * taUd iu uetail , lUc qujatltj oi wi-rui "Whi « ii cooid btf pareimsa vrnh f . e w . ^ fs received foi thetAme watalsOl , ana a : present " In 1 &j 1 , th-. w ^ gea for lbe work mcrtioneu was iiu . a :: d . tbe pric = of wheat 116 s . At present , lie -ss ^ es ii-r tis « " ¦ Vork wk 5 i . 50 . ana th » price oi -ffteat G 0 i ; from

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      which he shewed that above three times as much wheat could be purchased at the higher price aa at the lower . Could the Corn Laws be the ciuse of this ? He wuhed for a fair answer to the question . They might , perhaps , be told that the Corn Laws ware the cause ; but he would refer them to authorities , which shewed that the reduction of wsges had been going on before tbe Corn Laws . He found from a table of the prices of weaving , from 1802 to 1812 , laid before a Committee of the House of Commons , that a reduction in some branches of 150 percent had taken place before the Corn Laws . These facts shewed that they must look to some other cause than the Corn Laws to account for the reduction of wages . In corroboration of this argument , he shewed that the actual quantity ot wheat imported during the ten years preceding the enactment

      of the Corn Laws , was 5 , 246 , 169 quarters , while in the ten years after that enactment it had been 7 , 609 , 875 quarters , thus shewing an increase of 2 , 363 . 000 qn ., notwithstandisg the Corn LaW 3 . Be found also & remarkable difference in the price . In the period before the Corn Laws the price had averaged £ 4 18 s . 8 d . a quarter , whilst in the following ten years it had been £ 3 16 s . Id . a quarter . He should wish them to take these facts into consideration before they came to the conclusion that the repeal of the Corn Laws would not tend t « the diminution of wages He then proceeded to quote Mr . Porter ' s tables of the pr ices of corn from 1760 to 1835 , shewing a reduction of the price of wheat after the enactment of the Corn Laws . Bat he would next ge to another testimony to shew the actual inconsistency of the gentlemen , who were now advocating

      that system . They accused those who opposed them as pedaling politicians ; yet they would force us to take their authority , or the authority of their masters , without question . As he looked upon those who talked of peddling politicians , to be themselves peddling politicians , he should go to their masters . Mr . M'Gregor said he believed that the rent of land would increase if the Corn Laws were repealed , In conseqaence of the greater demand for labour . Were they to believe Mr . M Gregor when he told them that the price of corn wouM become less , and the rents of land' increase ? { Loud laughter . ) He never knew before that increasing rents would bring down the price of corn , fRenewed laughter . ) But they told us again , that their object in repealing the Corn Laws would be to cultivate good feelings with other

      countries ; yet he-found in a document issued by the Corn Law Laagae , and giving an account of the evidence of the Mayor of Leicester , that the greatest advantage of the repeal of the Corn Laws would be its raising the price of food abroad , and diminishing it at home . Was this the way to cultivate good feeling with other countries ? But did they really believe that the people of other countries were all fools and all asses ? At all events , he -vreuld not eat in the same manger with them . ( Laughter . ) He believed that the Governments of-. forsign conntries would not allow them to raise the price of corn abroad ; and if they did , he believed that the people of those countries would rise up against their Governments . It could lead to nothing but distress , murder , and revolution . He had thus given them authorities for the facts which he had alleged .

      Now , let them ask , what would be the consequences of a repeal of the Corn laws ? Would they tell him that agricultural labourers would not be thrown out of employment ? Would they tell him that the Irish would not be thrown out of employment ? Some person in the meeting said the Irish should eat their own corn . So said he . He wanted the people of Ireland to eat their own corn , and the people of England to be clethed with their own doth . Mr . West then made several other observations , the effect of which appeared to be , that it would be mueh better that both England and Ireland should labour to augment their internal prosperity , than to ruin the country by rnnnLag after such bubbles of foreign trade as could not be obtained without the sacrifice of their domestic interests . He then proceeded to consider the cose of the lnanufaitorers . He

      saw the inhabitants of this town engaged in a manufacture that stood in a peculiar situation . It was their evident interest that no put of the population should be forced into a sacrifice of that by which they lived . They had had practical proofs that every at tempt to take off protecting duties had been attended with distress . This was a fact which they knew , and would not be denied even by the gentleman who answered such arguments by talking of peddling politicians . He never made use cf any statements for which he had not authorities and facts . Would those who were not peddling politicians bring facts instead of mere assertions and opinions ? What was the meaning of ail the cry raised ag&inst protection ? What was all legislation but protection ? What were all laws but laws of protection for life and property ?

      If the system of protection is a system of robbery in the one case , it was a system of robbery in the other . If this system of protection were carried to its full extent they would not then be whining about the exportation of machinery ; they would have no necessity for saying , you » ust not do so and so , or we cannot compete with foreigners . He did not know what they meant by competing with f jreigners but reducing the prices and wages . They hau already reduced wages so low that they said they were afraid if they were reduced lower that the lining machinery would produce ne more—that the machines would wear out ; and . therefore , they said they must have corn made cbeaptr , that they might reduce wages without entirely wearing out the living machines . If tkey did not say so in words , they said so ia facts . If they

      could not meet foreign competition without repealing the Corn Laws , how would that repeal enable them to do i : ? How but by reducing wages ? Let us hear how they answer this ? Tiiey give us plenty of aiseiiions , but was there ever such nonsense ? We always want something more than assertions ; we have always been accustomed to consider those as truly peddling politicians , who deal in nothing but assertions ; but what facts or authorities did they bring forward in support of thtir assertions ? None . Dr . Bowring asserts that if we repeal the Corn Laws , foreign countries will give up manufacturing and turn to agriculture ; that cansequently an additional production , and additional employment would be required in this country , aaU therefore the wages would not be diminished Tnis was their opinion -, but they always left out of

      consideration the increase of machinery . He knew , and ihe uiectinc ; knew , that the increase of production wotud have bnt little tffsct on wages . The productive I power that -would be employed would be mechanical ac ; i chemical improvements : and if a double pro . iaclion were required , there would be more than a double increase of machinery . The working classes well knew i by this time , that increased production does nut mean S increased employment for labour—far less increased i wages for labour . During the last forty years there had ! beta an increase of pro-luctiun to the ext-. nt of 800 per j cent ; but while production hr . d inc ; eised 80 » per cent . wa ^ ss ha i" decreased in the ratio of 260 . So [ much for the infallible maxim of increased production j causing increased ¦ Wi ^ es . Mr . West then proceeded to ' s ^ iew tsat from the caniest ti mtis tra le hid been pre-; . tecte . i in Er-sla-url . Even in the tune of Alfred tneru

      had been p otectun to England , and in Edward the I First ' s time a protecting tax had been imposed on I irooL Xow waetiior tha : system had tended Vj j increase cur trade or not it had certainly been favourj able to the comfort of the people—of that i they had auiple proof . Judge Fjrte = > ctie described j tiie people of thtae t ^ m-is drink : n _ ' no w . iter , having ; plenty of fi-= h and fl .-sh , and being ci . » th-tl in good j wool , and that in great abundance- This was the state ; of the people under a sysVein of prutect'on , ani let i f-jtm rerneaiber c . ey br .-i UaivcKuI Suffrage also in ; those days . , Great applause j Brfure be concluded ; La hid a few remarks to make on the speech of the seconder of the re-o " . ut : on , who ha .: referred to some

      j observations , wlf : cn he haJ made the ni ^ ht before , on : the persons who bad gun- up to Lon . lon to a-ivoeate a I system of protection , a : ; d were now enemies of prottc-\ tion . He certainly had taunted tho ^ s persons -witli : their incousisteri ;; . " . It certainly waa a strange | thing to see that tuese ptrsjns W ; nt up to udTucaUi a ! fystcin of protection , before a Committee of the Hi > u » e ; of Commons , and taat they made the members of the i committee enemies of that system . Bu ; what- did ihe i seconder of the resolution now say ? He never would a ivocate monopoly . . Now , he would go quits as tar against monopoly as any one . Ha would siy , do aw ^ y , with all monopoly—uiind , he saii ^ . nd me ^ nt ull luonui P'ilj " . But they would ntv ^ r get rid of all monopoly , ' , whue the people were nut pu .-isessea of pu ! it ; ci ! pjwtr . ; Tney would recollect t ^ at , when Sir . W . Id ^' umu made

      a motion for diuiiuiihuig the malt cuts , tue Whig House of Commons vj ; e l t ! u repeal uf ualf me duty , and honest Lord Al'hurp told tlieui that , as > u-jh was the titciiion of the H ) U ; e , Le should ab :. ; c by it . But 1 j 1 lay Lord AHhorp 50 &S Uowa again , and tciis them he cannot well spare tae monty , and asks them 10 put the repealed duty 0 : 1 again And they uid put it ou aiptin . Taeieioie , if the public had nut political power , Le hod a r ; -n : to t-. ll th-jss who talked 01 destroying all monopolies , ihi . 1 they are the true p ^ ddim : ; politicians—that the ,, are the . rea ; qncks . Thuse were tus qaack doctors , who , Without examining the ulcered iee . iutreiy carne an 1 put their plaster on the uic-r ; and two other ulcers broke out the next cUy . Tbey were the real p ' njoiciaLs , who wishi . l to tiTeCt a ladical cave . He had made un assertion the other night , which had galled ilr . Murray . He would state a fact tj prove it . The si . k txaJe in the city of Dublin Lid been prosperous from lguo to 1819 , when the protecting duty on Irish a ^ aiust EDglish silks was removed . On

      the removal of tbat protection , the number of i 001 ns had declined from 3 , 400 to 2 , 000 ; and when foreign silks were Itt in , the number had speedily declined to 1 , 200 and bad since gone ob declining , through foreign competition , till , ia 1838 , the cumber of looms employed was no more than 400 . Mr . West then proceeded to read the evidence of aa Irish silk manufacturer , who had removed from Dnblin to Spitalflelds . From the evidence it appeared that the Chancellor of iuo ia . cacquer , before the protecting duty was removed , la 1 S 19 , had given it as his opinion ( you see , observed the speaker , what it is to trust to opini-nsj that the mauufacturcra would employ ten times as nuay weavers after the duty was removed , beciase Irish poplins ¦ wi / aid then be allowed to come to England without paying daty . They had many similar opinions of Dr . B . < wriui ' ji and tLe ^ nti-Curu Law League . The Giiantrilur 01 tae Exuiitqu- ^ i " a opinion L ^ d not Weil borne out by the fticts ; Le liscl proved a Very false prophet . iue Irish nu-uuiaczur-. r , on whose evidence he was

      c-.-inineniing , staitJ taar he htd lest wen in Dublin •¦• • ho were worth frtm £ 14 , 000 to £ 2 u , 000 who had gose on miriufaeluring until they ii » t their property ,

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      and were not worth so many pence . Thus , be had the authority of a Dublin manufacturer to bear him out in what he had said the night before . Even the advocates of free trade , admitted that some branches of the silk manufacture would- be ruined by it John Deacon Home , in reply to a question , said , he did not conceive that it was a clear case that the silk trade would be annihilated ; but he did not doubt that , in many , eases , it mighty lead to relinquishing some particular branches of thasilk trade . It did hot require much less logic or tact to know what those particular branches to be relinquished were . They found , from Dr . Bo wring , that Francehad peculiar advantages for the aner branches , in being able to rear the raw material , in the superior brilliance of its dyes , in the greater

      excellency of its patterns , and in being able to produce cheaper . It was evident , therefore , that the figured branches were among those to be relinquished ; and was there & branch of their trade now worth keeping but the figure trade ? Was there a branch in which they were more interested than that trade , which , if France were allowed to pour her silks into England , -would be totally destroyed ? They knew well that such would be the case , and they knew well also , that so long as they paid heavy taxes , they were entitled to protectien . Mr . West next alluded to a resolution , moved by Montgomery Martin , that , so long as taxes were wrung from them , they were entitled to protection . A Lancashire manufacturer had stated in his evideuce , that in plain silk goods they did not fear any competition , because they did not pay

      more for weaving them than in France . This was a pretty fair admission of the reasons for which cheap bread was wanted , in order to meet foreign competition ; it was , that they might reduce them to the wages in France . Nobody could suppose that the Lancashire manufacturers wished for a measure that would cause them to give high wages . The object of the Lancashire manufacturers was , by low wages , to increase production , and to make goods , like Jews ' razors , —to sell . They told them that the Corn Laws had driven foreigners to manufacture ; but they knew that foreigners were just as capable of mechanical invention as Englishmen . They found that the first power-loom was invented by a foreigner , that the first silk loom , the . first woollen loom , the

      first Jacquard loom had been made by foreigners ; they knew that the Huguenots were the first to introduce a variety of manufactures into this country , and among the rest the silk manufacture of Spitalflelds , that the linen trade in Ireland was introduced from Flanders . And seeing that foreigners had formerly been so capable of inventing , were they to be told that they had since so far retrogaded that we alone are now capable of manufacturing ? Or did they suppose that nothing but our Corn Laws would ever have caused them again to exercise their ingenuity—particularly in the case of Germany which , Dr . Bowring , says , may boast of peculiar advantages for carrying on manufactures , —in cheapness of fuel , in the abundance of metals , and superiority in working them , in th » superiority of the natives in design , &c . His evidence also stated that

      the repeal of the Corn Lawa would not prevent the Germans from manufacturing . Mr . West next proceeded to examine the condition of the labourers in those countries where corn is cbeap , as deduced from the evidence of Dr . Bowring and others . In one part it appeared tbat the wages were from 4 s . fid . to 6 s . a week ; in another ; the wages were from 2 a te 2 s . 4 d . a week ; the workman lived on potatoes , and stole timber from the woods for fuel , or else they would be starved . Yet the workmen of this country were to be compelled to compete with men in such a condition , in order to gratify the avaricious disposition of the manufacturers . What they wanted was universal suffrage ; and they would not waste their energies on this crotchet of the Corn Laws . Mr . West concluded by proposing the following amendment : —

      " That whilst this meeting deeply laments and sympathises with the distressed condition of the working classes of this country , yet we believe that the causes which have produced it were in existence before the enactment of the Corn Laws , and that therefore a repeal would not rtmore them ; but that the prolific source cf the social and political evils of the people is c ! a < s legislation , and that in the opinion of this meeting , the only way to remove the direful effects of such legislation is to give to every male adult of sane mind and unstained by crime , the power of making the laws which he is compelled to obey . " Mr . James Lowe seconded tho amendment

      It was arranged that the amendment should first be put affirmatively and negatively , and then the original resolution in the same way . No decision was given by the Mayor on the shew of hands for and against the amendment- After the resolution had been put , the Mayor declared that it had been negatived—an opinion from which we did not hear of one dissentient , the majority against the resolution being evidently very great . Mr . Tiuotht Falvey said the result was the consequence of a most unholy alliance , [ This was intended to convey an insinuation that the Conservatives had committed themselves to the Chartist doctrines contained in the amendment , which however was not the fact ] A vote of thanks to the Mayor , for his impartial conduct in the chair , having been passed unanimously , the meeting separated ; having lasted near five hours .

      Some of the anti-Corn Law party , we were told , collared West on his leaving the platform , and one oi the parties accused of doing so was assailed with a tremendous storm of hissing and groaning . which , however , led to no further disturbance .

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      From the London Gazette 0 / Friday , June 5 . William Birch Price and John Edwards , bankers , Shrewsbury , to surrender , June 23 and July 16 , at ten , at the Shirehall , Shrewsbury . Attorneys : Dean , Essexstreet , Strand , London ; Longueville and Williams , Oswestry . William Seller Guest , tanner , Chaster , June 14 , and July 10 , at two , at the Green Dragon Inn , Cheater . Attorney : Bowers , Chester . James Mackie , tailor , Liverpool , June 12 , and July 1 G , at twelve , and the Clarendon Booms , Liverpool . Attorneys : Adlington , Gregory , Faulkner , and Follett , Bedford-row , London ; Frodsham , Liverpool . Thomas Smith , grocer , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , July 2 , at eleven , and July 16 , at two , at the Bankrupt Commission Room , Newcastle-upon-Tyne . Attorneys : Blake and Tamplin , King ' s-road , Bedford-row , London ; Ingledew , Newcastle-upon-Tyne .

      John Marshall , iron masier , Bescott-hall , Wednesbury , Staffordshire , June 15 , and July 16 , at one , attke Clarendon Rooms , Liverpool . Attorneys : Lowndes , Robinson , and Bateson , Liverpool ; Taylor , Sharpe , Field , and Jackson , Bedford-row , London . John Amory Boden , razir manufacturer , Sheffield , June 12 , and Juiy 16 , at twelve , at the Town Hall , Sheffield . Attorneys : Tattersall , Great James-street , Bedford-row , London ; Palireyman , Sheffield .

      DISSOLUTIONS OF PAllTKERSHIP . J . Bebbiiigton and W . Krauss , siz 3 makers , Manchester . P . J . Papillon and B . Hainsworth , wine merchants , Leeds . V . Cnaloner and J . C . Catton , provision merchants , Liverpool . C . Grimshaw , A . FitzHugb , and W . H . FitzHugh , merchants , Liverpool . E . D xon and D . Rulgway , pill-box makers , Newton-heath , Lancashira J . Tankard acd J . Atkinson , woolstapitrs , Bradford , Yorkshire .

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      ^ From tha Giztlte of Tuesday , June 8 . BANKRUPTS . Emile Monr . iereDemaiseand Henry Thomas Wooler , merchants , Bueklersbury , to surrender June 22 , ot twelve , and July 20 . at one , at the Court of Bankruptcy . Attorney : Turner and Hensman , Basing-lane , City . George Evans , draper , Llanboidy , Carmarthenshire , June 2 S . anrt July 20 , at eleven , at the Ivy Bush Hotel , Carmarthen . Attorneys : Hokombe , Chancery-lane , London ; Gwynne , T-nUy , Pembrokeshire . Anpustm William Hillary , iron founder , Cumberland , June 22 . and July 20 , at eleven , at the Senhouse Anna Inn , MarypTrt . Attorneys : Armstrong , Staple Inn , London ; Benson . Cojkermoutti .

      William Davenport , cabinet-maker , Ashby-de-la-Ziuch , L ^ iceatt-rshue , June 18 , and July 20 , at twelve , at the King ' s Head Hotel , L'lughborough , Leicestershire . Attorneys : Fisher and Sherwin , or Ddwes , Ashby-de-la-Z > uch ; Austen and Hobson , Raymond-buildings . Gray's Inn , Loudon . John Taykr , grocer , Carmarthen , June 28 , and July 20 , at ten , at the Ivy Bush . Carmarthen . Attorneys : Poole and Garalin , Gray ' s Inn-square , London ; Li vttts Bristol . Henry Birbor El well , japanner , Wolverhanipton , Staffordshire , June 21 , at ten , and July 20 , at eltvuu , at the Swan Hotel , Wolverhanipton . A ttorneys : Capes and Stu ^ t . Field-court , Gray ' s Ilia , London ; Robinson , Wolverhampton . William Muuton , ruiller , Greatford , Lincolnshire , June 17 , and July 20 , at twelve , at Standwell ' a Hotel ' , Stamford . Attorneys : Thomson and Son ,- Stamford ; Ciowrs and Weulake , King ' s Bench-walk , Loudon .

      Joseph Miller , cabinet-maker , Ciifton , Bristol , June 15 , at half-past twelve , and July 20 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy . Belcher , official assignee . Attorney : Bull , Ely-place , Hoi born .

      On Saturday, June 19,1841, Will Be Published, No.Lof

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      2 THE NORTHEBN STAR . ¦ : : ' .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 12, 1841, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct553/page/2/