COUNTRY CATTLE AND MEAT MARKETS, &c.

Norwich Castle Meadow, Aug. 12.—We had a very short supply of fat Cattle to this day's market, prices 8s. per stone of 14 lbs. sinking offal. Store Stock was supplied much more liberally. The show of Scots was large, and many of them of good quality, prices from 4s. to 4s. Sd. per stone when fat. Not a single lot of Short Horns were offered for sale to-day. Not a large shew of Pigs, and the sale of them brisker than of late.

Manchester, Aug. 9.-To-day we had a large show of Cattle, chiefly Irish, which, in the early part of the market, went off slowly, in consequence of holders demanding the rates of last week, but at the close they were induced to comply with the prices offered, which were at a small reduction, as per our quotations. There was an indifferent stock of Lambs on the whole, and such as were of good quality and condition readily found purchasers at last week's currency. Pigs remain without variation, either as to supply or prices.-Beef, 5d. to 53d.; Mutton, 44d. to 54d.; Lamb, 4d. to 5d.; Veal, 6d. to 7d.; and Pork, Sd. to 4d. per pound, sinking offal.

AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN, sold in the Maritime Counties of England and Wales, for the Week ended August 5, 1826.

.59 9....31
64 3. ..34

.56

2. .30

.56

4....33

.65 4....41

.....61 2....33

0....31
4....28 6
0....29 0

5. .29 3
7.. .28 6
0. .29
0....00
5....28 0
0....26-1

* The London Average is always that of the Week preceding.

"I have the satisfaction to know, that Manchester itself will have to "suffer for its baseness in silently permitting you to bring forth Horse, "Foot and Artillery, in order to prevent my entrance into the town."MR. COBBETT'S Letter to Boroughreeve and Constables, 2d Dec. 1819.

TO THE

RADICALS OF MANCHESTER,

ON THE MEETING, HELD AT THE MANOR COURT-ROOM, IN THAT TOWN, ON THURSDAY, THE 17TH OF AUGUST, 1826.

Burghclere,
Tuesday, 22nd Aug. 1826.

It is my design, my friends, to offer you some remarks on the proceedings of the Meeting aboveMY FRIENDS, WHAT, then, the rich begin to mentioned; but, before I make cry out, at last, do they? LAVEN- the remarks, let me insert the DER, "'Squire Lavender," late an newspaper Report of those proable London thief-taker, cannot ceedings. The occasion is iminduce these rich sufferers to hold portant; the subjects, treated of their peace! Cannot make them in the speeches and the petition see the "necessity of that subor- are important; and, therefore, dination," which they used to be, though the Report is long, though for everlasting inculcating as pro- it will demand some time to go per for you! through it with attention, it ought

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doing this: but, at any rate, they were my foes; they were that, at least; and, therefore, though they may be entitled to the compassion

to be read with the greatest care" authorities” against me in 1819: by every man, who shall think it nay, they might act rightly in worth while to read the remarks that are to follow it. But, before we read this Report; before you and I read it; before we, who had the power-of-imprisonment Bill of others, they are entitled to none passed against us, and SIX- from ME; and, none they have, ACTS passed against us; before any more than if they were so WE read this Report, we ought to many of those cursed flies that are look back to the years 1817 and now daily tormenting my horses. 1819, when scores of petitioners "What! Do you," says some were, under the bayonet, marched one, "never forgive"? Forgive? as malefactors into the yard of the Yes, when offenders repent, and NEW BAILEY PRISON, and kept when they prove their repentance there under the rain for a whole by making, or showing a desire to day and night, in the winter, and make, atonement. And, I, for my when CANNING made the Honour-part, can discover, in the conduct able House ready to burst itself of the parties here alluded to, no with laughter by joking about the marks of any such desire. On the revered and ruptured Ogden," contrary, it appears to me, that whose petition ought, by-the-by, the far greater part of them would to be read to CANNING once a almost as soon perish with hunger month for the rest of his life. Yes,

themselves, as to see that parliamentary reform, which would give you, and all of us, fair play. Let them perish, then, say I; and I wish them to perish to the last man, if they still persist in their opposition to reform.

you and I, my friends, ought to look back to those years, when those who now petition were so very silent, to say the very best of their conduct. I beg you to look at my motto. The day of suffering, there spoken of, is come. It is But, more of this by-and-by: come, at last; and, whatever others let me now insert the Report of ought to feel for the fall of the the proceedings at this Meeting; rich of Manchester, no sorrow, on for, though the petition, being, as their account, is due from ME. it is, silent upon the subject of They might think that they were REFORM, will produce no acting rightly in backing their effect; though it will get no an

timation that it has been received; →still the speeches are worth notice; and, as coming from Manchester, the whole thing forms the sign of a change of some sort being on the work. When I have inserted the Report, I shall remark on the mat

swer, and will hardly bring an in-power to prevent it; and thus, this the second in the kingdom, for its important and unrepresented town, wealth, the number of its inhabhas been deprived of that influence tants, and its extensive commerce, in the State which it ought to mainwho signed the Requisition, and the tain.--(Applause.) The gentlemen public in general, have long and anxiously waited, expecting that the constituted authorities would do their duty by calling a meeting to make such representations to the Government as the emergency of the times required their not having done so, at length induced the Requisitionists no longer to remain silent spectators of the ruin and misery which per

ter in the order in which it lies before me.

This day a numerous Meeting of the inhabitants was held in the Ma-vades every class. They, therefore, nor Court-Room. At eleven o'clock applied to the Churchwardens to call the doors were thrown open, and the a meeting of the ley-payers to take multitude outside were admitted. As into consideration the important obsoon as order and silence could be jects we are now met to consider. procured, These gentlemen refused to call the meeting, alleging as a reason for so MR. BAXTER was unanimously doing, that they did not consider it called to the Chair, when he proceed- within their province as Parish Offied to address the Meeting to the fol- cers (Hisses.) There might perlowing effect:-Gentlemen, I much haps have been some validity in their regret that this place is not filled by objection, if the application had been some person more competent to pre- to call a meeting of the inhabitants side in so numerous and respectable at large; but as it was contined to an assembly of the ley-payers of this the ley-payers only, and as these important town; but I rely upon officers are appointed by that body, your indulgence and support, whilst the Requisitionists did hope that to the best of my power, I endeavour they would have felt it their duty to to perform the duties required (Ap-have complied with the request, parplause.) Custom has given more ticularly when it must have been weight to public opinion, when that known to them how utterly useless opinion has been expressed in meet- it was to apply to the officers of the ings convened by the regular con- Lord of the Manor for the purpose, stituted authorities; but as it re- when it was considered what their gards the town of Manchester, if the conduct had been. We meet here to Boroughreeve and Constables are to take into consideration the propriety be considered in that capacity, the of making such representations to public in general ought to be inform- the King of the state of this distressed, what is notoriously known here ed town and the manufacturing disto be the fact, that these officers are tricts generally, as shall impress appointed by a small number of the upon His Majesty the necessity of friends of the Lord of the Manor's calling together the Parliament to steward, that they are generally se-endeavour to mitigate evils which, lected from amongst that portion of the if not speedily attended to, may force inhabitants which would never allow a the industrious and generally peacepopular meeting, if it were in their able population, to acts of despera

that there will no longer be a necessity for the future to apply to this, or any other of those authorities, who, in their attachment to hole-and-corner proceedings, have treated this great and enlightened town, as if it were unworthy the exercise of any public right.-(Great and continued applause.)

and above all, the intense interest evidently felt, fully justifies us in what we have done. And, surely, if ever there was a period in our history, when men of all ranks and parties ought to come forward to use their utmost endeavours to rescue their country from the awful calamities which now surround it-that pe

tion which would involve themselves and others in one common ruin. It is a fact, I believe, well known to all who hear me, that the great mass of the people of this manufacturing county have long been without the necessaries of life, that some have died for want, and that tens of thousands receive a bare existence from the hands of charity. The public have been long impressed with MR. RICHARD POTTER, prethe belief, that it was imperative vious to moving the Resolution, thus upon the Government to remove addressed the Meeting:-After the every impediment which obstructs remarks of my friend, your worthy our commerce with the other nations Chairman, it is not necessary for me of the world, and particularly to re- to enter into a justification of the peal those pernicious laws against steps which have been taken (and the importation of corn, the exist- which I am proud to avow, I joined ence of which operates as a double in), to bring about the present meetScourge upon the industrious inha-ing; the number of the inhabitants bitants of this country; first, by de-assembled show high respectability, priving them of a market for the produce of their labour; and, secondly, by enhancing to so exorbitant a price the greatest necessary of life, as to put it out of the power of the labourer and mechanic to obtain for himself and his family their daily bread. In calling together the leypayers only, the Requisitionists were not actuated by any feelings of dis-riod is the present. It should be our respect, or of the incompetency of the business this day to inquire into, and, people at large to deliberate with if possible, find out those causes of themselves upon the question before poverty and embarrassment which afthe Meeting; but it was thought that flict us; and why a powerful nation an Address from that portion of the like England, meriting happiness and inhabitants which composes this as-greatness by its high moral character, sembly, would, in the present state of things, be more likely to have the desired effect, and that it would disarm the opponents of the measure (if any there be), by showing that the Resolutions which are intended to be passed, were not carried by that part of the population which is labouring under the want of the necessaries of life. The illiberal conduct of the Committee, to whom is intrusted the power of permitting the use of the large room in the Exchange, which has been refused upon this occasion, is scarcely worth naming. In all probability, before another Meeting is required, the Town Hall will be in a state for use; and I congratulate you

its skill, its capital, its enterprise, and, above all, by its unwearied industry, is in a state, the most depressed and wretched; more so, I do believe, than any country in-the world—not even excepting Ireland; and men of your enlightened minds and sound judgment, I am sure, will enter upon the inquiry with that calmness which its importance deserves. The Resolution which I have the honour of submitting to you is to this ef fect:

"1. That this town, and the great manufacturing districts, of which "it is the centre and the mart, are suffering, at the present moment,