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A declaration against the admission of Dissenters to University honours is in the course of signature at Candi) idge. It has already been signed by 101 resident members of the University.
We are happy to be able to state, that Earl Fitzwilliam is not, as we had infinred from a letter of his Lomb-hip, which we have seen, un- favourable to the admission of Dissenters to the Universities ; but, on the contmary, decidedly favourable to that measure, though be doubts whether Parliament would lie justified in competing those learned cor- porations to admit Dissenters to their privileges and honours..—Leeds Mercury.
The Duke of Wellington has engaged one of the principal hotels at Defied (the Star) for a week in June, for the enormous sum of 1,000/. this Grace's installation is fixed for the 10th of that month. The Members for time University have also taken apartments for the same occasion,
The Duke of Northumberland has, in the most generous and muni- ficent manner, returned to his Grace's colliery lessees .10 per cent. on the rent of last year ; and his Grace has also, with his accustomed li- berality, allowed the tenantry 20 per cent. at the last audit.—Neweaslle Journal. [This paragraph is intended for the honour and glory of the Duke of' Northumberland ; but it only proves that his property is rented far beyond its real value. Nothing but a pressing necessity in- chives a landlord to make these reductions. Ile takes less because he cannot get more.]
A requisition to the thigh Sheriff of the county of Durham to cull a public meeting, in order to oppose the Metropolitan Registry Bill for deeds relating to real property, is in course of signature.
There have been in Birmingham, says the Birmingham Gazette, for sonic days, about Nerelli y delegates of Trades Unions from London, Liverpool, Alanchester, Edinburgh, Belfast, tee. The travelling and other expenses of these persons ( amounting to no trifle) are dm frayed by the Unions. This fact, combined with the circumstance that the Birmingham Builders' Union has remitted Olt to the men sentenced at Dorchester, will afford some proof that the funds ut the cunnimaed of the Unions are pretty ample.
Last Monday, the members of the Trades Unions of Birmingham and its vicinity assembled in great numbers, in Beardsworth's Reposi- tory, to petition the House of Commons to remit the sentence of seven years transportation passed at the late Dorsetshire _Assizes on the six members of a Labourers' Union. It was soon lam(' that the building (which will hold twenty thousand persons) was not nearly large enough to admit the crowds that came to attend ; end the fleeting was ad- journed to Newhall Hill. Several resolutions were passed, and a peti- tion to the Commons was agreed upon, in which the sentence was de- clared to be unjust, and of unprecedented severity. The petitioners reminded the _House, that the late King, when Prince of Wales, was, as the Duke of Sussex is now, head of the Freemasons ; and that the Duke of Cumberland is at the head of Orange Lodges ; both of which are secret associations, bound together, like Trades Unions, by oaths and secret forms of initiation. It was unjust to punish the members of Trades Unions, they argued, and to let these associators escape. A resolution of censure was passed on Mr. Hardy, Member for Bradford ; whose declarations in the House of Commons relative to the tyranny of the Unionists over their employers were declared to be utterly un- true, and characterized by malignity of feeling and recklessness of pur- pose. In the course of the proceedings, there was read, amidst loud cheering, a letter from Colonel Thompson, author of the Corn Cate- chism ; declaring his opinion, that the case of the Dorchester men was one of "point blank tyranny, which would justify any proceedings which tyranny can ever justify, subordinate always to the taking the road which leads to the greatest good with the least of evil." The meeting appears to have been conducted throughout in a very orderly -manner ; and the multitudes went home quite peaceably.
The operatives of Exeter and the neighbourhood, met on Thursday sennight for the same purpose as the men of Birminglimun. The ground which they take in their petition is, that the men were ignorant of the Incas.
At the latter end of last week, the journeymen tailors of Bolton struck for all advance of wages. The ministers have advertised in other towns for hands, proffering constant employment to good workmen at 2.4s. per week. [The journeymen tailors should take advice from their gallant Representative, or read his book on Wages and Combination.] The trade of the woollen and worsted districts becomes daily worse. Very little indeed is doing; great numbers of workmen are out of em- ploy ; and on the whole, perhaps there has not been a time of greater stagnation since the melancholy year 18'26. There is but one opinion as to the cause of our manufzieturers being thus brought to a stand. The enormous price of wool—a price, which, taking into account time value of money, is unprecedented—has given this check to the manu- facture; the cause of the high price of wool is the short supply; and the cause of the short supply is, that consumption has been gradually gaining upon supply, till at length it has gut in advance, and must wait till the supply overtakes it. The state of the American market has also had some influence on the manufacture.—Leeds Mercury.
Mr. Maclean, one of the Revising Barristers for Essex, says in his Report, " In one instance I was attended by a female overseer ; and it is due to her to state that the list furnished by her, and in her own hand- writing, was one of the most correct I met with."
A trotting-match took place lust week at Runcorn, for a coffin !
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