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A memorial from the Coventry Blue Club, signed 

 by upwards of 1000 individuals, has been transmitted 

 to R. E. Heathcote, Esq., M.P., one of the mem- 

 bers for that city, expressing in the most unqualified 

 terms their disapprobation of his public conduct, 

 and calling upon him "forthwith to resign the re- 

 presentation of the city, in order to afford them an 

 opportunity to elect a member that is willing and 

 has time to attend to their interests ! ! ! !" In reply 

 to this communication, Mr. Heathcote, under date 

 of April 4, says" I have no intention of relinquish- 

 ing my seat for Coventry previously to a dissolution 

 of Parliament, nor any desire to occupy it one day 

 afterwards \ \ \ '."Aria's Birmingham Gazette. 



GLOUCESTERSHIRE. At the annual meeting 

 of the directors of the Bristol Savings' Bank, it ap- 

 pears by their last report that they had received from 

 its establishment the sum of 280,3467. 16s. lid., de- 

 posited by 6270 members,10 charities, and 90 friendly 

 societies. 



A meeting has been held at Rodborough of the 

 woollen manufacturers, when it was resolved to 

 petition parliament against the system of paying 

 workmen by way of truck. 



At the county assizes 56 prisoners were recorded 

 for death, 20 were transported, and 60 were ordered 

 to be imprisoned. 



LANCASHIRE. At a public meeting of the in- 

 habitants of the towns of Great and Little Bolton, 

 held for the purpose of taking into consideration the 

 present distressed state of the country, and presided 

 by J. Livesey, esq. boroughreeve, several resolu- 

 tions were entered into, and a Political Union 

 formed of the middle and labouring classes to ac- 

 complish a Reform in the Commons House of Par- 

 liament as the only means of eradicating the various 

 evils with which the country is assailed. The re- 

 solutions stated the crippled state of the industrious 

 part of the people by enormous taxes brought on by 

 a false and fatal ambition ; the enormous revenues 

 of the Church, particularly the Tythes, the paro- 

 chial Aristocracies, &c. &c 



At Lancaster assizes, Sir J. A. Park said to the 

 grand jury : " These are frightful times ! Long as 

 I have been connected with this circuit as a barris- 

 ter and a judge, I have never seen a calendar stained 

 with crimes of such enormity." His lordship's ob- 

 servation is equally applicable to the Yorkshire 

 calendar for the late assizes. Public distress is suf- 

 ficient to account for robberies and certain irregu- 

 larities, but not for the heavy offences which we 

 have had to record Macclesjield Courier. 



A public meeting had been held at Manchester for 

 the purpose of taking into consideration the best 

 means to be adopted for obtaining from Parliament 

 a general act for the regulation of the hours of labour 

 of young persons employed in cotton, woollen, and 

 other factories where children are employed and ma- 

 chinery used, when several resolutions were passed, 

 and a petitionfounded thereon unanimously voted to 

 both Houses of Parliament. 



We stated, a few weeks ago, that the number of 

 persons who were emigrating to the western world 

 was as great during the present as it had been during 

 the same period of the past year. We find, on in- 

 quiry, that the number is daily increasing, and that 

 there is every probability that it will this year ex- 

 ceed considerably the number of emigrations during 

 the last. The emigrants are principally persons 

 who have been engaged in agricultural pursuits, and 

 the bulk of them comes from the inland counties- 

 They are all decently attired, and neither they nor 



their families exhibit marked traces of having un- 

 dergone the severity of distress. Many of them 

 seem to have been small farmers. Several parties 

 of emigrants have come to Liverpool in waggons 

 and covered carts their own property. The stream 

 of emigration is still towards the United States. 

 Liverpool Albion. 



LINCOLNSHIRE. From every part of Lin- 

 colnshire, families are preparing to emigrate. More 

 than loo individuals, chiefly middle-aged farmers 

 and industrious mechanics with small capitals, will 

 leave Boston during the next week, in two small 

 vessels termed lighters, which have been hired by 

 them to convey themselves and goods, by canals, to 

 Liverpool, where they purpose embarking for the 

 United States Lincoln Mercury, April 2. 



CORNWALL. At these assizes 5 prisoners re- 

 ceived sentence of death, and a few were imprisoned. 



A meeting has been held at Truro of merchants 

 and others interested in the mines of this county, 

 when it was resolved to present a Memorial to His 

 Majesty's Government, claiming its protection from 

 the inroads the smelting of Foreign Copper Ores 

 is making against their property.* 



WALES. At the Radnor, Monmouth, Cardi- 

 gan, Denbigh, and Flintshire Sessions, the civil 

 business was very light, sentence of death being re- 

 corded only against 2 culprits. 



A public meeting, called by the Vicar and about 

 40 of the principal inhabitants of the populous and 

 important parish of Holy well, combining, as it does , 

 in a remarkable degree, the agricultural, the manu- 

 facturing, the mining, and trading interests, was 

 held at that town, to petition the legislature on the 

 present general distress which presses with peculiar 

 severity on that district, when 9 resolutions were 

 carried by acclamation, stating the very deplorable 

 condition of the population there, caused by an 

 overwhelming taxation, raised to pay the expenses 

 of long and destructive wars, &c. &c. Petitions to 

 both Houses of Parliament were passed, founded on 

 the resolutions; and the language uttered at this 

 meeting " was," as the Chester Chronicle informs 

 us, "that of speaking out on the present state of 

 the country, and the causes of it! ! !" 



* The resolutions state, that the mines of Corn- 

 wall are calculated to employ between 80 and JJO.OOO 

 souls, being about one- third of its population. That 

 the Customs Acts of 1827 and 28, which first 

 permitted Foreign Copper Ores to be smelted in 

 England, threaten rapidly to destroy those advan- 

 tages, which not only attach provincially to Corn- 

 wall and Devonshire, Wales and Ireland, but spread 

 themselves generally and extensively throughout the 

 kingdom, which insure to the British Navy, in peace 

 or war, a never failing and cheap supply of metal, 

 now become essential to its perfection and durabi- 

 lity, and thus form so valuables part of our inter- 

 nal resources and security. That by the importation 

 of even a small portion of such copper ores as are 

 known to be raising in South America, and as have 

 been of late actually sold in the British Market, 

 many of the mines would be suddenly and irretriev- 

 ably crushed thousands of industrious families 

 would be thrown upon their parishes, and a degree 

 of distress occasioned, commercially and agricul- 

 turally, which it would be then as impossible to 

 prevent as it is now appalling to contemplate. That 

 by the admission of Foreign Smelter only a few years 

 ago, the Cornish Mines depending upon that ar- 

 ticle were suddenly and at once extinguished, much 

 of their ores lying now unsaleable at the price of 

 raising them, without any benefit having accrued, 

 so far as can be ascertained, to British Interests 

 this fact proving that the present alarm, with re- 

 spect to Foreign Copper, is founded not only upon 

 the best information, but upon actual experience. 



