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other numerous class of manu- 

 facturers. At the time they 

 turned-out for an advance, they 

 were receiving the same wages 

 that had regularly been paid 

 them for nine months previous to 

 that period ; and we have ascer- 

 tained that the net average of 

 weekly wages paid to men spin- 

 ners fcom the 1st of January last 

 to the middle of June, when they 

 turned out, was upwards o( 3ls.; 

 and for boys and girls, spinners, 

 upwards of 175.; clear of all 

 charges and deductions what- 

 soever. 



" Contests of this kind, which 

 have for their object an advance 

 of wages, have generally defeated 

 the end for which they were 

 entered into; and where the 

 operators have usurped the control 

 of their employers, or where in- 

 subordination has prevailed, to 

 the frequent interruption of busi- 

 ness, those particular branches 

 Avhich have been thus exposed, 

 and which in our several manu- 

 facturing districts have been 

 localized, have gradually declined 

 — the occupations by which 

 thousands gained a comfortable 

 subsistence have been lost to 

 them. The present depressed 

 state of the manufactures in 

 which the hatters, the hosiers, 

 silk weavers, Szc. were employed, 

 and which had by ingenuity, in- 

 dustry, and perseverance, been 

 raised to a pitch of great national 

 importance, is chiefly owing to 

 that kind of overbearing influence 

 which is now most unjustly and 

 illegally employed to deprive the 

 master-spinners of the control of 

 their own concerns, and must 

 ulUmately, if not successfully 

 resisted, add another to the 



melancholy catalogues of events 

 most distressing and ruinous in 

 their consequences.'' 



15. Guernsey — Monday last 

 the Bishop of Salisbury embarked 

 for Alderney, on board Governor 

 Le Messurier's yacht. Above' 

 300 persons received confirma- 

 tion in that small island. His 

 Lordship was accompanied by 

 Monsieur the Dean and Monsieur 

 Arnold, who went to Alderney 

 to inquire into the truth of com- 

 plaints made for a long time by 

 the inhabitants of that island 

 against the Rev. John C. Ubile. 

 After having heard both parties, 

 the Dean thought it his duty to 

 suspend the Rev, Mons. Ubile 

 from his ecclesiastical functions. 

 The Bishop returned on Wed- 

 nesday, and embarked yesterday 

 for England. His Lordship, on 

 going on board the Tiber frigate, 

 was received under a salute of 

 thirteen guns. 



16. Dover. — Yesterday even- 

 ing, at half-past five. Prince Leo- 

 pold of Saxe-Coburg, attended 

 by Baron Hardenbrook, arrived 

 at the York Hotel from London, 

 and in ten minutes afterwards his 

 Highness embarked in the barge 

 of the Royal Sovereign yacht, 

 which was waiting in the roads 

 to convey him to France. The 

 guns at the heights fired a salute, 

 both on the arrival and departure 

 of the Prince, and an immense 

 assemblage of persons cheered 

 him from the inn to the beach. 

 The yacht re'turns to morrow for 

 their Royal Highnesses the Duke 

 and Duchess of Cambridge. 



The Committee of Physicians 

 appointed on the 25th March 

 last, to watch the further pro- 

 gress of the epidemic, have made 



their 



