The Bishop of Winchester ...
The Bishop of Winchester has just hada windfall or no less than 14,0001., by a renewal of one of the many valuable leases hel(d under tlat S8e. ThE paveme nt in Deptford has just been Msacidamized. On ZVednesdav last, a meeting of the operative weavers was held in Provan's.hall, Inigram-street, chiefly coimiposed of dele- gates fr.nn 1,anarkshire, 1)unmbartonshire, Renfrewshire, Stirling. shire, Avrshire, Argyllshire, Perthshirc, and the diSferent districts of this city and its neighbourhood. The hall was crowded to exesms. The object of the oreratives was to ibrin associatinns throughout Scotland, in order to obtain an increase of warei, which for maby years have bcen at so low a rate as barely to afford even thte best workmeis a seanty sub4istence; and to coimabine against a certain i,- dividual, perhaps the most extensive manufacturer in tnis city, and expel him from'the trade bv the 8th of September next, as being the sole apparent cause of breaking the prices, and lowering their wages, notwithstanding the increacing demanid for all sorts of goods con- nected with the trade. Thiu they were to effect by every weaver re- fusing to work for hirn after that day r and such of them as might be thrown out ot'employment in cousequence, were to be supported by tl:e attsoeiation, who were forming qietietics In their several dis- tricut for this parpose. During the pro6eedinga, the best order and regbularity prevailed, and many spirited specehes were delivered, free from any intemperance or ther irnpropcr feelitng. A committee was appotinted to nsake a regular, table or sule of prices, and byv shch- aca,tliy wtere t? aIsite._C.GJoaip40sr.