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 and Mr. Moore attended one in Tynemouth; on the same day Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright attended one at Sheffield; Mr. Edwd. Smith was chairman, and opened the subscription by putting down his own name for £200; on the 25th, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Bright, Col. Thompson, and Mr. Edwd. Smith (of Sheffield), attended a great demonstration at York; on the 26th, Mr. Cobden, Col. Thompson, and Mr. Bright, were at unotlier at Hull, Sir W. Lowthorp in the chair; on the 29th, the same gentlemen were at Blackburn, where Messrs. Eccles, Shorrocks, & Co., contributed £200 towards a subscription which reached £713 before the ineeting closed; and on the 30th, Mr. Cobden and Mr. Moore attended one at Stockport, where the sum of £984 was subscribed, in addition to $320 given at Manchester by Stockport gentlemen.

On the 31st, a West Riding social demonstration took place at Wakefield, the noble hall of the Corn Exchange being tastefully decorated for the occasion. The following localities were represented by their deputies :—Ossett, Halifax, Farsley, Gomersall, Cleckheaton, Heckmondwyke, Doncaster, Dewsbury, Yeudon, Horsforth, Guisely, Rawdon, Pudsey, Batley, Burnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, Lindley, Lockwood, South Crosland, Hanley, Kirkburton, Golcar, Dalton, Kirkheaton, Mirfield, Skelmanthorpe, Clayton West, Holmfirth, Molegreen, Kirkby, Bralford, Ottley, Morton, Clayton, and Leeds. Mr. Jamnes Garth Marshall, of Leeds, presided, and Messrs. H. H. Stansfield, George Craven, F. Schwann, and F. Carbutt, acted as vice-presidents. After the chairman had cxprcsscd his regret that Mr. Villiors, one of the greatest champions of their cause, had been unable to be present, Mr. Plint read letters of excuse from the Earl Fitzwilliam, the Earl of Radnor, Lord Kinnaird, Earl Dacre, Sir George Strickland; Edward Va. vasour, Esq.; F. H. Fox, Esq., of Farnham ; Sir Charles Tempest; Geo. Jno. Farquharson, Esq.; Redhead Yorke, Esq., M.P.; W. B. Wrightson, Esq., M.P.; Edwd. Baines,