w THIS BRISTOLIAN MEMOIRS and CORRESPONDENCE of JJMES ACLAND, Proprietor and Editor— written by Himself. " I LIKE HONESTY IN ALL PLACES."— Judge Bay'ley. Printed and Published by JAMES ATXAND ( SfiLK PROPRIETOR ANU EDITOR; at No. 4, All Saints'street, Bristol. VOL. II— No. VIII.] WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1829. [ Price lid. ® C3?" ' n consequence of the many complaints which hav © reached me with reference to fhe noisy urchins who congregate in the heart ofiheCity, and blovrtheir rude blasts to the annoyance of the ' quietly < lisposed) I beg to state that all the boys employed in the Sale of my Memoirs, wear numbered badges on their lett arm. Those who Would deal justly, will not, I am sure, pelt Peter that they may punish Paul. 3AMES ACT. AND. To the HOUSE- HOLDEKS of the CIT^ and LIBERTIES of BRISTOL. Fellow Hate- Payers. I have to congratulate yon on the unani- mity which prevailed among the thousands who attended your General Meeting of Mon- day last, on Brandon Hill. It was highly creditable to those who manifested a due respect for propriety, at the same time that they evidenced their regard for the pure and impartial administration 6f the laws of their Country. For the information of utich artiong veu as were not present, I subjoin the Resolutions unanimously Agreed to. ROBERT VENN, in the Chair. Resolved, l.- L_ That it appears to this Meeting, that the Commissioners for Paving, Pitching, Cleansing, and Lighting t'he City of Bristol, and liberties thefeof, are not a legal body, according to the terms of the Act of ParTia- ment, under whtch they assume to act. 9.— That it appears to this Meeting, " that the said individuals acting as Commissioners, have manifested a most culpable indifference to the trust they have assumed, by their re- appointment of " Wintour Harris, as their Clerk, subsequently to their detection of his • personal application of large sums of money, ' the property or the Rate- Payer*, and whkh fraudulent abuse of confidence they had per- mitted him to compound and settle. 3— That it appears to this Meeting, that legal measures should be resorted to, for the purpose of procuring redress for the injustice committed against the Rate- Payers, and for securing the Rates from mal- appropriation by a fraudulent Clerk, acting under the sanction of a body " illegally constituted and illegally disposed. 4.—' That it appears to this Meeting, highly desirable, that until there shell be a legally constituted body of Commissioners and an honest and responsible CI ? rk to such body, when so legally constituted, tht funds which have been more than once misappropriated, should be withheld, and that it is therefore the bounden duty of the " Rate. Payers to withhold all and any payment of the Rates attempted to be levied by a body illegally constituted. 5 — That an application be forthwith made to the Court of King's Bench, with a view to the enforcement o'f the Act of Parliament, with reference to the " Commissioners for Paving, Pitching, Cleansing, and Lighting the City of Bristol, and Liberties thereof," and for the further purpose of securing the Rates ' from those who ha" ve committed or connived at so gross an abuse of trust, as that committed by the present Clerk, Wi'ntour Harris. 6.— That a subscription he set oYi foot for the Creation of the requisite funds for attain- ing the legal objects of this Meeting, a" nd for defraying the necessary attendant expences ; and that Charles Houlden Walkfer be the Solicitor, to be employed on behalf of the Rate- Payers. For myself, I shall refuse " payment of any Rate for Pitching and PaV'ing, until our dishonest Clerk has beenrepljtccd by one not so amenable to private censure and public reprobation, and until the Rates shall be levied by a legally constituted body of Com- missioners. Let others follow my example, and it will i- not be long before these gentlemen shall be taught that the poor people of Bristol are entitled to the protection of the Laws equally with the more rich, but less Virtuous members of this community. With reference tc the proceedings > r> Court of King's Bench, I shall give some able Solicitdr the necessary instructions as soon as I am put in possession of the means of discharging the indispensable expences of such proceeding*. In respecJt o'f the Petition tothe two Houses of Parliament, I w41I take good care to be in rime for the commencement of the ensuing Sessions, and I have no doubt of the institu- tion of a Parliamentary Committee for en- quiring info tht disgraceful abuses chargeable and capable of proof against the public func- tionaries of your devoted City. JAMFS ACLAND. To JOHN BUSH, GENT..( one, & c.) ana St R, ATTORNEY. About fourteen months since, a Very poor mar., whose name is Edward Wm. Whiting, put into your hands Certain document estab- lishing beyond doubt, his right- to certain propertv. " withheld from him by one Chris- topher Northcote. You undertook to proceed in the business for him, but you have grossly neglected his interests. About " two months since, he applied to you to return him his papers and you refused to do so. He has now put his case in my hands, and ( duly authorised) I now require of you the restoration of the documents in question. JAMES ACLAND. 8 THE BRISTOLIAN. To CHRISTOPHER NORTHCOTE, [ Of Redcross- street, in the City of Bristol, and of Piddlecote Farm, near Chorley, Devon-' shire, formerly a Maltster, but now a Gen- tleman. SIR, You are the sale executor of one Robert Carpenter, who died in the year 1811. He willed thewr; rental, ( that is, the rental after payment of repairs and chief rent) of a certain house and land, in Brick- street, St. Philip's, to his widow for the period of her life. The widow died about Christmas, 1825.. The only child of the testator and the un- disputed heiress to this property is Elizabeth, the wife of Edward William Whiting, a la boring mason. You refuse possession of the house and land to this poor man, until you shall have been paid the sum of <£ 40. 16s. 8d. On • what grounds ? You say that, instead of paying the widow of the testator the net rental after payment of the out- going expenses, jou handed her the gross proceeds of the property. You then make out a bill of such outgoing ex- pences, paid by you in the life- time of the widow— and now charged by you against the heiress. This bill of your's amounts to £ 40. 16s. 8d. and you refuse Whiting the possession of the property until you shall have been reimbursed that amount from his pocket, You persist in receiving the rental towards such liquidation, but you must know that however you, may have satisfied the mind and conscience of poor Whiting's lawyer, you have not even the shadow of an equitable claim on him for any portion of this bill. It is an iniquitous exaction by an uncon- scionable executor. But think not that be- cause you have hitherto bushed this hard- working mechanic, that the hour of reck- oning can fee evaded. It is at hand, and your riches will neither prevent your merited exposure, nor shield you from the contempt of tjie honest and just. JAMES ACLAND. To Mr. HUNTr— Editor, of the Examiner.. Silt, Looking . over- one of y » ur independent jour-, nals I preceived the following interesting par- agraph :— " An astounding exposure of the poisonous and fraudulent contrivances of the Mealmen and Bakers, has jtjst appeared in the shape of a shilling pamphlet, entitled' the " Tricks of li, akers Unmasked; a Letter to the Lord Mayor of London." The author, James Maton, is himself a journeyman Baker; the story of the various employments he has filled, is in fact one continued history of atrocious frauds.— Curing his whole career he met with ONE ho- nest master: all the others whom he served dabbled more or less in the various secrets of the trade— making bread with inferior or damaged corn, with a scandalous portion of potatoes, alum, composition yeast, sea- water, See.— rob- bing all baked meats at the rate ( usually) of two ounces in the pound—'' burying dead mev" ( i. e. charging loaves never delivered) at the bouses of the rich or the careless. But the de. ception of the private tradesman is a trifling matter compared to the wholi sate villainy of the army contract Baker. Maton was employed a good deal in the contracting establishments which supplied French prisoners of war and En- glish gar. rison regiments. He unmasks the whole system of under- letting and re- letting the con- tracts, by which the person who actually mp- plied tils bread, did so at a price that would have ruined him unless he had used the foulest whole- sale adulterations-? The consequence was-, that the soldiers were incessantly complaining, and the hospitals were filled with men ill irom eating the vile composition. James Maton. denounced this wickedness to the military authorities ; some enquiry was made; the truth of. his allegations was established ; yet so extensive was the cor- ruption, that nothing efficient was done, and Maton was got rid, of by being sent out to Malta, as army baker. There he'was inconveniently strict in his inspection, and the local authorities ( M- iitlar. d was then governor) very speedily ie- shipped him to England, where he was left to get his bread as well us he could, in the teeth of a combination of- master- bakers against him The pamphlet is illiterate, but written with good sense and apparent simplicity, and contains a mass of very curious matter. We happen to know,—- as the eafly readers of the Examiner may remember,— something of the poisonous stuff which common soldiers were compelled to eat by a system of collusive jobbing; and therr- fore James Maton's particulars, however fright- ful, seem to us lo be consistent with probability. Nor do we see reason to doubt the details he gives of the frauds and adulterations ot common bakers; which indeed is a matter that everybody may be satisfied about by very little examination and trouble. We do hope the time is coming, when the public will think it worth while to guard against the cheating and unwholesome adulterations of an article which most people put nto their stomachs at least three times a day/' Now, Sir, it may perhaps gratify you to learn, that I have had the happiness to have originated the " Bristolian Bread Association" in this City, for supplying the Shareholders and others with pure and unadulterated bread, the j profit being divided among those who have contributed, the capital. There are 10,000 shares and there has not been the- slightest diffi- culty in procuring a sufficient number of sub- scribers,. In the hope that this method of coun- teracting the fraudulent and pernicioui conduct. of the generality of Bikers may be adopted in every populous district of the United Kingdom, I lubscribe myself, Sir, Your obedient Servant, JAMES ACLAND. To the EDITOR of TLIE BRISTOLIAN. SIR, I have just heard, by accident, that it was proposed yelterday,. at your Meeting, on Brandon Mill, that smiie proceedings ( the particulars I have not been informed) would be instituted against Mr. Wintour Harris, and that I should be appointed the Solicitor to conduct- the prosecution, and I lose not a moment in stating, that under the circum- stances of this case, I altogether decline the office, which, without my knowledge, and of course, without my. approbation, has been allotted me. I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, Broad- street, C.. H. WALKER. 10th November, 1829. M EM.—// I did not consult - Mr. Walker, it vas, became it. was inconvenient to me to have to travel half a day for that purpose, and I understood that gentleman was at fjwpstow. 1 thought, however, that Mr. W. would take, the appointment in the spirit M which it wa « offered, and I am still of the opinon that if he had been on Brandon Hill and had heard the cheers of the assembled thousands when the nomination was made, he would not have " declined the ojjlu*-" J. A. To Sin. Wesl on- Super- Mare. I ought long since to have answered your communication, but I beg you to believe that I am not insen> ible to ihe alleged iniquity of the. case— nor has my silence been either enforced or induced. You must however be aware that it demands investigation. It shall have it, and the object of your benevolent interference, if en- quiry should substantiate ihe charge of oppres- sion, may command my most strenuous exer- tions on his behalf, for the attainment of justice. This enquiry demands on my part time, labor, and money— all of which I hope to be shortly enabled to command to a sufficient extent for the required purpose. Meanwhile, believe me, your'i with respect, JAMES ACLAND. COMMITTEE- ROOM, Nor- 9, 182M. RESOLVED, That the report- of the Ballot for the price at which Bread, Ac. shall be sold, be now received. ( On this report being read, it appeared that there was a ma- jority of 752 votes, and 213 voters for one price.) That Mr. ACLAKD be requested to publish th* above resolution in his Bristolian of Wsdnesday next. THE BRISTOLIAN: » 3i PROSPECTUS OF THE BRISTOLIAN COAL ASSOCIATION. CAPITAL £ 800. In 4000 SHARES, at 4s. per Share. Each Share to take at the rale of half a hundred weight of Coal per week. The Association to import in its own vessel the best Red Ash Coal, from Newport. The delivery of Coal to Share- holders to commence i m ir< di'atcly < n M- bsoipiioli. On Shilling to be paid as deposit,, on taking the Scrip— a 2nd on or before the 9. th— a 3rd on or before the I6th— aud a 4( h on or before the 23rd of November. 1 he Jobjeots of the Association ate; 1st, s. « curity in quality— 2nd,. certainty of weigh.— 3rd, the purchase of Coal by the pcor, in small quantities, at cost price.. The expeiice of establishing the Association ( inclusive of Printing, Clerks, & c.) to be£ 80. The projector to be sole manager until the full establishment of the Association; imme- diately on which, a general meeting of the Shareholders Jo be cal. ed, an account rendered, and Five duly qualified proprietors to be elected Directors of the Association. Bankers and Treasurers— Messrs. Haytborne and Wright. Share- holders will not be restricted to any number of Shares; but no Share- bolder can hate above five votes. The price of the Conl ( best Red Ash) wilt be ( including the charge of delivery) to Share- holders, 14s. per Tort, or S| d. per C » t; and to Strangers, ( when the Association shall be fully established) 15s. per Ton. or 9d. per Cwt. Share- holuc- 5 will only be entitled lo an aver- age supply of hrlf- a- hundred- weight, per Share, per week, ai the lower price; any further quan- tity, to be charged at the price paid by Strangers. All Purchases to be paid for on delivery, at risk, of forfeiture of the Shares. The Treasurers' Receipts for the sums paid in, will, as usual, be exhibited in the windows of my office. The coal is now in course of delivery to Share- holders ( only) by the Cwt. or Ton. ** 1 hereby undertake the entire management of this Association, and to find competent persons for con. dncting it without charge of any kind to the Share- holders, and to defray all expences of every kind inci- dental to the business of the Association— on condition, that the Shareholders assign to me for my personal me and benefit, all profit accruing to the Association, over and above FIFTY PER CENT, on the Capital subscribed." JAMES ACLAND. Manager iu Trust for the Association. Office, No. 4, All Saints' Street, November 2ad, 1829.. LIST of SUBSCRIPTIONS for Discharging the Exchequer Process against JAMES ACLAND. Previously acknowledged ... £ 1 10 0 1. F 0 10 0 J. H 10 0 E. F 0 5 0 N. and Friends 0 3 6 H J 10 0 W, G 10 0 T. C. 0 10 0 Edward Htllier 0 10 S. S. and Friends 0 5 0 Reed; towards the sum of £ 23 17 £ 6 4 6 To Messrs, BUSII and l'RIDEAUX, Gents, and Attomevs. SIRS, I some time since addressed you a series of letters on your conduct, your unprofessional and censurable conduct towards your late client Mr. William Tyler. Y- ou sold him land at Mont- pelier, retainingJhe title deeds in your posses- sion AS security. Your client was to proceed in the erection of houses, paying you out of the produce of such tenements. On every occasion of a sale you appropriated the entire amount produced in liquidation of your claims. In short, as soon as he had made the property as valuable as his limited means would enable him, you in- duced him to sign sundry acknowledgments for amounts neither paid by you nor received by him— and this within twenty- eight days of his rendering in discharge of his bail, in order thai he might petition the Insolvent Court, for relief from his embarrassments. Knowing this con- duct to be illegal, you endeavored to persuade him to go into ihe country for two or three months, in order that your demand on such ac- knowledgments, so unduly obtained, might be legalised. He refused to do so, and when dis- charged by the Insolvent Court, the Commissi- oner who presided, observed,. that your claim on the two last mortgages-( for so it pleased you to call them) could not be supported in any Court of Law or Equity. These amounts make the sum of £ 242, which being illegal 1 am justified in throwing out of - consideration in your Debit and Credit account with Tyler. You sold a piece of grrnnd at £ t. d. M-> ntpelier, to Tyler,- fori 550 0 0 You procured from Rev. David Hughes, as mortgage on behalf- of Tyler, the sum of 300 0 0 You procured from Mr. Ronch the timber- merchant, under like circumstances ... 200 0 0 Your law bill agrinst your cli- ent was ... ... 81 0 0 You advanced Tyler on interest 20 0 0 The total of your claim again** Tyler ( exclusive*, of interest) is. £ 1151 o a £ s. d. Yovr received for a small plot sold by Tyler, of the ground ori- ginally purchased from you ... 55 0 0 You received for a house built and sold by Tyler 324 0 0 For another house unler like circumstances 300 0 0 You received for a second par- cel of ihe land ... ... ; 300 0 0 You received for a third house 330 0 O Youreceivedforafourthhou. se 335 0 0 You received for a third parcel of the land 60 0 0 The total amount of money with which you are chargeable in this business ( exclusive of interest) is ... ... ... ... ... ... £ 1704 0 0 And thus you appear debtor to the estate of Tyler in the sum of £ 553 0 <) What can the creditors of Tyler's estate be about, that they neglect applying to the Court for an enlbicmentef this equitable claim against gentlemen ( by light legal) who refuse justice un- less il be enforced— who decline battle but with iheir own weapons— the poisonous and barbed spear of law's uncertainty ? JAMES ACLAND. To the EDITOR of THE BRISTOLIAN. SIR, A kind friend having pointed out to my notice, the letter signed " A Share- Holder," in your publication of Saturday last, I beg to observe, that if the writer be of the fraternity he must know, that a public print is not the channel of information for Masonic affairs. The officers of the Lodge will give every information, when properly required. As I feel myself neither above nor below the effect of public opinion, I am induced to take this notice of the letter referred to. I am, Sir, your humble Servant, Nov. 10, 1829. G. KENTISH; MEM.— I profess- not to be in the secret, but if I am not misinformed, that secret is simply the, exem- plification of charity nridjthe dispensation of justice. If so, I need only observe, that iu the case iu ques- tion, justice will be charity, and charily justice. J. A. To the EDITOR of the BRISTOLIAN. SIB, A leiter having appeared in yourBristolian, signed " A Share- holder," I avail myself of this early opportuuity of replying to the queries set forth.— The Brother who was the* author of that letter, must- be awate that those who enter a society should be disposed to abide by its laws, and this knowledge should have dictated another method of pro- cedure than that which be has adopted. The 32 THE BR1ST0LIAN. tribunal of public opinion having been ap- You are nnt aware of the continuous warfare pealed to, I shall proceed to give such ex- wagid in your Committee- room for several weeks planation of my conduct as is incumbent on past. Nor should I have beaten a retreat so me as a man and a Brother. I am not pre- pared to say that the Royal York Lodge of Union, is held by less than-. upwards for 166 shares. 1 am aware that such shares were stipulated to pav five per cent, interest, but I also knew that myself and others with me, long as I could have continued the contest with advantage to the Share holders,, or without very great personal annoyance, and rI may add disatl vantage to myself. For the last - five or six meetings of your Committee, such was the con- tention, and Mi aggravatingly ( because so un- • who were members of the Lodge, came to necessarily) hostile the opposition, that I was on an understanding that our quarterly sub- each occasion so vexed by the irritating nature scription were to be paid from the interest of their factious proceedings, as to be under the produced by our shares. Such understanding necessity of leaving the room from indisposition, has been acted upon. It was agreed that share holders should have re- resultinginthe most painfully violently retchings. In the Committee on the 5 h instant, Mr. Elf sr, d^ he—^^ dm^ i ^ ^^ * ceipt only ; those who applied having received deeds upon application to. the solicitor. For myself,' I am piepared to s^ y, that 1 have in no one instance re- fused to give the proper security. I or mv colleague have never received one farthing of rent; it has been received by the Treasurer and expended for the general purposes of the society. In such manner as directed by the congregated brethren. The Share- holders appointed us Trustees aud not we ourselves. The Brother who wrote theletter must be aware that I exerted myself to my utmost to serve him ; that he is considerably indebted to the Lodge above the amount of his shares aud interest, that his case has been brought before a full Lodge, and there fully in- vestgated— if he feels himself aggrieved he has still other Masonic authorities to appeal to. Under these circumstance* I shall not feel it a duty to answer any other letter he may address to me, being at the same time determiued to. afford him every assistance in the power of his sincere Brother, and Your obedientServaut, J. G, POWELL. MEM.— This is a very proper letter, as it appears to me— 1 not being one of the fraternity. But, perhaps, among Masons, as among meu, the poor claimant has to eucouuter a thousand unexpected, and probably as many unauthorised obstacles. But I believe the appeal to the higher Masonic authorities," is free of expence. J. A. To the ASSOCIATED BREAD- EATERS. Brother Shareholders, The circumstance of my retirement from the office of Provisional Secretary, cannot be other- wise than beneficial to the Share- holders. So long as I remained in such situation, it> was na- tural you should. imagine the iffairs of the Asso- ciation in a fair and beneficial condition ; but when I found every measure of justice- opposed bv a party who assembled in your Committee- room, merely as in an arena for personal dispu- tation, and as offering occasion fjr personal insult— when their zefcl for your welfare was merged in their personal boasts of how much they were worth,... or how great their iitfluence minutes of the Resolutions for the Chairman received a letter addressed to the'Committee and handed it to the Chairman— in short, he sitting on the right hand, and 1 on the left hand of the chair, thought fit to take upon him all the duties which attached to my office of Provisional Se- cretary. I passed this " by without notice, but having occasion to call the attention of the Com- mittee to an error'committed by many of the Share- holders in ballotting for the question dis- cussed at your General Meeting, and having' proffered evidence in proof that the votes had been given erroneously through the misrepresen- tation of a person then waiting in thfe adjoining room, and having asked the Committee to hear snch evidence, in order that the effect of the error might be counteracted—- Mr. Essex, backed 4> y Messrs. Salter and Mondey ( as 1 believe be- cause the error made in favor of the faction) gave the lie to my statement; whereupon I burnt the list of the 94 votes so ballotted in error , vtnd ob- serving that there was still a party on the side of injustice, resigned my situation. To have held it one moment longer, would have been to admit that every question should be argued on party grounds, and that every decision should turn on the numerical force of a mere faction. I have received many letters from Share- holders, which my limits will only allow me to ackn . wledge in general terms. 1 hope the present situation of their affairs will ^ prompt the Share- holders to action. Hither- to I have, in great measure, acted for them, and I have to express to them my grateful sense of thexonfidence they have so repeat- edly placed in me ; but thi » confidence hes sheen prejudicial to their interests, for it has kept them from the General Meetings, arid has made them indifferent to the ballot- Hence its result and hence the added impor- tance of the still impotent faction. Their was— when I have good reason to " fear that my continuance in my office- might mislead you,; game now is to disgust the fair play members and destroy my own health— and when I con- j- of your Committed, thereby indncing their sidered that possibly^ my removal from the Com- j retirement and leaving the game in theirown mittee- room might restore harmony to that body hands. Why else does Roger Moore, - who, — or if it did not, might induce your greater - if he had never been a Churchwar& en, would attention to. your own interests— I retired to the ! never have been able to shake his greasy station of a mere Share- holder. | purse in your faces— why else does this Ro- ger Moore, with hij three hun ired a year— but who has refused to become the lessee of Mr. Lancaster, because of the r sx he xvould run in becoming responsible for 120/. with 1000/. worth of the property • bf the Assoc ation on the prvm. ses and in hs pos- sess on, and becanse ! told him, on the autho- rity of your sol citor that for the secur. ty of the Share- holders, " the lessees should s gn a declaration of trust— why else does this Roger Moore so pertinaciously remind one of your Committee- men ( whom I am proud to call my friend— I mean Alfred Phillips) that he is an uncertificated bankrupt P Why else, does does Mr. Ilybart ( who also is an unceriificated bankrupt) call Mr. Phillips to ofder when he rises to vindicate his charac. er, so sysiemati- cally attacked by rtiis RogerMoore and o hers? But these gentlemen have long been manag- ing men— the nobs of the Sub- Committee and which Sub- Committe was composed of a ma- jority of the Gentral Committee— the most ab- surdly ridiculous, and at the same time by pos- sibility the most iniquitous circumstance by which the proceedings of these your servants has bten marked. The Sub- Couimiitee perform an. act, which act they report to the General Committee for its confirmation. Suppo- e it be the withdrawal of . your funds from the. City Bank for an inproper purpose— the S'lb- Com- mitiee<( thirieen in number) being a majority of the General Committee ( twenty- lour in number) carry all before them— resistance were useless, and any iniquity the former might be capable of perpetrating, the latter would be compelled to approve and confirm. The . gross impropriety- of this extraordinary cir- cumstance has been oft en- exposed and strongly cen- sure-.! hy me— but in vain-— for the Sub- Committsc were too many for my arguments, and to this day th « t body is composed of a majority bf the Committee of Management! and the far greater portion of the faction ( I believe all but one) are members of this frreeious imperinmin impvrio. I am sure the rtiible rstit must cure of this otherwise incurable evil. On Mouday night I receivedthe following < « py of a resolution, by the hands of a deputation from ihe Committee:— " That this Committee do trtm- tmil to Mr. JcUrati their cordial and heurty thank,• for his services darhtg the time he held the office of I'rocisional Secretary." Now. I suspect there must be- some mistake iu all this, for as I love honesty in all plac » s,' I guess » he Committee to have - honestly resolved on thanks to me for my resignation. Services, indeed! why, so they were to the Share- holders— but bl » mt and whole- some, aud unwelcome truth to the faction. Thank* indeed! Well, I suppose 1 must'be grateful. Finally,— Brother Snare- holders, no corn is yet purchased, although excellent samples have b » eti tendered, and there is'lipwards of £ 1,800 in the hands ot your bankers. There must be more '• talk '' be- fore there is any wheat, and - es to flour— there must first be wheat— and as to bread, there must fiisi be flour— but first and foremost there must be a rid- dance of the rubbish by wbich the wheels of'the Association are clogged.— You shall not, in any mo- ment of necessity, lack the hest services of ' Your's faithfully. JAMES ACLAND. Printed' and Published by JAMES ACL A NO, " No.- 4, All Saints' Street.