LIANc MEMOIRS and CORRESPONDENCE of JAMES ACLAND, Proprietor and Editor— written by Himself. « I LIKE HONESTY IN ALL PLACES."— Judge Bayley. Printed and Published by JAMES ACLAND ( SOI. K PROPRIETOR AN » EDITOH; at No. 4, All Saints'street,' Bristol. VOL. RI.— No. XIR.] WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1829. [• Price 1 id. SHAREHOLDERS IN THE BIIIS TO LI AW SREAD ASSOCIATION. Are informed, that by the Resolution of the fieneral Meeting, those who DO NOT HOW the BOOK of the CONSTITUTION, on or before tin 1 Oth of DuctMBEa NEXT, will, "• without chance ef excuse or exception, toxwbit their SHARES and all INTEREST in the Association. Shareholder are also informed, that the pxerdue ImtalmiUt of OME si! ll. II* g pe~ Share, must be immediately paid, and also that of ihe like amount, which becomes due TO- MORROW. By Order of the Committee, JAMES ACLAND. Prozisional Secretary. Of. ee, 4, All Saint's' Street, Vld Nov. 1859. TO MY READERS OF THE WORKING CLiSS. friends, Ton have lately heard much tfbfmt the advantages of Co- operative Societies, like lieneftt'Olnbs, Trade Societies, and Savings' Banks. They, are established for the purpose of avoiding some evils which men are exposed to when they act singly, and of obtaining soft> e advantages whi « ti tht> y must otherwise be de- _ ri » 8( l of. The evils which CO- OPERATION- is is'ended to combat, are some of the greatest to which men are liable, viz.:— the great and increasing difficulties of providing for our families, awl the proportionate danger of our falling into Pauperism and Crime.— Let us consider these more at length. The rate of wages has been gradually diminishing for some hundred years, so that now it is not above one- third of what it used to be— but this is not all, for the same eauses continuing to act, the wages must go on diminishing till a workman will not be able to maintain a family ; and by ihe same rule, he will at last not be able to maiutaiu himself. This conclusion is frightful to think of, but whethei we think of it or not. it will march on in its own silent wav, till it unexpectedly overwhelms ns like a flood. But are we certain that this is true J Are we really approaching any thing like starvation, in spite of any labor and industry we may exert! I am afraid this is certainly true ; and 1 could give you other reasons for thinking so. But you will say, whystate these things so strongly ; why aggravate evils which are bad enough of them- selves ? Our situation is hard, but it cannot be helped; and " what cant be cured, must be endured." We are now come to the very point at issue; the pitch of the question. The evils may be cured, and the remedy is in our o » n hands. The remedy is CO- OPERATION, and I will now explain its principles and advantages. Co- operation means, literally, " working toge- ther," Union is strength iu all raves, and without exception. Many hands make short work. What one man cannot do, tVro may. What is impossible for a fow, is easy for many. Bat before many can work, they must join hand in hand, they must know their object,— and feel t common interest and a common tie. At present we work one against ano- ther— when one of us gets work, another loses it: and we seem natural enemies to each other. The plain reason of this is, because we work for others, not for ourselves; let us therefore begin to work for our- selves, and not entirely for otilers. Again, at present, in working for others, we tret for ourselves only a small part, some say one eighth, some say one fourth, of the produce of their work. - If In any way we could work for ourselves, we should get the whole.— How is this to be done ? as we have ho capital, we are obliged to find a master to give us employment and we must work for common wages. This is true— it is Capital we want; and if we con- sider IKSW this capital is to be raised, \ vc shall fiBd it is by no means an impossibility. Union and Siviag will accumulate it. How, 1 will hereafter shew you, merely observing at this tiiue, that the Associations for Bread and Coal, will eventually exemplify my argument. JAMES ACLAND. ' TO MY READERS. My Friends, I beg again to call your attention to a clause of the Court of Requests' Act, as one with which you should be acquainted, in Older to the cure, if not the prevention, © f one evil, with regard to which, I havo re- ceived many accusatory communications, The clause in question runs thus:— " That if anyelerk, Serjeant, or crier, or any other officer, or servant employed by the said commission- ers in putting this act, or any of the powers thereof, in executioh, shall exact, take Or accept auy fee or re- ward whatsoever, other than and except such fees as are appointed and allowed t ® them respectively bv virtue of this act, for or on account of auy thing done or to be done by virtue of this aot, or on any acconnt whatsoever, relative lo putting this act into execution, every such person so offending shall upon conviction thereof before the said commissioners, at any of their meetings, or upon verdict or judgment being had against him in such action, as next hereinafter men- tioned, be for ever incapable of serving or being em- employed under this act, in any office of profit or emolument, and shall, over and above, forfeit and pay the stun often pounds to auy person or persons who shall sue for the same, t> y action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in any of his Majesty's Courts of Re! cohl at Westminster, within three calendar months after the offence committed, in which suit no essoign protection, or wager of law, or more than one iinpatv iauce, shall be allowed." You will perceive that the rerhedy is in your own hands; if the abuse be frequent it is within your power to prevent its re* currence, by rnakitig aft example or two of those who have subjected, or may subject themselves to the wholesome provisions of the Act of Parliament referred to. * Your's, truly, JAMES ACLAND. 46 TO GEORGE ESSEX. SIR, What ( ii<) you mean the other day by asserting that it any of the Share- holders came near your house you would give them some " COLD PILLS'' which you had ready prepared? Did you mean that if the poor people for whose shillings you signed a chequi-, asked you for their ow n, that you would snoot them— giving them bullets for bread ? Was this your meaning ruffian ? Blood- thirsty varlet, go to your bed and dteam of the many who have gone without a dinner on the Sunday that they might pay up those thirty- eight thou- sand shillings, which constituted the sum of « £' 1900— paid for the purchase of pure wheat— but which you and your honest colleagues have ordered lobe laid out in Exchequer Bills. Why you might as well have bought horse- whips or hempen halters with the money; they have as much to do with an early supply of pure bread as Exchequer Bills have— and perhaps more. You will find this Pill a purgative I guess. May it relieve yonr biliary systiin of i s blood- hankering symptom ! JAMES ACLAND. P. S. Has any of the O£' I9( X) been anticipated by a purchase of powder and shot ? J. A. TO ROGER MOORE, Candle- Dipper, and one of three hundred a year- SIR, When I was endeavoring to raise a few shill- ings for a poor creature in distress, and asked you ( and other gentlemen of the Committee) for a six- pence, you refused, alleging that you had a brother in the hospital, In attempting to frighten the poorer Share- holder into the disposal of their shares, in order that you may buy them out of the Association which would secure to them pure and wholesome bread— in laying out your pounds in the pur- chase of their shares and in incurring a por- tion of the expence attendant on your iniquitous and laughable attempts to serve the bakers by knocking up the Association— you seem to jorgct that you have a brother in the hospital or mint. You could remember that you had a poor brother in the Hospital or Mint when you wished to use his name and misfortunes as a stalking- horse to your parsimony ; and you can as readily forget the strong claims of your own unfortunate brother when you think fit to co- operate with bakers and flour- factors in an endeavor to pre- vent poor Shareholders front participating in the enjoyment of an unadulterated loaf. What consistency ! It is something like your attempt to introduce inio the late Committee the practices of the Commissioners for Pitching and Paving. By the bye— when I supaenaed you as a wit- Bess against the notorious Wintour Harris, wl. at THE BRISTOLIAN did you truan by saying to me in the anti cham- ber of ihe Grand Jury Room, with a malicious shake of the head. " A< land— this is a dirty piece of business, and if I had been aware of it, 1 would have kept out of the way"? Pray Mr. Consistency— are you or are you not a candidate for public opinion, and if so, are you able to explain the very few circumstances here alluded to? At least, you can understand me when I tell you, as I toldtyou at the time," if there be dirty business in the transaction I am not the mud- lark. " Are not you? JAMES ACLAND. CONUNDRUMS. ( From the Comphn Papers.) Why is the head of the faction like a pig's- face when pickled ? Because Salter. When the firm of the Axbridge flash Bank bolted, of which of the Ex Committee- men were they the prototype p AU- nwnv. In what does the f- cribe of the faction re- semble a celebrated Quack ? In his decided partiality to the adminis- tration of " PILLULCE PLUMBT" ( Lead Pill.) By what fractional operation on the patro- nymic of the ring- leader of the faction, can thieves be most conveniently disposed of? By taking five- sixths of its quantity and providing a ALTER ( Hatter.) Why are the Ex- Committee with their friends the Bakers arid the Hour Factors, like School boys in the week before Christ- mas ? Because they are anxiously looking for a breaking vp. Which of the Counties of the United Kingdom, is now most in disrepute in Bris- tol ? Esirx. To the EDITOR of THE BRISTOLIAN. RIB, As some persons, culling themselves the Friends and Stewards of the Primitive Me- thodist Society, in Bristol, occupied a place in last week's paper, which attracted the at- tention of tha public, I beg leave to state that thsre is not any person in connection with that body of people in Bristol. I remain your's respectfully, THOMAS EDWARDS, Bath, Nov. 23,1829. P. M. P. MEM.— I suppose P. M. P. means " Primi- tive Methodist Preacher." J. A. To the EDITOR of the BRISTOLIAN, And to the Inhabitant Householders of the IVard of St. Michael. The time appointed for making a Watch Rate on the householders, ( at which meeting they themselves) held on the 9th of No- vember instant, the Ex- Chief- Constable was absent, neither did he appoint or depute any person to account with the Ward for the amount of the past Year's Rate— this ac- count was insisted on by many persons pie- sent, who refused the granting a Rate until the Ex- Chief- Constable had passed his ac- counts— neither were there any Rate- Book, new or old, produced, but refused,— the new Chief thereupon retired with his Petties into another room, there to make a Rate in des- pite of the persons assembled. 11 is therefore to be hoped, Mr Editor, the Ex- C'hief- Con- stable. Mr. John Webb, of Trinity- street, will furnish the Inhabitant Householders of the said'Ward, through the Bristolian, with the expenditure of the last year's Watd's money, otherwise the Ward will be called together at an early day on the subject, by a deputation of four from the Ward. T. E. To the ASSOCIATED BREAD- EATERS. My Friends, You will have perceived that your Com- mittee court publicity.— 1st. By their reso- lution that their proceedings shall be regu- larly published ; and— 2ndly, by throwing open the Comm ttee- Room to as many of the Shareholders who have signed the book of the Constitution as the room will conveni- ently accommodate It may be as well that I here remind you that your late Committee passed a resolution that I should not publish any portion of their ptoceedings but by their special orders. To thi » evidence of their desire of secrecy may be added, tliEt whenever the * ior of the Committee- Room was open, all proceed- ings were promptly closed, and pending the ballot for the proposed two prices, one of the Committee was stationed at the door to take the balloting slips from the Shareholders, lest, by any chance, they might get a peep into that which it was sought to maka " a hole and corner." Such WAS your Committee, and what your Committee now is you may come and tee. Your late representatives met and talked for six long weeks and did nothing— or next to nothing. Your present Committee have sat three days, and in that short space of time, have taken a mill, commenced purchasing wheat, and enable me to promise you Hour by Christmas, and Bread by New Year's Day. The objects of your late Committee were to cut a figure as speakers, and to take care that they never unsaid a word they had said, or acknowledged themselves capable of error or mistake. 1 he sole object of your present Committee is to press steadily forward in the promotion of the purposes of the Association and the procuring of pure Flour and Bread for the Shareholders. Witness the following minutes of the proceedings of your repre- sentatives ;—- V COMMITTEE- ROOM, All Saint, 1 Strut, Saturday, November 2b/, 1829. Mr. HENRY NEYLER, Chairman. Present; Messrs. Neyler,— Rotton,— Farr, — Bevan,— Cossens,— Somers, — Phillips,— Witts,— Gwyer. Resolved unanimously, That the Resolutions of the last meeting of the Committee be confirmed, ( with the exception of the latter part of the Sixth Re- solution) relative to the investment of Sixty bounds, received this day from the bankers, which is hereby placed pro tem in the hands of the Chairman. ( Moved by Mr. Cossens— seconded bv Mr. Pnillips.) That a Deputation, consisting of Messrs. Nevler, Rotton, and Cossens, do wait on the Solicitor to the Association, on Monday next, at Eleven o'clock, to consult him on all measure* of immediate moment to the Shareholders ( Moved by Mr. Farr— se- conded by Mr. Somers ) That the Provisional Secretary do write a letter to Mr. of , r- questing his attendance on the Committee, at the earliest possible moment, in order to an immediate arrangement respecting his mill. ( Moved by Lieutenant Rotton— second ed by Mr. Farr.) That twenty seven Shareholders be ad- mitted into the Committee- Room, whilst the Committee is sitting— such being the ex- tent of accommodation the present place of " meeting will allow— the ^ hateholders not to provoke discussion or to make observations. ( Moved by Lieutenant Rotton— seconded by Mr. Cossens.) V COMMITTEE- ROOM, 4, All Saints'Street, Monday Evening, 23, Not. Mr. ALFRED PHILLIPS, Chairman, Present; Messrs Cossens,— Sommers,— Earr,— , Neyler, Gwyer,— Lieut. Rotten, and Bevan. The minutes of the Committee on the Satur- y preceding were read and confirmed. The Provisional Secretary stated, that pursu- ant to one of the Resolutions of Saturday he had w. iiten and sent by the Miller to the Asso- ciation the following letter:— BRISTOLIAW BREAD ASSOCIATION, Office, 4, All Saints' Street, 23, Nov. 1898. St R, I am directed bv the Committee to request your earliest possible attendance with a view to an early arrangement respecting your Mill,; the Committee meet datly at 4 o'clock, and IJhope it will not be inconvenient for you to attend to morrow, or at the latest on Tuesday. I am. Sir, Your very humble Servant, ( Signed) JAMES ACLAND, Pratisiond Secrttary. THE BRISTOLIAN. P. S. Should any of the Farmers in your neighbourhood have for sale prime Wheat, per- haps you will have the kindness to bring a few samples with you. J. A, Mr. , of , in answer to the above letter, waited on the Committee, relative to the grinding of wheat for the Association. He stated that he would grind the wheat for the use ofthe Association in a proper and worlcman- like manner, including the carriage of the same to and from his mill, at 4} d. per bushel, provided the distance should not exceed six miles— and from and to any part of the City of Bristol, the price of 4$ d. per bushel, to include every ex pence of Dressing, Smutting, & c.— he under- iking to keep the Machinery and Mill Stones in the best possible order for the purposes of the Association. Fourteen days notice or ten pounds to be. given by either patty prior to the termina- tion of this contract. The Miller of the Association to attend wholly to the process ot grinding the Wheat, and on no account to leave his duty during that time, and the Wheat or Flour of the Associatron never to be out of the custody of their Miller. Mr. , agrees to be satisfied with the extra remuneration of Cd. per mile for Carriage per Waggon load, ( to average ten quarters each load,) for any distance exceeding six miles from his Mill, exclusive of such propoition of the Turnpikes as shall exceed from to Bristol. Mr. • , agrees to find Sacks for the use of the Association, at and after the rate of 1 d. per week per sack ; such sack » to be approved of by the Miller ofthe Association. Resulted Unanimously, That the Miller do to- morrow morning pro" ceed to procure samples of Wheat of the best quality in the market, w ith the ptices of each sample, anil that the samples be laid before a de- putation of the Committee at half- past three o'Clock, and that such deputation consist of Messrs. Rotton, llevan, and Neyler, who shall report to the Committee thereon. ( Moved by Lieut. Rotton— seconded by Mr. Cossens.) That the Solicitor to the Association be re- quested to attend at the Commitee Room to- mor- row evening at seven o'Clock. ( Moved by Mr. Bevan— seconded by Mr. Farr.) That a Cbecque on Messrs. Ilaylhorne and Wright be forthwith drawn for the amount of Os. 8</& signed by theChairman,& Messrs. lievati, Rotton, Farr, and Neyler. ( Moved by Mr. Cossens— seconded by Mr. Gwyer.) In the course of the evening the Provisional Secretary reported, that having understood a number of persons were collected together ill a back room in Redcliff- Street, calling themselves the Committe of this Association, he had thought proper in the discharge of his duty to the Share- holders, to write them the following letter, adding that he lied succeeded during his temporary ab- 391 serice from the Committee- Room, in delivering it to two persons ofthe names of Tripp and Allo- way, calling themselves a deputation— despite the locking of the door and the circumstance of the entrauce being guarded by a constable. Messrs. Richard Salter, Roger Moore, George Essex, John Mondey, John Hybart, Wilham Lane, Isaac Smith, John Allowoy, G. 1' ur- berville, Hinry James. Edward Alter, Henry Tripp, IVilliam Scott, Robert Stc- ger, and George Hamley. SIRS, At a General Meeting of the Shareholder' of the Bristolian Bread Association, held at the Gallery of Arts, opposite the Drawbridge, on THUKSDAY Evening last; and at which meeting a majority of the :> hareholders were present— you wera, by the unanimous vote of such meeting, turned out of oilier, a new Committe appointed, and mvself elected to the office of Provisional Secretary. In such capacity, I deem it my duty to tell you, that when you assemble together, calling yourselves the Committee of the Bristolian Bread Association," you become an illegal combination, for the purpose of de- ceiving the unwary or misled Shareholders, into the payment of money to their own prejudice. I, as Provisional Secretary to the Association, know of no Committee but that appointed by the Shareholders, and cannot recognise a body of impostors, who oersist in wearing the robes of office, which their masters, the Shareholders, have torn with reprobation from their ignominious shoulders. I caution you to beware— lest you should provoke the prosecution which the law may authorise the Committee to direct me to in- stitute against such illegal combination as that of which you are members. JAMES ACLAND; P. S. I append for your perusal a copy of the resolution which concerns you, and which was agreed to at the General Meeting. f. A. '• That many of the Commitiee of this Asso- ciation having neglected the Interests of their Constituents, and given the preference to their | prejudices, feelings aiid opinions, railier than to j the purposes for which they were appointed' that such Committee be and is hereby dissolved. COMMITTEE- ROOM, 4, All Saints' Street. Tuesday Evening, Nov. 24, Mr. IiENRY NEYLER, Chairman. Present; Messrs. Bevan, — Summers, — Farr,— Rotten,— Cossens,— Gwyer. anil Phillips, The proceedings and resolutions of the Com- mittee on the preceding night were read and confirmed. Lieut. Rotten reported that one sample of Wheat had been approved of by the deputation appointed by the Committee, which was ordered 48 THE BRISTOLIAN. o be purchased for the use of the Association, and the Miller to procure further samples for the inspection of the Committee. Th. it this Committee recognise such debts as may have been contracted by the late Com-' mittee of the Association during the period of their being a legally constituted body empowered by the Share- holders to act in. such capacity; but that this Committee will not recognise any debt contracted anterior to the last General iJeeting, which was not so contracted by a m eting of that Committee legally summoned — n > r will this Committee hold themselves accoun- table for any debt or expence incurred by the factious members of the. late Committee, con tracted by them since the last General Meeting of the Shareholders, when their functions as a Committee ceased. ( Moved by Lieutenant Rotton— seconded by Mr. Gwyer,) The Provisional Secretary rend a letter fjom Mr. John James Weir, declining the Office of a Trustee to the Association, and assigning his reasons for such resignation. That this Committee do accept the resignation of Mr. John James Weir as Trustee to the Asso- ciation, and that Mr. George Butler Ward, of Hillsbridge Cottage be appointed to such vacant office. ( Moved by Mr. Cossens— seconded by Mr. Sommers.) The Provisional Secretary then reported that from Dr. Bagnell respecting the office of Trustee, of which the following is a copy :— SIR, " Friday Evening, Six o'clock. « The letter you did me the honor of send- ing, appointing Two o'clock this day, for my attendance at your Office, did not reach me till about Four. " Having yesterday signed an Address to the Committee of the Bristolian Bread Asso ciatiou, which contained some resolutions, agreed to by several Shareholders, who met on the occasion of the present dissatisfactory state of the Association, it now only remains for me to assure you, that no exertions of mine shall be wanting to uphold this useful Association to promote the unanimity of the Committee, or advance the real interests of the Shareholders. " I. have the honor to be, Sir, Your very humble Servant, " ABRAHAM BAGNELL." That this Committee do accept the letter of Dr. Bagnell as in resignaiion of the office of Trustee, and that Mr. John Nash, of Cannon Street, be appointed to such vacant office. ( Mov- ed by Lieut. Rotton— seconded by Mr. Farr.) Mr. Thomas Howell, of Clare- Streer, having declined the office of Trustee. ( Moved) That Mr. Nathaniel Ravis, of Southville Cottage, Co- ronation Road, be appointed Trustee in his stead. That Messrs. Neyler and Cossens be deputed , to inspect Ovens and Premises for the use of the Association, and to report thereon to the Com- mittee. ( Moved by Mr. Farr— seconded by Mr. Phillips.) Mr. George Butler Ward took his seal in Committee as one of the Trustees to the Associ- ation" The Provisional Secretary placed in the hands of the Chairman ihe sum of ,£ 20 received by him as deposits on shares— taking his acknowledg- ment for the same. That a checque be now drawn for the amount of £ 34. 7s. 6d. ( due to Mr. W. Mtlsom of Tem- ple Street, for 250 sacks ordered for the use of ihe Association) on Messrs. llaythorne and Wright, Bankers, and that such checque be sign- ed by Mr. G. B. Ward, the Trustee, the Chair- man, and three other members of this Commit- tee' ( Moved by Lieut. Rotton— seconded by Mr. Gwyer.) That the Provisional Secretary do present the checque payable to Mr. W. Milsom « r Bearer, to the Bankers, and that on receipt of ihe answer, he do immediately pay ihe same to Mr. William Milsom, and take his receipt for the same. It is but right ; hat I should inform you that none can participate in the advantages of the Association, but those Share- holders who sign the book of the Constitution, and get thair Shares stamped. Such was the resolution of theShare- holders, and if I stand alone in yourCoommitlee- Room, I never will consent IO any compromise. The unprincipled men who have done their worst to destroy the poor man's chance of pure bread, shall have no terms from me. Nor from the Share- holders— unless they sign within the li- mited period. And to this they must come at last— or sacrifice the amount paid on theirshares among the poor Share- holders who have proved too true to their own interests to sell out at the bidding of Roger Moore and hi* co- combinators. Why is it that Fry, the Baker, on the Broad Quay, has obtained a hundred shares ? Is it not that he may thereby be enabled to contribute to the utmost of his power to the destruction of the Association f Why is that Mr. Fry is ena- bled to boast that thousands of the shares are in the hands of the bakers— If it be not evidence of the nature of the opposition to which your Association has been and is subjected, I know not what it is, and thiscircumsrance should teach you wisdom. If you still desire pure bread, pursue the only course that can be calculated for the attainment of such object. Stick to the ship whilst two planks hold together, and then you will be in my company— in the company of one ( say of me what my enemies and tbe bakers will) who originated the Association, and who is the last man to agree to its dissolution. By inadvertence I omitted in my letter of Sa- turday last giving you, what after all it is of the first importance you should be put in possession f, namely, the introductory resolution of the General Meeting of Thursday. Ia sy introduc- tory, because it introduced the whole of the Constitutional resolutions, and by which you became especially bound ; it is as follows ;— RESOLVED, That having formed an Association entitled " The Bristolian Bread Association" with a ca- pital of <£ 5000 ( raised by the sale of 10,000 shares, at 10s. each) having for its object the sup- ply of the Share- holders with pure whea eu bread, flour, and offal, the Share- holders assem- bled at a General Meeting this 19. h day of No- vember, 1829, do resolve that the following rules and regulations for the government of the Asso- ciation, be entered in a book by Mr. James Acland, the founder of the Association, and that every Share- holder be required to attend at the Office of the Association, at No. 4, All Saints' Sireet, in the City of Bristol, and sign his or her name thereto, within twenty- one days ( that is t, » say, on or before the 10th day of December next) and that in default thereof, the Share- holders who shall not so sign their names, shall foifeit all right and claim to any interest in the Association, or to the shares standing in his, her or their name or names. I should also stale that I omitted the name of Mr. Richard Rowland, of Caroline Place, Hot- wells, as one of your Committee. I am happy to inform you that the signatures to the Book of your Constitution up to last night included upwards of THREE THOUSAND shares. So much for the VoLUNTEEas! What will the I'BESS- MEN say now? Or rather, as this is but four days' work, what will they say to the result at the close of tha week ? Your's faithfully. JAMES ACLAND, EXCHEQUER SU BSCRIPTIONS. Amount required...£^ 3 17s. 0 d. Previously acknowledged 14 6 5 0 I 0 Joshua Mo » » 0 I Robert Avery I 0 W. P. 0 " Friend to Truth" 3 0 I r> Wm. Clough, Fishmonger ... 3 ( j A Shield, a Buckler, and a Staff 0 11 0 £ 18 0 4 MEM— Having paid £\ 5 of the turn re- quired, to the Solicitor of Stumps, the receipt I for such amount is exhibited iu the window of I my Office. Printed and Published by JAMES ACLAND, ( Sole Proprietor aud Editor,) at the BmsroLUK- Qyrios No. 4, All Saints' Stree!, Bristol. [ GNRTIY] SUPPLEMENT TO THE BRISTOLIAN, NORNNIER 23, 18- 29. TO THE EDITOR of the BRISTOLIAN. Silt, As your publication i « the only medium through which I can convey any information to the Shareholders of the Bread Association, because of the differences which at present exist amongst tho- e who claim to be its Com- mittee, I shall feel obliged by your insertion © f the following letter. Your obedient Servant, C. H. WALKER. Broad- street, 24th Nov. 1S29. To the MEMBERS of the. BRISTOLIAN BREAD ASSOCIATION. GENT IE MEN, As your Solicitor, appointed by yourselves at one of your General Meetings, I beg to inform you, that on Friday last, I was at- tended by Mr. Mondev and Mr. Tripp, and consulted upon certain differences which have unfortunately arisen in respect to the management of your Association. 1 told these gentlemen then, as i have this day, that I would be no partiz > n in their disputes; all I wanted of them was to be put in pos- session, bv both parties, of the facts attend- ing these disputes, and I would then advise to the best of mv judgment, in order to pro- mote your interests, that is to say, the inter- ests of mv clients, and I took down ftom these individuals their statement in writing, informing them at the same time, I would do the satne by the party opposed to them ; und after having so done, reperuse and con-- sider the opinions I had taken of counsel, and then, having made myself fully master of both sides of the dispute, g; ve my opi- nion as to the, couise that ought to be pur- sued. I at the same time requested the Cases and Opinions which I had entrusted > o them might be returned to me. After this interview, 1 called on Mr. Acland, on Sa- turday evening, to learn his answer, and the answer of his friends to the Accusation and Charges of the party opposed to them, in order to make myself competent to give an hontst and correct judgment upon the merits of their difference, and to point out the course that ought to be pursued, under existing circumstances. I heard what Mr. Acland had to urge, and yesterday morning a deputation, consisting of Messrs. Rotton. Cossens, and Neyler, from his side the question attended me. I heard their staiement and immediately ad- dressed a letter to Messrs Mondey, Tripp, and Essex, the gentlemen who represented " the other side of the house," of which the following is a copy - " Broad- stieet, 23d Nov. 1829. " Gentlemen, " I have had another Deputation with me from \ our divided Committee, and heard what they have to say in reply to the notes I took of your statement, so that 1 consider, with a re perusal of some parts of the opi- nions of Mr. Foliett, I shall be able to advise what steps ought to be taken by you in fur- therance of the interests of the Association. I shall therefore be happv to see you on this subject in the course of this morning. " I remain, & c. " C. H. WALKER." " Messrs. Mondey, Tripp, and Essex, & c. & c.'' Of the gentlemen to whom this letter is addressed, I heard nothing till this morning, when Messrs. Mondey and Ttipp called for my opinion and advice ho'. v to act. I re- quested to refer to the cases and ooinions ; they informed me, th. it at a meeting of se- venteen'of thes individuals who claim to be vour representives on the preceding evening, it had been resolved, after reading my letter, that the Causes and Opinions should not be forth- coming, but be kept with the other papers of your Association. Notwithstanding this gross and outrageous conduct to you and to me, these individually called upon me for my professional advice ! ! Against such con- duct, on youi behalf, as well as my own, I protested, in terms of adequate reprobation — they then told me that another meeting Of the individuals they represented would take place this afternoon; they admitted the con- duct of these parties to be indefens ble, and Mr. Tripp promised that the matter should be again bro ight on the lapis, and let their decision be what it might, he would let mc know bv eight o'clock this evening— the clock of St. John's church is now striking nine, and neither Mr. Tripp nor Mr. anybody else has made his appearance. It was my anxious wish to avoid all party feeling in thisjmatter, and in which the parties who have attended me up to my last inter- view, Messrs Mondey and Tripp, have uni- formly expressed their full convicti in I wished neither to veer to the right nor the left, but to give my upright and honest opinion upon what course had best be adopted to promote and seeure your interest. In mv endeavors to do so, i am bound to say, that the individuals who held their meeting in Redcliff street, and call themselves your Committee, have thwarted me, and with- held from me these documents which your interests requited they should produce for my inspection, and without waich 1 find myself totally incompetent to discharge tl e trusts yon have reposed in me as your Soli- citor.- J am, your faithful and obedient Servant , C. H. WALKER. Broad- street, Ilalf- past 9 o'clock, Tuesday, Nov. ' 24, 1829. P. S. Though I have been deprived of a sight of Mr. H Follett's opinions as above staled, I have no doubt iny agents will be. enabled to supply me with copies of them, so that I shall be in a situation to give my advice to you on the matters in dilleience in the Bristolian of Saturday next. 4, All- Saints' Street, Tuesday Niglt. SIR, I have this moment received yoi r favor and must confess your tr< atmenl by ihe Ex- Com- mittee dots not surprise me. 1 have had a spe- cimen of ihe r " gentility" and so have vour clients and my staunch friends, lie Share- holders. But to the purport of your ltt; er— 1 rea- ly cannot si e what bearing th cases and opinion- can have on ficts, which have occurred sub- sequently to the perioi when those cases were d. aivn or those opinions reqiired. I a iude io thecrrcu instances, which have bfeeii made a handle, wherewith. to effVct ( if possible) the destruction of the Association, by the factious members of the late Committee. I ili'- refore request you will have the good - ness to fiiv& r me, as Provisional Secretary to the Association, ( elected to such office by your clients), with specific answers to a fe- v simrple questions touching subjects oi immediate and vital impoitance lo the poor candidates for pure and wholesome bread. Indeed, when I reflec: on the piesent state of exciterm nt < m the subject at issue, I venture to bespeak y our good feeling towards them bv entreating your reply to the subjoined queries this night, and am, Sir, Your's obliged, JAMES ACLAND. P. S. If you can favor me with your opinion by 13 o'clock to- night you will parlicularly ob- lige me. as I am desirous ol getting it into th « Bris. oli& n of to- morjow. ( CASE.) On Thursday the 12th instant, ( b:; ing a Com- mittee night) ihe Committee sat in All Saints' Street, and on that- evening " adjourned to Mr. Lancaster's till to- morrow, at 6 o'clock " as i find in the entry worded in the Minute Book. Titfj met accordingly at Mr. Lancaster's on th » SUPPLEMENT TO THE BRISTOLIAN. Friday evening, at sucfe hour. wbett I at! w » u- ad with a Requisition for a General Meeting of the Share- holders signed by 140 individuals having wore than 500 votes, such requisition stating the purpose of the meeting to be " the protection of the Association against the insiduous designs of its secret enemies— and for other business." It also fixed the 19th instant, and 7 o'Clock in the even- ing for the period of such meeting. ' I he Chairman received the requisition, and Mr. Essex, who acted as his scribe, informed me that the Committee would take it into their consi- deration, and send me their reply. The Committee sentnie no reply ; but in the minute book, I find as the only resolution- of that evening, the following;— " Resolved, That the present- meeting not having been specially summoned, and this not being a night on which meetings of this Committee are gene- rally held, this meeting be dissolved for this night and the members be specially summoned for Monday next." Query 1.— Was it not the duty of this Com- mittee according to the Constitutional Rules of the Association to have acted on the requisition presented by me ? The first requisition having been thus thrown aside, I presented another to the Committee on the evening of Monday, the 16th instant, under the following circumstances:— When I left my office for such'purpose se- veral hundreds of the Shareholders accompanied me. We had not reached Mr. Lancaster's ( their Committee- Room) in Temple Street, when we were met by a deputation from the Committee, who informed me that they had adjourned from Mr. Lancaster's to the King's Head in the same street, fur the purpose of rtceiyingthe Requisition of the Shartholders. I accordingly repaired to the King's Head where I found the Committee with Mr. Mondey in the Chair, that person having been in ihe Chair at Mr. Lancaster's when the adjournment took place. At the King's Head, in consequence of the very limited size of the room, a motion was duly made and carried :— " That this Committee do adjourn to such place as Mr. Acland shall point out for the put- pose of meeting the Shareholders and of receiv- ing their requisition." This was cairied by six-, votes against live. We went first to the Saracen's Head and after- wards ( the room there not being large enough) to the Bathurst Hotel, where, there being a quorum of the Committee present and Mr. Mondey having there again taken the Chair, I presented the Reouisilion and the following motion was proposed,. seconded, and carried .— " That in consequence of a requisition just pre- sented by Mr. Acland on behalf of the Share- holders, Mr. Cossens be authorised to make all necessary arrangements for a General Meeting of the Shareholders to be- held on Thursday, the I9: h instant, Bt To'clock in the evtning." Mr. Cossens accordingly made the necessary arrangements and the place and time of meeting having been advertised, upwards of sixteen hundred of the Shareholders ( a majority of the whole body) assembled and passed resolutions. Query 2.— Has not such meeting^ convened in accordance with the Constitutional Rules of the Association, and were not the Resolutions there passed binding upon the parties ? Query 3.— Had not the Shareholders so as- sembled at a General Meeting the power if dis- solving their former Committee of Twenty- four undo) substituting another Cemmttee of Twelve in its place i. Broad Street, Tuesday, 21 o'clock, r. M. Si*, Your Letter and Case have this moment reached my hand, and though 1 would much rather retire to rest than answer cases at this time of the night, I will endeavour to comply wiih your request, though I can hardly suppose it possible you can make any use of; my opi- nions in the way you propose. Oil the first question, it appears to me from the fuels staieil that the meeting of the Committee on live Thurs- day night was a regular meeting in accordance with the Constitutional Rules of the Association;, so was the adjournment to the following even- ing, and therefore that it was ihe duty oHhe Committee to act upon the Requisition pre- sented to them. I think the Meeting, here spoken of was con- vened in full accordance with the Constitu- tional Rules of the Association, and thai the resolutions there passed ought to be considered as binding upon the parties whom they afi'tcr. I think if the Shareholders had the power to pass any resolutions it had the power of cashier- ing refractory officers of their own choice, and therefore that if the conduct of any members of this Committee WHS at war with their duty, they at a meeting properly and regularly convened were justified in sending such Committee- Me I to the right- about. 1 have given these opinions on the assumption that the facts of the case are correctly stated. C. II. WALKER. Printed and Published hy JAMES ACLAND, suV Proprietor and Editor,) ' at the BRISTOLIAX- OFFJCK, . No, i, AH Saints' Street,, Bristol.