[189] This included a provision to forbid the subscription of any funds to a trade or other association, unless some magistrate approved its objects and became its treasurer. [190] Place MSS. 27803--299. [191] _Ibid._ 27803--212. [192] Home Office Papers, letter of January 3, 1832 (H.O. 40--30). [193] It is pleasant to record that some of the workmen expressed their gratitude for Francis Place’s indefatigable services. “Soon after the proceedings in 1825 were closed,” he writes, “the seamen of the Tyne and Wear sent me a handsome silver vase, paid for by a penny-a-week subscription; and the cutlers of Sheffield sent me an incomparable set of knives and forks in a case” (Place MSS. 27798--66). [194] June 25, 1825. _Ibid._ 27798--57. [195] _Sheffield Iris_, September 27, 1825. [196] Handbill preserved in Place MSS. 27803--255. [197] _Manchester Guardian_, August 7, 1824; see also _On Combinations of Trades_ (1830). [198] This is expressly stated in the preamble to the rules adopted at the meeting on August 16, 1824, and recorded in the first minute-book. [199] This society afterwards developed into the existing General Union of Carpenters and Joiners of Great Britain. [200] Two rival journals, _The Journeyman’s and Artisan’s London and Provincial Chronicle_, and _The Mechanic’s Newspaper and Trade Journal_, were also started, but soon expired. [201] The _Trades Newspaper_ was managed by a committee of eleven delegates from different trades, of which John Gast was chairman, and was edited, at first by Mr. Baines, son of the proprietor of the _Leeds Mercury_, and afterwards by a Mr. Anderson. _The Laws and Regulations of the Trades Newspaper_ (1825, 12 pp.) are preserved in the Place MSS. 27803--414. The issues from July 17, 1825, to its amalgamation with _The Trades Free Press_ in 1828, are in the British Museum. [202] £232,000 was raised by one committee alone between 1826 and 1829. See _Report of the Committee appointed at a Public Meeting at the City of London Tavern. May 2, 1826, to relieve the Manufacturers_, by W. H. Hyett, 1829. [203] _Wool and Wool-combing_, by Burnley, p. 169. [204] Home Office Papers, 40--20, 21, etc.; _Annual Register_, 1826, pp. 63, 70, 111, 128; Walpole’s _History of England_, vol. ii. p. 141. [205] _A Letter to the Carpet Manufacturers of Kidderminster_, by the Rev. H. Price (1828, 16 pp.); _A Letter to the Rev. H. Price, upon the Tendency of Certain Publications of his_, by Oppidanus, 1828; and _A Verbatim Report of the Trial of the Rev. Humphrey Price upon a Criminal Information by the Kidderminster Carpet Manufacturers for Alleged Inflammatory Publications during the Turn-out of the Weavers_, 1829.