James C. Browne, D.C.L., vicar Alexander George Davies, M.A., incumbent of St. James's John Davies, M.A., incumbent of St. Edmund's E. H. L. Noott, B.A., incumbent of St. John's, Dudley Robert Harper, M.A., head master of the Grammar School George Lewis, Presbyterian David Evans, Baptist minister, Matthew Gibson, Unitarian Jas. Bond, Catholic priest, Samuel Price, tanner and Hy. Coldicott, solicitor Ed. M. Warmington, solicitor John S. Fisher, jeweller H. Wythes, plumber C. Cetti, furniture dealer Joseph Holland, pork butcher William Coleman, spirit merchant Isaac Collins, hosier William Hewitt, fruiterer George Whitford, bookseller John Cartwright, banker's clerk W. Piddington, tobacconist John Bromwich, jeweller J. C. Westley, brass founder J. Parsons Alexander Barker Bartholomew Duffy, shoemaker William Holland, builder William Smith, victualler anvil manufacturer Thomas Parsons John Baker Thomas Lees, shopkeeper Saml. Lee, baker Hy. Mence, shoemaker Daniel G. Ward, iron merchant Thomas Ward, victualler Thomas Timmins, butcher maker Enoch Brooks, currier James Shedden, stationer John Harris, hosier C. H. Tyler, cement manu- W. Morris, tailor John Bagott and Son, tailors George Morris, cab proprietor Thomas Reynolds, confectioner Thomas L. Stevenson, clothier James Cowden Haxeltine, butcher Thomas Allen, wine James Ellis, wine merchant John Davies, furniture Henry Timmins, butcher James Brown, egg merchant William Pearsall, victualler James Smitheman, victualler M. Brown, agent Hughes and Hanson, wine Cordy Manby, merchant, Henry Jennings, clerk, J. W. Matthews, oil George Edward Horton, surgeon John Underhill, licensed victualler Owen Wright, vice and anvil manufacturer Tower-street J. Houghton, surgeon, Newstreet Evan Roberts, innkeeper Thomas W. Smart, bacon Arthur Timmins, upholsterer John Castree, agent Geo. Burn Lowe, attorney at law Thomas Morris, chemist, &c. Chas. Russell, auctioneer John Bent, Jun., auctioneer Thos. Steedman, merchant Richard Winter, banker's. clerk James Sackerson, cabinet maker Richard Wilkinson, vice manufacturer Joseph Skidmore, victualler E. T. Terry, grocer, Dudley John Danes, shoe manufacturer William Summerland, John Jordan, grocer Thomas Danks, auctioneer George Pitt, currier Daniel Timmins, hairdresser Thomas Smith, maltster Thomas Westwood, slater Daniel May, butcher Henry Beeston, butcher And others, making a total of 717 signatures of largest Ratepayers. In compliance with the above numerously signed Requisition, I hereby convene A PUBLIC MEETING to be held in the PUBLIC HALL of the NEW MECHANICS' INSTITUTE, Wolverhampton Street, on FRIDAY Evening, JANUARY 22nd, 1864, at half-past Six o'clock. WHEREAS, in pursuance of the Provisions of the Act of Parliament passed in the 5th and 6th years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, chapter 76, entitled "An Act to provide for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales" and of other Acts of Parliament passed for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations, and of a Petition of the Inhabitant Householders of the Parliamentary Borough of Dudley, in the County of Worcester, addressed to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council, praying for a Charter of Incorporation to the said Parliamentary Borough of Dudley. INQUIRY has been directed to the subject Matter of such Petition. NOTICE is therefore hereby given, that on FRIDAY, the 15th day of JULY instant, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon, at the MECHANICS' INSTITUTE, IN DUDLEY, CAPTAIN DONNELLY, R.E., the Commissioner appointed by the Lords of Her Majesty's Privy Council for the purpose :-Will proceed upon the said Inquiry, and will then and there be prepared to hear all Persons (being Inhabitant Householders within the said Parliamentary Borough of Dudley), or their representatives, desirous of being heard before him upon the subject of the said Inquiry. Dated this 5th day of July, 1864. BY ORDER. JONAH CHILD, PORTRAIT PAINTER, AND MODELLER. Specimens may be seen at his Residence. "THINK not, my friend, with supercilious air, I rank the Portrait as beneath thy care: Blest be the pencil, which from death can save, Blest be the pencil! whose consoling power, Blest be the pencil! whose enchantment gives The youth to exile from his faithful fair, Its infant being to this magic art! The publication of the following celebrated Will, led to the resuscitation of a valuable charity bequeathed to this town. EXTRACTS FROM THE WILL OF THE LATE REV. HENRY ANTROBUS. "In the Name of God, Amen. I, Henry Antrobus, Rector of Himley, in the County of Stafford, and now living at Dudley, in the County of Worcester, being in perfect health, and of sound mind, memory, and understanding, blessed be God for it, do make and ordain this my last will and testament. |