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«' ~~~—~« ,, ^ . CABINET RESOLUTIONS TO SATISFY THE ; country . ¦ ¦ .: • . Zi 7 ~ ~—Ewpertasimpulitandsx ut TetEns faeerem . "—Hoe . Wteraa the people , day by . day , - -With £ tttoo"En ^ niBp < jsition , Complain , in their nntirtraid-way , Against our pauper law commission ; ; - Exdafaning , -while their money ' s bad : . For Union-gaols , " or things as bad , - Thepoor , on whose behalf they do it , - Have sueh odd food they can't get through it , And hente condnde , in one short Word ,. j In spite of all oar V artful dodging , " . * K » Government that gets the 6 oa « L ^^ z
Bm paupers only get the lodging-. — JfesotaSf we hereby all agree v ' Witt tree . Whig tmammily , Welce \ ery griered tote , we're sure , At such expense to starve the poor , But begtostateliftisn 't nonsense ) , We do it on a point of conscience ; Tor , know , we hulld them up bastfles , And yet deny them common meals , In sttict accordance ¦ with the 'view ( Perverse , perhaps , yet bold and new ) "Wife -which we read the Scriptures through And hence the role each Whiglmg owns"They idk for bread—we give them stones . JPforeosWalsoimderstand
-¦ That sundry . peraons through the land >; ? TaHt loudly of One * & £ * , nofrfer . 1 , In domicile frmnjfemple-bar , "' t JWrojBweySS said , thar rank and station . ¦ ^ KefSrely to our miscreition , ) . And whose command , hy much too royal , Proves ns un-English and disloyal — " Besotted , concerning thoseVaidtings , * *" Thar attributes , and suchlike things , ' ., WeSe . Tefy sorry for the same , i . Bnt reallytis ho fault of ours , ii We never wished to . give the same , — 1 . We . only mtant to ^ ive the powers . %$ -FS « mw 7 we vealso he ^ wtthTwonder " ^ ^" And thereupon resolved as under , ; Jr" That certain unions treat those sinners T-e-- ( The mupera ) to unwholesome'dinners : —
% , ! R&dttd , this -very day , at noon , ¦ p _ jW «[ . fes $ ^! Mii a silver spoon :. : The gruel of some worfchousa Whigs , - ' ¦ ¦ And found it very good—for pigs , - , And therefore , think it ' s fitting food . For any sirintsfc multitude , ;¦ -.-. Declaring ( that we may not waste - . More time on themes so false and hollow "What we make np our minds to fade -.. ; . " : v ? oor people should he made to swallow ! iSS ; - ¦ : ¦ •¦ . . . .
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-Trie Tisw . —Speaking of Blackstone , Lord Avonbom says he "first gave to the law the air of a Etieace ; he found it a skeleton , and clothed it with fife , colour , and complexion ; he embraced the cold . tetatue , and hy his touch it grewmto youth , health , ind beauty : " . . * Fellow-feelisg between Bears asd Lapland-^ JSBS . — "I saw several of the coast Laplanders while ;• £ A Alten , and they struck me as a wretched set of -men , for the fur clothes of their brethren' of the " mountains increase their size beyond what it really ! is . I was told , while here , that they iave a super-\ stitious belief that the bear understands their lan-• > guage . An anecdote illustrative of it was told me kit Bosekope by a trader . Two Laplanders , while
JhunUng , unexpectedly met a bear ; bruinwas of Very [¦ respectable dimensions , sufficient to strike terror iu the hearts of both heroes . The one took to his heels , * and left the other to settle affijirs as he best could ¦ with , the * old man in the hairv coat . ' The latter gentleman rose on hia legs , and began to lavish his -todeannfiEts on the remaining man , ' and to paw him •/^ raiher unceremoniously , at which he called out to the ., bear , . ' . Are you not ashamed to hurt your l ^ iBonntryman ! ' The bear , feeling , do doubt , the in-• & $ & of Ks condnct » 8 " * a growl , aadtJeft him . ¦? Bid you- speak to him in Norwegnugf inquired be trader . * No ! in Laponic to oPsure , ' anwered the other , 'else howwonld he have nndertood what I said to him !" —Dillon 's Iceland and
• ajdand . Fehdinasd . —It may be well donbted if . history - eta produce a character more thoroughly base than ' ; that of Ferdinand VIL of Spain . Viewing him in all the relations of life , we shall scarcely discover i single point on which our regards can dwell with pleasure or esteem . Throughout almost the whole 'if his wayward and eventful career , he appears equally unworthy of sympathy . In prosperity he il ^ as insolent , and in power cruel to ruthlessness \ In adversity , and when the hand of misfortune was j Movj upon him , he was mean , cowardly and crouch ling . As a son he . -was rebellious and unnatural , iguiity of repeated attempts not only to dethrone ; cut even to take away , the life of his good-natured
. but weak-minded father . As a subject , he was disloyal and perjured . The consort' of his youth was " treated with brutality . The imputed infidelity of his ' Second wife was revenged on the amiable but fanatic Ameba , whose gentle heart ' was broken * by neglect and ill-treatment . As a man , he was devoid of honesty ; and , as a gentleman and a Castilian , he ; knew net what was honour . In the gratification of -Jns passions he was low , grovelling , and selfish . His -Banners were abrupt and vulgar ; and with him ex' toior elegance did not thinly gild , as in the case of mi George IV ., the baseness and corruption of the hkrt . - lii person he bore , it is said , a striking resembince to another detesied tyrant of antiquity ; and hi features , as well as his vices , recal to us the
Bpnory of JNtro . His fanaticism—the name of religon must not be polluted—was gloomy and feroei us , sympathising with the revengeful frenzy of ti > zealot , ' but uninspired by the nnworldiness w ich oiteutimes stamps on it an almost sacred and redeeming character . He was terrified attheretrib ^ ire dispensation of another life , ' not from an bambliug conviction of the weakness of our common feature , by which the best and wisest are unfitted to pirtake in the purer happiness of a higher and more perfect state of existence , but from fear , the c&spring (^ remorse , under which its victim suffers by anticisatiou the hell it trembles at . Tyrannical to those
\ f \ fi existed only in his favour , and who prospered ioay by his will—crawling ui . the dust before those vlo became for the time his masters .- A thousand tines perjnrcd , the obligatipu of the most sacred exh was to him a mockery . Though mean in intellect , jet his acts of cruelty were characterised by fwiagnai snatches of . that low cunning by which TiwBbtill more degraded . Grossly sensual in his | Kfeo " ni ; repulsive in his manners ; slavish in his fflWsfitjens ; uiniatural as a son ; infamous asa man ; fifcn ^ iyr annical ssaking ; unfeeling and cruel , W gaHashly uxorious , as a husbauu , we may luhjgPlftury in vain for many counterparts . —SpanuS Generals .
Kbjbs . -Queen Elizabeth and her ladies are reissraited in all pictures as cased in whalebone , Wi&wjusts very long , and made excessively small kyj ^ ffilacing ; with enormous stiff rufis round their tbfflK and fcmall caps of poiut-lace , which now go typiEaame of Qneea EHzabeth ' s cousin , Mary Qjfceac ^ Bf Scots .: The ruff" was sometimes kept idnfjSthj a wireframe jaad was sometimes so stiffly ^ cfel as to si acd up by itself . Starch of various kiS ^ rame into fashion ; and in the next reign a egkgiMra . Turner brsnght over from abroad the B ^^ of making yellow starch , which was so much idaiif £ that every fashionable lady appeared in a TJ . itiT ^ SnlT done np with Mrs . Turner's starch / His . * BEner was at length banged for murder . She the in
aspear ^ on scaffold a handsome yellow run . fctr / IWy threw away hers ; and not a yellow ruff TOfoenfflire . The starching of rufis became so ix ^ ud ^^ fcuiscess , that , a Butch woman named VaVS-a ^ pSsse came to London to carry on and tea tribe art .- The premium she asked was five pci ids \ -a great ; sum in those days—and an addi-001 J ' gwna fonhe secret of preparing the starch — Gu ktMfag d fr ' ' ? The Dress Maker . " I Sd IJddiet 6 s Chcbch- Pbopbrtt asd the Ah rrociucr . —At present the people complain eve fwliere of distress arising from the vast and lonj wars Buonaparte waged , and from the total RfcL is timi of commerce . But wherever I have been
«? aJjnfrisextrejmisjy prosperous . All the way to : Ku s ^ . dit % ^ iEee a piece of uncultivated or iUoMvSed lsSiY Yon may doubt my judgment in rinj ® attei 8 j ' even when assisted by the gallant JfejmSftf Tipperary , ; but there are certain app £ sra 5 c 3 &ha t cannctr be mistaken by the most nn-. pnfctisc « Qe . ; Tib corn is quite free from weeds ; ti ^ e arS ; is tilled like garden-mould : they have a atble breed of draught horses ; and , in short , the ; ountij looks like those parts of our island that are Bost famous % r good faming—East Lothian , Ber-1 iekshire , snd Uie Scotch side of'Northumberland ] = ie aid there , too , I saw some very fife farmj oaes , Uuilt by -wealthy yeomen , with all their
ac-• "i ppSuiments of barns , stack-yards , &c , on a great Ktte ^ 'After all , execrable and mischievous as it 1 ai , ibs Revolution has not been without its advant t y ^ s Lands in mortmain , overgrown estates , and : i SS rights , are monstrous clogs upon public in-^ wyf and of these France has get rid for ever . ' ^ iH / j peatiS wire infamous ; bnt tho end is salutary , - ;»^ mgut bare "been attained'quite as effectually ^^ Silt a sing le crime or a single act of injustice . * i 6 « Siate has an undoubted right to the property of ifeeBlurcb , &ter the death of the incumbents : hmtishts might have been niaae subjects of com-; K ^ & «« ftg 3 g wSrs , if Tea do bntgrve them a rights selling . " ^ e ^( f ( f £ <> rdJ > u ^ t y
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•^^ SfifiE I - ^ ISS SflOO ' Th * * PJ ^ - ^^ » expended" is Whan - £ S 0 oSdertalang ^ be C 0 m ^ te 4 ** oftowW > ? P . eai 8 ' p ™ tn < " » otary 15 SSS 3 &SE& rift'LTi ***** 5 have stated the beautiful bridal grft . madebyan august mother to her illustrious tSSH ^ St ^ jr ^ AbraceletTth « S ? ° * » serpent , made entirely of turquoise : but Booetf aemhaTO ventured to state the Soon SreS ^ f de £ *? d 0 nly tobe Covered by a SomS g'f 7 ^ no one ^ ew the magic touch but herbeloved daughter . The motto was this-2 How sharper than a serpent ' s tooth it is , U ,
&c-BiJf-rf ^ i . ?™^ ? ° f Prance at present convp «^ ~ o ' i , ^ o 5 f th 0 *™'> 56 frigates ; 32 corvettes ; o 9 bngs ; 24 gnn-boats ; 21 transports 31 fS ¦?*¦«*! f * 36 steamerirmak ' ing m ; aU 3 oO sad , capable of opening a fire of 10 , 000 UnS ^^^ - ^^^^^^ P ^^ dintne Si if- rls 519 ; of these 125 ar ^ published in SAgSf mMe 6 tamp ^ ^ other at ^ JfJ 10 ^^ M ? nday a P rize fi fint came off twVT aaxu ° Bndge , betwixt two newly imported Irishmen , for £ 10 a side . After beWbotfi we beaten the parties left the ground . We ate sorry to Md , tnatadreser of tl / name of Aitchison , who ^^ & ^ ™* - S ^
Sy Sni ^ r ^ ^^^ ^^ 'Jl ^ i ^ ™* v * hA » salior to his comrade , who was busied in heaving overboard the lower division " i ^ lftTfV ^ ° ? . ^ ***** a ch ^ n shot . Avast ! letusfirst see if Benan ' t got the key of our mess chest in his pocket ! ' *™ wyoiour m ^^ -i ^^^ r ^ r ^ time toinfiict summary justice on Lord John Russell in the Peers for his Summary Protection Bill .-Age . s ,
m W * fo-ww who owed money , and was often Sr& ^ ° aUhe e > ' afriend ^ el y E ^ 'W . ? much surprised tosw him fssaws&is sr tood that he had fSSiirt pkce f ^ counef » Shoiia ' b ! pKI ? V ° "SPP ^ * - j'JS'fcng speedQy put an r&PJ'P ^ g / VV IwUl , bav 4 none of dese Ad ? ml ? d ffi ; £ ^ ^ ' *** - ^
The spkeu > ofMatthewismhas seriously affected the leyenue in those parts of Irdand where it has been nmodneed . The excise collection in Cork distact is i . 23 , 000 deficient compared with the correspondrng quartej of last year ; and theFermoy . collection shows a deficiency of £ 11 , 000 for the same : period * - ' - ' « m SpBisc-The ( tampion of England begs of Mr . Black not to call him notorious , andhas written a letter , to that effect , concluding with this pithy - postscript- " I called at yoar office yesterday , but had not the good fortune to obtain an interview . " " f ^ Hreenot , an interview" might have involved a a »<* 8 r ' ftoni the indignant fist of the pugilistic proprietor of the Castle . r ¦
Opidh . ^ -A correspondent , quoted in the Colonial Gazelle , says , that in a market town in Norfolk , through which he recently passed , he found opium in large and small pills , . regularly exposed for sale not only by apothecaries , but by common grocers , as openly and familiarly as tea and sugar . - Nobmakbt went over the Penitentiary , the other da £ —Qaery . Will there be any release of goodlooking prisoners in petticoats I—Age . . SrpsKT . Juries . —When Sir John Jamieson was
arguuig on the constitutionality of the present jury system , and urging the abolition of military juries , a few days ago , Capt . King reminded the Hon . Knight that he was one of the first that claimed his exemption as aphysician , and never sat ; upon a jury at all . "That ' s true , " said Sir John , bnt my reason for doing bo was , that I saw two fellows , who had been convicted for horsesteahng , sitting , on the jury , and I did not choose to Sit With them . "
A S , < "H- * st week Mr . Kempster , jun ; , of South Weald , lor awager , shot eighteen farthings at twenty penny pieces , one of which only he missed , and on repeating the task completed it without once missing the coin . In one of the shots he fired the farthing through the penny piece . Brewers' Deaths . —Thirteen men have died in . five years at a brewery near Huddersfield ; twelve of them died delirious ! - ¦ ^ The Premiee ' s old Steward , " Fox , " lately died , His Lordship scribbled his epitaph : — "Struck down by death , lo ! here I am—A ' Fox' who served through life a Lamb !' " —Age . DRONKiEDS . —It is calculated that 50 , 000 drunk ards die yearly !
Revenue , of the Established Church . —The national revenue of Great Britain and Ireland produces a revenue of £ 8 , 896 , 000 . The revenues of all other established churches in Europe and South America is £ 8 , 852 , 000 , the Church of England exceeding all other churches put together by £ 44 , 000 a-year . J * Effects of Rahroabs . —Previously to the opening of the Great Western and Southampton railroads there were eighty-two long stages passed through the town of Egbam daily ,-nearly tho whole of which changed horses at the several inns m the town . Now the eighty-two are reduced to four . . ¦ .
Hell on Fire . —On Friday afternoon a fire broke out at Crockford ' 8 Club-house , in St . James ' s-street ; bnt owing to thegreat exertions made by the firemen , who were prompt in arriving from the neighbouring stations , wasgot under without much damage having been done to the premises . —Age . Colonel Sibthorp having been pointed' out to Prince Albert as the man who had been the means of " shaving down " his allowance from £ 50 , 000 to £ 30 , 000 , his Royal Highness energetically exclaimed , "MeinGott ! I tink dat he had better go shave himself ! " ' Ax the Levee , on Friday , Mr . J . L . Goldsmid Maiden-lane , Strand , to her Majesty , congratulating her on her marriage .
Since the arrival of the 79 th Highlanders in Manchester , twenty of the soldiers have been bonpht off by respectable young women . So much for the kilt Thb West of England Conservative says : —Salt has risen 100 per cent , in price in this neighbourhood , in consequence of the well-grouuded anticipation which is prevalent that this article will be taxed to make up the deficiency caused by the failure of the penny postage . Admirable reform this , truly , to take a tax off a luxury , of which nine-tenths of the poorer classes cannot or will not aval ' themselves , and to place it on an indispensable necessary of life .
Johnny Russell was asked , Why do you not go cnt when beat by 28 , —the French ministers went upon 26 , and the country are all against you J " u Ohi" said he , " but we are not so thin skfnned as they are—and we don ' t care a d for tue country . " —Age . . . At Leicester , a poor woman was frightened into convulsions , the other day , by a tellow wrapped in a white sheet , pretending to be a ghost . She revived , but has lost her reason ! It hatters little whether a man ' s love be encouraged or rejected , for they often lead to the same termination , the altar ( baiter ); and in both cases a knot is tied , which is frequently afterwards wished , in vain , to be unloosed .
Cause and Effect . —We understand that the sale ot the New Moral World has . increased more than a hundredfold in Canterbury since the commencement of the lectures of the Bishop of Exeter on Socialism in the Hou . -e of Lords . —Aim * Herald . An Amendment . — 'Should I be discovered I am lost , ' exclaimed the hero of a Coburgmelodrame , as he concealed himself in a closet on the stage . 'Should yon be discovered you are found , ' was the amendment of a wag in the gallery . Puseyjs * . —In the 75 th number of the ' Tracts for the Times , ' there are collects for Protestant nse , running— 'Grant , Q Lord , that by the deserts of Peter'and Paul , we may . obtain everlasting life ! ' — Record . . - . ¦
Laughing and Crying . —Democritus , who was always laughing , lived 109 years : Heraclitus , who never ceased crying ,-on ! y 60 . Laughing then is best ; and to laugh at one another is perfectly justifiable , since we are told that the gods themselves , though they made us as they pleased , cannot help laughing at us . ¦ - Sanatorium . —At the meeting on Friday , held at the London Tavern , severalresolutions were proposed and" passed , approving of the establishment of a Sanatorium . A large amount of subscriptions were received and announced .
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S\\ A '' ' W ';* O- i » v } ' * : TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . . " LEmRjnrT "; "" . " ... ""' j ^ ^ . . ON ENGLISH BANKINGL ' ' . - ' - j ¦'¦' : Sir , —I concluded my task by showing to you , and through yqu to the . couatrj-, that tlie Bank of England was rotten and baseless , aud that a Radical Reform , of the representation would blow it and the Government into theiir . - I hope my- Scotch" friends ^ . particularly Mr . J . Moir , of Glasgow , will weigh well every word , I write , in order that he and they may turn ^ their attention to the ' results which inevitably-must follow the Scotch system of Banking , and the mischievous ' doctrine promulgated by the Scotch Political Economists . ! . ^^^^^^^
* i Having somewhat . briefly described the origin of tie Bank of England , and caving also unceremoniously dared to draw aside the yeil ' that shrouded from public view the source of all our miseries , and all puFnational ' misfortunes , I only regret the want ' of space" to detail all the humbug , trickery , fraud ,- and legalised robberifes , as well as the fruits of these compound villanies , which I find contained in the "Report of tho Secret Committee of 1819 , on the expediency of the" Banjc resuming cash payments ; " on which report Peel ' s Bill was founded . However , I must confine myself to general details and results . , '»' . ¦ ¦ .- ¦ i
It is evident that the war in which England had engaged to destroy Republican ascendancy in Europe , was the cause of all the embarrassments which took place in the Bank affiiirs from 1797 ' to' 1819 ? for th < 3 fictitious capital which was created through the Bank agency , iu its consequences , produced high prices-fan increase of taxes—accumulation of debt—soldiers to , enforce payment-stock jobbers to carry on the * " swindle " -pensioned hacks * to ¦ write up the " glories of the just and necessary-war "—abundance ' of paper money of all sorts , to keep up the " pomp and circumstance of glorious war . " InlSlOkat tho cohsummation of all these glories ' , the deotfrose up to £ 1 , 121 , 407 , 936 ; in the same year the taxes-were £ 62 , 635 . 711 ; Jhe Bank of England . had in circulation £ 2 C , 574 , 0 l ) 0 of notes ; , and the country Banks had out
in the same year , £ 15 , 090 , 000 , being a total of Bank notes in circulation that year of £ 41 , 670 , 000 ; wheat being at the same time 76 s . 2 d . the quarter , or ild . the quartern loaf . These were the palmy days ot ' money . mongers-these were the times when , as Ricardo said , the-Bauk pf Engl and ma ^ e : a profit of £ 24 , 000 " odd : these were ^ yeats when the kittle . MancheSter ' manufacturer of umbrellas , , Rothscbild , -tallow ( Chandfet Baring , and the Jew ^ . Irving , pocketed £ 310 , 7 * 5 out ^ -ot ^ . the' taxes ;? ' for discounting' an Austrian payment of a loan of £ 2 , 500 ^ 000 , raised in England in 1795 and 171 ) 7 : these were glorious tunes for bell-ringing , firewatts , jubilees , sham fights on the . Serpentine , trium ^ hal . ar clies , ond public monuments ! After a stornf there comes a calm , says the old proverb . The last BankWriction itf 1819 , whicb continued to 1823 , gave us fouViyears-fof reflection , and the result of Peel ' s Bill , which wm to restore the currency to its pristine state , has proved tothe S ^ ^^^^ ' ^ t o ^ W ^^ long the debt and taxes exist
as ; and , that the Bank " of . England must have stopped payment again , had "honest" lord Althorp not . granted the legal tender clause . All the £ 41 , 000 , 000 worth of Bank Notes flpatmgin 1816 , and the £ 48 , 000 , 000 of Exchequer Bills in circulation at the samq , tiiue " was more than either- the Royal-mint-or the Banks could sustain ; therefore , down they must como , and down they did come in spite of all their scheming and bolstering : for in the year 1825 , a panic seized the national credit ; the Bank of England was declared by the public press to be within forty-eight hours of barter ; " their " promises to pay" were presented for payment by the holders ; the Bank tad not wherewith to . meet thb demand . Ail the money-grubbers , stock-jobbers , loanmongers , bond-holdere , pensioners , annuitants , bankers , capitalists of . all sorts , were like a disturbed hive of Dees ; 700 of them met at the Mansion House " looking unutterable things , " and advisedly signed . a declaration expressing their firmed anrfderice in the stability the credit of the country ! Humbug ! a vile - schome ft unthwr
noia ^ rotten . occupations , ' Akriavish lie—they had no confidence in the credit of the country- for toey knew . at the timo they signed j ^ b declaration that Banks were smashing on all sides ; of theni , and a return laid before the House of Commons * n the 27 th of February , 1820 , provesthey were ljing-j it says that in Imttanfour months from . the first breaking out of thopamc , FlFTY-NiNE Banking establishments , comprising 144 partners ; -had been declared bankrupts' and TWENTT , others insolvent .-and the Gaxelle announced from eighty to one hundred bankrupte ' es weekly amon ? st merchants and traders ; ., besides this , half a million of poor persons were iu a stato of starvation and destitution . ' Subscriptions -were opened in all the churches and chapels for the relief of the destitute poor ; and O Heaven ! never let it bo " forgotten : "the Government , tntlie mod handsome and benevolent manner , kindly tent down old . army dothing , " to cover the nakedness of those
very people , whoso powers of production had overstocked the markets of the world / and hi one instance it was ascertained that amongst two hundred families in Manchester , < m \ y four Mire bidiiMs could be " found ! —this , too , iu a town ; within twenty miles of which two thirds of all . the blankets in Eugland are-made . O these wars , these Banks , this debt , those taxes , . this Dell-ringing , these flying couriers , jubilees , land ; " fireworks I For such things freeoorh Englishmen ^ Sve- \ feto compelledtowcartheluusycast-dffclothihgof the well-fed and law-protected soldiery r nay , the public " journals declared that the . people in tho neighbourhood of Colne ate draff ( brewers' grains ); and Richard Potter , at a public mooting in Manchester , on ttiel 7 th of August , 1828 , declared tliat out . of a population often thousand ' in Burnley , 'Lancashire ; no- less than eight thousand
received relief ; that ¦ •• within , a circuit of a few miles round Pendle Hill , eighty thousand persons were" in a state of the . most frightful destitution , , and all this ¦ while . the great Duke was living in splendour out of the taxes ; tallow chandler . Baring , his brothers , and cousins , upon the profits of the grand swindle , " and the-great rag rooks , called Bankers , enjoying themselves with the . profits of their nefarious trade . On the 22 nd of March , 182 Q , tho Small Rite Bill passed . This tliiew the country Bankers « to a frightful confusion ; it was , in modern phraseology , "a throwing them uponiheir own resources ' , or , iri plain English , it compelled tiieni to pay all their small netea i
n gold , and withdraw from circulation all notes below £ 5 . O what a smashing up of Banks !—what a row amongit the lawyers !—Bankruptcies , insolvencies , assignments , foreclosures , andf ^ public sale 3 , were everywhere rife , particularly amongst the manufacturing districts . One and two pound notes were withdrawn ; a new-coinage of gold . and . silver tqok place ; some of the private hanks that had . undergone the smashing process , became clianged into Joint . Stock Companies , and by the 7 th George IV ., cap . 4 fi , tliey became Incorporated under the name of Joint . Stock Banks , many of which ' : were -banks of issue , Theso new fangled money schemers Itccaine very numerous in the United Kingdom ,-as the following table will show ,: — ; - .. Banks created . . . No . of Branches . From 1826 to ' 1835 66 620 In 1836 67 210 In , 1837 5 16 128 ~ 746 Uo . of Partners . Notes . 18 , 920 £ 2 , 799 , 551 . ~ 19 . 71 * 4 , 258 , 197 777 3 , 826 , ( 108
39 , 411 . Average £ 3 , 62 S , 101 The smashmg up of the " old private banks , the passing of the Small Note Bill and the operation of Peel's Bill did not intimidate speculators and gamblers . The country was in a dreadful stato ; tho creation of theso now banks naturally caused largo issues of bank notes . ; the 39 , 411 partners had each a direct interest in getting the notes into curculation , and by this system of humbug , a partner or anyone else kiwwu to them need only go to the bank counter ami ask for an udvanco of £ 1 , 000 or any other sum , and the sum' asked for would be handed to him in bank notes , for which I ; e ' gives to the Director of the Bank , bills drawn upon some other banker or upon souie opulent tradesman ; these bills are what the bank call securities .: The bank , if it
can efford , liqlds the bill , and receives the interest ; if not , it gets the bill discounted elsewhere , or goes into the market and buys cotton ; wheat , or . anything else with it The drawer of tho bill tikes up the bill when duo , that is , pays it ifte can , if not he draws another bill to raise the cash , th ' ewby getting longer time . In this manner Joint Stock Banks get an existence ; and so long as public credit is good , or the thing carried on smoothly they will exist ; but the most trifling shock will shiver some of ttan to atoms ; a few heavy losses will ' shake the stoutest of them . The only protection the public have from these kind of banks , is , in what is called its subscribed capital , and the liability of the partners or shareholders j—the subscribed capitalia very often fictitious ; and the original shareholders of the
company , though rich men , may , if they find the bank rieketty , cell or transfer their shares in the" capital stock to men of straw ; and judging from the Joint Stock Banks that have already smashed , the ( Northern and Central , with its forty branches ' and its 1 , 204 partners , for instance ) here we have the largest Joint Stock Bank in England broken up , the whole system of Joint Stock Bank humbug exposed to the public , clearly proving that even t ' . iese conctrns , which from the extensive liability of the shareholders wero supposed to ha the strongest banks in the country , notwithstanding the £ 2 , 000 . 000 advanced by the old lady ; to prevent the credit of the country from beiug shaken , still the Northern Central perished , perished burying in its ruins , a host of trading speaulatora . .
¦ . . R . J . RlCHARDSOH Salford , March 9 th , 1840 : " .
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A " High" Station fou a " High' FracriONAUY . —On Weduesday night hat , the performances at the theatre were honoured by tlio presence of the High Sheriff of Exc-tcr . The worthy gentleman engaged a conspicuous place in tho gailcry ! where tie stationed himself , surrounded' by a number of female admirers and saints . A gentleman in the clumney line of business 611 his right , and a purveyor of delicate viands for quadrupeds on his left , were supposed to be on particularly friendly . terms with the exalted functionary . —Western Luminary . ,
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gp Cpjy . ^ QR . JHEIRESTOBATIO S ^ OF .-THE r .. ?^ S , ; OF ENGMSHMBN , —ADDRESS ^ QF ; , " * HE ' MANCHESTER * SOCIETY- , ' TO- THE ^^^ ^^^^
PEOPLE OF ENGLAND . '• ' ; jj . ' -r , '' ::, ; . ; : . /< no . 2 . ) '' _; . , . TOTHE EDITOR OP THE ' NORTHEBN / STAK . . Fkliow countrymen , —The titlewe have chosen for our Society will show thaUur sole , business is with » k ! "g ? , 13 ^ Englishmen ; we have nothing to do with »? Philosophic generality-the rights of nian , a phrase wmch means everything , anything , or nothing ; just as the utterer happens to fee , an enthusiast , a dupe , or a ; Wearer bound then to show , . . 1 st , That Englishmen lave rights 5 j 2 nd , That they were in full eiijoymeut of those rights ; 3 rd , 'That they have been wrongfully deprived of them ; 4 th , Tnatihose rights were worth preserving , and are worth . recovering at any " ' cost and Sth . That this Society lias reasonable grounds for assuming thatitwill possess the power of efficiently aidinglin the great work of their restoration . WhaV then we ' re
these rights , bo precious as to have induced us for the sake of ^ regaining theni , to occupy bur present preeminent " and semewbat hazardous position ? "" .. j They consisted ,: first ; of the' absolute and entire controul wliich every Englishman possessed over the whole of the produce of his labour ; no particle or which could on any pretence ^ be ta ¥ eu from . him , until he and his' fellow-labourers had signified their assent to such abstraction , by delegates chosen ' from their , body ; , and met together for the purpose ; , * nd "' even then , jtheir earnings could not be touched ; until the peers of England , and the King of England had ratified the generous' sacrifice' resolved on by the labourers of England . . SecWdiy ;' Having ' granted excWaive rights of property to that sma ' . i' portion of their body which was addicted to hoarding and gathering together large parcels of land and houses , and othb good . things , on the solemnly expressed condition , that such houses and . parcels' of hnd ' . should' bo thrown
open ^ to the free use " . of ' . 'labourers who-were incapacitited by extreme age , disease , or other cause , from pursutng-comfortably their usual . laboursi j raid that the laboutep . wliotcaUivaWd the Baid ^ laucl , and all the ? ged and 'diseased ; should ^^ lebteousfypfoyjdBd ' fbr w ?»«? SB $ . ; Mgings , '¦^ aud ^ fbpd ; before the goiirdera should ¦ ¦ ¦ - ^ ffl « ih ^ ney ^ l ^!^ -Vtfe . ' "pwdttCBA ' The-due performance ottte cdmfact ^ theipart ! of the owners ofproperty becanie / animportani ' riglit ' of the vast majority ;<^ f ; tlie " people , whose powers , tastes ,-and inclmatiqns . 'do . not incline them to impend their lives in grubbing ana . gathefing great ., heaps of . things vrhicli they do ^ ot- . feq . uiro for . any useful purpose . A third ^ por taait right-is , that all quarrels" they may have amongst each bthe ^ shall ibe settled by : twel ve of their
neighb o urs ;; .. of" "their owu rank of life , who shall be . ' chosen , by , ; lot ';; , and if any Eng-Itenman shall , be , charge ^ a with the commission of crime , bo he ;* peer . or be- ^ o labourer , beie man grown , or" young boy ; his ' " guilt ' or ' . innocence shall be decided also by twelve of his neighbours , of his own degree , chosen by lot and , "* unlcss evidence sufflciently str 6 n » shall be . adduced to convince all the twelve of his gu , Ht ,- -he shall be deemed innocent These litigations ' and criminal trials must be conducted according to the law of England , and these laws , must be made by the same body of delegates chosen from the mass of the labourers themselvts , that we before described , and directly tho bus ' iness is complete for the performance of which , these delegates or . representatives were sent , they must disband , - aid return to
their homes ; and whenever fresh business arises , the labourers shall elect a fresh body . Many other rights of Englishmen will be enumerated in the course of these addresses , but wo may be asked whence come these pretehded . rights ? How do you claim them ? Our answer is ,, we claim ' them as undoubted and indisputable rights of Englishmen ... ; Whateyer Englishmen once gained and Kept ,- ; wha ' teyer ; our' forefathers wrested , whether from domestic tyrants or foreign foes , we hold to be rights ; arid ' whatever their courage obta ued , and their wisdom held / and- tlieir successors ' folly , and cowardice lost , we mean toi get back by our best . exertions ; and we hayejittle ; fear but that when the time arrives at which it . will bs ^ wiso aud prudent to make ' an-open display of our resources ' , that this society-will be found to he no inefficient' labourer at the great work it has so deliberately taken in hand . ¦'• ¦ : "; ; : ¦ , ¦ - ¦ ' ¦ ' : — 1 Secretary .
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MR . JOHN FROST .-( From the- Weekly Dispatch . )"* - The following letter from Mr . Frost to his beroaved family , and . which . was written by tho unhappy man on . board tho convict ship , has been handed to us by a friend , of that family . It will bo perused by our readers with a melancholy interest . It clearly proves that amidst all his mental aud corporeal sufferings , tho affections of the husband arid parent are dominant . Whoever reads the letter must sincerely and deeply sympathise with Mr . rrost , and'lament ihat a man so highly gifted as he was , should have been so far led astray as to be in-¦ duced to take a part in the wild , mad , and unmeaning proceedings of tlie 4 th of Noyember . Tlie general ( Opinion is , that Mr . Frost was madothe dupe of de-: s ^ iing . ^ Ulai us ; ; , ; fhe : folibwlu |^^ tfib last letter ' wftttea . by . Mv . Frost .: — - : T . ¦ .
ii ¦ ¦; .. ;¦ = , "Mandarin convict ship , Falmouth , .. . . ....:- February 28 th , 1840 . . L " , My dearest Mary , —While sailing down the Channel ; on Wednesday eveningjour main ' and niizeri top masts ' were carried-away , and we were oblked to .-put in to refit . I thought > I . would embrace tho opportunity of dropping you a few lines . - I am quite uncertain as to our sentence . ' I have nothing but reports to guide me ; you , probaoly , may be better informed . I have just seen a gentleman , high 111 authority , and his opinion is , that it would bo most imprudent that you should remove to follow my fortune . Besides , my lovci life is uncertain . Suppose that anything should happen to me , what would become of my family in a foreign country , without a fn « nd ? In your own native land , no matter how
ine conduct ot . your husband may bo censured ( and my conduct is now public property ) , you will be Eafefrom the finger of scorn . Englishmen are too brave and too generous to allow either you , my five now , alas ! orphan daughters , or the two boys , to be insured . I would not even charge my porsonal enemies ,, who ; no . doubt . now rejoice at the melancholy position in which their vjctim is placed , with being capable of such baseness . In your own native land—I repeat it with confidence—a confidence that wonderfully soothes my sufferings , you will experience that protection , that sympathy which you could not-expect at the hands of strangers . Follow then , 'the advice which 11 give you—commence business , and trust to Providence for the result .
; A ship will sail in about three weeks : write by it and « ive mo every intelligence you possess . We are ' likely to sail this evening . . Now , 'then , my love , you have occasion for the exercise of your ukligion , IOOR FORTITUDE , AND YOUR RESIGNATION . Above all placo y , our confidence in that Being without whose perraission"not even a sparrow falls to the grouud " who is so jealously fond of us erring mortals that He counts " tho very hairs of our Ueans . " Remember what you owe to our dear children , and , oh ! remember what , a charge you have in so MANY UNPROTECTED . YOUNG AND DELICATE FEMALES . " Be aSSUred that at present it is to them you mu 3 t show your affeotion for your husband . To follow me would j dd t ?* my Present troubles . Once morethen
, , my dear Mary , exercise your judgment , and do not suffer your feelings to lead you from your home , or the sight of your countrymen . I trust your home will yet be a comfortable onb . You will employ your daughtore and youree * . and possiby you may yet see your . husband in that home which heeo dearly prized . Surely , although the Government has been opposed to my politics , they will no t persevere in 'inflicting punishment when no legal conviction took place . The-ljtws form the only protection En » - ijsimen canboast of , and iu seekingto . berestored to . vnfyjnative land , I . only seek the protection aud the ^ eKercise of-tnpse laws , " pnee ' mbre—a belief ¦ that ' Mu and ; my famiiyaferascomfortableaayou can bo In mv absence wnnld frrA 9 . t . 1 v 1 « aoo , i m « .. < n ; n
tion .- Alas ! my children ! . Yos , my unhappy , my unprotected children ! . - Those pledges of our mutual love and affection haunt me dayaud night My first prayer-my last prayer-iis for-them , and that heaven may protect them .: rBrandcd 1 as I am with the infamy of treason ( a crime I hover contemplated ) I beg . of you to give thein . sthe blessing of their wrenslied father , and to assure th ' enfthat , though an exilo , my hands are-raised each morning and nicht to heaven for them . May tho Comforter of the an »« ed , and the father of the fatherless , be your and my dear children ' s support and guide in all things ! . God bless you , my love , Ever yours , • . "JohnFuost . "
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FRANCIS ROBERTS . . ( From tlie Birmingham Journal . ) ¦ ' ¦ Sib , —Seeing a statement in your journal of Saturday last , respecting tlie departure of Frost , Williams and Jones , on board the Mandarin from Spithead ' and fearing that you and your readers were not aware that Howell , Jones , as : d Roberts , wero on board tho same , vessel , I have taken tho liberty of sending you a letter , received from Roberts by his wifo , with a hope that you will mako the case of this poor woman , and three , now , fatherless children known to tho benevolent , xhoy are . at this time ' in great distress , and you would be conferring a great
benefit on them by consenting to receive subscriptions in their behalf , as , it appears , the only moans of saving them from becoming inmates of a horrible bastiie . By giving , this , casa a few lines , you will , receive the prayors , I may say , of the widow and tho fatherless . While upon tho question of charity , I , would call attention to tho family of George Thompson , who is now in Chester gaol for soiling the labour of his own hands , hoping it will meet the eye of some of the benevolent , more especially thoso of the gun . trade . ' ¦ Believing , Sir , that you are well acquainted with their cases , I shall not presume to say any more at
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this time , butmerely state thal'Mr . Porter , Bullstrpet ,-has kindly consented : to receive subscriptions for them . ' I trust the repeal will bo responded to . By calling attention to the above , you will greatly . oblige the writer , ; " ' Walter Thorn , ; Tin-plate Worker , Great Colmore-street , Bristol Road . Birmingham , Maroh S , 1840 . ^^^
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when the parties appliod for the money fi . ' -ithe treasurer ,-they intended from tho " 'first tod : raud their fellow turn-outs . - - ' Mr , Georgo Hunshall said ho was landlord of the Bull s Head public-houso , and on Sunday lat-l held abalance of £ 6 Is . belonging to tlie turn-out throstle spinnors . On that evennig four kmahs ca ' . ii-u upon mm and asked him what money he had for the throstle hands , to which , after examiuing his hcoU , ho replied £ 6 Is . Thoy then said'" You mm let 113 have it then . " Witness rejoined that he would rather that more of tho hands came together first . They said they wanted the money , and buin ^ very pressing , he paid them tho £ 6 Is ., which lie was ; bound to do'by an arrangement to tho cftVot that ^ ^^^^^^^^
throe or four were competent to receive Fancying that all was not right , witness put some other questions to them , and they said that the turn-onis were all going in the following morning ( Monday , ) but there weie about ten or a dozeu who would i . ot- be " shopped" again , aud ilu-rcfcrj they wore { i . iing to provido for them . Tlie next day a great I ' . uny of the turn-out throstle spinners came ' for tin ! :-usual weekly allowance , when witness told them wl .: i :, had taken placo on Uie previous night . Witness U' ;; k tho names and the signatures of thoso who had received the money . Did not pay it bafuro lie had lm-j fold , that all the hand ? wero returning to their work . There ate about 150 entitled to a portion of that money .
Cross-examined by Mr . Boothroyd—I should have given them tho money whether thoy hail said iuything about returning to work or not . I was bound to pay it . They weto a portion of the party who had subscribed to " tho fund . Re-examined by Mr . W . Vaughan—If I had thought all had boon right I shemid not . havo asked them their names and procured their receipt . They made the falso representations before I parted with themonoj . Mx . Boothroyd—And thoy said they would divide the money amongst those who were most deserving Mr . Hensh . all-No , Sir , they did vol . Mr . P . E . Marsland—Have you sustained any loss by parting with tlie money V .. Mr . Hcnshall—No . Sir . I have not .
¦ - Mary Coke , one of the turn-outs who has been , defrauded , was sworn for the complaint , and said she was ono oftho handsout of emUov . and on applying for relief at the Bull ' s Head , with othcrs , on Monday , wasinforraod that Uiedofcndanislmdreceivcd the balance . Witness andothor fomalo throstle spinners accordingly went to Hatton , and after some conversation , sho admitted receiving part of the money , and r l ^ '' which '" '' tafss gavo to Mrs . Hcnshall , ot the Bull ' s Head , the same day . There wero abovo ° ne hundred who would bo entitled to a share of the £ < 5 is . . None of them went to work on Monday , lhe statements made by tho defendants were false .
Many of the turn-outs , however , wont to work on Wednesday . Hannah Liugard said she workod at Carr ' s , and was a throstle spinner . Did not go to work on Monday . There wtre abovo 100 then out of work , entitled to their share of the fund . In reply to a question from the Bench , Mr . W . Vaughan said that this very circumstance had driven the hands in . Their sharo of this fund would not have been more than two shillings to sup » port thoir families ; aud tho withdrawal of that pittance had deprived them of the means of carrying on the contest .
Lmgard , m continuing her examination , said that the turn-outs had resumed their work because the relief fund was exhausted . About thirty of us went to Jophson's , and asked her whero tho monoy was . She said it was all gouo in expensos ; but sho refused to go and explain the matter to Mr . Henshall . Johnson said sho had not got more than one penny in her possession , and sho also declined to accompany them to the Bull ' s Head . Ten more of tho turn-outs , who ought to havo been recipients , wore being sworn , when The Bench said they were all interested witnesses , and could not legally bo examined . Hcnshall . was tho only competent witness . It appeared they were all partners , sharo and share aliko , without rules and without legal responsibility to each other . Mr . Henshallsaid he was bound to give up the money , and sustained no loss .
Mr .-Bbothroydasked who was the prosecutor , they being all partners ? Mr . W . vaughan said it was clear that there wasa defraud , ou obtaining money under falso pretences . The parties went with-a fraudulent intent , and a prospective act had boeu Eufilnient in a court of law . Bnthe was in the hand 3 of tho Bench . The _ Mayor told the defendants that they had acted in a very dishonest manner , and he regrottcd that the Bench had not the power to punish them . It was a great reflection upon their characters . He hoped , however , that they would divide tho raone *
with tho complainants and . others without delay . Mr . Boothroyd observed that the defendants had been ths means , day by day , of collecting this very money ; who , finding that it was beiug divided by other parties , came to the resolution of taking it in their own hands , and sharing it with thoso who were most deserving . . . .... „ .. . ; Mr . 'W . Yaughan remarked that the defendants had certainly . taken thoir sharo , but it was the lion ' s share ! ( Laughter . ) The case was then dismissed .
The defendants conducted themselves with the greatest levity throughout tno investigation ; and oa quitting the Court were followed by several hundred persons , who manifested their feelings of indignation by various ways . Indeed , the porsonal safety of the parties , females though they be , was only secured by tho guardian presence of above half a dozen policemen . No breach of the pca ^ ie , however , occurred between the aggrieved and the aggressors . ' Such flagrant roguery , though it slip through the meshes of the law , will not escape the sentence of the public . f /^ MUUUUIMJUIU ^^ HAMiAMiAMMiUIMi dl
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The following is the letter alluded to by our correspondent ' . We do notknow'if ho was aware that Mr . Porter is conducting a subscription for Roberta's family as well as Thompson ' s . We give Roberts ' s letter , with the omission of some privato matters , in the words employed by the writer . The spirit is good ; and we are particularly pleased , as wo have no doubt our readers ' will be , with tho absence of anything like bitterness or irritation , which , under the'circumstances ; might have been oxpected and excused : — " ' : ¦ ¦ ' . '' ¦ "Spithel ' d , off Portsmouth , on board the . " Mandarin , F , eb . 24 . 1840 .
wiS ^ f ^' -Unm take the-opportunity of writing a fow more lines to you , as regards mypre-TnfW ^ 1011 ' , I - « P ; J » PPy to say that / have SSS w 7 ? ilil ** you ' ^ hiclisivesmo SE-TS t { ^ ^ rry to say , that when you read this letter I shall bo on the open sea and far awmjgt I hope that these few linos will find you and my children all in good health , as they leave me T C ^ Vf ^ t b v . i ° for Jt ' « « ear wife , I hope and trust that you will mako yourself arid my children as happy as you can , and that yon will not make yourseft any ways uneasy about meTS that willnot mako you nor me any better , and as I amm very good spirits about the place where wo are bound tor , aud withihe blessing of God I hopo I shall get there safe , aud I hope that you may come
to me safe ..... -...-,. - ' I hope that you will try to follow me as soon as you possibly can , and then you will bo tho cause of me gaming my liberty in that country : and I ' have no . ooubt that we snail be happy once a ^ aiu With the account that I-hear of it ,, f hope that I may eome . to see 1 my children brought up in that way which will bring them to poaca and happiness in the next world , and that they will not bo looked at with a frown by other people about my misfortune . I hothat God
pe will provide for tho fatherless children and widow . I have not any more to say at prosont , but hoping that you Will follow me to Hobart Town as soon as you cap , and as I will write to you as soon as I can , and that youmay keep up your spirits and not be downhearted , as it is my intention so to do , and to keep up my spirits , as I am informod that it is a far better place where wearegoing to than Birmingham , bo no more from your affectionate but unfortunato husband , till death should part us from this trouble-8 omeworld . """ ¦ - ' - FiuNcis Roberts . "
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MAijcn of Intellect—The Schoolmaster . —Thefollowing is a copy of a notice which has remained appended , during the whole of tho past week , to the two doors of the church of Burnham , a village within four or five miles of Windsor : —
" Burahain , Feb . 29 , 1840 . Tho Inhahents is rcquisled to meat in The vestery roome on Fryday next at 10 0 Clock To Impid tho Mapp and Plann Of the Parish . Hyregaist ' ot Tho rev . T . Carter Viltar . " Chaiitist Fund . —On Sunday evening , the box . containing the Chartists' funds , amounting to £ 80 , was stolen from the Browor ' H jlrms , as well as a quantity- bffel&to and jowellery , "' the property of the
landlord , Mr . ' Beeves . A countryman has been apprehended on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery , and was brought beforo the Bench ou Tuesday , and again on Thursday , when Solomon stated that a warrant signed by the Lewes Magistrates was also in force against the prisoner , " for another offence , and ho' applied for leavo to take him to Lewes to bo examined on' the charge . If this was not substantiated , he should still pray for hia detention on the warrant charging him with the robbery at the Brewer ' s Arms ,. The necessary permission was given by the Bench . The police are on the look-out ; for a second party suspected . — Brighton Herald .
Painful Case . —A case of-a very painful and sickening interest was heard on Saturday before Bailio Hodderwiek , in the Gorbals Police-office . Alexander" Dingwall , shoemaker , in Crown-street , and Johu Smith , his wife , were placed at the bar , accused of inflicting barbarous and cruel treatment , during the last two years , upon Mary Baird and William Baird , and particularly of confining the formeir in a coal-cellar or closet in a state of utter darkness and nakedness . The Bairds , both of whom appeared to be above twenty years of age , and of weak intellect , are the son and daughter of the female prkouer , atid the step-son and step-daughter of Dingwall . A t least twelve witnessoswere examined
for the prosecution and in exculpation j and among tho former were Captain Richardson , of the Gorbala police ; Mr . Cassilis , the surveyor of-tho poor ; and Mr . Stewart , one of the committee . Their evidence stated that having received information of the case , they went to the house of Dingwall on Thursday last , and at once making thoir entrance into the cellar or closet , they found Mary Baird sitting on her " hunkers " on a sholf , shivering , with her head between her hands , and only a bit of tartan shawl or rug thrown over her , which when removed left her in perfect nakedness . Ono of the witnessesfre ? marked that tho position of the unfortunate girl re * minded him more than anything else of a monkey
crouching in a cage . The closet or cellar was BmalL and perfectly dark , with the exception of a window about eight inches square , over whioh a screen or - cloth was placed ; there was neither firenor fireplace in the closet , and it was alleged that the girl ¦ had remained in this state for from one to ; two years . " As to the lad Baird , who Js also of waifeintellect , though not so much clouded as _ hia sister , it wa 3 ; given in evidence that he had either fled from'his ^ step-fathor ' B house for fear of , or left in con 8 e | iuence' # ^ - of a flogging with a stirrup-leather , and for a mont& ^ ffife had slept iu passages , stair-foots , or kilns , . Buffering . < : ^ at times all the pangs of hunger , until a Samaritan -r ' s&j ¦
cobbler , Duncan Robertson , took him in , fed and ' . . # ??> clothed him , set him down to the shoemaking trade , •• • , ^ 1 endeavoured to teach him the letters , and took him •' . ' ¦ . , ; :, ' to the church with him on Sundays . Both of the ; v unfortunate persons wero brought into court for oxramination . The lad gave his ovideKco ' with timidity , but pretty distinctly ; but his Bitter , although inter- " rogatod by her aunt , answered " ay" to almost every question . At the request of the agent for tbbac- 'frri ,., cused , the decision of tho oaso was delayed till Tucg- : > fM day next , and Bailio Header wick liberated the ^ pahr v viT ^ the pair on granting an amplo bail bond . Ding ^ vgJl'J ^ EH ^ conduct in this caso cannot havo arisen ' titom £ mmfcj- > j as he employs five or Bix hands . —Glasgow Hwm > % ' ' M << j yfift Wm
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DISGRACEFUL FRAUD BY TURN-OUT THROSTLE SPINNERS . Lucy , the wife of Jamos Hatton , labourer , Alice , the wife of Josoph Jephson , of Heaton Norris , piecer , and Elizabeth Johnson , of Stockport , singlewoman , were summoned ro show cause , if any they can , why thoy should not bo dealt with according to law , for having received tho sum of £ 3 13 s . from Georgo Henshall , of Stockport aforesaid , innkeeper .
to be applied by them to , and divided with Samuel Snapo , of Stockport aforesaid , overlooker , and forty-eight others , and applied tho same to their several and respective uses . There was a fourth party originally implicated , named Hannah Hartley , but she having delivered up her share of the spoil , £ 1 12 s ., for the general relief of the turn-outs , her name had been omitted in the legal proceedings . The Bench asked under what law tho complainants wore proceeding ? Mr . W . Vaughan , who appeared for them , said that ha would , after proving that the money had been obtained under false pretences , leave the punishment and the law to the Court . .
Mr . Boothroyd , on behalf of the defendants , submitted that the summons was not tcnablu to the Court . Mr . W . Vaughan , in order to placo the simple factsinthopossessibnoftheBenchbefo . ro he called evidence , stated that on Sunday night last four persons , of whom the three defendants formed part went to Mr . HcMnjH , the Bull ' s Hoad , ( who was the treasurer for monies belonging to tho Throstle Spinners , ) and made false pretences and false representations to him , whereby they obtained a sum of money from him . This money had beon collected for the relief of the turn-out throstle spinners of Messrs . Wilkinson and Carr ' s mills . Tho partios iirquostion went to Mr . Henshall and told him that-the hands were all going to work on the following morning ; and as there were ten or a dozen who were not likely again- "to be employed , they were going to give them some assistance out of their funds . Mr . Henshall
, however , before he paid them , took tha precaution of requiring a receipt for the amouiit . The parties well knew that the hands were not going iu on tho following morning—in fact , they did not work '; and the defendants , inBtead of applying the money as they had . stated , actually appropriated it to their own uses and purposes . The next day lhe fraud was discovered , and botween thirty and ' forty of tho turn-outs ( females ) , waited upon them respectively upou tho subject , with a view of procuring a return of ' that which had evidently been obtained by false representations . Jephson said the raonoy was all gone in expenses ; Johnson , instead of saying anything pertinent to the question , lifted up tiie , poker , aod threatened what sho would do if they did not retreat . Hatton posted off to Leeds and out of rear )) , but had , since paid 15 s . Mary Hartley was the oiily honest woman of the lot , she having ' returned £ 1 ' 12 s ., being tho Bhare she had-received of tho whole money from the defendants . It was beyond doubt that
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DAVENTRY . Vincent ' s Defence Fund . —The sum of one pound hasbeenforwarded to Mr . Owon , solicitor , Monmouth , towards Mr . Vincent ' s Defence from the wllowing working men of Davcntry , viz . — . n - - ' , ¦¦ B * d « A Friend ... " ... 0 6 ' . T ; . J 6 hnsbn ... ... 0 6 J . Godfrey ... ... 0 3 A Chartist 0 6 . . ¦ A Middle Class Chartist 2 ( 5 S . Johnson 0 3 gi ' , illcy , -0 3 i . bhearsby ... ... 0 2 W . Watt 0 3 J . Powers 0 2
Alriend ... ... 0 3 A Republican ... 1 0 A Friend to Liberty 1 0 J . Johnson 0 6 W . Askew ... ... 0 6 Two Friends ... ... 1 0 J . Carval ... .. 04 A Friend ... ... ' 0 6 A Democrat ; 1 0 J .-Walton , ... ... 1 0 W . Cooper ....... 0 6 A Friend ... ... 0 8- " " ' ¦> W . Thomson ... ... 1 0 . J . Wildo 0 6 A Friend 0 3 T . Webb 0 6 A Friend 0 5 . A Democrat ... ... 2 3 From a fow Females 111 £ 10 0 ¦ Josh . Walton stockton , a list op subscitlbees to j . b . owen ' s defence FUND . , • . '¦ - :. ¦ •" . ¦ - ¦ : a - 'j ; ¦¦ . Matthew Coates ( J e Robert Kelly ... 2 6 James Mooro .... , 0 6 . Marmaduko Jaques 2 6 Henry Kelly 2 0 Matthew Ellsom 0 6 Joseph Myres 0 6 Johu Simpson 7 0 John Padget q 0 A Friend \ 0 A farmer's wife 2 6 Richard Harland 2 6
John Shields . ' ; 23 0 Elizabeth Robson . ; ... e 2 -Peter M'Dea-meu ; .,. 0 6 Johu Sioiiehouse .... ; 0 i { Jane Driver q q William Teas ; l .... " """ 0 0 AFriend ..,, j q John Hall \ \ q 5 A Friend " \ 5 q Sarah Wren . 0 6 Mrs . Merryweather 0 6 Nicholas Bragg 1 0 Henry Walker „ 3 ( j Georgo Turner .... ;' . i ; 0 Jaines Wade 70 Mrs . Harrison ... 0 6 A Friend in 0 David Bell _ 3 0 Mr 6 . Gatenby 1 9 Charles Winspear 2 6 Joseph Garbutt 0 6 . £ 5 6 1 Charles Winspbar , Treasurer James Mooitdi Secretary .
STOCKPOaT , COURT HOUSE-Saturday , March 7 . Before the Mayor and P . E . Marsland , Esq .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 14, 1840, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/king-y1kbzq92ze2675/page/3/
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