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ASTOXISHIS*! RrriCACT HOLLOW AY'S PILLS.
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THE SHORT TIME QUESTION
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3 ' . . ^ '' ., . ;¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ -"^ The Nortf...
3 ' . . ^ '' ., . ;¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - " ^ THE NORTflA'N , STAR . ^ W ; - T „__ i ^ ' ^ ' *"*¦ ' __ Decembbb 5 . 1846
Astoxishis*! Rrricact Hollow Ay's Pills.
ASTOXISHIS *! RrriCACT HOLLOW AY'S PILLS .
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Che TcstfiB < M » y 5 ?» fcfM-gywam v »« eiiE-1 » 12 « ,- ? a Cases f t : Xj ««*> j fk «« w ** fl « rrml Tills . E & rcct Pf a £ aitcr ffu tfts Sit . «?< # . - £ « Prior , Curate of Maa ^ h , LeVwlCexets , Giriiaart , IrtUni , ltlh Jmi . 1840 .
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GS TUB 30 . VCfiAl . ED CAL ' - ^ E OF CONSTITUTIONAL OR ACQUIRED DriHIUTlES OF THE GiiNERAilVE SVaTEii .
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« H * . d fi ' tipriRjf , frtm a want of thoso » " >< r . e recamtio h *« . fitrhaps half the world : s awa re o \ ¦ f , r , it must be . •* . M , r . WeW ; whew the fountain is Pouted , tie streams kitjt £ * sv fro-. s it cannot be pure . PERRY'S PURIFYIN G r 0 rECIFIC PILLS , Frie * 2 s . Sd ., < s . « d .. . aui Us . per box , With explicit directions , reu Jered perfectly intelligiWc to every capacity , ar » well hjiown thr » ugk » ut Europe t » be ~ & e SJ .-M- * certaia and eff' ^ ctaal remedy ever discevcrei for fliMiito . both ia itf . nsilu nnri ngjrravntcd fonas , by im-» i « diatelj * lia ; . img iAiiamKiation - *\\ i strcstiuf ; further jMijrress . Gleets . 6 trictsr « s , irritation of the bladder , pains * f tho loins a , n < lUid » ey 5 ,, gravel , and other disorders of the urinary passages , in either sex , are permanently cured in a shor * space « f time , without ( Hinfiuement or the least exp « s * v-:.
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ABEKNETIIY'S PILE OINTUEAT . \ ~ jn"llAT a painfal and noxious Disease is the PILES , VV and comparatively how few of the afflicted have b en permanently cured by ordinary appeals t- medical skill . This , no doubt , arises from t ' . ie us of powerful aperients too frequently administered by the profession ; indeed , strain : iutarnal medicine should alwajs be avoided in all cases of this complaint . The Proprietor of the above Ointment , after years of acute suffering , placed himself under the treatment of that eminent surgeon , Mr Abernethy , —was by him restored to perfect health , and has enj « yed it ever since mtliout the sli : ; Jitcst return of the disorder , over a period of fifteen years , durinjf ivhu-ii time the same Aberiiethian prescription has been the
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FOR STOPPING DECAYED TEETH , Price 2 s . 6 d . ftft * Patronized by Her Majesty , the Queen , Her Mtijcsty , the Queen Dowager , His Royal Highness Prince Albert , Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent , His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury , And nearly all the Nobility , the Bishops and the Chrgy
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L . U 5 S U £ llic , UI . Messrs . HOWARD & THOMAS continue to supply the LOSS "Of Teeth , without spring * or wires , upon their new systtmi of Self Adhe 6 ion , which has procured them such uwiv-crsal approbation , ana is recommended by numerous Physicians and Surgeons , as being the most ingenious system of supplying artificial teeth hitherto invented . They adopt themselves over the most tender gums or remaining stumps , without causing the . least pain , rendering the jiiiiuful operation of eslraetiou quite unnecessary . They are so fixed as to fasten any loos-e teeth , win re the gums have shrunk from the use ot calomel or other causes . They also beg to invite those not liking to undergo any painful operation , as practised by most members of the profession , to inspect their painless yet effective system ; and in order that their improvenu-nts may be within reach of the rao't economical , thoy will continue thu same moderate charges . Messrs . Howard and Thomas , Surgeon D . ntists , CI , Berners Street , € xford Street , London . At home from ten till four .
The Short Time Question
THE SHORT TIME QUESTION
Renewed Agitation For A Diminution Of Th...
RENEWED AGITATION FOR A DIMINUTION OF THE HOURS OF LABOUR IN FAC TORIES . MEETING AT BARNsLEY . A meeting was held at Barnslcy , on Wednesday , in the Odd-Fellows Hall , and notwithstanding the very unfavourable state of the weather , was numerously attended by the operatives of both sexes . Mr . Oastk-r mct with a most cnrdi-. l reception as he entered the town , and was escorted to the place of meeting by a baud of music . None of the clergy or manufacturers were present . The placard announcing the meeting wus bended with the following quotation from Lord John Russell ' s speech on the 1 Yn flours'Bill : —• 'Let the . trade of England perish , it it can only be tustnined h y the gtoans of women and infants . " The placard a ' so contained tho
following eulogiutn on Sir . Oastier : — " Mr . Oastler has unceasingly struggled for more than seventeen years to oMain a legislative enactment whereby the emaciated factory slave might be protected from Hie rclenthssiron grasp of the unfeeling portion of millowners of this country ; this noble and disinterested conduct has won forlvm the esteem of nil the great and pood in the hind , Mid the eternal gratitude of the poor factory children . Whenever mid in whatever form oppression lias shown its hideous deformity , Oastler has always been ready to give the monster a blow , therefore , With a thousand welcomeg meet him , And with ten thousand welcomes greet him . "
Mr . George utley , hand-loom weaver , having been called to the chair , rend tin- placard convening the mett . ing , and requested that if any one present preferred an Eleven Hours'Bill to a Ten Hours'Hill , he would come forward and state his reasons . ( Hear . ) Mr . Robert Gakxett , a hnnd-lonm weaver , in moving the first resolution , remarked that the use of machinery and the factory system generally had greatly deteriorated the condition of the working classes . The atmosphere of the generality of spinning rooms was from seventy to eighty degrees , and impregnated with so much water , that it fill like rain from the top of the room . Emerging frpm such a place on a frosty winter's morning was frequently the ca' : seof a diseased state of the lungs , ( Hcur . ) The speaker having read some statistical tables , showing the number of deaths to be very numerous in manufacturing to- » ns as compared with agricultural , concluded fcy moving
;—. * ' That a reduction in the hour ? of factory labour is a growing necessity , from the great increase and high perfoetion of machinery , whose use is to lessen , and not ausment human labour ; that long hours , though at first not felt to be so great a social evil , are noiv found to be very injurious both to the person and pecuniary interests of the parties employed . " Mr . Fjuvk MunriEtn . a hand-loom irMvei ' , seconded the motion , and it was agreed to Mr . Michael Segbave , weaver , then moved ; " That the recant and present Factories' Regulation Acts were forced upon the country in opposition to those proposed by Michael Thomas Sadler and Lord Ashley ; and while the object of these Acts , according to their
promoters , was to give greater advantage to the employirs by relays of children , still cv ^ n those measures have proved a great blessing by the greater equalisation of labour throughout the factories , the prevention of night working , and the opportunities , though small , given to the children for instruction and recreation . " ITe should like to see some of those gentlemen who had advocated the cause of the black slaves endeavouring to do something for the white slaves in th .- factory . ( Hear . ) It had been said that a reduction of wages would result from a reduction of the hours of labour , and that we should also lose our foreign trade . He would say , if the manufacturers could not compete with foreigner * without reducing wages , then away with manufactures and the foreign trade altogether . ( Cheers . )
Mr . Joun Clarke , a weaver , seconded the motion , and it pass- d unanimously . Mr . Wi & lmk Alexander , a shopkeeper , then moved" That from our amazing powers of production , a still fin th > r reduction is found to be essential necessary ; and tlrs meeting calls for the adoption of an efficient Ten Hours' Bill , it having been well proved that such would be a general advantage both to the employer and , thc employed , lor the growing intelligence of the apur-eqiflSre ' s tint more time be set apart lor the moral and religious instruction of the working population than can be afforded by an eleven hours ' regulation , with whicli the factory operatives never will be satisfied . " Mr . Fbank Muvvigld seconded the motion .
Mr . Oastler . 0 : 1 rising to support the motion was hailed with three- hearty cheers , He said . Mr . Chairman ; working men of IWnsley , accept the sincere and grateful thanks of—your old King if you will —( Cheers ) for the kind si d enthusiastic reception which yon have given , in hit person , to the Ten Hour ; . ' Bill This evening . It is uri ( Hying to me to find on my return to Barnsley after r . ; iuy years absence—some of them years of real affliction—it is gratifying and enlivening to me to find , that af : er all the various agitations which this country has passed through since we first began to ask that the emaiis and tears of women an : ' children might not be the cement of the trade of England—that after a . 'l those questions which had so tirn and rent this empire are closed and ended , it is still pleasing to find that the Ten
Hours Bill men have come out of the furnace refined . ( Cheers . ) We can now go through the manufacturing districts and discuss like rational b . ings this great question , a question which is as deeply important—whether it be as interesting I cannot tell—to ihe employers as to the unemployed ; n question which is us deeply important to the clergy of this country as to the people . We can now meet and have no angry passions stirring in our breasts , while we lar before the people our reasons for » Ti n Hours' Bill . It would have been more gratifying u < me if wc had seen , as we ought to have seen , all ( he professed friends , of whatever sect and party , r presented by their leaders and heads on this platform . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) I deeply regret that those of your community who move in a higher sphere , should , by their
absence from you this night , prove either that . they are careless of your interests , or that they have not thought as they ought to have done , of the importance of this question . The masters are not here . The question we are about deciding is one of real interest to them . It is their interest that the trade of England shall be f .-undtd on a just and righteous principle . It is their interest that the working people employed by litem should lonk up to them as their guardians and friends , rather than as their tyrants and oppres » ors . ( Cheers . ) I come here as their friend , because I know I sh , 11 be able to . lemonstr .-ite to you that at pesent the trade of England is built on rottenness , and believing as I do in the Word of God , I am constrained to believe that the curse ot' the God of justice rests on that trade which is manifestly founded on
oppression , robbery , and wrong . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Oastler proceeded to comment on the « vils of the factory system , and added , what right had the manufacturers to build fraud houses , to keep carriages , and set themselves up as nabobs , un ' ess the working classes had plenty—had the first share—had a sufficiency , for he did not mean a niggardly portion which could only keep body and soul to . gether . If the manufacturers wanted to have parks hiid varriages , and all the grand paraphernalia of slate , let them have those things ; but let thtm not be procured out of that portion of the reward of labour which God himself had given to the labourer . Let there bts justice first and then luxurits if you will . ( Cheers . ) After seme observations on the Poor Law , Mr . Oastler resumed his seat amidst loud cheering .
A petition to Parliament founded on the resolutions having been adopted , On the motion of Mr , U . Smart , seconded by Alfred llaughton , Three cheers were then respectively given for Richard Oastkr , John Fitldon , Feargus O'Connor , T . S . Duuconibe , and other friends to the Ten Hours' Hill .
Meeting At Iiolmpirth. On Friday Evening...
MEETING AT IIOLMPIRTH . On Friday evening , a public meeting of the inhabitants of this town was held in the town hall , for the purpose of petitioning the Legislature to diminish tlie flours of factory labour , the attendance was numerous . Near the chair , which was occupied by the Rev . Jir . Fearne , we ohserved the Rev . Mr . Woodland , Joseph Charlstvorth , Esq . J . P . ; Mr . James Charlsworth , banker ; Mr . David Charlsivorth ; Mr . Jotmllill , Methodist preacher ; Mr . J . Matkin , surgeon ; Mr . J , Farnir , manufacturer mid dy * r , Mr . W . Hinchcliff , manufacturer ; Mr . J , Hiuchcliff , manufacturer ; Mr , R . Hamsden , manufacturer ; Mr . John Hiiichcliff , of Scliolw , manufacturer , Mr . Joaeph Cross-
Meeting At Iiolmpirth. On Friday Evening...
' and . manufacturer , and Mr . John Crawshaw , manuf acturer . ¦ . Thu Rev . Mr . Woodland , in nn eloquent address , moved , "That a reduction in the hours of factory labour is a growing necessity , from the great increase and high perfection of machinery , whose use is to lessen , and not to augment human labour :-tl at long hours , though at first no t felt to be so great a social evil , are now found to he very injurioush .. th to the p . rsonal and pecuniary interests of the parlies employed . " Mr . wm . Hinciilev , one ? of the largest worsted wanuf . wuu-ers in this neighbourhood , roji ; to second the motion , and was most enthusiastically applauded . He ( Mr . Hitichley ) had from the first supported this measure as one called for on the principles of humanity ami
justice , and which , if carried into effect , would he likely to prove beneficial both lo the employer and the employed , and he had not heard any arguments advanced against the cause sumcient to change his opinion , Ulu ; of the principal objections to the measure was , that if carried , a reduction of wages must ensue . That argument was merely put forward as a bugbear to frighten the advocates of the measure . ( Hear , hear . ) He had been tauntingly asked , " Would you give the operatives the same wages for live days that you give them for six . " Now , if he really thought that the passing of the measure would have | tlie effect of reducing wages , he should he Sitate in giving the measure his continuous support , forhc did not think ihe wages were quite suffiei ? nt at present , but he firmly believed that a reduction of the time
of labour would have the contrary effect . ( Hear , hear . ) We were sometimes told that the price of labour was regulated by the demand for it . Vow , the demand was not altogether independent of the supply , and we might have nn excess of lime as well as of hands . Bv woiking " long hours , " the supply of labour was made to txc-ed the demand , goods were produced in a quantity disproportioned to the demand for them , the markets become g lutted , and both mast- rs and operatives were made to suffer , ( Cheers . ) It had hec-n said that the manufacturers would increase their machinery if the time of labour were reduced . 15 c it so . Would the . v not require more hands to work the additional machinery ? He trusted , however , that henceforth machinery would not be used merely ns a means to enable a few individuals
t «> amass wealth , but as a benefit to the community at large , He . bad heard some ask , " Are the operatives prepared for lush n chnnge ? Will they employ their spare time in a ' proper manner ! Will they not spend it in the beer-shop ? " He had no great opinion of beer shops ; he considered them the pest of the couitlry , and regretted to think that many young men spent their time in such places to their own shame and disgrace , and to the grief of their parents hearts . ( Hear , hear . ) But . he had not so bad an opinion of his fellotv men as to think that they would spend their precious time in thu beer house . Besides , the larger portion of factory workers were children and females . The latter , instead of going to the beer house , would lenrn to clean the house , make the shirt , knit the stockings , make he bread , brew the beer , and make themselves acquainted with all those things which tend to the comfort and well-being of a family . ( Cheers . ) But
hi thought it was taking too low a view of this question to make it a matter of pounds , shillings , and pence . Besides meat and drink , a man was bound to give his family moral and religious instruction—to capacitate them not only for their well being in soulnty . hut for eternal bappi . ness hereafter . ( Cheers . ) When be saivlittle children sitting r . t the door steps before five o'clock in the morning , he could not help saying within himself , ' This i * what I would not let my children do ; " and was he not taught to love his nei ghbour as hims If ?—( Cheers . )—and to do unto others as he would they should do unto him ? What availed thi-ir halls and their mechanics' institution' ? . If , on account-of protracted and excessive toil , the operatives could not attend them . They were now debarred from such institutions by long hours of labour . Tlicy were so protracted by labour they could not avail themselves of the advantages those institutions were designed to confer ; ( Cheers . )
The resolution was then put from the chair and car . ried unanimously . Mr , Samcel Ciekden-nino of HuddersflVId , manufacturer and local mcthodist preacher , moved " That the recent and present Factories Regulation Acts , were forced upon the country in opposition to those proposed by Michael Thomas SiidUr , and Lord Ashley ; and while the objects of thefe Acts , according to their prmaotf rs , was to give | grcatcr advantages to the employers by relays of children , still even those measur . s have proved of considerable blessing by the ' greater equalisation of labour
throughout the factovic s , the ' preventioii of night wot Icing , and the opportunities , though small , given to children for instruction and recreation . Mr . R . Ramsden , manufacturer seconded the motion . Mr . Oastler rose lo support the resolution , and was loudly cheered on his appearance in front of the pint form . Mr . Oastler spoke at great length , in his usual eloquent and feeling manner , nud was mutt , applauded . The resolution was then agreed to . On the motion of Geo & ge Lock , a wearer , seconded b > Gfokge Ives , it was resolved that a petition rbould bt presented to Parliament in favour of the Tea Hours Bill . Thanks having been voted to the chairman , the meeting dispersed .
Great Meeting At Leeds. On Monday Evenin...
GREAT MEETING AT LEEDS . On Monday evening a larpo and influential meoiinjj of the inhabitants of Leeds , ^ convened by the Mayor , G . I . Medea , Esq .. on the pre entation of a requisition numerously ami respectably signed , wa « hold in the saloon of tho Music Hall , for thepiirpose of ' petitioning Parliament in favour of limiting the hours of labour for women and children in factories to ten hours per day , Tlie m < cf itifj w , ts fixed" to take place at half past seven , and at that time tho room vas crowded in every part , upwards of 1 , 000 por « ons being - present .
The Rev . Dr . IToolc , Vicar , took the chair , ami iimonsr t ' mee present on the platform were W . B . Ferrand , F > q . M . P ., Richard Oastler . Esq ., md a groat number of the clergy and influential persons encased in trade . Mr . Fielden , M . P , was expected to be present , but- was prevented by indisposition . The requisition convening the meeting having been read , The Rev . Ciuirmax opened the proceedings . Mr . J . Parkin moved the first resolution : — That a reduction in the hours of factory labour is a growing necessity , from the great increase and high perfection ' of machinery , who ' -e use is to less n and not to augment human labour;— that lo-ig hours , though at first not fi-lt to be so great a social evil , are now found to be very injurious hoth to tlie personal and pecuniary interests of the parties einploved .
Mr . Jamks Stansfihld , another operative , se eonded the resolution . Dr . Lkes supported the resolution in an excellent speech . Thf resolution was carried unanimously . _ The Rev . Mr . D . xltox moved the second resolution in a neat speech , for which we re ^ ivt we have not room . Mr . Sykes seconded the resolution , which was as follows : — That the advocacy of the shortening of the hours of labour has been of incalculable benefit to society at Jarge . hnving diffused soundcrnotionsof political economy amongst alt classes—produced a better tiaderstaiiiiiiig between matters and nun—corrected many of thecrrors of theorists— "nil taught the operatives that it is useless to war Against machinery , but rather to S . ' i ' ug / jle for the regulation of the hours of labour , as a means of comfort and happiness to themselves and families .
t Rioiiaud Oastleh . Ksq ., in supporting the resolution , after sonio preliminary remarks , in which he denounced the factory system as deuntditig alike both to the masters and nun , proceeded to "" show , that a reduction , of the hours of labour would not necessarily lirinit down wages . Seine time ago , in Leeds , it was the custom for hard-raisers to work ten hours a day , and in IhtddersficU ! they worked twelve hour * . Now , according to the principles of political comiom v , wages ouehfc to have been onc-twelfilt more in Iliiiiderstield than in Leeds . But what was the fact ? Why , that for many yo-irs operatives who had wives and families residiii" iii Iliiddeisfield , came to Leeds , preferring to work there in order that they miulif .
carry home two shilling- * a-week more than thev could have obtained at the former place ; and he , Mr . Oastler contended , that the only way to obtain ajiiBt reward for labour was to briny the hours to that exact level which would brintr into occupation every labourer in the community .- ' The speaker then alluded to'the declaration of Mr . Brij-ht , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , and Mr . Phillips , that th working el iffes weren .. t in favour of a Ten II- urs ' Bill , because they did Hot strike . Whv , it had been theobectot those who advocated tins Ton Hours ' Bil , ' , from the first movement of the question to tlupresent time , to prevent the masters and the men from coming into collisio * , and the latter had found that it would not be to their interest to enter into
any such combination , and therefore there was no proof whatever that they were not favourable to the measure because they did not strike . ( Hear , hear . ) lie had attended meetings in various parts of the country , some of them attended by 50000 persons , and when the proposition was put in favour of a reduction to tui hours , he had never seen more than live hands field up against it . He stron » ly urged the working classes not to listen to any advl e " come from whatever qutirter it might , to enter into a strike for the purpose of attaining this object ; because such a step could only produce a reduction of wages , and the misery of themselves and their families . How would the workinir people stand under
such circumstances ? The relieving officers would give them no relief ; and if they had no emplnvmcnt and no means by which to live , he asked , how it would be possible that the hundreds and thuusni dof persons thus congregated topcther could be kept in a suite of order ? Whether , therefore , the Chr . ncellor ol foe-Exchequer , Dr . JBrialit , oranv other millowner thought | , , per ( 0 say that because the worknif classes did not strike that , thev were ind fforent to the question , he ( Mr . Oastler ) begged that the meeting »' uld take it as ho proof tvjjatover that the wiMkiii ; : caws were not determined to haven Ten Hours ili 1 by peaceable means . ( Ghicrs . ) He had b :-en told b- a Lancashire miil-owner \ vjiat the obct of r . 8 tr k < i meant , lie was tohi 4 hat there waa an
Great Meeting At Leeds. On Monday Evenin...
immense quantit y of goods in the hands of the cotton manufacturers of . Manchester , and that there was no means ot selling them but by stopping the production of them .:. and , therefore , they were desirous that the working men should strike , that ther , the manufacturer , should be saved a loss on those goods . A great deal had baon said about the importance of their foreign trade , and the injiirr that would follow she adoption of a Ten Hours' Bill . What did the . v want to export ? Corn they had none . Then did fbey wish to export cloth ? ( lad every working man in Leeds got a good suit of clonics and a top cent for this inclement weather ? ( Criesof " No . " ) Then if it was absurd to export corn when they had none to spare , was it not equally absurd to talk about cxportin .- doth when the makers of it had none to wear themselves ? ( Cheers . ) Tho real trade for t . liei " woollen cloth was at home . Let every man bo well clothed , and then they might talk of exporting ; but
it was the greatest folly in the world to talk about sending ( he produce of their Jnbnur nhroitd , and leave them ? elv < s linked at home . lie had been desired by Mr . Fielden , M . P ., to thank thein for the invitation given to him to attend the meeting , but which the stale of his health prevented him ( loins , and to ask them whether or not they were in favour of an Eleven Hours' Bill ? ( Shouts of " No , no ten hours is onou « li . " ) They might depend upon it that no set of millowners could long bolster up a Government against the righteous demands of the people ; for they being backed by the clergy , the middle classes / and the most valuable portion of the community , their claims in the end must become irresistible- ; but if , after all , the millowners should induce the Government , to refuse the prayers of the people , which they themselves acknowledge to he rijrht in principle , God would maintain ihe cansc of the afflicted and the rights of the poor . ( Loud cheers )
The resolution was then put and carried unanimoiislv . The Rev . G . Hills moved the fourth resolution , as follows : — That from our amazing powers of production a still further reduction in the hours of labour is found to be essentially necessary ; and this meeting calls for the adoption of an efficient Ten Hours' Bill , it having b » "ii sufficiently proved thus such would be- a ireneral advantage hoth to the emplojer and the employed ; for the growing intelligence of the age requires that more time b « set apart for the moral and religious insti notion of the working population ; more time thanenn be afforded by ail eleven hours' regulation , with which the factory operattves never will be satisfied . # It was seconded by Mr . IIat . vood , a town-conncillor .
Mr . Fkriiand , who was received with tho most enthusiastic cheering , which lasted some minutes slid that when he . received the unanimous invitation of the Short Timo Committee to appear among them that evening and take part in their proceedings , he felt he had lust nothing in the estimation of the working me ; i of Leeds —( cheers)—and that whatever liivjndiee be had to combat elsewhere , they who had lived near to him during the whole of his life were fully aide to appreciate his mot . vcs and to believe in the honestv of his intentions . lie would ask the opponents of the measure how long were the "' ( irking men to atrug" le for their just rights ? how long were they to implore the rulers of this country ? how Ion ? to petition p riirtHieiit ? how long to hold up their horny hands in supplication to Heaven , as w . 11 as to th-iir rulers on earth , imp loring that justice may ho done to them ? ( Cheers . ) The present factory
system had been in full operation for the last forty years . The- - had seen mop . grow vastly rici . they jiiifl seen the workmen grow vastly poor ; they had seen their employers become inordinately rich , whilst they themselves were weighed down by distress heartrending tn behold . ( Cheers . ) The actory system was nursed into its present mighty power by Icirinappimr the orphan children throughout the whole of England ; and so eager were the master manufacturers in the competition to obtiiic thett that they literally consented to tnkc one idiot in the score . ( Groans . ) The poor ehildre ;; were bought hi - the manufacturers and sold by the overseers { of the poor in the various parishes throimhout England , This was not his assertion ; he would -jive them the authority of members of Parliament . at the time . On the 3 rd of April , 1 S 1 G , Mr . R . Gordon made the following statement hi the House of Commons : —
It appears that overseers in parishes m Loudon are m the habit of ecutraeting with the manufacturers of the north for the disposal of their children ; and these ma . nufacturcrs agree to take one idiot for every nineteen sane children . In this mft :: isi-r waggon loads of these little creatures are sent down to be at the perfect disposal of their new' UlilS . 'fir . c . ( Loud cheers . ) If anything more than another had disgusted him during the time be ha-i been in Parliament , it was to find : ¦ iv It . Pec ) , « J ; o owed to the working men of England the whole of the vast wealth he enjoyed , the bitterest opponent of the vrorkin :: men— ( loud cheers)—to find him marshalling the forces , and bringiniMip his tail of Janes-Caries to fight ¦ nrninst their Ten Hours' Kill . Supposing the lalo
Sir R . Peel cleared 10 s . a week—and that was only a moderate computation—by the labour of each of his 1 , 000 orphans , from the aue of six or so . ven years iiit the term of their apprenticeship 0- 21 , he must during that time have pocketed no les-s than £ 26 , 000 a year out of the blond and sinews of those kidimp jif ' d orphans , ( Loud cheers . ) And lie would tell the present Sir R . Peel , that when the working nn u considered how vast'the wealth and how great the power . which had thus been accumulated , they did linfc think that out <> f gratitude at least he ¦ . jght Vote for the Ten Hours ' Bill- ( Loud cheer-. ) When he looked at his own neighbourhood , and thought how h . t . ' ip . v il used to be , and how miserable it no w was . —when he heard the poor people narrate how
their clock and other furniture had been sold to p » . v rent , and not a bed left whereon to lie , his blood bulled in his veins —( loud cheery)—and whenhespok' - t ' lus " he v . as called a " violent" man . ( Chens ) F-.-rrand . they said was an holiest fellow , but too violent . ( Cheers . ) lie would a-k them one thing : Lord Ashley bad been a calm , quiet , calculating , benevolent , and honest man ; but his calmness , practised for fourteen years , brought him no nearer to the enactment of the Ten [' lours' . Bill His calmness had driven him Irom the House of Cotmaons , and when he heard Sir J . Graham , immediately previous to the Easter week in 1 S 42 , -vhen they carried the second reading of the Ten Hours ' Bill , implore Lord Ashley to postpone the measure until after Easter ,
that itmight be ' calmly , " deliberated upon when Parliament aaain met—that a question of such vital importance should not be hastily carried—and when lie saw Lord Ashley on the floor of the house , calmly aequicsce in that suggestion , he said , "hiscalmness " has . sold the workifis wen of England . ( Loud dn .-ers , and " Thai ' s true . " ) Had Lord Ashb-y st < . od up in the House of Commons , andsaid , " Wait till after Easter ! No , not one hour . 1 am the representative of millions ; they have waited for twenty years , and they shall wait no longer , "—( lord cheers)—had such been the language of Lord Ashler , he lr . itiht have been called violent , but it would have led to victory . ( Loud cheers . ) What had been the result ? Darius the Easter recess were Ilrr Majesty ' s Ministers
calm ? Were they deliberating upon the greatness of the question ? No , the Tadpoles and Tapers were sending circulars throughout the country , and in " violent" language threatening members ol Parliament with the resignation of Ministers if they did not come up and vote again-1 the third reading of the bill . ( Loud cheers . ) They compelled the House of Commons to stultify itself , to eat its own words , or , to "se the language " of Mr . Hume , to vote thut black was white . " ( Cheers ) He ( Mr . Ferrand ) might bo " violent . " lie would tell them another thing ; he would he violent until redress wa * granted to the working men . ( Prolonged cheers . ) When he went to Parliament , he told his constituents that every interest , except that of labour , was overreprese . ted
in the llotue of Commons , but il he did not vet a seat within fli-su walls , his feeble voice and humbler talents should tight the battk of the poor ( cheers ); so long as he had a seat there , he would continue to redeem that pledge . ( Cheers . ) Th' blessing of one poor man upon his head was far better for him than the blessings of a thousand of the rich . So lorn : a ? he had the good wishes of the poor and the workitv .: man , he cared not for those who cursed him through their talk ; there and elsewhere he was prepared to ui ' -et them ; he dared them to ihe contest . ( Cheois . ) His worthy friend , Mr . Oastler , had alluded to Michael Thomas Sadler , whose eloquence , as well as that of his triend now- present , had induced him to l-ecome a public man . The that time he ( Air . l' \ -rrand ) had ever uttered his voice at a public meeting was at the great assembly at Low Moor , in favour of tho Teii flours ' Hill , and so " violent" had he even there been , that at his own expense he hired
a band of mu * ic , whicli paraded the town of Biugicy at 5 o ' clock in the morning , and set the church bell ' s a ringing , so that , when the factory bell drowsily tinkled the hour of 6 . the . laclorv , workers—men ' , women , and children , marched off to the sound of music to the Low Moor meeting—all went off ! o » e . ther to fight under the banner of the Ten Hours' Bill . ( Cheers . ) Returning home many were weary , because of the distance , but he hired waggons , and bmight up all the bread niv . l cheese that could be procured , and at length they arrived cornfortah ] rat their home * . ( Cheers . ) This took ph . ee in lg 33 , but little did he then think he would have U years to wait before their viciorv was achieved The " bon sft-ntlemau concluded by saying he there pronouneeti that whoever should lioncef-rth in secret attempt to deptivc the working men of the Ten liours'Bii ! was a robber and a plunderer of the poor , ( lie retired amidst loud cheers , ) The resolution was can id
nan . von . It wan then determine . ] that petitions to both Houses of Parliament , based upon the fore « oin . resolutions , should be handed round ( or signature . " 1 hanks were then voted ' to th « V . car , who thereupon vacated the chair . Previous to the meeting brcakimr up , Mr . Oast ' ei reatl n letter from Mr . Fielden , -M . P ., which comblued three questions for the working classes «' Leeds" 1 st . Have the hands emphoed in factories in Leeds any power to determine the number of hours
Great Meeting At Leeds. On Monday Evenin...
they will work per day , without running the risk t losing employment , or else having recour * e '' to strike , which might prove a failure , and lead to a breach of the peace ? " a Mr . Oastlkr—Have you that power ?~ Sliout ? „ c "No . " ) ot " 2 nd . —Would either a voluntary or corapnl sor 7 limitation of the hours of labour to eleven per day content the " people of Leeds , or , are the . v resolved never to rest satisfied until a Ten Hours' Bill hus been pawed by Parliament ?" Mr . Oastm ! r—Will you ?—( Shouts of " So . " ) " 3 rd . Do those , who work in factories wish the hours of actual labour to be onlv ten hours per d-iy for five days in the week , and eidit on Saturdays whatever effect fltat niav have on thfir wi .-r-x ? " ' ( Shouts of "Yes . " ) ' ' " "
A working man here asked Mr . Oastler whether the ndTooites of a Ten Hours' Bill insisted u : > on the moving power stopping at the expiration of the ten hours ; to which Mr . Oastier replied in the affirma-Thanks having been voted to the Parliamentary and other . advocates of the T , n Hours' Bill Mr . Feiuund . after thanking them in ' his own name , and on the part ol the members of Parliament , or the honour of their public approval , said—I believe , vrprkme men , that many of vott are aware of the ordeal which 1 have gone throush ' during the hist week . It is evident to me that I have not sunk m our estimation whilst Sir J . Graham has been
trying to destroy me as a public man . ( CheerM ion will remember that it . was tw ... years azo , whilst addressing a meeting in this vcrv room . I char-ed him , and I charge , him again—( cheers)— with takW steps to procure n report that was false , for the pur . pose of crushing me in Parliament . Me denied it s- lemnly in the House of Common ? , and he denied sob-mnly that the man who drvw up the report in question , which is false from beginning to end , had received any instructions whatever , ro visit Rei » hley . Well , the party he has identified himself with has filed in the Court- of Queen ' s Br nth the very instructions he received , and which Sir J . Graham , on his word and honour , denied hi the Ilo . - . se of Com .
mons . ( Cries cf-Shame ! " ) Mr . Mott , the Assistant Poor Law ; Commissioner , went d . iwn to Keighley bv directions from a Poor Lsiw CorKtin ^ ' ninor : he dm ivs up a report cliamintr mc with the most base , the most corrupt , the most dishonourable conductwith jobbing as a magistra te—with lesuil deputes that the attorneys might pocket the feo—and with spending the poor rates that I miuhtchtaplv earn the name of the poor nmn ' s friend , That was * he charge faiselv brought « i * ftinst me by Sir J . Graham . They could not deny bavins made the chs'w , vet would you lwve baliovod it ? Or . Tupsdav but L . rd Den man , in the Court of Quern ' s Bench , ' called this negligence perhaps . " Now Lord Daunan is Lord Chief Justice of Eneland ; I am a iustice of the
pence for the vv est Riding of Yorkshire As a jug . tice o f the . pence , I am charged with thr * corrupt and dishonourable conduct , and the Chie ? Justice of Lnyland calls it " negligence , perhap- - . " Let me put a case . Suppose the question < f s mother ' s rizhtto flic custod y of her own child unti' it is seven years of ago brought before the Queen ' s Bench ; Lord D .-nman would be bound to pronounce in favour of that rischt , and his decision would break up every union poor house in Great Britain c ? T et £ ' ) S "f P ° . further , - that Mr . Lewis and Sir J , Graham should tahesleps secreliv to procure a report that was false , as they did atainst me , charging Lord Denman . in his office offhh-f Jus'ice , with jobbing in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , and creating legal disputes in order that the lawyers
might pocket the fee . -. Suppose Sir J . Graham should use that report , and make this ftlse and nefarious charge in the House of Commons ; would Lord Denman be content with merely cnViing such conduct " neellg . nee , porhapi ? " ( Loud cheers . ) No , he would denounce them as , ' " the eravest charges conveyed in the very grossest lan- 'nage . " ( Laud cheers . ) He would do more—he would throw (• it his wig and d- 'lT his gown , and declare he would never put them on again until his foul calumniators had been visited with the condic- puni « hment they would deserve . ( Cheers . ) Let me tell Lord Denman , then , that ic is necessarv for iintico to flow unsullied through the narrow stream ' in the valley where I reside , as in the broad river which flows
throug h the Court of Queen ' s Bench . ( Loud and long continued cheering , ) My character , as an En g lishman , a gentleman , and a magistrate , is as dear to me as Lord Denman ' s is to him , and if he ia to sanction such charges against me as those I have referred to , wh y , the sootier I retire from the commission of the peaco the better . ( Cheers . ) I fearlessly pronounce Lord Denman ' s ipse dixit decisionfor to rail it ajudement would he a libel oi the court—I fearlessly pronounce his dictum tn be no thing more nor less than " a nvckerv , a delusion , and a snare . " . ( Load cheers . ) And as ' the aggrieved party I tell him . after defending Lewis . Graham , and the » 'st of them as he did , it would have been only a friendl y act in him to have told them , as was dene
nn anmher memorable occasion which hi . s Lordship will long remember , to go and sin no more . Loud cheers ) My best wishes were ae < -, nmp ! Nhed wiiett the rule was made absolute , Sir J . Graham and Mr . Lewis , walking a' -m and arm , have entered the ciiadel , and I have locked the gates behind them ; ri"f shall they ever come out but before ;; jurr and through the ordeal of the witness-box . ( Cheers ) I toll Sir J . Graham , ho > hall stand in the witnessbox —( cheers)—there to be riddled by a eross-examination which shall rxpo . se him to the backbone . ( Cheers . ) And here , before this public rn-ctiiig , I challenge , I dare . Mr . Lewis to go into the witnessbos ; if he shrinks I will brand him : i « a onward , and the country will brand him as a guiltv man .
( Cneers . ) lie has pursued the cowardly course of filing a criminal information against me ; and the only chance he has of acquitting himself is to appear i « the witiifSB-box , ( Cheers . ) I clwliente . I dare hi i' to the combat . I caH on him and Sir J . Graham to lose not one hour in soins before a jury , where I , who have been charged with base and dishonourable conduct , will prove that my accusers have been guilty of it , not I . ( Cheers ) 1 have hitherto kept an honest character as a public man . In the lace of uiy country I pledge my word and honour that it vill c -me clear and spotless from the ordoa ' « f a jury , mid I pledge my word a :-d honour that th ;; t is more than my opponents will do . ( Loud cheers . ) The meeting then separated .
Mvstehious Affair—Curiosity And Wonder O...
Mvstehious Affair—Curiosity and wonder ot more than ordinary interest were excited among the inbnnitants ot Dartmouth , in the early part of the week , by the disinterment of a corpse which had been buried in the Roman Catholic Cemetery there , and by the empannelling of a coroner ' s jury for an inquest on the same . It was noised abroad that the deceased was the lawful consort of Mr . George Forbes Thompson , of Lake Loon , formerly an officer in the corps ot Royal Engineers , but at present retired on half-pay , with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel , and that she had been kept in eoniinement , anil on starving allowance of food , for a long period before death released her from bondage and oppresslm-: of a nature unimaginably dreadful . Other renorts say
she was an aunt or the Colonel ' s , yet this is < vposed by authority equally credible , with the assertioiuhat she was his wife ' s ' aunt . Again , her birtlnhec is alternately alleged to have been Spain , Italy , . ind Corfu . The deceased was interred without any solemnit y in the burial ground of a community whose particular and jealous regard for their place or sepulture has ever been proverbial . Her existence was previously hidden from the public eye ; aud hintsanu talcs discreditable to Colonel Thompson were pui into circulation , so that however disagreeable to liinis-lf , a clearing up of the mv . -. tery through a judicial investigttion became needful . The jury retu rned a verdict , " That the deceased was the wile of Cvloiicl Thompson ; that she was not insane ; and that she hud not received proper care or treatment . "—Halifax ( Nova Scotia ) Recorder .
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TO LADIES . . ,,, " Avec de mauvais tleuts jamais t ' emrae nVtoit " ° 'Jt ' Avcc de jolis dents inn : is femmen ' etoithide . J . J . RoUSSEJl ' . Value and Importance of Artificial
Teeth-MK . HOWARDS PATENT . The teeth influence tho form aud expression , ot " , et' ?! Lj tetiiincu much more than is generally imag ined ) ««« , finest nice is disfigured if any of the tevth are u * t ,,. a duugri-eable impression is produced . Where my f . a are g . n . d , there is when speaking , or smiling espeii-ii 11 , i fascination preseat , which prevents further exiiiiiiii . iof the countenance . , , ¦ ,.. - , r , The new Patent Composition Teeth , iiitwidn ^ au > •• HOWARD , Surgeon-Dentist , 6 +, lleniei ^' -reet , <> . u . ^ street , London , are fixed without extract ! " !? •' ' » . ; ,, "V ^ . ue teeth , or g iving any pain whatever , ihey «» ' J found more economical than others . . . j Necessity or free Wilt has in former tiwcs , Save the public miud move than in the present UJ } - " . , | gt sajs , ' It has been either by chance or neui- 'V ^ , . -. nil the great discoveries in medicine «» . J "; ' - ' ' pree illlt Still lie has left the ^ . ^ tion ^> Vr ; . 7 ,, -,, ;
. ' I . s .: I .. * ........ . . ,, I ' , - 1-r-i'lM 1 ' with which t ) ier . orld hus li ^ eu blessed , « - <¦<•> •' . ; r : „ , it not brought us nearer to the decision ot t- ' « > question . , TUi , ii -i- «< Sick Headaches with We . ik . iess and ut . . . Stomachs cured bv Holloway s I ' ll } = ; -- V ] w * f , of 7 s i » . i !»' doful l'iJte that cured the Karl ,,, AWhurougl ^ ofa ^ vuwpliilnt after tin- most einmei t due is U Wfe r ( , _ on the Continent failed to give 8 . ° «™ % « £ w . lief . This famous medicine wiH cure any peu « - ^ ve- l ., d his ei . se mav be , who is sulwriug in . i"J 0 J C frnn , wnerll uebiiitvcrfrom the head and wn ^ H j . E , C it * confidently believed , that »* « £ » ^ Sn " ( uuiilceall others , acts directly up * " u e J muiirsprings of lifts , that no dueaa whutevw i-n i influence .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 5, 1846, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_05121846/page/2/
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