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. " -3 ; MOHMOUTH . .- . VATwrar BTjWHeiasais . —Henry New , aged 32 , a marked in the calendar , as able to read and ^^ mDerfeeUy , a * Mpeeiable 4 ooking eort of irnfe ^ indicted , for , uttering , on the Slsfc of ^^' iT ^ fc at > Win chcombe , ia Gloucestershire , to 31 ThffluU Higgins Brydges , a . forged note for ^ . VS rSing t 5 be note of theJJank of Eng-* a ^ was proved that the prisoner went up to k ° Wvd ^ es at the Winchcombe fair on the above-W'lrieS dav and was anxious to buy a horse ¦ rt flSt Gentleman had to sell ; but he having * « , the prisoner for a long time , and thinking fc 00 Irv unlikely person to buy a horse , was dis-^ - od to show offi & e merits of his animaL There 5 nI ^ nther man with the prisoner , and the latter ' A ** it was for this person he wanted him . f * j ^ ps would not seU at their offer , and rode ^^ This inn . and was fo llowed by the prisoner ^ Lrfa ble door . The prisoner offered £ 6 10 s . ; be stau ^
tot nf « i £ io . but at last said if the 40 w L «™ tor wanted £ 10 , but at last said if the *? ^ r woold fetch the money , he would seU the { fl 11 >! The prisoner affected not to have the oKE nnd ' said he would go to his principal for it , money . ¦*» ' - at , out 100 yards towards the fair for 3 ° * tended purpose of getting it . The prosecutor & eP WhinJ , and observed that he went into the * - « nrf for some five minutes , spoke to no one , f »» . s ™ ° ' turned and produced a £ 10 note , out of ^ - VT rtP nrosecu to r took his change , and gave which pi ¦ v ^ gjance , » phe latter then said the P ° jnade nothing by the transaction , as he flat he na ^ - ^ ^ asked the prosecutor to treat lough" ?™ htteI did so to the extent of a shilling - him , , Thev parted , and the prisoner afterwards faL fhe horse in the fair . In a few days the pro-Vr discovered that the note was a forgery , and S vf ?? d a warrant against the prisoner , but he was rested till last January . In order to show Tt he knew the note was a forgery , it was
tha * { " ¦ . _„ r ta 93 nl nf that cnmo mnnth r . t Ja * hat on the 23 rd of that same month of ? J ° I . fc he uassed off another note , for £ 5 , to a Miss PiXwe a draper and hosier , at Stockport , in ^ S * * and another £ 5 note on the 26 th of that th to ' a Mr- Woolley , a chemist , in the same ? °° ^ n the officers went from Woreester Ve to arrest him at Birmingham , they were Inffoed by a brother of his , and as they came near fen where they had leamt he was staying , he « meout ; dressed in a smock frock , looked round , and bean to run ; but they soon overtook him , Sunder the smock frock they found a complete ZlSoi black . He was found " Guilty , " aud a nrevious conviction for felony at the Gloucester Sessions was proved against him . —Mr . Cooke then to him for
^ Mdthat he was instructed prosecute four distinct acts of uttering , within a period of two boms in the town of Monmouth , four £ o notes , BUTDortin '' to be notes of the Old Abergavenny and "Monmouth Bank . —His Lordship said , under the ¦ circumstances , it would be unnecessary to go on -with those cases , and therefore sentenced him to be transported for life . It appeared that he had met -vrith extraordinary success- in passing off the -forgeries of the Old Bank in this county . He bepan in Abergavenny , and circulated several there .
While the coach stopped to exchange horses at the little village of Kagland , he contrived to change two of them . He reached Monmouth by that coach at two in the afternoon , and before eight o ' clock , when he went off by the mail , he had passed off upwards of sixteen of them at various shops under pretence of buy ing some articles , though aU he purchased might have been bought for *! . In short , the forgeries on the Old Bank passed of by him and Ma fellows within a few days in this district , in which the notes of this bank are chiefly circulated ,
exceeded £ 2 , 000 Bchglart . — Henry Wilkins was indicted for burglarv in the house of Mary Jenkins , at Usk , in this ° conhfy , on the night of the 30 th of October last . It appeared from the testimony of the witnesses that the prosecutrix kept a public-house in tbe town of Usk , in the parlour of" which was a table with a draw containing a quantity of silver spoons , money , and other articles . Adjoining the parlour was the tap-room , where the prisoner had partaken of refreshment on the morning preceding the night when the offence was committed . When there be had the opportunity of seeing the prosecutrix « a to the- table to procure change for a
customer . About three o ' clock in the morning of the 31 st a carpenter of the name of Simeon Trotman , who was watching his timber-yard , situated oppoate to Mrs . Jenkins ' s public-house , bearing a noise in an orchard next to his yard , went there and found the prisoner standing near a table with the drawer broken , and a silver spoon in his hand . A violent struggle ensued between them , in the course of which the prisoner , who was much the stronger man , drasrged Trotman a considerable distance , teat him " severely , endeavoured by twisting his neckcloth to choke him , and thrust into his mouth
a quantity of manure , during which process , however , Trotman got the prisoner ' s finger between his teeth and bit it off . Trotman , however , gallantly secured Ms prise . The table , with its drawer and its contents , which the prisoner , when disturbed , was inspecting , were proved by Mrs . Jenkins to have been the same that were in her parlour on the night of the 30 th ult . when she retired to bed . The prisoner cross-examined the witnesses , and addressed the jury at considerable length , but was found " Guilty , " and transported for ten years . — The learned Judge awarded Trotman the sum of £ 5 for his gallant conduct .
The AIoxuouthsbtee Bask Forgery . —William Morgan was indicted for three distinct utterings of forged bank notes of the Monmouthshire Bank , on the 22 nd September last , at Bristol , with intent to defraud James Fillers , Charles Taylor , and Charles IL Stock . —The jury found the prisoner " Guilty , " and the Judge , in passing sentence , said that the case was a clear plot , and that unless it was visited with severity no tradesman would be safe , it was clear that the prisoner was connected with a Birmingham gang of forgers , who simultaneously set out at the same moment to pass the forged notes at a tune when detection was most difficult . His lordship sentenced him to 15 years' transportation .
LIVERPOOL . The St . Heies ' s Savkgs Bask Defaulters . — -John Johnstone , aged 53 , tbe actuary of the St . Helen ' s Savings Bank , and "William Johnstone , aged 42 , the under-secretary of the same bank , were brought up for judgment on the charge of having conspired together to retain and use the monies of the depositors of the bank to their own profit , contrary to the Savings Bank Act , to which they pleaded " Guilty . "—The Attorney-General said , there was one fact of which his Lordship ought to be informed , and which did not appear on
the depositions—namely , that the younger prisoner iad been in bis brother's service from the age of 16 -until the year 1843 , when the younger prisoner succeeded him at tbe bank as under-secretary , and all the defalcations occurred before that period . —His Lordship , in passing sentence , said , it was distressing to see two persons who had borne excellent characters , and had moved in a respectable sphere , brought up to receive tbe sentence of the court for having committed a misdemeanour . His Lordship then sentenced each to be imprisoned in Lancaster Castle for six months , amongst the first class misdemeanants .
Assault et Two Policemen . —Two policemen , Sheridan and Page , were charged with using a cutlass and making a violent assault , atBootle , upon Mr . Eilshaw , on the 22 nd of January . —John Kilshaw , timber dealer , Bootle , the prosecutor , sworn , said : On the day named I was at tbe house of Mr . Hughes , publican , Bankfield-terrace , Bootle . Was rather drunk . There was a disturbance in tbe house . I was holding one of the men , Hood , to pre-Tent him fighting . The police were sent for , and I Walked away alone . I saw the two prisoners with Dodd in custody . They asked my name and his , and then released him . Dodd aud I went back to the public-house , as he bad left his bat behind bun . We then went to my lodgings . I heard a knocking at
the door about ten minutes after I had got home . I did not go to the door . I was just then going to the timber-yard . I stopped at the stable-door to listen if all was quiet . Dodd followed immediately after . Whilst I was listening the prisoners came up , and asked Dodd to go along with them . I followed as far as my own door , and said 1 will go in . 3 Che prisoner , Page , then struck at me with his stick , knocking off my hat , and hitting me on the head . He was about striking again , when I took hold of the stick and held it against his breast , asking him what he struck me for , and what he wanted . Be made no reply , hut commenced kicking me about the legs . Tbe prisoner , Sheridan , "then came and struck me with his stick . In defending myself from the blows Sheridan was giving , his
Suck broke over my arm . Page then said , " Draw jour cutlass . " Sheridan drew his cutlass , and 1 received a blow on the head which laid me senseless in the entry . I was confined to bed for a week . — This was the material evidence for the prosecution . ? he witnesses called were Mrs . Caldwell ( with Whom Sir . Kilshaw lodges ) , tbe servant girl , a nei ghbour , Mr . Cookson , and Mr . Matthew Gosling , the surgeon . The latter gentleman deposed to the extent of injury which Mr . Kilshaw had received . Ihere were two large scalp wounds on his head , whicb . did not appear to have been inflicted with Soaks .. —Mr . Sergeant Wilkins addressed the jury for the prisoners . —The jury retired , and , after an absence of two hours , returned into court with a verdict of « Guilty . " Sentence—Twelve months ' mprwomaenti with hard labour
KINGSTON . Isotcimesx ioh Masslaughxek . —William Trigg , drayman , 36 , was indicted for the manslaughter of Thomas Philhps . _ It . appeared from the evidence for tiie prosecution , that the prisoner was in the sernce of a brewer at Kingston , and on the 25 th of last August he was atDlttOD , on Ms way home -mtha dray , when meeting with two young women Ca tie road , gomg m tie earns direction , is invited
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them to ride , and they accepted the offer , and got upon the dray . ; The deceased came up at the time , and he also insistedupon ' ridbg , and , after some demur , the prisoner allowed him to do so . It would seem that the deceased was very drunk at the time , and he began to abnse . the prisoner , and madouse . ofvery bad language , and called him a har three times . At length , after a . great deal of angiy altercation , the deceased jumped off the dray and challenged the prisoner to come down and fight , and , after some hesitation , it appeared that he got off tho dray , and when he had done so he observed that tbe deceased had alarge flint stone in his hand , whiclvhe appeared to be in tbe act of throwing at him , but , before he did so , the prisoner snatched one of the iron pins from the dray and struck the deceased with it , and knocked him down . He remained insensible for some time : and when the
prisoner saw the consequences , of his act , he expressed great sorrow and washed the deceased ' s face , and did all he could to restore him , The deceased was ultimately removed to Kingston , where he was attended by Mr . Ellis , and also by 3 Ir . Roots , two medical gentlemen living in tbat town , and he died on the following Thursday from the effects of the injury inflicted upon him by the prisoner . —Several witnesses gave the prisoner an excellent character for general humanity and good conduct . —Mr . Sergeant Gazelee summed up , and the jury found the prisoner guilty © f manslaughter , but at the same time strong ' y recommended him to the merciful consideration of the court . —The learned judge said in passing sentence that , taking into consideration the imprisonment he bad already undergone , he should only order him to be further imprisoned without hard labour for one calendar month .
Charge of Maxslatjghtek . —Thomas Day , 22 , George Beden , 23 , and William Clark , 23 , were indicted for the manslaughter of Eli Wing . —It appeared that on the nig ht of the 24 th February , the prisoners Beden and Clark had the charge ot a four-horse waggon belonging to a carrier at Godalming-named Holden , and that they were on their way to London . As they were on their road towards Kingston , two men named Carter and Dyer got into Day ' s cart , and another man named Bishop got into the one driven by Holden , and after they bad gone through Esher-gate , Holden gave Beden four-pence halfpenny to pay the Robin Hood gate , which was the next towards London . The whole of the vehicles stopped at the Fighting Cocks ,
public-house , at Kingston , where the prisoners and the other men had some beer and gin , and they set off again on their way to London about-twelve o ' clock at night , and almost every thing that occurred after that must be left to conjecture . The unfortunate deceased , it appeared , was the toll collector at the Robin Hood gate , aud , according to the evidence of a person who lived in a cottage close by , about the time when the three vehicles would have arrived at the gate , the noise of a violent altercation was heard between the deceased and the parties upon the road , who refused io pay the toll , and a good deal of bad language was made use of , and shortly afterwards the carts were heard to drive off . Tery soon after this occurred a
police-constable who was on duty on the Kingstonroad , and going in a direction towards tbe gate , met the waggon and the van coming towards him , and shortly after they had passed he met a cart driven by the prisoner Day , going very fast , and soon after it had gone on , he observed upon going near to the toll-gate the body of the deceased lying in the road , and he turned him over and he died almost immediately . Upon an examination of the body it became quite evident tbat the death was occasioned by the deceased having been run over , several ribs being broken , the spinal column also severely injured and tbe lungs lacerated , and almost instantaneous death must necessarily have been the result of these injuries . Upon seeing what had
occurred the police promptly went in pursuit of the prisoners and succeeded in coming up with them at Wandsworth , and they were taken into custody . It appeared that some of the party were asleep at the time , and they all professed entire ignorance of anything wrong having happened . When the matter was subsequently inquired into before the magistrates , however , it sppeared that Day made a statement to tbe effect tbat when he got to the turnpike at tbe Bobin Hood , and pulled out his money to pay , Beden , the driver of the waggon , called out tbat he had paid for him , and he then said he would not pay a second time . The toll collector refused to let him pass through , and a quarrel ensued , and the deceased laid hold of his
horse s head , and he plunged forward and threw him down , and the wheel went over him . These were the principal points produced in evidence against the prisoners , but there was no direct testimony to show in what manner tbe occurrence actually took place . —The prisoners were acquitted . Mooter . —Thomas Denny , 32 , was indicted for the wilful murder of a certain unbaptised male child by stabbing it in the throat with an awl . —A woman named Eliza Tarrant was orig inally included in tbe charge , but the grand jury ignored the bill against her . —The facts of this atrocious case will be seen by tho following evidence . —James Denny , a son of the prisoner , was then placed in the witnessbox to be examined . He stated tbat he " was eight
years old . —Mr . Justice Maul put some questions to him with a view to ascertain whether he could properly be examined upon oatb . He stated that he could ^ say bis A B C , but he did not go to school . He appeared to be an intelligent child for his years ; and tbe learned Judge eventually decided tbat the oath should be administered to him , and tbat his evidence should be taken . —He was accordingly examined . He said , the prisoner is my father . Eliza Ten-ant used to live with my father . We all lived together in the hayloft at Ewell . I recollect Eliza Tarrant having a baby . I went to my father when it happened , and told him to come home directly , as mother was very ill , and he did so . When we got back I saw Eliza Tarrant lying in tbe loft , with a
baby by her . My father took up the baby in his arms . He then took up an awl . [ Here the poor child became much affected and cried bitterly , and it was some time before he could proceed with his testimony . At Jength he went on . ] My father took up the awl , and killed the baby with it . My father then took the child to Eliza Tarrant , and asked her if he should make a coffin for it . Before be said this be asked her if she -would hel p to kill it , and gave her the awl . She did try to kill it also . My father gave her the child and the awl , and she did the same to it tbat he had dene . I was very much frightened at what I saw , and ran away , and when I came back I found Eliza Tarrant in bed . — Cross-examined : While my father has been in
custody I have been in the Union Workhouse . I could not say my alphabet when I was first taken to the workhouse . I can say the Lord s Prayer . [ He did so at the request of Mr . Clerk . ] My mother taught me the Lord ' s Prayer . My father made the coffin the day after he killed the baby . I did not tell this story till after 1 bad been in the workhouse . I am sure Eliza Tarrant did something with the awl to tbe baby ' s throat . —Eliza Tarrant , the woman referred to , was then called as a witness . She appeared to be very weak and ill- and it was found necessary to allow her to be seated while she was giving her testimony . She deposed as follows : —I am a * iingle woman , and for the last two years I have been living with the prisoner as his wife . He
was in the service of Mr . Moore , who was a farmer , in August last , and we occupied one of his lofts . I was delivered of a child in that month . Before I was delivered I had bought apiece of cotton print to make clothes for the baby , and the prisoner tore it , and threatened me , and made use of very bad language , and said tbat I should not have the stuff to make up for the baby . This was about a month before the child was born . I had bought the print with money of my own which I had . saved . The child was born on the 16 th of August . On tbe morning of that day I had taken the prisoner his breakfast , and when I returned I became very ill , and soon afterwards I was delivered . So one was present at the time but tbe prisoner ' s son , and I
sent him tofetchhis father , and they both returned together . When the prisoner came into the loft , I was laying upon some hay with the child , and he came and took up the child , and carried it to the other end of the loft , and I saw him hurt it . There were several awls in the loft , and the prisoner took up one and stuck into the child's throat . I was lying down at the time . I saw the awl again the same day . Verjr soon after this Mrs . Trigg and Mrs . Dunford came into the loft , and the child was taken away . —Cross-examined : Prisoner had been a shoemaker , and he used to mend his own shoes . He used to make drills and other agricultural machines , and frequently mended the straps belonging to them . Before we went to Mr . Moore ' s we had been living at different public-houses for two or three months . It was on a Sunday that I was at work upon the print , and the prisoner told me that Mr . Moore was a strict religious man , and that he should tret into
trouble if 1 continued at it . This was the reason why he was angry . The prisoner came to the loft in avery fewmmutes after 1 had sent for him . His back was turned to me when he went awav with the child . I was charged with this offence myself , and I made a statement to the policeman who took me into custody . This was not my first child , I had another three or four years ago . when I was in the Hartley-row union , Hampshire . I did not know the prisoner at that time . Tbat child died of water on the brain . About a week ago I expected to be tried on this charge myself *—Several other witnesses having been examined , Mr . Justice Maule summed up , and the jury returned a verdict of " Guilty . "His Lordship having put on the black cap , passed sentence of death upon the prisoner in the usual form , at the same time informing him that he could not hold out the slightest hope of any commutation of tho sentence . The trial occupied nearly ten hours .
WARWICK . Shoohno a Pouctma * . —Daniel Davenport , aged 28 , was charged with shooting with a pistol with intent to kill , Ac femes Kiad , at Wormleighton , on the 23 r 4 ' Avgjesk Tha prosecutor stated that in
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August test'Jfe wasa ; 8 ergeant . jn . the co . untylpolice force , and apprehended jhe prisoner on a warraht for non-payment of money towards the support of an illegitunate ' child . ' " Upon ' the' adjudication being made by the' magistrates'Wprisorief said , " some one shall pay dearyfor this ' . ' . ' : The prisoner ^ ben apprehended for the non-payment ef the arrears requested Read to let him go to his uncle's house to get something to eat / and a clean shirt , as he . did not Bke to go before the magistrate ' s"in his dirt . ' The constable assented ; arid afterwards' went some little distance further : . ' with the prisoner , at his request , as there , was no shirt , at . his uncle ' s . The other house was-where the prisoner ' s father lived . He asked Read tohave some drinkand said " You
, , , won't want to go up stairs with me , " to which Read replied that he must go where the pr isoner went . The prisoner then took something out of a box , which he placed ; in his pocket , and then changed his shirt . He then asked not to betaken through the village to Southam ' , and , to this . Read consented . The two then proceeded towards Southam , and askied if the constable bad not had a brother killed in the force , and Read said he had . A conversation then arose respecting a man named Newbold , and Read said that he knew him , and saw him in a great passion ence , and that he thought Newbold would have shot him . To this the prisoner replied "He did not shoot you then ? " and Read said , " No . " They were now near to a canal bridge ,
and the prisoner repeated the question in the same terms , and upon the prosecutor saying again that Newbold did not shoot him , the prisoner said " Then I will , " and immediately shet Read in the left side of the neck . Read fellinstantly , and on recovering his senses , saw the prisoner standing over him , with a revolving pistol in his hand ; he said "I ' ve got some more barrels for you , " and pointed the weapon tdwards Read ' s head . Read held up his hand and begged his life . At this moment a boat came in sight , and the prisoner ran away , saving , " Now I'll leave you ; 1 knew you weren ' t going to take me to Southam . " Assistance was rendered , and Read was conveyed home , as he could not stand . He was bleeding from the neck , mouth , and nose ., The surgeon who attended him stated that he had called
in other aid , but had been unable to extract the ball , which remained , in his opinion , under the right jaw bone , at the base of the skull . Portions of the powder were driven into the skin . The wound was of a most dangerous nature , and Read ' s voice had become changed , from partial paralysis of the tongue . There was also evidence given to prove tbe purchase of the pistol by tbe prisoner . —Inspector Smallbones , of the same force as Read , apprehended the prisoner at Ludlow , in Shropshire . The prisoner was disguised , and bad plucked out his eyebrows and cut off his whiskers . — " Guilty " on the second and third counts , but " Not Guilty " of the intent to murder . —His lordship said it was a merciful view of the case , and sentenced the prisoner to be transported for life . —The court rose at six .
GLOUCESTER . Mr . William Ogborne , aged 68 , a respectable commission agent , was indicted for having feloniously killed one George Millett , at Almondsbury , in this county . —It appeared that on the 21 st of September the prosecutor , who was a cattle-drover , was markin * seme cattle with blue stone , when , as a practical joke , he marked Mr . Ogborne , who was standing by , on the back of his coat , and burst into a loud laugh . Mr . Ogborne turned to a farmer near and asked what the man had done , upon which Millett laughed again , and cried out , " Ha ! ha ! old fellow , I ' ve marked you , and now I'm off . " He then ran a few yards , and Mr . Ogborne followed and came up to him . They both stopped , and Millett continued still to laugh and jeer at Mr . Ogborne by grimacing at him with his mouth wide open , when Mr . Ogborne , being very much incensed , said , " You scoundrel , you ' ve marked me . and I'll mark you , "
and thereupon he raised a walking-stick he carried in bis hand , and "jobbed " the end of it towards the open mouth of Millett , but by accident struck him in the left eye , and made a wound an inch deep , which so seriously injured him that he died a few days afterwards . —The prisoner being found guilty by the jury , with a strong recommendation to mercy , his lordship , in consideration of this recommendation , of the hi gh character given to tbe prisoner , and of his having been seven weeks in prison , sentenced him to pay a fine of £ 5 and to be imprisoned until the fine was paid . James Smith , aged 46 , was indicted for having , at the Forest of Dean , unlawfully attempted to discharge a gun , loaded with powder and a leaden bullet , at John . Jones , with intent to kill and murder him ; a second count charged the intent as being to do some grievous . bodily barm . —The jury found tbe prisoner guilty on the second count , and he was sentenced to fifteen years' transportation .
TAUNTON . Highway . Robbeev . — Joseph Britain , William Gunning , Samuel Bryant , Jehn Rogers , and Samuel Rogers , were indicted for having assaulted and robbed Joseph Wyatt of a silver watch and other articles , his property . There were two other indictments against them for highway robberies on other persons . —Mr . Phinn ana Mr . Allen were counsel for tbe prosecution ; Mr . Stone defended the prisoners . —These prisoners were five of a band of desperate fellows , who have for some time past infested the neighbourhood of Bath and Bristol , committing the most daring highway robberies ; for a long time they evaded the vi gilance of the police , but at last were detected , and , as it will be seen by our report , brought to justice . —
The facts of the present case were simple . It appeared by the evidence of Mr . Wyatt that on the morning of the 5 th of January he was returning home , to Wick , a village about six miles from Batb , and had to pass over Lansdown-hill . He was suddenly attacked by six men , three of whom came from each side of the road . They pulled him from his horse , and beat him severely ; took his watch , chain , ' and seals , and other property from him . During the time that this was going , on , Britain said , if he did not be still they would beat his brains out , but Samuel Rogers interposed , told him to be quiet and they should not hurt him . After they bad robbed him , they went away . Powell , who was one of the six , was called as an approver '; he stated that he and the other five prisoners had been together at a village called Ilonham the greater part
of the day , where they had planned the robbery , as Mr . Wyatt was known to be in the habit of returning home on the afternoon of this day , the marketpay , every week . They divided themselves in two parlies , butmetonLandsdown-hill . Hethengavean account of the robbery similar to that given by Mr . Wyatt , and several witnesses were called who confirmed him in some particulars of his story . He had 2 s . 8 d . for his share of the booty . —Mr . Stone addressed the jury for the prisoners , but they were all found " Guilty . " Former convictions were proved against Bryant and Gunning , and they were transported for life , Britain and John Rogers Were transported for twenty years , and Samuel Rogers for fifteen . —Mr . Justice Erie ordered extra expenses to be allowed , and also a reward to the constable , by whose vigilance the prisoners were brought to justice .
Assauxt . — James Fletcher was indicted for feloniously assaulting John Hyatt , a police officer , on the 17 th of December , 1848 , at Bath , with intent to kill and murder him . There were other counts varying the charge . —Mr . Hodges was counsel for the prosecution ; Mr . T . M . Saunders defended the prisoner . —It appeared that the prosecutor , on the night of the 17 th of December , 1848 , saw the prisoner and another man carrying a bag . He insisted on knowing what it contained , but they threw it over the wall , and immediately attacked him . Another constable came up , and attempted to take the other man , when Fletcher knocked Hyatt down , and kicked him severely about the head and face , so that his life was in danger for some days . He then male his escape , and was not seen in Batb again until February last , when he was apprehended . —The jury found him guilty of wounding with intent to resist his lawful apprehension . —He was sentenced to ten years' transportation .
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MEDALS OF JAMES MORISON , THE HYGEIST . AND GBBAT MEDICAL ItEFOHMEK , May be bad of all the Agents for the sale of Morison ' s Pills . PRICK ONE BUILLINO EACH . In Bronze , 10 s . Cd . ; in Silver , 21 . ; in Gold , 181 . JAMES MORISON , tlie Hygfcist proclaimed—THE IMMORTAL lstly . —That the vital principlcisintiieblood . HARYEY 2 ndly That all diseases arise from impurity of the PROCLAIMED THE blood . . r Srdly . — That such im-CffiOULATION OF THE purity can only be eradicated by a purgative such as BLOOD . Morison ' s Vegetable Universal Medicine of the British College of Health , Newroad , London . dea
4 thly . — That the uiy poisons used as medicines by the doctors are totally unnecessary in tlie cure oi diKPflfies .
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RK-BUILOISO OF IBB TEMPLE OP JERUSAWtf .-It is stated , in the Berliner Allgemeine Kirchcn Zeitung , that the Jews have obtained a firman from the Porte , granting them permission to build a temple on Mount Zion . The projected edifice jsto equal Solomon ' s templeinmagnificence . Millions (?) of money are said to have been collected for this purpose in America'alone . A raw Sundays ago , at a village meeting-house , not far from Melton Mowbray , a j unior " local , from tho latter place , in expounding his text , " Darkness covereth tho earth and gross d arkness th « minds of the people , " defined the term " gross darkness" to mean a darkness of 144 tiroes ( or a gross darker than dark , " a definition which , set most of his hearers laughing ,
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TIDti CONDITION OFBNCHiAND '' - ¦\ - ^ q ^ n ( m ' - f : c " 1 CwdwBe ^ -ff 6 fflrth e m ^ g Cti imcii ) . NEEDLEWOMEN ; OF „ . THE , METROPOLIS . ^ iB ^ T ^^ RS ^ . SHOE ^ iSDliJRS ,, - AND , s ;? qck-mae ; ers ^; , w . % . . ; ,., : ¦ ¦ . . :,:,:. ; . ¦ , - , . . « . . Iprocured ' -an -intrdduotiori ' to one of the largest wholesale stay-makers in . the City ; in'the hopes of obtaimng someaccountof-the trade . But I soon found . that mytime was wasted-in so'doing . The gentleman assured me that there were scarcely any stay-stitchers resident in London . He could get his work : done so cheap in the agricultural districts , owing to > the number of people out of employ in those parts , that he had scarcely any done in town : and , indeed , he was loath to make the least communication to me on the subject and object , of- my
Accordingly , findin g it useless seeking any information from the employer in this particular branch of business , I made the best-of my way to two workpeople , who had been engaged at the business for-upwards of twenty years . The following are their statements : "I work at stay-stiching . I've worked at it these thirty years ; yes , that I have , full . Well , I can ' t —and work hard at the work I am now " havingearn more than 7 R a day . . Now that is the kind of work , '' said- she drawing some drab jean ready marked for stitching , " and I can ' t do more than that pair , and half another , from seven in the morning till nine at night , and havn'ttime scarcely to get a meal in the meantimeand I get Cd . the
, pair , and if they run very large indeed I get no move . Why , sir , at the outside I can ' t do above nine pair a week , not if I ' ve full employment . And nine pair a week at 5 d . is 3 s . 9 d ., and that ' s my earnings at the very outside , if I work fourteen hours every day for six days ; and sorry I am to say 1 m obliged to break into the Sabbath-day to make out a living . They find me in thread , but I have to find a candle , and they cost 12 d . a night now . the nights are so long , or say Id . a night , or Cd . a week all the year round , so that my clear earnings at the very best are 3 s . 3 d . a week . If I had the work , perhaps , I might manage as much as that all the year round / but I can't get it ; the trade is parties larly dull just now—I ' ve been very slack for this
last month . I ve no book where I works—they pay me as I take it in . You sec I ' ve done four pair this week ; in four days ; and shan ' t have more than two pair done by Saturday night ; so that my earnings this week will be , for the six pair , at 5 d . —2 s . 6 d ., or reckoning candles , 2 s . clear . Last week 1 ' did five pair , and they brought me in 2 s . Id ., or la . 7 d . clear . Taking one week with another , all the year round , I think I may say I earn 3 s . a week , and that is to the full extent as much as I do ,- or , reckoning candle , loan safely say I don ' t make more than 2 s . 6 d . clear all the twelvemonth through . I ' m just able to raise a cup of tea , and that ' s as much as lean do out of it . I have my work direct from the shop . They only employ the joumeywomen in the stay trade . There's no
second-hand or piece mistresses in London . There's plenty there round about Deptford and Greenwich that has the work out so many gross at a time , and employs a number of young women .- Some of the old Greenwich pensioners work at stify stitching for some ofthem , The parties has it down in bagfuls . I once used to have my work second-handed from a party as got it from the warehouse , and she employed , I think , about nine of us . She used to get 7 d . and 8 d . a pair at that , and she usedn't to give us more than 2 $ d . each pair ; for the children ' s we usedn't to get more than l * d . It would take us three-parts of the day to ' cm . All the stays were stitched with silk in that time ; but that is , I suppose , five and-twenty years ago . It ' s eighteen years cigo since I worked at Portsmouth for a party who is now one of the largest wholesale dealers in London , and all be gave me was 2 d , a pair . They was stitched with blue cotton . I don ' t think he
gives even so much now down there . I worked for another party , who gave me only seven fardens ; but I was obligated to give tho work back to him . I was starving as I am now , but I'm sure it was worse then . I can manage at least a cup of tea at present ; but then I couldn't even get that . They are mostly stitched at Portsmouth now . They can get it done cheaper there than what they can here , owing to the sailors' wives , round about there I suppose . Yes , it must be something like that , for no one can get a living at it . The party as I spoke of , who is in the City , got on , I know , in this here way . He got a number of the poor people to work for him , and made 'em all put down 5 s . each before they had a stitch of work . Before you got work
you must raise the 5 s . somehow . Well , the 5 s . lies in his hands until such time as you want to leave him ; if you worked for him for ten years it would be in his hands all the time . The reason why I was obliged to leave off working for him was that I wanted my 5 s . to make up some rent . My goods were threatened to be taken . That 5 s . I knew would save them , and I applied- for it . It was on a Wednesday when I did this , and I couldn't get it until the Saturday ; he wouldn't give it me till then , so I lost my work of course , ' cause 1 hadn't 5 s . more to leave . Well , it was by the number of 5 s . that he got from the people in this manner he was able to launch and take a large establishment . He didn ' t care how many hands he
took on so long as he had the 5 s ., and of course he had the interest of it all . Why , he had as many as three hundred poor people ; aye , more . It was said he had as many as seven hundred in his employ working out ot doors , and from each he had 5 s ,, and that was the cause of his uprising—that it certainly was . The downfall of the stay business was all through him and another as lived close to him . They were the first to cut down the prices of the workpeople . They sent the work into the country , to get it done in the cheapest way they could , and have always been lowering tho price of the poor people . Thirty years ago I have made as much as seventeen and fivepence for my week's work . At the very commonest I could have made from 12 s .
to 14 s . a-week ; and now the most I can make 18 3 s . 6 d . Aye , that ' s to the full extent ; and not that every week . It's about twenty-five years ago since the prices first began to be cut down by the two parties 1 speaks of . Up to that time the prices we had for stitching were about the same as those 1 had thirty years ago . Till then the prices had remained about the same . Wo could make a very tidy living out of it . But since tho two parties began the prices have been falling and falling , and we ve been starving while he ' s been a getting rich . Now all I get is 2 s . 6 d . a week clear , and that is to keep me and my family . I ' m a married woman . My husband is a plasterer , but has been out of work this two years . All he ' s earned is 2 s . for these last
three months . Indeed , he's not worked for a regular master this two years . Thoy prefers young hands , and he ' s getting into years . He'll be sixty next September . He only gets a flying job now and then , and that ' s mostly from the landlord we live under . My eldest boy gets 5 s , a wech . My youngest goes to school . Seven shillings a week is all we have to keep the four of us , pay rent and all . I pay Is . 9 d . a week for my room , and that leaves us os . 3 d . for us four to maintain ourselves upon , or live upon , if yeucan call it a living . Yes , that ' s Is . 3 Jd . each a week , or not 2 d . a day , to find us in food , firing , or raiment . Oh , God bless you , I am ready to drop sometimes , when I get up , I feel that faint and loss for really the common necessaries of
life . I don ' t taste a bit of butcher's meat not from one month ' s end to another—no , not half a pint of beer I don't get . My husband is a sober man . I hadn ' t a pinch of snuff for two days , until a friend gave us a bit out of his box . It came very acceptable , I can assure you ; it quite revived me ; that ' s all I ' m extravagant iii . I can't say but what I likes my pinch of snuff , but that even I can ' t get . We're never out from Monday morning . till Saturday night . If I ' ve got nothing to do it ' s no use going and making an uproar about , for I ' m very certain there ' s no one about here has got nothing to give me , and I ' m very certain my opening my mouth won ' t fill theirs . And when I ' ve got work why I sits hard to it . and is glad to have it to do . "
The next class of needlewomen that I visited were shoebinders . I found three working together in ohe small closo attic . I give their account of their incomings in their own words : — " It ' s a very poor trade , indeed , " said one of the hands , " Ah ! it's high time something was done for the people , for it ' s cruel work now . I make snow boots at present . I bind them—that is , I get them ready for the maker . The cloth and lining is cut out and given out by the warehouse . We have to stitch them together , make the buttonholes , and sew on the binding and the buttons . I get seven farthings per pair , and find my own thread and cotton . ' That costs about a halfpenny per pair . We get about a penny farthing per pair clear when they are finished . It takes about three hours and a half to do oiie pair . Wo can ' t earn more than 2 s . a week at our work . A person must work very hard to do three pair a day , but it ' s
impossible to do that every day ; and then there ' s threaa and cotton to be found out of the 2 s . a week , which leaves about Is . Gd . for our clear earnings . I ' m up by six , and don't leave off till twelve or one , and then I can ' t do more than three pair . It takes twelve hours' continual work to do three pair . The rest of tho time I must mind my children and my own affairs . I generally work about eighteen hours a day . We have been working at the snow boots now full two months . Never had a book till last week . [ She produced book of employer . ] Three , four , and five pair , or eleven pair were taken out last week , you see . Those I finished . And four and six pair I ' ve bail out this week , in all ten . Of this I have just done five pair since . Monday . I do generally about nine pair in six days , and a little less than four pair in three days . The reason of my not having had a book , is owing to my master's death . Hie wife has . recently taken the business , a & 4 she has given beoks . to . afl the hands employed ,
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I also bind ^ c ^ nioniastihgwomeh ' s ' side lace boors By binning them Lmean I make them up ot tirely , with the , exception of , .. the-aoW I have to maja ; 8 jxtee « l eyelet holes , twitch the lasting Z gether ^ nd - to bind them ., For this I get 3 df per pair . ' I have to buy silk and cotton . It costs about | d . each : pair of boots , id . ; for silk , and a-id for cotton .. I clear ¦ about 2 id . per pair . , Can't do '¦ a pair in much less than four hours , or . three pair a day at the very outside , to work hard the day through : But we can ' t keep that up . But the end of the week we seldom have more than eight pair done—for getting . them out and taking'them in all t ^ kes time ; and eight pair at 2 id . clear brings us in Is . Gd . a week as our weekly earnings . Out of
this we have to pay candles , and they como to Gd . a week . I know I burn a penny ; candle every night . That makes our clear gains about Is . But it comes in handy . It's a few halfpence every day . We have constant employment at the warehouse . We ' re never standing still . I am a married women . I ' ve a very queer husband . He ' s a big drunkard . He's a sawyer . I ' m sure if I have enough of him just to get mo over Sunday it ' s all that ! do . I can ' t tell what my husband gees a week . I never know what he earns any more than a stranger . After he's paid the rent I might get perhaps 4 s . or 5 s . of him , and that ' s to keep mo , him , and tho child . Formerly I used to work at the boots in the country . Then the prices were much better . That ' s
as much as twelve or thirteen years ago . Tho best t j ? ! boots were ls - 0 d . and some 2 s . then ; now , I don t know what ' s the cause of the prices coming down . I find it very hard work to live . It isn't living , We ' ve nothing but bread from one week's end to another . I know I shall have nothing to eat until I take my work in to-morrow morning . " I do tbe same work , " said asother of the women at work in the same room , " and get the same prices . [ Produced book of employer . ! I work for the same person . " The account was one , four and four , or nine pair , taken out last week , andfcvKHpavr tins . " The nine pair were finished bylast Saturday night , and I shall havo finished aix pan- to-morrow . They are paid the sameand the
, expenses are the same , so that my clear earnings are Is ., deducting candles . It ' s a good job we don t take snuff—neither snuff nor beer , " i am a married woman , to my sorrow . My husbaisd is a pewterer . 1 don ' t know what he gets a week . I only know I have very little of it . I have ^ gotthree children . The eldest is ten , the second seven and the youngest three . My husband brought me homo about Is . last week after he had paid the rent , and that was to keep him , me , and two children . Sometimes he illtreats me . If he don't with his hand I know he does with his tongue . He has the most dreadfullest tongue ever heard on . He drinks very hard . He ' s drunk whenever he ' s tho money , to be so . He's tipsy three or four times a week . lean
assure you that I have been obliged to live upon my two shillings . It is not living—it ' s only just enough to say you keep life together . I have , indeed , sir , a very hard time of it . I'm ready to run away and leave it very often . If is wasn't for my children I should do it . I'm obliged to work all day to keep my children . If I takemywork in the morningj and get my 5 d „ that must keep me and my children all day , unless 1 can get a trifle of my husband at night time , and some days he don't bring any home . The girl ' s tenyears old , and she ' s with her grandmother . When I take my work in the clipper' holds it up to the light to see if any of the stitches gape , and if bo , he turns it on my hands . "
" 1 am a boot-binder , too , " said the third hand employed there , " but I get a better price for my work . I do the lasting , the cachmere , and the cloth boots . I get from 6 d . to Is . per pair . I get 6 d . for the cachmere and the lasting as well , and Is . for the best cloth boots , goloshed . A shilling pair will take me a whole day to do ; and 1 can do two pair each day of the sixpenny ones . Out of this I have to pay 2 d . for silk and " cotton each day . I take generally 6 s . a week , and earn about 5 s . clear ; but then there are candles , and that ' s 6 d . a week , so that 4 s . Gd . is what I make , taking one week with another . I work about thirteen hours each day . I havo no book . My master gives me none . I work second-handed . 1 get the same price as the first
hand does herself , only I don't go into tbe shop . I am a single woman .. 1 pay Is . Gd . a week rent . I have everything to buy myself . I have been at the trade five years last August . I have worked for two houses in that time . The prices are the same to me as they were five years ago . I don't know that there are any boots paid higher than what I get . A shilling is the highest price that any shop gives , I believe , for binding boots , The trade is very slack at present , and the prices are being lowered 3 d . just now—ninepenny boots arc being reduced to Gd . The fact is , I think they wants to have more profit out of the poor people—that ' s as
near as possible . I can just pay my way . 1 never have any meat . Shoes are f-d . a pair binding . Wo have to put them altogether and bind them . Aper son may do about nine pair in a day of twelve hours . —that would come to GJd ., and then the expenses would be about 2 d . for silk and cotton for the nine pair ; so that the clear earnings at this would be 4 Jd . a day , or deducting candle , about 3 d . Children's leather boots are 3 d . per pair , or fid . per dozen . A person can do about eighteen pair of these a day . These would come to 9 d . The expenses for thread and cotton would be about 2 d . for the eighteen pair , leaving 7 d . a day , or 3 s . Cd . a week for the earnings , and deducting candle , about 3 s . clear . "
The next class of needlewomen that I wended my way to was the stock-makers—and here I found an instance of filial affection , and almost heroism , that would be an honour to any station . The characters of the parents , I should state , have been inquired into , and they are said to be worthy , hard-working , sober people : — " I work at stock work . I have the work home . I work first hand . I have 6 d . a dozen for 1 Albert ties , ' Od . to Is . a dozen for ' opera ties , ' Is . Od . a dozen for ' sham pleats , ' or Albert stocksthose are the stocks with bows to them , and long ends . The ' Burlingtons' —that is the stocks without ends , and waterproof top and bottom to keep the perspiration from coming through—these are
2 s . 3 d . to 2 s . 6 d . a dozen . The ' Napier's' stocks are 3 s . 6 d . to 4 s . a dozen . Tho JSTapiers have long ends hemmed on both sides , with a knob in the centre . ' Aerial' ties are Cd . a dozen : they are the new-fashioned ones lately come up . Of Albert ties , I can make about eighteen in twelve hours , or nine dozen a week . The expenses on these , including candle , cotton , and silk , would be Is . 0 d ., leaving 3 s . 3 d . a week clear . Of opera ties I could do about nine a day , or four dozen and a half , at 9 d . per dozen , or four dozen of those at Is . in the week ; the expenses about the same , or Is . 9 d . a week , leaving 2 s . 3 d . to 2 s . 6 d . a week clear . The Opera ties are worse than the Alberts , for though there ' s more money paid for ' em , there ' s more work in 'em . We reckon to do about a dozen of the
Albert stocks m about three days , or two dozen a week , at Is . 9 d . a dozen ; or 3 s . 6 d . a week . The expenses are about Is . Gd . ; there's not so much cotton used in them ; the clear earnings at these 2 s . a week . Of tbe Bnrlingtons I couldn ' t do more than one dozen in three days , or two dozen per week , at 2 s . to 2 s . 3 d . per dozen , making 4 s . to 4 s . Gd . for the week's earnings . The trimmings and candles come to Is . Gd ., leaving about 2 s . 6 d . to 3 s . for the clear gains . We couldn ' t do more than eighteen Napiers in the week , at 3 s . Gd . to 4 s . the dozen . These would como to 5 s . 3 d . or Gs . The expenses of these , candle and all , would be 2 s . leaving 4 s . for the clear gains for tbe week . Of the Aerials about one do 2 on could be done in a day , or
six dozen a week , at Gd ., coming to 3 s . Tho expenses are about Is ., leaving 2 s . for the clear gains for the week . The Napiers are about the best work with us , and the Aerials and the Albert stocks aboutthe worst . I keep one hand myself , and a little girl . I pay the hand 3 s a week , and the little girl I pay nothing , she comes with the other to learn . I give the hand her tea , and she brings her bread and butter . The expenses of tho tea , sugar , and milk , & c ., for the week , would be about Gd ., so that the hand I employ costs me 3 s . Gd . I can earn with the assistance of the two hateds , from 8 s . to 9 s . a week upon an average , clear of trimmings and candles , and deduct the expense of the hands , 3 s . Gd ., I make about' 5 s . clear of every thing .
These , I think , are my clear earnings all the year round . Sometimes I get more by working extra hours . I have made" as much as 7 s . my self by my own bands in one week , but to get that I had to sit up about three nights out of the six ; and some weeks I earn only Is . 2 d . and some nothing at all ; that is when the work is slack . Tho work is generally slack at Christmas time and in the middle of summer , about three months each time , so that the trade is about six months brisk and six months slack in the course of tho year . I remember the prices of the Napiers being Ss . Gd . a dozen . They're 3 s . Gd . to 4 s . now . The Albert stocks used to be 3 s . 6 d . to 4 s . when they first came up . They ' re 2 s . to Is . 9 d . now . The Burlingtons I had 5 s . a dozen for . Now they ' re 2 s . to 2 s . 3 d . The Opera ties I bad from 2 s . to 3 s . a dozen for . Now they ' re 9 d . to Is . The Albert ties I had Is . 9 d . for when they first
came up . Now I have Gd . a dozen for the very same work . The Aerials I had Is . 3 d . to Is . 6 d . for , and they cut them out for me . Now I have 6 d . a dozen for them . The Albert scarfs I had 2 s . a dozen for only a month back , and now I havo 9 d . The prices have fallen considerably more than onehalf within this last year and a half . I had all those hotter prices that I have ' mentioned eighteen months ago . I can't say what is the cause . I believe it is owing to one hand having no work and going to underbid another . 1 myself know that one hand offered to work at a less price than I was getting , and that was the cause of my being reduced , 9 d . first and then Gd . moro per dozen in one article that I make . I took my work in on the Saturday , and my employer offered me Is . 3 d . for what he had before been paying me 2 s . a dozen . I told him I could not do tho work at that price —! really could set live by it , when ft person
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in ihe shop told the rnaster Jhe ' woiild take the work at that price . Since ! ¦ they have reduced the same article to 9 d . a dozeny-and this has all been done within a month . . One ¦ ¦ of the causes of the cheap prices is , the master puts up a . bill in his window . to say that he fwants / hands , whether he does or no . This I believe is . donc , not because extra hands are wanted , but that the master may see how many people are out of work , and how cheap he can , get his work done . Those that will do it the cheapest and the best he employs , and those that won ' t they may starve—or something worse . In the warehouse I w -i £ u there are about fifty hands , mostly young ?• ii .- e are s ° uie married women ; but I believe thirty get money bv other means . T know , bv
then-dress es that they do not get the gowns they appear in out of stock work . I think its about the | Si f ' 7 other house . I have a father and a mother dependent on my labour . I am nineteen years old on the 28 th of February last . My mother occasionally helps me ; but she is upwards of fifty , and cannot see at night nor to work at black things . She broke a blood-vessel nearly seven years afo . and is not able to go out to a hard dav ' s work . Sly father , had an accident thirteen weeks ago ' next Friday . He was thrown out of a cart and broke his ribs , and pressed his chest bone in . His chest is now bandaged up ( showed it . ) He was a c arter at a builder ' s before ; but since his accident his master tells him he is unfit for work , and he is now wholly dependent upon me for support , and I struggle hard
to keep , him and mother from the workhouse . I was up for three weeks . I never took my clothes off nor went to bed for the whole of that time , so that I might support him and pay the doctor ' s bill . The only sleep J had during the whole of that time was with my head on the table . I was at work night and day ; and now I find it very hard work to pay rent , support them , and keep myself respectable without doing as the other girls do . I have been obliged to part with almost all my clothes to keep them . The doctor said he was to have port wine , and I , used to have to give him two gills every day . If I hadn't got rid of my clothes . I couldn't have kept him alive . We have been obliged to pledge one of our beds for £ 1 as well . But I hope to . be able to get on still . " ( To be Continued . )
The Anti:.Tr.Uck. Movement In Staf Fohds...
THE ANTI :. TR . UCK . MOVEMENT IN STAF FOHDSHIRE .-MEETING AT DUDLEY .
The agitation against the " truck" or " Tommy system , " so extensively practised in this part of the country , gains ground rapidly ; associations are in course of formation in all parts of the district , and on Monday a large meeting for the purpose was held here , t ' ue Mayor in the chair . His worship convened the meeting on the requisition of nearly two hundred of the most respectable persons in the parish , and there were present deputations from Bilston and other towns . The Mavor , in opening the business , expressed his regret at the necessity tbat existed for their moving in tho matter , especially as many of- tha parties who carried on their business under the truck system were gentlemen of high standing and excellent character ; it was , however , a system tbat
could not be longer endured : it oppressed the poor , and was unfair to the money-paying tradesman . He hoped that a vigorous effort would be made to lay the axe at the root of the evil . Mr . England , brewer , moved the first resolution , — " That this meeting regards the system adopted by many manufacturers and masters of paying wages in truck or tommy , as cruel , arbitrary , and shamefully unjust to the working man , highly injurious and unfair to the retail tradesman , and no less to the honourable money-paying master , and being at the same time in direct violation of tha act of parliament , passed for the express purpose of preventing this unnatural and unrighteous monopoly , pledges itself to use every lawful and constitutional means in its power , in conjunction with , other similar institutions in this district , to put it down . "
L . Lester , Esq ., seconded the resolution . . The " tommy " system was , as his experience had shown to him , bad in every sense of the word ; and ha was very sorry to have heard that some of the most respectable manufacturers in the town had declared that unless the "tommy system" was put down they would be compelled to adopt it in self-dence . Mr . E . Houier moved , and Mr . Cook seconded the next resolution : — " That an association be now formed to embrace the borough and neighbourhood of Dudley , and to be called ' The Dudley Anti- Truck Association , ' for the suppression of the illegal , unjust , and degrading practice . And that the following gentlemen constitute a general committee for tbat purpose with power to add to their numbers , viz .: —T . Lester , E . Terry , jun ., T . Badger , jun .
W . P . Paikes . E . Hollier , T . Haynes , E . Granger , E . F . G . Clark . J . Owen , W . Self , J . C . Cook , W . Badger , J . Bagott , D . Jordan , A . Paterson , T . Wood , T . Light , J . Rudge , W . Harrison , and S . Baker . " It was moved by Mr . Granger , seconded by Mr . IIakrisos : — " That subscriptions be immediately entered into for defraying the necessary expenses of the association ; and tnat the Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company be Treasurers . Messrs , Terry , jun ., and Hollier , Sub-Treasurers . 3 Iessrs » England , jun ., and James Darbey , Secretaries . Mi : G . L . Boddington , Solicitor . 'f It was moved by Mr . T . Hashes , seconded by Mr . Jordan : — " That encouragement , aid , and protection be afforded to such honest and sober workmen .
or other persons as shall give evidence leading to the conviction of parties offending against the laws in this behalf , and that money-paying masters be requested to find employment for any such who may be thrown out of work by so doing . " Mr . Linney , of Bilston , said that the registrar ia his parish had reported the number of children burned to death in a short time , whilst the mothers were waiting at the tommy-shop , to be twelve ; they had , however , now commenced in good earnest to put down the uystem , and he hoped they would succeed ; one person had already succumbed ; and another against whom there were informations for penalties to the amount of £ 1 , 000 , had intimated his purpose to shut up his tommy-shop , and he had no doubt but that others would follow . He
understood that some of the iron-masters had threatened to open shops in the towns , and by under-selling ruin the retail trader ; let them do that . All they asked was , that the men should be paid their wage in money , and spend it where they liked . The masters were trying in every possible manner to evade the law ; one method was by giving cheeks on banks unconnected with the concern ; he hoped , however , that they would be able to beat them in that device —cheques for less than twenty shillings bad been refused payment by the bankers , and if the men who received such would take them to the association , they would sue the parties issuing in tho County Court , and so bring them within the operation ot the Truck Act . It had been said , that the pressure of the times had induced the middle class to assist
the working men in this matter ; but if the middle class had felt the screw , had not the working men doubly so ? He understood that the iron-masters had already subscribed £ G 00 to defend the informations laid against them . The association with which he was connected had subscribed £ 1 , 000 , and they were determined to have the best legal assistance available . ( Hear . ) That such an iniquitous system should be practised by the rich iron-masters was contemptible ; it . was no uncommon thing to meet one half of those magnates in a splendid equipage , and tho next half hour to see him at the tommyshoo , measuring yards of tape , or selling lollypops
or blacking . However , tbe association had already worked some good ; a poor woman told him ( Mr . Linney ) last week , that at her tommy-shop the price of soap , sugar , and other articles was reduced a penny a lb . ; and at another place , in consequence of an apprehension that informations would be laid , there was £ 300 paid last week in wages , instead of £ 50 , as heretofore . The speaker strongly advocated the necessity of union amongst the working men , and further said , that they had received information to tho effect that if the present law was not sufficiently salutary for its object , government were prepared to assist them by bringing in another
bill . Mr . Mauris , of Bilston , said , that the working men must help themselves—they must refuso to take the tommy tickets altogether , or if they did receive them , hand them over to the association , that the case may be investigated . The meeting was addressed by Messrs . Granger , Harrison , Cooke , and other gentlemen ; the whole oftho resolutions were passed unanimously , and a vote of thanks was past to tho Mayor for presiding .
The Education Question.—A Large And Infl...
The Education Question . —A large and influential meeting of the inhabitants of Manchester was held in the Town Hal ) , on Monday , convened bythe Mayor , in compliance with a requisition signed by 500 merchants and manufacturers , for the purpose of considering the propriety of petitioning Parliament in favour of a national system of education unon a purely secular basis . John Potter , Es ^ the Mayor „ occupied the chair ; and the hall was crowded at an early period of the morning ; indeed , for several hours before , the opening of the doors , they were literally besieged by the friends and opponents of the . Lancashire Public School systemthe crowd that small of
go great was a very portion tho people in attendance could be accommodated ia tbe hall , and a second meeting , embracing from 2 , 000 to 3 , 000 people , was constituted outside . Upwards of an hour having been spent amids indescribable uproar and confusion , the Rev . P . Tucker proposed the adoption of a petition in favour of a national secular system of education . The Rev . J . J . Taylor seconded the proposition , The Rev . Canon Stowell moved an amendment , in favour of the introduction of tho religious element : but after a long and very stormy meeting the pet « H » was adopted .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 6, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_06041850/page/7/
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