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TO THE WORKING CLASSES . IMPORTANT TESTIMONIAL . * We are always gratified in noticing the Jandahle exertions of the industrious and provident among our fel-Jow-labonrcrs in the social vineyard , to avert from tliemselrea and families , as far as human foresight maydo , the calamities attendant upon an old age of destitution , or a period of wearisome inactivity and uselessncss , through sickness or accident ; and we will venture to sas , that up to the extreme limit of what is called the middle class of societj . thereis no method so likely to attain the object as the institution of securely based and judiciously regulated Jlenent Societies . Ourattention was some time since called to the subject by the proceedings of one accordant with our views , enrolled under the title of ' THE ROYAL OAK BESEFIT SOCIETY , ' and established at the Mitre Tavern , St . Martia ' s-lane . The advantages proposed to the members appear to be calculated upon a scale of liberality that requires and deserves extensive support . From the result of our examination of their rules , and the satisfactory explanations given as regards their practical operations , we do not now hesitate to recommend the society to every industrious and prudent man as highly deserving attention , whether viewed with lefereace to its immediate or its prospective advantages . "Wtdis . Chronide , March , 1838 . FELLOVr BRETHREN , look to your own interests , and hasten to join thatweU-regulated Benefit Society , THE ROYAL OAK , established 1837 . The Committee meet at tho Mitre Tavern , 68 , St . Martin ' s-Line , every Tuesday evening , at eight o'clock , for the admission of 3 £ embers whose ages do sot exceed thirty-six years , being in good health , and their income arising from their business or employment averaging 24 s . per week . The Society is enrolled by Act of Parliament , aud is conducted -upon an economical and secure principle . All unneeessary fines are abolished , and it allows the members to belong to any other-society , at the same time being a member of theEojal Oak . - It has paid every demand made upon its funds , which in eight years amounts to £ 7 , 000 , and has a Ponced Capital of £ 3 , 000 invested in the Bank of England , the interest of wliitU produces the Society upwards cf £ 100 per annum . Tradesmen and mechanics , residing in the ^ couutry , hoivcvcrdistant , are eligible for admission , without personal attendance , by filling n printed form and transmittinjr . it to the Secretary- Loek . around , and see the number of Societies breaking up , when most needed , in consequence of the extra payments on a Quarterly Jleeting being too heavy for a working man to meet on a sudden demand . ThtsSocieryboastsofthemuchwanted principle of -nsPixcd Qoartcrly Payment , there being no extras , ' as iu most others ; the Subscription is 4 s . per Calendar Month , or payable Quarterly , and no Fines ; so that every member , however distant , is enabled to send "by Post-office Order the full amount of his Quarterly Subscription . The folloning arc the Benefits of tiie Soeicry : ^ - ; t ¦ - ; - - v " ' . ..... -.. r : ' & s . - " . " - In Sickness , per-week ... 0 18 ' Superannuation , ditto ... 0 4 Funeral Ylleathofa Member ...... 20 0 "j Thesehenefits money | Death of Member ' s Wife 10 , 0 areehargedas "Wife ' sLying-in ......... 2 , 0 J extrasinotber ; Loss by Fire ............ 15 . 0 J Societies . Entrance Money only ' . ' 3 s . Cd . under thirty-two years of ags- ^ 5 s . oiidcr thirty-six . / lose oo time in enrolling your names white fo health and vigour ( we know not what . t ^ ^ day inay oring forth ) . The Boles may be seen ( gratis ) attlie Society House , or purchased , price 6 < L each . Printed Forms and Prospectuses sent lo any part of the country , free , by enclosing a postage stamp to the Secretary , H . Humes , 17 , Cecileourt , St . Marlin ' s-lane , London .
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SHREWSBURY . WOLVERHAMPTON , DUDLEY , AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY . " \[ 0 TIC 8 IS HEREBY GIVEN , to the holders of OLD JA SCRIP CERTIFICATES , that , on and after the 30 th instant , such numbers of Old Scrip as shall not have been exchanged , will be reissued pro rota to those parties who have signed the new Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement-, and the holders of such Scrip Certificates may have tho whole of tiie deposit , ») u " cii Has been paid thereon , returned to them , but cannot after the 30 : h instant be permitted to exchange their Scrip for new Ci-rtificates , nor to register the same after the Company shall have obtained their Act of Parliament . The Heeds will lie for signature at tlic White Horse , Leeds , on Tuesday , the 19 th instant , between the hours of ten and four , and at the Company ' s Office , from the 11 th to thelCth , and on Saturday , the 30 th instant . By Order , GEORGE KNOX , Secretary . Shrewsbury and Bir .-ningbam Railway Offires , 3 , Moorgate-strcet , 7 th August , 1845 .
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THE HISTORY OF THE CONSULATE AND EMPIRE OF FRANCE . ' SOW PUBLISHIXG , In Weekly Numbers , price Id ., and in Parts , price Cd ., T HE HISTORY OF THE CONSULATE AND EMPIRE OF FRANCE , under Napoleon , by If . Thiers , Author of the " History of the French Revolution , " late President of the Council , and Member of the Chamber of Deputies . Conditio * v—The work will he neatly printed in two columns , royal octavo , from a new and beautiful type , aud on fine paper . Also uniform with the above , in Weekly Numbers , price 2 d ., and in Montbiy Parts , priceSd ., "THE PEOPLE ' S EDITION OF TRIERS * HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION , " forming together four luiudsome volumes . . , ; . ; - . On the completion of the Work , a general preface , introductory to the History of Napoleon , with Titles , iHdex , ic , will be given , thus forming a complete standard classical book of general reference , aud interesting perusal . Of the vast interest connected with the important national events which took place during the consular and imperial rule of Napoleon there can be no question . In undertaking to record the events of this momentous period , M . Thiebs , from his high position in the state , bad the good fortune to obtain possession of a multiplicity of original and official documents , which embrace the minutest details of all the instructions , ' orders , & c , dictated by Kapoleon himself to his Ministers of State , Privy Councillor * , Prefects , Marshals , and others . Of the success of his undertaking , the rapid sale of the three first volumes , which were issued at Paris on the ISthof March , amounting to 16 , 000 in one day , and the numerous editions which have been published at Brussels , Leipsic , and other places , affords the most splendid testimony . London : G . TICKERS , Holywell-strcct , Strand .
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CO-OPERATIVE LASD SOCIETY . I hereby direct tli . it all monies payaUe . tome , as treasurer to the Chartist Co-operative Land Fund , must he transmitted as follows : —Either by Bank order or Post-office order , to the " care of Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., 340 Straad , London ? smA payable lo me , " W . P . Roberts . " Thai is , tliat my sigDatore shall be required to each order . This direction is . plain . For instance , say that Edward Ilobsoni of Ashton , has , ' £ 10 to transmit . he is to transmit the same toMr . O'Connor , by Bank letter or Posfcjoffice order , made payable to W . I ' , IlobcrtS That order I can sign when I go to London , or when a parcel of them are sent to me . The two only things requued to secure the ti-iumph of Labour ' s battle , are , union among the . working classes , and undeviating hottest j and punctuality on the part of tlwse who have the management of . their ' affairs . I tlicrefore adopt this plan , that we may have upon each other as many salutary checks as possible . This is advisable , as much for our own mutual satisfaction , as for the satisfaction of the subscribws . I therefore request that these plain and simple instructions may he punctually attended to in all cases . To save additional , postage , each letter containing ; a . money order , may also contain a list . of the respective sums , and all other information necessary for the general secretary , Mr . Wheeler , to have ; . which letter Mr . O'Connor will duly forward to . hini . " This done , there can be no puzzle about the accounts . "W . P . Roberts , Treasurer . All orders should be made payable at 180 , Strand , London . —w * . P . R . fThe above mode has been adopted at my suggestion , in consequence of the endless trouble I have had , owing to some parties sending vie Post-office orders payable to mu order ; and some to Mr . Roberts' order . " Obsei vance of the above very simple rule will insure nnifonnity , satisfaction , and protection . There is a difficult j at the branch Post-offices about getting monies , when the orders are not signed by . the persons to whom they are made payable . Teaboos O'Connob . ]
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"PANIC" IN THE "SHARE MARKET . " " REPUDIATION " IN ENGLAND 1 Ox several recent occasions we have deemed it a duty to warn those who read the Nortltem Star , © f the sad reverses that "were certain to follow on the mad speculations so rashly engaged in by those who felt no scruple at obtaining " weaHli" by means as discreditable , as nefarious , and as immoral , as those
of the hazard and card " players" of the "plucking hells" of the "West End : the facts we are now about to adduce will show the public how far such tvarnings were warranted , and what reason there is to apprehend a state of things in the " money" and " manu factoring markets , " —when the reverse now experienced in Leeds becomes general , —compared with which the most of former " panics" have been slight indeed .
On one of the occasions to which we allude , we set forth the fact that the gambling mania in Railway Shares was far wider spread than any mania of a similar character which had formerly obtained amongst us . We showed that it had pervaded nearly the whole of the trading classes , instead of being confined , as once was wont , to the frequenters of the Hell-spawned "Exchange" of London . TV " e showed also , that it had particularly manifested itself in the towns of the North ; and that Leeds was the most infected of all . This was the case at the time we then wrote ; and the course of events have since shown
the statement to be more applicable than ever . The mania spread in that town most alarmingly . Hundreds were " drawn in" to the vortex , that but a few months ago would have shrunk aghast at thebaic idea of engaging in such dishonest practices . The "force of example" in evil was hardly ever more forcibly manifest . Men who incut—Who felt , that it was wrong to gamMe— y ehc-sg to try to obtain their xeighbouk ' s means WITHOUT AN EQUIVALENT—wrong to risk the livelihoods of their own families on a mere chance ; men who hiew and felt all this , were induced to do Tiolence
to their feelings—to sacrifice the principles they held—and to engage in the gambling transactions of the hour with all the zeal that usually attends recent and sudden conversion . These , in their turn , set the example ( o others ; until , at last , the ordinary business of the town was threatened with serious interruption from the sheer inability ofthe shopkeepers to attend to it , and watch , with the requisite eagerness and closeness , the proceedings " on ' change . " It was no unusual thing for travellers , when seeldng orders , to find the
tradesman so deeply engaged in conning over the last-published share list , or in consulting " his book , "—for in the share-market "a book" is as indispensable as it is to the black-leg " on the turf , —as to be unable to "homor him vith commands ; " and not unfrcquently did customers themselveg meet with similar treatment . But it was not to the tradesmen alone that these practices were confined . Shopboys ,-butchers' lads , minors ' , apprentices ; those who were not possessed of a single sixpence of tlielr own , nor any prospects from their friends , have been as deepl y
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engaged in the " play" -as some < of the " weighty ; ones . " It has bberi ^ n unusual thing for a mere youth to "buy" and | sell"i « ndreds of-shares aday ; and thc { butcher-lads « £ the town of Leeds have actually , by a course of systematised ' " operations '' enhanced and lowered at will the value of millions of " property / " Tlieextent of the entire " operations " was such , as to call for the efforts of the magistracy to dear the streets for the ordinary traffic ofthe town ! There are no less than thuee " Exchanges" in Leeds ; These abut on the respective streets wherein they arc situate ; and the infernal jargon that obtains during the hours of business can be heard most distinctly by
the passers by . Those , therefore , of the traffickers who were toopoor or too penurious to employ " sharcbrbkers , " assemWcd near to these places of twflic , and governed their own independent transactions'by what they heard going on inside . This course of conduct , and the consequent excitement , caused such crowds to daily assemble , that tliestrccts became impassable ; and the Mayor of the town" had to issue a "warning-notice , " and the police had to be employe ? in making the gamblers " move on : " an occupation , by-the-byc , far more sensible and praiseworthy thanninc-tenfus of those they usually engage in . Had
they been employed in ' ... extirpating the entire practice of " share-dealing" from the land , it would have better become their "lords" and "masters" than the attempts they instigated for the prevention of thimble-rigging at Epsom ; and much likelier to destroy and uproot the wicked and destructive vice of gaming , than the fining of a poor insignificant becrlioiisc-kccpcr for permitting a game at cards or "dominoes" in his house ! A good notion ofthe extent ofthe " book transactions" at Leeds niay be gathered from the following extract from the -Leeds Mercury , who in his last number says : —
it is not an uncommon thing for 100 , 000 railway shares fo be sold in one day in the sliiire marl « ets at Leeds . ; . The state lotteries of other times , and the gambling houses of the metropolis / arc and were mere bagatelles for " the spirit of adventure , " compared with the" railway . share exchanges . ¦ ' ¦; - ' - •'• ¦ ¦ " : ' y ' ' ; ''' - ' .. ' . ;! ::: 'C '' : . ¦'''"' The shares thus " sold" are sonic of them of £ 100 each ; few less than £ 50 : but taking ; the whole . at £ 50 each , here is GAMBLING engaged in by hundreds and bv thousands ; the " stakes" daily being
£ 5 , 000 , 000 of money . !!! Tho Mercury may indeed well s » y that all former " play" was mere bagatelle compared with this ! To use his Own liltl " gungebn a former occasion : — " The scientific game of Whist is falling rapidly into disuse , both ladies and gentlemen who were accustomed -to'indulge 'in this amusement , preferring decidedly the excitement of the share market to lliat of the card-room .. This is all very well in a rising market , - but under a change of circumstances it may end not only in' Beggar my neighbour , ' but in' Beggar myself . '" - ; " , ff
As . ' might . naturally lie expected , all this contributed to engender a spirit ofthe most daring reckless ness . A pprehcrision of consequences never once crossed tho mind—or , if so was instantly dismissed , and the parties set to work , as though vicing with each other as to which could do the most to hasten the esd that should end themselves . It was not tangible " shaves " that they alone gambled in : shares of com panics and lines already in existence : but the moment that any sort of a scheme was named—likely or unlikely—at home or abroad—at it . they went like madmen , gambling for and in the already . unallotted shares . A dealer would sett a certain number of the said
shares , to be delivered tot ' tain a certain time—trusting to cuAxcE to be able to buy them for such delivery before such time expired ; and trusting also to cuakce in the price at which he could so buy , for his profit or loss oh the transaction . It mattered not that these—and all traffic Jn . Joint-Stock-Compahies ' shares , unless such companies have received "the legislativesanction' ofParliament 'is giwsiy . 'iBcgal , anil subjects ; the trafficer to , £ 10 penally ; for . each transaction ; it mattered-not that' 6 itch wanuii < 7 J as the following wereissiied : — ' . f - . ~ -i . j ; : ;; . "'
. '' lifyqu ' wiljtu ' rn'foj being an Act for theltegistra ' tioh , " Incorporation , and Regulation , of Joint-stock Companies , ' you . \ viti find that ; by section 23 of the act on-the provisional registration of any company , it is thereby declared to be lawful for the promoters of such company , amongst . other !; things , to allot shares " and to receive' deposits thcrcoii ^ as , tliereih mentioned : by section 25 ofthe same act , oh ihe . comLtTB BEoisTBA-rios of any companyj it is Ihcvcby , dctiarcd to be lawful / amongst other things , to . issue , certificates , of shares . - ' by ' the following ' section ofIthc act , it is , ' amongst other things , declared that iiiitil sitchjoint ~ stoik ,. company
! haUluwcoUaincdacertifi ( aleofCO ^ VLV : yKREGliiXVu Tibs , aiid until ' miy subscriber shall be DULY REGIS ; . TERED as a shareholder hi thereyisliyVoJicepffhe company , it shall not be lawful for such person to dispose by sale or mortgage of airy share , under a forfeiture of £ 10 ,, as therein mentioned ; and for the better ' protecting purchasers , it is thereby declared to be the duty of the directors oft lie company by whom certificates of shares are issued , to state on every such certificate the date of the first " . complete ^ registration of the company ; and that if airy such director or oincer make a false statement in that respect , then he should be liable to the pains and penalties of a misdemeanour - . " ;
it mattered not that the above important , provisions were enacted to put ah end to tbo gambling in scripshares , which has always been attended with the most serious consequences—encouraging fraud , and effecting the ruin of the unwary and ignorant ; it mattered not that no person can safely deal in railway shares , till after the Act of Parliament is obtained , because , till then , there can be no complete reoistiutiox ; it mattered not that no contract for the sale of mere scrip-shares can be enforced : it mattered' ' not all these things : the spirit of GAMBLING was on this people . They gambled in legitimate shares and in illegitimate ones : and the consequences have been those we are about to detail .
WhileYorkshlrehas thusbeentorn to pieces with the madspeculationsofthegeneralshai'cdealcis . ithasalso had most severe and costfy bones of contention in the shape of rival schemes of new railways in the county ^ elf—particularly the western portion . Many of the towns in the west were totally devoid of railway communication ; and-: others of them that were within a mile or two of the Manchester and Leeds line , were so hampered up ' with the inferior and illiberal arrangements of that company as to bo little better off with the " accommodation . " This treatment ! oused a spirit of hostility to the "Manchester management ; " and a scheme of rail ways , embracing
and connecting most ofthe towns in the West Riding , was announced , the company proposing to call themselves "the " West Yorkshire . " In addition to this there were also schemes of Railway communication between Huddersfield and Manchester—and Leeds , Dewsbury , and Cooper-bridge : thctwolatterschemes forming a new , continuous , and direct line to Manchester , and coming into direct competition with the existing Manchester and Leeds line . It is ncc (' . less to say that all these schemes were opposed by the latter company . It was manifestly their interest to oppose . They started a rival scheme , called "the West Riding Junction - , " the management of which was
in effect to he in their own hands , and the new lines made tributary to the present existing line . The Board of Trade reported in favour of the West Riding Junction scheme , and against the West Yorkshire . This caused the shares to rise to a high premium in the market , and reduced the West Yorkshires . When the parties came before Parliament , however the Iluddcrsfield and Ashton , and the Dewsbury and Leeds , succeeded in carrying the day , in despite of the most costly opposition of the Manchester and Leeds . The success of these two projects , so directly against the Manchester management , caused a reaction in favour of the West Yorkshire project , though the two lines which had succeeded were not
portions of that scheme . Many parties therefore risked their "all" in the purchase of West Yorkshire shares . When the two immediately opposing schemes came before the Committee of the House of Commons , —the West Yorkshire and the West Riding Junction , —the latter "bore away the bell , " and the preamble of the Yorkshire was declared to be " not proven . " The consequence was , that the shares went domi most alarmingly—and many parties were totally ruined . We gave an instance , when last writing on this subject , of a party who lost £ 8000 at " one fell swoop" by that decision ; It was nowagain tli 5 turn of the West Riding Junction shares to " go U p »_ -for the bill seemed , lo be secure . It passed the
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Goninvoiis ^ and got into the Lords ., The Lords OttnnnvUecV ' howev ' ev ; ntsivo . tW evidence of the , promotc ' re . of the West Yorkshire scheme against the . West Riding Junction scheme ; and' they threw out the bill which had been sent up from tho lower house , on the ground that it , did notprovide the best scheme of Railway communication for the district ' that could be devised . Tin ' s ' decision was unexpected—and " played the very douce" iu the Share Market . The holders of Wist Riding
Junctions note suffered . The losses of some of them were immense . Some members of the Town Covinoil of Leeds were "iu" for a good number of thousands . But this decision placed both the rival schemes on an equality—equally defeated . They wore not , it is trim , in the ' same position as . it first ; for both had spent the ' . ' ' deposits" in the Parliamentary contest . Still this did not damp the ardour ot the speculate ) s . At it they again went—selling and buying share against share ; and "forcing up" and then ' " depressing" the price of first one and then the
other . _ . -.- . But while this last process was going on , another party appeared in ' the field to contest the prize . The gentry of nuddn'sficW , ' ; . elatcd . with the signal success that had attended all their ' 'schemes ' , and taking advantage ofthe 'Lords ' reason for ' rejecting the West 'Riding-Jt ' inctiori Bill , formed another project of lines toi connect , the towns which were so desperately fought ; for by ; the West Riding Junction and the West 'Y orkshire companies . This third scheme was called "the-IItiddersfield , Halifax , and Bradford Union . '' . . The announcement of the projected company was made—and applications for shares asked for . As usual , the applications poured in on all sides . " The shares arc not even " allotted" YET :
but this did notprcventaiiactivc " traffic" in them . 1 ' arties speculated on the chancb of their ' applications , being successful ; and they "sold" the shares at a premium ; -as . though , they had been in actual possession , engaging to . deliver them at the price agre e'd oiv withina cevtaintime . I \\ this hkmwcv some eighty , thousand :, of these shares have been " sold" —though it , was only proposed to issue fifteen thousand at the first !!!
• During the course of this reckless gambling , circumstances were transpiring calculated to " produce a woeful " change in the spirit of the -whole 'dream . " The parties tb the two rival schemes that had been before . Parliament , knew something of me cost of contests there ; and . they therefore made overtures to each other , and ultimately effected an amalgamation on certain conditions . This step had-a considerable effect on the shares of both companies , who now became one ; for they went up front £ 1 premium to £ 15 . The amalgamation was agreed to . on Friday , August 1 st . After that date , therefore ,-there were only in the field the two united companies and the
Huddersfield , Halifax , and Bradford Union . As it was deemed unlikely that the latter would succeed against the Manchester and Leeds , now united with the West Yorkshire promoters , the shares wore "beared , " as the cant phrase is—or sold to an immense extent . The price at which they were sold was about 30 s . ; and the engagements were to deliver them at a certain time . On Monday week , however , a meeting was held in Manchester , at which it was determined to admit the Iluddcrsfield , Halifax , and Bradford
Union into the amalgamated West Riding Junction and West Yorkshire Companies ; thus making one united company of the three opposing ; ones , to seek for the formation of the best portions of the pro jected lines of each . The news of this junction came like -a thunderbolt on'i"the" Leeds speculators . The shares , which ' Jh ' ey . ih ' ad sold . so readily ; and -which others had- as ;; readiIy- < bought ; - rose in price . - Th ' - ' y , sprung up from ^ OsHo £ 10 , £ 12 / a nd ; cvcn £ 15 ; The , c / cci ' ofthis will be leaiiied , from 7 the following , ; which we extractfroni . the Jh « c « of .-TIiursday : — ¦ ; ; ' "' ¦
' Through' paragraph ' s hi the Times and oUier journals ,: it has 'long been' known ' that in : rio ' town , in-, the , kingdom w'as th ' ei » rt ) n '( i of sp ' nculaiibn iii . / aihvayprojectsso . yiru-. letitflS'inLeedsl '• Within tlieprcsuiifyea , r \ iib , fewcr , tiw three -comjliiuies ^ , of- ' assow & d ' ^ harebndiers ^ . rach ^ compaiiy daily publishing its o ' wnlist ' o . f ^ les . aii ' d prices , hayista ' rted into " cxis , tctice , iVu'inberingVfi ; om '' iOfl , . to 120 persons , ; and , " sucli' , was the '"' amount of . biisinuss ^ don e , thai it Was confidently stated tiietVoinc of them were inakinj ; from £ 5000 , to £ 6 QW a-vcur ench . r > : In ' spite of -the illc '
gality oi ; Abe tyanactions , too , much business was done in projects j antecedent : to . the . issuing : ofi the' scrip . -. Me ' u ot capital and nieii of straw—men of respectability and men tif none—men of ; inti ; gintyand men devoid of . principlehave , a | nipst ; . e ( iuiilly . engagedJriibuymgijuid ' selling , immediately , and , prospectively , rail way ^ shares ; i aiid ,- such has been the fever , and excitement kept up for inonlhs in the town by . thc ; railway tiilfs ; and bcarst' that reckless speculation seemed to threaten with destruction much ol the legitimatebu 5 iness ' of : thetown . -: - ¦ : ' ¦ . . ; ¦;
There is ati old , proverb which says } . " . Every dog hath his day ; " and it appears that , raihviiy speculation hathhart its day . in Leeds ...,-The ( iny . liatii gone , and the niglit liatl ) come . 'A ; davit ; cloud hath oveisliadowed the 'Change j and whispers—deep , audible , and unmistakable—of " repudiation" and . '' compromise" have ; become the order oi the day . ¦ The following accounts of the crisis is given in ihe Leeds Mercury of Saturday last : — i ' ¦ "The totally unexpected amalgamation of the Huddersfield , Halifax , and Bradford Union Railway with the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company , has had th «? most extraordinary and unhajipy effect on great number . ' - of speculators in shares in this and the neighbouring
towns . According to the fatal system which prevails so extensively of persons selling shaves without possessing them , on the speculation of being able to buy them at a lower price before the time comes for their delivery , « V . ISt number of these shares had been sold in the market , —no less , it is said , than 80 , 000 5 Tho number of shares originally announced in the prospectus of this railway was only 15 , 000 , and the number which the committee have actually to allot , according to the agreement with Hid Manchester and heeds , is only 7 , 500 . As soon as the arra . igenu-nt with the latter-company was known , the
shares sprung up from 30 s . to i' 10 , £ 12 , and even £ 15 , — partly owing to the real value of the shares as stock ot the Manchester and Leeds Company , and partly from the rush into the market of those who had previously sold shares , to obtain them for delivery . ; The consequence has been , tjienbsoluteiuability of those who had previously soiil on speculation to fulfil their bargains ; and this inability is all but universal both among brokers and their clients . Under these extraordinary circumstances , the members of the Leeds Stock-Exchange met on Thursday , and adopted the following resolutions : — :-
" . 'That no . buyer of shares in any projected railway where the scrip was not issued at the date of the contract , shall be allowed to buy in such shares agaitst the seller , but that the members of the Exchange be required to do their utmost to effect a just and amicable arrange , nieut with ; each other , of any contracts for such shares in which they may have been engaged , and be bound to aWde by the decision of the committee of management as to the mode of such arrangement . "' That no dealings be hereafter permitted in shares of which . the scrip . is not issued , with the exceptions ol such transactions as , may be entered into with the ex . press vieiv of promoting the scttiemer . t of transactions uowopeh . '
"We surely need not say what a fatal lesson is here given to the public against the practice of gambling in shares . ' : The second resolution passed by the Leeds Stock Exchange . if generally acted upon , would palliate the evil ; Imt the only effectual cure is to he found in abandoning the practice of jobbing . The purchase of shares for investment is most legitimate ; but experience show * thai jobbing in shares is exceedingly dangerous , and must bi ruinous to many , as well as interfere most perniciously with recular industry . "
The rule " on 'Change" is , that when a seller neglects to deliver the shares lie may have sold at the time specified , the buyer is at liberty to buy then in the market at the then price , and charge the neglecting seller with the difference . As before stated , eighty thousand shares , in this particular line havi been sold at 30 s . They are now at £ 15 !! The seller at 80 s ., to be honest ; to fulfil his engagements , must purchase shares at £ lo , and hand them over to the party he originally sold to , for 30 s . ; losing £ 1310 s . on each share ! This nine-tenths of them cannot do ! Tiiby have not the means ; and if they had , the bare fact of such a number having to ho purchased would about double the price again , seeiV that
there are but 7 , 500 shares to allot ! To ?«<•» / aitA therefore IS CERTAIN RUIN to scores ! As honest and honourable men , they are bound to part with the last faiihiug they have : hut they ake gamblkrsand they naturally look for the thorough gambler ' s resort , v / hen fortune frowns . They talk of Ilepudialing ! They have no objection to pocket the profits of gambling ; they see no impropriety i „ becoming possessed of thousands of other people ' s money , wfrtout giving an souivalentfor it ; they ] uvc qualms of conscience agaifist " fobbing the winnings ; " but to part with the " waxes" is quite another ^ iinr ' tiipv d * doubt the WALITY of the ^ actiou ^ Jfot a word . about jkww-or honesty / all shout
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^ h ^ a ^^ iifcii ii ¦ . - ^ * legality . ' . ' , It 5 s not legal to buy and sell such shares . ^ Just so / , but why did you- not say this when you were oatui ' iip- ? The truth is , the infernal system has eaten out your souls . You have no principle of honour left . Tou are GAMBLEltS-thorough and essentially GAMULE 11 S : and as such you are oblivious to all the feelings and ties that bind honourableand honest men together . The bare fact , that you . -eek to "ot money by such means snows you to bo con-*__ . ... ? Z £ Z —~ . ~~~ - . - ¦
scienceless . You are seeking to get what you have not worked for , nor given an equivalent for . All you get must necessarily come out of the pockets oi somebody else . In all likelihood it is the price of ruin : what of that ?—have you not got the money ? "What matters it that a wife and family should be plunged in misery—steeped to the cars in poverty—have you not got what was theirs ? To talk of honour in connection with such a system is to insult common sense . It is of infernal origin ; it is infernal in practice ; and it can only lead to infernal results .
But about this llcpudiation , It is true that such a course is openly advocated , and likely to be adopted The LteJs Mercury of Saturday says : — In the Leeds Association of Sharelrokers , we under stand that it has been determined to repudiate altogether the bargains in ihis ' railway , on the alleged ground that the committee have not fultiilcd the expectations held out in their" prospectus as to the number of shares to be allotted to the public . All bargains in shares where the scrip has not been issued being illegal , payment cannot be enforced by law ; but ne need not say what the effect of the repudiation must be on the parties . Anent this same purpose of lldpudiation , the Times of Thursday has the following '
:--To show the feeling of the gamblers—for that is the proper term i ' or these recusant speculator—ire need but give copies of the following placards , vihieh were extensively posted in Leeds on last Tuesday morning :- — " C-AUTION . —All paities who have sold shares in the Iluddeishelu " , Halifax , . and Bradford Union Ku . lway Company are earnestly recommended , to repudiate the bargains they have m-tde ; tvliich they arc fully justified in doing , owing to the altered circumstances of the company , the constitution of '' which has been completely changed before the allotment of the " shares . —August 12 , tS-tu" ' ' -
! " lt . 111 . wa r injustice . —In the prospectus of the Iludilci'sileid , Halifax , and Bradford Union Hallway Company , issued some weeks ago , the public were invited to send in tilth' applications . for shares which would be allotted so them on payment of a deposit of £ 1 ' 2 s . per share . It is notorious that parties immediately connected with this line have ' br-jught shares to au extent lar abore the iiuiuuer actually existing ; ami when by an arrangement n-. th the Manchester , and Leeds , ' Iluddcrsfield and SheUield , and other lines , they have raised ihe price in the various markets to a preuuuuvof £ 15 , ' they coolly turn round upon the ' pubiic ^ and siijv'Alltlie shares iu this company are to uegKeiitothe ' proprictofsiii the couipanies with whom nc hare aiiialgiini .-ited . ' '
, - Shaves to' the mentof £ 80 , 000 have been actuallysold in the Lecils market alone , at a low pteinium of about SOs ! , aiid ' so iWglitrul mc . the consequences anticipated by tli ' ii stockbrukeis , that the committee of the Styck-Bxchang ' e cousid-i-ed it necessary to frame a resolution to the ' eitcct that no bargains should he recognised hi sham of any company not previously allotted .. This i-esotuciou not being retrospective , dovS not at & ct till ! eryuig injustice of the present case ; and the extent Of ruin to all parties in tnis affair is so alarming that it is expected a resolution will be come to , to fix a price at which the shares are to he bought in .
"This , it done , will only partially remedy the evil , and by no menus meet the injustice of the ease , which can be looked upon in ho other light than a gross fraud upon the public . It ; is earnestly hoped that ad parties will unite in urgently requiring that all bargains in the stock shall be cancelled , i ' or by uo other menus can-total ruin be averted to many hundreds . " If injustice be admitted because the shares are at £ 15 premium , it is only a partial reduction of the vobb . ry to fix a medium price of about £ 5 ; tiie transaction is either unjust" and unfair , " or ills hot , and if the former be admitted ( as no " one can tor a moment deny ) the only remedy will be for the eommittee to rtconimend that all ¦ he bargains shall '' lie ciiucelJ ' cd , " . '" . ' ' . ' ;
: There is one assertion in the latter , of these placards which we 'believe ^ ' to be true : parties conliecced with the Hue /<««« bought shares . to ; a considerable . ' extent ; ' . The jact . is , that , cevUitv parties knew lifthe arrangements ' that were pending ; knew of the [ irobability ; -of . ainalgamatidh : '\ i ' ndjkhpwiiig ! . ; this ; and ^ Knowing ' - 'foo ^ that' ^^ luiowri . . jilje . / shares ; :. ., w ouid ^ most , disinterestedly acted-on the ' intbrmation thus possessedy and bougiitup all' that came ^ h ' tneir ' way !
: 6 f course " all 'iiiisyuas VAiu ! ' . ' . Who dare , say , to the contrary ? Not the gambler . It is not for him to compliiini . 13 ttt hoiiest mciv would shrink from so acting orsp coirceiyiiig . ; Cbnti ^ s ^ the conduct of the , actors on iul ' oi'iiintioii in ; this disgraceful case , ; with . the following instiince ; of tnie'integrity of soul evinced by Major" CARiwhiohr : ' ' under -siihilarr . circunistances . See theTATiUOT ' risc superior to those low , sordid ,
base ,, mean , grovelling , dishonest , pick-pocket noliions which influencei'tlie GAMBLERY aud see in his conduct something , > admire something to emulatk , to , the end of time ! Contrast the highsouied principle of the " Father of Radicalism" with those that actuate the frequenters of your "Stock Kxehangcs ;" . those that taku every advantage , as the " pigeon piucker" of "the Hell" does when he " plays" with loaded dice : — When an express from Paris ' was brought to Mr . Wharton , the American Minister in Lon ' don , to negotiate the exchange of prisoners during the American WiVf , ilnjor Carttra ' ght was in the room with that , gentleman . As sooiias Mr , n'hnrtoii ' rend the despatch , he put his back to the door , and said , "Now , Cartwright , you may
makeiin immense fortune j " . on this lie put the despatch into . Major . Cartwright ' s hands ; but did the latter take advantage of the information to go and gamble in the funds ? Xo , tie aid not . Mr Wharton told Major Caru wright that the iiifurniiitjon would not btf in the possession of Uns Government for twenty-fonr hours , ' and he pointed out the way in which the information might bts turned to . account by Major Cartwright . Uut that excellent man refused to take advantage of it , eecausc u-hatever he should gain must be lost by somebody else . Everybody knew that Major Cart might ivns not very rich ; but that was not the only sacrifice he made throughout for the sake of principle , There was another net of his , which every man who follows his doctrines ought to know : — His brother lost all his property in a speculation in machinery ; he relieved that brother from his
embarrassments . Let tho GAMBLERS look at the example h ( r afforded them , and scorn to take tho advantages they now avail themselves of . Let the Ilepudiator also look at the example ailbrded Idm , and blush that the thought of acting with flagrant perfidy has once crossed his min-l . Thus ( he blow is struck . ' Terminate as the att ' air may-whethcr by the ruin of hundreds in the maintenance of their integrity , or In repudiation , or in contpromise-tk How is struck ! Confidence in Leeds
has received a shock ! If the parties involved submit to ntfiMhat ruin will not satisfy the claims o ( the sticcesslul gamblers . If Uieyr ^ unate-all the world will know ivho and what they arc-Aw m very ready io Titusr mm ; r they ^ - ^^ nuse , confidence cannot be restored to what it once w as . The blow is struck at Leeds : how long will it be ere it extend over all the land ? How long will it be , ere we have all the interests in the state suffering from the effects of this mad speculation . These qucstvons we shall attempt to solve on another
occa"ion : meantime we conclude in the words of the Times :- " Sooner or later the day will como when an untold proportion of this year ' s scrip-holders will be doubly pressed-no longer able to suffer the sums they have already paid to remain buried in the carthworksof an unfinished Vine , much less topay tip the quick recurrin g calls of tkcomptmy . Avery trifling lull of the commercial thermometer will fae sufficient to try the value of a hundred millions of promises A drop from fever-heat to blood-heat will shrink off paupers and pensioners , and nobodicsmid aliases , and bankers
' clerks and aged cornets on half-pav , and fifty other ephemerides ofthe market . A further descent to temperate heat will prove serious loshpheepers investing in scrip the ina dequate capital of their trades TO ATIORSEVS riam AT nrCH-PARIHINQ' MIl ' l lOTSi-MONEv , and to country clergymen sick of the monotoHOU . ThreepcrCents . fccc to ^^^ ,, » a downfall almost loo painful to contemplate ; much WORE-T « AT TO ZERO AND „ XDEK > whkh ft miM ^ positzvcl y inhuman topredict , did K 0 T recent expf RIEXCE ASSURE US TUAX EVEN THE
WORST MUST COME . " ' : " UUOi The prospect is fri ghtful ! ,
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THE BONE ^ GNAWING ATROCITY , Is anotlicr place will be found the report of an Investigation into certain allegations made in Parliament by Mr . Waklky , relative to practices obtaining amongst the poor in the Andovcr Union . It will be found also that those allegations have , to the eternal disgrace of this Government , been borne out by fact . - and that human beings , in tliiu Christian England , arc forced by law-produced poverty .-and law-administered . " chatty , " , to turn cannibals ! On those facts we dare not at present comment , but must content ourselves with giving the following indignant reprobation ofthe particular transactions , and ofthe system that leads to them , from the JYiucs of Thursday : —
Notwithstanding the horrorsand atrocities to which the l oor Law has given birth , we could not have believed it possible that even the , measure we have named could have led to anything so utterly revolting as the facts stated in our paper of yesterday to have occurred in the union workhouse at Andovcr . A short time before the prorogation of Parliament Mr . Wakley asked the Home Secretary if . he had heard " that the paupers of a union in . Hampshire were employed in crushing bones , aud that while so employed , they wove engaged i » quarrelling with each other for the bones , in extracting marr ow from them , and in gnawing off the meat from the extremities . " - . To this question Sir James Graham replied that lie had heard nothing ofthe sort , ant ! he further
went on to say , that '' if the facts alleged , were , true bo was quite satisfied that they would have been . represented to him . " "llo could not believe that such an abuse existed , i ' or , in that cusc , he would have heard of ' it . " Here the matter ' might , have ended , had not Mr . Wakley suggested to the Home Secretary that it was his duty to make inquiry into the sulyect ; ,-md this inquiry having been made , the statement-of the hon . member for Finsbury lis not simply confirmed , but the facts are found to be even more horrible than he himself was at the time conscious of . ' - It-appears from the'investigation which has taken place into this truly shocking aifair , that the paupers are employed iii' ' crushing bones collects . from various
sources , including ircquently the bones oi ' .- . ^ s ^ well as of other animals , and " occasionally " some from churchyards . Now , we admit that thesupposition of human beings having been starved into such a state of brutal degradation that they could seek to satisfy the cravings of hunger from such a disgusting source is altogether past belief , and it we had not the evidence of the fact we could not hare considered it possible . We have read of nothing in the . accounts of sieges or shipwrecks , nor even in imaginative descriptions ofthe worst horrors which these calamities entail , that can be compared with the dreadful truth that has just-been brought to light at Andovcr . Though we cannot help turning with loathing from the contemplation of an act so sickening as that to
which the paupers have at this place been driven , we must 1 ' cel the greatest pity for the wretches whose very nature lias been thus brutalized by the system on which the Poor Law of this country is administered . They must have been ground down by hunger to a condition as low as that of the very , dogs , for we have it in the words of the paupers themselves that they are " ready to fig / it over the bones , " and , " . as soon as one sees a . good bone which is unobserved by the rest ,. he contrives ' 'to . steal it away , " andhidea ' it till lu * gets an opportunity of gnawing it . Mr . Munday , one of the guardians , and a borough magistrate , to whoso energy and perseverance the inquiry that has been made is owing , sent . for one of the bones that had been hidden in the way described , and found it tobc
111 an offensive . state ,, which our readers will understand without our . disgusting them by the use of plainer language .. " .. . ; , ; . ' , ; .. ; . , We have lately had occasion to refer to the atrocities committed by the French in Algeria , but our neighbours may indeed retaliate upon us by pointing to the inhuman barbarities that our Poor Law practices ^ ' Althou gh the atrocity ¦ of . IMissier was . horrible enough , it . may well he said that the destruction of life is not so great an injury , as the degrading man literally to the level ofthe brute ,, which has : been the result ofthe Poor law at Andovcr . It . is . incumbent , on all who are concerned tor , the . honour of , their country , to repudiate . a system which , must . become a national disgrace when it
leads to . such iacts . asjliosowe . havebeenspeakings of ., What must . .. the sufferings , of these , wretched persons have been before they were driven , to au act for which iii iiOj accounts , of wars or famincs , vsieges or shipwrecks— -facts ; ior fiction , —in nothing which wc have heard or read , have , wc -ever : met with a parallel ? Even the conduct ; of Pelissier has had one precedent supplied by ; a countryman of his own ; but : the reduction of human beings by starvation to such a degraded state : that ;; they have been ready to fight for the bones ; of-animalsT-some bvoujLlit-even from churchyards—is tin oft ' ence that . stands . " alone , and the Poor Law is . the . only law that could have given rise to it .
The Andovcr case cannot rest where it . is , and though Sir James Graham omitted to make anyallusion to ; the result of the inquiry , which he must have known before ; Parliament was prorogued , public opinion will pronounce itself on a matter respecting which , the Home Secretary preferred remaining silent .
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. That in the event of any important alterations or . deviations ' being made ' from the original prospectus of any uewly-projected railway , previousto - tlic allotment of the shares , whereby the constitution of the company is materially changed , the mcmbi-rs of this Exclmnge ave of opinion , that contracts made on the faith of the original prospectus , ouglit not to be enforced . Honest men ! Honest men !! - * w *^** r ********* r ^ ' ^ b ^ ' ******* . ' ** **********
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G . ' . Caviw * Siu-rriELD . —Such rumours as lie speaks ' of are utterl y without foundation ; and wc trust he will not be injured thereby . ' The reason why he did not receive his Stars in proper time lay entirely ' with us , as was explained to him in a letter posted previous to ' ouv receiving his . To several other agents who have written ... ns , wo reply , th .-it after using " every passible exertion , . we could not complete their orders in timo ) from a defect in the machinery . ¦; Communications fob the York ClIARTISTS . must be ad . dressed to Georgo Jefferson , Wilson ' s . yavd , "Layerthorp , York . - ' ¦ " '" ¦ - ' ¦ '¦ : ';
Sauohs' WnoKcs . —The "Cai « rr . VG" Sisteji . —Jfa . ' EntToa , —Your paper , a few wctlss ago , CDiitiijiieu ^ ai ' i article respecting the sailors and theirwrongsfaliow me now to say that one of the wrongs complained of hits lately arrested the attention of the legislature , ' wiio have passed a law to prevent crimping . '' Asanumbeiof your readers may not bo aware what " crimping" is , it will not be out of place to offer a f w observa tions on the subject . A ' sailor , when out of employment , is like a fish out of water , ( strange fish , J « ck !) - ] iekiibivsriot where to go , or what to do—he meets a Jew ,-or often a Gentile slopseller , who asks Jack does he want a ship ? "Yes , "? says he . ; ' ' . ' ' Th e ' n ' come with nie and I will get you one . " The rascal takes Jack home gives
, him a glass of whiskey , opium , mid vitriol ' sna very speedily Jaclt is asleep . The " crimp , " or slopseller , then runs off and speaks to a captain in want o £ a crew—he bargains to bring the men on board when he ( the master ) wants them . The Jew then ge : s as inany promissory notes as the captain wants hands-these will be cashed to the amount of £ 2 Ss . or £ 210 *; each note . If the sailor goes in the ship , the Jew , or " . shipping master , " or " crimp , " its all the suihe , thcii givcs'Jiick ' another dose of whiskey , opium , and vitriol , a shoddy jacket , manufactured on purpose out of devil ' s dust , ii plug of contraband tobacco , ail old pair . of trousers , left by some poor sailor , who , when going away , '' amid ' not find them ; and , thus supplied , poor J , \ ck is Vent ' off
to the ship . The " crimp" keeps the advance note ; and draws the wages of the sailor ; three days aiter he has sailed away , that is , one month ' s advance nbtel . Another villanous system is , a number of woulil-be smart honest men , to all appearance " gentlemen , " keep what they term " shipping offices . " The more sober portion of the sailors go there to seek for employment , because the shipmasters patronise " tln-se " crimps . " Jack applies : he is told yv-s—told he ci . h get employment with Captain So-aw . l-so , but another sailor has 2 > romised to glee him ( the crimp ) IDs . for the birth , but if he mil giu apoimdhcshallhavcU . Tiie poor tallow , perhaps with a family of young ' children at home crying for bread , has to sellorpledgcsomearticle of furniture to satisfy the cupidity of this scoundrel . The act lately passed is to prevent th ' efco ' boiu" paid by the seamen to a " crimp" or other person the fee t be id b
mus pa y tho captain or owner of the ship and any master or owner of a ship going to any other ' than a licensed office shall pay £ 20 for every sailor so shipped and any office-keeper , licensed or not , known to accept or charge , directly or indirectl y , any fee , stall be guilty of a misdemeanour under tt penalty of fine ami imprisonment . Thus , by lookingaftcr their own rights , wo find the sailors are beginning to be able to steer clear of their old "friends"in Rateliffe-highway . Wc trust that the more sober part of the seamen will spend their time and money Vetter than in attending the Cat and Fiddle , or being gulled by the "landlady ' s daughter , " , who is generally a common prostitute . Jack ne « er dreams of the rascality ofthe landshui-ks until , lie is actually done for . Let him live and learn . —llaspcct fully , J . Pij-des , J . II . Jones , Manchester . —Thanks for " Tho
Starspangled Banner . " The articles on " Agricultural Chemistry , " published in the Slav , are not contained in a separate publication . The only way in which his friend could prove the death of his father in the United States , would be by some ons going over there , and ' collecting the proofs . 0 . J . —Not any particular width—but tho use to which highways are put require that they bo wide enough to accommodate the traffic over thetn . H . Baljifortii , MANCHEST ER .-. Thanks for his packet . Wo have made use of some pji-tion of it , and shall use the remainder next week .
J . If ., ItoTiiERiiAM . —We have V . ot the means of reference at band to answer his questions with certainty , Jacob Trust . —Letter I . next week . Can he let us have Letter Jf . by Thursdav ?
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Citation
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 16, 1845, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_16081845/page/4/
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