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state of afiairs . that people who have money in their Lands cannot get a supply of food to purchase . Numberless have been the complaints made respecting the conduct of the Government in this tryin ; time of distress , and heavy are the imprecations , both loud and deep , uttered against them by the starving population . In fact— -whether they were justified in doing so or not , let others judge— the penpie lay all their troubles at their door , and certainly not without some good show of reason . The only convolution and blessing which the people enjoy amidst all" their sufferings , is derived from the plentiful supply offish which have visited the coasts , and herrings being sold at 2 d . and 3 d . the 120 , and gooI hake canbe bought for 3 d . each , while on ordimr / occasions they could not be had for is . G & . —vork Rtporter ,
Hcbus , Oct 21 . —Payment of Labour os ^"" J ? TFohks . —Presentments to the amount of *< M , ? . have already been granted by the Board of Works . N « tt week there will be a vast increase m the number of persons emploved . There must be , of course a « : rcat manv preliminary difficulties where such immense operations are in progress , ami where nearly the whole machinery has to be created . 2 \ everthele * - there were sixtv thousand persons employed up toSaturdav . Ono source of temporary eiabrrassment has arisen from the great quantity of silver required to pay the wages of the labourers . This had been in some measure anticipated by the government , and a week or two since the Comet war steamer was emp ' oyed by the Treasury to deliver a considerable quantity of specie at tho branches of the Bank of Ireland in Cork , Waterford , Galway , and other towns on the Irish coast . In some of the inland
districts there has been much inconvenience , owing to the large quantity of silver required . Within the last two months the silver currency in Ireland has been increased to tbe extent of £ . 100 . 000 . Measures op Reltep . —The Galway town commissioners , at a meeting held on Thursdaylast , voted £ 500 towards the purchase of corn , to relieve the pressing necessities of the destitute poor . Ulster . —There are further accounts ol the increase of distress in the northern province . The northern Whig contains the following : — Destitetiok or the People th the UEicnBomtHooD
or PoRTGLtHom ; . —The following has been forwarded to as by a Portglenone correspondent : — " We were all greatly alarmed on Wednesday last by a report that a party of labourers were to congregate here for the purpose of looting onr for employment or food . Owing lowever , to the severity ofthe day / only about a hundred assembled , and they seemed greatly disappointed at not meeting with S . Alexander , Esq . H . V ., their landlord , in whom they have every confidence . It is really distressing 4 b sre the state of misery to which the greater number of the working classes in this neighbouohood are reduced . Party feeling , which was formerly carried out to a great extent in Portglenone , has now altogether disappeared ; and aH parties appear amicus to join together for one j main object—employment . If theircry be not attended j to soon , tbe result will assuredly be serious . "
ekclamatios of waste lands . At the presentment sessions in the barony of Iffa and Offa East , county of Tipperary , on Tuesday , £ 5 , 000 was voted for the present : but a general feeling prevailed in favour of voting money for the earth works ofthe Waterford and Limerick , and the Great Southern and Western Railways , both of which are to pass through the barony , if those companies should apply for the co-operation of tbe sessions . Captain Bernal Osborne , M . P ., who attended this meeting , blamed the government for not meeting the present exigency by some effectual remedy , such as the reclamation of the waste lands ; and he stated that landlords were deterred from drainage by a fear of the expense of the officers of the Board of Works .
Gaiavat , Oct . 21 . —On Tuesday last , a large concourse of persons , composed of men , women , and children , assembled , in a riotous and tumultuous manner in front of the residence of Mr . Clements , C . E ., Upper Dominick-street , and threatened to break open bis bouse , destroy bis property , and inflict personal injury on that gmtlemen and the members ot Ms family , unless they immediately procured food and employment . . Notwithstanding the menacing appearance of the multitude , Mr . Clements ventured to address them from one of his windows , telling them that everything in bis power had been done to
proceed with the public works , and that , in the course of a day or two , he hoped to be able to give employment to over a thousand . Shortly after this the people withdrew , expressing their determination to have employment at any hazard . 'Baxagher , Oct . 2 L—The potatoes in this district are quite exhausted , and the people are living upon oatmeal , which , at 2-t 6 d a stone , is not to beobtained in sufficient quantities even by those who have remunerative employment . Many of them , however , are unemployed , and consequently in a state of destitution .
The mills , of which th « re are not half enough in tbe country , are kept at work day and night , grinding oats for the public . Crowds of farmers and cottier tenants are gathered about the doors , waiting for their turn to nave their several parcels ground ; and that time rarely comes round sooner than forty-eight hours . They submit during the interval onmeal advanced to them by Mr . Miller , " who sometimes provides them with an apartment of some kind to shelter them from the weather , and cook their food in . Sheep stealing has become very prevalent in this neighbourhood . Scarcely a night has passed for the last week that some farmer has net been deprived of one or two of his flock . These depredations have not been traced in any instance to the famishing wretches whose misery would be some excuse ; but is suspected to be tbe result of a combination amongst the shepherds to extort an increase of wages .
A cart was stopped yesterday on the rosd between this place and Parsonstown , " and a load of flour taken by tbe country people . Two men have been identified as the leaders of the exploit , and sent to prison . No public works have been yet set on foot to enable the poor people to bear up against this crushing calamity . It is said that some of the proprietors , who had been very clamorous on the ubjeefc ol " reproductive labour , " and urgent upon the government to jgive a wide interpretation to the Labour Relief Act , have grown lukewarm on the question , now that their expostulations have been complied with , and hesitate abont encumbering their estates by applying for works of special improvement . If
this be true , it is a sore reflection upon the character of our gentry to be constrained to admit , that no person who has observed their ways with attention lor the last twenty years can be surprised at it . ^ TfeiRE . —A correspondent of the Evening Post gives the following : — " On tha Hth inst ., as a man , named Donohue , was proceeding to the market of Ennis with a load of oats , the property of John Patrick Molony , Esq ., J . P ., of Cragg , county Clare , he was stopped near the village of Caharan by two men , armed with pistols , who insisted on his going back with the corn , tailing him that in compliment to Mr . Molony , who was a good man , they would not shoot the horse thattimo ; but , if he attempted to send out any more corn for sale , they would deal with him as they had done with every one else .
Oa Sunday evening a party of men -went toTJangan , the residence of Thomas Sampson , Esq ., and took away his arms . On Tuesday morning two horses were fired at near Droraoland , when drawing in corn to this town ; one of tbe horses , a valuable animal , was killed , the other had strength enough to draw the car into Newmarket . Sale of Firf Anus is Cava * . —Immense quantities of new fire arms , of Birmingham , manufacture , have been selling by public auction in the different towns throughout the country . —Anglo-Celt . "Yvestmeath . —A diobolical outrage , took place on
Monday night last at Stoneball , the residence of Mr . Gibson . An armed party visited the house on that night , and knocked at the hall-door , and when the door was being opened the assassins outside fired , but fortunately without effecting any personal injury to the person within , the door having received the contents ofthe gun . —Westmeath Guard'an . Closes , Oc t . 17 . —This day , between two and three hundreds of the labouring class entered our town , demanding bread . The shopkeepers helped them liberally with both money and food , and many of them afterwards closed their shops .
MoxioHAX , Oct . 24 . —An Aughnacloy correspondent informs us , that parties are scouring the conntry in that neighbourhood , visiting the houses of gentlemen and fanners , demanding money and food . One party visited the house of Mr . Watson , of Killyhoraan , and although he gave them money , they threatened to kill one of his cows upon the next visit ; they then went to the honse of a poor widow named Henderson , and extorted money from her by threats of destruction of property . Similar parties are parading through various parts of the country levying contributions . —Northern Standard .
Tipperabt . —We cannot possibly describe tbe fearful state of nttcr misery to which the people are reduced in this place , without a resident landlord , and depending wholly on chance for subsistence . We regretto add that the never-failing concomitants of famine and misery have begun to manifest their appearance ; that outrages have been committed , and from what we learn we do not think it likely that they are not to be followed b y others . A man ofthe name of Thomas Walsh , of Lackeragh , in this parish , was fired at and dangerously wounded in the
j jaw on Monday night . ' * Rumour . " says our corres-] pondent , " assign as tbe reason of this outrage , a s suspicion that he represented to the Board of Works 1 that the people of this locality were not in the state ( of misery and destitution represented , which caused , iit is thought , the board to delay imploying the £ starving poor . " The Relief Committee have deter-I mined to give the office np altogether , having no . t thing to do but to listen to the waitings and lamenttations of starving crowds , without the means of re-Moving them , the government having absolutely refifused to give either food or money , —Tipperary ITindicaCor . Asothke Attempt to MunnER . —On Wednesday Idast , the fair day of Templemore , as Mr . Edward IByrne of Lissenure was returning home from it , ho
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was overtaken at Eastwood gate by ton »}« ™*> who beat him severely with stones , inflicting one very serious cut , and three or four small ones . Mr Byrne was unablo to proceed further , ami remains for the present at Eastwood , where two doctors are in attendance . -IVencmfc Guardian . County of Carlow . — On Sunday ; niaht last three men , whose faces were blackened , broke into the house of a widow named Ma » ee , who resides at Mayo , in the colliery district , Queen ' s County , and after presenting a pistol at her bead , they demanded of her why she dared to pay her rent ! Two of the ruffians then held her while a third applied a torch to her head , and held her until her hair was burnt off , and the scalp seriously injured . ' They then left the house threatening her with a future visit . The
poor woman presented herself next morning before a magistrate in a shocking condition ; but the subject having undergone investigation on Wednesday at the Ballickmoyle Petty Sessions , the magistrates have offered £ 20 reward for such information as will lead to the discovery of the perpetrators . A few days smce a similar visit was paid a poor woman named D . vyle , who , with her husband , resided on the same townland , as caretakers to Mr . Willoughby . The husband being absent , they inqu red why they had taken the place of the persons who had been dismissed from the same employment ; and having applied a torch to the hair of her head—a new mode of torture , worthy of barbarous ages— completed their savage task by burning the hair , and seriously
injuring the poor woman ' s head . This poor family have since quitted that part ofthe country , evidently happy on their narrow escape . "Yonxc Irmlakd . "—Mr . O'Connell has written a long address to the steadfast moral force repealers of the city of Cork , in reply * to some resolutions calling for a reconciliation between himself and the Young Ireland party . He says , "the moral and physical force . principles cannot amalgamate together , they are essentially different and opposite , and can have no combination . They are as different as black and white , as water and fire . You cannot commingle them without annihilating the one or the other . " And concludes by stating , "that the Association cannot concede , and if it could , it ought not . "
Distrbss is Slioo . —On Saturday last a deputation from the county of Sligo , were received by his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant , and the Right Hon . II . Labouchere , Secretary of State for Ireland . Tbe deputation , in feeling terms , represented to bis Excellency the grievous state of privation and distress under which the labouring classes in that county are suffering . They urged , in particular , the depression of wages at a time when provisisns had reached an exorbitant price , and recommended , amongst other remedial measures , the extension of the princi p le of reproductive works to subsoilvng , wherever drainage was unnecessary . They likewise suggested the establishment and use of the Coast Guard stations as depots for tbe sale and delivery of provisions , as had been done upon a former occasion . His Excellency entertained both the former suggestions very favourably , and the deputation were assured that they should be promptly and efficiently considered .
REPEAL ASSOCIATION . Conciliation Hall—The usual meeting of this body was held on Monday—the M *> yor of Clonmell in the chair . Mr . John O'Connell read a letter' from his father , which commented severely on the delay ofthe Board of Works in giving effect to the presentments made at the baronial ' sessions . The ' customary abuse of the Young Ireland party was indulged in by various speakers , and after a speech on the distress by John O'Connell . the meeting terminated . Rent nearly £ 100 . £ 50 of which was from Liverpool . [ It was expected that the proceeding would have been enlivened by a discussion with "the' Young ) Irelanders . Several of the latter offered themselves for admission but the O'Connellite Repealers took measures to exdude them . ]
MEBTIXC AT PERU 0 V . On Monday a meeting was held at Fermoy for the purpose of conferring on the present alarming state of tho country , and taking such steps as might be deemed most advisable to meet the exigency created by the scarcity and dearness of food , and the want of useful and beneficial employment for the labouring population . At the request of a large number of gentlemen constituting twelve Relief Committees , in this district , the county representatives , D . O'Connell and E . B . Roche , Esqrs ., attended the meeting , and oa their entrance into the News Room , where it was held , were loudly and enthusiastically cheered . Mr . O'Connell made a long speech . Several resolutions were agreed to , and a memorial founded upon them was ordered to be presented to the Lord Lieutenant by Mr . O'Connell and a deputation from each Relief Committee . Dublin , Oct . 27 .
Relief of the Poor . —A general order has been issued by the Lord Chancellor authorizing ( in consequence of the prevailing distress ) sums to be granted to local relief committees out of the estates of minors , wards , lunatics , & c . The Master in the cause is empowered to grant such sum as he may deem expedient under the circumstances , not exceeding seven per cent , upon the net annual income of the estate . Special cases are to be referred to the Lord Chancellor when the amount sought exceeds £ 100 .
Clare . —Owing to the rapid spread of crime partly superinduced by tbe pressure of distress , throughout the county of Clare , Colonel Vandeleur , as Vice-Lieutenant , convened a meeting of the magistrates , clergy , and others , which was held in the Courthouse of Ennis on Saturday last . The attendance was extremely numerous and influential , and several temperate and judicious addresses were delivered . Meanwhile , outrage is not decreasing in the county , the anti-rent movement forming the most prominent feature of the disturbances .
On Sunday , says the Clare Journal , —Two men , eai b armed witk a gun , went to the chapel of Clooney , n :-a Eunistymon , and posted a notice cautioning the people not to pay any rant to their landlords . These men were without any disguise , they remained outside the chapel during the celebration of service by the Rev . Mr . Sheehan , and twice discharged their guns , loaded only with powder , for the purpose , we presume , of proving that they were not in any way afraid of being intercepted . This fact tends , more than any we have yet heard of , to prove tho daring spirit ; of resistance to the laws amongst tbe peop le of this country . It must be looked upon as passing strange , tnat tbe people with their clergymen should not have at once seized upon auch daring intruders , and g iven them up to the police . But they wore parmitted to retire unmolested .
And again : —On Saturday evening , as Mr . James Pyne was proceeding through a short cut in the neighbour hood of Fairy-hill , parish of Kilmaly , he was met by tworuffians , who beat him most unmercifully , and left him apparently dead . They took from his person three halfcrowns , some shirt collars , and a penknife , which they afterwards returned with , saying they might hang them hereafter . Disturbances in Cork . — The Cork Examiner says : — " On this morning a party of labouring men amounting to upwards of 300 , armed with spades and shovels , entered the city about eleven o ' clock , for the purpose of procuring immediate employment . Our reporter was iuformed by one of the party that they had assembled
from several of the rural districts in the neighbourhood of Cork , at distances varying from two to six miles . They first called at the relief-office ; but owing to the absence of the members , they were not able to ascertain any thing satisfactory 3 and on the suggestion of one of the party , they proceeded to the police offioo in order to have an interview with the Mayor . Here they were met by Head Constable Condon and Sergeants Porter and O'Neill , who kindly and judiciously advised them to abstain from any violent or irregular proceedings , assuring them that employment , both at the park aud at the Glanmire-road , would immediately be afforded . This species of consolation appeared at first to have little effect , for the miserable men appealed to the evidence afforded by their famishing appearance ,
and asked the constables if they were ' so circumstanced would such promises satisfy them ! " One ofthe wretched men , whose face and general appearance indicated the extremes ! misery , opened his tattered coat , aud showed the constable that be had pledged his shirt to sustain his starving family . Another stated , that he had not eaten a morsel of bread since yesterday ( Sunday ) morning ; that neither he nor his family tasted food or drink on that morning , because they had not a single article left athome to procure it . Though the majority , of the party appeared peaceably disposed and determined to discountenance violence or outrage , a considerable number recommended with vehemence the opposite policy . One ofthe party a stalwart and determined man , who appeared to be the leader , went up to Head
Constable Condon , and said , " we are starving and dying—we have been starring , but we are determined to stand it no longer . " Constable Condon endeavoured to appease the speaker , at the same time reminding him of the risk he ran in instigating and exciting the ¦ people . The speaker then replied . " There is nothing surer than that I will be one ofthe first to break out ; for if 1 don ' t get bread , by heaven I'll fight for it , and I don't care if all the policemen in Cork were before me . ' Finding it was * useless to persist further , they then filed off in something like military order , snd went to the Court-house , where his worship was engaged in the Revision court . After remaining there for a short time , they returned down Great St . George-street , and proceeding through Patrick-street , stopped opposite the "imperial bakery , " which half a dozen of the most prominent entered . The
doors ef this establishment were immediat ely besieged by the hundreds that composed this gathering , while the parties inside demanded something to eat , at the same time disclaiming any attempt at violence . A party of policemen , under the command of Head Constable Condon , were in a very short time in attendance , and succeeded , with considerable difficulty , in clearing the shop Of its hungry occupants . Fearing that the threats and expressions of three or four individuals would ultimatel y induce the people to commit outrage and violence , and thereby lead , probably , ta the most disastrous consequences , Mr . Condon orde red the apprehension of four individuals of the party . The names of those taken into custody are John Lucey , Jonathan Tanner , Bartholomew Keefe , and John Shean . The apprehension of these parties caused , for the present , the dispersion of the mob that threatened this establishment ,
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MANCHESTER MUNICIPAL ELECTION . address to the ratepayers . Ratupaters ov Manchester ! You who feel the weight of local mwgovernment , by the expence of its machinery falling upon your shoulders , —you who feel , day by day , more burdens heaped upon you , in the shape of enormous rates , to carry on the hateful system of municipal controul , —you wh . o hear loud complaints of gross maladministration in the affairs of your borough , - you who sse large and petty exactions made upon you to
supply the extravagant exchfquer of an aspiring corporation , —listen to a few arguments , facts , and figures , to Fhow how wantonly your Town Council sport and gamble away hundreds and thousands of pounds of your hard-earned uoney , regardless ol your personal capabilities to meet their demands ; and , whilst these things are being shown to you , bear in mind that the men , the Councillors , who thus sport with your funds , are your representatives ( at least , so they call themselves ) , and have been actually elected under the specious plea of municipal reform ! —of cheap local government ! 1—yet have they , whilst in office , actually voted the following payments from your funds ; that is , the Poor ' s Rate !
the FIVE SHILLING RATE > - Round Kos Mr Heron Town Clerk ... 1500 ... per week . „ Maude Stipendiary Ha . gistrate ... ... 1000 ... 20 „ '„ Armstrong ... Recorder ... 800 ... 16 ,, „ Chapman ... Coroner ... COO ... 12 „ „ Braudhurst ... Treasurar ... 500—10 > , „ Hereford Assistant Town Clerk 500 ... „ Ogden ... Clerk ef tbe Peace ... ... ... 450 ... 0 . „ „ Martin Clerkin tho Town Clerk ' s office ... ... 200 ... i » Another ... ... ... 100 ... 2 ,,
Two at ... ... ... 51 12 s . per annum A Messenger ,,. .,, ... G 2 8 s . „ Then we have a Treasurer ' s
Clerk at 73 ,, A Deputy Billet Master ... ... 25 „ A Surveyor ( Mr . George Shoreland ) partofsalery ... ... 100 „ With three Assistant Surveyors ... 182 „ Is it not monstrous that we should pay Mr . Chapman £ G 00 per annum ( £ 12 a week ) , and , at the same time be called upon to pay Mr . Ruttcr £ 277 4 s . 8 d . annually ? Well may our rates be increased ! Our Town-yard has been let to Mr . Rose for the sum of £ 60 per annum , and Mr . Shoreland estimated the value of such property at £ 300 per annum . What right have the Corporation to make so free with property which does not belong to them , but to the burgesses ? What business have they to let it for any other purpose than that of the borough ?
Again , Captain Rose , of the ManclieRtcr Fira Brigade has £ 200 per annum and a splendid mansion allowed him by his Corporation ! Read Mr . Abel Hevwood ' s speech , and that of Mr . John Richardson White , on the subject , . both of whom opposed the grant , agreeing very properly that the situation ought to have been offered for public competition , and the most eligible candidate selected , in preference to an unmatured and inexperienced "boy , " of some two or three and twenty years of age . For further proof , fellow townsmen , of the paltry and despicable spirit of peculation which almost universally pervades the Tonrn Council of the borough , read the advertisement of " sale of horses , " which appeared in the Manchester papers ofthe 17 th inst .
The salaries exhibited above amount to £ 6 , 200 12 s . ; but . mark ! these are only connected with the State Department : there ia nothing yet aaid about the expenses of the Mayor and his civic Guard ( the "Corporation Blues" ) , who figure proudly upon state occasions , at an enormous expense to the Ratepayers , the items of which are displayed below : £ £ pr . wk . 1 Chief Constable ( Captain Willis ) ... ... 550 0 0 ... 11 1 Chief Superintendent ( Beswick ) 350 0 0 ... 7 „ I Superintendents , viz : — 1 st Superintendant ( Sawley ... 200 0 0 ... i „ 2 d Ditto ... 180 0 0 3 d Ditto ... 150 0 0 ' 4 th Ditto ... 130 0 0
2 Clerks at £ 100 each per annum ... ... 200 O 0 1 Inspector ( Archibald M'Mullen ) ... 100 0 0 19 Inspectors , at 30 s . each per week 1482 0 0 4 . 3 Sub-iuspectors , at 25 s . per week ... ... ,,. 27 » 5 0 0 91 Constables , merit class , at 18 s . per week ... ... 4258 16 0 15 m 246 Constables , merit elass , at 17 s . per week ... ... 10873 4 0 2 Clerks , at 20 s . per week ... 104 0 0 1 Constable ' s Clerk , at 18 s .
per week ... ... 46 10 0 I Coroner ' s Officer , at 21 s . per week ... ... 54 12 0 I Messenger , at 24 s . per week , ( son of Peter Hewitt , Clerk of St . John ' s Church —a respectable gentleman , and very wealthy ... 62 8 0 22 Supernumeraries ... ... 648 5 4 435 Policemen and Clerks , whose Clothing cost ... ... 2204 0 0
Lumps , oil < fcc , for Policemen ... ... - .,. 220 0 0 Kent and taxes ol lock-ups , with repairs ... ... 650 0 0 Conveyance of prisoners before commitment ... 126 0 0 Printing and stationary ... 280 0 0 Medical attendance ( only ) ,,, 75 0 0 Expenses of station-bouse ... 100 0 0 Incidental secret service money for pureed spies and paid
in-Total cost of the Force ... 25982 9 4 Deducting various sums ( such us cloth on band ) ... ... 1180 0 0 f——24782 9 4 Add to this 2 Sub-Inspectors and 32 Constables , just put on ... 1038 17 0
Total ... ... 25821 6 4 This enormous force is kept up—for what ? To prevent crime ?—to catch thieves ?—to overawe the people by a sort of a military exhibition of marching and countermarching ?—to act as spies upon publicans and beer-hi . use keepers ? What , in the name of heaven ! is this immense and expensive force kept up for ? What public necessity renders such a force warrantable . Crime is fearfully on the increase ; so much so , that we need a new borough gaol in orde to make the system complete . Let us for a moment examine into the cost of the punishment of crime in the borough of Manchester alone : — Per annum , The expenses of the Borough Court amount to £ 950 0 0 The expenses connected with the Quarter Sessions and Borough Sessions ... 141 G 0 0 . 0 Maintenance of Borough prisoners in . the New Bailey ... ... ... 3150 0 0 Add to this the cost of the force ... 24821 6 4
£ 44081 6 4 The perquisites of the officers connected with the " Quarter Sessions" and " Borough Sessions " and departments amount to a sum considerably more than double the amount of their actual salaries ( £ 14 , 160 ) . Would it not be more becoming to expend this great amount in educating the working men of Manchester , instead of overrunning the town with a non-disci plined armed force , ostensibly for the purpose of using coercive measures with those whom folly and ignorance have led away from tiie path of virtue and morality ? The entire kingdom of France , with a population of upwards of thirty-two millions , does not spend so much money in brutalising her population as the borough of Manchester alone .
On the 11 th of June , 1832 , Sir James Graham declared the expense of the whole of the Executive Govermnenment of the United States amounted to no more than £ 20 , 812 ; thus , the expense ot crime , prevention , and punishment , in the borou « h of Manchester amounts to " more than twice the expense of tho United States Government ! with a population of seventeen millions sixty-eight thousand six hundred and sixty-six . " There is a curious document in my possession , with the imprint of " Prentice and Cathrall , Times office , " affixed thereto It is in reference to the outlay attendant upon scavenging the streets , under tho superin tendance of our zV-legal Town Council ! We make the following extracts , leaving the facts to speak fer themselves : —
Per annum . 8 horses' keep , & c „ at 24 s . 6 d . per week ( for - Manchester ) ... ... £ 509 12 0 1 horse ' s keep at 16 s . 10 j [ d . par week ( for Salford ) ... ... ... 43 17 6 Now , tradesmen of Manchester , —vou who possess businesslike habits and industry , " and who well know tho difficulty of obtaining money honestly , — does not this require looking into ? Wo are paying £ 8 , 1 SC for cleaning the streets in the borough of Manchester , and only £ 175 9 s . 6 d . for the borough of Saliord , whose streets are kept much cleaner . Let us dismiss this item with another extract . The subject is a painful one : but the amount of local taxation is so great , and hears so heavy upon me , that I cannot , with justice to myself , remain any longer silent , especially when my means are squandered in the payment of extravagant aud unmerited salaries .
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At a Council meeting , held on the 13 th May , instant , it was resolved , by a m ijority of sixteen to four , to enter into a cantraot with Mr . J . Whitworth , to scavenge the streets in tho township of Manchester by machines only , for tho annua ! sum of £ 5600 , he engaging to employ twenty machines for the purpose , although the Scavenging Committee state in tluir printed report , that fifteen machines are sufficient , whicli twenty machines will cost , at the said contract price , £ 2 ? 0 per annum each , at £ 104 10 s , 6 d . per jmcfiine per annum more than is paid by the corporation of Salford . Tlie exocnaes of the wh ile Executive Government of the entire state of New York amount to ho more than £ 14 , 770 , with a population of one million six hundred and eighty thousand and sixty-eight , persons ; consequently , the borough of Manchester costs three times more than the whole state of New York 1
The total annual cost of the police eonstables above amount to as will be seen £ 25821 6 4 The total annual cost of maintaining , and clothing the 1 st Regiment of Dragoon Guards , with 436 men and hoises , is ... 21918 18 7 The total cost of the 7 th Fusiliers , of 900 men and officers amounts to ... 25280 7 5 Thus , by comparison alone , our police cost £ 3 , 902 7 s . 9 d . more than a regiment of dragoons , and £ 340 8 s . lid . move than a choice regiment of infantry , and considerably more than a seventy gun line of battle ship , bearing the admiral ' s flag . If we add to the above items the miscellaneous expenses of the Corporation : £ 1255 0 0 The expenses of the Municipal
Corporation election ... ... ... 350 0 0 The expenses of the Manorial rights ... 4000 0 0 Compensation to Hotter ( late coroner ) ... 277 4 8 Custom-house expenses ... ... 1310 0 0 Kuisance and Hackney Coach Department ( including Neil ' s salary of £ 130 per snnum ) less fines inflicted ... ... 261 0 0 Building and Sanatory Regulations Department , ( including £ 59 for George Shoreland ' s salary ) 242 0 0 And for the Weig hts and Measures Department ... ... ... 350 0 0
we shall find a gress expenditure of £ 01 , 333 3 s ., being more than the whole of the Poor Rates levied on each of the counties , with a population as follows : —Bedford , 107 , 937 ; Cumberland . 177 . 212 ; Hereford , 114 , 438 ; Huntingdon , 58 , 699 ; Monmouth , 134 , 349 : Rutlandshire . 21 . 3401 Westmoreland . 50 , 469 : North Ridins of York , 204 , 662 ; Anglesea , 50 , 890 ; Brecon . 53 . 795 ; Cardigan , 68 , 380 ; Carmarthen , 106 , 482 ; Carnarvon , 81 , 068 ; Denbigh , 89 , 291 ; Flint . 60 , 547 : Glamorgan , 173 . 462 ; Mereoneth , 39 , 238 ; Montgomery , 68 , 720 : Pembroke , 88 , 262 ; Radnor , 25 , 186 ; bein g all the Welsh counties , with
a population of 911 , 603 ! and more by £ 32 , 532 than the salaries of all Her Majesty ' s Cabinet Ministers 1 ! 1 and nearlv three times more than tho entire salaries of the Executive Government of the United States ; and this is called " cheap government /" It is , indeed , genuine Whig government , to say the least of it , and a precious specimen it is . Ratepayers , what do your Poor Rates amount to ou a £ 20 assessment , 5 s . in the pound ? ... ... ... £ 5 0 0 What does your Highway Rate amount to at 8 d . ? 0 13 4 What does your Police Rate amount to at Is . in the vound » ... ... ... 10 0
6 13 4 Mark well the above sum , and calculate where it is to come from , and how imperatively it is demanded from you , What do the fines amount to in Manchester , in a week , month , quarter , or a year ? They are all enormous . I have heard it stated at forty times the amount of £ 261 , which would amount to £ 10 , 000 annually ; and this is cunningly placed undqr the " Nuisance and Hackney Coach Department , " and headed "less fines inflicted ! " What becomes of this money ? Mr . Nield is paid £ 130 per annum , as a public informer , and said it was a " d—d shame " his salery was not raised as well as the rest of them . For the ' Weights and Measures Department , " the
borough is charged £ 300 ; but I am credibly informed that all persons pay for their weights and measures Deing examined and repaired . The shopkeeper and publican have to pay , even if found correct : if they be under weight or measure , they are charged more . I am not saying they ought not to be examined _ ; but I wish to know what becomes of the penalties in which defaulters are amerced ? Perhaps Councillor Nightingale will inform us . When weights are deficient they are forfeited , and if found to be composed of lead they are forfeited . What becomes of the old pewter quarts , pints , half-pints , quarter-pints , and the like , when they are seized for being dinged , or otherwise imperfect , by this badly-paid official , alias " Lkbs Fines Inflictbd" ?
What do these fines amount torn Manchester ? Why don't some one move for a return of the same ? Do these fines go to pay for dinners and wine ? Thirty or forty of our fat-fed Councillors , last week , partsnk of a royal feast ; and one of them complained , the following morning , of being very un , vell from the effects of his beastly intoxication , and asked his friend what did he think the dinner co . st . The gentleman said he could not say . The Councillor ' s reply was , ' Only £ 2 per head ; of course , including wine !" Mr . : " Did the two pounds come out of your own pockets ?" Councillor ! "Oh . no ! out of the borough fund , under the item 'less fines inflicted , ' and out of the ' Weight and Measure department ! ' "
Mr . Councillor then said to the gentleman , ' We can get up a dinner at any time ! " and further informed them that "the wine was old and splendid , and delicious , and ohampaigne very plentiful !" What an expensive bauble is this Corporation of ours ! Unless the Rate-payers bestir themselves , and reform it altogether by turning out the men who are so regardless of their pockets , and placinsr better men in their stead , ere long we shall have a golden collar and mace ( not forgetting a wig ) for the Mayor , furred robes for the Alderman , and robes of office for the counsellors besides all the retinue of Sword-bearers . Mace-bearers , Pursebearers , Cup-bearei-s , Remembrancers , City , Sergeants , Toast Masters , Jesters—aye , even Jesters , - - Trumpeters , with all the indispensable appurtenances of ice-houses , wine cellars , turtle-ponds , in the olden style , wherein to preserve the good things of this life , to enable the Aldermen to keep up their
dignity , and appear with - ' good fat capon lined , " when peering upon the bench of justice , with grave nods and solemn frowns at poor publicans and sinners , dragged up on most frivolous occasions at the instance of these blue Dog-berriei-s , who , armed with eighteen inches * of brief authority secreted in their coat pockets , are the terror of evil doers . Rate-payers , of Manchester , have you eyes and ears and not see and hear the loud and deep complaints against the system ? Have you so much money in your pockets that , when a five shillings rate is extracted therefrom , you cannot miss it ? Have you hearts and not the courage to rouse ye from your listless apathy , and pitch overboard those Councillors hitherto elected by small juntos when you were asleep ? If you do miss the five shillings rate from your pockets ; if you have hearts and courage to defend yourselves against extravagant Councillors and highly paid functionaries , then bestir yourselves , for
THE DAY OF ELECION IS AT HAND !!! Select men whose sympathies are not so easily deadened by the jrew-ga \ v of an il-legant Corporation , who are going to settle £ 1000 annually of your money for the next Mayor , to buy a gingerbread carriage to give him an airing to Smithy Door ; and also a state barge for him and the Alderman , to take aquatic exercise on the limped waters of the River Irwell , as far as Throstle Nest , or on the Serpentina river , at Ardwiclc Green . In conclusion , Fellow Ratepayers , take warning Do not return any of the retiring Councillors ; but , if you do , never again complain , and for ever after hold your tongues . I am , fellow-ratepayers , Your obedient servant , William Dixon . Temperance Coffee-house , 93 , Ancoats-lane , Manchester .
The address is not written with feelings of vindictiveaess towards any gentlemen receiving stipendiary salaries from the rate-payers of Manchester , but to expose the wonton and reckless expenditure of the public . money by tbe Whig Corporation—ever despicable in all their acts , and never to be trusted .
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TAIT'S MAGAZINE AND LOUD BYRON . TO THE EDITOR OP TUE NORTHERN STAR . Sir , — " Let tlw dead slumber softly , " are words we have often heard . To forget the faults and embalm , the virtues of the mi ghty dead , is a practice of the more generous of living men , but the fate of the deceased poet Byron is an exception , and if some men must slander as w » ll as smile , be vicious when they assume the gait of virtue , perhaps the deceased poet can best bear the injury . Permit me to add a few remarks to your review in lest Saturday ' s Star of the article by a . Gillillaii , in Tail ' s Magazine , on Leigh Hunt and Lord Byron . To all that is said in favour of Hunt as a man of genius , 1 willingly subscribe . He is the pleasant pratler , the charming essayist , ono ef Nature ' s ehostn teachers ; to instruct Earth ' s children iu the book of Nature is his noble mission , and all honour await him . But why such a truth requires to be linked up with such sentiments as the following , is indeed to us wondrous strange . " But , because Byron , disgusted with himself , si * k of Italy , satiatcd with literary fame , or rather afraid of losing tha
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laurels he had gained , exhausted in intellect and bruised in heart , threw himself into the Greek cause , " < fce . A most unaccountable association of feeling ! Was Byron ambitious of fame ? If so was the acquisition of his darling object at all likely to make the ambitious poet disgusted with himself ? Are men generally disgusted by possessing that which they desire to have ? Ask the miser if he is disgusted when he counts his gold . Ask the orator what is his feeling when a thousand voices echo his sentiments ? Byron ' s disgust must be found somewhere else . George GilfiUan ask yourself , what was your feeling when you penned the words we have quoted , do so Scotch reviewer , and try again . "Satiated with literary fame , or rather afraid of losing the laurels he had gained . " More strange still ! Filled to repletion , yet afraid of losing the laurels he had gained . The genius who wooed and won the fair goddess Fame was incapable of retaining her favour . Satiated or r * ther afraid . Do these tiro states of feeling admit of
harmony t Can they exist at the same time in the brain of the s- > me being ? Does fear imply satisfied gluttony ? What prompts man to action cannot impl y s Uisfaction , except in the way of acquiring his desires , and iMSyron was afraid of losing his laurels , he could not be satiated with fame ; for such satiation would naturally produce want of regard for the possession of fame , and mental sloth would follow . Neither of these followed , and indeed the cotemp wary of Sir Walter Scott , and the admired by all true livers of genius had nothing to fear . Lord Byr » n hvl g lined , a place in the cirele of tho great of his day , when the author of the "Lady of the Lake , " was yot living and adored . That young poet who , at the age of 19 , stripped the Scotch reviewers of their haughty plume , and lived to be honoured by his traducers had indeed ( nothing to tremble for . I pas * over the critic ' s misgivings as to what Byron should have done . Burns , the Scottish ploughman , has paraphr ased the ideas of Solomon , and
said" My son , these maxims make a rule , And lump them aye the gither : The rigid righteous is a fool , The rigid wise anither . " Byron ' s death fell on the ear of the world as a warning that earth knew the loss . England's . ' press was in mourning , her children in sackcloth . Th nk of the modesty of the writer who , in the plenitude of his charity , writes on Byron ' s bust the most fatal of all inscriptions , — " A traitor to his own transcendant genius . " I thank GilfiUan for the admission ; his was a transcendant
genius , and thought must in all cases precede action—his wa * a transcendant thought . and his works are to posterity a transcendant legacy . It may appear startling , but I renturs the assertion , that a man cannot be a traitor to himself , he cannot war with his own powers . Is it possible for a man to fors-. ike himself ? is it possible for a man to be and not to be at the same time ? Oh but , it it is said , his actions are disgraceful to his own powers , or , to put it strong l y , he was powerful for evil , and the object and aim of true genius should be to elevate and ennoble man . Well , turn over to page 209 , and mark the following quotation
;"We believe that the man Dante would have shrunk from consigning even the finger that signed his mandate of banishment , to eternal burnings ; but this was not to prevent the poet Dante , when elaborating an ideal hell , heating , if he pleased , his furnaces seven degrees , and indulging his imagination in compounding , into every tremendous variety the elements of torment . The peet is ever bound to give the brightness of brightness , and blackness of darkness ; to mend , if he can , the air of Elysium , * and heighten the beauties of Paradise ; ' and . on the other hand , to make 'hell itself a murkier gloom . ' It will never do to argue thence either the benevolence or the cruelty of his disposition . Was Michael Angelo responsible for the awards of his ' Last Judgment V Is the illustrator of Fox ' s Book of Martyrs , ' answerable for the kindling of all those curling , crested , reluctant or rejoicing , eager or slumbering , flames ? Was Coleridge less the Friend , ' because he appears to exult in the perdition of William Pitt ? Is Thomas Aird less one of the
most amiable of men , because his 'Devil ' s Dream' contains a most horrific picture of the place of punishment ? And has John Wilson the soul of a butcher , btcause in that famous Noctes directed against our friend Dr . Knox , he describes with such dreadful gusto certain unceremonious proceedings , in that ' other place , ' about the spirit of William Burke V The names of Dan to , Coleridge , Michael Angelo , Aird and Wilson follow in rapid succession . I ask GilfiUan to apply the same test of criticism to thu writings of Byron , and prove , if he can , that he is not the noblest of
authors and tha first ' of po-ts . His images live with the reader ; his heroes speak to our inmost feelings ; his heroines breath in our sympathies ; nay , his very digressions are representative of human character to the life . Now , answer is his inscription to be " a traitor to his own transcendant genius V Will GilfiUan have one rule for Dante and another for Byron ? Coleridge is not responsible , because he appears to exult in the perdition of William Pitt ? Is Byron to he blamed for the reasoning of his Cain . 1 Our own Shokspere , in his own fancy , murdered Juliet- She
cries" A noise , —then I'll be brief ! ( Snatching Borneo ' s This is thy sheath . ( Stabs herself . ) [ dagger . ) There rust , and let me die . " ( Falls on Romeo ' s body , and dies . ) No writer ever dreams of blaming Shakespere with intending to honour suicide . The language of Juliet is the reflex of her feelings , and suited to her position . I ask a similar latitude for the writings of Byron , and have no fear for the results . To him who writes Bjron " a traitor to his own transcendant genius '" we write" This lion is a very fox for his valour " " True ; and a goose for his discretion , "
But , perhaps , it is necessary I should refer to another cause for the declarations of George GilfiUan ; he writes , referring to the cause of the weakness ' of Hunt ' s contributions to the " Liberal Shelley , " long a serpen between him and pecuniary distress , as well aa a link binding him to the moody and uncertain Byvon , -was newly drowned . " Byron is here represented as a being too weak to reason , too powerless to act , moody and ' uncer . tain . A sort of gloomy , fickle demon , who could only be approached by the aid of a mediator , and that mediator Shelley . I now ask . What link hound Shelley to B y ron ? that Shelley who was not in pecuniary distress , and who writes his own character in these words— " The virtuous man , who , great in his humility , as kings are little in their grandeur 1 "
There is a correspondence in mind . We do net look abroad for gloomy and uncertain friends to be our companions ; on the contrary , we love the association of those whose feelings are in some way similar to our own . The burglar is seldom the companion of the good and virtuous man . The Turpins and Haggarts of society are never the closeted and confidential friends of the Howards and Frys of this world . " Neither was the high-souled , virtuous and generous , nay , the almost feminine Shelley , likely to choose and elect for his friend an uncertain and moody fiend . The latter friendship of Byron towards Jeffrey sufficiently proves that Byron could both forget and
forgive"And all our little feuds , at least all mine , Dear Jeffrey , once my most redoubted foe , ( As far as rhyme and criticism combine To make such puppets of us things balow . ) Are over : Here ' s a health to— " Auld langsyne !' I do not know you , and may never know Your face , — 'but you have acted on the whole Mist nobly , and I own it from my soul . " Thus Byron cries aloud , I forgive thee thy trespasses , even tliou ' , 'h you should never forgive mine ; aud such a nohle aud voluntary effusion of feelingfrom Byron should alone rescue his memory from tho bile of pnrtizan dri . vellers , and the slime of aerpent-like hypocrites ,
All ages of literature have had their bitter and bilious reviewers . Those who have read the life of Dr . Goldsmith will very well remember the doings of Kcnrick and Boswell ; how tho goo : l-natured Doctor would sometimes forget his childish humour , and have his scclued hours annoyed with the invectives of men who abused that which tliey coveted , and condemned that which they could not imitate . But who that has ever read "The Deserted Village " ( and whero is he who has not done so ) thinks of representing its author cudgelling a bookseller with a shellelah , and then exclaiming , " See , is he not an Irish blackguard 1 " What reader who has admired the sublimity of the " Hundredth Psalra"ever thinks of
representing David , the Psalmist , asking God to curse his enemies , exposing his nakedness to tho gaze of others , or seducing Uriah ' s wife ? Gfuoil and honourable feeling buries all such scenes , and remembers that all men have sinned in some way against their fellows ; it may be against their prejudice , or ignorance , their virtue , or their vice . The Bonvells , aud Kenricks , and Gilfillans , are the delf of the race that write . If it be possible that the spirits of the departed dead can gaze on the acts of living men , I can fancy the poet smiling magnanimously at the doings of his enemies , saying , "Alas , poor men , they are of another mould , and another feeling , from him whose good name they fain would injure . "
Genius , like the light of Heaven is universal , though sometimes varied , yet it is ever genuine . It may darken as a cloud before the sun , or sparkle like sol ' s rays in the clear lake—it raay peep in at the skylight of a cottage , or the portals of a hull , yet it is ever true to itself , it is ever natural . It seeks no specific flower , uo peculiar plant ; it is neither cobweb , mustard seed , nor pease blossom . It is no more vegetable than mineral , no more mineral than animal ; it is all . It is nature ' s voice , speaking inspired thought' to the children of men , and it is plearaut to turn from the bilious ravings of a captious cynic to tho opinions of ja great observer , and I hope , even in Edinburgh , the sayings of Dr . Hugh Blair ( who was for many years one of the Ministers of the High Church , and professor of Rhetoric and Belles Letters in
ths University of Modern Athens ) , will command respect . Writing of Ossian , his words are "The question is not whether a few improprieties may bo pointed out in his works ; whether this or that passage might have been worked up with more art or skill , by some writer of happier times . A thousand such cold and frivolous criticisms are altogether indecisive as to his genuine merit , But has he the spirit , the . fire , tho inspiration of a pott ? Does he utter the voice of nature , does he elevate by his sentiments , does he interest by his descriptions , docs he paint to the heart as well as to the fancy , does he make his readers glow and tremble , and weep ? These are tlie great characteristics of true poetry . Where these are found he must be a minute critic indeed who can dwell upon slight defects . A few beauties of this kind transcend whole volumes of faultless mediocity . "
Tried b y such a tost , Byron must be regarded as lhe poet among lo u 5 ) and tbe lord among poets . A LEAF I'ROH TUE ANNALS OF A Shoemaker ' s Garret ,
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THE IRON STEAM-BOAT AND BOILER . Bp * —— ^ TO TUB EDITOR OP THE HORTHBRN STi Sir , —In the Sorlhern Star of October the i- ' tliere appeared a letter headed "Iron Steam St ! - ' ''' Boiler Making—Inj-irious Effects of Piece-woJ , » * *' writer styles himself T . C . a United Builer M L *' states that the letter is wrote by the particularr f I "'' the Boiler Makers ofthe London District , tyi , ''' 8 ! the motives of Mr . T , C . for not signing his nan / N to his letter we are at a loss to imagine , why ci , | l ) I ' '!! sign his name Thomas Corletfc , as we knew h ^ iJty Corresponding Secretary ofthe order in M ; inche 5 ! . < - . s if he ( the Secretary ) would look in the AortA . ^ As the 17 th instant , there would be a letter of his ( f ^ Hl proJuction . But , Sir , little did the ' Ci > rresi > oIvlj ?' i l rotary think that the letter would Contain 3 uCn ' , ^ ami ! litH / 1 / li / 1 A thn
l . An ^ n u . P .-iikitniflao tllttiL . *' fc hoods , and little did we the uommiuee inink u ,. " * man would be so base as to throw odium amid ; ""J up (_ n every bono urabli employer in London . " •! When the letter was read from the Northern .. ? , . were struck with amazement that the London : ' . *' Makers had taken such a step . We institute" ? ! quiry , and found that the Boiler Makers ofthe i , ' " ' district never authorized Mr . Thomas Corlett , y ^ other man to write such a letter ; therefore we , 7 tbe Boiler Makers of London-from any blame , ar , j ™ tho individual himself responsible for his falsehood we must comment rather freely upon the letter , J ! that such vile and calumnious misrepres entation ° 3 calculated to set the face of every honourablseu 1 ' 5 and their foreman against us and our Society ; a ^ ' calculated to create an angry feeling in the bij ^ every employer towards their men . '' '
In the first part of his letter the writer states th . Iron Duke , Ajax , Birkenhead , Windsor and Hatri ' Iron Steam Ships , were built by Thomas Vernon , ^* Liverpool , and that they are compared to those bi , ;''' the Thames as a splendid mansion is to an old dv- ' - " With every , respect to Thomas Yernon , Esq ., « 3 state that the " Iron Duke" was built by Messrs ^ ' and Co ., and the " Birkenhead" by Messrs . Lia ; . ;!^ Co ., of Woodside . Again , aa regards the keeping the London boats by cement . It appears that Mr . tA . ! has a thorough knowledge of the nature of ctmeir , ^ he says that it will not keep them tight in a he « ^ therefore according to his own theory thay tnug ^ but we candidly ask , has there been a single insti ^ record of any of the London built boats sinking ^
sequence of the cem » nt giving way ! It appeiiy Mr . Corlett sympathises very much with the . Mcii-L and Lloyd's Insurance , when he states that any in ;'; , ' ' tion they may require he is sure the trade will |; v , them with . We state without fear of contrafc that neither the trade nor the Society , ever auttsii ! "] him to make any such statement . The letter cow some statements respecting piece-work - We mustiw ! that piece-work in general is very injurious to ths tt , j ! , at the same time it is not by coercioa that we can ^ i abolUhed , it is net by holding honourable employe » to public ridicule , it is not by writing . slanders an ' is ., against them , that we can get the system abolishtl * "'
in another part of the letter the writer states tf , ^ only thing studied at the present time is to get the b . ) i- ' in the water , whether they sink or snim . c * l Heavens ! we blush at such an assertion , ii < w roij any man pen down such rascality , and barefaced 5 ^ hoods , and write as if they had come from the j . ) j i-Makers » f the London District , we know not . . What the celebrated Iron Boat Builders on the bah of the Thames will say to Corlett ' s assertions , wefc 5 , not , but we beg most emphatically to assura them jj . neither the Boiler Makers of London , nor the Socitir « responsible for such calumnies . We could eoniins ti ' greater length upon several other charges which iti „ groundless and void of truth as those we have casta . dieted ; such as putting horse loads of dung , ashes tt into the boilers in order to make them tiaht , we are dlij convinced that the employers of London would jm , such an action .
Mr . Editor , Sir , we sincerely beg of you to insHtik letter in the columns of tlie Northern Star of tliia Tv ; tJ injustice to the honourable employer ' s foremen mlij . don ; in justice to the Society ; and in justice to ( Oio t 700 gnod men in London , whose names has been abtKd by Corlett in his letter inserted in your paper . We remain , Sir , Your very humble servants , The quarterly Committee , of ftj Head Lodge of United Boiler Mafers ( Signed . ) Jon » Bobjbts , Corresponding Secretary , Xo . 9 , George-st ., Hulme , Manchester . October 26 , lStC .
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MANSFIELD FRAME-WORK KSITTEB 3 . TO THE EDITOB OF THE SOKTHBRS STAB . Sir , —The workmen in the silk knotted branch hi been in a state of great excitement during ibe last ;•] or three weeks , ia consequence of Mr . Orton eharpj Mr' Samuel Ward with having applied to Mr . Shein of Nottingham for work , and offering to make silk knot ted hose at 3 ,, per day below the " statement , " Ta Mr . Ward denied i » toto ; but Mr . Orton declared it l % and further stated that he would no give any more & out until it was properly cleared up . - The secretsij therefore , wrote to Mr . Sholton , requesting him to & form them if Mr . Ward had been guilty of such aa at ;; hut that gentleman declined answering their letter . It
Ortan being anxious to have tho affair set at rest , askri Mr Shelton if he would make the same statement in ii presence of a respectable witness as he had don ; M himself ; he said he would , accordingly Mr . Orton k ' . ai a Mr . Gibson of Nottingham , in whose presence ft . Shelton stated that ' Mr . Ward had actally otured 9 make the above-named article at 2 s . per dozen uclir price . Mr . Gibson thereupon wrote to the secretirj » that ef £ « ct . This was considered sufticUat proof ot ft . Ward ' s guilt , consequently a pablic meeting of tkM knotted branch was called at the Black Svran , on % :-day ^ tbe TUJth instant , which was very numerous !; & tended , when it was unanimously resolved , "Ttai rota of censure be passed upon Mr . Ward for h « n ; a and neferious conduct in offering to wakt woiksiili
reduced price 2 s . per day ; and further , for the intonation of those who wish to reduce our prices , and teacourage those who wish to support them , that wehesSf renew our oft repeated pledge , that we will not ua !« any circumstances make silk knotted hose under ar present statement price . " 2 nd . " That the present $ tern adopted by certain houses of taking 2 s . per dozes ia shape of frame rent , tends much to keep the trades * state of continual confusion , and encourage * the if * tice of taking high charges , and believing as we do tbi high charges induces tbe masters to take outwork reduced prices , we hereby publicly declare that vi » 3 take tbe earliest opportunity to enforce more eiuiitsti rate of charges . " The silk knotted branch take tliiii ? portunity of publicly tendering their unfeigned tha «> to Mr' Shelton and Mr . Gibson for the handsome niacin which they have acted in bringing the guilty part ; *
light , But , sir , the above is not an isolated case . 13 exhorbitant exaction , the grinding tyranny , of the t £ - men of Mansfield is not only proverbial , but insutl ' enK * - Mr . Orton has been in the habit of charging 3 s . 'id . J * week for his "two at once " plain silk frames , butB " he unblushingly charges Is . (!¦! . per dosen , and a Bl 11 making three dozen a week , as many men do , pays to * ' a ' week for his frame . These tyrants have entered *' lists , they have thrown down the gauntlet , and «« " * take it up ; we will neither give uor take quarter tintiM ' abominable system is destroyed . But the ^ rea ] n ; ll = <' ; 0 , 1 warfare are not the sword , the rifle , or th * cannon i '" truth , reason , justice , an unconquerable aversion * tyranny , and a firm resolve to be free . Let an ; m * who wishes well to himself , or to society , join the $ & dard of the National Association , aud strengthen &' hands ofthe Central Committee with their numbers , *
tclbgence , and funds , I am , Sir , jour ' s respectfully , Wm , Felkijt , District Secretarj
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tne Ulty uoroner , ueiu an inquest on .- ""'¦ , Mary Greene , an interesting female , ageil ll > ^?' A fellow servant deposed that shortly after h ! W o ' clock on Friday morning , upon going into tho store room , saw deceased -suspended from the water-p'f "* There was a ladder near . She had evidently S "; upon the ladder , and tied the rope by which she * suspended to the pipe , and afterwards throw" * ladder down . She was quite dead . Can ' t say ™? her sweetheart was . Knew she bad one , as she »* J told witness she was very fond of him ; " and that p \
could not exist without him . In reply " to a qn $ K from the Coroner , Mr . Brewn , surgeon , said deee ^ r had been recently seduced—City policeman , f ' said he waa on duty in St . Mary Axe on f'fafternoon , when a person at Mr . Medona ' s pri » t , r | office asked hvm if it was true that a young ^ had hung herself . Witness replied in the alb' « tive . The person then said , " My reason for as *!* you ia because one of our men has been iwf ; J that ho took her out ou' Tueiday last , and iffa her . " . Witness had made inquiry , and found ' » deceased was out on Tuesday with a man ot then ^ of Bowen , who is a compositor . —Catherine bm |^ St . Mary Axe , knew deceased , Saw her last J on Thursday night , when she came to witnvss * U , She said she was very much distressed in niiiul- ^ ni > s » naked hor t . hn reason , when she said SUO u
been keeping company with a young man , ff' 10 " y j said she had sincefound to bea married man- ^ r something had occurred which would preven from seeing her parents again . —The Coroner ^ sent for the man Bowrn . Upon his arrivijl , ^ Payne said , I have sent for you that yon niay , ^ ' -, can do so , contradict the statements that have ^ made . We are told that you have been i » , , | habit of taking this unfortunate young noniiij > ., latelv , and that you did so on Tuesday last , aiw ' ^ seduced her ; and she , from fear of her disgra «' . l put an untimely eud to her cxistence . r-bo ^ positively deny it , —By a juror : Have y ° " , „ ,,, <; duced her ?—Bowen ( smiling ) : To be sure 1 W ^ A juror : Have you any family ?—Bowen : >¦& have three children . —A juror : Then you aj £ \ , o grace to societv . Your object Irom the nrsi ^ doubt , was to seduce the unfortunate girl . » ' 4 hanged herself , and you are as much her ni ^ morally , as if you hung her . After a &* A deliberation , the jury returned a verdict ot > 1 uoravy insanity , produced by tlie eonduet « w *
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