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THE SHOUT TIME QUESTION. RENEWED AGITATIoFfOR A DIMINUTION TORIES: U°UBS °lr LAB°uSi IN PA0.
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UOLLOWAY'S PILLS . The Testimony « f a Cltr _& v _« a * _vaaeViH-j to _fiesea Cases f Cnrcs hy _tbese _nrvndcr / _al Pills . Extract of a Letter fr § m the Rtv . George Prior , Curate of _Mettjh , Letter JS > _wj-, _Ckrrigart , IreUtnd , 19 th Jan . 1846 .
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0 >* THE CONCEALED CAUSE OF CONSTITUTIONAL © P * _ACUUIIIED DEBILITIES OF THE GENERA l IVE SYSTEM . Just Published , A _usv . -andi mportant Edition of t & e Siler . r Friend or . Human F ? aili ; j . Price 2 s . Sd ., asd sent free t _.. any part of the Unitea _Kingdom on the receipt of a Post Office Order for
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Mid ffsprinjr , from a want of these simple . _ recautio" " _* , k * m perhaps half thc world is aware if ; _* f _« r , 'it ' KSUstbe r _»« icmburea , where the fountain is _ptlluted , the streams aat _iltw from it cauuot be pure .
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_AliERXETUY'S PILE OINTA 1 KNT . " 5 * 5711 AT a painful and noxious _Diseane is the PILES , f and comparatively how few of the afllicted have b en _pi-rmAiiciitly cured by ordinary appeals t « medical skill . This , no doubt , arises from thc us . - of powerful aperients too frequently administered by the profession ; indeed , gtrong internal medicine slmuld _alwavs be a voided in all cases of this complaint . Thc Proprietor ot tha above Oinlineut , after years of acute suftV-rin _ji _, placed himself under the treatment of that eminent surgeon , Jlr _Ahcrnetby , —wa- by bim restored to perfect health , and has enjayed it ever since without the _slightest return of the disorder , over a period of fifteen years , _during _whijh time the same Abernethian prescription has been the
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FOR STOPPING DECAYED TEETH , Price 2 s . Cd . Patronized by Her Majesty , the Queen , Her Majesty , the Queen Dowager , His Royal Hig hness Prince Albert , Her Royal _Hiehiiess the Duchess of Kent , _Hib Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury , \ ud _nearly all die Nobility , the _liUhops and the Chrgj THOMAS it HOWARD'S SUCCEDANEU . Yl .
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LOSS OF TEETH . Messrs . HOWARD & TIIOMAS continue to supply the Loss of Teeth , without springs or wires , upon their new system of Self Adhesion , which has procured them . luch universal approbation , and is recommended by numerous Physicians and Surgeons , as being the most ingenious system of supplying artificial teeth hitherto invented . They adopt themselves over the most tender gums or remaining stumps , without causing the least pain , rendering the painful operation of _extraction quite unnecessary . They are so fixed as to fasten any loose teeth , where the gums have shrunk from the use of calomel or other causes . They also beg to invite those not liking to undergo any painful operation , as practised by most members of the profession , to inspect their painless yet effective system ; and in order that their improvements may be within reach of the most economical , they will continue tho same moderate charges .
The Shout Time Question. Renewed Agitatioffor A Diminution Tories: U°Ubs °Lr Lab°Usi In Pa0.
THE SHOUT TIME _QUESTION . RENEWED AGITATIoFfOR A DIMINUTION TORIES : U ° UBS ° lr LAB ° uSi IN PA 0 .
Nesting At Banxsley. A Meeting Was Held ...
NESTING AT BAnXSLEY . A meeting was held at Barnsley , on Wednesday , in the _Odd-Fellows Ilall , and notwithstanding the very un favourable state of the weather , wns numerously _attended by the operatives of both sexes , Mr . Oastler met with a most cordi-. il reception as lie entered the town and was _t sorted to the place of meeting b y a band of music . None of the clergy or iniinul ' nvtiircrs were pre . svnt . The placard announcing the meeting was headed with the following quotation iron * . Lord John Russell ' s speech on the Tin Hours' Dill : — " Let the trade of _En-l _.-inil perish , i ; it can onl y be sustained by the gleans of w . uiieii and infants . " Tlie placard a ' so contained thv
_following culngium on Mr . Oastler : — " Mr . Oastler has unceasingly struggled for more than seventeen years to oMain a legislative enactment whereb y tho emaciated factory slave might be protected from the relentless iron grasp of the unfeeling portion of millowners of this country ; this noble and disinterested conduct has won for him the esteem of all the great and good iu tho land , and the eternal gratitude of the poor factory children . Whenever and in whatever form oppression has shown its hideous deformity , Oastler has always been ready to g ive the monster a blow , therefore , With n thousand welcomes meet bin * , And with ten thousand welcomes greet him . "
Mr . _GcoitOE Utlev , hand-loom weaver , having been called to the chair , read tlie placard convening the meeting , and _l- ' _-qucsti- ' * that if any one present preferred an Eleven Hours' Hill to a Ten Hours' Hill , he would come forward nnd state his reasons . ( Hear . ) Mr . Robert Ga . hnltt . a hand-loom weaver , ill moving the first resolution , remarked that the use of machinery and the factory system generally had greatly deteriorated the condition of the _working classes . The atmosphere of the generality of spinning rooms was from seventy to eighty degrees , anil impregnated with so much water , that it fell like rain from the top ofthe loom . Emerging from such a place on a frosty winter ' * morning was frequently thc c . vse ofa diseased state of tlieliings . ( Ileal ' . ) The speaker having read some statistical tables , showing the number of deaths to be very numerous in manufacturing _to- _'iis as compared with agricultural , concluded by moving : —
" That a reduction in the hours of factory labour is n growing necessity , from the great increase and high per . fection of machinery , whose use is to lessen , and not _augment human labour ; that long hours , though at first not felt to be so great a social evil , are now found to be very injurious both to the person and pecuniary interests ofthe parties employed . " Mr . Thank _Muhfield a hand-loom weaver , seconded the motion , and it wns agreed to . Mr . Michael Secrave , weaver , then moved ;—"That _therecitnt and present Factories ' Regulation Acts were forced upon the _ouuitrt in opposition to those proposed by Michael Thomas Sadler ; md Lord Ashley ; and while the object of these Acts , according to their
promoters , was to give greater advantage to the employers by re-lays of children , still iv . n those measures have proved a great blessing by the greater equalisation of _bibour throughout the factories , the prevention of night working , an * the opportunities , though small , given to the children for instruction and recreation . " He should like to see some of those gentlemen who had advocated the cause of the black slaves endeavouring to do something for the white slaves in the factory . ( Hear . ) It had been said that a reduction of wages would result from a reduction of the hours of labour , and that we should also lose our foreign trade . He would say . if the manufacturers could not compete with foreigners without reducing wages , then away with manufactures and the foreign trade _altogether . ( Cheers . )
Mr . Jon-- Clakke , a weaver seconded the motion , and it passed unanimously . Mr . William Alexander , a shopkeeper , then moved" That from our amazing powers of production , a still _fuithi-r reduction is found to be essential necessary ; and this meeting calls for the adoption of an efficient Ten Hours' Bill , it having been well proved that such would he n general advantage both to the employer and the _employed , tor the growing intelligence ofthe age requires _U' & t « V > V 6 time btt set » l > aVl ( or the moral anil reli gious iiistrue : ion of the working population than can be afforded by an eleven hours ' regulation , with which the factory operatives never will be satisfied . " Mr . Fiia ; sk Mu » 7 iELD seconded tlie motion .
Mr . Oastlek , _o-i rising to support the motion was hailed with tiireo hearty cheers , lie said . Mr . Chairman ; working men of Barnsley . accept the sincere , aud grateful thanks of—your old _ICing if you will —( Cheers)—for the kind st d enthusiastic reception which you have riven , in hi * person , to the Ten Hours' Hill this evening . It is _^ _i-ilifjing tome to find on my return to Barnsley a . 'M-f . ; ,- . ' . „ yyears absence—some uf tliein years of leal affliction—itis gintifyms and enlivening to me to fmd , that after all the various agitations which this country has _passed through since we first began to ask that the _urna-is and tears of women an-. ! children might not b » tin * cement of the trade of England—that after a ! l those questions which had so torn and rent this empire are closed -md ended , it is still pleasing to find that the Ten
Hours' Hill iiumi have come out of the iiiriiiicu refined . ( Chu . _-rp . ) We can now go through the manufacturing distr cts and discuss like rational b higs this great question , a question which h as deiply important—whether it be as _interesting I cannot tell—to : he employers as to the unemployed ; a question which is us deeply , important to the clergy of tiiis country as to the people . We can now me . t and have no angry passions stirring in our breasts , while we la" before the people our reasons for nT . ii Hours'Hill . It would have been more grut'fymg to me if we had seen , as we ought to have seen , all the professed friends , of whatever sect and party , r . presented by their leaders and heads on this platform . ( Hear , ) ie . ir , hear . ) I deepl y regret that those of-yonr com . munity who move in n higher sphere , should , bv their
nbs _; nee from you this night , prove either that they are _carelc .-s of your interests , or that they have not thought as tiny ought to have done , of the importance of this _quotum , The masters arc nut here . The question we arcabuiil dicidingisoiicof . rciiliiibrest to them . It is tlieir interest that ' the trade of England shall be founded on a just and righteous principle , ft is their interest that the working people employed by tiiem should look up to them as _tiieir-juurdiuus and friends , rather than as _tlieit tyrants and oppressors . ( Cheers . ) I come here as tlieir Irienil , because I know I sh . 1 ] be able to demonstrate to yoi that at pesent the trade of England is built on rottenness , and believing as I do in the Word of ( rod , I am _co-istra ' nc _* - * to believe _th-it the curse of the God of justice rests on that trade which is manifestly founded on
oppression , robbery , and wrong . ( Cheers . ) Mr .. Oastler proceeded to comment ou the evils of the factory system , and added , what right had the - manufacturers to build fraud houses , to keep carriages , and set themselves up as nabobs , _un _' ess ib _* _. working classes had plenty—had the first share—had a sufficiency ., for he did not mean a niggardly portion which could only keep body and soul _togetl . er . If tlie manufacturers wanted to have parks _, and - _rarriflges , and all the grand paraphernalia of state ! let tlit'iii have those things ; but let them not be procured out of that portion of the reward of labour which God himself had given to the labourer . Let there be justice first an ! then luxuries if _juu will . ( Cheers . ) After some observations on the Poor haw , Mr . Oastler resumed his seat amidst loud cheering .
A petition to Parliament founded on the resolutions having been adopted , On the motion of Mr . U . Smart , seconded hy Alfred Haughton . Three cheers were then respectively given for Richard Oastler , John Fielden , Feargus O'Connor , T . S . Uui ' icombc , and other friends to the Ten Hours' Bill .
Imketikg At Holliflutij. On Friday Eveni...
iMKETIKG AT _HOLlIFlUTIj . On Friday evening , a public meeting ofthe inhabitants of this town was held in the town hall , for the purpose ol petitioning the Legislature to diminish the hours ol factory labour , the attendance was numerous . Near the chair , whieh was occupied by tho llev . Mr . l ' earne , wo observed the Rev . Mr . Woodland , Joseph Churlsworth , Esq . J . 1 ' . ; Mr . James _Charlsworth , banker ; Mr . David Churlsworth ; Mr . Johnllill , Methodist preacher- Air . J . Matkin , surgeon ; Mr . J . Farrar , manufacturer and dyer Mr . W . Uincliclitl * _mamilactnier ; Mr . J . Hinchclifr ' ma - nufacturer ; Mr . u ,. _Iiamstlcii _, manufacturer Mv . John HiudicliiT , of _acholes , manufacturer Mr . Joseph _Crots
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' and , manufacturer , and Mr . John Crawshaw , manuf acturer . The Rev . Mr . Woodland , in nn eloquent address , moved , "That a reduction iii the hours of : factory labour is a growing necessity , from the great increase and high perfection of machinery , ' whose use is to lessen , and not to augment human labour : —that long hours , though at first not felt to be so ; rreat a social evil , are now found to be very injurious both to the personal and pecuniary interests of the parties employed . " Mr . Wm . IIinciiley , one of the largest worsted manufacturers in this nei ghbourhood , rose to second the motion , and was most enthusiastically applauded . He ( Mr . Hinchley ) had from the first supported this measure as one called for on tho principles of humanity and justice , and which , if carried into effect , would be likely
to prove beneficial both to the employer and the employed _, and he had not heard any arguments advanced against the cause _sttllieient lo change his opinion . One ofthe principal ol . je . tions to the measure was , that it ' carried , a reduction of wages must ensue . That argument was merely put forward as a bugbear to frighten the advocates of the measure . ( Hear , hear . ) lie had been tauntingly asked , " Would you give the operatives the same wages for five days that you give them for six . " Now , if be really thought that thc passing of the measure would have Jtlie effect of reducing wages , he should be sitsite in giviior the measure his continuous support , fovhe did not think the . wages were quite sttllieient at present , but he firmly believed that a reduction of the time of labour would have thc contrary effect . ( Hear , hear . )
We were sometimes told that the price of labour was regulated hy the demand for it . Now , the demand was not altogether independent of the supply , and we might have , an excess of time as welt aa of hands . J " v woiking "long hours , " the supply of labour was made to exci . ed the demand , goods were produced in a quantity di _; _-proporiioned to thc demand for them , the markets become glutted , and both _masttrs and operatives were * made fo stiller , ( Cheers . ) It had been said that the manufacturers would increase their machinery if the time of labour _wej-c- reduced . He it so . Would thoy not require more hands to work the additional machinery ? iie trusted , however , that henceforth machinery would not be used merely as a means to enable a few individuals to amass wealth , hut as a benefit to the communitv at
large . Ho had heard some ask , " Aro the operatives prepared for such a change ? Will they employ their spare time in a ' proper manner ? Will they not spend it in the beer-shop V Hehad no great opinion of beer shops ; he considered them tbe pest of the country , and regretted to think that many young men spent their time in sue . 1 i places to their own shame and disgrace , and lo thc grief of their parents hearts . ( Hear , hear . ) But he had not so had an opinion of his fellow men as to think that they would spend their precious time in the beer house . Besides , the larger portion of factory workers were children and females . The latter , instead of going to the beer house , would learn to clean the house , make the shirt , knit the stockings , make ihe broad , brew the beer , and make themselves acquainted with all those things which tend to the comfort and well-being of a family . ( Cheers . ) But
hi thought it was taking too low a view of this question to make it a matter of pounds , _shillings , and pence . Besides meat and drink , a man was bound to give his family moral and religious instruction—to capacitate them not only for their well being in society , but for eternal happiness hereafter . ( Cheers . ) When he sa w little children sitting at the door steps before five o'clock in thc morn _, ing , he could not help _, « aying within himself , ' This is what I would not let my children do ; " and was he not taug ht to love his neighbour as hims ' lf?—( Cheers . ) — and to do unto others as ho would they should do unto him ? What mailed their halls and their _mr-chfinics' institutions , if , on account of protracted and excessive toil , the operatives could not attend them . They were now debarred from such institutions by long hours of labour . They were so protrasted hy labour they could not avail themselves of the advantages those institutions were designed to confer . ( Cheers . )
The resolution was then put from the chair and carried ununimously , Jlr . Sam' _-el _Clendemkino of _Iluddei'sfitld , manufacturer and local methodist preacher , moved " That the recent and present Factories Regulation Acts , were forced upon the country in opposition to those proposed by Michael Thomas Sudhr , and Lord Ashley ; and while the objects of these Acts , according to their promoters , was to give " " reater advantages to the employers by relays of children , still even those measures have proved of considerable blessing by the ' greater equalisation of labour
throughout the factories , the prevention of night woiking , and the opportunities , though sninll , given to children for iiistruuti . in and _recreation , Mr . R . ItAMSDEN , manufacturer seconded the motion . Mr . Oastlek rose to support-the resolution , and was loudly cheered on his appearance in front of tlie platform . Mr . Oastler spoke at great length , in his usual eloquent and feeling manner , and was much applauded . The resolution was then agreed to . On the motion of George Lock , a weaver , seconded by Gfokge IvKS . it was resolved that a petition should be presented to Parliament in favour of the Ten Hours '
Hill . Thanks having been voted to the chairman , the meet ing dispersed .
Great Meeting At Leeds. On Monday Evenin...
GREAT MEETING AT LEEDS . On Monday evening a large and influential _meeting of thc inhabitants of Leeds , convened by the Mayor , C . I . Medea , Esq ., on the pre * entation of a requisition numerously and respectably signed , was held in the saloon ofthe Music Hall , for the purpose of petitioning . Parliament in favour of _liinitiii _* , ' the hours of labour for women and children in factories to ten hours ner day . The meeting was fixed to take place at half-past seven , and at that time the room was crowded in every part , upwards of 1 , 000 persons being present . The Rev . Dr . Hook , Vicar , took the chair , anil anions * those present on thc platform were W . B . Ferrand , Esq . M . P _., Richard Oastler , Esq ., and a groat number of the clergy and influential persons encaged in trndo . Mr . Fielden , M . P ., was expected to be present , but was prevented by indisposition .
The requisition convening tlia meeting having been road , The Rev . Chairman * opened tho proceedings . Mr . J . Parkin moved the first resolution : — That a reduction in the hours of factory labour is a growing necessity , from thegre . it increase and high perfection of machinery , _whose use is to _less < n and not to augment human labour;—that long hours , though at first not felt tobe so great a social evil , are now found to b « very injurious both to the personal and pecuniary interests of the parties employed . Mr . James Staxsfield , another operative , se conded the resolution .
JDr . Lees supported the _resolution in an excellent speech . The _rc-olution was carried unanimously . Tho Rev , Mr . D . n / ro ** moved the second resolution in a neat speech , for which we regret we have not room . Mr . Stubs secouded the resolution , which was as follows : — That the advocacy of the shortening of the hours of labour has been of incalculable benefit to society at large _. _l-. aving diffused pounder notions of political economy amongst all classes—produced a better understanding between masters and men—corrected many of the errors of theorists—and taught the operatives that it is useless to war Jigninst machinery , but rather to struggle for the regulation of the hours of labour , as a means of comfort and happiness to themselves and families .
Richard Oastlek , Esq ., in supporting the resolution , after some preliminary remarks , in which he denounced the factory system as degrading alike both to the masters and men , proceeded to show , that a reduction of tho hours of labour would not necessarily bring down wages . Some time ago , in Leeds , it was thc custom for hard-raisers to work ten hours a day , and in Huddersfield they worked twelve hours . Now , according to Ihe principles of political economy , wages ought to have been one-twelfth more in _Uuddersh ' eld tliauin Leeds . But what was the fact ? Why , thnt for many yoirs operatives who had wives and tamilics residing in Iltiddersficld , came to Leeds , preferring to work there in order that they might carry homo two shillings a-weck more than they
could have _obtained at the former place ; and he , Mr . Oastler contended , that thc only way to obtain a just reward for labour was to bring the hours to that exact level which would bring into occupation every labourer in tiie community . Thespcaker then alluded to the declaration of Mr . Bright , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , and Mr . Phillips , that the working cl _tsscs were n _<* * t in favour of a Ten llours ' Bill , because they did not strik e . Why , It had been theohectof those who advocated the Ten Hours ' Bill , from thc first movement oftlie _question to thc present time , to prevent the masters and the men from coming into collision , and the latter had found that it would not be to their interest to enter into any such combination , and therefore there was no
proof whatever that they were not favourable to the measure because they did not strike . ( Hear , hear . ) lie had attended meetings in various parts of the country , some of them attended by 50 , 000 persons , and when the proposition was put in favour of a reduction to Un hours , he had never seen more than live hands held up against it . He strongly urged the working classes not to listen to any advn o , come from whatever quarter it ' might , to enter into a strike for thc purpose of attaining tills object ; because such a step could only produce a reduction of wages , and the misery of themselves and their families _, llow would the working people stand under such circumstances ? The relieving officers would
give them no relief ; nnd if they had no employment and no means by which to live , he asked , how it would be possible that the hundreds " and _tho-usai d * of persons thus congregated together could be kept in it state ot order ? Whether , therefore , the Chancellor ot the Exchequer , Dr . Bright , or any other millowner thought proper to say that because the workins : classes did not strike that they were indifferent to the question he ( Mr . Oastler ) begged that the meeting _wculd take it as no proof whatever that the working c awes were not determined to have a Ten Hours l . il b y peaceable means . ( Cheers . ) He had been told by a Lancashire _mill-ownor what the obct ot _astr ko meant . lie was told that there was an
Great Meeting At Leeds. On Monday Evenin...
immense quantity of goods in _tK- _^ hands cotton manufacturers of Manchester , ; and that there was no means of selling , them but by stopping the production ' of them ; and , therefore , they were desirous that the working men should _strikej that they , tlie manufacturers , should be saved a loss on those goods . A great deal had been said about thc importance of their foreign trade , and thc injury that would follow ihe adoption of a Ten Hullrs' Bill . What did they want to export ? Corn they had none . Then did they wish to export cloth ? Had every working man in Leeds got a good suit of do'lies and a top coat for this inclement weather ? ( Cries of " No . " ) Then if it was absurd to export corn when they had none to spare , wns it not equally absurd to talk about cxportiii'j cloth when the makers of it had none to wear themselves ? ( Cheers . ) Tho real trade for their woollen cloth was at homo . Let every man be well clothed , nnd then they might talk of exporting : but
it was the greatest fully in the world to talk about sending tho produce of their labour abroad , and leave themselves naked at home . He had been desired by Mr . Fielden , M . V „ to tha » k them for the invitation given to him to attend the meeting , but which the state of his health prevented him doing , ami to ask them whether or not they were in favour of an Eleven I lours' Bill ? ( Shouts of " No , no ; ten hours is « _'n <* _u-: h- " ) They might depend upon it that no set _nfmillowner _* _- . could long bolster up a Government . v _. -nim't the righteous demands of the people ; for they being backed by the clergy . Hie middle classes , and Ihe most valuable portion of the community , their claims in the end must become _irresist-ibb ; but if , after all , tho millowners should induce the Government to rcl ' _usi ; the prayers of thc people , which they themselves acknowledge to be _riu'l _' . t in principle , God would maintain the cause of the afflicted and the rights of the poor . ( Loud dicers )
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously . The Rev . G . Hills moved the fourth resolution , as follows i—That from our amazing powers of production a still further reduction in the hours of labour is found to be essentially necessary ; and thi . _s meeting calls for the adoption of an eflijient Ten Hours' Bill , it having been sufficiently proved that such would be a _general advantage botli to the employer and the employed ; for the growing intelligence of the age requires that more time bo set apart for the moral and religious instruction oftlie working population ; more time than can be afforded by an eleven hours' regulation , with which the factory operatives never will be satisfied _. It was seconded by Mr . Haywood , a town-councillor .
Mr . Fkrrand , who was received witb the most enthusiastic cheering , which hasted some minutes , said that when he received the unanimous invitation of the Short Time Committee to appear among them that evening and take part in their proceedings , he felt he had lost nothing in the estimation of the working _meti of Leeds—( cheers)—and that whatever prejudice he had to combat elsewhere , they who had lived near to him during the whole of his life were fully able to appreciate his motives and to believe in the honesty of iiis intentions , lie would ask the opponents of the measure how long were the working men to struggle for their just rights ? how long were they to implore the rulers of this eountry ? how long to petition parliament ? how long to hold up their homy hands in supplication to Heaven , as w . 11 as to th ; ir rulers on earth , imploring that justice may be done to them ? ( Cheers . ) The present factory
system had been in full operation for the last forty years . They had seen men grow vastly rich , they had seen the workmen grow vastly poor ; they had seen their employers become inordinately rich , whilst they themselves were weighed down by distress heartrending to behold . ( Cheers . ) The f actory system was nursed into its present mighty power by kidnapping the orphan children throughout the whole of England ; and so eager were tlie master manufacturers in the competition to obtain them that they literally consented to take one idiot in tho score . ( Groans . ) The poor children were bought bv the manufacturers and sold by the overseers Jof the poor in the various parishes throughout England . This was not his assertion ; he would give them the _authoritv of members of Parliament at the time . On thc 3 rd of April , 1810 , Mr . It . Gordon made tlio following statement in the Ilouse of Commons : —
It appears that overseers in parishes in London are in tlie habit of contracting with thc manufacturers of thc north for the disposal of their children ; and these manufacturers agree to take one idiot for every niuoteen sane children . In this manner waggon loads of these little creatures are sent down to be at the perfect disposal of their new _mnsiers . ( Loud cheers . ) If anything more than another had disgusted him during the time he had been in Parliament , it was to find Sir R . Peel , who owed to the working men of England the whole of the vast wealth he enjoyed , the bitterest opponent of thc working men- ( loud cheers)—to find him marshalling the forces , and bringing up his tail oi' Janessaries to fight against their Ten Hours' Bill . _Suppnsing the late
Sir K . Peel cleared 10 s . a week—and that was only a moderate computation—by the labour of each of his 1 , 000 orphans , from the age of six or seven years till the term of their apprenticeship of 21 , he must during that time have pocketed no less than ± ' 20 , 000 a year out of the blood and sinews of those kidnapped orphans . ( Loud cheers . ) Aud he would tell the present Sir 11 . Peel , that when the working men considered how vast . the wealth and how great the power which had thus been accumulated , they did not think that out of gratitude at least he might vote for the Ten Hours' Bill . ( Loud cheer-. ) When he looked at his own neighbourhood , nnd thought how happy it used to be , and how miserable it now was . — -when he heard the poor people narrate how
tlieir clock and other furniture had been sold to pay rent , and not a bed left whereon to lie , his Wood boiled in his veins —( loud cheers)—and when he spoke thus he wns called a " violent" man . ( Chceis ) Ferrand , they said was an honest f ' _eliow , but tco violent . ( Cheers . ) lie would n-k them one thing : Lord Ashley had been a calm , quiet , calculating , bcnevlcnt , and honest man ; but his calmness , practised for fourteen years , brought him no nearer to the enactment of the " Ten Hours' [ Bill His calmness had driven him Irom the Ilouse of " Commons , and when he heard Sir J . Graham , immediately previous to the Easter week in 1 S 12 , when they carried the second reading of the Ten Hours' Bill , implore Lord Ashley to postpone the measure until after Easter ,
that it might be '' calmly , " deliberated upon when Parliament again met—that a question of such vital importance should not be hastily carried—and when he saw Lord Ashley on the floor ofthe house , calmly acquiesce in that suggestion , he said , "hiscalmness " has sold the _working men of England . ( Loud cheers , iXud " That ' s true . " ) Had Lord Ashley stood up in the House of Commons , aiulsaid , " Wait till after Easter No , not one hour . 1 am the representative of millions ; they have waited for twenty years , and they shall wait no longer , "—( ku ' d cheers )—had such been the language of " Lord Ashley , he might have been called violent , but It would have led to victory . ( Loud cheeVs . ) What had been the result ? During the Easter , recess were Her Majesty ' s Ministers
calm ? Were they deliberating upon the greatness of the question ? No , the Tadpoles and Tapers were sending circulars throughout the country , and in " violent" language threatening members ol Parliament with the resignation of Ministers if they did not come up and vote against the third reading of the bill . ( Loud cheers . ) They compelled thc ilouse of Commons to stultify itself , to eat its own words , or , to » se the language of Mr . Hume , to vote _thtvt black was white . ( Cheers . ) lie ( Mr . Ferrand ) might be " violent . " He would tell them another thing ; he would be violent until redress was granted to the working men . ( Prolonged cheers . ) When ho went to Parliament , lie told his constituents that everv interest , except that of labour , was overrepresented
in the House of Commons , but if he did not get a seat within those walls , his feeble voice and humbler talents should fight thc battle ol' the poor ( cheers ); so Jong as he had a seat there , lie wuuld continue to redeem that pledge . ( Cheers . ) The blessing of one poor man upon his head was far better for him than the blessings of a thousand of the rich . So long as he had the good wishes of thc poor and the working man , he cared not for those who cursed him through their talk ; there and elsewhere he was prepared to meet them ; he dared them to the contest . ( Cheers . ) His worthy friend , Mr . Oastler , had alluded to Michael Thomas Sadler , whose eloquence , as well as that of his friend now present , had induced him to become a public man . The first time he ( Mr . Ferrand ) had ever uttered his voice at a public meeting was at the great assembly at Low Moor , in favour ofthe Ten Hours' Bill , and so " violent" had he even there been , that at his own expense he hired
a band of music , which paraded the town of Bingley at 5 o ' clock in tlie morning , and set the church bells a ringing , so that , when the factory bell drowsily tinkled the hour of 0 , the factory workers— -men , women , and children , marched off to the sound of music to the Low Moor meeting—all went off together to fight under the banner of the Ten Hours' Bill . ( Cheers . ) Returning home many were weary , because of the distance , but he hired waggons , and bought up all the bread aud cheese that , could be procured , and at length they arrived comfortably at their homes . ( Cheers . ) This took place in 1832 , but little did he then think he would have ll years to wait betore their victory was achieved . The " lion _, gentleman concluded by saying he there pronounced chat whoever should henceforth in secret attempt to deprive the working men ol the Ten Hours'Bill wns a robber and a plunderer of thc poor . ( He retired amidst loud cheers . ) The resolution was earned
ncm , con _. It was then determined that petitions to both Houses of Parliament , based upon the _foregoing resolutions , should be handed round for signature . Thanks were then voted to the Yicar , who thereupon vacated the chair . Previous to the meeting breaking up , Mr . Oastler read a letter from Mr . Fielden , M . P ., which combined threo questions for the working classes of Lends—* ' 1 st . Have tho hands employed in factories in Leeds any power to determine the number of hours
Great Meeting At Leeds. On Monday Evenin...
they will work per day , without _running thP „• r _~" losing employment , or else having rccoin * of strike , which might prove a failure , and _w ! ° breach of the peace ? " Jt _--Ul to t Mr . OASTu : R-IIaveyou that power ? -Shout * of "and—Would either a voluntary w eornnil ! . limitation ofthe hours of labour to eleven il ?*' content the people of Leeds , or , are thev _Kit * , never to rest satisfied until a Ten Hours " ' Bin h been passed by Parliament ? " * " ¦• - _> Mr . Oastler-Will you ? - ( Shonts of " N „ ¦¦ - , 3 « L Do those who work in factories wi , i , n A working man here asked Mr _ilnaHn * „ , i . / . the advocates ofa Ten Horn ? Bill iS _^ _^ moving power slopping at the expiration of _Xti _bours . to which Mr . Oastler n _* _LW _^ J
Thanks having been voted to tlie Parliamentnrv and other advocates ofthe Ten Hours' 5 ™* - ** ' * Mr . _I-bbrasd _, after thai-kin * thorn in his own name , and on the part pi the meiJber ! of Par ™ " or thc honour of their public approval , _sai _l-Tbe _hTortST- _i ,, 1 \ t ,, ilt " - "J "* " y _«« _avSwa-e of the ordeal winch 1 have gone through durin" the last week it u evident to me that I have not sunfe in y our estimation whilst Sir J . Graham S been trying to destroy me as a public man . ( Cl . eor < \ Ion will remember that it was two years a < . o whilst addressing a meeting" in this verv room , r _char-ed him , and I charge him ag ain _( cheers ) -with takin " steps to procure a report that was false , for the pur " pose of crushing me in Parliament . He denied ifc solemn y in the House of Commons , and he denied solemnly that the man who drew up the report in
question , which is false from beginning to end , had rcceivrtl any instructions whatever , to visit Keijdiley . Well , the party he has identified himself with has filed In the Court , of Queen ' s Bench the very instructions he received , and which Sir J . Graham , on his word and honour , denied in the House of Commons . ( Cries nf" Shame ! " ) Mr : Afott , the Assistant Poor Law Commissioner , went down to Keighley by directions from a Poor Law Commissioner ; he draws up a report charging me with the most base , the most corrupt , the most dishonourable conductwith jobbing as a magistrate— -with legal disputes that tho attorneys might pocket thc fees—and with spending the poor rates that I might cheapl y earn the nnme of thc poor man ' s friend , That was the char & e
falsely _brought a ? ninst mo hy Sir J . Graham . They could not deny having made tho charge , yet would you have believed it ? On Tuesday last , L ' _u-d Denman , in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , called this " negligence perhaps . " Now Lord Deuman is Lord Chief Justice of En » bind ; I am a justice of the peace forthe West Riding of Yorkshire . As a justice oftlie peace , I am charged with this corrupt and dishonourable conduct , and the Chief Justice of England calls it " negligence , perhaps . " Let me put a case . Suppose the question of a mother ' s _riffht to the custody of her own child until it isseven years of age brought before the Queen ' s Bench ; Lord Denman would be bound to pronounce in favour of that right , and his decision would break
up every union poor house in Great Britain . ( Cheers . ) Suppose , further , that Mr . Lewis aud Sir J . Graham should take steps secretly to procure a report that wns false , as they did against me , charging Lord Denman , in his office of Chief Justice , with jobbing ! n the Court of Queen ' s Bench , and creating legal disputes in order that thc lawyers might pocket the fees . Suppose Sir J . Graham should use that report , nnd make this false and nefarious charge in tllQ House of Commons ; would Lord Denman be content with merely calling such conduct " neL'ligince , perhaps ? " ( Loud cheers . ) No , he would denounce them as , " the gravest charges conveyed in the very grossest language . " ( Loud cheers . ) He would do more—he would throw
oiT hia wig and doff his gown , and declare he would never put them on again until his foul calumniators had been visited with the condign punishment they would deserve . ( Cheers . ) Let me tell Lord Denman . then " , that it is necessary for justice to flow unsullied through the narrow stream in the valley where I reaide , as in thc broad river which Hows through the Court of Queen ' s Bench . ( _L-md and long continued cheering . ) My character , as an Englishman , a gentleman , nnd a magistrate , is as dear to me its Lord Dcnnian ' s is to him , and il he ia to sanction such charges against mo ns those I have referred to , why , the sooner I retire from the commission of the peace the better . ( Cheers . ) Ifearh'ssly pronounce Lord Denman ' s ipse dixit decision*—/ _. . ... * foto iall
r _- it a judgment would be a libel o : i the court—I fearlessly pronounce his dictum to be nothing more nor less than "a nmckery , a delusion , and a snare . " ( Loud cheers . ) And as the aggrieved party I teil him , after defending Lewis , Graham , and the rest of them as he did , it would have been only a friendly act in him to have told them , as was done on another memorable occasion which his Lordship will long remember , to go and sin no more . Loud cheers ) My best wishes were accomplished when the rule was made absolute , Sir J . Graham and Mr . Lewis , walking arm and arm , have entered tbe citadel , and I have locked the gates behind them ; nor shall they ever come out hut before a jury and through the ordeal of thc witness-box . ( Cheers ) I tell Sir J . Graham , he shall stand in thc witnessbox —( cheers ) - —there to be riddled by a cross-examination whieh shall expose him to the backbone .
( Cheers . ) And here , before this public meeting , I challenge , I dare Mr . Lewis to go into the witnessbox ; if he shrinks I will brand him as a coward , and the country will brand him as a guilty man . ( Cheers . ) He has pursued the cowardly _cour-e of filing a criminal information against me ; and the only chance he has of _acquitting himself is to appear in the witness-box , ( Cheers , ) I _challenge , 1 ilaro hi ii to the combat . I call on him and Sir _" J . Graham to lose not one hour in going before a jury , where I , who havo been charged with base and dishonourable conduct , will prove tbat my accusers have been guilty of it , not I . ( Cheers . ) I have hitherto kept ah honest character as a public man . In the face of my country I pledge my word and honour tha *; it will come clear and spotless from the ordeal of a jury , and I pledge my word and honour that that is more than my opponents will do . ( Loud cheers . ) The meeting then separated .
Mysterious -Affair.—Curiosity And Wonder...
Mysterious -Affair . —Curiosity and wonder of more than ordinary interest were excited among the inhabitants of Dartmouth , inthe early part of the week , by the disinterment ofa corpse which had been buried in the Roman Catholic Cemetery there , and by the em \ iauuelling of a coroner ' s jury for an inquest on the same . It was noised abroad that the deceased was the lawful consort of Mr . George Forbes Thompson , of Lake Loon , formerly an officer in the corps ot lloyal Engineers , but at present retired on half-pay , with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel , and that she had been kept in confinement , and on starving allowance of food , for a long period before death released her from bondage and oppression ofa nature unimaginably dreadful . Other reports say she was an aunt of the Colonel ' s , yet this is opposed
by authority equally credible , with the assertion that she was his wife ' s aunt . Again , her birthplace is alternately alleged to have been Spain , Italy , and Corfu . The deceased was interred without any solemnity in the burial ground of a community whoso particular and jealous regard for their place or sepulture has ever been proverbial . Her existence was previously hidden from the nubliceye ; and hints and tales discreditable to Colonel Thompson were put into circulation , so that however disagreeable to himself , a clearing up of the mystery through a judicial investigation became needful . " The jury returned a verdict , " That the deceased was the wife of Colonel Thompson ; that she was not insane ; and that shehad not received proper care or treatment . " —Halifax ( Nova Scotia ) Recorder .
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[From The Gazette Of Tuesday, December'2...
[ From the Gazette of Tuesday , December' 2 . ] Joseph Jiiniie Allen , Brixton and _llatton-garden , brick _mereliiiiit—Gcoi-ru YVilUling , Hartford , miller—llobert Stone , l _' etham , Kent , grocer—George Luck aud William Croft , _Yot'k-road , Lambeth , drapers—Charles Moses lirowue , _Neweliurt'Ii , Isle of Wight , " schoolmaster—William Watson , llirkenhend , licensed victualler — John Payne , Weymouth and Meleomhe _llefis , draper .
To Ladies. "Avec Dc Mauvais Dents Jamais...
TO LADIES . "Avec dc mauvais dents jamais femmc n ' ctoit belle , Woe de jolis dents _jatiijis I ' emme u etoit laiile . " J . J . KouSSEAU . Value and _Im-porta-aee of Artificial Teeth .
Mil . IIOW . UID ' S PATENT . The teeth influence the form and expression of thc countenance _, much more than is generally imagined , and the finest lace is disfigured if any of the teeth are lost , and a _disagreeable impression is produced . Where the teeth are good , there is when speaking , or smiling especially , a fascination present , whieh prevents further examination of the countenance . Thc new I _' ateiit Composition Teeth , introduced by Mr . IIOYWUI 1 ) _, _Surgeon-Dentist , O ' -f _, _lierners-streer . _Oxfwnlstvect , London , are fixed without extracting any roots or teeth , or g iving any pain whatever . Tiiey will also be found more economical than others . Necessity or I ' ree Will has in former times agitated the public mind more than in tho present day . boerhave savs , "It has been either by chance or necessity that ¦ ill the "feat discoveries in medicine has been made ; but still he has left theiiuestion of Necessity versus tree Will undecided . And although _lllaii- 's Gout ami UheUmatic fills are manifestly one of the gieatest discoveries with which thc world has been blessed , it certainly lias not brought us nearer to tlio decisiou ot the importune question
. _, , Sick- Headaches with Weakness and Disordered Stomachs cured by Holloway's _l'ilU ; .-It was these Oi - derlul fills that cured the Earl ot Aldborough ot _* _>»?" _ _coini-hunt after the most eminent doctors m Lngbu * il . _inoon the Continent failed to give his Lordship the . east < --lief . This famous medicine will cure any person , However bad his case may be , who is suffering in anj « _"y from general debility or from the head * " _* d stom _* _£ -J . _<• " « bile or liver . It is confidently believed , that as tis _medi . clue ( unlike all _othevs ) _ueU directly UUOll lU ) HI J mainsprings of life , that no disease whatever eau rcaisf _tS influence _.
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 5, 1846, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_05121846/page/2/
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