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7 SASSIOS HOUSE . Uosdat . — " _wz-tar _"Dar ; i-K . " --A man named Richard ammons , Trho has been long known as as incorrigible "brawler and _di-unkard , was charged by a policeman with having _distinsaished _biiriseif in his favourite way on the preceding night . When the prisoner was disappointed in numerous attempts to lack and strike the policeman , who merely endeavoured to prevail upon him to go away , he -began ' to tear off his own clothes , and to rub the parts of -bis person which he thus madehare with mud , so that he presented a most deplorable figure . —The lord Mayor : What have you to say to this J—The Prisoner : Oh , why I was werry drunk , and I ' m blessed if I know what I did . 1 was too _' druiik to do much . Precious drunk I was , to be sure , your lordship . —How did you . procure -the drink ?—That _' l dontknow . Somebody gave it me , depend upon it . It was rum I took . r „ was drunk , and no mistake ; hut I hope you'll loot over if-, my lord . —The lord Mayor : I fine yon 10 s . —The Prisoner : I ain't got no 16 s ; and I ' m hlest if my toggery will fetch that money ( looking at the stock of rags which hung about him ) . —The Lord Mayor Thea you must go to the House of Correction for a month —Committed .
LAMBETH . Mokdat . —The Late _Mtstemoob Case oj Poisoh-» -g at Cambebwell . —George May , shoDman to the late Mr . Montague , who , it will be recollected , had , with Mrs . _Mo-ctagu _^ been poisoned at CamberweU on the llth of last month , -was placed in the felons' . _doek before Mr . _S . _'SP _*'"" -Jr . me _/^ o _*^ gchar S i as entered in the policesneet— _ifor feloniousl y appropriating to his own Use various aims of money received by him for and on account o _. his late master ; also with forging the name of the deceased to various receipts in the parish of St Giles , _Cjuaoersvell" Mr . Dodd briefly alluded to the melancholy . c * _reiimstances which led to the apprehension of the prisoner , and said that since the mysterious death of Mr . and Mrs . Montague , their books and accounts had been examined , and it was found thatthe prisoner , who had been then-shopman and confidential servant , tad received various sums of money on account of his master , of which he had made no entry in the books hept for that nurpose ; and eonpling this fact with the information which had Deen obtained from the customers themselves , the nephew of Mr . _Montegue , who is nest of km , deemed it advisable
to grre hire into custody on the charge of embezzlement _andfoi-geiy . Evidence was then adduced as to certain aeclarationsof the prisoner to police-inspector Campbell , ynth respect to the accounts , and of the receipt of monies , of which no entry had been made . Mr . Ilumphries observed that on the inquest holden after the melancholy affair , on the bodies of Mr . and Mrs . Montague , theprisoner _Md "been _e-auniced for hours , and though not upon oath " ms deposition-had been taken down touching these very accounts , with . the-greatest minuteness . He complained that it was an indirect attempt to connect the prisoner with a charge of . murder . Mr . Henry said he had nothing to do with such _foegularities , and thathe should connienance no more inferential imputations . He was of opinion , however ,, that there were grounds for remand , and he asked what . w £ sthe total amount of the alleged embezzlemect ? Mr . Dodd replied from £ 50 to £ 100 , and added that he would be . able to show on a future occasion that the prisoner had represented himself on " many occa " - _sions" as the nephew of the deceased . The prisoner was remanded tos future-day , and Jlr . Henry consented to take good bail for his appearance . i
WOfiSHlP-STREET . Cap-tore of asotbeb . - _"Ladt Thief . "—On Saturday Elizabeth Parmer , an . elegantly-attired elderly widow , re . jading in Brnnsvdck-place , City-road , was placed at the bar before Mr . Bronghton , onthe charge of having stolen a piece of salted beef at the . shop of a butcher named Plowerdean , in _Ktfidd- _^ treet ,, Hoxton . —Charles Welford , a shopman to the prosecutor , stated thatthe prisoner _entered the shop between ten and eleven o ' clock that morning , _andhewasprivatdyordereibyhismistresstokeepa watchful eye upon her , as she was suspected to have purloined some meat when she last eaUed , a few days previously . Having advanced to the counter , the prisoner requested to he served with some : sausages , and while living the order she stooped forward over a pan containing several " pieces of salted iteat , one of . which she adroitly abstracted , and secreted it underneatu her shawl . He made no observation at the time , but handed her the
articles she had purchased , whhjh th _ e prisoner paid for , and immediately left the shop : * "Witness followed her out into the street , and on accusing her cf the robbery , the prisoner vehemently denied the chanje , when he suddenly lifted up her shawl and exposed thestolen property . The prisoner then earnestly entreated _forgiveness , but he tamed a deaf ear to her supplications , a _* id on the arrival of a policeman he gave fi _' er into custody . —On being asked if she wished to say anything , the prisoner , who was dreadMly agitated , made an energetic appeal to the magistrate to induce liim to take a lenient view ofthe case , and spare her the psin and ignominy of a committal to prison . She assured him that she had acted on tbe occasion under a sadden and -uncontrollable impulse , which she feltit impossible either to account for or excuse . She was connected with a famil y of the highest _resDectability ; and having herself been a householder in ihe parish for more than twenty yearsshe implored -lie
, magistrate to ileal mercifaHj- towards ner , and she -was willing to make any pMuniary atonement for her folly and indiscretion . —The prisoner was remanded . —On Monday the prisoner -eras again placed at the bar . The only witness now present in support of fhe charge was the policeman , Baines , -52 "S , who had taken the prisoner into custody , _andwho _, on being questioned b y the magistrate , stated thathe had seen the prosecutor at Ms house that morning , and that * he latter _faithrully promised him that all the witnesses should bein attendance . He accordingly came down to lie cqnri- , but , after waiting tiU ten o ' clock without their arrival , he again called at thc prosecutor ' s , ana saw the shopman ( Charles WelfordJ , the principal witnessin the case , who told him that he would followhim to the court as soon as he could dispatch the business he was then engagedin . On his proposing to wait till he was
ready , the shopman immediately put on his hat and accompanied him part ofthe way to the court , hut suddenlv left him atthe corner of a street , stating that he would be back in a few minutes . After waiting a considerable time to no purpose , he hastened On tolhe court , in the expeeta--fion of finding him there , but had seen nothing of him since . He had been informed by some of the prisoner ' s friends that they had been in _coninii-rfc-iiionthatinorning with the prosecutor , who said he had no wish to proceed furfher with the case . —Mr . Broughton said he could not suffer the interests of justice to-be compromised by the withdrawal of the evidence in a case of this _description , and he should , therefore , again remand the prisoner , and order summonses to he issued to compel thc attendance of the necessary witnesses at the next _eiamination . _^ -TIie prisoner , who made no observation , was then removed _.
Serious Case of _Esibezzlemest . —On Monday John ConneU , a middle-aged respectable looking man , was placed at the bar before Mr . Broughton , the sitting magistrate , upon a serious charge of embezzlement preferred against him by his employers , Messrs . Ballance and Sons , _siik-mimufiacturers , in Spitalfields . —Mr . Ballance said he had at least fort y cases of embezzlement to bring against theprisoner ; and that , on taking stock , he had found a deficiency of £ 1 , 300 worth of silk . —The prisoner was re . maaueu foi * a week .
Awfcl A * sn U * snnELT Death op a Ruffia-slt Pbxebloo Butcher . —A short time since , the _notorious Brown , of Lea Castle , near Kidderminster , was on his way . from Einningham to attend a ball got -up in honour of Mr . Godson , the representative of the Tory party of Kidderminster . Being late , he was driving furiously along , and came in collision -with a dog-cart that happened to be in the road . The gig was overthrown , and Brown received such severe injuries that he expired immediately . Thus ended the career of a monster , who openly and exultingly boasted that he . had severed a woman ' s breast off with Ms sabre at ihe ever-memorable Peterloo Massacre !
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THE _NOKTHEEN STAR SATUBBAT _, MARCH 15 , 1845 .
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RESULT OF " SHORT HOURS" OF LABOUR IN PRACTICE . Ii -will be remembered that during the last Session of Parliament , " ihe House , " giving way to a suddenly new-born impulse of humanity , solemnly resolved that" young persons" and females should not le called on , or permitted , by the mill-owners , to workmore than ten hours a day : and it will sever ss _eobgotxes , "that "the House— " the "first assembly of gentlemen in the world— " the " Collective Wisdom of the nation ; " it wiU never be forgotten , we say , that the "high , " the "free , " the "independent ; ' the " hoxo-oiuble" members of this same " House "
withdrew their " hesolve —eat their words— -rescinded their votes—at the bidding of one man , their "leader , " who threatened to resign his post if " the House" should commit such a solecism as legislate in accordance with thc demands and dictates of common humanity ' . He admitted to the full , that humanity was against him ; that it was cruel to consign the young and the " weaker sex"" to - twelve hours work a day ; nay , he felt as 6 trong a
STHPATHT for them in their bondage as any , the greatest _) humanity-monger in thc House : but still S _* _rxrjB- » 3 SCES siiT—still the maintenance of our national institutions—still the existence even of our foreigntrade—etill thc productiveness" of capital employed in mills and manufactures—still the Civil List of the Q _, vees , and Prince Albert ' s £ 33 , 000 a year—still the Pension List , the Half-pay List , the Dead-weight List , the Sinecure List , and the Allow ance List—still _"National Faith : " still all these
things required that the Legislature should close its ears to thc demands of our common nature—that it should commit an act of gross and unmitigated cruelty , and doom the child and the mother to toil more ushealtht , more debasing , and longer in duration , than that forced from the _property-daves in the Indies , or from the felons in our gaols at home ! and "tie noblest assembly of mxEUEs in the world" did lie dictatorial bidding of the Minister , and meanly
and servilely _surrendwed their -resolution and _judgtnent to the threats of the son of a Cotton-spinner , _vdiose father , after liaving -realized a "family fortune" & cm the extended and death-dealing labours Of ms factory « hands , " spent thousands in an _endeavour to procure an Act embodying the very limitation _^ _SttSt ? _^ "Wgh and _^ _oxmsBLE" had _KfcMlLVED was necessary \ o protect the objects of ite application from _EoeM _andlghyelcal evils of the
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This base surrender of the acknowledged claims of justice to the baser threats and false alarms of the Minister cannot . be palliated , even on the ground of ignorance . " The House" had something more than the mere ipse dixit of Sir Robert'Peel , or the coldblooded economical reasoning of Sir _L-etter-opesisq Gbaham , to guide . it . There were the opinions of some ofthe most extensive employers and mill-proprietors in the kingdom—that the disastrous efforts to the exexistence ofthe nation , predicted as the consequence ofafeWt - _oftonof the labours of infants and women to something like . a reasonable extent , were mere chimeras , conjured , up to
" Fright the isle from its propriety , " without reason or even probability for a groundwork . They declared it _as-their solid conviction , —a conviction derived from experience , —that the step was one that would not even diminish " profit , " while it would add immensely _^*) the gain of the labourers , in time , in instruction , in domestic comfort , if not even in money-amount of . wages . There was Mr . John FiELnEN , a member . of ! _'the House" itself ; a man i ntimately mixed up with the prosperity of the manu facturing system ; a man who has been made by that system , and whose existence as a tradesman depends on its well-being ; a man in most extensive
" business" in the cotton-manufacture ; a man whose profits alone have just been . . assessed to the Incometax at - £ 24 , 000 a-year ; there was this man , so circumstaneed—so bound up with the manufacturing system , —that system whose very existence demanded two hours extra toil from Ulde . chiklren and from females !; there w this man bearing honourable testi mony as a practical man , thatthe act of justice resolved on by "the House , " would add to the well being and the wealth of all concerned , both employer and employed . There was the firm of Woon and Walkers , of Bradford , the _largeatwoz-sted-spinners in the kingdom , bearing similar testimony ; and who have proved their sincerity by spending , in the endeavour to procure a similar act . of justice to the one resolved on , thousands upon thousands of
pounds . There was William _Raup , of Bradford , another great worsted manufacturer , and a great conh'ibutor to the means of agitatingihe question . There were Mr . Hargreaves , of . Accrington , and Mr . _Gabuneb , of Preston ; and there were five-sixths ofthe mill-owners of the Oldham district ,, all bearing _similar testimony , and all protesting against the assumption that it was necessary to preserve their profits and their trade , to work childyen and females two hours longer than the felon jen the treadwheel . Therefore it could not fee ignorance that induced the " Collective Wisdom" to accede to the representations of Graham , and Peel , and the _league Free -Trade Members : but it was an abject , servile , base bowing down of " independence" to power , and a -slavish surrender of judgment and conviction . to ' the claims of faction and party .
Since the period when the "high and chivalrous " " eattheleek , " short hours have been is practice Mr . Gabd _35 B , a most extensive mill-owner , in tho neighbourhood of Preston , notwithstanding the universal practice of his brethren , determined to run his works only _eleven hours a day instead of twelve , as he had formerly done , and as all _his neighbours still continue to do . This step he determined on now near twelve months ago ; and the experience of that period is calculated in some degree to show what truth there was in the representations of the Minister and the Leaguers that "short hours" would annihilate profits and _rliTninigh -wages . The result of that experience
we are fortunately enabled to give j and while it must make the " honourable" slaves who obeyed Sir Robert Peel's arbitrary commands , to bluBh crimson trebly dyed at their criminal _conduefcand _pusilanhniSy , it will prompt the factory-workers of the empire to renewed , energetic , and unceasing efforts to secure generaUy the manifold blessings and benefits shadowed forth by a partial adoption of the " short-hour" system . They will properly reason , that if such be the result of abridging labour only one hour a day , and in a case ,
too , where but one master adopts the plan , having to compete in the market with his neighbours who have the " advastaoe" of the " extra " hour ; if such be the result of this slight abridgment of excessive toil , under such circumstances as these , they will naturally imagine what the benefits and advantages would be to all—employers and employed—from a general limitation of factory labour tothat period which the eminent of the faculty have assigned as ibe _ioxgesi that can be safely endured even by the strongest adult . They will naturally judge the " sack by the sample : " and what the sample is the reader shall just now
Preston , Monday , March 10 . A meeting ef the hands employed by Mr . Robert Gardner in his extensive factory in this town was held on Friday evening last , at a public-house near the factory , in Marsh-lane , incompliance with a resolution ofthe delegate meeting of factory workers held at Bolton last week , for the purpose of ascertaining the advantages which have resulted , and are likely to result , from the regulation , adopted nearly twelve months ago hy Mr , Gardner , of ¦ working eleven hours a-day instead of twelve , and paying the same wages as under the longer hours' system . The manager of the works and all the overlookers were present during the whole of the proceedings . The chair was occupied by one of the bauds , who opened the proceeding ** by briefly enjoining order , and bespeaking attention to the various speakers .
The meeting was then addressed hy an operative Spinner , who stated the advantages which he had derived from the adoption of the elaven hour system , among which were—that he had better health , a better appetite , slept more soundly , and at the end of the week received more wages for his work than formerly . So great , he said , had been the advantages which he had derived % om eleven hoars , that he could safely venture to say _thtt no danger could he apprehended from the adoption of the ten hours' system . So decidedly favourable had he found the change , that nothing but the direst necessity could ever induce him to return to the long hour system again . The Book-keeper of the establishment nest presented
himself . He said that the chairman having alluded io the subject of wages , he ( the speaker ) considered it his duty at that stage of the proceedings . to give some statements which he thought would be of some importance in connection with the subject of long or short hours . After the eleven-hour system had been in operation for ten weeks , he had been requested to take from the books a statement of the wages paid during that period , and also the wages paid in the ten weeks preceding the adoption of the eleven hours . The result was , that after a careful calculation he found , that for each pair of looms the advance paid in money to the weavers was Id , per week more than during the ten weeks preceding the change .
"For thc same period the spinners averaged 2 d , per week more than under the old system . These were all piece hands , or those who were paid according to the quantity of work done . The day hands , or those who were paid by the day , got the same wages as before . When the system had been in operation a few weeks , he found that the sick list was much diminished , and that very few had to leave wort from ill-health . On referring to his books , he found that for a period of six weeks not a tingle spxwner was off work from sickness , —acircurkslance which liad never before been known ; and he was glad to be able to say , from the same authority , that the health of the hands continued to improve under the new regulation , Thc change to eleven
hours had been commenced in April , 1844 , and up to the end of June only one man had been off work , sick , and he was consumptive . He was then speaking in the presence of the operatives themselves , who could bear testimony to the truth of what he had said . There was some _difficult * in giving accurate particulars as to the quality ofthe work produced , owing to the changes in the numbers of the yarn , and other circumstances hut , on the whole , he was fully warranted in saying that the work was mudihetter under ihe jieiotban the old system . He made that statement wiihouthesitation , as he had had no less than ten years' experience in the capacity which
he now filled , and he hoped , therefore , he was competent to give such an opinion . There were many parties present , however , who could speak from their own actual experience he meant the weavers , to whom the work of the sp inner was taken to be made into cloth , and they could say whether or not the " cops" were not better now than under the old regulation of twelve hours , and whether also ihere was not less waste made from the work of the sp inners now than formerly . He might add , that the wages of the warpers and winders had been fully maintained . He thought it right to state , that no alteration had been made in the speed ofthe machinery during the periods to wliich he had referred .
A Power-loom "Weaver corroborated , in every particular , the statements made by the last speakers , and added , that he could say , for those employed in his department , that they would prefer going to ten hours , even though their wages should be somewhat reduced . His wife was working in the mill , and be had no hesitation in saying that a considerable saving to him haa been effected , even hy the single hour a day , which she could now give to her affairs at home . The Superintendent ofthe Card-room said , that their machinery had not been speeded , and yet the hands "swder him turned off more work , and of a better quality , now than under the twelve-hour system .
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A Piecer said he had been enabled by the eleven-hours _svstem to attend school . He understood that several schoolmasters in the neighbourhood had found a considerable increase in the number of their scholars since the adoption ofthe eleven hours . Many others -of the hands made similar statements ; after which the . following resolutions were unanimously adopted : — "That this meeting of the hands in the employ of Mr . ' ¦ Robert Gardner , grateful for the numerous blessings he has conferred upon us . by . the adoption of the plan of working eleven hours a day , return him our best thanks , and most respectfully request him to join us , his operatives , in _jwtitioning . Parliament for an efficient Ten Hours' Bill for all hands employed in factories .
" That the adoption . of the eleven hours' system be celebrated by a festivity on the 22 nd of April next , and that a committee he appointed to conduct the arrangements . " Thanks were then . voted to . the chairman , and the meeting separated . . There , now I What do the factory-workers of Lancashire and Yorkshire think of that ? And what
will Peel , and Cobdbu , and Bright , and George _Heioit _Cannine- Ward , and _Yihobrs , and Hume , think of it ?! What becomes of their predictions of lower wages—no profits—destruction of foreign trade —home embarrassments—and national bankruptcy , as the consequences of a less amount of labour than twelve hours a day ?! What . becomes of all their famous arithmetical calculations , which defied examination or refutation ?! What becomes of all
the " solemnwarnings , " and the "dreadful appre _hensions , " and the " stern realities" which could afford no more than an expression of sympathy for those who were being destroyed , . body and mind , " morally and physically , by murderous toil ?! What has become of them ?— -why facts and experience have proved them to us baseless as the predictions and promises of Peei , which induced "the House" to agree to his famous Bill , to " set the question of currency at rest for ever !" by doubling the amount of every debt ! and diminishing the means of the people to pay ! and as worthy
of dependence on as the present promises of good and happiness by Cobdbh and Co ., as certain to flow from a repeal of the Com Laws without previous adjustmekt . The whole oi the predictions , threatenings , promises , and conduct of the Minister and thc Leaguers , as to all these questions , —the limitation of the hours of labour , the actions on the currency , and the effects of an unconditional repeal ofthe Corn Laws , —are either prompted by gross stolid . ignorance of the true principles of State policy , or by a wilful disregard of truth and consequences , that . purely selfish ends may be promoted .
Let the reader look at the RESULT of " . _enoai hours" in practice above set forth ! Moke woek ; higher wages ; iesb sickness ; a better anb more valuable _probuciio * _- * ; increase op scholars to the _schools ; and greater -domestic comfort .: these are the answers to Peel and Bright _' s dismal borebodings and positive predictions of all sort of evil consequences . Here is practice . Here is pact : "will it do to set _agaiast the wind of those who cautioned , and warned , and threatened , and dragooned "the House" into the rescinding of its solemn resolves to grant a modicum of justice ?
To Mr . Gardner , who has had the courage and the manliness to take steps to prove Peel an ignorant cjiarlatan or a dishonest legislator , and to show up , in glorious manner , the _leagued " friends of the poob , " the greatest praise is due . He has earned for Mmself the gratitude of the factory popu * lation in general , and of his owii " hands" in particular ; a _jjratitude which , wc are sure , will be gladly and freely accorded . Mr , Gardner ' s reward will be the approbation of his own conscience , and the blessings and love of those to whose happiness he has directly contributed in no common degree , and indirectly to all , by showing the safe road to a greater degree of comfort and enjoyment for all engaged in factory labour .
In this matter we are happy to say that Mr . Gardner does not stand alone . He is not the only millowner tliat has tried the experiment of " short time . " He is the first that we have heard of in the " great cotton district * : " and to him , j _* as such , every praise is due . But justice requires that we should state that for years the Messrs . _SsARiifiYS , of Huddersfield , have acted on that system , though their neighbours , with on « exception , which we shall shortly specify , have been running their milk whenever they could full twelve hours . In addition to this boon of an hour a day less work , and no reduction of wages to
those hired by the day , the Messrs . _SiARKEYg have broken up ground into garden-patches , and let them at a fail * rent to their work-people . And , in addition to all this , they are at the present moment engaged in erecting a school-house for tho use of the children of then workpeople and of others in the neighbourhood of their mill we believe , which is estimated to cost fronf £ 2 , 000 to £ 3 , 000 . Now we have peculiar pride in naming these circumstances , and in bearing honourable testimony to the kind manner in which the Brothers treat then * workmen : the more so , because we have eti more than one occasion used
this same firm as an illustration of the factory system , which so rapidly raises up fortunes for some few , and keeps the toilers in a state of lingering life and death . Thc Messrs . Stahkets have been made by the factory-system . They were " nothing " bnt a very tew years back ; now they are " Justices of the Bench , " roll in Bplendid carriages , and live in princely mansions . To this we don't object . They had a right to avail themselves ofthe system that exists—and make money . Had they not done so , others in all probability would .: others who might not have been as disposed as the Starkets to confer
advantages on their workpeople with the money made by their labour . The Messrs . _Stabkevb had a right to do as they have done ; they had a right , as long as the present system lasts , of obtaining mills and macliinery , and of accumulating fortunes . Nay , they might even have been contented , when they had done so , had it so pleased tliem , to button up their ppekets , and keep aB they had to themselves , for any claim which the present system would have made on them for the toilers who had produced it . In doing so they
¦ would but have done what ninety-nine out of every hundred of their competing brother mill-owners invariably do : and they would have been looked on as very good sort of folk in their way . Therefore , when we find them disposed , as they have proved themselves to be , to enhance in some degree the comforts and condition of their work people , and this too unaskedj we should be sour in nature indeed did * we not . say that the case was deserving of special mention , and worthy of being held up as an example for others to follow .
And the " short hour" principle has been found as beneficial in practice at Huddersfield as at Preston . In the former , place , it has been in operation for years : therefore the experience is greater . As before observed , the wages of the day-hands have not been reduced ; and in only a very few instances of piece-work has there even been a semblance of reduction in amount of work and wage ; and "What little
there has been , has been more than compensated for by the time allowed for gardening operations , and the increased amount of domestic comfort—so much so , that none pf the workers have any desire to go back again to the "long hour" practice . The employers are also equally satisfied . Like Mr . Gardner , they find their work better done , and on the whole _<*« much of it ; and they have the gratificationof having reduced the duration of labour for their hands
onetwelfth in amount , and of having given some degree offcff-f for mental improvement and intellectual enjoyment . Indeed , so satisfactory has been the working of the " short-hour" principle in the Stabket ' s establishment , that another eminent firm , the Brook ' s of Armitage-bridge , have also adopted " it : and with similar beneficial results . And _ifl it not alone at Preston , or at Huddersfield , that the plan has been tried , and found successful . At Sheffield the moat important results have followed the adoption of the principle . The case of several of the Trades of Sheffield was brought before "the House" by Mr . Duncombe , in answer to the '' warnings" and ' _' alanning predictions" of Sir Robert Peel and the Leagued Free-
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Traders ; and Mr . Duncombe was told that the only effecfc . of such " insane" conduct would be the driving of . the trade from ihe town . Well , just upon one twelvemonth has elapsed since that " opinion" was _o-iven ; the " insanity" has been most rigidly adhered to : . and the result is , that instead of the trade having " left , " as George Henrt Canning "Ward said it would , _«¦««/ man is better and more remuneratively employed than he has been fbr many years past !! Before " insanity" began , the hours of work for Grinders were commonly fourteen and sixteen
hours a day . Then the workers could scarcely livewhile . many of the hands were constantly oh the parishboohs , unable to obtain employment at all . The men wero " insane" enough to try to regulate this matter ; they were "insane" enough to think that if-the then number of workers worked less , it would require more "hands" to produce the required amount of goods . With a detnand for labour , they had been taught that wages would rise : and they were '' insane " enough to try it . Instead of working fourteen or sixteen hours a day , they resolved that they would labour only as fellows' : —
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On Monday ... 0 ,,, Tuesday ... 3 „ Wednesday 8 „ Thursday 8 _£ ., Friday ... 9 „ Saturday 8 " _| Total for the week 42 hours ; and the _resist has been , that every man of them m in full employ , receiving higher wages fbr the shortweek ' s work than they did for the long one ! . What a fact for George Henry Canning Ward ? to crack his teeth against . !
And now to the Trades generally . Are _theso facts to have no weight with you ? Are not you , disposed to endeavour to secure- for yourselves similar benefits to those enjoyed by your brethren whose cases we have laid before you ? If " short hours " are of advantage in one establishment at Preston , in two at Huddersfield , and in nia-fty at Sheffield ; if they tend to drive siclcness from the hearth ; to advance wages , and enable the toiler to perform hiB work letter ; if they give time for schooling , and for _domestio duties ; if they add to the workman ' s stock of enjoyments , and increase his worldly store : if they do these things , for the " hands" of Mr . Gardner , the Messrs . Starkev , the Messrs . Brook , and for the Grinders of Sheffield ; if " short hours " will
secure these things for them , wUl they not do the same for you ? And are not the benefits worth trying for ? Could your delegates in the Trades' Confersnce be better employed than in devising means to make the benefits of " short hours in practice" as general as labour itself ? We scarcely think they oould . _Tfl them we commend the question ; and on the Trades we urge the duty of appointing delegates to meet their brethren from all parts of the countiy , to duly consider this question amongst the many others that must engage their attention . The time is now short . What is done must be done quickly : and if the Trades do their duty , their cause _v will occupy a far different position at the end of the Conference from what it does now .
We cannot conclude this subjeet without referring to the meeting in Exeter-hall on Wednesday , at which Lord John Russell presided . It was ior an object similar in nature to that on which this article treats . It was to put an end to thc ' ¦ late hour system" of shopkeeping . The vast hall was crammed to excess ; and right well did the chairman maintain the ground he took during the factory debates in last session . He did not flinch from his position . He did not let defeat act as an excuse for hia throwing the " short hour" question overboard ; but he boldly and eloquently maintained it , in manner following : —
Itwas one ofthe greatest evils of this country that toil had become eo excessive therein that every consideration of health , all attention to intellectual improvement , and the time which should be devoted to spiritual worship , were entirely lost by the excess of labour into which the people felt themselves compelled to embark . ( Cheers . ) It was quite clear that those who began tlieir employment at six o ' clock in the morning , and did not close it tiU ten or eleven o clock at night , had little time but for the needful rest to _l-ccruit their bodies for their next day's occupation . It was not _neoessary for him to prove that such constant employment must debilitate the health , must destroy the mental character , and must ' greatly , if
not altogether , deprive those who followed it of that which ought to claim so much of a man ' s time—that of preparing for another and a future life . Why was it that one generation of men after another were to pass away consumed In this _hftpeless , fearful toil , absorbed itt sueh pursuits , and without , in this respect , the means of improvement for their minds and morals ? ( Cheers . ) For it would be observed , that while they had the mechanical advantages of civilisation—if they looked to the hours of toil—to the time left for intellectual culture or other improvements , they would not find that civilisation had advanced them beyond a time of comparative pauperism . ( Cheers . ) They must endeavour then to
improve society . There were evils of this kind beyond thc power of legislation , in which , if legislation was to attempt to interfere , while doing good in one direction , it would infallibly do much greater evil in another . ( Cheers . ) But there was a power in this country of the greatest weight , and which required only direction to be made available against sueh evils—the power of public opinion . ( Cheers . ) Should they not look , then , by the help of this power , to a time when labour , which was then * task , while it stUl continued for a proper number of houi _* 8 , might be of moderate length , and when a
sufficient part of the twenty-four hours would be left to make men more instructed , better men , arid better Christians ? If he could tliink that nothing hut the constant attention to thc amassing of wealth constituted the solo or the greatest object of the country , he should not have that respect whicli he really entertained for the character of England . ( Cheers . ) "When their great poet was describing the occupation of thc Spirits of Darkness , while about to build Pandemonium , he said—• " Mammon led them on ; " Mammon , the least erect of aU the spirits , " That-fell from heaven . "
And if such was the character of the spirit that the poet deemed fit to lead on the powers of darkness for the erection of their palace , should not they who sought a better temple—a temple of civilisation , of happiness , and of religion—should they not enlist under better auspices , and look for brighter spirits to lead them to the erection and execution of the fabric which they wished to raise ? ( Loud cheers . ) They ( the shopmen ) formed hut a small part , to be sure , of those who suffered from the evils complained of ; but if the stream flowed on it would increase till it became irresistible , ( Cheers , )
This man is io be Minister again some day : _doea it bode no good to find liim enunciating such sentiments as these ? Whether would it be better for the factory-worker , that Lord Joiin Russell—( provided that he would give life , realitt , to those ennobling principles)—or Peel , who dragoons "the House" out of its resolves to give the Ten Hour Bill , should be Minister ? No matter that Lord John has been converted since he got "out " : the conversion is there
and he cannot get "in" again , except on an understanding that he will g ive as a Minister that which he has asked as a " leader" ofher Majesty ' s Opposition . Will it not be worth while for the factory-workers to consider , whether it may not be wise to turn Peel " out , " that he too may he " converted "—and to put Lord John " in , " thathe may give effect to the conversions of both ?!
Glorious Triumph Of The London Compositors.
GLORIOUS TRIUMPH OF THE LONDON COMPOSITORS .
In last week ' s Star we made some comments on a straggle then pending between a number of Master Printers and their hands ; and we were sufficiently confident in the honour , the organisation , and resolution of the men , to venture a prediction that the mere exhibition of those necessary elements of Union would bring the haughty capitalists to their senses . This week it is our pride to state that we were not mistaken nor deceived . The men were true to themselves ; and the masters , in accordance with their best interests , have been ( though most reluctantly )
compelled to givo way for the present . We say for the present ; because the past leads us to a fair guess aa to what amount of mercy the men might reasonably expect , if their fate depended upon Malthusian philosophy , Masters ' clemency , or Capitalists * calculations as to the deduction to be permanently made from wages , in conadevation of the anticipated reductions in the priceof food . Enough for us that the first blow has been struck , and warded off . The men hare united and triumphed . The masters have grudgingly yielded ; but onlt tor ihe present . There is an armistice—a cessation of ho stilities—rather than pro-
Glorious Triumph Of The London Composito...
clamation of peace upon honourable terms . Let the " weak" rest assured that the " strong" will improve their position by every available means for the next encounter ; and , cognizant of the means by which they were enabled to beat the foe , let the men also improve their union . It has stood their friend ; and therefore they should , for self sake , cherish it . Of all things , let it become general ; and forthwith let the men lay by a fund , be it ever so small , to sustain them in the next conflict , whether legal or social . They are in good employment ; and if their Association numbers no more than one thousand , a shilling a man per week would give them £ 2600 a year as a general fund to meet the next assault .
The battle having been fought and won , we have only to add our congratulations to those of the victors , and remind them that a Conference is about being held for the purpose of consolidating the National Tradesstrength : and , having so recently tasted ofthe sweets of union , we trust they will see the necessity and expediency of electing a delegate to represent their body in that Conference , The short , but admirable and temperate letter of " A Type-Lifter , " whieh we publish in our first
page , obviates the necessity of saying more upon this subject at present , further than we pledge ourselves at all times to advocate Labour ' s right against Labour ' s oppressors . We are always happy when we can be instrumental in making the working classes do their own duty . Tlrey can beat tyrannical employers when they have justice , and union , and numbers , and MONEY , on then * side . Justice they invariably have ; but the want of union and want of MONEY often destroys its potency .
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Me . O'Connob _asu Mb . Coopeb . — "We are urgently requested by Mr . Cooper to insert the following brief remarks on Mr . O'Connor ' s note of last week : — " I beg to observe that Mr . O'Connor is again wrong when he says he ' advanced liberally * to my ' two newspapers , ' though it is merely through inadvertence , I have " no doubt , that he has made that statement . Mv . O'Connor did ' advance liberally * to the support of the Inumikatob as long as it remained the property of the working men , by whom it was commenced . But when the paper became mine , by my taking on my own shoulders their debt , as well as receiving their stock , Sic ., Mr . O'Connor ' s support ( which was the handsome sum of 10 b . weekly ) ceased . In the " multiplicity of Mi * . O'Connor ' s concerns , it is scarcely to be expected that ho should
have kept his distinction as to the . proprietorship of a little local paper , in mind ; but his letters , if he looks thein over , will show him that I am right ; and Mr . Markham , and others in Leicester , know well the truth of what I say . On one occasion Mr . O'Connor lectured in the Leicester Amphithehtre , for the benefit of the fund for carrying on the Comuokwealthsman ; and when his expenses at the inn , the rent of the building , the gas-rate , Sic ., were paid , the net produce was forty shillings , while I spent and lOBt upon the paper as mony pounds . It was certainly a proof of Mr . O'Connor ' s zeal for the spread of Chartist principles , that he gave his services for assisting thc paper ; but still his expressions of ' _tnojit-y given , ' ' donations , ' and * advanced liberally' to my' two newspapers '—are not borne out .
I did not make use of the phrase ' personal benefit' for the purpose of exation , hut for _espttothiess ; and I am sure it behoves Mr . O'Connor , as well as myself , to be explicit , and not to use looso and unguarded termi , in making references to these money transactions . I have been wounded too deeply by ingratitude myself , to think lig htl of a favour where I have received it ; and if I had received a personal pecuniary favour from Mr . O'Connor , he would uot have found me backward to acknowledge it , and thank him for it . But I repeat , still more' unequivocally , that I haw _iieuer _rcoei-oe * one farthing from Mr . _O'Connot _e s purse , either in the shape of gift , loan , or salary , or in any shape whatever . —Thomas Coo p eb . " [ I was not aware till now , that the paper in question did not "belong to Mr . Cooper . AU I say is ,
that on his application , I gave 10 s . a week as long as it lasted ; and on his application , I sent liim £ 5 for what I termed at the time , " Us bastard" —the first paper he started . As to my expenses at the Inn , Mr . Cooper ordered dinner and a room for me , and insisted on paying , as 1 went to Leicester to lecture for him j and whenever it shall again be in my power , I shall bo happy to do the same . _—Feabgos O'Connob . ] Me , _PiTEBinLT , of Huddersfield , who was the means of procuring for Mr . Duncombe the information as to the restriction of the hours of . Labour adopted by tho Grinders _Jand other Trades of Sheffield , writes to us as follows . Wg aro sure that his request will be complied with by those who ean give the required information : —The Grinders of Sheffield desire to
possess , from localities where the aUotment system has obtained , particular information as to the , number , the size , tne rent paid , and tiie other burdens ; with information as to what are the general and most beneficial crops . The Grinders contemplate purchasing , or leasing , a quantity of land , principally for the purpose of employing any surplus "hands " they may have , and thus prevent thc lowering of wages ; and therefore would be glad to hear from the Wire Workers' Society of Manchester , and any others wlio have land in possession f or a similar object . Promptitude in the transmission of the required information is most important . Address to Mr . John Broomhead , 51 , Sidney-street , Sheffield , , II ,, _Haufax , —We cannot answer his query , He had
better act on the advice of some lawyer , who will advise when he is made acquainted uith all the facts . . The Spy _Sxsieli at Leeds . —Will any of our friends at Leeds forward us a copy of tho placard that " one of the MozeleyV has so plentifully daubed on the walls ? We wish to see what " virtuous innocence" has to say , when taking on itself a chargo Ithrown amongst *« a crowd , " We have a letter ourselves from tiro of " the Mozeley ' s ; " and we have seen another in the Leeds Mercury ; when we get the placard we speak of , perhaps we shall _ha-re " something" to say to the fwneri and the valiant—something which they would have been wise to hear before they had made sueh a stir . In such affairs we do not act with precipitancy . We generally know where we are before we mak _£ sion : and
in dealing with certain people , we find it the easiest plan to " give plenty of cord . " A man that is Ms own . Jack Ketch saves a deal of trouble to other folks . The Mozeley we had , and have , in our eye , shall have enough of it before we have done with hun , A Cur of thb "Poob" against tbb Robbery op the " Rich , "—The following , which we insert just as wc have received it , has been handed to us from a number of labouring men in the parish of Burnham , in the county of Buckingham . We commend the case to tho ospecial notice of the "Duke of Buckinghamthe " poor man ' s friend . " The " poor" of his own county have surely a claim upon his unbounded benevolence : and if the power of " protection , " which tho social position _. through an " accident of birth , " has given ,
be not exerted in defence of the " poor" of his own county , the Duke may depend on it that his neighbours will not only begin to doubt his protestations of regard and professions of benevolence , but they win also seriously entertain the question as to icftat amount of good is conferred on auy body but Dukes and Lords , by the institution of which "his Grace of Buckingham " is so distinguished a member . We also commend the case to Mr . George Henry Canning Ward , as another instance of that " eternal wab ofthe bicu en tho poor , " which begets the spirit of democratic resistance which Mr , Ward has so often and so sensitively denounced , and invoked the aid of the bnital jester , Canning , to aid him in " putting down . " Perhaps Mr . Ward will advise the poor of Burnham how to proceed in this mat
ter—how to make the rich robbers disgorge that which is no more "theirs" than the domain "belonging" to Mr . Ward himself . There is a mode , no doubt , by which the thieves in this case may be made to " give up" and make restitution : though what the " cost" of the process might be would puzzle longer heads than ours even to guess at . We publish the ease in the hope that it may either havo its due effect on the parties so withholding , or aid the poor of Burnham to a "friend" who will proceed on their behalf . Here is their complaint , in their own language : — "Burnham , Feby . 28 , 1845 . Sir , whee , the poor of the parish of Burnham , in the county of Bucks , fell ourselfs verry much disfatisfied , in conciquence of Lady Anne Grenvilc stoping of the payment of twenty Pounds , wich
was left to us by Mr . Henry Sayer , Esquire , of East Burnham , in the parish of Burnham , who died on the fifteent of April , in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ten . The will of the said Henry Sayer , Esq . was proved in the perorogative court , on the eleventh , day of May , in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ten , wharby the said Henry Sayer , Esq . left to us , the poor of the parish of Burnham , twenty Pounds a-year to be distributed to us , the said poor of the parish of Burnham , in bread , to be given to us , the said poor , on Christinas day , or the Sunday after , for ever * , aud the payment of the said twenty Pound was to be payed out of the Mansion-house , Farm , and Lands of Huntercombe , in the said parish of Burnham for ever , The said twenty pounds his stoped from us ( wether legal or ilegal remains for us to ascertain ) _js the said Lady Anne
Grenville haf sold the Mansnm-house , and part of the said land of Huntercombe , to her relatiou , Lady Elizabeth Wells ; wich said estate was sold to the late Lord Grenville by -John Popple , Esq . whose property it was after the death ofthe said Henry Sayer , Esq ., and the death of Isabella Popple , wife of the said John Popple . Theairfore whee , the poor of the parish of of Burnham , wishes to know if thair can be a means of restoring the same back to us again or not , and what will be the _expenceB of the . same - has whee hope that whee might find a friend to procede in our behalf in this and other donations specified in the parish church of Burnham . As far has whee can understand , that when John Popple , Esq . sold Huntercombe estate to Lord Orenville , it was sold £ 500 cheaper in consiquence of the said £ 20 being left to us , TBS POOB OF BUBNHAH . -- '
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Mb . Thomas Hoon . —The readers of the Star win be much concerned to learn , the melancholy news of the present condition ofthe fellow of infinite jest" and humour , which we here give them from the last number of Hood ' s Magazine : — '' We ean hardl y congratulate our readers on presenting them , this month , with an effigy of Thomas Hood ' s outward feature , instead of that portraiture of lus mind , and those traces of his kindly heart , which he has been wont with his own pen to draw in these pages . During the last mouth his physical strength has completely given way , and , almost as much through incapacity of his hand to hold the pen , as of his brain for any length of time to guide it
he has at las * been compelled to desist from composition . Those in whom admiration of the writer has induced also a friendly feeling towards tho man , will have Borne consolation in learning tliat amidst his suf feriugs , which have been severe , his cheerful _phild sophy has never failed him ; but that on his sick bed as in his writings , and in his life , he has known how to enlighten the melancholy of those around him and to ming le laughter with their tears . We have thought it due to our readers and to the public thus briefly to make known that Mr . Hood is more seriousl y ill than he has ever been before ; avoiding to express airr hopes or forebodings of our own , or to prejudice the uncertain issues of life and death . " '
A Two Yea bs' _Subscbibeb . —Yes ; if they enter on the tbust at all they are bound to execute the will accord _, ing to the directions ofthe testator ; andif they do not do so , they are answerable to justice for malappropriation , either in the Court of Chaucery or in the Court of ComI mon Pleas . James _Haigu , Emlet . —The property is liable . It matters not to whom it belongs . All property is subjuct to the tax : it is only incomes under £ 150 a-year that are exempt . The rate of the tax is 7 d . in tho pound on net rental .
James Cou e Littiebobopgh . — We believe that one township possessing or occupying property in another township , would be liable to be assessed to the noor and highway rates of thc township where thc property is situate . J . H . J . —If we were in the position of J . H . we should "keeppossession" of the looms till the sum we wanted was paid , or arranged for . Thc other party wo fear could only recover from the assignees payment for what he has delivered to them . The other is a debt under the assignment , and will , we apprehend , share the fate of the other debts .
W . Haueb , Oldham , had better forward 5 s . in postage - stampB , to save hooking . W . Bell , _Hetwood . —We have not been able to get a peep at the Acts he mentions , but have a strong Idea thatthe " point" set up by those who countenance a discharged servant in retaining the books of the town _, ship is not worth a row of pins . Of course the rate _, payors will refuse to pass tha accounts with tho particular item of _salary in ; and , not contenting themselves with a mere vote in the vestry , will also depute some _porfcioa of their body to go before the justices , and oppose tho accounts there too , on behalf of the township . Nay , they should even do more than this , should tho justices " aVow" the salary ; they should _appedl against the rate , and have the matter fully tried . Of course they will take care that the partios who have
acted so disgracefully this last year , do not thrust on them again a " servant" who can set his " masters" at defiance , and do the bidding of a dirty faetiou . We received from Newnham a post-office order , dated March 4 th . Will the person sending it say what it is for , and the amount of the order ? Parties Bending post-office orders , or cash , to this office , ought to be careful to write something in their letters , so that we can tell who sends them , and what they intend us to do with the money . We have four or five agents who never write a word more tliaa the address of this office on the outside of the orders . We are partial to short letters , when ou matters of business ; but these are rather too short . If those who send will only sign their names , it is all wc ask ; and ,
if they will not do that , they must expect that the cash will sometimes be credited to the wrong agents . To correct such errors afterwards takes much time in writing for all particulars , besides the risk of tho person sending the money losing it altogether . From a recent alteration in the post-office order department , itis impossible to ascertain the name of the person sending , without writing to the post-office _where-the order waa first obtained , or to the general office . - Several of our agents are still determined not to send their orders payable at 180 , Strand . We have this week-received orders payable at the General Post-office -from- _Davies , _Mfil'thyr Tydvil ; Bumdge , Truro ; Muir , _* Carllsle M'Pherson , Perth ; Hilliard , Leek ; and -Sowerby and . Waine , Stockton . If they _would-but ask _to'have * * their orders made payable at 180 , Strand , they would bblige .
_MONIES RECEIVED BY MR . O'CONNOR . FOB THE EXECUTIVE . ' £ _„ S . ( L From Dudley o 10 0 Prom Edinburgh 0 10 0 From T . 3 . Brooke , Esq 0 10 0 SUBSCBIPTIONS . From Hanley and Shelton , per E . W . Sale .. 0 1 * 2 6 From Arnold .. .. .. ,. „ „ ,. 913 FromBasford 0 12 From Carrington o 2 2 VICTIM FUND . From Carn ngton .. 0 2 2 UBS . EtLIS , From the Chartists' Meeting at the Seven stars , Nottingham 0 2 0 From J . Sweet 0 0 6
RECEIPTS PER GENERAL SECRETARY . _suBsciurrio-is . £ s . d . s , d . Hammersmith .. 020 Bradford .. .. OS 10 } Marylebone ( omit- _Hebden-bridge .. 040 ted in last list ) ,. 0 3 0 Dewsbury .. .. 018 _Orayford .. .. 016 Eittletown .. .. 015 St . Olave ' s and St . Birstall .. .. 007 John ' s .. .. 050 Sowerby Helm .. 092 _Holbeck .. .. 0 i 0 Butterley , per Bishopswearmouth 0 6 8 Browne .. .. 0 4 6 Sunderland .. .. 0 G 6 Marylebone ., 0 S 0 Preston , O'Connor Burnley , No , 2 Brigade .. .. 030 locality .. .. 056 Halifax .. .. 036
DONATIONS . Sowerby Helm .. 0 2 ii Stanninglcy „ 0 1 ( Mr . Heath .. .. 0 1 o Queen ' s Head , a few Preston , O'Connor Democratic friends 0 10 0 Brigade .. .. 030 Haslingden , a De-Melton , from three mocrat „ .. 016 friends .. .. 020
LEW . Sowerby Helm .. 011 0 Holbeck .. .. 076 Mr . Tucker .. .. 010 HAND BOOKS , CABDB _, ffiC . Bacup , cards .. 034 Burnley .. .. 016 Bradford , account- Hnslingden , acbook .. 0 i O count-book .. 0 _i b Halifax , hand do . 0 0 2 Burnley , cards .. 050 MRS . ELLIS . Emmett Brigade ( omitted last week ) .. .. 1 12 0 Halifax _, 0 5 19 Northampton ( riew locale ) 0 10 0 Per Mr . Godwin 0 0 9 DUNCOMBE TESTIMONIAL . Preston , O'Connor Brigade Oil 0 . All parties sending money-orders , either to the secretarj or treasurer , are requested to make them payable at the post-office , 180 , Strand . CANDIDATES NOMINATED F 0 K TUE _HKBDINO BXKCCTITB
COMMITTEE . The following gentlemen , viz ,, F . O'Connor , T . M , Wheeler , P . M'Grath , T . Clark , and C . Doyle , have been nominated at the followinjrplaces : —Brighton , Somers Town , Bradford ( Yorkshire ) , Norwich , Halifax , Hammersmith , Hebden-bridge , Westminster , _Plymouth , Sheffield , Merthyr Tydvil , Stockport , Haggate , Sowerby Helm . Greenwich , Truro , Holbeck , Tavistock , Cummersdale , Oldham , Carnslo , Dewsbury , Ashton-under-Lyne , by the Emmett Brigade , and _Tonbridge Wells . At Todmorden , P . O'Connor , T . M . Wheeler , P . M'Grath , James Leach , and Thomas Tattersall , have been nominated ; at Birmingham , F . O'Connor , T . M . Wheeler , J . Bairstow , J , West , 6 . White , aud James Leach ; at . Manchester , James Leaeh , P . M'Grath , F . O'Connor , T . M . Wheeler , and John West ; at Marylebone , F . O'Connor , P . M'Grath , T . M . Wheeler , C . Doyle , and John West ; at Arnold , Basford , and Carrington , F . O'Connor , P . _Af'Grath , T . M . Wheeler , C . Doyle , and Mr . Dornian ( of
Nottinorham ); at Northampton ( New Locale ) , T . M . Wheeler , P . M'Grath , William Jones ( ot Liverpool ) , C . Doyle , and William Beesley ( of Accrington ); and at the City of London , P . M'Grath , T . Cooper ( of StufFord Gaol ) , C . Doyle , P . O'Conner , T , M . Wheeler ; Edinburgh , P . M'Gratii , T . Clark , C . Doyle , T . M . Wheeler , F . O'Connor , J . Moir ( of Glasgow ) , D . Ross ( of Leeds ) , and W . Dixon ( of Manchester ) . By the above return the candidates are , Messrs . M'Gratb , O'Connor , Wheeler , Doyle , Clark , James Leach , Tattersall , Bairstow , West , G . White , Donnan Jones , Bcesle j- , Cooper , Moir , Ross , and Dixon . These gentlemen will please individually to write to the Secretary , 243 _J , Temple Bar , previous to Thursday , the 20 th March , stating whether they consent to stand the election for thc above _offioe . Printed lists of tho candidates who consent to stand will then be transmitted to each sub-secretary , and the election be proceeded with forthwith . THOMAS MARTIN WHEELER , Secretary .
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The Murder At Salt-Hill
THE MURDER AT SALT-HILL
TRIAL OF JOHN TAWELb , _Aylbsbltit , Wednesday , March 12 . —This being the day appointed for the trial of John Tawell for the murder of Sarah Hart ; tlio town , at an earlv hour , was thc scene of unusual excitement and activity , crowds of persons irom the adjacent towns and villages and strangers from more distant parte having arrived either on the previous night or by sunrise this morning , and all anxious to get admittance into a court not commodious enough to contain half of them . So great was the confusion occasioned by tbe mismanagement of the inferior officers ofthe court that it was along time boferethe procecdin ° _* s could be carried on . D
Mr . Baron Parks entered the court about nine o ' clock . A large attendance of the local _magistracy thronged the bench . - Mr . Serjeant Byles and Mr . _Prendergast conducted the prosecution ; and Mr . P . Kelly , with whwn were Mr . O'Malleyand Mr . Gunning , the defence . Theprisoner , who was attired in a suit of black , made after the fashion generally adopted by the Society of Friends , of which he is a member , "was then placed at the bar , As already known , he is a man about 50 years of age . His appearanco is respectable , and the expression of his countenance intelligent , although rendered somewhat disagre € a _'
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 15, 1845, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_15031845/page/4/
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