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j - jf sKBTCH OF THE PAST , AND THE PBBSEHT . Bless me , -njftieatU , how well all thing * go oa . j f o cheer _SirRobnt , and _conwlelor a John ! I _-jowchanged the _fimes , from what they once had been , I _jjgfote theKrth ofour most gracious qp . eea I i > r « as then the fashion , habit made it rule , , l 0 g ive the throne to every royal . fool ; Oar mem * " *""* 8 bam to reign or rale at will ,. _jboagji e ' er so mad , were counted moaarch ' _i « _tt ** , gome bax'd the walls , and plaj-M a _thwiiand tricks , Sing Richmond Hin _, _» gave statesmen princely kick *; fins time was spent , time then for kings was made , ' In daachig , fiddling or fn masquerade , Soa _jeliv'd on riotiotherscrowns woald play , j _^ d aU got dehts , none ever wish'd to pay ; j-0 r monarchs _detttnet _* _, all were idiots bora , I 6 » t knaves might flatter , wise men laugh to scan a . race of Hogs became a nation ' s sport , ' To teach mankind the folly of a court .
Onr p rinces , then , were all corruption makas -fie best of drunkards and the worst of rakes _Timtjee _Ugroau'd _, there was but one reply— ' To cat their throats , er hang them up to dry . -fheir consort-, too , tt was a thing of course , _jBg ht choose between the scaffold or divorce—£ 11 died unwept , few , few outlived their time , -for reason fled aud virtue was a , crime . ¦ Well might all weep this _wretched country ' s fate , ffhen tyrants _relgn'd and folly ruled thestate Well might a nation to her Brief give" way , * ind _Englandbloib . _toownherCutlereagh .
_jjat times are changed , unlike tke days of yore , Oar _gradous monarchs mow run mad no more , Their subjects school'd by their omnipotence , gare taught them prudence and come common sense , Tbey feel , at last _^ though in a palace born , A . crown can ' t save tbem from contempt or scorn - By fortune taught , they now can understand , That kings are tools all subjects may command . Worth stamps the nun , as God decides his fate The truly good _alon » are trul y great ; Begret and shame from folly aust arise , "ffhen kings go mad , their subjects sbould be wise _. Same this , some that magnanimous may call , Bat virtue ' s amies command the hearts of all :
w _hatever taste or passion may inspire , AU must approve of what they most admire . If e w passions rise , as una the old pursue , And pleasure clogs , wben it has nothing new ; Virtue alone , bnt never human art , Cau fill ths void of man ' s ambitious heart . Bnt let kings reign and " midst their courtiers _shinty What e ' er their worth , their rightis not divine , Han makes tiie throne , and gold can make the crown , If reason mounts , the monarch must come down _. Is it not strange to see these titisigs of earth , Command tbe millions and made kings by birth ! Is it aot strange to see men bend the knee , Asd bow before the pomp ef royalty * ""fbjpay the knaves each honest mas mast fear .
"ffhen kings , for nothing , would be far too dear ! Ah lords are bad , but monarchs are still worse _. Tor royal _robbersate a nation ' s curse Bat aQ must change , for right is sometimes wrong "fangs hsd their day , God knows , it bas bees long , Trom age to agethe mlllioas have been tool * , The jest of tyrants and the sport of fools—Their dearest hopes , ths promise of an hoar , * ffere sold by traitors , or destroyed by power . Time wears the chain , the night ef thraldom ' s past _^ Ani thinking milliens must be fret at last ; The slave who said , Arise let us be free , '
Has savM mankiad , abolished slavery ; Oppression raves , the maniac ' s day is o ' er - { Then slaves once reason , they are slaves no more , ** et hear , my friends , the pompous , wanton Ilea . Of each proud monarch , who all sense defies , Bred up to vice , and school'd by wily seers He comes before you , to insult your tears ; Hear , hear thi casting / if this worthless fr y , n * ho care bnt little , if yon live or die , A speech each year , _asfall of sense as fire , Is all you get , what more do yon require » Tbeir words , selected with the nicest care _. Are empty sounds , aud neither here nor there .
Prepared at will , the lesson to condense , la some sixlines , devoid of common sense ; A wordy nothing , as you sight expect , "from fools whe labour to be incorrect . Here , take this one , whicb seems upon the whole , A splendid sample ofthe rigmarole , 'My lords , ' ' tis thus tbat kings and queens begin *—« Respected lords and learned gentlemen , 'I cannot help expressing my regret , That many things , since you aad I last met , ' Have pnt me ont of humour—for God knows , ' I do deplore the people ' s wrongs and woes ; * Their cries of sorrow and their great distress , Disturb my peace and mar my happiness . < Xor can I rest , much less refuse a tear , To them wbose sorrows make them doubly dear . > 'Tis most afflicting and you may be sure , * That all these * H » shall find a speedy rare—* Onr trade is prosperous , our homes are free * , - And all most own that Britons rule tbe sea :
"My allies , too , although tbey all complain , * That every nation quite detests her chain , * Have pTomisedme , tbat they will do tbeir best , * To live in peace , and let tbeir neighbours rest . ' Sat , bold , dear me , I almost feel ashamed , * Por when men starve , tke thing should uot be named 'The wretched Irish cry aloud far bread I * I wish these paupers and these beggars dead —> - Tbeir cries and waitings burst upon my ear . * And publish pest and famine every year ; * I cannot tbink how this ungrateful race , * Has thus become a subject of disgrace .
'All we have done to help tbem bas been vain , * As we bave plenty , wby sbould tbey complain t ' Some crops bave failed , but ethers are in store , * And Heaven shall bless tnem when tbey are no mors ' If ttey be patient , and abstain from crime , ' Their resignation will be mott sublime . 'So , lords aud gentlemen , I pray take heed , 'The case is shocking , very bad indeed , * I'd much prefer to see all things go right , ' I ' re done—my lords and gentlemen , good nigbt . ' I , too , have done , my friends ; wbat might be said , You well may dunk—good nigbt , and go to bed . Hekit _Gbacchus , _loadoa , _Sov . 24 tb , 1847 .
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PIDS THE NINTH ; or the Brst Year of UsPen _Hfcale . By Count C . A de _Goddes deLiancourt , of the Pontifical Academy ofthe Liencei , at Rome , and James A . Manning , Esq ., of the Inner Temple . "V * ox . l . London : T . C . jSewby _, 72 , Mortimer-street , Caven & ksquare . This book is a strange compilation of the useful and tiie useless , ihe interesting and the reverse of that . What share Mr Manning may have had in its production we do not know , bnt unless in the way of trans ' ation we think not ranch- The work altogether
smacks much more strongly ofthe ' Pontifical Aca-1 demy' than ths ¦ Inner Temple , and ii we mistake sot , ite author or authors , had a religions , not a political object in -view . This we regret , as it will sot increase " the influence of Fins IX . in this conntry , to make his name the pretext for pushing certain _relL-iaus doctrines . Reduced to one fourth or one third ' ot its present dimensions , this Tolnme BiUhthave formed a pleasing collection of anecdotes of Pope Pius , the _onlyreaPy interesting portion of the work About one half the volume is occupied " with a review of the rise andhistoty of the Papal power , with notes ofthe acts and characters of the several Popes te the time of Gregory XVI . ; a sketch of that Pope ' s life , with an account of his death and funeral ceremonies : and a lengthy acconM
of the mode of electing anew Pope . The remaining half ofthe voltune describes the election of Pius , his Wronation . thegt * antii * gofthe _* _pnesty . thei _^ oicmg ofthe people , the intrigues of the Cardinals , « Bc ., 4 c . This part of the work is interspersed with a -fariety of anecdotes _illnstrative of the patriotism , piety , benevolence , and firmness of the new Pope . . Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti was born at Sinigtglia , a small city in the marshes of Anama , w tte Papaldominions , on the 3 rd of May , 1792 , and » consequently now in his 56 th year , la his boyhood he was known for his attention to his studies , and the sweetness of his disposition . At eighteen yeare of age he was seized with ep ilepsy . It is insinuated fiat he was miraculously cared cf that disease by the _n _« v _, rS of Pone Pins VII . He was
originally inteuded forthe military service , bnt instead entered the chnreh . Pope Leo XIL appointed him aprelale , and subsequently conferred * a _* Mm him the _awlibishopiicof Spoleto . In 1832 . Gregory XVI . transferred him to the m < te important Sre olJmoia . _» wtich he continued until elected to fill the Papal Chair . Pins tlie Ninth ia a man of cnmmanaing pw # nce _« _» fine figure , and very noble and handsome features ; Ilis _manners are most gracious and engaging . Uu _Parities when Bishop of Imola , are described as _havinsheen almost boundless . . ... The f sib-nag anecdote exhibits at one view , _botfl de humility and the generosity of tbe Pope : — Glad
AfUr _« long conversation with Cardinal one _weufe j _* . n ntbe _subjeet of tie Reforms be _«?*** _Pkted , te asked for some lemonade . His valet retn-rf to give _iheuceKary orders , and in the course of a ftw ainute * _. th- servants entered , b _.-aricg two splendid gat _tajslidm with refreshments o ! every description , ana """" epMedBsiilyencbantintnt . __»» --'I only asked for some lemonade , ' said the Sovereign _^ onfc'fi " , „ _t 'Itis true , _taost Hol y Father . * _& ey _repUefl . « _Bttt We have only rouformed to the prescribed ceremonials ,, aaa according _« , custon , have to offer jour Hig hness taess ** rious r < _frtshments . - . _ _'Vay wdi . ' replied the Pope . . 'Be goodenou _« &* " » _"i"" ** me a _lem-n . ' It -ras brcc _^ hi immediately . 'i _' jirgiTe ** : e the eaearand a _glsci of water .
" hsviug made the lemonade , be added' Take away these dishes ; distribute the refreshments " _** J contain to the first poor persons jeufiad upon the Pace of tbe Bo & te Cavallo ; give each of them ten
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WeteTOnotr . _wn _. _orwerar gliteittttt Intbereii . _JrlSrtft _^ lnce •? tbia _tolnme . _^ e shall be SS £ ISA ' _^ . _tolnme . which : will , wi trapi _^ e , narrate tt . various reforms commenced by a _&« _ffi , _r ° - _" 7 _** a h * the _Austrians ; _SaVSSST * P _» Jcy ia relation to Instria . We _tSL ? _m _ft " _^ T 8 on-e favourable interpretati , 0 R- _* f that be possible-of certain retrograde acts recently chai _^ to the account of . the _pSy tie haloed : and for th * fnfn , _^ . ¦ : .
_mi-SSf- _^ K _™ _ViW * to the _» " _« edrefnsal oi _^ _Pins _gjf" _™ , _to . _- Bdgian representative , because the latter was too mnch of a liberat . aid the rebuke as-« rted to _tave been addressed to the _Btroggling suf * terers of Calabna and Messina . These , and seme similar acts , have heen hailed by tbe Journal des mats as proofs of the hostile spirit of the Pope to the further march of Liberalism . We trust that the worthy _otsan of the -FagiV of France is mistaken . Onward must be the Pope ' s motto , if he would save his coantry . and secure for himself , not merely the temporary plaudits of a fleeting popularity , bnt the enduring renown which he may win , if he houesUy and bravely works for the complete regeneration of Italy .
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THE'WHISTLER AT THE PLOUGH . ' _[ We take the following excellent article from the Wakefield Journal of Friday , Novmber 19 th . ] In the Manchester Examiner of Saturday last , we find the following from the pen of * One who has Whistled at the Plough , ' in reference to some remarks of ours which appeared in tbe Journal of the 15 thnlt .: — Those who have read , or may read , - the ' narrative of events at Birmingham , in connection with the votes ofthe House of Commons , or of the House oi Lords on the _Beform Bill , iu 1832 , and the part wbich I aud others acted as soldiers , wbicb is now ih process of being related in the _^ _utoHoowpsy , will easily understand why , when I was no longer a soldier , percons , wbo tbougbt It a fine tiling to bave courage to do what I bad done ,
sought my society , and sometimes my advice upon projects which they bad in view , and wbicb involved tbe tue of arms against the government . On every occasion I told them it was folly and a crime , aad showed them why . I sball say little more , at present , ofthe designs and conspiracies previously hinted at , which were to bave got np an attempt at _rerolntion , at London , in 1831 . An editor bas been saying , in a newspaper at Wakefield , that for me to have known of that conspiracy , and to bave prevented its taking effect , proves that I must bave been a conspirator , or a spy open those who were conspirators I was neither . It was because of tbe part wbicb I bad enacted in behalf of the Beform Bill , at Birmingham , in 1833 , and tbe knowa fact that I bad expressed then , as since , and as I still do , a decided con .
-fiction that _CKi-jr-nonbas a natural right to be represented in . parliament by his elective Tote , tbat persons , who intended to resort to arms , came to meto enlist me in their proj-cte . Until I knew wbat tbe projects were I could not say yes or no . Wben I knew what they were , I told them of their foil * aud crime , the impracticability of those designs for the ends contemplated ; and pointing to wbat I bad written and said at Birmingham , of the duty of soldiers to put down rioting and outrage , tbat nothing wonld bare induced myself aad other soldiers at Birmingham to act as we acted , and prepare for further action as we were prepared , but the universality of the national opinion in favour of re . form ; but there was no national opinion in favour of Universal Suffrage and a Republic in 1834 , and that , therefore , they conld not hone to have , there was no possibility of their receiving , tbe co-operation of the
army or any part of it , or any man in it ; all that they could do , I pointed out to tbem , was to commit some of the mur " ers projected , raise an insurrection in tbe street after committing the most damnableof crimes elsewhere , get hundreds or thousands of people shot or cut to pieces by the military ( snd agaia I pointed to our sword-sbarpening at Birmingham , or Sunday , the ISth of Hay , 1832 ); a number of themselves hanged ; possibly many innocent persons hanged ; while the guilty projectors of the ' fcheme * would escape . I said emphatically * No , I shall have nothing to do witb it ; it is _acunnlngljcontrived ' scheme , ' bnt its _coBBtonences must be assassinaticn in the first instance , deeper gnilt at every step , ruin to all at last , while the progress of public liberty and the attainment of the tights ofthe peeple must for many years be postponed as its ultimate consequence . '
The 'scheme' was attempted to be carried out . I prevented it , and yet I was not a spy . I had beeu informed of it , because I was sought ont and requested to join is it not because I sought it . I prevented it , bj putting those who were in danger on their guard ( the details ofwhieh sball appear in the future chapters of the Autobiograph y ); they were put on their guard , stood on their guard , and were prepared ; but tbe ; obviated the _danger by not allowing its occurrence to be possible . The most forward , bnt mast cowardl y of the Knaves wbo bad conspired , tons absent , as might haTe been expected , when the catastrophe shsuld have taken p ' ace . I had my eye on the conduct of more than one of them ; and yet I was uot a spy . Neither threats of punishment nor temptations of reward induced me to name a single person , when Z was _asfred to do so . I ouly said tbat-1 had not sought for the information ; it was voluntarily given to me-1 bad done my duty by putting the _sndaBgertd parties on their guard ; they had acted as I suggested they should ; I was satisfied .
Those matters , however , shall be given more iu detail , now tbat tbey are thirteen years old ; and tbey afford me one reason for publishing my _At-toMograp _^ i ; iu my own lifetime , though originally written to be published when I was dead . The noblemen , gentlemen , and others acquainted with the circumstances , are nearly all living ; and I deem it best to lay the matter before tbe country , for public warning and instruction , wben it may be of some service , aud when living men can corroborate or correct my aecount ofit . From my narrative ofthe Birmingham court-martial , snd the official documents quoted in it , it is seen tbat
there were persons involved , in ths Scots' Grejs _, with the political unions , whose names I refased to divulge ; though ( as tbe official report ofthe commanding officer ' s evidtnc- proves ) I migbt bave escaped the punishment of tbe lssb bad I done so . It sball ba not less clear tbat I might bave divulged ihe names of the conspirators of 1834 , at least snch of them as were knowa 1 a me , bnt did not , and against all inducements , ' would not . So much fer the gentleman writing at Wakefield , whose experience of political mankind seems to lead him to the oondosion that every person politically sympathising with the people , la _advisiag or restraining them , must be a fool or a knave .
Oor readers will no ronbt bear in mind that what we siid was caused by a somewhat blustering and braggadocio paragraph , to the effect , that the writer had prevented one of the most serious outbreaks that ever occurred . That had it not been for him , property and life woald have been sacrificed to a most alarming extent . That had he not interfered , streets wonld have become rivers of blood , thrones aad dynasties overturned' , governments broken up , and confiscated to the ruthless violence of mob-law . Onr remarks were accompanied by , a small word of some importance , which appears to have been overlooked by onr friend , the * Whistler . ' We said , 'IF this mau speaks the troth , he must have either been a spy to entrap the nnwaiy-, or a physical forcist . ' What is his answer to tbia supposition gathered from his own remarks—let it be calmly
read'The scheme was attempted to be carried out . I prevented it , and yet I was not a spy . I had been informed of it , because I was sought out and requested to join in it ; not because / sought it . I prevented it . by putting those who were in danger on their guard , they were put on their _pard , atood on their guard and WBRte _pebparkd ; but they obviated the _danser by not allowing its occorrence to be possible . The most forward , but the mo « t cowardly of the knaves who conspired was absent , as tniebt havebeen expected , when the catastrophe should havetakenplaee . I had my eye on the conduct of more than one of them - and yet I waa _wotaspy . Neither threats of punishment nor temptations of reward induced me to name a single person . '
This is the only answer after a month ' s deliberation which the * Whistler * can give te onr charge . Is not corroboration doubly strong ? We said before that we wished for no other evidence than that furnished by his own pen—we say so again . Here we bave it—He sets ont with acknowledging that the " scheme was attempted , ' he prevented it , 'by putting those who were in danger on their guard , ' —* they were _prepared and on their guard . ' * They , ' ( wh « _v are * thej V ) ' tlwiated the danger by not allowing its occorrence to be possible , ' _acd still the writer says in bis next breath , - that one man on whom he ( the ' Whistler" ) had his eye was absent , when the catastrophe should have taken place , * and yet , this immaculate beinc _was _oroof aeainst' threats of
punishment and temptations of reward . ' How _coula the danger be obviated by not allowing its occurrence to be possible , ifthe scheme was ' allowed' to be attempted , and those who were looked for could not be found t Was ever sueh miserable special pleading put upon paper , as that contained in this man's defence ? We conld bave understood him if he had said when be was consulted ( but bow comes it that he should have been consulted we would like to know ?) We conld have understood an honest man _saying * No , toy lads , I sympathise wih you , my decided conviction is , that every man has a natnral right to be represented in parliament by his elective to its
vote bnt I am decidedly opposed accomplishment bv bloodshed , and I now tell you that I will at mce rive information to the authorities ' , that it haa come to mv ears that such an outbreak ia intended . I will n"t _coraprom-se you , but I will , at all hazards , do my utmost to prevent blood being shed , and I will clear my conscience of being even directly or indirectly a participator in those deeds _* of darkness . ' We ask would not this , or something very similar , have been the language ofa man who was really _defdrous of preventing anarchy ;? But how have out always acted ? Have they not ingratiated , themselves into the good graces ef some less designing but Sre o _oen-hearted persons ? Have they not wormed
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_iBfr _""S _** f 08 tered ' «> y inuendo . like Shakespeareslaoo , the mouldering flame , and _bya sort of negative advice kept iheir own necks . out of the _SSTvK rhito _/ S haTe - _^ . Preparing others _EHr-tr ? ¦ ™ X th - ? ' desPicable spy always been able to say , ' I advised them to a contrary course— I put parties on their guard . '— 'The scheme was attempted . ' Ourreaders will , we think , agree with us in saying that had the scheme not beenaterapted , there would have been-some reason for believing that both parties had been put on their ' _—e" ~ "
guard . _ ; It a man mistakes our character so much as to make a confidant of us , that he intended to shoot the 'Whistler , ' and that he would _accomplish his purpose on the first opportunity , we should bat ill discharge our duty by simply putting the'Whistler ' on hia guard , and by allowing the man to suppose we werekeeping his secret . That would be the very means of bringing about an accomplishment of the deed . How then did the' Whistler' discharge his by allowing the poor infatuated men to ' attempt the scheme , ' and by giving them no notice that their lives would be the ransom of their temerity ? '
Again the 'Whistler' talks of 'threats , and 'temptations of reward . ' Who " said one word of threats and temptations of reward ? Not we . Why should threats have been used to this 'Whistler' ? Wby should ' temptations of reward * have been made ? No doubt similar confidants gave informa * . tion of the intended Newport outbreak , and no doubt confidants kept back from the intended rioters that information had been given to the authorities . No doubt many men were led into the mess by false friends , and also by parties , . who had resisted ' threats and temptations of reward . ' The ' scheme' was attempted at Newport . 'They , ' ( what a convenient word , ' they . ' ) ' They were put on their guard . ' 'They obviated danger by not
allowing ita occurrence to be possible , ' and yet there was much danger to many misguided men , and many are now suffering in a penal settlement who are less guilty than some wretches who are allowed to roam at large to blast the character ofthe innocent , and prostitute their talents for a mesa ot pottage . We know nothing ofthe 'Whistler' further than what we have seen of him in print . That he is a man of considerable talent we admit . But when we find him mixed up as he has been , according to his own showing , with revolutionists in England , and the veriest vagabond-cutthroats in Spain that were ever allowed to dbgrace the human name—when we find hira perambulating Ireland for information to damage the private character ef an opponent—wken
we find him retailing the spawnings of disappointed discarded servants , we have no wish to know him further , but leave him as a very worthy servant for his very amiable employer , and no doubt he will act in England upon the axiom he says he acted upon in Spain , that' if he did not kill his enemy , his enemy would kill him . ' It ia degrading to the press , that in discussing the practicability of a public project , that column after column is filled by prying into the private affairs of a gentleman supporting that scheme . Suppose the case was reversed . Suppose every item ot the Anti * Cam Law League was scrutinised ; every private transaction ' . of Messre Cobden and Bright brought to light ; the disputes with their workpeople blazoned abroad ; their accounts with their bankets published ,
and the amount of mortgages npon their estates investigated . Or _suppose the private ledgers of the Jfane _* i £ * ier Examiner were revealed by men who had been confidentially employed in their office , what would the Examiner then say ? - Would it not indignantly call upon its contemporaries to aid it in putting down such villanous treachery ? ' We fancy it would . . Then why is it not as scrupulous with respect to others as it would be with respect to itself and its friends ? Why should it lend its columns to hunt down an opponent by such un-English means ? We again say such exhibitions are degrading to tbe press , and the sooner they are abandoned the better . But we may be told that the projector of the Land Scheme rests his claim to confidence upon the honesty of his motives . Granted that he does so * , but how is that honesty to be tested ? Is it not to be
tested by a reference to his public life ? Has he made away with public funds ? Has he appropriated those funds to his own purposes ? If he has , why was he not at the time denounced by those men who are now so envenomed against him ? Why , was the exposure allowed so long to remain , until the ' Whistler' undertook it ? Up to the time of the late editor of the Star leaving that paper , we always heard him speak in unbounded praise of Mr O'Connor as a private gentleman and employer . Within these six months we have heard Mr Hill , a gentleman who for years also edited the Star , say the same , and Mr Oastler , in his letter , bears tea ' imony that Mr O'Connor is much more likely to put money in the people ' s pockets than take it out , but this portion of Mr Oastler ' s letter is suppressed in the Examiner .
Some months ago we took up this question on pnblic grounds . So far frem being influenced by private feeling , we never spoke to Mr O'Connor bat ones , and that was upon accidentally coming Sn contact with him while we were in company with one of the gentlemen who is now writing the attacks in the Manchester Examiner , and who , we are sorry to see , has so far forgot himself as to assist in putting down aman who has stood his friend , when Bright and the _Ahti-Corn-Law League would rather have taken him to the gallows than admitted a line of his iuto any paper of theirs , So far from _^ being influenced by private feelings in the matter , it is just the contrary , Our readers generally belong to a class the very antipodes of the readers of the Star—a class who have no sympathy ( or Mr O'Connor , or perhaps his Land Scheme , or his political faith , and we may , no doubt ,
offend some by the course we have taken ; however , we have done so conscientiously , believing that the land scheme , apart from politics , if properly worked out , may be a _meatus of bettering the condition of the labourer— _afmeans of lessening , if not ultimately destroying , the poor rates—a means of suppressing crime , and a means of raking the character of the country by improving the physical and moral condition of the people . We thought the scheme was attempted to ba put down by an unfair and unwarrantable attack upon the private character of its principal champion , and believing this , we bave taken our course , careless and regardless alike as to whom we pleased , or whom we displeased , knowing that the consciousness of having performed our dnty is far more satisfactory than the plaudits of thousands , or the rewards of the great .
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West Losdon Cehtbal Ak _^ Ekcmsubt" _Associanow . —At the last weekly meeting of this association at Clark ' s Rooms , 117 , Edgeware-row , en November 23 rd , a committee was formed for the purpose of reorganising the association , framing new rules , and establishing the library on the _ftiost approved plan . A letter fiom Dr Bird was read , recommending a ' London Anti-Enclosure Association , ' as a 'West London' caused _persons in the north , east , and south , to think that their interests were not const * rfered by it . More boohs wero presented , and the meeting was adjourned till Monday next , at halfpast seven for eight . _ExiBAOBMNAR-f Suicide . —On Friday afternoon , as the two o'clock train from Kilmarnock was
proceeding at full speed for its destination at Glasgow , and when about two miles east from Paisley , a woman , who had been waiting its approach , was seen by the parties in charge to walk deliberately into the middle of the _up-line rails , and await her fate by the overwhelming concussion of the train . ' As a matter of course she was killed en the instant , and on the train being stopped , her head was literally cut in two . The most singular thing connected with this melancholy occurrence , however , is the circumstance that Mrs Gibson , the individual who thus committed selfdestruction , was the wife of theBtoker to the engine that ran her down . She was a young woman , only about four years married . She waa of irregular habits , and during that time had . frequently been
separated from her husband . Latterly she had been stopping in Glasgow , while Gibson ' s residence was in Kilmarnock . She had been observed watching the several _traiHS as they came forward for some hours before she committed the fatal act ; and her husband had not seen her for four weeks , till she placed herself before him in a position which rendered every effort in his power to Bave her life utterly hopeless . Fire at _MiLE-uen . —Yesterday ( _Itt _.-nday ) afternoon a fire broke ont upon the premises of Mr Wm . Morris , a paper-stainer , of No . 3 , _Portman-place , Giobe-lane _, Mile-end . Between one and two o ' clook screams were heard in the woikshop on the first floor , flames at the same time issuing through the window . Mr Morris ran up stairs , when he found the room in a complete Was e , and in the midst ef tne
flames he could see his child , a boy between nine and ten , endeavouring in vain to extinguish tbe fire . Mr Morris rushed into the room with the flames above and below him , his clothes speedily became Ignited , and Mrs Morris , hoping to save tho Uvea _^ Ot her husband and child , also ran in . -She had hardly done so , than her clothing likewise took fire . Mi * Morris having succeeded in laying hold ot nis child , with a desperate exertion succeeded in pulling him and his wife out of the flames . Some other persons living in the house , and the neighbours , on hearing the screams , ran to render _**™ " _}™ After considerable trouble the flames about tae three parties were * extinguished , but not until the three were frightfully burned , more particularly the ooy , » hr « o _flwh _„„ H fin--, _naifs _droooed off when touched .
He was removed to the London Hospital , when the _bnu-. e surgeon pronounced his case to be oeyona recovery . The fire was confined to that portion ol tne premises in which it commenced , but it was no * extinguished until the workshop was burned . 1 he we _wascansed by a number of pieces of paper ffni _™ were hanging on the lines to dry falling upon tne _qKavp In consequence of an attempt by . some Free Churchmen to renew the _auitation against _•"• _onu-y trains on Scotch railways , the Scotsman has . . , " tened to _publish the names and addresses _ot-tnpse ladies and gentlemen who habitually proceed in their carriages to attend divine worship atthe _free Church where Dr Cavendish preaches .
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" Chfon forthe Million . " FaiBNns , —The more we contemplate the condition ofthe working classes the more are we convinced of thegreat injustice inflicted upon them by the capitalists ot this country ; and the more ,, too , do we see their wrongs and sufferings accumulating , as though they were only born to contribute to the wealth and agrandisement of a _privileged few ; and then die . off aa having fulfilled the great object of human life , The injustice the working man is compelled to endure , is not confined only to a diminution of family comforts , of au msufficieucy of food , . and that , too , of inferior
quality , a want , of ampi * clothing to cover his body through the day , and of bed and bedding to repose his wearied limbs upon after the hard and unrequited toil of tbe day . But , in addition to these inconveniences , he is exposed to _innumerablediseases concomitant npon the unhealthy nature of hie employment ; and , as may ba expected , a fearful amount of mortality is tbe result . And this , too , not when the victims have attained the goodly age of three score years and ten , ' but at the average ages of fifteen , sixteen , seventeen , and eighteen years , do our toiling millions pass off this stage o aotion in our manufacturing townsY Some occupations , we know , are not so inimicable to human health and life as others ; but in every department of manufactures , the artisans suffer to a greater or to a less extent . When we have passed through sobe of
our manufacturing towns , we have been astonished to see the pale thin faces of the factory , operatives , with dejected and haggard countenance ? , with their cheek bones standing out iri bold relief , and eyes once bright asstars , are become dim , and fast sinking in their sockets : while their limbs , once strong and strait , are how distorted and apparently too weak to carry an emaciated frame , leaded and destroyed with a complication of irremediable maladies , imposed upon them by the health-destroying tendency oftheir occupations . In performing which some of them are almost roasted to death , the heat being eighty , ninety , and a hundred degrees , causing the perspiration to ooze forth from every pore ; while volumes of smoke and clouds of dust and steam encircle them , impregnating the atmosphere with pestiferous diseases , and , as we will show , permanently consigning _thouBandsto their graves .
As facts and figures are powerful weapons , we will adduce a few in confirmation ofour assertions , and which we quote from parties , whose experience , whose protracted and careful investigation into this subject entitles them to great . respect . Fir . * t , in reference to woolcombing , in which business there are many thousands of operatives daily employed . The authority from which we quote , observes , ' woolcombing is admitted to be a very unhealthy employment , ' the woolcombers comb tbe wool chiefly in an apartment oftheir own dwelling ! The work is done over a fire of charcoal , which sends forth volumes of carbonic aoid gas , and the work people are obliged to keep their windows open in all kinds of weather , to prevent or mitigate the evils of the _gns . They are roasted to perspiration on one side , and have often a
current of cold air rushing upon them from the window' They look pale and cadaverous , and are shortlived , few reaching fifty years of age . Their roasting employment and exposure to carbonic acid gas , gives a desire for spirits and opiates , and , it is probable , tbat the frequent free use of them may have some considerable Bhare in shortening their lives . In some instances , when they have been brought to work together in faotorieaor shops , their health has been improved , and their habits have become more regulated . The following is a table of the mortality ofthe different classes of Bradford . This table presents the average ages at death of the various classes in society in this manufacturing town , and shows , at one view , the effects Of occupation upon the lives of our fellow men .
Gentry and their families ... ... 39 Agricultural labourers and their families ... 32 Tradesmen and their families ... ... 23 Woolcombers and their families ... 16 From this you will at once perceive the immense disparity between the gentry and their families , and the poor _woolcombers and their families of the same place . But take the agricultural labourer , whose _avocat- _' on is performed where the ( oxyfen ) or pure vital air is _uncontaminatedi and contrast it with the woo ' combers who have to do their labonr , half-roasted , half-starved , and constantly inhaling impure air , or ( carbonic acid gas , ) which their charcoal fires so highly charge the atmosphere with . The differences are great , the agricultural labourers and their families average age at death being thirty-two , and tbat of the woolcombers and their families being six * teen , or just half the period of the former .
The sanatory report of Bradford attributes this immenseamountof mortality among the woolcombers to scrofula aud scrofulous diseases , which is the effect of impure air . 'Pulmonary consumptions are the raosUomraon , ' says this report , ' as well as the most formidable shape of scrofula ; and the registration returns show , that out of 109 deaths of woolcombers , abjve twenty-one , during one year , _thirty-oighthave died of tkat disease . This occupation appears peculiarly predisposing to asthma , from the constant inhalation of noxious cases , as well as the debris of small particles that arise from the working of the
wool . In fact it may safely be said , that half of the combers and their families die of scrofulous diseases , which might , by proper ventilation , and the removal of the comb pots from sleeping apartments , be rery considerably diminished , if not prevented . ' This is one instance ofthe injurious life-deatroying tendency of the staple manufacture of the West Riding of Yorkshire . And we will , from time to time , advert to other trades , whose members are suffering and dying , in consequence of inhaling the poisonous inhalations arising frem their occupation , and which constitutes the atmosphere jn which they alino _* t live , and move , and have their being .
If there are any species of manufactures of this eountry , that minister to the pleasures , luxury , and wealth of the community , tbat are produced at tbo expense of the healthy lives of our fellow men , should not the community protect those who sustain Buch _looses ? We know that when life is cut off , tbe victim can receive no personal equivalent for his own loss , but most likely he leave * a family to lament his death ; the _community'should protect the surviving _auflerers who have been deprived of their guardian , in assisting his country to grow rich and happy through his labours . And if the nation allow its members to suffer in this respect , how oan we expect , as a nation , to be in a healthy and prosperous condition ?
But thia unfortunately is not the oase . The ho nest labourer , whose life is sacrificed _upanlthe altar of our country ' 8 wealth , leaves Mb family to grapple with a cruel world ; and to experience all the bitter excruciating pangs of hunger , without one to help or pity their abject condition . If a man by perseverance and hard labour , can make a bare living , his family may then enjoy a few earthly comforts ; but if he is incapacitated for doing that , he is completely turned adrift , he may die for want , and hiB family either turn beggars or thieves , which is too often the case , or else , be consigned to endure the indignities and insults of a bastile , from whioh honest poverty often tarns away in disgust . This is what the workinemanand his family are exposed to . in
contnoutiBgtothe wealth and aggrandisem ent ot tae ceuntry , in following an honest and a nationally beneficw calling ; butif , on the other hand , he engages himselt to a military profession , —if he commences an authorised crusade against human happiness , and human life , —if he will lay waste fruitful fields , aad destroy plentiful harvests , pillage and burn down the neat cottages of humble and happy peasants , and desolate _popiilou 8 town ; and if amid the dismal roar of mock thunder and the glare of mimio lightning ? , he will cut down human beings , and trample them under foot like _logs of wood , and saturate the earth with human gore ; if he will do tbis , forsooth , he is a worthy man , his country hails him as a hero , a cloud of martial glory will encircle your brow , and amedal of
bravery ornament your breast ; and to crown all , a weekly pension shall be awarded to you for life , which will far exceed theaverage wages of 40 , 000 industrious frame work knitters , ay , and twice that number of band loom weavers . But as we said before , if you are engaged in an employment that ministers tothe wealth and luxury of the cmntry , and confers permanent good upon society , in doing which your own health or life is _espo'ed , lhcreis no pension for you , no honours , no rewards , but unmixed poverty , and at last a pauper ' s grave . Such a state of society ought not to exist . Ifa man ruins his constitution , and expends his physical strength in _nreducing the wealth of the nation , he ought to be protected . And if an ) thing in the shape ofjustice for the poor existed in this country , the working man would obtain a larger proportion of the wealth he produces , to provide against the
contingencies incident to many brandies of industry . But such justice is never dreamt of ! __ All that the capitalists can screw out of labour , is too small for his own insatiable thirst for ' filthy luore , ' and the more speedily he amasses an enormous fortune , out of the blood and toil of the operative > the more he is respected , and looked upon as a bold , persevering , and enterprising man , whose industry and attention to business , have so quickly rewarded him . bach is the way in which we hear men of this stamp spoken of . But , we may set it down as a true maxim , that as one man becomes so rapidly rich , great numbers are rapidly made poor-and the very thing that makes one so wealthy , consigns hundreds to penury—and while a few are revelling in sp lendour , and 'faring sump tuously every day' tho millions are craving for the crumbs , ' the rich iran throws to his dogs . '
... There is something radically wrong in the constitution of that nation , where those who produce all , are the only class who are poor and abject sufferers ; and where those who produce nothing { except it be mischief and crime ) , live upon the labour of others , and absorb all their productions ; and then treat them with contempt and derision . Strange anomaly ; that the idle and prodigal should live in
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praoely _mansiens , —have their parks and pleasure grounds and beds of down to repose upon ; while the industrious and frugal ,, whose whole life is doomed to hard and unnecessary toil , are pent up in garrets , or thrust down in cellars , and on beds of straw spend their sleepless and restless nights ; pondering over the painful questions , 'Where shall I proourea breakfast for my children from V ' How shall I satisfy their hunger , or slay their cry for broad V This is a strange perversion of right , but it is the lot of thousands of free born happy Englishmen ! We are told ' that man must live by the sweat of his brow , ' and we have no desire to have it otherwise ; but it so happens , that those who work and sweat the most obtain the least , while those who sweat the least , get' Benjamin ' s portion ; ' nay they pet all !
Where snch is the case , we feel as-though there wanted a thorough reformation , ofwhieh St Paul ' s advice should be the end , 'That those who won't work , shall not eat , ' unless through infirmity or old age , some be unfit for labour . How , long we wonld ask , is such a state of things to continue ? How long shall the poor man cry , and the rich man oppress him ? How long shall human rights , and common justice , aiid _. _equity , be _trampled upon , * and spurned with impunity ? How long shall insult aRd poverty , be the reward of honest industry ? These are serious questions , and the cause of our . complaints will continue so lone as the apathy and indifference of the people will allow it . Such abuses and wrong 3 are only
continued by sufferance , and when the people have a mind to shake thera off they can do so . They _posses the power wben they choose to exercise it . And when they like , they have only to ask , and receive ; to seek and find ; to knock , and the door of liberty —of moral and social emancipation , willbe thrown open to them . If we are slaves , it h because wc will not be freemen ; and unless we struggle for liberty , it will never come of its own accord . Mirabeau , the great French orator ; spoke the truth , when he cried out in the National Assembly— 'Lu Rois ne sont grands que pareeque nous sonanes a _genouo-, —levons noui . ' ( Kings are giants only because we kneel to them—lot us stand up !) And , we would say , capitalists are tyrants and despots only because we bow , and tamely submit to their exaction . 'Stand up ! ' assert your rights—declare your independence ; and with _c-ne voice , proclaim the jubilee for Britons'emancipation . ' Let it : be known tbat you are determined
to have a larger portion of the wealth you produce : that you will have better and more substantial food ; better ventilated dwellings , and mere suitable clothing . Let it be known that you wish for more time for recreation and mutual improvement , and for attending to your domestic duties in general ; and , by your united efforts , you will realise them . Be determined to a man , that you will mutually aid , and unflinchingly stand by each other , and the way is clear—the object of your union is certain * But if you remain disorganised—indifferent to each other ' s wrongs and sufferings , you may rest assured that capitalists will continue to devour your children's bread , and your rights and privileges be still withheld ; while your condition and circumstances will gradually become worse . But we trust that you will rally round our standard , and remember , ' That united we stand , divided we fall ! ' and that the day is come when we must' stand up ' and vigorously defend our rights .
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The Central Committee of the above expanding association , met on Monday and following days for the transaction of business . A great mass of cor * _respondence has been recoived from Glasgow , Greenock , Paisley , Aberdeen , Holytown , Alva , Tillicoultry , Birmingham , Bristol , Leicester , Nottingham , Barnsley , Leeds , Bromsgrove , Halifax , Manchester , Keighley , Old Basford , Denton , Accrington , Bacup , and a number of other towns and villages in different parts of the country ; also , the following reports from agents- and members of the Central Committee : — On Friday evening , November 19 th , Mr Humphries attended a meeting of the paper , _atainers , at Kent and Essex-yard , Whitechapel . The meeting was well attended . Mr Humphries fully explained
the principles ef the Association , and showed that it must be by such a combination the paper stainers _, and every class of operatives in this country , must be raised to a proper standard . The speaker pointed out the discrepancies in local unions , and , though the paper _rtainers had their trades' union , they were now , in some shops , only receiving about 163 . while , for the same amount of labour , they were , a few years back , receiving £ 3 . —so awfully had their prices come down . Mr _Humphries urged upon them the necessity of forming a part of this Association , as the only safe and effectual manner of preventing any further aggressions upon their rights . The question will be taken up and discq _^ _ssd among themselves , and the result will be made known to the committeo .
Castletown . —Our agent at the Isle of Man , has attended _meetings at Castletown and Lnxey , on which occasion he entered into explanations of the principles of the Association , aud urged upon the audiences tbe necessity of becoming members of this Association , and thus show te employers , that the working classes of the Isle ofMan are determined to assist and to be assisted in vindication of their own rights , and in resistance of the aggressions of capitalists . Io such a combination alone are they sale , and against which oppression must , ultimately , fall .
Mr _Robson attended the nailers of Liverpool , and had an interview with a number of the men to whom a reduction had been offered ; matters were ultimately settled satisfactory among themselves . Mr Robson , or "ome otber member of tho Central Committee , will attend , at an early opportunity , to agitate the trades of LiverposI _, Birkenhead , & c , with the view of bringing them into the Association ; and we trust that some arrangement will be made , to facilitate this purpose . Due notice shall be given of a lecturer's visit . Mr Robson waited upon an employer at Bolton with the view of inducing him to withdraw an offered reduction . From investigation it appeared that the reduction had been suffered in June last ; a fortnight's notice however was given to the employer to return the reduction , and we have every reason to expect he will comply with the requests of the
men . Messrs Robson and Parker attended at Bacup , to have au interview with the employer , but from some cause or other they were prevented from doing so . The case at Bacup is a very peculiar one—they tfhve been on strike for the last six months , and out of 145 weavers who turned out , not one has given in . When _thestrike commenced the men were not members of the Association , but have subsequently become so ; hence the desire of the Cenf ral Committee to bring the matter to an amicable termination . Besides the reduction offered , the master has
presented a document for the men to sign . This is a cruel case , and we trust the sympathy of the trades will be manifested towards these brave men . Mr _Ribspn attended several other cases , but as nothing satisfactory or decisive has been effected , we abstain from giving a report of the same . Mr Williamson attended a eaie of mediation at Dudley , on behalf of the horse-nailraakers . He waited upon the employers , and notwithstanding Mr W . showed them the _injusticeof their doinas towards the men , they turned a deaf ear ; the result is , the Central Committee have agreed to support the men who are eligible to aliment .
Mr Williamson attended another case of mediation at Kettering , but on account of the employer not being in the place he could not be seen . The effect of Mr W . ' s visit we have not yet learned , though we are inclined to think it will be favourable to the
men . On account ofa great nun * ber of applications for members of the Central Committee to attend in cases of mediation , several havo been obliged to stand over for a few days , but shall be attended to in a day or two . Old Basfobd . — -On Tuesday evening , Messrs Woolley and Gudben attended as a deputation upon the trimmers and bleachers of Old _Basford , to explain the princi p les and objects ofthe National Association . The meeting , which was an exceedingly crowded one , took place in the large room of the Vernon Arms Inn . The deputation respectively explaited the principles ot the Association ,. and showed it , when fully carried out , to be well calculated to raiso the condition of the working classes , and procure for them ' a fair day ' s wage , for a fair day ' s work . ' At the close of the address , the following resolutions
were adopted : — ' That this _meeting views , with pleasure , the noblo exertions made by the National Association to emancipate the working classes from the oppression they have so long been subjected to ; and , to all appearance , will continuetoendure , unless they co-operate together in one great national unionthe only way of effecting our redemption . We , therefore , one and all , agree to join the same forthwith ; and that our levies be for * arded as early as possible . ' * That the Central Committee be requested to insert the proceedings of this meeting in the Nohihkbn Star . ' ' That the thanks ofthis meeting are due , and hereby given , to T . S . Duneombe , Esq ., M . P ., for his untiring advocacy of the rights of the working classes . ' A vote of thanks to the deputation , for the able manner in which tbey had explained the principles of the Association , also a vote of thanks to the chairman , terminated the business of the meeting .
8 owERBrBRtD 3 E .-MrTown attended a meeting of the cotton spinners and twisters of this place , on Monday , and explained the principles of the Association . Considerable interest was created , and a very favourRble impression was made upon their minds , On Tuesday , Mr Town visited several trades in the district , with the view _olbrinning them into the Association . We hope the operative . * , in this dis trict will bestir themselves , and become , to a man , a part of this great union . „ , , ScoiUND .-On Monday , Nov . 8 tb , Mr Claughan addressed a large meeting- in the Vale oi Leven , where an excellent spirit , in favour of the Association , was displayed . _„ , _ , . . . f ,, GALAsniBM—On the 12 th and 13 th _mstant j Mr Claughan delivered two lectures , on tho principles and plans of operation of the Association , in the Large Hall of the Bridge Inn . The audiences were
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exceedingly attentive to tbe lecturer , as he pointed out the advantages such a combination is calculated to confer upon the industrious classes . Hawick . —On Monday and Tuesday , Mr Claughan addressed the _trades of Hawick . The meetings were held in the Town Hall , and were pretty well attended , and we have no doubt as to its favourable results . Caution . —Several _rersons having gone round _Manchester and neighbourhood , obtaining _Bubscrip . tions under false pretences , alleging they were ob ' taining it on behalf of the cotton spinners and selfacting . minders of Charlton and Hulme , in connexion with this Association , the parties thus acting , are not authorised to do so ; as no person has been instructed to receive , or to apply for , any subscriptions on behalf of tbe above society for tbe purpose of extraordinary relief . ... By order of the society , James Johnson , sec .
NOTICES . The ladies' shoemakers of London are informed that a class for discussion has commenced , and will be continued every Sunday evening . The meeting on Sunday evening , November 28 th , will beheld at the Wool and Bell , _RopemakeK-street , Finsburysquare . Subject : — ' The beat method of absorbing surplus labour . ' Chair to be taken at seven o ' clock . Al 1 letters on business , respecting the trades forming the Association , must be sent through their
respective secretaries , or through the medium ofthe district secretaries , as the Central Committee cannot treat any other communication as official . All letters sent to this office on general business , must be directed to the general secretary , Mr T . Barratt ; and letters upon financial matters , to the financial secretary , Mr James Webb . The Central Committee trust these arrangements will be strictly observed , as great inoonvenienceoften occurs through business letters being addressed to members oi the Central Committee .
The trades of Scotland can be furnished with cards and rules , or any information respecting the Association , by making application to the agent , William Claughan , Holytown . The secretaries , and members generally of ( the Association , are informed that , on the 1 st of December next , will be published the first number of the Central Committee ' s monthly report—one copy of which will be given gratuitously to each suoiety belonging to the Association . A considerable number will be printed for general circulation , at the charge of ope penny each . The intention is that it shall be made a useful periodical . It will coutain valuable and interesting information respecting the rise , progress , passing events , and future prospects of the Association , together with its general statistical accounts . It trill be got up in a superior manner . Twelve numbers will form a neat volume .
The trades will please give their orders for the same , together with cash for the number required , to their local officer , to be sent to this office , directed to Mr T . Barratt , when the orders will be _promptly attended to .
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TRADES * MOVEMENTS . Thb Winlaton Nailers . —Received by the Horse-Nail Makers now on strike at Winlaton _. the following subscriptions * . — £ s . d Winlaton General Smiths .. ... .,, 1 10 0 SuiallweilSmithB 0 6 6 _Elsewicl- Colliery 0 6 6-W ' nlaton Mill ... 0 12 Q Blaydon Smiths „ 0 3 8 Shield Bow 0 6 4 Hawks' Chain Makers , Gateshead .. 0 16 5 St _Pcttr ' _s Quay Chain Makers 0 7 2 Folley Shop Nailers , Newcastle 0 16 Nortb Shields _Nnilcrs O S 6
Tyzick ' _s Chain Makers , North Shields ... 0 4 6 Bow ' s Chain "Makers , North Shields ... 0 7 9 Sunderland Sawyers ... ... . „ 0 8 0 Sunderland Sail Cloth Weavers 0 fi 3 J Sunderland Cba ' n Makers ... .. ... 0 d 8 Sunderland If alters . 0 6 9 Few Friends , Sunderland 0 2 9 £ 7 0 9 } Winlaton , En . _Scmmerside , treasurer . " November 22 nd , 1847 .
Ba'RN 8 LE * -. _—WnOLBSAU * _PtUKDEBING OF WOBKmen ' s Wages bv a Manopacioreb . — -The weaving trade of this town , which is generally brisk at this season of the year , remains in a precarious condition , owing to the commercial failures that have taken place throughout tlte whole country . It is truly heartrending to hear the lamentations of poor weavers in the employ of one of our tyrant capitalists , _whose plundering propensities are talked of more freely ia the United States of America , and other parts of the world , whither his workmen have flown to freo themselves from the sufferings endured at his accursed warehouse , than in Taylor row , a weavingdistrict in this town . Not satisfied with breaking through the arranged list of prices , and paying a lower rate of wage 3 than the otber employers , he has taken advantage of the present crisis to carry on a system of * bating , ' on the pretence of work not being
properly finished , notwithstanding that the weavers take more pains with their work tban they ever have done before . A hired tool , who writes to the Leeds Mercury , acknowledged that the _millionaire' bated' his weavers to the amount of between ten and eleven pounds on Saturday , the _13 tb , but he forgot to state , that seme forty cuts remained over , until the following Monday , the weavers of which were robbed of sums varying from five shillings to one pound . This tyrant Chnstian never fails to go to church on the Sunday , whilst his poor naked workmen and their wim 8 hut thomsehes up in their houses to shun the gaze of their more fortunate neighbours , and listen to the pitiful cries of their children for bread . How long will such a state of things continue ? ls it hot high time that t \ _ya weavers of Barnsley joined . the National Association * of United Trades ?
Barnsley Weavers—At a numerous public meeting of the linen weavers of this town , on Monday night , November 22 nd , at Mrs Pickering ' s large room , the following resolutions were agreed to : — 'That it is the opinion of this meeting that it is wrong on the part ot any individual to write a letter to the reporters of newspapers , and to father the same on the linen weavers' committee , with regard to abatements of wages , or anything else connected witn trade . The Union is prepared at all times to protect tlieir members from undue oppression of the
employers , but they cannot contend that the same prices shall bo paid for faulty work that is paid for good work , and as the magistrates bave publicly declared that they will grant a summons to any weaver who may apply for one to recover his wages , that is all that we can require at present . ' Moved by Frank Mirfield , seconded by Mr Yates . -- ' That it . is the duty of every weaver of this district to join the trade associations immediately , as itis our firmconviction that no man deserves his rights unless he is prepared to defend them in union with his f ' elhw workmen . ' Moved by Owen Wright , and carried by
acclamation . _TtBAimt of as Empioteh . —Permit me , through the medium of your widely circulated columns , to Jay before thc public ono of the most cruel cases of oppression on the part of the employer that has ocourred for some time past . The hatters of Atherstone have turned out to resist the enormous reduction of 6 s 8 d in the pound on their already miserable wages . Mr Wilday , who determined to have his purpose , informed the parish authorities that ¦ _. ' _¦ _*« men might have plenty to do but will not work . 'The consequence is , parochial relief is denied ; the men are in no union , and he says , he will starve them to it . The otber branches of tho trade , which he has not yet attempted to reduce , held a meeting ,
and determined by every exertion in their power to aid the men in their just cause . He , however , determined not to be thwarted in his purpose , stopped two branches altogether , and the remaining one he gave them such scanty employment that they barely exist . The men , however , still continue out , and declare their intention not to go in as long as they have anything in their gardens to subsist on . Learning that some of the men whom he still employed were paid-up shareholders in the Land Company , he immediately discharged them , and declared he would not employ a man any way connected with the Company . I am , however , happy to stnte , that oneot the men discharged is a fortunate allottee , and he has bid his tyrant defiance . —Correspondent
. Pill for the WHi 9 UEa . VSiR .--At a meeting ot the Paper Stainers and Hangers' Society held at the house of Mr J . _Beesley , Engraver ' s Arms , Cross street , on Thursday night last , it wa 3 unanimously resolved , ' That the whole of the funds of the above _society be sent to the Land and Labour Bank : ' in accordance with such resolution , I beg to inform you that I Sent the money , and received an _ackapwledgement by return of post . Yours respectfully , Wm . Myers , treasurer . Manchester , November 16 , 1847 .
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Frabd 3 on tab London and North-western Railway—On the 13 th instant , Mr D . Smith , of Stafford , maltster , appeared at the ShireHall of that town to answer a charge preferred by the London and North-Western Railway Company of attempting to defraud the company by riding _. _on the 29 th Oct ., between Stafford and Lichfield , in a first-class carriage with a second-class ticket . The case was clearly proved , notwithstanding the ingenuity of an attorney wbo appeared , for the defendant , and the
evidence showed considerable tact and perseverance on the part of Mr Cartwright , the superintendent of the Stafford station , in detecting the offence . Mr Smith was convicted in the penalty of 20 - . and costs There was a second summons against Mr Smith for a similar offence on the same day in returning from Lichfield and Stafford , but on the suggestion of the magistrates that the object of the company would be sufficiently attained by the publicity which would , doubtless , be afforded to the first conviotion _, the second charge was withdrawn .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 27, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_27111847/page/3/
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