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state of affucs , that { i ; _- _* . * plo who kave money in their lands cannot set a _Supply of food to purchase . Numberless h ?; ,-e been the comp laints made _re-« _recting the conduct of the Government in this tryin-- _t-nie of distress , and heavy are the imprecations , J , Dth loud and deep , uttered against them by the starving population . Iu _faet-whether they were -Jus tified in doing so or not , let others judge-the people lay all their " troubles at their do _. r , and certain y cot without some good show of reason . The only consolation ami blessing which the people enjoy . amidst all their sufferings , is derived from the plentiful supply offish _\ f Inch have visited the coasts , _an-1 herrings _licin-i sold at 2 d . and 3 d . the 120 , and goo ! hake canbe benight for 3 , 1 . each , while on ordir . _r it _occasions thev could not be had for Is . GL—Cork
Reporter . . _ _Dnnus , Oct . 21 .-Patmext op Labour , os 1 cbuc "Works . —Presentments to the amount of £ iW » jm Iwve already been grasted by the Board ot iiorhs . 3 C « t week there will be a vast increasem tUenwnber of persons employed . There must be . _<*«»« _»*• » great _miv preliminary _diffieulties Wlure _SUCh _immense operations are in _prcgrt-ss , and wl . _ereyearly ihe whole machinery bas to be created . _Nevertheless _, there were sixty thousand persons employed np to Saturda v . One source of temporary _cmbrrass-™ nt has arisen from the -Treat quantity of si ver
required to pav the _wases ot the labourers , i nis naa b _^ n in some measure anticipated by thegovcrnment , and a week or two since the Comet war steamer was _erupted bv the Treasury to deliver a considerable quantity of specie at the branches of the Bank ot Ireland in Cork , Waterford , Galway , and other towns on the Irish coast . In some of the inland districts there has been much inconvenience , owing to the large quantity of silver required . Within the last two months the silver currency in Ireland has been increased to the extent of £ 100 . 000 .
3 _Ieasckes of Relief . —The Galway town commissioners , at a meeting held on Thursdaylast , wted £ -500 towards the purchase of corn , to relieve the pressing necessities of the destitute poor . Ulster . —There are further accounts of the increase of distress in the northern province . The _Northern Whig contains the following : — _Destitctios of the People is the _JTeighbopbhood _orPoRTG-tESosE . —The following bas been forwarded to ns by a Portglenone _correspondent _: —•* We were all greatly alarmed on "Wednesday last by a report that a party of labourers were ti congregate here for tbe
purpose of looking our for employment or food . Owing iowever , to the severity ofthe day , only about a hundred assembled , end they seemed _erectly disappointed at not meeting with N . Alexander , Esq . M . I \ , their landlord , in whom they hare every confidence . It is really _distressing tosre the state of mise _* y to which the greater number of the working classes in this _neighoouoliood are reduced . Party _feelinc , which was formerly carried out to a great extent in Portglenone , has now altogether disappeared ; and all parties appear anxious to join together for one main object—employment . If their cry ba not attended to soon , the result will assuredly be _ssrious . "
BECUSUTIOS OF WASTE LAXDS . At the presentment sessions in the barony of Iff * -and 03 a . East , county of Tipperary , on Tuesday , £ 5 , 000 was voted for the present : but a general feeling prevailed in favour of voting money for the earth works ofthe Waterford and Limerick , and the Great Southern and Western Railways , both of which are to pass _through the harony , if those companies should 3 pply for the co-operation of the sessions . Captain Beraal Osborne , M . P ., who attended this meeting , blamed thegovernment for not meeting the present exigency by some effectual remedy , such as _ther-ec ' amationof the waste lands ; and he stated that landlords were deterred from _drainage by a fear of the _esoense of the officers of the Board of "Works .
GitwAT , Oct . 24 . — -On Tuesday last , _alaree con-« A * urac im " j » _cic > i , c , cOiupu «« -u _ui men , . i * . 'iut . u , UilU w _^ -t » - dren , assembled , in a riotous and tumultuous manner in front of the rcsifence of Mr . Clements . C . E _., "U pper Dominick-street , and threatened to break open lis house , destroy bis property , and inflict personal injarj on that gentlemen and the members of his family , unless they immediately procured food and employment . _^ Notwithstanding : the menacing appearance of the multitude . Mr . Clements ventured to address them from one of his windows , telling them that everything in his power had been done to proceed with , the publie works , and that , in the course of a day or two , he hoped to be able to give employment to over a thousand . Shortly after this tbe people withdrew , expressing their determination to lave employment at anv hazard .
• BASA « nKR , Oct . 2 i . —The potatoes in this district are quite exhausted , and the people are living upon oatmeal , which , at 2 s ( kl a stone , is not to beobtnined in suSicient quantities even by those who have remunerative employment . Many of them , however , are unemployed , and consequently in a state of destitution . Tbe mills , of which there are not halfenomh in the country , are kept at work day and _m-ilit , grinding oats for the publie . Crowds of farmers aud cottier tenants are gathered about the deois , waiting for their turn to have their several parcels ground ; and that time rarely comes round sooner than _forty-eight lours . They submit darins the interv . il onmeal advanced to them by Mr . Miller , who sometimes pro--vides them with an apartment of _somekind to shelter them from the weather , and cook their food in .
Sbe ; p stealing has become very prevalent in this neighbourhood . Scarcely a nbilit has passed for the last week that some farmer has m > t been deprived of one or two of his flock . These depredations liave not been traced in any instance to the famishing wreiflies whose misery would be some excuse ; bnt is suspected to b » the result of a combination amongst the shepherds to extort an increase oi ¦ trages-A ca < _-fc was stopped yesterday ok the ro . - . d between this place and Parsonstown , and a load of flour taken by the country people . Two men have been _ideut'fcd as the leaders of the exnloit . and sent to
prison . No public works have been yet set on foot to enable the poor people to bear up against this crushing calamity . It is said that some of the proprietors , ¦ who had been very clamorous on the ubject of " renroductive labour , " and urgentupon the eovernirent to ! grre a wide interpretation to the Labour Relief Act , have grown lukewarm on the question , now that their expostulations have been complied with , and hesitate about encumbering tbeir estates by applying for _^ w ; irks of special improvement . If this be true , it is a sore reflection upon the character of our gentry to be constrained to admit , that no
perron who has ob 3 erve _* l their ways with attention for the last twenty years can be surprised at it . _t " Curb . —A correspondent oftheEveninq Post gives the following : — " On the 14 th inst ., _* _aa a man , named _Donohue , was proceeding to the market of Ennis with a load of oats , the property of John Patrick Molony , Esq ., J . P ., of Crag ? , county Clare , lie was stop & ed near the village of Caharan by two men , armed _, -with _pisto ' s , who insisted on his going back with the corn , telling bim that in _compliment to Mr . Molony , who was a good man , they would not shoo ; the horse that time ; but , if he attempted ¦ to send out any more corn for saie , they would deal With him as thov had done with evert' one else .
On Sunday evening a party of men went _toDangau , the residene * of Thomas Sampson , E-. q ., and took away his arm- * - . On _Tuestluy morning two horses were fired at near Dromoland , when drawing in corn to tins town ; one of tbe horses , a valuable animal , was killed , the other had strength enough to draw tiie car into _Xewmarket . ___ Sale of _Fikf Arms is Cavax . —Immense quantities of new fire arms , of Birmingham manufacture _. Lave been selling by public auction in the different towns throughout tiie cuinay . —Anglo-Celt . _Westmeath . —A _diobolie-il outrage , took place on Monday ni ght last at Stonchail , the residence of Mr . Gibson . An armed party -vi sited the house on that night , and knocked _st the _hniklonr , and when the door wn- being opened the assassins outside Sred , bnt _fortuaatt-Iy without _effecti _; : _" - any personal injury to the j _* er _* mi within , the door having received the contents of ihe gun . —Wcmiea _' _Ji GuhnVan .
Closes , Oct . 17 . —This day , between two and three hundreds of tbe labouring class entered our town , demanding bread- The shopkeeper * helped tbem liberally with both _mon-cy ani food , and many of tbem afterwards closed their shops . Moxaghax _, Oct . 24 . —An _Aughnacloy correspondent informs us , that parties are scouring the country in tbat neighbourhood , _vi-ating tiie houses of gentlemen and fanners , demanding _ras . iey and food . One party visited the house of " Mr . Watson , of _Siuyboman , and although he gave them money , they threatened to liill one of bis cows uj ; on the nest visit ; they then went to the house of a now widow named Henderson , and extorted money from her by threats of destruction of property . Similar parties are parading through various parts of the country , levying contributions . —NorGiem Standard . ' i
_liPPEitAKY . —We cannot possibly describe the fear- ; ful state of utter misery to which the people -arc reduced in this place , without a resident landlord , and ! depending wholl y on chance for subsistence . Wej regret to add that the never-failing eoneomitante ofi famine and misery have begun to manifest their appearance ; that outrages have been committed , ana _4 rom what we learn we do not think it likely that tbey are not to be followed by others . A man ofthe name of Thomas Walsh , of Laokeragb , in this palish , was fired at and dangerously wounded in the jaw on Monday night . " Rumour" says our corres- ; i
, pondent , " assign as the reason of this outrage , a suspicion that he represented to the Board of Works that the people of this locality were not inthe state of misery and destitution represented , which caused , i it is thought , tbe board to delay imploying the ! starving poor . " Tbe Belief Committee have determined to give the office up altogether , having _no-1 thing to do but to listen to the _wa'ilings and lamen- tatlons of starving erowds , without the means ofre- _Jieving them , the government having absolutely re- " fused to give either food or money . —Tipperary Vindicator .
asoiiiee Attempt to Murder . —On Wednesday last , the fair day of Templemore , as Mr . Edward _Synie of Lisseaure was _itfnraiiig _ m from it , te
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was overtaken at Eastwood gate by three fellows , I who beat him severely with stones ,. inflicting one very serious cut , and three or four small ones . Mr-Byrne was nnable to proceed further , and remain i for the present at Eastwood , where two doctors _a _, re in attendance . —Nenaqh Guardian . Coontt ofCarlow . —On _Sundayfnieht last three men , whose faces were blackened , broke into tbe house of a widow named _Magee , who resides at Mavo , in the colliery district , Queen ' s County , and after presenting a pistol at hcv head , they demanded of her why she dared to pay her rent ! Two of the ruffians then held her while a third applied a torch | to her head , and held her until her hair was burnt | off , and the scalp seriously injured . They then left the house threatening her with a future visit . Tho poor woman presented herself next morning before a
raacistrate in a shocking condition ; but the subject having undergone investigation on Wednesday at the Ballickmoyle Petty Sessions , tho magistrates have offered £ 20 reward for such information as will lead to the discovery of tbe perpetrators . A few days _s-ncc a similar visit was paid a poor woman named _D-rylc , who , with her husband , resided on the same townland . as caretakers to Mr . Willoughby . The husband being absent , they inquired why they had taken the place of the persons who had been dismissed from the same employment : and having applied a torch to the hair of her head—a new mode of torture , worthy of barbarous aces—completed their savage task by burning the hair , and seriously injuring the poor woman's head . This poor family have since quitted that part ofthe country , evidently happy on their narrow escape .
" _Yorao Ikklaxd . "— Mr . O'Connell has written a long address to the steadfast moral force repealers of the city of Cork , in reply : to some resolutions calling for a reconciliation between himself and the _Toun-f Ireland party . He says , "the moral and physical force principles cannot amalgamate together , tbey are essentially different and opposite , and can have no combination . They are as different as black and white , as water and fire . You cannot commingle them without annihilating the one or the other . " And concludes by stating , "that the Association cannot concede , and if it could , it ought not . "
Distress in Sligo . —On Saturday last a deputation from the county of Sligo , were received by his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant , and the Right lion . H . Labouchere , Secretary of State for Ireland . The deputation , in feeling terms , represented to his Excellency the grievous state of privation and distress under which the labouring classes in tbat county are suffering . They urged , in particular , the depression of wages at a time when provisions had reached an exorbitant price , and recommended , amongst other remedial measures , the extension of the principle of reproductive works to subsoiling , wherever drainage was unnecessary . They likewise suggested the _establishment and use of the Coast Guard stations as depots for the sale and _deliveryof provisions , as had been done upon a former occasion . His Excellency entertained both the former suggestions very favourably , and the deputation were assured that they should be promptly and efficiently considered .
REPEAL ASSOCIATION . Coxciuation Haix . —The usual meeting of this body was held on Monday—the _M- > yor of Clonmell in the chair . Mr . John O'Connell read a letter ' from his father , which commented severely on the delay ofthe Board of Works in giving effect to the presentments made at the baronial ( sessions . Tho customary abase of the Young Ireland party was indulged in by various speakers , and after a speech on the distress by John O ' Connell , the meeting terminated . Rent nearly £ 100 . £ -50 of which was from Liverpool . [ It was expected that the proceeding would have been enlivened by a discussion with "the ; Youngl Irel . indcrs . Several ofthe latter offered themselves for adrr ; -- ¦ ~ _ _K .. f + 1 ,- _ntnr—„ u _* i _~ : o- — _, t » .-s look measures to exclude them . ]
_MEETING AT FERMOY . On Monday a meeting was held at Ferraoy for the purpose of conferring on the present alarming state of tho country , . and taking such steps as might be deemed most advisable to meet the exigency created by the scarcity and _dcarness of food , and the want of useful and beneficial employment for the labouring population . At the request of a large number of gentlemen constituting twelve Relief Committees , in this district , the county representatives , D . O'Connell and E . B . Roche , Esqrs ., attended the meeting , and on their entrance into the News Room , where ii was held , were loudly and enthusiastically cheered . Mr . O'Connell made a long speech . Several resolutions were agreed to , and a memorial founded upon them was ordered to be presented to the Lord _Lieutenant by Mr . O'Connell and a deputation from each Relief Committee . Dublin , Oct . 27 .
Relief of the Poor . —A general order has been issued by the Lord Chancellor authorizing ( in consequence of the prevailing distress ) sums to be granted to local relief committees out of the estates of minors , wards , lunatics , & c . The Master in the cause is empowered to grant such sum as he may deem expedient under the circumstances , not exceeding seven per cent , upon the net annual income of the estate . Special cases are to be referred to the Lord Chancellor when the amount sought exceeds £ 100 . _Ciare . —Owing to the rapid spread of crime partly superinduced by the pressure of distress , _throughout the county of Clare , Colonel Vandelcur , as Vice-Lieuttnant , _convened a meeting of the magistrates , clergy , and others , which was held in the Courthouse of Ennis on Saturday last . The attendance was extremely numerous and influential , and several temperate and judicious addresses were delivered . Meanwhile , outrage is not decreasing in the county , the anti-rent movement forming the most prominent feature of the disturbances .
On Sunday , say * the Clare Journal , —Two men , eaib armed with a gun , went to the cbapel of Clooney , nea Eunistymon , and posted a notice cautioning the people not to pay any rent to their landlords . These men were without any disguise , they remained outside the cbapel during the celebration of service by the Ituv . Mr . Slieehan , and twice discharged their guns , loaded only with powder , for the purpose , we presume , of proving that they were not in any way afraid of bring intercepted . This fact tends , more than any we have yet heard of , to prove the _daring _gpiritjof resistance to the laws amongst the people of this country . It must be looked upon as passing strange , that the people with their clergymen should not have at ouce seized upon such daring in . truders , and given them up to the police . But they were permitted to retire unmolested .
And : igam : —On Saturday evening-, as Mr . James _Pyne was pioceeding through a short cut in the neighbour hood of Fairy-hill , parish of Kilmaly , he was met by tworuffians , who beat him most _unmercifully , and left him apparently dead . Tiiey took from his person three halfcrowns , some shirt collars , and a penknife , which they afterwards returned with , saying they might hang them hereafter . Distdrbisces ix Cork . — The Cork Examiner says : — " On this morning a party of labouring men amounting to upwards of 300 , armed with spudes and shovels , entered the city about eleven o ' clock , for the purpose of procuring immediate _employment . Our reporter was _informtd by one of the party that they had assembled from several of the rural districts iu tbe _neighbourhood
of Cork , at distances varying from two to six miles . They first caUed at the relief-office ; but owing to the absence of the members , they were not able to ascertain any thing satisfactory ; and on the suggestion of one of the party , they proceeded to the police-office in order to have an interview with the Mayor . Here they were met by Head Constablo Condon and Sergeants Porter and O'Neill , who kindly and judiciously advised them to abstain from any violent or irregular proceed _, ings , assuring them that employment , both at the park aud at the _Glanmire-road , woulii immediately be af . forded . This species of consolation appeared at first to have little effect , for the miserable men appealed to the evidence afforded by their famishing appearance , and asked the constables if they were ' so circumstanced would such promises satisfy them ? " One of the wretched _, y j I B ¦ -
men whose face aud general appearance indicated the estremest misery , opened his tattered coat , and -showed the constable that he had pledged his shirt to sustain his starving family . Another stated , that ho had not eaten a morsel of bread since yesterday ( Sunday ) morning - that neither he nor his family tasted food or drink on that morning , because they had not a single article left at home to procure it . Though the majority of the party appeared peaceably disposed and determined to _discountenance violence or outrage , a considerable number recommended with vehemence the opposite policy . One ofthe party a stalwart and determined man , who appeared to be the leader , went up to Head Constabl-j Condon , and said , ** we are starving and dying—we have been starving , but we are determiued to stand it no longer . " Constable Condon _endeavoured to appease the - - 8 J ' ! < - - > ' ¦
; speaker , at the same time reminding him of the risk , he ran in instigating and exciting the people . The j speaker then replied . " There is nothing surer than that : I will be one ofthe first to break out ; for if 1 don ' t get ; bread , by heaven I'll fight for it , and I don't care if all the policemen in Cork were before me . Finding it was _nseiessto persist further , they then filed off in something Ufce military order , nud went to the Court-house , where his worship was engaged iu the Revision court . After _remaining there for a £ hort time , they returned down Great St . _= GJeorge-street , and proceeding through Patrick-street , stopped opposite the "imperial bakery , " which half a dozen of the most prominent entered . The doors of this establishment were _immediat ely besieged by the hundreds that composed this catheriiijf , while the | ¦ - 1 ¦ '
parties inside demanded something to eat , at the same time disclaiming any attempt at vioknec . A parly of polieemtn , under the command of Head Constable Cosdon , were in a very short time in attendance , and succeeded , with considerable difficulty , in _clearing the shop of its hungry occupants . Fearing that the threats and _expressions of three or fourin < _iividn-. ls would ultimately induce tlie people to commit outrage and _violence , and thereby lead , probably , lathe most disastrous _consequences , Mr . Condon orde red the apprehension of four individuals of the party . Thenftmes of those taken into custody are Johti lucey . Jonathan Tanner , Bartholomew Iv-efe , and John Sliean . The apprehension of these parties caused , for the present , the dispersion of the mob that threatened this establishment .
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jfANOIIESTER MUNICIPAL ELECTION . ADDRESS TO IHE _KATBPAVERS . Ratbpaybks of Manchester ! You who feel the wei ght of local nrisgovernmenr , by the expencc of its machinery falling upon your shoulders , —you who feel , day by day , more burdens heaped upon you , in the _Bhape of enormous rate 3 , to carry on the hateful system of municipal controul , —you -who hear loud complaints of gross maladministration in the affairs of your borough , — you who see large and petty exactions made upon you to supply the extravagant exchequer of an aspiring
corporation , —listen to a few arguments , facts , and figures , to show how wantonly your Town Council sport and gamble away hundreds and thousands of pounds of your hard-earned noney , regardless ot your personal capabilities to meet their demands ; and , whilst these things are being shown to you , bear m mind that the men , the Councillors , who thus sport with your funds , are your representatives ( at least , so they call themselves ) , and havo been actually elected under the specious plea or municipal reform I —of cheap local government ! ! - —yet have they , whilst in office , actually voted the following paymvntafrara your funds : that is , the Poor ' s Rate
the FIVE SHILLING RATE :- JE £ Round Nos Mr . Heron Town Clerk ... 1500 ... 30 per week . „ Maude Stipendiary Mag istrate ... ... 1000 ,,, 20 ,, „ Armstrong ... Recorder .,, 800 ... „ Chapman ... Coroner ... 600 ... 12 ,, „ Braudhurst ... Treasurer ... 500—10 » „ Hereford Assistant Town Clerk ... ... ... 500 ... 10 » „ Ogden Clerk of the Peace ... ... ... 450 ... 9 » „ Martin Clerkin the Town Clerk's office ... ... 200 ... i n
Another ... ... ... 109 ... 2 •> Twoat 51 12 s . per annum . A Messenger ... ... ... 02 8 s . » Then we have a Treasurer's Clerk at 78 *> A Deputy Billet Master ... ... 25 » A Surveyor ( Mr . George Shoreland ) partofsalery .... ... 100 » With three Assistant Surveyors ... 182 » Is it not monstrous that we should pay Mr . Chapman £ 600 per annum ( £ 12 a week ) , and , at - the same time be called upon to pay Mr . Rutter £ 2 * 77 4 s . 8 d . annually ? Well may our rates be increased !
Our Town-yard has been let to Mr . Rose for the sum of £ C 0 per annum , and Mr . Shoreland estimated the value of such property at £ 300 per annum . What right have the Corporation to make so free with property which does not belong to them , but to the burgesses ? What business have they to let it for any other purpose than that of the borough ? Again , Captain Rose , of the Manchester Fire Brigade , has £ 200 per annum and a sp lendid mansion allowed him by his Corporation 1 Read Mr . Abel Ilcvwood's speech , and that of Mr . John
Richardson White , on the subject , . both of whom opposed the grant , agreeing very properly that the situation oHght to have been offered for public competition , and the most eligible candidate selected , in preference to an unmatured and inexperienced " boy , " of some two or three and twenty years of age . For further proof , fellow-townsmen , of the paltry and despicable spirit of peculation which almost universally pervades the Toim Council of the borough , read the advertisement of " sale of horses , " which appeared in the Manchester papers of the l _* _^ inst . - ¦ ¦ ' - ¦•• -- '
The p _* _- . ' __ - . _Jes exhibited above amount to "C _.-ouiSs .: but , mark ! these are only connected witn the State Department : there is nothing yet said about the expenses of the Mayor and his Civic Guard ( the "Corporation Blues" ) , who figure proudly upon stale occasions , at an enormous expense to the Ratepayers , the items of which are displayed below : £ _£ pr . wk . 1 Chief Constable ( Captain Willis ) 550 0 0 ... U 1 Chief Superintendant ( Beswiek ) 350 0 0 ... 7 „ i Superintendants , viz : — 1 st Superintendant ( Sawley ... 200 0 8 ... 4 „ 2 d Ditto ... 180 0 0 3 d Ditto ... 150 0 0 4 th Ditto ... 150 0 0 2 Clerks at £ 100 each per annum ... ... 200 0 0
1 Inspector ( Archibald M'Mullen ) 100 0 0 19 Inspectors , at 80 s . each per week ... 14 S 2 0 0 43 Sub-inspectoTS , at 25 s . per week ... ... ... 2705 0 0 91 Constables , merit class , at 18 s . per week ... ... 4258 16 0 I 15 l 3 < , 2 iG Constables , merit class , at 17 s . per week ... ... 10873 i 0 __ 2 Clerks , at 20 s . per week ... 104 0 0 1 Constable ' s Clerk , at 18 s . perweek ... ... 4 G 1 C 0 1 Coroner ' s Officer , at 21 s ,
per week ... ... 54 12 0 I Messenger , at 24 s . per week , ( son of Peter Hewitt , Clerk of St . John's Church —a respectable gentleman , and very wealthy ... C 2 8 0 22 Supernumeraries ... ... 048 5 4 435 Folicemen and Clerks , whose Clothing cost ... ... 2204 0 0 Lamps , oil , & c , for Policemen 220 0 0 Rent and _tnxes of lock-ups , with repairs ... ... G 50 0 0 Conveyance of prisoners
before commitment ... 120 0 0 Printing and stationary ... 2 S 0 0 0 Medical attendance ( only ) ... 75 0 0 Expenses of station-house ... 190 0 0 Incidental secret service money for purged spies and paid informers WO 7 0 Total cost of tbe Force ... 25082 $ 4 Deducting various sums ( such as cloth on hand ) ... ... 1180 0 0 | 24782 9 4 Add to this 2 Sub-Inspectors and 32 Constables , just put on ... 1038 17 , 0 Total 25821 6 i
This enormous force is kept up—for what ? To prevent crime ?—to cateh thieves ?—to overawe the people by a sort ofa military exhibition of marching and countermarching ?—to act as spies upon publicans and beer-house keepers ? What , in the name of heaven ! is this immense and expensive force kept up for ? What public necessity renders such a force warrantable . Crime is fearfully on the increase ; bo much so , that we need a new borough gaol in order to make the system complete . Let us for a moment examine into the cost of the punishment of crime in the borough of Manchester alone : —*
Per annum , The expenses of the Borough Court amount to ... ... ... £ 950 0 0 The expenses connected with the Quarter Sessions and Borough Sessions ... 141 C 0 0 0 Maintenance of Borough prisoners in the New Bailey ... ... ... 3150 0 0 Add to this the cost of the Force ... 24821 6 4 £ 44081 6 4 The perquisites of the officers connected with the " Quarter Sessions" and "Borough Sessions" and departments amount to a sum considerably more than double the amount of their actual salaries ( £ 14 , 1 C 0 ) . Would it not be more becoming to expend this great amount in educating the working men of Manchester , instead of overrunning the town with a non-disciplined armed force , ostensibly for the purpose of using coercive measures with those whom folly and ignorance havo led away from the path of virtue and morality ? The entire kingdom of France , with a population of upwards of thirty-two millions , does not spend so much money in brutalising her population as the borough of Man-Chester alone . On the llth of June , 1832 , Sir James Graham _declared the expense of the whole of the Executive Go-• vercmenment of the United States amounted to no more than " £ 20 _, S 12 ; thus , the expense ot crime , prevention , and punishment , in the borough of Man-Chester amounts to " more than twice the expense of the United States Government ' . with a population of seventeen millions sixty-eight thousand six hundred and sixty . gix . " There is a curious document in my possession , with the imprint of " Prentice and Cathrall , Times office , " affixed thereto It is in reference to the outlay attendant upon scavenging the streets , under the superintendance of our _tY-legal Town Council ! We make the following extracts , leaving the facts to speak fer themselves : —
Per annum , S horses' keep , & c ., at 24 s . Cd . per week ( for Manchester ) ... ... £ 509 12 0 1 horse ' s keep at Ifis . lOJd . per week ( for Salford ) ... " 4317 0 Now , tradesmen of Manchester , —you who possess business-like habits and industry , aud who well know tbe difficulty of obtaining money honestly , — does not this require looking into ? We are paying £ 8 , 186 for cleaning the streets in the borough of Manchester , and onl y £ 175 9 s . Cd . for the borough of Salford , whose streets are kept much cleaner . Let us dismiss this item with another extract . The sub- ject is a painful one : but the amount of local taxa * tion is so great , and bears so heavy upon me , that I cannot , with justice to myself , remain any longer silent , especially when my means are squandered ill the payment of extravagant and unmerited safari *** :
Jfanoiiester Municipal Election. Address...
At a Council meetm _** :, held ou the 13 th May , Instant it was resolved , by a _majority of sixt . eu to four to . enter _ntbacentract with Mn J . _Whltworth , to _scavange the t _eets n the township of MM *** ° ? - ffT _^ for tho annual sum of £ 8600 , he _««^' fhe to Sc _aXtwenty martinet for the purpose , _althoughi the Scaveng _^ ing Committee state in th _. ir printed "Port , « _J » * ¦ ft _^ machines are sufficient , w _«<* ««*»** _»«* ™ _™" cost , at the said contract price , _£ 2 F 0 per annum . each at £ 104 10 s . Gd . per machine per annum more than is paid by the corporation of Salford . The _exoensos of the _^ ole Executive Gove _t-nment of the entire state of New York amount to ho in re than £ 14 770 with a population of one million six sons ; consequently , the borough ot Manchester costs throe times more than the whole state of New XorK .
The total annual cost of the police eonstables above amount to as will be seen £ 2 u 821 G 4 The total annual cost of maintaining and clothing tho 1 st Regiment of Dragoon Guards , with 436 men and horses , is ... 2 U 1 S ia _t Thetotalcostof the 7 th Fuslleei _' S , Of 000 f men and officers amounts to ... * _= dJ 1 ) t- « ° Thus , by comparison alone , our police cost £ 3 , 902 7 s . 9 d . more than a regiment of dragoons _, and £ 340 8 s . lid . more than a choice regiment ot infantry , and considerably more than a seventy gun line of battle ship , bearing the admiral ' s flag . If we add to the above items the miscellaneous expenses of the Corporation : £ 1255 0 0 The e xpenses of the Municipal
Corporation election ... ... ... 350 0 0 The expenses of the Manorial rights ... 4000 0 0 Compensation to Rutter ( late coroner ) ... 277 4 8 _Custom-flouso expenses ... ... 1510 0 0 Nuisance and Hackney Coach Department ( including _Neil ' s salary oi £ 130 per annum ) less fines inflicted ... .. * 261 ° ° Building and Sanatory Regulations Department , ( including £ 02 for George Shoreland ' s salary ) 242 0 0 And for the 'Weights and Measures De . partment 350 0 0
we shall find a gross expenditure of £ 61 , 333 3 _* _i . being more than tho whole of the Poor Rates levied on each of the counties , with a population as follows : — Bedford , 107 , 937 ; Cumberland , 177 , 212 ; Hereford , 114 , 438 ; Huntingdon , 58 , 699 ; Monmouth , 134 , 349 ; Rutlandshire , 21 , 340 ; Westmoreland , 50 , 469 : North Riding of York , 204 , 602 ; Anglesea , 50 , 890 ; Brecon . 53 . _* 795 ; Cardigan , 68 , 380 _; Carmarthen , 106 . 482 ; Carnarvon , 81 , 068 ; Denbigh , 89 , 291 ; Flint . 66 , 547 ; Glamorgan , 173 . 462 ; Mereoneth , 39 , 238 ; Montgomery , 68 , 720 ; Pembroke , 88 , 262 ; Radnor , 25 _. 18 G ; beins all the Welsh counties , with a population of 911 _. G 03 ! and more by £ 32 , 532 than the salaries of all Her Majesty ' s Cabinet
Ministers ! 1 ! and nearly three times more than the entire salaries of tho Executive Government of the United Slates ; and tin ' s is called " cheap government !" It is , indeed , genuine Whig government , to say the least of it , and a precious specimen it is . Ratepayers , what do your Poor Hates amount to on a £ 20 assessment , 5 s , in the pound ? ... ... _** ° ° What does your Highway Rate amount to at 8 d . t » 13 * What does your Police Rate amount to at Is . in the _jiound ! ... ... ... 10 0
G , l ? i _* A Mark well the above sv _^ a _^ d , _<• = •¦ " " " _^ wnere it is to come from . - _?«*> Vi . ' _miperatively it is demanded What do the fines amount to in Manchester , in a week , month , quarter , or a _, „ year ? They are all enormous . I have heard it stated at forty times the amount of £ 261 , which would amount to £ 10 , 000 annually ; and this is cunningly placed under the "Nuisance and Hackney Coach Department , ' and headed "less fines inflicted ! " What becomes of this monev ? Mr . Nield is paid £ 130 per annum , as a public informer , and said it was a d—d shame " his salery was not raised as well as the rest of them . For the " Weights and Measures Department , " the borough ischargod £ 300 ; but I am credibly informed that all persons pay for their weights and measures Deing examined and repaired , The shopkeeper and publican have to pay , even if found correct : if they be under weight or measure , they are charged more .
I am not saying they oug ht not to be examined ; but 1 wish to know what becomes of the penalties in which defaulters are amerced ? Perhaps Councillor Nightingale will inform us . When weights are defi * cient they are forfeited , and if found to be composed of lead they are forfeited . What becomes of the old pewter quarts , pints , half-putts , quarter-pints , and the like , when they are seized . for being dinged , or otherwise imperfect , by this badly-paid official , alias " Less Finks Inflictro" ? What do these fines amount to in Manchester ? Why don't some one move for a return of the same ? Do these fines go to pay for dinners and wine ? Thirty or forty of our fat-fed Councillors , last week , pnrtonk ofa royal feast ; and one of them complained , the following morning , of being very _unwell from the effects of his beastly intoxication , and asked his friend what did he thiak the dinner cost . The gentleman said he could not say . The Councillor ' s reply was , "' Only £ 2 per head ; of course , including wine !"
Mr . : " Did the two pounds come out of your own pockets 1 " Councillor : " Oh , no ! out of the borough fund , under the item ' less fines inflicted , ' and out of the * Weight and Measure department !'" Mr . Councillor then said to the gentleman , " We ean get up a dinner at any time 1 " and further informed them that " the wine was old and splendid , and delicious , and ohampaigne very plentiful !" What an expensive bauble is this Corporation of ours ! Unless the Rate-payers bestir themselves _, and reform it altogether by turning out the men who are so regardless of their pockets , and placing better men in their stead , ere long we shall have a golden collar and mace ( not forgetting a _wisr ) for the Mavor . furred robes for the Alderman .
and robes of office for the ceunsellors besides all the retinue of Sword-bearers . Mace-bearers , Pursebearers , Cup-bearers , Remembrancers , City , Sereeants , Toast Masters , Jesters—aye , even Jesters , — Trumpeters , with all the indispensable appurtenances of ice-houses , wine cellars , turtle-ponds , in the olden style , whorein to preserve the good things of this life , to enable the Aldermen to keep up their dignity , and appear with '' good fat capon lined , " when peering upon the bench of justice , with grave nods and solemn frowns at poor publicans and sinners , dragged up _« on most frivolous occasions at the instance of these blue _Dog-berriers , who , arm . d with eighteen inches * of brief authority secreted in their
coat pockets , are the terror of evil doers . Rate-payers , of Manchester , have you eyes and cars and not see and hear the loud and deep complaints against the system ? Ilave you so much money in your pockets that , when a fiveshillingsrate is extracted therefrom , you cannot miss it ? Have you hearts and not the courage to rouse ye from your listless apathy , and pitch overboard those Councillors hitherto elected by small juntos when you were asleep ? If you do miss the five shillings rate from your pockets ; if you have hearts and courage to defend yourselves against extravagant Councillors and hi ghly paid functionaries , then bestir yourselves , for
THE DAY OF ELECION IS AT HAND !!! Select men whose sympathies are not so easily deadened by _thegew-g » wof an il-legant Corporation , who are going to settle £ 1000 annually of your money for the next Mayor , to buy a gingerbread carriage to give him an airing to Smithy Door ; and also , a state barge for him and the Alderman , to take aquatic exercise on the limped waters of the River Irwell , as far as Throstle Nest , or on the Serpentine river , at Ardwick Green . In conclusion , Fellow Ratepayers , take warning ! Do not return any of the retiring Councillors ; but , if you do , never again complain , and for ever after hold your tongues . I am , fellow-ratepayers , Your obedient servant , William Dixon . Temperance _OuVe-house , 93 , Ancoats-lane , Manchester .
The address is not written with feelings of vindictive _, _ness towards any gentlemen receivin g stipendiary salaries from the rate-payers of Manchester , but to expose the wonton and reckless expenditure of the public money by the Wliig Corporation—ever despicable in all their acts , and never to be trusted . * A policemans truncheon ,
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J ' I Tait's Magazine And Loud Byron. To...
j ' i TAIT'S MAGAZINE AND LOUD BYRON . TO THE EDITOR . OP THE NORTHERN STAR . Sir , — "Letthe dead slumber softly , " are words we have often heard . To forget the faults and embalm the virtues of the mighty dead , is a . practice of the more generous of living men , but the fate of tbe deceased poet Byron is an exception , and if some men must slander as well as smile , be vicious when they assume the gait of virtue , perhaps the deceased poet can best bear the injury .
1 ' : i _<* •' i £ t 1 t Permit me to add a few remarks to your review in last Saturday ' s Star of the article by G . Gilfillan , in Tail ' s Magazine , on Leigh Hunt nnd Lord _llyroti . To all that is said in favour of Hunt as a man of genius , 1 willingly subscribe . He is tlie pleasant pratler , the charming essayist , one of Nature ' s _chosan teachers ; to instruct Earth ' s children in the book of Nature is his noble mission , and all honour await bim . But why Buch a truth requires to be linked up with such sentiments as the _following , is indeed to us wondrous strange . " But , because Byron , disgusted with himself , si « lc of Italy , _satiatedwjtlj literary fame , or rather afraid of losing the
J ' I Tait's Magazine And Loud Byron. To...
laurels he had gained , exhausted in intellect and bruised in heart , threw himself into the Greek cause , " < fcc . A most unaccountable association of feeling ! Was Byron ambitious of fame ? If so was the acquisition o f his darling object at all likely to make the ambitious poet disgusted with himself ? Are men generally disgusted by possessing that which they desire to have ! Ask the miser if he is disgusted when he counts his gold . Ask the orator what is his feeling when a thousand voices echo his sentiments ? Byron's disgust must be found somewhere else . George Gilfillan ask yourself , what was your feeling when you penned the words we have quoted , do so Scotch reviewer , and try again . " Satiated with literary fame , or rather afraid of losing the laurels he had gained . " More strange still ! Filled to repletion , yet afraid of losing the laurels he had gained . The genius who wooed and won the fair goddess Fame was incapable of retaining her favour . Satiated or rather afraid . Do these two states of feeling admit of
harmony % Can they exist at the same time in the brain of the s _«> me being ? Does fear imply satisfied gluttony ? What prompts man to action cannot imply satisfaction , except in the way of acquiring his desires , and if Byron was afraid of losing his laurels , be _eouldnotbe satiated with fame ; for such satiation would naturally produce wont of regard for the possession of fame , ami mental sloth would follow . Neither of these followed , and indeed the cotemporary of Sir Walter Scott , and the admired by all true lovers of genius had nothing to fear . Lord Byr « _m hid giinod a p lace in the circle of the great of his day , when the author of the "Lady of the Lake , " was jot living and adored . That young poet who , at the age of 19 , stripped tbe Scotch reviewers of their haughty plume , and lived to be honoured by his _traducers had indeed | nothing to tremble for . I pass over the critic ' s misgivings as to what Byron should have done . Burns , the Scottish ploughman , has paraphrased the ideas of Solomon , and
said" My son , these maxims make a rule , And lump them aye the gither : The rigid righteous is a fool , The rigid wise anither . " Byron ' s death fell on tbe ear of tbe world as a warning that earth knew tbe loss . England ' s -press was in mourning ; , her children in sackcloth . Think of the modesty of the writer who , in the plenitude of his charity , _writeson Byron ' s bu 9 t the most fatal of all inscription ? , — ' _« A traitor to his own transcendant genius . " I thank Gilfillan for the admission ; his was a transcendant
genius , and thought must in all cases precede action—his was a transcendant thought , and his works are to posterity a transcendant legacy , It may appear startling , but I venture the assertion , that a man cannot be a traitor to himself , he cannot war with his own powers . Is it _pos . sible for a man to forsake himself t is it possible for a man to be and not to be at the same time ? Oh but , it it is said , his actions are disgraceful to bis own powers , or , to put it strongly , he was powerful for evil , and the object and aim of true genius should be to elevate and ennoble man . Well , turn over to page 209 , and mark tho following quotation : —
"We believe that the man Dante would have shrunk from consigning even the finger that signed his mandate of banishment , to eternal burnings ; but this was not to prevent the poet Dante , when elaborating an ideal hell , heating , if he pleased , his furnaces seven degrees , and _indulging his imagination in compounding into every tremendous variety the elements of torment . The poet is ever bound to give the brightness of brightness , and blackness of darkness ; to mend , if he can , the air of Elysium , and heighten the beauties of Paradise ; ' and . on the other hand , to make' hell itself a murkier gloom , ' It will never do to argue thence . *?? _¦*¦ ' "— benevolence or the cruelty r _'''" _" _- " . ' . < usiiion . Was Michael Angelo
' . ' copouo . uie for the awards of his ' Last Judgment V Is the illustrator of Fox ' s ' Book of Martyrs , * _answerable for the kindling of all those curling , crested , reluctant or rejoicing , eager or _slumberiag , flames ! Was _Coleridgu less the ' Friend , ' because he appears to exult in the perdition of William Pitt ! Is Thomas Aird less one ofthe mostamiaWe of men , because bis 'Devil ' s Bream' contains a most horrific picture of the place of punishment t And has John Wilson the soul of a butcher , because is that famous Noctes directed against our friend Dr . Knox , he describes with such dreadful gusto certain unceremonious proceedings in that ' other place , ' about the spirit of William Burke 3 "
The names of Dante , Coleridge , Michael Angelo , Aird and Wilson follow in rapid succession . I ask Gilfillan to apply the same test of criticism to the writings of Byron , and prove , if he can , that be is not the noblest of authors and tbe _nrstjof poets . His images lire with the reader ; his heroes speak to our inmost feeliogs ; his heroines breath in our sympathies ; nay , his very digressions aro representative of human character to the life . New , answer , is his inscription to be " a traitor to his own trans _, _cendant genius 3 " Will Gilfillan have one rule for Dante and another for Byron ? Coleridge is not responsible , because he appears to exult in the perdition of William Pitt ? Is Byron to be * blamed for the reasoning of his Gain ? Our own Shakspere _, in his own fancy , murdered Juliet- She cries" A noise , —then I'll be brief ! ( Snatching Romeo ' s This is thy sheath . ( Stabs herself . ) [ dagger . ) There rust , and let me die . " ( Falls on Romeo's body , and dies . )
No writer ever dreams of blaming Shakespere with intending to honour suicide . Thelanguage of Juliet is the reflux of her feelings , and suited to her position . I ask a similar latitude for the writings of Byron , and have no fear for the results . To him who writes Byron " a traitor to his own transeandant genius '" we -write" This lion is a very fox for his valour " " True , and a goose for his discretion , " But , perhaps , itis necessary I should refer to another cause for the declarations of George Gilfillan ; he writes , referring to the cause of the weakness of Hunt's
contributions to the " Liberal Shelley , " long a screen between him aud pecuniary distress , as well as a link binding him to the moody and uncertain Byron , was newly drowned . " Byron is here represented as a _being too weak to reason , too powerless to act , moody and [ uncertain . A sort of gloomy , fickle demon , who could only bo approached by the nid of a mediator , and that mediator Shelley . I _uow ask . What link bound Shelley to Byron ? that Shelley who was not in pecuniary distress , and who writes his own character in these words— " The virtuous man , who , great in his humility , as kings are little in their grandeur 1 "
There is a correspondence in mind . We do not look abroad for gloomy and uncertain Mends to be our companions ; on the contrary , we love . the _assoctatien of those whose feelings are in some way similar to our own . The burglar is seldom the companion of the good nnd virtuous man . The Turpins and Haggarts of society are never tbe closeted and confidential friends of the Howards and _Frys of this world . . Neither was the _high-souled , virtuous and generous , nayi the almost feminine Shelley , likely to choose and elect for his friend an uncertain and moody fiend . The latter friendship of Byron towards Jeffrey sufficiently proves that Byron could both forget and forgive" And all our little feuds , at least all mine _. Dear Jeffrey , once my most redoubted foe , ( As far as rhyme and criticism combine To make such puppets of us things _balow , ) Are over : Here ' s a health to— " Auld _latigsyne !' I do not know you , and may never know Your face , —but you have acted on the whole Mjst nobly , and I own it from my soul . "
Thus Byron cries aloud , I forgive thee thy trespasses , even _though you should never _foryive mine ; nnd such a noble nnd voluntary effusion of fcelingfrom Byron should alone rescue his memory from the bile of _pftrtizan drivellers , and the slime of serpent-like hypocrites . All ages of literature have had their bitter and bilinus reviewers . Those who hare read the life of Dr . Goldsmith will very well remember the doings of Kenrick and Boswell ; how the good-natured Doctor would sometimes forget his childish humour , and have his seclued hours annoyed with the invectives of men who abused that which tiiey coveted , and condemned that which they could not imitate . But who that has ever read " The Destrted Village " ( and _whers is he who has not done to ) thinks of representing its author cudgelling a bookseller
with a siiellclah , and then exclaiming , " See , is he not an Irish blackguard ? " What reader who has admired the sublimity ofthe " Hundredth Psalm" ever thinks of rep . resenting David , the Psalmist , asking God to curse his enemies , exposing his nakedness to the gaze of others , or seducing Uriah ' s wife ? Good and honourable feeling buries all such scenes , anil remembers thnt all men have sinned in some way against their fellows ; it may be against their prejudice , or ignorance , their virtue , or their vice . The Boswells , and Kemicks , and Gilfillans _, are tho deli of the race that write . If it be possible that the spirits of the departed dead can gaze on the acts of living men , I can fancy the poet smiling magnanimously at the doings of his enemies , saying , " Alas , poor men , they are of another mould , and another fceling _. from him whose good name they fain would injure . "
Genius , like the light of Heaven , is _universal , though sometimes varied , yet it is ever genuine . It may darken as a cloud before the sun , or sparkle like sol ' s rays in the clear lake—it may peep in at the skylight of a cottage , or the portals of a hall , yet it is ever true to itself , it is ever natural . It seeks no specific flower , no peculiar plant * , it is neither cobweb , mustard seed , nor pease blossom . It is no more vegetable than mineral , no more mineral than animal ; it is all . It is nature ' s voice , speaking inspired thought *; to the children of men , and it 1 b plearant to turn from the bilious ravings ofa captious cynic to tha opinions of ia great observer , and I hope , even in Edinburgh , the sayings of Dr . Hugh Blair ( who was for many years one of tho Ministers of the High Church , and professor of Rhetoric and BellesLetters in
the University of Modern Athens ) , will command respect . Writing of Ossian , his words are , " The question is not whether n few improprieties may be pointed out in his works ; whether this or that passage might havo been worked up with more art or skill , by some writer of happier times . A thousand such cold and frivolous _critieisms are altogether indecisive as to his . enuine merit . But bas lie the spirit , tbe fire , the inspiration of a poet Does he utter the voice of nature , does he elevate by his sentiments , does he interest by his descriptions , does he pnint to the heart a 3 well as to the fancy , docs lie make Ids readers glow and tremble , and weep ? These are the great characteristics of true poetry . Where these are found lie must lie a minute critic indeed who can dwell UPOU Slight defects . A few beauties of this kind transcsnd whole volumes of faultless mediocity . "
Tried by such a test , Byron must be regarded as the poet among lords , and the lord among poets . A LlUr _r & ou tub Annals or A Shoeiiakir * s Garbet .
The Iron Steam.Boat And Boiler Build ' ¦...
THE IRON STEaM . BOAT AND BOILER _BUIld ' ¦ '¦'¦¦ ' TO THE EDITOB * OF THE NOETHEBN _STAi Sib , —In the Northern Star of October the 17 th there appeared a letter headed "Iron Steam Sflih _6 ' Boiler Making—Injurious Effects of Piece-work . ' ?" - writer styles himself T . C . a United Boiler _Mai- * states tlsat the letter is wrote by the particular d . <> s \ l ' "' the Boiler Makers ofthe London District . What , ' the motives of 3 fr . T . C . for not signing his name in _/* to his letter we are at a loss to imagine , why could _hj Bi gn his name Thomas Corlett , as we knew he t ol _,- ! , _° ' Corresponding Secretary of the order in Manchester r it he ( the Secretary ) would look in the A _' _orfntrn _fifo ' the 17 th instant , there would be a letter of his ( Cot | I , production . But , Sir , little did the _Corresponding * ) retary think that the letter would contain such " _foj * hoods , and little did wo the Committee think th 4 l " _* man would be so base as to throw odium and dis- * ., ; upon every honourable employer in bondon . When the letter was read from the Northern Star » were struck with amazement that the London Boiii Makers had taken such a step . We instituted _» : ' quiry , and found that the Boiler Makers of the _Iqmdistrict never authorized Mr . Thomas Corlett , nor _» other man to write such a letter ; therefore we acq ; the Boiler Makers of Londot > from any blame , and _h ,, the individual himself responsible for his falsehoods . 5 , we must comment rather freely upon the letter , see | ? that such vile and calumnious misrepresentations -J calculated to set the face of every honourable emplou ' and their foreman against us and our Society ; and I calculated to create an angry feeling In the breast , _otery employer towards their men .
In the first part of his letter ihe writer states that t * Iron Buke , Ajax , Birkenhead , Windsor and Harringta Iron Steam Ships , were built by Thomas Ternon , Esq , 1 Liverpool , and that they are compared to those built a the Thames as a splendid mansion is to an old d'vellb With every respect to Thomas Vernon , Esci ., we m _^ state that the " Iron Duke" was built by Messrs . _Wilsn . and Co .. and the " Birkenhead" by Messrs . Liard j l Co ., of Woodside . Again , as regards the keeping tig ' , the London boats by cement . It appears tbat Mr . _Cotl < - has a thorough knowledge of the nature of cement , wl _^ he say , ? _thitt it will no ; keep them tight in a heary _^ therefore according to bis own theory they must sin } , but we candidly ask , has there been a single instance-
_rtcerd of any of the London built boats _unking in cc :. sequence of the _cemsne giving way ? It appears fl * , Mr . Corlett sympathises very much with the _Merchat _^ aud Lloyd ' s Insurance , when he states-that any _infom * _, , tion they may require he is sure the trade will furni _^ them with . We state without fear of _contradiction that neither the trade nor the Society , ever _authori'j him to make any such statement . The letter contai _* , some statements respecting piece-work * We must adn £ that _piace-work in general is very injurious to the _trad-, at the same time it is not by coercioa that we can _getj abolished , it is net by holding honourable employers m to public ridicule , it is not by writing slanders and li _^ against them , that we can get the system abolished .
In another part of the letter the writer states that ii , only thing studied at the present time is to get the * boi > ) in the water , whether tbey sink or _strim , G / w Heavens ! we blush nt such an assertion , how _corfl any man pen down such rascality , and barefaced fa ! _t _> . hoods , and write as if tbey had come from the IWi , Makers _« f the London District , we know not . What the celebrated Iron Boat Builders on the _banii ofthe Thames will say to Corlett ' _s assertions , we kno _* not , but we beg most emphatically to assure them tl _^ neither the Boiler Makers of London , nor tbe Society , j , responsible for such calumnies . We could comment at greater length upon several other charges which are _aj groundless and void of truth as those we have contn . dieted ; such as putting horse loads of dung , ashes , ic , into the boilers in order to make them _tight , we are fallconvinced that tbe employers of London would scon such an action .
Mr . Editor , Sir , we sincerely beg of you to insert this letter in the columns of the Northern Star of this wis , in justice to the honourable employer ' s foremen in London ; injustice to the Society , and in justice to Gfl _* l _« 700 good men in London , whose names has been abused by Corlett in his letter inserted in your paper . * We remain , Sir , Yonr very _humblo servants , The quarterly Committee of tbe Head Lodge of United Boiler Makers ( Signed , ) John Roberts , Corresponding Secretary , No . 0 , _George-st ., Hulme , Manchester . October 26 , 184 C .
Mansfielb Frame-Work Knitters. To Tiie E...
MANSFIELB _FRAME-WORK KNITTERS . TO TIIE _EUITOR OF THE _NOBTHEBN STAB . Sir , —The workmen in the silk knotted brunch liarsbeen in a state of great excitement during the last two or three weeks , in consequence of Mr . Orton charging Mr- Samuel Ward with having applied to Mr . Shclton of Nottingham for work , and offering to make silk knotted hose at 2 s . per day below the " statement . " This Mr . Ward denied t » tofo ; but Mr . Orton declared it true , and further stated tbat he would no give any more silk out until it was properly cleared up , The secretary , then-fort , wrote to Mr . _Shelton _, requesting him to in . form tbem if Mr . Ward had been guilty of such an act ; but tbat gentleman declined answering their letter . Mr .
Ortan being anxious to have the affair set at rest , asked _ifr' Shelton if he would make the same statement iu the presence of a respectable witness as he had done to himself ; he said he would , accordingly Mr . Orton fetched a Mr . Gibson of Nottingham , in whose presence Mr , Shelton stated that [ Mr . Ward had actally offered to make the above-named article at 2 s . per dozen under price . Mr . Gibson thereupon wrote to the secretary to that effect . This was considered sufficient proof of Mr , Ward ' s guilt , consequently a pablie meeting of the silk knotted branch was called at the Black Swau , on Monday , the | 19 th instant , which was very numerously _attenicu , when it was unanimously resolved , " That a rote of censure be passed upon Mr . Ward for his mean and neferious conduct in offering to make work at the
reduced price 2 s . per day ; and further , for the informs _, tion of those who wish to reduce our prices , and to encourage those who wish to support them , that we hereby renew our oft repeated pledge , tbat wo will not under any circumstances make silk knotted hose under our present statement price . " 2 nd . " That the present system adopted by certain houses of taking 2 s . per dozen ia shape of frame rent , tends much to keep the trade in a state of continual confusion , and encourages the practice of taking high charges , and believing as we do that high charges induces tbe masters to take out work at reduced prices , [ we hereby publicly declare that we will take the earliest opportunity to enforce more equitable rate of charges . " The silk knotted branch take this opportunity of publicly tendering their unfeigned thank ! to Mr * Shelton and Mr . Gibson for the handsome manner in which they have acted in bringing the guilty party to
| light , But , tir , the above is not an isolated case . The 1 exhorbitant exaction , the grinding tyranny , of the bagmen of Mansfield is not only proverbial , but insufferable .. Mr . Orton has been in the habit of charging 2 s . 6 d , per week for his " two at once " plain silk frames , but now he unblushingly charges Is . fid , per dozen , and a man making three dozen a week , as many men do , pays 4 s . Cd . a week for his frame . These tyrants have entered the liiits _, they hare _turoint _sloirn the gauntlet , and we will take it up ; we will neither give nor take quarter until the abominable system is destroyed . But the weapons ot oar warfare arc not the sword , the rifle , or the cannon ; but truth , reason , justice , an unconquerable aversion to tyranny , and a firm resolve to be free . Let any man . who wishes well to himself , or to society , join the standard of the National Association , and strengthen the hands of the Central Committee with their numbers , intelligence , aud funds . I am , Sir , your ' s respectfully , Wm . _FEtKisf , District Secretary .
Suicide Through Seduction-. — On Friday Night.
Suicide through Seduction-. — On Friday night .
The City Coroner, Held An Inquest On The...
the City Coroner , held an inquest on the body of Mary Greene , an interesting female , aged 1 G years . A fellow servant deposed that shortly after nine o ' clock on Friday morning , upon going into the store room , saw deceased suspended from the water-pipe . There was a ladder near . She had evidently got upon the ladder , and tied the rope by which she was suspended to the pipe , and afterwards thrown the ladder down . She was quite dead . Can't say who her sweetheart was . Knew she had one , as she had told witness she was very fond of him , ' and that sue
could not exist without him . In reply to a question from the Coroner , Mr . Brown , surgeon , said deceased had beeu recently seduced—City policeman , Gio _, said he was on duty in St . Mary Axe on Friday afternoon , when a , person at Mr . Meiiona ' s printingoffice asked him if it was true that a voung woman bad hung herself . Witness replied in " the affirmative . The person then said , "My reason for asking you is because one of ' our men has been boasting _tliathe took her out on Tuesdav last , and seduced her . " W itness had made inquiry , aud found that deceased was out on Tuesdav with a man ofthe name
ot Bowen , who is a compositor . —Catherine Knight , St . Mary Axe , knew deceased . Saw her last alive on Thursday night , when she came to witness ' s shop . She said she was very much distressed in mind . Witness asked her the reason , when she said she had been keeping company with a young man , whom slio saidshc had since found to be a married man . That something had occurred which would prevent her from seeing her parents again . —The Coroner here sent for the man Bowen . Upon his arrival , _Jh \ Payne said , I have sent for you that you may , if you ean do so , contradict the statements that have been made . We are toid that vou have been in the
habit of taking this unfortunate young woman out lately , and that you did so on Tuesday last , and then _, seduced her ; and she , from fear of her disgrace , lias put an untimely end to her existence , , —Bowen : l positively deny it , —By a juror : Have you ever seduced her ?—Bowen ( _smiling ) : To be sine I luive . --Ajuror : Have yon any lamily ?—Bowen : \ es , 1 have three children . —A juror : Then you are a disgrace to soeietv . Your object from the lust , r . Q doubt , was to seduce the unfortunate girl . She has hanged herself , and you aro as much her murderer , morally , as if yoa hung her . After a lew minutes deliberation , the jury returned a verdict i » f J cm ; porary insanity , _woduced by the conduce ot Lowen .,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 31, 1846, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_31101846/page/6/
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