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yiANSION-HOVSE . . _Mo-sdat . _-Co-clisios os the KivEa .-Gapt * un William King , the commander of No . S , Watermen's steam-vessel , _vraslfummoned _oeforetbe Lord Mayor , by John Wta * _. owner of n wherry , _forhnvhog caused the _««^ _« . £ * wherry , thus endangerinsthehves _<*^ V _^ _££ _™ complainantstateathaton _Tuesdaylast , " •¦ _M _^ _Tttl some passengers down the river from _»«™ J _™ steamer which was passing Swan-stairs , went _ngnt into _HTwS _^ kher , IK on board ( five men , a woman , Mia a _clfiiai . _werehnmersea in the water . _Hewascon-Tc _^ _tthlacddent was _<>^^^ _JS _^ management of the _steam-vesseL-On _^ cro _^ exaimnation % the solicitor to the company , the mtness stated that toe two persons who rowed were not free watermen . Thev were passengers , but they were experienced men . The _damaseto ihe boat , and the loss incurred , amounted to asteen " shillings . —W . Sale stated that he was one of
the persons who rowed . The steamer came down npon the boat at once , and swamped her , and a boatman , of the name of Norcott , extricated those who were overturned . — Henry Bansell , a i * ellowslrip . porter , stated that he was not 3 waterman , but be knew all about it , and that he also was rowing . He could row as well as the waterman who made the complaint . The captain of the steamer did not ease the vessel an inch . —Thomas Collins , a passenger in tbe wherry , stated that they liad not rime to look about when they were run down . Witness jumped overboard and swam ashore . If the captain had stopped the way of _thesteamer , the occurrence wouia not , in ms opinion , have happened . —Thomas _Xorcott , a waterman , stated that he - rescued the people . He did not know how the boat got under the steamer - , but those on board thatvcssel threw bim a rope . —The solicitor to the steam company said that the defence was , that the persons who were rowing the wherry bad not the ueeessary skill ; that Hie complainant
• would , if he had been rowing , bave prevented theaccident , instead of running into the jaws of danger ; and that tlie defendant had done everything in his power to _sare the boat . The steam company would , if a complaint of the r ind ,-with aU its accompaniments , likely to engage the Sympathies of _thejiublic , were successful , without proof , be subjected to perpetual charges . The complainant , too , was at the _% ne uader the influence of liquor . —Morris Mathews , foi _^ _niastmsn , of So . 3 Waterman , stated tliat he was on board , and called out to those in the wherry . The wherry , however , went to tlie wrong side , and one of the passengers jumped from her iuto the steamer , and then the wherry swamped . It was not by any means the fault of the steamer , —Captain Guthrie , the master of a collier , stated tliat he had been forty years at sea , and was in the steamer at the time of the accident . The defendant did all he could upon the occasion , but the wherry most
improperly came between tlie steamer and the shore . If the wherry had heen properly rowed , nothing could have happened . —After hearing further evidence , the Lord Mayor said that he very particularly inquired into all cases of this description , as iicfcnew that wherries had 110 chance when coming in contact with steam-vessels . Here , however , the owner bad two circumstances against Mm . lie was not sober at the time , and two men who were not watermen were rowing . Ills Lordship said he considered that the two men who rowed were bonud to indenmify the complainant for the loss he had sustained , but the case was dismissed as to tbe defendant . —The two men who thus by rowing endangered the lives of seven individuals have subjected themselves to heavy penalties nnder the "Watermen ' s Act , and it was stated that it is the intention of the ¦ Company of Watermen and _lightermen to proceed against Them
CLEBHE 1 _TWELL _, Tuesdat . _—Ehbezziement axd Attempted Suicide . — Mr . Reuben Wright Davis , a respectable looking middleaged man , agent to the Liverpool Reform Association , and residing- at Queen Anne-street , York-buildings , Liverpool , was charged with embezzling £ 10 , the property of the above association , and attempting to destroy lumself . —At one o ' clock on the _previous day the prisoner went into the chemical shop of 3 Ir . lye , of Pcnton-place , Fcntonvflle , and asked for six pennyworth of poison . Ml * . Lye , perceiving him to be in a highly excited and agitated condition , refused him the poison , and sent for a constable . Police
constable 33 G came , arrested , and conveyed him to the station . lie admitted that he intended self-destruction , and said his aunt , Mrs . Stevens , lived iu Camden-viUa , Camden-grove , Peckham . Inspector Penny sent him thither with the constable , when it was found lie had made a _falsestateiuent , no such person as Stevens _residhig there . He ivas then taken back to the station-house , and , when about to be locked up , he said I may as wdl tell the whole truth . I am agent to the Reform Association in Liverpool , and have robbed my employers of £ 10 , which I _spent since Friday last , when 1 cameto London . —Mr . Combe ( directed the police to communicate with the association and with Ins wife , and remanded tbe prisoner for a week .
SOTJTHWABK . Tuesdat . —Dawkg asd Bbutai , Robbebt . —Caroline Watson , a girl of the town , was charged with being concerned with two men , notin custody , in arobbery , attended ¦ with violence , on the person of Mr . James Henry Hawkins . —The complainant stated that on the preceding night , about ten o ' clock , as he was proceeding homewards , in walking along the Blackfriar ' s-road the prisoner came np to hhn , and entreated him to give her some refreshment at a public-house , which she pointed ont at the corner of Cross-street As- the girl seemed to require that which she asked for , it being an extremely cold night , complainant assented to her request , and they accordingly walked together towards the public-house she had previously pointed ont When they arrived near the corner of Grossstreet , two men came behind them , one of whom immediately struck complainant a severe blow under the right
ear , which had the effect of momentarily stunning him , and rendering him incapable of exactly knowing what was doing : but when he recovered himself , on turning round to look at lus assailant , he perceived the two men were gone , and the prisoner also , and he at the same time found that he had been robbed of a purse containing ten _sovereigns and some silver , which was takeu from his waist _, coat pocket Observing the prisoner running with great speed in the middle of toe road , he pursued her , and on coming np -with her accused her of robbing him of his purse and money * . but she declared shehad not , and said that she taew nothing of the men by whom he was attacked . The complainant added that he had a valuable gold watch in the other pocket of his waistcoat , but that it was not taken . He , however , held the prisoner , who made exertions to get away , until a policeman came to the spot , into whose custody he gave her . The purse and its- contents have not been found . —The prisoner was remanded .
_TIIAJMES . Tuesdat . —A Max's " Findings" not his "Own . "Five Irish ballast-heavers , named Ttnrke _, Scully , Buckly Sullivan , and Grady , were this day finally examined and committed to _Jfewgate , charged with stealing a plate chest , containing plate to the amount of £ 100 , and a gold watch valued at 3 t ) guineas , the property of -Mr . Bieharil Gardner , a gentleman residing at _llrentwood , in Essex . The chest was lost by the upsetting of a wherry In October last , _oirqng to the swell occasioned by two steam-boats , and , as it appeared _6-om the evidence , was carried down from Waterloo-bridge to where the prisoners were at work beiow London-bridge , where it was taken up about ten days ago in a ballast bag . The greater part of the properly having , according to one of the prisoners , been disposed of for £ 410 s to some house in the city , the case was remanded for the purpose of discovering what the worthy magistrate called " one of the most wholesale cases of receiving tliat ever came under his observation ; _* " but Inspector Evans , after tlie strictest scrutiny , not being able to obtain a clue to tlie place , the prisoners were committed for trial .
BOW-STREET . _Mosoat . —The Infamous Cbim . Cos . Case Again . — A respectably dressed middle aged woman , named Elizabeth Ann Absalon , appeared in . answer to a summons _charging her with having insulted and annoyed Mr . C . J . f _" ox Banbury , the son of Sir IL Bunbury , of ilildeuhaH , Suffolk . The defendant , who was rather a plainlooking-woman , had a female child in her arms , and was xepresented by her solicitor , Mr . Wontner . The transactions out of which the present case arose have lately appeared In the report of an action brought against the _com--olainant by the husband of the defendant who , it will be recollected , was represented as haiing originally introduced herself to Mr . Buubnry as a ' -Miss Francis , " but afterwards , upon the marriage of that gentleman , appeared as thefoitWess wife ofthe injured Mr . Absalon . —Mr . Jennings , solicitor , attended for the _comphiiuant—Mi-. Bunbury deposed that he was -walking in fie Strand one afternoon
last week , when tlie defendant approached him , and commenced abusing him in the most violent language . He endeavoured to avoid her , and with that view turned into Somerset-house , hut she followed him closely , and , pointing to a child which she held In hei- arms , accused him of brutally neglecting to support it . He threatened to give her into custody , but she only became the more vehement , and " dared" hhn to adopt a course which would be enabling her to show him up to the world . lie then called a cab , and was getting into it , when she struck hhn on the shoulder and tore his coat all up the back . Upon tliis he -went to a policeman and thought of giving her in charge , hut seeing such a large crowd of persons _coUecfeig round him he abstained from doing so , and got into the cab , in -which he was driven away . ilr . Bunbury said he had no desire to have the woman punished , but only wished to be spared the annoyance of another attack of this kind in the streets- —In reply to questions put bv Mr . Wontner , Jlr .
Bunbury denied that he had any knowledge of the defendant bang a marr ied woman during the time he was acquainted with her . She gave him to understand that the reverse was the fact—Mr . Hall objected to theiutroduction of any matters irrevelaut to the present inquiry , as it was no partof his duty , as a magistrate , to judge of any former anderstandillgs between the parties , or of any supposed claims arising therefrom . —Mr . Wontner wished to shew fhe provocation wluch his client had received , from the treatment of tlie complainant , after such correspondence between them as that wluchhewas prepared to produce . — Mr . Hall could not go into that subject , and reminded 2 Sr . Wontner that the law did not sanction violent and abusive conduct in the streets under any pretence . —Mr . Jennings said his worship might probably recoUect that -with regard to any imaginary •' claims" that might be
asserted on behalf of the defendant , that matter had been entirely set at rest by the action in the Court of Exchequer , -which Mr . Baron Piatt denounced as a most disgraceful _afiair—an opinion in which 3 fr . Serjeant Jones , who opened the case for the _plaintr" _**** , but gave up his brief on being made acquainted with tlie facts , entirely coincided . Mr . Wontner , however , was not tlie solicitor on tliat occaaon . —Mr . Wontner did not think the wife should be held responsible for any steps JMr . Absalon might have takeu , influenced , as he no doubt had been by feelings of indignation- He was bound , therefore , to press the claims of his client upon Mr . Hnnbury , who was a gentleman of great wealth and rank , whilst she had been _rejluced to the utmost distress . —At the suggestion pf the magistrate , the complaint was ultimately withdrawn , on the defendant ' s promising not to repeat the annoyance .
_WOBSniP-STItEET . Monday . _—Ootbage and Assault . —A man named William Borgan , whose person bore evident marks of severe chastisement , was charged before Mr . Broughton with the foUowing scandalous violence upon tlie wife of a labouring man , named Shaw : —It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutrix ( whose face was shockingly disfigured with cuts and contusions ) aud another witness , that at five o ' clock on Saturday afternoon a poor woman was carried in fits into tiie shop of a Mrs . Hughes , in George-yard , Whitechapel . and laid in that state upon the floor . The prisoner shortly after entered , and , rising a _aissusfinjr epithet , said that if the fainting woman was his wifehe would
soon punch holes in her body for " shamming .- _Mrs . Hughes protested against such brutal expressions , and the prisoner not only loaded her with the most abusive epithets , but accused her of incontinence _S _^ _w _^ ' J * P " « : utri s . who was purchasing articles in the shop , told him he ought to be _Shamed of _^^ _rli 5 S 1 , su is suc _* h Ul _-S _** _age towards the mother of _« ven clniarep , but : the words were scarcely out ofher -k _^ U _^ _M m Pm ° Stracl £ her to _&* ground with a _hai _* 4 ianaedblow ; _sbewas rising on her-knees but the pnsonertheu caught her by _thehlir wLW _S _lSuta and , holding down . her head in a convenient poritionfor hu , p _^ urpose , dealther two terrible kicks _in-ti , e fece ? one of winch laid open a gash m her left cheek , and the second _hoetongly contused the oilier . The woman instantly ot
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came insensible , and was so carried into her own house , whence upon her recovery she was led to the hospital , where her wounds were dressed , the surgeon remarking that she appeared as if she had been kicked by ahorse . The prisoner ' s conduct excited such indignation in those who had witnessed it , that both he and his wife were set upon by some of the neighbours , and so severely handled that he was obliged to go to bed , from which he was taken by a policeman , into whose custody he was given by the prosecutrix ' s husband . —The prisoner denied part of the violence imputed to him , and attempted to justify the other by the beating he aud his wife bad themselves sustained , but Mr . Broughton characterised it as an outrageous act of violence , and ordered liim to find bail to answer the charge at the sessions .
MARYLEBONE . Monday . —Robbery and _Singuiar _Recovebt : of a Fifty-Pound Note . —Ellen Purcell , serv ant to Mr . Lyne , a dyer , in Wimpole-street , Cavendish-square , was brought up in custody of Wyness , 43 D , and placed at the bar , before Mr . Rawlinson , charged with having stolen a Bank of England note for £ 50 , the property of Mr . Henry Sr aythe , a gentleman holding a situation at the Stamp Office , and a knife belonging to her master . It appeared from the evidence that on Friday last Mr . Smythe , who occupied apartments at tlie house above referred to , left in lus bedroam a tin box containing a £ 50 note ; the said box was loeked , but the key , whicli formed part of a bunch , remained in the room . On the following-morning he missed
tlie note and apoliceman , who was called m , made search for if , but without effect ; but a knife belonging to Mr . Lvne was found in tiie prisoner ' s possession . The case was at length put into file hands of Wyness , the officer , who yesterday morning , after the prisoner had been searched by a female , found in * a crevice in the wall beneath tlie safe a small parcel , whicli he contrived to pull out , and in it was a £ 50 note ; it was wrapped up in a piece of paper and linen ; the latter had _beC !* torn from a duster which the prisoner was in the habit of using . It was further shown that Wyness found in a pocket belonging to the prisoner two knives , one of which had been missed by Mr . Lyne afew days previously . The prisoner was , in order to afford time for tlie attendance of other witnesses , remanded till Wednesday .
LAMBETH . Mokdat . — Pkize-Fxgst . — John Linney , alias the " Cowboy , " a well-known pugilist , aud William Thome , were charged before Mr . Henry , the former with being the second , and the latter the bottle-holder , at a prizefight , which took place at eight o ' clock , near the Nunliead Cemetery , reckham Itye . Mr . Henry sajd that the practice of fighting for money was highly improper , and should be put an end to , and ordered the prisoners to find bail for their good behaviour . " Before the closing of the court they were admitted to bail on their own recognisances aud discharged .
Duath Of Mb. Samuel Russell, Oo:Uediax.—...
Duath of Mb . Samuel Russell , Oo : uediax . —This once celebrated actor , famous for his performance of Jerry Sneak in the Mayor of Garrett , expired on Wednesday , the 26 th ult ., at the liouse of his daughter , iu Gravesend , at the advanced age of 79 yeare , having been born in 1766 . Mr . Russell ' s name , as an actor , is associated with the brightest period of the English drama , when John Kemble , Charles Kemble , King , Lewis , Elliston , Fawcett , Dowton , Mund . cn , John Bannister , Emery , H . Johnson , Mrs . Siddons , Mrs . Jordan , Miss Duncan , Mrs . Bland , Madame Storacc , and Miss _O'Neil shed the lustre of their talent nightly on the boards of our Royal theatres . On the retirement ofhis old colleague Dowton from
the stage , Russell played Jerry Sneak to Dowton ' s Major Sturgeon , at the Italian Opera , in the year 1840 , and much interest was excited by the appearance of the two theatrical patriarehs acting together once more . His own farewell benefit took place at the Haymavket in the season of 1842 , on which occasion be appeared as Jerry Sneak , and delivered an address . The proceeds of that night were lodged in the hands of a large discounting firm _vi-ell known , through whose insolvency a short time afterwards Mi * . Russell lost the whole amount . Hewas not attached to the Dramatic Fund of Drury-lane , from a mistaken notion that he would never require its aid . Mr . Russell was twice married , and had a number of children by each wife .
Thb late Murdbb at Hampstead . _—Impobtast Discovert . — From the _. particulars which have already appeared with regard to the late horrid murder of James Delarue , it nas no doubt been perceived by the public general !**/ that one grand link in the chain of evidence against the prisoner was wanting , vi 2 ., the production ofthe implement with which the fatal blows were inflicted . The subjoined statement , obtained , as will be seen , from authentic sources , will throw further light upon the transaction . It appears fi-om what has transpired in reference to the affair , that . on Saturday week last ( the day after the murder ) , a boy , named Taylor , in the employment ( as also liis father ) of Mr . Rudd , Park-road , Regent ' s Park , was sent out by his master to deliver some poultiy at the houses of
customers at Hampstead , and that on his return he passed over Macclesfield Bridge , Regent ' s Park , when he saw a stick lying beneath the coping-stone of the said bridge , and which must have been placed there by some one who had introduced liis hand through the iron railing of the bridge alluded to . He ( the finder ) took it home to his father , and although it had marks of blood upon it at the time , no particular notice thereof was taken * , it was washed and laid by , and for a time nothing more was thought of it . On Thursday afternoon last , the sister of Taylor ' s father called -upon Nathaniel Ncale . No . 19 , " Great Barlow-street , near Marylebone
Police-court , and related to him the whole of tbe particulars . He ( Neale ) came to the court , and was introduced to the chief clerk , Mr . Fell , who immediately after the closing ofthe court called at the Albany-street station-house , at winch he gave all the information lie was in possession of , and which led to the stick before referred to being placed in the hands of the police . Inspectors Shackell and Gray came yesterday to the court shortly before the closing thereof , bringing with them a blackthorn stick ; it had upon it a large knob , and although it had been washed , there were still discernible upon it marks of blood . The stick has been identified } as one belonging to the prisoner .
. ¦ sui cide at Claremont . —On Thursday morning week , Edward Story , keeper of the lodge at the principal _' entrance at Olaremont , belonging to the King of the Belgians , committed suicideby cutting his throat . After breakfast , apparently quite well , he took hot water into his bed-room for shaving ; in a few minutes his wife heard a noise overhead as of some one stamping , and on running up stairs she found her husband on the floor in the agonies of death , having cut his throat with a razor so as almost to separate the head from the body . Cbaiuie ov _Manslaughter agaisst a Policeman
at Liverpool . —On Saturday last , a eoroner s inquest was held on the body of Thomas Matthews , nineteen years of age , who , according to the evidence , was in October last struck with a stick , by poUce-officer No . 638 , Roger Charaley , during an angry altercation with the deceased and two other young men who were at the time more or less intoxicated . In a few days after , the young man was attacked with a swellingin the left thigh ; he was taken to the Northern Hospital , and died there on Thursday last . The jury , after a brief consultation , returned a verdict of " manslaughter" against officer 538 , who was accordingly committed to Kirkdale to take his trial at the
approaching assizes . Bast Kent Eiection . _—Canterbury , Monday . — The election for a member forthe eastern division of Kent , in the room of Sir E . KnatchbuU , took place to-day , on Barham Down , at eleven o ' clock . During the whole proceedings the rain and snow fell in unwelcome abundance . The High Sheriff , Sir Moses Montcfiore , having opened the court , SirE . Deering said he had great pleasure in nominating Wm . Deedcs , Esq ., of Sandling Park , as a fit and proper person to represent them in Parliament . Sir Brook Bridges seconded the nomination . The High Sheriff having called upon any elector to nominate another candidate , no other candidate being proposed , the High Sheriff declared W . Deedcs , Esq ., duly relocted .
The Northern Stak Saturday, March 8,1s45.
THE NORTHERN STAK SATURDAY , MARCH 8 , 1 S 45 .
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SPOTTISWOOPE AND 1 IIS PAPER MONEY ADVOCATE . We have a favour to crave at the hands of some of our friends : can any of them furnish us with a copy of the Operative newspaper , as far as it was published ? They will greatly oblige if they can . Spottiswoode and Go . have organised themselves into a society for "Emancipation of British Industry : " and the MEANS of their " Emancipation" are immense issues of _inconvertihle Paper-money , . that prices may be raised " COMPATIBLE with high taxes AND OTHER
BURDENS TO CORRESPOND !! " In other words , to enable the Minister to draw from the life ' sblood of the nation the means of paying the interest ofa Debt never contracted by the nation , and which said debt amounts to a greater sum than the whole " lnoney" of tlie whole world would liquidate ; to enable that same Minister to obtain the means of paying , in " fall-talc , " the hordes of idlers and prostitutes quartered on the public , through the pension list , the half-pay list , the retired-allowance list , the sinecure list , the dead-weight list , and the highsalaried list . It is to enable the Minister to maintain " high taxation , " that these "OTHER BURDENS TO CORRESPOND" may be firmly and
securely fixed on the shoulders of the people , that Spoiiiswoode and Co . propose to violate every existing engagement—to disrupt the entire of commercial transactions—and to ROB every creditor o f one-half of his just debts !!! These are the purposes ofthe " isCOSTEBTIblb Paper-money" gang , and such are the effects to which their nostrums would inevitably lead ; and it is for the purpose of exposing the gross injnstice and inherent nefariousness of the whole scheme , that we wish for the assistance of our " old friend" of the Operative . In the columns of that paper . we remember there were inr sorted , from the pen of the Editor , a series of papers " showingup , " injerocious style , "the Jews and job-
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bers , and all the unholy spawn ofthe infernal Papermoney system ;"—and an explanation of some ofthe jargon of the Stock-Exchange , particularly of the terms "Bulls" and "Bears "—was given , together with an explanation of the causes which operate on the rate of fofeign exchanges : and it would not be amiss , just now , to reprint some of those articles as an answer to the specious and sophistical reasoning ushered indirectly into the world by Spottiswoode
and Co ., to prepare the public mind for the perpetration of an act ofthe grossest injustice and downright palpable ROBBERY , —an act only to be equalled by the monster theft committed by Peel's Bill ! [ ' Contrary to our usual practice , we did not file the numbers of the Operative , as they appeared : a circumstance * we much regret , as the articles we speak of would Lave been of essential service just now , against the horrible schemers who are endeavouring to "raise prices" to a point " COMPATIBLE
with HIGH TAXES avid OTHER BURDENS TO CORRESPOND . ' "—instead of pursuing the plain , the simple , and the only honcBt course in relation to this subject—an _equitable ADJUSTMENT with the "National Creditor , " anda reduction of taxation to a point compatible to the nation ' s _watits and its a 6 _? 7 % topay . Spottiswoode and Co . are going most insidiously about their work . They do not appear in their own proper persons . At all events what they do directly has little effect on society . True , they arc organised into a confederation designated by the
highsounding and catching title of the " Society for the Emancipation of British Industry . " True , also , that they have published , and thrust into circulation—by means of the butter-women and the trank . makciisa series of tracts , to demonstrate the benefits that must accrue from the more firmly fixing on the vitals of the producing-inass the insatiable cormorauts of annuitants , dividend recipients , deadweight men , pensioners , siuecurists , and , over-paid jobbing officers of state . True , they have' done this , and been laughed at for their pains : and now , therefore , they have gone more secretly and more
insidiously to work . We know that they " beat ahout '> among the " friends of the poor" —those who had tlie ear of the Working Classes—to see if tliey could get hold of a man who , from his already acquired character as a " champion of the rights of Industry , " would be listened to , while he plausibly and insidiously endeavoured to make it apparent tliat the perpetuation of the infernal system of stockbrokers , gambling speculators , jobbing-Jews , by means of an INCONVERTIBLE paper-money , and its _consequent uigu prices to make it COMPATIBLE with man taxation and OTHER
BURDENS TO CORRESPOND " would .. be a eenefit !! We know of * many whom they tried for this purpose . Wc know that they beset 'Mr . Oastler , for instance , and laboured hard to bring him to an advocacy ofthe "saving faith" —the saving of the Jews and moneychangers—but without effect , as Mr . Oastler had always one unvarying answer for th ' em , that "he did not profess to understand the currency question . " We know others whose aid was sought ; and we knowtoo that the party did at last succeed in getting hold of otic ofthe soi-disant "friends of the people "one whose wants probably induced him to listen
to the golden reasons of Spottiswoode and Co . " .-—for we take it that the pay for such services as were required of him would neither be offered nor accepted in "inconvertible Paper-money , " notwithstanding the now mutually-received and advoeated doctrine , that " GOLD , as a standard Of value , is a rude device of ignorance and barbarism ; " and we well remember that such _wANi-caught advocate of the blessed rale of Jews and jobbers" _fllGH-TAXATION AND OTHER BURDENS TO CORRESPOND " -was sent out on a tour
through the country to prepare the way for the reception ofthe new doctrine of belief to the nation by the more firmly rooting the evil disease ! Wc remember also that bundles of the Emancipators' ( of-thc-Jewsfrom-the-people ' s-H' « £ _* _'W ;* _- / -to-pay ) tracts were sent down to those of the Advocate ' s friends that were deemed likely to aid him in his new occupation , * but they , not having to look through the golden spectacles , could not see the great benefits to be derived from the advocacy of immense issues ol "inconvertible Paper-money" to cause " high trices " that a "COMPATIBLE HIGH TAXATION
AND OTHER BURDENS TO CORRESPOND !" might bemaintained ; and they were therefore quiescent . And we further remember , that it was deemed by the queer sort of Emancipators that the time had come when an experiment could be tried on tlie public mind ; and that accordingly a public meeting was called in the " National Hall , " Holborn , when the former denouncer ofthe Jews and jobbers _apd all the " infernal system of paper-credit , " appeared as the advocate for the _costisvasce of that system , as the most sure and certain means of the Nation ' s Emancipation ! We remember also that Mi-. George Rogers ,
a man who understood the nature of the questionwho knew what the meaning of s _* _ocn " Emancipation " was — " spoiled the sport" of the Spottiswoode gang , by moving the Charter as an amendment to the Paper-money resolution , and carrying it , to the great chagrin of the new-born advocate of Emancipation through HIGH TAXATION 1 Since then the tactics ofthe "BURDENERS of British Industry " have been somewhat changed . They have not come out before the public in public meeting's : but they have established a newspaper in " the centre of the three kingdoms" to experimentalise how far they can tamper with and use the public mind in aid of their queer scheme of Emancipation ! Tlie course pursued by that journal has been crafty and insidious
enough . It did not at first come out as tlie advocate ofthe Paper-money -party ; but it cautiously inserted papers and pamphlets reasoning on the monstrous injustice perpetrated by Peel's Bill , and on the "rude device of ignorance and barbarism in fixing on GOLD , or other money of intrinsic value , as a standardof value . Then the Editor "called attention" to such papers , and such reasonings : " they were deserving of much consideration , " die . etc . ; every week the language becoming more and more decided ; until , at last , we have it fairly out , that the EUANCIPAT 10 S ill Stove fov this plundered nation is , " more of Paper-money , and the abolishment of GOLD ' as ' a standard of value , that we may have "hiohprices , and possibly high wages , " to enable ua
to pay a " COMPATIBLE HIGH TAXATION , " and bear " OTHER BURDENS TO CORRESPOND !!! " It is to answer the present advocate of that doctrine that we wish for the copy of the Operative ; and we shall be greatly indebted to any friend who can furnish us with it .
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O'CONNELL AND THE LAND . There is no adage more true than that " one man may steal a horse , while another dare not look over the hedge . " In the iVatton of last week wehave one of the most sweeping justifications of our Land policy , that could be suggested even by a hired advocate . Mr . O'Connell never suggests any political changes or social improvements . It is , on the contrary , his practice first to recommend , and then to
adopt such suggestions of others as are likely to create a fresh excitement . Hence Mi * . Grey Porter , Aid . Butt , Dr . Mabmskll , _SnAUMAX Crawford , and others of less note , have been flattered from time to time by the " Liberator ' s" fascinating approval and recommendation of their measures . True , the prize that Mi * . O'Connell has placed before the Irish people was so valuable and easy of acquisition , that he has failed in securing national competition for any of tho minor stakes .
The subject of our present notice is an elaborate proposition of Sir James Murray , for the wholesale improvement of " Ireland and the Irish . " The Whigs ; in their day of tribulation , created so many " Knights and Baronets , " that we do not know to whicli fri & e Sir James belongs ; while we are free to confess that his adoption of our principles —( for in eveiy good line "we recognise not only our policy but our words)—entitles him to much higher honours than any that monarehs can bestow . Iii our sixth page
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will be found an abstract of Sir James Murray ' s plan , as far as it has appeared , * and to It we recommend the reader's attention . It will be seen that the principles ofthe paper in question were recommended by Mr . O'Connell to the consideration of the manufacturing-employment meeting at the Royal Exchange on the 13 th ult .: and from this we presume that it is Mr . O'Connell ' s intention to enforce its practice upon the Irish mind ; a practice , in the extension of wliich had all the money filched from the Irish people for the last twenty years been expended they might now have been living under a system which , in their present temper , we fear they will receive but as a poor substitute for the great blessing so long promised : a system , however , which must be resorted to before " Ireland can be for the Irish . "
In the present posture of the agricultural interest of this country , —committed to the "faith , " the " care , " and " trusteeship" of Sir Robert Peel , — there is no hope save in the dread of that " RUIN " which must inevitably follow the destruction of a class , who for years , nay , centuries , have been the disposers of the country ' s fate . The Report of tlie Devon Commission leaves us little hope of correction from without ; while the ignorance of Parliament on
agricultural questions leaves us as little from within . The manifest , the injurious , and admitted injustice practised by the Irish landlords , until unopposed custom had become law . justifies every crime that has been perpetrated , and would sanctify a revolution , if the guilty only would suffer in the conflict . Unfortunately such is the view that we arc compelled to take of the several grievances imposed upon society , by a selGsh , bigotted , ignorant class , possessed of power to sanction , if not to justify , their
atrocities . If the landlords alone were to feel the effect of Sir Robeot Peel ' s free trade policy ; if they alone could be made to suffer the penalty of their owii misdeeds , wc should not be over nice in apportioning their just meed of punishment . However , when wc consider the vast amount of power possessed by this body , together with their ability as individuals to oppress , and as a community to resist correction , we confess that we do feel a difficulty in dealing with them because on their fate depends the fate of millions , to
whose neglect and destitution , a class , if possible , more griping and oppressive , look as a God-send . The English mind , weaned , as it were , from agricultural pursuits , is not even yet prepared to see in Landed monopoly the foundation of every national woe ; and , therefore , to Ireland , as an agricultural country , we look with some hope for the application ofthe best portions of Sir James Murrat ' s plan , as the means of rescuing the labouring classes from tliat state of unparalleled misery and destitution so heartlessly admitted in the Devon Report .
The essential portions of Sir James _Murray ' s plan have been recommended and enforced by Mr . O'Connor in Parliament , the Northern Star , and other publications , fov the last ten years _: and , therefore , to recapitulate them here would be a mere waste of time . We cannot refrain , however , from a short calculation of the good that might have been effected for Ireland had the proceeds of the Repeal Rent been applied to the practical working of some such scheme as that to which Mr . O'Connell has given his assent . Not by any means approving of that comparative state of prosperity to which Sir James Murray would elevate the half-slave , half-freeman , wc shall , nevertheless , content ourselves with taking the _^ osition in which he would place a working man in preference to that wliich he now occupies . Sir James
says-Ordinary districts valued at 10 s . per acre , and twenty years' purchase , would be £ 10 , price paia for the fine or cost of each acre , or £ 1 , 000 for every allotment of 100 acres , which would be sufficient for each single location of poor , because it is more economical to spread these humble plantations at convenient distances , so that tho men might he near farmers , to work for them when it can be obtained , and when woi * k is scarce , to have their own smaU holding near at hand to employ their time .
Now land that would fetcli 10 s . an acre m Ireland is by no means waste , barren , or even bad land ; but , on the contrary , is of that quality which , by moderate labour , might be made worth 30 s . per acre in three years , and the price of which , to he bought out-and-out , we arc told would bo £ 10 . If , then , we estimate the amount . of Repeal rent paid within the last two years at - £ 100 , 000 , and the price of an acre at £ 10 , we find that this great " national" maw has in two years swallowed up as much as would
give one acre of land to each of ten thousand families : and if we estimate each family at seventhat is , a man , his wife , and five children—we learn that a set of lazy , idle , spouting " gentlemen " have received as much in two years as would provide permanent happiness and employment for -70 , 000 human beings !! We think , then , that however others may deplore and censure the heartless treatment to which the Irish people are subjected , our "friends" of the Conct'Kation Hall should be the last
to murmur . Tlie Nation , from which we _haye takeR that portion of Sir James Murray ' s plan that wc publish , appears to approve of the project for its simplicity , and supposes that it must have suggested itself to many minds before : and adds that it now appears " for the first time in a plain , practical , business-like shape . " Here we beg to correct our cotemporary , who should have said , " we have firstsecn it in a plain , practical , business-like shape . " Even then we should have doubted our friend ' s veracity , inasmuch as wc _kno . y him to be a reader ofthe Northern Star ; and _therethe
same principle has been enforced and repeated 111 a more full , plain , practical , business-like shape . However , as we are not churlish of aid in support of measures that can tend to elevate the working classes , we allow our cotemporary the full privilege of conferring authorship upon any whose name is capable of giving effect to tlie proposition . We shall anxiously await the remainder of the plan , and as anxiously look foi- any light that the Nation can throw upon it ; and more anxiously still to see the degree of support that it is likely to receive from tlie Conciliation Hall Receneraiohs !
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THE LONDON MASTER PRINTERS AND COMPOSITORS . THE SPOTTISWOODE MODE OP SECURING " HIGH WAGES '' " COMPATIBLE WITH IIIGH TAXES AND OTHER BURDENS TO CORRESPOND ! ! !" In our several comments , as well on tlie " Royal Prologue" as on tlie " free Trade" measures of Sir Robert Peel , wo . have always said tliat the especial objects ofthe Right Hon . Gentleman ' s tenderness , care and solicitude would have , for THEIR SHARE of " prosperity" the bare bone , after the represented middle-classes had picked off the moat . Every proposition submitted to Parliament , even tho Allotment Rchpme of Mr . Cowper , tends to convince us that the
" outward and visible" sign of improvement only js intended for the labourer , while "the inward and spiritual grace" is conferred on his employer . All these anticipations may be assigned , either to our contempt for Parliament , or our doubt of its capacity to legislate in the right direction between the parties electing that body and the parties on whose labour the _electos-s live . In tlio dispute now raging between the Master Printers and the Compositors , the correctness of Mi ' . Drury _' b opinion , and of our conviction , is irrefutably established : that is , that the power of the Capitalist is more dangerous than the power of the Law . '
As it has ever been our course to take part with every branch of Labour , whensoever and by whomsoever oppressed , we deem it our duty to bring the case of the London Masters and Compositors before the public , in the hope that such a sympathy for the aggrieved may be aroused aa shall enable them , — using their own language , — "to fight the battle of right against might . " In the outset we shall state the case of the dispute , leaving to our readers the task of judging for themselves . A certain scale of prices for composing a description of work termed " Appeal Cases ' > has been established for more than ten years ; the rate paid bei ng _cightpencc per 1000 letters : a standard which has not enabled the Compositors to hoard
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much ! after living . The Master Printers , for reasons assigned in the resolutions which appear underneath , propose to reduce the rate of wages to sevenpence , or a reduction of more than twelve per cent . A Mv . _M'DcwALb lias been selected by the Masters to try the foul experiment on the pliancy of liis men ; and the following resolutions must be taken as the best reason that the Master Printers can assign for the projected reduction ;—At a General Meeting of the Trade of Master Printers , held this day , at Anderton ' s Coffee-house , ANDREW SPOTTISWOODE , ESQ ., IN THE CHAIR , The following resolutions _ivereputand seconded , andeamed bv a very large maiority .-
—Resolved , 1 . —Ihat tins general meeting of the Trade , having beard read the minutes of the committee of the Master Printers' Association of the 31 st ult ., and the 7 th and 24 th inst ., negative the alleged custom in the Trade for _pajring Appeal Cases at 8 d . per 1000 ; believing that the majority of those houses whieh have paid 8 d ., have done so upon the representation which has been made to them , that such was the practice of certain offices in the Trade . 2 . —That , when they consider that Master Printers arc perhaps the only class in the trading community who have not called upon their journeymen to diminish the scale of prices established during the war , when the quartern loaf was at Is . 7 d ., except as to reprints ; when the Masters reflect that they have greatly reduced their charges to their employers , notwithstanding the expenses of carrying on their business have greatly increased , they consider this not the time , when the quartern loaf is at 7 * d ., to sanction un increase in the charge for any work beyond the war prices .
3 . —That they can see nothing in Appeal Cases whieh should entitle them to be paid at a- higher rate than other Parliamentary printing , and certainly not at a higher rate than 7 d . per 1000 , which is the maximum price the war seale recognises for a species of work attended with all the inconveuieuces which the shortest Appeal Case can present to the Compositor ; therefore , they entirel y agree with the decision ofthe Committee ofthe . Master Printers Association , thatthe proper mode of casting up Appeal Cases is at 7 d . per 1000 , and that the side-notes be paid ad valorem , according to Art . 12 of the seale . 4 . —That they highly disapprove of the course the Compositors have adopted in the office of Mr . M'Dowall ( the Honorary Secretary to the Association ) , as shewn by his
circular of the 2 Jth instant , with the view of compelling him to pay for an Appeal Case 8 d . per 1000 , and os . per sheet for side-notes , which he states to consist only of the word " Appendix" at the shoulder of each page . 0 . —That , to evince the determination of tliis meeting to support the decision of the Committee , such of the members present as may have Appeal Cases in band in their offices , and who may hitherto have had them composed on the establishment , or at 8 d . per 1000 , will immediately give them out to Compositors 011 tiie piece at 7 d . per 1000 ; and that those who have no Appeal Cases to give out will take a portion of Mr . M'Dowall's , and give it to six Compositors on the piece in each . of their offices at 7 d . per 1000 . i „ . „ then
6 . —That , should such Compositors in any of - offices refuse to go on with the Case at 7 d . per 1000 , tlie master of that office will not give them any other work , but wUl supply tlieir places by taking fresh apprentices , and immediately communicate the fact to the Secretary , who shall thereupon summon the Committee . 7 . —That the members present at this meeting pledge themselves to adopt such further measures , even to giving tho Case to their whole office , as the Committee may recommend . Let us have a word on these " resolutions . " The first leads us to a knowledge of that sweeping facility possessed by Masters to NEGATIVE an alleged custom , and to establish a new one upon its ruin .
There is no mention of eightpence being too much for the labour performed ; while the fact of that rate having been paid for more than ten years establishes such a title to , as requires more than the " simple representation" of Master Printers in meeting assembled to set it aside . The second resolution fully establishes the fact , tliat the " omnipotent Masters " arc resolved that the Working Classes shall not have any portion of the benefit arising from " cheap food *" while the concluding sentence is hypocritically intended to convey the notion that the Masters are RESISTING an INCREASE in the charge of work , INSTEAD OF ATTEMPIISG A _REnUCTION * Of" _mOVC than twelve per cent . ! ! The third resolution is a still stronger proof of the very slight grounds on whicli
tliis most tyrannous act can be justified ; but it must be understood that in the original compact , the mode of casting up " Appeal Cases" with side notesconstituted one whole question ; and the side notes being very indefinite , and not regulated by scale , were paid for extra ; and the eightpence per thousand was considered no more than a fair price for tlie body ofthe work , without the side notes . The fourth resolution assures us that " the Masters highly disapprove of the course adopted by the Compositors . " We can very well understand disapproval coming from sucn a quarter ,- but we cannot understand how the word " appendix-, " constituting the side notes in one sheet , can be assigned as a justification for annulling an agreement where the probability , or indeed frequency , of such an occurrence must have constituted a
portion of the original contract . The fifth resolution confirms the melancholy fact that the success of the masters must always depend upon the disunion ofthe men : but we trust that those employed on the " establishment , "—for that's the masters' jnain ruli ance , —will not be found so foolish as to strengthen the hands of their oppressors . The sixth resolution is confirmatory of that despotism by which capitalists are enabled to compel obedience from the employed . Tlie assembled masters state that on refusal to comply with their terms , they will immediately communicate the fact to their secretary , who shall thereupon summon the committee . They should have added , and " they wiU forthwith proceed to damn , blacken , starve , or otherwise destroy , every working man who refuses to submit to our tyranny . "
Such are the resolutions passed by the masters -, resolutions conceived in injustice , and , if not met , will be carried out in vengeance . We have great hope , however , that a society so firmly bound together as the Compositors of the empire , will make a firm stand AGAINST THIS PROPOSED ACT OP _Tl'tlAN'XY . Let US See how the " artful and designing , " thus attempted to be robbed of one-eighth of their wages , meet the machinations of the enemy , The following short but pithy document , with the accompanying resolutions , inspires hope , and will be read , not by Compositors alone , but by every class of labourers , with that attention and respect that it merits * —
NATIONAL TYPOGRAPHICAL ASSOCIATION . Falcon Tavern , _Gough-square , Feb . 27 , 1815 . The Committee , in laying before the members of this society a copy of . theresolutions agreed to at a special delegate meeting on the 19 th inst ., and likewise that passed at a special meeting of the Committee this evening , express their unanimous hope thatthe trade , in this instance , will act firmly and prudently to the resolutions here appended assured that upon theiv firmness and unanimity tbe issue against 7 d . per 1000 fov Appeal Cases becoming the law of the trade will alone depend . In these resolutions , the Committee have drawn out the course for each man to pursue who may have utl ' cred to him this description of work at the reduced price , viz ., 7 d . per 1000 ; and state , if such be
a course strictly complied with , the Committee will be fully prepared to take each member's interest into their consideration upon the terms expressed in the 50 th rule of the National Typographical Association , the Executives of that association having decided upon " _supporting the London Trade in maintaining the price of Sd . per 1000 for Appeal Cases , in opposition to the Masters'Declaration . " Thus , the trade will see that the Compositors of London are in a position to oppose such attempted reduction , it being sanctioned by the District Hoards of the three kingdoms , and the unanimous approval of a Special Delegated . Meeting . The Committee's words are to the members— "Act honestly and trul y to the resolutions they bave subjoined , and success must attend the labours ofthe trade , and also tliose ofthe Committee . "
Resolutions resolved upon at a Special Delegated Meeting , on . _Wednesday , _theldth instant . " 1 . That any man , on the piece , accepting any disputed work upon the establishment , shall , if a member of this society , be immediately excluded , and only re-admitted by and with the consent of a delegate meeting . If he be not a member , his eligibility to become so shall be at the discretion only of adelegatemeeting . " " 2 . That any turnover , not under indenture , accepting employment upon any kind of work that is in dispute , shall not , at the expiration of his servitude , be eligible to become a member of this society without the consent of a delegate meeting . "
. Resolution 0 / ftc Committee of the ' 21 th February . Resolved— " That every Compositor , 011 the piece , who may have ottered to him the composition or making-up of an Appeal Case at 7 d . per 1000 , do , upon his own _regpon . _sibilit * ,- reiuse the acceptance of the same ; and if he lie reiused work tliat he can , consistently with the accustomed price of tho trade , compose , he do immediately give a fortnights notice , and write to the Committee , through the secretary , for further instructions . " liy order of the Committee . The reader has now tho plain and simple case of the respective parties before him ; and in order to adjust tlie difference , the Masters have proposed to submit the case to arbitration . Now , at the first blush , such proposition carries witli it the semblance of "fail * play , ' . " but when the men remember that 011 every occasion when their case has been submitted to arbitration they have been wheedled out of their
rights , they naturally enough pause ere they submit the decision of their case to the representatives of a party whose determination to persevere is so unequivocally stated in their own published resolutions . We feel no little pride in publishing the lbllowins resolution , passed by a '' chapel" ( as a meeting of the Printers in an office is technically termed } , at our own printing office . —
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That this ' - ' chapel" quite _approve of the coarse row being takeu by the Trade to oppose ; im attempt on the nan of the Masters to reduce the wages of the Compositors ; and will hold themselves ready to adopt any course the National Typographical Association may deem expedient , They also venture to express a hope that the Trade v _.-i ' j never swerve from their recent determination . The following resolution lias also been passed at s " chapel" of the " great conspirator ' s" office ;—March 1 , lfl _+. v .
At a " chapel" of Mr . M'Dowall ' s office , held on Friday , Feb . 28 , it was moved , seconded , and carried _uiniuiinouslj- . " That , in the event of any individual being called on to go on with the Appeal Case in dispute _in'this office at 7 , 1 per 1000 , and , 011 his refusal to do so , it be intimate !! to hhn that he shall receive no other employment , this' chapel ' recommend each member individually to give a _foitn % !) t _* s notice . " March S . In pursuance ofthe above resolution , and the Case having this morning been tendered to six persons , the whole of the members ofthe chapel immediately gave notice .. Owing to the refusal of some of the Compositors to take the work at the reduced price , the whole of the men , at the following offices , have given notice to leave •—
ilr . M'Dowall ' s , Pemberton-rotr , dough-square . Mr . Clav ' s , Brcad-strect-hUl . Mr . _M'Istobh ' _s , New-street . Mr . Bentlev's , Shoe-laue . Mr . Kisder _' s , Green Arbor-court . Messrs . Txler and _Reeo ' _s _, Holt-court , _FleuUtteet . Having thus plainly , impartially , and _dis'iassm _*) ' _* _:-ately submitted the qasc of both parties , we » . > kif the men—who , be it observed , do not demand an _incrcu-: , BUT MEREI . Y RESIST A BEDVCTIO _*^ of WagCS . are not
entitled to something more than the _sympathy 0 the Trades , and Working Classes of the Empire- ? The Compositors are a compact and well-organi _^ d bodv . They are a small body comparatively spcuiiii _. g , aiid arc peculiarly fitted for the position iky have assumed—that is , if their brethren _mU y vouvni them and support them in their _struggle , _Tlicil * contest is not like the Miners' contest , v . : ei : e ihe parties requiring support were too numeiv . _m and too widely spread to be managed by any , tho most coai * pact machinery .
We learn that the majority , indeed ne _.- iiy the entire of the Masters , are vree _tradeus ; - uni therefore we arc induced to make a calculation of the effect _, that the proposed reduction would have umui tlieir work-people . Compositors engaged at the work in _quesw ; i , could earn about 40 s . a-weck—supposing them i ' JJy eraployed . A reduction of twelve per _ceiit . would amount to £ 13 a year ; and at £ 2 3 s . 4 d . a quarter , the proposed reduction upon each man ' s _wu-vs would purchase six quarters of wheat ; so time by this means it will be seen that tlie rich empl . _i-ei _* _, tne " free traoe" anti-monopolist , seeks to mwiopolise ail the advantages of " cheap bread , " " _clii ; i '/| i _;* ugar . _" " cheap glass , " and " cheap cotton-wool ' - ' lor \ m _ows " sole use , behoof , and benefit ! " There is one such
glaring falsehood 111 the second resolution , that we cannot refrain from calling especial notice to it . It says , ' * the Masters have greatly reduced their ekrges to their employers , notwithstanding-the expenses of carrying on theu * business have greatly increased . " Now this " fact" is a " great lik ; " inasmuch as nearly all the expenses of carrying on their _ousiness have been greatly reduced . Paper has been greatly reduced ; machinery has been greatly reduced ; type has been tremendously reduced . The duty on glass an _articleinextensive use with them , is to be _awepc away . All articles of food and clothing for tJiem » selves and families have been reduced ; while these ASTl-monopohsts ivould deprive their hands of any ad-Vantage in the several reditetions that have ' been made , ly a still greater reduction in their wages .
It is rather ominous that the Chairman of the Masters' meeting to reduce the wages of the Com positors , should have been the very man who is " top-sawyer" in the " Society for the _Emancipation * of British Industry , " by means of inconvertible papermoney issues , that " man nucEs may bo securedand 2 ) os $ ibly high wages—compatible with HIGH TAXATION AND OTHER BURDENS TO CORRESPOND !!! " It is a _stranse mode of _cnablinc
the producer to meet HIGH TAXATlON _. -rendered doubly oppressive through the operation of Peel ' s Bill , as SroinswoouE and his Society hold . —toredace his wages ! Queer Emancipation , that ! Does not this simple fact let out another " great" p act V that Spottiswoode and Co ., in seeking for their sort of Emancipation , seek for high trices for themselves and LOW WAGES for the workers ? Does not then- conduct trove this ? and can all the hiredadvocacy in the world show it to be different ?
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J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt ofthe following sums , for . the Local Victim Fund - —From _Carrington , 2 s . 2 d . - Arnold , Is . 3 d . ; Basford , Is . 2 d . ; The Shoemakers ' Locality , 2 s . ( id . ; Byron-ward ditto . Is . Gd . ; St . Ann's ditto , Is . Od . ; Mr . Gregory , Is . Mr . Sweat has also received , for Mrs . Ellis : —From the Seven Stars . Nottingham , 2 s . ; James Sweet , ( W . Mas . Jou . v Duncan acknowledges the receipt of £ 1 _foom Alva , by Mv . Clark ; £ 1 0 s . ( id . from Tillicoultry , by Mr . Monteith : and £ 1 from Afarkineh , by Mr . Kidd . of * _Dimrlpp .
A Subscriber , Skelsiasthoupe , should embody the whole facts of the case in a complaint to the posrmaster general , who will cause an inquiry to be instituted into the case ; and if it should turn out that the lcttcrhas been opened by the ' party or parties he suspects , the example of Sir James Graham wiU not save iiitn or thein from the consequences of their illegal act . let the complaint contain nothing but a statement of facts —facts such as our correspondent and his friends believe themselves to be in a condition to prove . Don ' t trouble the postmaster-general with any opinions or comments . Those will best apply when tlie investigation tha t is almost sure to follow his complaint is over .
S . C . S ., Peterborough . — -To the first question , "Ko . _" _- _' The rent , exclusive of rates , must be £ 10 to confer a VOtC To the . second question , "Yes , " provided that the lodger have a street-door hey , and be able to enter the liouse at any time he pleases . John Dawson , _CoAz . s . _vAuoirro : * - . —Refer to the Northsr . % Star ofthe 15 th of February . E . TV . Salt .. —lleceived twelve postage stamps . Peter Stuatiiern _, Dundee . — -His letter is iu type , *] but obliged to be kept over tiU next week . Thomas _Wild , Oldham . —Mr . Hobson regrets tliat he : _« obliged to decline the kind invitation to be present at the opening of the Working Man ' s Hall ; but his engagements will not permit of his leaving town on tha :
occasion . _James Fleming , Stockport . —If the room in questien is in his take , undoubtedly lie has a right of entry to it ; and he would be justified in breaking down any obstruction to his free course . On his other question we thmk the present landlord _eiuniot enforce payment Ot the former arrears . They are not due to him . E . Mitchell , Kociidale . —Wo bog to assure him tliat in what we said last week theie was no intention to disparage Mm . On the contrary , we feared the application regarding the resolution was dictated !> y a captious feeling to find fault with , perhaps , Mr . Mitchell himself ; and we were not disposed to encourage it : so gave for answer that whieh was intended to exonerate him altogether . Wm . Bell , IIevwood . —We have not the Acts he names
by us ; but will try to get a sight of them before next week , and give him an opinion . D . Potts , Birmingham . —We did not publish the reaolation , because the names of parties were mixed up in it to whom the amende honorable had been made : and they would indeed have had cause to complain had we not withheld the publication of such matter . An Mr . Patts well observes , the expose has been made ; and , therefore , there is the less necessity to recur to it . J . Lord , Lancasteb . —The property must descend ac * cording to the will of the deviser . Any other disposition of it will be unlawful , and may be set aside , R . Kidd _, Dundee , desires us to say that he has received from _Mai'kinch , per William Melville , the _suniof jil ; and fi-om Brighton , per WfflianiFlowcr , OS . Gd „ for MY ?! John Duncan .
Moke "Fruits" of . Lord John Russell's Non . _E-hploy ment of Spies . —Another victim is very likely Co fall before the Moloch of aristocratic and class power poor old Booker , ivho has never recovered since his incarceration iu the black hole of Northallerton , will soon , according to all & Y > v , _ei \ Ya . 'i > . ces , have to follow in the dciitvi-wake of Clayton and IIolberbt . lie is aow confined to a bed of sickness , and has nothing to depend upon for his and his wife ' s support , except the dcMil _' s charity doled out by the hands of the saints in tlie shape oj New Poor Law relief . A few friends of that glorious but much injured cause , Chartism , have collected a little
for him in his hour of need ; and I am requested , by Booker ' s wife to send this acknowledgment to tho Sfar , that she has received 7 s . 8 Jd . ; for the satisfaction of those who have contributed , and as an induccmeut , for others to imitate the example . R . _Otdett . The _CotiiEiis' _Tbize Song . —It will be remembered that during the Colliers' strike in the north . Mr . Robertsoft ' ered a prize of two guineas for the best song on Union , to _f-. hfr tune ofthe "Brave old Oak , " that should be produced by any one engaged n _, or dependent on , colUerv labour . The prize has been awarded to Miss Jane Smith _, late of Sacriston . James Watts , _Tosbridge . —He must be _ratai at £ 15 a year before he can have the house licensed .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 8, 1845, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_08031845/page/4/
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