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"SfSSSSSSSSSSSSSS ^^^^ RADICAL AGITATION . The ^ p idhy with which popular demand ha * incrcasei , teens to paralyxe men in power , and , in their astonishment , they tarn from elf-examination , to tone of the " discontented rabble . " They wholly Ibi ^ et , Qi * t their own broken faith , and not the extraTagance of popular expectation , is the cause . If we consider any of those grievances , of which the people so justly complain , it will be found that their demands—at first moderate—hare increased in an
exact * ratio with Whig procrastination and deceit . As regard * the church and its exactions , we find that the Reformers—even in the plenitnde of their exuberant fancy—did , at first , require bat trifling abstractions from an overgrown and unnecessary revenue , and a suitable and decent appropriation of die funds to their original purposes ; whereas , protracted hope and juit anticipation , hare gi'en way to despair , and flie people—baring discovered the folly of - Bring one feature , while the whole body is diseased—bow demand a total separation of Church
fcxan State : that is , they require that political ambition , personal aggrandisement , and self-debasement for party purposes , shall sot longer interfere -with man ' s duty towards his neighbour and himself . JLgain , if we tarn to && abuses complained of in the landed department , we find that the " fly blows /' — the TexvoTal of which would have given immediate satisfaction , amd allowed time for further repairshave been lost sight of , and the Spencean doctrine is not only preached , but details for its practical working are brought prominently to public view . The people , who never , before the Reform Bill ,
seriously canvassed the landlord ' s title to Ms share in the land , but who merely complained of his Legislatorial interference with that portion of its produce -which belongs to the nation , now discover that so long as the title exists , so long will the prejudicial interference continue ; and , consequently , these reasons , combined with the usurpation of the people ' s share , by the passing of the " PoorLair Airiendanent Act , " hare opened the door to investigation ; whieha timely and judicious settlement would have hviated . Again , in the general demand for "
re-* enchment , " the justiee-loving people . of England discover , that saving has always commenced at the wrong end , and in the wrong quarter , aad that while the political partizan , the pensioner , and sinecurist , has , by his parliamentary influence , been able to save his -pounds , ' a mean and pitiful deduction ias been made from the pence of the subordinates , who perform all the work . Thus we find in the Post-Ofiiee , "War-Office , Horse , Guards , Admiralty Customs , Excise , and other departments , there has been a kind of cheese-paring saving among
clerks and hard-working persons , while the salaries of the idle , but necessary profligates have either been untouched , or «> sparingly handled , as to amount , in the aggregate , to a mere nothing . The people -were aware that any saving , to be beneficial to them , could not be gleaned Irom the small salaries of subordinates ] and finding that so long as political power preserves the nation ' s treasure in the hands of idlers , that no hope of redress could be successfully entertained , they have given up all consideration of a redress of minor abuses , and have ,
with one accord , declared for the principle of selfprotection , which they recognise-in self-government , ¦ and a general instead of a limited responsibility , or indeed , of no responsibility at alL Let these facts lead a wholesome lesson to the Spectator , and to the Standard ^ who echoes the Spectator ; and let both learn that the fault is in our rulers , and not in ourselves . Feabgtjs O'Conxob and Stephens , do not menace , as charged by the Spectator ; they do uot "threaten , they merely warn : neither is their
agitation confined to a discussion of the " Poor Xaw Amendment Act ;" ¦ but it goes to a probing of the entire tif that system -which has been so long practised , and recently so indecently construed , by Earl Fjtzvsilliam , in the House of Lords , as a Divine injunction . "We mean the system -of handing the poor over to the management of the rich , and thus , in honour of God / and in compliance ¦ with his eternal decrees , preserving that state of slavish dependency of poverty , which the Noble ! Earl would fain convince us is the law of the
Christian religion . Does the Spectator suppose , howeveT such blasphemous doctrines may have been hitherto kept in the shade , that once incautiously expressed , the people will not discover that sHch are the princip les by ¦ which they have been governed ; and , that such being the interpretation -Which high ones give of the "Word of God , the low ones ¦ will hate the interpreters , and see at once that a political translation of the Scriptures has been the sredding-ring of the law church , which bound her to -the State , and that Earl Titzwilmah's inspiration is , at "best , but as an interested construction -of an abstruse Clerical Act of Parliament . In
speaking of the failure of the Birmingham mission , the Spectator setans to have misunderstood its object . It was not undertaken with a view of producing either a violent or an immediate effect , which "Heaven forefend . " It has accomplished ¦ t he contemplated object , vrhlcfl was to unite the public mind in the consideration of , and the public ¦ mice in the demand for , " Universal Suffrage . " 2 ? o paper in the empire has rendered better service to the country than the Spectator , and we assert , without fear of contradiction , that that journal , by its able and powerful , and continuous deaunciation of "Whig policy and misrule , has
done more to create a popular distrust in , and a disgust for , our system of Government , than any other journal in the empire . In speaking of violence of language ana popular delusion , SirE . Knatchbull jnay- defend the magistracy in their recent conduct at Canterbury ,-Lord John Rtjsseli . ' may presumptuously protest his innocence , —Mr . Wynn , in a " philosophic spirit , " may attribute tha Canter-Irary massacre to a religious delusion , but we tell them , one and all , that it was a murder ; in support of the Ftxzwxlliah interpretation of the Scriptures ; and we ; tell them more , ' that the day will come when the murderers shall stand in the awful
presence of that Great God , into whose councils 3 * eifher the dictum of a cabinet , the quibble of a judge , or the prejudice of a jury , shall dare to enter . The vices of the people are not characteristics ; they are consequences of oppression , and misrule ; man is born with propensities which may be nurtured into virtue , or thwarted . " into vices according to the training , and that Government jaustbe a vicious schoolmaster , which denounces
abstinence as a vice , because it lives itself apon dissipation . A whoring , drinking , gambling , profligate Government , is not the best inculcator of morality and virtue , ana the Spectator has done more to expose ite &lfies , than , in oni humble endeavours , we have been able to effect . Let the causes of agitation cease , and agitation -will die a siatural death ; but so long as a single grievance -eentinues , we will follow the recommendation of liOcd Anglesey—Agitate , agitate , agitate !
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* THE FACTORY ACT AMENDMENT BILL . Xerd John Sussex after all his " pother " about this . Amendment , now makes excuse that it is too late in the session to proceed , and that the contentions of eenflietmg interests will not allow him t © adtance any farther . It is to be hoped thai the friends of the Ten JlttBXt ? cause will Jearn in future bow- to value
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^^ ^ — Lord John Bvdssxli / s Amendments , and that instead , of allowing themselves to be kept In a Tool ' s Paradise for three months , with Fox Mauls and Labotjcheek to keep the gates , they will henceforth act offensively , and give the House no rest till a good Ten Hours' Bill for all above thirteea ihaB be obtained . We , for our parts , will never consent to abandon the Eight Hours' clauses . Let this be understood a * the opinion , as far as we know it , of the most reflecting and " influential" oi the Ten Hours men . W « value those clause *
We have got them without asking , but we will not partTrith them without fighting—not for any consideration . So says John Fielben , and so say we . No , Lord John , the House , bad m it is , you well know , cannot , for shame , allow these toiling infants to be robbed of the Eight Hours' and Educational clause *} and we do trust that , by a steadfast holding on to these good clauses ,, we may yet see better days for the long-wrought , ill-paid factory workers ; who are , under the present system , the inevitable prey of "Ignorance , and her sister , Guilt , " as Bbotjgham has it .
At the same time , we certainly admire the bold position which Lord Ashley nnr seems disposed to take up , / and we trust bis I ^ ordsfeip will be steadfast in h&rrassing the rear of thtWhigs , and if he fight fair , as there is no reason to doubt he will , he must deal out to Joseph Surface , the Big Tory , and to another Joseph , the Weeping Whig from Darlington , with equal severity , his best and deadliest blows . The working , men hare foes among all parties , and but few friends in any—why w often tell them .
Peel , Pease , and Potjlett Thomson , are all as much alike as three P ' s on the question of labour and capital , and find very firm and zealous allies in such Radical * as Brown Bread Joseph , and O'Connbll , the Chairman of the House of Commens' Committee to put down Workmen ' s Combinations , and to encourage the Unions of the masters . By-the-bye , we shall have a Tare treat for our readers when that spicy document appears , which w now ordered to be printed .
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TO THE PROPRIETOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . ¦ London , June 13 th , 1838 . My beab Feargits , —I have received your letter , and will bear in mind what you say touching property , labour , and capital . You know , generally , my opinion * « n those subjects . You know that I cannot , or will not , write differently from what think ; and , I presume , you know also that I have no fears for myself personally . You may , therefore , infer , that if I have hitherto only casually alluded to property , labour , and capital , —if I have avoided making them the subjects of distinct letters , —it "was through fear of imjuring the interests Of
your paper , —and , thereby , the cause of Universal Suffrage , of which your paper is confessedly one of the main props . Your letter , however , has , in great part , removed that fear . Your statement that , in the small town of Dewsbury alone , fire hundred slips were called for , of my last article on property convinces me that the time has arrived when even a stamped journal can afford to utter some truths upon that , the most vitally important , but least understood , of all possible subjects . You may , therefore , rest assured that I shall not be so squeamish for the future , —the proof of which will appear , God ¦ willine , in my next week ' s letter .
But , meanwhilp , let me not "be misunderstood . . I am not the enemy of property , but one of its most zealous and conscientious friends . I want not to take any thing from the rich which justly belongs to them , nor . to appropriate ought to the poor to which the poor have not an indefeasible right . I go further . I recognise the expediency , nay , the necessity , of leading to the rich the full and entire value of everything they now possess in the shape of property , or under that name , no matter how fraudulently , how wickedly , how impiously acquired or extorted , —
provided it has been acquired or extorted with the sanction or consent of the laws . This may appear strange and unjust towards the poor , but they will , perhaps , think differently when they come to hear my reasons . My business is not with the past , but with the future . I wish to deprive the rich of all possible pretexts for apprehension , real or imaginary in respect of the wealth or property they now possesa ; but I -will never consent , as long as I possess a particle of influence with the people , to subscribe to that version of " property , " which
under pretence of protecting the already-acquired wealth of the rich , would arm the proprietors of it with an unlimited power of murder and robbery over the rest of the population . It is against this atrocious , this blasphemous , this all-destroying power I contend . The rich do , I maintain , possess , under existing institutions , an unlimited power of murder and robbery over the rest of the community . They employ that power , not merely to protect their already acquired wealth , but also to add iadefinitel y to it out of the abstracted earnings of the poor
man ' s daily toil . They claim , not only the right of securely possessing their present ill-gotten property , but they also arrogate to themselves the right of depriving twenty out of twen ty-five millions of people , of all possibility of ever acquiring any property at all beyond what may barely keep body and soul together from day to day . Now , this is a condition of existence which the rich can have ho right to force upon the poor , and which the poor ought to perish up to their ancles in blood rather than submit to . The natural right of property
having long since given place to the conventional right , property is now wholly and solely the creature of law . Every new act that is passed , every old act that is repealed , affects the disposition of property . You cannot possibly perform the functions of a legislator -without interfering with the rights of property . Peel ' s Currency Act alonethe Act of 1819—effected a transfer of property from debtors to creditors—to the amount of at least 1000 millions of pounds sterling . In thousands oi cases it injured creditors as well as debtors , by destroying the means of the latter to give the
former even five shillings in the pound . See what a tremendous power was here-wielded by the legislator 1—aad that by a single act of Parliament !—Now , the principal sufferers by that Act , namely , the little masters and small capitalists , had som < small share of the representation in 1819 . They wen not wholly excluded as are the working classes now Finding themselves robbed and beggared by Peel ' s Act , they turned reformers , " and taking advantagi of the excitement caused by the French Revolution of 1830 , they compelled the Administratioi ( under a threat of " Universal Suffrage" ) t hoist the Standard of Reform , and never relaxei
in their effort * until they had successfully carried " the Bill , the whole Bill , and nothing but the Bill . " Well , they got the whole Bill , but , to their cost , they now find that they have got " nothing but the Bill" They did notget back the 1 , 000 millions of which Peel ' s Act had despoiled them , much less the means of realising 1 , 000 millions more by rag-money-bank accommodations . In . plain English , they were themselves jockeyed and duped by th « Reform Act , as well as the unfortnriate working classes , whom they had vainly hoped would be the onl y dupes in" the affair . "What is the consequence ? The sufferers b y Peel ' s Act are
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. noar osoe more jdning the people's ranks , and invoking the genius of Universal Suffirage , —from Birmingham to Glasgow , and from Glasgow back again to Birmingham . -Why do 1 mention these facts ? To illustrate my positloa , that property , is altogether the ereatwre . of law . If the Birmingham Reformers had succeeded ( as they had hoped ) in getting a majority of the new House in favour of their cheap-currency projects , they would have repealed Peel's Act , and caused another transfer of property as great , or greater than the former one ,
only in favour of the opposite parties . They have not succeeded , —and , therefore , it is that they are now in favour of Universal Suffrage . Do I blame the Birmingham men for thia ? No . The Birming ham men had a right , in , 1831 , to support what they thought wuuld best promote their own interests , and they have the same right now . The only parties I should blame , were I disposed to blame any , are the working classes , —who neither in 1851 , nor now
seem to apprehend , that without a voice in the laws and institutions of the conatry , they never can realise property at mere working men . As fast as they produce wealth , it will continue to be taken from them ; and , were their powers of production to be multiplied ten-fold , the increased production would nly go to swell the numbers , wealth , and conse quence of their oppressors . To make good these position * will be the object of my future lettere oi property , capital , and labour . .
But , meanwhile , my dear Feabgus , let us not lose sight of the " late horrible vutcKery hear Canterbury , - as it is most appropriately termed in last Sunday's Weekly Dispatch . If scenes of that description can be perpetrated with impunity , there is an end of Reform . ' * It is > " repeats the Weekly Dispatch , " the most cowardly butchery that we ever heard of . At Peterloo , the yeomanry and soldiers might have been frightened at the disparity of force ; It might have been the same case at Mertbyr Tydvil ; but ,
that a hundred armed soldiers should b » frightened by a crowd of only forty unarmed peasants , i « perfectly absurd . This point of the case must be examined . " The Dispatch is right in his description of the butchery ; but , like all the other journals , Whig , Tory , and sham-Radical , it is false and tricky as to the causes of it . While the Whig and Tory Organs pretend to account for it by the " desperate fanaticism of the mob , " the Coryphoeus of the Sham-Radical party , has the modesty to impute it to the " superstitions of the
Clergy and the Aristocracy . " Indeed , the heading of his article is "Superstitions of the Clergy and the Aristocracy the cause of the Kentish Massacre . " He might as well say , the superstition of the Pope or of the Great Mogul , had caused it . Superstition had nothing at all to do with the matter . All the stories told of CourtenaVs pretended divinity and miracles—all the stories told about the fanatic worship of him by his followers—are pure
fabrications , extorted by bribery , arid acqu . esced in through terror . The only Journal , besides your own , which has taken an honest view of the matter is the Northern Liberator . " The Whig Journals , " observes your contemporary , are mourning over what they call the ignorance of the English labourer . This is their cant and vile hypocrisy He is not ignorant . He knpwB well what is the cause of his distress and discomfort . He knows
the difference between beef or bacon and waterr gruel ; between the comforts of a cottage of his own , and the treatment in * a Union Workhouse , where he must be separated from his wife and children , and indulged with the gentle exercise of the treadmill , or with carrying a four-stone bag of sand up aad down stairs . He knows the difference between all these things well . The Whi g philosophers may howl in vain if they wish to convince him , that their Workhouse dietary and treatment , with the natural philosophy of the Penny Magazine , is of more value than a flitch of good bacon , and a house of his own , without this intellectual appendage . "
A thousand thanks for these ingenuous remarks . It is really refreshing to hear a little common sense and honesty , after all the cant and twaddle , and sickening falsehood with which the press has deluded the public during the last fortnight . Your contemporary is perfectly right . Superstition , or popular ignorance had nothing whatever to do with either Cotjrtekay's movements , or the blood y tragedy in which they terminated . Cotjrtenay's followers followed him , not because he pretended to ' . be Jesus Christ , or to work miracles , ( that is all pure fabrication , ) but because he sympathised with their sufferings ,
and relieved their wants to the utmost of his ability . One of his most virulent traducers , Snoulton , the banker , of Canterbury , admitted that whenever Cotjrtbnay "Aad a shilling in his pocket , nobody wanted a meal . He shared all he had with his disciples , and lived as they did" In another place , Snoulton says , that "he gained some followers by his lavish expenditure of the money he procured . " Is this , Sir , the conduct of an impostor ? Do we find bankers , or such persons gaining followers in this way ? Oh , no ! These hardhearted robbers think every farthing given to the poor to be so much u lavish expenditure . "
But how comes it that Coubtenay ' s madness , or wickedness , ( for they now charge him . with swindling as well as madness , ) was not found out before bis death ? How comes it that at the Canterbury election , Courtenay had clergymen , both of the Established Church , and Dissenting Congregations , to vote for him ? That many professional men , such as physicians , surgeons , solicitors , aye , and many , gentlemen of independent fortune , did actually vote for him , and that all these , as well as tradesmen of the first regpectabilityj were . his adherents and supporters , daily invited him to their table , " took
pleasure and pride in introducing him to the bosom of their families ? And look , too , to the character given of him upon his trial for " perjury" at Maidstone . I defy Parson Poo re , or any of his brother Magistrates , to produce such certificates of manly and honourable conduct , as were volunteered for Courtenay on that occasion . Yet this is the man , who , now that the hand of assassination has disabled him from defending himself , is held up to the mingled pity and execration of the public . Verily , poor Henry Hunt was not far wrong ¦ wh enhe talked of the " assassins of the press . "
I earnestly hope that the men of the manufacturing districts will not let this affair rest . Petitions ought to be addressed from e \ ery city and " every village , praying for a parliamentary enquiry into the cases and details of tbemassacre . The best witnesses before such a tribunal would he the soldiers who acted
under the orders of the Magistrates , and the unfortunate victims now lying jn Maidstone Gaol . Neither , however , could be expected to ; give their evidence freely , unless the one were relieved from the terrors of the cat-o ' -nine-tails , and the other from the dread of being hanged for their devotion to poor Cotjrtenay . All petitions praying for inquiry should therefore include in the prayer a demand that these parties be previously set free and guaranteed against all harm , so that they may state- what they have seen and known , freely and satisfactorily for the ends of justice . - ¦' " ¦¦ ¦} . -
You , Sir obtained a verdict of " Wilful Murder " againstthe authors of the Rathco rmac Massacrewish fer , but do not expect , a similar resultTin the Basennen "Wo&d affair . The one regarded tithes ; the other has grown out of the New Poor Law Act
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A . B . Z . will not do ^ They are greatly inferior to ; his former comnunication . P . F . —BTf * Poetic Fire wants cooling down a little . Thtpotboils met'sadly . Fidus .-r-7 J >> thank him for his caution , which we have no doubt is well meant . We know the villain V of vshom he writes thoroughly . We could ask him ,, if : occasion presented itself , not only the five questions ^ Fidug , but fiftyindre such . Our Bradford Correspondent . —fit * manuscript p « ijefc » the - Compositors sadly . Can it be mended a ¦
IMlef ¦ ¦ : • ¦ . - . ¦ ¦ / . v ¦ ¦¦¦ ¦ ¦ . •• . . ¦¦ . - ¦ . ¦ ¦ , ¦ ; - ; - ; i ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦• • "' ¦¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ ' ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ . . ' . '" -ft ¦ ¦ ¦ York * FeativaL— We have been atked thi * euesfion before . Wt < do fiat know . ¦ Hiw 6 . Ta ' ^ T ^ - / e ^' ' 'M ' ' -CAt { reA . Rates came too late [ far this week * Next teeekit shall appear . Mr . James"kQUnL ^^ hu-g ^ lmanU ^ leUer ^ e taittittg the counter-challenge to Mr < © ' Connor ! was handed ' t 6 ; fafrm : the ' Mjev ^ ft :- ' ( ffie / -aiioui atl-hour and a half before we went to press . Mr . y Q \ Cmnor is atpresentI absentfrom Leejs , but Mt-i ^ s letter has been forwarded to him , and ' - ^ i ^ w-doiMy f eeeive ' -alldUe ' \ ati ^ iok .-y ^
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T . 'Bv Smith . It depends upon the custom of the parish , whether or not the parson can exact the Juvenile Poll Tax , X . Y . Z . We fear the arrear follows the premises , and that not having a book will give the landlord a handle over querist , for the recovery of the £ 3 5 s . which has been paid . We cannot say any thing as to the removal of the furniture . A Constant Subscriber / It depends upon whether or not any proceedings have been taken upon the stamped article , and its date may be estimated from the time of taking proeeeeiings in some cases .
J . 3 . Clayton . £ 600 a year fir a county , and £ 300 a year for a borough , is the qualification required in England and Ireland for a Member of Parliament . In Scotland ^ there is no money qttalification—that which constitutes the qualificationofa magistrate , is to deal with the laws and the people as his party shall tell Aim , and in all cases to do their " dirty work . " A ratepayer may be a constable . A paid Overseer does not come within the meaning « f the act of Parliament . B . D . E . You cannot in any way implicate the
attorney , unless you can prove him to have been a party tod conspiracy , of which , there appears no grounds even for suspicion . You may proceed againstthe other parties , and should apply for an information against your supposed creditor for perjury . R . Birch is hot bound to pay for more papers than he ordered , and might have stopped them at any time ; the postage is generally regulated with the agents , and it depends upon thai regulation . John Dawson . A child may be bound for more than seven years , and may be released at any time for bad treatment .
A Constant Reader . The person who fired into J , S ' s house had no right to do so no matter at atwltathefired . J . B .. It appears that the schools are merel y adjuncts to the factories , and that children should go to school when at work , but we would recommend parents to : send their children to school ¦ whenever they can . John Mackley must make the overseers complainants his son , who will be bound to relieve him . J . Sharp . The vioneymttst be divided aniong the parties , the « on had no right to make any compromise with I . L ^ even if he had been of age % without the consent of the widow and all the children .
A . B . C . If any act of partnership has been committed , the property of both stand charged with the several debts , the best mode for insuruig safety is at once to dissolve partnership . A . B . C . The tenant must give six months' notice to quit . J . D ., Staley-Bridge . No . A . y . It matters not by whom the agreement is drawn up , provided it is stamped . W . Y . Yes . C . J . must make an application to the overseer . We cannot say what the costs may be . Y . Z . The one child nmo under age , is , by the terms o f the will , entitled to the whole of the £ 60 . per annum , being expended upon his maintenance and education till he attains his majority .
Several wills and other documents have bee . n sent to our office , which we cannot spare time to read , nor have we ever undertaken to do so j therefore , we have to request that the parties will call for them , and abstain in future from sending more than a condensed statement of the case .. London Democratic Association Their address is in type , but necessarily excluded . by press o ) matter .
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- ' : XtXTODS . 1 The CiRGUS . —The performances at this place of amusement are still very numerously attended . We cannot wonder at this so long as any taste for such exercises as are there performed exists at all in the public mind , as no parties can be more perfectly and astonishingly expert in their hazardous and yet very pleasing profession . The accommodation for company in the Circus is handsome and : extensive ; The building being arranged and fitted up in a style that does great credit to the architect . Much delight has
been evinced during the week by the performances of a horse purchased since their abode in Leeds , of Messrs . Butterworth ; and Thorpe , horse dealers , of Leeds , and which , though supposed to be totally untameable and ungovernable ,, went through its evolutions as tractable , to all appearancejas any horse in the whole stud . The parties of whom it wps purchased were present , and expressed their astonishment to gee an animal which had previously been so vicious , appear as gentle as a lamb .
Unexampled Despatch . —Three weeks ago , Lord 'Roden rode his horse down to the Pigeon House , Dublin , shipped himself and steed , and crossed by steam to Liverpool . On leaving the Mersey docks , he again mounted , and rode to the Adqlphu Next day he rode to the railway station , entered one of the first-class carriages , and proceeded to Rugby . Here the saddle again became useful , and our equestrian ,. without hurrying himself greatl y , soon mastered the unfinished part of the line on to Denbigh Hall—a distance of 37 miles . Locomotion ,
from this point , was again resorted to ; and , the great metropolitan station arrived at , he trotted on horseback to his own house in London . There was some waste of time in Liverpool ; and , but for this , the whole distance , ; including 120 miles of sea , would have been completed in little more than 24 hours . What would our primitive forefathers have said to the bare idea of such an achievement P Simply , that it was a physical impossibility , a chimera , dream , spectral illusion—anything , in short , but sober reality . \ .- : . : ;• •'¦ . ' . ' . ¦ •• ¦ ''' . '¦ ' ' ~ ¦ ¦ ¦
West RipinoSessionsv—West Riding Midsummer SessionswillbeheldatSkiptOn , on . Tuesday , 3 d July ; . at Bradford , on Wednesday , 4 th July ; and at Rotherham , on Monday , 23 d Jaly next . - ^ -See Advertisement . A Seasonable Plunob . — -Last Saturday , two men , at Burmandtofts , engaged to run each other for ^ five shillings . The conditions were , that the extent of the race should be fifty , yards , that one runner should tie a basket to hia leg , and that the other should wheel a barrow , oontaining a jolly
friend . About thei middle of the way , the man with Ihe basket cried to ! his competitor to stop till he fastened his basket , which , by some means , had become disengaged fromr his leg . f'No ^ no , ' cried the man' in the wheelbarrow , ' * go on , Jem , or we shall lose the race , " Jetn obeyed the orders of his friend : he ran as hard as he could to the end of the stipulated distance ; and , clashing . ' . ' dpynt his barrow , tumbled his friendinto a deep day pond j the waters of which might have served to cleahse his skin , had he not stirred up the puddle at the bottom .
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TCown CoTJNciL . ^ -- —Oh Monday-last , a special meeting of th * Tow * C <^ pose of transacting * speoial buMtoee * . '' ' Th : first notice of " special businessV ; was " , " to receive : the the returns of the overseers of the poor of the full annual ¦**^ Be * f *^ e several efltates . within their reupective township ? i chargeable ^ to the poor ' s rate . " . This notice was in conformity with the " determinatiMi of the . Council as expressed ai it&eirflas't njeet / ing " , that since it was ^ requisite ' tVat ihe ' ovetBefira should make those returns , or at least be called upon to make them , the first thing to "be done , before , proceeding to engage valuers to value the whole of the borough , was to demand those returns from the overseers wnose duty it was , m the . first place , to make them . Mr . Baker delivered a long speech on
subjeist ; he first suggested , at the former meeting ^ that before valuers could be engaged , it was necessary that the overseers should be required to " make those returns ; arid in case they were not guch as to give satisfaction to the borough , then , and then only , could the Council proceed to engage a valuer , He further maintained that the overseers not having made those returns were liable to the penalty of £ 20 eaoh ; and it Was a question with him whether or not the Council could take further steps in the matter before tibW was done . Mr . Reid and Mr . James were then questioned as to whether they had served the notices to the overseer ? . It haying been ascertained that the » e notices had been duly served , the overseers were then called upon to make those
returns . They did not , however , , make an appearance ; butRobtBarr , Esq . wag heard in their defence . He stated the several causes which were existing to prevent the possibility of the overseers making such a valuation as would be agreed to by all parties , arid urged tte necessity of the borough being valued by competent valuers . After a ? long , tiresome / and senseless debate , in which the several speakers seemed each striving to miss the point as far as poBsiblif ^ or rather to ahpw how well thejr ^^ could debate without aiming . at any point at aH it wai ^ mavedby Mr ,, Alderman Goodmah and seeohded by Mr . Bywater , " that the matter be referred to a committee of eighteen ptrsons to determine / whether or not a
valuation be indispensibly necessary , and whether or not a rate should be laid for such valuation if requisite . Also , thatthis committee meet the ^ yerseers , or other persons from whom they can obtain information as the nature of the case may require ; and that such committee do report at the . next council jneeling . " Mr . Alderman Scarth , wished ; to know whether in case the borough ^ should come under a Union , the Poor Law Commissioners had hot power to order a fresh valuation , and thus cost the borough as much as the valuation for which parties were now contending ( hear , hear , and no : ho ) . That was apoint of considerable difficulty with him . Mr . Joshua Bower thought it was hardly likely the ouncil would order
C a valuation every year . Mr . Alderman Scarth replied that the Commissioners were above the Council , ( degrading consideration !) and could order a valuation When they pleased . Mr . Alderman Musgrave thought' that no good would result from Alderman Goodman ' s resolution . He thought that as much money as the valuation would amount to would soon be spent in litigation . A Committee of the following eighteen persons was then appointed : —Mill Hill Ward , Mr . Howard ; West Ward , Mr . Bate . son ; - North ' West Ward , Mr . Robinson ; North Ward , Mr . Watson- North Eastward , Mr . Jackson ; East Ward , Alderman Holdforth ; Kirkgate Ward , Mr . Barlow : South
Ward , Mr . Derhamj HunsletWard Mr . Joshua Bower ; Solbeck Ward , Messrs . Whalley and Shackleton ; Bramley Ward , Messrs . Moss , Rogers , Musgrave , and Pawson ; Headmgley . Ward , Mr . Heyward ; — Ward , Mr . Beecroft . The report of the Bye-Law Committee was then called for ; but it happened that no report Was forthcoming , and nothiDg was done in consequence , in reference to the bye-laws . The motion of Mr . Wm . Williams Brown , as to the manner in which the Council should observe the Coronation-day , was the next subject of consideration . He said his motion was one that might perhaps be considered rather singular in its object ; but he should make no observations upon it
, but leave it entirely to the Council . The Town Clerk had made some inquiries as to what was likely to be done in other places ; but he had yet ascertained nothing definitely . Amongst the preparations at York , it was determined that the military , the stage-coaches , the firemen , Sec . &c . should all go to the Cathedral , and hear a sermon . ( Roars of laughter . ) Mr . Charlesworth thought the gentleman " -whb had put the motion on tb . e paper was exceedingly selfish , inasmuch as / Tip confined the observance of that day to the Town Council only . As this had been done , he should certainly protest against any motion being made Which should in any way involve others than the members of the
Council . . Mr . Brown thought this was a matter involving the duties of the town generally , as well as the Town Council , and he did not think the Queen had more loyal subjects in the . whole kingdom . Mr . Goodman should be glad if sdme alms houses could be erected , or some school , as a lasting memorial of the respect and loyalty which they bore to the Queen . He proposed a motion to that effect , but it was not seconded , one enquiring to whom such school would belong in case one was erected , and another being anxipus to know Where the money was to come from with which to build it . Dr . Hunter thought Mr . Brown might have found some better employment for the Town Clerk than
8 eekrag m a parcel of trumpery newspapers what was to be done in other places ; but if they Were going to write to her Majesty they might send her word that he , Dr . Hunter , would certainly drink her health in a glass of claret . ( Laughter , ancT hear , hear . ) It was eventually agreed that the Mayor should call a public meeting on the subject , a report of which will be found in another column . The report of the Finance Committee Tor ' the returns made by the Overseers in October last , was read and received . The amoimt was £ 67 6 s . 6 d . This- being doneCouncillor left the
, a room , and there was no longer a quorum . So ended another "Town Council farce . " It certainly was the completest farce that ever was seen . Between four and five hours were spent in literally doing nothing—nay , worse than nothing , in bringing into contempt institutions' that might otherwise be rendered advantageous . It has frequently been said that were the burgesses tohe admitted to one or two of the meetings of this body , they would certainly vote them " a nuisance to the town . " It is impossible for pen to describe the folly and absurdity exhibited at these meetings .
Fishing Extraordinary . —A few days ago , two gentleman , from Leeds , arrived at Harewpod Bridge , on a fishing excursion . For a long period they laboured in vain , and had not even , a glorious nibble , and one of the party Who does not live exactly Where the old church formerly stood , in Kirkgate ^ Leeds , but not five miles fromthatplace , not meeting with what he anticipated in the river Wharf , retired to a public hbuse , with intent to catch some bait for himself with the silver hook . la the mean time a fish cart was passing near the place where his friend was impatiently waiting for a bite ; he purchased a
fine hadd « ck nearly four pounds W eight > and buttoned it upon the grainshire of his friend ' s fishing hook , and lowered it into the water . On his friend returning , he took hold of his rod ; and found a fish attached tothebarbofth 2 hook , alm , o 8 ta 9 largea 8 bi 8 own * AiVe . The landing net and every other thing necessary 3 tp land this wonderful phenomenori of nature Was used , the fish was landed in perfect safety : and the individual expressed his regret that he had not been sooner present , as by struggling the fish wa > drowned . This is believed to be the first haddock ever eaugnt in the river Wharf . 6
Irish Row .- ^ On Monday , Wiliiam Clark and Catherine Doherty , were charged , at the Court House , with having , at three o ' clock that morning , most grossly assaulted John Pridmpre , a watchman , in the execution of his duty , in Morton Row , Yorkstieet . It appeared that they had been having a christening , and quarrelled one amongst another On the road home , When the watchman endeavoured to quell the disturbance , upon which the party took his stick , staff , and rattle from ; him , and With them inflicted serious injuries upon his person . They were fined 40 s . each and the expenses ; and in default of payment , they were committed for . two months to Wakefield House of Correction .
FACTORY iNPPRMAtldNS . ^ -John Smith and Benjamin Smithies , two slubbers , in the employ of Mr , Biackburn , of Holbeck , were fined 5 s . each , arid Jfs . 4 d . costs , on Saturday last , for having employed some children under them without having attended to the regulations of the act relative to the production of certificates of attendance at school . Assaitlt . —On Tuesday last , a person named
Mr . Grime Was fined 5 ? . and costs for an assault upon a widow Woman named Mrs . BrayshaW , It appeared that the complainant was cleaning some flocks for a Mr . KenWorthy , near the top of M « adow > lane , when . the defendant gave her , a slight push : and knocked her down . A bag ' of flocks had been placed by the ; complainant across the road on which Mr : Grime passed in going to his house . The affair evidently originated in a dispute about right of road between the parties . ¦¦ ¦
'•• TAORANeY .- ^ -I'raniCls l > altori , was committed to Wakefield House of C prrectibn , on Thuigday last , for two months , in consequence of having attempted to pick a person ' s pocket . ' . . . "
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^ e % }* ' Rowing ^^^ romlamSt ^ Sl ^ Che ^ ejfi ^ J «^ S 5 iheNorth frnStar contends jfliat iteregular cir culation exceeds Jthat of ; th ^ Letds MertetnrirT <^ i » t beUeye it- ; but at < rar ci ^ mnrT ^ es sella eOrammptcture ire ^ We ijua ^ wsit tor t future publication of Sta ^ iWrti te ^ oKi que « tion .: / The Star admit * fcaiaveWJar «>* ££ * des |
m mvwwum , but not one-half , « jn Lan ^ shbe Wor ?** $ ? WC ! r J *^^^ 8 ned ; ** the Working Classes , and for tie advocacy of Demo crabca , that Js , ^ f BepubUcan opjnW JS those cjasaes . We believe guch a pa > er wilTb ? If short-lived in its prosperity as ft is ^ unsound in ^ S pnn « aple 8 . V Perhapa , / however ^ as We ^ have been Rocking the Mercury Idowa ^ very week since the 18 h of November last , We might be reeaiided as th * aggressors , as taring conflnifcted the offence befo ~ we received th « insult . We Bhouia be hapDv to throw this shield over the vulgar brat who write the r * ! **? ^^ ™» Wfer , had it not been for the SS ™? - ^ *^ fPP " ^ : ¦*• X * rcury of the 19 th of May * In that article , he reallr tiiv n . w
surprise . He putwtme questions to us which ;; ftbm . their genttemaBly moulding , we were induced ^ to answer , and haying answered them injrenuouslv W receive the lie in return ; "We do riot believe it' ? T-sayg the M er cury . In fa > t we were much to ^ l arne for being imposed upon by the masqueraar dress of the editor of the Mercury , ^^ Jho ^ so thoroughly disguised himself ( in the s £ L £ ? J gentleman , as to make us lpafe sight ofWa wal character . A very eccentric and very filthy gentleman oncesexpressed a wish to Lady Ennismore rto eo toa ma ^ uerade , but hesitated lest Insfiiends ' should recognise him , to which her ladyship replied . " nah
nonsense , put on a clean shirt and flhave yoursett and not a soul will knowryoTL" ^ N ow sucliwas our position . We literally imagined that a ^ gentlwnan had been hired for the occarion but it seems it wa » our dirty friend in aclean fhirt borrowed for the pur pose . If the language had been less gross aria * ungenUemanlike , we should strMhpointe to apol ( K gize for the coward who could thus ioBult . We might be induced to think that the fortunate want of ceincidence between the editors of the Mercury had given rise to the mistakei We might have imagined that the Ballot editor wrote one article and the anti-Ballot editor wrote the other articlebut , m this case , we must make the ffenrtpm « n *
editor ,, if there be one ^ a particeps criminis , and shall close pur observations by the reply of the late Sir John Colthurstj upon receiyirig the " lie" from a Mr . Brewster j whereupon Sir John indignantly ob-^ " ^> J ' P— 7 > ^ if you were a gentleman . Id kick you to-night and shoot you to-morrow morning . " " Thank you , Sir John , " answered Brewster , "it is not the first time I have had occasion to return thanks to Proyiderice for not being a gentleman . " The Mercury thus eprieludeg , " Webelieve such a paper will be as short-lived in its prosperity as it is unsound iri its principles . " We only wish the existence of the Northern Star to be mea ^ sured by the soundness of its principles . We now repeat that our circulation is greater than that of the Mercury j and we take leave to add to it . that the
Northern Star is not sold at Sheffield androther places for 2 d . on Monday morning , nor has a single paper left the office upon sale or return . But why , if the principles of the Star are urisonnd , has the virtuous Mercury withheld its chastisement till provoked by the Stamp Return ? We must apologise to our readers for wasting so much space on so worthless a subject . . : ;¦¦ = ; .. _ Geoloqy . — On Wednesday evening , Professor Jobert , late editor of the Journal of Geology of Paris , read to the Geological Section of the Leeds Philosophical' Society a paper , in which , after some very curious and into ' resting- considerations on the ftag-stone , he shows the possibility of iritrodueinff in
the geological science an element of time not comr parative but positive ; speculation Which , till at present , hasbaffled the efforts of all : geologists . The following are the cpriclusipns of this paper . fi Theflag-stone is divided into a great number of small beds or lamiiQse of a ya : riable thickness , which is often less than a quarter of a Une . The mechanical cause of that division is the interposition between each bed or lamina of minute fragments of mica , wbichr form themselves a thin lumina between two stony iumlnffiorbeds . When the coherence of the flagstone is destroyedby mechanical forces , it reduces itself into an extremely fine dust , vyhich being diluted with water
makes it turbid . This dilution being abandoned to itself lets fall at first the fragments of mica , and afterwards the stony substance ; but whilst the laminae of mica precipitate almost immediately and in proportion as the water losesits motion , the muddy substance remains in supensipn and continues to precipitate slowly for some hours . First , it is evident that the matter , which composes the mass of the strata or beds of the flag-stone , haa not arrived suddenly , arid all at once in the basin ( or sea ) int » which it has heen deposited ; for if such was the case , the fragments of mica of all the flag-stone would have fonned a thickbed , covered afterwards % one single bed of stony matter . Secondlv . it . i *
evident that the mineral matter Which has produced the flag-stone has arrived successively ind by intervals into the basin ( or ancient sea ) . Thirdly , the motion produced in the Water , which carried a new lamina , was not strong enough to destroy the order and cohesion of the laruinee preyibusly deposited , aai it is probable that when each new lamina has been deposited , the foremost-lamina hadhad the time to receive some degree of consolidation ; Fourthly , as it is evident that the mineral matterhas been conducted into the basin at periodical , intervals , and as this mineral matter is generaUy considered as the result of the decomposition and destruction of mob ancient formations , there must be necessarily a
relation between the washing and sweeping of the terrwtrial surfaces and the deposit of the beds or lamins into the basin . Fifthl y , this washing cannot have been produced otherwise than by atmospherical waters which were falling at periodical intervals . SiimYy it is probable that these intervals ^ iri the fall of atmosphericalWaters indicate for the secondary geological period a climate of two seasons , the one dry , the ether rainy , analogous to that of the tropical regions ; that in short , each small division or lamina of the flag-stone offers the equivalent of a solar year , and that if we could number all the divisions in one place
where the formation is complete , we should have the regular number of years during which the flag-stbie has been deposited . ^ ' In confirmation of these view Professpr Jobert has said that he had been led by bis researches in Central France ^ to adopt the opinion that there was in that country , at the tertiary geological period , a climate analogous to that of the tropics , and that the district of Auvergnewa 8 in those ancient times , in a condition like that of Egypt at present , where every year a new argillaceous bed » deposited by the water of the Nile , which bed is tiie r esult of the wasbingbf the surfaces in the mountains of Ethiopia , during the rainy season .
Saving ' s BANK ^ At the fortieth haif ^ ew ^ meeting of the trustees and directors of the Leed ^ Skyrac , arid- Morley Savings' Banks , held on the 11 th in ^ ., it was ; ascertained by the accourita pip-, duced by the secretary , that since the commencement of thatValuable institution , 13608 person * to **' paid into the banky the sum of £ 552 j 312 7 « . 1 ^ and have as their occasions required , withdrawn the sum of £ « 2 , 851 6 a > . > . 7 d , The .: interest monej , withdrawn , bears a very small proportion to the iflterest accumulated , and ineluddng such accumoktion , there remains the sum of £ 20 ^ 270 Us . Qi . M the disposal of the present depositors , which we exhort them immediatel y to draw out , and invest it la land for one of Robert Owen's communities .
Articled Clerk ' s Law Society . — - ^ members of the Leeds Articled Clerk ' s Law S ociety met at Scarborough ' s Hotel , in Leedsj on Frid » y > . ™ 8 th instant ; for the celebration of the twen ^ - nfth anniversary of the society , when the mefflhei * present sat down to a very excellent dinner provided by Mr . Scarborough for the occasion . Mr . Cronkehfl officiated as chairman , Mr . Barwict , as vice-ctorr man . I > uring the evening several animated speecne ! were delivered by the chairman , vice-chairmaJi Mewrs . Shackleton , Cariss , Markland , arid otheS ; and the utmost harmony , and eonyivisJity prevailed The memDera separated ata late hbnr , each appeariBj highly delighted with the evening ' s entertainment ! StbalINO : : SACK ^ Ori -Horiday , John Wj -mnn hsm * mV& *^ ' _ i : * 1 ' ^ m- ' - -j . ' ¦¦ t- . . ' - . m : ¦ _ -I . pert 4 * n . ¦ T uiuu
. -a gui , up ai tne . uo . urt House , cnargea *•>»•> having stolen 8 ome Kack » , on the Saturday previo *! ; . the property of MrV-fiill , Whp resides in Sons ? Field Place , i , They ^ were fonnd in his possesapBt and there was a direction card fouHd upon ope . * them , which has jrince been fully identifi ed . B « yras cpnunitted for trial to Wakefield House <» Correction ^ - -,: •¦ . . ¦ ; . ,- ,- ¦ " x -. ; - . ' : /¦ ' - ¦¦' . ' - ¦ .. : ' . - ? -f' ' " ' ' Temperature x > Fl 837 .-4 t appears & <>?¦ : ?* Meteorological Journal kept at the garden « f ^ Horticultural Society , London , that the mean **?> peratiire of the part year was 48 » B 2 , whilst Aftt * the ten precedine ; years Was 60 . 62 , and that tM
quantity of rain was four inches less than the anow average , so that the year ^ Was both colder aw * drier than usual . ' . ¦¦'
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The middle classes and even apart of the Irish gentry are opposed to Tithes , and therefore you had comparatively little opposition to fear | but in a questiori aTising put of the * New pppr' Law , every influential party in the State , both in the Hottse , and put pf the House , will'support the Magisterial murderers against the unprotected poor . This makes a great diflerence between the two cases;—but still the publicity of the petitions would do good . Yours , &c . , ' - ! ¦ BRONTERRE .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 16, 1838, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1010/page/4/
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