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      THE OLD YEAS . 3517 locks are grey , cJd Pilgrim , TiT TrM" ^ " *^ " " ^^ bare , Cold is thy cheek , and storm and cloud Arcrand thy forehead are ; And soon aToieeirDl greet the ear , Proclaiming thou art gone , And midnight -winds thy requiem « fng In -wild funereal tone . . 5 Chtm once -wert young , old Pilgrim , Asdlight of step , -and gay ; Thy brow bedeek'd -with choicest wreath , With roses streWd thy -way : While floated fer on Zephyr's wing . Sweet scent and holy hymn , Thy heaVnly smile at mom and eve What hand might hope to limn 1

      Much hast thou seen ,, old Pilgrim * Much also hast thon heard—• The vow rf love , the vail of want—The toil -without reward—The realm vbete foodless thousands droop , Where plenty fain -would land ; But fell Monopoly guards each port , And frights her from the strand . I > rini to the dying Pilgrim , Te frand-supported crew . And drain the mighty midnight bowl , And oath and league renew ! Fit bow for kagne of murkiest sort , For oath of fiercest tones ; "Who would not wade through blood t' uphold The " tyranny of thrones" ?

      Driik to the poor man ' s sorrow , The orphan ' s want and mil , The crime / the woe , the beggary , That in these realms prevail ; Gaunt Famine , Agony , and Death , Pledge -with exultsntyen , Till Beelzebnb grin horribly , And demons laugh in hell . Yes , traders in Corruption . ! Oppression ' s iron hand ! Quaff on—the kouris on the march __ Will sweep yon from the land ; If or would our tears fall fast and long , Nor hopeless woald we mourn , Slouch with the Pilgrim most of yoa Were passM the mystic " boome . "

      Then fare-thee-well , old Pilgrim , - lay last sand is in sight ; though , which of , us must first take leaTe , Is bid indeepestnight : And I win slander not thy name , Fortbeu wert good and kind , -&nd dealt wifh bounteous hand to all—But tyrant-fiends combined . 27 thl > ecember , !§«•

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      BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY , for January , 1842 . This Tery attractive and interesting periodical ¦ r eached us last week : ; but not in time for notice "We hare read it all through and advise every one -else who can get it to u go and do likewise . " The pictorial illustrations are numerous , and we need but say that they are iy the Cruiksbanks , elder and younger , Oowqnill , and Leech , to pronounce a warranty for their being well executed and appropriate . We must say , however , that the design of one of them—an Illustration of a seene in the ** The Bazed Honse , "" a brigand story of intense interest—is not quite e # happy as we eould have wished . The expression given by the artist to the conntenances of Ms persons chords ill in our estimation Tvith the description of the seene in the book . The tale itself is a graphic and powerful delineation of brigand life . ** Save me from my friends" is a most serious comic recital . of the woes and miseries inflicted on a young artist , by the

      fietermination ' of a coaple of fnssy old maiden aunts from the country , to " pash him into notice" in town —and vrho bring into play all their -village Juts of finesse to the destruction of the poor fellow's credit tnd rhe loss of his cash and connections "Welsh Rabbits , " by Doctor Magin , is » capital etory . " Richard Savage" is continued . In the present chapter , Po ^ r Old Ludlow escapes from his tormentors " through tbe icy portal . " The events wr « eding , of , and immediately following , Ms dissoluticn are of great interest , and finely narrated ; irirle the last scrn * of Savage with his mother is depicted in most master ) - ? style . The characters are drawn and sustained to the life . " Dick Dafter " is a well-told rustic story of events likely enough to have occurred in aetnal ' life , and which had it been read _ by Fielding , might have furnished the hint for his ¦ " Tom Jones . " There are many other pieces worth reacirg : some of them very droll and amusing .

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      NOEWiCH— Strike of the Masons of Lox-Iwx - Un Wednesday evening week , according to announcement , a public meeting was holden at the iwjal Bizizr , io take into consideration the rircum-Kances relative to the masons' strike , and also to consicer the propriety of orianising a delegate meetia ? of the trades of Norwich . At eight o ' clock the «? acious buila-ln ? began to fill , which is bailt in the ^ pe of an amphitheatre , and brilliantly lighted tipi with gig . Shortly after , Mr . Robert Howes , JKies thotmaker , ttss called to the chair . He opened the proceedings by reading the placard conjraing the meeting ; after which , he ob-erved that VkL not a s £ rike t 0 Iaise tfae V ™* of falIen jw onr ; if it were , they themselves perhaps might J » Te equal claims upon society at large ; but it is rae-wjj- . cn claims the svmDathiea of everv son of

      fawnr , whatever be hir cast or bis creed . Who is we amengst yen w :: h soul so dead that would for a moment submit to be the cronchipg slave of such V " ^ -hearted taskmaster as George Allen , the ™ ta * - lie masans , whose cold , pitiless heart couja pmij 5 h a ffian forattencijng the obsequies of his nearest and dearest relative , the vrifa of his bosom I * * l { * i : he w ° rking men of Norwich would « £ t > e behind ether cities and town 3 in sympathising jwi the masons of London , who had bo nobly H , torward , and resisted tyranny and injosi ^ L ( Cheers . ) He trusted they would give IT ^ ry man a faj ^ d impartial hearing 04

      dn ^ V " er detain them " bat would 5 ntr 0 ace Mr . Ironmonger , a delegate from the masons w ix ) Ddon . Mr . Ironmonger the * stepped forward , a in a clear and lucid manner explained their prelSiSIon' and the hardships under which they ^ wpred previous to their strike , and in the coarse w ms address , -whick lasted upwards of an hour , snd y e > -cited the indignant execration of his rin « ^ a £ ainst the heartless and oppressive conwetof George AIIed . He was frequently cheered «» nghoUi an address which evidently told well e £ a , harws , and wiU , no doubt , e ff ect mnch ^? tt tbs hhherto divided city ; he concluded by be to in

      ZzgL ^ put him by any person the ~ i ? "f # « ' bn » no one having appeared , the chairman « led upon Mr . Brig P 5 , mason , to propose the 1 st Ration . i £ r . Briggs Eaid he did bo vnth pleasure , des ^ - ^ . ^^ nced that the masons of London rr ^ oi t he support of every working man in the DtW ^ ' M t hey would be addressed by iners who were more capable th&n himself to do J ^ nce to the cause , he woald content himself by ^ ag the following resolntion : — " That this meet" « EyapathiBeB witb the masons of London f © r their " « "J and strai ght-forward conduct in resistine the of

      r ^ npu toeir foreman , George Allen , in Ms MH-eEnre aad tyrannic conduct towards themselves « a brethren at the works of the new Honses of ^™ me . - -Mr . Clancy , on being called on to «« JUi this resolution , said—It is a trite saying , o **» f ® > " tf "R'e do DOt &s ^ st oorselTes , who ° " « w to assist tK . •¦ ¦» The mason ' B str ike oaght to

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      come home to the fire side of every working man for discussion ; if we allow the masons to be walked upon ¦ with impunity ; if we allow them ltd be struck down by the nplifted tain of AUen ' a heartless tyranny , are we qnito sure that another , and perhaps a more fatal stab WO ! sot be made at the small vestige of liberty that we" Jet retain 1 are we tjnite « are that what the Whigs have commenced , the Tories will not carry out ! past experience teaches us that what has been done one day , may be done another . We have it from Mr . Wakley that the Tories will attempt , ia the ensuing Parliament , to introduce a measure to crush Trades' Unions ; let as , then , men of Norwich , band ourselves together for the coming struggle ; let ; the women urge their husbands , and

      the children their , fathers for the coming contest . ( Cheers . ) Whak would yoa think if , a bill was . to be . introdncedinto Parliament to obligeevery working man to-procure a discharge from his last employer , and that you should wear a badge of servility as the servants of the aristocracy are new obliged to . do ! You may . tell me ihat they will not attempt suck a thing ; but I tell yon that they may attetr . pt such a thing . Sach a bi ! 2 was once attempted fta Be privately carried throogb the Irish . Honse of Commons ; but the tradesmen of Dublin heard of the nefarious scheme : and what did they do ! they instantly called a public meeting in the I / bajnix Park ,: from whence they marened down to the House , and demanded the bill , or the he- ^ d of its

      proposer .. ( Long-continued cheering . ) Past experience has taught us that there is a cold- ' jlooded inclination on the part of our rulers to der-riTe labour , or in other words the property of the working man , of the slightest protection from the ava . ' 4 cious graspings of the matter manufacturers . ' ""Aiecollect , the sons of labonr ' are eight' millions -seven hundred thousand ! and thai they produce anvmally the enormons sum of ^ 737 , 140 , 883 . Yet with all this Task wealth passing annually through jour hands , are you not ti » most-impoverished aud degraded serfs on the face of the globe % Your new Houses of Parliament will cost yon npwwds of £ 170 , 000 . Allen boasted that he had employed en its first works the flower ef the masons of England , but how did be

      treat them ? withbratal « ontranely and scorn . He introduced blacks , who are spoiling the works I One piece of stone worth £ 4 $ wasspoiledihe other day , and your pockets by and bye must be picked again , perhaps to rebuild this edifice , all to gratify the caprice of this steel-hearted oppressor , George Allen . ( Loud cheers . ) Men of Norwich , think on this , and rally to strike down the monster . Let no false prejudice of names prevent you from coming forward in the glorious straggle . He ( Mr , C . ) wooW join with any party that would pledge themselves to assist him in crushing oppression . With the Whigs , or with the Tories . ( A voioe— " Or with the Chartists . ") Aye , or with the Chartists . What was in a name ¦* The rose would Bmall as sweet if called

      ¦ by any other name . " The Americans were rebels , but they happened to be victorious , and * now they are the free and independent cititens of the world ! let bat the Charter become the law . of the land , and in an instant the degraded Chartists were changed to theiixdependent and noble minded mes « f England . ( Laughter and cheers ) He wonld again impress on the trades that the raw of their own existence was in their hands . A Provisional Committee sat every Monday evening , at the Jolly Dyers , Tombland , f or the enrolment of delegates ; let but the trades come out manfully , and soon would we be able to ' tell ' Allen , Lincoln , and the rest of-the profit mongers , that their day of retributution -was at hand ; that they ( tka trades )

      were determined to assist in crushing the hydraheaded monster of tyranny and injustice . He concluded by seconding the resolotion , and sat down amidst n » ach applause . Mr . Walker , shoemaker , proposed the next resolution , which wa 3 in accordance with the foregoing resolution , " We the trades of Norwich , pledge ourselves to use our best exertions to support the masons of London in their present just and legitimate struggle , and that we open subscription sheeta for the same laudable purpose . " The resolution had his hearty concurrence , and as the subject Had been so ably diBCussed by the proceeding speakers , little remained for him to add ; he , however , with others , who spoke before him , would urge the necessity of union to protect their

      rights ; he hoped too , as Mr . Clancy had said , that this was bat the precursor of many other meetings which they would have to discuss the grievaooes under which the various bodies of trades laboured . The resolution was seconded by Mr . Holl , in a neat aud appropriate speech . Mr . Atkins proposed the next resolution in an able and efficient manner : —•* That the best thanks of this meeting are due , and are hereby given , to the workmen lately employed at Nelson's monument , Woolwich Dockyard , aud Dartmoor Quarries , for their noble conduct in refusing to proceed with their respective work 3 so long as their brethren at the Parliament Houses were nnjustly and oppressively dealt with . " This resolution was seconded by Mr . Hill , and ably snpported by Mr . John Hurrell , weaver , in a speech of great length and ability ,

      castigating Allen and his associates in a masterly manner , which called forth the repeated plaudits of the meeting . Mr . Laws proposed the next resolution , eulogising the people ' s press that had so nobly taken np the strike of the masons . The resolution was to the following effect : — " That the foregoing resolutions be respectfully sent to the Northern Star for insertion , together with a brief report of this meeting ; and that / the Daily Sun , Scottish Patriot , British Queen , and Statesman be requested to give publicity ; o the same . " Mr . Hawes seconded this resolution ,. which , tegether with the foregoing three , were passejd by the meeting withont a dissentient voice . Thanks were proposed to the chairman , and three rounds of cheer 3 given for the masons , after which th& meeting broke up , all highly gratified with the harmony and good tellowsbip ihat reigned throughout .

      CAI&LISZJ 3 . —Great Distress and Destitution We stared , last week , that a public subscription had been entered into , and a committee chosen for the purpose' of ascertaining and relieving the present distress , which , we are sorry to find , exists to a most alarming extent . The committee to which we have just alluded , consisted of thirty gentlemen , who it appears divided the the town into nineteen districts , and have ^ published the following as the result of their inqniries . The great privation , destitution , and misery which th& commit tee met with far exceeds what had been anticipated . In the nineteen districts which were examined , there appears to be 3 i . 9 families , consistine of 1 , 146 persons , who have no settled income 334 families , consisting of 1 , 465

      persons , receiving less than one shilling per week ; ill families , consisting of 1 , 623 persons receiving less than one shilling per head per week ; 157 families , consisting of 692 persons receiving less than two shillings a-head per week ; 14 ti families consisting of 635 persons , receiving less than three shillings per bead per week . The committee brought forward the foregoing as the result of their . inquiries ; but in consequence of several cases of great destitution having been brought before them , which , the committee , with all their care , had overlooked , it was deemed expedient that a public meeting of the working classes should be held for the * purpose of forming a committee amongst themselves , for the purpose of aiding the

      committee already formed . Jn accordance with the above resolution , a public meeting was held in the Town Hall , which was granted for the purpose , by our present worthy Mayor , G . G . Mounsey , . Esq . At the time appoirtsd for the meeting , the body of the Hall was crowded to excess ; Mr . Joseph Broom Hanson was unanimously called to the chair . He opened the business of the meeting a 3 follows : —My friends and . fellow townsmen , within this fortnight back , a great number of the influential classes , who felt for the sufferings of the poor , came forward with a view io relieve the great distress which at-present exists . A committee was formed , cansieting of thirty persoce , who divided the town into nineteen districts , to ascertain the amount

      of Buffering . They found it to exist to a very great extent , and their inquiries opened up such a scene of misery and distress , which 13 disgraceful to any Government . We have met to night at the request of Mr ; Dixon and others , who wished the assistance of working men , whom they thought would assist them by forming themselves into a committee to aid them ~ in their endeavours to find out -worthy objects of relief . It remains for you , my friends , to form a committee" or committees , and do all you can to mitigate " the great suffering that exists . Mr . John Armstrong "then came forward and said , I wia not aware of the present meeting until about six o ' clock this evening . It will be necessary to form a committee to investigate the extent of the suffering which

      at present exists . You must have men in tack district , and this will be the best way to form your committee . Mr / H . Bowman rose and said , Mr . Chairman and friendE , I beg leave to make one or two observations oh the snbject before the meeting . I was of opinfon when the existing committee was formed , that it ought to have been mixed up witb working men , whowere better acquainted with the poverty of the people , than those who at present formed the committee . I would have suggested the propriety of doing then , what you are now about to do , but as the meeting at which the committee was formed was composed principally of the higher classes , it might then h&Te been considered presumptuous on my part ; however , I am glad they have seen the necessity of such a step being taken , and I hope

      yon will now form & large committee for the purpose of taking a complete enumeration of the condition of the working classes . This had been done m Leeds , one of the largest mannfactHrir / r towns in Yorkshire , and one . would have thought , that owing to the woollen trade not having been so depressed as the cotton trade in general , that the distress would not have been so great . [ Mr . Bowman here read an extract from Hobson ' s " Poor Man ' s Companion , " wbick contained a report of tho " Enumeration Committe , " which had been formed in Leeds , and which showed to what an awful extent the distress prevailed . ) Mr . Bowman proceeded to read from the same work , the plan which bad been taken at Leeds , with some remarks of the Editor of the work , but when he got to that portion -where it states , " that the wifely income of tb& whole of the 18 , 936 is goly

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      Hid . per head , being less than l | d . per head per day !!! and yet the Queen has for her own private use the sum of £ IU 7 s . Wd . per day ; Prince Albert has , for " pocket money , " £ \ U per day , he was interrupted by seme middle class-man , or aristocrat , with a cry of ' - * question , " " question . " Yes , Csaid Mr . Bowman . /; this is rather away " "from the subject of tho meeting ; hnt . it seems' t 6 bear . very , closely on the question , and until there is a material alteration in the , condition of the people , there will be no peace in the land . What availed the caraal hand of charity I Something substantial and lasting must be dono , or there would be a constant drain on the purser of good and benovelent individuals , who had humjHiely come forward on the present trying occa ? jon . ; I will propose , that a committee be now

      fpjmed , for the purpose of taking a complete enumeration of the present distress , with a view to report thereon , and assist the other committee . Also , to furnish such information to the members for the Borough , for the purpose of bringing the same before Parliament . Some one in tho meeting , Mr . . James Arthur , we believe , seconded the motion of Mr . Bowman , which , after some discussion as to the difficulty of getting a sufficient number of working men to perform the duties incumbent on the Committee , -without some slight remuneration , the motion was carried , and a committee ef thirty-eight persons chosen . A vote of thanks was then pyen to the Mayor , for granting the use of the Hall . Also , a vote of thanks to the Chairman , when the meeting quietly dispersed . :

      Anticipated . Mebting of the Coontt of Cukbeeland , to Congjutclatk her Majesty , Exploded—the Tories abd Whigs Frightened from thbib , lotaltt , by the imaginary ihrebperencs of the Chartists . —We have been much amused with a long string of correspondence , which has been published in the Carlisle newspapers , by the High Sheriff for the county , James Robertson Walker , Esq ., and which has , transpired betweon himself , Mr . Hasell , of Dalemane , chairman of the Quarter Sessions , arid a Mr . Matthews , of Wigton . The burden of the song appears to be , that a respectful requisition , had been got up and signed by many of the resident gentry of the county , to the High Sheri ff , to call a county meeting , to congratulate

      her Majesty on the auspicious event of the birth of a Prince . The High Sheriff like a loyal and dutiful subject , readily agreed to call * county meeting for the above purpose , which was to have been he ' . dat Wigton , the usual place of holding county meetings . No sooner , however , was this made known than Mr . Matthews takes the alarm , his mind becomes oppressed with horrible visions of " routs , riots , insurrections , and rebellion against the peace of our Sovereign Lady the Queen , " and in his great perturbation of miad , he writes two letters to Mr . Hasell , beseeching that the said county meeting should not on any account be held at Wigton , for in that case " he was sure some of the leading Carlisle Chartists wonld attend , and

      move some amendments , which must be resisted ; in that case , he would not be answerable for any breach of the peace which might be / committed . " These letters ( so full of illusory fears ) so shook the delicate nerves of Mr . HiBell , that he too becomes dreadfully alarmed , and immediately writes to the High Sheriff , begging he will not call the meeting at Wigton , but at Cockennouth , where they were not so likely to meet with interruption , and could , in case of necessity , retire into the safe keeping of the Court House ! But the High Sheriff , like a brave and gallant officer , as he is , having withstood the thuuders of the British navy , and for many years " the

      battle and the breeje , " heeded not the childish fears of these two old women , but insisted pa calling tho meeting at Wigton , as was the practice on all similar occasions . In consequence of the High Sheriff ' s intrepidity , Mr . Hasell and his friends requested him to return the requisition , which he accordingly did ; and so has ended , or rather never begun , the enacting of another fulsome and disgusting farce to loyalty , la consequence of the correspondence above alluded to , the following pertinent letter has been addressed to the High Sheriff by three of the leading Chartists of Carlisle , and will tend more fully to illustrate this ludicrous proceeding : —

      TO JAHES ROBERTSON WAiKER , ESQ . , HIGH SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND . Sib , —Yen hare oar unfeigned and hearty thanks for publishing , the very curious and important eorrespondence , which has taken place between yourself , Mr Hasell , of Dalemaine , Chairman ef the Quarter Sessions , and Mr . Matthews of Wigton . The publication of this correspondence was a duty -which you owed to your&elf , as High Sheriff of the county , and as a loyal and dutiful subject of her Majesty . Ton have thus placed the blame on the right shoulders—those of Mr . Hasell and Mr . Matthews who , from their ilusive fears , have been the sole cause of preventing a connty meeting being held , for the inhabitants of Cumberland , te testify their loyalty to her Majesty , on the auspicious event of the birth of a Prince . .

      Mr . Hasell and Mr . Matthews speak of the temper of the " lower orders" and " lower classes , " terms , by the bye , -which their good sense onght to have snppressed ; for the expression of them will only tend to still further convince the people , of the great want of sympathy which prevails , on the part of the wealthy portion of society , towards the poor .

      The rank is but the guinea ' s stamp , The man's the goud for a' that " lit . Matthews deems it probable , if the county meeting should be held at Wigton , that the leading Carlisle Chartists , would attend and move some amendment , which must be resisted . It appears , then , that a numerous body of her Majesty ' s subjects are to be placed without the pale of the constitution , and not bo allowed to express their wants and wishes to her Majesty ; but that a few magistrates and others of the wealthier classes of the country are to meet unmolested to passfnlsome and adnlatory addresses to her Majesty and Prince Albert , and not allow the working classes , who are the real -wealth and support of the state , to express their feelings and state their real condition .

      Are Mr . Hasell and Mr . Matthews ignorant of the fact , that -whilst the cottage is desolate there is no security for the throne ? that -whilst the great body of artisans , mechanics , and agricultural labourers are suffering abject want , there will be no safety for property ? Then why disguise matters ? Let her Majesty be put in full possession of the real condition of her paople . Surely it cannot be disrespectful nor aisloyal to remind her Majesty , that whilst her Majesty and Prince Albert receive daily , for pocket money , the enormous sum of £ 268 7 s . lOd . ! there are tens of rhonsands of her Majesty ' s industrious subjects compelled to live on one penny three farthings her head per day ! Ought this state of things to be continued ? should these horrible disparities be allowed Ionter to

      exist ? Should there be , or can there be , either peace or conteut in the land until the condition of the people be improved ? Mr . Matthews anticipates a breach of the public peace , providing the Chartists should be resisted , as they must be , he says , if they should move any amendment at the county meeting . What sort of resistance does Mr . Matthews contemplate ? If he means physical resstance , then his forebodings might prove but too correct If he simply means mental resistance , by himself and bis friends , endeavouring te carry their address , in spiteof the anticipated Chartists * amendment , then be may rest assured that his fears , as to a breach of the peace , are quite illusory ; and that tbe Chartists themselves will take upon them the preservation of tbe public peace , either at Carlisle or Wigton . How is it that Mr . Russell and Mr . Matthews consider the Chartists so disloyal . ' They ought to be aware that the

      Chartists of Carlisle were the first and foremost in the field to move a congratulatory address to her Majesty , on thy auspicious event of the birth of a prince ; and that address was as respectful , though perhaps not so fulsome and adulatory as theirs could possibly be . The address alluded to was passed at a public meeting of the inhabitants , convened in the Town Hall several weeks ago , and that meeting was conducted in a peaceable and orderly manner . Ltt the magistrates and others first do their duty as conservators of the public peace , by calling public meetings in order to ascertain the amount of distress and suffering which now prevails among the working classes , with a view to remedy the same , and then they may hold their public meeting to pass flattering addresses to her Majesty , in quiet and without the slightest molestation . H . Bowman , J . Arthdr .

      J . B . Bowman . LEEDS . —Anniversary Dinner . —It being chstomary with Messrs . Dunn and Son , cornfactoTs , of this town , to give their workmen an annual treat , they , of course , provided an excellent dinner on the 30 th ult ., at the house of Mr . Witton , Parrot Inn , Call-lane , when thirty of the workmen Bat down . The dinner reflected great credit upon Mr . and Mrs . Wittcn , who are becoming celebrated for their " good providing . ' The evening was spent in the greatest harmony and good fellowship , and many excellent songs , toasts , and recitations enlivened the party . The example of the Messrs . Dunn , ought to be more generally adopted , as nothing can have a greater tendency to generate a good feeling between the employed and the employer . The workmen , who highly respect their " good masters , " concluded the proceedings by giving three times three for their employers .

      BISHOP AUCKLAND . —Lotxl Obdeb of Ancient Shepherds . —The efficers and delegates of the Lodges of the Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds round Bishop Auckland met on Friday , the 31 st of December , at the bouse of brother William Hall , the Shepherds' Inn ; they were net by the officers of Ossett district . They proceeded to business at ten o ' clock in the morning ; and at three they sat down to an excellent dinner provided for the occasion , which gave great credit to the worthy host and hostess . The day was spent in harmony and good will .

      On Saturdat , the 1 st of January , the members of the Jacob ' s Ladder Lodge , held at the house of brother Ralph Lawson'e , Hermitage , met to celebrate their first anniversary . At three o ' clock , upwards of forty members sat down to an ample | repast , which gave satisfaction to ail present .

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      The Coobtt of Cobswall is so' extensively undermined , that churches and churohyards , mansionhouses and hostelries , ar 4 many of them suspended over a yawning gu )^ and fn danger of crushing tHo lives oat of g ome scores of ad venturous miners . The Cornwall GazeUtCot last week , gives the following u narrow escape " : — " On Tuesday * at Illogan , as the wife of a labourer called Dupstone was crossing her kitchen , the ground suddenly gave way . and she was left suspended by her arm over a ahaft , but fortunately was rescued from her perilous situation without any injury . "—Falmouth Packet . :

      Old Ohichesteb Bank . —The failure has caused a complete stagnation to business in Chiohester , and numerous cases have occurred where ^ persons iix comparative affluence are reduced to the most abject distress . 'Amongst theto may be named two aged maiden ladies ( sisters ) named Elizabeth and Ifynriy Fowler , one of whom ia a ciipple . They proved for £ 1969 19 . id . They are left without a shilling ; have been compelled to apply to the parish for relief and are now in the receipt of a miserable weekly pittance . Another case was " ' a farmer with a large family named Smith ; he had £ 295 16 s . 6 d . of his own money , and borrowed £ 1000 for the purpose off taking a large farm , the whole of which he deposited in the bank for safety a few days before the stoppage .

      He has by the occurrence been reduced to beggary . The largest creditor was Mr . Kent , training groom to the Duke of Richmond ; he proved for £ 459516 s 7 d . the savings of many years' servitude , intended for a large family . Such was the confidence placed in the bank that numbers , particularly females , deposited every pound they possessed in the concern . — By the way a correspondent calls our attention to the fact , that no one banker will take another ' s notes ! For example , a bill becomes doe—the banking clerk presents it for payment— 'you tender him notes , and unless they be t . h » Bank of Ejng | aiid ; he refuses to take them ; and unless they can , be converted into gold , your bill may be n ^ ted . It would seem that those men are wiser than the public .

      Death from Starvation . —On Saturday night , an aged female , about 60 , was found sitting on the lower Btair , No . 31 , White Hart-street , Drury Lane . When spoken to , with , the utmost difficulty ehe said she wanted the common necessaries of life { her awful countenance shewed the fact ) { and she added , " If I could only get to the house of Mr . Shorti a tavern-keeper in the Strand , opposite Somerset House , he would give me somo victuals . " The deceased was lifted up from the stairs j and a surgeon was in instant attendance , but in a f ew seconds tbe poor creature dropped dead . A Mrs . Johnson , who resides in tho neighbourhood of White :.: 'Hart Yard , had often afforded the deceased shelter and food , but on the present occasion advised the deceased to proceed to the Union , which it ib supposed she declined . , ^

      The Great Western Railwat , —A most diabolical attempt was made on Wednesday night to cause a further accident on the Great Western line . The mail train was on its way from London , and when within about three miles of Bath , the signal was given by the engine-driver of something wrong , and the train was stopped with all possible dispatch . On investigation it appears that Borne villain had placed two large stones ( one on each rail ) with the view of sending the engine off the : line , but which did not take place . Ono of the stones was crushed into a thousand atoms , and flew over the driver and stoker without doing them any serious injury ¦; the other stone was forced on one side by the sword , or guard , which is placed before the wheels , but both the guards were put out of their . place , land much bent and twisted .

      The Recent Frightful Accident on the Great Western Raixwat . —Readjj < g , ; Tjip ; rsda y , Dec . 30 . —It is with extreme pain we have to announce that the catalogue of those whose lives have been lost in consequence of the lamentable catastrophe in the Sonning-hill cutting on Friday week , is increased by the death in the Royal Berkshire Hospital , of Richd . Woolley . It will be remembered , that the unfortunate sufferer was admitted an in-patient , and the injuries wore described in the hospital books "compound fracture of the skull . " The unhappy patient underwent the operation of trepanning , and was proceeding moBt favoWrably iiutil Monday night , when erysipelas presented themselves , and though they were combatted tvith some success by the medical attendants of the hospital , Woolley died on Wednesday afternoon about half-past three o'clock . On inquiry at the hospital to-day , wo learnt that all the accident patients remaining Cnit . e in number ) are

      progressing favourably , with the exception . of ; Thosi Hankins , Eliza Barnes , and Thomas Hughes , with regard to whom a change for the worse had taken place , and these three unhappy sufferers now lie in a most precarious itite . On Friday , an inquest was held on the body at the Royal Berkshire Hospital , before Mr . J . J . Blaridy , coroner . The verdict of the Jury was that Richard Woolley came by his death from a fracture he received on the skull , caused by the engine , called the Hecla , coming into collision with a mass of earth , having fallen from the slope of a , cutting on the Great Western Railway , at Spnhing , in this county ; a nd they are of opinion that the accident might have been avoided , had there f been a Right police , or watch in the cutting . They , therefore , placed a deodaud o : > the engine and train of carriages of the sum a hundred pounds . And farther , they recommend that the passenger trucks be in future placed further from the engine .

      BOY 3 LED TO THE COMMISSION OF ClUME BY &EING RtrusED Workhouse Kelief . ——On Thursday Thomas Jones and Richard Eaves , two ragged boys , were charged with stealing a piece of bacon from a shop in the neighbourhood of Union Hall . Sergeant Logan , of the N division , stated that on the preceding afternoon the prisoners called at the Station-house in the Southwark-brid ^ e-road , and begged to be admitted , saying that they were without food or shelter , and had nowhere to go to . He directed them to proceed to the workhouse , where ; he told them , they would be temporarily relieved , and they vvent , but returned in a short time after wards , saying that they had been refused any assistance , and threatened with the cane if they did not e 6 away . The sergeant

      then told the boys that they would not be admitted into the Station-house , which way only for the reception of offenders , and they both walked away . In less , however , than a quarter of au hour afterwards the same two boys were seen in the act of stealing a piece of bacon from a shop window , and being pursued , both * of them were taken into custody , and the one upon whom the bacon waB found was in the act of gnawiDg it when the policeman * svent up to secure them . The owner of the bacon , on hearing the circumstances under which it was stolen , said that he had no wish to press tho charge against the two unfortunate boys . Mr . Cottiugham questioned Jones as to the cause of his present apparently destitute condition ; and his account was that his father and

      mother were dead , and that for the last seven years he had been travelling about the country , in company with a man selling bootlacea and other small articles ; thai on Wednesday morning he arrived in town from St . Alban ' s , . and .-that the man with whom ho went about left him suddenly , and he did know where he was gone ; and that , being without food or money , he went with the other boy to the Station-house to ask lor shelter ; that thence they both went to the workhouse , and having described their situation , aud that they -were starving , the man at the door told them that he could do nothing for them , but desired thtm to stay till the master came ; that they waited for some time , until at length a mail madehis appearance , and onseeiug them he exclaimed

      — " These are the young scamps : who wore here before ; fetch me the cane and I'll soon send them about their business ; " that on hearing '" . this threat they ( the boys ) ran away , and on passing a shop they took a piece of baoon out of the window , as they were starving . Mr . Gottingham having sent for the master of the workhouse where the boys made the application for relief , in the parish of Christchurch , described to that person the circumstauoes under which they were brought before him , and said that his refusal to give them temporary assistance , aud threatening them besides , l < id to the commission of the offence for which they were brought before him . The Magistrate then asked the master of the workhouse for his explanation of the transaction , but he

      referred to the por . er , who , it appeared , was the person ' of whom the boys made application . The porter admitted that he refused to give them relief because he had , oa three different occasions , relieved , them before , and that on seeing them on the evening in question he said , " You are the young rascals who have been here before . " On hearing these words they both went away , but he made no threat , of using the cane . Mr . Cottingham s&id that the boy Jones declared he had only arrived in London the same morning , and therefore he could not have been at tho workhouse previously , a ' ceording to his account . The poiterji however , positively denied the truth of Jones ' s statement . Mr . Cottingham said that he was bound to reiy upon the testimony of the persons belonging to the different workhouses that Jones had been previously relieved by them , and therefore the probability was that the account he eaye of himself was utterly without foundation . The Magistrate

      added that Mr . Pearson , a ship-owner ^ who had heard the previous part of the case , and commisserated the apparent state of destitution of the Sri soaers , had humanely undertaken to place the boy ones on board one of his vessels as an apprentice . The facts , however , which had subsequently come out in the course of the inquiry would have the effect of doing away with that act of kindness , and instead of being sent on board f hip , Jones should stand committed for three months to gaol . The other boy was ordered to be passed to his parish . In the course ef the magistrate's observations ho said , that he was determined on enforcing the provisions of the New Poor Law Act as far as related to the cases of destitute persons who were either sent from that court or token by the police to the workhouse of the district for temporary relief . In the event of such persons being refused such assistance he ( the magistrate ) had made' up his mind to inflict the full penalty of £ 5 on the party so refusiog .

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      The late Explosion on tbe Bristol and Gloucester Railway . — George Collinsv another of the sufferers by the explosion of gunpowder , near Wickwar , Gloucestershire , died in the Bristol Infirmary , on Thursday night last . This make 3 the fifth death . Inpamous Fame At arm . —At twelve o ' clock on Christmas night a fellow on board the Monarch steamer , then on the passage from London to Huli , caused a fearful alarm among the other passengers , of whom there were several of both sexes , by stamping on the deck over the fore cabin , and bawling out " All haads on deck , the ship ' s on fire . " The consequence was a general consternation among the fore-cabin passengers , during which a man , jumping

      from an upper berth , fell on a bench beneath , where the ; wife of asoldier-. in '' the J > 8 thregiment was asleep , and being far advanced in pregnancy » serious result might be anticipated . All rushed to the ladder ; but few gained the deck before they discovered the infamous hoax :, and that there was no cause for alarm . The fellow , on being told he should be given into custody on arrival in Hull , threatened he would give any one two inches of steel who dared to lay hands on him ; and this , probably , deterred the summary punishment which many of the passengers were disposed to inflict . We fear the law does not enable the owners of the vessel to punish so heartless a wretch ; but our informant received a satisfactory assurance from them that care should be taken to

      prevent a recurrence of such disgraceful conduct in any passenger . ; "¦ ¦'¦' : ' ¦ . _ - ¦ ¦" -: . ¦'' ! . '¦¦ . ¦¦ ¦ . "'¦ " \ . ' - ¦ '¦¦ ¦¦ ; ¦ •¦ : Fortune-telling in Lancashire . —Our Middleton correspondent gives us a long account of a visit which he and two other persons paid , on Friday last , to a conjuror or fortune-teller residing in Burnleyrlane , North Moor , Ghadderton , ostensibly to inqtiire into the fate of an old man who has been missing since the 13 th Deo , and is supposed to have been drowned on his way home from a fuueral , but really to ascertain by : what means he and his brethren have succeeded in impressing a large portion of the population of Oldham , Middleton , Chadderton , Tpnge , and other places in the vicinity , with a firm faith in their fcnoWledge of things past , present , and to come . The wise man" went through a good deal of mummery , and fished very adroitly for

      information whereon to found his oracular responses . He was purpo ? ely misled , and made the most ridiculous blunders , and of course the visitors Only learnt for certainty what they shrewdly suspected before—that the aonjuror was an arrant cheat . Our correspondent Bays that there are seven persons of this description in Oldham and the neighbourhood , one at Gollyhurst-bridge , and several others near Manchester ; that there are fcfaoasahds within ten miles of Manchester , and those not confined to the lower classes , who believe in fortune-telling ; and that one old jade has made an independent fortune of her own in the business . Can ; this be true of any part of enlightened , civilized , and Christian England ? If it be , how fearful ia the responsibility of those who have spent hundredsof millions in war , and nothing for the education of the people!—Liverpool Mercury .

      Fatal ARBiTRAMENT .- ^ -My ancient enemy and how confronted each other ; a loaded piece , which he usually carried / rested aoross his arm . We gazed at each other in amazement for some time , until at length he stepped back a paco or two , cocked his gun , and told me , if I did not quickly walk before him as his prisoner , he would shoot me . I felt hot blood riot in my veins , and told him to turn the muzzle of his pieca from me , ojr I " might settle in deadly sort , the long account betwixt us . He ad ^ vanced upon me as I spoke , and thrust the end of his weapon against my breast . I staggered from the force of the blow ; but seeing me about to sprinjj upon him , he raised tho piece to his shoulder and fired . The charge shattered one side of my head

      and arrested my impetuous course fpr the mpraent . I then seemed to look at him through crimson flame , but I still saw him—through blinding streams of blood , he was still palpably before me , —but he took advantage of the severe check he had given ; and Eeizing his piece by the barrel , he aimed a tremendous blow at my head with the butt-end , ' which I received with my left hand , and rushed in upon him with a wild ; Bhriek of maddened infuriation . ' ¦ He was in an instant upon the ground , my hands grasping his throat , and his effort to force me off was terrible I ; --bu't I tightened my fatal hold until his cheft oeased to heave beneath ine—^ his arm dropped —the limbs slowly contradted , and then—I saw that he was dead !—Parley ' s Penny Library .

      An Ingenious Device .- —Thomas Hogel was on Wednesday last charged at the Liverpool policeoffice by a recruiting sergeant with having practised a singular imposition . It appeared that the prisoner was extremely anxious to enter the service of the East India Company , but being onereighth of an inch under the standard height he fixed to the crown of his head a ball of wax covered with hair . Having by this meanB elongated himself to the required dimensions j he was passed on Friday week , butbeing ordered to attend again on Suuday , tho ingenious device was detected . Mr . Rushton said he knew of no law which condemned a- man to punishment for such an act as that committed by tho prisoner . He was cautioned not to repeat the offence , and was discharged .

      An A » pair op HoNouB . ^^ An affair just occurred in a certain northern city , which has occasioned some amusement to the lieges . A young gentleman belonging to the beau monde , was ambitious to become possessed of a pair of whiskers , and made application to a friend to whom nature had been particularly bountiful in regard to that article , to be instructed as to the method of furnishing himself with the desired ornament .. The friend promised to comply , and presented him with , a pot of ointment with which he was to anoint the parts on which he wished to raise a crop . The ointment was used accordin K ly , and produced—not whiskers , but blisters . An offenco of this heinous description nothing

      but blood could atone , A challenge was given and accepted—the parties met—and , somewhat abated of iheir first ardour , faced each , other with mortal intent , arid weapons loaded with cork ; though it is due to their valour to mention that they believed them to be charged with a heavier material . On the word being siven , sh 6 ts were duly exchanged , and one of the parties , tho challenged , fell overpowered by deadly terror . The second ? , to continue what they intended for a joke , but which was certainly cayried a little too far , applied a handkerchief stained with red ink to his side . At this oanguinary spectacle , "the challenger , believing he had done murder , took to flishti and was with difficulty so much rfi-assured as to appear again in public . —Edinburgh Witness .

      Old Year ' s Night at the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum . —On Friday evening , the last in the : old year , the above histitutioa , for the receptiou of lunatic paupers belonging to the diffarerit parishes within the county of Middlesex , exhibitdd an extraordinary and pleasing instance of the grarifying effect of the huEQane system at-present pursutd in that establishment , whereby coercion has been done away with , and corporeal restraint no longer forms a pai . t . in : '; ' the-treatment of the insatie . It has been the practice of the last year or two to j / ive the female patients an evening's entertainEieiit as theiolose of the year , and to prepare for that joyoiis occasion , the patients had been for the week previously busily engaged in decerating their wards with laurel , holly ,

      and other evergreens , which were most tastefully and fancifull y displayed on the walls of their rooms , in various devises , amongst which wsre the initial letters of the Queen , " V . R ., " of Prince Albert , " P . A ., " and of the illustrious infanfc , the future Sovereign Of the united empire , " P . W ., " with crowns and Prince of Wales ' s feathers , &ov , the whole forming an alcove of upwards of seventy feet , in wbioh the utmost tranquillity prevailed . Soon after five o ' clock , the patients had assembled , to the number o f nearly four hundred , who had ranged themselves ' 'on each side on forms , which had been provided for the occasion . At that time scarcely a word waa to , be heard , and the effect the scene produced was most striking and

      pleasing . Tea and cake were then served out to the patients , by the matron , Miss Gonolly ( the superintendent ' s daughter ) , and the Burses , by whom afterwards were played on a pianoforte many cheerful and enlivening tunes , to which the patients commenced dancing , which they kept up with much spirit and glee for upwards of an hour . On their again resuming their seats , they were each presented with half an orango , after which dancing again commenced , and was continued with music at intervals until eight o'clock , when supper was served , arid at the conclusion the patients retired to their several apartments , apparently much delighted with their evening ' s entertainment .

      True Wisdom . —A wise general , on the eve of battle * makes » proper disposition of his forces beforehand , and does not wait till the enemy has made an attack , and thus , by forethought aud due preparation , reasonably expects a victory ;—thus , he who has a desire to attain a healthy , and , consequently , happy old age , does not indolently wait for the attack of the enemy , whioh is sickness , but is constantly On his jctuard against his insiduous approaches , by payirie : proper attention to the etato of his health . Many would fain occasionally use medicine to assist nature in her operations ; but like a mariner at sea without his compass , knowing riot where to steerv they first try this , arid then i that , and meet with nothing but disappointment ; to iheso , how welcome must be the important fact , that Parr ' s Life Pills are now proved to be all that is required to conquer disease and prolong life . "

      Tns Armstrong LiVEii Pills are reoommended as an Anti bilious medicine , tp erery sufferer fwm bilious complaints and indigestion , or from an inactive liver , and are procnraWe at all Druggists , and at the Northern Star office . It is only necessarj to Bee that the stamp has "Dr . John Armstrong ' s Liver Pills" engraved on it in white letters , and to let no one put you off with any other pills . N . B . —The Pilla in the boxes enclosed in marbled paper , and marked B . j are a very ; mild aperient , and are paBtticularly and universally praised . They are admirably adapted for sportsmen , agriculturists , men of business , naval and military men ; as they contaia no mercury or calomel , and require neither confinement to the h « use , nor rertraint ia diet .

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      The ExcHEfttrBR : JBjll FoKGERr . — Ou Moniay morning an order was sent to Newgatej from , the Home-oflioe , for theremoTal of , Edward Beaumont Smith to the hulksV in parsuance of his sentence He was accordingly placed So . » carriage and conveyed to Woolwich , where he was placed on board the usual receiving hulk ., \ v - ANOTHEU CAtAMITOIJ ^ TflBX IN MANCHESTER . — On Friday evening last . abffttti niae o ' clock , an alarm of fire was given , aad wfeich ; wa 3 foond to be at tm weaving mill and calender house in Bpleman sbuildingB , Manchester . The fire comtttenced on the part occupied by the late Mr . E . Dickinson ,

      paleadererv &c ., and which raged with such fury that in about an hour that part of the premises , six Btories high , was a complete ruin ; notanything worth notice was saved . The loss wiil probably be about £ 5 , 000 . There were two rooms over tha calender room filled " with looms which were all burnt . The principal ^ part , of the weaving establishment ,, being Eepatated from the premises burnt down , by a ¦ wail , did not ; receive much injury . ; buk , as tha steam engine was much damaged , all the bands employed will , Becessarily , ba thrown out of work for some time to Come . ; No lives were lost , not ia any one injured .

      Effect of Competition . — -The competition in the slop business is almost ruinous to a numerous and industrious , class of women at the east end of the metropolis , ' who managed to support themselves decently by their needle . A few years ago , when shirt-making wa 3 reduced to three shillings a dozen , it was considered so low a price thai it was impossible to make a bare . existence at it . Yet from that price it became gradually reducedjand many of the large Jew slop-sellers at present pay but ninepence a dozen , or three-farthings each shirt , for them . If three shillings was ; a ;; price at which these poor women could make a mere existence , what must be the effect of the present allowance ? And yet thousands are to be found even glad to get such work !

      Death fhom Starvation . —On Monday night an inquest was taken before Mr . Higgs at the Edinburgh Castle , Strand , on the body of Charlotte Closson , aged 63 . D . ebaiah Johnson , of 31 , White Hart-street , deposed tbat she knew the deceased . About three : week 8 since she saw deceased in the street . It was raining at the time , and the deceased crying , said she wa'i tery hungry . She ( witness ) took her home and gave her something to eat , and she appeared grateful for it . She called several times since , and on Wednesday last called and appeared very ill . She gave her some tea and allowed her to sit by the fire . She oallod again on Saturday last , and had the appearance of being in a dying state . She was very ; bad , and said " shehadhaa nothing to eat the whole of the previous day . " She

      begged of her to . give her somo tea or she would die ; She borrowed Si . and gaye her some tea . She offered her some bread and herring , but she could riot eat . She asked her the reason she did not apply to the workhouse , when Bhe replied "that she would sdonerdie ia the street than enter the workhouse . " Deceased having a sister in the Dover-road , she sent her nephew to her residence for some relief . The deceased said she knew Mr ' . Short , of the Strand , and could Bhe get there he would give her relief . She ( witness ) and her niece assisted her down stairsy and on getting into-. 'the passage she died . The deceased was in the habit of Bleeping in public-houses , and on one cold rainy night she came and implored of . her to give her 6 d ., to pay for her night ' s lodsina ' .

      Her clothes were thin and wretched . She was very thin and emaciated ; Three doctors attended . By the Coroner——The deceased ' s sister sent bacK some bread and meat and a note , on which waa written , "Penitent sinner , to-day on earth , to-morrow i n hell ; seek pardon and delay not . " The deceased was much hurt on reading it . I called on the sister on Sunday , wto said that the deceased waa a very bad peraon , -and had left her husband thirtyfive years since , who is : still living at Harwich . From other evidence , it appeared that deceased mightkave been well off , bnt for ; her conduct , having had a great 'deal of money left her by her father . Verdict— "Died from want , brought on by her owa stubborn temper . "

      Plymouth , Sunday ; Jan . 2 . —This afternoon the Convvay , 26 , Captain Bethane , from Chinaj having onvbo-ird two millions of dollars , anchored in the Souud about six o'clcck . Her . desiination waa Portsmouth , but a change of vfind having taken place , she was compelled to cpnie in here . She entered at the . ea stdrii end of the Breakwater , and it being after BUriset she did riot salute the Admiral ' s flag . She brin&s hoirie . many invalids front the sqiiadron in the China seas . She was at the Cape of Gcqd Hope 6 a ; tho 1 st of October . It ia reported that she will . be paid off at Portsmouth . Of course she brings no intelligence that has aob previously reached England .

      The Piiiupstown Murder . — -The horrible murder of a poor idioty by ¦ '*¦ party of gentlemen who were sojourning at a country seat in the immediate vicinity of Philipstownj and to which we adverted on Tuesday last , has beori considered as wholly incredible . So horrible are the facts , that scarcely any person is willing to . believe that such batbaroua cruelty could be practised by a party of gentlemen in a Christian couutry ; It is pur duty , however , to reiterate our statement . The horrible murder did take place ; but we have received additional information , which states that the idiot murdered was not a boy but a man . He-was besmeared over with oil and turpentine , and literally roasted to death . An inquest was held—a tHockone , we areled to beIieTO from the fact that ; one of the parties engaged in

      the murder eat on the inquest l Money has been squandered in profusion to hush the matter up ; almost all the parties haye decamped to England oc elsewhere . The majority of tfieai were officers , andi we suppose ) are now with their respective regiriienta . What will the Government do in thaa matter ] We call upon Lord Eliot to send a stipendiary magistrate to the spot to inquire in the matter— we aak Colonel M'Gregi r Whethbr the police in the district made any report to him onth « subject I —we call upon the Government to make the proceedingspf the Coroner ' s inquest public . A most foul and barbarous murder hasbeen committed , under circumstances of aggrayated barbarity , unequalled by the horrible atrocities of Indian cruelty , andnosteps have been taken to bring the savage perpetrators to juatice .- ^ -Dublin Monitor . -.. \ :

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      DISTRESS AT STQCEPORT . The following statement'has been published by the authority of the Mayor of Stockporii : — It is well known that the cotton manufacture of this kingdom has been long and greatly depressed , and that numbers of persons engaged in it have been thrown out of employment , and great distress occasioned in the various- towns and districts of whicb it ia the staple raauufacture . The borough of Stookport , the working population of which is engaged almost exclusively in this manufacture , has suffered in commonwith othorj / townsj froaa its -general and long-continued depression . The distress so occasioned has been increased to an extent , it is believed , beyond that of any other town by special and peouliac circumstances oH a local influence . We allude to the entira stoppage of some of the largest esiablishment 3 in the town and neigbbpurnood , by which several thousand persons have been throvra out of employmentij \ yho still remain without any prospect of being able to return to it . . v :

      Of the establishments at work , a great part are ea , only partially ; and the working of short time ( that is of four days por ^ week ) has been continued to a greater or less extent * sinee May JasiL t / pwards of one-third of the hprse-pdwor in the town and neighbourhood is uaemployed , whiph , if at work , would give employment to more than . 4 , ( J 0 O persons . Itia believed that there are ^ altogether , about 5 , 000 operatiyeB of various trad « s unabla to obtain employment . The consequeRce of this suspension of labout arj __ exfcensive loss arid suffering among all classes dependent upon trade , and unexampled distress and privation among the working populatioiu This distress , heightened as it now is by the severity of the weather , has arrived at a pitch of which it ia impossible ^ to corivey any adequate idea by mera statistical information . The Poor-rates have regularly increased , and are now become a serious drain upon the diminished resources of the comparatively

      few who are able to pay them . Families , two or three together , are' crowdipg into one house , or leayiiig their cottages- for cellars : some are qufttiDg their native , land : numbera having exchanged ; all but the last articles of their wearing apparel for the means of Bugtaining life , aro on the verge of destitution . Honest men , willing to work , are compelled , ^ with their entire families , to become street mendicant * , or to live , day by day , on tho precarious charity of theil neighbours ; and , besides , au increase of disease arising , in a great measure , from a deficiency of food ; many , it is to be feared , are literally start * ing to deain . Of 15 . 823 individuals , inhabiting 2 , 965 houses , lately visited under the direction of » Committee appointed for ; the purpose . 1 , 204 only were fpand to be fully employed ; 2 . 8 S 6 Mrtiallw employed , and 4 , 148 , able to work , were wholly without employment . The remainder 7 , 605 persona were nnablb to work . ^;

      The average weekly income of the above 15 , 828 persons was Is . 4 | d . each . : ; ; ' : The average weekly wages of those folly employed were 7 s . 6 $ d . each . ; The average weeklyfearnings " of those pwtialli employed were 43 . 7 id . The ^ Committeeappointed for the purposeaofth « relief now to be afforded , being fully convinced that alHhe efforts that can possibly be made in the town and ;( neighbourhood will be utterly inadequate to meet the pressing necessities of the case , hafe r » - Bolved , under the direction ot-. themeeting by whic !» they were appointed , to make an appeal to theie countrymen generally ^ and especially to those individuals and classes of society who feel little of the pressure of the times , or who are removed from all fear of pweonal suSeringand privation .

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      C&SS LAWS AND EMIGRATION . H * s not the British farmer equal skill With fereigners the yielding earth to tin Fears he'&ir competition ? Ko ; he knows He -could gro-w corn as cheap « s there it grows , Jisd grew enough for all that . want at home ; So that do foreign corn need iither come . Wbyfeen is British corn so-scares and dear ? 3 ecaaseso much vraste land lies barren here ; Our lords are locusts— " mea of -wealth and pride Takenp a space , flat many poof supplied ; Space for their ikfces , their f » aik ' 8 extended booads , Spaesior their horses , equipage and honnda V 33 < mopoly makes less and leas our store , While population asks fofmere andmore .

      High rents rack'd farmers pay to swell the stats OI -Sttle landlords 'whom-we call the great } And "what ia "worse , they "imitatethem toa , Do = nought themselves , nor see that others do . Hnsl , shoot , ana drn *—affect the conntry « qHire , idve high , and as the markets fail live higher ; : GrnmBle at times and -seasons when they find Iheir me-us fall short , and qcarrel with their hinds . Thus tenants ape thear ^ Unfllordj—farmers live , T \ ot as their fathers did , or they might thrive . More on themserre 3 -gbey spend than on tbeir land , ¦ Pastime obtains « hat labonr shonld command : The soil grows poor for "want of management , Ifrscarce produces T » f » t -willpay therent ; Wages are iovr but tithes and rents are high , iRates , cesses , taxes , bnyers must supply . Ho TrorJ : 1 no moneys— -when onr trade is gone , Workmen must follew—buyers -will be none . JOHN "Wxixiss . 20 , Upper Marsh , X * mbeth .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 8, 1842, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1143/page/3/