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    • THE ISOETHEB.N STAR, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1843.
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      dtateiy , as mere is cm a limited quanuiy oi some of the numbers now on hand . Every Chartist onght to be in possession of this Record of the great Chabust Tiuohph over the Tory Govern mt nt . It was the best and most cueeessfol legal fight the Movement party ever had . The example then afforded may be followed , with advantage , by tha Defendants in Ireland . A few Copies of that excellent Work , THE STATE OF IRELAND , BT XBTHUB O ' CONSOB , remain on hand , and may be had io two Numbers , at FonrpeBce each . J » o Man can nndersiand the position of Ireland , or the bearing of Irish Questions , who is not conversant with this perfect picture of Ireland's Condition ; the causes of her degred&tion , and the Rimedies for her manifold evils . London . Cleave ; Manchester , Heywood ; Leeds , Hcbsoa , Northern Star Office ; and all Booksellers .

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      THE " REBECCA" MOVEMENT

      MEETISG OF TurSTEES OP THB CABJOAilflEN Mi i ^ TbcsT . —A ffisseUng of the above TrnsUea was held oh Exidsy last iu the Talb&i Ir-n , ^ r . Moms in ttle ^ &air .. The surjett ^ f ihe jremov&l of the gates xt llandof ery and Pentrebaeb , to bo replaced by . another in & central EiSnaticm , " » : i 5 brongat again before -the meeting ; -when / Mr-Stephen . Jv&es stated that he bad an objection to a toll-house beinj ? erectsd on bis property , »¦ if tha gates were ^ liacontiousd , parties of loose chajacter might became tenants cf ifis bouse , and damage might be dons to Ms -woods in the neighbourhood . He therefore declined the proposal which had been made to him . The Clerk stated that he had nodonbt that Hi . Craderich -would have no objection to ihe toBbense being erected on his land , and it vaa ordered accordingly j ths land to be paid for oa Taloation . Ml . Bollfin , loll-ftOBttactor , presented Ms kill for tfce loss ha hid sustained in this trust , iu consequence of the "Bthseca" outrages ; he had abided the 'whole amount of tbs receqits together , and compared them " ith thoseot the previousjtar . He found that the deficiency in the present year amounted to £ 3 U 12 s 44 , and h& claimed thai this sum , therefore , be allowed

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      him . The Chairmen -ens of opinion that this was not a fail method of making the calculation , and that the more common course would be for Mr . B . to b&ve stated Bjb Itcgth of time thai the gates -were down , and no teEs taken ; then to have astsertainea -the amount taken during the same periods in the former year , and te have daimed this Bum as compensation to his loss . Safew trustees being present , the matter Was left over to the next n . Scting . Sundry Email biliB ¦ Were presented and ordered to be paid . The meeting "was adjourned to Friday , the 20 th cf December .

      ISCEKDIJlET PrRE . — . On Tnesdzy morning last , abont laif-pa ? t fonr o ' cloclc » Hie oat-homes of a l * tm called U ^ TEffjonongra , in the parish of LlaEegftad , about two ihiles from Breccia , -were set on fire , when the whele were entirely destroyed ; luckier , thedweiiiBg-hfiase escaped the eotil »_ s » tic > n , in ^ sonsequenca of the -wind blowing from the north . It appears the fsrmhsuse was nccec'apiedj'bst a nrsr tenant was expected to take possession on the following day . It is supposed tSat Becca and her { daughters thouzht proper to have reeouue to-this mode of reve&ge upon ibe in-coining tenant , because he became the-BEcec 3 scr of anotbci who

      had given bis landlord notice of quitting ; and accordingly flifl leave the place on iha 29 in of Siptember Jest . The cat-houses -srere set fixe to in lour different places ; and some person i& the Dei&hb&urbood passing at that time , saw a / man with a light in his hand on the premises , but passed on naturally thinking he was the new tenant Tfcere can l > e coubt that this disgraceful outzage is the work of that midnight merwider , Becca and her cf&pring , ca will be Been by the fonowingthreatening letter , sent to ths in-comir : g tenant , which is evidently the jprocuctic-n of that lady or ons cf her daughters : — ,

      StK—Isssmsch as we bare tat- n in hand to take Tiew of these hardens which so heavily oppress us , as a country and neighbourhood , we have thought fit to adopt some measures in orQex to remove the causa of such oppressions . We class among the Eunieer cf hardships "sr . th which we hove to contend , the enormous , rents ire have i * pay , an oppression which sctnally xeducss ns to ruin j and when any farmer applies to bis landlord that ha declines holding his tecemebt at the cnstoniEiy rent , with a Ti « w of obtauu ^ g a rednction in bis rent , in order to save himself from ruin , mother shameless devil comes forward and proposes . to give more for the said tenement than the apparent outgoing taunt . . "We haTe been informed that yoa are

      guilty of the ' - ' self-same * trasfgress-on , which is virtually prohibited in the Bible , and reason also loudly proclaims against such conduct In consequence of your coveting a farni i called IJaimfFynonynedd , in the parish of Uscegwad , now occcpiedby Bacbd Janes , we deem it advisable to inform yon that we do not aHuwyuu cr asy other individual to be so daringly audscioaa and impudbtt , as to make any proposal or offer to the landlord of ihe said tenant , and thereby preclpUaU-ly tail oat the said person ( via ., the present tenant ) . Be so kind as jo gira Bachsl thorough fairplay ; aud we deairs siso to pot ycu in possession of Ihis , that we do not believe that you will escape the ehastwment of

      Becca-I am one who uphold fairplay . Tkb Cokstabuiabt JrOBCB of tormartbeEsbirs [ fgrinajre ot the borough town of Carmarthen , wnidi dee * x » t pay towards the county police rate ) consists of oce chiuf constable , air superintendents , and fifty Serjeants and constables : the ansaal expense charged in the coucty Tata for their support is about £ 4 . 800 . Of this amount , no tees a sum than £ 1 , 374 isK ^ fiBowed op in the salaries of the chief constable xo-l scpertntendenta , and in the following ; proportions : —cnief oenstalile , £ 450 ; superintendents , £ lbi each , exdnsire of clothing , travelling allowances , ic Thus we have 5 supeiintesdeni to every eight constables .

      THi Coataissios op is ^ riBT a prosecuting its lal-ours . Whattoay be the Tesult of the itqairiae xnsde is sesrcely yet even mz * ter of speculation ; but one good will be at all CTccts eSeated—the removal of a " plunder action , ~ erected -withoa * ; even the xoniUxMt of . law Ths head Commissioner , ~ Hr . Fra-kland Lewis , has addressed the following letter

      TO TRB TUCSTBES O ? THB KIDWBLLT TKCST . GKSTLX 3 tEK , —I >» ve been informed by Mr . Siacey , ; Clerk to tl » Kidwelly TrusV , that the renter of the Gite : at Petth-Bhyd , which is in the Tbree Cammotts Trust , haspnta ^ iam across a road not in that Trcst , but in the Ed welly Trust , at the point where the two reads inWf * each other . ' Mr . Ssafey informs me , that , as Trustees of the Kid- ' weDy Trust , yon hsve made no order , and given to j authority , to establish a Gate , o ? Baz , at that place ; 1 and that the renter cf the tolls is is so way justified is ; obstructing passengers , or in demanding tolls thereat . '

      The Commisaionfcrs entertain no doubt tbat ' the ; TTmsteea cf Hie E-idweHy Trast , will , without delay , j ascertain wbrthtr Mr . Staaey has , or has not been cor- ' rectly informed . And if the facts turn , on invfcetiga- ; Son , to fee as stated , that they will take steps to pra-1 ¦ vest the existence of an illegal cbetruetion to the free ; passage of a public highway , which osgbt not any time ; to be endured , far less ao in the present txcitod state of * the public rnrnd in their district ? . ' Mr . Stacey informs the Commissioners that the toll ' taker gives a ticket of the Three Commotts Trait to ; ttsose who pay ait the Cham which he sets up in tkei XidweUy Trust j and this ticke * , when preseatfed at the ElweQy Gate , i » -woperly held to b * of no avaiL

      The Gomnusioners are fully persuaded that the Trus- ; tees win gladly exert themselves to examin * into an > afleged wrong , which is stated to be extJtasea UEder ; colour of their authority . j I have the honour to be , Gentlemen , j Your faithful servant , } TBcHAS 'FRA 5 K * LAin > JLEW 1 S . j Carmar 2 ien , Nov . 10 , 18 * 3- * , COMirlTTAI . OT TWESTT-S 1 X B . EBECCAITES —The \ following is the result of the apprehension of the Be- ; beceaitee for palisng down the rates and destroying ihs \ toB-iiouseB at Ptrkainerfa and "Fiahgowd on the 11 th of , Septesiber last TLey were txamlBed before Mr . H . 0 . j Owen , Ticft-I ^ euletaiit of the county , and a full bench ' of-ma ^ sfcrates , at Pishguard . "WilBam Owen ( the Xady , Bsbecca ) , James Gwynne , and Thomas Gwynne , werej committed V ) the next assizes , but were held to bail , .

      themselves in £ . 100 e&eb , and two sureties in £ 50 each , * Itevid Jt-hn , William Thomas , Thomas Griffiths , j "Rmlyn GrifBths , Owen Jenkins , James Morgan , Wm .. ' Griffiths , Wat Baizey , Tuomas Williams , Edward ] "Harries , John PhUiips , W 3 H 5 am John ^ Tbns . Nicholas , William Bobarts , Daniel Davies , William Jenk ? n « , James Owen , James Phillips , "David Phil-Hjw , e * oise artBT » , Tnomjis Eiwards , Thomas j Horse , snd 3 >* vid GnfSths , -5 » ers folly committeii , and held to ba 3 , tbemselvss in £ 59 each , and two sureties I in ^ S&eaeh . The escitement in the town was vary ! great , particularjy es regarded the informants , Thomas . Willisinsasd fcis srife , who were oK / ged to be guarded ] day and night from the barracks to the Commercial I irtyij Tfli £ re tbe mEsirtrates sat . The prissneis were ' T ^ mflpftl in the "Msikft-Louse , surrooEded by a treble { guard ef marines . The Commercial Inn" was aisoi strongly gnanied curing the time the magistrates were { BittJig . ]

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      tbeir opinions on the subject to me ; and I will lay ! ban before the Central Committee of the above body , for the purpose of consideration . Secondly , the plan as advertised in last week' s Star , is another effectnal mode of r-ssistinx ourselves . I mean the Operative Tailors' A ssociation , and Joint Stock Clothes' Company , established for the purpose of giving employment to its members , by uniting their Email means , to enable them to open establishments in various parts of London for the supply of clothes , to the working classes and others . The design of this Association is to create a homo market for out own labour ; to brinf into active co-operation all trades , such as shoemak er ^ hatters , bakers , builders , sempstresses , 4 c ; to effect an exabange of produce through the present circulating medium . Lit all of the above trades and others assist the tailors , by becoming shareholders in the above concerni ; and the tailors in return will astist the abos-BudMtipc-i each and all having lq Interest in each J / oqjHpbcK Trading Compar . y . By these means we j&alftiecome customers te each other . There will be an identity of interests ; it will be the means ef keeping a portion of that capital within our ^ grasp that 1 b now used by the meneyocracy to perpetuate that baneful and awful system of competition which is fast sinking the working classes of this country . The asti-Corn Xaw Learue say their opposition to tbe Coin JLsws , arises from a desire to break the risfetaraof the landed aristocracy : our object sbonld ba to hreak the right arm of the monepomtcy , thegreatest tyrant of all . Here is a wide field for alL Our female friends should unite together upon tbe same principle , and establish s company of their own , making the

      price ef the shaTes come w : tom their meats ; the moles also taking up shares for the purpose of assisting them . Where is there a man amongst ns who would not te sbd to purchase his * hirt , or any otbet arSole tiiat they may have to dispose of , instead of their being Comjfedl&d , &t > at present , to make shirts tor Capitalists at three halfpence end five farthings each 7 "Why not the glovers of leicester , who are now on strike , commence for themselves , and send their produce to the companies of London ; also the stocking makers , dec In fact , let ns adopt the general principle of trading for , and with each ether . I if juice that tbe tailors have set tha first example . They hold tbeir meetings every Tuesday evening , at the Hope Coffee House , Farringdon-streel , City . Dj you follow it , both political and social Reformers . By wis « arrangements this can be carried into effect- It will be the means of crippling the resources cf the tyrants , ss well as securing to ourselves tbe reward of our industry .

      2 be third and last proposition , but not least , Is that we should never lose sight of the necessity of obtaining political power ; for without it we should never be able to procct our labour—without it we shall continue to be what we are—slaves of the worst description ; trithoct it gut libertiea will never be respected . In short we nquire political power as a means . The NuMonal Charier Association have already agrc : d to ko upon the land as soon as practicable . Where should tsase who go upon the lard seek for a market for tbeir produce but cmoni ? those who have a direct intere ? t in keeping them there ? The trading companies will require their produce ; they from th « trading companies in return .

      Is submitting these propositions for your consideration , I am actuated but by one motive—that of assisting nnd protecting ourselves , by placing us in a better position to tiemand political freedom ; for . Test assured , if the day of our redemption takes place , it must be by our own means . The working classes must workout their own salvation , by , as R . Peel has said , " taking their own afilors into their own bands . " I am , fellow-workmen , yours respectfully , J . W . Pabker , Suffolk Coffee Home , Old Bailey .

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      IRELAND AND TBE IRISH . The latest intelligence of which we can avail ourselves from Ireland leaves the dispute between Mr . T . B . C . Sjuth and the Irish nation in statu fuoj and having linle to add on the subject of the squabble to what we have already said , we now

      tTavel oat of the mazes of the law and leave the political labrynth for the purpose of considering the people . In truth , it is high time that some thought be given to the nation , even though the legal tools and political irons be allowed to cool the while . We have ever argued the justice , the propriety , the necessity , the expediencj , aud the indispeaB&bllitj of lepealing the act of Umoa .

      Apart from our well-known opinions open the grand principle of democracy however , we are bound to enter . the field of general discussion with those vrho , apart from politics , see the wants of Ireland , and are prepared to administer what they call practical remedies . We regret that thia class though numerous , 1 b unrepresented in feeling : because the -whole value of the FqnaVble to the two powerful parties in the state consists in the political uses to

      which they can respectively turn them . Henoe we find the Whig portion of the pres 3 palliating , if not cosmending in 1843 , acts , to suppress which they p&ssed & Coercion Bill in 1833 . Indeed , unless we can cake a strong legal distinction between a rich man &x . d a poor man , we are at a loss to know with what colour or pretext the Whigs , in 1843 , can censure Ministerial stringency in the Law Courts , while is 1 S 33 they substituted Courts' Martial is their stead .

      We did not reserve our strictures for the purpose of trampling upon the conquered . We used them in iheir palmy days as warnings of what -would come . We had reminded them , time aft ^ r time , that their acts while in office would render their opposition to Tory domination "valueless , unavailing , factious , and pqimless . It is even so . Not an act , hovrever cruel or ami-democratic that may be proposed by the Tory Government , to which Whig opposition may not be thus met and silenced ; ** the measure is a modification of your otrn . " We now leave the fieid

      of faction , and turn to a consideration of those means by which , even after a Repeal cf the Union , tbe condition of the Irish people can be alone improved . Ireland has not more reason to complain of the ami -national than she his of tbe anti-social trild coDSjqaait upon the Legislative Vuion . The great and crying cril arisiug out of the act of Union is , lhat the weak Dation was neglected , and kept weak ; while ths strong naiion wasstrengthsned and mad * strongar at its expence . Being bound by a legislative bond , vUe representative body ,

      —consisting for the most part of Englishmen wholly ignorant of the history of Ireland , tlio character of her people , her resources , and the mears cf developing ihem ; and taking their notions of the country from ifie privileged Irish members of ihe Protestant party , who were alone eligible to sic in Parliament , and T"ho w * re interested in magnifying the vices of tbe Irish character as a justification for their own tjraiiisy ; the legislature so constituted , and without reference lo a tiifomice of position , has legislated for Ireland as if that country was part and parcel

      : of England . Thus they have committed the error | of governing two people , —diametrically opposite in \ their pursuits , their characters , iheir manners and j their customs—by lie same laws . England being for 1 the Tno = t part & manufacturing country , and a large S portion of her people having been hastily transi formed frcm an agricultural to a manufacturing i life , i& bow demanding a great organic ch&nge in j ' ' '

      co ostquenoa of the inapplicability of ancient statutes and customs to its present posilkn . Ireland is doin * nothing more , Ireland has been legislated for , precisely as though she had gone on " part pfuxu" in tie march of improvement wi th England ; * hercaa tae laws by which manufacturing England should begoTerneo bavebeen enacted wholesale for ihe government of the two countries But we turn from bjego&ce : and now beds ^ tks Repeal of the

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      Union to be inevitable , we come to a consideration of those means , apart from any accompanying political measure , by -which alone the change can be made benenoiel to the people , We pass over the most irritating questions , be - lieving thai they are but emanations from the great source of political inequality j and we come at onoe to the question of questions , the means by which alone the foundation oi future happiness can be laid . We shall not here deal with the question of tho Protestant Church or of the inequality of the law . These we leave as questions to be hereafter disposed of by a people rendered politically strong

      by social improvement . I * prd DoNFERMLINE , latfl Speaker of tbe House of Commons , when auditor to the Irish Estates of the Duke of Devonshire , asked a Mr . Swawtow , one of the Duke ' s under agents , if he could devise any means for the tranquiliz&tion of Ireland , and aa a mode of suppressing the frequent outbreaks in that country . " Yes , " replied Mr . Swanton , a very tuty one . Whenever an outbreak takes place t bang the nearest landlord , the nearest parson , the nearestmayislraie , the nearest solicitor , and ; the nearest police serjeant vpon th $ nearest tree ; and I pledge myself that you will not hear of another outbreak in that district . " This

      opinion was , ao doubt , founded upon the belief that those five parties were the instigators to outbreak : and therefore it shall be our present business to deal with the mode of destroying , firstly , their interest in creating , a&d , secondly , their capability to create , those periodical distuibances . Ireland being a wholly agricultural coantry , and no laws being in existence for the developement of her agricultural resources , we shall firstly , grapple with the Landlord and Tenant question . The poverty , the rebellions , the heart-breakings , the murders , the dissensions , and the expenses arising

      out of the present system of managing land in Ireland , mast be dealt with by the Government with a firm and resolute hand . It is folly to talk of the inability of a Government to interfere with the Landlord ' s title to the raw material , while year after year it deals so capriciously and injuriously with the title of him whose capital is expended upon the land , and the labour of him by whom it is made valuable . Government must interfere ; and that right speedily ; whether under a Legislative Union or a domestic Legislature . The interest of the tenant , and the interest of the labonrer cannot bo

      served without equally serving the interest of the landlord , and therefore it becomes the duty of tho Government and Legislature to look into the causo * which tend to create dissatisfaction in tbe minds of those two parties . The uncertainty of tenure , and the legal expencs of establishing title , even under lease , or accepted proposal , as wel * as want of capital , are the three groat evila that must be boldly met , and instantly destroyed , aa regards the tenant . To effect the first object—namely , certainty of tenure , the Government have a power to give immunities to

      tenants-at-will , or with short leases , which would render the practice disadvantageous to the landlord . and thereby compel him to grant such leaso as would ensure the full expenditure of the tenant's labour and capital . With regard to tbe second evi ) that of establishing title , even under a lease , against a landlord who h& 3 all the law upon his side , and all the means of hatrassing at his disposal , there U but one remedy ; that of giving an equitable jurisdiction , in all such cases , to the Assistant Barrister at Quarter Sessions ; and who shall be bound to decide upon the equity , and not upon the law , of the case ; the evidence for his governance to bo furnished by the clerk of a County Court , where all leases should be registered at the landlord's expense ,

      and who should be bound to attend with notice of the cases to come ou at every Quarter Sessions : the Barrister ' s judgment , if in favour of the title , to be conclusive ; and if against the title , tho tenant shall have a tight to appeal to a Jury , to be then summoned , for the purpose of adjudicating upon an issue submitted by the Barrister . In cases of portions of rent being paid upon account , a mere acknowledgment upon unstamped paper should be admitted as proof ; and in all cases , the right of distress should be taken away , and the landlord , like all other creditors , should be thrown upon his action for the recovery of his rent ; and , fair dealing being the object , he should have as prompt and inexpensive a mode of redress as is accorded to the tenant .

      The practiceof distraining ca : sle , of impounding , Selling them by auction , and buying them io , by the middleman , for very frequently not a twentieth of their value , wiile no account of the sale is ever rendered , leadB to more extensive disturbance , and subsequent evil results , than almost any other grievance . It is not at all unusual for a middleman , accompanied by a host of under-tenants , to drive off the whole stock of some unfortunate tenant to a distant pound in the dead hour of night ; while the tenant , to protect himself against ths aggression of the middleman , has paid his rent to , and holds the

      receipt of the iead landlord . Thus situated , the poor tenant has no alternative but to replovy the stock at a great expense ; while he is compelled to give security for double the value , until tho case shall be disposed of in the Sheriff's Court . If , upon the other hand , he cannot procure the rrquired security , bis cattle are allowed to stand in a cold pound until the oay of auction , when the poundkeeper presents him wiih an enormous bill for fodder never usfcd . Wiil any man say that a tenant so treated , and thrown for prottction upon

      expensive and dilatory law , which he . cRTinot procure , is not justified in taking the Rummary law iuto his own hands 1 In many cases , he does do so : and many is the man who has been hung in olden times , and many is the honest man now working in chains , for having STOLEN his own property from the thief who stole it from him in tho dead hour of nifiht . Is this , we would asfe , a ' practical grievance" ! and are the family of the expatriated Tictim likely to bo admirars or voluntary obeyers of those laws by which ruin and desolation has been brought upon them 1

      As it would be impossible to discuss these a'iimportant subjects in one or two artioles , we shall continue to animadvert upon those great social changes which are indispensable to the very salvation of the Irish people . Meantime we would direct tho attention cf Mr . O'Connfil to that course which is now being pursued by the English Chartists ; namely the familiarizing the public mind with those salutary changes to be produced by the achievement of then political principles . The Chartists dealt in declamation until they had created a public opinion against those wrongs endured by tho working people . That

      opinion being created , they are now en » agetl ia directing attention to tho advantages calculated to flow from a change to thbir projected system . Mr . O'Connell has the advantage of more enthusiastic and confiding disciples ; he has a whole nation at hi * back ; and in order io streagthen him in his demand for political equality , ns the source of justice , we would counsel him also to turn from declamation to practice , and to dcvelopo to the Irish people , not bo much the injustice they have suffered as the prosperity , tbe ooinlort , and the abundance they are capable of achieving . To this tnd let him call io hia councils men not learned in the law ; but informed of the capabilities of the country and the people ; and let aim draw np 3 uch a digest ( which he can do ) as

      will convince not only Irishmen but Englishmen , that there is yet the ; meaus of enriching the poor without trenching on a single privilege of the rich . We frill be bonnd to say that with one fortnight's labour , and assisted by such Men , Mr . O'Conn £ IO . would exhibit a balance sheet in favour of the new against ' , ho : old Bystem , which "would turn Irish agitation into-a universal demand , before which the strongest government should quail and bend . The political question is sufficient to ' excite the democratic mind cf England 4 but the financial features must bo developed , in order to ensure the co-operation of the middle and monied classes . Let Mr . O'ConnzX-l then try his hand for ona short month in ihe Cabinet ; and without requiring any

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      declamation for that period , the weekly reports of hia social compilation , delivered in tbe Conciliation Hall , will , without committing himself , or even mentioning Repeal , feed the fhme , and nurture ihe desire for such a rule as will produce such a boon ; while the very publication of a compendium of his labours would bring him in more money than the national tribute . Seeing his power to effect good , it shall be our study to strengthen rather than to weaken him ; while , by way of caution , we would now remind him , that Q'Connem / s self can only destrdy O'Coknell . We shall continue the Bubject until all shall learn who do not wish to remain ignorant .

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      out of bia wages . I Mr . Richard Tattershall wished Mr . Baron te be examined ; but the Magistrates replied , that he being one jof tbe party , although not connected . with the ahop , he could not be admitted " awitness . Mr . Whitehead called a number of the workpeople Who are now engaged at the defendant ' s mill , and they all declared ( that their wages were paid in money . Some of j them had seen complainant odraw money ; but none of them would speak at to the 4 th of Angus * . Mr . Boyds said ifc was a grosa case of the Truck System , and the Bench had decided on convicting Defendants inj the penalty of jjlt and costs . Mr . Hunt said his clients would not pren tbe other charges

      on condition that the expenees were paid and the shop Riven up . Mr , Richard Tattersall replied , that bis father formerly kept the shop , and ba <» been io the habit of turning ov 4 r £ 5 . OQo per annum , by wholesale and retail . His father was now dead , and they could not draw tba concern to a close in a burry , but they were intending to do so . Mr . Whitehead consulted with the defendants a few mteutea , and then agreed to the conditions . Mir . Royds eaid , as the complainants appeared to 10 sickly persons , it was ultimately agreed that they should have one-half of tbe penalty ; and . the Association established for putting down the Track SwRtmn the oibbw hei * -

      After giving the caso , our correspondents exolaims : •' There ! Mr . Editor : what think you of the religion of this Methodistical Sabbatarian Saint Digkt Tattersall , ! He is a beautiful specimen of the genus of land sharks , who , under the specious mask of cant , and the garb of Methodistical sanctity , ( with an appetite tea times mox& voracious than - the Pharisees of ihe olden times ) , devour the hocsss of the pooB I a j sample of the snivelling crew , who are constant ly ! crying for ' cheap bread , ' while IHEY BOB THLia POOR WHITB SERFS OF 34 PEB CENT . OF THE SCANTY WAGES OF TMLIR TOIL ! Such

      monsters ought to be branded in the forehead with the words 'Factory , Cheap Bread Thief : and had 1 the office of branding committed to my trust , I would take care the characters should be as deeply seared as hot iron could make them : 'for ihe land stinks , so numerous is the fry . '" Of all the sickening hypocrisy that can even be conceived , that of an jAnti-Monopoly-bawling , "freetrading , " " cheap-broad" demanding Employer pursuing the thieving practise of Tkuck , is surely the most hateful ! Is it possible to imagine of

      deeper disinflation , or more wicksd insincerity , than for a man to affect great interest on behalf of the working people ; and evince an uncommon anxiety to procure for them " cheap bread , * fcat the very time that he is forcing them to take My bread some thirty per cent , above the market price ! How sickening to hear a man bawl for l * FhZE-Trode , " when he will not leave even his workmen free to trade with the legitimate shopkeepers of his vicinity ! How sincere must be the loud professions of Anti-Monopoly from the mouth of such a wretch ! *

      And yet , we grieve to say there aro many suoh . We must proclaim it as our firm conviction ; a conviction forced from the actual oases that have come under our own observation ; that the majority of TiiucksTERsin Yorkshire land Lancashire will be found to be arrant Free-Traders ; mouthing advocates of " . Cheap Bread , High Wases , and plenty-to-do . " Take the following as a specimen : — In the parish of Saddieworth the practice of Tbuck is in extensive vogue . Many masters pursue it : but by far the greater part of , them are '' Free Traders . " One case is deserving of special notice .

      There is a " master" in that parish , known as " Lord Lothehdale . " He is crammed up to the throat with " sympathy for the poor ; " would " go almost through fire and water" to procure for the toiling millions the : inestimable blessing of a " cheap loaf : " and yet this contender for " Free Trade , " who ties his own workmen to his own counter ; this denouncer of monopoly , " has had men in his employ who have nipt touched a single shilling ( in money ) from him , for wages , during a whole twelve month ! 0 , the ! blessings of freedom ! O , the sweets of " anti-monopoly" 1

      Not long ago , a workmen in the employ of this same "Lord Lot herd alb" applied to his landlord , and begged of him to take a piece of cloth ip payment for renti ; for he could not procure money to pay with . He showed the piece that he had been obliged to take from " Lord Lothekdale" ; and stated that it had been , valued to him at 14 s . a-yard ; and he desired the landlord to take it from him at that price . The landlord

      happened to be a maker of cloth , and knew something of its worth . He told the applicant that he would furnish him with a far better piece at 10 d . a-yard ; and ; the man had to cavry the piece into tho neighbourhood of Oldbana , and part with it al 83 . a-yard , to get money to enable him to live and " pay his way . " There ' s ** Fbek Trade . ' " This workman was " free" to sacrifice nearly one bsdf of bia earnings before be could command the necessaries of life !

      That there many " Lord Lotherdalks" iu the manufacturing districts , is proved by the following article , which we extract from the Sun ; a " free" trading" journal , j We give give it entire ; for , it will be found deserving of attentive consideration . It is valuable , not only for the facts it contains , but also for the general reasoning on the general question , It is altogether most admirable ; especially when we reflect that it is from a League Organ . Here it is : — !

      " Under the heading of ' Truck System Extraordinary , ' in a late number of tbe Halifax Guardian , we find a most instinctive exemplification of the evils and oppression connected ! with a sy&tsm which we thought bad long since been ] exploded . Tbe voice of Parliament has be » n always so strong against it—the appeals of the present Lord Hatherton ( when Mr . Lyttlo ton ) , and other members of the House of Commons , elicit ? d so prompt and decided a response from the Legislature , discountenancing and discontinuing the system altogether , jtbat , notwithstanding rumours which have from time to time reached as of its still lingering in particular manufacturing localities , where

      the wealth of the great masters or employers was all powerful , and the remonstrances of the operatives futile as to their effect , unless , indeed , iu the result of entailing tbeir dismissal—we could hot induce ourselves to give credit to . « uch allegations . Bat at Oldham , a summons taken out by one of the coal-miners of Mr , William Whitehead , a large colliery proprietor in that neighbourhood , again-t tbis gentleman , hua ascertained the fact of the existence of tbe ' Track System' beyond all donbt or question , throughout a large range of manufacturing district The nine shillings claimed by the miner had been deducted by the employer from tbe wages of the complainant , on account of rent for * a house which complainant had never occupied , nor ever seen , nor been offered the key of . ' It bad been taken

      from this complainant , Brierley , at the rate of oue shilling per week , ' although he bad to pay rent for another house , under aaother landlord , at which it was more convenient for him to live . ' Now , the houses which Mr . Whitehead was tbns indirectly forcing' the complainant and others , his follow miners , to occupy ; were upwards of a mite and a half from the colliery where they worked . ' ) The Ralifa * Guardian assures us that there are hundreds of cases at Oldham , Ashtonunder-Lyne , Rochdale , and other vicinities , where -the operatives are forced \ to pay rent for houses , whether they occupy them or not . ' The magistrates severely retaoDstrated wltb tbe colliery-owner , Whitehead , In the case immediately before us , on his unreasonable conduct , and ordered the wages claimed to be paid to Brierley immediately . '

      y The conduct of inaster-minufacturerfl , colliery and mine owners , and other capitalists , who resort to this nefarious system off defrauding their labourers , and enriching themselves by the same operation , is one the social mischief of which is fully commensurate witb its moral dishonesty . Surely it is galling enough for-the industrious operative ! whose destiDy is cast , as it were , in the claaa of incessant manual labour , te contemplate their happier fate who succeed to , or have acquired , the means of employing it on a great scale . It is galling enough for the weary ; a * tiaan to contemplate the comparison which each passing hour ' s experience forces upon him , between the luxury of their condition , who have only the task of * looking on , ' in order to watch the * w « U-arraoged processes by which theft capital is madeto re-produce and multiply itself , with their own doom .

      This ( coDBeqnsnt though ft be on the eternal &nd inevitable iatqualitiea of the social condition ) U , shortly , to toil from mom till night , under many sordid aggravations of want , distress , and despondency , in thescrapiog together their lesser pittance of the saute talismanic commodity , money , which , being necessary for the exigencies of their bare subsistence , disappears—by a disastrous inversion ef thr principles that govern the larger masses of capital—with a rapidity that affords no opportunities tor increaaa or expacsioc . Bat he feels this disparity with tenfold bitterness and force when he sees that those Very exigencies , those very hardships , bis despondency , his distress , his want , are converted into engines , in tbe hand of his employer , for decreasing even that modicum of wages , already so fractional as to have subjected him to these painful and humiliating influence ? . j . " Lot as consider what the operation of the ' Truck ' aystttn is , ou the ease of the mill , colliery , or mine i

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      owner , respectively , and on that of tha operatives whom the former employs . The former finds , that of tbe capital invested in his works , such or such a proportion is devoted entirely to wages- His first care is to reduce the rate of these as low as he can , so as to diminish tbe aggregate per centage which they represent , or the coat ( to him ) of production . He finds that the difference between this cost , all incidents included ( with interest on the plant , buildings , and machinery of the concern , &c , ) , and the returna he reallsas , exhibits an average profit—being a certain per centage en the capital so invested . It occurs to him , that by paying a given proportion of the wages of his workmen

      ( which form so large am item in the cost of production ) in stores and supplies , instead of money , he may make a twofold profit ; that Is , thai be may . .. pajrc&aw tha stores and supplies wholesale , and at firat hand ; with a considerable profit from the disconntsthe dealers will allow him for his ready money or his short bills ; and that he will sell them to his workmen at some advance even on the retail prices waich they would have to pay to their tradesmen . Bat by this mode of procseaing he puts it out of the po » er of the operative to go to tbe best market fo * amy commodity he may want . Hepnts it out of the man ' s power to dispense ( as he may desire to do , with the view of hoarding up a little

      pittance for- some contemplated purchase or deposit , say at the year's end ) with any fltzca Commodity aHogetker . Fur if he bsve consumed ifc ona week , as the track book at the store trill show in every man ' s case to the manager or overseer , be dares not to discontinue it in another . There would be an inference created against him , immediately , that be had supplied himself wi ' . h it in some other quarter . And here we may leave what would be tbe result of such a simple , every day exercise of hut own freewill in a private matter of this kind , to the labourer or artlam connected with a concern thus managed . ' There is / says tbe writer in the Halifax Guardian , ' a colliery

      in tbe neighbourhood of Hey wood , near Bar / , wherd the manager keeps a shop , and all the hands who work at the colliery are forced to purchase provisions at the shop kept by the manager , or they must have no work . gome of tbe operatives reside two miles from the &hopt and yet nearly the whole of tbe toages are paid in goids , at about fifteen or twenty per cent higher than at any shopa in the same neighbourhood . The above system is carried on to an alarming extent , both among colliery masters and manufacturer ? ' Yet , fn the face offsets like these , there have been found advocates of tbis atrocious and grinding device even within the walls of Parliament , who would have persaaded the public .

      if they could , that no manufacturers , or mine owners , ever encouraged the truck system , except out of a desire to accommodate their workman -with tbe best supplies at the cheapest prices . Amiable solicitude of amiable men ! Thus act the despots of tbe EjBt , from the most enlightended of them , tbe Pacha of Egypt , who first sets Ills owe prices on all tbe growing cropi of corn , or millet , or cotton in bis dominions—then declares by fi / niaun that he is ' the only dealer in such commodities , and will pay all men for them , and at such prices ; and , lastly , sets an army on foot to ' superintend' the bringing into his Highness ' s granaries and warehouses of the stores of all

      reluctant or refractory contributors—down to the petty Sflltauns and R * jas of Pidor , or the Soloo Archipelago , or Sumatra—who being bent on trading with European captains , issue tbeir mandates , with their own sutocratic prices annexed , requiring their people to dispose tojthera . the Sultauns and Rajas in question , without the least delay , of their bales of pepper , tbeir betel nut , chank , gold dust , edible birds' nests , or any other commodity , the trade of trafficking in which they are willing and prepared to take entirely off the hands of tbeir independent subjects I Thank God f the day for each transparent humbugging ( we know otno other terat In all tbe languages that would express our idea ; is

      past in England . Truck-system capitalists may talk of being actuated , in this sort of scheme for making tbe workman disgorge a portion of bis wretched wages teftre he has left the pay table , by kindliness and charity on their part and a desire to consult his private interests , alone—to their steam boilers or their furnaces . Such professions are not more substantial than ths vapour of tbe one or the smoke of the other . But the same provincial journal from which we have been quoting , supplies us with one other illustration of the

      results wbich the comprehensive truck system' includes , that we shall leave to speak for itself , as an Instructive suggestion of ttie moral and domestic benefits it must infuse into the social circles of the most hard-working , and the worst paid , classes of our labouring poor : — ' A colliery master , neiir Rochdale , has now a number of female * working at the bottom of the coal-pit . The police have been made acquainted with it . ' " An 4 we , for our parts , shall not lose eight of this remarkable and unqualified statement . It will doubtless call for future comment . "

      To this it is scarcely necessary to add another word . The " points" respecting Tbuck are Strongly put by the Sun . We trust his readers will duly weigh and profit by them ! If so , some of the "humbugging" he bo forcibly describes , and B © earnestly denounces , will be put an end to . Last week we intimated , in a Note to Correspondents , that this thieving practice of Tbuck had manifested itself in a most nnusnal and unlooked-for place ; on the Railway belonging to the North Mid * land Railway Company . Such is the fact . It ha 3 been introduced there ; thengh not by tbe Direoiors of the Company . Still it is there ; and if the Directors , after this public " direction" of their attention to the fact , do not interfere to rxrt IT down , they will , they must , be regarded as sanctioning , aiding , and abetting it .

      The facts of the case are these : —The repairing of the North Midland Line , from Leeds to Maabro ' , is contracted for by one Joseph Pickebikg , who resides at Oakenshaw , near Wakefield . His contract is for seven years ; two and a half years of which are now expired . He employs at the present time about 200 men , as plate layers and labourers . As a matter of course , they are on all parts of the line * from Leeds to Masbro ' , the extent of hia "take . " These men , whea in employ , earn 2 s . 6 d . a day . That is the rate at which they are paid ; bat as thej are not allowed te ork in rainy or fro 3 ty weather their earnings will not reach more tkan 10 s . a week on the average .

      Well , this Pickering , not content with the profits accruing from his contract , has determined to procure that the wages the men earn under him shall be spent at his tommy shop , that he may get the profit which of right belongs to the numerous shopkeepers at all the places where the men live . He has accordingly issued a list of articles he deals in , having opened a store at Oakenshaw ; which list he Has had distributed amongst " his men" on all parts of the line , as far as his " take" extends . One of these lists is in our possession ; and it S 3 ts forth the prices per stone , per pound , and per ounce , of teas , of coffees , of sugars , of soap , of tobacco , of fruifc , and of spices ; as well as of ' * sundries ; " tha latter comprehensive head including all sorts of things , from flour and bacon down to black lead and epsom salts .

      Whea the lists had been distributed , the " clerk of the works" went round to the men , to "geek for orders . " Cunning Isaac ! No breach of the law there ! Pickering thinks he is driving a coachand-six through it in fiae style ; or rather a " heavy luggage train . " " Seek for orders" indeed ! The poor ten-shilling-a-week men knew the meaning of that dodge . No " prog , " no work ; no vroik , no living : so " orders" were given . Now for the result ;—Sir , — "We see by yonr valuable journal that you have got scent of the TB . CCK shop on the North Midland Railway . Knowing that you are an enemy to tyranny , wo send you the particulars of tM barefaced robbetj practised on us .

      Oa the 9 th of this month we were requested to order from the clerk of the works what we wanted from the Truck shop . Against our will we ordered a little ; knowing if we did not we should have no more work . The goods were ' ordered' on the 9 tn insr . and received on the 11 th . When the goods came , wo found to out surprise and dismay o larger quantity than tee had given orders f » r . Aa much came as was due for our wages . Sir , you should have seen us poor men trudging along tbe line to our homes with bags on our backf * numbered , and with Pickering ' s name in foil oa

      them . We have to work hard ; but it ia dqubtyhiwl to have no choice where we shall spend our money . We have sampled the goods we received , with what W have bought at other markets ; and according to the opinion of other dealers , we are paying from twenty * five to thirty per cent . above tbe market price . Whea ¦ we bought our own goods previous to this Truck Slwp » it was an advantage to as from OD 6 to two sUiflingS per week . Please , Sir , give this publicity , and you wflIobUg »» Those w ho aub suffering from the hak »

      of Opfressiom . , Come that is pretty good i . Qne or two shillings a * -week , bobbedont of ten ! and that firoip men « ftployedon the North Midland Railway . We &eliew the representation to oe perfectly correct . Tfie " If * of prices sets flour forth at 2 a . 5 d . per eioae ii & ? best is selling in Leeds at 23 . 2 * 4 . Bacon is set fct * at 7 d . per lb .: iia Leeds it can be had at . 4 j 4 ,: & > atSd . ; and " 8 honlder-pieces at 6 d . So that ' *«*•¦ ' readily believe that the things are from 25 to 30 $ cent , above the marksfc price . . But how are the Directobs of tho Railway to *** terfere * what have they to do with itois matter *

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      — i CC-OPERATJON-UNION IS STRENGTH . TO JOUSSKTSSS XArXORS AKD OTHERS . PEiJ-fcTir-Wo'HKjtEjf , —Having for some time past : taieii as active part in the iletrojpolitan bailors' ' Bio-, tec&ozi Sotieiy , I venture to offer an opinion as to what j 1 cones-re So be the test mods of proUeting onsseivfes j fwia usjust eoapeiitlan . Large public meetings have been held frcm time to lime , of the trade j alt have j agreed in dtwmudng the aggression of the -moni-y j tjraata ; bnt ¦» £ are at sta as to tbe means flf Kvuring ! fun protection lor cur labour . Many ¦ fe&ve been tbe j puaiB -proposed . Some are for enrolled benefit seeled ; 0 Jie « wrB 6 cniiE & l « g 6 fund to support those vhomay become fhe vic&u of thtir employers , others for \ an union of -tbe i--8 paftable tmployers and em ^ oyed— ' .

      == S ^^ s » MsrjK 5 i have onfertnnately , through the pnssntstete of tirine ? ieeomeour greatest «« W <> Bto »; for , when . i . tbeuse of c » attemptiEg to bin ? our -wages up to the « Mnri standard , irhile there are thonsaads of fonaia , wh © aw compeHai to nake iraistcbata from foTUpenes taeh , and trousers fcan ^ 3 . per p » ir . Indetd , jnEtie © dsmauds tltst tbey ^ iall be . protected aaviell u ourselres . To carry into effect this object , & ustioaal d « Tfe » t « meeting of the trade should be called , to At at Birmingham , aa the Centre of E ^ ghnd , u early as poss&Je , to agree upon a plan of ncion , each ss the Iffnftra * ^ wtnfirntfpn / fnt instant © , "who have set a

      jplfcsiJid example to their brethren . We also should k&tfi np eat position in the ranks of labour , in oppssi-4 fre v faall t ^ Bcny . We , too , fihenid have our legal adviser ; « ir Roberts . We can have the Sorfhern Star aa ota national organ j a » 3 , if 4 he Miners cbjt do these things , who are as mcch oppressed as -we are , surely we ess do ^ the ike . Therefore , I ihall take it as a favour | T noy individuals is tts tin i Coai-Rii weajauiie&te

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      THE ROBBING fRVCK SYSTEM . Ok many occasions we have brought to the notice of the public the fact that several statute laws , passed ostensibly and avowedly for the pkoteciioh of the working population , hare been openly set at nought ; their provisions disregarded by the employers of labour , without , as it would appear , either fear or care as to the consequences ; and indeed , judging from the impunity which Aajbeen accorded te the tramplers-upon the positive requirements of law , it would seem that there was not muoh reason why they should either fear or care ; for the " consequences" hitherto have almost invariably been , not only exemption from punishment , but a pocketting of the " plunder" that could by these means be wrung from tbe lap of ill-requited industry .

      The law against Tbuck affords a remarkable instance of tbe disregard to which we have alluded * The nqmrements of that jaw are positive , plain , palpable ; the pent lties many , and easily enforced : and yet it is notorious that this said law is svt at noiight , trodden under foot , every day we live . In several extensive districts of the country the practice of Tkuck is almo 3 t universd . There is no secret , no disguise , about the matter . It ia aotorious ; known to all ; and the parties practising it not only dare to look their fellow-men in the face , but also regularly appear at ohurch or chapel ; snivelling there as loud and as long as the rest cf the canting tribo ; and sic and hear , composedly and undismayed , the denunciations of Gcd himsel f fulminated against the mon that u defraud tho labourer of his hire . "

      in iho performance of our duty , as advocates for tho toiling and tho toil-worn , wo have often bad to expose and drag to the blaze of day the infamous practices of infamous thieving men , in the matter of Truck . We have had to give remarkable instances of peculiar oppression and fraud , ; and have more than once showed the means that exist to put the practice down . On the present occasion We have to put the ' reader in ppsieBsion of a case , where the law has been made to reach the guilty parties . That case is vastly important . It teaches tbe working people how to go to work , to get "justice . " The law is tuere : and wherever there is a case of truck , the workman who is made to suffer , ought to take advantage of it .

      it ia also manifestly the interest of tbe general shopkeepers to unite , as at Rochdale , to aid and raoTucr the working man in his appeal to the Bench . The Truck system must be injurious to them . It supersedes their business altogether . If the men woro not tied to the master ' s TouMY-sHor , and forced to take from him shop-goods at twentyfive per cent , above tho market value , the men would ; have their wages , email though they may be , to spend among the legitimate shopkeepers . As it is , they are not able to go near them . Thus deprived of custom , they are cheated out of their profits ; robbed of the legitimate means of living . How slavish then must they be ; bow devoid ot public spirit ; how cowed ; how broken down to the very earth , are they , whea they quietly permit

      themselves to be thus treated . Why do not they ' spirit ou" tbe men to lay informations { Why do not they look out for cases , and get all the particulars in legal train 1 Why do not they unite amongst themselves , and form a fond to dofray expences in case of defeat ; and to render support ia particular instaucts of master ' s ? engeance , evinced in the " turning-off : " of the justice-seeking workman ! If the shopkeepers had an atom of public spirit ; nay did they know and care for their own duty to themselves , they could soon rid us of the TnucK system > root and branch . The following case , which shows both shopkeepers and workmen their duly , was transmitted to us by a correspondent . He accompanied it by a few | remarks , from which we give the following : —

      " Blethering Dicket Cobdzn , and Bright John with their whole clan of mock-humanity mongers , may shed rivers ef crocodilian tears over the miseries of the " bread tax ' -d' * white Blave victims ; they may pluck a quill from the sooty wing ^ of the archfiond himself , and dip it into tho bile of his satanio liver to write their abuses , and maledictions of the landlords ; they may denounce them with the malignity oi' fiends , and call to their assistance the whole of the press-gang ; they may expend fivo times ' a hundred thousand poun » s' in lying

      corncraik tracts , and travelling pedlars * expences' to preach , up the * virtues' of the cotton-lords , and the excellencies of the factory system ; but who can believe them sincere in their wish to ameliorate the condition of the toiling millions , when such startling facts as the following meet tho eye of the British public ! And this is , alas ! but one solitary case ; one isolated proof of the hypocrisy , cant , and blarney , of the grasping , icy-hearted ( avarice ; of the barefaced , wholesale robbery of that horde oi" thieves —The Lords of the long chimneys . "

      Kochdale . —On Monday the Court was crowded to excess .: T » ie Magistrates upon the Bench were Clement Kurds ,. Win . Chadwick , Gap . Ashworth , and James Taylor , Ei quires . Samuel Kershaw and Mark Heywood , poweiloom fustian weavers , summoned Messrs . John Barou ,, Richard Tattersall , and James Tattersall , f nation manufacturers , of Bamford , near Hey wood , for having paid tbeir ^ agBS in goods of various kinds iustead of paying them in money . Mr . Richard Hunt , solicitor , appeared on tbe behalf of tho complainants , and Mr . Whitehead , solicitor , on behalf of the defendants . It appeared that defendants have a cotton niiil it Bramford , beaidta which they are partners in an

      exrens ' ve coliiery iu their immediate neighbourhood . Messrs . TaUenall also keep so extensive shop near the works . Tbis case caused considerable excitement ; mure so , perhaps on account of an association established at Rocbdaiu for the purpose of putting down tbe Truck System , which is well known to be carried on to a great extent amongst same of the manufacturers and Coal Kings , in the vicinity . Mr . Hunt reaU tho Act of Parliament against the Truck System , He stated that KetsbaY / had two distinct caatss against the defendants ; one for the 4 th , and the otnfer far the 18 th of August . On the fonder date he had been paid a tortuight'a wages in gotnia instead of nionrtV . and bad been

      charged thirty-five per cent , higher than any other sbupa in thu same neighbourhood . Karehaw having beeu awurn , stated that he commenced working in the cotton iniil belonging to the defendants about Christmas last He wove fustian on the power loams , and was paid at tha rate of 2 s . lid . pet tin . His 'wages wt » uld average about 9 s . a week . His wife worked in tbe card roow , and she had very poor bealtb , and could net earn much . The names of Richard and James Tatteissll were owt the door of tbe » bop ; they eold evwything that ¦ Was used by a fiuuily ; be ( seldom got any incnuy for wageB ; be haa occasionally borrowed a shilling or two from the book-keeper ; they had a

      reckoning every other Friday ; but he always was in debt on a pay day . On the 4 th of August , his fortnight's wages were sixteen fihilliiga ; the whole of which were stopped for goeds . lie did not finger one single farthing . He had a wife and three small children ; he was charged 4 a . for 201 bs . oi floor , while Jack Bell , another shopke&per In the neighbourhood , sold it for 3 s . 6 < L , tha same quality and quantity Candles were 6 ^ d per lb . soap the same ; meat i * 6 d . for 121 bs ; old butter lid . per lb . ; brown augar 94 . Mr . Hunt said he could purchase the same quality for 6 d . Mr . Whitehead cross-examined Kershaw at con siderable length , but elicited nothing favourable / to

      hiB clients . The complainant said he mm never present when other persons were paid , and he always- tock a book with him to the shop which waa furnished to him by defendaats , ana 2 Jr ! Tattersall or his daughter always wiet © in the bookhe seldom drew or paid money r however , oh the 2 ? th of Julyj he received a fortnight ' s wages , amounting to 17 a 4 d ; and on the 4 th of Aug ust * his wages amounted to 16 s , and it was stopped by Mr . Richatd Tattersall for goods . He \ Mr . ftiohard Tattersatjj always took care to have him by himself when ho settled with him The bcoh-k ^ eper signed for alessra , Baron and ¦ TatterBal ! , for goods to him , tho payment for which had been stopped

      The Isoetheb.N Star, Saturday, November 25, 1843.

      THE ISOETHEB . N STAR , SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 25 , 1843 .

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      A ; THE NORTHERN STAR ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 25, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1240/page/4/