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THE NEW FACTORIES' BILL . JTbe folio-mug article was printed in . our first eitton of last "week j but had then to be removed to make room for the Parliamentary newB . We print It here again , that all our readers may be in possession of the important information it contains . } It w 21 be known to our readers that Government , at the Tery commeneenient of the Session , introduced a Bill to Amend and Extend the pro-Tisions . ofthe present Factories' Regulation Act . As the measure is one which intimately concerns SDd deeply affects a considerable number of those frith : whom wx iold weekly converse , no -apology « rill be needed for presenting them with . an abstract of its provisions . It behoves them to ascertain the nature and scope of the amendments , alterations , and extensions ; and it is dearly our duty to afford item the opportunity .
The Bill b entitled : "A Bill for Regulating the Employment of Children , Young Persons , and Women in Factories . " It contains seventy-eight clauses , besides schedules of forms- ; and occupies ifeirty- » jx folio pages of print . The . preamble merely declares that the present "hrrrs for regulating the employment of children and joung persons in factories need amendment . Clause 1 repeals the aeia of 42 ad Geo . III . c 73 , ihe 3 d and 4 tb Wm . 1 Y . c . 103 , and the-Sth and ahWm . IY . cl .
The 2 d is the interpretation cl&use , and is more important than such clauses usually are . Thus *• child" means individuals under the age of thirteen years j jonng person , & person of thirteen and nnder eighteen years ; " south , " a calendar month : •' night , " from eight erening to six morning ; meal time , " a cessation from work for the purpose of isst and refreshment ; and the clause , after Tariou 3 ether explanatory matters , ^ efiamg vi factory , " &c and excepting any part of it used solely as a- dwelling , or for manufacture of ether materials than those specified—exempts from the enactments of ibis act persons packing goods , and mechanics .
3 . —No child under the age of eight years skall be « nplo ; rd in say factory . ¦ L—Xo child shall be employed ¦ without a surgical certificate , that it has the ordinary strength and ap-: pearance of a child of at least eight years of age , and is not incapacitated by disease or bodily In-Srmity from working daily . 5 . —No youngs person under sixteen years , of age Tftali be employed without a similar certificate . 6 . —Children and young persons may be employed Seven days , or thineen working cays , if the snrgeon resides more than three miles from the factory .
7- —No child to be employed ia any factory more ihan six hours and thirty minutes in any one day < sareas exeepted ) , " and no child who shall have fceen employed in a factory before twelve o ' clock at jioonof any day , shall be employed in the same or kit dther factory after one o ' clock in the afternoon cf ihe same day . " 3 . —No young person , and ?; o jkhaxs or axt age , mall be employed in a factory in anp one day more ¦ ti um . ivcelvehours , or after the expiration of ticelve flours from the ibne when any child or voung person in the factory firsl'begins to wbtIc in the morning * over * nd above the time given for meal-times , save in exoepted cases .
_ S , —No ehild or young persoa shall be employed in any factory on the same day on which such child or young person shall have been employed in any Other factory . 10 . —No child or young person , and no female Of any age , shall be employed in a factory in the bright , unless for the recovery of lost time in the case hereinafter allowed ; bnt it shall be lawful to employ children and persons above thirteen years ef age as early as half-past five of the clock in the morning , between the 15 th day of March and the 15 th day of October in every j ear ; provided that the © wnpier of a factory shall previously send a notice of il 3 intention to . commence work at half-past five of the dock in tie morning , in writing , by post , the postage being paid , to the sub-inspector of the district in which the factory is situated j and provided
, also , that in such factory during the aforesaid period , no child or young person , or female of any age , shall J » employed after the hour of half-past seven of the * 2 ock In the evening . 11 . —In factories worked by water power , to recover time lost from drought or floods , persons above thirteen may be employed in the night not later than midnight seventy-two honra in the week , provided n& such person be employed more than ihirieen hours of the twenty-four . Notice of the amount of lost time , when , &c , to be fixed op at ihe factory entrance , as per form in schedule C 32 . — "ho * hBd , young person , orfemtde of any age shall be employed in a factory , either to recover 3 osf time or any other pnrpoee , on any Saturday afier half-past four o ' clock in the afternoon . "
13 . — "At least one hour and a half shall be allowed for meal times to every young person and to every female above eighteen years employed in a factory , "which jBnall be taken between the hours of half-past seven in the morning and half-past seven in the evening of every day ; and one hour thereof at the least shall be allowed , either the whole at one time , or at different times , before three of the dock in afternoon ; and no child or young person shall be employed more than five hours before one of the dock in the afternoon of any day , "without an
inter-Talfor meal-time of at le » st thirty minutes j and finring any meal-time which shall form any part oi ihe hour and a half hereby required to be allowed far meals , no child or young person , and so female above eighteen years of age shall be employed or allowed to remain in any room in widen any manuxaeruring process is then , earned onj and all the young persons * nd females above eighteen years of age , employed in a factory , shall have the time for meals at the same period of the day , unless some alteration for special cause shall be allowed by one © f-the inspectors hereinafter mentioned . " in to be
li ^ Tnne any factory regulated by a public dock , or one open to pnbKc view , to be approved of in either ease by the inspector . 13 . —Eight half holidays to be in every year ; at least four between 15 th March and 1 st October ; to every young person , and every female above ^ ghteen , employed during the whole period ; on such days no such persons to be employed more than six ztours and thirty minutes ; bat no cessation from work to be deemed a half holiday unless due notice fee given the preceding day ; and in addition to * aen eight lalf-day =, no child or young person , and DO female above eighteen , is to work in any factory do Christmas Day or Good Friday , in England oi Ireland ; or in Scotland on the day appointed by the Church of Scotland for the sacramental fast oi &B parish . 36 . ^ -The parent deriving benefit from the wages tf a child to send it to some school on the day aftei
ihe first employment , and thenceforth on each work-Ing day during such employment , bo that every day & shall attend p chool during at least three hours j Ofter eight in the morning , and before six in the srening ) provided that a child shall not be required to remain in school in the afternoon more than two ud a half hours any day between "the 1 st November and the las * day of February j and non-attendance shall be excused on Saturday , and every day * fhen the schoolmaster certifies acknesB , or other unavoidable cause of absence . 17 . —Factory occupier to obtain school certificate id child every Monday for the previous week , and iq produce it to inspector , &c , when required ; and id pay towards the . expenses of educating such ^ hild , Urt exceeding the inm of 2 d . weekly , and to deduct from the wages _ any such sum , not exceeding 1- —12 th of such weekly wages .
18 . — -Factories to be lime-washed yearly . 19 . —No child or young person to be employed in wet-spinning flax-mills , nnless protected from being i . fretted , or from steam . 20<—Mill-gearing not to be cleaned while in Jootion . - 2 L—Every fly-wheel connected with motive power , every part of a steam-engine and water-j wheel , and every hoist , or leagle , near to -which wuldren or young persons are liable to pass or be | m ployed , and all parts of -the mill-gearing in a fac-* ory to be securely fenced ; and every wheel-race X » t otherwise secured , to be fenced close to the edge of the wheel-race .
22 . —Inspector to give notice io occupier of factory *« any machinery he . deems dangerous ; occupier may , on application within fourteen days , have an arbitration bj two arbitrators skilled in the constrnction of : snch machinery ; if they differ , they 30 sy choofe a third ; and , if any two agn an opinion to the inspector that it is unnecessary or impossible to fence ihe machinery , the inspector to cancel the notice , and then the expense of the arbitration to be paid as other expenses under the act ; bnt , if the decision be ihat it is necessary and possible to feace , the expenses U > be paid by the occupier ofthe factory . . ' . 23 . —Notice of any accident in a factory , causing bodily injury , to be sent without delay to the
certifying snrgeen for the district , TfhomDst send a copy feereof by first post to ihe Eubrinspector . . 24- — -Surgeon to examine into the cause and extent ofthe accident , and report thereon ; his fee not more ihanlOanM leBs than 3 s . to be paid as other expences nadertheact . S 5 . —B lis ters aecordingto fonu , Ac . in schedule IJ j to-be kept in every faetory : inspector niay require ^ trac ts therefroiB j bat ao infornatioB * o » ent ahaH »* daiisabla inmdeaee iaaayproeeedinki aeunit Jk * orj ocenpier for fte reo « rery of penaltyi «*
if"" cenancates , 4 c to be produwd to inipeetorr on jtaitDd , at any fans whta the factory airorkmfc 15—An abstract of thi « act , and certain noticef , to Jtehtmgnpm every fibctpry . - , 2 ST . —Appointe the same four inspectors , appointed jbj an act to be repealed by this act . ^ 28 . ^—Inspectors to report proceedings once s year ll least ; reports to be laid before . Parliament within ' mx weeksafter being received , or after the next meetin £ of Parliament . ^ 9 . —Inspectors to meet once a ^ ear at least , acd Ihe majority present zest make rules .
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30 . —Empowers secretary of state to appoint sabinspectors . * : . 31 . —Inspectors and sab-inspectors exemptftd from serving on juries . . J 32 . —Specifies the powers of inspectors and » nb-in-Bpectors . — - 33 . —Extends provisions of 2 & \ h Geo . II ., to protection of inspectors and sub-inspectors in exercise of their duties . S 4 . — Office of the factory inspectors" to be provided in London , with clerks , &o . 35 . —Prescribes its management , and regoJMeB duties of inspectors . 36 . —Persona beginning to occupy a factory to send notice to Bub-inspector and to ine office of faetory inspectors .
37 . —Certifying Burgeons to be appointed by an inspector . 38 . —Certificates may be given by any surgeon or physician of the neighbourhood ; bat if not by » eer tifyisg surgeom , must be counter signed by a magistrate . 39 . —Surgical certificates to be given at the factory ; inspector may ? rant exceptions ; and surgeon refusifig certificate , if required , must specify his reasons in writing . 40 . —Agreement may be made between mill occupier and certifying Burgeon for payment to latter , if countersigned by inspector . 41 . —Inspector may fix mrgeon ' s fees , within certain limitations .
42 . —Surgical certificates to be proof of age . 43 . —On complaint of iaspecUr before a justice that ihe real age of a worker without a surgical certificate is less than sixteen , occupier to be liable to penalties , unless he prove by cxtraot from legal register of birth or baptism , that the worker had completed his sixteenth year . 44 . —So the occupier to be liable to penalties for employing a young pergon contrary to tho act , nnless he prove completion of the eighteenth year ef age . 45 . —Inspectors and sub-inspectors may annul certificates if they believe the real age to be lew . 46 . —Prescribes mode of obtaining certificates of real age . 47- —Certificate * to serve only for one factory .
48 . —Secretary of State may empower inspector to commence actions for compensation in name and on behalf of any person reported by him to have received bodily injury from machinery . 49 . —Damages recovered in such action to be paid to the person on whose behalf they have been recovered , or otherwise settled for his use , as approved by the Secretary of State . 50 . —Occupier of factory to be liable in first instance for any ofienee : bat if he prove that any agent , servant , or workman committed the offence without his knowledge , consent , or connivanoe , the said agent , &c to be convicted , and pay the penalty instead of the occupier .
51 . —All complaints for offences against this act to be preferred within two months after commission ; save in certain excepted cases . 52 . —Proceedings may be had before any justice , withia five miles of the place of offence , and penalties may be recovered as in the 5 th Geo . IY . cap . 18 ; with power of distraining goods in factory where occupier is convicted . 53 . —Relates to the issue of summons for offence against act . 54 . —Persons summoned before justice must produce every register , &c required by this act to be
kept by him , mentronftd ia the snmmonB ; and , in default of his appearance , justice may determine the case in his absence , or issue his warrant ftrenforoing his attendance , and that of non-appearing witness . 55 . —Makes inspectors , and sub-inspectors competent witnesses . 55 . —Empowers Justices to issue warrants for attendance of non-appearing witnesses , and to commit if they refuse to give evidence . 57 . —Inspectors and sub-inspectors may summon offenders and witnesses . 58 . —In case of partnership one name sufficient for
summons . 59 . —Provides what shall be evidence of employment of any person longer in one day than allowed by the Act . SO . —Penalties for employing children , young persons , and women longer than allowed by the Act , not less than 20 b . or more than £ 3 for each person so employed ; if the offence be in thenight , not less tB&n 40 s . nor more than £ o . 61 . —Penalty on parents for allowing children to be employed contrary to this Aot , not less than 5 a . nor more than 20 s .
62 . —Penalty for not limewashing factory not less than £ 3 nor more than > £ 10 , and not less than £ 2 additional for every month ; any portion required shall remain without being limewashed after conviction . 63 . —Penalty for not fencing machinery , not less than £ 5 nor more than £ 20 . Penalty for not fencing dangerous machinery after notice from inspector or sub-inspectors , not less than £ 3 nor more than £ 10 . 66 . —If in the night , not less than £ 20 nor more than £ 50 .
67 . —Making , signing , &o . any untrue or counterfeit certificate , false entry is register , < fcc ., or giving false evidence , or making and signing a false declaration , to be liable to a penalty of not less than £ 5 nor more than £ 20 , or to not more than six months ' imprisonment . 68 . —Penalty for offences , where penalty is not otherwise specified , not less than £ 3 nor more than £ 5 . C 9 . —Penalty on second conviction , within twelve months of an offence of the same kiad , not less than half the highest penalty : on tfcird conviction . vnVhm
twelve months , not less tban two-thirds of the highest penalty ; and is case the penalties on conviction at one time amount to more than £ 100 , the s « m of £ 100 , with all costs and charges , may be paid instead of the penalties . 70 . —What shall be proof of former convictions . 71 . —All penalties to be applied by inspectors , under direction of Secretary of State , ** foT the establishment or support of day schools for the education of children employed in factories . " 72 . —Convictions to be filed amongst county , riding , or town records .
/ 3 . —No appeal -against convictions , except for an offence punishable at the discretion of the justice by fine or imprisonment . 74 . —Gives eame powers to burgh magistrates ia Scotland as to justices in England . 75 . —Until the 1 st October , 1846 , any child above eleven years of age employed solely in the winding and throwing of raw Bilk , may work without any proof of having attended a school , for any time not exceeding ten hours of any working day , bnt not after half-past four of the clock of the afternoon of any Saturday : provided always , that every such child shall be allowed the same time for meals , and shall have the same holidays , as are provided by this Act for all young persons ; and the penalty for employing such child in such a factory for more than ten hours on any one day , shall not be less than twenty shillings , and not more than three pounds for each ehild so employed . 76 . —Exempts all documents from stamps .
tl . —This Act to come into force , as to appointments , salaries , and regulations of officers , on its passing ; as to all < other provisions , on the 1 st of October , 1844 . 78 . —The Act may be repealed or amended by any Act to b& passed in this session . Schedule A sets out forms of certificates ; B , of registers ; C , of notices to be fixed up in the factory ; and D , of notices to factory occupiers , summonses , and convictions . ¦
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The Paris jonrnals of Friday state ihe rejection of M . de RemuBat ' a motion for the exclusion of publio functionaries from the Chamber . The vote took place by rising and Bitting , the Opposition not demanding the ballot ; jet the journals of the latter opinion represent the majority as small . It would haveI been probably larger fa a ballot ; for , with a Chamber of well-nigh half its members publio functionaries , there is little hope of a vote for their removal , especially as no one is responsible for his vote . There was nothing new or piquani in the debate till the second day , when M . Barrot declared that * on a motion respecting' the inconvenience of having
publio functionaries in the Chamber , it was requisite to call attention to the Fact of . an ambassador , who was a member of that Chamber , having resigned in consequence of some harsh words addressed to him by an august personage . Here arose cries . MBarrot saidj that if the independent votes of members were thus menaced , he certainly Would render nose but Ministers responsible , since they must be supposed to have either provoked or permitted suoh interference . A Lyons journal of ihe 20 th announces the arrival of Queen Christina in that city in the evening of the 19 th , by the Hirondelle steamer . She was reoeived by the prefect and other authorities .
SPAIN . The accounts from tho seat of war in Spain continue to be utterly insignificant . The only news published by the Government in the Madrid papers ofthe 16 th inst ., ia a dispatch from General Roncali , which announces that he has complied with the barbarous orders given to him , so far as to shoot seven of the insurgent officers who were taken prisoners by Brigadier Pardo . The names of these unfortunate men were Lieatenant-Colonel Don Ildefoneo Yosolis , Captain Don Jose Meaa , Lieutenants D . Luis Gil , and D . P . Perez Yillapadierna , and under-Lieutenants Algarro , Molima , and Blanco .
GERMANY . The Frankfort Gazette des Posies states , in a letter dated Halle , 12 th Feb ., that th « town of Halle is in a state of great exeite » ent , in consequence of domiciliary : visits made bv the police to . several of the students . These visits were made as early as six in the morning , when moBt ef the yeu ' og men were surprised in bed , and all their papers seized and sealed . Some students bad been arrested , but by the last accounts nothing bad been discovered to criminate any one to any serious extent . It does n » t appear what the charge is against the students .
RUSSIA . Slavikt in Russia . —From the Gazelle des Tribunaux we have extracted an account of the punishment ( in the month of January last ) of twenty-three serfs in St . Petersburg , for an aot of violence committed on their master . We know not in what terms to express « nr sense ef the barbarity of this punishment . Irritated by an insolent rejection of a request , the serfs entered their master ' s bed-room daring the night , and beat him with rods . For this they are handed over to a military tribunal , and sentenced , not to be shot—that would have been too mercifulbut , four times , to encounter the Bwitohes of five hnndred soldiers . What this was , as inflicted once , our readers . will see by the following description : —
" Five hundred infantry soldiers of the garrison of St . Petersburg , each armed with a long osier switch , were drawn ap in doable line on the parade . Tho twenty-three sentenced persons were brought out with fetters on their hands and feet ; the executioner uncovered the upper part « f their body as far as the launches ; he fixed a ball of lead in their mouths , to prevent their crying out ; and in thiB condition they passed , one by one , slowly , eondnoted by two attendant soldiers , through the long double line of soldiers , receiving at every step two heavy blowa on the back , which made their blood flow copiously , reddening the snow under their feet . "
No wonder that , when they had finished their long and melancholy walk , " these poor wretches were " almost dying . But they were then taken , -we are told , to a military , hospital , to be cured : ' ' imperial clemency , of course , intending to apply balm at length to those frightful lacerations . Far from it . "As soon as they are a little recovered , their punishment is to be inflicted a second time ;" then , if they survive the second , » third time ; and , if they survive the third , a fourth time ! This is the most savage endeavour to invent a punishment worse than death that we ever heard of . It is an example at barbarity aided by refinement ; of unprecedented skill in making the human frame endure a greater amount of agony than that under which its benevolent Creator intended it should expire . The only pretext for this ferocity is , that tho city of St . Petersburg contains 65 , 000 serfs , and that it was
necessary to strike terror into them , leBt the example of the twenty-three should be imitated ! If this had been said on any other authority , it would have been denounced as a libel on the empire ofthe Czar . But henceforth it ib unquestionable that the Russian serfs are slaves in the most frightful sense ; and that they are subject to a despotism the most terrific which can be conceived , because it has both the skill and the resolution to carry human Buffering to the utmoBt possible extremity . Flogging slaves to death has hitherto been regarded with an execration almost boundless ; but this is nothing to the treatment of Russian serfs . In what a frightful state of menacing discontent must this vast empire be , if even a momentary fafety must be purchased at suoh a dreadful cost ! Can the few lords of these many millions of serfs expect such a yoke of blood to be borne for ever " t—Anti-Slavery Reporter .
PBBSBCUriOH OP THE JEWS IN RUSSIA , — " The Russian Government , " says the Journal des Debalt , " has decidely declared war against the civilization as well as the generous and philosophic spirit of our age , and every day it is making further progress in this deplorable course . Every day the German journals bring as accounts of persecutions exercised by order of the Emperor against the Jews who inhabit his states . A new ukase has filled the cup of persecution to the brim , and has reduced that unfortunate population to despair . We must refer to the most unfortunate period of our history , and to the fatal spirit which dictated the revocation of the edict of Nantes , to find an example for this tyranny
which has struck half a million of men . When we consider , that without any serious motive , and under the most frivolous pretext , an entire industrious population—men , women , children , and old menhave been compelled to quit their homes en masse , to break the bonds which attach them to their native soil , to renounce tfeeir affections , their recollections , and their interests , to seek in unknown provinces the slip of ground marked for them by the despot , we ask onrselves involuntarily if it be really in Europe in the nineteenth century , or whether it be not in the remotest corner of the East , that the rights of humanity have been violated and trampled under foot . We almost imagine that we see the transportations ordered by the Kings Darius and Nebuchadnezzar repeated in our time by a society in which human misery or death is of no
weight in comparison with the caprice of a conqueror . The Augsburg Gazette publishes a letter , dated Berlin , 5 th . inst ., Btatiug that " various letters and . journals describe the JewB residing in the Russian dominions , although severely grieved , as giving proof of energy and talent , tne mote surprising as the Polish Jews were generally considered to be half barbarians . The chief Rabbi , from Posen , was lately at Berlin , and received applications from various quarters to interest himself for his suffering countrymen . Some Israelites , highly distinguished in literature , amongst others M . Lehman , formerly director of the State Gazette , waited on the King of Prussia , who referred him to the Prince Royal .- His Royal Highness was pleased to say , that a representation , couched in the strongest terms , should be made to the Emperor of Russia relative to the oppression practised on his Jewish frubjeots . ' * The reply to this remonstrance is anxiously expected .
SWEDEN . Health or the King op Swepek . —Stockholm , Feb . 13 . —According to the Aftonblad the King had a very restless night from the 11 th to the 12 th , with great pain \ a the leg . Notwithstandinghis weakness his Majesty had sufficient strength of mind , in the latter days of last week , to listen to the articles in the journals , and to have the bulletins read to him before they were published .
TURKEY . A letter from Constantinople , Jan . 31 , in the Journal de Frankfort , contains the following paragraph : — " It will be remembered that some months back the trial of a Turk took place for offensive expressions against the Prophet .- The affair took place precisely at the moment when France and the other Powers presented their notes to the Divan , to protest energetically against the execution of the
unfortunate Gvaghun . It was already reported that the impiety of the Turk was about io be punished with death , conformably to tho text of the law , but the profound impression made by the note of the Miflister of France caused the seutence of'death to be revoked . : M . de Bourqueney , blinded , by falsa hopes , was proclaiming , his ' protend « d triumphs everywhere , but all waa deception . In a fortnight after the Greek of Biledjik was executed , land now we learn that the Turk of Saloaics kas besn decapitated . "
XHBXAZBKXD IirSCBBKCnON IH THB LnUNO * . — A letter from Beyrout , dated 17 th of January , states that a general insurrection is on the point of bursting forth in the Lebamon . The roads are insecure , and the persons employed in tillage are compellad to bear with them firearms for their protection , whilst trade is utterly extinguished . The unhappy Maronites of Kasseroaan are suffering , it is affirmed , unheard-of vexations . A demand was made on them for the sweats which the Porte had remitted in consequence of their sufferings during the war of 1840 . A portion of the money was extorted ; but the interference of the English Consul protected
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them from further oppression , and it is hoped will be the means of restoring to them the money of which they were despoiled , and that from a loan which Essad Paeha had induced them to pay .
UNITED STATES . Livbbpool , Scndat—We have further advices to-day from New York by a packet from that port . By her we hive received dates from New York to the 3 rd of February , being two days later than those brought to us by the Britannia steamer . The frost continued to bo intense , bo much so , that several persons who had been unfortunately benighted had periBhed before morning . New York was literally isolated—no mails had reached from the south for six days , nor from Boston and eastward for two at least . Persons could skate over to Long Island ,
Steam navigation was consequently put a stop to , and the nails which were despatched overland could net be reokoned to accomplish the journey in less than treble the usual time . At Boston the very greatest exertion had : been made to enable the steamer Britannia to leave the harbour : 400 men were employed to out the canal through the ice ; they began at Port Independence , and the first contractors gave up the work in despair , and several ofthe men retired severely frost-bitten . It wa-, hewercr , again undertaken with more vigour success .
The meat accoanta from New Orleans aanctn the death of the Hon . Alexander Porter , Senator oi the btate of Louisiana , a man of talent and eminence . He was a native of Ireland . In the Senate , on the 30 th , the debate on Mr . M'Duffio ' s Revenue Bill was not progressed with . Mr . Evans expressed a willingness to go on with the debate , but there was a very general desire expressed among senators to go into Executive Sesdon , anti the matter was postponed till the following day ; not , however , before Mr . M'Duffie had given notice that ha would change the character of the Bill , eo as to accommodate it to the views of those gentlemen who denied the right of jurisdiction in its present form . He would so modify it as to make it a Bill to repeal the existing tariff law . This modification , it is understood , will open the whole subject of the Tariff and the Finances of the country to discussion . Tke Washington Correspondent of the Courier and
Enquirer remarks , that "the last speech of Mr . M'BufBe , the closing part of which I did not hear , presents new matter for grave and Berious consideration . The language used by him should be placed before every man . so that the whole people can judge of the tone of feeling which obtains with that olaSa of politicians of which Mr . M'Duffio is the representative , and also that the aims and objects of these men may bo rightly understood . Yob will see by reference to the Bpeeoh as reported , that Mr . M'Duffie gravely proposes a dissolution of the union , and a creation of * throe confederacies ; one in the south-west , embracing the producing States ; one in the north-west , embracing the grain-growing States ; and one in the north-east , embracing the manufacturing States . ' In this classification he does not regard agricultural or manufacturing labour as productive industry—a distinction which even his philosophy mast teach him to be absurd . "
CANADA . Mr . Buchanan , of Niagara , lately her Britannic Majesty ' s Consul at New York , has addressed a letter to his countrymen at work on the Wei land Canal , proposing to meet five married and five single mea % as delegates from the Cork men , at ten o ' clock on the 18 th inst ., at Port Robinson , and an equal number of Connaught men at Thorold , at two o ' olock , with a view to endeavour to reconcile the divisions between two factions—Montreal Herald .
TEXAS . Late news is received by Galveston papers of the 10 th inst . The differences between President Houston and Congress were not adjusted . He had again declined to communicate the Executive correspondence with England , but offers to lay it before the Speaker and Foreign Committee of the House , and intimates that other papers communicated under the seal" of secresy had been exposed . He has also refused to comply with the request to recal Charles H . Raymond , bearer ef dispatches to the United States . It is reported that the ne ^ ociations between the Mexican and Texian Commissioners had been broken off .
FOREIGN MISCELLANY . The Weather on the Continent . —The Union des Provinces states that the cold weather in France is not to be compared to the severe frost which has been experienced in Germany and Switzerland , as will appear from the following facts : — At Konigsberg snow fell in such quantities that wolves entered the town in the noon-day . At Nuremberg the snow was nine feet in depth . In the Grisons in Switzerland the glass stood at 23 degrees of Reaumur ( 51 Fahrenheit ) below freezing point , and subsequently there came a full of snow , which completely covered the hills and valleys . During several days a snowstorm prevailed , which caused much injury . Five persons perished of cold and fatigue in crossing Mount Albula , and several others had their limbs frozen . Five men and thirteen bead of oxen perished in an avalanche which fell from a mountain to the east of Niederwald . "
Portrait op Ano-ELfK * . DER . —The Presse publishes the following description of Abd-ol-Kader , furnished by a Frenchman who lived for a long period in habits of intimacy with the Emir : — " Abdel-Kader ' s complexion is fair and of a death-like paleness ; his forehead is broad and high ; black and well arched eye-brows surmount two blue eyes with black eye-lashes and filled with that humility whiph gives the eye so much brilliancy and mildness ; his nose is finely shaped and slightly squjriine ; his lips thin without being pinched ; his beard is black and full without being thick , and terminating in a point . His face is oval , and a slight tatooing between the eyebrows forms a remarkable contrast with the whiteness of his skin ;
his hands , thin and small , are of remarkable whiteness . His height does not exceed one metre sixtysix centimetres ( fivo feet French ) , but he id strongly formed . His entire costume is composed of a haik of fine wool , confined to his head by a email cord of camel ' s hair , a cotton shirt , satunio of the same stuff , and a white and brown burnous . He holds a black chapalet in his right hand , and is constantly repeating his prayera . Horhors of Slavery . —The American papers bring us no news so interesting as tbat which we have reoeived from oar private correspondent . We find several communications exhibiting the heartrending sorrows of the . internal slave-trade , but , at this late hour , we cannot make room for them .
We must work them up into an article for our next . No pressure of matter , however , can induce us to delay the insertion of what we cannot but deem the most atrocious and revolting document we over met : with . It is the sentence of death passed by Judgo O'Neall , at New Orleans , oa a man named Brown , for aiding a slave to escape ! Brown is actually to be executed' in April . The address of the Judge to him presents the most revolting combination of cold-blooded cruelty with an affectation of piety which ever camo to our knowledge . This judicial outrage must reduce the state of Louisiana to the lowest pitch , of publio infamy- Hitherto , in all oivilisod states , the punishment of death has been annexed only to acts having at least some
measure of criminality ; it is annexed now to the fulfilling of a sacred duty , both to God and man . Hitherto , even iu the United States , we have been accustomed to see the friends of the el&ve only mobbed and murdered by violence , like the martyred Lovejoy ; but at length they are to be murr dered by law , and slaughtered with the coolness and pomp of a legal execution . What a fearful element of sooiety must the institution of slavery be , if its maintenance refuires that assisting an escape from it shall be made punishable with death ! Or what pan arrive but universal combination of the human race for its overthrow , when the blood of the free and the just is thus to be pouted out , in order to slake its diabolical thirst for revenge ! The
following is the murderous and revolting sentence of "the Honourable ( I ) J- B . O ^ Neall , " as quoted by the Liberator from a New . Orleans paper : — "John L . Brown—It is my dnty t < ? announce to you the consequences of the conviction which you heard at Winnsboro ' , and of the opinion you have just heard read refusing your two-fold motion in arrest of judgmentfor a new trial . You are to die!—die a shameful , igaominioua death ; tho death , upon , * the gallows . This annunciation is to you , I know , most appalling . Little did you dream Of it , when you stepped into the bar , with an air as if you thought it was a fine frolic . But the consequences of crime are just Buch as you are realising : punishment often comes when it is least expected . Let me entreat
you to take the present opportunity to commence the work of reformation . Time will be afforded to yon to prepare for the great' change ) , which may be just before ' son . ' Of your , past life I know nothing , except that whioh your trial furnished . It told me that the crime for which you are now to suffer , was the consequente of a want of attention on your ! part to the dmtiea of life . Tho ' strange woman . ' Bnared you—she' flattered with her words , ' and . yon became her victim . The consequence was , that , led on by a desire to serve her , you committod the offence of aiding a riave t » run away , and depart from her master ' s service ; and you are now to die for it . You are a young man , and I fear have been » n idle as well as a dissolute one . If po , these
kindred Tic € « have , contributed a full measure U your ruin ; R « fleot upon your past life , and make the only useful devotion of the remnant of jour days in preparing for death . * Remember now thy Creator in the days of 4 B . y youth ^ it the UnRviaR © of inspired wisdom . Tbiieomea home appropriately to you at thii trying moment . You are young , quite too young , to be where you are ; and , if you had remembered your Creator in your past days , you would not now be in the felon ' s place to receive a felon ' s judgment . Still , it ia not too late to remember your Creator ; he calls early , and he calls late ; he stretches out the arms of a father ' s love to you ,. to the vilest sinner , and says , Come unto me , and be Baved . ' You can perhaps read ; if you can , read the Scriptures ; read them without note , ' and without comment , and pray to
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God for assistance , and you will be able to say , when you pass from prison to execution , as a poor slave said , under similar circumstances , ' I am glad my Friday has . at last come . ' If you cannot read the Scriptures , the ministers of our holy religion will bo ready to aid you ; they will read and explain to you , until you will be able to understand , and , understanding , to « all upon the only One who can help and save you , Jeaus Christ , * the Lamb of God , who taketh away the sin of the world . ' To Him 1 commend you ; and through Him may you have that opening of the : day-spring of mercy from on high ,
which shall bless you here , and crown you man everlasting world as a saint for ever and ever . The sentence of the ] law is , that you be takem hence to the place from whence you last came , thence to the gaol of Fairfield District , and that there you be closely and securely confined until Friday , the 26 th day of April next , on which day , between the hours of ten in the foraoon and two in the afternoon , you you will be taken to the place of publio execution , and there be hanged by the neck till your body be dead ; and mav God have mercy onyour soul . "—Anti Slavery Reporter . February 22 nd , 1844 .
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TO THE JOURNEYMEN TAILORS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND . Fellow-Workmen , —In a former address which appeared in the Northtrn Star of February loth , I drew your attention to the deplorable condition of oar trade . Facto illustrative of it were submitted for your consideration . An urgent appeal , on its behalf , was made to your reaien , depression , degradation , helplessness , embarrassment , and impoverishment . Pubiicaphrited individuals in every city , town , borough , and hamlet were exhorted without delay to gp to work in earnest for the recovery of the trade ; and a legal union of the whole in ¦ town and country was declared to be the only means , j
To effect this ! union speedily , simultaneous move , merits should immediately take place in all parts of the country . Meetings of delegates from shops in each locality , or public meetings of the trade , or both , should b * called without further hesitation . At all publio meetings of the trade , respectable employers should be respectfully invited to be present , and their , hearty co-operation solicited . Resolutions should be proposed at such meetings , condemnatory of j unprincipled competition , favourable to protection ( or labour , and immediate Idenfication with those towns which are actively co-operating for the complete establishment of the general protection principle . And , " as many hands make light work ; " and as oar existence is placed in jeopardy by unscrupulous traders ; the judicious employment of our united intellects and energies will not only enable as to destroy those Influences which have nearly mined the trade , but , with equal success , enable us to elevate it to a position approaching its former respeotability .
Being most anxious that you Bhould perfectly comprehend tbat which I am equally anxious you should ( for you own interest ) unreservedly support , and viewing with suspicion every thing that seeks concealment , or that will not bear the most searching inquiry , I aabmit for your examination the " principles" on which the present movement for the recovery of the trade is founded , that you may see and judge for pourselves . Cordially adopt them for yourselves , and with equal cordiality assist in their establishment in all parts of the United Kingdom . This I do the more readily , from an honest conviction that they only require to be understood to be espoused ; that they may be carried oat with comparative ease , and permanent advantage -, that they will preve an effectual remedy for existing evils ; that nothing else will suit our altered circumstance * , or ever j improve the trade ; arid that should they i . ot be speedily adopted , respectable employers and journeymen must inevitably sink in one common rain . '
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES . Every thing determined by majorities of members in meeting assembled . Nothing law that is not so determined ; Every thing so determined is law .
GENERAL PRINCIPLES . 1 . —Labour being neoessary for promoting the comfort and wellbeing of society , has net only its duties , but iu rights . \ 2 . —That the rights of labour consist in a remuneration proportioned ! to the quantity performed , and protection afforded in the free exercise of it 3 . —That all who labour are equally entitled to fair remuneration . 4 . —That to take advantage of the necessities of any , by exacting labour without a corresponding remuneration , or witholding it when the labour is duly and properly performed , is tyrannical and unjust , and ought to be resisted . I 5 . —That by the , present want of system , any unprincipled employer has it in his posrer to talcs advantage of his workmen , they having no means of protection .
6 . —That protection to be effectual most be liberal and extended to every member of our trade without exception . \ 7 . — 'That houses : of call aa at present constituted , do not and cannot afford effectual protection , their advantages being exclusively confined to their own members , who form only a small fraction of the trade . 8 . —That as it is not in their power to prevent , in case of strike , a Bbop from being filled with other than society men , aa far as the general interest of the trade is concerned their protection in fact goes for nothing . i
9 . —That it is the duty and interest of all the members of our trade , legally to unite for mutual protection , and to adopt such measures as may best secure them from imposition and fraud . 10 . —That all measures for the regulation of trade to be juat , must be equal , having reference alike to the employer and journeyman , any advantage on either side being an act of injustice to tbe other . 11 . —Tbat it will be for the mutual advantage of employer and journeyman ; in each locality , ' to have a well-defined and uniform rate cf prices , so that the journeyman may know what he is to receive , and the employer what to pay . 12 . —Tbat this ] has been proved in different parts of the country , and will go fat to check illegitimate trading . ; .
13 . —That in regulating the remuneration , the standard should be what is paid in respectable establishments which being at the rate of pet hour or for twelve hours work , is fair and satisfactory . I 14 That in proportioning the labour to the remuneration , that should be considered a day ' s work which the generality of men con by industry accomplish in tbe time . j 15 . —Thai tbe system of fair and honourable trading secures good articles to the purchaser , fair profits to the tradesman , and reasonable remuneration to the journeyman . - 16 . —That any establishment conducted on different principles , is a gross imposition on the public , destructive of all fair and honourable trading , and ruinous to the health , the morals , and the well being of society .
17 . —That these establishments flourish in proportion to tbe decline of tbe honourable part of th « trade , and the destitution , misery , and degradation of the journeyman . ( 18— That they influence to a great extent the trade in many respectable establishments , whereby considerable redactions in vragca have taken place , and the employers themselves ] much ibjured . 19 . —That these ] things should arouse tbe dormant spirit of the trade , and determine them"to exert every energy and employ every means which honour and integrity may point ] out to raise themselves from their present degraded position , and secure to labour those rights which in too many instances are withheld . 20 . —That to carry out this deslrabl& object , a fund is absolutely necessary , to which it will be the interest of every respectable employer as well as journeyman to contribute . 1
21 . —Tbat security for all monies being important and indispensable , the members of the society axe the best depositaries , who by being mutual checks are placed beyond the reach of temptation . 22 . —That unjinimity being absolutely necessary . everythlng should be carefully excluded from the discussions at our meetings which does not essentially belong to the trade . 1 23 . —That coercion In any shape is illegal and unjustifiable , and contrary to the spirit of the society , which depends for support entirely on a conviction of the justice of its principles and its absolute necessity . 24 . —That secrecy is objectionable and must frustrate the objects sought to be obtained ; it excites suspicion , creates jealousy , and is incompatible with the principle of all fair and honourable arrangements respecting trade . ;
These are the principles on which the movement is based , and as th « y form the ground ¦ work of a future United Tailors' Trade Protection and Mutual Benefit Sooiety in strict i accordance -with the laws ofthe country , they must be preserved inviolate . The mode for working them out au » t ba regulated by circumstances and the difference of localities , each of which has its own peculiarities ,: The adoption of the principles by any provincial district , is ^ sufficient identification ; they must for the pre » ent employ that method best adapted to each local poaltlen . Above all thingi , it is important that those in London should be informed whenever it Is the case , and any information ought will be readily eomnmnl « at « d . The metropolb from its bulk , will require different machinery fioMthe
provinoea at aU times . The objoctt of a sational delegation Is to legalist ft general Mlou of * be trade , and to agt « e to % general i plan of orgmiiaUon by which the different districts may work together in harmoiy and be ready to wristany who require it withontdeUy . At present , each locality must remain nominally distinct ; the society of each ] being called by the name of the district la which it is held . A national delegatiea will set all members right , ( and aa It is to be held on the 8 th of April , it is highly necessary that the advetthement respecting it which appears in th « Slmr of thisdiy , shOBld be transferred to all the local journals . Secretaries must write to each otheras private lndlvidunla , or they £ may be prosecuted under the Corresponding Aot
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In conclusion I would impress on all the necessity of discretion . At all times guard against precipitancy , nog calculate beyond your strengths Whatever may ba tha end proposed , if means folly , adequate to aecKjmplisa it are not employed ; disappointment must ensue , and it may'be toolafe to rally ; Impetuosity Is at all times dangerous ; it is much better to be a little longer oa toe road , and thus reach the end in safety , than by furiew driving npset the vehicle and break the necks of the passerigers . Let v » learn at- all times by past misad . ventures , and avoid the rocks on which others have split ; Let us guard against impatience , and regulate oar conduct by prudence , then shall we have the satis , faction of steering the bark into the haven in safety nor mourn that by oar intemperate eagerness , and rasa ' ness we were wrecked within sight of the coast
In the hope that our trade may by the united Intel , ligence and energy of its members bo raised from ife state of humiliating prostration ; and that we may yet be able to live by our labour , render to all their dues , sod be enabled by Union to assist and protect others , I mbscribe myself the sincere friend and servant of tha Tiade , FB 1 NCIS Pa&EOIT . 11 , Little Croat-street , Islington . President of the Metropolitan Tailers' Trade Protec . tlon Sooiety .
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GENERAL ADDBESS OF THE TRADE SOCIETY OF LADIES' SHOEMAKERS OF LONDON TO THEIR FELLOW WORKMEN THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY .
" If every just man that now pines with want , had but a moderate and becoming share of that which lewdly pampered luxury now heaps upon some few with vast excess , nature's foil blessing would be well dispensed in unsupeiluens even proportion . "—4 filton . Fellow Wobkingxen—Tha various divisions of oar trade in the Metropolitan districts , deem it esseatial at the present crisis , to call mpon yon , one and all , to rally round the standard of your trade , and protect yourselves fram the absorbing influence of that Hydra Headed monster—cempetitlon , which ti tearing asunder the sacred bonds of civil society , arraying man against his fellow-man , spreading privation and misery throHghout the land , and ultimately threatens the destruction of oar trade . Too long and patiently have
all brooded over our degradation ,, in criminal apathy and mental Indolence , which has disgraced ou character * as a body of moral and intellectual beings . True is it that bitterest penury has afflicted us—tbat the Iron of despotism has entered our very soul ; that internal treachery has disorganised and rendered ns suspicious ; bat ougkt therefore the existence of these circumstances , the conscious wrong , and the pangs of poverty , to lessen as in self-estimation ! Wo . Let aot thosa slavish feelings deter you from exercising yomr reasoning faculty . Let not past treachery destroy in you the future pursuit of right ; let not that soul-benumbing influence of past failure hold in bondage that moral dignity and resolve which prompts intelligent men to assert the independence of their nature .
Arouse then from your disgraceful and suicidal apathy , and learn to discharge those duties which the fundamental laws ofcivilised society devolves upon you , aamely , —protect every one . Then shall we stand idly by , » nd look on with cool indifference , and see our rights invaded , our homes made desolate , our wives and children starving ! ¦ squalid wretchedness , and - not arouse at the grating call of nature , and stem the torrent of oppression , and save ourselves from the ultimate ruin that awaits us ?
Ill fares the land to hasfnlng ills a pray , Where wealth accumulates and men decay . Then be wise hi time . Let no man hesitate , when delay is so dangerous . ¦ No class of men possess more real power , if properly directed and judiciously arranged , in one body and tinder one head ; and none more powerless while we reaaain split ap into fragments , and frittering away our strength or sympathy , and almost strangers to each other . Those old hereditary principles which we so long have fostered , mast , die away . They are not adapted to the present age and eirenmstan ces , against which we have to contend ; therefore gather
together these scattered fragments into one great whole and from their ashes a bright pfceeoix will arise infusing light , hope , strength , and protection , and blazing forth a new feature in the history ef our trade . Seeing as we do , the necessity of a new organisation and new exertion onbefialf of our trade , w « have resolved upon calling public meetings to arouse the pnblio mind oa behalf of oar trade and the promulgation of our principles , and to enrol the nauea of all those who wish , to join oar ranks , as the trade is thrown open unconditionally for their reception ; we also * call upon the whole country unanimously to follow the example .
We also recommend that a national delegate meet * ing of oar trade be held at Birmingham , on Tuesday , Hay 7 tb , 1844 , for the porpese of consolidating era branch of the bade into one body ; asdi to bring shook anew and better system of Organisation , and to be composed of twenty-one delegates , elected from the following places : —Northampton 1 ; Durham 1 ; Hendle Z ; Leeds 1 ; Sheffield 1 ; Liverpool 1 ; Manchester 1 ; Stafford 1 ; Nottingham 1 ; Leicester 1 ; Derby 1 ; Birmingham 1 ; Cheltenham 1 ; Northampton 1 ; Bristol 1 ; Trurol ; Southampton 1 ; Brighton 1 ; Chatham 1 ; Norwich 1 ; London 1 .
We farther recommend that each member of our branch of tha trade throughout the country pay a levy of sixpence each , which we deem sufficient to : carry oat the foregoing object That each delegate to the Conference bring with him the s » id amount oi money so collected from the surrounding district that herepresents , and from which all his expences will be paid . Tbat he be provided with credentials , signed by the President and Secretary of the trade fram whence he iB elected , stating the amouut of money entrusted to his care . . >
We also request tbat each of the CordwaineraSocieties throaghout the country will communicate their address to the Secretary of the Ladies' Shoemakers Society , at the Green prdgon , King-street , Goldenaquare , London , stating the number of hands belonging to the Men ' s and Women ' s departments connected with the Society ; also their distance from the nearest town , where we recommend delegates to ba elected . Signed by the delegates on behalf- of the Trade , JOHN DUNCOMBE , WIL 11 AH BURnEN , Aljrkd Hunnibell , President
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The late Sir Fbak » is Bubdktt . —Tbe London Times of Jan . 27 , 1844 , says— We know , for a fact that on the 8 th Oct ., 1842 , Sir F . Burdett placed himself under the professional care of an hjdropatbist . He was confidently assured that if he adopted * the water cure * lie would have no retnrn of the Gout . " It ib also in the same statement observed that— " Early in the December following he had ft return of his old enemy . " A lamentable instance has also recently occurred , by the death of the Marauis of Hastings , in the prime of life , by Gout having
attackedHhe heart . Thus we find that two eminent persons have gone to that bourne from whence no traveller returns , " thromgh a want of knowledge as to the effective treatment of Gout . It appears nnfortunate that in the former ease a supposed remedy should have been adopted , and in the latter that a most effective medicine , of more than twenty ytars experience , had sot been administered ; namely , Blair's Gout and Bheumatic Pills , whioh not only relieves tbe paroxysm , but prevents the disease attacking any vital organ . :
Total Loss cf the Elbkbfeldt . —Information was recerred in town on Friday afternoon week , of the total Iobs ofthe Dutch steamer Elbeibeldt , " at abont three o ' clock in the afternoon of Thursday , when about twenty-five miles east of the North Foreland . This vesBel was built atBlaokwall about three years sinee expressly for the Bxrtterdam and Manbeim trade . She was proceeding here for the purpose of being overhauled , and if necessary for undergoing repair . Captain B . Stranock , of the General * Steam Navigation Company ' s steamer Giraffe , dne of the most experieneed commanders in the EotterdaiH trade , was requested to bring her ever—and , although his charge has been so unfortunate , no blame is attached to him . He bad to contend against a heavy gale at sea . Whea off the
p lace above-mentioned , she was strnok by a very heavy sea , and she w » at down almost imtantin ««« ly The crew , eonsistinf V fourteen » ea , had only tine fuffieient tothrow tteir boat drerboad , and « nly two zibo enabled to get feto her before she went down . ProTOleritiallj , iher were « nabled to resene nine othera ; Tbnt two Btokeri and the cook ware unfortunately drowned—mott probably drawn down by the action . There were u » passengera on board . The BuTvivorB , afterliaTingbeea-intiie boat about three hours , in the constant expectation of suffering from a calamity the * had bnt just escaped'from , were picked up by au ) uteh Raliiot bound to Flushing , and landed atKamsgate , from whence they started by the Berni Ft earner , and arrived in London between three and four o ' clock .
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Melancholy Occcrbsncb . —On Wednesday , the 21 st instant , three sailors belonging to the Rocket , lying in the Newry Canal , went to their berths in the forecastle , about nine o'olookv They had a fire burning in . it , contrary to the captain's positive directions ; and , it ia supposed to prevent any appearance of smoke they had taken down part ofthe funnel for cairyingit 6 £ ¦ On Thursday morning the mate went to call them , and , noaaswer being given , he went down into the forecastle , and found one man ( Samuel Hamilton ) quite dead , and the other two in a completely insensible state . Dn Starkey and SurgeonHoloy werei immediately called in , and all that pr » f « saional skill and humane attention conld suggest has been done by them for the invalids ; bat , we are sorry to say , they are etill in a most precarious state , and it is the opinion of the medical mea that
there are bnt faint chances of their recovery . An inquest on the body of Hamilton was held on Thursday before Mr . John Boyd , Justice of the Feace and Seneschal ( who has been unceasing in , his attention to the hapless survivors ) . The Jury , after hearing evidence as to the oircumBtances , returned : n verdict accordingly , and expressive of their Btrong disapprobation of the practice , in whtch seamen are so unhappily prone to indulge , of plaoing firea in their sleeping apartments , without any mean 3 being taken to give vsnt -to-the : smoke . We trust the . melancholy occurrences at onr quay will Operate aB a warnini ; to seafaring persen 9 . They will despise it at their own peril . Sinee the foregoing was put in type , we have heard of the death of another of the poor fellows . Bis same has not been communicated lotuu-rrNevori / Telegraph .
Stbamoe and True . —A ; caae of painful' and singolar interest has just occurred on the island of Arraa , having a considerable resembltinoe in its details to some of the tragic border ballads of the olden time . A few days ago the daughter of a re 8 pectable farmer in AHohincaifn , a village three miles ; south of Lamlash , was about to be married to a young man of her own rank in life . ' The marriago day arrived , an ° i as ^ -the customlis , ' aoatalcade : 6 f ' frienda were invited tp asseaablear her fathert-house at an early hoar to proowd from thence to meet the bridegroom , who resided at the north-end of "the island , some fifteen miles distant ; The raoming was very stormy , w that from that and ether causes only three ap pearea cir
to prpfc » od -0 n the-joarney * The bride felt tne - eaatstance as a contemptuoua injury done to her feelings and character , and co « ld not brook tw ihoniht of her intended hniband T 7 itnessiBg « raeh ' . ' % BMall number appioaehing to »* him -Oh the : road , respeeially m she toa **™ company would be numerous . So intens * dxo-ner mental sufferings become that ere midday reM ™ wu nnhinged i and the , TOnng and blooming « iw beeatne a wild ; ah < t fearkss maniae . The *^^ bridegroom and hia party arrived at ier "tjier s house , but uh © related all big eatreaties , ana refused all consolation . The fearftJmalady , mf * " } tUl nalure was exhausted and vitality ««!?»* ; »» on Friday last , her bridal bed was raade inrflw ; »« grave of Kilmorrie churehyard ,- ^(?/( w ?< w fevmai .
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Barnslet . —The usual weekly meeting of the weavers was held ba Monday night laBt , in Pickering ' s large room , Richard Taylor in the chair . The chairman , in the course of his opening address , exhorted his fellow workmen to stand firm in the present struggle with Pecfeett , who feeqiiently responded " We will , we will" The auditing committee , who bad been appointed at a previous meeting to audit the accounts of the strike , brought forward their balance sheet , and read it to the meeting , when a person , whotenameis Taylor , asked several questions respecting the wages of the managing committee , and was answered by Frank Mirfleld , to tha satisfaction of all . The balance sheet was then adopted—and a vote of thanks given to tbe acting committee , after which the meeting separated , highly latisied .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 2, 1844, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1254/page/6/
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