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THE NOBTHERN STAK. SATUBDAY, MARCH 15, 1840.
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MANSION HOUSE . SiOTMUT , —Theft . George Hewitt was tonight « p by policeman 443 , before the Lord Major , charged with stealing three zinc saws . Alfred Lewis , a boy , deposed that he was passing the shop of Mr . Hewieoo , 57 , C « nnoiwtreet , yesterday , when he distinctly saw the pit Niter take the three saws now produced , from the door « f Mr . Hewison's shop .. Policeman « 3 deposed to taking the prisoner into custody with thesawsin his possession . ^ The prisoner , who wore the dress of a mechanic , held down bis Head and said nothing . He was folly committed lbrtriaL ¦ :- - ; . ¦
JL Soxdiek ' s Bewasp . — James Booley . aa old man , fete of the Bast India Company ' s serricei was charged by » constable from theEasf India Hbnse , Leadenhall-street , with breaking the vrindows of that establishment The veteran in reply to the charge said , he had served in the Company ' s serrice far eleven years and eleren months , and derired no pension to consolehhn in his old days Be Bad served in' the Island of Saint Helena . Yester day he was " walking about , almost driven to madness by . hunger and destitution , and regretting that he had not employed his youth i n a better manner , . so that he mi ght have had something to £ 01 back upon in his old age . In this state of mind he died a stone and threw it through the window . The lord Mayor said he presumed the prisoner had not served a sufficient length of time to entitle Mm to a pension . The veteran replied , ffo ; he Jacked four days of thereq mxe& time . ' His / lordship said he had no alternative hut to commit him for fourteen days , for wilfully breaking the windows .
Further PzooFS op "StxioSAX . Pbospebitt . "—Mary Ann Smith , Alice Smith , and Ann Evans , were brought uphy policeman 484 , on a ' charge of breaking the Mansion louse windows ^ The girls , in answer to the charge , said that they fcad heea in the Peciham establishment for a month ; that Mr . Evans refused to do anything for them ; that they had no home , and that they had broken the Windows that Ui £ y might be sent to Bridewell . —The lord Mayor said this species of offence was on the increase , and means must be firand , toput a stop to it He should , therefore , commit Ann Evans to the House of Correction far two months , and the others for one month each ; the first and last week to be solitary . i AmittTED Suicide . —A yonng woman , who appeared to be considerably advanced in pregnancy , and who gave her name as Kitty Solomons , ' was brought up on the charge of attempting to throw herself off london-bridge , and also with breaking the windows of the house of a
Mr . Hart , in the JOnories ; The prisoner in her defence admitted having made theattemptto commit suicide , and Stated that a son of Mr . Bart seduced her and deserted her . His base , conduct had driven her to commit the act lor which she stood charged . ¦ In pursuance of this resolution , on last Friday afternoon she wrote a letter to Mr . Sart , intimating her intention , and-wrapping it round a Itone , she hurledit through the window of the room which her sedneer occupied in the honse of Ms father . Having done this she went off to the briage , ana was about topnt her intention into execution , when she was prevented by . a police , constable , who was on the spot The Lord Hayorhavingpointed out to the prisoner the very grave nature of the act she had been about to commit , inquired if there was say one in court who knew the prisoner . The prisoner ' s sister then came forward , and on her pro Busing that she would take care that the prisoner was properly attended to , the latter was dismissed .
_ Horiut . — " Wzbsy Dzvm . "—A . man named Richard Simmons , who has been long lmown as an incorrigible teawler and drunkard , -was charged . by a policeman with having distinguished himself in , his favourite way on the preceding night . ' When the prisoner was disappointed in numerous attempts to Mck and strike the policeman , who merely endeavoured to' prevail npon him to go away , he began to tear off his own clothes , and to rub the parts of Ins person which he thus made bare with mad , so that he presented a-mogt deplorable figure . —The Lord Mayor : What hare jroo w Bay to this f—The Prisoner : Oh , why frMWerry drunk , and I ' m blessed if I know what I did . I was too oT 2 f * * ° *> nioci . . Precious drank I was , to be sure , your lordship . —Sow did JOB Procure the drink IThat I don'tlmowr Somebody gave it sie , depend upon * nvwnmltook . I was drunk , and no mistaks ; kit I boj » yotfaiookawrit , my lord . —Th « lord Mayor : Hmml ^ eAkinr ] l afet ggt ao lQt ; tb&vm ^^^^ E ^^^^^^ ^^^ T ^^^^^^ F ^^ ^^^^^^^^^ a ^ ^ Ji ^^ . ^^ J ^ H ^ S ^^ UJ ^ BwWSBVy ft ^^^^ 4 \¦ tv ^^ F ^ flUBv ^ tf ^ B ^ WBB ^ r ^^ B v 1 ra * aya ^ aMHgg ' to ) ktB «^« f ( X > rrebtlc « fo axwrtji . - ¦ ¦ Ti s i QBBIK SQUASB . fiATrapATt—A T * ous «* oitt Tbkait . — Tnis morning , jBtheopeniBgof the Court , Mr . Prinsop , of Queen-street , fjinEco , made an application to Mr . Barrel for his advice respecting how . to manage a tenant of bis , who wasaniKTiBg him in . -the following manner . The party of whom lie complained was an under tenant , who bad taken premJsesof him , for which he . engaged to pay quarterly , at the rate of £ 45 the year . The tenant bad occupied the house for ' aeady a twelvemonth , yet had only paid up the first quarterns , rent . A few days ago the tenant left thepranises , taking his goods with him . and leaving
a lodger ia oneof the rooms . Subsequently the lodger alJO Iefl ; andthehousebeuig empty , he { Mr . Pruisop ) took possession . Tfhat morning , however , the tenant returned and broke open the door , determined to regain possession ty forcible means . ' Now he wished the magistrate ' s Cipinien as to what could be done to set rid of this person . « -Ur . Bnrrd : You must give him regular notice to quit 08 yon can eject him from the premises . However , you had better consult some respectable broker or house Igeatonthe subject , who are-more familiar with these natters than I am , as to the best , means of lidding yonr-¦ elf of such a troublesome person . Mr . Prinsop then ¦ withdrew . " "
MARYLEBONE . A Fes « . <—Freaerick Fletcher , a lad about ten years of age , was charged with stealing six paint brushes from the window of lir . Oumey , aaoa and colourman , cany-£ og on business at 155 , Edgeware ^ oad . The lad , who has been frequently charged at tills court with similar con . duct , put his hand-through a hole in a pane of glass and took out the brushes . Mr . Long . inquired if they had been found ?—The police constable said they had not , bathe knew where they were . Close to the shop of Mr . Gnrney there was a notorious receiver of stolen goods , and in his window he ( witness ) had that morning seen brushes exposed for sale . Mr . Long ordered the police to go to the "fence" and ascertain the truth of Ids statement , and if it was true , to bring the man before him . The boy was consequently remanded . .
MAStBOBOOGH-SIREBT . . Attempted Mubdes asd Eobkexx . —John Hock , cabman , So . 48 , was brought up before Mr . Hardwici , the sitting magistrate , charged on suspicion of being con . CMned in wounding , aad attempting to rob Mr . Charles Green j merchant ' s clerk , residing at 46 , Berwick-street—The prisoner had been remanded unta to-day from last Saturday , in order to give time to the prosecutor to recover cnffipjpntl y to give evidence . —Mr . Green was in attendance , and appeared very pale and emaciated . His head was bandaged up , the temporal artery having been completely divided from the blow he had received . —The prosecutor ' s deposition went to show thathe had beenina jrahliciouse on Friday week in GtKusEell-street , andhad drunk freely of gin and water . "While there he was asked by a man if he wanted a cab . The prosecutor replied in
the negative , who left the house and went off to the Blue Posts , Tottenham-couTt-road . He was followed by the man there . At the latterpJace the prosecutor treated the party who followed him with a glass of gin , at which time the defendant came into the house , whom he also treated Shortly after this aU went out together ; while outside thtj annoyed him about having a cab , on which I left them and went along Crown-street JVhilepassmgdown there he received a violen t blow on the head ; the police subsequently found him in an insensible state . It is supposed the intention of the parties was to rob the pro aerator , after having felled him to the ground , which they were prevented fromdoingby the police comingup . The prosecutor identified the prisoner as one of the persons who had been drinking with him , and who had struck him the blow . ' The prisoner was folly committed to take Ms trial for the offence .
. LAMBETH . Satoedat . — A Suspectbd Gahs op Thieves . — Four men and a woman , who exhibited every characteristic of being regular proficients in the pilfering department , and -who , judging from the principles of Gail and Lavater , would be veiydangerouBcnstomers to meefcin a quiet corner ina dark night , were placed in the dock on suspicion of having been concerned in several robberies in Lambeth . The names of the four men are Hehessay , Brice , Bennett , and Thompson , and that of the woman Payne . Mr . Evans , who readea in Hamilton-street , said , thai during the nsst week he Lad missed a quantity of bed linen .
which > had been bang oat to dry , and wiucn he had ; stpong reason to believe was stolen by the parties in court , as they had been seen several eyenmgs loitering about the premises in a -very suspicious manner . Another witness , Mrs . Levi , further deposed to overhearing them , discuss the possibility of breaking into her lusband ' s shop . Mr . Norton said there was not sufficient evidence on which to commit theprisoners . He most , therefore , discharge ihem , though , there was strong reason , ho admitted , for suspicion . Bennett , however , was detained on thechargeofassanliing the police constable who took Irim Jnto custody , ana fined twenty shillings , or a month ' s imprisonment .
Mohdat . —The Late Mystebious Case of Poisonisa at CahheRWeli . —George May , shopman to the late Mr . Montague , who , it will be recollected , had , with Mrs . Montague , been poisoned at Camberwell on the 11 th of l ast month , was placed in the felons' dock before Mr . Henry , on the following charge , as entered in the polieesheet— "For feloniously appropriating to his own use Tarions sums of money received by arm for and on account of bis late maBter ; also wiOi forging fliename of the deceased to varions receipts in the parish of St . Giles , Camberwen . " . Mr . Dodd briefly aBuded to the melancholy circumstances which led to die apprehension of the prisoner , and said that since the mysterious death of Mr .
and Mrs . Montague , their hooks and accounts had been examined , and it was found Oat the prisoner , who had been their shopman and confidential servant , had received ^ noos sums of money on account of his master , of which heh&dln&dfeno entry rathe boots kept for that purpose ; and waging this fact with the information which hat been obtained from the customers themselves , the nephew *» * r . llontaguei ; who isnert of kin , deemed it advisable mS *^^ " ^? 1 ^™ ^ S embezzlement 252 H 3 £ ^« £ S ^ ' ! S - »«» -ftea-aaaucea as to certain m ^^^« f tteprisonerto poBcainspector Campbell , of-which no enbyhad been made . Mr . Humphries obi
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v ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ g ^^^^^ rf ^ ftMiMW ^ v ^ i ^ H ^^ V ¦ . . ¦ -. ' - ' ¦ 'H . -. * -. ¦ " ¦ serred that on the Inguert holden after the melancholy affair , on the bodies of Mr . and Mrs . Montague , the prisoner had been examined for hours , and though not upon oath his deposition had been taken down touching these very accounts , with the greatest minuteness . He complained that it was an indirect attempt to connect the prisoner with a charge of murder . Mr . Henry said he had nothing to do with such irregularities , and thathe should countenance no more inferential imputations . He was of opinion , however , that there were grounds for remand , and he asked wh&tjwastho total amount of the allegei embezzlement ! Mr . Dodd replied from £ 50 to £ 100 , and added that he would be able to show on a future occasion that the prisoner had represented himself on many occasions as the nephew of the d * ceased ., The prisoner was wananded to a future day , and Mr . Henry consented to take good bail for his appearance .
WOBSHTE-STREET . Caftuee or akothek "Ladx Thief . "—On Saturday EtttabeUi Farmer , an elegantly-attired elderly widow , residing in Brunswick-place , City-road , was placed at the bar before Mr . Broughton , on the charge of having stolen a piece of salted beef at the shop of a butcher named Flowerdean , in Htfield-street , Soxton . —Charles Welford , a shopman to the prosecutor , stated that the pr isoner entered the shop between ten and eleven o ' clock that morning ' , and he was privately ordered by his mistress to keep a watchful eyeupon her , as she was suspected to have pur loined some meat when she last called , a few days previously . Having advanced to the counter , the prisoner requested to be served with some sausages , and while giving the order she stooped forward over a pan containing several " pieces of salted meat , one of which she adroitly
abstracted , and Becreted it nnderneatn ner snawl . He made no observation at the time , but handed her the , articles she had purchased , which the prisoner paid for , and immediately left the shop . Witness followed her ontinto the street , and on accusing her of the robbery , the prisoner vehemently denied the charge , when he suddenly lifted up her shawl and exposed the stolen property . The prisoner then earnestly entreated forgiveness , but he turned a deaf ear to her supplications , and on the arrival of a policeman he gave her into custody . —On being asked if she wished to say anything , the prisoner , who was dreadfully agitated , made an energetic appeal to the magistrate to induce him to take a lenient view of the case , and spare her the pain and ignominy of a committal , to p rison . She assured him that she had acted on the occasion under a sudden and uncontrollable
impulse , which she felt it impossible either to acconnt for or excuse . She was connected with a family of the highest respectability ; and baring herself been a householder in the parish for more than twenty years , she implored the magistrate to deal mercifully towards her , and she was willing to make any pecuniary atonement for her folly and indiscretion . —The prisoner was remanded . —On Monday the prisoner was again placed at the bar , The only wife ness nowj > resentin support of the charge was thepeliceman , Baines , 52 N / who had taken the prisoner , into custody , and who , on being questioned by the magistrate , stated that he had seen the prosecutor at his house that morning , and that the hitter faithfully promise ! him that all the witnesses should be in attendance . He accordingly came down to the court , but , after waiting till ten o'clock without their arrival , he again called at the prosecutor ' s , and saw the shopman ( Charles Welford ) , the principal witness in the case , who told him that he would Mow him
to the court as soon as he could dispatch the business he was then engagedin . . On his proposing to wait till he was ready , the shopman immediately put on his hat and accompanied him part of the way to the court , but suddenly left him at the comer of a street , stating that he would he back in a few minutes . After waiting a considerable time to no purpose , he hastened on to the court , in the expecta tion of finding him there , but had seen nothing of bun since . He had been informed by some of the prisoner ' s friends that they had been in communication thatmorning with the prosecutor , who said he had no wish to proceed further with the case . —Mr . Broughton said he could not suffer the interests of justice to be compromised by the withdrawal of the evidence in a ease of this description , and he should , therefore , again remand the prisoner , and order summonses to be issued to compel the attendance of the necessary witnesses at the next examination . —The prisoner , who made no observation , was then removed .
Sebiods Case as Embezzlement , —o » Monday John ConneU , a mj ^ dle-aged respectable looking man , was placed at the bar before Mr . Broughton , the sitting magistrate , upon a serious charge of embezzlement preferred against him by his employers , Messrs . Ballance and Sons , silk-mann&ctnrers , in Spitalnelds . —Mr . ' Ballance said he had at least forty cases of embezzlement to bring against the prisoner ; and that , on taking stock , he bad found a defidencj- of £ 1 , 500 worth of silk , —The prisoner was re . mandedforaweek . - . .
GUILDHALL . SlTCBDAT . —A SlHAKtE CASB OF HOBBK-StlALIHO . —Nearl y Jhe wholeof the day was occupied in the investigation of a S 399 9 f hone * tealing , which pre-KntdiseTenliBteMsUngfeitQl ^ i TbS ?» tycn » rged 18 Charfes Stocking , and the prosecutor i «» gentleman of property , residing in Old-eanaM , liieola'ibb , BBBMd Mr . Charles Beran . The prisoner has been engaged at post-hoy in the service of Mrs . Savage , livery stable-JcceDer , in Fetterlane , irt which place the prosecutor was ia the habit , of patting up Ms hones . In . 1843 , the prosecutor had a valuable grey mare there , which he wanted to seB , and the prisoner , who was ostler of the stables , was denred in the last day in August to take the mare to Tattersail ' s , there to be sold . Instead of doing this , the
prisoner went to Mr . Betts , a butcher , in letter-lane , and offered it lor sale , but without success . Next he went to Mr . William Webb , livery stAble-kecper , of Gray ' s-inh-lane , to whom he succeeded in selling it for £ 16 . The prisoner gave a written receipt and warrant to Mr . Webb , which were signed , "For Mr . Charles Beran , J , Clarke " Shortly after , Mr . Webb sold the mare to Dr . Day , of Salisbury-square , for £ 30 ; hut the completion of the sale was prevented by Mr . Bevan , who , in : Mr . Webb ' s absence , had the stable broken open , and the mare removed . Mr . Webb brought an action against Mr . Bevan , and , a few days ago , a verdict was obtained in his favour . The prisoner had made off on the night on which he sold the mare , and nothing had ten Been of him until last Monday , when he was taken at the Boll Hotel , in Cambridge . The prisoner was remanded till next Thursday .
CLERKENWELL . Satbrbat . —Indecent Assault . —A youth , about the age of 15 , was examined before Mr . Coombe , today , and committed for trial for indecently assaulting sl child , aged 3 years , the daughter o ( Mr . DunKley . jeweller , City-road . The particulars are unfit for publication ; suffice it to say , the charge was clearly established . ¦
SOUTHWARD SATORSAT .- ~ BtiBGUBr . ~ Two well-known thieves , named Richard Wood and Thomas Jones , were placed in the dock before Mr . Cottingham , on the charge of breaking into the house of Mr . Scarborough , No . 4 , Brunswick-Btreet , llorsemonger-lane , and stealing therefrom a quantity of plate and wearing apparel . A female , named Sarah Byng , was charged as an acceggary . A night or two ago the house was broken into , and the articles in question carried ayray . Information was given to the police , two of whom met Jones carrying a bundle on the following morning . They followed him to Mb residence inWhitehonestreet , and on his opening the door they rushed in after him , and found all the prisoners . The whole of the stolen property was found secreted along with several houaebreakiHg implements . They were then taken into custody—all of them had been previously convicted . They were remanded , in order to allow time for further inquiry . *
The Nobthern Stak. Satubday, March 15, 1840.
THE NOBTHERN STAK . SATUBDAY , MARCH 15 , 1840 .
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It willbe remembered that during the last Session of Parliament , "the House , " giving way to a suddenly new-born impulse of humanity , solemnly REaoiiTBD that" young penons" and females should not be called on or permitted , by the mill-owners , to wrh more than Unbound day : and it win . nsveb be FOBGOitsir , [ that "the Honse— " the "first assembly of gentlemen in the world— " the " Collective WUdotn of ihe nation ; " it v / iU never de forgotten , we say , that the " Ugh , " the "free , " flie "independent ;' the " HoifomuBtE" members of this same " House "
withdrew their " bbsoltb "—eat their words—relanded iheir votes—at the bidding of one man , their "leader , " vihfr threatened to resign Ms post if "the House" should commit such a solecism as legislate in accordance with the demands and dictates of common humanity ! He admitted to the full , that humanity was against him ; that it was cruel to consign the young and the " weaker sex" to twelve hours work a day ; nay , he felt as strong > a 8 tmpatht for them in their bondage as any , the greatest } humanity-monger in the House : but still Statp . -otcessitt—still the maintenance of our
national institutions—stni the existence even of our foreign trade—still the '" productiveness " of capital employed in mills and manufactures—still the Civil last of the Queen , and Prince Aibebt ' s £ 38 , 000 a year—still the Pension List , the Half-pay list , the Dead-weight List , the Sinecure List , and the Allowance List-still " NAnoifAi . Faith : " still all these things required that the Legislature should dose its ears to ihe demands of our common nature—that it should comnit an act of gross and unmitigated crueLty , and doom the child and the mother . to toil more UKBEAurnr , more debasing , and longer in duration , than that forced from the property-slaves in the
Indies , or from the felons in our gaols at home ! and "the noblest assembly of freemen in the world" did the dictatorial bidding of the Minister , and meanly and servilely surrendered their resolution and judgment to the THBBAiB of the son of a Cotton-spinner , whose father , after having realized a "family fortune" from the extended and death-dealing labours of his factory " hands , " spent Omaandt in an endea-Tour to procure an Act embodying the very Umitation of '{ Ume which the " high and hohotoablb" had B . ESOEVED wasnecMsoryto protect the objects of its application from social and physical evils of the direst magnitude .
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This base surrender of the acknowled ged claims of justice to . the baser ihbeats and / oise alarm of the Minister cannot be palliated , even on the ground of ignomnee . «• The House" had something more than the mere ipse dixit of Sir Robert Pkkl , " or the coldblooded economical reasoning of Sir ijvtjsa-opsnvta GrahaM ) to guide it . There were theopiniont of somo of the most extensive employers and mill-proprietors in the kingdom—that the disastrous efforts to the exexistence of the nation , predicted as the consequence Of a Umitation of the labours of infants and women to something like a reasonable extent , were mere chimeras , conjured up to !; 'Fright the iale from its propriety , "
without reason or even probability for a groundwork . They declared it as their solid conviction , —a conviction derived from experience , —that the step was one that would not even diminish "jpbofit , "' while it would add immensely to the s-am of the labourers , in > time , in instruction , in domestic comfort , if not even in money-amount of wages . ; There was Mr . John Fielden , a member of " the House" itself ; a man intimately mixed up with the prosperity of themanu . facturing system ; a man who has been made by that system , and whose existence as a tradesman depends on its well-being ; a man in most extensive " busineBs" in the cotton-manufacture ; a man whose profit alone have just been assessed to the Incometax at -624 , 000 a-year ; there was this man , so circumstaneed—bo bound up with the manufacturing system , —that system whose very existence demanded two hours extra toil from little children and from
females ! ; there was this man bearing honourable testi mony as a practical man , that the act of justice be ' BOLVBDonby " the House , " would add to the well " being and the wealtUof all concerned , both employerg and employed . There was the firm of Wood and Walkers , of Bradford , the largest worsted-skinners , in the kingdom , bearing similar testimony ; and who have proved their sincerity by spending , in the endeavour to procure a similar act of justice to the one besolvbd on , thoosands upon thousands . of pounds . There was William Rand , of Bradford ,
another great worsted manufacturer , and a great contributor to ihe means of agitating the question . There were Mr . Habgreaves , of Accrington , and Mr . Gardner , of Preston ; and there werefive sixth 8 of the mill-owners of the Oldliam district , all bearing similar testimony , and all protesting against the assumption that it was necessary to preserve their pbofits and their trade , to work children and females two hours longer than the felon jon the treadwheel . Therefore it could not be ignorance that induced the "Collective Wi » i > om" to accede to the
representations of Graham , and Peel , and the league Free Trade Members : -but it was an abject , servile , base bowing down of " independence" to poweb , and a slavish surrender of judgment and conviction to the claims of faction and party . . Since the period when the "high and ehivalfotu " V eat the leek , " thorthoun ^ h # ve , been is pbactice . Mr . Gabdskb , a ' mosteiton ^ ite . mill-owner , in ihe neighbourhood of Freston , notwiUutanding the' universal practice of his brethren , determined to run nia works only < kt / e « hours a day instead of twelve , as he had fomerly done , and as all hit neighbours etill continue to do . ThiBBtep he detennmedbn now new
twelve months ago ; Md the experience of that periid ifi calculated in imb « degnwfe ebow why truth iher » was in thetejrese&iattoMof the MinUter and the Leaguers that "short hours '' would annihilate profits and dimiwiah wages . The asavvt of that experience we are fortunately enabled to give i and while it must make the "honourable" slaves who obeyed Sir Robert Pebl ' s arbitrary commands , to blush crimeon treWy dyed at their criminal conduct and puSilanimity , it will prompt the - factory-workers of the empire to renewed , energetic , and unceasing efforts to secure generally the manifold blessings and benefits shadowed . forth by a partial adoption of the " short-hour" system .
They wiU properly reason , that if such be the result of abridging labour only owe four a day , and in a case , too , where but one master adopts the plan , haying to compete in the market with his neighbours who have the " advahtagb" of the "« xtra " houp ; if such bo the result of this slight abridgment of excessive * toil , undeif 8 Uehcircv « nsta » 669 a 9 tne 3 e , they will naturally imagine what the benefits and advantages would be to all—employers and employed—from a general limitation of factory labour to that period which the eminent of the faculty have assigned as the longest that can be safely endured even by the strongest adult . They will naturally judge the " sack by the sample : and what the sample is the reader shall juBt now
see : — Preston , Monday , If arch 10 . A meeting ofthehands employed by Mr . Robert Gardner in his extensive factory in ihis town was held on Friday evening last , at a public-house near the factory , in Marsh-lane , incompliance with q resolution Of the dele gate meeting of factory workers held at Bolton last week , for the purpose of ascertaining the advantages which have resulted , and are likely to result , from the regulation , adopted nearly twelve months ago by Mr . Gardner , of working eleren hours a-day instead of twelve , and paying the same wages as under the longer hours' system . The manager of the works and all the overlookers were preBent during the whole of the proceedings . The chair was occupied by One of the hands , who opened the proceedings by briefly enjoining order , and bespeaking attention to the various speakers . ' ' ;
The meeting was then addressed by an operative Spinner , who stated the advantages which-he had derived from the adoption of the eleven hour system , among which were—that he had better health , a better appetite , slept more soundly , and at the end of the week received more wages for his work than formerly . ' * So great , he said , had been the advantages which he had derived from eleven hours , that he could safely venture to Bay that no danger could be apprehended from the adoption of the ten hom' system . So decidedly favourable bad he found the change , that nothing but the direst necessity could ever induce him to return to the long hour system again . The Book-keeper of the establishment next presented
himself . He said that the chairman having alluded to the subject of wages , he ( the speaker ) considered it his duty at that stage of the proceedings to give some statements which he thought would be of some importance in connection with the subject of long or short hwrs . After the eleven-hour system bad been In operation for ten weeks , he had been requested to take from the books a statement of the wages paid during that period , and also the wages paid in the ten weeks preceding the adoption of the eleven hours . The result was , that after a careful calculation he found , that for each pair of looms the advance paid in money to the wearers was Id , per week more than during the ten weeks preceding the change .
For the same period the spinners averaged 2 d . per week more than under the old system ' . These were all piece hands , or those who were paid according to the quantity of work done . The day hands , or thoBe who were paid by the day , got the same wages as before . When the system bad been in operation a few weekB , he found that the tick list was much diminished , and that rery few had to leave work from ill-health . On referring to his books , he fonnd that for a period of six weeks not' a single ipinner vxv off work from tiehne » f , —aeireumitants which had never hefore teen known ; and he was glad to be able to say , from the same authority , that the health of the hands continued to improve under ( he mo regulation . The change to eleven
hours had been commenced in April , 18 M and up to th » end of June only one man had been off work , sick , and he was consumptive . He whb then speaking in the pretence of the operatives themselves , who could bear tea . thnony to the truth of what he had said .. There was some difficulty in firing accurate particulars as to the quality of the work produced , owing to the changes in the numbers of the yarn , and other circumstances ; but , on the whole , he was fully warranted in saying that the work was much better under the new than the old system . He made that statement without hesitation , « g he had had no less than ten years' experience in the capacity which
he now filled , and he hoped , therefore , he was competent to give such an opinion . There were many parties present , however , who could speak from their own actual ex « perience- < -he meant the weavers , to whom the work of the spinner was taken to be made into cloth , and they could say whether or not the " cops" were not better now than under the old regulation of twelve hours , and whether also there was not lesB waste made from the work of the spinners now than formerly . He might add , that the wages of the warpers and winders had been fully maintained . , He thought it right to state , that no alteration had been made in the speed of the machinery during the periods to which he had referred . " -
:. A Power-loom Weaver corroborated , in « very particular , the statements made by the last speakers ,, and added , that he could say , for those employed in his department , that they would prefer going to ten hours , even though their . wages should be somewhat reduced , His wife was working in the mill , and he had no hesitation in saying that a considerable saving to him had been effected , even by the single hour a day , which she could now give to her affairs at home , ; The Superintendent of the Card-room said , that their machinery had not been speeded , and yet the hands under him turned off more work , and of a better quality , naw Ijhan under the twelve-hour system ,
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AHecersaidhe had been enabled by the eleven-hours ' system . ; to attend school . He ' understood that several schoolmasters in the neighbourhood had found a considerable increase in the number of their scholars since the adoption of the eleven hours . Many others of the hands mad « similar statements ; aftar which the following resolutions -were unanimously adopted;—"That this meeting of the hands in the employ of Mr . Robert Gardner , grateful for the numerous blessings' he haB conferred upon us by the adoption of the plan of working eleven hours a day , return him our best thanks , and most respectfully request him to join' us , his operatives , in petitioning Parliament fir an efficient Ten Hours '; Bill for all hands employed in factories .
" That the adoption of the eleven hours' system be celebrated by a festivity on the 22 nd of April next , and that a . committee be appointed to conduct the arrangements ; " .. ¦ ¦ ¦¦'¦ ¦ ;¦¦ . ,. ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦• ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - ¦ '; .. Thanks were then voted to the chairman , and the meeting sepwated . : There , now ! What do the factory-workers of Lancashire and Yorkshire think of that I And what will Peel , and Cobden , and Bright , and George Henry Canning Wabd , and Vu&ibbs , and , Hume > think of it ?! What becomes of , their predictions of lower wagei—no profits—destruction of foreign trade
—home embarrassments—and national bankruptcy , as the consequences of a less amount of labour than twelve hours a day ?! What becomes of all their famous arithmetical calculations , which defied examination , or refutation ?! What becomes ; of all the " solemn warnings , " and the " dreadful apprehensions , " and the " stern realities" which could afford no more than an expression of sympathy for those who were being destroyed , body and mind , morally and physically , by murderous toil ?! What has become of them ?—why facts and experience have proved them to xa . baseless as the predictions and promises of Feel , which induced " the House" to agree to his famous Bin , to " set
the question of currency * at rest for ever !" by doicMing the amount of every debt ! and diminishing themeam of the people to pay ! and as worthy of dependence on , as' the present promises of good and happiness by Cobden and Co ., as certain to How from a repeal of the Corn Laws without previous adjustment . The whole of the predictions , threatenings , promises , and conduct of the Minister and the Leaguers , as to all these questions , —the limitation of the hours of labour , $ he actions on the currency , and the effects of an unconditional repeal of the Corn Laws , —are either prompted by gross stolid ignorance of the true principles of State policy , or by a wilful disregard of truth and consequences , that purely seljuh ends may be promoted .
Let the reader look at tub RESULT of " short hours" hi praetiee above set forth ! Mobe wobk ; HIGHER WAGES ; LESS SICKNESS ; A BETTER AND MORE VALUABLE PRODUCTION ; INCREASE OF SCHOLARS TO THE SCHOOLS ; , AND . GREATER DOMESTIC COMFORT : these aretke answers to Peel and Bright ' s dismal borebodings and positive , predictions of all sort of evil consequences . Hero is practice . . Here is
pact : will it do to set against the wind of those who cautioned , : and- warned , and threatened , and dragooned "the House " into the rescinding of its solemn bbbolveb to grant a modicum of justice ? ' / ; , To Mr . Gabdneb , who has had the courage and the manlineet to take steps to prove' PmJl j&'igncjantaharJataa or * dishoneet legislator , aodttb show np , in gloriow uannar , the Lngmti " Mtmmi m ta % Moft , " 'H * ^ M 4 M praUe fc *» . Ho bm
eanwd for hiotff ( be gratitafde of the fiwtory poj » - lation in gen «« J , wid « f his own " handi" in particular ; a gratitude which , w « are bum , will be gladly and freely accorded . MtC Gardner ' s reward will be the approbation of his own conscience , and the blessings and love of those to whose happiness he has directly contributed in no common degree , and indiutUy to all , by showing the safe road to a greater degree of comfert and enjoyment for all engaged in factory labour . , .
In this matter we are happy to say that Mr . Gardner does not stand alone , He ia not'ithe only millowner that has tried the experiment of '' short time . " He is the first that we have heard of in the "great cotton district ; : " and to him , [ as such , every praise is due . . But justice requires that we should state that for years the Messrs . Starkem , of Huddenfield , have acted on that system , though their neighbours , wUhtfK exception , which we shall shortly specify , have been running their mills whenever they could full twelve hours . In addition to this boon of an hour a day less work , and no reduction of wages to those hired by the day , the Messrs . Starkeyb have broken up ground into garden-patches , and let them
at a fair rent to their work-people . And , in addition , to all this , they are at the . present moment engaged in erecting a school-house for the use of the children of their workpeople and of others in the neighbourhood of their mill we believe , which is estimated to cost firom ; jE 2 , 000 to £ 3 , 000 . Now we have peculiar pride in naming these circumstances , and in bearing honourable testimony to the kind manner in which the Brothers treat their workmen : the more so , becauae we have on more than one occasion used this same firm as an illustration of the factory system , which so rapidly raises up fortunes for some few , and keeps the toilers in a state « f lingering life and death . The Messrs . Siarkets have been
made by the factory-system . They were " nothing " but a very few years back ; now they are " Justices of the Bench , " roll in splendid carriages , and live in princely mansions . To this we don't object . They had a right to avail themselves of the system thai exists—and make money . Had they not done so , others in all probability would ; others who might not have been as disposed as the Starkets to confer advantages on their workpeople with the money made by their labour . The Messrs . Starkets had a right to do as they have done ; they had a right , as long as the present system lasts , oi obtaining mills and machinery , and of accumulating fortunes . Nay , they might even have been contented , when they had done
so , had it so pleased them , to button up their pockets , and keep all they had to themselves , for any claim which the present system would have made on them forthe toilers who had produced it . ^ In doing so they would but have done what ninety-nine but of every hundred of their competing brother mill-owners in * variably do : and they would have been looked on as very good sort of folk in their way . Therefore , when we find thorn disposed , as they , have proved themselves to be , to enhance in some degree the comforts and condition of their workpeople , and this toounasked , we should be sour in nature indeed did we not say that the case was deserving of special mention , and worthy of being held up as an example for others to follow .
And the " short hour" principle has been found as beneficial in practice at Huddersfield as at Preston . In the former place , it has been in operation for year * : therefore the experience is greater . As before observed , the wages of the day-handaJuve not been reduced ; and in only a very few instances of piece-work bas there even been a semblance of reduction in amount of work , and wage ; and what little there has been , has been more than compensated for by the time allowed for gardening operations , and the increased amount of domestic comfort—so much so , that none of the workers have any desire to go back
again to the " long hour" practice . The employers are also equally satisfied . Like Mr , Gardner , they find their work better done , and on the whole as muchof it ; and they have the gratification of having reduced the duration , of labour for their hands onetwelfth in amount , and of having given some degree of ft ' wefor mental imp rovement and intellectual enjoyment . Indeed , so $ aUsfactory has been * the working of the " short-hour ! ' principle in the Starket ' s establishment , that another eminent fira ^ the Brook's of Armitage-bridge , have also adopted it : and with similar beneficial results .
And is it not alone at Preston or at Huddersfield " , that the plan has been tried , and found suceessful . At Sheffield . the moat important results have followed the adoption of the principle . The case of several of the Trades of Sheffield was brought before "the House" by Mt . Dtooombb , in answer to the ' . ' warninga" and " alarming predictions" of Sir Rwbri Pan and the Leagued Free
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Traders ; and Mr . Duncombe was told that the only effect of such "insane" conduct would . be the driving of the trade from the town . Wellv just upon one twelvemonth has elapsed since that " opinion" was given ; the " insanity" has been most rigidly adhered to : and the result is , that instead of the trade having " left , " as George Henry Canning Ward said it would , every man is better and more remuneratively employed than he has been for many years past I ! Before " insanity" began , the hours of work for Grinders were commonly fourteen and sixteen
hours a day . Then ihe workers could scarcely livewhile many of the hands were constantly on the parish books , unable to obtain employment at all . The men were " insane" enough to try to regulate this matter ; they were ^ intone" enough to think that if the then number of workers worked less , it would require more " hands" to produce the required amount of goods . With a demand for labour , they had been taught that wages would rise : and they were " insane " enough to try it . Instead of working fourteen or sixteen hours a day , they resolved that they would labour only as follows : —
. ' „ HODBB . On Monday ... , „ „ , $ : „ Tuesday ... 3 „ Wednesday ... »„ 8 }> Thursday ... ' 8 i „ Friday 9 „ Saturday ... 8 J Total for the week ... ... ' 42 hours ; and the result Los been , that every man of them is in f u ll employ , receiving higher wages for the shortweek ' s work than they did for the long one ! What a fact for George Henry Canning Ward to crack his teeth against ! And now to the Trades generally . Are these facts to have no weight with you f Are not yoi * disposed io endeavour to secure for yourselves similar benefits to those enjoyed by your brethren whose cases we have laid before you ? If " short hours " are of advantage in one establishment at Preston , in two at Huddersfield , and in many at Sheffield ; if they tend to drive sickness from the hearth ; toadvance wages , and enable the toiler to perform his work better > if they give time for schooling , and for domestic duties ; if they add to the workman ' s stock of enjoyments , and increase his worldly store ; if they do these things for the " hands" of Mr . Gard-Ker , the Messrs . Starket , the Messrs . Brook , and for the Grinders of Sheffield ; if " short hours " will
secure these things for them , will they not do the same for you ? And are not the benefits worth trying for ? Could your delegates in the Trades' Conference be better employed than in devising means to make the benefits of "short hours in practice" as genera Qt "labour iuelf ? We scarcely think they could . To them we commend the question ; and on the Trades we urge the duty of appointing delegates to meet their brethren from all parts of the country , to duly consider this question amongst the many others that must engage their attention . The time isnmu short . What is bone muss sb softs qvKsm ; and if the Trades do their duty , their cause will occupy a far different position at the end of the Conference from what it does now .
We cannot eoadofe Ski * subject without referring to tt » s «« ttaf in iMterJudl on Wednesday , at vbkh Lord Jou EoattttiraUtd . It vw ft * m < # « ot ifaJkr k > « tf « M io thai oa wkleh this article treats . itwMto put an wd to the "latehour s ? btear of shppkeeping . The vast hall was crammed to excess ; and right well did the chairman maintain the ground he took during the factory debates in last session , fie did hot flinch from his position . He did not let defeat act as an excuse for his throwing the " short hour" question overboard ; but he boldly and eloquently maintained it , in manner following : —
It was one of the greatest evils of this country that , toil had become so excessive therein that every consideration of health , all attention ^ intellectual improvement , and the time which should be devoted to spiritual worship , were entirely lost byH the excess of labour into which the people felt themselves ^ compelled to embark . ( Cheers . ) It was quite clear that those who began their employ , ment at six o'clock in the morning , and did not close it till ten or eleven o'clock at night , had little tune but for the needful rest to recruit their bodies for their next day ' s occupation . It was not necessary for him to prove that such constant employment oiu « t debilitate the health , must destroy the mental character , and must greatly , if not altogether , deprive those who followed it of that which ought to claim so much of a man ' s time—that of preparing for another and a future life . Why was it that one generation of men after another were to pass away consumed iu this hopeless , fearful toil , absorbed in such pursuits , and without , in this respect , the means of improvement for their minds and morals ? ( Cheers . ) For it would be observed , that while they had the mechanical advantages of civilisation—if they looked to the hours of toil—to the time left for intellectual culture or other improvements , they would not find that civilisation had advanced them beyond a time of comparative pauperism . ( Cheers . ) They must endeavour then to
improve society , There were evils of this kind beyond the power of legislation , in which , if legislation was to attempt to interfere , while doing good in one direction , it would infallibly do much greater evil In another . ( Cheers . ) , But there was a power in this country of the greatest weight , and which required only direction to * e made available against such evils—the power of public opinion . ( Cheers . ) Should they not look , then , by the help of this power , to a time when labour , which was their task , while it still continued fora proper num . ber of hours , might be of moderate length , and when a sufficient part of the twenty-four hours would be left to make men more instructed , better men , and better Christians ? If he could think that nothing but the constant attention to the amassing of wealth constituted the . sole or the greatest object of the country , he should not have that respect which he really entertained for the character of England . ( Cheers . ) When their great poet was describing the occupation , of the Spirits of SarknesB , while about to build Pandemonium , he said" Mammon led them on ; " Mammon , the least eretst of all the spirits , " That fell from heaven . " And if such was the character of the spirit that the poet deemed fit to lead on the powers of darkness for the erection of their palace , should not they who sought a better temple—a temple of civilisation , of happiness , and of religion—should they not enlist under better auspices , and look for brighter spirits to lead them to the erection and execution of the fabric which they wished to raise ? ( Loud cheers . ) They ( the shopmen ) formed but * small part , to be sure , of those who suffered from the evils complained of j but if the stream flowed on it would increase till it became irresistible , ( Cheers , )
ThismanK to be Minister again some day : does it bode no good to find him enunoiating such sentiments as these ? Whether would it be better for the factory-worker , that Lord John Russell—( provided that he would give life , reality , to those ennobling principles)—or Peel , who dragoons "the House" out of its resolves to give the Ten Hour Bill , should be Minister ? No matter that Lord John has been converted since lie got *' ovx " : the conversion is there : and he cannot get " m" again , except on an under standing that he will give as a Minister that which he has asked as a "leader" of her Majesty ' s Opposition Will it not bo worth while for the factery-workers to consider , whether it may not be wise to turn Peel " out , " that Ae too may be " converted "—and to put Lord John " in , " that he may give effect to the conversions of both ?!
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Mb . O'Cohhob add Its . Coomb . — -We are urgently requested by Mr . Cooper to insert the following brief remarks on Mr . O'Connor ' s note of last week t ^ . « I bej to observe that Mr . O'Connor is again wrong when he says he ' advanced liberall y' to my'two newspapers / though it is merely through inadvertence , I have no doubt , that he has made that statement . Mr . O'Connor diet ' advance liberally * to the support of the Iuv . MiNAToa as long as it remained the propertj of the working men , by whom it was commenced . But when the paper became mine , by my taking on ray own sfiOUj . dew their debt , as well as receiving their stock , & <> ., Mr . O'Connor ' s rapport ( which w » s the handsome sum of IDs , weekly ) ceased . In the multiplicity of Mr . O'Connor *
concerns , it is scarcely to be expected that he should have kept bis distbution aa to the proprietorship of a little local paper , in mind ; but bis letters , if he looks them over , will show him that I am right ; and Mr . ' Harkham , and other 9 in Leicester , know well the truth ~~ of what I say . On one occasion Mr . O'Connor lectured in the Leicester Ampbithehtre , for the benefit of the fund for carrying on ' the CommonWEALxafeKAM aniu v * when his expenses at the inn , the r ^ t o ^ . ttf building , the gas-rate , 4 c , were paid , the net produce was forty ^ tmUings , while I spent and lost upon the paper a * pa % > 3 pounds . It was certainly-a proof of Mr . O'Connoif ^ S zeal for the spread of Chartist principles , tbst he gave - his services iot assi » ting the paper ; but still bis expreisions of ' money given , ' 'donations , ' and ' advanced liberally to my' two newspapers * —are no ' t borne out . I did not make use of the phrase ' personal benefit for the purpose of evasion , but for etplkitneu ; and I am sure it behoves Mr .: O'Connor , as well ag myg « lf ,
tobttxflicit , andnottotue loose imd unguarded terms , in ¦ makingrcftrences to these money transactions . I have been' wounded too deeply by ingratitude myself , to think ~ lightly of a favour where thave received it ; and iflhekt fMCiJKrt ft personal pecuniary favour from Mk O'Con . ¦ nor , ho would not have found me backward to acknow . ledge i t , and thank him for it . But I repeat ^ s till , more unequivocally , that I have ntwr reedvat OM fartMnofrm Mr . CCwwr ' i jhiw , titter m the shaft o ) gift , loan , or satarg , w in any shape « fc ««« f . —Tnosus Cooper . " [ I was not aware till now , that the paper in question did not belong to Mr . Cooper .- All I say le , tbat on Am application , I ga \ e 10 s , a week en long ai it lasted ; and on his application , I Bent him £ 5 for what I termed at the time , " his bastard "—the first paper he started . As to my expenses at the Inn , Mr . Cooper - ordered dinner and a room for me , and insisted on paying , as I went to Leicester to lecture for him ; an ! whenever it shall again be in my power , I shall be ' happy to do the same . —Feabgcs O'Conkos . J
MXi FiiKBTHLT ) of . Huddersfield , who was the means of procuring for Mr . Buncombe the information as to the restriction of the hours of . Labour adopted by the Grinders andVher Trades of Sheffield , writes to vt » as follows . We are sure that his request will be complied with by those who can give the required information : —The Grinders of Sheffield desire , to possess , from localities where the allotment system has obtained , particular information aa to the nunu ber , the size , the rent paid , and the other bur . dens ; with information as to what ate the general ¦ and most beneficial crops . The Grinders contemplate purchasing , or leasing , a quantity of land , principally / or the purpose of employing any surplus "hands " they may have , and thus prevent the lowering of wages ; and therefore would be glad to hear from the Wire Workers'Society of Manchester , and any others who have land in possession for a similar object . Promptitude in the transmission of the required information is most Important . Address to Mr . John Broomhead , 54 , Sidney-street , Sheffield .
The Spy SrsiEat ax Leeds . —Will any of our friends at Leeds forward us a copy of the placard that " one of * the Mozelej ' s" has so plentifully daubed on the walls ! We wlflb to see what " virtuous innocence" has to say ,. when taking on iUtlf a ) charge ^ thrown amongst " & crowd . " We have a letter ourselves from two of " the Mozelej's ; " and we have seen another in the Leeds-Mercury ; when we get the placard we speak of , per « haps we shall have " something" to say tothe /« w « r » and the viliant—something which they would have - been wise to hear before they had made such & stir . In BUCh affairs we do not act with preci pitancy . We generally know where vie are before we make sign : and in dealing with certain people , we find it the easiest plan to " give plenty of cord . " A man that is Ms own Jack Ketch saves a deal of trouble to other folks . The Mozeley we had , and have , in our eye , shall have enough of it before we have done with him .
A Cat op the "Poob" aoainst the Sobbebt of tbs ¦ " Rich . "—The following , which we insert just as we have received it , has been handed to us from a number of labouring men in the parish of Burnham , in tbe county of Buckingham , We commend the case to ; .. the especial notice of the Duke of Buckingham * the " poor man ' s friend . " The " poor" of his own . county have surely a claim upon his unbounded benevolence : and if the power of " protection , " flinch tlHJ social position , through an " accident ofbirth , " has given , be not exerted in defence of the " poor" of his own . county , the Duke may depend or it that his neigh * bom-swill not only begin to doubt his protestations of regard and professions of benevolence , but they , will .. also seriously entertain the question as to what amoutH
Of goad is conferred on any body but Dukes and Lords , by the institution of which " his Grace of Buckingham * is so distinguished a member . We also commend the case to Mr . George Henry Canning Ward , as another instance of that" eternal wab of the bich « n thejxwr , ? which begets the spirit of democrats * resistance which . Mr . Ward has so often and so sensitively denounced ,., . and invoked the aid of the brutal jester , Canning , to aid him in "putting , down . " Perhaps Mr . Ward will , advise the poor of Burnham how to proceed in this mat * ' ter—how to mak * the rich robbers disgorge that which : is no more "theirs" than the domain " belonging" to Mr . Ward himself . There is a mode , no doubt , by which the thieves in this case may be made to "give up" and make restitution : though what the " cost " of ;
the process might be would puzzle longer heads than ' ours even to guess at . We publish the case in the hope that it may either have its due effect on th « puttee so withholding , or aid the poor of Burnham to a "friend" Who will proceed on their behalf . Here is their complaint , in their own language : — "Burn , ham , Peby . 28 , 1845 . Sir , whee , the poor of the parish of Burnham , in the county of Bucks , fell ourselfs Terry much disfatisfied , in conciquence of Lady Anne Gren- vilestoping of the payment of twenty Pounds , wich was left to us by Air . Henry Saycr , Esquire , of East Burnham , in the parish of Burnham , who died on the fifteentof April , in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ten . The will of the said Henry Sayer , Esq . was proved in the perorogative
COUtt , on the eleventh day of May , in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ten , wharby thesaid Henry Sayer , Esq . left to us , the poor of the . parish of Burnham , twenty Pounds a-year to be distributed to us , the said' poor of the parish of Burnham , in bread , to be given to us , the said poor , on Christmas day , or the Sunday after , for ever ; and ihe payment of the said twenty Pound was to be payed out of the . Mansion-house , Farm , and Lands of Huntercombe , in the said parish of Burnham , for ever . The said twenty , pounds jhis sfoped fromus ( wether legal orilegalrW mains for ns to ascertain ) as the said Lady Anne Grenvilie haf sold the Mansion-house , and part of the said land of Huntercombe , to her relation , Lad ;
Elizabeth Wells ; wich said estate was sold to ihe late Lord GrenvDle by John Popple , Esq . whose property , it was after the death of the said Henry Sayer , Esq . ; and the death of Isabe lla Popple , wife of the , said John Popple . Theairfore whee , the poor of the , parish of of Burhhah ] , wishes to , know if thair can be a means of restoring the same back to vis again to not , and what will be the expencesof the same ; has whee hope that whee might find afriendto procedein our behalf in this and other donations specified in too ' parish church of Burnham . As far has whee caa understand , that when John Popple , Esq . sold Huntercombe estate to Lord Grenville , it was sold £ 600 . cheaper in consiquence of the said £ 20 being left to us , THE Pool OS BB&HHAJt , "
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GLORIOUS TRIUMPH OF THE LONDON COMPOSITORS . In last week ' s Star we made some comments on a struggle then pending between a number of Master Printers and their hands ; and we were sufficiently confident in the honour , the organisation , and resolution of the men , to venture a prediction that the mere exhibition of those necessary elements of Union would bring the haughty capitalists to their senses . This week itiB our pride to state that we were not mistaken nor deceived . The men were true to themselves ; and the masters , in accordance with their
best interests , have been ( though most reluctantly ) compelled to give way for the present . We say for the present ; because the past leads us to a fair guess &a to what amount of mercy the men might reasonably expect , if their fate depended upon Malthusian philosophy , Masters' clemency , or Capitalists' calculations as to the deduction to be permanently made from wages , in consideration of the anticipated reductions in the price of food . Enough for us that the first blow has been struck , and . warded off . The men ha « e united and triumphed . The masters have grudgingly yielded ; box only foe the present . There is an armistice—a cessation of hostilities— 'rather than pro-
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clamation of peace upon honourable terms . Let the " weak" rest assured that the " strong" will improve their position by every available means for the next en ^ counter ; and , cognizariiofthe means by which they were enabled to beat the foe , let the men also in , prove their union . It has stood their friend ; anil therefore they should , for self sake , cherish it . Of all things , let it become general ; and forthwith let the men lay by a fund , be it ever so small , to sustain them in the next conflict , whether legal or social . They are in good employment ; and if their Association numbers no more than onethoMand , ashiliing a man per week would give them £ 2600 a yeafta a general fund to meet the next assault .
Thebattlehavingbeenfoughtandwon . wehareonly to add our congratulations to those of the victors , and remind them that a Conference is about being held for the purpose of consolidating the National Trades ' strength : and , haring so recently tasted of the uweetn of union , we trust they will see the necessity and ex . pediency of electing a delegate to represent their body in that Conference . The short , but admirable and temperate letter of "A Type-Lifter , " which we publish in our first
page , obviateB the necessity ' of saying more upon this subject at present , further than we pledge ourselves at all times to advocate Labour ' s right against Labour ' s oppressors . We are always happy when we can be instrumental in making the working classes do their own duty . They can beat tyrannical employers when they have justice , and union , and numbers , and MONEY on their side . Justice they invariably have ; but the want of union and want of MONEY often destroys its potency .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 15, 1845, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1306/page/4/
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