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- ^ ^ '"" bEAU ^ IES OF BYRON . , * - & }' ¦ ' "cEitw ^^^ A can sufficient !} e * Press tt f homage due ^ gj- ^ who ^ u'W pea the following fine E 0 UE . - - ^ Bom-J mj conntryJ city of the . * ° U \ 0 orphans ot the heart must turn U * &ee , nvother of dead empires ! andconv * ™! F ^ ei rsJiut breasts their petty misery , rj tare our woes anu sufferance ? Come ant * ste jL cn ) ress , hear the owl , and plod your way " i .. g&pS of broken thrones ana temples , ye ! fftese a ^ mes an Mils of a day— . £ , riais at ? feet *"" fragile as your clay . TJie 3 iiobe of nations ! there she stands ,
* jjjjess and crownlessjin her voiceless woe , \ u co > i' ^ wJflliri icr wi tliep'a lands , ^ -j use liolT iast was scatter'd lon ^ ago ; TJjl . Sdjaos toml ) contabs no ashes now ; fjie very sepulchres lie tenantiess « , t haiLerolc dwellers : dost tliouflow old liter ! through a marble wilderness ! ,,--j with thy yellow waves and mantle her distress . ' ' . c-otii , flie Christian , Time , War , Flouu , andFire jlave e wa " v 0 ' is , " where all is doubly ni * ht ?
The douhle sight of ages , and of her , Siclit ' s daughter , Ignorance , hath wrapt and wrap jUl round us ; we but feel our way to err : - J 7 ie ocean hath his chart , the stars their map , jlndknowledge spreads them on her ample lap ; Sat Borae is as the desert , where we steer ~ Stumbling o ' er recollections ; now we clap ( jnrhands , and cry "Eureka" ? it is clear—Tflien but some false mirage ruin rises near . Alai ! the lofty city ! and alas ! Xhe trebly-hundred triumphs 1 and the day When Brutus made the dagger ' s edge surpass The conqueror ' s sword in bearing fame away ! Alas for Tnlly * s voice , ana Virgil ' s lay , And livy * s pictured page !—but these shall be Her resurrection ; all beside— -decay . Alas for Earth , for never shall we see That brightness in ler eye she wore when Borne was fi-eeJ
0 thou , whose chariot roll'd on Fortune ' s wheel , Triumphant SjIIa ! Thou , who did ' st subdue Thy country ' s foes ere thou didst pause to feel The wrath of thy own wrongs , or reap the due Of hoarded vengeance till thy eagles flew O ' er prostrate Asia;—them , who with thy frown Annihilated senates—Roman , too , "With all thy vices , for thon did ' st lie down TTith an atoning smile thy more than earthly crown . The dictatorial wreathy—could ' st thon divine To what would one day dwindle that which made Thee more than mortal 1 and that so supine Jjr ought than Romans' Rome should thus be laid ! She who was named Eternal , and array'd Her warriors but to conquer , she who" veil'd - £ arlh with her haughty shadow , and display'd , Until the o'er-canopied horizon fail'd Her rushing wings—Oh . ' jshe who was Almighty hail'd i
And thou . the thnnder . strieken nurse of Some ! She-wolf 1 whose brazen-imaged dugs impart The milk of conquest yet within the dome , Where as a monument of antique art , Thoustand ' st : —Mother of the Blighty heart , ¦ Which the great fonnder snek'd from thy wild teat , Scorch'd iy the Roman Jove's etherial dart , And thy limbs black with lightning dost thoa yet Guard thine immortal cubs , nor thy fond eharge forget * * # Tally was not so eloquent as thon , Thon nameless column ; with the buried base ! "What are the laurels of the Cesar ' s brow ! Crown me with ivy from his dwelling place .-TYhose arch or pillar meets me in the face , Titus or Trajan ' s i Ho— 'tis that of Time Triumph arch , pillar , all he doth display Scoffing ; and apostolic statues climb N Io crash the imperial urn , whose ashes slept sublime .
Bnnefl in air , ihe fieep blue sKy of Rome , And looking to the stars : they had contain'd A spirit which with these would find a home , The last of those who o ' er the whole earth reign'd . The Roman globe , for after none sustain'd , But yielded back his conquests : —he was more Than a mere Alexander , and , tmstain'd "With household blood and wine , scarcely wore flis sovereign virtues—still we Trajan ' s name adore . "Where is the work of Triumph , the high place "Where Rome embraced her heroes ? Where the steep Tarpeian rock ? fittest goal of Treason ' s race , The promonotory whence the Traitor ' s Xeap
Cured all ambition . Did the conqueror ' heap Their spoil ' s here ? Yes ; and in yon field below A thousand years of silent factions sleep—The Forum where the immortal accents glow , Siill the eloquent air breathes—burns with Cicero ! The field of freedom , faction , fame and blood : Here a proud people ' s passions were exhaled , Trom the first hour of empire in the bud To that when further worlds to conquer fail'd ; liva , long before had Freedom ' s face been veil'd , And Anarchy assumed her attributes ; Till every lawless soldier who assail'd Trod on the trembling senate's slavish mates , Or raised the venal voice of baser prostitutes .
Then torn we to her latest tribune ' s name , ' Itoui her ten thousand tyrant ' s turn to thee , Hedeemer of dark centuries of shame—The friend of Petrarch—hope of Italy—Bienzi ! list of Romans ! while the tree Of freedom ' s wither'd trunk puts forth a leaf , Even for thy tomb a garland let it be—The forum ' s champion , and the people ' s chief ; Her new-born Xtuua thon—with reign , alas ! too brief
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-JAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE . December . Edinburgh : W . Tait , Frince's-street . Tliere are several useful and vrell written , but somewhat drv articles , in the present number of Tait , on the " " Rationale of Railway Shares , " the ? ' FoMoe Crop in Ireland , " " Politics of the Month , " &C . Goiouet JoHXSOX COntin « es his interesting romance , "Jenny Basket ; " the "Life and Correspondence of liiebuhr" is continued from the June iminbsr ; and in the "Xew Kovels" we have dished no Mrs . Trollone's moat recent production , " The
\ ttractive Man . " The present number also conzains a noble ballad on the " Battle of Hastings ;" and Mr . De Qciscet contributes another article on GlLFUlix ' s "Gallery of Literary Portraits . " Mr . De QmxcEY gives a mo 3 t interesting sketch or iiiZLm , whom he somewhat severely portrays , concurring , however , with the eulogisni of Gilfu . lan , that" he ( ikzLin ) was a subtle thinker , an eloquent writer , a lorer of beauty and poetry , and man and truth , one of the best of critics , and not the worst of men . " Following the description of Hizurr , Mr . J > e QuixcEr next sketches the character of
EEScr srssHE sblllet . There is no writrt named amongst men , of whom , so much as of Percy Bysshe Shelfcy , it is difficult ibr a conscientious critic to speak with the truth and the respect du * to his exalted powers , and yet without offence to f-eHngs the most sacred , which too memorably he outraged . The indignation , which this powerful young writer provoked , had its root in no personal feelingsthose mi"ht have been conciliated ; in no worldly feeliags—thosemSghthaveproved transitory ; hut in feelings in * holiest which brood over human life , and which
cuard the sanctuary of religious truth . Consequently , which is a melancholythonsht of any friend of Shelley ' s , the indi " nation islitely tobe co-extensive and co-enduring with the writings tbaiprovoked it . That bitterness of scorn and defiance which still burns against his name in the most extensive meditative section of English society , viz . the religious section , is not of a nature to be propitiated : selfish interests , being wounded , might be comysnsated ; merely human interests might be soothed ; but interests , ' that transcend all human valuation , being so insulted , must apon principle reject all human ransom or conditions of human compromise . Le&s than penitential recantation could not be accepted : and tied is now
impossible . After ctescribini : the views respecting Jesus Christ init forth by the German and other sceptics , . Mr . Be Qcixcet says : — - These were affronts to the founder of Christianity , efitrea too much in the temper of malignity . But Shelley's was worse ; more bitter , andjwith less of counxenancV , even injshow or shadow , from any fact , or insinuation of a fact , that Scripture suggests . In his " Queen ilaV ' J'e -ivesa dreadful portrait of God ; and that no questionmav arise , of tc 7 « iiGod ? he names Mm ; it is -Wiorah . He asserts his existence ; lie affirms him to oe " an almighty God , and vengeful as almighty . " Hei goes tm to describe him as the " omnipotent fiend , WlIO tOUna •" none but slaves" [ tsraelin Egypt , no doubtj to be " Ins tools , " and none but " a murderer" [ Moses , I presume ] "to bs his accomplice in crime . " He introduces this areaaju l ^ lmiguty as speaking , and as syeaKing thus , — From an eternity of idleness 1 , God , awoke ; in seven days' toil made earth Trom nothing ; rested ; and created man .
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But man he hates ; and hegoesonto enrse himjtill ' at StEsSTr » *»**«« i - who is electrified into SJ ^^^ wnmnce bj the Tery horror of the dime curses , ^ dpromiSES to send hisson -onlv . honever . for ^ benefit of a few . TJ . is son appears ; the poet tells us - ~ = ~ 5 ~ flie : Incarnate came ; humbly he came , veiling his horriDie ' Godhead in the shape ¦ - — - - - Of man , scorn'd by the world , his name unheard Save by the rabble of his na * tke " tqwn . " The poet pursues this incarnate God as a . teacher of men ; teaching , " in semblance , " justice , ' truth ' , and peace Dut underntathall this , kindling " uueriehless flames / ' which eventually v ; ere destined ———to satiate , with the blood Of truth and freedom , his malignant soul . He follows him to hig crucifixion ; and describes him whilst hanging on the cross , as shedding malice , upon a reviler , —malice on tltc cross !
A smile of Godlike malice reillumined His fading lineaments : anJ his partiug breath is uttered in a memorable curse . This atrocious picture of theDsity , in his dealings with mau , . both pre-Christian and post-Christian , is certainly placed in the mouth of the . wandering Jew . But the internal evidence , as well as collateral evidence from without , make it clear that the Jew , ( whose version of scriptural records nobody in the poem disputes , ) here represents the person Of the poet . Shelley had opened his career as an atheist ; and as a proselytizing atheist . But he was then a boy . At the date of " Queen Mab" hk was a young man . And we now find him . advanced from the station of an atiieisttotht ? more intellectual one of n believer in God and in the mission of Christ ; but of one who fancied himself called upon to defy and to hate both , in so far as they had revealed their relations to man . "~
Mr . Gilfillan thinks that "Stelley , was far too harshly treated in his speculative boyhood : " and it strike ' s him " that , had pity and kind-hearted expulsion been tried , instead of reproach and abrupt expulsion , they might Save weaned him from the dry' dugs of atheism , to the milky breast of the faith and ' irSrship of sorrow ;* and the touching spectacle had been reaewed , of the demoniac sitting ' clothed and in his rigfet mind , * at the feet of Jesus . " I am not of that opinion' ; and it is an opinion which seems to question the sincerity of Shelley , —that quality which in him was deepest , so as to form the basis of his nature , if we allow ourselves to think that , by personal irritation , he had been piqued into infidelity , or that by flattering conciliation lie could have been bribed back into a profession of ChrisjiRuity . Like a wild horse
of the Pampas , he would have thrown up his heels , and tcAinnied his disdain of any man coming to catch Aim with a bribe of oats . He had the constant vision' of a manger and a halter In the rear of all such caressing tempter * , once having scented the gales of what he thought perfect freedom , from the lawless desert . His feud with Christianity was a craze derived from some early wreqeh of his understanding , and made obstinate to tke degree in which we fiud it , from having rooted itself in certain combinations of ideas tbat , once coalescing , could not be shaken loose ; such as , that Christianity underpropped th , e corruptions of the earth , in the shape of wisked governments that might else have been overthrown , or of wicked priesthoods that , but for the shelter of shadowy and spiritual terrors , must have trembled before those whom they orerawed . Kings that were clothed in bloody robes ; dar& hierarchies that scowled upoa the poor
children of the soil ; these objects took up a permanent station in the background of Shelley ' s imagination , not to be dispossessed more than the phantom of Banquo from the festival of Jlacbetli , and cemnposcd a towering Babylon of mystery that , to his belief , could not : have flourished , under any umbrage less vast than that of Christianity . Such was the inextricable association of images that domineered over Shelley ' s mind : such was the hatred which he built upon that association , —an association casual and capricious , yet fixed and petrified as if by frost . Can we imagine the case of an angel touched by lunacy i Have we ever seen the spectacle of a human intellect , exquisite byits functions- of creation , yet in one chamber of its shadowy house already ruined before the light of manhood had cleansed its darkness ! Such an angel , such a man—if ever such there were , — such a lunatic angel , such a ruined man , was- Shelley , whilst yet standing on the earliest threshold of life .
He giye the above sketch of Shelley ' s character , more for the sake of the subject thereof than for the sketch itself , although it is aot void of truth and beauty . We , at all events , must thank Mr . " De ( Juiscey for his defence of Shelley ' s " sincerity , " against the pitiful" surmises of Mr . "Milk " -sop Gilfillas . The scorn and bitterness towards poor Siiellet , which / Mr .- Pjb Quixcei tells us , is yet nourished by that gang of Knaves anil drivellers , the " religious section" of English society , is , of course , quite consistent with that
" meek" and "forgiving" spirit which they profess their religion inculcates . Far i ' roni regretting it , right glad are we that no " penitential recantation " darkens the name of Shelley . Let us add , if Mr . De QuuiCEY imagines Shellbt was " crazed , " there are thousands who , as regards his ideas on religion , are equally " crazed , " and , like the poet , prefer perfect freedom to the halter and the manger , even though the latter may be accompanied by the priest ' s " oats" ( Qy . husks ?] , and " the milky breast of the faith and * worship of sorrow . '"
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PUNCH . The present monthly part of this excellent publication contains some capital illustrations , amongst others , " Vot ' s a Panic ? " " The Modem Diognes looking for an honest man in Cape ] Conrt ; " "The political ' Robin' driven by the severity of the times to seek forgrain ; " and " The Irish Jeremy Diddler . " The famous " Caudle Lectures" are brought to a close ; we give the "hist scene of all , which ends this strange eventful history " : —
LECTCBE THE LAST . Mrs . Caudle has taken CoM , the Tragedy of Thin Shoes . I am not going to contradict you , Caudle ; you may say what you like ^—but I think I ought to know my own feelings better than you . I don't wish'te upbraid * you neither ; I ' m too ill for that ; but it ' s not getting wet in thin Shoes—oh , no' it's my mind , Caudle , my mind , that ' s killing me . Oh , yes . ' gruel , indeed—you think gruel will cure a woman of anything , and you know , too , how I hate it . Gruel can't reach what I suffer ; but , of course , nobody is ever ill but yourself . Well , I—I didn't mean to say that ; but when you talk in that way about thin shoes , a woman says , of course , what she doesn't mean ; she can ' t help it You ' ve always gone on about my shoes ; when I think I ' m the fittest judge of what becomes me best . I dare say— 'twould be all the same to you if I put on ploughmen's boots ; but I ' m not going to make a figure of my feet , 1 can tell you . I ' ve never got cold with the shoes I ' ve worn yet , and ' tisn't likely I should begin now .
No , Caudle ; I wouldn't wish to say anything to accuse you : no , goodness knows , I wouldn ' t make you uncomfortable for the world—but the cold I ' ve got , I got ten years ago . I ' ve never said anything about it—but it has never left me . Yes j ten years ago the day before yesterday . Sow < xm I recollect It / Oh , very well ; women remember things you never think of ; poor souls ! they ' ve good cause to do so . Ten years ago , I was sitting up for you—there now , I ' m net going to say anything to vex you , only do let me speak : ten years ago , I Was waiting for yon , and I fell asleep , and the fire went out , and when I woke I found I was sitting right in the draft of the key-hole . That was my death , Caudle , though , don't let that mnl > e you uneasy , love ; for I don't think you meant to do it .
Peggy tells me Miss Prettyman called to day . Mluti of ii ? Nothing , of course . Yes ; I know she heard I was ill , and that ' s why she came . A little indecent , I think , Mr . Caudle ; she might wait ; I shan't be in her way long ; she may soon have the key of the caddy now . I think dear mother would keep house beautifully for you , when I ' m gone . Well , love , I won't talk in that way if you desire . it . Still , I know I have a dreadful cold ; though I won t allow it for a minute to be the shoescertainly not . I never would wear ' em thick , and yom know it , and they never gave me cold yet . No , dearest Caudle , it ' s ten years ago tbat did it ; not that I'll say a syllabi * of the matter to hurt you . I'd die first .
Mother , you see , knows all your little ways ; and you wouldn't get another wife to study you and pet you up as I ' ve done a second wife never does ; it isn ' t likely she should . And , afttr all , we ' ve been very happy . It hasn't been my fault , if we ' ve ever had a word or two , for you couldn't help now and then being aggravating ; nobody can help their tempers always—especially men . Still , we ' ve been very happyjiaveu ' t we , Caudle ? Good night . Yes , this cold does tear me to pieces ; but for all that it isn ' t the shoes . God bless you , Caudle ; no—it ' s not the shoes . I won ' t say it ' s the key-hole ; but again I say , it ' s not the shoes . Cod Mess you once more but never say it ' s the shoes .
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The wxb Marquis of Bert * okd and HIS Yalbt . — Another suit by the representatives of the late Mavauis of Hertford against Suisse has come to a hearing before the Tribunal de Premiere Instance , the object of which was to recover 191 , 950 f . in inscriptions ana coupons , which it was affirmed by the complainant were surreptitiously obtained possession of by the defendant , but which he averred were freely and voluntarily ' "irai to him by the marquis . The circumstances of this litigation have already been sotully before the public , that we deem it unnecessary ^ to give the details of the pleadings ontbisnew trial . The court took time to consider its judgment , which it delivered yesterday . The President , after jeciting the whole of the prior proceedings , concluded-1 hat as possession was prima facie evidence ot ngut , tliat as Suisse justified his possession by alleging a manual Pift which bnve with it no improbability , considering
on one part the large fortune of the donor , Jus habitual generosity , and the freedom with which hewas luiown to give away securities payable to bearer ; and , on the other , the nature of the services rendered by the donee to the donor during the long , period ot twenty years ; that robbery and wrongful a £ , propria > tion must be proved by positive , or at least presumptive evidence , of which in this case there was none ; and upon these considerations the tribunal dismissed the suit of the claimants , with eosts , » .-Cfafiupunn ' *
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Rather Sdspicious . —Whenever you go to bed after having been out to dine , look at the bed-posts ; if they are ' standing still , conclude that you are sober ; but if they seem to bo dancing the polka y ° may reasonably suspect thafyotf are'dfunk . - >< n T ' 7 IwsHPoBTBAir-EAiOTrNO . ~ The Repealers Jvigetj ting to close quarters with each other . Jor wantot a figlifwith , " the Saxori , " they are beginning . to " S « t among themselves . The editor of the Filot-Mr . O'Connell ' s paper—thus speaks of MK Duffy . of the Dublin Nation , and Air . ' Lucas of the London Tablet . — " This Lucas is the prince of all the unpriti ti l led scoundrels that ever deluded , to betray , the Irish people .. Does he think he can longer delude them—he who has appropriated all Duffy ' s offences and added to them a Saxon sloek of his town . He is ' infinitely a greater rascal than Duffy . ' Duffy is . at least sustaining ; , through with lies and treachery , the * principles of his journal ; Lucas is sustaining a jo .
uriialin antagonism to his professed ' principles . Duffy is a poor , drivelling , taleatless , ill-counterianceuV ill- ^ tempered , sour scoundrel , that ought never to liav& deceived , - and never could , without the aid of the brilliancy which has departed . Lucas is an ill-countenanced unsavoury-looking ruffian , too- ^ but is a dangerous , talented , laborious , unprincipled Saxon ; - that spares no means , however foul , to remove out of Iu 3 way any impediment to his purpose of deceiving and plundering the Irish people . " A Notable Discoveby !—The Rev . Mr . Feme , of Anstruthi-r , attributes the potatoe disease to the Maynooth grant He arguea thus ;— " The blight being general over the three kingdoms , points out the rulers of the land as the persons whose sin has secured it ; and the blight being in the potatoe crop , directs attention to their dealings with . Ireland as the particular sins which have immediately called it down" '
Adam ' s Fall . —A Scotch clergyman , a strict cateehist , in examining one of his flock a short time smee , thus addressed her : — " Janet , can you teli me how Adam fell ? ' Janet fell a laughing , and answered , " Oh , my bonnie dear doctor , you ' re nae senous I" " Very ssrious , inceed , " said the doctor . Janet ( whose husband ' s name happened to be Adam , ) then said , " Wee ] , yresY , sin' ye ' wlH hae't , doctor , you aee Adam j ' usfc gaed o ' er the Either night to Lucky I / iston ' s for half a mutchkin of whisky , when an oar lying on the road took his foot , o ' er Adam fell —and that ' s-tbe hale trut& of the matter / ' ' Chances ?*—Every anireal has its eneiaies ; the land tortoise has two enemies—man * , '• and the boa constrictor . Man takes him home and roatrts him ; and the boa constrictor swallows him whole , shell and all , and consumes him slowly in the interibr , " the Court of Ckometry does a $ reat' estate . —( Sidney Smith . ;
A Nice Couimi y 10 Campaign . w . —Extract from an American officer ' s letter , dated " 7 th Infantry Camp , Corpus Christ ! , Texas , Sept .-3 , 1845 . * * * Florida may be the ' land of promise , ' but Texas is the land of ' varmints / In clearing the ground to pitch my tent , I killed a water Hiorcosin ; about three o'clock in the mo ?» lng I was wakened up : by the barking ' of a dog ; he fead just run a rattle-snake out ' of my neighbour s teat , when the rattling and darting aransed me—nine raifcles capture *? . -I again lay down , and when day broke , a yellow-necked lizard
waa cocking his eye cunningly at me from the ridge pole of my tent . I sprang up ,, seized my boct to dispatch him , la J 0116 of the boot dropped a tai'ftntula ! Exhausted from fright and fatigue , I sank back into a chair j but he ? sooner down than I was compelled rapidly to abandon the position , haying been stuag in the rear by a scorpion ! ' ' . * .. * . * . Besides the above mishaps , he lost a valuable dog By a shark . The dog had jumped overboard' from a Etoat ; to follow his master' to the shore , when the 1 voracious . monster caught him . . .. ¦ . , ; . .
In taly ro TRr . —The- , editor , of , ifce Buffahhian says he . would as soon * try to . go tp , ; sea on a shingle , make a ladder . of fogr chase a streak of lightning through a cralwipple orchard , s * wira She rapids of Niagara , or set Lake , Erie on fire with lucifer matches , as to think of stopping two young people from getting married when tliey take it- into their heads to d& so .
REFLECTIONS OF A FK 2 NCH JOffRKAiSST ON ALGIERS AS IT IS . . " Humanisee , ewrilisee . " What a mosS decided change In the swarthy Moor ' s range 01 delights , since our braves'made him frea ! He is heard , we understand , Now singing " Happy Land , " . Now a song about his " BngcavA cfteri . ' " Where horrid fierce lions Used to roar in defiance . And keep him ia constant alarm ,. Row the happy Algerine Sees quite another scene—Bullocks , sheep ; milch cows , and & farm . In the sun ( so hot before , Till we cool'd it for the Moor ) , Or reclining the green shade under , He pipes to Anaarjllis , Or to pretty brune PliylKs , Whom he once would Uave look'd on asplunder .
His children ' s happy looka / His fiddle and his books , And the smiles of his tidy old woman , Are so many mute appealings To the Moor ' s best feelings , ... To grant , that the French made Mm human . And if this charming sight Is not universal quite—If some few exceptions there are ~ With such ameliorations Are some paltry suffocations .. . Aud ii razzia or two to compare f The shocking old Dey We were forced to send away Used to strangle his subjects by scor . s ; Must it not he ' better far , For a race inured to war , To be shot—like soldier ' s and Moon \
That we promised peace , we know ; But in seuding mild liugenud , We have given them apiece—of perfection : lie is just the very Dey , So the Algerines say , They would choose if they had free election . Then , glory and command To the civilising land ( And to Penfides death !) let ua sing ! And fatness and increase To the Bonaparte of peace , To Philippe , mysterious King ! Others may more kingly be , When the state from clouds is free , And the sun on their pomp shining warm ; But the fine fat fellow , Who carries an umbrella , Is the Xing that ' s prepared for a storim F .
Dublin Advertisement . —An Irish doctor advertises that the deaf may hear of him at a house in Litfey-street , where , also , his blind patients may see him from ten till three . A Speculator . — " Come , Bob , tell us how much you have cleaved by your speculations ? " said Bob's quizzical friend to Mm the other day . " Cleaved ' . " replied Bob , with a frown , " why , I ' ve cleared my pockets . " Contersawo . v itf the Backwoods . — " "Whose map do vou use ? " " Moggs . " " What is the land ?" " Bogs . " " What the atmosphere ? " " Fogs . " " What do you live on ? " " Hogs . " " What is your house built of ? " " Logs . " " Any fish in the ponds ? " "Frogs . "
A Fhiekd inNeed . —A gentleman unaccustomed to public speaking , becomin ? embarrassed , whispered to his friend , " Quick , quick , srive me a word . " Upon which the other replied , " Tes , yes , what word do you want !" Wondehfui . Fruit in Gatbshbad , —The Oateshead Observer states that one of the councillors of that place went into his garden last week , and found a pair of fustian breeches hanging in one of his fruit trees , with eight shillings in one of the pockets . By what freak of nature the tree came to bear such fruit has not been ascertained .
A Virtuous Conclusion . —A Yankee paper gives the following as the climax in the address of a barrister to a jury in an action for seduction : —Describing his client , he said : —Ere this monster approached to beguile and berray her , my client was blooming as the rose , gentlemen of the Jury , " quoth Demosthenes , " light of step as the wild gazelle or the desert ; gay as the lark ; beautiful as the Ilouns ; and virtuous as—and virtuous as—gentlemen—ascould b ^ pxpected . " . Primogeniture . —A rational , sensible , and intelligent law of our blessed country , which entails wealth and estates upon the eldest , son , poverty and debts upon the younger ones ; a ]< w completely contrary to nature , common sense , and revealed religion ( winch , inculcates equality among men ) , and , therefore , eagerly adopted and supported by the thick-headed English ; a law which , while it permits the first-bom his
to marry and beget children , comfortably and at case , drives the younger son into an unnatural state of celibacy , or into vicious and degrading liaisons ; a law which , for the sake of raising up one colossus creates a thousand miserable pigmies—for the sake of erecting one palace , gives birth to a thousand hovels—for the sake of making one man a pampered and luxurious Sybarite , makes half-a-dozen others paupers and honourable vagabonds ; . a law HTWmch it would ' be difficult to say whether absurdity or wickedness most prevails ; aiaw in which the original framersand present supporters are equally to be detested and despised ; a law that renders us the laughingstock of other countries , and a burden to our own ; a law which makes the time of birth ( not the virtues of the heart , or the wisdom of the head ) "the one thing needful ; '' a law which breeds duns , as corruption breeds maggots . —UinU on the Mturc and Management of the Duns ,
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¦ ¦ ' ¦ , ¦ ¦¦ _ LONDON . Metropolitan Elections fob the Conference OF MK ClUBTls-7 Co-OPBRATIVE IiAiYU SOCIETY . —The niembers residing ; n the { Vest , East " , and Northern diptrjct » . p ^ the , MeifotJfl ] is , 0 / 1 the Middlesex side of tlie > hames , met at tfie Dityffrhartist Hall ; lj Tnrn-3 gainJane ,-on . Suuday ~ afternoC n » November sotb ; Mr . Gpver , sen ., wasunammouslf called-RTthrchair The eniendatiohi ' and alterations & ought . t& beIntroduced in the rules of the-sbciety waV handed iri'from the following districts ; : j City of J . ondoi . '»^ "ower Hamlets , Somers . Town , " ana "Westminster , 'which W « re read to the * meeting ; upon' which a lon ^ djscussion ensued , in which many ^ members , took . p » ' ir V 1 !' following resolution was ultimately adopted' ori the motion * of Messrs . Williams and Laurie : — " ^ "hat the suggestions now ¦ handed in from the several d h ^" " *?^ be placed in . the hands of the-delegate , tVbe bvj "
laid before conference' ; as the instructions of his constituents . " The following persons / were then placcu in nomination as candidates : —Mi ' . 'Wm . Suflay , by Messrs . , Fprd and Jones ; Mr . Pettit , by 'Messrs . Laurie and Arnott ; Mr . John Shaw , by Messrs ' . Bagley and Lefevre ; -and Mr . Davis , by . Messrs . Bell and Mitchell . _ The several caVcUcbiJ . es having addressed the meeting , and answered the several questions put to them , Mr . Pettit resigned . -Messrs . . Dunii and Tucker were unanimously appointed tellers , The show of bands was then taken ,- tfco tellers reported the numbers , and the chairman declared the election to have fallen on Mr . . William Cuffay , who thanked the meeting for the confidence reposed in him . The chairman handed ' the seyeral lists of instructions to the delegate . A vote of thanks was then given to the chairman , and the meeting broke up . '
The members residing « n Lambeth , Sonthwark , Greenwich , and the South , or Suir&y side of the Thames , with those of Mr . Wheeler ' s list , met at the South London Chartist Hall , 115 , Blitfkfriai ^ road , on Sunday evening , "Nov . 30 tlu Shortly after aeven o ' clock , Mr . J . Morgan , of Gresnwich , was unanimossly called to ti * e chair . Mr . Gathard , " the Lambeth district secretary , rend the several Jists- ' of instructions handed in ; and the following-resolution was adopted : — " Thai the seyeral candidates having teas present , and heairil the oft repeated sentiments of fkeir brother members , the delegat e- ; beleft otherwise anHrammelled /*; -Mr . D . W . Ruf ^' then came forn'ajrd and said , he regretted to inform the meeting that , in consequence 9 f severe indisposition ; , he * "iraa under thcpainful necessity of withdrawing the name of liiaifrieady Mr . J . ( x ^ M-oa , , 1 ' rom the lisAof
candidates , as the present sflate of his healthqtale pre cinded his acceptance of tlteltonour intended te-, have been conferretKbn him .: ilieMowing persons-were thea . duly nomiswtei ";—Mr , Kaiiglit , by Messi-9 ; - SitU ney and G . R .. fucker ';' and 1 Mr . W . Hewitt by Messw . Cummingyand GatluHd ; --The friends of the candidateshaving . sddressed the meeting , and Messrs . Andrews and Moy banting been iwlpcsnted scrutineero , the ballot ' proceeded " * .-and termiflttted in favour of Mr . Knigfct ; who suita& £ y acknowledged the honour ¦; ¦ after whicfe the ibllowing . resoiuticsi' was adopted : —' " That in ' order to defray thelocaf aspeiises of this district , eacla- shareholder do pay t 1 i& sum oi ; one shilling per share ; suchsuni to bcpitftl by installments at the convenience " stf the shareholder . " A cossiderablesura was received as deposits on shares , and 1 six new shasres : taken up . . A ^ vote of JSanks was givea to the ckaiMnari , and th » meeting separated . '
National Victim Commutes . — This committee mot ut the Hall , Tariiagain-laiiav FarringdoiMtrect , on Sun < £ ay , Nov . '' 301 "Mr . "Mills waa called to the ehair ; Mr . Stailwoocl laid bafore the committee the I . 9 . U . for the balance of mMiey remaining in Mr . Cleave ' s hands , together' with * the note ex ») anntory of the same , which was ortoed to be kept secure by the secretary , Mr . P . M . Wheeler . DepuSations from lie Westminster- and Soniess Town / localities appeared to lay before the . ' committee the case- of Mr . John Llewellyn . . After the dep ' utieshadstated theifc case , the committee duly corisidoyed the same ? each member having given his opinioa they came to the conelusion , that Mr . - Llewellyn-. never having been convicted , was not a victim within the meaning of the rule laid down for their guidance ; arid , secondly , from lapse of time- ) any claim ilkat might have aiTsen was barred ; and tbat if "Mr . - Llewellyn ' s claim was ever valid , it should have been submitted to a committee that had ceased to exist fer some years .
Cm Locality . —At a meeting , of the members of this locality it was unanimously agreed , — " Thai we call on the Chartist * throughout London to came forward and organise themselves , so-as to bring their united energies to bear on the Question of ihe Corn Laws ; and that we consider the Oh&iftists OU « ht to attend the meetings , ami watch over the proceedings of the League .
I 10 LBECK . Tub Land . —At a mooting of the members of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , held . November 30 th , the following resolutions was agreed to : — "That it is of vital importance for the bettor security of the society , that the society be duly enrolled under the Land and Building Society Act . "— " That there be a clause in the deeds to allow each occupant the privilege of purchasing his allotment at the original value . "— " That no member of the society be allowed the privilege of holding more than four acres of land , and that there be a clause in the yules to allow two acre allotments and four in one
community . "— "That each occupant holding four acres be allowed the prhrilcge " of having the surplus of money over and above expenses of one allotment , with two acres , either in money or in extra . buikiing , " —" That the board of directors have ' not the power of taking any money from the land fund for any other purpose than the purchase of land and erections of buildings , etc ., "but that we coincide with the board of directors taking the surplus of money arising from rules and cards for defraying the expenses ot the board of "directors , and if insufficient to lay a levy on each member . "— "That the present society close taking any more members after the 31 st day of December , ISio . "
REDDITCII . At a meeting of the Co-operative Land Society , held at the O'Connor Anns , Redditch , on Monday , Dec . 1 st , 1845 , a vote of confidence in the present board of directors was agreed to , and it was also resolved that the delegates representing this district be instructed to support the ru-olection of the present board ; after which a resolution was passed to hold a . public meeting in the large room at Mr . rrescot's , O ' Connor Arms , Rtdilitcii , on Tuesday , Dec . 9 th , 1 S 45 , to memorialise her Majesty , through the House of Commons , for the return of Frost , Williams , Jones , and Ellis .
YORK . The Land . —A branch of the Chartist Land Cooperative . Society was opened on Sunday last when seven shares was taken up . Any one desirous ol joining this society in York are -informed that meetings will be holden every Sunday morning at Mr . Joseph Hall ' s , the Blue Bell , Fosgate . HAMILTON .. On Monday evening Mi > . M'G-t'&tk addressed awry good audience in the Secession Church , on the subject of the land , and the efficiency of the means proposed by the Chartist Co-operative Land Society to obtain it A very good feeling was indicated , and several copies of the rules were disposed of . On votes of thanks being passed to the chairman and lecturer , the meeting separated .
BBIDGTQN . The Chartist Hall in this district was filled , on Tuesday , with a most attentive audience , to hear a lecture from Mr . M'Grath , on the Charter and the land . Mr . Duncan Siierrington was voted to the chair . Having stated the object which convened them together , he introduced Mr . M'Grath , who- in the course ot' his lecture vividly portrayed the grievous wrongs which aristocrats , priests , and profitmongers inflicted on tho working population , and sirgued strongly in support of the position that , until the people had the land , as their inheritance , and the Charter to protect it , the tendency of their condition on the social scale would be downwards . At the conclusion of the lecture an iimicablo disenssion took place , In ivliicli Messrs . GriilltVni , Mui ' J&y , Colquhoun , the chairman , and lecturer , took part . The thanks of the meeting were unanimously given to Mr . Shcrrington , as chairman , and to Mr . M'Grath , ; br his lecture .
KILMARNOCK . On . "Wednesday evening we were favoured with a visit from Mr . M'Grath , who addressed a good meeking in the Oddfellow ' s Hall , upon the land and its capabilities . At the conclusion of Mr . M'Grath ' s discourse , Mr . Brown , as chairman , spoke eloquently in favour of the laud project . Several copies of the rules were taken by the audience , the result of which will , doubtless , be the formation of a bra-neb , of the society .
NEWMILLNS . It having been announced by the betean ijiat Mi \ M'Grath would address the inhabitacitis of this little town on Thursday evening , Mr . Brown's school-room was filled at the appointed hour with a most attentive audience . Mr . Baillie Brown was appointed to piesiile , who , in an excellent speech , introduced the subject of the land . The chairman was followed by Mr . M ' Gratli , whose lecture gave unmixed " satisfaction . Ten persons enrolled their names as- members We expect that Newmillns , though late in the field , will , nevertheless , become a powerful branch of the glorious Land Society .
GLASGOW . Mr . Duncan Shcrringtou has been elected delegate to the forthcoming conference , by tho unanimous voicejrf the followingphees , viz ., Glasgow , Grecnock , Campsie , Hamilton , Alva , Vale oi' Levcn , anil Arbroath , being all thy places classed within this district , with the exejption of West Linton , from which no returns have ' oecn received . Mr . M'Gra' - Ji delivered his second lecture here on Friday evening .. The meeting was well attended , and v iectm > e gave the greatest satisfaction "'^¦ Oughout , His two lectures have added to our numbers nearly oO shareholders . We have now nearl j 150 shares taken out ,
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CARBINGTON . . A public meeting of the shareholders of the Chartist Co-operativeLimd Society vrashclil on Sunday , Nov . 30 th , « t tlie Ken- lun , Carringten ; members W 0 r 6 pT . esetlt fl'OITl the following places : —Carrington , Nottingham , Radford . Isongreen , and Basford . The following ; ru 3 » lutions were agreed to : — " That none but members be allowed to sit as delegates at the forthcoming conference . "— " That Mr . James Saunders , of Kadford , be nominated as delegate for the forthcoming conference . "— " That a vote of thanks iS'duerand'hereby-given J ,-to . theaiBarA » oLdireil ! ar 8 ' "~ " That the board of directors be chosen by conference , " ' , — " That the present board of directors be * re-elected . "l " Thatitbe an instruction tothe delegate to propose o > support a suitable provision for tW directors . "— " That none but workingmen ' beadmitted asm ' emllefs ofthe ' boarcl
of . directors . excepting F . O'Connor , Esq . " — "That acoiilorehce be h ' cldevery year " , atsucVtime and place as shall . be agreed to by the . directors ; to elect a board of directors and other necessary business belonging this ' association . ' — "That the rules ; when revised , be enrolled as recommended by couWel . ' — "That this society be closed on the-31 st of December , 1845 . ;— " That any person placed on the allotment of any original Iiolder-shalMmvc tivelve , t ' nstDad of sis months notice to quit such allotment ; and a . fair valuation . "— "That the number of trusses be thrt c . and they be selected from the following - gentlemen ; viz ., V- O'Connor , T . Si'Duncomlie , s : Crawford , Coneral Johnson J > Fielding , "* I ! by ; J , Scliolefiehj , ¦ JfL ifttou / R . OasUcr , '\ W a > . P . Hoberfs ,--Win . B . Farrends , and L . PitUcthley . "— 'VThat no nieiijber be allowed more than
fouracrcA "— "Ttt&t any mciriiibr gaining his allotment shall have the firstf refusal of purchasing is at twenty years' purchase ; and" Mich member shall be allowed to pay for it by instalments , and iiis rent to be reduced in proportion to such payiner / te . " — . '' That as the allotments artmade , and cottages ; are built flhereori ; the trustees ami board of directors shall f » the auiount of rent to be paid by the occupier ofsucli . uSlotmentj : sueh occupier shall receive a loan from the funds oiffliis society , ( any £ 15 lCs .. 8 d . for one share , JS 3113 s . 4 d . for two shares ) , which shall l * e Tcpaid to *< listces tot the use of this--society , and suefr occupior . tr pay thrse per esnt . per annum until sucl ? xjansliall be' ^ epaid , aad the trusteta sfiaH ' withholdhisSitiledeediorhxre some othersecarity for ' - such loan until ! It 19 repaid . Such occupier to be allowed to repay it 9 o the trtisteeffby instehnents ,- mid his interest reduced accordingly . "— " That aay , mvniber gainin . e his allotment , aud not -wishing to enteV upoa it .
may let it to whom lie pleases , but , if stich perswi be not a in ember of this society ,- '» ucb membuii ' ov otherporson shall not' receive aay-loatffiroin thin society ; but 5 ? such member wishing to let anbiher member have it aud receive hfs chance in exchange tKen the mesiber entering upen if ghalHiave tlie loan alftmed by the rales . "— "Ml members having paid up tliei ^ Miai es shall receive th ree per cent , per annum until the ? F allotments after the first allocation . " ^ - ' " That balloting" 0 / districts t * recommended aspeirplan of Don-sbury , 3 rd and 4 th rules , "" Thhtany members entering for ' Swb shares . wlic 3 ; lie has paid up < m < 9 share ,- he ' shall havPone ticket pu ^ in tho balloting boii if he cheose , and if suWi ticket be drawn ; he shallhave Ms tffO ; acres ; but any-member not claiming such privilege ; wli * sn such ' member ' having paid un his itwo shares , fw » e ti ' cftet shall be put . ic * the balloting box , . and if suchitieltefi lie drawn , such member shall . be entitled to his four acra . "~ " That a ' . 7 r « e of thanks be ' raven to the proprietor and editors of tbe-Aort / iem Star , "
-. -. _ ¦• .. -- ..- : ; . HULL . . "• A public meeting : oS" the members in tSs Hull branch of thu Chartist Co-opeiiative Land ' Society- was held on Suntftiy ' last / at . thePirinttrs ' f Arms , Sykcs-atreet , to ballot fc *> the delegate t <> tiioeonference , whon Eh- ; John Linton , cf Selliy , received ! tUe- unanimous Votes-oftlie ' uiemberj 0 ? this branch . -A- vote of . thnnl < s wus also given to the present hoard of diScctors , for their steady perseverance si the direction oS « he society's affairs ; . It was also rescued , " . That the'CHmierence ought . to-re-elect them for the next year . " ,
WOTTON-UlfE'ER-EDGE . . _ At a meeting of the sharel . ' oSders of the Chartist Land Association ia this town , ' on the 30 ih nit ., tho following resolutions ! wsw 1 unanimously agreed to , arid the' delegate for tho district , desired ' to supsp . rt them : — - tf ; That the society , be enrolled . " " " The' mortgage In preference- to sale , and thi » right of purchase ' WthcfoccUpior . " - "No shareholder to hold more than two shares , or four acres . " " That the director ' s be elected ' by tfre members . " " TSat jio member , wlieis in possession of his allotment , shall let it to any person not being asfeareholder , nor to a shareholder wlio ' has not paid t ? je full amount of hit share , , and that such occupant slialV't ^ mnin in possessior » until lie obtains possession of his own allotment . " " That no occupant shall traffic in intoxicating liquors . " " That the members be located on the principle of priority . " ' " That thufirst section cloac when the numbers amount to five thousand . " " Tb . n 4 . the thanks of the society are dim to the directors for tfteir oerscveraiice and tfficiant management of thtt society . "
BIBSIINGIIAM . At our nicating on Tuesday ' evening ; , after a very lengthy discussion upon the necessity of holding a public meeting for the restoration of Frost and others , the following resolutions- were unanimously passed : — " That a publielmeeting bo hold in the people ' s lmfi" for the purpose of memorialising her Majesty , through ? the House of Commons , for the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones ( of Wales ) , Koberts , Hoivell , and 0 " ones ( of Birmingham ) , and William Ellis ( of thu Staffordshire 1 'otteries . " " That ihe secretary write to Fuargus O'Connor , Esq ., to ascertain if that gentleman can maite it convenient to attend tho said meeting . " "That a sub-committee of five be appointed to get up the meeting , and to apply to Mr . J . Stuvge for the affidavits of several respectable men , respecting the IVinningham exiles . " " That , the resolutions be sent to the " Korthum Star . " The meeting then adjourned to Sunday next , tlra chair to be taken at seven o'clock .
ROCHDALE . The discussion on the rules of the Chartist Land Society was resumed on Sunday , ~ in tlic Association .- llooiu , Mill-street ; Charles Itatcliffe in the chair . WJisn siirh alterations as the members considered necessary , with additional suggestions , were urn bodied in the credentials of the district representative . Ou Sunday , the 7 tli inst ., tiiu delegates of the v ; irious localities will ineet tlie rejirescntntivc of this district at ten o'clock in the forenoon , in the Working Man ' s Hall , Oldham , to give him his instructions . . -We had seven now members joined , three of whom paid uj > their full shares . Ou Sunday cvivtiin ^ Thomas Tattersal , of Burnley , gave a soul-stirring lecture on " tho land , government , and the people'" vrltfc !) gave universal satisfaction to the largest audience that wo have had for a Ions ; while . .
BRIGHTON . Artichoke I . v . v Locuutjt , So . 1 . — At a meeting of shareholders to elect a delegate to the -Manchester lauil conference , Mr . Lashfovd in the chair , the followiivj ; resolution was unanimously agVet ' d to : —" That the best thanks of tins meeting avc due , and hereby given , to Feargus O'Connor , Christopher Doyle , Thomas Clark , l'hilip M'Grath , and Thomas Martin Wlioolcr , for the prsiscworthy manner in which they have conducted the affairs of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , and having implicit confidence in them , we tJiereiim ;
veeovamend them to the Manchester conference ior lt-olei-iion . ; and further think that they are purfectly justified in appropriating the profits nrisingfrom the sale of cards and rules to the managament of the society ; and also are of an opinion that that is not sufficient ibr them , kiioiviii ^ as we do , the value of lectures ; for , had it not have beeu for Sir . M'Grath's lectures in Brighton , we should have had 110 locality formed ; but through his exertions , and liy tliu advocacy of the cause in the Northern Star , ire lion * have forty-three shares taken , and have sent £ 40 to the geueval treasurer .
' LANCASHIRE . The Soutli Lancashire delegate meeting was lield in the Ante-room , Carpenters' Hall , on Snuduy last , Mr . Jollll Nuttall in the chair . Delegates from thefollowing places were present : —Manchester , Mr . Nuttall aud D . Iteiiovan ; Oldham , Mr . Yardley ; Rochdale , Mr . Bake-. The following resolutions were passed unanimously : — f Hint Hr . Leach iimsh the hymn-book , and add anothsr Iiynin to each book , and finish it fw the' sum of £ 9 . " " ¦ That the secretary ' s bill be paid . " " That the money in t !> e treasurer's hands be paid ovei to Mr , Leach towards the book . " " That the levy for next delegate meeti ? a ; be
twopence on each-member , and that each localisy rectivu tb « r proportionate share of tlie hyirtB-booliB . " Shattlie Cjdcgate meetings in ftnuru be held every tlirte months , "ifcgttwd of monthly , and that tliem ^ t be on the last SuuilS ^ fti February , at Hey wood . " " -That them be : i committee of three appointed to superintend s » o recciviag of the levy , and distributing the liymn-bo » &s , ' " -That Messrs . J . Nutta-H , T . Da vies , and D . Soaovan be the committee . " "That eaeliloeality send t " ae name » f a candiditt&for the situation ofscevctary to &e Sxiutklianc ft shire delegate meeiing , that situation bsing vacsa-t by the resignation of the present secretary . " - " That we ad .-joura until tho last Sunday in Fe ' aruarv , 1 S 15 . "
MANCHESTER ... On Sunday night last , the editorial remarks on lovrt John Russell ' s lekter , was read to the aadicuw l > y Ms > Rudford , which made the people laugli iviost Iw ^ rtily at the " new dodge . '" Mr . Thoxaas Clark then cetumuswd bis leciure , which was very instructive * Subject— " 31 io Land and its capabilities , " - which oecxayied an boai- » iid a half in delivering , being o » e of the most tloijtt ««« t and powerful lectures < leliveir «< l in this hall ?« r a U >» -: ; th of time . The lecturer implored his aiatljenco , i »' ihey wanted to save themselves ami Jbeir country fi ? om fuliuig , like the empire of Bt » no , tbej bad bctkei- hasten send joia ilia Chartist Co-operatiVe Land Society , Avhiclv was the only society that was capable of betteriug the condition of tlie toiling millions , A vote of thanks was . gi < te « to tlie U-cturer and chairman , and the meeting separattd . A number of shares were taken .
HEY"WOCH > . Lectcbe . —The announcement of the intended lecture , in the Star , drew together a goodly muster to hear thus ! unflinching advocate of the people's rights , Mr , AVilliao- , Bell , upon the " State of Triide and the coming l ' anir . 1 At . six o ' clock the Chartist veteran , Mr . J . Hamsoii , was unanimously caUci to the chair , who introdueei " , j , i r-Bell . The lecturer commenced by taking a rev j q , v 0 { trade , showing its advance , its cause being compe tition in foreign niavkcts , the glutting of those mar" Ket 3 ) and consequently the decline of-trade already felt in ? omB (> J the munufacturing towns of this country , wi , jc ] , lmis { ultii-. iately end in a panic , The land was ' jej u ^ ^ view , and we were solicited to rally ronr l ( j nxc standarr ] I of freedom by joining Hie Chartist movement . ' Xhe I lecturer gave general satisfaction ,
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Wioan Hasd-loom Weavers . —On SafcurdSyJast ft strike of the hand-Jooro weavers of this towa'took place , against Mr . W . Ing mm , mnnufnduifr j £ consequence oHus having reduced ha wan-eft lr «[«» 6 d . per cut .. On the morning of that day a deputation iras appointed by ' the committee to wait on him , in order that lie might be duly informed oi the weavers intentions . After hearing wh . it the men had iO say upon the subject in dispute , he . fell in to a ijiosfc ' violent pssionrordered themen ouUfln ^ warehouse , ^ and told them that he would reduce them another sixpence upon checks , and oria shilling upon-ging *' - liains ! With this answer tlie deputation left the warehouse . ' The committee immediately prepared , ' in their legal au'd peaceable , but effective way "' to
bring this gentleman'to a sense of Iiis duty to his ie ]« fow ' man ; and we are 'happy to' state - tbat theirlabours have Lad the desired effect , foraboiit twelve o ' clock lie sent fof ths deputation , settled the matter in-a-satisfactory way , and told them thatjie would pay as much asanr other manufacturer in Wigan ; ( tad- also , intimated that Jiorould not be the h ' rst to drop . wages . for , the'fotnre . There has also Oeen ' a general and nuifleijiQusly attended delegate meeting of the above body-, ha ' tehd ' ed ' > y a deputation from Todtnordcu ,. vhftearner for- the pm-pese of exposing the tyraiinicalconiiiiiusjion of- tlie nianafectarers of tlwfc place " : '? rIt ' s » Bins , acssriiing- to- the aSatessent of the deputation , thtif the masters tliei ' u are getting their pieces made fi'orii nine- to tew yai'ch lotfger , a&ioniy !) aying tlie ame wills' that are- paid in Wigan .
After some . h-cussion , the- ddes « Jte . 7 uAsis-iniously agreed that a gsricrul coi 9 &i ' enee meeting fii' delegates from all the -, « &iving ( Jsbjtricts siioUid Jx ! . held Jn Manchester , or 3 ome ' pttar ' cfmtM ' iiliiCe , hi order " that there may bs ^ onn ' ed into-btic ' cansoliditted union of weavers tlirpuglvoat thc ' lKJJgdom .- 'J'Jie scsretaiy was then ordered io-wVitb ' to ' iM diffiStsiit nstfueiiitions on the subject , ii ^ er' flic iatbiing at sains localbusiness , the meeting feolic up : Tub Beu'Kr I-IoRs ^ k&iri M . ^ trs : —A- communication iiss been reccivesVatthc sffico of illC Afesocia * tion of United Trades Av'thePrirtectiolio >' lildnstrj , to the etfsat , that the aj&Te-naiiml industrious body " of men , afiisr yielding toaany exactions on tlie part of their employers , after' snt ui'ing' oppvessien until endurance- bseame a crime jiither . thiai a- virttlc ,- hav ' ebeen-driven t » the neccssii $ 'of ' leaving theii ' Ti < or " c ^ On the day Sktrt the workmcw'dep ' uteAtwo . membsi-S
. of their body to represent thejh in the recent tides ' ? conference , th < r employers sijault-ahcivssly * rednoed their wages teE ^ r cent . Tl . isnifen ' wers then ; compelled to succutsils' ; but , " bitllftg tlicir Sime ; " th * y : recently availec * * febemselvcs of 5 lie op'porftinity pi * fi ' sonted by a considerable influx of ^ fettle , ' to s ^} felt fVom their emplbyei'S ' ' * return to tBfeir'' ¦ former " ' rate'bF wages ; but this aofc of justice bcStig ' stevntyrkfmeil , the men innnciJiatbl / assembled , anil uiiai'inflib . iisly resolve ! to give tfheir employers aij ' opportartity ^ of trying ; whetligr ojjio-tht ^ y could , of t&eJiKiclves , supply the inereasinu iTema' 5 «{( jwi CTitir impatient bnsfeoVners without the iissistaiice of that laboaf ' tliey Iisd ' socruelly expressed aad insulted . Itotvlthstaadnig the men Irave been already three wcsJcs- on sti'i"& , they are yst firmly reooived that , co ^ ie w hat may , they will nat return- to \ mk until , the ten per cens" ' w restored . .
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deed , we do not reuiyuiber- 'hsving sce'ii . so htrge a meeting , on anj ; tnides' question since the ' great aggregate meetin ' , of the iron . trades . ' .... A i £ eight o ' uiock , Mr . Parker , the seersiai-y to the Ignited Tailors' ProtectioH Society , entered the liall , a ^ rnipanitd hj several other gentlemen , am ! was reserved with repeated rounds of eheei « ,. whicii having ; subsided , on the motion of Mr . Jiiiidsey , Mr . 'Sash , operative tailor , wascailed-totlic . tliajr . y Mr . Gash opened the proceedings by reading , the placard convening the meeting ,--alter which he sn-id tlie masters whoiuu " autcd in so r « i » li a manner as- to ? turn out of work 30 D men ; withoutx .. 'unse had refused
STRIKE OF TILE- J ' O'SIR-NEYMEtf' TAlLOES * - M MAKSilESTER . .. . "A-public m-setiiig of the Miliabitants of Manchester " was held' in the' earpentcra' Hall , . Gan « st-road , o » Wednesday evening ,-tlie 2 S 4 h ult ., to taksintocontiidsratiori ' tlic tyrannical conduct of a- nuinSK-r ol th » master tailors-cf fhia- town ,, wlio have thrown upon the streets to starve ,-at ' thi {?» Siiclemcntseac ? rt"of the year , ' 3 OO journeymen , - because they would nob ' withdraw from the " Union , ov "Vailoi-s' Society . - . iThemcciiijg- was jnost niimci'one ^ and enthusiftEHU'V
into" have the question arbitrated . . Hue employers t said this was not a qnostion of- wagffik- Directly it . was not , b-at indirectly it was sai . ping . and mulenniniiig tiie best interests ot the fait -trading employers-aa ¦ well as the workmen , lletlien introduced Mr . kittle . Mi-. Little said- the present strike was notsoiKriifc--by- the men , but had been forced upv-u them by the masters . But before he entered- upoa tlie subject hs ~ would read a resolution ;— - " Thnt tins inectirig are ___ of opinion that tbe conduct of the muster tailors of ' Manchester is Jiighfy cetisur ; iiJ ] e ,. ii ! ,-i ; i « jHf ; h ; is they have deprived 300 'workmen of the means ot' exisUsncc ,. not on the score of wagesj but because sheir workmen , are desirous of working < m the fmj > l »;/ er '» premises in preference to working in unhealthy nei ^ ' ubourliootls , as a means of preserving their own and thft
puWiohealth . " lie-said that either Mte musters or the men were in the wrong . The men lind only resisted aggression , which they had a pei&ct ri ^ hc to do . Capital had its-duties- as well as- i-fc rights , anil when it was used fen- tlie purpose of iUvtlici ' . su lyugating the already oppressed operative ; it was not applied- to its legitimate use . Ilu w » v . i'i nnr show tliem the manner in which this at ' Alx h ; is been brought about . One of tho masters tola-Ms men on the Saturday nii ? l » t that thcro \ v : is » to 'io Hu more employment ' f or them vnkss they apjjlil'd for work unuoniiccted with the association . & inei'ting of masters ' was called , when they entered- iatw an n . ^ reoment to tho effect th : it the first master who should call upoa a society i » an < should forfeit- £ 1 M . At one establishment in tho snjuare , iirconsf-yiiwico of the miister giving so- much out-Uoorwork , fciie men in thft shop could K 9 t get «' i living , having to wa-it for hours tonutlier for a job , whilst tiie master was sendiiig tlie woi-k in the back streets-and alleys to bs-nnulo . The
men complained ofe . this to their fellow workman , and tiiey syifipatliised w ' i'fli them . ' rfnd cailfiilisr'r .-ee . insr , fivui M'fiit-h six inon were se » t to mecl' - ' ilio niiiytci * , when the master stated ( Iif . i all should s ;«> ' - 'i « 3 usuJil if the men would pot intar-ferc with them , 'i'hc men uniJerstOBsl b y this-that the system of ouSuloor work was to ce ; iso , but on the- l ' olli > wiii « r tl » y a \ i \\ -nt deal move was given out than- ev-or tiiure wa * " safinv . 'l'i-, o men i -igain complained-1 & > the society , a niui'ting was . . C ; ulo ( . i , and two men were sant 10 sue : 4 ' -tliey ciuild manage matters with Mr ; Stubbs . Jk ' iMr . Littie ) was pno s > F the two . Ha v . 'ouid not ( . Ictacuiiic niccsing with the details of wlint / took placo :- .-. viit ho might as well state thnt that ( SJKitleuinn floiaiilsnt'iiied the ¦ deputation on tho efjicWjit . -mamieriirA . ' - « -h they had ( liscusscil file question- with them , UutiE ; niy more deputations canio they must iight . Tliat . - . lig ht a ' - meeting of the both- : was-caiJcil to lioj'A ' . tViis rpjiort o £ " the deputies , wlum it was-agreed tliikWlie nic-n should come out-., l-lowevey . t ! iov would ta :-5 c-m ) atlvantage
of Mr . Stubbs , a written notice wM-ssiit irom t . iat meeting , signed by thc-uhiiirman , aeU i «\ Uc-n by him . Stlibbs Shell- called a sipetinjj of some twenty-fourmasters ,, uncl s ;\ id , if cttcy would t- " «; a . i »! ir . ximir « n .-n , that they would starve ' them in : s > . tUeu :. -terms in : v , foi-tnight . They agri -3 ti 10 turn faoir « . « ut unless they woti !< l leave tho SOW *}' . They , i iuwaver , rci-koned . without thcii-liost w ! jL-n they ti >»^ " irf . of .-u-. ; . > tnpHiiiing so much in so show a time . ' . L'fil'yliad nw becK ; out a month , and they had msae .-money now thaa ; they had . when they sswmiencetUbe strug ^ lv . Tho resolution wzs . ably sccowWu-by - "• • '»¦ W .-whnoy r . and supported by Br . Linseyi . after whisk it was . agr&e ^ i to nom . con ^
M ? . M'Cahc mftwed the fritowing .. rcsolutiim : — " That in- t-iic opimon of this . meeting * ta tailoring trad-e req . uiiTsspos-ainticntiojjio . veutiiaiiou , ; s i ' rom ^ tUe ;« doiuarynaiar «' o { the cwiipat ' oa sho huaith of " the » pw at ) . ves-ai'e-afi&cteil , ilissasc-Ciisisaii ' ortjd , and iho pvtWic- at lnrge-cad&iij ' cred tiiei-eby . ' . ' lie tjicn read : sowkiIextracts- SDm ' t ! io Fi ^ natory filimmissiiHicja ' Rc ^ ioiit , which waat if > provw-xhc fact beyond : i di . rn . bb than the trswlo-stfst tailor as . at jiitssnt Ciimluctcd , wa * n !< jst injuttisias te the " afalth of ihc cpenitive . hk-. FavkcL' aien : oso i ><> second tie Kiufion , an& was received ^ h sever ; J rounds t » i ~ applause . It is . ia ^ VROSsiWe to- ^ e Mi-. P - aa-ki-.- 's sj > ktt 4 U ftt k'l . gtU , but tl ' . cre are »» ef » statcmi" iis-whichhereail lo the meetiHg . rciative-4 'i . -t'h c sanr Awy coiujision of the tailoring te ' de whichTfO tliinl ' . Ihe " publis-oug ht , to be m ; n ! o
attiuiuntedL'wiUu AY e tlk-relore givo a few of tl . em . it would -aqjjear thr . tchc tailoys iive : acting upon thesnme jilaifc as the 1 iraJforil wookosfibors , in hi . Y . ng eommi'tfees&ia every ¦ town , for the piu'i mse of- visiting workmen houses , and rcpnrtins the s .-une . Ihe foHowiFisis from t ' ns-Liverpool committee : — ' In iS streets wr-tttd in "" Tauxhall and ScotlsHid wantstathe 37 th Oi March , JfJ 5 ,. and thcibllewii-j ; tiays , they found 33 S tuilorr j , ohiir faisiliesaml woi-nors amounting t * . oT 2 per jobs , and the- pursers h y ing m the liwiseswith thi » ia amouniGfl to . 54 . S m ; 'kii ! g the total . iaha " » Si » g the , dwellings 1 , 120 . Of thesa 33- were siek . from or . e fortnight u-p t » eig hteen weeks , ot seariei , typl \ u . % nml atheu fe « ers , and disensos of various ldn . dSy comr ^ ncing siaicc' "November , a > . id e&ntinuing ts » the jvjesent'iiTne . "W e found 12 : r . » habiting ;> i ] cli working in a single v « Hav ,
wor ' uing for sal&sliops , vritliin the same-time , on tha ^ Sa ' ybath-iay , wany in a most tlistrtsstd sti ' . tc of w ant . Mr . Parker then exhibited the sanaioi-y man of Losdon tt > tlie auilknce , and saiil he was prepared to prove 'that there were more journeymen tnuova wovknig in their own nome .-- - , in tlic hmnhle and un « healthy parts of London , making payments for the vich and affluent , than were enured upon the prcreises of employers . If clothing was thus made in tlic verv heart ' of disease , it must ol ncccsstty 1 Q tvansfcrrcd to the wearer . Nor was it London a ! : d Liverpool that were the only places where such a S'nte of things existed . It also existed m Alan-Chester ami Lec-iU , and every other JitrgC tdU'll . Mr . P . 's statements were truly astounding , and we trust thev will not be lost upon the public of Manchester . . On " tho motion of Mr . Limlsey , tV . e t " u > . r . !; s of tho meeting were uivt-ii to the cbaii'maii , ami tho bifci ness terminated .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 6, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1344/page/3/
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