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Suicide through Seduction.—On Friday night.
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state of affaire , tnat people who have money in their hands cannot get a sopply of food to purchase . Sumberless have been the complaints made respecting the conduct of the GoTernment in this tryin ? time of distress , and heavy are the imprecations , both loud and deep , uttered aeainst . them by the starring population . In fact—whethi r they were justified in doing so or not , let others judge—the people lay all their troubles at their donr , and certainly not without some good show of reason . The only conpohtion and blessing which the people enjoy amidst all their sufferings , is derived from the plentiful supply offish which have visited the coast ? , ana herrings being sold at 2 d . and 3 d . the 120 , and g » od hake canbe bought for 3 d . each , while on ordinsrj occasions they could not be had for Is . 6 J . —Cork Reporter . _
Otmus , Oct-21 . —Patmentof Labour on Tcblic Works . —Presentments to the amount of £ 700 , 000 hive already been granted by the Board ofWorks . tfext week there will be a vast increaavin the number of persons employed . There ninst be , ot course , a areat many preliminary difficulties where such immense operations are in progress , and -where nearly the ^ hole machinery has to be created . Nevertheless , there were sixty thousand persons employed up to Saturday . One source of temporary embrrassment has arisen from the great quantity of silver
required to pay the wages of the labourers , i his had been in some measure anticipated by tbegovernment , and a week or two since the Comet war steamer was employed by the Treasury to deliver a considerable quantity of specie at the branches of the Bank of Ireland in Cork , Tfaterford , Galway , and other tovros on the Irish coast . In some of the inland districts there has been much inconvenience , owing to the large quantity of silver required . Within the last two months the silver currency in Ireland has been Increased to the extent of £ 100 , 000 .
Measube 3 of Relief . —The Galway town commissioners , at a meeting held on Thursday last , voted £ 500 towards the purchase of corn , to relieve the pressing necessities of the destitute poor . UlSTER . — -There are further accounts of the in-Crease of distress in the northern province . The JfortJiern Whig contains the following : — Destitction of the People is the Neighbourhood of ToKiGixsaim . —The following has been forwarded to tis by a Portglenone correspondent : — " We were all greatly alarmed on Wednesday last by a report that a partv of labourers were fr > congregate here for the
parpose of looking our for employment or food . OwiDg iowei er , to the severity of the day , only about a hundred assembled , and they seemed greatly disappointed at not meeting with N . Alexander , Esq . M . P ., their landlord , in whom they have every confidence . It is really disusing to see the state of inise-y to which the greater number of the working claiBes in this neighbouohooa are reduced . Party feeling , which was formerly carried out to a great extent in Portglenone , has now altogether disappeared ; and all parties appear anxious to'join together for one main object—employment . If their cry be not attended "to soon , the result trill assuredly be serious . "
RECLAMATION OF WASTE LANDS . At the presentment sessions in the barony of Iffa ¦ and Ofla East , county of Tipperary , on Tuesday , £ 5 , 000 was voted for the present : but a general feeling prevailed in favour of votingmoney for the earth works of the Waterford and Limerick , and the Great * Souihern and Western Railways , both of which are to pass through the barony , if those companies should apply for the co-operation of the sessions Captain Bernal Oaborne , M . P ., who attended this meeting , blamed the government for not meeting the present exigency by some effectual remedy , such as the reclamation of the waste lands ; and be stated that landlords were deterred from drainage by a , fear of the expense of the officers of the Board of "Works .
Galwat , Oct . 2 i . —On Tuesday last , a large eonconrse of persons , composed of men , women , and children , assembled , in a riotous and tumultuous manner in front of the residence of Mr . Clements , C . E ., Upper Dominick-street , and threatened to break open Ms house , destroy his property , and inflict personal injury on that gentlemen and the members of Ms family , unless they immediately procured food and employment . Notwithstanding the menacing appearance of the multitude . Mr . Clements ventured to address them from one of his windows , telling them that everything in his power had been done to
proceed with the public works , and that , in the course of & day or two , he hoped to be able to give employment to over a thousand . Shortly after this tbe people withdrew , expressing their determination to have employment at any hazard . Baxaohbb , Oct . 24 . —The potatoes in this district are quite exhausted , and the people are living upon oatmoal , which , atfe 6 d a stone , is not to be obtained in sufficient quantities even by those who have remunerative employment . Many of them , however , are unemployed , and consequently in a state of destitntion .
The mills , of which there are not half enough in the country , are kept at work day and night , grinding oats for the public . Crowds of farmers and cottier tenants are gathered about the doors , waiting for their turn to nave their several parcels ground ; and that time rarely comes round sooner than forty-eight hours . They submit during the interval onmeal advanced to them by Mr . Miller , who sometimes nro--fides them with an apartment of some kind to shelter them from the weather , and cook their food in . Sheep stealing has became very prevalent in this . neighbourhood . Scarcely a night has passed for the last week that some farmer has net been deprived of one or two of his flock . These depredations have not been traced in any instance to the famishing wretches whose misery would be some excuse ; bnt is suspected to be the result of a combination amongst the shepherds to extort an increase of wages .
A cart was stopped yesterday oh the road between this place and Parsonstown , and a load of flour taken by the country people . Two men have been identified as the leaders of the exploit , and sent to prison . No public works have been yet set on foot to enable the poor people to bear up against this crushing calamity . It is said that some of tlie proprietors , "Who had been very ckmoroug on the ubject of "reproductive labour , " and urgent upon the government to I gire a wide interpretation to the Labour Relief Act , have grown lukewarm on the question , now that their expostulations have been comp lied \ nth , and hesitate about encumbering their estates by applying for works of special improvement . If this be true , it is a sore reflection upon the character
of our gentry to be constrained to admit , that no person who has observed their ways with attention tor the last twenty years can be surprised at it . r Clare . —A correspondent of the Evening Post gives the following : —• • On the 14 th inst ., as a man , named Donohue . was proceeding to the market of Ennis with a load of oats , the property of John Patrick Molony , Esq ., J . P ., of Cragg , county Clare , he was stopped near the village of Gabaran by two men , armed with pistols , who insisted on his gaing back with the corn , telling him that in compliment to Mr .- Molony , who was a good man , they would notshoot the horse that time ; but , if he attempted to send out any more corn for sale , they would deal with him as they had done with every one else . On Snnday evening a party of men went toDangan , the residence of Thomas Sampson , Esq ., and took away his arms .
On Tuesday morning two horses were fired at near Dromoland , when drawing in corn to this town ; one of tbe horses , a valuable animal , was killed , the other had strength enough to draw the car into Newmarket . _ Salb of Firf Arms is Cavan . —Immense quantities of new fire arms , of Birmingham manufacture , Lave been selling by public auction in the different towns throughout the country . — . Anglo- Celt . Westmeath . —A diobolical outrage , took place on Monday night last at Stdnchall , the residence of Mr . Gibson . An armed party visited the house on that night , and knocked at the hall-door , and when the door was being opened the assassins outside fired , but fortunately without effecting any personal injury to the person ¦ within , the door having received the contents of the gun . —Weslmeath G \ tard < an .
CLOSES , Oct . 17- —This day , between two and three hundreds of the labouring class entered our town , demanding bread . The shopkeepers helped them liberally with both money and food , and many of them afterwards closed their shop 3 . Moxaghan , Oct . 24 . —An Augunacloy correspondent informs u ? , tbat parties are scouring the country in that neighbourhood , visiting the houses of gentlemen and farmers , demanding money and food . One party visited the house of Mr . Watson , of Killjhoman , and although be gave them money , they threatened to kill one of his cows upon the next visit ; they then went to the house of a poor widow named Henderson , and extorted money from her by threats of destruction of property . Similar parties are parading through various parts of the country levying contributions . —Northern Standard .
T . 1 PPERABT . —We cannot possibly describe the fearful state of utter misery to which the people are reduced in this place , without a resident landlord , and depending wholly on chance for subsistence . We regret to add that the never-failing concomitants of famine and misery have begun to manifest their appearance ; that outrages have been committed , and from what we learn we do not think it likely that they are not to be followed by others . A man of the name of Thoma 3 Walsh , of Lackeragh , in this parish , was fired at and dangerously wounded in the jaw on Monday night . " Rumour . " says our
correspondent , " assign as the reason of tins outrage , a suspicion lhat he represented to tlie Eoatvl of Works that the people of this locality were nos in the state of misery and destitution represented , which caused , it 13 thought , the board to delay imploying the starving poor . " The Relief Committee have determined to give the office up altogether , having nothing to do but to listen to the wailings and lamentations of starving crowds , without the means of relieving them , the government Laving absolutely refused to give cither food or money . —Tipperary Vindicator .
Another Attempt to Mdbder . —On Wednesday last , the fair day of Templemore , as Mr . Edward Byrne of Li 3 senure was returning home from it , he
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was overtaken at Eastwood gate by ihreejeilows , who beat Mm severely with stones , inflicting one very serious cut . and three or roar small ones . Mr . Byrne was unable to proceed further , and remains for the present nt Eastwood , where two doctors are in attendance . — Nenagh Guardian . Countt of Cablow . — On Sunday | nielit last three men , whose faces were blackened , broke into the house of a widow named Magee , who resides at Mayo , in the colliery district , Queen ' s County , and after presenting a pistol at her bead , they demanded of her why she dared to pay her rent ! Two of the ruffians then held her while a third applied a torch to her head , and held her until her hair was burnt off , and the scalp seriously injured . They then left the house threatening her with a futureviait . The poor _ woman presented herself next morning before a
magistrate in a shocking condition ; but the subject havi pg undergone investigation on Wednesday at the Ballickmoyle Petty Sessions , the magistrates have offered £ 20 reward for such information as will lead to the discovery of the perpetrators . A few days since a similar visit was paid a poor woman named Doyle , who , with her husband , resided on the same townland , as caretakers to Mr . Willoughby . The husband being absent , they inqu ' red why they had taken the place of the persons who had been dismissed from the same employment : and having applied a torch to the hair of her head—a new mode of torture , worthy of barbarous asjes—completed theirsavagetaskby burning the hair , and seriously injuring the poor woman ' s head . This poor family have since quitted that part of the country , evidently happy on their narrow escape .
" Young Ireland . "— Mr . O ' Connellhas written a long address to the steadfast moral force repealers of the city of Cork , in reply' to some resolutions calling for a reconciliation between himself and the Young Ireland party . He says , " the moral and physical force principles cannot amalgamate together , they are essentially different and opposite , and can have no combination . They are as different as black and white , as water and fire . You cannot commingle them without annihilating the one or the other . " And concludes by stating , "that the Association cannot concede , and if it could , it ought not . "
Distress in- Slmo . —On Saturday last a deputation from the county of Sligo , were received by his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant , and the Right Hon . H . Labouchere , Secretary of State for Ireland . The deputation , in feeling terms , represented to his Excellency the grievous state of privation and distress under which the labouring classes in that county are suffering . They urged , in particular , the depression ofwaeesatatimewhen provisions had reached an exorbitant price , and recommended , amongst other remedial measures , the extension of the principle of Teproauctvre -works to subsoiling , -wherever drainage was unnecessary . They likewise suggested the establishment and use of tbe Coast Guard stations as depots for the sale and delivery of provisions , as had been done upon a former occasion . His Excellency entertained both the former suggestions very favourably , and the deputation were assured that they should he promptly and efficiently considered .
REPEAL ASSOCIATION . Coxciiiation Ham .. — The usual meeting of this body was held on Monday—the Miyor of Clonmell in the chair . Mr . John O'Connell read a letter" from his father , which commented severely on the delay of the Board of Works in giving effect to the presentments made at the baronial ' sessions . The customary abase of the Young Ireland party was indulged in by various speakers , and after a speech on the distress by John O'Connell , the meeting terminated . Rent nearly £ 100 . £ 50 of which was from Liverpool . [ It was expected that the proceeding would have been enlivened by a discussion with "the : Younsl Icelanders . Several of the latter offered themselves for admission but the O'Cnnnellite Repealers took measures to exclude them . ]
MEETI > "G AT TBRMOY . On Monday a meeting was held at Ferraoy for the purpose of conferring on the present alarming state of the country , and taking such step 3 as might be deemed most advisable to meet the exigency created by the scarcity and clearness of food , and the want of useful and beneficial employment for the labouring population . At the request of a large number of gentlemen constituting twelve Relief Committees , in this district , the county representatives , D . O'Connell and E . B . Roche , Eaqrs ., attended the meeting , and on their entrance into the News Room , where it was held , were loudly and enthusiastically cheered . Mr . O'Connell made a long speech . Several resolutions were agreed to , and a memorial founder ) upon them was ordered to be presented to the Lord Lieutenant by Mr . O'Connell and a deputation from each Relief Committee . Dublin , Oct . 27 .
Relief of the Poor . —A general order haa been issued by the Lord Chancellor authorizing ( in consequence of the prevailing distress ) sums to be granted to local relief committees out of the estates of minors , wards , lunatics , &c . The Master in the cause is empowered to grant such sum as he may deem expedient under the circumstances , not exceeding seven percent , upon the net annual income of the estate . Special cases are to be referred to the Lord Chancellor when the amount sought exceeds £ 100 . Cure . —Owing to the rapid spread of crime partly superinduced by the pressure of distress , throughout the county of Clare , Colonel Vandeleur , as Vice-Lieutenant , convened a meeting of the magistrates , clergy , and others , which was held in the Courthouse of Ennis on Saturday last . The attendance was extremely numerous and influential , and several temperate and judicious addresses were delivered . Meanwhile , outrage is not decreasing in the county , the anti-rent movement forming the most prominent feature of the disturbances .
On Sunday , says the Clare Journal , —Two men , eat * armed with a gun , went to the chapel of Clooney , nea Ennistvmon , and posted a notice cautioning the people not to pay any rent to their landlords . These men were without any disguise , they remained outside the chapel during the celebration of service by the Rev . Mr . Sheehan , and twice discharged their guns , loaded only with powder , for tbe purpose , we preaume , of proving that they were not in any way afraid of being intercepted . This fact tends , more than any we have yet heard of , to prove the daring spirit ' of resistance to the laws amongst the people of this country . It must be looked upon as passing strange , that the people with their clergymen should not hare at once seized upon auch daring intruders , and given them up to the police . But they were permitted to retire unmolested .
And again : —On Saturday evening , as Mr . James Fyne was proceeding through a short cut in the neighbour hood of Fairy-hill , parish of Kilmaly , he was met by two * ruffians , who beat him most unmercifull / , and left him apparently dead . They took from his person three halfcrowns , some shirt collars , and a penknife , which they afterwards returned with , saying they might hang them hereafter . Disturbances is Cork . — The Cork Examiner says - . — " On this morning a party of labouring men amounting to upwards of 300 , armed with spades and shovels , entered the city about eleven o ' clock , for the purpose of procuring immediate employment . Our reporter was informed by one of the party that they had assembled from several of the rural districts in the neighbourhood
of Cork , at distances varying from two to six miles . They first called at the relief-office ; but owing to the absence of the members , they were not able to ascertain any thing satisfactory ; and on the suggestion of ons of the party , they proceeded to the police-office in order to have an interview with the Mayor . Here they were met by Bead Constable Condon and Sergeants Porter and O'Neill , who kindly and judiciously advised them to abstain from any violent or irregular proceedings , assuring them that employment , both at the park and at the Glanmire-road , would immediately be afforded . This species of consolation appeared at first to hare little effect , for the miserable men appealed to the evidence afforded by their famishing appearance , and asked the constables if they were so circumstanced would such promises satisfy them V One of tbe wretched
men , whose face and general appearance indicated the extremest misery , opened Iih tattered coat , and showed tbe constable that he bad pledged bis shirt to sustain his starving family . Another stated , that he had not eaten a morsel of bread since yesterday ( Sunday ) morning ; that neither he nor bis family tasted food or drink on that morning , because they had not a single article left at home to procure it . Though the majority of the party appeared peaceably disposed and determined to discountenance violence or outrage , a considerable number recommended with vehemence the opposite policy . One of the party a stalwart and determined man , who appeared to be the leader , went up to Head Consta . ble Condon , and said , " we are starving and dying—we have been starring , but we are determiued to stand it no loneer . " Constable Coudon endeavoured to appease tbe
speaker , at the same time reminding him of tbe risk he ran in instigating and exciting the / people . The speaker then replied . " There is nothing surer than that I will be one of the first to break out ; for if 1 don ' t get bread , by heaven I'll fig 11 * fur fy and I don't care if all tbe policemen in Cork were before me . Finding it was useless to persist further , they then filed off in something like military order , and went to the Court-house , where his worship was engaged in the Revision court . After remaining there for a short time , they returned down Great St . George-Btreet , and proceeding through Patrick-street , stopped opposite the "imperial bakery , " which half a dozen of the most prominent entered . The doers of this establishment were immediat ely besieged by the hundreds tbat composed this gathering , while the
parties inside demanded something to eat , at tbe same time disclaiming any attempt at violence . A party of policemen , under the command of Head Constable Coudou , were in a very short time in atteadance , and succeeded , with considerable difficulty , in clearing tbe shop Of its hungry occupants . Fearing that the threats and expressions of three or four individuals would ultimately induce the people to commit outrage and violence , and thereby lead , probably , tathe most disastrous consequences , Mr . Condon orde red the apprehension of four individuals of the party . The names of those taken into custody are John Lucey , Jonathan Tanner , Bartholomew Keefe , and John Shean . Tlie apprehension of these parties caused , for the present , the dispersion of the mob that threatened this establishment .
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At a Council meeting , held on the 13 th May , instant , it was resolved , by a majority of sixteen to four , to enter into a extract with Mr . J . Wliitworth , to scavange the streets in the township of Manchester by machines only , for the annual sum of £ 5600 , he engag ing to employ twenty machines for the purpose , although the Scavenging Committee state in tht / ir printed report , that fifteen machines are sufficient , which twenty machines will cost , at the said contract price , £ 2 ? 0 per annum each , at £ 101 10 s . 6 d . per machine per annum more than is paid by the corporation of Sntfoid . The expenses of the whnle Executive Government of the entire state of New York amount to ho more than £ 14 , 770 , with a population of one million six hundred and eighty thousaad and sixty-eisjht persons ; consequently , the borough of Manchester costs three times more than the whole state of New York !
The total annual cost of the police constables above amount to as will be seen £ 25821 6 4 The total annual cost of maintaining and clothing the 1 st Regiment of Dragoon Guards , with 436 "men and noises , is ... 21918 18 7 The total cost of the 7 th Fusileers , of 900 men and officers amounts to ... 25280 7 5 Thus , by comparison atone , our police cost £ 3 , 902 7 s . 9 d . more than a regiment of dragoons , and £ 340 8 a . lid . more than a choice regiment of infantry , and considerably more than a seventy gun line of battle ship , bearing the admiral ' s flag . If we add to the above items the miscellaneous expenses of the Corporation : £ 1255 0 0 The expenses of the Municipal
Corporation election ... ... ... 350 0 0 The expenses of the Manorial rights ... 4000 0 0 Compensation to Rutter ( late coroner ) ... 277 4 8 Custom-houso expenses ... ... 1310 0 0 Nuisance and Hackney Coach Department ( including Meil ' s salary of £ 130 per annuni ) less fines inflicted ... ... 261 0 0 Building and Sanatory Regulations Department , ( including £ 52 for George Shoreland's salary ) 2 « 0 0 And for the Weights and Measures Department ... ... ... 350 0 0
we shall find a gross expenditure of £ 61 , 333 3 « ., being more than the whole of the Poor Rates levied on each of the counties , with a population as follows : —Bedford , 107 , 937 ; Cumberland . 177 , 212 ; Hereford , 114 , 438 ; Huntingdon , 58 , 699 ; Monmouth , 134 , 340 ; Rutlandshire , 21 . 340 ; Westmoreland . S 6 . 4 C 9 : North Ridinjr of York , 204 . CG 2 ; Anglesea , 50 , 890 ; Brecon . 53 . 795 ; Cardigan , 68 , 380 ; Carmarthen , 106 , 482 ; Carnarvon , 81 , 068 ; Denbigh , 89 , 291 ; Flint , 60 , 547 ; Glamorgan , 173 , 462 ; Mereonetli , 39 , 238 ; Montgomery , 68 . 720 ; Pembroke , 8 S . 262 ; Radnor , 25 , 186 ; beincr all tlie Welsh counties with a population of 911 , 603 ! and more by £ 32 , 532 than the salaries of all Her Majesty ' s Cabinet Ministers !!! and nearly three times more than the entire salaries of the Executive Government of the United Slates j and this is called " eheap government !" It is , indeed , genuine Whig government , to say the least of it , and a precious specimen it is .
Ratepayers , what do your Poor Rates amount to on a £ 20 assessment , 5 s . in the pound ! £ 5 0 0 What does your Highway Rate amount to at 8 d . f 0 13 4 What does your Police Rate amount to at Is . in the |» ound ! 10 0
6 13 i Mark well the above sum , and calculate where it is to come from , and bow imperatively it is demanded from you , What do the fines amount to in Manchester , in a week , month , quarter , or a year ? They are all enormous . I have heard it stated at forty times the amount of £ 261 , which would amount to £ 10 , 000 annually ; and this is cunningly placed under the " Nuisnnce and Hackney Coach Department , " and headed "less fines inflicted ! " What becomes of this money ? Mr . Nield is paid £ 130 per annum , as a public informer , and said it was a " d—d shame " his salery was not raised as well as the rest of them . For the ' Weiorhts and Measures Department , " the
borough is charged £ 300 ; but I am credibly informed that all persons pay for their weights and measures being examined and repaired . The shopkeeper and publican have to pay , even if found correct : if they be under weight or measure , they are charged more . I am not saying they ought not to be examined ; but I wish to know what becomes of the penalties in which defaulters are amerced ? Perhaps Councillor Nightingale will inform us . When weights are deficient they are forfeited , and if found to be composed of lead they are forfeited . What becomes of the old pewter quarts , pints , half-pints , quarter-pints , and the like , when they are seized for being dinged , or otherwise imperfect , by this badly-paid official , alias " I / bss Fixes Inflicted" 1
What do these fines amount to in Manchester ? Why don't some one move for a return of the same ? Do these fines go to pay for dinners and wine ? Thirty or forty of our fat-fed Councillors , last week , partook of a royal feast ; and one of them complained , the following morning , of being very unwell from the effects of his beastly intoxication , and asked his friend what did he think tlie dinner co't . The sentleman said he could not say . The Councillor ' s reply was , ' Only £ 2 per head ; of course , including wine !" Mr . —— : " Did the two pounds come out of your own pockets ?" Councillor : ''Oh , no ! out of the borough fund , under the item ' less fines inflicted , ' and out of the ' Weight and Measure department ! ' "
Mr . Councillor then said to the gentleman , " We can get up a dinner at any . time ! " and further informed them that " tbe wine was old and splendid , and delicious , and ohampaignc very plentiful !" What an expensive bauble is this Corporation of ours ! Unless the Rate-payers bestir themselves , and reform it altogether by turning out the men who are so regardless of their pockets , and placing better men in their stead , ere long we shall have a golden collar and mace ( not forgetting a wig ) for the Mayor , furred robes for the Alderman , and robes of office tor the counsellors besides all the retinue of Sword-bearers . Mace-bearers , Pursebearers . Cup-bearers , Remembrancers , City , Sergeants , Toast Mastersi Jesters—aye , even Jesters ,- - Trumpeters , with all the indispensable appurtenances of ice-houses , wine cellars , turtle-ponds , in the olden style , wherein to preserve the good things of this life , te enable the Aldermen to keep up their
dignity , and appear with ¦ ' good fat capon lined , " when peering upon the bench of justice , with grave nods and solemn frowns at poor publicans and sinners , dragged up on most frivolous occasions at the instance of these blue Do ? -berriers , who , arm <* d with eighteen inches * of brief authority secreted in their coat pockets , are the terror of evil doers . Rate-payers , of Manchester , have you eyes and ears and not see and hear the loud and deep complaints against the system ? Have you so much money in your pockets that , when a five shjllings rate is extracted therefrom , you cannot miss it ? Have you hearts and not the courage to rouse ye from your listless apathy , and pitch overboard those Councillors hitherto elected by small juntos when you were asleep ? If you do miss the five shillings rate from your pockets ; if you have hearts and courage to defend yourselves against extravagant Councillors and highly paid functionaries , then bestir yourselves , for
THE DAY OF ELECION IS AT HAND !!! Select men whose sympathies are not so easily deadened by thegew-gnwof an il-legant Corporation , who are going to settle £ 1000 annuallv of your money tor the next Mayor , to buy a gingerbread carriage to give him an _ airing to Smithy Dour ; and also , a state barge for him and the Alderman , to take aquatic exercise on the limped waters of the River Irwell , as far as Throstle Nest , or on the Serpentine river , at Ardwick Green . In conclaaion , Fellow Ratepayers , tako warning ! Do not return any of the retiring Councilors ; but , if you do , never again complain , and for ever after hold your tongues . I am , fellow-ratepayersi Your obedient servant , William Dixon . Temperance CoftVe-house , 93 , Ancoats-lane , Manchester ,
The address is not written with feelings of vindictiveness towards any gentlemen receiving stipendiary salaries from the ratepayers of Manchester , but to expose tbe wonton and reckless expenditure of the public money by the Wliig Corporation—ever despicable in all their acts , and never to be trusted . * A policemans truncheon .
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TAIT'S MAGAZINE AND LORD BYRON . TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Sir , — "Letthe dead slumber softly , " are words wt have often heard . To forget the faults and embalm the virtues of the mighty dead , is a practice of the more generous of living men , but the fate of tbe deceased pout Byron is an exception , and if some men must slan . der as well as smile , be vicious when they assume tbe gait of virtue , perhaps the deceased poet can best bear the injury .
Permit me to add a few remarks to your review in lf , Bt Saturdaj ' a Slar of the article by G . Oillillun , in Tait ' s Magazine , on Leigh Hunt and Lord Byron . To all that is said in favour of Hunt as a man of genius , 1 willingly subscribe . He is the pleasant pratlcr , the charming essayist , one of Nature's chosen teachers ; to instruct Earth ' s children in the bonk of Nature is his noble mission , and all honour await him . Hut why such a truth requires to be linked up with such sentiments as thu following , ii indeed to us wondrous strange . " But , because Byron , disgusted with himself , sittU of Italy , satiatctl with literary fame , or rather afraid of losing the
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laurels he had gained , exhamted in intellect and bruised in heart , threw himself into the Greek cause , " < fcc . A most unaeeountable association of feeling ! Was Byron ambitious of fame ! If so was the acquisition of his darling object at all likely to make the ambitious poet disgusted with himself ? Are men generally disgusted by possessing thit which they desire to have ? Ask the miser if he is . disgusted when he counts his gold . ' Ask the orator what is his feeling when a thousand voices echo his sentiments ? Byron ' s disgust must be found gomowhertt else . George Gilfillan ask yourself , what was your feeling when you penned the words we have quoted , do 60 Scotch reviewer , and try again . " Satiated with literary fame , or rather afraid of losing the laurels he had gained . " More strange still ! Filled to repletion , yet afraid of losing the laurels he had gained . The genius who wooed and won the fair goddess Fame was incapable of retaining her favour . Satiated or rather afraid . Do these two states of feeling admit of
harmony ! Can they exist at the same timu in the brain of the same being ? Does fear imply satisfied gluttony ? What prompts man to action cannot imply satisfaction , except in the way of acquiring his desires , and if Byron was afraid of losing his laurels , be could not be satiated with fame ; for such satiation would naturally produce want of regard for the possession of fame , and mental sloth would follow . Neither of these followed , and indeed the cotemporary of Sir Walter Scott , and the admired by all true bvers of genius had nothing to fear . Lord Ryr « n h id gained a place in the circle of the great of his day , when the author of the "Lady of the Lake , " was jet living and adored . That young poet who , at the age of 19 , stripped the Scotch reviewers of their haughty plume , and lived to be honoured by his traducers bad indeed ( nothing to tremble for . I pass over the critic ' s nmgivings as to what Byron should have done . Burns , the Scottish ploughman , has paraphr ased the ideas of Solomon , and
said"My son , these maxims make a rule , And lump them aye the gither : The rigid righteous is a fool , The rigid wise anither . " Byron ' i death fell on the ear of the world as a warning that earth knew the loss . England ' s press was in mourning , her children in sackcloth . Think of the modesty of the writer who , in the plenitude of bis charity , writes on Byron ' s bust the most fatal of all inscriptions , — " A traitor to his own transeendant genius . " I thank Gilfillan for the admission ; his was a transeendant
genius , and thought must in aU cases precede action—b » was a transeendant thought . and his works are to posterity a tran 9 Cendant legacy . It may appear startling , but I venture thp assertion , that a man cannot be a traitor to himself , he cannot war with his own powers . Is it possible for a man to forsake himself ! is it possible for a man to be and not to be at the same time ? Oh but , it it is said , his actions are disgraceful to his own powers , or , to put it strongl y , he was powerful for evil , and the object and aim of true genius should be to elevate and ennoble man . Well , turn over to page 269 , and mark the following quotation : —
"We believe that the man Dante would hare shrunk from consigning even tbe finger that signed JiiS mandate of banishment , to eternal burnings ; but this was not to prevent tbe poet Dante , when elaborating an ideal hell , heating , if he pleased , his furnaces seven degrees , and indulging his imagination in compounding into every tremendous variety the elements of torment . The pact is ever bound to give the brightness of brightness , and blackness of darkness ; to mend , if he can , the air of Elysium , ' and heighten the beauties of Paradise ; ' and . on the other hand , to make 'hell itself a murkier gloom . ' It will never do to argue thence either the benevolence or the cruelty of his disposition . Was Michael Angelo responsible for the awards of his ' Last Judgment V Is the illustrator of Fox ' s Book of Martyrs , ' answerable for the kindling of all those curling , crested , reluctant or rejoicing , eager or slumbering , flames ? Was Coleridgs less the 'Friend , ' because he appears to exult in the perdition of William Pitt ? Is Thomas Aird less one of the most amiable of men , because his 'Devil ' s Dream' con . tains a most horrific picture of the place of punishment ? And has John Wilson the soul of a butcher , because in that famous Nodes directed against our friend Dr . Knox , he dessribes with such dreadful gusto certain unceremonious proceedings in that' other place , ' about the spirit of William Burke V
The names of Dante , Coleridge , Michael Angelo , Aird and Wilson follow in rapid succession . I ask GilfiUan to apply the same test of criticism to the writings of Byron , and prove , if he can , that he ii not the noblest of authors and the fiwtof poita . His images live with the reader ; his heroes speak to our inmost feelings ; his heroines breath in our sympathies ; nay , his very digressions are representative of human character to the life . Now , answer , is bis inscription to he "a traitor to bis own transcendant genius V Will Oil fill an have one rule for Dante and another for Byron ? Coieridge is not responsible , because ho appears to exult in the perdition of William Pitt ? Is Byron to bd blamed for the reasoning of his Cain ? Our own Sbakspere , in his own fancy , murdered Juliet- She cries" A noise , —then I'll be brief . ( Snatching Romeo ' s This is thy sheath . ( Stabs herself . ) [ dagger . ) There rust , and let me die . " ( Palls oil HomcA ' a bodv , and dies . )
No writer ever dreams of blaming Shakespere with intending to honour suicide . The language of Juliet is the reflex of her feelings , and suited to her position . I ask a similar latitude for the writings of Byron , and have no fear for the results . To him who writes Bjron "» traitor to his own transeendant genius '" we write" This lion is a very fox for his valour " " True , and a goose for his Discretion , " But , perhaps , it is necessary I should refer to another cause for the declarations of George Gilfillan ; he writes , referring to the cause of the weakness of Hunt's
contributions to the " Liberal Shelley , " long a screen between him and pecuniary distress , as well as a link binding him to the moody and uncertain Byron , was newly drowned . " Byron is here represented as a bein » too weak to reason , too powerless to act , moody and [ uncertain . A sort of gloomy , fickle demon , who could only bo approached by the aid of a mediator , and that mediator Shelley . I now ask . What link bound Shelley to Byron ? that Shelley who was not in pecuniary distress , and who writes his own character in these words— " The virtuouBman , who , great in his humility , as kings are little in their grandeur t "
There is a correspondence iiimind . We do net look abroad for gloomy and uncertain friends to be our companions ; on the contrary , we love the associatien of those whose feelings are in some way similar to our own . The burglar is seldom the companion of the good and virtuous man . The Turpins and Haggarts of society are never the closeted and confidential friends of the Howards and Frys of this world . Neither was the high-aouled , virtuous and generous , nay , the almost feminine Shelley , likely to choose and elect for his friend an uncertain and moody fiend . The latter friendship of Byron towards Jeffrey sufficiently proves that Byron could both forgot and forgive" And all our little feud ; , at least all mine , Dunr Jeffrey , once my most redoubted foo , ( As far as rhyme and criticism combine To make such puppets of us things balow , ) Are over : Here's a health to— " Auid langsyne !' I do not know you , and may never know Your face , —but you have acted on the whole Mast nobly , and I own it from my soul . "
Thus Byron cries aloud , I forgive thee thy trespasses , evc-ntlioushyou should never forgive mine ; and such a noble and voluntary effusion of fcelingfrom Pyron should alone rescue his memory from the bile of pirtizan drivellers , and the slime of serpent-like hypocrites . All ages of literature have had their bitter and bilious reviewers . Those who have read the life of Dr . Gold-Smith will very well remember the doings of Kenrick and Boswell ; how the good-natured Doctor would sometimes forget his childish humour , and have his seclued hours annoyed with the invectives of men who abused that which they coveted , and condemned thai which they could not imitate . But who tbat has ever read "The Deserted Village " ( and where is he who has not done go ) thinks of representing its author cudgelling a bookseller
with a shellel&h , and then exclaiming , " See , is he not an Irish blackguard ? " What reader who has admuvd tlio sublimity of the " Hundredth Fs » lm " ever ' . hinks of rep . resenting David , the Psalmist , asking G . p ^ d to curse his enemies , exposing his nakedness to the-gate , of others , or seducing Uriah ' s wife % Good and honourable feeling bui'ius all such scenes , anil remeinlers that all men have sinnud in some way against their fellows ; it may be against their prejudice , or ignorance , their virtue , or their vice The Boswells , and Kenricks , and Gilfillans , are the delf of tlie race that write . If it be possible that the spirits of the departed dead can gaze on tbe aots of living men , I can fancy the puet smiling magnanimously at the doings of his enemies , saying , "Alas , poor men , they are of another mould , and .-mother feeling , from him whose uood name they fain would injure . "
Genius , like the light of Heaven , is universal , though sometimes varied , yet it is ever genuine . It may darken as a cloud before the sun , or sparkle like sol ' s rays in the clear lake—it may peep in at the skylight of a cottage , or the portnls of a hall , yet it is ever true to itself , it is ever natural . It seeks no specific flower , no peculiar plant ; it is neither cobweb , mustard seed , nor pease blossom . It is no more vegetable than mineral , no more mineral than animal ; it is all . It is nature ' s voice , speaking inspired thoughts to tbe children of men , and it is pleafant to turn from tlie bilious ravings of a captious cynic to the opinions of ' a great observer , and I hope , even in Edinburgh , the sayings of Dr . Hugh Blair ( who was for many years one of the Ministers of the High Church , and professor of Rhetoric and Belles . Lottsw in
the University of Modern Athens ) , will command respect . Writing of Ossian , his woriis are , " The question is not whether a few improprieties may be pointed out in his works ; whether this or that passage might have been worked up with more art or skill , by some writer of happier times . A thousand such cold and frivolous criticisnis are altogether indecisive as to his genuine merit . But bus lie the spirit , the fire , the inspiration of a poet ? Does he utter the voice of nature , does he elevate by his sentiments , does he iuterest b y his descriptions , does he paint to the heart as well as to the fancy , does he make his readers glow and tremble , and weep » These are the great characteristics of true poetry . Where these are found he must be a minute critic indeed who can dwell upon slight defects . A few beauties of this kind transcend whole volumes of faultless mediocity . "
Tried by such a test , Byron must be regarded as the poet among lords , and the lord among poets . A Leaf from tub Annals of A SaoEitAKEft ' a Gausbt .
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the City Coroner , held an inquest on the body ot Mary Greene , an interesting female , aged 1 C years . A fellow servant deposed that shortly after nine o ' clock on Friday morning , upon going into theOToro room , saw deceased suspended from the water-pipe . There was a ladder near . She had evidently got upon the ladder , and tied the rope by which she was suspended to the pi pe , and afterwards thrown the ladder down . She was quite dead . Can't say who her sweetheart was . Knew she had one , as she had told witness she was very fond of him , and that she could not exist without him . In reply to a question from the Coroner , Mr . Brown , surgeon , said deceased had been recently seduced- —City policeman . 045 ,
said he was on duty in St . Mary Axe on Friday afternoon , when a . person at Mr . Medona ' s printingoffice asked him if it was true that a young woman liad hung herself . Witness replied in the affirmative . The person then said , "My reason for asking you is because one of our men has been boasting that he took her out on Tuesday last , and seduced her . " Witness had made inquiry , and found tbat deceased was eut on Tuesday with a man of the name of Bowen , who is a compositor . —Catherine Knight , St . Mary Axe , knew deceased . Saw her last alive on Thursday night , when she came to witness ' s shop . She said she was very much distressed in inind . n itness asked her the reason , when she said she l ) ji « been keeping company with a young man , whom suo sa id she bad since found to be a married man . 1 nav something had occurred which would prevent Jicr here
from seeing her parents again . —The Coroner sent for the man Bowen . Upon his arrival , Mr . Payne said , I have sent for you that you may , if yo ° can tlo so , contradict the statements that have been made . We are told that you have been in tlie habit , of taking this unfortunate young woman out latelv , and that you did so on Tuesday last , and twn seduced her ; and she , from fear of her disgrace , Has put an untimely end to her existeiice . ^ -liOWGii : J positively deny " it ,-By a juror : Have you ot « * duced her ? -Bowen ( smiling ) : To be sure I hwo .--Ajuror : Have you any lamily ? -Bowen : 1 « , i have three cluldrcn . Y -A juror : ^ 1 ™ % * d 0 ca . i . t&-sAi ? £ Ss % X ^ X } r ^* s » tsx ^ &tttisss * ** &
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MANCHESTER MUNICIPAL ELECTION . addrhbs to the ratbpaters . Ratepayers op Manchester ! You who feel the weight of local misgovernment , by the expenee of its machinery falling upon your shoulders , —you who feel , day by day , more burdens heaped upon you , in the shape of enormous rates , to carry on the hateful system of municipal controul , —you who hear loud complaints of gross maladministration in the affairs of your borough ,- you who see large and petty exactions made upon you to supply the extravagant exchequer of an aspiring
corporation , —listen to a few arguments , facts , and figures , to show how wantonly your Town Council sport and gamble away hundreds and thousands of pounds of your hard-earned noney , regardless oi your personal capabilities to meet their demands ; and , whilst these things are being shown to you , bear in mind that the men , the Councillors , who thus sport with your funds , are your representatives ( at least , so they call themselves ) , and Lave been actually elected under the specious plea of municipal reform ! —of cheap local government !!—yet have they , whilst in office , actually voted the following paymentsfrom your funds ; that is , the Poor ' s Rate ! the FIVE SHILLING RATE : —
JE & Round Noa Mr . Heron .., Town Clerk ... 1500 ... 30 per week . „ Maude Stipendiary Magistrate ... ... 1000 .. . 20 „ „ Armstrong ... Recorder ... 800 ... 16 „ „ Chapman ... Coroner ... 600 ... 12 „ „ Braudhurst ... Treasurer ... 500—10 „ „ Hereford Assistant Town Clerk ... ... ... 500 ... 10 „ „ Ogden Clark of the Peace ... ... ... 450 ... 9 » „ Martin Clerk in the Town Clerk ' s office ... ... 300 ... i »
Another ... ... ... 100 ... 2 ,, Two at , „ , „ , „ 51 X ? B , per annum . A Messenger ,,, ¦•• ... 62 8 s . „ Then we have a Treasurer ' s Clerk at 78 „ A Deputy Billet Master ... ... 25 „ A Surveyor ( Mr . George Shoreland ) partofsalery ... ... 100 „ With three Assistant Surveyors ... 182 ,, . Is it not monstrous that we should pay Mr . Chapman £ 600 per annum ( £ 12 a week ) , - and , at the same time be called upon to pay Mr . Rutter £ 277 4 s . 8 d . annually ? Well may our rates be increased !
Our Town-yard has been let to Mr . Rose for tlie sum of £ 60 per annum , and Mr . Shoreland estimated the value of such property at £ 300 per annum . What right have the Corporation to make so free with property which does not belong to them , but to the burgesses ? What business have they to let it for any other purpose than that of the borough ? Again , Captain Rose , of the Manchester Fire Brigade , haa £ 200 per annum and a splendid mansion allowed him by his Corporation ! Read Mr . Abel Heywood ' s speech , and that of Mr . John
Richardson White , on the subject ,. both of whom opposed the grant , agreeing very properly that the situation ought to have been offered for public competition , and the most eligible candidate selected , in preference to an unmatured and inexperienced "boy , " of some two or three and twenty years of age . For further proof , fellow-townsmen , of the paltry and despicable spirit of peculation which almost universally pervades the Town Council of the borough , read the advertisement of " sale of horses , " which appeared in the Manchester papers of the lTth inst .
The salaries exhibited above amount to £ 6 , 20012 s . ; but . mark ! these are only connected with the State Department : there is nothing yet said about the expenses of the Mayor and his Civic Guard ( the "Corporation Blues" ) , who figure proudly upon state occasions , at an enormous expense to the Ratepayers , the items of which are displayed below : £ ' JEpr . wk . 1 Chi » f Constable ( Captain Willis ) 550 0 0 ... 11 1 Chief Superintendant ( Beswick ) 350 0 0 ... 7 „ 4 Superintendants , viz : — 1 st Superintendant
( Sawley ... 200 0 0 ... i „ 2 d Ditto ... 180 0 0 3 d Ditto ... 150 0 0 4 th Ditto ... 150 0 0 2 Clerics at £ 100 each per annum ... ... 200 0 0 1 Inspector ( Archibald M'Mulle n ) 100 0 0 19 Inspectors , at 30 s . each per week ... ... ... 1482 0 0 43 Sub-inspectors , at 25 s . per week ... ... ... 2795 0 0 91 Constables , merit class , at 1 18 s . per week ... ... 4258 16 0 ( 15132 216 Constables , merit class , at I 17 s . per week ... ... 10873 I 0 J , 2 Clerks , at 20 s . per week ... 101 0 0 1 Constable's Clerk , at 18 s .
perweek ... ... 40 1 C 0 1 Coroner ' s Officer , at 21 s . per week ... ... 51 12 0 I Messenger , at 21 s . per week , ( son of Peter Hewitt , Clerk of St . John ' s Church —a respectable gentleman , and very wealthy ... 62 8 0 22 Supernumeraries ... ... 648 5 i 435 Policemen and Clerks , whose Clothing cost ... ... 2201 0 0 Lamps , oil , < kc , for Policemen ... ... ... 220 0 0 Hent and taxes ot lock-ups , with repairs ... ... 650 0 0 Conveyance of prisoners before commitment ... 126 0 0 Printing and stationary ... 280 0 0 Medical attendance ( only ) ... 75 0 0 Expenses of station-bouse .. . 100 0 0 Incidental secret rerviee money for purged spies and paid informers ... ... ... 100 7 0
Total cost of the Force ... 25982 9 i Deducting various sums ( such as cloth on hand ) ... ... 1180 0 0 21782 9 4 Add to tbis 2 Sub-Inspectors and 32 Constables , just put on ... 1038 17 0 Total ... ... 25821 6 4 This enormous force is kept up—for what ? To prevent crime ?—to catch thieves ?—to overawe the people by a sort of a military exhibition of marching and countermarching ?—to act as spies upon publicans and beer-house keepers ? What , in the name of heaven ! is this immense and expensive iorce kept up for ? What public necessity renders such a force warrantable . Crime is fearfully on the increase ; so much so , that we need a new borough gaol in order to make the system complete . Let us for a moment examine into the cost of the punishment of crime in the borough of Manchester alone : — Per annum . The expenses of the Borough Court amount to ... ... » ... £ 950 0 0 The expenses connected with the Quarter Sessions and Borough Sessions ... ' 11160 0 0 Maintenance of Borough prisoners in the New Bailey 3150 0 0 Add to this the coBt of the Force ... 24821 6 i
£ 11081 6 I The perquisites of the officers connected with the " Quarter Sessions" and "Borough Sessions" and departments amount to a sum considerably more than double the amount of their actual salaries ( £ 14 , 160 ) . Would it not be more becoming to expend this great amount in educating the working men of Manchester , instead of overrunning the town with a non-disciplined armed force , ostensibly for the purpose of using coercive measures with those whom folly and ignorance have led away from the path of virtue and morality f The entire kingdom of France , with a population of upwards of thirty-two millions , does not spend so much money in brutalising her population as the borough of Manchester alone . On the 11 th of June , 1832 , Sir James Graham declared the expense of the whole of the Executive Goernmenment of the United States amounted to no more than £ 20 , 812 ; thus , the expense ot crime , prevention , and punishment , in the borough of Manchester amounts to "more than twice the expense of the United States Government ! with a population of seventeen millions sixty-eight thousand six hundred and sixty-six . " There is a curious document in my possession , with the imprint of " Prentice and Cathrall , Times office , " affixed thereto It is in reference to the outlay attendant upon scavenging the streets , under the snperintendance of our tV-legal Town Council ! Wo make the following extracts , leaving the facts to speak for themselves : —
Per annum . 8 horses' keep , iiC , at 21 s , Cd . per week ( for Manchester ) ... ... £ 509 12 0 1 horsu ' s keep at 10 s . 10 id . per week ( for Salford ) ... ... ... 43 17 0 Now , tradesmen of Manchester , —you who possess business-like habits and industry , and who well know the difficulty of obtaining money honestly , does not this require looking into ? We arc payin " £ S , 18 G for cleaning the streets in the borough of Manchester , and only £ 175 93 . Gd . for the borough of Salford , whose streets are kept much cleaner . Let us dismiss this item with another extract , Tlie subject is a painful one : but the amount of local taxation is so great , and bears so heavy upon me , that I cannot , with justice to myself , remain any longer silent , especially when my means are squandered in the ^ aynient of extravagant aud uup ^ rited salaries ,
Corotfpoiflrcntt,
Corotfpoiflrcntt ,
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MANSFIELD FRAME-WOfiK KNITTERS . TO THE EDITOR OP THE NORTHERN STAB . Sir , —The workmen in tlie silk knotted branch Iiavc been in a state of great excitement during the last two or three weeks , ia consequence of Air . Orton charging Mr' Samuel Ward with having applied to Mr . Sheltos of Nottingham for work , and offering to make silk knotted hose at 2 % per day below the " Btatemcnt , " Thii Mr . Ward denied in toto ; but Mr . Orton declared it true , and further stated that he would no give any more silk out until it was properly cleared up . The secretary , therefore , wrote to Mr . Shulton , requesting him to in . form them if Mr . Ward had been guilty of such an act ; but that gentleman declined answering their letter . Hr ,
Ortan being anxious to have tlie affair set at rest , asked Mr * Sheltonif he would make the same statement in the presence of a respectable witness as he had done to himself ; he said he would , accordingly Mr . Orton fetched a Mr . Gibson of Nottingham , in whose presence Mr . Shelton stated that [ Mr . Ward had actally offered to make tbe above-named article at 2 s . per dozen under price , Mr . Gibson thereupon wrote to the secretary to that effect . This was considered sufficient proof of Mr . Ward's guilt , consequently a pablic meeting of the silk knotted branch was called at the Black Swan , on Monday ^ the " 19 th instant , which was very numerously at . tended , when it was unanimously resolved , " That a rote of censure be passed upon Mr . Ward for hi * mean and neferious conduct in offering to make work at the
reduced price 2 s . per day ; ; tnd further , for the information of those who wish to reduce our prices , and to encourage those who wish to support them , that we hereby rOHCW our Oft repeated pledge , thai we trill not under any circumstances make silk knotted hose under our present statement price . " 2 ud . "That the present system adopted by certain houses of taking 2 s . per dozen ia shape of frame rent , tends much to keep the trade in a state of continual coni ' usion , and encourages the practice of taking high charges , and believing as we do that high charges induces the masters to take out work at reduced prices , we hereby publicly declare that we will take the earliest opportunity to enforce more equitable rate of charges . " The silk knotted branch take this op . portunity of publicly tendering their unfeigned thanks to Mr * Shelton and Mr . Gibson for the handsome manner in which they have acted in bringing the guilty party to
ngnt , Sut , sir , the above is not an isolated case . The exhorbitnnt exaction , the grinding tyranny , of the bagmen of Mansfield is not only proverbial , but insufferable . Mr . Orton has been in the habit of charging 2 s . Cd . per week for his " two at ouce " plain silk frames , but now he unblushingly charges Is . fid . per . dozen , and a man making three dozen a week , as many men do , pays 4 s . ( ii . a week for his frame . These tyrants have entered the lists , they have thrown gown the gauntlet , and we will take it up ; we will neither give nor take quarter until tlie abominable system is destroyed . But the weapons of our warfare are not the sword , the rifle , or the cannon ; but truth , reason , justice , an unconquerable aversion to tyranny , and a firm resolve to be free . Let any man who wisbes well to himself , or to society , join the stun * dard of the National Association , and strengthen the hands of the Central Committee with their numbers , intelligence , and funds . I am , Sir , your ' s respectfully , Wm , Femuw , District Secretary .
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THE IRON STE 4 M . BQAT AND BOILER BUILDS ^ TO THE EDITOB Ot THE NOETHEBN STAJt . Sib , — -In the Northern Star of October the 17 th , ij . there appeared a letter hraded "Iron Steam Ships ,, ! Boiler Making—Injurious Effects of Piece-work . " ji writer styles himself T . C . a United Boiler Maker ,, ' states t )> at the letter is wrote by the particular desi re ' the Boiler Makers of tbe London District . What * ,, the motives of Mr . T . C . for not signing his name infjj ! to his letter we are at a loss to imagine , why couldh « J sign his name Thomas Corlett , as we knew he told ^ Corresponding Secretary of the order in Manchester , \^ if he ( the Secretary ) would look in the Northern StVt ^ the 17 th instant , there would be a letter o ( his ( Corltni production . But , Sir , little did the Correspondinit |) ec retary think that the letter would contain such fai , hoods , and little did we the Committee think that m man would be so base as to throw odium and disjrat upia every honourable employer in fiondon .
When the letter was read from the Northern Star , v , were struck with amazement that the London Boil > Makers had taken such a step . We iustituted an ; quiry , and found that the Boiler Makers of the Lotidj . district never authorized Mr . Thomas Corlett , nor ^ other man to write such a letter ; therefore we acqsj the Boiler Makers of Londou from any blame , and hot the individual himself responsible for his falsehoods . Sj we must comment rather freely upon the letter , soeiij that such rile and calumnious misrepresentations ai . calculated to set the face of every honourable employ and their foreman against us and our Society ; and at . calculated to create an angry feeling in the breast ( j every employer towards their men .
In the first part of his letter ihe writer states that tlj , Iron Duke , Ajax , Birkenhead , Windsor and Harrington Iron Steam Ships , were built by Thomas r « rnon , Esq ., ( i Liverpool , and that they are compared to those built « j the Thames as a splendid mansion is to an old dwelling With every respect to Thomas Vernon , Esq ., we mn . state that the " Iron Duke" was built by Messrs . Wilsoj , and Co .. and the "Birkenhead" by Messrs . Liard ay Co ., of Woodsiue . Again , as regards the keeping tigli the London boats by cement . It appears that Mr . Corfoj has a thorough knowledge of the nature of cement , wLtj he aays that it will not keep them tight in a heavy sej , therefore according to bis own theory they must sini but we candidly ask has there beun a single instance < u
racard of any of the London built . boats sinking in cos . sequence of the cement giving was I It appears tlit > Mr . Corlett sympathises very much with the Merchant ! and Lloyd's Insurance , when , he states that any infor m ^ tion they may require he 13 sure the trade will furnisl them with . We state without fear of contradiction that neither the trade nor tbe Society , ever authorized him to make any such statement . The letter contain some statements respecting piece-work" We must admit that piece-work in general is very injurious to the trade ] at the same time it is not by coercios th ; tt we can get i : abolished , it is net by holding honourable employers up to public ridicule , it is not by writing slanders and litj ntraiDSt them , that we can cet the svstein abolished .
In another part of the letter the writer states that th 5 only thing studied at the present time is to get the boati in the water , whether they sink or suim , Goci Heavens ! we blush at such an assertion , how coull any man pen down such rascality , and barefaced fall ; . hoods , and write as if they bad come from the BoiUt Mnkers » f the London District , we know not . What the celebrated Iron Boat Builders on the banki of tbe Thames will say to Corlett ' i assertions , we knoi not , but we beg most emphatically to assure them that neither the Boiler Makers of London , nor the Society , is responsible for such calumnies . We could comment at greater length upon several other charges which are as groundless and void of truth as those we have contra , dieted ; such as putting horse loads of dung , ashes , ic ,, into the boilers in order to make them tiitht , we are fullj convinced that tbe employers of London would scorn such an action .
Mr . Editor , Sir , we sincerely beg of you to inaert this letter in the columns of the Northern Slav of this week , in justice to the honourable employer ' s foremen in London ; in justice to the Society ; and in justice to GOO or 700 good men in London , whose names has been abused by Corlett in his letter inserted in your paper . We remain , Sir , Your very humble servants , The quarterly Committee of the Head Lodge of United Boiler Makers ( Signed . ) John Bobe&ts , Corresponding Secretary , No . 9 , George-st ., Hulme , Manchester . October 26 . 1 S 4 C .
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« THE NORTHEBN STAR . October 31 , 1 ^
Suicide Through Seduction.—On Friday Night.
Suicide through Seduction . —On Friday night .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 31, 1846, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1390/page/6/
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