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MOKMOTJTH . ^ ot mY . bt Wh oissais . —Henty : Nevr , aged 32 ? ° t « l in the calendar as able * io * esd and jja mar sea . a j ^^ ble-looking sort of *** -SSS ^ ii Dg , oh the 31 st of m ' ^ t it TTmchcombe , ra Gloucestershire , to Jl ^ mas Hiffgins Brydges , a forged note for S » ^ "SrtiBvfe be a note of the Bank of Eng-£ 10 , pn ^ ? oved that the prisoner-B-ent up to l » na- STat the "Wlncucomto fair on the atrove-Mr . ? ° f j » and was anxious to buy ahorse fflf nti 0 , fStleman had to sell ; bnt he having vliich t ^ = jsoner for a long time , and thinking ft *® Z unlikely person to buy a horse , was disfi »*« SSSf off the merits of his animal . There ind " ? inr man with the prisoner , and the latter tsasa no tBci for tliis person j , e wantea him . preten ded W ^ ^ tneir offerj and rode W ^ Jginn . a " was foJlovve < 1 fay the ?« soner ^ t ° ^ l ! lc door . The prisoner offered £ 0 10 s . ; to tlie ^^^^ anted ^ lO , but at last said if the jjjepro seca ^ ^^ mone yj fce wouid sell the pri so * 5 jj , e prisoner affected not to have the j , olseat *| - - ^ wOu id go to his principal for it , mone ?> aW \ T about 100 yards towards the fair for 2 nd WC ? lflpaVnrpo 5 e of getting it . The prosecutor ifc ept ! Xr I md observed that he wont into the vrf c ifnrsome five minutes , spoke to no one , fjir , swoa ^ aed and produced a £ 10 note , out of 3 = 4 * lf wosccutor took his change , and gave vhuto t " fl h £ 1 glance . The latter then said $ s Pnfnf . de nothing by the transaction , as he that he naa £ : ' ^ sked the prosecator to ireat Wg btforaa ^ ii &Q tQ t he ex j Leat of a su - , , Ursa , an m ber parted , and the prisoner afterwards iSt * i P liorse in the fair . In a few days the pro-10 ^ covered that the note was a forgery , and sec - LrVwirraat asainstthe prisoner , bnt he was ( jbtaw eo ^ j ^ ^ januan . Ia ovder to show ^ - / hT kncvr the note was a forgery , it was * J ? that « n the 23 rd of that same month of P ^ . pg ~ ed off another note , for £ . 5 , to a Miss ^ "itt a toper an d hosier , at Stockport , in ^ i ;«• and anothar £ 5 note \> n the 26 th of that rf . to ' a Mr . Woolley , a chemist , in the same jnontu i « ^ the officers Xicat from -Worcestcr-^ S " ™ Li-cst him at Birmingham , they were
r"l j by a brother of his , and as they came near Sfinn ^ here they had learat he was staying , he Zmc ost dressed in a smock frock , looked round , A b »« an to ran ; but they soon overtook him , SmXr the smock frock they found a complete ^ A of blnck . Be «» found " Guilty , " and a ^ rlous C onviction for felony at the Gloucester S ^ ns was proved agai nst bun . —Mr . Coofse then sddihat he was instrnctedto prosecute him for four distinct acts of uttering within a period of two ton m the town of Hrarth four & , notes .
, r anMnW to be notes -of the Old Abergavenny and Vonmon tn Bank . —IBs Lortiship said , * under the c \ r » zmstznces , it would be unnecessary to go on ^ ith those cases , and therefore sentenced him to be transp ort ^ for life . 3 t appeared that -lie had met ¦ oi th extraordinary .-success in passing off the iciveries . ofthe Old Sank in this couety . He be--esuf in Abergavenny , and circulated several there . % Mletbe coach stopped to exchange horses at the little village of Ragland , he contrived to change
tyo of them . He reached Monmonth by that coach ^ t two in the afternoon , and before-eight o ' clock , when he went off \ tj the mail , he had-passed Off upwards of sixteen of them at various shops tinder pretence of buying some articles , though all he purchased might have'been bought for ? £ 1 . In short , the forgeries on the' 01 u Bank passed-of by him and iis fellows within-a few days in this district , in which the notes <) f this bank are chiefly circulated , exceeded £ 2 , 000 .
BcncLAKT . — Henry Wilkins was indicted for fcnrolarv in the fesase of Uary Jenkins , at Usk , in this county , on the night of the -80 th of October last . It appeared from the testimony of the witnesses that the prosecutrix iept a public-house ia ; the town of Ust , in the parlour « -of which was a table with a draw containing a . Quantity of silver spoons , money , ^ nd other articles . Adjoining the parlour was the tap-room , where'the prisoner had partaken of refreshment on the morning preceding the night when'the offence was creumitted . "When there he had tbs opportunity of seains the prose- " cntrk go to the table to procure change for a ensioiuer . About'ihree o ' clock in the morning of the
31 st a carpenter of the name of Simeon Trotman , who was waiehiEg his timber-jaRl , situated oppo- ' site to i ! rs . Jefikins ' s public-house , hearing a noise in an orchard-next to " his yard , went there ani found the prisoasr standing near « table with the ' drawer hroken / and a silver spoon in his hand . A ; violent struggle ansued between them , in the course of which the prisoner , who was mech the stronger man , dragited'Trotman a considsrable distance , ' beat hina " severely , endeavoured by twisting his neckcloth to choke him , and thrust into his month a quantity of Kanure , "during which procesSj howthe
ever , Tronnan ^ ot prisoner ' s finger between his teeth and bit I : oiE Trotman , horrever , gallantly secored his prisa . The table , \ rith its drawer and its contents , wtich the prisoner , -sdien disturbed , was inspecting , were proved ^ by < 51 rs . Jenkins to lave been the sxaie that were in her parlour on tne night of the 30 & ult . when she retired to bed . The prisoner cross-examined the witnesses , and addressed the jnry at considerable Jength , but was found " Guilty ;' and transported for ten years . — Tbe learned Judge awarded Trotraan the sum of £ 5 for his gallant conduct .
The MosMOBsasniBE Bask Foreeuy . —TVilliam ilorgan was indicted for three distinct utterings of forged bank notes of the Jlonmoutksliire Bank , on thc " 22 nd Septentber last , at BristoJ , with intent to defraud James Pillers , Charles Tayler , and Charles 3 L Stock . —Thej ^ nry found the pristaer" Guilty , " and the Judge , in passing sentence , - said that the case was » clear , plot , and that unless-It was visited with severity no tradesman would be safe . It was clear that tbe prisoner was connected with a Birmingham gang of sbrgers , who simultaneously set ont at thesame moment to pass the forged notes at a tune when detection was most difficult His lordship sentenced him to 15 years' teansportation .
2 JVERP 00 L . The St . Helek ' s . Sayixgs Bask B 3 ? aui , tebs . — John Johnstone , aged 53 , the actuary of the St . Helen ' s Savings Bank , and "William . dbhnstone , . aged 42 , the " under-secretary of the -same bank , stere brought up for judgment on the -charge of having conspired together to retain aad use the monies of the depositors of the bank to dbelr own profit , contrary to fee-Savings Bank Act , ; to which ttsy pleaded " Golltj . "—The Attorney-General eaid , there was one ^ act of which his iLordship oqght to be informed , asd which did not appear on
the-depositions—nanwlj , that the younger ^ nsoncT ijad : oeen in his brother ' -Srserrlce from the age of 16 until the year 1 S 43 , whan the younger prisoner succeeded him at the bank . as under-secretary , jjad all tbe ^ lefalcjitions occurfed ^ before that period ^ His Jfidship , in passing seateace , said , it was distressing to see two persons : T 7 ho had borne excellent characters , and had moved in a respectable sphere , brought up to receive the sentence of the courMor having committed a misdcnreanouT . His Lordship then sentenced each to be imprisoned in Lancaster Castle for six months , amangst the first eJass mkdeme 2 tmntE
Assicig bt Two PoLTCESJEsr . —Two policemen , Sheridan aad Page , were charged with using a cutlass and mating a violent assaolt , at Bootle , upon 3 Ir . Bashaw , on the 22 ud of January . —John Kiishaw , timber dealer , Bootle , the prosecutor , sworn , said : On the day named I was at . the bouse of Mr . Hughes , publican , Bankfield-terraee , Bootle . Was rather drunk . There was a disturbance in the house . I w .-iB holding one ot the men , Sood , to prevent him fighting . The police were sent for , and I walked away aktue . I saw the two prisoners with Dodd in custody . They asked my name . and his , and then released him , Dodri and . I went fjack to the pablic-house , as he had left his hat behind him . "VTe then went to my lodgings . I heard a knocking at the door about
ten minutes after I had got home . J d / d pot go t 0 tue <| oon I was just then going to the timber-yard , l stopped at the stablerdoor to -listen if all was quiet , . Dodd followed immediately after . "Whilst I-was Ikteningthe prisoners came Bp , and asked Dodd to go along with them . I followed as far as my ewa door , and said I will go in . The prisoner , Page , thea struck at me with his stick , knocking off my hat and bitting me on tie bead . He-was about striking again , when I took hold of the stick and held it against his breast , asking him what he struck me for , and what he wanted . He made no reply , but commenced kicking me about tke legs . The prisoner , Sheridan , then came and struck me with bis stick . In defending myself from the blovrs Sheridan was giving , hia
r tick broke over my arm . Page then aid , "Draw your cutlass . " Sheridan drew big cutlass , and 1 received z blow on the bead which laid me senseless in the entry . I was confined to bed for a week . — ^¦ his was tlie material evidence for the prosecution , . ^ witnesse s called w ere Mrs . Caldwell ( with whom Ik Kilshaw lodges ) , the serFant girl , a B « gbbonr , Mr . Cookson , and Mr . llattbew Gosling , tie sm-geon . The latter gentleman deposed to the estent of injnry which ilr . Kilshaw had received v ^ v T- ae two k * Ee scaI P wounds on Ms head , winch did not appear to have been inflicted with *? ° S " - ^ - ^ S ^ t ^ iHans addressed the jury SH ^ SSrtt'&fiM
KKGSTOS . ISDH ^ iMEsr tor MA 5 SI , AcoBiER .--TrilIiam TriEg . % * !*>** , « . ™ jndieled for themaiisShtS Tho ^ PtUbp ^ -It appeared f the e g v £ S for theproseL " 41011 . that the prisoner was in the service of a bi ^^ f » ^™ gston , and on the 25 th tflastAugusthe ™ atBitton , oniu ^ ay home wtha dray , when i -oeeto ? with twe young women tothe wad , goingin vie S 8 ffle dj ^ ction . he invited
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tbein'io ride , and tbey sewpted the offer , and got upon the dray . The deceased came up at the tune , and he also insisted upon riding , and . after some demnrj'the prisoner allowed him to do so . - It would'seem'that the deceased 'was-TCry drunk at the time , and he began to abuse the prisoner , and inade ' use of yery bad language , and called him a liar three times . At length , after a great deal of angry altercation , the deceased jumped off the dray and challenged the prisoner to come down and fight , and , after some hesitation , it appeared that he got off the dray , and when he had done so he observed that the deceased had alavge flint stone in his hand , which he appeared to be in the act of throwing at him , but , before he did so , the prisoner snatched one of the iron pins from the dray and struck the deceased with it , and knocked him down . He remained insensible for some time : and when the
prisoner saw the consequences of his act , he expressed great sorrow and washed the deceased ' s face , and did all he could to restore him . The deceased was ultimately removed to Kingston , where be was attended by Mr . Ellis , and also by Mr . Roots , two medical gentlemen living in that town , and he died on the following Thursday from the " . Sects of the injury inflicted upon him by the prisoner . —Several- witnesses gave the prisoner an excellent character for general humanity and good conduct . —Mr . Sergeant Gazelee summed up , and the jury found the prisoner guilty ef manslaughter , but at the same time strong ' y recommended him to the merciful consideration of the court . —The learned judge said in passing sentence that , taking into consideration the imprisonment he had already undergone , he should only order him to be further imprisoned without hard labour for one calendar month . ¦
Ch arge of Massmcghter . —Thomas Day , 22 , George Beden , 23 , and William Clark , 23 , were indicted for the manslaughter of Eli Wing . —It appeared that on the nig ht of the 24 th February , the prisoners Beden and Clark had the charge oi a four-horse waggon belonging to a carrier at GodaJming named iiolden ; and that they were on their way to london . As they were on their -road towards Kingston , two men named Carter and Dyer got into Day ' s cart , and another man named Bishop got into the one driven by Ilbluen , and after they hud gone through Esher-gate , Iiolden gave Beden four-pence halfpenny to pay the Robin floodgate , which was the next towards London . The whole of the vehicles stopped at the Fighting Cocks ,
public-house , at Kingston , where the prisoners and she other men had some beer and gin , and'they set off again < ja their way to London about twelve o ' clock at night , and * almost every thing that occurred aftef that must be left to conjecture . The unfortunate deceased , it appeared , was the toll collector at the llobin Hood gate , and , according to the evidence of a person who lived in a cottage close by , about the time vMa the three -vehicles would tiave arrived at the gate , the noise of a Vio lent altercation was heard between the deceased and the parties . upon the road , who refused to pay the tell , and a good deal of bad language was trade 3 ise of , and shortly afterwards the carts were heard to drive off . Yer ? soon after this occurred a
polke-constable who was on dutyon the Kmgstonroad , and going in a -direction towards the gate , met'the waggon and the van coming towards nim , and shortly after they bad passed he met a cart driven by the prisoner Day , going very fast , and aoon after it had gone on , he observed apon going near to the toll-gate the body of the deceased lying in i £ he road , and he turned him over iand he died alaost immediately , TJpon an examination of the body it became quite evident that the death was occasioned by the deceased having been run over , several ribs being broken , the spinal < column also severely injured and the lungs lacerated , and almost ¦ instantaneous de .-iih must necessarily have been the result of these injuries . TJpon -seeing what had eccurred the police promptly went in ; pursuit of the prisoners and succeeded in coming up'with them at ¦ Wandswoith , and they were taken into custody .
; It appeared that some of the party were asleep at the time , and they all professed -entire ignorance of anything wrong having happened . 'When the rmatter was subsequently inquired unto before tbe magistrates , however , it sppeared that Day made a ¦ statement to the effect that when -he got to the turnpike at the Robin Hood , and : pulled out his . money to . pay , Beden , the driver of the waggon , called out that he had paid for him , and he then said he would not pay a sccend time . The toll collector refused to let him pass -through , and a . quarrel ensued , and the deceased-laid hold of his Verse ' s head , and he plunged forward and threw vhini down , and the ' wheel went-over him . These -were the principal points rproduced in evidence against the prisoners , but there was : no directtesti-• niony to show'in what -manner ^ tbe occurrence -actually took plaee . —The-prisoners were acquitted .
jtfERDER . —Thomas T > eany ,-32 , vas indicted for the . wilful murder-of a certain unbaptised male ciild bystabbiu ^ t it in'tfce throat ^ with an awl . —A woican named Efiza Tarrant was originally included in the charge , but the ^ r and jury- ignored the bill agaiust her . —The facts-of this atrocious case will be seen by the following evidence . — -Sanies Denny , ason of the prisoaer ,-was then placed in the ' witnessbox to be examined . Ha stated that he was eight years old . —Mr . Justice Maul put some questions to him with a view to ascertain whether he could properly be examined upon oath . He -stated that he
eould ; say his ABC , but he did not . go to school . Ee appeared to be ^ n intelligent ehildrfbr his years ; and the learned Judge eventually decided that the oath should be administered to him ,. and that his evidence should be taken . —lie was accordingly examined . He said , theprisoner is my father . . Eliza Terrant used to live with my father . We all lived together in the hayloft : at Ewell . I recollect Eliza Tarrant having a baby . J went to my-father when it happened , and told-iim to come home directly , as mother was very ilL and ? he did so . When we got bass I saw Eliza Tarrant lying in the loft , with a baby by her . My father took up thshaby in his
arciE . He then took iip . an awl . [ Here the poor child became much afiboted and cried bitteily , and it was some time before he could proceed with his testimony . At length hesrent on . ] My father took up ,-the awl , and kilted the baby with it . My father then took the child to Eliza Tairant , and asked'her if he should Bake a coffin for it . Before he said this lie asked her if she would belpto kill it , and gave her the awl . She . did try to kill it also . My father gave her . the child and the awl , and she did thersame to it thathe < had dene . I was very much frig htened at what i-eaw , and ran away , and when I . « ame back I found Eliza Tarrant in bed . — Cross- € s : amined : While my father has been in custody I have been in the Union Workhouse . : I could not say any alphabet when I > was first taken ito the
workhouse . I can say the Lord's Prayer . [ 'He did so at the jaquest of Mr . Clerk . jj My mother taught me the Lord ' s Prayer . 31 y father made thetcoffin the day after he killed tbe baby . I did not tell this story till after 1 had been in tie -wcrkhouse . 3 am sure Eliza Warrant did something with the awl to the babj- ' e ^ throat . —Eliza Tarrant , the woman referred to , *«« then called as a witness . She appeared to fceivery weak and ill . ' and it . was forcid necessary to Allow her to be seated while' she was giving her testimony . She deposed as follows : — -I ama ^ ingle woman , and for the last two years-I have been liviag with the prisoner ae his wife . He . was in the service of Mr . Moore , who was a farmer ,-in August last , ixzd we occupied cne-of his lofts . Iwas delivered of . a child in that month . Before I
was delivered I -had bought a piece of - -cotton print to make clothes for the baby , and the p risoner tore 4 t , and threatened hic , and made ass of very bad language , and said that I should net have the stuff to make up for the baby . This was about a month before the child was born . 1 had bought tbe prini with money of any own which I had saved . Tbe .-ehild was born on -the 16 th of August . On the mousing of that day I had taken the prisoner his breakfast , and when I returned I became verj ill , and £ OQa afterwards I was delivered . So one ras jresect at the time bnt * be prisoner ' s son , and I sent him iofetchhis father , juxd they both returned togetlier . When the -prisoner came into the loft , I was laying apon some hay with the child , and he
came and took up the child , and carried it to tne other end of the loft , and I saw him hurt it . There were several awls in the loft , and the prisoner took up one and stuck into the child ' s throat . I was lying down at the time . I saw the awl again the same day . Very soon after this Mrs . Trigg 3 nd Mrs . Dunford came into the loft , and the child was taken away . —Cross-examined : Prisoner bad been a shoemaker , and he used to mend hia own shoes . He used to make drills and other agricultural machines , and frequently mended the straps belonging to them . Before we went to Mr . Moore ' s we had been living at different public-house 3 for two or three months It was on a Sunday that I was at work upon the print , and the prisoner told me that Mr . Moore was a strict religious man , and that he should get into trouble if I continued at it . This was the reason
why he was angry . The prisoner came to the loft in a very few minutes after 1 had sent for him . His back was turned to me when lie went awav with the child . I wag charged with this offence myself , and I made a statement to the policeman who took me into custody . This was not my first child . I had another three or four years ago . when I * was in the Hartley-row union , Hampshire . I did not know the prisoner at that time . That child died of water on the brain . About a week ago I expected to be tried on this charge myself . —Several other witnesses having been examined , Mr . Justice Maule summed up , and the jury returned a verdict of "Guilty . "His Lordship having pu 6 on the black cap , passed sentence of death upon the prisoner in the usual form , at the same time informing him that he could not bold out the slightest hope of any commutation of the sentence . The trial occupied nearly ten
lours . WARWICK . Shooiko a Poucbuan . —Daniel Davenport ; age 3 28 , was charged with shooting with a pistol with intent to kill , &c , James Bead , at Wormleighton , on the 33 rd August . The prosecutor stated that l »
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August last he was a sergeant in the county police force ^' and apprehended the prisoner on a warrant ' forcnon-payrnenfc of money towardsthtfsupportof an illeg itimate . child . ' / Upon : the . adjudication being made by the ; magistrates ' the prisoner said , " some , one shall : pay dear for this . " ; 5 he pri ? bner when apprehended for the non-payment of the afrearBrequestcd Head to let him go to'his ' uncle ' s'house to get something to eat and a clean shirt , as he did not like . togo before the magistrates in his dirt . The constable assented ; and afterwards went some littlo distance further , with the prisoner , at' bis request , as there was BO shirt at his uncle ' si The other house was where tho prisoner ' s father lived , ne asked Read to have some drink , and said , " You
won't want to go up stairs with me , " to which Read replied that he must go whercthe prisoner went . Tho prisoner then took something out of a box , which he placed in his pocket , and then changed his shirt . He . then asked riot to be taken through tho Tillage to Southam , and to this Read consented . - The two then' proceeded towards Southam , and asked if the constable had not had a brother killed in the force , and Read ' said he had . A conversation then arose respecting a man named Newbolii , and Road said that he knew him , and saw him in a great passion ence , and that he thought Newbold would have shot him . To this the prisoner replied "He did not shoot you then ? " and Read saitl , " ' TSo . " They were now near to a canal bridge ,
and the prisoner repeated the question in the same terms , and upon the prosecutor saying again that Newbold did not shoot him , - the prisoner naid " Then I will , " and immediately shet Read in the left side of the neck . Read fell instantly , and on recovering his senses , saw the prisoner standing over him , with a revolving pistol in his' hand ; he said '' I ' ve got some more barrels for you , " and pointedthe weapon towards Read ' s head . Read held up his hand and begged his life . At this moment a boat came hi sight , and the prisoner ran away , saying , " Now I'll leave you ; 1 knew you weren ' t going- to take me to Southam . " Assistance was rendered , and Read was conveyed home , as he could not stand . He was bleeding from the neck " , ' mouth , and' nose . ' . " The surgeon who attended him stated that he had called
in other aid , but bad been unable to extract the ball , which remained , ia his opinion , under the right jaw bone , at the base of the skull .. Portions of the powder were driven into the skin . The wound was of a most dangerous nature , and Read's voice had become changed , from partial paralysis 'of' the tongue . There was also evidence given to prove the purchase of the pistol by the prisoner . —Inspector Sraailbones , of the same force as Read , apprehended the prhoner at Ludlow , in Shropshire . The prisoner was disguised , and had plucked out his eyebrows and cut off his whiskers . — " Guilty" on the second and third counts , hut "Not Guilty" of the intent to murder , —His lordship said it was a merciful view of the case , and sentenced the prisoner to be transported for life . —The court rose at six .
¦ .. ' GLOUCESTER . Mr . William Ogborne , aged 68 , a respectable commission ageafc , was indicted for havwiw feloniously killed one George Millett , at Almondsbury , in this county . —It appeared that on the 2 ist of September the prosecutor , who was a cattle-drover , was markin * seme « attle with blue atone , when , as a practical joke , ke marked Mr . Ogborne , who was standing by , on the back of his ; coat , and burst into a loud laugh . Mr : Ogborne turned to a farmer near and asked what the man had done , apon which Millett laughed again , and cried out , ** Ha ! ha ! old fellow , I ' ve marked you , and now I ' m <© ff . " He then ran a few yards , and Mr . Ogborne followed and came up to him . They both stopped , andrMillett continued still to laugh and jeer at Mr . •© gborne by grimacing at him with his month wide open , when Mr . ' Ogborne , being very much > ineensod , said , '"You scoundrel , you've marked me , and I'll mark you , "
and thereupon he raised a walking-stick he carried in his hand , and "jobbed " the end of it towards the-qpen mouth of Millett , but by accident struck him in the left eye , and made a wound an inch deep , which so seriously injured 'him that he die&afew days . afterwards . —The-prisqner being found guilty by the jury , with a -strong recoinrnendstion ¦ to merey , his lordship , ' -in ¦ consideration" of this recommendation , of the higb character . given to the prisoner , and of his ^ having been ' . seven weeks in prison , sentenced him to pay a fine of £ 5 ,-and to be imprisoned until lhe-fiue < was paid . -James Smith , aged ' 46 , was indicted for having , at the Forest of HJean , unlawfully" attempted todis-6 harge a gun , loaded' . wilh , powder and a loaden bullet , at John Jones , with-intent to kill and murder him ; a second < count > charged the intentss being to dp some grievous bodily-harm . —The jury found the prisoner guilty on the ^ eeond count , ; &nd lie wes sentenced to filteenjyears' transportation .
• 'TAU 5 TTON . Highway / Robbbby . —Joseph Britain , William Gunning , Samuel Bryant , J&hn Rogers , : and Samuel Rogers , were indicted foi * . having assaulted and robbed-Joseph . Wyatfc of a silver watch and other articles , his property . There were two other indictments against them for highway robberies on other persons . —Mr . Phiim and Mv . Allen weretwunsel for-the prosecution ^ Mr . Stone defended tbe ; prisoners . —These ' prisoners were five of a band of-desperate fellows , who -have for some time past infested the neighbourhood-of Bath and Bristol , committing the -most daring : highway robberies ; for ailong time-they evaded-the vigilance of . the police ,-but at last -were detected , and , as it will-be seen by our report , brought-to justice . —
• The facts ' Of ^ the . present ; -ease were -eimple . . It appeared by tbe evidence of Mr . W-yatt that on the morning of the oth of January he was returning home to Wick , a village -about six -miles from Bath , and shad to pass over JLansdown-hill . He was suddenly attacked by si-s > men ,- three of whom ' came ^ from-each side of -the . road . '(¦ Daey pulled him from his horse , and -beat him severely ; took . his watch , chain , and -aeals , and ' tother property from ihim . During rfche time that this was going on , Britain said , if he did not be istil ' l they would beat rhis ibraina -out , but Samuel Rogers interposed , told ; him to be auiet and -they should not hurt him . After 'thoy liad robbsd him , they-went away . j ? owell ,-. who was one of the six , waa-called as an apprever ; : lie stated that she and the other five prisoners had&een together at a village-called Honham the greater part
of the-day , where they had planned the robbery , as Mr . TRyatt . was known to be in Xhe . habit . ofreturning home on tlie afternoon of thioday ., the .-marketpay , ecery week . IFhey divided themselves in two parties ., but met oniLandsdown-hill . Hethen . gave an accounSof the robbery similar to that given * y Mr . Wyatt , and several witnesses were called . who confirmed h-im in some . particulars of his -story .. He had 2 s . Bd : for . his-share of the booty .. —Mr . Stone addressed . the jury-for' the prisoriere ., but they -were all found " Guilty , " Former convictions -were proved against Bryant and Gunning , and they . were transported for life . -Britain and Joha Rogers . were transported for twenty years , and Samuel Rogers for fifteen . —Mr . . Justice Erie ordered . e > xtra -expenses to be billowed , and also a reward to the , con-: stable , by whose vigilance .. the prisoners were brouehtto iustice .
- Assault . —5 ames iPletelier was indicted for-feloniously assaulting John Hyatt , a police officer , -on the 17 th of Becember , 2848 , at Batb , with intent to kill and murder , him . There were other counts varying the : charge . —Mr . . Hodges was counsel for 4 be prosecution ; Mr . T . M . Saunders defended the { a-isoner . —It appeared that the prosecutor , on the night of the 17 th of December , 1 S-18 , saw the priseaerand another man carrying a bag . ne insisted on knowing what it contained , but they threw it over the wall , and immediately attacked him . Another constable came up , andlattempted to take the other man , when Fletcher . knocked Hyatt down , and kicked him severely about the head and face , so that his life was in danger for some days . He then tnaie his escape , and was not seen in Bath again until February , last , when he was apprehended . —The jury found him gujlty of wounding with intent to resist his lawful apprehension . —He was sentenced to ten years' transportation .
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lt ) HI ' iCONMTIOtf " M W $ LJ&i > . : : ¦ . _ ¦ - ' ¦ • • ¦ QUESTION . " :: ;\ ' ¦ ¦; ( CondeBsed from the ^ Morning Chronicle . ) NEEDLE WOMEN . . OE- » .-THE- ~ METROPOLIS . ; STAY- ^ TIpHERS , SHOE-BINDERS , A ? D STOCK-MAKERS . .: .,. ¦ : ; , ;; . ' : Iprocumd an introduction , to one of the largest wholesale Btay-makera in the City , in the hopes of obtaining some account of the trade . Biit I soon found that my time was wasted in so doing . The gentleman assured me that there were scarcely any sfcay-stitchers resident in London . He could get his work done , so cheap in the agricultural districts , owing to the number of people out of employ , in those parts ; that he had scarcely any done in town and , indeed , he was loath to make the least communication to me on tho subject and object of my
visit . -: ' . : ¦ ¦ ... ¦ ¦ . - Accordingly , finding it useless seeking any information from the employer in this particular branch of business , I made the best ' of my way to two workpeople , who had been engaged at the business for upwards of twenty years ; , Thefollowing we their statements : " I work at stay-stiching . I ' ve worked at it these thirty years ; yes , that I . have , full . Well , I can ' t —and work hard at the work I am now . havingoaru more than 7 R a day . JS ow that is the kind of work , " said she drawing some drab jean ready marked for stitching , " and 1 can't do move than that pair , and half another , from seven in the morning till nine at night , and havn'ttime scarcely
to get a meal in the meantime , and I get Sd . tho pair ; and if they run very large indeed I get no move . Why , sir , at the outside I can't do above nine pair a week , not if I're full employment . And nine pair a week at 5 d . is 3 s . 9 d ., and that ' s my earnings at the . very outside ,-if I-work-fourteen hours every day for six days ; and sorry I am to suy Vm obliged to break into the Sabbath-day to make out W living . They find me in thread , but 1 have to find a candle , and they cost ljd . a night now the nights are so long , or say Id . " a night , or 6 d . a week all the year round , so that my clenr earnings at the very best are 3 s . 3 d . a week .- If I had the work , perhaps , I might manage as much as that all the year round , but I oan ' t get it ; the trade is particularly dull just now—I ' ve been very slack for this last month . I ' ve no book where I works—they pay
me as I take it in . You seo I ' ve done four pair this week , in four days ; and shan't hare more than two pair done by Saturday ; night ; so that my earnings this week will be , for the six pair , at 5 d . —2 s . 6 d ., or reckoning candles , 2 s . clear . Last week I did five-pair , and they brought me in 2 s . Id ., or Is . 7 d . clear . Taking one week with another , all the year round , I think I may say I earn 3 s . a week , and that is to the full extent as much as I do ; or , reckoning candle , lean safely say I don't make more than 2 s . Cd . clear all the twelvemonth through . I'm just able to raise a cup of tea , and that ' s ' as much as lean do out of it . I have my work direct from the Bhop . They only employ ; the
journeywomen in the stay trade . ' There ' s no second-hand or piece mistresses in London . There's plenty there round about Deptford and Greenwich that has the work out so many gross at a time , and employs a number of young women .- Borne ofthe old Greenwich perisionera work at stay stitching for some of them . The parties has it down in bagfitls . I once used to have my work second-hand « d from a party as got it from the warehouse , : and she employed , I think , about nine of us . She used to get 7 d . arid-Ed , a pair at that , andshe usedn't to give us move than 2 * d . each pair ; for the children's we usedn ' t to get more ' 'than lid . It would take us three-parts of the day to ' em . All the stays were stitched with silk in that time ; but that is , I
suppose , five and-twenty years ago . It a eighteen years ago since I worked at Portsmouth for a party who is now one of the lai ^ est wholesale dealers in London , and all he gave me was 3 d . a pair . They was stitched with blue sotton . I 'don't think he gives even so much now down there , I worked for anclther party , who gave me only seven fardens ; but I was obligated to give the work back to him . I was starving as 1 am now , but I ' m sure it was vorsethen . I can inanage ' at least a cupof tea- at present ; but then 'I couldn't even get that . They are mostly stitched at Portsmouth now . They cara get it done cheaper there than T ? iiat they can here , owing to the sailers' wives ,-roand about there I suppose . Yes , it must be something like that , for
no one can get attiving at it . Tho party as I spose of , who is in the "City , got on , < f know , in this tore way . He got amumber of the poor peeple to work for him and made ' eth " all put down 5 s . each foefore they had a-sfcitch of work * Before you got work . you mustraiseitheSs . somehow . Well , the 5 s . sites in his bands until such time as you want to 'leave him '; if you werked for him for ten years it would be in his handfi ^ aU ' the time . The' reason why 31 was ¦ obliged to leave off working for him' was that I wanted iny 5 s . to make up som « rent . My . goods were threatoned to . be taken . That 5 s . I iiknew would save them , and I applied for it . It was on a 'Wednesday when I did this , nnd I couldn ' t get it until . fthe Saturday : ; he wouldn ' t give it me till then , -bo I lost my work of course , ' cause I
iadn ' t 5 s . more to leave . Well , it was by the number of os . that he got from the people in this manner he was able to launch -and take a large establishment . He didn ' t care -how many hands he ( took on so long as he had the-5 s ., and of course he had the interest of . it all . ^ Wliy , he had asanany as ihree hundred poor people : ; aye , more . It was said ho had as many as sevim husdred in his-employ working outot doors , and : ftom each he : had 5 s ., and that was . the cause of his uprising—that it oertainlywag . The downfall ¦ ofifrhe stay business was all through him and another . as lived close to him . They were the first to cut down the prices of the workpeople . 'They sent the work into the country , to get it dbno in the cheapest way they could , and
ha , ve always : been lowering itho price of the poor people . Thirty years ago -Lhave made as mu ^ h as seventeen and > fivcperice / for . my week ' s work * At the , very commonest I could / have made from 12 s , toiis . , i 7 « 'eok ; atid now-the \ most I can maJco is 3 s . i 6 d . Aye , that ' s to the full , extent ; and not that every -week . It's about , twenty ' riive years ago ^ eince the , prices ; first began to be cut down by the two parties 1 speakf of . Up to that .-time the pricos we had for stitching were about the same ' as those I had : thirty years ago . Till then ihe prices had re : mained about the same . "V ¥ e ^ ould make a very tidy Jiving out of it . But sinoetho two parties began the prices' have been falling and falling , and we ' ve ieen starving while he ' s boen a getting rich .
Now all I get is : 2 s . Cd . a week clew , and that is . ito keep me and ay family . I'm a mivpried woman . My husband is a plasterer , but has beoh out of work this twoj « ar « , ' All he ' s earned is ; 2 s . . for these last three months . Indeed , he ' s not worked for a regular ' master this two years . They prefers young Sands , and he ' s getting into years .. , He'll be sixty next September . He only gets a flying job now and then , and ihat ' s mostly from the landlord we live under . My eldest boy . gets 5 s . a week . . My youngest goes to school . Seven shillings a week is all we have to keep the four of us , pay rent and all . I pay Is . 8 d . a week for my room , and that leaves us 5 s . 3 d . for us four to maintain ourselves upon , or live upon , if you can call it a living ! Yes , that's Is . 3 | d . each a , w , cek m not 2 d . a day , to find ' us in food ; firing , or raiment . ' Oh , God bless you , lam
ready to drop sometimes , when I get up , I feel that faint arid loss for really the common necessaries of life . I don ' t taste a bit of butcher ' s meat not from one month ' s end . to another—no , not half a pint of beer Idon'tget . My husband is a sober man ., I hadn ' t a pinch of shun * for two days , until a friend gave , us a bit out of his bo , s . It piimo very acceptable , I can assure you ; it quite revived me ; that ' s all I'm extravagr . nt in . I can't say but what I likes my pinch of , snuff , but that even I can ' t get : We ' re never . out frpni Monday morning till Saturday ni ght ,, . If I ' ve got nothing to do It ' s no USO gbi . hg andniakingan uproar , about , for I ' m very certain there ' s no one about here has got nothing to give me , and I ' m very certain ihy opening my niouth won ' t fill theirs . And when I ' ve gofc work ; why I sits hard to it , and is glad to have it to io , "
The next elass of needlowomen ; that I visited were shoebindcrs . I found three working together in one small dose attic . I give their account of their incominea in their own words : — " It ' s a very- poor trade , indeed , ' said one of the hands , "Ah ! it ' s high time something was done for the people , for it ' s cruel work now . I make snow boots at present . I bind them—that is , I get them ready for the maker . The cloth and lining is cut out and given out by the warehouse . We have to stitch them together , make the buttonholes , and sew on the binding and the buttons . , ; I get seven farthings per pair , and find my own thread and cotton . That costs about a halfpenny per pair . We get about a penny farthing per pair clear when they are finished . Il takes about three hours and a half to do one pair . We can't earn more than 2 s . a week at oar work . A' person must work very hard to do three pair a day , but it's
impossible to do that every day ; and then there ' s thread and cotton to be found out of tho 2 s . a week , which leaves about Is . Cd . for our clear earnings . I ' m up by six , and don't leave off till twelve or one , and then I can't do more than three pair . It takes twelve hours' continual work to do three pair . The rest of tho time I must mind my children and my own affairs . I generally work about eighteen hours a day . We have been working at the snow boots now full two months . Never had a book till last week . [ She produced book of employer . ] Three , four , and five pair , or eleven pair were taken out last week , you see . Those I finished . And four and six pair I ' ve ha J out this week , in all ton . Of thia I have just done five pair sinc « Monday . I do generally about nine pair in six days , and a little less than four pair in three dny 3 . The reason of niy not having had a book , is owing to my master's death . His wife has recently taken the business , and she has given books to all tho hands employed ,
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I also bind common lasting Women ' s aide lace boots . By binding ; them : I mean I ; make them up W tirely , with ; the-exception of the sole . I have to make sixteen , eyelet holes , to stitch the lasting together , and . to bind them , " For this I get 3 d . per pair . ' I have to buy silk and cotton . It costs about f d . each pair of boots , id . "for . silk > ' anda -ld .. for cotton . I clear about 2 Jd . per pair . Can ' t do a paii * in much less than four , hours , or three pair a day at tho .. very outside , to work hard tho day through . But we can't keep 'that up . ' But the end of the week we seldom have more than eight pair ^ one—for getting them out and : taking them in all takes time ; and eight pair at 2 | d . clear brings us in' Is . Gd . a week as our weekly earnings . Out of
this we liavc to pay candles , and they como to Cd . a week . I ' know I burn a penny candle every ni"ht . That ' makes our clear gains about Is . But it comes in handy . It ' s a few halfpence every day . We have constant employment at the warehouse . We ' re never standing still . I am a married womea . I ' ve a . very queer husband . ' He ' s a big drunkard . He's a sawyer . I ' m sure if I have enough of him just to get me over Sunday it's all that I do . I canft tell , what my husbfind gees a , week , I never know , what he earns any moro than a stranger . After he ' s paid the rent I might get perhaps is . or os . of him , and that's to keep me , him , and the child . Formerly I used to work at the boots in the country . Then the prices were much better . That ' s
; is much as twelve or thirteen years ago . The . bost ' lasting' boots were Is . Gd . and some 2 s . then ; now , I don ' t know u-liat ' s the cause of tho prices coming down . I find it very hard work to live . It isn ' t living , We ' ve nothing but bread from one week ' end to another . , I know I shall have nothing to eat until I take my work in to-morrow morning . " ( ' : I do : tho ,, same work , " said aHother of the women at work in the same room , " and get the same , prices . [ Produced book of employer . ] I work for the sanio noraon . " Tho account was one , four and four , or nine pair , taken out last week , and four pair this . "The nine pair -were finished by last Saturday night , and I shall have finished six pair to-morrow . They are paid the same , and the expenses are tho same , so that my clear earnings
are Is ., deducting candles . It ' s a good job we don't take snuff—neither snuff nor beer . I am a married woman , to my sorrow . My husband is a pewtcrer .. Idon ' t know ' what ho gets a week . I only know I have very little of it . I have got three children . The eldest is ten , the second seven , and the . youngest three . My husband brought me home about Is . last week after he had paid the rent , and thatwas to keep him , me , and two children . Sometimes he . illtroats me . If he don't with his hand 1 know he does with hia tongue . He has the most dreadfullest tongue ever heard on . He drinks very hard . He ' s drunk whenever he's the money to be so . He ' s tipsy three or four times a week . I can
assure you that I have , been obliged to live upon my two , shillings . ' It is . not living—it ' s only just enough to say you keep life together . I have , ' indeed , sir , a very hard time of it . I'm ready to run away and leave it ( Very often . If it wasn't for my children I should do it . I'm obliged to work all dayi to keep my children . If I tako my work in the morning , and get my 5 d ., that must keep me and my children all day ; unless 1 can get a trifle of my husband at night time , and some days he don't bring any hoir . p . The girl ' s ten years old , and she ' s with her grandmother , Whonltake my work-in the ' clipper' holds' it up to the light to see if any of the stitches gape , and- if so , fie turns it on my hands . '' . ' >
, ¦ " j am a boot-binder , too , " -said the third hand employed there , " but I get a better price for my work . I do thu lasting , the cachmere , and the oloth boots . I get from 6 d . to Is . per pair . I get 6 d ; for the caehraerc and tho lasting as well , and Is . for the best cloth boots , goloshed . A shilling pair will take me a whole day to do ; and 1 can do two pair each day of the sixpenny ones . Out of this I have to pay 2 il . for silk and cotton each day . I take generally < 5 s . a week , ' and eavn about 5 s . clear ; but then there are caudles , und that ' s Cd . a week , so that 4 s . 6 d , is what I make , taking one week with another . I work ubout thirteen hours each day . I have no book . My master gives me none . I work second-handed . 1 get tlie same price as-the first
hand does hem-Jf , only I don ' t go into the shop . I am asinglo woman . Ipay . la . 6 d . aweekirent . I have everything to buy myself . I have been at the trade five years last August . I have worked for two houses in that time . The prices are . the same tomeastbey were five yesrs ago . I don't know that there are any boots paid higher than what 'I get . . i A shilling is the highest price that any shop gives ,. ! 'believe , for binding boots . The trade id rery . slack at present , and the prices are being lowered . 3 d . just now—ainepenny boots are being reduced to 6 d . Tho fact is , I think they wants to have niore profit out of the poor peopie—that ' near as possible . I can / just pay my way . 1 never
haverany meat . Shoes are £ d . a pair binding . We have to put them altogether and bind them . Aper son may do about nine pair in a day of twelve hours . —that would . come to ' -CJd ., and then the expenses would be about 2 d . for silk and cotton for tho nine pair ;; .-so that the clear ' earnings : &t this would be 4 Sd . * a day , or deducting candle , about 3 d . Children * leather boots are ii \ . ]> ev pair , or Gd . per dozen . : A person -can do about-eighteen pair of these a . day . Those would come to 9 d . The expenses for thread and cotton would be about 2 d . for the . eighteen pair , leaving 7 d . ; t day , or 3 s . fid . a week for the earnings , and deducting candle , about Ss . oleav . "
The next classof needk-wonien that I wended my way to was the stock-makers— . 'ind here -I found an instance of filial affection , and almost heroism , that would be an honour to any station . The characters of the parents , I should state , have been inquired iuto , and they are said to be wwrtliy , havd-woiking , sober people : — " 1 work at stock work . I have the work home . I work first , hand . I have 6 d , a dozen for 'Albert ties , ' 9 d .. to Is . a ddjseu for ' opera ties , ' ¦ is . 'Od . a dozen for ' shsvm pleats , ' or Albert stocksthose are the stocks with bows to them , and long ends . The Burlingtoiis' —that is the stocks withoukends , and watorproof top and bottom to keep the iperspiration from coming through—these are
2 s . ' 3 d . to 2 s . Cd . a dozen . Tho ' Napier ' s' stocks are Js . 6 d . to 4 s . a dozen . Tlis Kapiers have long ends hemmed on both sides , with a knob in the centre . 'Aerial' tie « are 6 d . a dozen : they arothe new-fashioned ones lately come up . Of Albert ties , I can make about eighteen in twelve hours , or nine dozen a week . The expenses on these , including candle , cotton , and siJk , would be Is . 9 d ., leaving 3 s . 3 d . a week clear . Of opera ties I could do about nine a day , or four dozen and a half , at 9 d . per dozen , or four dozen of those at Is . in the week ; the expenses about thesame , or Is . 9 d . a week , leaving 2 s . 3 d . to 2 s . 6 d . a week clear . The Opera ties are worse than tlie Alberts / for though there ' s more money paid for ' em , there's more work
nv ' em ; We reckon to do about a dozen of the Albert Stocks in about three days , or two dozen a week , at Is . 9 d . a dozen , or 3 s . Cd . a week . The expenses are about Is . 6 d . ; there ' s not so much cotton used in them ; the clear earnings at these 2 s . a week . Of the liuvlingtons I couldn't do more than one dozen in three days , or two dozen per week , at ' 2 s . to 2 s . 3 d . per dozen , making 4 s . to is . Gd . for the week ' s earnings . The trimmings and candles come to Is . Gd ., leaving about 2 s . Gd . to 3 s . for the clear gains . Wo couldn ' t do moro than eighteen . Napiers in the week , at 3 s . Cd . to 4 s . the dozen . These would come to 5 s . 3 d . or Gs . The expenses of these , candle and all , would be 2 s . leaving 4 s . for the clear gains for the week . . Of the
Aerials about one dozen could be done in a day , oi six dozen a week , at 6 d ., coming to 3 s . Tho exp enses are about Is ., leaving 2 s . foi- the clear gains lor the week . The-Napiers are about the best work with us , and the Aerials . and the Albert stocks about the worst . I keep one hand myself , and a little girl . I pay the hand 3 s a week , and the little girl'I .-pay : nothing ,- she comes with the other to learn . I give the hand her tea , and she brings her bread and butter . The expenses of the tea , sugnr , and milk , Ac , for tho week , would be about Gd . so that the hand I employ costs me 3 s . Cd . I can earn with the assistance of the two haicds , from 8 s . toOs . a . week upon an average , clear of trimmings and candles , and deduct tho expense of the hands
3 s . 6 d .,. I make about 5 s . clear of every thing . These , I think , are my clear earnings all the year round . , Sometimes I get more by working extra hours . I have made as much as 7 s . myselt by my own hands in one week , but to get that I had to sit up about three nights out of the six ; and some weeks I oarn only Is . 2 d . and some nothing at all ; that is when the work is slack . The work is generally slack at Christmas time and in the middle of summer , about three months each time , so that the trado is about six months brisk and six months slack in the course of the year . I rememner the prices of the Napiers being 8 s . Gd . a dozen . They ' re 3 s . Cd . to 4 s , now . The Albert stocks used to be 3 s . 6 d . to 4 s . when they first came up . They ' re 2 s to Is . Od . now . The Bui-lingtons I had 6 s . a dozen for . flow they ' re 2 s . to 2 s . 3 d . The Opera ties I had from 2 s . to 3 s . a dozen for . Now they ' re 9 d . to Is The Albert ties I had Is . 9 d . for when thev first
came up . t fow I have Gd . a dozen for the very same work . The Aerials I had Is . 3 d . to Is . Gd . for , and they cut them out for mo , Now I have Od , a dozen for them . Tho Albert scarfs I had 2 s . a dozen for only a month back , and now I have 9 d . The prices have fallen considerably more than onehalf within this last year and a half . I had all those better prices that I liavo mentioned eighteen months ago . I can't say what is the cause . I believe it is owing to one hand having no work and going to underbid another . I myself know that one hand offered to Trwk at » less price than I was getting , and that was the cause of my teing reduced , Od . first and , then 6 d . more per dozen in ono article that I make . I took my work in on the Saturday , and my employer offered , me Is . 3 d . for what he had before been paying me 2 s ^ a dozen . I told him I could not do the work at that price—I really could not live by it , when a person
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in the shop told the masterBtre would take the work at that price . ' Since , they have reduced-the samearticle to Od .- a dozen , and this has ; all been done within a month . One-of the ; causes-of the cheap prices is , the master puts , up av . biil in his . window to say that , he wants hands , whether he does pr no . This I believe is done , not because extra hands are wanted , but . that the master may see how many people are out > f work ,-and how cheap ho can get his work done . Thosd that will do it the cheapest and the best he employs , and those that won ' t they may starve—or something worse . In the warehouse I work for there are about fifty hands , mostly young girls . There are some married women ; but I beliave thirty get money by other means .- I know by their dresses that they dp not get the gowns they appear in out ' of stock work .: I think its about the
sumo in every other house . I-havo a father and a mother dependent' on my labour . I am nineteen years old on the 28 tU of February last . My mother occasionally helps me ; but she is upwards of fifty , and cannot see at night uorto work at black things . She broke a , blood-vessel nearly seven years ago , and is not able to go out to a hard day ' s work . , My father had an accident thirteen weeks ago next Friday . He was thrown out of a cart and broke his ribs , and pressed his chest bone in . His chest is now bandaged up ( showed it . ) Ho was a carter at a builder ' s before ; but since his accident his master tells him he is unfit for work , and he is now wholly dependent upon me for support , and ! struggle hard
to keep him and mother from the worKnouse . l was up for three weeks . I never took my clothes off nor went to bed for the whole of that time , so that I might support him and pay the doctor s bill . The only sleep 1 had during the whole of that time was with my head on the table . I was at work night and day j and now I find it very hard work to pay rent , support them , and keep myself respectable without doing as the other girls do . I have been obliged to part with , almost all my clothes to keep them . . Tho doctor said ho was to have port wine , and I used to have to give him two gills everyday . If I hadn't got rid of my clothes I couldn't have kept him alive . We have , been obliged to pledge one of bur beds for £ 1 as -well . But I hope to ue able to get on still . " ' " ( To it Continued . )
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THE ANTI-TRUCK . MOVEMENT IN STAFFORDSHIRE . —MEETING AT DUDLEY . Tho agitation against tbe" truck" or " Tommy system , " so extensively practised , in this part of the country ^ gains ground rapidly ; associations are in course o ' fvformation in all parts of tbe district , and oh'Monday-a large meeting for the purpose was held here , tbe Mayor in the chair . His worship convened the meeting on the requisition of nearly two hundred of the most respectable persons in the parish , and there were present deputations from Rilston and other towns .
The Mxior , in opening the business , expressed his regret at the . necessity that existed for their moving in the matter , especially as many of tho parties who carried on their business under the itruck system were gentlemen of high standing and excellent character ; it was , however , a system that could not be longer endured ; it oppressed the poor , and was unfair to the money-paying tradesman . He hoped that a vigorous effort would bo mado to lay the axe at the root of the evil . Mr . England , brewer , moved the first resolution ,
— " That this meeting regards the system adopted by many manufacturers and masters of paying wages in truck or tommy , as cruel , arbitrary , and shamefully unjust to the working man , highly ; lju . riousand unf ' airto the retail tradesman , and . no less to the honourable money-paying master , and being at the same time in direct violation of tha act of parliament , passed for the express purpose of preventing , this unnatural and unrighteous mo * nopoly , pledges' itself to , use every lawful and con . stitutional means in its power , in conjunction with other similar institutions in this district , to put it down . " . .
L . Lester , Esq ., seconded the resolution . The " tommy " system was , as his experience had shown to him , bad in every sense of the word ; and he was very sorry to have heard that some of the . yi ' osi respectable manufacturers ia the town had decko-ed that unless the " tommy system" was put down they would be compelled to adopt it in self-dence . Mr . E . Holmkr moved , and Mr . Cook seconded , the next resolution : — ' ? That an association be now formed to embrace the borough and neighbourhood
of Dudley , and to be called ' The Dudley Anti-Truck Association , ' for the suppression of the illegal , un-) ust , and degrading practice . And that the following gentlemen constitute a general committee for that purpose with power to add to their numbers , viz . : _ T . Lester , E . Terry , jun ., T . Badger , jun ., W . P . Parkes . E . Hollier , T . Haynes , E . Grader , E . F . G . Clark . J . Owen , "W . Self , J . c . Cook , "W Badger , J ; Bagott , D . Jordan , A . Patersor * . , T . Wood . T . Light , J . Rudge , "W . Harrison , aml ' S . Baker . "
It was moved by Mr . Graxgeb , seconded by Mr . Harkison ;— " That subscriptions be immediately entered into for defraying the necessary . expgrises of the association ; and that the Dudley and iVesfc Bromwich Banking Company be Treasurers . Messrs . Terry , jun ., and Hollier , Sub-Treasurers . Messrs , England , iun ., and Jamea Darbey , Secrets ? ie ' s « Mr . G . L . Boddington , Solicitor . " It was moved by Mr . T . Hatnes , seconded by Mr . Jordan : — "That encouragement , aid , arid protection be afforded to such honest and sober workTven , or other persons as shall give evidence leadins ' fo the conviction of parties offending against the jaws in thia behalf , and that money-paying masters ba requested to find employment for any such who
may be thrown out or work by so doing . " Mr . Linney , of Bilston , said that the registrar in his parish had reported tbe number of clrii-iren burned to death in a short time , whilst the mothors were waiting at the tommy-shop , to be twelve ; they had , however , now commenced in good eawiesfi to put down the system , and , he boped they would succeed ; one person had already succumbed ; md another against whom there were information ; tor penalties to tho amount of £ 1 , 000 , had intim ^ ed his " purpose to shut up his tommy-shop , and ho jiad no doubt but that others would follow . He understood that some of the iron-masters had three toned toopen shops in the townB , and by under-selling ruin the retail trader ; let them do that . All i hey
asked was , that the men should be paid their wages in money , and spend it where they liked , The inas « ters were trying in every possible manner to evade the law ; one method was by giving checks on \ jai : ks unconnected with the concern ; he hoped , however , that thoy would be able to beat them in that device —cheques for Jess than twenty , shillings had been refused payment by the bankers , and if the men ^ ho received such would take them to the association , they would sue the parties issuing in the County Court , and so bring them within the operation of the Truck Act . It had been said , that the procure of the times had induced the middle class to assist ; tho working men in this matter ; but if the iui < l < lle class bad felt the screw , had not the working nien doubly so 1 He understood that the iron-masters had already subscribed £ 600 to defend the informations-laid against them . Tho association with which he was connected had subscribed £ 1 , 000 , and they
were determined to have the best legal assistance ] available . ( Hear . ) That such an iniquitous system should be practised by the rich iron-masters wag contemptible ; it was no uncommon thing to meet one halt of these magnates in a splendid equipage , and the next half hour to see him at the toj ' mnyshop , mqasurinff yards of tape , or selling Iollypous or blacking . However , the association bad already worked some good : a poor woman told him ( Mr . Linney ) last week , that at her tommy-shop the price of soap , sugar , and other articles was reduced a penny a lb . ; and at another place , in consequence of an apprehension that informations would be laid , there was £ 300 paid last week in wages , instead of £ 50 , as heretofore . The speaker strongly advocated , tfce necessity of union amongst the working men , and further said , that they had received information to the . effect that if the present law was not sufficiently salutary for its object , government were prepared to assist them by bringing in another
bill . . .- - . > Mr . Harris , of Bilston , said , that the working men must help themselves—they must refuse to take the tommy tickets altogether , or if they did receive them , hand them over to the association , that the case may bo investigated . , The meeting was addressed by Messrs . Granger , Harrison , Cooke , and other gentlemen ; the whole of the resolutions were passed unanimously , and a vote of thanks was past to the Mayor for presiding .
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The Education Quistion . —A large and influential meeting of the inhabitants of Manchester was held in the Town Hall , - on Monday , convened by the Mayor , in compliance with a requisition signed by 500 merchants and manufacturers , for the purpose of considering the propriety of petitioning Parliament in favour of » national system of education , upon a purely secular basis . John PotW , Esq ., the Mayor , occupied the . chair ; and the hall was crowded at an early period of the morning ; indeed , for several hours before the opening of the doorB , they were literally besieged by the friends and opponents of the Lancashire Public School system .
So great was tne crowd tnat a very small portionof tho people in attendance could be accommodated ia the hall , and a second meeting , . embracing from 2 , 000 to 3 , 000 people , was constituted outside . Upwards of an hour having , been spent amidat indescribable uproar and coafusion , the .-Rev . P . Tucker proposed the adoption of a petition in favour of a national secular system of education . Tho Roy . J . J . Taylor seconded the proposition . Tho Bev . Canon Stowell moved an amendment in favour of the introduction of the religious element '; but after a long and very stormy meeting the petition was adopted .
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Re-building of tub Teupib 03 ? JERUSALEM — It is stated , iu the Berliner Allgemcine Mrchen Zeitung , that the Jews h » vo obtained a firman from the Porte , granting them permission to build a temple on Mount Zion . The projected edifice js to equal Solomon ' s temple in magnificence . Millions /?) ot money are said to have been collected for this purpose in America alone . A few Sundays ago , at a village moeting-house , not far from Melton Mowbray , a junior « 'local , from the latter place , in expounding his tex !; " . Darkness covereth the earth and gross darkness tho minds of the people , " defined the term « gross darkness" to mean a darknesji of 144 times ( or a gross" darker than dark , " a de finition which set matt of bis b ? arers laughing ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 6, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1568/page/7/
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