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      , In reply to the invitation of my friend , Hesr KAT , to attend the meeting at Bannoclcburii , on the 26 tli . of August ,. ^ beg to say that , all other business being laid aside , I will have great-pleasure in making one of thocongregation on . the occasion , ' 'when I shall hope to' find the Scottish mind of [ the ' present day , as energetic as in those days , of which' Bannockburn will . remind : them . , .. ; .,, -., . ... . , ;¦ ¦ ¦' ¦¦ Feargus O'Connor .

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      Hn . Bknest Jones . —All letters and communications for Mr . Ernest Jones to be directed for him , during his absence from toivn , to 62 , Queen ' s-road , Bayswater , : London ; -... ¦ : „ ¦ . - . . ¦• ' ¦ ¦ ; . ,: ' . Nottingham . —Mr . J . Sweet begs to acknowledge the re-... oeipt of the following sums ( sent herewith ) viz . — . ForWlNDiNG-tipPDND-Mr . Cox , 3 d ; Mr . Balton , 2 d ; Mr . Mellors , is ; Mr . Elsonj 6 d Mr . Lee , ; ls > Wr . Barton . GO , —For R . H . HoPPEH-F «> m the Eagle Tavern , 2 s 6 d ! ™ " ~ T . S Mm LiOT-Froin tho Eagle Tavern , 2 s 6 d . - ' " * f M DouAM ,. —We ; aro . requested f to state that Dr . MDouiill has removed to Ashtonjhis address in future . will be ¦ " , Park Parade , Ashton-under-Ljno . " Having a

      Board of flealth to attend to , Dr . M'Douall eannot , at present , accept invitations to lecture , or attend public meetings . Friends disposed to assist Dr . M-DoualUn ¦ ¦ hi 3 effort to establish ; himself in his own profession will ; obVge by . forwarding wry pecuniary aid intended for that . purpose tothe care of Mr . Aitkea , sehoolmaster . Ashton' under-Lyhe . "" ' ' ¦ The Ucet Fond , —H . Whs , Secretary , acknowledges the ¦ following Subscriptions : —City Ladies Shoemakers , per -Greenslade ; £ 2 ; Mr . Layton ; « d . '; Mr . Farey ' s book ' ^" B an ^ Queen , : 7 s ; 5 d . ; , Collected , John-street , ' July , 2 nd , 3 sMi ; K . Farey , 6 d . ; J . Davies . iCd . jiGiDavies , fid . ; J . Norton , fld . . .. ...,,. -, .. ; .-. ' . J . J . L ^ -ileceived . ' ¦ ¦ . ¦ r . ., ¦ ¦ .: .

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      PREVENTION OF COLLIERY murders . .. ¦ ;;¦ . At the very moment that the lordly and wealthy owners of Coal Mines are engaged in the attempt to defeat an efficient plan of Government inspection , for the purpose of preventing accidents in Coal Mines , a timely and terrible warning to the Legislature of the necessity for such a mea sure has occurred . On Tuesday morning , out of twenty persons who descended Mr . Sneden ' s " pit , "' at Commonade , near Airdrie , nineteen perished in . stantaneously . " Allof a sudden a terrific explosion occurred , " which not only caused

      this appalling loss of life , but " shattered and destroyed all the implements in the pit . " One man alone escaped ., He was standing near the bottom of the shaft when ho heard the explosion , and suddenly threw himself down , to allow the fiery storm to pass over . On rising he found the buckets which communicated with the surface shattered , but finding a piece of wood , he inserted it in the links of the chain , aud having given the signal , was drawn up alive , but . incapable of giving any distinct account of { the cause of a catastrophe , by which the whole of the party with which he descended the pit a few minutes before were converted into a heap of dreadfully . charred , disfigured , and mutilated corpses . - ¦

      ; -l « or nearly twenty years this subject has been under the consideration of the Legislature . Frequent inquiries have been made , and " blue books " compiled on tho subject , in which the extent of the evil , and the imperative necessity for Legislative interference were distinctly enunciated , and strongly enforced . But apathy on the owe hand , and selfishness on the other have , heretofore , combined to prevent anything like an earnest attempt to carry out these recommendations ; and , not theleastiiifluential cause of this' lamentable delay has been tho want of any combined and determined movement on the part of the operative miners themselves .

      Of late , years , however , they have shown themselves alive to the paramount importance of a question which affects not only their own lives and safety , but the welfare of their wives and children , who by . these sudden and desolating explosions are liable at any moment to be rendered widows and orphans , and to be thrown on the cold charity of the Poor Law officials . A bill providing for the Inspection of Coal Mines was accordingly prepared and brought into the House of Lords by Earl Carlisle , who , in his speech , outlined the nature of tho evil against which he wished to provide and the

      , very moderate nature of the provisions of the measure itselfi . The noble lord was peculiarly desirous to conciliate the extensive owners of coal mines , to whom he addressed himself ; but his bland tone , and really amiable disposition , did not avert a storm of lordl y indignation at the bare idea of such an interferance with the rights of capital as was involved in the proposed measure . Lord Londonderry might have been a Manchester mill-master for the nonce , so warmly did he expound and defend , the Canons of the devilish gospel of Political Economy , which makes property everything , and man nothing .

      The objects of the bill , as originally proposed , were to provide for a due inspection of the mines , by officers appointed by the Government " at all reasonable times ; " to give these Inspectors the power of reporting to Government where they found the ventilating , and other working arrangements of the mines were deficient , and to require the preparation and production of proper and complete plans and sections of the whole of the works ; wherever such plans and sections do not now oxist . It will be seen , therefore , that the Inspectors were , precluded from any direct or personal

      interference , However immmentthe danger might be ' . They were rigidly restricted to a report to the Home Office , and a statement to the coal master , as . to the nature of the defects they ha&observed . They had no power whatever to enforce any immediate remedy bv which . an ^ accident might be prevented ' and thus the Capi ahst was left to his own discrete -ii ! ° i n ? would " * ° what he liked with his own , " by working the pit without the necessary precautions , after he had received ; warmng from the Inspector that it was dangerous to do so ..

      If he chooso to . disregard these warnings however , there was one clause which would have brought such conduct under the purvein of th daw . ' Hitherto it is well known that Coroners inquests on colliery accidents have beeathQ wst wntanptiWe ana Mow of all

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      '&bckerie ' s ^ & jury , ' s ^ denly ' assembied , hears ftswitn ^ whom have a direct interest in smothering inquiry ; They , one and all ; swear ( of course ) that the pit . was in'the very best working conditionthat they , cannot form the least-idea how the accident happened , unless ^ ' io . AM , it ms through the . carelessness , of the men themselves The coroner sums up , and the jury forthwith return a verdict of " Accidental Death ; " and there the matter restsi" The ; pitmen are murdered by the neglect , of proper precaution on the part , of the owners of the pits , and then themurderera and their agents malign their victims , and charge 5 them with what in fact amounts to deliberate suicide ' . ' : :

      To put an end to such juggling tricks as these , the fifth clause of the original bill provided that no inquest should be held without two days previous notice to the Home Secretary . This would have enabled the Inspector for the . district to have attended the inquest , and if any report had been made and disregarded ' with veBpeotto a pit which was afterwards the scene of an accident , to have brought home the blame of such accident to its real authors . . ( This clause was , in fact , the only , efficient

      protection to the pitmen contained in the bill .. It would have substituted a bonafide for a sham inquest . ; It . would' have ' compelled the coal masters to pay attention to ,, and . to act- upon thereports of the Inspectors , ! at the risk of being found guilty of manslaughter , or culpable homicide ;'"• The proprietors of mines in the tipper Housed succeeded' in sinking it out , and if it is not restoredby the Commons , the bill . will be almost useless ; practically , we may say entirely bo . r

      As further indications of the ^ animus by which the Lords were actuated , we ' ma ' y notice thai the original second clause gave the inspectors the power of visiting the pits at all reasonable timeB . The Lords have added the words , " so as not to impede nor obstruct the working of the 66115617 . " Now , it appears that the Inspector cannot go down into a pit when the work is going on—the only useful time for him to do so—without in some degree impeding the work , It is cleai \ that if tho machinery is employed in lowering and raisiug the Inspector , it cannot be at the same time hoisting up tubs

      of coal . ; : ; His going down at all , therefore , may , under this proviso , be legally objected to by any adverse overseer or managpri . True , the Inspector , when once down , will not in terfere in the slightest degree with the people at work ;; but-the very fact of his descending at all will , 'l or tho time being , stop the sending of coals to the " bank ;"• and , as Inspectors will no doubt bo looked upon with anything but friendly eyes in . ' general , ' , we ar e not goingtoo far in anticipating that the whole machinery of the Bill , if it ever passes into law , will , in very many cases , be rendered a

      mere capiit mortuiirm The Inspectors will be there , but they will only be allowed to perform their ¦ duties on the sufferance of capricious , adverse , obstinate , or interested proprietors and managers . If the bill passes in this shape , it will scarcely be worth the paper it is printed upon . A fine of £ 10 is to be imposed on any oae whoobstructs the Inspectors ; but a managei * , who has refused to allow an inspection , on'being summoned for that refusal , will always be able to point ' to the words we have quoted as a sufficient justific ation ; and when we remember the intimate relations which in

      a coal mining district subsist betweencoal masters and " Justices of the Peace , " we may bo pardoned for remembering the Scotch proverb , that " hawks dinna pike but hawks ' e ' en . " The £ 10 fine will be as great a sham as the coroners'inquests . But even in the case of the fines nominall y imposed , something more than we find in the bill is heeded to make them real . Thore are two penalties imposed—one not exceeding £ 20 , and another' aot exceeding £ 10 . But , i \ s no

      minimum'is fixed , it ' will be in the power of the magistrates ; , who are almost all colliery proprietors , to make the fine so light that the party convicted will laugh at it . There is nothing to prevent the magistrates from fixing it at a shilling in one case , and sixpence in another . The Miners' deputation , now in ' London , ask—we think most justly—that a minimum of £ 10 should be fixed in the case of the £ 20 penalty , and that not less than £ 5 be levied where parties haye rendered themselves liable to a fine of £ 10 . ¦¦ ¦

      If Parliament is to legislate at all oh this subject , let it be in good faith ; the mere fact of its having been ; taken up at last , after long delay , proves that its importance can no longer be denied , or the necessity for dealing with it evaded . In the speech of the Earl of Carlisle , however , " we find the extent of the evil very inadequately stated . According to his lordship , upwards of 100 persons perished by these explosions in 1845 ; in 1846 , 35

      per-80 ns ; in 1847 , 73 persons ; and in 1849 , 79 persons . Had these numbers been multiplied seven or ten fold , ' they would have been nearer the truth . The following table of deaths by accidents in coal mines in thefirstfive months of the present year , and which has been carefully compiled from the columns of the Mining Journal , will show the wild waste of life which actually takes place under the present system : — ¦ ¦ ¦ ACCIDENTS IN MINES , TAKEN FROM THE "MlNTCfJ JOURNAL , " FROM JANUARY 5 th to MAY 25 tu So

      m a ¦ ^ o < S C ° «_ j u 5 ; & w s igl ° £ . § . 8 ¦ , W < 01 w Januarys .... 18 1 k ~ ... V- i » 3 " 1 * . » H » » 3 .. .. 3 Feb 2 2 2 » ¦ J ' 2 ¦ > 16 .... 4 . 5 1 2 3 15 „ 23 .... „ 1 1 2 1 March 2 .... 1 10 4 „ 2 17 ' , ' , ig !!!' . 10 1 5 „ 4 as ¦ - ¦ S "" " 1 I » f 8 1 , oil .... „ 4 4 1 9 April 6 .... 4 „ 3 1 8 .. ¦ 13 .... 3 6 S „ it : „ 20 .... 7 3 2 2 A \ ..: 27 .... 2 2 5 4 13 Maj 4 .... 1 2 1 , ' 4 8 .. 11 .... 1 > , 6 „ 1 8 . 1 . 18 .... ,. 4 „ „ 4 8 .. 25 .... 2 ,, l ^ ^ jj 1 ^ 4 _ . 83 47 58 2 1 35 195

      Wo have no doubt that numerous other cases have occurred which have , from various causes , escaped publicity , ; but here we find in ess than five months , a total loss of nearlv two hundred lives from causes which , we have no hesitation m saying , are every one of them ^!!^ ^ ^' ^ eed , oWtocon \ rS tlienumberof accidents

      . that takeKT h mi ofthis country with those which occur inthose of Mulhiem , tho most fiery mine on the Continent , h order to see the J 25 l £ of our past neglect , and the imperative ne S aj ^^ ist cxr i sxaS one m ° ne . hundred persons . What i 8 the cause of tbsstarttingdifference ? Whv . « £ !

      rgia Governmental inspection has been instituted in ; the ; one case , while , the capitalists have bee ^ allowed to m ake money in the other , heedless of the wholesale slaughter and misery caused by their reckless and heartless conduct . ; : ¦ ¦ ; -. ) Vo earnestly hope that the defects we have pointed out in the bill , as sent down from the Lords , _ willberemedied , and tha t a foundation may thus be laid this session , fop measuZ which wm still further protect W lSsTa b dy of men , to whom this country is m « ZJ eu to

      u ^ man any other class of workers Our manufacturing and mercanfiu J f ' restsuponour coafand SS nes ST whose labours 8 et iu moSf m&' °

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      Great Britain knownjin every portion of the habitable globe , deserve permanently the protecting carS of the ^ State , while pursuing their arduous and trying , but most valuable avocation . ¦' " ' > ^

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      HOW THE ! POOR ARE MADE AND ; KEPT POOR .

      It will ) be remembered , that Mr . Siakey succeeded , in the early part of the Session , in obtaining the appointment of a Select Com * mittee to consider and suggest means of removingobstacles , and giving facilities to safe investments for the savings of the middle and . working classes . . The importance of such an inquiry must be obvious to all who have given the subject the slightest consideration . In no other country in ; Europe has . there been a more palpable and deplorable absence for

      facilities for safe and attainable investments for frugal and prudent persons of small incomes than in England . The whole tendency of our Legislature has been to encourage the accumulation of vast fortunes in the hands of the few , and to discourage , in every possible way , the desire or the habit of self-helpful foresight and independence among the great mass of the community . Indeed , ' with the exception of the Savings Banks , it is only very recently that Parliament recognised the existence of person ^ ' or attempted to . give them any

      protection whatever . By the Friendl y Societies Act , a' timid and temporising provision was made , ; through ; the means of which a small number of-persons might ; under great restrictions and difficulty , obtain protection to a very limited extent ; but as soon as the Government saw that the working classes were availing themselves , in large numbers , of a stray expression in a clause of that act , to combine their . eavinga for the purpose of purchasing real' property , the act was at once rendered more stringently prohibitive ' of their attempts to raise themselves in the social . scale . The oligarchy who rule us , are determined , as far as in them lies , that the ' industrious , classes of England shall be socially , as well as politically , BlaveSi As 1 to the Savings . Banks , we have frequently shown how they have acted as a cunningly contriyed piece of machinery to induce the slaves _ 'tp ; ' provide the oligarchy with the means of rivetting their own chains . It is very doubtful indeed , if the Government of this couhlxy . could have maintained its hostile attitude to progresaive political and financial reforms in the manner , it Has done for the last

      fifteen or sixteen years , if it had not had the 30 , 000 , 000 . investedwitli . the Sayings Banks to trade upon . ; ,. ;' Recefit events have shown the worthlessness of the securities these institutions were supposed to offer to depositors , atid . the . alterations ; proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer , are not such as to cause any increase of confidence on the part of the labouring classes . Limited as were the , benefits derived from them , under their best aspect , they will be still more attenuated in future . ¦ .:.. . 1

      : In any case , however , neither Savings Banks nor Friendly Societies present -what ia desiderated . Th © Select Committee in the report they have just made , truly remark , that investments in land , or landed securities , are much desired by the middle and working classes ,, but the uncertainty and complexity of titles , and the ! length and cost of conveyances , together with the costs of stamps , place these investments generally beyond the reach

      of these parties . They recommend , as a remedy , the simplification of titles , and the shortening of conveyances , by which they think the greatest benefit would be conferred , both upon the owners of land , and upon the smaller capitalists desirous of purchasing land in small portions . The present system virtually shuts out the great bulk of the population from any chance of owning as much land as will bury them in .

      Upon one topic—to which we have frequently and earnestly adverted , as lying at the very basis of co-operative industrial efforts for the social improvement of the masses—the Select'Committee have dwelt very fully , and we are happy ' to add , they endorse theopinion s we have long advocated . The defective state of the law of partnership in this country is a disgrace to our jurisprudence . It interposes no barrier whatever to the concoction and perpetration of deliberate plans for swindling ; while it throws insurmountable obstacles in the way of any wellmeant associative : " efforts on . the part of the labouring ^ class to improve their own condition . ¦¦¦ •"¦

      The Crown 1 s , in certain cases , empowered to grant charters to limit the liability of partners . This power , seldom exercised , involves it appears , even greater expense than the only other course—that of obtaining an Act of F ^ T ? r J The P J ectors of the Metropolitan Model Lodging House for Workmen , had after great delay in the attempt to procure such a charter , to pay upwards of £ 1 , 000 for it . Many enterprises for similar objects were stated to ^ have been prevented by the same cause . If the power ought to be vested in the Crown at all , it should be , as the Committee recommend , exercised at a far more reasonable cost .

      One of the greatest and gravest complaints made before this committee , was that arisine out of the obstacles presented by our partnership laws to any bod y of working men who desire to combino their money and labour in industrial undertakings . The report states : — In some cases several industrious men wort ? iwl undtr regulations of their own with a small eaDitM ^ are directed by inanagws whom they choose «?» J produced are sold for their common benefi * and theiffi are divided among the contributors of enn ta ?»« S i 0 ht 3 iu certain proportions agreed to . P and labom < > At present the law affords no eftWtn ., 1 „« . „ 1 iiu

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 27, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1584/page/4/