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Support of the rate-payers in general . Under Sash a grinding and shameless system as this , the feeling of independence . and self-respect must be destroyed ; and driven in the first instance reluctantly to accept the pauper dole , they will end by becoming : paupers in spirit and in habits . Our commercial prosperity , and its numerous modes of cheating the operatives out of ' a fair day ' s wage for a fair day's labour / is therefore co-ordinate with , and because of , moral and social evils s ' ^ ort of therate-payers general . Under
of the worst and mo 3 t dangerous character . It sanctions the destruction of life for the purpose of adding t » the dividends of the rich—it robs the worker not only of his wages , but of hope and eelf-respect . At the altar Of Mammon all the highest and holiest interests of humanity and society are sacrificed , and they who refuse to join in the worship of the « golden calf are stigmatized as anarchists and infidels ! Verily we are a wonderful people 1
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MONIES RECEIVED Fob ihk Week Ending TaoRSDiT , - Atiocst 23 xM , 185 L " . TOEfGUP OF THE LAND COMPANY . SECEIYED BT W . SIDES . ' .:- ' - ¦ . £ s . d . W . ff . Mood , Brighton .. .. ... 606 Bosina Jane Moon , BngUtoavi .. .. 0 o 6 ¦ ¦ ¦ •' . ' goTl THE IOBESTY fflBD . BECQVED 81 W . BUHB . - ' £$ . i B . Iundy , HuU- •• •• •• 10 , 0 T NATiONAL CHARTER FUND . tpsS ^^^^ J 1 !^^ ^ & - ' REFUGEES AT TURNMIli STREET . . Receive * by Jos * Awroxr ,-0 , au 4 Ar Jo , ae » , Islington
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MOTES OF TRAVEL AKD TALK . ( Concluded from 6 W het . ) Ana now having said my say about the dark side , let me Lave done with it , and turn to the bright one , Did I enjoy Scotland ? Oh yes , most superlatively ! I found warm hearts and a fervent welcome , which made me forget the Sunday bondage ; and the scenery ! it was so glorious , that I am trying to repicture it in my mind every day , and shall feel restless till I see it ag&in . The first leisure day I could seize I got into a steam packet and went down the Clyde , and then by rail , to Loch Lomond . A small steamer plies from one end of the lake to the other . It was a radiant eveningthe skv 80 deeply blue and the sun so bright that HOTES OF TRAVEL AKD TALK .
the dullest scenery might have pleased ; but here 1 was so gorgeous—that pomp of ' sun and sky and lake and mountaius—that , in plain mother English , ( for / ne words are of no use here , ) I felt as if emotion would ohokeme , and bid my face from the glances of gentles , lest they should gaze at me for a sentimental fool . I got ashore at the little Inn called "Rowerdrennau "—a very choice spot—and found two Scotch vrorkingmen , recently married , who , with their brides , were purpOBing to climb Ben Lomond to see the sun rise , next morning . Like all Scotchmen , they bad to consider aboot it before they fully made up their minds . I told them I would go , even ' if I went alone . ThiB served to summon their wills to a decision ; and it was
arranged that we . were to be called at one o ' clock , and commence the journey half an hour after , under the direction of one of the " guides ' kept at the inn . Everybody said whisky would be needed to give US Strength to reach the summit of the mountain ; and' my companions took it liberally on the way , and gave the guide , a poor Irishman , a very fair portion at sundry times . There was such an abundant supply of water , hOWeVOr , 3 S W 6 went along , that J declined taking spirit , either in going up or coming down ; nor did I feel that I needed it . The Scotch lasses displayed wonderful vigour , and got over the difficulties 01 the ascent as nimbly as any oho of ua . At the last spring I left Pat and the Iad 8 and lasses to their whisky and
water , and dashed on to win the top first ; Ah , the sly rogue , Phosbus ! he had just risen when I won the peak , so that I did not see him rise but only risen ; and there he was with his huge crimson face barred with black clouds , resting his chin on the horizon . Presently his undress was laid aside and he put on his robes of gold , and thenby the Titans ! but it was grand " beyond compare" to see how he lighted up the giant peaks of Ben Ledi , and Ben Mawr , and Ben Eigh , and Ben Yoirlich , and Ben Lawers , and a hundred lesser peaks , and how he drove away the mists , and laid bare the broad glittering bosom of Loeh Lomond with its'hundred islets , and nave ua a » Ui » t »» n +
Loch Long , and tinted up Loch Katrine , and showed us the Lake of Monteith , and the interminable lowland to the east ! The cold became BO intense in a few minutes [ especially aa I was wet through with perspiration ) that I was drinking in that draught of magnificence with the thought that I must lose it immediately , and never have it again —when one of my companions who had come up repeated the saying of a rough , ' strong-headed peasant , who had seen the same sight with one of his friends , " Eh , mon Jock , are not the works of the Almighty deevilis 7 tl" That was such a stroke of real poetry as made me despair of ever saying ought equal to it , about the view from the top of Ben Lomond at sunrise ; and so no more .
I left the lads and lasses , and descended , shivering with cold , for although it was the 29 th of June it was tout balf-past three in the morning , and we * were many hundred feet above the level of the sea . Pat was soon after me , and gave unmistakeablo signs of having taken too deep and frequen t draughts at the whisky bottle . ; 11 He was sure that I was a gintleman , and would give him half-a-erown J —an Englieh gintleman—and the English gintlemen always gave the most ! He had small wages —very small wages—and he took anything that the gintlemen plased to give him ! But he was sure that I was a raal gintleman and would give him half-a-crown ! " and so on—till he fell down in the mud . Five times he fell before we reached the bottom , hut he would not hear of my suspicion that he had taken too much whisky . " Och no yer honor ! " said he , "it ' s the wanto sleep , and the small wages yer honor ! I ' m sure you'll give me lalf-a crown I '
Let me not forget one most rapturous bit of scenery that I saw in Scotland , —for I saw bo much on the grand scale that minuter beauties might easily be forgotten for the moment . The " glen " of Campsie should be seen by every lover of the picturesque . The winding stream , the magnificent giant beeches , the grand waterfall , are worth walking fiUy miles to see ! By the way , the only new wild vegetable that I found in Scotland grows in that romantic glen : the wild leek or onion- it scents the air perceptibly . 1 have heard that it is found in England ; but I never found it there myself . Just as it waB in Ulster , I found the wild flowers , all over Scotland , were the same as those of my boyhood ; and looked in vain , with this exception , for a new flower . Even in the neighbourhood of Aberdeen , 500 miles from London , ! found none but old acquaintances .
Talking of Aberdeen—what a grand street is Union-street , —long , wide , and reguJarly built , and all the houses of granite ! It is unique . The inhabitants may well be proud ef it . To speak truth , I was not more happy in any part of Scotland than in Aberdeen . The town itself—the granite city as they call it—is a very noble one ; but the earnest , intelligent , and kindly working men by whom I was surrounded , and the interesting character of tbo four meetings I held there , rendered my brief stay of five days as memorable tome as some five weeks of other parts of my life .
The rich cultivation , interspersed with transcendant natural scenery , all the way from Glasgow to Aberdeen , ( passing by Stirling , Perth , Dumblane &c ., ~ all most beautifully situated , ) and again from Aberdeen to Dundee , render the journey , even by Railway , one continued feast to the eye and the mind . Dundee itself is an ill-built town , although its site is in the midst of natural beauty . Of all the rivers of Scotland the Tay is the . broadest and most imposing ; and the " Law , " or high hill above the town , affords a very noble panorama . In the cemetery reposes my friend poor Millie Thorn . I went and stood upon his lowly grave ; and as I
looked around , I felt that if poor Millie , now his suffering is o ' er , could be conscious of where he lies , ha would be glad . It ia indeed a beautiful spot : flowers bloom on the rich sward , the princely Tay stretches his" broad arm on one side , and swelling hills enrich the prospect on tho others it is just where a poet ' s grave should be—and a very lowly head-stone records that a "Poet" lies there ; but they have mis-9 pelt the tame : it is " Thorns" instead of " Thorn , "' and the stone is bo mean and small , that it compels you to remember poor Millie's poverty and suffering even if yon would forget all !
I found many highly intelligent and kindly men in Dundee ; but , to my great surprise , a considerable number of them were arguerej for the foolish doctrine of «• physical force . " I had not expected to find such people in " educated " Scotland i and in one protracted conversation , after mypublic talk was over , we had such a sturdy debate as I shall not soon forget . I so far forgot my philosophy as to be really angry with my friends . Zeal against their error impelled me into error . I rely on their good feeling to excuse me . If ever we meet again , and they have not then forsaken their old-fashioned doctrine , we will try to fight out the battle with a little more calmness . At Edinburgh , I fell into an equal and similar error . I must say so ; for 1
should not be easy if I did not keep " my heart on the outside of my waistcoat . " I really quarrelled with a company of teetotallers—real friends and noble young fellows though they were . But they seemed as I thought , intolerant , and inclined to dictate that I should practice what I knew I could not practice , without loosing my strength and capacity for constant labour . It is not the first time that I have been met in this way , and the recurrence of dictation—or wbafc I think is dictation—renders such treatment increasingly , grievous . Yet I cannot justify my loss of temper ; and when one of those young men met me next WSifog , and , with an expressive Io 6 k , said " you ought to have been the meekest !"—the rebuke was felt so keenly that I was heartily humbled .
From Dundee , Cacroas , thaTay , and through the finely cultivated and winerally-rich county of fife , 1 went to Dunfermline , Again , I was - welcomed and surrounded by kind hearts and intelligent minds ; and the " lions" of the place seemed to swell the list of remarkable historic sights I had witnessed in Scotland ; - From Glasgow ( in addition to my Loch Lomond trip ) I had found one day ' s leisure to go to " auld Ayr , " the cottage in which Furns was born , Kirk Alloway , and tho Brig o' Dooh ; from Paisley , in company with the poet Mitchell ( the comnanion of Tannahill ) , and several other friends ,
I had passed to Elderslie , to see " Wallace ' s oak , andthft hov » e in . which ( itis saidythe hero was born ; and , now , at Dunfermline I was in the Abbey where " Robert the Bruce '? is entombed , and among the stately and picturesque ruins of the favourite palace of many of the Scottish kings . In the house , too , of Mr . Paton , the Swedenborgian minister , I saw the richest collection of antiquities —chiefly from the Palaces of Dunfermline , Stirling , Scorn ? , Holyrood , Ac—that I have ever seen in the possession of an untitled person . Mr . P . a kindly readiness in showing his collection , renders the treat the greater .
' Edinburgh J how " eager I felt for the first sight of it ! But disappointment fell upon me , at first . It bad been mis-represented to me . Its . houses were not of the character that they had bean described to have-: so tall and regular that you might stretch a straight tod over them , and touon all their top ? Pooh V nobody had told me of the unparalleled r < f BWjo of its etto—ot its monuments aod ttwic
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S oSt ni £ Ua ^ nS ~ of e Scott monument ( the SanSc h . « 1 ? i n Britain ' ) of the rea 11 * ^ man an of the "Calton hill "—of the majesty of 85 eSaSfa ; i , , " ^ " Of the fining a ^ w ^ tt asf iJS tesnsisK Kve ft the ^ fm ° ¦ '& 8 tfeetB and S 1 * uare 9 > wn * eSs&iSass § SSS » f caSfhi m ° froe . «*> fcttew , I think , Inthe fh 8 < L «< m any Other P arfc ° f Scotland . Not their irm , IT guid « ™ cn dis P ° sed to relax AbeJdS rIt Bdinbargh any " more than in Aoeraeen , Dundee , or Glasgow ¦ Wt . the «» m » , o » ,, t Of ** U ^^^
ZITJ 2 T' ^ th 0 holiday classes ren-Sabbath » rap ° f lble t 0 P resem ' the " Scottisl 1 Slin -5 . ^ g ^ 5 and these visitors , too , fT ^ S r lththeJiirk P ° P' ° . »> ut not «« ng « f atXhS ™ I " ""'"" , nrast create amoro liberal atmosphere m the drawing rooms of the rich » nd m « T «* f ° the week days . For working do ^ n i nT * *? me that thcre is a S reat work to do in Edinburgh , and fine opportunity for doing it . 1 hey A «*) intelligence , thenumuer that I saw ; and t « ey only need UniOD . discretion , and nereevonuice .
to peitorm a great liberalising deed , wWilOTr u aB J every ^ ing that I could see while m Edmburgh-not omitting the "Palace " uX ^ a- ^ lt pRy » is tt » 8 * the ver > -old lady Should die , who shows you over Queen Mary ' s n ? ° ' nn \ , u » ? . , ? w 0 V | t » er bed , and the stains of Dayid Itizzio ' s blood ! Her stories and her ancient self aie so wonderfully in keeping ! I told ner so , and she received it all in earnest , smik-d moBt graciously , dropped me so court-like and "i ' . ; nd
tul ' * said » Wlth a toss of the bead as lofty as that of a countess , " that she was very much obliged to me I" If the old lady does die they ought to pull down those miserable gloomy rooms ilie shows , and make an end of the savage mockery altogether . ' . 1 had two hours' delightful conversation with # & -. P ° Qu'ncy , at Lasswade ; and was as deeply lmpresseil with hia intellectual power j ' d talking , as I was witli his writing , when in my boyhood I read his " Confessions of an English Opium Eater" in the loveable old London Magazine .
In Dalkeith and Lasswade I staid too brief a time to be able to make much observation , and out meetings at the former place were anything but good—all organisation having been neglected for a longtime . The two remaining towns I visited in Scotland—Galashiels and Ha wick—presented a very different state of things . The meetings were ( in Galashiels especially ) well attended , and tho listeners were eager and intelligent . I was now in the neighbourhood of all Scott ' s mighty enchantment—went to gaze at Abbotsford—made a pedestrian journey to Melrose Abbey ( what marvellous-ly perfect and minute carving ! I have seen nothing equal to it except that of one chapel in Ely Cathedral ) and to Dryburgh Abbev . where the miahtv
masjioian lies . That was a day to be often recalled so long as I live . Oh ! the beauty of all that Tweedland , over which Scott so often rode ! The romantic river , those cleft "Eildon Hills , " " Norham ' s Castled Steep , "—and all the spots refilling the mind with the riches of his verso and prosehow eagevly I strained to have the last glimpse of it all , as the train went tearing along its way , and , at last , bore me , once more , to the edgo of the German oooan , and gave me a sight of old Berwick ! Much as I had thought of returning to England , I was surprised that I felt sad when all that glorious scenery was passed , and the common place landscape was restored to me ; but it ivas England , and so I soon was in good humour with it .
I cannot close this already wearisome story without saying , that on my return from visiting Kirk Alloway and the cottage of Burns , I called on his remaining sister , Mrs . Begg , a highly intelligent woman of eighty , who gave me some information of nn important character , as I deem it to be . Her daughter Isabella was present while I had the short conversation with her . 1 told her that I entertained strong doubts of the truth of many things which were said about her illustrious brother , and I wished to have the benefit of her own personal knowledge , respecting him . She replied , " that she would have pleasure in giving me all the information in her power . " I told her that a person iu Glasgow had declared to me the other day , that he
seheved all the accounts of her brother ' s irregular ife , for , a friend of his had called on Mrs . Begg lately , and she had said that she bad often seen her brother sit at table in the morning , after a night ' s debauch , shading his face with his hands , while the big tears of removso were dropping on the board before him , Mrs . Begg seemed moved painfully : " Kothing is more false , " she replied ; "I never had such a conversation , and never could say so ; for I never saw my brother either drunk ; or showing any such feeling ; nor did I over know him to be drunk . It is true , I saw but little of him in the latter part of his life ; but his son , who was with him
almost constantly , told mo that ho never fiaw his father the worse for liquor but once , and then he waa sick—but yet perlectly conscious , His son also said , that though his father often came home late during the latter part of his life , when they lived in Dumfries , yet ho was always able to examine bolts and bars , went to observe that the children were right in bed , and always acted like a sober man . " Besides , " added the intelligent old lady , "how was it possible that my brother could be adrunkavd , vhen he bad so small an income , and yet a few weeks before his death owed no body a shilling ?—that speaks for itself . " Mrs . Begg urthermore confirmed what I also learned in
Glasgow from persons converaanfc \ uttt tb . 086 who had stiown every circumstance of the close of Burns ' s life , that Allan Cunningham has sorely mistated many matters . Burns did not die in the dramatic style which Allen tells of . Allan was never in Ayrauire in his life , but had his materials from some old fellow , who went about poking into every corner , and raking out every false story about Burns . A writer in Glasgow , in whose company I sat for a short time in the evening , after I had
elivered my oration there on Burns , contradicted Allan Cunningham ' s account of Burns ' s death from personal knowledge , just at the time when Allan ' s V Life of Burns" appeared ; but Allan never took any notice of the pamphlet , and never corrected the miatatoment . Mrs . Begg said that she had seen the two volumes of the new life of her brother , by Robert Chambers , and the account was fairer than any she had seen before . Hewcastle-on-Tyne , T . H 0 S . CoOPEB . Aug . 18 th , 1851 .
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NATIONAL ASSO ClAflOtt 0 ^ UNITED TR&DEg ° * T . S . Duncombb , Esq ., Ai . p ., Pres ] dent # Established 1845 . a ^ T ^ ^^^^ L
" HAT JUSXITIA . " " If it were possible tor the working ' classes , by com ' bluing among themselves , to raise , or keep up the general rate of wages , it need hardly be said that this would be a thing not to be punished , but to be welcomed and rejoiced at . " tfr oAaT MtiiL . M » i 4 J ? t 1 Ea ? u > PERR ^" s APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC AND THE JUDGES OF ENGLAND AGAINST THE LQSDON DELEGATES
• ' ire then teiw them an infinity 6 ? tales , Some of which are true , and some pew - . But those which are true are not new And those which are new are not true . " Mr Perry is not satisfied with his Stafford triumphs The evidence and the verdict are ihconprunnk an fn m l ° n 5 eq !} , ^ ° nOfc OOV e-t . iil th c ones too big and the other ' s too little ; and Mr . Ierry seems apprehensive that the exalted con ! struetive powers of even Mr . Justice Erie will fail to reconcile tlieir inconsistencies The public are notoriously gullible . The Judges £ n ?« u nd ar ° l learned > l » gl ™< led , and honourable men . But they are men . 3 r d not nd sometimes
angois , athey aro as' suscemililn nf te « 6 W tt »» natnwl propensity , and no dcubt prompted by his evil geniuses , Mr Perrv has published , through the columns of tL igj News , a long-laboured leader , and ( yina letter for Efier & mostcxt ™ vagant inventions , ftnKS telj , weak «« " » . > "gainst the so-called London delegates , and insuring for them , M fav as tence . 1 hat Mr . E . Perry should be capable of » o mean and dishonourable a' course will Kfse no one who has watched his conduct through this attair , it came out from his own confession the trialbut
upon ; that SO respectable a paper as the "Daily Aews" should condescend to lend its columns to such vile uses , is indeed a matter for our wonder and astonishment . It has alway 3 been held / unfair , by the respectable portion of the press to prejudge the caso oi the greatest criminal while it wa 3 still undetermined by law . : This equitable and thoroughly English principle is , in the case of the unfortunate London delegates , entirely set aside in their zeal to crush the growing ppwer of the Assoeiation . The cloven-foot of the ex-editorial mephistophilis is so apparent throughout this wordy , windy epistle , that we think it would be a waste of time to minutely expose its gross and glaring misrepresentations : the more £ o because we
believe that a legal remedy will be found for the deep and serious wrongs sought to be inflicted upon the men marked out for Mr . Perry ' s undying and insatiable thirst for revenge . We shall therefore content ourselves with presenting our readers with a few examples of Mr . Perry ' s peculiar notions of truth and honesty . He commences by assigning as a reason for rushing into print , his desire to supply the public with a fuller detail of the late trials , than could be furniBhed through the columns of a daily paper . We are happy to inform Mr . Perry , that this difficulty had been foreseen and amply provided for by the " London Delegates , " and that a verbatim
report of the Trial , taken by Mr . Hcdgei , the government official reporter , including the eloquent addresses of Mr . Sergeant Allen and Mr . Parry , by whom the Secretary of the National Association and Mr . E . Perry wero so unmercifull y handled , la now \ n tho press . We were more desirous than we believe Mr , Perry to be , that a faithful and full report of these trials should be given to the public ; and we are of opinion that the Judges and the public will prefer—as sources of information—tbe notes of Mr . Hodges , to the ioiRt reminiscences of Messrs . Perry and George Wynne . " Let the galled jade wince , our withers are unwrung . "
They then proceed to combat three propositions , which they appear sensiblo are fixed upon them by the published reports of the trial : — 1 st . That the firms of Edward Perry , and Richard and George Henry Perry , paid their workmen intolerably low wages . 2 nd . That they resisted a just and reasonable demand , in refusing to adopt a uniform scale of prices ; and , 3 rd . That they prosecuted the nine defendants for peaceably combining to resist their abominable tyrannies .
We shall give as concisely as we can , Mr ; Perry's replies to these three propositions . To the first he says— " His prices could not be unreasonable , inasmuch as they « ey « the prices he had paid for the last eight or nine years . " If this was true ( which it is not ) , we do not see its logical application . A long continuance of a fraudulent practice is an aggravation and not a justification of the original injustice . He also says , — ' That the price of the necessaries of life had , within this period been reduced 25 per cent ., which means , we suppose , that the repeal of the Corn Laws , and the cheapening effects of Sir Robert Peel ' s tariff , was intended to benofit every class of society except the working class .
The answer to this specious sophistry is simply this : —In tho year 1842 , after a protraoted and desperate struggle , when Stafford gaol was overflowing with his victims , the Tinmen were compelled to succumb to his imperial behests , and were forced to accept his tariff of prices , being fully 30 per cent , below Mr , Waltou ' g j and Messrs . Shoolbred and Xoreridge , and he has continued the original exaction to the present day ; and tho men never having had the power of doing themselves justice , he now points to their quiescence under his tyrannies 88 a proof of their contentedneas . To strengthen these plausible misrepresentations , he parades a statement . of the wages paid upon two specific occasions during
the last winter . Upon one ho quotes the average as £ 1 10 a . 3 d ., and the other , being the paynight before Christmas , as J ? , l IBs . ljd . In order ; to elucidate this , we must explain to the uninitiated some of the customs peculiar to Mr . Perry * B " Jeddo work . " That cunning gentleman conceives it a master stroke of policy to . bind bis men to him by a double chain . lie makes them surrender their personal _ freedom by signing written agreements , and by forcing , at the sometime , loans of money upon them , makes them doubly his slaves . This arrangement works something in the following way . Those who are sufficiently truculent and submissjve can have a horse on a Saturday night—that is , they can draw wages upon work
they have scarcely touched . On tlie other hand , the unfortunate , who offends master or foreman , gets a dummy , instead of wages . A dummy means , your wages are stopped for the debt you owe me . "This is the way I will treat you mutinousfellows . " With this explanation , it will appear sufficiently clear that the amount paid as wageB in the "Jeddo Works '' is by no means to be considered as any measure of what the men actually earn , but simply the amount , whiob by horsing and other contrivances , they are enabled to draw . The £ . 118 a , l ^ d ., instead of being for tbo week before Christmas ,
happened to be for ten days ; Christmas Day falling in the middle of the week , the Saturday was a general dummy night . In his answer to the second proposition , Mr . Perry says the demands of the men were unreasonable . In his own evidence he swore that a compliance would have made no greater difference to him than one and a half per cent ., or 60 s . "in £ 100 . Justice Erie , in his summing up , observed that the Book appeared to him very moderate . ' but that Mr . Perry % &A a legal right to be unconciliatory . and vindictive if he pleased , and that the law would protect him in the full exercise of these amiable vir-¦
tues : " But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in heaven : and there , no doubt , Have each their record with a curse annexed . " Mr . Perry further states , that it was impracticable to pay by » general Book . lt was proved by the evidence of Mr . Walton , Mr . Shoolbred , and . by Mr . Sanvyiel Bryan , Mr . Perry ' s late foreman , that it wa 9 perfectly practical and usual in the trade , from time immemorial . The introduction of steam and machinery , by vrhioli portions of the work is now effected , presenting no difficulty . Deductions from the Book , price in suck cases being at all times arranged in each shop between tbo master and the men , and a blank page
is bound up with the Book for the insertion of sueh alterations . During the whole of the protraeitd negotiation , Mr . Perry never-insinuated any uoveasonableness . or impracticability in the men ' s demand , but professed himself deBirouB and willing to ; assist ia the required arrangement ; but certainly it came out on the trial , that in all ihiB lie waa only amusing" the delegates—oi \ »» 'Mr . Parry very correctly put it— " acting a Me / ' only to deceive the delegates , but also h » \> ¥ 0 thM manufacturers , including bia father and brother ! Inthe third place , throughout these-tengtrials , every attempt that was made to coaaeetMMsrs . Green , Winters , and Peel with tho- secret
committee , er with the abduction and miking drunk t > S the hired men , signally failed . Tb * « yideno » > both for the prosecution and dtfenoa ; completely nega-i tived such an assumption ' , ^ and yat Mr . Perry now says , AjnbluBhingiy— "A 'iseewt committee , ? too , was formed un ^ ev the direction of the delegates , consisting of paid , members , and divided into acting sub-committees , having separately allotted duties . To one was assigned the colleotion / of peouniary levies ; to another , the ooncoction and publication of acutrftouB eonge . ' and other libellous compositions ; to a third waa delegated the talk of seducing sjia otherwise getting away th « workmen still in our employ , Ac . " Now , we ask Mr . Perry if all of any of than w * eeedlDgawewattkv instigation of tta Lwdoa de .
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* *?? ~ lie not Put ^ neBBes into the bo * to prove it ? If . uch were tho fact , his foreman * ft ? !™ - ( > . "Pon his own confession , a * p « - » i » PP ° » i'mentof tho so-called " secret committee ' could , of course , have enliehtened thft Judge aiul Jury as to its composition nnd origin . Perw ? w nnwiIIin * witness jn the interest of Air . ^ ^ WifeS&S . ffi ^ s&Aisis ^ * from thw . PTe ? d , S ^ re "ere not wholly frc # from threats and violence , the unqualified y erdict of the jury in R . and Q , Perry ' B case testifies'and that violence , and threats of violence , of tho ' n 3 atrocious nature further occurred , albeit ( from tha prosecutor ' s inability to connect , or relucianco t » charge the conspirators with on the trials ) they did not transpire at Stafford , I might readily provo j £ upace and time permitted . "
»» e are quite satisfied that Mr . Perry would hata provod this it he could ; but as lie could not , his rcuctance to charge it agjiinst the conspirators is highly amusing . But he admits , in the subsequent sentences , that the Delegates " carefully avoided acts of violence themselves , and probably deterred others by their example . " What then ? Why this forbearance is ascribed to their " sejfish apprehen * n " " w tUei " than t 0 tlleir " Pncillc disposicions . " tome , Mr . Perry , we were either guilty , or not , of violence . You admit wo were not guilty ourselves , but absolutely were tho means of deterring others from acts of violeuce . How dare YOU . tllOD insinuate that you wove reluctant to " bring the charge homo ? You say , and it , this instance truly , that the Delegates were well aware that violence was calculated to injure rathor than promote their ultimate object . "
The last specimen wo shall give of Mr . Perry ' s love of truth is the following — " That when their co-conspirator had succeded in abducting the greafi bulk of the workmen under contract , these wouldbe deemed scrupulously lawful gentlemen conspicuously hastened to put forth a proclamation - asserting that they condemned any violation of th » contracts . This shallow ruse , however , failed in its intended effect on a Jury of their countrymen ; and well it might bo fail , when tho Jury had it in evidence that this pretended disapproval of the abduction of workmen vinder contracts , . was not issued until the mischief gradually accomplished had beea almost wholly completed . " Kow , what are the facts in-evidence ? Tbo first hired m ; . n proved to have left
on the 14 th of October the hand bill , or proclamation signed by Winters , Green , and Kowlands is dated the I 5 th day of October , drawn up by Winters upon information conveyed to him at Kidderminster , that .- » coctract-man had left his employment . The printer of the bill proved receiving the manuscript from Winters at tiie date specified , and also its extensive circulation . G . Robinson Esq ., the lafcO mayor of Wolverhampton , proved that one of these bills about that time was sent to him , and that Mr . Winters waited on him personally to bespoak his aid and influence to induce the Tinmen to abstain from any such acts of presumed illegality ; and further , the agreements put in as evidence for the most part bore date ia November . And yet Mr . Perry dares to assert that the proclamation , as ho calls it , was not issued until all the men had been sent away . Can anything be more infamous ? The next insinuation , by
which he seeks to raise a prejudice against the delegates is perfectly ridiculous . We are charged with showing a want of consideration to our brother conspirators , because Mr . Parry , whom we retained " specially , " was not assigned to them as their counsel . If this is a crime on our pavt , we wonder what would have been said if we had secured either of the silk gowned Queen ' s Counsel , and palmed off upon our brethren the impotent stuff gowned John Humphrey Parry . It is confessed by all parties that all the " conspirators" were ably defended . But we are not surprised that E . Perry should have formed a very high estimate of Mr Parry ' s powerful talent , for wo believe Air . Perrycould have wished tho floor to open and hide him from the withering and well-merited casngatioa Mr . Parry administered to him . War . Peel , Sec . 259 . Tottenham-court-road , London .
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Manchester , —A public meeting of the Tailors © I Manchester was held at the Hop . Pole Inn , llimfc . man-street , Deaasgate , on Monday , to take inio consideration fcae case of tho Wolverhampton ! Eio . plate Workers . The meeting was addressed by Messrs . Burs , Dickinson , Hemm , Lindsay , and others . Resolutionsiwere passed in favour o £ Supporting the-Defence Committee , to enable thjim . to carry the case through the Queen ' s Bench .
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ENGLISH HQJIES , * Heme * is said to be peculiarly an English word , suggestive of the most pleasing ideas , and the most purifying and elevating influences . Our poets and novelists have drawn this most charming pictures of th » * Cottage Homes of England . ' Ths very words are associated ¥ ithrQsticporeliefl , round which roses aud honeysuckles cluster , the neat small garden carefully tended , and stocked to OTerflowing with nsefal vegetables and old familiar flowers . Glancing through the
latticed casement , we see that the furniture and domestic arrangements are poor , but they are Deatand clean . The thrifty wife has ' her house in order , ' and the scene round the hearth , whereon sparkles a cheery £ re at nightfall , is of the most delightful Mud . The youngsters enjoy their innocent , games ,, the weary sire quietly smokea his pipe after th $ toils of the day , while the husy mother prepares the frugal but healthy evening meal , _ and the wandering mendicant , who strays past the cottage , leans o ' er its humble gate , andthinks the while , Ohl that some homo like this for me would smile !
Alas ! that these should be m too many instances mere romances ! Instead of the daily round of innocence and industry we have sketched , thehoveb in which the labouring classes are compelled to herd , are the very t § - terse of the picture in all sanitary conditionswhat some of them are , in a moral point of view , the following sketch from the hie will show . - In a rural district stands an English home . There is dissension between husband and wife , owing to the infidelity of the latter . Kight after night ehe absents herself from the cottage , in the company of other men . At other times , having locked her husband into a room ,
she invites these men home with her , or uses one of her own sons to decoy his father into the village and keep him there awhile , in order that she may have the opportunity of gratifying her passions . Nor does her polluting in . iluence rest with her sons . To the company of her paramours , she carries with her a daughter , only sixteen years of age , and a young man with whom she , in imitation of her mother , leads a life of debauchery . What tisuits ; the daughter gives birth to a child In the lower part of tho ' Home , ' while her father lies up stairs dying in torment from the arsenic which has been administered to him by his wife .
Then , at last , the law steps in . The murderess is seized , and evidence is adduced which leads to the inference that her husband is not the only one she has poisoned in her abandoned career . Out of fourteen children only six survive . In one fortnight five perished one after the other , under symptoms ( hat point to tho same deadly mineral powder aud agency . Poisoning by arsenic seems , in the rural districts , to hare become an English practice . Day by day the mother of a family
is found administering the small doses which slowly , but surely , destroy the lives of children and spouse . Day by day she looks coolly on the agonies caused by the poison she has administered , without remorse , or p ity , or faltering . The neighbours know what is going on , but they do * not interfere ; victim after victim is carried to the grave , and , ' at last , by some accident or other , the law 13 set in motion , and , as in the case to which we allude , seizes upon , convicts , and strangles the
poisoner . What can be the cause of this astounding depravity among our peasantry and lower classes ? It cannot be want of religious instruction , for they either are , or ought to be , well cared for in that respect . We have the richest Established Church in the world , and an army of 10 , 000 parish clergymen , besides all the subordinates necessary to the machinery of a powerful and wealthy ecclesiastical corporation . Besides the dergyy we have hosts of dissenters of all kinds of denominations
ever at work , especially among the poorer classes ; and , in fact , we find that the murderess we allude to showed no lack of religious knowledge , though she did prove its inenu-acy In restraining her from hahitual indulgence in the most shameful vice , and the commission of the most diabolical crimes . She called her remaining children around her in gaol , previous to her execution , and presented each of tlsem with a Bible and Testament , inscribed as the'dying gift ' of their 'dear mother ; ' she
lamented , and confessed her sins in general , in the set terms prescribed for other' miserable shiners / at the same time that she solemly asseverated her innocenoe of the crime for which she was to die , and of the commission of which , as the ultimate result of a life Qf vice , there couM Ls no ioabt whatever . She daily said her prayers , -was penitent according to the established usage in such cases , and died on the scaffold with a lie on her lips !
2 fow this domestic treachery , of which lust or avarice ia the instigator , is not an isolated occurrence . Of late years it has become ! common , and not a single assize passes over without leaving some man or woman for execution , accuaedof having taken away life by the administration of arsenic , in small and repeated doses ; and , in most cases , At is found that other members of the family have died
unaccountably . It is appalling to think of the wide spread depravity which these facts indicate . Home , instead of being ; ' a sanctuary hallowed by affection , and all the * . tender charities of life , * is but a medium for more securely and unsuspectingly committing murder . The relationship in ^ which the victim Stands to th 8 murderer may be the tenderest that can be conceived—the ties that bind them
th e closest—yet this , so far from being a bar , J 3 actually sip . incentive and a facility , to commit the crime . The husband . who . has . toilea for years to snpporfc her , ia poisoned by the w ife—the trife who haa . shared , and soothed iU saddest fortunes , is destroyed by the . husband—the " child , that has fondly pestled in the Mother ' s breast , ' and drawn .. nourishment taence , 13 cooDy " and deliberately . sent to an Tmtimely . grave by its parent , for the sake of *^ e few paltry . shillings Bhe will g et from a benefit Society for burying it .
It is time that this new and frightful ^ mptom . of . EnglwU eociety was looked at ^ niesfly and iesoiiately , with a view to the d iscovery of its source and the application of * remed y . W . e have already given our reasons ^ believjpg'tfiat it does Dot arise from want ** religious instruction . The-cause must be ^ oght elsewhere . "What \ b . wanted is better floral tralning- ^ beiter industrial conditions"BUer domestic arrangements . But all these thing s involve ., fundamental and extensive c hanges in our productive and distributive aryaagemeijts . ; - We , must make oar institutions 3 t uian , Tnot-man for the institutions . In-8 « ead of ^ roMfcingv-tue ; accumnlatiori of
wealth as the hi ghest object of societj , we must aim at the formation of a supenC ? mora '» mentul , and physical character , for the vbole population ; and do that by removing from around all those circumstances that experience has proved to be detrimental or vitiating in their effect , and substituting in their place all those influences which the same experience has demonstrated to he of an elevated and ennobling character . wealth aslhThighest object pt society , we
Until the mighty task is set about in this spirit , with a full comprehension of its vastness , and at the same time a determination to grapple with it aa beyond all other questions in ita importance to the human race , we shall have the same melancholy and terrible revelations of crime , the same ineffectual and retaliatory pvmistiTflents inflicted on the perpetrator .
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THE PERRYS AGAIN ! The organs of the Capitalists are evidently determined to excite such an amount of public prejudice against the defendants at the late trials for conspiracy at Stafford as shall , if the law questions are ultimately decided against them , support the infliction of a severe and vindictive punishment . In his usual weekl y letter this weefc , ftm FEEL u&S ilbly exposed the tissue of gross misrepresentations published in the 'Daily News , ' under the signature of Mr . Peurx ; bat he lias not
noticed the fact , that the day after that monstrous ex parte statement was published , the ' Daily News ' devoted its first leading article to the subject , and assumed the truth oi every one of Mr . Pehry's statements . The article was altogether a curious illustration of the fairness , of political economists , and advocates of the right divine of Capitalists to do as they please . Its conclusion , especially , was very rich , being composed quite in the style of the Yictoria melo-dramas , in which poetical justice is meted out to all the dramatis persona according to a pre-conceived standard , and not the actual
practice of daily life / The writer in the ' News' concluded his romance by congratulating the public that Mr . Perry , like a fine , brave , but generous and forgiving gentleman , had magnanimously taken back all his erring workmen , after showing them that he was not to be beatea ; while the peraons who interfered between him and his happy and contented workmen were expiating their offence in Stafford Gaol . The one statement was undoubtedly as true as the other , and the same amount of credence
should be given to both . But what is to be thought of scribes who thus pander to the prejudices of the monied classes , and abuse the mighty powers of the press by making it the instrument of the grossest falsehoods and calumnies . The ' Times , ' not satisfied with its disgraceful and unfounded attack on tho character , motives , and conduct of the members of the Central Committee immediately after the trial , returned to the subject again on Thursday , in its first leader . The staple of the article waatUeBame as before—vile and
most unscrupulous misrepresentation and calumny , written in the coaree and slashing style in . which the ' Thunderer' indulges when it has any particularly dirty job to do . The object of recurring to the subject was clear enough . They dread , lest the defendants should be able to have the case re-argued in the Queen ' s Bench ; and hence , they -want to prevent the funds being B \ ipplied for that purpose , and to effect this object even the Times excels itself in mendacity . The manner and spirit in which these repeated attacks are made in the most influential
organs of the capitalists show , however , how well they know the immensity of the principle at stake , and how determined they are to win by any means , and at any cost . It ought to teach the . labouring classes throughout the whole country , to comprehend thoroughly the importance of the struggle in which the Defendants are now engaged , and induce them to supply commensurate means . Depend upon it the 7 Y ?> zes never uses its thunders
without a purpose . Ib would not condescend to take up this subject again and again—one in which a few working men are concerned—if the capitalists who are its supporters did not feel deeply and strongly upon it . Every attack from such a quarter should bo accepted as proof positive that the Central Committee deserve the earnest , unswerving , prompt , and universal support of the working classes .
From the high-class artizan and mechanic down to the poorest labourer , all are directly interested in the issue of this great and in > portant struggle . Capital is marshalling Us forces , and trying to prejudice the case ; the working classes must not be behind hand in their efforts to secure justice , As to the assurance of the * Times , ' that aH appeal to the superior court is certain to thrown
fail , and the money be therefore away , we can only say , that if the facts and the law be such as the Times ? stateB they are , we should agree in the statement . As however they are diametrically opposite , ( at least the facts ); and as the judges will decide , we presume , according to the evidence , and not at the dictation of the ' Times , ' we feel very confident that its prognostication of the result will turn out as false as its statement of the
case . . Meantime , as an illustration of the truthfulness of one statement of the « Times' and ' Daily News , * namely—that Mr . Pehhy is very popular in Wolverhampton , and that the workmen aro thoroughly humbled by their defeat , we take the following paragraph from the last number of the ' Wolverhampton Chronicle / We prefer it to all the laudations of Mr . Perry , which may be suggested by himself and penned by his ' literary ' friend and toady : —
Thbatbe Bow .. — Benefit op the Tin-plate Workers . —On Tuesday se'nnight our theatre waa crowded to excess in ' everv part , the performances being . for the benefit of the tin-plate workers of Wolrerbamptoa . The respectable and crowded house clearly demonstrated on "which side of tbe much-vexed question of " Perry v . the Tin-plate Workers " popular sympathy is enlisted . Kpt only was the house the most crowded one of the season , but the " players " seemed to improve with the greatness of ilie occasion , and rendered the text in & < mauner deserving of most favourable criticism . The audience seemed thouroughly to enjoy the entertainments , and it was really gratifying to witness during John Bull
the performance of the first piece , " , " how . rapturously they welcomed each outburst of honeBt feeling from the hero of the piece ( the telented J . F . Young ) , how they evinced their detestation of the mal-practices of the fop and seducer , and welcomed with overwhelming applause the plain'Spoken Senthne&ta of the English friend of innocence and virtue .. The afterpieces were well placed before tho meeting , and the acting was , with few exceptions , of a first-rate character . This was the List , evening of the summer seaBon , and was certainly a most . excellent finale , inasmuch ' tbe house was filled in a manner we had -never before witnessed .
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Fatal Accidknt in a Flour Mill . —On Wednesday a boy named James Price Milea , aged fifteen years , was killed at tho Creek Flour Mill , Yorkroad , BatterBea , in tbo following manner : —On the afternoon of that day tho deceased was directed by the engineer of the works to enter the pump-room and place the pump in motion . Tbe means for doing so was simply to insert a small iron rod in the spindle of the "fly" wheel . Some few minutes afterwards the engineer went in , for the purpose of ascertaining what had become of the boy , when he discovered the deceased Jying upon the platform quite dead , and the spokes of the wheel striking his skull at every revolution . A portion of the
unfortunate boy ' s skull had been divided by the force of tbe blows from the wheel , which was calculated to turn thirty revolutions in a minute , and was lying a short distance , from the body . It- is supposed that the hoy , in stooping to place the rod in theiBpipdle , was struck -on the head by the fly . wbeef fend knocked down on the platform , and before ' -he ; could recover himself he received other blovrB in rapid succession , which sooh put an end to his Bufferings . The body was removed to the Nag ' s Head public house to await a coroner ' s inquest . Stbikk ot Staffordshike MiNERs . —We are informed that tbe Earl : of Granville's colliers , and also the men at the Ball ' s Mills Pit , in the Potteries , have been on strike ever since the first
of July last . The men in this employ were only getting 3 s . 6 d . per day , out of which they bad to find their tools and povfdor , which reduced their wages to 3 a . per day , while miners in the neighbourhood received 4 s . per day , added to which they were threatened with a reduction . This reduction induced the men to stop work . Deputations of workmen waited afc various times upon Mr . Lancaster , the manager or agent , who informed them that tho worfc- was tefr . to Butties , and that he had nothing to do . with the buiiness . On the 18 th wist . Mr .-Lancaster stopped twelve of the atone pits , Baying " that if , tho colliers WOUld not work , they should not , " and the following morning three of the stone pits , stopped of their own accord ; and twenty pits are now idle . On the loth inat . tha Buttiea . of the-Bella Mill Pit WOnYlSBI tneir
men « . a day , 11 they would work , which they nobly refused ,. unless tbe same amount waa given to the other colliers . Since then , the report has been extensively circulated that , the colliers will not work eren at the advanced price , with a view to destroy the sympathy Of the . publio for the men . "We are , however , happy to learn that the attempt has failed , and ( bat the , public ^ still render assistance and support to the miners , for whick they ara iftth grateful , . . . ' - . ' .. ' Coboser ' s lNQ . uiisr . i-On Thursday Mr . Bedford held an inquest on the body of the lady who fell down in Regent-street on Monday morning and immediately , expired . The body was identified as that of a My whose home wasin Great Marlhoruja-gtreet which she nadjust left to visit a sister whan overtaken by death .- Thejtfry heard the medioal svi dencft and were satisfied tbat apoplexy wgs Vne « a « w < rf \ hs Wfrtwmt Terdict accwdfrtfy .
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ADDRESS OF THE AiANCIUESER DEFENCE COMMITTEE FOR THE ¦ WOLVERHAMP TON TIN PLATE "WORKERS' CASE TO TIIEIR FELLOW WORKMEN AXD BROTIIEB OPERATIVES .
The case of the Wolverhampton Tin-plate Workers has been so often brought before your notice through tho public preBS , and more particularly the columns of the people ' s paper , the Northern Star , that little need now be said on thafc portion of the subject . The conclusion of tho recent trial at . Stafford proves that much must both be aaid and done on behalf of the general rights and interests of those whose only estate is the labour oi their hands .
If Baron Rolfo and our present Attorney Ge « ueral aro authorities to depend upon for the proper interpretation of tJielaw as regards working men ' s right to combine in protecting their labour , then tbe Stafforsiiire decision is mere moonshine . Brethren , we must be satisfied how we Stand in regard to tho law , for , if Mr . Justice Erie is right , we are upon the quick sands of a dangerous position , and the sooner we call up tbo Legislature to do us that justice that the hard fisted and ironhearted capitalist refuses , the sooner Bball we work in safety , and sleep in peace . What a pass are wo come to , if a man cannot say at what price his labour and skill shall be sold ; Does not the merchant fix the price at whlQu hd will sell that whioh we produce * and if ho advises with his brother merchant to keep up the price , does the law step in and arrest them as conspirators ?
Common sense , tells us that every body has a rig ht to refuse to work for less wages tban he thinks can be fairly given , and is abilities deserve . And if one man has a right to do so , ten men or a thousand have the same right . If it is right for these men to refuse to work ibr inadequate reinn . neration , so does it fellow that if they advise others to do the same , they are only advising men to do right , and are commendable , as Stuart Mill says , for so doing . Much , indeed , will the working classes be indebted to the Perrys of Wolverhampton , for bringin ? this very important question to a conclusion
upon which there shall henceforward be but one opinion . Good sometimes i » produced even when evil is intended ; and there can be no boubt that , if the working people generally take this mattes ? up as they are doing throughout Lancashire , suacess will crown their efforts . If not , let the Trades ' Unions look to it ; on them , the consequences will fall ; and their own apMb ? and neglect will bind thfitn hand and foot to the Juggernaut car off capital . But this must not—shall not—be ; surely we , of thenineteenth century , have not lived and learned and read in vain .
English workmen , wo aaa you now to pronounce , in a voice that shall strike dismay to the heart of every puny tyrant , and ring throughout our island like a peal of thunder , that Labour shall have justice , and the British workman protection . Let every town form Defence Committee without delay ; no tune is to be lost . We have no doubt about funds , from the encouragement we Lava already received , but w& would ratber bo a little too soon than too late ; , ita best to haw all our weapons in reach : we can then go coolh and
confidently into this legal conflict , and God defend the right . . - . ; . .,..,. All parties wishing information an invited to address the Central Committee , Mr . Greenslade , Bell Inn , Old Bailey ,. London 1 "Sours , in hehatf oi The Manchester Defence Committee , T , DicKiasojf ,. Secretary . P . S . —Our friends in . Scotland are-desired to bestir themselves , aa'it is prob&blo a deputation from England will shortly wait upon them ; but , at all eventB , let them be up and doing . —! ' . D .
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FACTS . AND INCIDENTS OF THE , GREAT EXniREHON . On Saturday last the »« ei pts » t tbe doors 0 ! thebuildifflg only amount to £ 1 , 434 Ms . 6 d ., taa K * iAo 18 ltor 8 acfi ^ 8 to tb - Police return * On Monday the weelpts amounted to £ 2 , 43614 i » ' aa « numb W of visitora wsia ®> M \ . * : of LSnm ?/ . * ' ???¦ ' *" - " * <* en ^ the doora of the omlding , and the number ol visitors waB 51 , 311 . The weather during the' afternoon was ' Zllzl& " T raWe '»? f butfot tfettinmrn . tl « tl tbe attendanC « * ould no doubt have been largor . " J ^ a 8 ale ° J 8 ea 8 On tioket 8 on'VVeancsday prodjjeel / ,.,- , £ 5 10 a ., and the receipts at rtedoora # l , 8 JW -Ifli * " vmaKiDg a total of £ 1 , 001 n 8 . The policf ' retm $ & showed the number of persons who eutefed ; fp ; b ^ ,... 38 , 328 . ¦ , * .: ¦< . ' 4 < 'fc ^<' .. ! y- ^ V POn Thursday the sale- of iewon ttoketyjrttog ^ £ 6 , and the money taken at ; the doors »» W& . U £ 2 , 167 Us ,, waking the total " ^ SSfe The police report ghoiri . the nmte of MOm Wi * % i \ . T « ~ vV
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 30, 1851, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1641/page/5/
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