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# 5- The Secretaries of Trades' Unions and othei bodies associated to protect and advance the , interests of Labour , vn \\ oblige by forwarding reports of Trades' Meetings , Strikes , and other information affecting the social position of the Working Classes . NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNITED TRADES .
250 , Toitenham-eourt-road , London . " HAT JfSIIIIA . " "If it were possible for the working classes , hy combhin " iin < m » th .-nifdres , to rasse , or keep up the cencral rat . of ™ r it « -d badly be « . Mttattt , fe \ tt » Sd te / SrXbe jammed , bat to be welcomed androjoited at . "_ SmuSMtti . At a business meeting of the Executive Committee of tne above Association , on Tuesday , the 20 th nlr ., G . A . Fleming , Esq ., in the chair , * Mr . Green gave a long and interesting report of Ins recent tour through the midland and northern counties . The primary object of Mr . Green ' s mission was to visit , personally , the Trades bodies which unitedly constitute the National Association , to lay before the members , specially convened for the occasion , the exact position of the Association , and to take their opinions whether the great principle of a National Protective Confederation should be maintained or abandoned .
The Executive Committee had determined upon this step , in consequence of the secession of several of the branches , and of the doubts expressed b y some still in connexion with the Association , whether , considering the results of the recent prosecutions , and the lamentable failure and subsequent abandonment of the principle of Protective Union , by the Amal gamated Engineers , it was possible for that principle to ho .. nationally sustained . It may be here necessary to state that the Committee , with a seven wears '
practical experience ot the operations of this Association—vith a vivid consciousness of the great pecuniary benefits and enlarged industrial freedom which have been obtained directly by its influence , and are still enjoyed by many trades now and formerly connected with it—are deeply impressed with the * value and importance of this principle to tho Trades of this country—and are resolved , at whatever personal sacrifice , to uphold the right of British artisans to combine , to concert , and to carry out , such measures as they deem essential for their general benent , and for the protection of their only capital—their Labour . They came to this determination after long and mature deliberation . They noticed , with deep interest , the spread and growing popularity of the idea of national union as the sheet anchor of
industrial liberty . They witnessed the crude attempts recently and still making , in different quarters , to construct new organisations upon the same principle , and knowing the difficulties they have had to contend with and have overcome , they were , and BtiH are , justified in anticipating that many , and perhaps all these attempts , will end in failure and disappointment . Considering themselves , then , the depository of a great public principle , which has been most unscrupulously assailed , and which , there is great probability will have again to be defended from similar attacks , they conceive themselves bound by the most powerful considerations of duty and principle , to maintain their position , and to exert themselves for the maintenance of the existing organisation as a nucleus and rall ying point for the trades of Great Britain .
It was in futherance of these views , therefore , that Mr . Groan ' s mission was projected ; and they feel great pride and pleasure , to find that thnir opinions and pojjcy have the hearty sympathy aud unanimous concurrence of the members of the Association , without one single exception , or , as we can learn , an indmdual dissent , it is determined to maintain the JNation 2 l Association . Its present officers have been aleo unanimously reelected for the ensuing year . The trades still belonging to the Association have resumed their regular payments , and such as were in arrears have
determined to pay them off forthwith , and a considerable portion of these arrears have been already received . In aditiou to this very satisfactory positioji , ' and as the crowning success to Mr . Green ' s exertions , an adhesion of five hundred now members have been added to the Association . It is almost superfluous to add , that stimulated by this generous confidence , placed in them by their constituents , the committee will proceed immediately with a vigorous agitation in town and country , and invite the trades to affirm or negative the claims of this movement , and of the « r * at principle of which it is the exponent-National Union—for their support aud adoption .
Mr . Green further reported an unsuccessful attempt li V ^ * ° obta 1 a a hea « ng b y the Conference of the Boiler Makm of England , recently held in Manchester . It was known to the Committee that flie question of joining the National Association had been long under discussion in the local branches of that numerous body of men , and from their correspendence , and from other sources of information were led to believe that a very stroujj and General teeling prevailed in favour of a junction with the
National Association . The Committee thought it therefore , their duty to send deputations to their Annual Conference . ^ give such information and explanations as mi ght be necessary , to enable the delegaua to thoroughly understand the principles and objects of the Association . - We regret to say that our deputation -was refused a hearing , although we must add , by the bare and slender majority of two , out of an aggregate of not less than thirty-two delegates present .
What may nave been the infl uencing motives of the majority for so unusal and ungracious a proceeding we cannot divine , but we venture respectfully to observe , that if any of these gentlemen hold opinions hostile to the objects : aud principles of the National Association , it is just possible that those opinions tnay have been founded upon prejudice , arising from misapprehension or misrepresentation , and that the more liberal and rational course would have been to subject ; their opinions and prejudices to the ordeal of a fair and dispassionate discussion ; and in this case such a coarse seems to us to have been due to the very large minority , and to the members they represented . We feel assured that this mode of " cushioning a a question , however temporarily successful , will not succeed , but , in all probability , cause it to be more closely and generally inquired into .
Mr . Winters has been appointed to proceed immediately upon a propagandist tour to Newcastle , Sunderfand , Shields , &c . } and he will take an early opportunit y of announcing , by advertisement , where he may be communicated with by the Trades of that Ioca % - W . ' Peel , Secretary . June 30 th 1852 . J
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BRADFORD — IMPORTANTMEETIXG OF WOOLCOMBERS . The most business liko aad important meeting of this body which liasbeea held fovsoine years took place of Monday last . The assemblage first took place ia Broom , ™ S % *?„? ' 'Tt Ut } u' lL ' e Letkr transaction of busi-S $ S ? ^ hr " room of the " Ola nouse at m ' ™ ' chwas densely eroded . and ^ 1 'VaSJ AKEB ^ « ' » ai > iniously called to the chairg ^ K-Bffissssyjasas wsasftnaff ^ -sayas
nSi , n « f , i d f * l- e - B 1 Befin 8 at considerable length , fle saiu that ifaa condition of tbe Woolcombers of Bradlord was such that it became imperatively necessary to adopt measures to rescue themselves from ' its doraoW effects . They hsd met to try a final experiment , no ° t as in former d : » ys ; to propose a strike , but to adopt measures to raise themselves from the position into which the mach vaunted " Commercial system" had placed them It entirely depended on their conduct that day whether that
meeting WO uid prove csefnl or ortherwise , as an entirelv new course of proceeding was about to be proposed to them . In ionnerd . iys , when grievances existed , they had recourse to weraTnH ° H' °° ** i th : l * system was utterly useless . They miiTrt ? i tbattheir labour was superseded by machinery , mcnn « . S " n ; ade tbe ^ tement had , of late vears , KKS J ? overwhelm » 'g inftwof hands to tbe ' trade , mniiri ^ f ^ * foundation of a frightful amount of KwE ^ V * r I became a ^ ' for tue ratefhl ^ , ? A rg -. ether they also w * re not interred in
**» wesent i * T ° not dwe 11 on tbe question , whether y »* etener , butVn of wa 2 e 3 was caused by improved labour either V * ^ . ^ to tha conclusion , that their * g * tain this h ^ 0 "Eire < i ' - w * «** not . In order to fen ^ tee ^ ho ^ W atlvise the election of a Judicious SMttwsSSyjsrfJK : mucllwool was now combed , by
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hand as there was ten years ago , but , as the trade had greatly increased , it was used as an assistant to machinecombed work . and , as far aa he was concerned , he was for ping it up wholly to the machines , rather than be mocked by the present apology for wages . ( Lof d cheers . ) If the manufacturers maintained that their machines were cspab ; e of doing their work , let them ( tbe workmen ) then demand the means to emigrate to Australia , where their labour was required , and let them appeal to the manufacturers , merchants , and rate-payers , to assist them . Above au things it was necessary that they should elect a good business Committee to carry out their object . He adverted to various other topic 3 connected with the welfare of the trade , and proposed the following addvess to the adoption of the meeting : — ^ d ^ Th ^^ ? „„ ' ~^ T ,. . ^ . 1 ^
THE FWAl APPFAl . .... The woolcombers of Bradford and its vicinity bavinp ; been at length reduced to the lowest point of endurance , by causes over which thevhave no control , are necessitated to make a final effort to deliver themselves frem the state of semi-pauperism to which tliey are subjected . They feel that the present is the most fitting time to lay their condition before the public , in order that a remedy maybe devised , so as to produce a timely check to the flood of pauperism which must inevitably befal this town . It therefore behoves us , as the primary sufferers , to look tbe evil fairly in tbe face . At the same time we feel that the rate-payers at large have a deep wit * rest in the satisfactory arrangement of this lamentable sta ' c of tJ'wgs , as they will have to suffer in a secondary degree , through Payment ef increased poor rates . We do not desire to blink the question . Eiiher our service 3 are requisite , or they are not If they are , we ought to be remunerated . If they are not , and that machinery is capable of performing our work—better and cheaperthen may we say with the immortal Shakespeare
• Othello ' s occupation ' s gone ;' and , in that case , have a fair claim on the resources winch exist for the transfer of the ' suvnlu 3 labour' of the country to other scenes of active industry , rather than vegetate in degrading poverty , and become a burthen to the public in the prime of our manhood . That the worsted trade is , at present , in a fair , and even prospe . rous condition , few will dsny . That the trade has increased of late years to an enormous extent , isbevond question—as prored by the number of large mills 8 nd princely warehouses lately erected . Reasoning fey analogy , we ought to suppose that this sunshine of prosperity ought to have shed a few of its rays on those who , by themselves and f ami'ies forming the chief portion of the population , hare been the foundation and mainstay of this prosperity . But tbe reverse is tbe case , as our wages have declined in proportion to the increased demand for worsted goods , and now we are told to ci-patt , by those vrtm lmve grown wealthy ay our labour . We are told that this state of things results from improved machinery , which performs our work better and cheaper . "We deny it ! "We deny that any machinery yet invented is capable of doins ; our work . Ask the overlookers in the various mills , whereboth
s rts of work are daily spun , and they will tell you that the produce of tbe machines is a wretched apology for our . work , and that they ars compelled to mis our work with it in order to give it the n . - ccssarj draft and tension , the yarn being afterwards foisted on tbe public as tbe genuine article produced by hand labour . Tnat they make an imitation , we admit , in the same manner as the ' shoddy ' men grind up old rags , and make them into a resemblance of cloth , bat there tbe similitude ends . The markets are inundated with such flimsy goods , made from cotton warps and machine weft , so that a purchaser has a difficulty in finding tbe substantial ¦ worsted cloth of former days . There are still a few manufacturers in this town and neighbourhood who have abstained from meddling with the spurious system , and find their reward in a constant , steady , and regular demand . Still , if the spurious goods 1 take the market , ' as they may do fer a time , it will not do for thousands of meu to drag out a miserable existence whilst waiting for a revulsion .
Our course is clear . If the massef us are not required , then we appeal to the justice of the manufacturers and merchants to enable the able-bodied to emigrate . We ask neither pity nor cold compassion j we require justice . Surely , if our trade is superseded , we have as strong a claim , even on the government , as the peasantry of the ' Highlands and Islands of Scotland . ' We therefore call upon the ratepayers of Bradford torender us their snpportandco-operation in endeavourng , at this auspicious time , to remote the main source of pauperism from the town , The address was seconded by Mr . C . Thorn , and unanimously adopted . Mr . P . Dillon , an old and active member of the body , then read a lengthy and eloquent address to the Woolcombers , in which their past sufferings and present duties were pointed out in a clear and comprehensive manner . This address was also agreed to . Mr . T . Spurb , former treasurer of the Woolcombers , next addressed the meeting on the necessity of union and good teehnnr .
Mr . J . Smith proposed that a committee of twenty-five be appointed to carry out the object of Mr . White ' s address . A ^ r . "White proposed a committee of nine . It was ultimately agreed , in order to preserve unanimity , that the committee should consist of fifteen persona . Twenty-four persons were then nominated , out of which the following were elected : — John Smith , Patrick Dillon , George White , Matthew Browett , Slaurice Moloney , Samuel Kelly , James Thomas , John Parrott , James Richards , John Clayton , William btott , Joseph Kevin , John Raynard ; Barnaby Holland , inomas Lpman . Mr . J . Emujjti was then elected treasurer , the remaining offices being left to the discretion of the committee . «« Jl Was then resoJv £ d - 0 D the motion of Mr . J . Smith—That the committee shall not meet at a public house . " A vote of thanks was then given to the chairman ; and thus concluded one of the roost orderly and best conducted meetings held by this trade for many years ; the most kindlv feeling prevailed throughout .
The Committee met at seven o ' clock in the evening at Wilson ' s Temperance Hotel , Southgate , When Mr . Patrick Diilon was elected Financial Secretary ; Mr . John Smith , Corresponding Secretary ; and Mr . Stott . Pres-dent . After the transaction of some preliminary business , the following were elected by ballot as a select comiuittee : —Geor <* u white , Patrick Dillon , Matthew Wade Lrowett , Thomas Lenwn , Barnaby Holland , James Thomas , William Stott . # The Committee then resolved to meet enck evening from eight to ten o ' clock , when all parties requiring cards of membership , or having other business to transact , are requested to attend .
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COXDITIOX OF THE . FRAMEWORK KNITTERS OF 1 HXCKLEY . The miserable condition of the IratoevFOvk Knitters of Ilinckley was well known many years since in almost all parts of Enghiid . The privations liny have endured , and the patience they have displayed in their sufferings , have excited the wonder and admiration of many of tiie lii » her classes in the surrounding districts . About eight years ° as ; o a Mr . Mugsridge , Government Commissioner , came to inquire into the condition of the Framework Knitters , when it wa 3 . stated by the manufacturers that " the average e ;! rnii ! £ s of the Framework Knitters was from 5 s GJ . per wefik . "
This statement included the wage 3 of men , women , and minors . The relieving ' officer , while giving his evidence before the Commissioner , shed tears in abundance . And one working man declared , " the only animnl food he had been able to get for several weeks was a sheep ' s paunch . " The Commissioner was astonished at their sufferings , and admired their patience . The working men looked anxiously to parliament for assistance , but they were doomed to disap . pointment . The representatives of wealth refused to legislate for the wealth producers . ¦ So class of workmen in the country l'as tried to keep up wa | ea more than the Framework Knittera of Ilinckley . Trades' Unions have been numerous , and strike has followed strike in quick succession , yet wages are lower now than they have ever been . 1 do not say that Trades ' Unions have not been of service . They have sometimes enabled the workmen to prevent a reduction , at other t mes they have been able to obtain an advance of wages ; but , whenever a panic took place they found themselves slaves , doomed to suffer a thousand privations , and unable to resist the will of the roost petty tyrant .
A few years agoaroso thesjstem of making two , three and four hose at once . These formed what is called the Btraigut-hoso-branch . This sort of goods were sold cheip ; the deaia-iJ for them increased , wage 3 rose and for a time all wer . t oa well . The working men began to think the reign of prosperity would never cease . But the reign of prosperity has ceased , the hopes of . the workmen have fled , and that branch which , but threo years ago , was the most important in the town , is fast sinking into insignificance . At tbe present time tbe earnings of those employed in the straight down hose branch , makin » two three , and four at once , manage from 6 s . to 8 * per week . Those who are engaged in tbe wrought hoso branch ( making one at a time ) , earn from 5 s to 7 s per week . I know men m Ilinckley—hard working men toowho cannot earn more than 5 s . per week . And this is the condition of working men in Great Britain , whose " glory" is spoken of in every clime ! The misery of the producers of wealth , the poverty of the producsrs of riches , the privations endured by those on whose
exertions not omytae greatness and glory , but the very existence of society depeuds . They must work , suffer and die , uncared for . Oh , Englishmen ! let us cease to talk of tho glory of Britain , of her wealth and power , and think more of the sufferings of her wealthy creatures . Let us become truth seekers and truth-tellers . Let us acknowledge our slavery , and learn the means by which we can redeem ourselves therefrom , and raise ourselves to that position in society , which , as the prodmera of all wealth we ought to occupy . s ' Ilinckley , June 2 Sth .
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The "bayonet" tells us that it was first made at Bayonne ; "cambrics" that they came from Cambray "da mask" from Damascus ; •¦ arras" from the city of tbe same name ; " cordwain irom Cordova ; ' . ' currants" from Cormtn ; the " guinea that it was originally coined out of gold brought from the Amcan coast so called . Sucl . indeed , is the manufacturing progress of England that we now send our calicoes and musling to India and the East yet tbe words give standing witness that we once imported them from twawe ; for , " calico" is from Calcut , and " mushn" from 3 Iossul , a city in Asiatic Turkey Axecdoie op Curium . —During one of tbe circuits Curran was dining with a bro-. hei- advocate at a small inn kent by a respectable woman , who , to the well ordering of her establishment , added a reputation for that . species of apt
and keen reply which sometimes supplies the place of wit The dinner had been served , the wine was pronounced excellent , and it was pronounced that the hostess should be summoned to receive their compliments on her good fare The Christian name of this purveyor was Honora , a name of common occurrence m Ireland , which is generally abbreviated to Honor . Her attendance was prompt , and Curran , after a brief eulogmm on the dinner , but especially the wone , filled a bumper , and banding it , proposed as a toast , " Honorand Honesty . " His auditor took the ghss , and with a peculiarly arch smile , said , " Our absent friends , " andI haviog-dnmk . off her amended toast , she curtseyed and w . taarew—From iVotes and Qatries . S" * " * PttMrafc-We are informed that in the ntMihnu * .
nooa otjMnmoat , in frussia ; a company of strollers of both sexis have lately bcea malan gain bj delivering sermon * in slVep The pol . ee have however interfered , and brought thes " perfona-es under medisal inspection ; the reailt has own that one man nanvdDinz hasbeKi effectually awakened by being sentenced ? o animpiwonraent . rttwentyweeks ; - m ^ hak ^ fcee confess " dtnai ^ e was alwaysawaktv ; . ;• ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ; ( - -.- .: " ¦ . " . '" j ^ r , "" , '
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'" FATAL RIOT IN STOCKPORT . ONE MAN KILLED AND SIX TY BOUNDED . THE MILITARY C ALLED OUi . Sunday last was the anniversary of the usual procession of all the Roman Catholic scholar s connected with the three chapeh in Stockport . The recent royal proclamation against Roman Catholic processions was much discussed , and the Irish Orangemen and other Protestants , Jb-nglish and Irish , contended that the procession ought not to be allowed . , f . The procession , however , did take place on Sun lay alternoon , and , on the whole , passed off quietly . W staged about two o ' clock from the Catholic chapel at hdgeley . which is a suburb of the town near the railway sta . ion , and proceeded down Edward-street , across the Waterloo-road , down Churchgate and Park-street , through barren-street , Ileaton-lane the Wellington-road South , and so re-FI ^ It ^ at tnT rTOCKPORT . 1
up , up , turning again to the Roman Catholic chapel , Edgeley . The procession was headed by the priests , and a number or run laboures walking six a-bresist ; then came the numerous boys and girls in the Sunday and day schools . There were no banners in the procession ; the priests did not wear canonical vestments , butapoeared in ordinary attire ; even tne girls' handkerchiefs or vests , which they usually wore on these occa-ions , were laid aside ; and they only wore white frocks , and little crosses Euspended round the neck by ribbons . The only badges or symbol s that mi £ > ht be supposed to contravene the proclamation were a ball and cross , and a gilt dove . As we have said , the procession pa ssed along its course , without the slightest disturbance , beyond occasional groans and hisses from zealous Protestants , and they finally dispersed without any breach of the peace of which we have heard .
In the ' eourse of Monday evening , one of the police-officers reported at the police-office , that a number of English and Irish were Sghtinsr ; but as this was by no means an unusual occurrence in Stockport , it was regarded as a mere drunken row , and by no means supposed to be of a more serious or riotous character . The numbers , however ^ of the comhatants rapidly increased , and this affray taking p lace in the Hillgate , one of the principal thoroughfares , information of Ha continuance and increase was despatched to the police-office , and Mr . Sadler , who had previously sent two nr three officers , proceeded to the spot himself at the head of a body of firemen ; but on reaching the place they found the mob diapered and everything apparently quiet . Turing the remainder of the evening , and throughout the night , all continued tranquil : there was no renewal of the
disturbance in any part of the borough . During the whole of Tuesday everything remained tranquil ; but the Rev . Mr . Forster , priest of St . Michael ' s Roman Catholic chapel , in the Pa > k , called on Mr . Sadler , and stated that there appeared to be considerable angry feeling on the part of the Irish Catholics , and that be was apprehensive that they would assemble in the evening in considerable numbers in the locality commonly known in Stockport as Bomber ' s Brow ( or Garnett-street . ) Under these circumstances Mr . Sadler proceeded to take such pvecauUons as he thought advisable . He sent three or fouv of his officers into the Hillgate , to observe whether the ' re were any signs of assembling ; and about a quarter before eight o ' clock on Tuesday evening , one of these officers , named John Leigh , sent a verbal message to the
policeoffice , by Mr . Charles Urown , agent , &o ., to the effect that all was perfectly quiet , and that thero were no indications of any unusual assembling . Mr . Sadler contented himself with sending a few more officers to the locality , and within a quarter of an hour after receiving the former message , ho received information at tho police-office ( which is within the Court-house , Vernon-street ) that very suddenly considerable numbers English and Irish had simultaneously made t eir appearance in Hillgate , and had commenced fighting with sticks and other weapons . Which party commenced the fray Mr . Sadler was unable , either then or subsequently , to ascertain . He immediately got together some assistant constables , and was proceeding with them to the 3 pot , when information reached him that the rioters had beca dra « n back \> y the potfce and others from IW . gate ,
and that a considerable number of Irish had gone in the direction of High-street , which leads to a neighbourhood principally inhabited by them , and known as Rock Row , Petty Carr , Carr Green , &o . On lenrning this , Mr . Sadler , at the head of his small staff of assistant constables , proceeded along Underbank , down Chcatergate , and so to Ronk Row , which he entered from the bottom , and saw a number of people collected at the tipper end of the row ( which , with only one or two exceptions , is inhabited wbol'y by Irish , ) and extending into a field adjoining St . Peter ' s Church . They appeared to be in conflict ' , and as bo was proceeding towards them with his men they wore met by a considerable body of Irish , who assailed the police with stones , brickbats , and other missiles , while various sorts of projectiles were cast from the houses , and even
women were seen upon the roofs of the cottages huriins states , bricks , « fcc ., on the police . However , the small force under Mr . Sadler's command , succeeded in driving back and dispersing their assailants , many of whom rushed into the houses ; some of them being captured an < 1 convoyed to tho police-office ; and ultimately , comparative quiet and peace being restored , Mr . Sadler sent for the mayor and magistrates , who called out the military . Thm the magistrates , with the police , a number of special constables ( just before sworn in for the occasion by the magistrates ) , ' and the troops proceeded down Chester * ate to Rock Row , and Petty Carr . There they found a considerable assemblage , ai ; d the riot act w .-is immediately read ; on which , aided by the efforts of the police and special constables , the mob speedily dispersed . Thtjy then proceeded to Edgeley , where they found tho large Catholic chapel , completely sacked and gutted , and the priest's house pretty nearly in tho same condition . The rioters here had brought tho furniture , &c , out of the
chapel nn ( S tbe residence , piled it in the road and setfiro to it . While the authorities were there , a messenger arrived with the information that the mob had proceeded to St . Michael's Roman Catholic Chapel , in tho Park ( near the Court-house ) , had broken the windows , and were destroying tbe furniture , &c . The civil and military authorities and forces proceeded thither with all speed , and on their arrival found that the furniture had been dragged out , broken up . and some of it set five to ; and that some of the rioters had attempted to force open a large iron safe , supposed to contain several articles of silver used in the servioes of the chapel . With the aid of the police , quiet was speedily restored , and a considerable number of men and youths , who wore known to have taken pavt in some of these riotous proceedings , were apprehended nnd conveyed to the Court-house . Many of those were seven ly wounded , and from four o ' clock in the morning till noon , four medical men were more or Ie 33 engaged in dressing their wounds and hurts .
Great confusion prevails , both as to tbe order of events , and the time of any particular attack ; but we believe tho following to have been tho order in which the events occurred . After the police had dispersed tbe mob in the Hillgate , the Irish , in a tolerably compact body , retreated towards Rock Row , the lower end of which opens upon St . Peter's-squnre . At the corner of Rock Row and the square stands a largo house , tho residence of Mr . Graham , surgeon , who , we believe , has in so ue way incurrod the hatred of the Roman Catbo lies . They ' assailed this house with volleys of stones and brickbats , smashed most of tho lower windows , and tho servant man received a severe wound in tho forehead from a atone . In this attack , the nest house belonging to Mr . White ' s factory also suffered considerable injury in the
lower windows . The mob then turned their attack upon the Sunday school connected with St . James ' s Church , which stands opposite to Mr . Graham's house , on tho other side of the square , and they had broken some of the windows in the building , when they were overtaken by tho English , who attacked and drove them up Rock Row " , and then seemed to have proceeded in retaliation to Edgeley , gutted the Uomati Gatholio chapel and priest ' s house there , and thence to St . Michael ' s Catholio chapel in the Park , which they also sacked , as already stated . Here the more serious outrages to property seem to have been stayed ; but fights between small bodies of both factions continued for some hours afterwards . In the 3 a fights one life has been taken , arid it is not improbable that other very serious injuries may terminate fatally . Between
eleven and twelve o ' clock , a party of police succeeded in capturing a stout athletic young Irishman , whose name is said to be Darby Searle , about twenty-four or twentyfive years of age , who was said to have wounded three or four men with a pitchfork . When apprehended , however , he had received a severe fracture of tho skull and other injuries , and as he was evidently dying he was removed from tho other prisoners and placed in a room below the Courfc-house / where he expired about a quarter before two o ' clock on Wednesday morning . It was after midnight before the disturbance was quelled . St . Peter ' s Protestant School does not appear to have suffered much , but a good many squares of glass have been smashed ; and so there have in Mr . Graham ' s house . But tbe houses of the Imh Catholics , in Rock Row , are a wreek
. There is an alehouse , occupied by a man named Robert Reynolds , opposite Rock Row ; and we are told there were eight men in this place when the riot commenced , and the rioters broke in the windows with bricks , smashed the furniture to atoms , and actually attempted to set tbe house on fire . The inmates eseaped in the utmost trepidation , one of them , « a youth , leaping from a back window twenty feet high . The rioters ; next took the houses in Rock Row . The first was oceupied by a man named Shaughnessy , and tho windows , and frames and doora , are entirely gone , and there is not an article of furniture left . The second house waa occupied by the deceased , D . irby Searle . The neighbours say bo was in tho Louse when the riot commenced , and that after breaking his windows they attacked arid forced open the door ; that he resisted them , but waa dragged out , overpowered , and received the fatal blow whioh killed him . The house ia completely windowsdoors
gutted ; , , furniture—everything was destroyed . The third house is Wm . Riley ' s , and this has been completely gutted . The rioters could not break open one door , but it is marked in dozens of places with tho indentations of a hammer head . The fourth house is that of I imotby Finaigan . The window shutter was fastened , and ihe mob could not got it open , but they forced an entrance into the house , and broke and threw away tho furniture , together with two trunks of clothing . The beds of all tho houses entered were torn to pieces , and tbe straw , chaff , and shavings with which they were ohiefly stufied . blowing ? * / m ™ ! * ° l ^ ednes y in doufo . The fifth house is that of Michael Tally , a wido « er , with two sons and two daughters . The rioters smashed tbe furniture of this house to atoms , including a cloek and some . chairs and tables of a better km * than , were ; possessed . by most . of his neighbours . . Itaen houses . we the property .,, of : Mr . Walter , apotbecary ,, BridgeT 8 treet ,. St 0 pkporL : ( The neiohhottta aav
the breaking ot windows and furniture commenced , about
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in the street at seven . Descendiujr further down the street than this row of houses ( which is noar to St Peter ' s Church Sunday School ) , ia a row of houses three stories high in front and two behind—the houses bein » built with their backs to the hill-side . The first is John O'Donoghue ' s . The entrance to the back is a confined court called Jacob ' s Ladder-yard and by getting on a wall in this yard the mob succeeded in removing a quantity of bricks , and entered an upper room of O'Donoghuo ' s house , in which a Mrs . Ann Bradley was lyins , having only a week before been confined of a child . D sregarding the poor woman ' s weak and sick condition , the ruffians broke and destroyed everythinc in the house . They even destroyed tho roof over her head , ailowin ? tho dobris to fall upon her . The husband [ " ^ J ^ - Ji ^ JL ., £ t , !^!^ <* « the
seized one of his children , and escaped from one of tho windows . Tho furniture was destroyed and tho house gutted . The poor woman Bradley -has been removed to a wretched colehole , the only inhabitable part of the building . The next house , that of Thomas Dugan , shared a like fate . It is a lodging-house , and tho owner says five of eight beds were enjrageil , and amongst tbe men in them were Michael Burke , Barny Kelly , and another , only known by the name of John , with an old man on tramp . He says all these parties wore pulled out of bed , and beaten , and are now among the prisoners in the hands of the police . Every article of furniture in the house is destroyed , as well ; is the windows . A house in Jacob ' s Ladder-yard was occupied by a hawker
named John Tracy . He and his wife , with four children , were in the house when it was attacked , but escaped . Tracy ran into a neighbour ' s house , and was secreted in a coal cellar , while the rioters were hunting for him . His furniture and every valuable he had were destroyed by tho mob . Tho furniture and windows of a house occupied by j » widow , named Tracy , and her mwied daughter and two children , were also destroyed . A man named King jiIso had his house entered , and his furniture , and a quantity of mats which he had for sale , were entirely destroyed . All these houses , and those of the neighbourhood ' { generally , nrc occupied hy Irish Roman Catholic ? , of the labouring class .
It was whilst demolishing tho windows and furniture of these houses thnt the signnl was given by one of the leaders of the mob— " To the Catholic chapels \ " Immediately a considerable portion of the mot > rushed off to Ei ) : re ! ey Chapel , half n mile distant , and forcing an entrance they broke the altars , and carried out the furniture and pews , and heaped them in a . pile before tho house of tho priest , who lives close by , the llev . Randolph Frith . Tho mob completely destroyed everything in the chapel , and then attacked Mr . Frith ' s house . They carried the furniture of his house out of doors , and heaping it on that of the chapel , lighted it for a bonfire . It is said there could not have been loss than 2 , 000 persons engaged in this disgraceful outrage , and they were only interrupted in their work ofburnfne and destroying when the magistrates and the civil and
military force arrived , by whom , however , they were readily dispersed . An organ , worth £ 400 , was broken to atoms " , and the chapel and minister ' s house were reduced to a wreck—there is nothing left but the bare walls . The Catholic chapel of St . Michael , in the Park , Stockport , was attacked a little before eleven o ' clock at nicht . Tho mob first assailed it from the back , which is in Nelsonstreet , by breaking and destroying the large oast window over the altar . The rioters soon afterwards went round to the doors in King-street and Princes-street , and , havine demolished these and all the window ? , entered the chapel itself . Here they destroyed everything . The altars , with candlesticks , images of our Saviour , the Virgin Mary , St . Patrick , St . Peter , and St . Joseph , were broken to atoms , The pews were torn up from the floor and broken into mere
strips of wood and cast out of doors . There is a large gallery at the west end , and the pews and gallery were torn up from this , and nothing but the floor remains . The organ was broken to fragments . No pen can describe such a wreck of property . The magistracy , headed by the mayor and the civil force , and escorted by the military , arrived here and dispersed the mob about a quarter to twelve o ' clock . Whilst the mob were attacking the chapel , a party of them went up to tho house of Uie Rev . Robert Foster , M . A ., the priest , and were meditating an attack , when Mr . Higginbottam , a neighbour of Mr . Foster ' s , ap . pealed to them to spare it , on the ground that it would not be Mr . Foster ' s property they would bo destroying . Whilst he was remonstrating with them the civil and military force came- up , and the house was saved .
Tbe Stockport Court-house presented an extraordinary scene on Wednesday morning . During the night it had been converted into a prison hospital , and at one end were penned up about 108 ruffianly looking fellows , upwards of sixty of whom were suffering from wounds received in the riot or in their cneountei-3 with the police when taken into custody . ^ One with a dislocated shoulder wns yelling under tho manipulation of a surgeon , and another w ' as shrieking under tho pain of handling a dislocated ankle ; others were writhing , moaning , and bleeding ; and as tho surgeons moved to and fro amongst them dressing their wounds tiie place presented a singular picture . The man who had been killed was in the cellar underneath the Courthouse , . One hundred and fourteen persons have been apprehended . Nearly all those who were identified wen * proved to have thrown stones , either into houses or out of them . _ The whole of those who were identified were remanded till Friday .
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NEWS FROM THE "DIGGINGS . " We extract the following graphic account of Barker ' s Creek " Diggings" from a letter in the " Hobart Town Gazette" : — Biivfcev's Creek , Mount Alexander , February 7 , 1852 My dear Mr . , —Having a fuw minutes' lei .-ui-o , 1 will , as ' far as possible , give you the news of this wonderful . Imt miserable place . In the 11 .-st place I have bocn here for two months . I have wuvked hkc a 'bneU , ' ana my share of the gold in that period comes to little above half an ounce , which will convince you that ' it is not all gold that sutlers . My party have sunk eight holes and the re . saltui '« l I perceive that hundred * are leaving Van Diemcn ' s Lnndfov this place , but if they knew as much us I tlo they waul , rather die than live here . . . . AU the people ahrot me . nnfli " fact all the diggers , have bef n and are suffering from dysentery and bad eyes ; I am one of tho feiv who has escaped . The ( foil from tht numerous butchers' establishments being exposed to tbe sun for 1 few days emits a most delightful odour , and is . in my opinion the principal cause of to much sickness , as well as eating the me-it h ,. fore it is cold , but if you do not it will walk into tlw Wh tom » . . . . I am sick of this place , I am off to Lallarat oa Monoav ' l " . ^™ . have been at work others have been Rettimr in
, ^ , goia large quantities , whilst I could not get a speck . I bou-ht a hole for 30 s ., and whilst T went to pet the money another ™ " qon gave £ 2 font and got 7 lbs . weight of gold out of it , which disgusted me : I oan assure you there -8 a vast diffever . ee between handling i pick and a quill , it is only fit work for stonemasons and brick makers . . . I have heard of two men who have been fortunate " one got apiecMlbs . weight , and the other ( as it is reported ) 27 Ib weight in a lump . . . . Boot 3 are from £ 1 to £ \ 5 s . per rair - maize , 13 s . per bushel ; and oats £ 1 . After being here a month or two , a person will be able to apprtciate the cwnforts of Van Die men » , wou ! d nilt liv 0 in Port philli P C ( > "W own it all the flies , heat , and dust would soonmalse a person accustomed to ' VanDiemen's Land climate a fit object for the Merri Creek esta bhshment ( mad-houge ) . I often catch Mack Mi of a nfcht after we knock off work , but they are getting scarce . You cannot have a bathe , as the cretks have too many leeches in them .
FDIAU ' S CREEK ' DIGGINGS . ' Gold digging will be far less remunerative during the hot weather than in the wet season . A groat deal of time must be lost in nros pecting , and consequent expense , will follow , cold a , sickness and dysentery prevails ; blight is very prevalent : hundreds may be seen wth tlieu- < yes ounged up . as though they li . id been enjraecd in a boxing match ; myriads of flies tease you , thousands of musquitoes stm K you , and clouds of dust choke you , the sun frizzles , and the hot winds bake you . It is dtink , drlnfc . ' from mom to n'A ml ^ ™ W easin ? > 8 tMrrt . Sleep is the only solace left , a " d the morn finds you in a perspiratien preparatory to another flav ' s eookmg . I would advise parties to remain at home for the preset Occupation in towius far preferable at this Penson to gold aSr and those who will attempt digging , back their health ambit wealth . Dallarat is deserted now , but I prophesy that the apSh . ing winter will tee it occupied again with a teeming popu ' a ion the whole of the ranges round that favoured Bpot must and wi ' llTe worked and Heel confident that they will be worked profit , bly The ynMhm u von uncertain , anft many of tho statements of quantities are mere fables , but many are doing well . This eveninK there have been several more departure " , our community is thinning fast , and many are returning to town -Qeelonq Advertiser .
HANG 1 SO KOCK ' DIGGINGS . ' M , ;! e ,, a / ^ l K ! * , ' > froraa Bentleni ! 1 » J ^ t com e down fr om Murrurnndi , that the accounts from the Hanging Rock continued * ftl u r w ?\ | entlsman had *<** several small " amples of the gold brought back by prospecters , and from one young man ho bought , for £ 5 ljoz . of gold , obtained by the young man and a companion with tin dishes in three days . From this youni man just come over from the Turon , and from other parties welf known to him , some ot whom had been at the Turon , our informant learnt *? rMMS ^ fv V *! HaDsing Uock > both on tlle week ™ a on S ^ 5 ^^^*^ S 2 &s-a » SiX SEES ^ SiS&AletS ^ in llZ To GlZ thBe r i ™ P * PiZocUrifaboKth Murrurumli -m , ! th ^ t 5 nmIlers ° f . Crnd 1 ^ , & « ., were being made in persons were on their way to tlw \\ m ^ -RocK .-XalllandMmurv A ™™ m o T , " E AUSTHAtlAH EL DORADO .
he rim Pato-OM T 7 anlOa t 0 H r ° ™" »^ y situated on W The d ™* ; ,. ° - W 11 Dl > of wW «*«» » person namea letter ' dated in V j ¦ , J " St written hom ' to her father a go d diScovere s SnSd " V ^ f tateS ^ ° \ S °° " - ! Wosofillth p ninnt i ' -. J e was obliged to rase the lows a few at a S tn ° rkll 18 T 1 his MMNahment and that he nlwhen thPy return ^^ v ' ^ ^ SSinSs l ° try their fortune , BraiMem ? a n ^ t ™ I ahniIled , Period to give others a chance . on hisTuK The fl T" enaWed 1 ° keeP ^ ufficient mm t 0 c- ™ 'y she resides siie »« p Rg * are about thirt > miI ' 8 from wncre SewnteSStcar ^ ^ ^ 11 / 011111 of hep cqaalntanee about ounceofgOYdaWeek . ? n ., ? 'L ^ ™ e by hard work got an washed out aWth ™ ,, he afierivai'ds made use of a cradle , and ftP ; S ^ £ ?^ ^^^^^^
llke ^ nStd ^ hf ^ ^ S"SS = " hou'd come out nnfl-- de , Slrous «»«* her father and all her relations BBWto ^ hSM ^ 5 « ;«™ been recently sent from ¦— . i i
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<< „„ .- i unuel tile attracting hrnd nf <¦ «? - \ . ' " 0 cf Mr , WmMffi / vfSSlT ' aSS . S ? ° * . fe piif S iSi : ss& ^ - s kS ? s » S « AST * . °° »>? «» 6 in . « , iWS "' , " !' .... WKIY lestuves
. „„ _ ,, .. to char « e him with i , ;» 7-,, " - ^ crime . While Clark ia raising tho riHaS the " CUrk < »> venmnt appearance of the widow of Ran ml f 'V Clark , this widow , with her childreni hwln . i ertd * J volently befriended since tbeir mW ^ ft 1 &H and , as she now explaina that a bag of gold wiE " *? 5 property plundered from her husbWdf Morttt 8 tta C (! lI »^ 'y confounded , rushes from thestSi ZiIT ^ vnih £ 500 , and two years' interest onrehilly laid I l ? 3 the problematical owner , and this is handed ovJm ! f ? * ' , the , act ' acco > - 'ling to the doubtful moS r e atoning for the first fault . * When Clark , fith a A i ? him , returns , he is recognised by the widow as theS ^ 10 wj d tbe curtain falls upon tho retributive ju 3 t . \ fe with the denouement is the unnecessary apiarW Thornton ( Mr . Diddier ) , the brother of the widoTft , turns out to be the man in whose behalf MortimerW ° curred Clark ' s hate . The " Bag of Gold" has hi , u " successful ; and , indeed , there is in it much f pie ! q T instance , the pretty domestic scenes between llonuJZ his w . to ( Mrs . Walter Lacy ) , and the by-nlof o ?^
p ™ innsoepor , m which -Mr . G . Oooke « as excelW Mr . Shalders love-sick oastler was also sen « ood The new farce was the second novelty , ' and * : > „ , „ , •„ applauded . Camberwell is afflicted with the cSLffi loyo of a butcher ' s assistant and a baker ' s porter T * > nd of them she enters into a plot , through the a ' senW the ordinary farce-ma . d , to punish them . A rendeS , her f ; l her s garden is made with both for the «« , « £ ? They both appear punctually , hit against one anottaMn the dark , m the recognised way ; and as the father « 4 m and hurries out to assault tbe supposed housebreaker * 2 IT t lsin t t < J 1 a « wumb « ihwie tad the otheSS wel ! :-. the tableau being intensified b y the coubain father ¦ being caught m a man-trap cunningly prepared bv himself . At the proper moment the dauehiei a TJ&
rise to explain ; and one of the swains transfers his S tions on the spot from tbe mistress to the oonfldante ih curtain falls amid roars of laughter . The aotia « o Compton , Shalders , and G . Cooko did justice to the work of tho clever author ( Mr . Talfourd . )
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Royai , London Yacht Club . —On Saturday the London lacht Club held out an the prize for their second race this season a purse containing forty sovereign ? , to be sailed for from truli round a boat moored off Southend and back to Liith again . The morning of Saturday—as seems this year to be the rule whenever racing is concerned—broke very gloomily , and was ushered in by a cloudy sky , and a steady unweariiig rain , which continued till about half-past nine , I ! o }> ti nnist have been sorely tried that morning , and in many breasts found wanting , for at a quarter-paBt nine , tba appointed time of leaving London-bridge , the company wai very small ; but , as the Meteor steamer lemained till tec , when the weather had assumed a less hostile appearance , a few move stragglers were addrd , and as she called at Blackwall , by which time the sun vsas out , more dropped in , and formed altogether a pretty good gathering . Arrived at Erith , the candidates for tbe golden prize were found lyir . g at their moorings , and drawn up in the following order , "
beginning from the north bank of the river : — Tons . Owner . Mouse 15 Mr . G . E . Browne . l'lmntom 20 in-. S . Lane . Zuleika 20 Mr . Morris Kinir . ¦ Secret ro Mr . R . Bell . JVlnsp . er 19 Mr . T . Bvo'eigh . T umpire 15 Mr . C . Wheeler . All being ready , the signal-gun for Btarting was fired at five minutes to tweWe o ' clock , and they all went about in excelent order and very skilfull y . At starting thb Secret « u last , but afterwards rallied , and took the lead . There were one or two tnreatenings of rain , but it passed over , and the race was won in a bright suushine by the Secret . The second boat was allowed £ 10 to defray expenses , which waa gained by the Zulsika , aHd which the Phantom lost by a minute ; ^ the Vampire and the Mouse were within the same time as &ttU and sixth ; so that the race throughout was very interesting , and well contested .
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STATISTICS OF THE WEEK . Tub Mail Packet Service . —It appears from a rettt " printed on Monday , that seven vessels were emp loyed « the mail packet service betwien Holy head and Kingston from the bt of July , 1849 , to the 30 th of April , 1850 . » that period £ 10 , 431 Cs . was paid to commanders , ofliceW engineers , firemen , seamen , atewaids , &c , employed in tw service , and the cost of coals ( including expenses of sloping tho same ) , oil , tallow , and all articles supplied for I " use of the packets , £ 14 , S 0 G 2 s 4 d . ; tho cosUWf-j materials , &c , £ 9 , 270 3 s . Cd ., and the expense coune « M with the agency , boatmen , and all shore expenses at W head and Kingstown , £ 2 , 042 3 s . lid . e Increased Consumption of Tea . —Thero is an increa ^ in tho nuantitv of te . a entof « rt for hnmn consumpt "" , '
the month endedtho oth of May last , compared with y * like period in the preceding year . In the month ended » " - 5 th of May , 1851 , the quantity was 4 , 413 , 8711 b ., and in J month ended the oth of May last , 4 704 , 0921 b ., being » ' < crease of 291 , 7211 b . Population and Houses , —A return of some importanc at tho present period ( obtained by Mr . Hume ) itas oee printed , giving a vetnrn of the population and « owbel L , j house * , according to the census of 1 S 51 , in every county »' division of a counfy , and in all cities returning members Parliament in Great Britain , with tbe number of mcni »" returned ; also in towns containing upwards of 2 , 000 ie »* bitants , not returning membovs to Parliament . Tli » retu ' .
aroarranged according to population . The population " Middlesex ia 1 , 830 , 676 , - and the number of inhabited hoU » » 239 , 302 , returning only two members . Rutland has tw smallest population in England , returning two memo " ;/ comprising 23 , 933 persons and 4 , 588 inhabited nou * Tlieroisanumberof towns mentioned containing up *''"* of 2 , 000 inhabitants , and not returning members to P * lianiont . Tho " unrepresented metropolitan parishes » , Chelsea , with a population of 50 , 5-38 ' and 7 , 501 wf ^ t houses ; Ivennington , with a population of 44 . Ow J C . 13 G inhabited houses ; Hammersmith , with a popuWg of 17 , 760 and 3 , 115 inhabited houses ; and Fulham . *¦ £ populatiou of 11 , 880 and 1 , 797 inhabited houses , w j an index to the return , showing the counties , repress cities and boroughs , and unrepresented towns . , i Tub Property and Income Tax .-A return to ' House of Commons showed thai thero was an iiicrfli- " * 4 , C 12 in the net collection of the income-tax in tin )' ended thfl nfii nf Ar . i . ; i TOST / . nmnnrorl with tllO J > rfl . ' . ' ¦ '
year . In 1850 the net collection was £ 5 , 573 , 900 , a ™ 1 S 51 the net collection was £ 5 , 533 , 512 . , hSt Thb Tka Trade , Juno 23 .-There was a fallin « - . oSi ? week to the extent of about 60 , 0001 b . in the dolnew which were 501 , 0341 b . , „ Mi Articles oi ? Foreigs Produoiion . —Tiiere lws w . printed , in a return to the House of Commons , ^ a * coi of the quantities and value of articles of foreignf ^ turn shipped from tho United Kingdom to tho Unite * »* , of America ia ' British vessels in 1851 . About , 120 arwy aro enumerated in the return , giving , io some instance { quantity and in others the value of the conimoaitisopium' 7 , 5561 b . " were sent in British vessels to A £ « £ Tho value , of woollen - manufactures sent m t he year 40 , 0931 b . ¦ .. ' /¦ .:. „ --,,: .. ; -.- . -- - ¦• -1 ¦¦ ' . ! ¦ '" P . H-ul ,, ' . , !¦ ' -,. '; : ¦ : ; :- ¦ ¦ . ¦ ;"¦¦• •« "" Y . . -
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EXPLOSI ON IN COAL MINES . T ' . o ronc . t nr P ^ RLIAMEXTARV REPORT . nrin p , i & ?• , - Con » nitteo on Coal Minos has been SnintS nmi ! f i ° nal 1 I 13 P t ° rs are recommended to be apfnlHrntlj ? h su « 8 ° 8 ted that a central board should be ncSlS ™ , w VIng f pow - er t 0 enforce ponalties in cases of wh « »» 3 to enfor co justice to . the families of the victims who are now often unable to obtain redress .
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ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . Among the many public amusements of the nutroprii * there is no ono more deserving the public support than the Polytechnic Institution . There instruction is blerdad with amusement , while all is of a character cWvAto-W ennobling . Thelorera of" sweet sounds" will have th » en < tification ofmusicandtho scientiflc will have ample food for their larger intellect in the many interesting model * . &c ., winch the institution contains . The new gag , which formed the subject of the chemical lecture the night we were present , is somet ! iin » more than usually interesting . It is proposed by this gas , which has been patented , entirely to do away , with coal aa fuul . The gas 13 procured from tho chemical decomnosition of water .
ana tuereforo called water gas . It would cause no smoke or oust , so that was it universall y used , wo would again cave m our larso towns a purer , and therefore a healthier atmosphere . The gas is conducted into the « vate bv means o . a pipo , with several jots opening into the " bottom of the grate , above which is placed the " material . " This mauenal consists of piecea offiro-brick wrapped in thin sheets ot any metal—the lecturer recommends platinum fire , aa being mdestructabli ' , though somewhat dear in the first lnstanc . The gas fire may bo regulated or extinguished
a pleasure without | any trouble or inconvenience , " a very important consideration in our changeable climate . Tho gas would also be much less costly than coal . But we beg our readers to jud ge for themselves of the merits of this new invention by paying a visit to the Polytechnic , where tacy will see the fire , and hear explained ail tho operati ia connexion with it .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 3, 1852, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1685/page/6/
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