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BLACK AND TrffilTE SLAVERY . "" -Ttom tbe rapidly progressive move which the ^ ffle classes ere making in the Ne ^ ° 1 nestlon ' ire areinduced to test their sincerity hy their domestic con&H * The white slaw asks for his political righto iB older to protect himself r but is met hy the emancipator with a taint of ignorance , which -nnfitthim for the exercise of that , to which knowledge alone can entitle him . "While he thus asks _ g » e oppressed at home to join in giving freedom to ihe not more oppressed abroad , he seems dissatisfied
¦ with the tardiness of the progressive improvement , and approaching emancipation of the "black ; while at home he would allow all to stand still , till his standard of knowledge has prepared the public mind for even the slightest change , " ^ e have no ob jection to a hop-step-and-a-jump for the hlaek slave ; Tmfwehavea decided objection to the hackward march of the white slaves , while his aid is courted in fcrfherance of the cause of liberty . The voice of one
slave in support of the rights of another slave is feeble and unconvincing ; whereas the voice of the fee white man would soon confer the fullest measure of liberty upon his sable brother . The public will at one glance see through the farce . In this country , but more especially in Ireland , the public mind in the ¦ present balanced state of parties must be amused , and there the strolling government have one section ¦ of them got up the anti-slavery err , " while Lord John and the remainder of tbe party gather unto
themselves the monied support by thtir opposition . But let us mark the consistency of these jugglers , and see whether their discord be not got up" for the purpose of quelEng the people , and of producing a general concord . Lord John says " the Reform Bill must be considered final . " The strollers shoulder their scenery , get up exhibitions , denounce Lord John ; hut yet support his Government " against the Tories . " "That ' s , all . Lord John * declares against " the Ballot" The jugglers get up another farce ; execrate Xord Jojtk , but support his
government " against the Tories . " Lord John will not emancipate the 2 s egroes . Away start the strollers once more ; but pack , to the lash of the whipper-in , to support Lord Johx and his government " against the Tories . " Thus do we j find for the first time in the history of this , or any ether eountry , a party diametrically opposed to a minister , and yet supporting his government , lest they should lose the reward of their corruption . "What boots it to us whether " Whigs or Tories are in office , if having made up our minds to the attainment of a certain object , both parties are equally
opposed to its accomplishment ? Knowledge , they say , we want ; while we declaie that it is our knowledge they dread . In advocating the abolition of . flogging in the army , a number of members who oppose Universal Snfirage argue thus . " Substitute reward for punishment , and you make the military service honourable ; you at once tlo away ¦ with the necessity of flogging . " By a parity of reassning , then we say , give "us the inducement to exercise our knowledge , and all complaint of ignorance will speedily vanish . Give the people the vote , and thev will have an inducements instruct
themselves in its value and its application . But thev well knowthat ignorance is the tyrant ' s best guarantee of power . TFe know ^ hat it is our knowledge and not our ignorance which they dread . The vote is withheld , because ( say the economists ) the people have not sufficient knowledge to guide them in the exercise of it . Let us illustrate the argument by a short anecdote . One Jimmy Leaky hired , as a man of all work , with one Major C . The major was a great ndser . Jim left his service , and went to live -with a country gentleman , a hospitable soul , and a spendthrift . Upon one occasion the major dined
with Jim s master , and , upon observing his old friend in gorgeous livery , he exclaimed , ' ¦ ' What does Jim live with you ? " " Yes , " was the answer , " did he live with you ? " li Ie . v" u "Wh y idid you part wfth him ?' " Oh , " pon my honour , I had no reason , except that he could never pat two dishes decently upon the table . " To which J . IM , who ¦ was present , ( scratching his head , ) replied , " By dad , then , for a very good reason , for you never tried me at all ; you never had but one ! " ! Now , let the factions take a moral from the story , and first try whether we would make a proper use of the vote , Tjefore thev taunt us with ignorance . Give to men
an indnc-ement to improve themselves , and they are untiring in their studies ; but withhold the inducement , and ignorance is bliss . How variously those ¦ well-informed persons see cause and effect 1 It is not many days since Sir "H . Titian rose , in the "House of Commons , to move the Ordnance Estimates , giving the recent appointment , and consequent ignorance , of the proper officer as a reason for the dnty devolving npon him ( Sir . " H . T . ) Xow , " aere was ignorance apologised for , -while the possession of a situation was held to be a sufficient inducement for the attainment of the necessary information . The difference between the Ordnance
Clerk a : d » voter under Universal Suffrage is thisthe clerk was ignorant before he got jthe office , for which , the Government is highly reprehensible , ¦ whereas the voter is falsely charged with ignorance , because he would know how to make a proper use of his right ; but it would not be used for the promotion of a fool , in the hope that he may sometime "become capable of discharging the duties of the office-, but , -whether or no , that the emolument of ffice may insure his -vote to his party . The Suffrage is witLheld , therefore , lest the knowledge of the people should prevent the appointment of ignorant lioohies to important situations .
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FACTORY LEGISLATION . - The Government have not ventured to bring their new Factory Bill to the trial , acc-ording to their promise . Lord John Russell annonnced , on Fr iday evening , in answer to a question from Lord Ashley , that it would not be proceeded with so early as ilonday , and that it was intended to keep to the education clauses of the present Act . So far , then , the bold front of the Factory "Workers has had its effect . "We imagine that if the Operatives do but continue to manifest their strength and unison a little longer , bj large and numerous meetings , and strong bet respectful remonstrances , we shall "hear
no more of the Bill at all . Let not our friends , however , slacken in their exertions . Let them remember the enemy is in the field . The " Bit of a Parliament'" is probably even bow sitting ; and if the slightest slackness , on the part of the Factory "Workers and the friends of humanity , be observed , they mil not fail to seize the luck y moment for doing mischief , which would be much better and more easily prevented than remedied . Let the Short Time Committees , and all other real friends of the Factory child , keep still on the alert , and let their enemies perceive that they are not to be thrown off their guard .
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DEBATE " ON THE THIRD BEADING OF THE IBISH POOB LAW BILL . TO THE EDITORS OF THE NORTHERS STAR . - . London , May 9 th , 1838 . . iGESTLEYES , —The " debate" ( as ; the newspaper ? call it ) was in every respect worthy of the JZebzterSy and of-the Bill itself . If the ' . business of the House was to spout contradictory stuff and nonsense * intfl oar mindVeye ; and at the Bame time to enwrap the trdertion itself in a dense fog , -so as to interpose' adoable barrier between our vision and
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the merits of the subject , it could not have more effectually hit its object than by the " debate" in question . I xfefy Old Nick himself to mafc <* head or tall of it . For ignorance , stolidity , blundering misstatements , staring contradictions , and palpable falsehoods—contempt of common sense and plain reason , and still greater contempt of common honesty and common decency , —not to say . anything of charity or humanity ; for these and the like characteristics , it would be vain to look for the match of this debate in the proceedings of any other
Legislative assembly in the world . It is impossible to peruse it without feeling deeply mortified at the contempt it manifests ( in every part of it ) for public opinion and for the understandings of the poor . Under no absolnte monarchy in E urope or As ia , could such an exhibition have taken place . The most arbitrary autocrat or despot finds it necessary to assume the appearances of honesty and plain dealing towards the parties whose allegiance he counts upon . u It is not necessary ( says Machiayel )
that a ruler should be an honest man , but he ought and must take great care to appear such . " This care is rarely neglected by tyrants . The most arbitrary Sovereigns are obliged to appear honest , in order to be able to act dishonestly with impunity But let any man of common reason peruse the " delate" in question , and then say whether our House of Commons does not deem itself omnipotent enough to dispense with the appearances of honesty as well as with honesty itself . In other words , let
him , after perusing the debate , confess , what in justice he must needs confess—that in England our rulers have brought despotism to such perfection , thai they no longer need to disguise it . To make this evident let us briefly advert to what transpired on the occasion . The speakers in opposition to the bill were Sir "W . Brabazon , Sir F .
Trench , Lord Castlebeagh , ( ominous lame !) Mr . Daniel O'Connell , Mr . M . J . O'Con-¦ s ell , SirE . Hayes , Mr . Cobby , Col . Conolly , Col . Terser , Sir G . Sugden , and Mr . Shiel . The speakers , in favour of the bill , were Lord Morpeth , Lord Powerscotjrt , Mr . Young , Mr . Pellew , Mr . VT . Boche , Lord Clements , Lord Stanley , and Mr . Poulett Thomson .
Most of the former list of speakers opposed the bill on the ground that it went too far !—that is to say , that it promised to give too much relief !!! Sir "W . Bbabazok and SirF . Tsbnch for instance , had no objection to provide relief for " extreme cases of old age and sickness , and these other infirmities which disqualify persons from earning a livelihood for themselves , —but such a sweeping measure as the present , would steep Ireland still deeper in poverty and destitution . " Mr . Corry " did not consider the measure sufficiently
circumscribed . " It promised to relieve too many ! ! Sir E . Hayes " had an insuperable objection to the amended bill on account vf the clauses to prevent vagrancy and mendicancy having been struck out . ' 7 The bill would in consequence impost iL an ¦ unbearable burde ? i upo ? i the land . " Thus , the grand objection from Hayes was the ouly redeeming feature in the measure 1 Mr . Shiel said that he represented the middle classes of a great
agricultural district , and that the feeling of his constituents was unanimous against any and every Poor Law till the Tithe question was settled ; he wished therefore , for delay . Lord Castlereagh , and Colonels Conolly and _ Versos deprecated the bill , as tending to " the confiscation of properly , " and to saddle the land with charges it could not bear . The remaining opponents viewed the matter in the same light . All agreed that the land was alreadv overburdened , —that it could bear no
additional charges—that the bill would take away the means of employing the people from the farmers and gentry , —that it " would paralyze Ireland ' s resources , " ( Mr . il . J . CTConnell ' s phrase , ) and that " it would greatly add to the spread of idleness and destitution . To prove the unanimity of public opinion against it , in Ireland , it was shown Or rathpr s *<* eT ; pil y that both tho Protoftax ^ aud Dissenter were all united in opposition to it . In a word the Irish ^ Members , both orange and green , anticipated nothing but mischief , turmoil and augmented misery , and all this , mind , —because the bill promised or proposed to do too much for the Poor !
But the beauty of the thing is , that whilst all these fellows repudiated the measure as too sweeping— as threatening to take too much from the rich , ( to be given to the poor , ) they were equally unanimous in condemning it , on the ground that it would afferd no adequate relief at all ! They were all against the Bill , but they were all in favour of Poor Laws ' . "What they wanted was-iime , in order " to mature a sound and discreet measure . " But not a
man of them would give an idea of what he meant by soundness . All ^ bu could infer was that the degree of soundness would be estimated by the smallness of the burden to he put in the law , that is to say , on the landlords . The Ministerial Bill was a bad one , because it threatened to give the poor some sort of insiplent claim to a share of the land ' s produce ; butthe measure wanted was a " sound and discreet one , " which would relieve the poor in some mysterious manner that would not interfere with landlords' rents or farmers' profits . ' " To take nothing from the rich and give it to the poor " was , according to Hazlitt , the drift of all modern
schemes of reformation in his ( Hazlitt ' s ) time . What would Hazlitt say if he had heard the debate on the Irish Poor Law Bill ? What would he have thought of men who , professing to be all anxious for " a sound and well-digested measure of relief , commensurate with the distress to be remedied , " would , at the same time , oppose the only measure of relief that has ever been proposed ; and this , on the ground that it proposed to do too much for the poor when the faci is notorious that it would not relieve one in twenty of the destitute population . "Verily , Machiatel would not own these bunglers for disciples , seeing that they are as deficient in the appearance of honesty as in honestv itself .
But-what part did King Ban play on the occasion ? Ah 1 it would be a nice point to determine that . The Devil himself could not decide whether Das wa ? for the poor or against them , if he had only his speech to go by . Bnt any one might see , with half an eye , that Dam was working strenuously for himself . He praised the Government—he praised the landlords—he praised the C atholic priests—he praised ( willitbe believed ?) iheProtettant parsons—Heyrsised the Dissenters , he praised the middle classes of Ireland generally , for their "boundless charity to the Poor , —hepiaised the Irish labourers for their filial and parental virtues , their religious and spiritual feelings , bat above all for their wonderful industry and love of independence , that love of independence inducing them , ss . be said , to travel from : Cunnemara to JEeat , ( 700 iniles , ) in quest of employment ; and to crosrn the whale , } ie praised the beggars and vagrants of Ireland , 'for ike devout rerigaatioawith whichtbey bomfiH& ufchappy lot In fact , all parties received aldni ^ cd from Dam , who , oh this occasion / seemti" to . | fcte Varied all his antipathies in the tide of universal charity , and to see bnt one object in the world deserving of censure , namely , the Ministerial Poor Law Bill for Ireland , This Bill did not , in nig rf ^ ptfsew ° ne redeeming virtue . He attacked it nocaifr , polir
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politically , by declaring that it wdoM <* xcite a fcrmentTatt over Ireland , which would drive the people to agitate "Repeal" again : and statistical ^ by presenting an arithmetical SynopsiBoflreland ' sresources which he contended were inadequate to bear such an additional burden a » the Bill would impose on her . But let us see if we can make head or tail of Dan ' s Statistics . According to the learned Statistician , Ireland has 75 , 000 more agricultural labourers than England , the numbers being "; . 1 , 131 , 715 in Ireland , ... .. .., - , , . __ < . _ n . . x . .. _ .
1 , 055 , 982 , ( not very accurate , by the way , ) and if it were not for the want of Capital to purchase proper manure for the land and to cultivate it well , the land in Ireland , would produce four times as much as that of England . "—Yet despite of these advantages in favour of Ireland , the average annual value of the agricultural produce of England , was £ 150 , 000 , 000 , whilst that of Ireland was only £ 36 , 000 , 000 , being more than four to one in favour of England . Again , the gross rental of Ireland was estimated at £ lO , 000 , 000 , that is to say , betw : een
a third and a fourth of the value of her entire agricultural produce . Now , assuming Dan's Statistics to be correct , what are the legitimate inferences ? "Wh y , of course , that the agricultural labourers of Ireland , are not kalf employed in the land ; and why are they not employed ? Because says O'Cojtneli . there is no Capital to employ them . But how the plague can there be capital to employ them , if they be not allowed to produce the capital P And if , of the capital they do produce , there be , upon his own showing , ten parts out of thirty-six absorbed
annually by the landlords , who are not one in one thousand of the population ? The landlord he knows right well , are not producers , and but rarely employers ; consequently no additional capital can come from them . la it right then that these fellows should get nearly a third of the entire produce , whilst the producers are left to scramble for what the farmers and profit-mongers choose to leave them out of the other two thirds ? If , as O'Connell says , the produce of Euglandbe four times greater than that of Ireland , and if Ireland , when properly cultivated , yield four times as much as England , it follows that
the produce of Ireland could be multiplied sixteen fold , or made sixteen times greater than it is now . But how can the labourers make it yield this increase , if the landlords will neither give them lands to cultivate for themselves , nor give the farmers the means of employing them on the farmers' land ? In other words , if rents and profits in Ireland were so large a proportion to the annual produce , that the portion reserved for wages is insufficient to maintain the producers during the process of reproduction , how can the soil be properly cultivated , and how can real capital accumulate in the country ? But O'Connell and his " tail " talk as if the landlords were the
producers , and as if all the burden fell upoa them . They always assume that the landlords support the prodacers , instead of the producers supporting the landlords . "The land , " say they , " cannot bear any additional produce , &c . " Why , the vagabonds ! they and the usurers are the only burden the land has to bear , for while they consume more than half of the annual capital , they replace none of what tney consume or destroy . Hear what Air . Powlett Thomson says—no great friend of the labourers , by the way .
* ' He had himself witnessed in a town in Ireland ; misr » ry to an extent he believed altogether unequalled in any countryhuman beings living in miserable hovels , for which they \ iuid a rent of 30 s . or so , without a bed even of straw to lie upun ; and yet the proprietor of the estate derived an income froni it of abont Jt 20 , 000 a year . WeD , did he contribute to the charitable institutions of the town ? Did be do what even the meanest peasant in the country was in the habit of doing ¦—give a bit and a » up to his famishing neighbour ? No such thing . He ( Mr . Thomson ) could find but one solitary inatanre in which the ytvners of that large estate bad contributed to that institution . ( Hear , hear . ) Housf-a of Industry and other charitable institutions , therefore , were ineffectual and insufficient to relieve the distress which prevailed , owing to the absence of any compulsory law . "
Here is the real cause of poverty in Ireland . But what says O'Connell ? " Rents , wages , and profits" he says are the source of capital . If you impose additional burdens on the landholders and farmers , you take away the means of employing labourers , and consequently diminish wages , as well as Tents and profits . " What trash this is ! No ! O'Connell . Rents , wages , and capital are not the source of capital , but labour is the source of capital , and capital is the source of rents ,. wages , and profits . The consumers of Tents and profits replace
uene of the capital ; they take away ; but the consumers of wages do replace far more than they take away , or otherwise the former parties could not exist at all . The interests of society do therefore clearly require that the portion of capital called wages should be partly augmented by deduction made from rents and profits . The former ia productive capital , the latter is not . The consumers of wages are always adding to the aggregate capital of a country , the consumer of rents and profits are always subtracting from it . To subtract from the two latter in
order to add to the former , is therefore not ( as O'Connell and Co . pretend ) to diminish the resources of the country , but to add to them by augmenting the means of reproduction . If instead of a third or or fourth , the landlords took away one half of'the produce , whilst the farmers , shopkeepers , &C , continue , as now , to take the greater part of the remainder , there would be scarcely anything at all for the producers , and the result would be , that the land would go out of cultivation altogether , and society would be dissolved . So much for O'Connell and
his statistics ;—and so much for the opponents of the Ministerial Bill . Now what shall we say of its supporters ? I know not by what terms it is possible to suitably describe their folly or their wickedness . They admitted all O'Connell ' s statistics . They admitted that Ireland was neither a manufacturing nor a commercial country . They admitted that , al a purely agricultural eountry , it had no other means of augmenting its capital than by an improved cultivation of the soil . They admitted that its produce might be augmented sixteen fold b y fully employing
1 , 131 , 715 agriculturists . Yet , in the teeth of all these admissions , they are preparing to lock the people up in workhouses , where it is manifest they can add nothing to tha laatftL produce , and wberej nolens volens , they must be * dead burden tipon their out-of-door neighbours ! "What can yon' do with such Legislators as these ? Is there even the appearance ofhonesty about them ? Butthe theme is too sickening to dwell on . I can only say—God pity the objects of their Legislative bounty 1 Excepting O'Connell , Shiel , and the Devil , the Irirfh Poor could not be in worse hands . Tours , &c . BRONTERRE .
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John JRetcher , Leigh . He will perceive thai ! we - have corrected the misconception to which his Miter refers . We thank him for tetiing us right We believe the misconception to be very general - The paragraph which called forth his letter was copied from a contemporary paper ' , and though we noticed the exprtssidn to xohich he objects . we considered it' father more of a pfc yftd ihwi an offensive ? hmrmi& ; andhadcertaiiity ' mifca that it wtuld hurl any one ' s feelings . A large mass of poetical and other correspondetice has come to hand , under a variety of signatures read . It thall aU recttve fa # !* # ** & d * 9
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LEEDS ANpWE ^ RIDlNiGrNEWS . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦' ¦ ^; -: : : : ; :: \ i j . - ; . . ¦ . ; . ¦ .... ; ¦ ' - . ¦ A POLISH Refugee appeared before the magistrates on Tuesday last , charging a Mr . "Whiteley , resident in the South Market , with assaulting him . It appeared that "Mr . Newaman , the complainant , was lodging with- , 'Mr * / Vyhiteley ,-and that on Saturday nigfct last a dispute ar ° between them as to the sum of Is . 4 d , for shoe-cieaning , which the com-., plainant had paid to the servant , and which Mr * Whiceley still demanded , and refused to settle his bill till it was paid . During the dispute the defendant turned the complainant out of bis room , and b « had to seek lodgings at two o'clock on Sunday morning . Whiteley was fined 5 s . and costs for the assault . --" - ¦¦ -- — — f upTkC A ' KTn ^ suen ^ -ii i-r ) t-ikriri 'Kri 7 . VL ! iis
Hawking Tea . — On- - 'Wednesday last , two persons , the one an Irishman named Merrion , and the other named Charles King , a butcher , inrMeadowlane , were placed at the . Dar * charged with having offered tea for sale under suspicious c rcumstances , and for the sale of which they had no license . King was discharged , there being no proof whatever to implicate him ; but several witnesses prpvied that Merripn had offered tea for sale in packets of about 4 oz ., two of which he offered to sell for Is . 4 d . He said in his defence that be came from Hull , where he had h . wife , in a delicate state of health , and four small children . He had bought and paid for the tea , and thought there was no harm in selling it . He wasi committed to Wakefield for fourteen days , for selling tea without a license .
Stealing a Horse and Saddle and Bridle . —On Tuesday -las ' t » an old offender , named James Fox , who resided in Camp Field , Holbeck , was brought before Messrs . Clapham and Cadman , charged with having , on Saturday evening , about seven o'clock , stolen a black pony , a saddle , and bridle , the property of Mr . Wrn . Chadwickj farmer , of Hooley Mill , near Batley . It appeared , that the prosecutor had put his pony up in a shed at Matthew Kitchen's , London Tavern , Vicar ' s Croft , Leeds , while he went into the home to take a glass of ale . He came out again in about twenty minutes , when he found the pony missing . He made enquiries of the ostlers , but could receive no information . He
next went to a friend's house , in Meadow-Lane , Leeds , and remained there during the night . On the following morning , he returned to the London Tavern , but could still receive no tidings of his property ; he then went to the police office and gave information . On Tuesday morning , in consequence of Se , rgearit Hepworth having received some intelligence that the prisoner had been offering a saddle for sale ^ he went to the house of the prisoner ' s mother , in . Camp Field , and apprehended him in bed , on the charge of horse stealing . On the road to prison , the accused stated that he was done , and admitted that he had stolen the property , and had sold the horse to Benjamin Sugdeny an extensive herrimr-deajer , at Hunslet Hal ) , near Leeds . The
policeman went to that place and aseertai icd that he had sold it to a neighbour of the name of Frederick Rodley . From the test mony of Su . 'den , it appeared , that he bought the horse for 32 s . 6 d . oa the Saturday night , and on the : Monday sold it for £ 3 . 5 s . to Rodley . The prisoner had disposed of the horse and bridle in the iianie of Joseph Bell , sftating that he had been bound for an individual in £ 30 ; that he had to pay the monej ' , and was obliged to raise that -amount , or his property wou'd be seized . The saddle , the prisoner had offered for one shilling , to a neighbour of the name of Scott . The prosecutor had since : clearly identified the horse , saddle , and bridle , as hii property , he having had them for a number of yearn . The prisoner was fully committed for trial to York Castle .
The Rev . Richard Knill , the zealous agent of ¦ the London Missionary Society , preached on Sunday week , and during the week in air the Independent Chapels in Leeds ; and ou Thursday , he attended a public meeting in Rehbboth Chapel , ¦ Morley . Mr . Knill suited that the society had , during the last year , sent out no less than 61 individuals to its Mission Stations—a greater number than in any former year , Its expenditure , however , had considerably over-balanced its income , and the treasurer was now in advance upwards of fbjrteen thousand pounds . The income of the last year was about £ 63 , 000 , including upwards £ 4 , 000 collected for the Missionary ship , and £ 4 , 500 grauted by
Government for the erection of schools in the West Indies . Mr . Rnill gave a thrilling and dreadful account of a superstition which has been lately discovered to prevail in a part of the Madras presidency , India , where the 'farmers are in the habit of fattening and killing boys , and cutting their flesh from their bones lohitst they are yet alive , and sending a piece of their flesh to each of their fields or plantations , that the blood may be squeezed out of it on the soil before the child dies—this being done with the view of making the soil more fertile 1
Twenty-five boys , among the finest that could be found , were discovered by the British soldiery in one place , under the care of the ' priests , fattening for . slaughter ; and in another place fifteen were found ! They were of course rescued , and put under the care of the collector , and it was believed that the Missionaries would take charge of the poor infants , and bring them up in the Christian religion . This is one of the many facts which show the incalculable benefits of a secular and social kind , as well as religious , conferred by the Missionaries on the heathen world .
Pocket Picking Extraordinary—On Tuesday morning , as Mr . Josh . Scrivniger , butcher , of Aberford , was on bis road to attend Leeds markte , in Lowerhead-row , at the latter place he observed an individual lose a glove , which he took up and presented . From the respectable appearance and the good address of the individual , he supposed that he was , a real gentleman , and the glove-dropper having received back the article , would not be satisfied without the butcher took aglass of ale at his expense , which offer was accepted , and they entered a
publichouse in that street . While there the individual who had received the glove kept in conversation with his companion , but v by some means manoeuvred to abstract from his breeches pocket a purse containing forty sovereignsy drunk off his glass of ale , and left the house unsuspected . He has , however , been traced to Sheffield , whither he and his companion immediately started for in a post chaise . It is hoped thatby the diligence and ; activity of our police , the vagabond will be arrested and brought to justice . The butcher will not soon forget picking up the glove .
Caution to Beer-Shop Keepers . —On Tuesday , Wm . Jenningsj of Waterloo-street , was brought up by summons , at the . Court Houss ^ charged with having company in his house , with liquor before them , on Sunday last , previous to the period allowed bylaw . The defendant brought two witnesses to prove that two of the individuals were lodgers , and the other a neighbour , a friend of theirs , and that the liquor had been filled on the previous evening , and had been bottled by the parties out of their daily allowance . He was fined 40 s . and costs . Hunslet Florists' Society . —On Monday last , this society held their first show for this season , consisting of Auriculas , Alpines , and Polyanthoses , at the house of Mr . James Smith , White Horse Inn , Hunslet . The exhibition was considered to be a
very splendid one , considering the recent incienieucy of the weather . The room was decorated by a number of beautiful Calceolarias , Geraniums , and other greenhouse plants , furnished by Mr . J . Kearcley , of Wpodhbuse Hill , Hunslet , which produced a lively contrast with the other flowers . ¦; The following persons were appointed Judges—Mr . Jack son , of Huddersneld ; Mr . Josh . Marshall , Rbtbwell Haigh ; Mr . Jas . Heesom , of Altofts , near Wala--field ; and Mr . George Wood , of Beeston . The following prizes were awarded : — -Green-Edged Auriculas—1 , Robin Hood , Mr , Wm . Chadwick ; 52 , Colonel Taylor , Mr . Ripley ; 3 , Waterloo ; 4 , Standard , Mr : Wm . Chadwiek ; 5 , Jubilee , Mr . J .
Taylor ; 6 , Seedling , Mr , J ; Kearaley . —Grey-Edged Auriculas—1 , Ringleader ; % Warris Union 3 , Lancashire Hero , Mr . Wm . Chadwick ; 4 , Privateer , Mr . J . Ripiey ; 5 , Seedling j 6 , Sykes Goniplete , Mr . Wm . Chadvrick . —China-Edged Auriculas --1 , Venus ; 2 , Pott's Regulator , Mr , Wm . Chadwick ; 3 , Lord of Hallamphire , Mr .: B . Ely ; 4 , ChanceHor , Mri W " m . Chadwick ; 5 , Miller ' s Reform , Mr . Bi Ely ; 6 , Taylor ' s IncompaTable , Mr . W . phadwick . —Self-poloured Auriculas—1 , Flora ' s Flag , Mr ; Wm . Chadwick ; 2 ^ TrueBlue , Mr . J . Kearsiey ; 3 , Primate , Mr . J . Taylor ; 4 ; Othello , Mr . Wm . Chadwick ; 5 , Slatehplder , M r * Ripley ; 6 , William the Fburth , Mr . J . Kearsley , —Alpines
- —Ernei-sal ' s ; Favourite ,. Mr :-J . ; Taylor ; 2 , Seedling , Mn Ripley ; 3 , Fair Rosamond , Mr . Wm . Chadjvick ' ; 4 , Taylor ' s Favourite , Mr . Ripley ; 5 ^ Rising Sun ,- Mr . J ; Taylor ; 6 , Seedling , Mr . Ripley . — Dark-Ground Polyanthoses— 1 , Beauty of England , Mr . J . Kearsiey : 2 , Seedling ; 3 , Alexander ; 4 , Seedling , Mr . B . Ely ; 5 , Cox ' ^ Begentj Mr . Ty yti > r ; 6 , JSeedling , Mr . B . Ely . ^ -Red-Ground Pol yaflihbfies J , ^ Buck's George the Fourth ; 2 , Trafal ^ tr , Mr . J . Keattley ; 3 , ; Farfo ? o , ftlr : B . Ely ; 4 , JBeedlJrig ; Sj Invincible ; 6 , Beauty of Over , Mr . J . Kearsiey , ^—T he company were uumcroug and highly reBprei&hle ; in coosequeLce of the room being"tot » - « inaHy it is : in conternplation . to renicv .-these exhibitions to a more convenient place .
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FlQHl'lNp . —On Wednesday last a rdung nlan , named Marmaduke Styan , was charged before the magistrates with fighting and creating a disturbance in Lady-lane on the previous evening . It was stated that the brother of the prisoner had lost his life in a ptigilisdc encounter . In consideration , perhaps , of : this circumstance , and the promise of the prisoner to conduct himself in a more orderly manner for the time to come , he was discharged . - - ? Pocket Pickin g . ^ - Joseph Smith , JdsVph Schofield , and George Emery , were placed at the bar on Wednesday iastj charged with picking the pocket of a man at a public-house known by the sign of FroHfiNo . —On Wedneidav . ' - last- a rdunir idan .
^ The Coach and Horses . " It appeareci . that on the day before the complainant -was at the above public-house taking a pint of ale with a friend , who left him at the place . Shortly afterwards he fell asleep , when the prisoners entered the room where he was , and Smith abstracted from bis pocket some pawn tickets . The complainant was also minus 6 s . 10 A . in cash which be had in bis pocket when he fell asleep . Two of the pawn tickets were found to have been disposed of by Smith who was committed to take his trial for the theft . The . other two prisoners were discharged . No trace could be found of the cash which it would be easy for them to dispose of ; nor of the other two pawn tickets .
Family Disturbances . —On Wednesday last , a persoa named Isaac Clark , a flax dresser , at Tetley , Tatham and Walker ' s , was brought before , the magistrates by warrant , charged with having assault-r ed and beafen his wife . The defendant iseemed to treat the charge with the utmost levity ; and to think it was a matter of entire indifference . He affected a contemptuous laugh durii g the , time of the examination , and turning to the reporter for this paper , said , " If a word of this goes into the Star , there shall never another Star come into our shop . " His impertinent threat was answered with a nod of
indifference . At length the magistrate , Mr . Clapham , was so exasperated at his conduct that" he suffered himself to get into a violent passion . His face was immediately like a fire , and turning to Clark , he said with such rapidity as indicated the state of his feeling ? , " Young man , I'll make , you pay for that : you are fined £ 4 . 10 s . and cbats , and in default of payment you are committed to Wakefield for two mouths . The court seemed electrified at the sudden decision ; for in less than half a minute before , the worthy magistrate seemed deliberating how he should best reconcile the parties .
Not PREPAB . BD . —At a late " Whig meeting , a spouter was called upon to move a resolution . He began his harrangue by informing the meeting that he was altogether unprepared to say anything on the question , and he . would simply move the resolu tion ,-making one or two 6 bservations before he did so . He then delivered an address of about three hours in length ; and concluded by saying that as he came altogether unprepared to speak , he hoped the meeting would excuse him enlarging on the question . ¦
Assaults . —On Wednesday last , a man named George Hoist , a butcher , in Meadow-lane , was brought before the magistrates , charged with having assaulted a man of weak , mind on the day previous , at the White Horse , Hunslet . The complainants upper lip was completely split with the force of the blow , so that he had to apply to a doctor to have it sewed . The prisoner wastined 20 s . and costs , and in default of payment was sent to Wakefield for one month . George Brown , astonemasoji was charged with assaulting a man named Joseph Goldthorpe , atthesame place . He threw him down , by which he received a violent blow on the heady apparently almost enough to have caused his ¦ '¦ death . ' He was fined 40 s . and costs , or in default of payment to be committed for one month . Both the a-saults were committed without any provocation being offered .
Caution to Beersellers . —On Wednesday last , a beer-house keeper , named William Hudson , resident near Woodhouse Church , was charged with having persons drinking in bis house at twenty-five minutes past ten o ' clock on Saturday evening last . Bullock laid the information . It appeared that there were three or four persons in the house after ten o ' clock . They had been working ajb the manufactory of a Mr . Brown , near the place ; , and had not been able to leave their work , till nine o ' clock in the evening . They then repaired to Hudson ' s to get each a glass- ' of ale . It was proved that no beer was filled after twenty minutes to ten
o ' clock ; and Mr . Hudson positively declared that it was not more than nine minutes past ten o ' clock when Bullock entered . Several witnesses testified it as their decided opinion , that the time was not later than what Hudson stated it to be . They also gave him an excellent character for keeping a quiet and orderly house . The magistrates , Messrs . CJapham and Mu . « grave , said . , they bad no'discretion , but to convict ; and he was mulcted in the penalty of 40 s , and costs . [ The gentlemen of the bench are very consistent . One . says he has no discretion in such case , but must inflict the penalty ; the other exercises the fullest discretion , and' entirely does away with the penalty . Every beerseller should meet that humbug about " 110 discretion , "
with the case reported m one of our numbers , when Messrs . Holdforth and Hebden convicted a beerst-Her in the costs only , and not in any penalty . It was only on Wednesday last , that a inan who . had been guilty of-a petty felony , besought , ^ through the influence of bis brother and his employer , that he might be liberated ; but Mr . Clapham said he had no discretion in the case ; whereas not ten minutes before , he had sentenced a man to be fined 19 s . lOd . who was proved guilty of a theft ; and on the day previously he had ordered a woman to be discharged who had stolen a quantity of cheese . The lastmentioned case was of course with the sanction of the prosecutor . But Mr . Clapham has no discretion ! !]
Great Northern Union . —Persons desirous of becoming members of the great Northern Union may do so by applying any Monday or Wednesday evening at the Working Man's Association Room , Kirkgate , or on any working day at the Nortuern Star office , No . 5 , Market Street . * Stealing a Sack , —On Saturday , BenjaTmin Whiteley , Edward Craven , and Thomas Brayshaw , were brought up for further examination , at the Court House , charged with having , on the
Wednesday previous , stolen a sack , the property of Thomas Benson Pease , Esq ., of Chapel Allerton . It appeared from the evidence , that the three prisoners were observed to steal the sack out of the brewhouse through an apeture in the wallj made for the purpose of causing the steam to evaporate . The article was afterwards found by the constable in tbeir possession , and has since been most clearly identified by the marks upon it . The prisoners were committed for trial to Wakefield House of Correction .
Drunkenness . —Oh Wednesday , a man named James Baldwin , was brought before the magistrates , charged with being drunk , and creating adisturbahce at the Turk ' s Head Inn , Briggate , on the night previous . Baldwin was the person who appearecTafc the Music Hall a few evenings before , and who out such a ludicrous figure in questioning Mr . Rigby , the lecturer on Socialism . He was discharged on promise of being no ore orderly in future . Intended Procession . —On the day of her Majesty's cprouation , the Independent Order of Odd Fellows , in the Manchester Unity , arid Leeds District , contemplate having a public procession ; They are making arrangements for dining together on the occasion , in one of the most spacious rooms in the towrt , in testimony of their loyalty andpatriot-¦ ism towards her Majesty .
Serious Accident . —On Monday , as Francis St-aton , in the employ of Messrs . Eyres , cloth manufacturers , of Armley , was attending to a horse arid cart , the animal took fright and run away , near the Satyr Inn , Wortiey , by which the unfortunate man was crushed against a wall with such violence as-to break several of his ribs . Medical aid was promptly procuied but there were no hopes of his recovery and report states that he is since dead . Stealing Barrels ^—A young mati , named Frederic Richardson , was committed on Tuesday last , to take his trial at the ensuing sessions , for stealing two barrels , the property of a person named Mark Ball , of High-street . Tb > prisoner was taken in the act of rolling away the barrels . ¦
Socialists . —These persons are disseminating their principles with great industry . They hive engaged the Kplendid Music Saloon of Mr . Walton , at a very expensive rate , for the delivery of Sunday lectures , in which their doctrines are to-be propounded and explained . Mr . J . Green , ft-im Manchester , has been announced for two lectures on Sunday next . TemperaNoe SociETy ;^ -The anni vers a ry of th «
Leeds Temperance Society was celebrated in the Music-Hall- , by public meetings holdenIn the eveni nps- of Monday , Tuesday , and Wednesday last . Spirited and animated speeches were made by a Variety . of advocates for this great and pood cause , having for their object the placing before the meeting , in a variety of different lights , the evils resulting fiom the use of intoxicating drinks , and the benefits which would accrue to society from their abolition The audiences were numerous , and seemed to be much interested .
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¦ BMW 8 MEN ' S A 68 OClAtlOM . CAj | Agteis , ^ i | s ^^^ : # ^ A « f *« o i TmE .- () n Taesaay laftw ^ inan named Thomas Birch ; formerly a rigid tee-totaller * was brought before ; John Clapham , Esqi , one oftlw sitting magistrates for the present month , enaraea with being druak aqct disorderly , and with using im * proper language . It was proved that he had swori ! ten most terrifele oaths ; wherenpon Mr . Clapham said he should be fined 10 s .-i a shilling foreacb oaflr or in default of payment to be committed for sixteen days . ' ' ' ;; :. -: " ..- ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ : ' ¦ : ' ¦ ¦ . --: " ¦ ¦ " : " ¦• ¦ ¦ . ¦ ' : ' •; ' -- ., ¦ : ¦ . -. ^ , ; \ . ; . ^ Woekino Mbn's A 6 bociation . _ a » r ;¦ . » - *!
Attempted Robbery . —On Tuesday last , « two boys named Williain Burke and James Sowden were placed before the magistrates charged with attempting to rob ^ the till of a shopkeeper riamea Strickland , in ; Swinegate . A policeman named Stuhba , bejag aware of the character of the prison ers , suspected their intentions when , he sa \ ir them hanging about the shop ; he' watched them for a eon siderable time , and at length saw : the prisoner Burke putoff his shoes , and go slily into the shop . The police man saw him get behind the counter , and immediately ran into the shop , where he seized him in the act of reaching towards the till . Mrs . Strickland heativg the noise came out * of aaother part of the house an | seeing what was going on in the shop , told the police man that she had caught a boy in the act of attemnJ ^
mg to draw out tne till not above two hours before Sowden , and another of his comrades , wbo wet * watching about the door , ' seeing ; the policeman seize Burke , immediately decamped with his shoes which were left out side ., Burke in his defence said that he had ^ one into the shop for a pennyworth of bread ' atjil in answer to a question which was put by the policeman as to how he could go for apennyworth of bread without a penny ( because the policeman had searched him and found nothing on him ) he replied tha # Mrs . Strickiandgpt him down behind the counter and took the penny out of his pocket I ( Laug hter . > They were sent to Wakefield for three months ag rogues and vagabonds . ¦ ' -.- "
Assault . —On Saturday , David Preston was brought up before the Magistrate * at the Court House , charged with having , oh the previous evening , in Lady-Lane , assaulted a watchman , when acting in the execution of his duty , by beating and kicking him . The defendant was drunk , and tie watchman had previously conveyed him home the same evening . He was fined 40 a . and costs , ^ d in default of payment wan committed for one month to Wakefield House of Correction .
BRADFORD . Two Incurables . ——On Monday last , Marr Hall and Sarah Normington , both of BradfonJ , were brought -ap at the Court-Hduse , charged with being lewd and disorderly . Ifhey are both well-known ladies of the town , whom no authority can tanie » The magistrates committed them to the House of Correction for three months each . Water Works . —The share list of this undertaking was closed on Monday last , as 1700 shares had been taken , which were more than sufficient to defray the expense . None of the schemes proposed by Mr . J . G-.- Horsfall , Mr . Billington , and Mr . Peacock , were estimated to cost £ 22 , 000 to carry them out . The shares taken will amount to £ 42 , 500 . '; , ¦ : .:
Ineirmary and DisPENSAKy . — The general annual meeting of the subscribers to these Institu . tions , was held at the Exchange Buildings , on Monday last , when the proposition of ; the house committee to separate the Infirmary and Dispensary practice , and to appoipt three medical officers to assist in . the latter was' adopted . The meeting for the election of these officers is to be held on the 21 st inst ., at the Exchange BuildingSi The candidates for the appointments have , since it has been determined the change shall take place , been again actively engaged in canvassing .
Short v . Long Courtship . —A'female , living in the neighbourhood of George-street , had been courted some dozen years by a jolly vender of cabbagts , of the Green Market . Oft was the promise of marriage kept to the ear , but not in the performance ; and several times the spurrings had been pot in and withdrawn . At last , another suitor presented himself ; she discarded the old one , and haying had sufficient trial of long courtship , she was determined to try a short one , and was married within the month .
MEeHANics ; Institute . —Itis intended to laj the first stone of this edifice , on Whit Monday , with aH the usual honours . The Rev . Mr . Ackwortb , president of the Institution , will deliver an address on the occasion . ; Messrs . W . Murgatroyd , Joshua . Lupton , Joseph Smith , Josepb .: EarTar , and Booth Illingwortb , are appointed a committee to . superin ; tend the carrying forward . of the ^^ work , and plans and specifications are lying at the ofiBce oi Jft ^ t . calfe , architect , for the inspection of contractors .: '' .
Juvenile Conserv atives . —Ttese Lilliputian politicians had their dinner , at the Nag ' s Head Inn , on Friday week . Previous to dining , ; about fifty ; of them walked in procession through the streets ; preceded by a band of music- and . accompanied by Mr Robert Gamble , as their political mentor most of them were extremely young , so much so , that we perceived that one batch bad the family footman with them as their conservator . Those who haw seen a herd of Scotch sheep defile through a mountain pass , will have a very adequate notion of this
juvenile parading through the streets . About 70 sit down to dinner , which , we understand , was a verj good one . After the cloth was drawn , several of the young masters recited pretty well the speeches which their papas had taken miich pains to draw up for them . They had a small quantity of wine eacb . The latter end of the proceedings was garnished with the speeches of some adult Tories , so that the whole formed a compound , " Where hot and cold , and wet and dry , And beef and broth , asd apple pie , Most slovenly assembled . ' ' ' . " . "' :
Radical Association . —In the Leeos Mercury of Saturday last , it was insinuated that this Association was all but defunct , —that it was supposed it cou id barely survive the expenditure of its lunds , w'high now amounted to : something under twenO sbillings . The truth of the matter , we undersrana is ' ., the members of the association have , to a . considerable extent , formed themselves into a branch of the Socialists ^ who not only require to be empcipated from political disabilities , but seek also . to free themselves froin those disadvantages wKi attach to their dependence on , and servitude pf landlords and capitalists . TSey seek .- 'to .- ' -annihifete
those appalling contrasts whifchtevery where present themselves in society , —of extreme indigence aad extreme affluence , — -of superfluity on the one h * nd , and destitution of the common necssaries of life on the other ; and , oiat of these inequalities of phyoral condition , political preferences and partiality arise-The Socialists ^ therefore / proclaim themselv «« to he the true Bauicals ; they strike at the root of w the evils , political and otherwise . The drooping state of the Radical ( so called ) Association , tterefore , cannot be regarded as any indication of to indifference , on the part of the people , to the attain ' ment of their political rights . '
Fatal Accident . —Yesterday week , as Jaia Hsfrrison , of Manriinghamj aged seventy years , was returning from ! Otiey market , along with his so ^ and two carts , and as he was in the act of getting off from the cart ; about forty or fifty yanfa ; on jW Bradford side of the Fleece Inn > Baildon , he ft " © a his back . Before his situation was discovfeiW ) the wheel of the second cart had " passed over » e small of his body and the top of his hip . He _ * a » immediately taken up , and put on the cart . AtSnipley he was examined by a surgeon , who * wa 3 l ^ opinion tl ^ at he could not reach home alive . A « deceased ^ however , who was perfectly sensiblevff *' desirous of getting home , which : he reached » abouthaltpast six in the evening , and ^ bont niDB the same evening he died . The deceased W" ** gober , steady , careful man , and was nm 1 *^ unwte / l Tlio / mncD nf Jiio fsllinir was SUPIKl * .
be numbness from the cold . On the latter 01 . «< two carte , Mrs . Singsby , of Heaton , was rt < m and ; as the wheel passed over the old ^^ j was thrown off , —the cap of her knee wask ?^* off , her : shoulder was dislocated , and she was ^ V wise severely bruised . Ignorance is Bliss . —A short time ; ago , ^ certain debating club in Bradford , H **? thjt mined ) by a large majority of its members ? , w ignorance was " : mor « conducive to Dappme ? g . j , knowledge . ^ The chief advocate on the ; ^^ j l norance , we understand , was a young « && a * r ^ Hand Loom WeavehS . —It » s «^ ^ % , M ^ vMnggrige , ti » e comaaBsgioner ; app 01 ^ ^ , inquire into the complaints" and & ie ™? e % xjtajd . in \
band loom weavers , will shortly w »^ , ^ We hope thes weavers will be fully P ^ ffi *** meet , the commjssioqer , and teke ' -9 * &T . ^!^ i of the ^ opportunity rfoMed them of n * * ' ^/ - ^ iheir complaints , and seeking a redress . 01 grieTances . . ;¦ ' T :- . , ' t « # AccrDKNT . —On Monday last , a » A ™? " ^ of » ton , of Horton , w » whitewt « tni «« ; »* " ^ okei awelling 4 ioa 8 e , hefefl from toe *««* ? % f -S * arm and Unused ti ^ d were toffto *^™ " ^ quences . > ; : ; - - ' - . ; . " .: 7- ' - '•¦ ' - * ¦ '" ¦ " . " / ' '; J : ; , \ . ;; ' ;'¦ ¦ • ';¦ .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 12, 1838, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct348/page/4/
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