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Ower Glykdwb . —We have no room . Silk Twjstsbs' Txjbh Out . —We have received a letter from the silk twisters of Castle Mills , Edinburgh , stating that they have * ' left work in consequence of an enormous reduction ^ and cautierting ail silk funsters in other places not to be entrapped by any jlallenng prospects held out to them . " We cannot insert it . It might be prosecuted . 34 B . WM . Russell , late ofNottingham . We last week - requested this gentleman ' s address ; we have not yet received it . His brother Chartists of Nottingham have this week wished us to join their request to our own , that he will communicate his exact address so that letters may reach
A 2 ? os-El'ectok , Portsea , asks , if a widow being an occupant of a house entitled to vote , can -use that cote through her son , who is beyond the age of 22 years , and also as a freeholder for the county . Certainly not . Johx Watkins , in answer to the numerous kind invitations which he has received , begs to say , that it will be a month before he can leave town , as he has to go tht round of all the London localities first . He will , if possible , visit every place from which he receives an invitation , and due notice of time will be given in the Star . J . A . of Colne , wishes an answer from George Pickering , of Nottingham ^ respecting an inquiry sent to him in the beginning of last month .
Otra Maschestke Correspondent must furnish his address . Oca Glasgow Cobrbspondbkt trt # be good enough to let us know his address . Halifax . —// is particularly requested that any leetvrer coming to Halifax , wilLgiveJive day ' s notice thereof . All communicatums to be addressed to B . Bulterly , sub-Secretary , Back Albion-street . ' Mr . ( yCossoa is particularly requested by the Chartists of the Halifax district , to give timely notice of his ( long looked for ) visit to that place , it being in contemplation to hold a public meeting on the same day ^ ( which toe promise will be no ^ waster , "' J for the purpose of carrying out therecommendation of the late Convention .
Chables Consob Irishes to knew the address of the sub-secretary of the Durham Charier Association Mr . Conner ' s address is Back Bongate , Bishop Auckland . L . C . O . —Blacksmith or no blacksmith , he is welded as effectually as his own hammer could hate dene it . It will require the ** swage ' of death to part them . FrsSBtray . —All persons who have given in their names for subscriptions to the expenses oj the demonstration , and have not paid them in , are requested to do so immediately , or their names will be returned as defaulters . Johs Bixxs , Halifax . — We have received his letter If the occupation of censure and misrepresentation can please him and his friends , we have no objection to be made the subject-matter of their amusement . It may keep them out of more mischievous employment ; but we shall not print his
letter , because we perfectly accord with his opimorij that * it is unfair for the readers of the Star to be every week compelled to buy whole columns of personal abuse . W . GrcxnrDss , Swinton . —The cards of membership , and the plan of organisation of the N . C ~ A ^ may be had from the General Secretary . H . Mole , JRedditch . —His letter and enclosure is received . Thanks . E . MoEGA >* , MJ ) . Bath . —We have received his letter , bui he must excuse our publishing it . We intend not to give that person any possibility of hereafter complaining tluit we publish misrepresentations of his acts . Mb . G . J . Habkby , Hartshead , Sheffield . —News agent offices to receive contributions towards aiding Mr . Holyoake , who has been committed for trial on a charge of Blasphemy . In his trial which takes place en the 29 tb inst ^ we wi ll notify in the Star any sums we may receive for this
purpose . East asd North Bidikg . —Edward Burley wishes to inform the Chartists of the East and North Ridings , that in accordance with the resolution of the delegate meeting , he has succeeded in engaging Mr . Bairstow as lecturer for the above district , and that as Mr . Bairstow ' s present engagements wiU not be completed for nearly three weeks , it will be impossible for him to commence his duties in the East and North Riding district , until Monday the 27 th of the present month , when he will be in Leeds . Nat . Mohlisg axd Job Scott , are both very angry
with Mr . Allen , of Brighton , for his letter in last week's Star . They both put into Mr . Allen ' s mouth assertions which are not contained in his Tetter at all , and they found their animadversions upon those statements of their own . They complain of the Star ' s being made a vehicle for personal abuse and misrepresentation , and at the same time send letters to it filled with nothing but personal abuse and misrepresentation . They will not , ofcaurse , be surprised to find their letters uninserted . "W , R Birmingham . —We have belter employment for our time than to answer silly questions for the deciding of wagers .
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STAinfiSGLET . —One Shilling . ixxss AS . T 3 TT& . —Cannot say exactly , but suppose before l )* e snonih is out . John West , Lewes . —Sr . id an order and cash to this office for all plates wanted , say at same time the cheapest mode of conveyance , and the order shall be attended to .. Wjl Cook . —Only Pest-office orders need to be made payable to John At dill . J , Thokstos , Halifax . —Yes .
FOB TH 2 DISTRESSED STOCKPOBT SPJXX&RS . £ b . a . F » m Wm Clark , Edgeware-Toad , London 1 o JOB IHB XXBCCTITB . "From Joseph Morgan , grocer , i , Caarch-st Dsptford , being proceeds from goods PURCHASED of him BY THE CHARTISTS . ... ... 6 2 TOE MBS . PKOST , XSS . "WILLIAMS , ASD MKS . JONES . From Leith , being amount collected at the Demonstration on Leith Links , on Sunday last , Jnne 5 th , per J . Fergnson , Jon . ... ... 12 6 JOB HSL HINDES , OF SHOBEHAH . From the N . C . A . Neiraik , per T . Simnitt 5 0
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WARWICK . —An open air public meetirg ' was held hare , on the Vine Bowling Green , to petition against the New Poor Law , and to the disn ^ y of many Whifc 3 who got Bp the meeting , the Chairman called on Mr . Donaldson , a Chartist , to read the petition , who did so , but previously begged to sta- e that the petition was for a total repeal of that atrocious Act , which was inflicted upon the country daring she late Whig administration . He ( Mr . D . ) knew fnll well it was utter folly to expect that the present House of Commoj . s would listen to the prayer of this petition any more than to that of the three and a half millions of Chartists . No ; but there was another le ? son to be learned , and which he found many around him wanted to be taught ,
namely , that until we had a total organic change in tie national legislation system we never can expect either justice to the people or prosperity to the country . _ The People ' s " Charter alone coniained those principles of truth and even-handed justice which would accomplish that object . Mr . 1 ) . here fnlly explained those principles , and concluded by observing , the Tories are now in power , and be it rememoered they decried the Poor Law Act when out of office , and stigmatized the abettors of- it publicly ; though it i 3 well known their leaders assisted in concocting it . However , now is the time
for the people to mark the perfidy and moral turpitude of both factions when the plunder of the poor was to be perpetuated f Now is the time for the people to judge of the value of the Charter , as a xnean 3 to put an end to the crucifixion of the poor between the two thieves . He proposed the adoption of this petition merely as a means of instruction to the people . Mr . S . L . Price seconded the adoption of the petition in a very able and talented speech , and read numerous extracts from newspapers and Acts of Parliament . The speakers were listened to whh the greatest respect and attention , and the petition was adopted unanimously .
CHEDDXNGTON . —Eccks . —Mr . E . Stallwood from London , having accepted the invitation of 5 ome of ihe friends here , attended and lectured to a numerous audience on the village green , on Tuesday , &t seven o ' clock . Notwithstanding the threats of the &naers of " sacking" any . one that should attend , a camber of well dressed females graced the meeting with their presence . At a quarter-past seven , Mr . Stallwood commenced his address on ths principles of the Charter , alternately producing applause and bursts of laughter , and continued in a fervent and impassioned strain of eloquence highly
gratifying to the astonished villagers , who for the first time listened to a Chartist lecturer- Many of the fair sex had the straw plait in their hands ( the staple trade of this part of Bucks . ) Mr . S / s address lasted upwards of an hour and a half . At the conclusion , & vote approbatory of the principles was unanimously passed , and Mr . S . was pressingly solicited to pay them another visit , with which request he complied . Our principles are now fairly introduced into Buckinghamshire , and with exertion and perseverance , the voice of Chartism will resound from end to end of our Torv-ridden coanty .
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TO THU EDITOR 0 ? THE N 0 B . THEES STABSis , —I beg to call the attention of the National Charter Association to the "Address to the Inhabitant * of Bath , " ia Jfo , 21 , of the Kaiio * a ! Viadioalor , April Sod , 1843 . A Bath Chabtist .
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LANDLORDISM IN MEATH . Our Navan Correspondent informs us that on Saturday , the 28 th May , twenty-four individuals were cast out from their wretched cabins , at Alexandria ^ , near Navan , by their landlord , Mr . Arthur M . Kenna , of Dublin , who is eaid , to be a liberal in politics . The crimes of the unfortunate wretches thrown upon the world is comprised , according to our correspondent , in the fact , that their miserable cabins were considered an eye-sore upon the lands . The following is a list of the persons ejected : — Widow Cochlan , an enfeebled old woman 1 Widow Sully , and three children 4 John Cochlan , wife and three children 5 Richard Walsh , wife & family ( we believe ) 2 4 Patrick Ward , wife and three daughters ... ... 5 Widow Mooney , and one daughter , 2 - Tflom&s Grant , and wife » 2 Thomas Grant , senr ., upwards of 80 yrs . of ag e 1 24 One of the men employed by this charitable landlord to scatter to the winds the roofs which was erected to shelter the inmates was nearly crushed to death beneath the ruins of one of the cabins ; he now lies in the county infirmary . The wretched outcasts , including the Widowed and the Fatherless , " and the poor old creatures turned out to die , are at pre 33 nt living in the ditches under the shelter of so much of the ruins as they could make available
to their purpose . Many persons have gone from the . town and country around to view the scene of desolation—a scene well calculated to fill the hearts of the beholders with an abhorrence of the system which permits such a violation of those natural rights of man , which are far more sacred than any derived from the Iaw 9 of human structure . Surely , surely it is time for the law to interfere , and teach landlords that if they have rights , they have also duties to perform . —Droaheda Argus . -
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HOUSE OF LORDS—Tuesday , Junk 7 . Lord Kikh aib . d inqoised to whom , the distribution e the subscriptions "were to be entrusted , which were collected and collecting in consequence of the Queen's letter ? -The Date of Wellington replied , that the bud-Ecriptisns were to be distributed by the Committee for the Belief of Manufacturing Distress , which has been in existence since 1825 . The money already subscribed by the Queen and the members of the Government bad been handed to the committee , who had also furni&hed the funds 'which had been sent down to Burnley . The Earl of Rai » 'ob moved for » return of all Bums advanced by Government for the relief of distress since 1826 , and madersome remarks on the impolicy of the Government advancing money without the control of Parliament Lord Monteagle explained the course which had been adopted on former occasions by the Government .
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HOUSE OF COMMONS , Tuesday , June 7 . WOMEN AND CHILD&EN IN MINES AND COLLIERIES . After presenting two petitions in favour of the exclusion of females from coal pita , from the vicar and several parishioners of Islington , and from the vicar and inhabitants cf Cheltenham , and other places . Lord ASH let , pursuant to notice , proceeded to move for leave to bring in a bill for introducing certain regulations aB to tee age and sex of persons admitted to work in mines and colleriea . His Lordship observed that he wss sure it -would not be deemed presumptuous in him , -when he said , that in bringing this matter before the House , be felt certain of obtaining the attention of the Honse—ihear ) . The novelty of this subject , it » mag
nitude , the deep and solemn interest ¦ which it excited throughout the country , and the consideration of its vital influence on the welfare of so large a poition ef oar countrymen were circumstances of themselves sufficient te obtain for this matter the attention of every gentleman present . He might add this much as to himself , that there -was some little reason why he ¦ was ihna prominent in bringing the matter before Parliament . The report on the table of the House was the Erst report of the commission -which he had the honour to move for in August , 1840 . It iras quite impossible for any man , whatever bis station , who had a heart in his bosom , to read the details of this awfnl document without a combined feeling of shame , terror , and indignation . ( Hear , hear . ) He
wo old dwell on the evil itself , rather than on those who might be accused of having been , in some measure , the authors of it An enormous mischief had been discovered , and an immediate remedy must be devised , and he felt sure that when once an effectual remedy had been applied , there would take place such a revival of good feeling between master and roan—bet trees the wealth and want—between tha rulers and the ruled - as . would conduce to the restoration of social harmony and happiness , and , under God ' s blessing , to the permanent security of the empire . ( Hear , bear . ) When he moved for tiiis commission , be ventured to state to the House thjffextensive and important character of the information that would be derived from the inquiry , end his expectation on this head had been amply
fulfilled . Other reports to come would develope more fully The whole length and breadth of our perilous position , but be might say ex pede JBeradem ; the present report showed the social and physical miseries which were engendered by the present syBtem , and the inevitable deterioration of the British race . ( Hear , hear , hear , hear . ) It exhibited % very important feature of our national condition , moral , social , and religious . He was aware that it might be said that vice was not a thing ef to-day , that danger was no new thing to this country ; but the vice , toe horrors , which this report exhibited , and the consequent daager to our social condition , were of the most alarming character . The danger in this case was not to be considered comparatively ; it came before them in an absolute form .
Our forefathers had to deal with thousands , we with millions . Parliament must apply itself boldly , faithfully , and immediately to the evil , or it would grow to so enormous a height as to be insuperable by anyeffbrts whatever , whether of genius or power . He would now proceed to the statements be had drawn together from the ' report , to show the condition of the working people in the mines and collieries of the United Kingdom ; and" to point ont what he thought might afford an amelioration of that condition- In doing this it would be necessary for him to detain the House by long , and , perhaps , somewaat wearying details ; but he was sun ) the importance of the snbjact wonld be admitted as his justification . He thought the House would agree with him that it was better the case should be stated in the
form of evidence , rather than that it should be made out by any attempt at declamation—( hear , hear ) . His Lordship then went into a lengthened exhibition of the horrible and revolting statements of facts made by the Commissioners and the" witnesses before them ; many of which we have already published from the evidence . After which he continued : —Strong as some of these statements were , the commissioners had not by any means told the worst of tb a story . They could not commit to print for general circulation all that they knew , or all that could be known . It did not require a very vigorous imagination , after hearing what had been made public , to conceive that a state of things existed not only disgraceful , but injurious to the country . To remove , or even to
mitigate these evils , required the vigorous and immediate interposition of the legislature . Such an interposition was loudly demanded by the public virtue , the public honour , the public character , and he rejoiced to ssy , the public sympathies . Never since the first disclosures of the horrors of the slave trade bad ther been a stronger or warmer feeling than had been excited on this subject throughout the length and breadth of the land —( hear , hear . } Some legislative Interposition was needed by those well-intentioned and honest proprietors of mines who were anxious to introduce ameliorations among their own workmen , but who , from long established prejudices , found themselves unable to do it There were many gentlemen of this description ; and he was quite certain , from what he heard , from
letters and from private communications , that these persons would hail the present bill with alacrity and pleasure . He proposed by bis bill to cut off the principal sources of the present evils . No doubt muoh would be Jeft for future legislation , but some of those evils were so monstrous that they would admit of no delay . They were evils which would be disgusting in a heathen country , and which were intolerable in one professing to call itself Christian . In the first place , then , he would propose the total exclusion of all females from the mines and collieries of this country . He thought that every principle of religion and every feeling of human nature called for this . He knew of no argument which could ba urged against it , except that which was founded on the purert and most
complete selfishness . He believed that very few had any real interest in keeping up this practice , but there were some interested parties who wish to keep females still in the pits , and he would like the House and the country to know the motives of those who desired to continue this shameful aud intolerable Bystem . The following appeared from the evidence of the working people themselves : — llGir 2 s and women never get coals , and always remain drawers , and are considered to be equal to half a man . " " Prefers women to boyB { says acetber coUier ) , they we better to manage , and they never get to be coal getters ; that is anether good thing " . In the east of Scotland girls are universally set at an earlier age than boys to their peculiar labour , from a notion that girls are more acute and capable of making themselves useful at an earlier age than boys . The temptation to employ women arises from their
wages being lower than that of males . The underlooker at Mr . Woodley's states ' one reason why women are used so frequently in the coal pits is , that a girl of twenty will work for two shillings a-day , or less , and a man of that age would wint three shillings and sixpence . It mokes little difference to the" coal master , be payB the same whoever does the work ; some would ssy he got his coal cheaper , but I am not of that opinion ; the only difference is th&t the collier can spend Is . to Is . 81 more at the alehouse . ' When a lad geto to be half , be 5 s all for getting coal , hut a lass never expects to be a coal getter , and that keeps her steady to her work . " Let the House look at the mischiefs which resulted from the employment of women . It was anything bnt an economical arrangement " Elspee « sd Thompson can say , to my own coat , that Uie bairns are much . aeg >
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lected when both parents work below , for neighbours , If tbey keep the children , require as much as women sometimes earn , and neglect them . " M . T . Sadler , Esq ., Barnsley : "I strongly disapprove of females being in pits ; the female character is totally destroyed by it ; their habits and teeUnga are altogether different ; they can neither discharge the duties of wives nor mothers . I see the greatest difference in the houses of those colliers whose wives do not go into the pits . " Mr . Wood , the Bub-commisrioner : " The result of my inquiries is in every case to show that the employment of female children and young persons in such labour shuts them out entirely from all useful and necessary knowledge ; the wives are so littlecapable of rendering a home comfortable , that the husband ia constantly
driven to the alehouse , where arises all the evils of drunkenness to themselves and their families : from this source a fearful deterioration of the moral and physical condition of our working population is rapidly taking place . " The advantage of excluding women from the mines was not a matter of mere speculation . Tkere was strong testimony to prove it from experience . He would quote the evidence of Mr . Jamea Wright , the manager , a highly . moral and intelligent man , and from what he had heard , he ( Lord Ashley ) did not believe that an honester maa eould be found in the kingdom . Mr . Wright said , " Four years ago I superintended Mr . Vamsay ' smines ; females and young children were excluded . A vast change in the comfort and condition of the colliers who availed themselves of
the new regulations . Some families left at the period , being desirous to avail themselves of the labour of their female children , many of whom have returned , and the colliers are much more regular than heretofore . " This was confirmed by the evidence of Thomas Hynd , coal-hewer in Mr . Dundas ' s pita , who said , " When Mr . Maston first issued the order , many men and families left , but many have retnrued , for they find now the roads are improved , and the out-put not limited ; they can earn as much money , and get homes ; many of the females are gone to service and prefer it ' There was some farther evidence from Mr . Wright , which showed the brutallsed state of feeling which had been created by the employment of women . Mr . Wright said : "I feel confident
that the exclusion of females will advantage the collier ia a physical point of view ; " for what reason did the House think ? He had never met with a more disgusting fact ; but the statement was this : " Inasmuch as the males will not work in bad roads , females ore brought only where no man can be induced to draw or work ; they are mere beasts of burden . " It was , indeed , time to remove this monstrous blot from the face of the country . Mr . Wright continued : '' This will force the alteration of the economy of the mines ; owners will be compelled to alter their system ; they will ventilate better , and make better roads , and so change the system as to enable men , who now work eight days a week , to discover their own interest in regularly employing themselves . " All this was confirmed by the statements
of an Honourable Friend of bis , Mr . Hutton , of Hutton , who bod been in the possession of pita for five-audtwenty years , and had never suffered females or children of tender years to enter them . The consequence was that the population around those pits was in a state of greater comfort , and distinguished by a better morality than the people of other collieries . Mr . Maxton , of Armiston , and Mr . Hunter , the mining oversman , state that , " in consequence of a new ventilation , and an improved mode of railing roads , a man and two boys take nearly as much money as when the family were below , and many of the daughters of miners were at a respectable service . " Mr . Maxton , of Armiston , again : " Women ought to be entirely disused under ground , and no boys ought to be
permitted to go below under twelve years of age . These have been the rules in this colliery for some time past , and already the good effects are being felt The houses of the workmen are clean and comfortable ; the children are well looked after by their mothers ; the young women are going out to service ; and the whole work-people have a better moral aspect Colliers prior to our regulations migrated in proportion to one-fourth , now not one tenth . " Mr . James Wright , manager to the Duke of Buccleuch : — "Since young children and females have been excluded from his Grace's mines , we have never had vecasion to increase the price of coal . " The next point in hiB bill would be to exclude all boys under thirteen years of age . This might be called the weak point , or at least the point of the greatest
difficulty . The House would allow him to state why he fixed upon the age of thirteen for exclusion . The Factory Act prohibited the full labour , a labour of twelve hours a-day , foi any one under thirteen y ^ ara of age , In cotton . and woollen manufacturing districts there were frequent complaints of a deficient supply of younger children , because they were carried off to printworks and collieries , to which the law did not extend . Hence it was said that an unfair distinction was made between these different departments of industry . He felt extremely anxious to place them all upon a level , and he hoped that one effect of his bill would fee , that children would be drawn away ia sufficient numbers from the coal pits to allow tw « different seta to be engaged at six hours a-day , who would prefer four
hours each in the c » tton and woollen factories . The evidence went to shew that fourteen years of age ought to be the minimum age for working In the collieries , and his ( Lord Ashley ' s ) own feelings would lead him to adopt that age ; bat as thirteen had been fixed by the Factory Act , be was content to take the same for the present BilL It would readily be seen that children , under thirteen , must be wholly excluded from the mines . If they were once allowed to go down they weuld be wholly In the power of the miner . No sort of controul could be exercised—no regulation of this labour could be enforced , and nothing short of actual prohibition would protect them . Anything like subterranean inspection was altogether impassible —( hear , hear )—and if it were possible , it would not be safe .
Whatever might be the case twenty-five years hence , wh « n it might be hoped that the character of the collier would be improved , at tha present moment , he ( Lord Ashley ] wcu ' . d not like to be the inspector for the purpose of enforcing regulations distasteful to the miners . Those people had a morality and policy of their own . " Cases have occurred , '' says Dr . Mitchell , 11 where diabolical characters have deranged the gear during the night .... and , inconsequence , the first party descending has been dashed to piecea Persons , " says the sub-Commissioner , " vrho have done actions not very heinous , have been knswn to take shelter in the mines ; , and there are few constables that -would willingly go down after them . " One of the dangers of employing young children in
the mines weuld appear from the following extract : — " With all the precautions , explosions take place , and more than ono hundred people have been killed at a tima" And no wonder , "for all the expedients devised to secure the safety of the mine may be counteracted by allowing one singlo trap-door to remain open ; and yet in all the coal miBC 3 the care of these trap-doors is entrusted to children of from five to seven or eight , who , for the most part , sit , excepting at the moment when persons pass through these doors , for twelve hours consecutively , in a&litnde , silence , and darkness . " There was abundant evidence to show that children in the mines were wholly at the mercy of the miners .: Children are left , in many instances , altogether to butties or
overlookers , ' who are invested with power to bargain for . dismiss , and use the children as they please . With very few exceptions , the proprietors and their agents take no charge whatever of the children , and neither know nor care how they are treatert . " The evidence showed in the strongest manner that the children dare not complain , or even tell of ill-usage . With respect to the use of punishments . " Punishments , " remarks tbe sub-commissioner , " are said , iu parts of the West Riding , never to be allowed ; but how are they pievented 7 The colliers work alone , in dark and secluded places , at great distances from each other , where they have opportunities of inflicting them when and how they please . " " From the nature of the employment , " Bays another , " and tbe difficulty of superintendence ,
cases of punishment and cruelty sometimes happen , which never reach the ears of the employers . " In reference to the age at which children should be suffered to work in mines , Mr . John Thompson , mining oversman , Baid— " Coal work is at best of an o'er sair kind , and few lads can . acquire the knowledge of < heaving , ' or have , good strength to ' put , ' till fourteen years of age . Colliers frequently exhaust themselves and children ; if regular , they would not need the assistance of such quantities of infant labour . '' It appeared that colliers who overworked their children , frequently -worked only eight or nine days in the fortnight themselves . Tbe remainder of their time they devoted to drinking , gambling , cock-fighting . If they were prevented from taking
their children down inte the pits , they would find oat some better way of attaining their end . The next important provision in his bill would be , that no one should be employed sb engineer but males of twentyone years of age . The whole subject of accidents ia coal mines was of the greatest importance . The subject had been inquired into by a committee of the House of Commons , but no remedy had been applied . The matter , however , must be looked into , or many more lives wonld be sacrificed . " The accidents which occur ( says the sub-commissioner in the mining district of South Staffordshire ) are numerous ; and to-judge from tbe conversation which one constantly hears , we might consider tbe whole popula ion as engaged in a campaign . The risk is constant aud imminent . It is a life ( says a collier ) of great danger both for man and child ; a collier is never safe after he is swung off to be let down the pit In 1838 , in fifty-five districts of
registration , 349 deaths , of which eighty-eight only were caused by explosion or suffocation , the rest through the unguarded state of the pit ' s mouth , the badness ot the ropes , the mismanagement ot tbe drawing engine , and the accumulation of water in the mines . " He wished particularly to draw the attention of the House to the fact that the miners were drawn up and let down iu baskets moved by the steam-engine at the pit ' s mouth , This , engine was frequently left in charge of children , twelve , eleven , and even nine years of age . Let the House hear the result of such a practice . The sub-commissioner said : "It is common in Derbyshire , as elsewhere , to employ very young children as ei ; gineers to let down and draw up the worfe-people . I huve met with children only ten years old , having the lives of colliers itft to their mercy ; and have seen others so inattentive to their duty , as to let the corve be drawn over the pulley , and half a ton of coals be thrown down the shaft Ibwe children draw up or let down six » t » time . The
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accidents were numerous . " Jamea Warrener a miner : " The vronfc thing thathas ever been brought about against the colliers , ia in the masters employing little bits of lads as engineers ... until a man has come to maturity of age , and to know the value of a man ' s life , be is not to be trusted with the management of tm engine . " This was a perfectly just remark . Mr . Wild , chief constable of Oldham , " whose duty it Ib to collect evidence for the coroner's inqueste , " said , " it fa a general system here to employ mere children to tend these engines , and to stop them at the proper moment , and if they be not stopped , the two or three or four , or five persona wound up together , are thrown oye * the beam down into the pit again . There have been people wound over at Oldham Edge , at Wernatto , at
Chamberlane , at Robin Hill , at Oldbottom , and on Union Ground nere , within the last aix or seven years . Does not know a case in which children were not the engineers . Three or four boya were killed in thia way at the | 0 hamber . lane colliery , by the momentary neglect of a little boy , who , he thinks , was only nine years of age ; and who , be heard , had turned away from tbe . engine when it was Grinding up , on his attention being attracted by * mouse on the hearth . " Both witnesses depose , " It the masters can get such ; a duty discharged by a boy , to whom they give five or seven shillings a week , it is so much gained to them upon the wages of a man whom they ought to employ . " The fourth and last principal provision of the bill he was about to introduce referred to a subject on which he hoped the House would
entertain as strong a feeling of indignation as he dfd . He referred to the Bystem of apprenticeship , and he did not believe a more monstrous abuse was ever brought under the notice of a deliberative assembly . The districts in which the system of apprenticeship is most common are South Staffordshire , Yorkshire , Lancashire , West of Scotland . In South Staffordshire , says the eub-commissipner , "the number of children or young persons as apprentices is exceedingly numerous . These apprentices are paupers or orphans , and are wholly in the power of the buttiea . Such is the demand for tola class of children , that there , ate scarcely any boys in the union Workhouses . These boys are sent on trial between eight and nine , and ; at nine are bound for twelve years ; that is , to the age of
twenty-one years complete . " '; . ' * There are , probably , " says Mr . William Grove , " three hundred apprentices belonging to the collieries in this town of Bilston . One man has now five in his house . " Nothing worse than the results of this system could be found in the history of West India slavery . "Many of thecelliers , " Bays the sub-commissioner , " take two or three at a time , supporting themselves and families out of their labour . As soon as either of them is old enough he is made a getter , and is then worth from 10 s . to 15 s . a week . At tbe age of fourteen , the apprentice works side by side with other lads whe are getting 14 s . a week ( he himself getting nothing ); at seventeen or eighteen side by side with freemen , who may go wherever they please , and are earning 20 s . or 25 s . "
" The orphan , " says the sub-commissioner , " whom necessity has driven into a workhouse , is made to labour in the mines until the age of twenty one , solely for the benefit of another . " "Notwithstanding this long apprenticeship / ' says Dr . Mitchell , "there is nothing whatever in the eoal-mine to learn beyond a little dexterity , readily acquired by short practice ; even in mines of Cornwall , where much skill and judgment are required , there are no apprentices . '' See tbe treatment to which these poor wretches were subject Being paupers and friendless , their masters Were careless to what dangers they exposed them . Mr . Baylis , agent t * Mr . Lonsdale , said , " The men will send a boy where they do not go themselves , and some have their limbs broken , and others lose their lives . Some
parishes will not let the butties have their pauper children . Butties get apprentices , and send their own children to learn other trades . The apprentices have not a holiday , if there be one , or means of employing them . It ia tbe apprentices who are sent to mind the steam-engine and pump tip water on Sundays . It is tbe apprentices who on that day clean the boilers . " This was the Statement of Joseph Edison , a master manufacturer in the West Riding of Yorkshire . — " When the colliers are in need of hurriers , they apply to the poor-law guardians of pauper children . I have been , " says he , " a guardian myself , aud know it to be the fact They cannot get them elsewhere , on account of tbe labour and treatment hurriers experience . " After citing several cases of barbarous , treatment of
apprentices , his Lordship continued : —But why should these poor beings be thus treated ? They had committed no crime ; or if they had , he knew of no crime that should be so dreadfully , so severely punished . ( CheeiB . ) He had , but a few days before , been to visit the new prison at Pentonville ; and he must Bay that he had never seen anything to equal the preparations that were made for the cure and comforts of those destined , for their crimes , to be resident within its , walls . He did not object to this , but there were preparations made for ventilation , for warmth , for an abundance of light , for amusement , for occupation , for the taking of exercise ; and even for those doomed to solitary confinement th « means were provided that , fourteen times in the day , they should have the Opportunity of seeing
a human being , and of bearing a human voice—and yet , when all this was done for criminals , they found these poor children sent down into the earth , to be thus breated , thus tortured—why ? . Because they were orphans . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) They moreover inflicted , upon these children another curse . It was the unavoidable corse of ignorance : for ignorant they must be from their tenderest years , until the day they emerged from the mines in their one and twentieth year . Until then they were not allowed to know their duty either to God or man ( hear . ) He was sure that the House must agree with him , if it were anxious to maintain the New Poor Law , and he did not then say whether it was wise or whether it was unwise to do bo ; bat surely it would be but wise to allow a relaxation
where it was possible ( hear , hear . ) In this case it was possible—in this case ib was niott necessary , and therefore it was that he proposed not only that such apprenticeships should be abolished far the future , but also that every indenture that now existed should be cancelled ( cheers , ) and thus the House would let the oppressed go free ( cheers . ) He would detain the House but a few minutes longer . He felt that he had trespassed much upon their time ; but they would , he was sure , forgive him when they knew how long he had laboured upon these matters , and how constantly he had struggled to attain some beiieflcial end to his toil ( hear , hear . ; They had now seen , from what he had detailed , how needless and how mischievous was the employment of women in such an occupation— -how
injurious to themselves and their families . They bad seen alike how needless , and how mischievous , and how ruinous it was to drive children into those wines , and to anticipate the efforts of that strength which should be reserved for the advantage and the defence of a future generation . They found , too , that all the evidence went to prove , that a Very little experience , and a very little care , might remove or obliterate a large portion of the mischief that was now unnects 8 arily inflicted . There was no employment necessary to mankind that was deadly in ita effects upon the human frame , except through the neglect of mankind . Now , in taking the liberty of occupying the attention of the House , he wished merely to shew that this was no desultory movement on his
part . He was proposing apian which he had conceived , whether wisely or unwisely , with the intention of ameliorating the condition of the working classes . That condition waa in many respects so bad , that there was evidently required a change of some kind . It had long been obvious to him , that inordinate toil was imposed upon ene portion , and a total disemployment of the physical energies of another portion , while the moral energies of both the one and the other were allowed to fall into neglect It was right , he considered , under such circumstances , to interfere on behalf of the children , to shorten their hours of labour , and by that means to call into work those who were unemployed , and relieving thua all who were too much employed . This had beeft done by him , when he
limited the hours of labour ; but he had never endeavoured to legislate with regard to adults , nor to Interfere between master and man on the subject of wages— - ( hear , hear . ) He had laboured : to / bring tbe young people within the reach of a moral and religious education ; knowing full well that they were the seed of future generations of citizens , and that in the progress of things and of opinfona , they could neither with safety nor with hope calculate , that with such an education , they would become that which he hoped it would please God they might , a wise and an understanding generation . They might know what was the extent of thair territory , and what the number of nations that they governed . Financial calculations , too , might tell them what were their Rains , and
what the ' losses ; -, to the national treasury ; but the difficulty was , to ascertain what were the moral statistics of a kingdom . He knew that many people judged of theso by criminal returns , and thought that they exhibited the condition of the people . He ; oh the other hund , believeci anch returns to be most fallacious !; because he firmly believed tliat a country might be in a most fearful and perilous condition , and yet it could be shown that what contributed most to auch peril never appeared before a magistrate , or infrinjtf d the law . | He » r , hear . ) He bad a Very remarkable document which bore upon this point . It waa eh « report of tbe police at Manchester , made up to tbe end ot . the ; year—to . December , 1841 . It was a document drawn up with wy great care , and exhibited some most important facts . He quoted it merely to show how right a judgment could be formed of the state of a population , and of ita morality , from the gaol returns . The number of persons taken into
custody by the Manchester police during the year , ending tbe 31 st of December , 1841 , was 13345 , and of these there were discharged by the magistrates at once , and without the iDfiiction of any punishment , 10 , 208 ; but , surely , it would be most unwise to infer , that out of the 13 , 000 charged , there hod been dismissed , on accouut of their complete innocence , 10 , 000 . Of these ware under twenty years of age not less than 3 , 069 ; Of the 13 , 345 , there were 6 ; 971 who could neither read nor write ; while those who enjoyed the advantages ot superior instruction , and how slight that might be in the estimation of a police office could be easily surmised , there were but 220 . ( Hear , hear . ) Lttthem , be said , now look to the ' situation of the town , and the moral condition of the population . They would tee now that there were facts to be fouud relative to it , which never appeared in the police courts , and never were investigated by a judge . The following was the retain be raftered to ;—
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RETURN FOE 1841 . No . of pawnbrokers In borough of Manchester ... 129 Ditto of beerhouses ... ... ... ... ... 769 Ditto of public-houses ... .. ... ... 493 Ditto of brothels ... ... ... ... ... 309 Brothels lately suppressed ... ... ... ... Ill Brothels where prostitutes are kept ... ... l £ 3 Houses of ill-fame where prostitutes resort ... 223 Street-walkers in borongh ... ... ... ... 768 Thieves known to reside in , who do nothing but steal ... ... ... ~ . ... ... 212 Persons following some ^^ legal occupation * but who are known to hate committed felony , and augment their gains by habitual violation of thelaw i .. ... ... ... ... ... 160 Houses for receiving stolen goods ... ... ... 63 Ditto , suppressed lately ... ... ... ... 32 Houses for the resort of thieves ... ... ... 103 Ditto , lately BuppresseA ... ... ... . « 25 Lodging-houses where the sexes indiscriminately
sleep together i ' . i . ; * ... . ' . «> ... ... 109 There was next the return from Durham gaol , and it appeared by it , that there were confined , in it from the year ending September , 1840 , 141 pitmen ; and of these sixty-four were imprisoned for " breaking some condition of the bond . " This assuredly affarded no perfect picture of the state of society . Much more of it could be learned from the evidence of Mra Croodger , the mistress of an infant school , who said , that "when she first came , oaths were exceedingly common in the months of giria of five and seven . They did not scruple to call her the most opprobrious names that could be imagined . " "Thicks the bad language might be checked by the parents , who , instead of doing this , frequently abuse her for punishing the chiUheu . " He hoped that
he was not talking dogmatically ; but ; conversant as he was with the working classes , and he thought he might Bay , knowing as he did , the feelings they entertained , aad the motives that influenced them , be considered himself bound to warn them , that he feared an outbreak , aa serious it would be dreadful , unless by their measures they speedily anticipated it ; and that such an outbreak ¦ would deBtxoy the body social of these realms —( hear ); and then if some day should arrive , when there might be a necessity for some uncommon energy , when there might come the demand for the exertion of all their moral energies as patriots , they would find that patriotism had disappeared , because the fatal disorder which was now fast spreading would be found to have reached the very vitals of the
community—( bear ) . The measure that be now proposed he regarded as an indispensable preliminary to measures necessary to be adopted ; for it was a mockery in them to send down persons to investigate into evils , if they were not prepared to apply a remedy to them . He ventured to make this attempt , and he thought that every day it was postponed , was an irreparable loss ; . sore he was , that the people of this land were the most easily governed of any on the earth . Their conduct under the present prevailing Bufferings sufficiently proves thla . It was then most necessary that the minister of the Crown , whoever he might be , would see the necessity of winning tho confidence by appealing to the hearts of t&e people , and doing bo he might hold with bis little finger the reins
of this empire—( cheers ) . He had but one word more to add . Those sufferings on the part of women were altogether unnecessary to property . If it could be demonstrated that they were , there could be the less hesitation in putting an end to them ; He called their attention to the following statement It was that of William Hunter , mining oversman in the Arinston Colliery . He said , " I have been twenty years in the works at Robert Dundas , Esq . Women and lassies were brought below , when Mr . Alexander Moxton , our manager , isBued an order to ex « lude them . Women always did the heavy par ); ef the work , and neither they nor the children were treated like human beings , nor are they , ¦ w here they are employed . Females submit to work in places where
no man nor even lad could be got to labour in . They work in bad roads , up to their knees in water , in a posture nearly double . They are below till the last hour of pregnancy . They have swelled haunches and ankles , and are prematurely brought to the grave , or , what Is worse , a lingering existence "—( hear , hear . ) Surely he had said enough to shew that they were authorised , as an assembly of men—not to say , of Christians , to put an end to this state of things . They had given twenty millions of money to purchase the abolition of negro slavery ; and now by their determination that night might cheaply procure joy , and gladness , and freedom for many a broken spirit and many a
bruised heart They might free women from their slavery , and they might permit the young to invigorate their frames for future labour , while they gave them the opportunity of acquiring the knowledge and the practice of virtue , morality , and religion . It was for this end that he proposed to put an end to the barbarous acts he had exposed—to impioye the goodto reclaim the wicked . He concluded in the language of Holy Writ , " Let us break off oar sins by righteous- ' ness , and oar Iniquities by : showing mercy to the poor , if it may be a lengthening ef our tranquillity . " He moved , amid loud cheers , for leave to tiring in a Bill to m&ke regulations respecting the age and sex of persona admitted to work in minea and collieries . ' '"
Mr . Fox Maulr seconded the motion . The question being pat , Mr . Hedworth Lambton remarked , that as in the county which he had the honor to represent there were many collieries , he could hot but express his thanks for the part he had taken on this subject ; He thought that it did the noble lord infinite credit ( hear , hear . ) It was one of the many proofs which the noble lord had given of his anxiety to protect the poorer classes by means of ( legislation . It was to bis infinite credit that the : noble lord had done this , and it mi £ ht trul y be said of him , that he had deserved well of his couutry ( hear , hear . ) It was with no small pleasure and gratification that he was able to say that in the county which he represented .
where there were so many collieries—and he might say the same with the county of Northumberlandthat in the counties of Durham and Northumberland no i eniale had ever been employed in their collieries ( hear , hear . ) He hoped and trusted that fact would go before the public , because , while he was anxious that it should fall , and justly fail , upon the parties guilty of tho practice , he was equally anxious that no portion of the blame should attach to the counties of Durham and Northumberland ( hear , hear . ) He thought he could , without any hesitation , assert , with regard to Durham and Northumberland , that the colliery owners and their agents were kiud , and even generous , to the colliery population under them . There the wages of the colliery population were
excellent—and superior to what they were in most other parts of the kingdom . The owners provided at an enormous expense for the welfare , ^ health , arid safety of the whole of their colliery population . Among the many charges that had been made , and that were properly calculated to excite feelings of indignation in that house , the counties of Durham and Northumberland were particularly free . They had in these counties no girlt chained , they had no children attached to the care of engines , they had no one acting contrary tolaWiiand flying to pits wherein the constable would be afraid to follow them . In Lambton colliery , they had a schoolmaster , carefully
selected , having forty pounds a-year , wich a housse aid fuel . The school was well attended , and he himself had taken care that the best and most improved method of instruction should be introduced * This was not a solitary instance , for he was happy to say that there was not a single colliery established in which they had not a school carefully attended to , and no expense or trouble to mako them perfect . It was , in his opinion , the bounden duty of every colliery owner to establish schools . It was a duty that they owed to God and their country to establish thorn . If it were alone to secure education to the young in these places , he should support the plan of legislation proposed by the noble lord .
Lord-F . Eqebtow and Mr . Hume both spoke in support of the measure proposed by the noble lord . Sir James Graham said , he felt delighted but not surprised at the unanimity displayed by the House in the question before them— - ( cheers ) . He was sure that he expressed the opinions of the House when he said , that their feelings must be bad , or their raasou perverted , who were not impressed with the force of the arguments , the Eingle-mindedness of pnrpose , arid above all , the tenderness of heart , which characterised the speech of the ^ oble Lord •—( cheers ) . Ho never listened to any statement more dearly convincing in itself ,, or which , to his mind , was more expressive of that which he knew before , but never felt so forcibly a b now— -the amiable
character of the Noble Lord who made it—Goud cheers ) . He congratulated him upon the result if his efforts , and the general approbation with which the House had rewarded his sacrifices and exertions in the cause of humanity . He believed that , with respect to the four principal points which it was the objeot of the Bill of his Noble Friead to achieve , ho difference would exist between them . It would be impossible to deny that the time had come when they should extend by law to the workers in coal mines those regulations which subsisted in the mines of Cornwall . It was necessary that , without reference to age , females should hot be employed in underground labour- ( hear , hear ) . Whathad been stated with reference to this species of employment was degrading to the country . It was an employment whicbj if persevered in , would invoke a great moral retribution—which would have a most
prejudicial effect on the manly bearing of the people , and be attended with great ultimate degradation and loss of national character . The next point was with regard to the exclusion of boys under a certain age from working in the mines . Taen they had the example of the Cornish mines . It was stated that in those mines , and indeed in all mines except coal mines , boys under twelve years of age wore not employed . His Noble Friend propOBed the age of thirteen as the limitvand he had assigned reasons for that proposition . He did not wish to enter upon the discussion of these reasons at present ; Some of them did not appear to be quite satisfactory ; but on the part of her Majesty ' s Government he would give his tail assent to the introduction of a Bill embracing the principle of some limitation of age . What peculiar limit it would be advisable to adopt be was not prepared at that moment to suggest . He agreed with tbe Honourable Gentleman the Member fox tbe
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cotinty of Durham , that the children required to be protected , not so much from the selfishness of the coal-owners , as the cupidity of their own parents ; and although in general he would strenuously contend that the principle should be held sacred , of non-interference with parenial control , yet in the circumstances of the case at present before their notice he felt that that control should be more or less restricted , and that the mtelvention of the Legislature was indispensable . He would therefore assent to the general principle involved in the second poin of the Noble Lord's bilL With respect to the third point , which proposed the imposition of some limit upon the ake of those employed as engineers , he cor-.
dially concurred . These persons wore often placed at the top of the pit , regulating the motions of the engine which drew up the workmen and the coal from the bottom of the pit , and it was most important that such a grave duty should not be devolved upon mere boys . The last point in the proposed bill of his Noble Friend referred to the bindinfi ; as apprentices of parish children ; and there also he agreed with him that pauper children should not be indiscriminately bound . Under the regulations of the Poor-law commission , whioh he had had the honour of proposingthe coDtinaanee of to the House , hehad imposed great restrictions upon the binding of parish apprentices . He was aware , however ,
that these lestaetipnB wereimperfect , and , in another clause which he had proposed to the House , he had made provision for vesting in the commission a power of restricting tbe Board of Guardians with respect to the trades to which parish children were to be bound . He quite assented as id the propriety of legislating upon the subject , and thought that children should not be bound apprentices in the mines . There had been so much abuse carried on in this respect already—it had been so distinctly proved that children of six , seven , and eight years of age had been bound apprentices , and employed for a great , length of time in labour beyond their strength
—it waa a \ question for consideration whether the articles of apprenticeship , passed under the old system , should be oonsidereu in general to be still binding . With respect to the whole measure proposed by his Noble Friend , h& thought that they were much indebted to him for hiB exertions in introducing it . He did not think that there was any one to whom that duty could be entrusted so as to command move public confidence—( hear , hear . ) V ^ ^ d he , on the part of Government , could assure his Noble Friend that her Majesty ' s Government would render him every assistance in carrying on the measure- —( cheers ) .
Mr . Tubner was happy that none of the charges they had heard made against eo many of the mining districts , could be made against that district with which be was connected . He had been astounded at the statements he had heard that night , but he was glad the Noble Lord who had made them ) allowed that the Cornish mine proprietors did not employ people for their benefit in the way which he was sorry to hear they had been employed elsewhere . .. ' . ¦¦?; -- ' . " , : ' -: ' - ¦ ¦' : '; V ., ¦¦' . '• ;' r -. : .. Mr . Sxuarx Wobtlet was sorry that he could not express similar sentiments to those which he had just heard uttered . The district with which he was connected , and in which he had passed the greater portion of his life , was one from which the commissioners had drawn the accounts of . some of the
most striking and terrible features in th p ir report . Under these circumstances , he rose to discharge a duty rather satisfactorily to himself , than necessary to the present discussion , and that was to pay to the Noble Lord his tribute of admiration for the course which he had adopted , and to tender to him his grateful thanks , He fully concurred with the main object of the Bill proposed to be introduced by his Noble Friend . He felt that he bad not made a step beyond the bounds of prudence and discretion injjropbsingbi 8 Bill . Mr . Wabd congratulated Lord Ashley on having performed a highly usefsl and laudable work , which was likely to produce a most important'improve ment among a large class of the labouring people . ; Mr . Bkll bore testimony that the mines of Northumberland were free from the grosser abnses . He was grateful to the Noble Lord for these proposals .. ; ¦;• ; '¦ ' ¦ ' :. ;'" ' '¦" ¦ ' : ' : - : r : ¦ ' ' . ¦ : ' ¦ ' . ' " .
Mr . Brotherton added his tribute , as did also Mr . Pakington . Mr . GresON said a few words about demoralization in the district of Manchester . Sir R . Inglis declared hig gratification at Lord Ashley ' s proposal and reception ; and ' - ¦' ¦ Mr . Pbotheroe concurred , adding an-appeal to the House on behalf Of the colliers in the Forest of Dean . ; '¦¦ " ' .::: - ; .: ' ¦¦; ; \ v '' - . - " " ¦'¦ ¦' - ¦¦ , . " . - ; ' .- ¦ - Lord AsEttET rejoiced that the House of Commons would , be seen bytheir ; constilaeBt 3 thos willing to redress a great grleyance ' as ; soon as it was sub-Statttiitedi :--. ; .:- : r' : ^^^ ^ -K-j :: i : ^ . ^ Leave was then'Bven : t ^ 'ifetTOifu ^ the Bill . ^^¦"• r . I'il--y : ^ t . : i ! . i " ., ¦ .. }> :- ; . 'i :.- ! ' i ' .-Li in Vi > r ,:. v ' -: ? : u ; -. - ¦ Jiii > ;> > a ; WilNESSJEtfiilNPBMNXIitv-BILIrtii ; ¦' ¦ .., ' '
¦ Mi * . JlbEBWH vrishedi td ' pu ^ a > 4 u 06 t * on the Goy ^ riihebt rfesp ^ tetirig ihis " bi 3 tl ^ vvhieh ¦> be was end 6 av « uringnto ^ 5 carry thi « ttjeh '' tnei-nousey It was a niatterofimportanceinacoSstilutionaipointofview ; for the house would recollect , " that * t the present moment the writ for Nottingham was not to be issiied , because this bill TOaaitt' Suspense , and he wanted to know whether- the Government would grant him an opportunity of-bringing if on ? The discussiott was : not likely toi occupy more time than three quarters of aa tliourj or perhaps only five minutes . He had been waiting in the house on a previous evening until two o'clock in the moraing , and was then unable to bring the bill forward .
Lord Stanlet , in the absenqe of his right hon . friend ( Sir R . Feel ) , thought , that as the bill was hot likely to create any great discussion , be might undertake to say , that the hon . member should have precedence for it on Friday , at five o ' clock . The order of the day was then moved for the house going into committee on the Customs Acts . A number of clausesot the tariff ' were disposed of ; aud the " breeding "' and " good manners" of the honourables ( . ' ) was exhibited id a row—a specimen of pure blackguardism which , if the reports of the daily papers are to be believed , would be disgraceful to any beer shop in the country . This " scene" was put an end to by the chairman reporting progress ; after which .. ' . ¦
The Slave Trade Suppression ( Hayti ) Bill , the Slave Trade Abolition ( Argentine Confederation ) Bill , and the Slave Trade Treaties Bill , severally wont through committee . The other orders of the day having been disposed of , the house adjourned at half past one o ' clock .
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THE CAMP MEETING ON GUISELEY ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦;¦; . ; moor . ; . " ; . - ¦ ¦ ¦¦/¦ ¦ . In pur last we gave notice of a disappointment , through tbe non-attendttnee of the parties advertised tp be there as speakers , at a Chartist Camp Meeting , on the Sunday previous . It seems that the-disappointment originated in a mistake of our Correspondent . We have received the following letters in reference thereto : —
TO THE EDITOB OF THE NORTHERN STAB , Sir , —The camp meeting announced in your paper of Saturday , the 28 Lh ultimo , to be held on Guistley Moor , was an error ; it should have been Guide Moor . The three ' geutlemen , whose names appeared , attended the meeting above named . The mistake was made by a note that was left for mo written on both sidea . I copied them off , and was not aware that such a place as Guide Moor was in existence . It had also been previously talked about holding a camp at Quii 3 eley ; so I thus wrote it . If blame be attached to any one , it must be to me , but I must 8 iy it was not wiifnlly done < » ¦ There appears another error , in . last Saturdays paper . A camp meeting is announced to take place at Bradford , which should have been ( Juiaeley . I may have / wrote Bradford instead of Gaiaeley .
Will you be kind enongh to insert this , and say whether the error be mine or not , and you will greatly oblige , \ Sir , yours , &c . , Joseph Brook .
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TO THE EDITOB OP THE KORTHERS STA . R . SiR , r—It is quite true that it was ahnonnced in the Star of Saturday , May 28 tb , that a Qiartifit Camp Meeting would bo held on Quiseley iloor , on the Sanday following , and that myself and Messrs . Kitchen and .. Hammond would address the meeting . With whom the fault rests , whether with your correspondent , compositor , or Whom , I know not , but certain it is , that the , whole announct-meut was incorrect ; it should haye baen Guide Moor , above Allerton , and not Guiseley . Besides , my Dame was inserted without my cops " eat . ; . ¦ ¦ : ¦ : ¦ ;•; " r :- -1- "¦ ¦ ¦! . ' : ' . " . v . .. ' . ' . '• • • ¦ . ' . ' . - The Bame liberty was taken , by somebody , lastweek , and it was given forth to the world that I should be in attendance at a Camp Meeting at Baiidon , on Sunday last ; to this I was no consenting party either .
Now , Siryl have no objection to do what I can in the good work , but if parties will take such liberties in future , I will not feel myself at all ret . ponsible for the cens < quences fallowing disappoiutmeiit , and certainly will , not attend , even if I be at liberty . I remain ,, Sir , , Very respectfully , : ¦ ' ¦ ¦ . ¦ - . '¦ ¦" ' - " - " '' - '¦;¦ ¦ : ¦ ¦ J . 'Aiiuan . Bradford , June 7 th , 1842 .
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