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HOUSE OF LOEDS . THURSDAY , Febecaby 22 . Lord BROUGHAM presented many petitions against the Neero Apprenticeship . Lord BROUGHAM proceeded to give notice tliat cm Tnesdav next lie -would submit a proportion to their Lordships , for the purpose of taking their opinion on what appeared to Mm to be a most important subject . He meant an act , on the part of her Majesty ' s Government , ¦ which -went to revive the slave trade on an extensve scale—the order in council ¦ which hex Majesty ' s ministers "had advised her Majesty to issne on £ he 14 th of last July , permitting the importation into Guiana of individuals fromafithe countries of Asia-within the hounds of
of the East India Company's charter . He meant to move for a copy of the order , for a copy of any dispatch "which had been sent out to the governor of Guianaon the subject , andfor are torn ofthe date of The London Gazette in which the said order in council had been published . He had no hesitation in saying thathe expected the return to the last branch of his motion would be nil ; for he believed the order had nerer been published in The Gazette . He had three weeks agOi and subsequently , mentioned the subject in the House . None of their Lordships , therefore , could say that they "were unprepared . And he repeated that if the order were in existence , nothing should prevent him Som taking the sense of the House upon it .
For the convenience of the Duke of Wellington who could not be in town on Tuesday , the Noble Lord altered the date of his motion to Friday . Lord GLENELG stated , with respect to the " order in council of the 34 th of last July , that it had not been inserted in The Gazette , and " that it had never been the habit to insert such orders in Tlie Gazette Lord BROUGHAM exclaimed that a worse habit than that of not inserting in The Gazette laws made by the Crown with reference to half the globe , and without the knowledge of Parliament , he ^ could not possibly imagine . The consequence of fbis order ¦ was , t £ at above two hundred vessels were at the present employed in carrying ou the slave , trade between the coasts of Asia and Guiana . Had he ( Lord Brougham ) seen in the order in Tlie Gazette , he should not have allowed five minutes to elapse
without bringing it under their Lordsnips' conaderafioa . His Noble Friend was perfectly free from blame ; for he had merely followed precedent . He hoped , however , th 3 t the practice of not inserting such , orders in Tlie Gazette would be discontinued . Lord ELLENBOROUGH , in moving for a return of all the vessels which had been captured by British cruisers for violating the regulations respecting the slave trade , begged to ask the Noble Baron when he intended to bring in his Tsill i . r the ; purpose of carrying into real effect , the Act of ] S 33 ? - He would ask ' him further , whether it was intended tint the bill should originate in that or in the other House of Parliament ? Lord GLKSELG rephVd to the first of the Noble Lord ' s questions , very shortly . It had not yet been decided in which House the bill should" be introduced .
Lord ELLENBOROUGH observed that " very shortly"' were awful words in the Noble Lord's vocabulary . They meant four months" in some of the dispatches wfica the Noble Lord had laid en their Lordships' table . There was no Teason why the bill to which he had adverted would not have been presented to their Lordships on the first day of the session . Lord BROUGHAM perfectly agreed- with , the NobL ? Lord who had just spoken . Their Lordships were doing nothing at present ; aad , in order , as he hope *! , to quicken the production of the Noble Lord ' s Bill , he gave uodee that , if within a week from that dae the Noble Lord ' s measure did not make its appearance , he ( Lord Brougham ) would present to the House a Bill founded en his < otu resolutions . He was in possession of the subiect : his
resolutions had been before die Honse , and he had withdrawis them in order to give the Noble Lord an opportunitv of bringing forward his measure . But , if he found " that the Noble Lord , instead of taking up his ( Lord Brougham ' s ) resolutions , and bringing in a Bill upon them , sent them to another place , ¦ where he could trust neither Lord John this , nor Mr . Spring that —( a laugh)—if he found that the Noble Lord sent the resolutions among aliens , and , for ought he knew , enemies —( a laugh)—lie would take care of his resolutions , and bring in a Bill founded upon than himself . LordGLENELG said , that before the recess he had communicated to the Noble and Learned Lord his intentions on the subject . Theresoluaons had not been t-. ro months on the table .
Lord BROUGHAM observed , that- after two months' preparauon the BDl ought to be on the anyfl . If the Noble Lord did not previousl y introduce his Bill , he ( Lcrd Brougham ) gave notice , that on Toesdav next he would" present to their Lordships a Bill to regulate Slavery , and to carry into full effect the Parbamentsrv resolutions of It 33 .
HOUSE OF COMMONS . THURSDAY , Teb . 22 . Sir G . STRICKLAND presented a petition from Bradford against the Negro Apprenticeship . Various otherpendoES on the same subject were presented . Petitions against the New- Poor Law from Macclesfield . andvariocs otherplaees werepresented Mr . MACKINNON movedfor a Select Committee to investigate the claims of D'Arcy Talbot , Esq ., and others , on the French Compensation Fund . Mr . M . J . O'CONNELL seconded the motion , whichTras lost on a divifon by a inajoritv of fortynine . . _ CoL CONNOLY obtained leave for a bill to protect salmon fisheries in Ireland .
Mr- WAKBURTOS moved for a Select Committee on the claims of Baron ce Bode . Motion lost by a majority of eighty . Mr . T . BUNCOMBE mored that it be an instruction to the Poor-Law Committee to inquire on the subject of that portion of the third report of the Poor Law Commissioners -which referred to tlie vicious system alleged "by rliem to have been pursued by the existing corporations under Gilbert ' s Act . Sir G . STRICKLAND seconded the modon . Modon agreed to . Mr . SLANEY obtained leave to bring in a ML to prevent threats or attempts at intimidation to Toters toinfluence their votes ibr Members of
Parliament . Sir WILLIAMMOLESWORTH said that as it had been supposed lie was not serious in his inten-Tlon to bring on the motion of which he had given notice for tbe 6 th of March , he begsed to * state that lie was determined to take the sense of a full House npon it , with a view ofascerfalning theiropinion as to the delays which had taken plaice in , and as to the general conduct which had been pursued by the Colonial Department . He should , now , therefore , persevere in the morioa of which lie had riven notice lor a call of the House on that day . He intended to confine his modon for that day to the subject of the Colonial-office , aiid not , as some persons
imagined , make it a call upon the House to express an opinion with regard to lier Majesty's . Ministers generally , about whom l : e had , ever since the speech of the N oble Lord at the head of the Home Department at the commencement of this session , been as perfectly indifferent and careless as he was about the Ministers of the Czar of all the RussiasoTof the Emperor of China . His object was , firstly and chiefly , to reKeve those Colonial poises .-qonj of her Majesty , in whose prosperity this country had the greatest interest , from the controulof an imbecile and oppressive government . This was his main winh . Secondly , ( and in so far a party question would be involved in the modon . ) his object was to
ascertain and exhibit to the House , and the country hour many members there werein this House whether Tories , \\ logs , or Radicals , who would for mereparty purposes venture either to negativeorrefuseto maintain a proposition of the very greatest importance , and which almost every one of them in" their consciences knew to be perfectly true . These were the reasons - for which lie now took the liberty to ask the Hgujw * to grant hismotion , namely , " that the House be called over on the 6 th of March . " Mr . HUME seconded the modon , the question was put and agreed to .
Sir C . DOUGLAS pure notice that after the Select Committee now sitting upon the Poor Law Amendment Act shall have made their report , in -case shall not recommend any alteration of 1 he regulations , which , under the present powers of the eommis > ioners , exist with regard to the absolute refusal of oat-door relief in money , the quality of the food givea in the workhouses , and the separation of tiie sexes , to move *» that it is expedient that those powers shonld be taken into consideration by this House , with a view to their modification . " The House adjourned at half-past twelve o'clock :
HOUSE OF LORDS . FRIDAY , Feb . 23 . Petitions were presented for the abolition of Negro Slavery , and the Ballot . The custody of Insane Persona' BUI went through Committee .
HOUSE OF COMMONS . FRIDAY , Feb . 23 . CoL CONNOLLY'S Salman Hating Bffl was Tead a first time , and ordered to be read again , on Thursday , March 15 . Several petitions for the repeal of the Com Lavs were presented . " Sir F . TRENCH gave notice that an Monday next be should wins : forward a proposal for the Detter Tentflauon and lighting cf the House , Trpon « plaa which could be effected within twenty-four hours , ¦ and at a very trifling expense . ¦ _ JHr . flTAKLEY presented a petition from the ^ JMfdicfli practition * rs of fourteen towns in East Seat ^ complaining of the regulations established under the > ew Poor Law Bill as regarded the attenv 4 "taceofniedical practitionerg upon the poor .
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Mr . WAKLEY presented a petition from the working carpenters of Dublin , denying in the most positive terms that they had entered into any combination either against persons or property , and also denying the correctness of ( 8 ome of the statements which had heen made in that House npon the subject of trades ' combinations in Ireland . Mr ^ RADSHAW said that , havingseenit gazetted that her Majesty had appointed Colonel De Lacy Evans to be Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath , he wished to puta question to the Noble Lord the Secretary of State for Foreign ASairs . He wished to know from that Noble Lord whether the appointment of Colonel De Lacy Evans had passed in the regular course through the "War-office , on the recommendation of the Commander-in-Chief . ( Vehement cheers from the Opposition , which were echoed back by the Ministerial benches . ) He understood that , in all cases whatever , her Majesty —{ orderorder)—— > .
, , , The SPEAKER : The Honourable Gentleman w 31 put his question . ( Hear . ) Mr . BRADSHATV : Has the appointment passed throngh the regular channel—that is , through the Horse Guards . ( Opposition cheers . ) "Viscount PALMERSTON : The answer which I have to make to the Hon . Gentleman is , that the appointment of Sir George De Lacy Evans to be Knight Commander of the Bath was made in the usual manner by her Majesty's Government , and upon their own responsibility . Lord Viscount Af AIDSTONE rose and said , seeing the Hon . aid Learned Member for Dublin in his place , I wish to ask "him whether some sentiments which I perceive reported as having been
delivered by him , in a speech made by him on Wednesday , the 21 st of February last , at a dinner at the Crown and Anchor Tavern in the Strand , over which Sir George De Lacy Evans presided , are substantially correct ? I will read this paper to the House , and I hope the Hon . and Learned Member will do tne the pleasure ( a laueh ) of telling me afterwards whether this is substantially a correetreport of what he said on that occasion . The following is from The Morning CJironkle : — " Corruption of the worst description existed , and , above nil , ther e was the perjury of the Tory politicians . ( Groans . ) Irelandwasnot safe from the English , and Scotch gentry . It was horrible to think that a body of Gentlemenmen who ranked high in society , who were tiemselv ? s £ bi administrators of the _ law , and who ought therefore to be above all suspicion , and who oujrht
to set an example to others— -was it not horrible that they shonld be perjuring themselves in the Committees " of the House of Commons ? The time was come when this should be proclaimed boldly . He was readv to be a martyr to justice and truth , but not to false swearing ; and , therefore , he repeated that { here was foul perjuryin the Tory Committees of the House of Commons . " There is another extract from the same speech , as reportedin The Morning Post , and which is not in The Morning Chronicle — " lie uid not mince the matter—bi 3 words might appear in the public press , he hoped they would—Ireland was not safe from , the perjury of the English and _ Scotch Gentry , who took oaths according to justice , and voted " according to parry . " Row , sir when I saw these sentiments reported as having tei-zt < aid bv tae Hon . and Learned Member , I sai 3
to myself , that it would be but fair towards the Hon . * and Learned Gentleman , to brin ? the . subject forward { Opposition cheers ) , and will , therefore , give him the very earliest opportunity to contradict them . ( Opposition cheers . ) Because I do say . that the words tiiomselvas contain an aspersion upon members belonging to the Housa ( Opposition cheers ) , which I , for one , saould wish to see wiped out at the very earliest opportunity possible ( Cheers ) . Now . sir , I ask the Hon . and "Learned Member to give ine a plain answer to the question I have put to him , a 5 I cannot proceed any further until I have his explanation . ( Cheers from tlie Opposition . ) _ Mr . O'CONNELL : Sir , lam exceeuinsly oMixreJ to the Noble Lord for eiring this publicity to the 1
sentiments 1 entv ? rtnin on the subjectof Committees of a particular description in this Honse . ( Hear . ) Sir , I did say every word of that —( cheers , and crie ? of i ; Oh ! '" )—every word of that ; and L uu rereat . that I "believe it to be perfectly true . { Loud cries of ' Oh , oh . " ) Is there a man who will put his hand npon Ms he .-: rt and say upon his honour as n gentleman that he does not believe thr > t that is substantially true —( mingled cries of " Yes , yes ! " and "No , no ! " )? Such a man would be fauglied to scorn . ( Cries of "OhT and cheers . ) It is a hideons abuse . The public press has taunted you with it . The last time I addressed the House npon the subject , I read a paragraph out of The Mor .: ing Chronicle . ( Cries of "Order . ' )
Tiie SPEAKER : I wish to make a n-niark as ta the regularity of our proceedings . The Honourable and Learned Member bavins tvnswered the quest ion , I mxiii now appeal to tlie Noble Lord to know what motion "he intends to mske . [ Cheers , and loud cries of ¦• Move . " ] Lord Viscount MAIDSTONE : Then , sir . I rive not ice , that on Monday next 1 shall call the attention of the House to these articles , and to th « conduct , of the lion , and Learned Z \ Iember for Dublin [ Great cheering from the oyposition . l
Lord JOHN RUSSELL immediately rose anu said : Sir , I beg to give nudce that , if this complaint he entertained by the House . t > n . Moinlay next , I j : ; e ; m to bring forvrard . for the consideration of this House the charge of the right reverend prelate the Bishop of Exeter , respecting an alle < ratir > n of perjury on the part of certain Members of tLis H ou > e . ( Vo ' ciferous and long-con tinned cheering on the Ministerial benches , contrasted by marked silence on the exposition side of the House . ) The Irish Poor Law Bill passed through several clangs .
The following Members were nominated on the Combination Committee : —The Lord Advccr . te , Lord G . Somerset , Mr . O'Connell , Lord Lo' . vtber ^ Alderman Copelan-L Mr . Hume , ' Sir-II . i airielL Mr . CraTrford , Mr . Mflnes , Mr . Dennistoun , Mr . G . F . Young , Mt . -Wakley ,. Mr .. Wood , Mr . Youns ( of Cavan . ) snd Mr . P . Thomson . The House adjourned .
HOUSE OF LORDS . , MONDAY , Fesruarv 56 . The greatvr part of the evening was occupied with an angry debate between Lords ~ LvsPHUiisT , MelnoysxE , and Brovgham en the Separation Svstein , said to have bei'n enforced on very young prisoners in the Penitentiary . The debate degenerated into a paltry personal squabble , and evinced nothing but the mean cowardliness of Lord Melbourne , ana the ignorance of all the parties of the matters about which thev were talking . After this display
Lord BROUGHAM said he had now a petition to present from G"ldham , signed by seven or ei g ht hundred persons , complainin ? of the sentence which had been passed upon the Glasgow Cotton Spinners . At the risk of exposing himself to the snesrs of some of the Noble Lords opposed to him , who had talked of his giving political Iecture 3 to the people , he would disrictly state that he did not acknowledge the truth of one of the main alleeations of this petition—namely , that the only offence of which these Glasgow Cotton Spinners had "been convicted was a conspiracy to raise the price of wages . That was a gross mis-statement of the fact . They were
convicted , not of that which they had a r ight to do , namely , to endeavour to raise their wages ; but of that which they had no right to do namely of threatening others if they would not join them , and of taking steps for carrying those threats into effect by actual violence . At " the same time it was his opinion that they had already been sufficiently punished The same Noble and Learned Lord also" presented a variety of petitions for the Abolition of Slavery . Lord DENMAN brought in the Presbvterian Bill which was read a first time ; and the " House adjourned .
HOUSE OF COMMONS . MONDAY , Febrtjaky 26 . In the House of Commons the Penitentiary was also made the subject of enquiry and explanation , after which vame on the threatened motion of Lord MAIDSTONE for pulling up the big Dan , on account of the little truth he had chanced to speak by mistake , at the Crown and Anchor . This transformed the House into a very excellent representation of a puddle in a storm for the whole evening . Crimination and recrimination
were bandied in beautiful style from the Whigs to the Tories , and from the Tones to the Whigs , and after they had admirably succeeded in proving their affinity in wickedness , the debate was adjourned till the next evening , to afford breathing to the Honourable Candidates for Billingsgate and Bear Garden honours . Two divisions took place during the eveninjr . One on the motion of Lord MAIDSTONE " that the expressions containing charges of foul perjury against Members of that House , in the discharge of their official daties , were felse and scandalous imputations on the House and its character . "
Lord HO WICK , on behalf of Ministers , who tried to screen poor Dan , moved the previous question , as a go by . On a division , there appeared—For the amendment ............ 254 Against it ................ 263
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Majority against Ministers .. 9 Another equally stirring " talk" then ensued on the question " that Mr . O'CoNNBLi ^ having avowed the expressions imputed to him , was guilty of a breach of the Privileges of the House . " Several Members rose and declared that they adopted Dan ' s language and sentiments to the letter and dared the House te do its worst . The motion that Dan had violated the Privileges of the House was carried by a majority of . 208 . " - - Lord MAIDSTONE then moved that Mr . O'Connell , having been found guilty of-violating the privileges of the House , be reprimanded in his place by the Speaker . The proceedings of the Honourable House here
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bid perfect defiance to the description of even the most practised lull ring or j > rize ring ¦ pen . Mr . CALLAGHAW again rose , and , in spite of the intimations of the Speaker , persisted in reiterating his adoption of the O'Connell slander . Mr . HUME moved that the words be taken dovrn by the Clerk ; and afterwards that Mr . Callaghan having adopted Mr . O'ConneH's words , is also guilty of violating the privileges of the Hpuse ; The Bear Garden was at length cleared , by adjournment of the debate . ; : : : ;'
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Ministebiai . Disquietudes . ^ The . Ballot division has been the cause of a schism in the Ministerial camp . We have already stated ; that several official persons shirked the question by absenting themselves ; and that Sir H . Viviau and Mr . Robert Steuart , both holding Crown appointments , went in the very teeth of Lord John Bussell , and voted with Mr . Grote . Lord John-was of course wroth . We are informed that he ealled upon Sir Hussey and Mr . Steuart to resign . "Terj-well , " said . the former ; but he added "We are four . " Meaning that there are four Vivians in the House , and that they ( patriots that they are !) would take the pet and refuse support to the Ministry . Still Lord
John stormed ; to be a leader and not lead , was more than he could bear ; so he insisted upon a turn-out , in despite of the " four . " But the Noble Lord ' s passion was suddenly cooled down by another process . The Ballot party , gettiBg scent of what was going on , sent an intimation to the Noble Secretary ,: that if he dismissed Sir Hussey and Mr . Steuart , they , as a body , would also cease to give Lord John the light of their countenances . This was enough . Lord Johnny pockets the affront ; and , strange to say , the Noble Lord keeps hisplace !
The magnanimity of these "Whigs is wonderful . These quarrels , nevertheless , may be regarded as the beginning of the end : and that end cannot be far off . There are signs , in the Ministerial horizon . Sheil has been provided for ; and even General Evans has been attended to . He was to have had the Ordnance Clerkship ; but as he could riot calculate upon a re-election for " Westminster , he dared not take that office ; so he is made Knight Commander of the Bath , and thus the u I ^ run" hero leaps over the heads of hundreds of officers a thousand times more meritorious' than himself . What
has he done for England ? .- Nothing . What has he done for Spain ? Nothing . Why , then , is he distinguished f The answer is obvious . He . is in possession of secrets connected with Lord Palmers ton and the Ministry , the unfolding of which involves political ruin ; therefore the padlock is placed upon his mouth . It is impossible to conceive any thing more disgusting than this , save the conferring of a title and a pension upon O'Connell for 'his services . And these will come ere long . —Halifax Paper . Picture of ' the House- of Commons , by the Morning Chronicle ' . — The . 'constant
struggle of truth for manifestation , will , sometimes break through all the caution of the most wary and practised hypocrite . We were certainly not a little surprised and amused to find the following delineation of that perfection of legislative virtue , the British Parliament ,, in the columns of its thick and thin admirer , the Morning Chronicle : — " Ever since v . e recollect . Committees of the House oi Ccir . nioi ; s , tliey have been deemed the very worst of all cc >! ieei ' vah 3 u '; tribunals . Old George Rose used tf > say , thut he would not load his soul with a paTtieipution in tbe fuilt of downright robbery vihica w . is constuutly practised in Committees on private-bills ; taid it seeait-d to be admitted on all
hands , when the now Lord Littleton endeavoured to improve these tribunals , that there was no coriceivable degree of corruption and injustice with which they were p . bt . chargeable .- With respect to Election Committees , it seems to be understood as well as anything can be understood , that they follow no precedent , : u-e governed by no fixed principles ; and that it would be the very height of ' . ; folly to expect in any " case " a' decision favourable to a Liberal Member from a Ccmujittee of which the maiorir \ - are Tories , und vice versa . As it is
sutikieritly evident thut an oath is no obstacle in che way of a majority , it Is to be regretted that , in adjition to the injustice , they should-be obliged to be guilt } ' of . what might be avoided , the taking superfluous oaths . "When an improvident relative tf Dr . Fraiiklin borrowed a hundred pounds from him , ai ; d was laying hold of a pi ? ce of paper to write an ac'knowledgmenf . ibr it , the Docter seized the paper , and secured it in his drawer , observing th ^ t was worth irut a . halfpenny , but there was no use in throwing awayeven a halfpenny .- * * ' The records of Parliament are full of criminations
aud recrhm : iauoiis ot y . crjury . George the Fourth was accuse ! by several Bishops ; uiu Temporal Peevs of violarion . . of the coronation oath in assenting to the Catholic Umiintjpation "BUI . The Duke of \\ Vi ! ir . giou and Sir liobcrt Peol were accused of advising their Royal Master to cninmit perjurj' . The Bishop of . Exeter accused all the Catholic jle-nltrs of the two 'Houses of perjury . The Archbishop cf Canterbury aDcl i \ ie Ecclesiastical Comm : > .-ioiicrs have been accused of v \ oia . tiug "the oaths taten by them , at their consecration , to maintrin the riirhts and liberties of the Church . Mr . O'Cpnuell has charged the English and Irish gentry in Election Committees with perjury . There i .- ? , inshort . no end to the > e charges . " '
A Belgian- Giant . —A Belgian . journal contains a curious account of a giant , who having made his fortune by exhibiting , himself to the idle and curious in various countries , has lately retired to his native toirn , Vervie-rs , near Liepc . Although of truly colossal magnitude , with thighs a ? large as the todies of ordinary sized men , ; nid a thumb which a boy twelve years Aid cannot gnisp , he is symmetrically proportioned , and has a bead and countenance rivalling- in beauty and grandeur the caste of the Olympian -Jove . He is not devoid of education , and converses on most subjects with good sense . As no room was hiyh enough to contain him , he has been obliged to have one mnde'to " suit by removing ceilings , : md thus converting two stories of his house into one , heightening the doors , and making other alterations in proportion . His furniture is
upon th .- same grand scale * , the seat of his arm cnair is upon a level with an ordinary tahle , and his table with a chest of drawers , and his bed filling an entire room . His boots cost bOf . a pair , his hat 60 f . He feeds hinuelf with a fork rivalling that with Guy's porridge-pot at "Warwick Castle , and a spoon of corresponding dimensions . "With all these means and appliances , the poor man has no enjoyment of his life . If he walks out by day , he is followed by all the boys and vagabonds of the town ; and if he ventures forth at night , his ears are assailed by the screams of many who take him for some supernatural being . He . can have no hope of finding any woman who will venture to marry him , and therefore must remain deprived of all the enjoyments of a domestic uircle . He passes his time , consequentl y , almost in solitude .
Quick "Vy ore . —A couple were married on Wednesday week , at Dewsbury church , a few minutes before twelve o ' clock ; they afterwards retired to take a little refreshment at ' . th ' e . 'Hoyal Oak Inn , but they had not been long there before the bride begun to feel nneasy , and with some difficulty persuaded her lord and master to go with her home . The doctor was immediately , sent for , and about three o ' clock in the afternoon , she presented her husband with a fine child . ¦ Natural Affection . —Ah odd scene took place a short time ago in Bishopsgafce workhouse . An old fellow , who had been an inhabitant of the parish several years ago , and who had left his only h
cild , a daughter , at the age of five years , in the workhouse , upon the bounty of the parish , was passed home from the country , and was immediately recognised as the worthless man , who had not onlydeserted his child , hut never made any inquiry after her welfare / It happened that the daughter proved to be worthy of a better sire , and was placed in a good service , where she conducted herself well . The girl from a grateful feeling towards the mistress of theworkhouse , who acted kindly to her in her desolate state , used to call at the house , and in she walked , while her . parent was undergoing the necessary examination , " You say , " said the overseer to him , " that yon had no daughter , why here she is . "
"No , no , " cried the father ,: looking at the girl , " I 'ant got never a child . I don ' t know that young woman . " The authorities against the father ' s statement were so numerous and overwhelming that the old man said , " Well , I couldn't support her , and I thought it the best -way to leave her with the parish . '' The girl , after looking at him with tears in her eyea for a short time , said , " Well , you haTe been no father to me , hut let us shake hands at any rate . " The father then held out his hand , and said , " There , good Bye , I couldn ' t help it , I ' m blowed . "
HADIcai . AssociATiOJfs . —On Monday evening week , the members and friends of Dewsbury Radical association met in their room , at the bottom of Church-sweet , for discussing the foUowing question , " What course ought to he pursued by the working classes of this country to protect the rights of labour . ' ' This was the second night of discussion . A warm and interesting discussion took place hath evenings when it was proved that the onl y moral system left to he pursued for the protection of labour was for werkingmen to firmly unite together , and establish co-operatiye associations .
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THE " HELL BROTH '' TRAGEDY / .- ; - ¦ v- - - - - ^'" - ; v . AGAiJ ^ ' ^ . -: ; - - ¦ :: ; :- ¦ ¦ : v-
< TO > THE finiTOR <> F ' THE TIMES . ( i Master Shallow , elioq ^ e what offiee tljda wilt in the lend , 'Us thine . Be what thon ' - . wilt ¦' ,. I say !; The lows of England are at thy commandment . Happy are they which-have been my frienda !"—Henry IF , Partll . - . ; .:. : ; : •^ Althongh we lay those honours" on these men ^ . " To . ease ourselves of div « rs galling loads j " They shall but bear them as the visa hears gold ; "To groan and sweat under . thebnsjneM , - : "Either led or driven , as \ tepb \ aii' ^ iYr » j . " - ^ JtfliusCcesar . v' . <( - . T ^ e ^ ''' t 9 fc ^ 8 hgffes . tions ^ iw ; a ' < bi'I « i ^ 'ii ^ ' ; " Arid tell thes c \ ock to any business that * AyesaybentethehoturJ — 'tempest . .. "' - .
SlK ^^—I l endeavour to lay before you , for the information of the people of England , some materials for forming an estimate of the manner in which an official inquiry was conducted into allegations which charged the untimely deaths of many unoiBfending persons in the Bridgewater workhouse , on the gruel system of the Poor Law Commissioners ^ and on the recklessness of the board of guardians , who continued for many months to seiid poor help , less , creatures into a workhouse where infectious and fatal disease was raging * w
Previously to the commencement of the inquiry it was buzzed about , " that the charges made against the hoard of guardians : ' f must come : to nothing , '' as the Poor Law Commissioners had authority to make whatever laws they liked for the management and feeding of the poor ; that the laws of OEnglarid ivere at their cpmmahdmeht ; , ' ¦ ' -. " that although it might he true that some paupers had died of the gruel , still Mr ; Weale would be . able fo pyt all that matter right ; that he had had great experience in managing evidence , and was knovvn to be exceedingly clever in such pperations ; that private meetings had been held of the little knot of Master Shallows
vvho had occasioned all this destruction of human life by plotting amongst the small renters who had been elected , guardians , and . thus obtaining the means of outvoting the rest of the board ; that this little knotof gruelling dicta tors had declared that they were secure of a majority ; and that , with their good friend Mr . AVeale's clever management , there could not be a doubt of the result ; Such was the chatter of the day ,. not , coming in ; any authentic form , but dimly shadowing out an indistinct notion of arbitrary potver ; in the parties implicated , and an unprincipled determination to use that power in concealing truth and frustrating the ends of justice . ' .. . - ' , ' . ' ¦ . ¦ ¦ ' ' ¦ ¦ ¦ "¦ ¦ - .. ' ¦ ' . •' ' .. ¦' . '
It has been already stated , that Mr . Weale took some depositions in secret , and others in the presence of the board of guardians , who declare , in the verdict of acquittal passed oh them felves , that in the inquiry " into the several allegations of cruelty and oppression charged upon it . by Mr . John Boweny it it ( the said board ) " examined such witnesses as it thought necessary !" The witnesses which it and Mr . Weale did think necessary to examine on the alleged destruction of human . life by diai-rhcea , were Mr . John Evered
Pople , a surgeon , who acted for the medical attendant during his illness ; Mr , Underdown , the clerk of the union ; and Mr Gover , the governor of the workhouse . There . were , on ^ the principle of throwing 'out-a tub for the whale , other iv'itnesses examined at considerable length on spme allegations of comparatively trivial import ; but it does riot appear , either on the minutes of the board , or in the copies of . depositions furnished to the board of guardians by Mr . \ Yeale , that any other persons were examined on the subject of diarrh ' eca in the Bridgewater worthouso . ¦ ' . ¦• • ¦
DEPOSITION' OF MR . JOHN 1 KVEKKO TOOLK . 'John Evered Poole , surgeon , of ljrWgevvater , de-}> oses tliat he acted with Mr . King , tlie medical ofticer for . the fridgewater district ^ during the greater- portion of ,: the time when influenza and diiirrhdsia preyailed . Ainongst the iiiim ; ites at that tinie there . were ni any diseased persons , and during the prevalence of disease , and in a very si'cfcly' seaso n ^ he considertia tilts " bous ?! wria too
REMARKS . In thus attributing the " pro valence of diarrhoea " to the crowded state of the house , and "to the dietary then in use , " Mr . Poole establishes the whole case against the Board of Guartiians . This ¦ gentleman , "be it remerabered , is their own witness , and one of their medical attendants .
thickly inhabited , and to this , added to the dietary then in use , lie attributes the ' prevalence ¦ ' of diarrhoea . On the 25 th of October , 1 S 3 U , Mr . King recommended a change of diet , by a letter to the Board of Guardians , and on the 1 st of Kbvember , deponent addressed a letter to the Board , expressinghis satisfaction at tbe change of diet , and reported that the sick were daily im .-prqung -, and were then surrounded with every necessary coinfort . v
In this letter Mr . King stat . e . « j thatthegruelproduced diarrheba , and that he had so stated to the visitingCommittee . He was infonmed that he could order what hepleased for the sick , but that no alteration could be permitted in the dietary of those who were not on the sick list .
Deponent fuctlVer states that after this period he never made any communication to the board on the sufject of the dietary ; if anything iii particular occurred to deponent , he mentioned it to tlie Visiting Committee , but he certainly never mad « any communication to the board .. Deponent further states that he does not think ' - ' gruel ; in the proportion
The board cannot succeed i-i setting up the ]) lea of ignbrance . They were kept in full knowledge ot the ravflges of the disease , bythe medical weefclv return , the : death-book , the visitors ' book , and by the representations of individual members of the Visiting Committee . Mr . Poole reconciles this Opinion with his former and subsequent ,
as directed by the diet table , to bo productive of disease in healthy persons . John Evebaud Poole . Taken on oath , at Bridgewater , the 17 th August , 1837 , b y me , Robkut We . vik , Assistant Poor Law Commissioner . ¦ ¦ ¦ ( "
posids ^ declarations , by stating that there were iio healthy ; persons in the Workhouse , and consequently his opinion , given on an assumed case , was not applicable to the inmates of that house , among vrhom there vreTe seldom more than one man and five women ¦ sa id- to be able-bouiedj and these were feeble , weakly , dispirited persons , peculiarly susceptible oi ' disease .
RIINUTE-BOOK . Bridgewater Union , Fr i . Aug ; 4 , 1837 . ¦ ¦ Mr . Poole , surgeon , was sent for , who Appeared before the board , and deposed as follows : —That he had , on several occasions in the last year ^ attended on the poor in the workhouse for Mr .
Here Jfr ; Poole again distinctly attributes ^ the sickness that prevailed in the house to the dietary that was t ' lien used . '
Abraham King , who was then medical officer pf that establishment : that he attributed the sjcknesis that prevailed in the house to the dietary that was then used , but that he did not make any statement in writing to the board to that effect , but that he had stated
his opinion to the visiting committee , that he considered himself at liberty to order ' . "different diet .-for the sick . He further stated that , during the time sickness prevailed in the house , it . was also very preyaJent put of the house , and that children frequently died of the mfiasles . . ¦ I ¦ ' ' : ¦ ' . ¦ '
The poor children who are entered as having the measles when they died had been" washed out ¦ ' by diarrho 3 a : ( I use the words : of the medical men ); these innocent victims of rapaciity were ^ all but gone , ' : when , by a mercifui dispensation , measles put aa end to tneir sufiferiiig .
Mr . Robert Underdown , Clerk of the Bridgwater Board of Guardians , deposes that he was assistant ^ overseer , for the parish of Bridgewater for eight years and upwards , previous to the formation of the Union , during the whole of which time he was also Governor of the Worfc house ; that the average
• ¦ The question , yrhich has been raised is not as to the number of persons which it may be possible to cram into this npuse ; but whether it is not a criminal exposure of human life to send any helpless persons into a house in every part of which a deadly pestilence is known to be raging ? The yearly
number of inmates was 78 , and that the largest number- of : paiiper inmates was W 3 , and that ¦ at thei forpaation of the Union the builduig Committee teported that it would contein 140 . During the period that deponent was Governor of the Workhouse , various diseases , such as small pox , measles , and
occadeaths on the old system wer& about nine , on i / lt . Underwood ' s declared average of 78 inmate ?' , while , under the regulations of the Poor ; Law Comniissioners , and the managenient of the Board of Guardians , out of an everage ; of 94 inmates , 42 persons died between July the 15 th , 1836 , ana July the 23 th , 1837 , *
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donal diarrhcea , prevaflr edV but the surgeons never reported that the housfe Was too full or crowded . , Here follows some matter not connected with the charge under consideration .
And , this almost unpa-. ralleled . destruction of human life is attempted by a pubUc-functionBry to be slurred ov ^ r jby , in" qoirin ^ VhetfejF the poor yrere n ° t " pccasionwly " diseased under * "the old system ; and whether the surgepn then reported that the house -was too ¦ full- ! ,- . ' " . ¦ ¦ ¦ - •¦; . \ v :- - ' - ' /
" I have refrained from examining the evidence brought Tip 0 n these minor allegations , lest by ; 8 u doing attention shonld be diverted fromthe more important ihattet ; but I am prepared for again going into them on a fitting occasion . ;¦
Deponent further states , that on the board of guardians passing a resolution for an amended dietary , he forwarded the same to ; the Poor Law Commissioners , . and before the expiration of a week he received the amended dietary from them confirmed iatd sealed . Further deposes , that he has examined the minute-book , and that be has not found any motion submitted to the board by Mr . Bowen on aiy of the subjects alluded to in his pamphlet , nor did that gentleman ever , to the deponent's knowledge or belief submit any proposal or motion whatever on the subject of the . dietary ,, the . want of servants or nurses , or of illness ofthe inmatea ofthe workhouses , from the period of his being elected a guardian , in M archlast , to the appearance of his pampnlet in Bridgewater . Robert 1 / xderoo \ vnv Taken on oath at Bridgewater , the 18 th day of August , 1837 , by me , JloBERT Weale , Assistant Poor Law Commissioner .
This was eight months after the house had ^ been iravaged by a . disease ascribed by the medical attendants to the dietary ' established by ' these commissioners ; It is true that I never was the actual proposer of any resolution at the board ; butfrom the 31 st of March , the day on which Iwas : informed of havin g been appointed a guardian , to the 21 st of April , when tiie gruel system was exploded ^ I laboured unremittingly at the board , in : the visiting committee , and with some able and influential guardians out of doors , to banish the deadly gruel from the house , and to effect that : improvements . in the diet which was proposed by the Rev ; ^ Noblett . Ruddock , as visitor of the day , on the 14 th"day of April , and rejectea , and which ! was followed upon the 21 st of April and carried . Thus in the short space of three weeks a destructive system was pu > . an end to which hiadv triumphed over all oppositioD i ' or eight months .
JAMES GOVER , GOVERNOR OF THE BRIlXJEttUTER WnnKHOVSE . This witness , after deposing at some length to matters not connected with this part of the inquiry , states that he was attacked with diarrhcea five several times during the months : of February and March last , although he did not confine
ldni-Itdo ^ s riot appear /» ' 07 « these official documents that they ventured to ask their own . master of tbe workhouse 1 single question on the apparent cause , the extent , the progress , " or the . consequences of that destructive disease , which carried
self to the gruel diet . Deponent further states that gruel supplied was very good in quality . Jam-es Glover . Taken on Oath at Bridgewater thel / thday of August , 183 / , by me , ROBEHT VV * EALE , Assistant Poor Law Commissioner . SEINUTE-BOOK .
off so many © f the helpless inmates of the house The poor victims are not even alluded to ! Neither do they appear on the face of their own documents , to have inquired the cause to which this previously healthy and powerful man ' s five attacks of diarrhce&were ascribed . But they insult him and the common
Augusts , 183 / . Mr . James -Coyer stilted that be had been very ill himself , but did not believe that it was occasioned by partaking of tlie gruel .
sense of mankind by asking ; whether these attacks were occasioned by his partaking of the gruel ? when it had been expressly declared than an infectious disease pervaded the House , and that the Governor had been , repeatedl y attacked while aiding the poor sufferer ' s'in their racking necessities . ¦
Such was the evidence . winch it was " thought necessary" to call , arid on which the Board { of Guardians magnanimously pronounced itself to ; be not guilty I After having cauiiously threaded a maze of perplexing and harrowing detail , I am now arrived , at that part of this distressing subject which is of paramount importance to my humble fellowsubject 5 ! . It . is from this point that I would most earnestly solicit you , Sir , as a public censor , exercising vast influence on the public mind , to take . a retrospective view ; and after looking back with a calm , but searching-, scrutiny into the charges urged ^ and the documents cited in their support , I would ask you again to read over the evidence which the
accused parties brought forward to exculpate themselves . I would ask you to consider that this most injurious and insulting mockery was donducted > by a man , eating the bread of the people , and specially directed to institute an enquiry into allegationi ' which charged the untimely deaths of many persons on the dietary of the Poor Law Commissioners ; and further charged , that while the fetid exhalations from the immediate : sufferers infected the whole house , the Board of Guardians wilfully persisted in sending in other poor helpless persons irom the villages Of the Union , who were in their turns either infected by , or gruelled into , diarrhcea . And how have these charges been met , Sir ? Not by examining' Mr .
King , the medical attendant of the workhouse , who Moi-med the Board , by letter , that , the gruel occa ^ sioned diariho 3 a—not by exanaining that excellent member of the visiting ^ commit tee , to whose persevering exertions Mr . King bears testimony in his letter to the Board—not by examining the matron , who was hourly amongst the sufferers , whose family were attacked , and who was herself almost worn to a skeleton—not by examining any of the few surviving sufferers , or of the poor creatures ; who attended on the crowds of dying ; not by examihing any of ttese —but by calling the gentleman who omciated for Mr . Kiug during his attacka , their own clerk of the Union , and their governor of the workhouse f
Let me not be niisunderstood : therecanhe no exception taken to the general characters of the witnesses so called ; and I take none to their evidence . They could only , answer to such questions ai were piit to them by the managers of the inquiry * and thfise questions were artfully contrived for concealing rather than for eliciting the truth . .- . . .-. ; . ¦ On Mr . Poole ' s evidence it is unnecessary ' to ^ make any further remarks than that he attributes the diarrhpia to the dietary in use . They do not appear to have asked him any questions respecting the extent of the suffering , or the number of fresh inmates sent in ; on these points he is therefore silent , but his evidence is conclusive against the board as far as it goes . >
To their next evidence , the clerk of the union , they d p not piit tt single question directly bearing Oh the principal allegations to be inquired into . The fatal diarrhoea , the extent of its ravages , and the fresh victims with which it was supplied ^ ^ ere all tabooed subjects—concealed , as cannibals are : said to conceal their initiatory rites from those who will not participate in the abomination of their feast . . The evidence of their other witness , the master of
the workhouse , is , as reported , of a still more extraordinary character . He was in charge of the workhouse during the whole time the disease raged there , and was brought up for the avowed purpose of being examined on allegations connected with that disease , arid the deaths ascribed toit . Still the inquirers into these aUegationSj specially called to that duty by the Poor Law Commissipiiers , do not appear to have asked this competent witness one question on the subject ! v ^ ,
Butj Sir , although no such matter appears on the record , iVIr . Gover asserts , that when he was examined on Oath by Mr . Weale ,: in theclerk ' s-office , and afterwards at the board of guardians , he distinctly stated , that there was no doubt of the diarrhoea having been occasioned by the gruel ; that the house ^ vras boi far infected , that no nurses or servants could be hired to attend the sick and d ying at any rate ; and ^ that he -was consequently obliged to do so himself , and that in the performance of that duty he caught the diarrhcea five times ., Now , njV if Mr . Gover did state this , not one word of which appears on the record , then has this As 3 istant-Cpmmi 8 sioner garbled evidence given on oath , and withheld statements to an extent of which there are , fortunately for mankind , but few examples ; "•'¦ . ¦ 7 ¦• -: 7 0 : -. ¦' , '' ' ¦ ¦' ' ¦ : '' : ' . ¦ [ .: " .-. ' : /'; . ¦ ¦ ¦ :
But , suppose Govijr has wrongfully made the above statements—suppose he laboured under some hallucination that he was never asked * and did not state anything to the abore effect—suppose all this , and what follows ?; . Why , that a public Tfunctionary , holding a confidential and lucrative appointment specially directed by his superiors to institute an inquiry into certain allegations , betrayedl the . trust imposed in him , by not asking one question on the principal subject which he was specially delegated to inquire into . Whether he thus evaded the whole quesuon , involving ; the alleged untimely deaths of more than thirty lielpless creatures , or whether he withheld the e « dence , tax indignant public must determine . Iu either case , he la utterly unfit to be
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< wntinued in any officer : of , feruit , ^ J «« isiix uifoi '" where the lives of Tiundre ^* of oar suffering WSm ' creates may be lfeft to Us management . ™ . '" nere was a time when « tch a stream of innocent btood , would not ^^ hav e ^^ heen periMtted to . i ^ jn » i the . earth unnoticed —^ when :, msh a . dereKciDion ^ oI duty ;^ in a pubhc functionary would have Been d * * nounced in tlrandera in the British ; Parliament ^ when a system , under wMcii such ' enormities could be perpetrated and defended , would be inaignana * proscribed asanputrageon eternal Justice , and u £ compatible with the spirit of iiree ^ eopH whos * hves are satdp be as equally sacred li tne eye ^ T the law as they are known to be ^ in / the eye 6 f their Creator . - . " - ¦ : ¦ ¦ ::. ¦ . ¦ ... . - -7 ' •¦ - ¦¦¦• . : '; -Y- - . -: •'¦/¦ . •'¦ ¦¦ . ¦ rT * ' -V : ' --: " \ JOHN BDW ^
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MEETINGS AT HUDDERSFIELD .: 7 . :. " . ¦ - , ' ' . - :- ' ^ \ . ' . ..: v " .. ' ' . . " 7- \ ¦; . - ¦ On Thursday week , a meeting of theratepayers of the township of Huddersfield , conyened for the pxupose of taking into consideration the proper mea . sures to be adopted to complete the valuation of thd said township , left unfinished by ; the late : Mr . B , Colley . Joseph Brook , Esqo in the chair . Thd report of the committee haying been read / recommending that Mr ; George Gtowther be employed ti > make the valuation at the sum of . £ 1 ^ 5 , —Resolved , that Mr . George Crdwther , be employed to make the valuation . That £ 165 be / paid ; to Mr . Crowther for the same , be undertaking tio complete the same by the 1 st September next . T ^ he executors of the late Mr . Collev haririff stated Ithat thev would' thanki
fully accept £ 300 in discharge of all claims upon the township , ; and would be ready tb give up all papers iri their possession , ! Resolved , that the sum of £ 300 be given to them jaccordingly . That ; the present valuation committee ; be requested to coa . tiiiue their services along jwith Mr . James Brooi ( Buxbri-road ) . That Messrs . James Brook , ( Thornton Lodge , ) William Stpcks , rjun ., John Sutch'ffe , 7 Benja . min Bradshaw . John Rhodes Clongh , and Stephen Dickenson , be ] a committee to confer with the overseers of the pporj and the surveyors of the highways , as to the heal means to be adopted either Jay borrowing money { or obtaining a new rate on a inultiple of tne old valuation , ; until the nevr valuation is fcompleted . The whole of the above resb-i lutioris were passed without a dissenting voice and a vote of tiianks given to the chainnan , and the meeting separated . . ; : :. . ' 7-7 7 77 : ;\
Agricultural Distress . —A Fanner saya "he can ' t make it out how it is that he , andnine out of ten of the farmers throughout the country , are worse off every Christmas than th ^ Christmas before , while not one in ten can look at their tradesmen satisfactorily in the face at the bill delivery season . He can't make out how this can be whea the Corn Law makes bread more than as dear again in London than it is In Paris ( the difference of 56 per cent . ) while at SoissoHS , id France , nine bushels of flour cost only as much as five bushels of the same sort of flour in England . 7 Yet ^ otwithstanniBg the blessed law which pushes up the price of corn
beyond its natural level ; notwithstanding the halving of the poor-cess outgoings ; not to mention exemption . '; from assessed ; and turnpike taxes in cer ? tain cases , yeomanry cavalry , a shefepdOg , and the like , and legacy duty ; Notwithstanding all this and much more ,- the tenant seems to go backwards , and the landlord not to get forwards . " If our " Far . mer" cannot see that all the exemptions he specifies were , enacted for the landlord , and the landlord alone , it will be useless for 7 us to endeavour to open his eye ? . He had better set down and reckon the cost of the Canadian-Polish war , the mummery of tbe next Coronation , and get by rote ihe ; . abominations of the aristocratic Pension List .-r-. KenJ
Herald . ^ Shocking Accident oif the Aton . —A few days since a most distressing accident occurred to some youths , two of whom were drowned , who were incautiously playing on the ice , on a part of the river where it is eight or ten feet deep , and nearly opposite the Summer-house , the residence of Miss Byerley , of Avon Bank . An inquest wag held oa Saturday last at the Falcon Inn , Warwick , on the two bodies . From the evidence adduced it appears that George Martin , eleven years old , and Charles Martin , about fourteen years old ( brothers , sons ef Mr / Martin , builder , ) and Thomas Dale , twelve years old , were playing on the ice . Whilst engaged
in their play the balLwas struck to a ^ part which was not frozen . The younger Martin went after it to the edge of \ he ice , which not being of sufficient thickness to bear his weight , gave way , and he fell jn ; Dale followed , as is supposed , to render assistance , and he was also precipitated into the water . The elder Martin then attempted to rescue then ? , and he also became a prey to the watery element . They were all three struggling for help , but no one , for a time , dare venture to assist them . At length a fourth boy , who was one of their companioris , went to the edge of the ice , and held out his bandy to themi At this time the two Martins were grasping each other to save themselves . The elder one ¦
said y Loose me , or I shall bedrowned . ' On this appeal . he relinquished his hold , when the elder seized the bandy offered to him , and was by this means enabled to get oh the ice , and save his life ; During this time the younger Martin had sunk under the ice , and ; was immediately lost . A rope and a long , ladder were . fetched . During this period the poor little fellow , Bale , who was an expeit swimmer , was struggling in the ^ ater and crying , " Q Lord , get me ottt . " Arope being thrown to him , he held it as long as niiture could support him , hut
from its being so bitter cold , he could not maintain his grasp * He then endeavoured to hold the rope vritk his teeth , which he did for a few minutes ^ hut a sudden jerk accidehtally given , again obliged him to relinquish his forlorn hope . A man ef the name of Erazer now ventured in , with a rope tied round his body . He bent his way through the icey and succeeded partly in lifting Dale out of the watefj but the intense cold prevented his accomplishing his humane purpose . He : was reluctantly compell ^» for his own safety , to : release his hold , and the poor lad sunk to rise no mot ^ '¦ : Prazer was so affected as
to . be pulled out of the water . The Jury returned a verdict of i ( Accidentally droyrned . ' * ' . American Moj > e oe preventing Accidents on IlAiLWAySi- ^ -A scoop or case is attached to the front of all locomotive engines , made with a strong oak bbttom , strappedvmth bands of iron throughout , and arnied in front , with a sph ' t bar of six inches ia breadth rivetted to the forward edge of the scoop . This case , formed like a wedge , should project from five to six feet in advance of the engine , heing attached firmly thereto by prqj ec ting braces of iron , and otherwise firmly secured to the bed frames of tte carriageso that the bottom ofthe scoop should he
, but threeihehes above the top surface of the rails . The sides should taper from the front edge .. ' up to tffO feet in height , and be firmly attached to the bottdm of the scoop with straps of iron . This machine is used oh all the principal passenger routes of railffsy ^ in the United States , and is termed a ' cow or horsecateher . ' Its operation is simply to trip up _ any animal that may be in the track , and deposit it i » the scoop , avoiding , as it does effectually , the . p ^ sibility of an engine ^ passing dyer the body , for if »? animal is not caught in thei scoop , it is inevitaulj thrown off tbe tract ^ tothe rightor left of the road , and thereby the danger will be utterly avoided .
Wanting a Wife , —The other « tay a man named Crossleyj made inquiry of a person ia ¦ ? 0 ^ j dale , connected with a newspaper , what it woula cost for to advertise for a wife . —The appbc ? 3 !* stated that he had , a wife which he loved above « " other women , but she would not live with him ,: ' * " * they had been separated a number of years , bw ° intended to see her in a day or two to ask her once ipapre if she would consent V that they twain shoaw be one , * ' andif she refused , he would then advertise
forarespectable ^ woman , fromforty-fiTCjto fifty- " ^ year ? , tfhonx he would gladly let share Trf w »* ^* earned by weaving fine rose lists , sayahe jit wo aW ^ better for me to bave a woman than not , for ; I . w » y took a iraisteoat the other day to a tailor , fj jepairea , and he charged la . M ., and I '¦ W jV * whoJe ^ faistcbat valued after it was repaired , « n «* it was oeclared by a competent judge not to be wor » m « e tbaa sixpence . I think , it is time to get nife ; if lam to be treated thus .
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• TKe frightful amount of deaths in the Briidgewfttei Woii bouse can only bejprojjerly estimated by comparison / To as suit Qie reader in forming thi * estimate , the followmg rate of mortality has been calculated , from data , supplied ov pnMic documents : —• ; ; ; - :. '¦ ¦' .. ¦' . 7 . ¦' - /¦ ¦ . ¦' :: ¦ : ¦ . ¦'¦ . V .- " . • :- . ' . — - : Persons Deaths . Rate ' 7 . ' \ '¦ "¦ ' ¦¦ ' '¦'¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ . .. ¦ ¦ •¦ '" " ¦ ¦ ¦' ¦ 7- 7- -7 . V . ' - . ' -7 : ¦; .- ¦ •" . perCgBfc
Return of the General Military ¦ ¦ : Hospital , Fort Pitt , Invalid 699 43 Depot v .... v .... v .. W . i .. iV . 20 , 720 : ' .. Patients treated in 19 Hospitals . 65 ^ 23 2 , 525 33 HoUse of Correction . —Sick prisoaersqnTan average of three :, ; " ' yeare , out of 8 , 708 prisoners .. . 660 23 3 . i Prisoners in . the hulks , - daily ;¦ : : averageof two yeaw w .... i :. 2 , 800 65 24 Deaths in all England , per cent . ' : 2 . V Deaths in the lJritbhn ^ v / , in 7 ; : 7 the Jattfir years of the late . ¦ wars , percent ............... : 2 . 5 Bridgewater W 0 BKHO 0 SE , . average number of inmates V . 94 ' / . 39 . 414 TVyhoever contemplates this almost unparalleled destrustioa of human life in theHridgewater Union iyill be prepared for the fact Ijhat , in an official . statement of the savings in gjj onions in' West Somerset , under the new system ; the Bridge . water Union is distinguished hy , talcing the lead ;; It is assert , ed to hare saved last year no . 3 ess than ^ 4 , 712 . 7 s . Id ., or 35 . 20 per cent , on the previous three years' average ! -- ¦ ¦' -: -
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 3, 1838, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct520/page/6/
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