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OyrBK Gitjtdwb . —We have no room . Silk Twistebs' Tor * Opt . —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 cau ~ Honing ail silk twisters in other places not to be entrapped by any ^ altering prospects held out to { hem . " We cannot insert it . It might be prosecuted . 2 tB , Wn . Rxtfseix , late ofNoltingham , We last meek 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 Utters may reach
him * Al ? o >' -EL £ CrOB'i Porisea , asks , if a widow being an occupant of a house entitled to vote , can use that vote through her son , who is beyond the age of 21 years , and also as a freeholder for the county . Certainly not . Joh ? t Wateiss , 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 the round of all the London localities first . Be 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 Coins , wishes an answer from Gerrge Pickering , of Nottingham , respecting an inquiry sent to him in the beginning of last month . Oca Maxchesteb Corbxspoicdext must furnish his address .
Ocb Glasgow CoaEESPOKDKNT will be good enough to let us know his address . Halifax . —It is particularly requested that any lecturer coming to HaUfax , w ' dl give five day ' s notice thereof , All communications to be addressed to B . Butterly , sub-Secretary , Back Albion-street . Jlr . O'Coxsos 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 dag , Cuihich we promise will be no " waster , "J for the purpose of carrying out therecommendation of the late Convention . Charles Cojosob wishes to knew the address of the sub-secretary of the Durham Charier Association Mr . Conner ' s address is Back Bongaie , Bishop Auckland . L . C . 0 . —Blacksmith or no blacksmith , he is welded as effectually as his own hammer could hate done it . It will require the iwage" of death to part them .
Fksbust . —All persons who have given in their names for subscriptions to the expenses 0 } the demonstration , and have not paid them in , are requested to do so immediately , ot their names will be returned as defaulters . Johs Bikxs , Halifax . —We have received his Utter . 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 opinion , that * it is unfair for the readers of the Star to be every week compelled to bay whole columns of personal abuse "
W . Gillltoeb , Swinton . —The cards of membership and the plan of organization of the N . C-d n may be had from the General Secretary . H . Mole , Redditch . —His letter and enclosure is received . Thanks . E . Moega > , 21 J ) . Bath . —We have received his letter , but he must excuse our publishing it . We intend not to give that person any possibility of hereafter complaining that we publish misrepresentations of his acts . Mb . G . J . Hasset , 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 th inst ^ we will notify in the Star any sums tee may receive for this
purpose , Eist a 5 d Nobth BmiSG . —Edward Burley wishes to inform the Chartists of the East and North Ridi ngs , that in accordance with the resolution of the delegate meeting , he has succeeded . in engaging Mr . Bairstmv as lecturer for the above district , and that as Mr . Bairstoufs present engagements will 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 Ttlh of the present month , vehen he will be in Leeds . I > A ? . Morlijg akd Job Scott , are both very angry with Mr . Allen , of Brighton , for his letter in last
week ' s Star . They both put into Mr . Aliens mouth assertions which are not contained in his letter at all , and they found their animadversions upon those statements of their own . They complain of the Stsr ' B being made a vehicle for personal abuse and misrepresentation , and at tht same time send letters to it filled with nothing but personal abuse and misrepresentation . They vill not , ofcgwse , be surprised to find their letters uninserted , W . IL Birmingham , —We have belter employment for our time than to answer silly questions for the deciding of wagers .
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Stajtsisglet . —One Shilling . Jakes Asihcb . —Cannot say exactly , but suppose before i ' tte month is out . Joh » West , Lswss . —Send an order and cash to this office for all plates wanted , say at same lime the cheapest mode of conveyance , and the order shall be attended to . "Wm . Cook , —On l y Past-office orders need to be made payable to John Ardiil . J . Thobstos , Halifax . —Yes . ,
FOS . TH £ DISTRESSED SIOCKPOBT SPISNEBS . £ 8 . d . Trom Wm . Clari , Edgeware-road , London 1 0 POB . THS EXECCTrTE . From Joseph Morgan , grocer , i , Cnurch-it . Deptford , being proceeds from goods PURCHASED of Mm BY THE CHARILSTS . 6 2 POB MBS . FBOST , MBS . WILLIAMS , -AXD MBS . JOKES Prom Leith , being amount collected at the Demonstration on Leith Lints , on Sanoay last , June 5 th , per J . Ferguson , Jus . ... ... 12 6 FOB . MB . HI > "DES , OF SH 0 B . EHAM . Prom the N . CA . Ifeirark , per T . Simnitt 5 0
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WARWICK . —An open air pnbnc meehngVas held here , on the Vine Bowling Green , to petition against the New Poor Law , and to the dismay of many Whifc 3 who got sp the meeting , the Chairman called on Mr . Donaldson , a Chartist , to read the petition , who did so , bot previously begged to sta : e that tie petition was fox 3 total repeal of that atrocion 3 Act , which was inflicted upon the country daring the late Whig administration . He ( Mr . D . ) knew fall well is was ntwr folly to expect that the present House of Commons 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 tauaht , B&meJy , that until we had a total organic change in , &e national legislation system we never can expect ; either justice to the people or prosperity to the ' eoamry . The People ' s' Charter alone contained ! these principles of trnth and eTen-handed justice } which would accomplish that object . Mr . 1 > . here ; fully explained those principle ? , and concluded by ; observing , the Tories are bow in power , and be it remembered they decri ° d -the Poor Law Act when ' out of office , and stigmatized the abettors of it
publicly ; though it i 3 well known their issuers assisted in concocting it . However , now is the time j for the people to mark the perfidy and moral turpi-j tude of both factions when the plunder of the poor { ¦ was to be perpetuated ! Now i 3 the time for the people to judge of the value of the Charter , as a j mean 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 i the people . Mr . S . L . Price seconded the adoption : of the petition in avertable and talented speech , \ and read numerous extracts from newspapers and ! Acts of Parliament . The Epeakers "reere listened to \ * ith _ the greatest respect and attention , and Jhe i Petition was adopted unanimously . j
CHEDDINGTON . —BrcK . 5 . —Mr . E . Stallwood from London , having accepted the invitation of some ° f lie friends here , attended and lectured to a nutterons aBdiecce on the Tillage green , on Tuesday , « seven o ' clock . Notwithstanding the threats of the larznersof " sacking" ~ any . one that should attend , a atanber of well dressed females graced the meet"jg with their presence . At a qnarter-psst seven , «* . Stillwood commenced his address on tbc prinopies of the Charter , alternately producing applause * &d Wexs of laughter , and continued in a fervent faa impassioned strain of eloquence , highly
eratify-? a * to the astonished villagers , who for the firet Bine listened to a Chartist lecturer . Many of the i&ir sex- had the « tn > w plait in their hands ( ihe staple trade of this part of Bucks . ) Mr . S . 's address » sted upwards of an hour and a half . - At the conciusioQ , - » yOiQ approbatory of the principles was ^ aaaimonEly passed , and Mr . S . was pressingly Kucited to pay them another visit , with which re-Quest be « omp ! ied . Our principles are now fairly latrodaeed into Buckinghamshire , and with exenion asu persevera-nce , the voice of Chartism will resoutia from end to end of our Torv-ridden county .
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T-V THJS EDIIOB OP IHE SOBTHIBH STAB . Sie , —I beg to call the intention of the National waiter Association to the "Address to tie Inhabi w «» of Bath , " ja No . 21 , of the National Vindicator , April Sad , «« . A Bath Chabtist .
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LANDLORDISM IN MEA . TH . Our Navan Correspondent informs as that on Saturday , the 28 th May , twenty-four individuals were cast out from their wretched cabins , at Alexandria ^? , neat Navan , by their landlord , Mr . Arthur M . tKenna , of DuHin , who is said , to be a liberal in politics . The crimes of the unfortunate wretches thrown upon the world is comprised , according to « nr correspondent , in the fact , that their miserable cabins- were considered an eye-sore upon the lands . The folio-wing 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 Thomas Grant , and wife 2 Thomas Grant , senr ., upwards of 80 yrs . of ag e 1
One of the men employed by thi 3 charitable landlord to scatter to the "winds the roofs which was erected to shelter the inmates was nearly crashed 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 35 Bt living in the ditches under the shelter of bo 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 weil 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 laws 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 . —Drogheda Argus .
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HOUSE OF LORDS-Tuesdat , Junb 7 . Lord KinKaibd inquired to whom the distribution e the subscriptions were to be entrusted , which were collected and collecting in consequence of the Queen ' s letter ? The Duie of Wellington replied , that the sabscriptisns were to be distributed by the Committee for the Kelief of Manufacturing Distress , which has been in exUtenoe since 1825 . The money already subscribed by the Queen and the members of the Government bad been banded to the committee , who had also fnrniabed the funds which had been sent down to Burnley . The Earl of Badkob moved for & return of all sums advanced by Government for the relief of distress since 1 & 26 , and made wyme muarlsB on the impolicy of the Government advancing mraey witioufc the control of Parliament . Lord JIonieagie explained the course which had been adopted on former occasions by the Government .
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HOUSE OF COMMONS , Tuesday , June 7 . WOMEM AND CHILDREN IN MINES AND COLLIEBIES . 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 of Cheltenham , and other places , Lord A-shlet , pursuant to notice , proceeded to move for leave to bring in a bill for introducing certain regulations as to the age and sex of persons admitted to work in mines and colleries . His Lordship observed that he was sure it would sot fee deemed presumptuous in him , ¦ when he said , that in bringing this matter before the House , he felt certain of obtaining the attention of the House—( hear ) . The novelty of this subject , its
magnitude , the deep and solemn interest which it excited throughout the country , and the consideration of its vital influence on the welfare of so larfe a portion ef oui countrymen were circumstances of themselves sufficient to obtain for this matter the attention of every gentleman present He might add this much as to himself , that there was some little reason vby be was thus prominent in bringing the matter before Parliament The report on the table of the House was the first report of the commission which he had the honour to move for in August , 1840 . It was quite impossible for any man , whatever his station , who had a heart in his bosom , to read the details of this awful document without a combined feeling of shame ,- terror , and indignation . ( Hear , hear . ) He
- ¦ would 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 man—between the wealth and want—between ths 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 , hear . ) When he moved for this * commission , he ventured to state to the House the extensive and important character of the information that would be derived from the inquiry , and his expectation on this head had been amply
fulfilled . Other reports to eome ¦ would develope more fully the whole length and breadth of our perilous position , but he might say ex pede Herculem ; the present report showed the social and physical miseries which were engendered by the present system , and the inevitable , deterioration of the British race . ( Hear , hear , hear , hear . ) It exhibited a very important feature of our national condition , moral , social , and religious . Ha was aware that it might be said that vice was not a thing of to-day , that danger was no new thing to this country ; bat the vice , the horrors , which this report exhibited , and the consequent dasger to our social condition , were of the most alarming character . The danger in this case -was not to be considered comparatively : it cams 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 any efforts whatever , whether of genius or power . He would now proceed to the statements he had drawn together from the report , teshow the condition of the working people in the mines and collieries of the United Kingdom ; and to point out 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 , somewhat wearying details ; but he was sun the importance of the subject would be admitted as his justification . He thought the House would agree with him that it was better the case shonld be stated in the
form of evidence , rather than that it should be made ontbyany attempt at declamation —( hear , hear ) . His Lordship then we :. i 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 tha 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 thingB existed not only disgraceful , but injurious to the country . To remove , or evtn to
mitigate thesa evil « , 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 i on this suV ; 9 ct throughout the length and breadth 0 / , the land— . ( hear , hear . ) Some legislative interposition j -was needed by those ¦ well-intentioned and honest pro- prietors of mines who were anxious to introduce ameli- orations among their own workmen , bnt who , from long established prejudices , found themselves unabla to do it There were many gentlemen of this description ;' and he was quits 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 his bill to cut off the principal sources of the present evils . No doubt much i would be left for future legislation , but some of those ' evils were so monstrous that they would admit ofnoj delay . They were evils -which would be disgusting in ' a heathen country , and -which were intolerable in one : professing to call iUelf Christian . In the first place , " ] then , be would propose the total exclusion of all females j 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 be urged against it , except ; thai Trhich was founded on the purest and most com' ' ¦
plete selfishness . He believed that very few had any real interest in keeping up this practice , but ther e were 8 OE 3 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 coctinue this shameful and intolerable system . The following appeared from the evidence of the working people themselves : — "Girls and women never get coals , and always remain drawers , and are considered to be equal to half a man . " "Prefers women to boys ( says anether collier ) , they are better to manage , and they never get to be coal getters ; that is another 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 theif
wages being lower than that of males . The nnderlooker at Mr . TVoodleyB states ' one reason why women are used so frequently in the coal pits is , that a ^ irl of twenty will -work for two shillings a-day , or less , and a ni 3 n of that age would want three shillings and sixpence . It makes little difference to the coal master , be pays the same whoever does the work ; some would say he got his coal cheaper , but I am not of that opinion ; the only difference is that the collier can spend Is . to le . 83 . more at the alehouse . ' When a lad gete to be half , he is all for getting coal , tut a lass never expects to be a coal getter , ind 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 gconomical arrangement " Elspee asd Thompson can eay , to i& 7 own cost , &ut the bsina are mucb &ef
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lected when both parents work below , for neighbours , If they 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 feelings are altogether different ; they caa 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 sub-commissioner : " 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 is constantly
driven to the alehoiwe , where arises all the evils of drunkenness to themselves and their families : from this source a fearful deterioration of thn moral and physical condition of our working population is rapidly taking place . " The advantage of excluding women from the mines-was Bot a matter of mere speculation . Tkere -was strong testimony to prove it from experience . He would quote the evidence of Mr . James 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 eoutd be found in the kingdom . Mr . Wright said , " Fonr years ago I superintended Mr . Vamsay ' s mines ; females and young children were excluded . A vast change in the comfoxt and condition of the colliers who availed themselves of
the new regulation ! . Some families left at the period , being desirous to aTail themselves of the labour of their female children , many of whom have returned , and the colliers are much more regular than heretofoie . ' This -was confirmed by the evidence of Thomas Hynd , coal-hewer in Mr . Dundas ' s pits , who said , •« When Mr . Maston firtt issued the order , many men and families left , but many have returned , 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 Borne farther evidence from Mr . Wright , which showed the brutalised 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 in a physical point of view ; " for what reason did the House think ? He bad never met with s > more disgusting fact ; but the statement was this : " Inasmuch as the males will not work in bad roads , females are brought only where no man can be induced to draw or work ; they are mere beasts of burden . " It was , indeed , time to remove tfcls 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 au Honourable Friend of his , Mr . Hutton , of Hntton , who had been in the possession of pits for flve-andtwenty 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 , & 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 Bucclench : — Since young children and females have been excluded from his Grace ' s mines , we have never had occasion to increase the price of coal . " The next point in his 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 , tot any one under thirteen years 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 in sufficient numbers from the coal pits to allow two different sets to be engaged at six hours a-day , who would prefer four
hours each in the cetton 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 ; but as thirteen bad been fixed by the Faetory Act , he 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 would 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 impossible— ( hear , hear )—and if it were possible , it would not be safe .
Whatever might be the case twenty-five years hence , when it might be hoped that the character of the collier would be improved , at tha present moment , be ( Lord Ashley ) wou'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 , " where diabolical characters have deranged the gear during the night .... and , in consequence , the first party descending has been dashed to pieces . Persons , " says the sub-Commissioner , " who have done actions not very ieinous , have been knewn 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 one hundred people have been killed at a time . " And no wonder , " for all the expedients devised to secure the Bafety of the mine may be counteracted by allowing one single trap-door to remain open ; and yet in all the coal mines 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 selitude , 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 aa 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 pnnishments . " Punishments , " remarks the sub-commissioner , " are said , in parts of the West Riding , never to be allowed ; but how are they prevented ? 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 , " siys another , " and the difiiculty of superintendence ,
cases of punishment and cruelty sometimes happen , which nettr reach the ears of the employer ? . " In reference to the age at which children should b « suffered to work in mines , Mr . John Thompson , mining ovttTBman , said— " Coal work is at best of an o'er eair kind , and few lads can acquire the knowledge of ' heaving , ' or have goed 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 . The 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 out some better way of attaining their end . The next important provision in bis bill wonld be , that no one should be employed as engineer but males of twentyone years of age . The whole subject of accidents in 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 would be sacrificed . " The accidents which occur < 8 ays the sub-commissioner in the mining district cf South Staffordshire ) are numerous ; and to judge from the conversation which one constantly hears , we might consider the whole populaion as engaged in a campaign . The risk is constant and imminent . It is a life ( says a collier ) of great danger both for man and child ; a collier is never safe after he is sw&Dg off to be let down the pit In 1838 , in fifty-five districts of
registration , S 49 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 of the ropes , the mismanagement of the 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 in 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-cemniissioner said : " It is common in Derbyshire , as elsewhere , to employ very young ihiliren as engineers to let dovra and draw up the work-people . I have met with children only ten years old , having the lives of colliers left to their mercy ; and have seen others so inattentive to their 3 uty , as to let the corve be drawn over the pulley , md half a ton of coals be thrown down the shaft Ibeee children draw up or let down six * t » time . The
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accidents were numerous . " James Warrener a miner ?• The wonfc thing that has ever been brought about against the colliers , is 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 an engine . " This was a perfectly just remark Mr . Wild , chief constable of Oldham , " whose duty it is to collect evidence for the coroner ' s inquests , " said , "it is a general system here to employ mere children to tend these engines , and to stop them at the proper moment , and it they be not stopped , the two or three or four , or five persons wound ap together , are thrown over Uie beam down into the pit again . There have been people wound over at Oldham Edge , at Wematto , at Chamberlane , at Robin Hill , at pidbottom , and on Union Ground Here , within the last six or seven years . Does not know a case In which children were not the engineers . Three or four boyB were killed in this way at the
IChamberlane colliery , by the momentary neglect of a little ; boy , who , he thinks , was only nine years of . » g «; and who , be heard , hadtnrned away from tke engine when it was winding up , on his attention being attracted by a mouse on the hearth . " Both witnesses depose , " If the masters can get suoh 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 1 did . He referred to the system 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 , Weat of Scotland . In South Staffordshire , saya the sub-commissioner , " 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 butties . Such is the demand for this clasa 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 Grovo , " three hundred apprentices belonging to the collieries in this town of Bilston . One man hat now five in hia house . " Nothing worse than the results of this system could be found in the history of West India slavery . "Many of the cslliers /' saya 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 a . to 15 s . a week . At the age of fourteen , the apprentice works side by side with other lads whe are getting 14 s . a week ( ho 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 a . " " 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 coal-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 the 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 . Lpnsdale , said , "The men will send a boy where they do not go themselves , and some have their limbs broken , and others lose their lives . Som ^ 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 1 b the apprentices who are sent to mind the steam-engine and pomp up water on Sundays . It is the apprentices who on that day dean the boilers . " This was the statement of Joseph Ellison , a master
manufacturer in the West Riding of Yorkshire . — " When the colliers are in need of harriers , they apply to the poor-law guardians of pauper children . I have been , " saya 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 ot apprentices , his Lordship continued : —But why should these poor beings be thus treated ? They bad committed no crime ; or if they had , he knew of no crime that shonld be so dreadfully , so severely punished . ( Cheers . ) He had , but a few days before ,: been to visit the new prison ak Pentonville ; and he must say that he bad never seen anything to equal the preparations that were made for the care 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 , fox warmth , for an abundance of light , for amusement , for occupation , for the taking of exercise ; and even for those doomed to solitary 0011-finement the means were provided that , fourteen times in the day , they should have tue 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 treated , thus tortured— -why ? Because , they were orphans . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) They moreover inflicted upon these children another curse . It was the nnavoidable curse 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 euro that the House roust agree with him , if it were anxious to maintain the New Poor Law , and he did opt then say whether it was wise or whether it was unwise to do ao ; but surely it would be but wise to allow a relaxation where it was possible ( hear , hcar . y In this case it was possible—in this case . it was mo&t necessary , and therefore it was that he proposed not only that such apprenticeships should be abolished f » r 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 beneficial end to his toil ( hear , hear . ) They had now Sben , from what he had detailed , bow needless and how mischievous was the emp . oyment , of women in each an occupation—how injurious to themselves and their families . They had seen alike how needless , and how mischievous , and how rainous it was to drive children into those mines , and to anticipate the effoito 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 unnecessarily inflicted . There was no employment necessary to mankind that was deadly in its 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 niereiy 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 was 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 ot the children , to shorten their hours of labour , and by that means to call into work those who were unemployed , and relieving thus all who were tbo much employed . This had been done by him , when he limited the hours of labour ; but be had never endeavoured to legislate with regard to adults ; not tointetfeT » between master aud man on tbo subject of wages—( hear , hear . ) He had laboured to bring the -young , people within the reach of a moral and religions education ; knowing full well that they were the seed of future generations of citj ^ aus , and that in the progress of things and of opinions , 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 j a wise and an understanding generation . They might know what was the extent of their territory , and what the number of nations that they governed . Financial calculations , too , might tell thtm what weie their gains , 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 junged of these by criminal returns , and thought that they exhibited the condition of the people . He , on the other bnnd , believed such returns to be most fallacious ; because he firmly believed that a country might be in a most fearful and perilous
condition , and yet it could be shown that what contributed most to such peril never appeared before a magistrate , or infringed the law . ( Bear , hear ) He , had a very rem&Tkable document which bore upon this point it was the report of the police at Manchester , made up to the end of the year—to Dacember , 1841 . It was » document drawn up with very great care , and exhibited some moat important facts . He quoted it merely to show how tight a judgment could be formed of the state of a population , and of it * morality , from the gaol returns . The number of persons taken into custody by the Manchester police during the year , ending the Slst of December , 1841 , was 13 , 345 , and of these
there were discharged by the magistrates at once , and without the infliction of . any punishment , 10 , 208 ; but , surely . it would be most unwise to infer , that out of the 13 , 000 charged , tberei bad been dismissed , on acconut of their complete innocence , 10 . 000 . Of these were 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 of superior instruction , and how slight that ' m i ght be in the estimation of a police office could be easily surmised , there were but 220 . ( Hear , hear . ) Let thtm , he said , now look- > to the situation of the town , and the moral condition of the population . They would eee now that there were facto to be found
relative to it , which never appeared in the police courts , and never were investigated by a judge . The following w&s the teUm be Nfeired to : —
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RETURN FOB . 1841 . No . of pawnbrokers in borough of Manchester ... 129 Ditto of beerhouses .. ; ... ... ... ... 789 Ditto of public-houses ... .. ... ... 498 Ditto of brothela ; .. V ... ... ... . ; . 309 Brothels lately suppressed .., ... ... ... Ill Brothels where prostitutes are kept ... ... 1 £ 3 Houses of ill-fame where prostitutes resort ... 323 Street-walkers in borough ... ... ... ... 768 TbieveB known to reside in , who do nothing but steal ... > ... ... ... » . ... 212 Persons following some legal occupation , but who . are known to have committed felony , and augment their gains by habitual violation of the law ... ... ... ,., ... ... 160 Houses for receiving stolen goods ... ... ... 63 Ditto , suppressed lately ... ... ... ... 32 Houses for the resort of thieves ... 103 Ditto , lately suppressed ... ... ... ... 25 Lodging-houses where the sexes indiscriminately
sleep fogethet ... ... ... ... ... 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 afforded no perfect picture of the state of society . Much more of it could be learned from the evidence of Mra . Goodger , the mistress of an infant school , who said , that " when she first came , oaths were exceedingly common in the mouths of girls of five and seven . They did not scruple to call her the most opprobrious names that could be imagined . " " Thinks the bad language might be checked by the parents , who , instead of doing this , frequently abuse her for punishing the children . " He hoped that
he was hot talking dogmatically ; bat , conversant as he was with the working classes , and he thought be might say , 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 , as serious it would be dreadful , unless by their measures they speedily anticipated it , and that such an outbreak would destroy the ' - . body social of these realms —( bear ); and then if some day should arrive , when th « te 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—( hear ) . The measure that he now proposed be 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 niake this attempt , and he thought that every day it Waa postponed was an irreparable loss ; sure he was , that the people of this land were the most easily governed of any on the earth . Their conduct under the present prevailing sufferings sufficiently proves this . It was then most necessary that the minister of the Crown , whoever he might be , would see the necessity of winning the confidence by appealing to the hearts of the people , and doing so he might hold with his 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 ef Robert Dundas , Esq . Women and lassies were brought below , when Mr . Alexander Moxton , Our manager , issued an order to exclude them . Women always did the heavy part ef the work , and neither they nor the children were treated like human beings , nor are they , where 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 aad many a
bruised heart . The ; 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 acSs he had exposed—to improve the goodto reclaim the wicked . He concluded in the language of Holy Writ , " Let ub break off our sins by righteousness , and our iniquities by showing mercy to the poor , if it may be a lengthening ef our tranquillity . " He moved , amid loud cheers , for leave to bring in a Bill to make regulations respecting the age aud sex of persona admitted to work in mines and collieries .
Mr . Fox MAULEEeconded the motion . The question being put , Mr . Hedworth Lambton remarked , that as in the county whioh he had the honor to represent there were many collieries , ho could not but express his thanks for the part he had taken on this subject . He thought that it did the noble Ibid infinite credit ( hear , hearv ) I fc 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 hia infinite credit that the noble lord had done this , and it might truly be said of him , that he had deserved well of his country ( hear , hear . ) It was with uo small pleasure and gratification that he was able to say that in the county which he represented ,
where there were so many collierie 8 ~ and he might say the same with the county of Northumberlandthat in the counties of Durham and Northumberland no * eniale had ever been employed in their collieries ( hear , hear . ) He hoped andtrusted that fact would go before the public , beoause , while he was anxious that it should fall , and justly fall , upon the parties guilty of the practice , he was equally anxious thai no portion of the blame should attach to the counties of Durham and Northumberland ( hear , hear . ) He thought he could , without any heBitation , assert , with regard to Durham and Northumberland , that the colliery owners and their agents were kind , 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 , and safety of the whole of their colliery population . Among the many charges that had been made , and that were properly calculated to excite feelinga of indignation in that house , the counties of Durham and Northumberland were particularly free , ThVy had in these counties no girl * chained , they had no children attached to the oare of engines , they had no one acting contrary to law , and fly ing to pits wherein the constable would be afraid to follow them . In Lambton cdlliery , they had a schoolmaster , carefully
selected , having forty pounds a-year , with a house and 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 iu which they had not a school carefully attended to , and no expense or trouble to make 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 them . If it were alone to secure education to the young m these places , ho should support the plan of' legislation proposed by the noble lord .
Lord F . Egebton and Mr . H ume both spoke in support of the measure proposed by . ( be noble lord . Sir JaMes Graham said , he felt delighted but not surprised at the unanimity displayed by the House in the question before them—( oheers ) . He was sure that he expressed the opinions of the House when he said , that their feelings must be bad , or their reason perverted , who were not impressed with the force of the arguments , the 6 ingle * mindedness of purpose , and above all 4 the tenderness of heart , which characterised the speech of the Noble Lord —( cheers ) . He never listened to any statement more clearly convincing in itself , or which , to his mind , was mo re expressive of that which he knew before , but never felt bo forcibly as now—the amiable
character of the Noble Lord who made' it —( loud cheers ) . He Congratulated him upon the result of his effort ? , and the general approbation with which the House had rewarded his sacrifices * nd exertions in the cause of humanity . He believed that , with respect to the four principal points which it was the object of the Bill of his Noble Friend to achieve , no 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 ago , females should not be employed in underground labour- ( hearj hear ) . What had been stated with referehcetd this species qf employment was degrading to the country . It was an employment which , if persevered in , would invoke a great moral retribution—which would have a most
prejudicial effect on the manly bearing of the peoplo , 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 . Then 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 were not employed ^ His Noble Friend proposed the age of thirteen as the limit , and he had ^ signed 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 thepart of her Majesty ' s Government he would give his full assent to the introduction of a Bill embracing the principle of eome limitation of age . What peculiar limit it would be advisable to adopt he was not prepared at that moment to BUggest . He agreed with the Honourable Gentleman the Member for the
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county of Durham , that the children requirtid 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 , parental control , yet m ihe circumstances of the case at piaeent before their notice he felt that that control should be moreorlesa restricted , and that the intervention of the Legislature was indispensable . He would therefore assent to the general principle involved in the second poia of tho Noble Lord ' s bill . With respect to the third point , which proposed the imposition of some limit
upon the age of those employed aa engineers , he cordially concurred . These persons were often placed at the top of the pit , regulating the motions of the engine whioh drew up the workmen and the qbal from the bottom of the pit , and it was most important that such a grave duty should not be devolved npoa mere boys . The last point in the proposed bill of bis Noble Friend referred to the binding as apprentices of pariah children : and there also he agreed with him that pauper children should not be indisoriminately bound . Under the regulations of the Poor-law commission , which he had had the honour of proposing the continuance of to the House , he had imposed great restrictions upon the
binding Of parish apprentices . He was aware , however , that these restrictions were imperfect , and , in another clause which he had proposed to the House , he had made provision for vesting in the commission a power of restrioting the Board of Guardians with redpect to the trades to which parish children were to be bound . He quite assented as to the propriety of legislating upoii the subject , and thought that children should not be bound apprentices in the mines . There bad been so much abuse carried on in thiB 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 was a question for consideration whether the articles of apprenticeship , passed under the old system , should be considered in general to be still binding . With respect to the whole measnre proposed by his Noble Friend , he thought that they were much indebted to him for his exertions in introducing it He did not : think that there was any one to whom that duty could be entrastedso as to command more public confidence—( hear ^ hoar )'• }¦—and he , on the part of Goverhment , could assure hia Noble Friend that her Majesty ' s Government wohld render him every assistance in carrying on the mea * sure—( cheers ) . : ,- -- - r -rV- V ' - -v ¦ " ¦ : " . ; - •'" " . ¦ . '
Mr . Tobner was happy that none of the charges they had heard made against so many of the mining districts , could be made against that district with which he was oonneoted . 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 ljad been employed elsewhere . - ¦ ¦ ' " . - ' , / .-.- ' . '¦• ' ¦ ¦¦ •'¦ ^ " ; / ' - . :: ' - Mr . Stuart Wortlet Was sorrv that he coald not
express similar sentiments to those which he had just heard littered . 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 their 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 had not made a step beyond the bounds of prudence and discretion in proposing bis Bill . " # Mr . Wabd congratulated Lord Ashley on having performed a highly usefsl and laudable work , whicn was likely to produce a most important improvement among a large class of the labouring people . Mr . Bell bore testimony that the mines of Northumberland * were free from the grosser abuses . He was grateful to the Noble Lord for these proposals . . ¦ ¦ ¦ : " ¦¦ : / ' .:. ' > . . ' ¦ " •/ -. ' ¦ . 'J-.- '
Mr . Beothehxon added his tribute , as did also Mr . Pakington . Mr . Gibson said a few words about demoralization in the district of Manchester . ^ Sir Rv Inqus declared his gratification at Lord Ashley ' s proposal and reception ; and Mr . PaoiHEROE concurred , adding an appeal to the House on behalf of the wUiersiu the Forest pf Dean . - ; - . ; -. V . ' \ .: ¦ :: ^ Xr ¦; ¦'¦ -: ¦ - - . •/ ' ¦ Lord Ashley rejoiced that , the Hou ^ of Coi ^ oni Would be see ^ bj fceir conBtituejiis ¦• thus wUUng -fo redress a fereat '; g > ievaace ; &i isopii as | i ^ as ; suostantiated . * . P "'' . ''';' .. "'? ; . ¦ . : . ' ' : "'; . \ ' \ . \ - ^ -. /" , ;"' , ' , V !" -: '"' .. ; . ¦ Leave was tliengiven to . inti ; odttcfl . | lift ; Bw . ' ; ' . ;
: ¦ • •¦ , , : V-: ^ ITNKSSESVINDBMNliT BlL » iP ¦ ¦ ' / - . ' : >; : ¦;;;'•/ Mr ; - Roebuck wished to put st ^ ufeMo ^ tj >' -thj » Goyernment respecting 'this birf ,- whioff'he ' wM eiideavoufrngf to ; carry- through-tn ^ hbuSei . ]' 'lt : ' wai "| matter ofimportance in a constitutionalpoint of view- ; for the house would recollect , that at the present moment : the writ for Npttingham was not to 'be issued , because this bill' was in suspense , atid'he wanted to know whether the Government would grant him an opportunity of bringing it on ? The
d i 8 cussion was not likelv to pcoupy i ^ ore time than three quarters of . an iiour , or perhaps only five minutes . He hadi biBen waiting in "the house on t previous " evening until two o ' clock in the moraiog and was then unable to bring the bill forward . Lord Stanlet , in the absence of his right hon . friend ( Sir R . Peel ) , thought , that as the bill was not likely to create any great discussion , he might undertake to say , " that the hon . member should have pre * cedence for it on Friday , at five o ' clook .
The order of the day was then moved for the house going into Committee on the Customs Acts . A number of clauses of the tariff were disposed of ; and the "breeding ' and "good manners" of the honourabies (!) was exhibited in 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 ) Billy and the Slave Trade Treaties Bill , severally went tbTOugh 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 our last we gave notice of a disappointment , through the nori-attendanee of the parties advertised to 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 EDITOR OF THE NORTttERN STAIU Sir , —The camp meeting announced in your paper of Saturday , the 28 th ultimo , to be held on Guiatley Moor , was an error ; it should have been Ciaide Moot . Tte three gentlemen , whose names appeared , attended the meeting above named . v : v . ; .. w The mistake waa made by a note that was left for me written on both sides . 1 copied them off , iind waa not aware that such a place as Guide Moor was in existence . It bad alao been previously talJ ^ d about holding a camp at Quiseley ; so I thus wro ^ e it . If blame be attached to any one , it must be to nje , but -I must say it was not wilfully done . . ' ¦ ¦' . " ¦ . ' : '' . '' . / There appears another error in last . Saturdayg paper . A camp meeting is anuounced to take place at Bradfordi which should have been Guiseley . I may have wrote Bradford instead of ( Jaiseley . ¦ ¦ ' .-. '
Will you be Kind enough to insert this , and say whether trie : error be mine : or not , and you will greatly oblige / Sir , yours , &c . Joseph Brook . to the editor of ihb northerw stab . Sir , —It is quite true that it was announced in the Star , of Saturday , May 28 th , that a Chartiat Camp Meeting would be held on Grulseley Moor , on tbe Sunday following , and that myself and Messrs . Kitchen and Hammond would address the meeting . With whom the 'fault rests , whether with your correspondent , eompositor , or whom , I know not , but certain it is , that the whole announcement was incorrect ; it should have b < ieu Guide Moot , abova Allerton , and not Guiseley . Besides , my name wais inserted without my consent . ' " :. "' : ' ;
The same liberty was token , by somebody , last week , and it was given forth to the world that I should be in attendance at a Camp Meeting at Baildon , on Sunday last ; to this I was no consenting party either . Now , Sir , I Kave no objection to da what I can in the good work , but if parties will take such liberties in future , I will hot feel myself at all responsible for the consequences fullowiDg disappoiiitmenfc , and certainly will not attend , even if I be at liberty . : ¦ •" . ' . ' ¦ '¦ ¦ . I remain , Sir ^ Very respectfully , - . •' . - ¦ ' " - - : , . ¦ ¦'¦ : ¦ ¦ - " . I- '' ' ¦¦ ' - " . ¦¦¦ . ' . ¦ v ' . J . AlillAN .- " ^ ' Bradford , June 7 th , 1812 . . ;
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It is certainly wrong to advertiso parties to attend at certain places without previously consuitine them , and we beg that the Star made not bo made the vehicle of-. any more such unauthorised announcements . The second error alluded to in Mr , Brook ' s letter , tsAis own . . •¦' . ' : / " ¦ ¦¦/ -. :- ' ' ¦ ¦'¦ . ; . ' .. ¦ ..- ¦ . ^ h-- ; - : ' . ¦ ¦ . ¦ : ¦;;
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THE NORTHERN STAR . 5
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 11, 1842, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct602/page/5/
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