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ai . VK 0 ? IBJS P ^ » THE P-KESENT , AND " ^ * THE FUTURE . ^^ an of mind , first r ift f t God to man , iThiil ihj prwrt 83 M » h * * " *« 5 c ihrwub tie mista of prejudice and doubt , BofB \ --t # us * beacon and a star . ' B > cs »^ ? * ? * A&& 1 rf ignorance b ** "hadoir'd o ' er Sk ? j * j ^ jr t gloom the eye * , and soili of men ; ^ . v ^ j j ^^ e "srander * d in the msz ? of Bin , Ab / ' « tnitil * " error ' a deePest den . i « a « have they made , and rais'd aloft .
^ jpowff , ud strength have giTen nnto it ; i irrit it Ki > "G in Wood and orphans' tears , ^ L bare tioej k 51211 doTO > an < i "worship'd it ! ifcer own * fl 0 Bl'len tsTe ^ ey form ' d the lash j tf j ^ ij own limbs hate forced the galling chain ; if » her owb nr-cks have plac'd the despot ' s heel ; % tfeeii brows tare burnt the mark of Cain . , wty ? ^ ignorance men toil'd and bled ; — ! Lik . tna bar si > ter " ^ irtae , -were unknown ; t ^ gUves and parasites had banUhrf them , \ , a pUced the demon Ticea on their throne .
Knowledge and wisdom mock'd a » d lan ? h'd to scorn , - > d Hi » wa 7 to more CODSen j al spheres ; f ^ P taTiBsb vice unirp"d their chosen seats , \~ j usseli sigfc'd for man , and moorn'd in tears \ - ^ & ? tpot& triumph'd and wjoie'd , and thought , i ? 2 * j » -care-i , ted ssfe , their ill-got power ; v » i £ » orH : e * and rice are royal piKsra--LjgiTe j of them fsw thrones coald stand an hoar . ¦ Vs did the cry go forth— " Brsr down the head , c-ak , ict . move , liT # . ard think as we direct ; -Vre were made by G >>< 3 to rale—and ye , — -ois te , bleed , and minister respect . "
tad c » ti nnj bow'd , and sin , p&ll-Kke , o ' er spread The world ; the minds and sonls of men shrunk np r ^ i p uciuneBt » ero ] lf before a horning flame , iod iB-o " ef- ^ iDg aeenrd man ' * bitter cup . Bittbcn , oh &odl had ' st pity on mankind , T ^ gg thy bright seat on high thoa s&wst their -woe , 2 ^ 1 hope *»* dOTrD * ° Booth * drooping bearts , . gjjaate the good , to raise the low . of
Ts ^ Jto i brilliant through gloom night , gggJIpa nur truth to the bricht world : ^ UffKj fil ed with Jove upon it , igj jeegfet it long , through clouds and tempests Thai-d . irf tjnstg rtrove to quench its light in blood , 4 B 3 aade it death to gszs upon its sign , jjj jfeooe it brighter , purer , lovelier ! ^ na and nations w-orship'd at its shrine . 5 fc Jo » down-trodd = n serf , whose life had been Ots scene of reiscry , want , and woe ; jjjiiew emotions thiUling through his frame , Ailn » » nl waxm'fi with its celestial glow . Si looked sbcTe , and st the beaTe&s bright ; 5 f locked tround , and saw all satnre g % j ,-jUa , cn ] j man , of all the works of Gad , Sew ! to the wont of ills an hopeless prey .
"And wfcy is tbi * ?"— be then Tronld a * k hii heart" Are men for erer doom"d to toil and bleedj 5 « b *» -btirn wmrtJers , and kingly knaTea , And weep , and mourn in -woe , and want , and need »" Asa ha heart Miwer'e— " No ; mankind shall r » e , Aid te * k tbe image they have bow'd before . Hea k ^» »>> jet thtir strength , bat thought goes forth , Asd u t > mi ? bty tide shall it pus empires o ' er . " Biiscup jget eyes , ye lowly ones ; looi up ! As ; Tiew the coming fizht ; your miseries , yoor woes ATr roifttrcd in Bearen ; each tear ye drop , Ai BuittD lead , shall pour down on your foea .
Aad not a neh bst shall be meted back ., Ie teslh of Sams to your oppressors' lips ; Im Bsakind thinfe , and dream upon their wrongs , Aid trfith besjus brighter for its long eclipse . T * bih : are thinking ; God be thanked they thiwV (« » h » t a dorirus world this earth will be , h in * yet te coin ? , the mind untraicmerd , E » bn-t ^ , his wil l , his actions free . ' 35 * ejt groin dim hetors the goldcn beams , Ifladi halo round the future to the mind , Hubert exult * and bounds with hidden glee , Aid joy comes rushing as a sudden wind .
wate eMDes down once more to bless mankind , Trtaued Troth dtseend to earth aeain ; And wai ! with one utterance chorus forth , — < Sary to 3 od oa b \ gh , and peace to men . KaiAwfl , 1 & 43 . F . M . F
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The " 014 Kin ^ r" has this week tome ont more fexa crSm&riy warm ; and who can wonder at it ! Tns aEcallsd-for serei-ity inflicted upon the fett » If prisoners who are entombed alire in the "Qwen ' s Pr ison" has aron = ed his sensitiTe ipa to : he quick , and has led him to read lie Beme Secretary a lesson before which even the tirdbood of a Cumberland baronet mupt quail . f- 55 oold cot hare considered that we had done ill . Oisla justice had we overlooked this letter : — K THE RIGHT HON . SIR JAMES GRAHAM , BABT ., il . P ., HER MAJESTT'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOB THE HOME 2 > £ PABTME . YT .
; , —If erer I desired to cbtain your Berious and ccjTidfti attention , and that of my readers / it is now . Iw nltedto witness that at which my heart recoDan * profraa of uncanstitutional tyranny ; or , as the ssfcra phase terms it , of "liberal and enlightened JBooFka , " I will not be a silent spectator—it n « Ter »»» iBlbaMt to keep secret the tale of wretchedness ^ " 8 sot fetred to grapple with the oppressor , of * au « r iiJ 1 i nor ^ jjj j g ^^ ^ g tjnnt oow > though « _ k » 0 Bing in the highest regions of the political toorabere . "'
" si : a-e n » t that you are not responsible—that " the *** t ola of this prison are laid epen the table of the P « wL tiSt 7 ° U miJ ** si * Itcre < i ^ the sanction of ± ^« tt 8 ia . Through yenr own seeking , you haTe been eiented to the effiee of Keeper her *—what you propose , O . " ^ T * ° * « to ^ e S «« t PO » fer of Minister * , „ ^ Hoose ' will pass . Htrce , Sir , I hold you »> af ^ 7 ' ^^^^ UJ [ miq constitutionalbl rt * pocitaB < L * & ^ Mr - c 0205 - ' * . i wJ 1 Ejt "t my *«*«• 31 » iutc-ry of my country fnrri&hes me with cLz £ ? . msisnees of the fact to donbt the power of T ^^ onsl principle when eTtn the highest officers ^ -ste t&Mgrees . ^ j ^^ Sh timt to speak out—silence wou ld note be
-i ^ * * cnder the section of law we pur-^» lMpn » argwofth cf / eri or Use Batch , as the Bt-p ? rtL betD ~ yon tE 0 W tha : b ? : aw ' we were ^?™ SMrtisn shJ p rf thr Jnrt | t ^ . r&a baTe per-^^^ i '« jinjeEt , by rt-. ^ inicg the purchase-money , to •»* £ * ^ ^ prict of our comparative liberty , Je-dI „ e tom M fron » th * = jToiecticn of the k ^^ traEsfcrrtd , nsy , doomed us to your own b » L— V ' OT aonths " ^ tE&sitd the ir a preparations c- * -sT . , " : ttK ! n of ^ sr tjraEEv—vrfe E , » £ ee the 'fs Jonr re ] ^ teTT 0 * - ^ mtlijpiEitioBjijg ,,,, ^ in . jul ^ ed withont feast *^ ? ° hs ' ! elec - « a ^ I-i « yn for the expei- ~ * i ; . f * " ' lj rites of I-fit ? feiuy . &s they are per-^* W i - tens - > Eb : dl ** ^ -taile-i—Erglaad shall tCT ,-. J ^ ' cnie ! , aud unms ^ W the Hcaie stcrefk ^ ^ <* = Fro .= tl ^ Ulf .
«* » LaV faovthat ! W" f Ter before so much shocked a the IT * 6 *? ' T a ^ writirg on tie 1 st of -May , ) I h aS * Pr ^* Of FWo- ° Ph V > i-t . InS-ielity , txhibiteJ ¦ K « e 4 b / th ' - k * £ rst Ume ' tbe fe 5 Cale P risoners , P ^ Huf ^ v iWo ^ er as your term is } , were cbrtjii a " ^ Sazs of a crowd of men , to and froai Tra ^ j *^* r ot from thrir close , confined Jsrd , ud priso ^ V ^ J ^ erfed iEto the pt = sotc © of tbe male taV gs YmA r ? wa * ed to cfeurch . and -trere sfterwards toi < ih « Tm ^ StoI ' T Gkaham s Nuintry , there kfl Setlj . iTL ^^ ' nstJ : j . ' Tlc sun was shining ^ * u be ^ . i frc " " ^ iseway was iuTiting—the » i -bt i ^^ K * re * Ling . Ttey were permitted to 8011 asj « j , ^ joyed * y the mm , the privJieges of pits tbe k pnTl ! t 8 es ^ r which they hs Te paid the ^ aiatn > i T- ! ienaiid £ d ; but tt ^ "w e" instantly tbe keTrt » ""^ ? ^ y cff . neive yard . When ^ Ji lioi ^^ ' boie " * " turned , I -seabed that all heat a **** felt the pssg wtich rent my
k ioMhed PR * tie heart- ^ nng rf England may > 3 B tr » ^^^ - il has T ^ -rs '^ ed to my own . I **» toSSf' * there d « Bympv . by in the breasts I wv « a 7 ? 5 ~ lf " -neir ntturt be unchangefi . ^ « 8 « »*? T 11 * ri ? ht y ° n haTe sfclec ^ t 115 * ^ Mgsd iT , Preniises for the females , and ^* * CirfL <•> , " ^ tfcit " » hen they go to or return fcjt * , ? ™ , ^^ must hafe theii feelings thus lace-* ***« whii ^ ° ^^ **¦* °° rocn a measure—a ^ ttA Dowe . Jv ™ * ereatare ( andinhomaa form ** a » to M to cbe * t , insult , and dejiade the ?** to ftJL 1110 * 5 « t !« female * walk from tbe * " & * , Wb ^ J ? ' *« » ie gaoler following , I * * " * S $ ^ J * « adred-my mother , or BSten , 5 * "lam wiL ^ ° ^ ** J ^ t ^ ed in wreaking Tenge-« «* ,, "•«> had isfiicted ^ t ^^ j . when ^^ f ^ Sc * . t J ™ office » 1 «« ld not rtstrain my in-WEt r . «— ... S " 'Sit to it . T . r , 1 ^^ r , J . — -, -r . ., k 111
ItT tfct fir ^* K : ~" I * tieoee fiat its hounds . ^ l-nsos ^/ Arff f '* I came * o prison . I observed Jr «« fc % rj ^ from church . She is ectaugled in ^*« l , lit-TB ^ aDoer y > ^ d t& 3 bern . ss 1 am in-Je »» confined ;—she Bp ^ als to no one .
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The wroncs she hsi stffv ., 1 < . ~ ti t ^ have Bfardht ' heari against jaack ' n- ' . ; - ? u * . ^ h « had been regular in her attendance at church . She had br-en constant at he Lord ' s Table ; rtmr « imt-d her only cmf-jit . Her priTations hare often been unnsualiy severa She is the 'dau ^ hiex of a clergyman , unimpeachable ia her character , and otherwise respectably conreeted . A more proper objeci of sympathy and kindness i know not—tbe more fit , therefore , to be selected as an object on whom to exhibit your new system of torture . Until that day ( the SOth of April , ) she had formed one of the congregation with whom , for years , I had worshipped in piiaon . She could not endure tbe indignity which your " New Knles" imposed—she remained in her cell , as did three others , who , since I C 3 Bie to this place , hate always attended church . No honours the world can gv » e will be to you a recompense for the curse your crime emmies .
The privations yon have now inflicted on the unhappy inhabit ants of Lady Graham s Nunnery , are greater than those to which the female felons in New-. gate are subject If yon are aware of their condition , and persist in continuing your harsh regulations , you have not the heart of a man . The felons in Newgate are proTided with the necessaries of life , but the female prisoners here are debarred that sort of communication , without which they are unable to provide for themselves If 1 could but make my readers sensible of the aconiea of mind , the undeserved tortures , which youi
" New Rules" have already occasioned to the unhappy female prisoners , iBo » e of them as unoffending as they are defenctless . ) and which is most likely to issue in laadness or premature death , I am sure that a voice would be raised from every corner of the land where woman is honoured and beloved—a cry t > at wvtzld be echoed in the Queen ' s Palace . Then , be who had b&en the author of so much wanton li justice and cruelty towards some of the weakest and worthiest of her Majesty ' s subjects , would feel tbe weight of Royal displeasure , and ever after carefully hide himself from the gaze of
man-It has been the habit of my life to raise my voica in defence of the innocent , the helpless , the oppresBwl . I cannot be silent here . Depend upon it , Sir , you are hastening the crisis—you are pavine the way to your own fall—you are here providing a fuici vm on wbich I can rest a lever that will be your overthrow . Strong as the G-Jvernment may be , Justice is stronger . I am not dismayed . My body oDly is in prison;—at no former ptriod of my life has the inflnence of mj pen produced so great an effect on public opinion . Be warned in time ; repent , restore to those poor female' prisoners the rights , tbe parchmsed rights , of which you bwe harshly and unjustly otprived them . Perhaps you will be regardless of my warning , as wtre your predecessors . They despised the day of small things—they laughed at the little / octory-cload , which , twelve years ago , hovered over Fjtby , no larger than a mans hand- They went on , and are punished .
If , like them , yon turn a deaf ear to tbe voice of warning , in their fall you may set your fate . Tbe factories and tbe bastiles were their grsvts—Lady Graham ' s nunnery will be yours . « 1 am told tb ~ t these brutal wrongs on tbe female prisoners were suggested by a clergymau ! If it be so , well rosy the church be in daoger , Dot so much , however , from her open enemies as from such clergymen . Once more I appeal ta you . Fancy that your wife and daughters , being innocent , having been deprived of tbeir purchased rights , were pent tip in that offensive yard—shut out from air arid exercisa— usable without personal degradation to attena the House of God . Remember who hath said— "All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you , do ye even so to them , for this is the ; aw and the prophets " Do that , Sir , and when you are again tempted , follow the exa » pie of Chkist . who said to your tempter ' s master"fi £ TTH £ S BEH 1 M ) ME . SATAN . "
Having detained you so Ion ? on these prison matters , perhaps you would be glad if 1 change the subject . Excuse me . There is another point on which I will discharge my conscience . J must be plain , and speak in lsncosge befitting the fetlings of my heart . Ere now , 1 have wept for others' wrongs and sufferings , and have strove for redress—I have a claim on Christian sympathy—I will assert tbai claim . I am a married man . I am told , on good authority , that -tbe " Saw Rules , " which , I am informed , have been drawn up by a clergyman find adopted by vou ,
wiil very shortly be enforced , and that they trill separate man and tcife . I sm led to expect that th * t infliction of unbearable tyranry—that outrage upon Christianity—that unendurable torture , will shortly fall upon myself . I shall not envy yon . Sir , even then . It may be that this rule has aforetime been enforced If so , it is obsolete , because of its brutality . Since I was a-prisocer , Mrs . OaSTLEB has nsvei been refused admission and residence , nor has the wife of any other prisoner , to my knowledge—the only condition imposed being propriety of conduct .
A clergyman , ( not that one who has drawn on , my divorce , bat still a clergyman of the Established Church ) wbo is called tbe ambassador of the Jiving God , once declared at the Altar , in tbe name of bis Divine Master , respecting Mary and Richard OaSTLEB— " THOSE WHOM GOD HATH JOINED TOGETHER LET NO MAN PUT AStTXDER . " He was quite serious upon that occasion—I was serious toe—so was my wife . Tweity-six "jpars haveratiSed that deed—many trials have sanctified it . It shall not be needlewly nullified . Recollect , that God sanc-. ioned , and the Church sealed that contract- That wis not one of your modern liberal ' z ^ " union *"—Utat was a church marriage , solemn zni by a religious ri e . God has declared that max * kall not break that b-nd . If you dare to do so , I
warn you , I warn you most * okmoly If you are invested with a vower to teat my wife from me—that powee . is sot of God . As his follower I am bound to protest against it . Most soltmriJy , in His name , I do . Brfore God and His Church I have vowed that " Dralb alone shall part xu" G -d bd ' the Church have sanctioned that vow , and pjor . ouncrd tfiut ire be man and vrife " TOGETHER "— " to remain tn perfect love and peace TOGETHER , and live according to His laics '— " * o to lire together in th is life , that in the world to coinewe may have lift ever ' . asling " Mark , ' togethek . '' not separate ^— " together acconliDg to G < -d ' s laws . " "WH you dare , by a . prison-rule , at the instance of a clergyman , to break the law of Gcd ? Recollect , Sir , debtors are not criminals .
Bethink yon of those rigbteonn , holy sayiegs—of tbe authority of tbe Church- The . v were not tepoken in jrst ; they are linked to the fiDest and bulie&t principles—to the strongest ti < 8 and feelings of nature . They are net sport ; nor will it be sport if they are ruthlessly iuvaiitd . There is a point beyond which " passive obedience ' wonld be criminal Be careful not to reach that point . Ton have sometimes professed a strong attachment to the Church of England—bow thtn dare jdu issue an order to stvtr htr itrongest , her holiest ties ?
We ll , then , if a demo >" , * man is fojbidden to do it ; God ' s own words are— ' L = t no man put aEUDder '') — £ say , Sir . if a DEMOS , in the cu .-tume cf a clergyman , li » sdar *< i to advjse jtu to be tLe instrument of separates roe from my wife , if yuu listen to that suggestion if S :. Lsn , you will bsvc aivtu cause of quarrel , personal quarrel , between me aud yourself , the conBequcnc-s of -w hich I will not predict . Tbe Constitution will fnrnith me the means to maintain the strife . . If tbeprtir . atcredtath of my wife shouldfollQW our forced separation , ( as in her feeble state may be expected ,, od your head her blood will irfct , aDd you will aiifffti for it
1 will wy nothirg now about wrenching from me a ; right 1 tave purchased—for which tfce State hss I received tbe price . I wi ? i not now plead , that which j iB truth , that I hive not tt e means of maintainiEg n ^ y ' wi ' e cot cf-this prison , stparate from myself . No , Sir , . tbrS ; - are 7 , ov aunoT affairs . Bat I will remind yon that G ; J has / r . rnidden I * L <> nM quiescently submit to that : unchristian , unnatural , barbarous act of wanton tyranny . If what I h ^ vK herein Baid be a libel against the law , that law i » a libel against God—an ontnge upon nature ! no Mich law can be of force in a " Christian land . '' ! ^ " ^» , ¦ \ J C U \ A ^ AU WW T —II w V * V * wv ¦ ¦ ¦ m ^ •** ¦* - - ~ — ¦ — - — i
. *^ Who is aggrieved by Mrs . OaSTler's residence with me ?—wbo is inconvenienced thereby ?— "who is » ven Bnnoye < l by fctr presence here 1 No one . I appeal to every prisoner , to every efficer . 2 Vo charge can be ^ brought agaiDBt her . Does tbe public suffer thereby ?— j ia btr reaider . ee here any cost to the btatt ?—No . Then wLy this wonted outrage on our feelings ?—this trampling on tbe laws of God and man ? Why . '—I will tell you . To inake way for the advance of Infidel principles ¦ —to promote the establishment of C « ntralizition , the j great bine oi England . ¦
At present 1 will leave you solemnly to ponder over these far ' j Place yourseif in my situation—let Lady Graham Pe sn'jecl , in your imajrination , to be torn from jou by me , and say , " "Would your arm bestayed ? ' Rerutmber aj' -jin tbe words of Him who will be jour , Judge and mine— "All things whatsoever ye would that men -hould do to you , do you even 80 to them . " \ The tfiicijs who may te commifisioned to force my wife frcm nie , may « o it witb impunity—responsibility rt-sts in a higher quarter . Is it to improve tbe morals , cf the prisoners that wives are to be excinded ? j Monstrous . ' i
I can easily conceive that a Government which j favoured morality would rather encourage the residence j cf vrivts in debtors' prisons than forbid it- Is it then for thwrr pviBi&fcment only tfcat you would thus out- rage every religious , moral , and social feeling ? The [ safe custody of tbe debtor ' s person is all that the law i demands—our pvnishmetii is not put of tbe law ' s office . ; But if bo it mutt be , I am . not . torry that I am called , to feel the iron of Infidelity piercing my own soul , inasmuch as I shall be ab ' e more feelingly to sympa- j thiae with the victims of tyranny , and more efficiently i to plead their eauae . ——— - ¦ | I had intended that this letter should haTe conveyed to you my thoughts on your Education scbtm * . The remaining space is too small for tbe consideration of that most important subject I will , therefore , occupy j It with a few observatienB on the clauses in your Fac-, tory Bill , on which I had not space to remark in my | last . ¦ ! 1 perceive , by tbe second clause in that Bill , that you have entirely excepted " the manufacture of lacs , bleaching , prirting , snd calendering" from its operation . These exemptions are unjust You know them to be so . Tie Rtports of ycui own Commissioners fcffirm the cecvsiiry for their introduction . Then whj
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txemp . thfm ? Y-u i-no-w that yonr reason is tbe powtrfu ' . . r t-Tvst < f the rich capitilistflt-ngaged id thoae w -ork ^ You huvs thus permitted wraith to trample upo ^ i justice—jou ! . ave nivuD a 7 ^ r : ! ict DgniDSt evidence- -you have ru ' . ed , that money shall buy tha Uvr . Argument is unntceMary—you know that the facts are as I have stated . Djj'cu hope thus to satisfy England , Christian England . ? Ah , air , yeu are but a schoolboy in your office ! Clause llth gives the power in water mills to work up lost time . That is ucjust . The owners have a vested interest in their property , but not in the lives of the factory children . Their property is liable to fluctuate in value by floods or drought—it is not just to injure the children in order to give greater value to water-mills . Clau « e 13 th—The times fer meals should vary to suit the customs and habits of different districts and different countries—Scotland and England to wit
Clause 23 rd—Wages should be paid to the operative during his confinement from work occasioned by accidents ; so also should the doctor ' s bill be paid by the employer . Clause 30 th—There is no limit to the number of sub- inspectors ; Thus a wide door is open for patronage . Tbe whole scheme of inspection is unconstitutional—to prescribe no limit to the number of sub-inspectors is most dangerous . Clause 40 th—The degree of relationship between the magistrate and mill-owners should be extended—i . e . father-in-law , son-in-law , &a Those magistrate !) should be excluded from oil interference under this Act . Clause 43 rd—Children should not be taxed with the payment of the surgeon ' s certificatea
Clause 49 th—This is a wanton fraud upon the children . HaviDg once paid for the surgeon ' s certificate , surely it becomes the child's own property , in wbich be has a vested right . It is manifestly unjust to require the child again to submit to a tax on changing his place of labour . Clause 107 th , as it appears to me , gives a license in very large concerns to break the law almost with impunity . The gain in sack huge mills might exceed the penalty . After the third offence imprisonment should be awarded . Let these observations suffice ; but remember , no Factory Aet which includes tbe system of Relays can ever answer the { benevolent purposes of Michael Thomas Sadler ; nor can any such Act be productive of that amelioration in the condition of the working classes which the factory people deserve ;—nay , snch an Act will hi an aggravation of the evil it is intended to remove
Delay as much aa you choose—pervert , prevaricate , and perplex as you will—nothing is more certain , tban that to have efficient law on this subject , yen must adhere te simplicity—to be efficient , 05 E OF TWO PRINCIPLES MUST BE ADOPTED — EITHER THE IMPRISONMENT OP OFFENDERS , OR THE SUSPENSION OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE MOT 1 T « G POWER . How many more years shall be lost in the contest between Troth and Wealth , between Justice and
Covotonsness ? It is for you , not me , to answer that question . I will , in my next , if I have opportunity , discuss the subject of Education aa propounded in your Bill , premising that a useful national education n . ust have reference to the body as well as tbe mind—to the physical , as well as the mental developement And also , that such education ought to be accompanied by tbe provision of proper , useful , and profitable employment to the instructed in after life . If you educate 1 , 000 children in factory labour , most be careful that there shall afterwards be
you profitable and regular employment for all those children in their adolescence , else of what use ia that part of their education ? If , after providing 1 , 000 factory labourers , yon only provide employment for 500 , the result will evidently be , that tba unemployed , after pressing down the prices of factory labonr to tke lowest pitch , will be forced into other employments , honest or otherwise , a « the case may be ; thus disorganising society , preventing prosperity , and provii . g that tbeir factory education was a national evil .
Sni >> i n atata m «« 9 n * A V ! mA tmwo , vow wall fa 9 n Such a state may , for a time , answer very well fer a few large houses—Free-Traders and Anti Corn-Law men—whose harvest will for awhile be most bountiful in that monopoly of misery wbich produces low wages . It you omit this precaution , yonr education will , as I conceive , become a national curse instead of a blessing . I am , your Victim , KlCUARD OASTLER .
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BAE . NSLEY—A public meeting of the weavers of Barnsley was convened on May-day Green , on Monday , to give efficiency to a strike of tick-weavera of Messrs . Haxworth , Carnelly , and Co ., they having offered and still are persisting in reducing the wages of that fabric about three shillings in the pound ; Mr . Richard Taylor was called to the chair . The first resolution was moved by Mr . Frank Mirfield , seconded by John Shaw , aiid carried . It was " That it is opinion of -this meeting thav the attempt made by Messrs . Haxworth and Co . to reduce the price of tick weaving is unjust and cruel in the extreme , and highly injurious to both masters and workmen , as reductions of this kind
are in general followed by a more than corresponding redueement in the manufactured article , thereby reducing the profits of the former and increasing the privations of the latter , who , with the present rate of wages when fully employed , are scarcely able to procure a scanty subsistence , and are daily pinking lower and lower in mifery aud destitution . " Proposed by John ( Jrimshaw , beconded by Robert Garbue , " That this meetiDg is of opinion , that it is their bounden duty to use their utmost exertions to prevent the offered reducement in the prices of tickweaving and to maintain the present rate of wages as stated in the manufacturers' arranged list . " A vote was then given to tbe chairmaD , and the meeting quietly separated .
CABUSXiE . —Anticipated Election fob the Bobocgh . —A rumour is afloat that William James , i Erq ., M . P . for the Eastern Division of this county , ; is about to leave this country for France , and that he intends giving up his seat for Cumberland . In this case * n election will take place , and it is said that P . 11 . Howard , Etq ., M . P . for the Borough , retires from it , to contest , the county . The desire of Mr . Howard to retire from the representation of ; Carlisle arises , we are told , from the great annoy- \ auce which he has met with from the Anti-Corn Law party , who have lately been badgering htm to support Mr . Villiers ' s motion for a total repeal of the ! Curu-Laws , to which , we believe , he is wholly opposed . Should an election take place , tho Anti-Corn Law party intend briugiug forward either Col . Thompson or Mr . Bright . ,
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Lady Fbaxks has made an abatement of 20 per cent , to thp occupying tenuiits on her estate in the ( county of Kerry , to enable them to meet the present agricultural depression . Galway . —Two boats aud their crewa , coming from Couuemara to Galway , funk ; the one at Fur-: bourgh , the other at Spiddle , when all bands , perished . ; Os the wro > g side of Fohtv . —We notice that the House i » always adjourned unless there are forty \ members present . Is not this number on a most > suspicious parallel vrivh that of the Fobty Thieves 1 A ? ro .-perous Measure . —A startling fact was anncuncec at the meeting of the Poor Law guardians at Cork ! ast Monday—that they were £ 30 , 000 in debt , £ ll > , 00 U of which was due to their treasurer ; : the fact beiDg that the collectors cannot feet in the tax .
Law cf Bastardt . —At the late Devon Sessions fur inis county , an order of affiliation was refused , on tbe ground that the mother ba # ^ ve pounds in the Savings' Bank when the went ffito the workhouse , which had not yet been spent , The Court held that the child had not become chargeable "by reason of the ability of the mother to maintain it . "— Devonport Independent . > Beetles , —Dr . Homer , of Hull , recommended ' patatoes and arsenic as the most effectual means for the destruction of beetles . We have tried it in our house wuh the most triumphant success ; and now , I may Esy , we have not one . This certainly is " a secret worth knowing ; "' and I therefore speak it , advisedly , when I add , probatum est . \
A begbktful result of the opening of the railroad at Wellington was experienced in this town on Monday last , in the discharge from their employment of about eighty individuals , consisting of assistant clerks , porters , oeslers , and drivers , until then occupied in tbe various coach and other conveyances from the western parts of this county and Devon . —Taunton Courier . Newly-marbied Ladies . —It has been said that many young ladies , for the first year after marriage , can never look at one of their own sex without a peculiar sort of expression on thtir connteuance of a compassionate curiosity , arising out of a conscious superiority , as much as to say , " Are you a married woman 1 or if you are not . "—Harry iW « tc 6 ray .
Limkhjck . —Dr . White , inspector-general of prisons , in the report of his inspection , describes the six bridewells of this county , viz ., Glin , Newcastle , Rathkeale , Kilfinan , Croom , and Bruff , to be the worst he has Been in any county of the south of Ireland ! They are old buildings , small in proportions , damp , cold , insecure , and badly ventilated , without proper furniture . Of the six , Newe * sile * nd Rathkeale are , it appears , comparatively the worst is every respect . The Qcekn's Visit to Ibelind . —The Dublin Mercantile Adverliztr says : — "An official intimation ba s been receiver ^ respecting the contemplated vi .-it pfthe Queen and her illustrious coDSort to this couo ' , ry io tbe course of the ensuing summer . Orders for certain , arrangements connected with the royal Ti : it ba > e been received at the Castle . "
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Thk "Lancasiijre Jlw'' Outdone!—A man i Dulcek on Easter Suudiy iasf , tor a wa ^ er ate fif ' t o ^ 'k- , a twopenny cake , a quarter of butter , and pound of bacon , and sani hfl wta prepared to eat few duzen more . This is a fact . A Hint . —On Thursday evening week the box c a commercial traveller connected wuh an extensiv house in London , on his return to Scotland , wa seized by an exciseman who awaited the arrival c the coach , and who , on pxamining it , found that i contained ten bottles -f whisky . Next morning h was summoned before a magistrate . He saidha ha 1 offdt j ded through fguorance of the law , being unde the impression that any quantity not exceeding twi gallons might be brought to England without a per mit . The magistrate convinced him of his mistak by fining him in the mitigated peaaiiy of £ 25 , th full penalty being £ lGO . ~ Curfisfe Journal .
Execution of Betty Eccles and Wicmot Buckley , at Kibkdaie . —The execution of these unfortunate criminals , who were convicted at the late assiz s , took placo on Saturday at the north-west angle of Kirkdale gaol . The time fixed was twelve o ' clock , long before which the approaches to the scene oi death were thronged with a gaping multitude . The iemaJe convict , it w .-ll be remembered , was tried for the murder of her step-son , a boy about thirteen years of age , at Briton , whom she had poisoued for the purpose of getting a trifling sum of money out of a burial club ; and , from tho disclosures on the trial , it was too clear that she had also poisoned two children of her own by a former husband for the same or > j « ci . The atrocious and cold-blooded brutality oi
her crime left no hope of mercy , and nono was held out to her . But with respect to Buckley , his offence belonged to a milder category , and the jury seemed strongly inclined to reduce it to the worst bpeciea ot manslaughter . Even after they found him guilty of murder , they recommended him to the merciful consideration of the Crown , He cut his wife's throat , in a field near St . Helen ' s , while they were taking a walk on a Sunday evening , she being at the time enciente ; but , from his own confession after the act , and other coroberative oircuinstances , it was evidently the impulse of a frantic moment , done in the heat of passion , and produced by the tantalizing upbraidings of his wife , who wa 3 j alous of her husband , and viewed his attention to other females with
distrust . Many persons , therefore , were inclined to believe that in his case the extreme penalty of the law would not be enforced . Baron Parke told the jury that their merciful recommendation should be forwarded to the Home Secretary , but at the same time he intimated his belief that it could not be entertained . Arrived at the press room , the prisoners were seated in chairs , where they were pinioned , and Mr . Carson , asked them in a low voice and subdued toue whether they had anything lurther to say . Both replied in the negative . The Rev . Mr . Appleton then read the burial service , at the termiuation of which Buckley was led to ihe scaffold , where the rope was placed round his neck . During this process the female prisoner remained in the chair , her
eyes fixed intently on the awful preparations which the other criminal was undergoing . This completed , the executioner led her forward ; she rose without any seeming agitation , and walked on , her lips moving in prayer . Mr . Appletou attended the dying penitents to the scaffold , still reading tho service for the dead . At the close the faial bolt was withdrawn , and the prisoners in a few seconds oeased to exist . Owing to the pressure of a number of persons on the wooden bridge leading to the scaffold , we were unable to to ascertain whether they struggled muoh , but were subsequently informed that the struggles of the
female were soon over , while those of Buckley were more severe . Buckley made a hearty breakfast , but the other wretched sufferer was unable to eat . In a conversation with Mr . Appleton , Buckley repeated in substance the confession which he made immediately after his apprehension , that he committed the act under excitement , because his wife upbraided him with infidelity ; and on being asked why he had a knife in his hand at the time he struck his wife , he replied that he had been cutting a stick with it . Betty Eccle 8 acknowledged that she had poisoned her step-son , but would not say , though she hardly denied , that she had disposed of tbe other two
children in the same manner . The roads to and from the execution were densely crowded , and from the number of persons in vehicles of every description , it resembled a vtRit to the race-course on some attractive occasion . The number present we have heard variously eBttmatod at from 20 , 000 to 30 v 000 . —Liverpool paper .
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CHINA AND INDIA . EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS . The Indian Mail of the 1 st of April has arrived . It brings a confirmation of the brilliant successes of Sir Charles Napier in Scinde , in the capital of which treasure and jewels to an amount considerably exceeding one million have been discovered . Doubts have been entertained if this treasure trove is to be considered prize money . Lord Eilenborough has declared , according to rumour , in favour of tho gallant army that won the city of Hyderabad . The matter has been referred to the Queen in Council . In the meantime the Governor General has declared Scindo to be a British province , abolished slavery therein , and appointed Sir C . Napier to be the Governor ; and also declared all transit duties abolished , and th * I : idus open to the ships of all nations .
Lord Eilenborough has also ordered that the useless cannon taken at Hyderabad shall be cast into a column o commemorate the memory of all tbe soldiers who distinguished themselves in the battle of Meeanee . Scinde is said to be a most fertile district , which , when cultivated , will repay every cost tenfold , and render the territories of the Indus something like the banks of the Ganges . The position of Sir Charles Napier in Hyderabad required to be attended to ; for the population of some districts , led on by some of the disaffected Ameers , were preparizig to renew the conflict . The Bombay Government was most active in its efforts to send every succour to the gallant General , and troops had been sent from Forezepore to Sukkur , in order to co-operate with those lower down the river .
The Governor-General was at Agra , where he has taken up bis residence in one of the palaces , and in which he had held an investiture of the Order of the Bath . . He has ordered the celebrated Somnauth gates to be locked up there , and the officers employed in escorting them have been aent back to the regimental duty . The declaration of Sir Charles Napier , that the Indian army is too scantily officered , has attracted attention , and has become the subject of general comment . The Anwers of Scvade , who are prisoners , wiU , it is said , be placed for safety in the fortress of Ahmednuggur or Asseergbur . Some disturbances still exist in the mountainous districts of Bundeikund , but they are not of any great importance . India is otherwise tran-< l « il -
. . . The most conflicting accounts were circulated respecting the state of Cabul . Ukhbar Khan is no longer popular there , aud another wassiidto have seized the government . Dost Mahommed was going back from Lahore to Cabul , but it was not known how ho would be received there . He wished to be aided by the Sikhs , but they did not seem inclined to give him any assistance . The news from China extends to the 21 st of February . The latest was brought to Bombay by an American schooner—the Zephyr , which is now plying as an opium trader from Bombay to China , and is remarkable for her swift sailing . Tho Emperor has ordered an investigation into the murders of tho
crews of the Ann and Norbudda at Formosa . Nothing had been done in the arrangements of the commercial treaty , for the British Plenipotentiary appeared to be waiting for the treaty as ratified by Her Majesty . The Chinese Commisbiouer and h » were on good terms . Doubts are said to exist of the durability of any arrangement now entered into . The Chinese were busy in repairing all their forts and in strengthening their positions in the different places attacked last year . Trade was dull , but expected to revive speedily . At Canton some dissatisfaction still prevailed . The immature revolt at Manilla had been put down , and the rebels executed . It had for its object to declare the independence of the islands of the Spanish yoke .
The Hindostan arrived at Madras on the 15 th of March , 60 hours aft < r the mail had arrived at Bombay . This rapidity promises well for the Bteamers from Calcutta to Suez : her arrival at Calcutta took place on the 25 rd , before the express from Bombay with the mail had reached that city . The Hindostan was obliged , on going up the Hoogly , to anchor at Mud-point from want of water . The Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India arrived in Bombay on the llth of March , where he held his primary visitation , and presided at the founding of the Great Medical College . A magnificent comet was seen through India from the beginning of March , and engaged the attention of all the astronomers , one of whom actually declared it had become a satellite of the earth—a proposition which set thousands a laughing .
Dwarkanauth Tagore has been excluded from his family caste , ia consequence of his repeatedly eating with ** the unclean Europeana . " The Captain of the Belvidere , which ship was burned some months ago at Singapore , was tried at Bombay for taking goods out of the ship while in harbour . He was honourably acquitted . A Bteuner had arrived at Bombay from Kurrachee , which brought intelligence to the 28 th of March , and mentioned that a fight of three days had taken place between Sir Charles Napier and the Ameers , in which the British were successful . There was great loss on . both sides . Report said that the British General was Blain , but this part of the report was not credited .
The Beloehees had thrown a chain across the Indus , which they intended to defend by fortifications on both sides . Her Majesty ' s ship Nimrod and two small steamers were about to force the Beloocheee to retire and leave tbe river open .
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Robert O'Donxell , E-q , of Maganatown , Carrick on Snir , has made an abatement of 25 per cen » . in the rents of his tenants at Hussoytown . Fire at Liverpool . —About three _ o ' clock oa Thursday afternoon a fire broke out in one of the pile of teu warehouses , belonging to the trustees of the Duke of liridgewater , and situated between the Duke's and King ' s Docks . The flames were first diseovered by one of the workmen in the top story of th * third warehouse from thee ~ stend , and that and the two stones below k being filled with cotton , the fire 3 oon communicated downwards and to the warehouses on both sides . When the engines arrived , the second ,, the third , and the fourth warehouses were on fire , and tha smoke was issuing in dense
masses from the windows or' the fifth . The exertions of Mr . Hewitt and of Mr . Dowling ( Mr . Whitty being from home , in consequence of indisposition ) were at at once directed to subduing the flames in the warehouse in which the fire originated , and , the neighbouring docks yielding an abundant supply of water , they succeeded in a short time in making a visible impression on the flimes , and at about six o'clock they were completely got under in all the warehouses The four top stories of the third warehouse and their contents have been entirely consumed , with the exception of some little cotton , which will be saved in a damaged state . It is supposed that upwards of a
thou 3 and bales of cotton have been destroyed , as the ihr ^ e top stories of this warehouse were filled with that article The fire in the second warehouse extended to the third story , but entirely consumed the two stories at the top , and about a similar amount of damage has been done to the fourth warehouse . One of the firemen , Ball , No . 380 , was severely injured by the breaking of a ladder which he had mounted for th « purpose of carrying up a hose to one of the windows . He fell from a height of about thirty feet . It is not known how the fire originated . The loss is estimated at from £ 15 , 000 to £ 20 , 00 U . — Tne property was insured .
Buenos Ayres and Monte Video . —Accounts to the 9 th of March have been recieved from Buenos Ayres by the CariotU , a Danish vessel , which landed her letters at Falmouth on Saturday . It appears from these , that , up to the latest moment , Oribe , who commands the Buenos Ayrean army before Monte Video , had not made any attempt to gain possession of the town . A considerable number of heavy guns and mortars had , however , been embarked at Buenos Ayres , for the purpose of enabling him to bombard or to besiege it in form .
Ovekdone . —A Now York paper of the 6 th ult ., states , that the American distresses have been produced by over-bankiag , over-tT&u ' wg , over-spending , over-reaohing , over-cheating " , over-borrowing , overeating , over-drinking , over-praying , over-sinning , over-thinking , overplaying , over-riding , over-tippling , over-fiddling , and over-acting of evary kind and description—except over-ploughing , which alone is the foundation of society , and the corner-stone of civilization . The London City Mission . —Mr . Plumptre , M . P . is worried out of hia life now that the Saints have commenced holding their May meetings in Exeter Hall . Religionists of all creeds demand his services , and he works like a mill horse in the sacred cause .
First he presides at the Wesley an Missionary Society ; other sects then crave his services ; and , lastly , the City Mission ; and , really , the proceedings of this Society , as reported in the columns of the Morning Post , ar « most amusing . The Metropolitan Police , it appear ? , have been furnished-with-libraries , consisting of tracts and holy books ; and the " agents" have been actively engaged at those periodical evils ( where the Devil plays his pranks ) , the fairs , and more particulrly during the Easter recess at Greenwich ,- which had been visited by 140 , 000 Londoners , bent on the soul-damning sin of enjoying themselves in the fresh air . The report expressed a determination to put down . if possible , all fairs . The " agents" had also visited the Almonry * in Westminster , and the low brothels belonging to the Dean and
Chapter ; and they had also attempted to reform the inhabitants of York-square , and other places of profligacy ; they had held 8 , 606 prayer-meetings ; converted two stupid Mahomedans , who had brought tho giraffes to the Zoological-gardens ; and they reported , moreover , that an elderly lady had presented 3 U 5 farthings , the result of her savings during ? twelve months . Tne Society ' s income is about £ 6 , 000 a- ; ear , and all they have done has been to convert a couple of extremely ignorant foreigners , who will renounce Cristianity the moment they return home , and laugh at the missionaries for the pains they hare taken to shake oS their original faith . The amount subscribed at these meetings ia really surprising J and yet , when money is wanted to relieve the destitution of the poor , what is given is yielded grudgingly .
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From the London Gazette of Friday , May 5 . BA . NKB . OPIS . , Rober t Noyes , of 1 , New Church-street , Llsson Grove , plumber , May 16 , at twelve , and Jane 9 , at two , at the Court of Bankruptcy , London . Mr . Green , official assignee , 18 , AWermanbary ; and Mr . John Casl ^ y , solicitor , GuiltUord-atreet , KueselJ-square . John Ailnum , of Dorrington-street , Clerkenwell , upholsterer . May 19 , at twelve , and Juue 7 , at two , at the Court of Bankruptcy , London . Mr . Lacking ton , official assignee , 3 , Colenian-street-buildings ; and Mr . MeyricJt , solicitor , 4 , Furnival ' s Inn . Alfred Stocken and William Utfcon , of Halkenstreet , Belgrave-square , coach-makers , May 16 th , at eleven , ati J June 23 , at one , at tbe Court of Bankruptcy , London . Mr . George Lickington , official assignee , 3 , Coleionn-street-buildinga ; and Messrs . Vau Sandau and Camming , solicitors , 27 , King street , Cheapeide .
James Farren , ot Nine Elms , Surrey , corn-dealer , May 16 , at twelve , and June 20 , at half-past e ) ovea , at the Court : of Bankruptcy , London . Mr . Turquand , official assignee , 13 , Old Jewry Chambers ; and Messrs . M'Lood and Stenning , solicitors , 13 , London-street , Fen church-street . . Joseph Naylor Ryaila , of Sheffield and Elsicar , vessel owner , May 16 , at twelve , and J ! une 13 , at ten , at the Conrt of Bankruptcy , Leeda . Mr . Henry Philip Hope , official assignee , Leeda ; Mr . Palfreyman , solicitor , Sheffield ; and Mr . Blackburn , solicitor , Leeds . John Thomas Nash and John Tomlinson , Jan ., of York , mustard-manufacturers , May 16 , at eleven , and June 6 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Leeds . Mr . Charles Fe . irne , official assignee , Leeds ; Mr . W . Smith , jun ., solicitor , York ; and Mr . Bulmer , solicitor , Leeds .
Joseph Lewis , of D » wley , Shropshire , grocer , May 12 , at half-past one , and June 21 , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Birmingham . Mr . Valpy , official assignee , Bitmingbam ; Mr . C . M . Robinson and Mr . Thomas Smallwood , solicitors ,. Wellington ; and Mr . Slaney , solicitor , Birmingham . JuBepb Humble , late of Trindon , Durham , ironfounder , May 22 , at one , and June 29 , at two , at the Bankruptcy Court , New « astle-upon-Tyne . H * . Thomas Baker , official assignee , Newcastle-npon-Tyne ; Mr . A . Burn , solicitor , Doctors' Commons , London ; and Mr . A . T . Stevenson , solicitor , Darlington . Richard Almond , of Orrell , Lancashire , coal-dealer , May 23 , and June 16 , at eleven , at tbe Court of Bankruptcy , Liverpool . Mr . James Cazenove , official assignee , Liverpool ; Messrs . Woodcock and Co ., solicitors , Wigan ; and Messrs . Gregory and Co ., solicitors , Bedrow , London .
PARTNERSHIPS DlSSOtVED . Thomas Naylor and William Henry Girbett , of Leeds , tailors . Jatnes Carter and Ralph Carter , of Upperthong , Yorkshire , manufacturers . Bei'jimin Syddall and James Francis Watchurst , of Manchester , silk manufacturers . John Binge , sen ., and John Binge , Jan . of Sheffield , pawnbrokers . Richard Sandham and Edward Richardson , of Gstrstang , Lancashire , joiners . Thomas Raffield , George Raffield , Jan .. and Peter Masters , of Liverpool , shipwrights ( ao tar as regardg Peter Masters ) . Thomas Vernon and John Baker Hodgson , of Liverpool , engineers . William Dowse and Samuel Dowse , of Mold Green , Yorkshire , silk manufacturers . Joseph Hardcaatle , William Hardcastle , Thomas Aked , and John Collins , of Four-Iane-enda , Yorkshire , coal merchants ( so far as regards John Collins .
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? From ( he Gazette of Tuesday , Hay 9 . BANKRUPTS . Howard Hall , pawnbroker , Falham , to surrender May 19 . at twelve , and Jnne 20 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , London . Mr . Whitmore , official assignee , Basinghall-street ; aand Messrs . Kisa and son , solicitors , Fer church- street . ¦ . William Davis Hart , tailor , Ballingdon , Essex , ' May 23 , and June 20 , at tweVve ,, at the Com of Bank ruptcy , London . Mr . Turquand , official assignee , ' , did Jewry Chambers ; and Mr . Gade-,- solicitor , Geoi § & yard , Lombard-street . ' - <¦•¦ : * Abraham Davis , dealer in glass , Tottenhanr-courtroad , Ma ; 20 , at half-past eleven , and Jnne 20 , at file * vtn , at the Court of Bankruptcy , London . Mt . Qroom , official assignee , Abcbnrch-lane , Lombard-street ; and Mr . Lawis , solicitor , Wilmington-square . .
Richard Thomas Hicks , wine-merchant , Cooper ' s * row , Tower-bill , May 18 , at half-past twelve , at the Court ot Bankruptcy ; London . Mr . Groom , Abchorch lane , official assignee ; and Mr . Many , Boliefcw , Bunstreet , St James ' s . Joseph Spalding , ironmonge * , Lincolnshire , May 1 » , at one , and Jane 19 , at half-past eleven , at the Birmingham District Court Mr . Bittleaton , official assignee , Birmingham ; Mr . Carter , solicitor , Sealding ; and Messrs . Gem and Son , solicitors , Birmingham . John Bargees , beet-seller , Manchester , May 26 , at one , and June 16 , at twelve , at tbe Manchester District Court . Mr . Fraser , official assignee , Manchester ; and Messrs . Gregory , Faulkner , Gregory and B « urdillon , solicitors , Bedford-row , London ; and Air . Chew , solicitor , Manchester .
Sat&h Chapman , sail-maker , Liverpool , May 25 , and June 22 , at twelve , at the Liverpool District Court Mr . Follett , official assignee , Liverpool ; and Messrs Birkett and Foster , eolieitois , Liverpool ; and Means . Vincent and Sherwood , solicitors , King ' a-bench-waUc * Temple , London .
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A Isohle Employer —The Marquis of Exeter , on . Saturday last , reduced by 10 per cent , iha tva ^ es o ! ' all the workmen and labourers in his empt' * v « . t » t Bur ^ hl . 'y and tho oth ' : r eautcs of his Lordship . Tne plea is , t . iat tho reduction is to meet the Income Tax on the oue hand , and tho reduced price of provisions on the othrr . The saviua to Lord Exeter , it ia stated , will be , £ 500 a year . —Stamford Mercury . Imperial Presents . —The presents which have been t-ent to Queen Victoria from the Emperor of China consist of golden bedsteads and a quantity of silk of a sort which has never yet bet-n seen in Europe , There was likewise two ear-drops worth £ 1 , 000 each ; and a shawl worked in need ' Je work , with every kind of beast on it known to the Chinese ; besides 14 large ca ses , each weighing 14 owt , and a small box of jewellery .
A Deccnt Fobtune , —We are assured , upon what we consider a good authority , that the head of the Arkwnghfc family , who haa just , departed this life in his 86 th year , has left behind him a fortune quite unparalleled in the annals of ancient or modern accumulation . To each of his t ons he gi veal a million and a half , besides £ 40 , 000 a-year in land , which goes to the eldest son ; and , to each of his fifty-one grandchildren , and greatgrandchildren ^ 14 , 000 , —making £ 700 , 000 more , for this single item . We take it lor granted that the daughters , one of whom is the Lady of the Vice-Chancel lor , Sir James Wigram , are not left wholly unprovided for , but we are not yet informed whether they have one , two , or three hundred thousand pounds a-piece .
Brutal Murder of a Magistrate . —The Leinster Express gives the following horrifying particulars of one of those shocking murders which are disgracvi ' ully characteristic of the southern parts of Ireland : — " Ou Thursday night Jast as John Gatchell , Esq ., of Coologogan , a magistrate of the King ' s County , was returning home from the Rev . Mr . Ridgeway ' s , of Clenbullogue , where he had been dining , he was waylaid at Clonad , and brutally murdered . His body was found next morning on the side of the road , with his ribs completely beaten in , aud his throat cut , and mangled in a shocking manner , but up to the time information was received at our office it had not been ascertained whether by bullets or by a blunt cutting instrument . No clue has yet been ascertained as to the perpetrators of this horrid crime . "
Dreadful Accident on the Brussels and Liege Railway , —Brussels , May 4—A dreadful accident happened yesterday on the railway . When the train which left Liege at half-past seven in the morning was near to Landen , two guards who were in a waggon carrying light goods , the second in tho train , saw the carriage full of smoke . They removed the parcels in order lo discover the cause of the fire , when the flames burst forth , on which they gave the signal to stop . Most of the passenger ? , hearing the sound of the whistle , looked out of the windows , when a violent flamo , driven by the wind , seemed to touch the carriages . Two passengers and two guards preserving their presence of mind , held the doors fast , to prevent any person from getting out . In a few seconds the tTain stopped , the waggon that was on fire was detached , and all the passengers alighted . Fourteen passengers and a guard were killed . Some linen was at hand , and the wounds were dressed as well as circumstances would allow . The most severely wounded were sent back in the carriage to Liege . Some were able to proceed on their journey . TJj » cause of the fire is at present unknown , but the inconceivable rapidity with which the flame spread gives reason to suppose that some bottle or jar of highly inflammable spirit was broken , and that it communicated with the fire of the engine . It is remarkable that tbe sufferers by this disaster were victims to the first impulse of fear , for all those who kept their seats escaped without injury . " Good Health is one of the greatest blessings in human life ; without it , success in any undertaking must be of doubtful issue , and at best cannot be secured with pleasure . To those of sedentary habits , and whose employment is necessarily more of a
though seldom possessed by them ia nevertheless an almost indispensable requisite . Some constitutions and dispositions require an active use of the muscles of the body ; deny them this , and nature resents the offence by sinking into melancholy and repiningmental vigour and elasticity droops and decayshope dies , and frequently ) a premature and rash death is chosen rather than life . Students , teachers , clergy-nen , and others , whose care and most anxious thought is constantly being called forth , can hope for but little pleasure in their high and important undertakings , unless seconded by a proper buoyancy of spirit and vigour of mind . To secure this , then , becomes the first consideration of every individual ; and the fine balsamio preparation . Parr ' s Life Pills , of all medicines , is without dispute the best calculated to produce a fine flow-of animal spirits , a clear head , and a ready perception . "
Robbery and Murder at Burv . —We regret to have to record a murder which has caused a great sensation in this neighbourhood , having been perpetrated apparently for the ^ ake of robbing the poor victim of some mouey , which he had incautiously displayed . This murder was discovered about hallpast six o ' clock on the morning of Thursday lant , by two labouring m ^ n , who were going along a sort of footpath , by or through a gravel pit , in some waste ground , lying between tho back of the New Market and the new CavhoVic Chapel , Bury . The men were passing along when , on looking a little on one aide , in a retired spot , near a hed ^ o which bounds some gardens , they saw an old man lying on the ground without his hat , and on going up to him found
that he had evidently been treated with great violence , for his face and head were cut and bruised , and his face was lying close to the ground in a small pool of blood . His hat was stuck on the thorn hedge near which he was lying . The men immediately hastened towards the New Market , and there seeing Sergeant Shiel , of the county constabulary force stationed at Bury , they called to him , and he accompanied them to tho spot . He found the old man lying as the men , first saw him , on his face and left Bide ; his feet towards the hedge , and his right breeches pocket turned inside out . The Sergeant turned the body face upwards , and then saw the pool of blood in which the face had been lying , and which appeared to have flowed from the nose . The right
breeches pocket had been forcibly torn out . His hat , as we havo said , was oa the top of the hedge ; it was stained with blood , and in it were some pieces of bread and cheese , and a red worsted comfortable . In his coat pocket were two papers containing Balves , and a large clasp knife , such as is used by country people . When the body was removed , Sergeanc bheil found beneath it an empty calico bag or pur ?» : with the tape strings undrawn , and an empty black bottle which had apparently contained some cattle medicine . At a little distance from him , oh the ground , vvas lying a roll of diachylon plaster , crushed flat . Near him , on the ground , was a white handled pocket knife , with two blades , one a Wharncliffe , and the other a pen blade . The
deceased wore a red cotton neckcloth , and between it and the neck was found a broken thorn twis , with two seines upon it , which had pierced the skin . The th-rn hed ^ e near where tho old man was lying was epia-Jjed wiih blood , and was very much broken , a number of twigs having been snapped off , and the whole hedge presenting the appearance of a violent struggle , in which tome person had been forcibly put-hud or thrown upon the hedge . The ground was also much trampled , as if several men had been treading about the spot in various directions . Serjeant Sheil left the two men to watch the body while he proceeded to the house Of Mr . John Foster , Burgeon , Union-square , who followed him to the place , and under his inspection the body , which he was of
opinion had been dead some hours , was removed to thu house of Mr . Wright Greenhaugh , the Gray Mare public-house , near the New Market , where it now lies . As soon as the body had been conveyed to the public-house , Sergeant Shcil reported the supposed murder at the police-office , aud Mr . Superintendent Henahall , Inspector Hemer , Sergeant Shiel , and other officers were promptly and actively engaged in investigating the matter . The deceased was soon recognized as a small farmer and cattle doctor , named James Hey wood , residing at Sinister Hall , Simister-lane , Unsworth , in the townshiip of i'ilkington , from two to three miles from Bury . The following particulars respecting him we have collected from his eldest son and other parties , and
believe they will be found correct : —The deceased was a widower , having two sons and two daughters , all erown up . The sons work on the farm , and the daughters reside with their father , who , besides carrying on his farm , practised as a cow doctor . Oa Monday las * , beiug in Bury , he called at the sfiep of James Rum&bottom , buvcfeeT , Fleet-street , and wanted to sell him a pig . Ramsbottom declined to buy then , as hig wife was from home , but said that if Hey wood would come to Bury fair he would giye him a " graidly order . " At breakfaBt on Wednesday morning last , Mr . Heywood said to his daughter that he thought he should go to Bury fair , and that he would buy a cow if he saw one he liked . He usually kept his money in a drawer in the parlour , and on Wednesday there was a sum there in gold and silver , and when information of this robbery and murder reached home this sum was examined , and it
was believed to be deficient of the amount that was there before by £ 11 or . £ 12 ; and this aum . itia therefore supposed , he took with him to bay a cow , and had it in the purse which was foand empty under his body . He had also with him a silver watch , ( maker ' s name Thomas Lee , Bury , No . 302 J with a braes chain , to which were appended a brass seal and key . As there was no watch found in his pockets or near him , in all probability this was carried off by the murderers . Among other things that were ascertained as tending to throw some light on the transaction , and to furnish some clue to the murder , it transpired that a young man , named James Howarth , had been offering a silver watoh for sale at an early hour on Thursday morning . The watch answered the description of that belonging to the deceased , and of course due search was made for Howarth , but it was found t'nat ha had absconded . He is a weaver ox a blackfiTjiith .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 13, 1843, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct802/page/3/
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