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Ths Satagb State . —Vok * ire hiring r « d Rouseeta ' s paradoxical eulogy of the savage rtate , "with dry irony remarked , th »> t it "vris eo seductively written , that it really tempted s > man to w * lk on all fours after re swing it , Mabch of Istellect . —A poor woman , said to be nine * j jearB of age , was waiting outside the doors of the Cheltenham Theatre two hocra before their opening , having wa-ked eight miles to see Jane Shore . Mrs . M'Gibbon , who w » 3 to have enacted the heroine , deeming such devotion to the drama tawbess , atked her dresser , who narrated the circumstanceif the poor creature had her intellects .
, "I don ' t know , ma'am , ' said the girl , " she ' s gotten summut tied up in her pocket handkerchief . " Grace Max-a-pbopos . — A milliner's apprentice , iboc : u > Will spon a Duchess , was fearful of coomilting some error in h « . r deportment . She therefore consulted a friend as to the manner in which ihe Ehould consult thi 3 great personage , and was told that , on going be / ore the Dnchess , she was to Bay her Grace , and so on . Accordingly , away went th 8 girl , and on being introduced , after a very low cunesy , she said , ** For what 1 am going to receive , the Lord make me truly thankfnl . " To which the Duchess answered , ** Amen 1 "
A Wag , ia the pit of Corent Garden , a few nights * gn , -when it was excessively crowded , having no tea * , played off an amusing joke on the audience . ** Lord Cardigan is in a private box , " he exclaimed . " I insist iha ; he shall 1 * 3 t * the house J" The pit rose to see the notorious Peer ; the vra ^ edged himself inio a seat , and vraa comf ; nable for the remainder of the evening . Lord Cardigan , it is almost uaaece 3 sarr to add , was doe in the house . A M' -re Matteh cf Tastk . —It i 3 siatcd in a reeent American paper , that a bill hadbetn pissed by 14-i to 92 , by the Legislature of Massachusetts , the object of which was to repeal that portion of the marriage act prohibiting the intermarriage between blacks and whites . According to the paper , the measure was advocated on the ground that such marriages , when they did occur , were matters of taste , as much as the choice of a black or white ribbon for a bo . iiet . "
A Hopefcl Babe . —A fellow had grown so tall that he could not stand ont of doors , and said to be so thin in the face , that there could but one person leok a ; him at a time . Tss is Etertthing . —An elderly gentleman travelling in a s : a # j cca-sh was amused by the constant fire of words ktpt up by two ladies . One of them at last kindly enquired , if ihcir conversation did no : make his head ache ! when he answered , with a freer , deal of naivele , "No , madam , I have been married twenty-eight years . " The Poet Campbell is stated to have calculated that a man who shaves himself every day , and lives to the 3 ge of threescore and ten , expends during his life a ? znach time in the act of shaving as wculd have sufficed for learnirg seven languages .
** Who shall decide when doctors disagree f In the Lora ' s coase the doctrine laid down is , " Thoa shall do do murder J" In the House of Lords the recommendation is , " Murder away , and welcome —the more tea merrier . " Truly a perplexing anomaly . Little thisgs &aase weak minds—hence the amusement some people derive from speakiag a * ad speculating on the astonishing precocity of the Anglo-German infant .
A , B . C . —TO BS SCSG OB SAID 15 ALL KATI 05 A 1 SCHOOLS , Aia—A icas an archer . A was Pbixcb Aieeet , to Britons most dear ; B was a bishop , wkh thousands a-year ; C wa- a courtier , who wanted & place ; 17 was a D . D , snd hsd a red face ; E wis an rarl , of the high Tory crew ; F wa 3 a fiddler , and ri- _ h as a Jew ; G was a gsmbltr , hl £ h in the State ; H was a horse-jockey , eqaahy great ; I ttzs an iiin-keeper , fit once , now lean ; J was a junior , and jump-d for the Qaeen ; K was a kiD ^ , with small work and great pay ; L was a labVtr , on sixpence a day ; ' .
M was a minister , cho-e for his birth ; N wzs a nobody , raire-i for his worth ; 0 was an o £ ker , petered with lace ; P was a parson , ai / goodwt ? and grace ; < £ was a qu . ; - ? n . Tar renowned for her stable j K was a R * dicVi , willing , no : able ; S wis a aoi « , Italian and rich ; T was a tradesman , aud die-J in . a ditch ; U was an u » hcr , and carried a suck ;* Y was Va 5 Aiisubgh , tae joy of Queen Vic ; W was a Wh'z , whi .-m we'll leave in his glory ; X th * ex-fre ^ er , vjfco strove for victory ; Y was a yeLcaa : i c-f the true Tory sort ; Z was a £ * 3 y , s .: tached to the Court . ¦* For instance , UsLer of the Bis ^ k Rod , Gold Stick . &c . Q . c-ry—Has Lord Hill ' s office ar . y SD&lugy vrith thai indicated by ihe gilded sticfi a-optec ai a sigii uy nigh tin- n ana cuimney-twecpets ' . 0 > e of our da . y co ; :.-= ! E ? orar ; e 3 , Bpeskitg ' of the ** interesting situation" o : the Queen , " congratulates the coaatry ou the auspicious event . " What there i 3 for ecngrsL' -uLaU- 'B , w : leave that multitudinous personage , John Bail , to determine ; for our own parts , we look , upon every fresh Royal charge as 3 charge that can bs ill an" -i-c ^ i m ihtsetimes , sad S 3 an a-dunioasl abridgment of the comiurts of ; he Iabt .-ii 7 ? 3 jj classes !
A Fklxch author aptly remark ? that the English people boast of their iudept-Dctnce « home , but prscxiie i » abroad ; acd ihi < upsa tee principle o : giviui ; freedom to the biacks in the West Indies and enslaving the whites in Eafeiacii ! Immediatelt on the arrival of the Royal West Pennariichee ; e ' at Buckingham Piiace , i ' ne Queiu signiScd a wi ? h as soon as ? hc had seen it , to have a "Welsh rabbit m *^ e of a portion of it , m the cope that it ur . ^ h : assist in ceruia conceived rations relating ta a future Prince oi Wuic-s 1 Kings aud Qaeens have a diviae ri > j hi to iadnl ^ e in snper ^ : iillitl .
Ths Joke played eff upon the Lord Mayor by MelODurse a : thc " Mansicn-aoiis « bauqiet , the o : her day , has been much commented upou com ta-t a :. d west of Temple-bar . Everybody knows that thiworthy L-Td il ' . yor keeps what is called an oil s ! : op , and diiJs iar ^ eiym ev _ ry de ? f . ripnon of thing u = u-liy s ld by tratiestiieii of the kinJ . 5 u tb 3 t when rhs Premier called bis civic kcaship his " -. vorihy a : ; d excfii . -n : fnead , " ~ cm ? donbz arose in the ic ' mds of Eany wne : her the noble Y : rcouat was not availing himself of iht privfeg ^ s of iree trade , : o a , t ; - ; iLp : an oppo ^ iuoa in iho arae ' = e of soap ' It kesr be sxatifyitig . to know that the extensive alterauuns now in prd ^ refs at Cumbcrland-lod ^ e , for the accomiaocaiion ox' Prince Albert ' s brooci to
mares ana iiunt ^ rs . are progressing mncn ru ; Royal H : gnes 5 s sitisfacr ^ a , and that "bre-dirig in ill i : s branclie , " is likt-ly to go on under the Rovai eve mo ?! projptious-y . Tne Hoa . Col . Ausyn and " Cofone : Wtrayss have just reporieu t ) th--Prince , aii * r caretui i 2 ? pt-ctivi :, that all-ihe Rova . mares in the R ^ yal siad are in iu "iEtertsiir ^ ssvaation . " A good woman caikd on Dr . B— , one c ' ay , in a great deal of truublv , anJ complained that her sou had swaiiowed a p'rur . y . "Pjay rcadam , ' "' said the doctor , " was it a counie-. feit J" " I \" oS : r , ccrtaiuiy doi , ' was the reply . ** Then , u will pass , of course , ' " ' rejoined tLe fic < Uons physician .
A Fit—We yieM eatire assent to ths poahaB , that lo reward can ce too great , from either ma ^ i cr woman , fur a JU at once close and easy , a boot tha : sausues the prid-j without a p : nch . Poor Peirarch , it is weii kLowa , iamed iim ^ elf from his pinchings to look well to Laura . What Homer says of the well-booted Greeks , ii woeid be needle 33 to advert to . What HuT&co -ays about large-looking feel , every bch-olar knows . It was one of the greatest comlor . s of Laziriiio Je Termes to be fiee from all respon-ibilivy as to the look of his upper leathers . ( How the hearty ro ^ ue laughed at the incapacity of bootmakers and the vanity of boot-wearers , wioin he coaiiSclled to have their feet fairly ' * pared" withou ; much ado I ) Giro ' s soliiary frie . id was the shoemakicg slave who fitted weli ; and we never haJ a doubt that it was he who , iu return for the Emperor ' s grateful kicdne « , rtrevred his tomb with flowers . Hear what cur c . vu Gay says , in hues tha : sjtb mSrde lor this wealiier :
* ' ist firm , ¦ B- cll-hammered soles , protect tby feet ] Throngh freezing saoweSj and raias , and soaking I aleet , Should the bi ? last extend ; he shoe too wide , < Each stone will wrench tee un ^ yary HU-p aside ; The sadden turn ei * v £ tretch tie strelling rein , Ths cracking joint unhinge , o ? ankle sprain ; And when too short the modest shoes are worn , You'll judge the seasons by your shooting corn . Truly , an awfai method of judging the seasons . On the o ' ther hand , old Chaucer paints the reverse of the picture in these soothing lines ; which may be sa-id to carry to their highest point the merits and advantages " of an accomplished shoemaker . The god of lore is giving sundry recommendations to the poet , and among tha first is a due attention to the * ppearance of his feet : M Of shoon and fcooles new and fair
Look at the least thon have a pair And that they fit so fetouriy [ properly ] Thai these rude men may utterly llirrle , sith that they sit so plain [ close ] HOVT THET COME OS AUD OFP AGAL 5 . " How peri ' " 5 ct the definition of an exquisitely perfect pair of fco ^ ts ! The torture J street-walker of Gay marvels , as the light-stepping dandy of Chaucer pases Mm , how erer those boots " coae on and eff again J * In i » ierriDg to this passage , Mr . Devlin j justly ch » cter » " ' »« it aa descriptive of the perfection of the tr « e , and ooaeiades taut the an of the old poet's t ( ku is al » o . ~ 5 hopeless of achierements in the preaenvwhen eertaiily , notwiitstanding all the late rmprovemenii , it is oc ir ibe tett darer why ii the bett we «« . —Emmminer .
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FRANCE , AND THE WARLIKE ARRANGE . MENTS OF IKE CONTINENT . It must be a sn - ; ect of surrriae , rs well aj regret , to find ilii .: the res .: H of five aa'i twenty yj-ars' { . 'utce has been to province in almost every European slate a luore military oritnniz-. tion than h .-u ever hitLt-rto t-iken pl " . y in raulern tiuies . The war which latteu fr <> m 1782 t-j 1 S 15 ir ^ s so favooraWe'to the French during ili t ^ r * i"cr v , ' 2 rt of that time , and tbtir rtv ^ r .- 'es ¦ were owing : o czu'bs so easily tracetl to iniiKjaEa ^ ineu : an-1 the p ^ rs nal obstinacy of their cLitf , tUai insU-a-l of dcrivi : ij * fr .-m the result of that trru ^? -- a conviction that it is - , i-avr . s ; ai . 'A \ n \ po » bible for ti . ciii t j i : o : i : in : ite over the r-st of Europe , or extend tLt- ; r tiin-tre beyor ., 1 thv liichs S . ied by th ( -ir own race end u « l- ue . th- - French
remaiJi , on the contrary , in t : ; e couyictiv . T tiiat it rcq- 'iires do gigac-io effort , and r . o m .,-rt ; than & happy c-in-. Vnation of circumstances , to prr :: iit their recovering tl- 'jiraiCindacty and eBipJre , at least uflb < -3 Another , ani zii iini-u-. cci-s . ui w ; ir . cin aluwe c-n . yn . ci tun French o ! the impolicy or hopelessness of thiso schenits ; and an other vrar is , sjoaer or later , ini-Titsb ' e . Tha l «;; ger this -nsr is put off , the better , in our opinion . For the true rival and antagonist of France is G _ -rni 2 . r , T ; acd Gdnuany gains more in stTcngih and ¦ wvn ' - , uaiiy and national sj > itit , in Un yt-ars , than the Fr * : di can gain in twenty . During the last ten years tr . e Germans have made the pru ^ reisS of half a century . They have shot far beyend the Frer . cU in
com'tiucis-itions between different parts of the coartry . In commercial ideas , frL-edom , and unity , they Lave also g-r .- ; beyond the French . The superiority ' of the Gem- . ^ - ; rs-.-e is undoubted as to physical strength . In cse respect Russia has got the S'art cf all otoer conntnes , aai set them , it is to be feirt . d , a fatrJ , at least a most nioiscctens example . Russia , in onk- to ni :: ka up fur h-: r exiguity of territory , makes soidi ; .-rs of Ler entire p ' . pf . s ^ on . Ts be sure Ehe has manart-cl ! bis so as to iut ¦ rfcr « j : s little as possible with the time tuat professions , comrcerce , aud other civil ayocations require . In gome cas = s one year , in o ' . hers two yeiT 3 " actual s-rvice in the camp suffices . But out of a population uf 14 , 00 "' , 000 , Russia has a paid army of 120 , 000 men , "which , at the sound of a trumpet , can bs raised to 55 'i . COO men .
With such aa c-: aruple on her frontier , and with such a m \; iiary crgr . ciiation postesse « l _ by a power -which holds the grcit-er j .-rt of the provinces that France desires to rtcuver , i : trrj but natural to txject , the moment military ideas and a militarj party cuine to prevail in Fr-nce , that something like the Ku-sian system would be iatroluced thsie . Accordingly , Marshal Soult has introfiace ;! it . A few facts ¦ will enable one to appreciate better thg adTantSg-: s and disidvantages of tue new military organisation ef France , The thirty-three millions of French gave , about ten years back , about 288 , 000 young men vl twenty years of age , acd cocs-. quently inscribed on the lifcta of cor . scrip ' . ion . Of these , in 1831 , about 80 , 000 were rejected as un 2 t , from physical causes and want of height , to mate soldkrs . Thus , if the portion of the male population , aged twenty , be divided into seven parts , two-ninths are rejected as unfit , two-nintLs
taken and made soldiers of , and three-sevenths left to civil occupations . Of the 80 , 0 ' ; 0 actuaily levied , not more than 05 , 000 become soldiers ; lut 5 , 000 are to be added for voluntary enlistments and re engagements ; and about Si psr cent , for each succeeding yew is to be Uedac&ed . The term of service being for eight years , one-half being sent home as a reserve itfitr four yean , the result will be that France , after eight years' duration of her new system , will have an active aud paid army of 430 , 000 men , with a reserve of 120 , 000 . Marshal Soult , indeed , speaks as if the whole 80 , 000 lived and became soldiert , and as if there wtre no deductions . This wonld make 320 , 000 troops receiving pay , and 320 , 000 in reserre ; hut with th » dedactiens that the French atithtic&l accounts themselves indicate , tbtir army will not be more than is above indicatednay , it will not be so much , unleaa the mortality of military in Algiers can be pat a stop to .
One result of French armaments ¦ will doubtless be the extension of the lundirehr system to South Ghaai-. my . The States of Germany , iadependent of Austria and Prussia , ke * p up and can furnish a military force tqaal to Rus * U ; whilst Austria , -with its thirtyfive millions of population , eonld , with facility , as far as numbers went , triple it » praieat force of 360 . 000 men . France , therefore , need not , and cannot , claim -Europ * by the number of bayonet * . She ii fctr moie
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formidable fcy the flourishing itato of her finances , and these she waste * and weakens the more she extends her army and her military expences . The French are beginning to feel this , and they will feel it more and ra # re each day . Their Ministers hare announced to them that railroads , canals , public works , acd improvement * mast stop . The greatest difficulty is experienced about a > ' loan . Without' the war-cry , France would hare got money from England to complete her railroads and public works . Now , she will not get a maravedi , whilst capital of her own she has comparatiTciy none . She has ample revenue , but nothing more , and she must probably re-establish the odious tax upon boltsoru , which was taken off by popular acclamation in 1830 . _ . _ . ¦ - —
The effect of the present idle war-cry in France will thus be to fling the country back some twenty years iu every path by which nations progress . Fortunate , indeed , it is , that as nations advance in wealth , civilization , and real power , military efforts become more irksome , more encrous , and more intolerable . To the Russian serf , or the Bohemian peasant , the conscription is no great evil . To the Norman peasant it is death . The mortality amongst French conscripts from mere nestatgre is enormous , and that tax on man ' s life and time has been doubled in France by late events . The French , too , must feed and pay their army better , if they intend to keep one .- The mortality of Frsnch soldiers in peaceful garrisons is double the mortality of civilians . They talk of employing soldiers on public works ; but a French soldier is not able to do half the work of a French peasant , because he is underfed . Such a system cannot endure ; andthn French will find even the keeping up of their present army a much
more expensive thing than they have hitherto fonnd it In the smaller states of Europe , the mania of directing all attention and effort to military preparations is even more conspicuous than in the larger ones . The Kin ? j of Piedmont , for example , has doubled his army , and has showed a great deal of spirit . When Austria proposed to ce : upy the passes of the Alps , Charles Albert declared he would oppose by arms the entrance ot the Austrian army , and he spoke in defiance to France . In Spain , also , the great question is the army . The revenue of that country is about 550 millions of riali ; the army alone requires 466 millions of rials to support it ; yet the Government gives little hope of being Bble to reduce the force . The press of Madrid has taken up ths question , and one writer seriously proposes settliDg a portion of the army on some of the waste Government lands , and forming military colonies , as Sweden did with such success , and as Iiussia is doing . — Correspondent of the Esamimr .
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DISSOLUTION OF THE HUDDERSFIELD POUR LA . W UNION . The following report was .- communicated to us last week , but , in consequence of the many demands on our xpace , we were compelled to delay its insertion until this week , and we call the attention of our readers to the facts adverted to . In the Bastile Room , at Huddersaeld , at a recent meeting , Mr . Pitkethty deemed it his iluty to call the attention of the Board to certain circumstances connected with the present method of doing the business of the Union , both as it affctcts the ratepayers , and also the victims of the system . He taid , at the urgent desire of a numerous body of ratepaying inhabitants , I twvo often been urged to bring forward the ^ motiun which has just been read from the notice book . I
bring this motion before you with greater corifidenoe , because the subject which has just occupied the attention of the Board , must have impressed you all present with a firm conviction that even so far as you have g < . ne , you have involved yourselves in the greatest difficulties , tidded to the ruinous additional expenditure which you find it impossible to met > t , while some townships owo large amounts to the Uuion of Huddersiield . They had , in order to get money , been driven to the alternative of signing cheques , or things called cheque- " , at twenty-eight days' date , thus breaking the law , and defrauding the revenue ; and surely that was a strong reason why we should deaist , and revert to that good old law , the forty-third of Elizabeth ,
which could be carried out with justice to the rich as well as to the poor . He brought forward that motion with the greatest pleasure , becauite he knew that ninety-uine out of every one hundred of the inhabitants of this place were west anxious for vhe consummation of the subject of this m Hion , and that the * atepayers of the different townships might haye thu management of their own money and their uwn poor ; because the poor were in a state of alumi . Knowing , as they did , tho crutltks which wtrri it . iKcUxl on the poor in Bastilea , they , feeling that the pressure of the times was drawing them nearer to a state of pauperism daily , and with the prospect of a Bistilo before their eyes , had a just alarm .
Because those abodes of misery and woo were a constant terror to the halt , the lame , the blind , and the impotent , and horrifying to every ono possessing one particle of mercy or benevolence . Btcause where the law is in full force , if any starving family dai-u to apply for relief they have no alternative , but must submit to go into the house , and bo torn asunder fruiu tvery fawiiy tit j and their little furniture is either taken by tho landlord for rent , or sold by tho Union , anil pVaced to the sentra \ fui . il , and when , if they are able ; u . d forUur . td enough to gv > t woik out , they have no home to which to return , an * l so become hougeles . 3 wanderers , houseless va ^ ra . ;; ts , liable at any nvmitnt to be jsent to the treadmill , and thus the poor artisans of England are driven to madness , desperation , and de > pair .
Because we have before us the case of the Eton workhfuae , where a Rev . Gt ^ . tfeinau , to his honour , hid taken up the defence of the poor , and exposed a :: d punished the perpetrators of cruellies not * o great as had been scouted when brought before th : s Board . Because tie gates of the poor-houaca are shut against the rate-payeis , and the same houses which formerly were houses of refuue aiu turned by the new and heliUh scheme int-u the worst of prihons . By refirriug to evidence taken before a co : umitteo of the Peers uf England , it would be seea that the inmates of a JJastile after the surgeon of the house bad rem < m : > tr&ted with the Guardians , th : it they ( the Gimdb . ns ) had told hiui ithe surgeon ) that he hail no rii ; ht to interfere with t . ' ie dietary , that his duty was to attend to ttnse that
xrere sick on ) y ; and in this atirse did tlwse Gutrdia / is go forwaTii , until disease arrived at such a height th ; it they tht-mselves dared not to enter the houso , for f < .: iv of infection , unlil they had gruelied them , contrary to the remonstrances of the surgeon , and craiMinu-. i them together , with five and even s = ven in one bed , nrirt the gruel rau thri ugh them as th * y walked acro . 's tlit ! flo > r , and while they stood at their meals ; and in bad tho evacuatious vrcre to the extent of eight ami Un in one night , while there was no one to clean them , : md they lay in . in indfcicribablrf puddle , and died off liko rotten shee- ; -: rj that , by this wholesale new system of murder , they rid themselves of numerous paupers , atK ' . ttducud U-e ixpenditurv by more than £ l , * i . O , and tliU was cle ^ rl ) the iiitention of the framers of t ! io B . ii .
Mr . P . t : on gave other extracts iiw . n the evi . lenco , of the most appalling nature , Vuriug the iva-iing of which he was interrupted by the Carrimmi , who be ;; o . ; him to desist ; however , lie continued f » r v . jmip ti .-iic l ..-: ; ger to give the friends of the system some rpccim .-ns of iU working , vrhtnh © concluded by t-aying , "This is wbut you are bringing upon us—this is what the peop . 'e art- alarmed will l > e tb * ir fate—this is whit they deplore :. s the fate which their fellow creatures ; iro now enduring ; and , therefore , I feel it my duty to bring those cat ; es before you in order that you may not plead ignorance , and that you may have an opportunity to refute in . , arguments . Another , and a local reason is , that cc « it ; : ;; t complaints aro being ma f another township ; tbat we appoint
most unfit p-rsi . ns to fall various effices , and in one instancy , you ajipolntsrd an officer without any credential ? , or the production of any , or without any proper recomniendation ; without even seeing him , and when ho came to prrfi > rin tha dutks 'if his office , it was discovered tbut he was actually insane , and had not been in his office nmny days when he fell down in a fit , to which he had Ltt-n subject , and had to iw wrapped iu blanker and packed on" to hia mother at Sheffield . I state this in ord .-r to show more clearly that you are in a worse pesition than we ever were under the good old law , for un'ltr it i defy you to show one single instance whtro a lunatic was placed over the tsaue iniuatea of a workhouse ; under the old system thure never was any difiicuUy to find s . me aud active < fueers to place in such situutiun 3 ; but now the thing had changed , and such
kidividuals scouted the officers and t '^ . e system also . The inconvtiiience to the paujwrs , who were really able , and the misery to those wliu were unable to come from the distant parts of the union , to have these cases heard before the board ;—in Borne instances eight and as much aa twelve miles to bs buffetted by the understrappers , mid sent back again with empty bellies , ami without even being permitted to go before the Board . The guardians too had complained heavily of the great individual expenee and inconvenience of attending every week at bo great a distance , and the groat additional expeneo incurred by what was generally called establishment charges , namely , rents , salaries , aud other burdens which were making those who were the
staunche ? t supporters of the bastilo scheme wince , and many bad been converted by tho impositions effected by the triune king ? of Sjmerset House ; and this , too . while they were compelling old persons from seventy to eighty years ef age , all but blind , and bodies diseased , to labour on tho highways for the mere pittance they received for breaking stones on the highways . Mr . P implored them to desitt from their ruinous couwe , and " save themselves from the ruin , which , if they did not retreat , must come upon them . He then moved "Tnat the so-called Hudderfield Poor Law Union be divided into thirty-four unions , and be named according to the designations of the thirty-four townships which form the Huddersfleld Union . "
Mr . Bitley moved as nn amendment , " That it be taken into consideration that day six moaShs , " which being seconded by Mr . Bull Briggs , on a show of hamis bsiisg tailed for by the Chairman , there appeared for the amendment , seven ; for the motion , eight The Multhu = ian crew looked unutterable things , and Battey moved that the votes be taken down , and told the Chairman tbai if he -would vote and give his casting vote , it wcukl just turn it the other way . The Chairman declined to vote , but would take the votes down , but the confusion was such , that be left the chair , saying thit he could not
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do buaittesi in such » state . He was stopped on his way , and pressed into It again . Mr . P . said the Chairman not having voted In the first instance , and having given his decision , could not vote on the question at all ; the rotes were taken down aa follows : — For the motion . For the amendment . ' Kettlral . Mr . PitketWey M * . Cockili * Mr . Mnxuetd M * . Whitworth Mr , Bull Briggs Mr . Llttlewood Mr . Peppleton Mr . Bottomley Mr . R . Wrigley . Mr . Poison Mr . W . Batley Mr . Clarke Mr . J . Batley Mr . Stevenson Mr . Tinker Mr . Senior . Mr . Sykes . It was then moved that the votes be added to tht resolution , and that both be transmitted to the Commissioners forthwith .
Mr . Joseph Batley had a notice on the boeks for tho giving up of Burley workhouse , and for the enlargement of Almonbuiy workhouse . He said he would postpone hia motion , as he understood that the people of Aldiuonbury would not lay out the money , and he did not think the state of their finances would justify them in any extra outlay . Truly that is thu caae , when they cannot have their cheques discounted without breaking the law , and defrauding the owners by drawing a bill at twenty-eight days' date , and falsely calling them cheques . * When the names were to be taken down , he wanted to vote for the motion ; this was not allowed !
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XJ 323 DS . Election op Auditors , & < j . —Oh Monday last , the annual election-of Auditors , Revising Assessors , and Ward Assessors , for this borough , for the eusuisg year , took place , when the following were ; elected : — Auditors . —Mr . Matthew Joftnson , Woodhou ? olane , mordiaut ; Mr . John Beck with , Hanoverplace , short-hand writer . Revising Assessors . —Mr . John Hope Shaw , Albioii-stteet , solicitor ; Mr . Edward Bond , Springfield place , solicitor .
WA . RD ASSE&SORS . Mill Hill . —Mr . James" Gilston , Mcrrinn-strcet , woollen-draper ; Mr . Thompson Ciarkson , Brig ^ ato , tallow-chandler . West . —Mr . Thomas Tonnant , Little Woodhouse , gentleman ; Mr . Thomas Tiluey , Weilingtou-street , stonemason . North West . —Mr . Edward King , Grove-terrace , wool merchant ; Mr . John Le&dmau , Queen-square , # en 11- > man . North . —Mr . Thoroa 3 Simp 3 on , North-street , painter ; Mr . William Mawson , Camp-road , stationer . North East—Mr . John Mawson , Burmanfofts , manufacturing chemist ; Mr . Edward Waikor , Burmautofts , maltster .
Ea » t . —Mr . Horatio Wood , Hill-house place , solicitor ; Mr . William Hovwood , Wheeler-btreet , pawnbroker . Kirkgute . —Mr . William Kottlewell , Kingatonpiace , draper ; Mr . William Middietou , St . Gworge ' storrace , solicitor . * South . —Mr . Hutchinson Gresham , Hunslet lane , pawnbroker ; Mr . Thomas Robinson , Chapei-ailcrton , solicitor . Hunslet . —yiv . Samuel Walker , jun ., Chapel-street ., maltster ; Mr . Stephen Chappell , LeeUs-pottery , Hunslet ; earthenware manufacturer . lloibeck . —Mr . Roger Shackleton , Holbtck-lane , corn miller ; Mr . William Greaves , Holbeck-lane , chemist . Uramley . —Mr . John Wa : te , Bramiey , gentleman ; Mr . John Walker , Armlev -moor , cloth manufacturer .
llcadingley . —Mr . Edward John Teale , Q , ueeupquare , Leeds , solicitor ; Mr . George Howaon , Beadiugley , gentleman . SHEFFIELD .-Payment op Wages in Stuff . —At tho Town Hall , Sheffield , a tow days : ik » , Mr . Thos . Gatley , of that placo , file manufacturer , appeared to answer to three information . ; preferred against him by his workmen , for paying their wa ^ es in £ oods instead of money . Tho first case called upon was that of Win . Rhodes ' , who deposed that he was obliged to sot up seven shillings out of every pound he earned to pay for stuff . On tho 4 th of November last , he was obliged to take three aud a half yards of woollen cloth , for Which Gatley : isked 41 ) 3 . per yard , - bus agreed to take 35 s . per yard .
lUiodcs afterwards gold the whole piece for 33-., which it was sworn was its full worth . A solicitor attended for Gatley , but he could not shake tho complainants evidence . Mr . Luke Pallrcyman , solicitor , fur the complainant , said he should press for a conviction in each of the tltreo casas in which informations had been laid ; he could bring forward bimilar informations from every man in Mr . GatJoy ' d < -mploy , but , if lie would promise to relinquish the practice , no further informations ehould be laid . Mr . Gatley baid ho was not so old a manufacturer as many others , but he had hid eyes aud ears about him , and hu had b . ; cn led into this course by the examplo of others , it was not his own inclination , for he had always detested the BV . sttm . When his workmen consented
to part payment in stuff , he made three propositions lo them ; lirst , that they should set up 10 tho debts ; they owed him one-third of their wages ; or thai hu Htouitl htint them ; or that part of them should be dibcharged . He had erred through a fetling o ! compassion for hia men , not desiring to throw them out of employment , ana he was sorry ho had rendered himself amenable to a law that ke was ucc r » w * re of . —Mr . Bajjhhawc : The illegality of the payment of wages in ^ oods could scarcely bo uuknown to a man with his eyes and ears open , and it is an « . x >' raoriJinary circumstance that the cloth you cliarjjtd iJos . a yaru should be worth only lls . 6 d . — Mr . Gu . tii-. y t , aid ho was not a , dealer in these things , ar . d churned ftccorduig to tho price they cost him .
Mr . I ' aifjcymau taid ho could have proved , in ouo o ' the other eases , a conversation with the defendant , shewing that he waBiiot iguorant . —Mr . Ba ^ shawo said sho pica of ignorance could not be cnieriiunou . Tacy cyui'd not tuppoau that any master could bo ignorant on tins subject . — -Mr . Aldereou concurred in this . —Mr . Baxshawe said , if the deiendaut would shew them his invoices frosa the mauufucturbrs ol Leeds , ho thought Uwy would not justify the outrageous pi-ice- lie h : id chargt-u . —Mr . Gatley said he Jid n'Jt buy from > u : tiitifac : urers . lie made exehangei with hawkers-. —Mr . Bu ^ s-hasvi ; : Don ' t you get it l ' rum regular houses I—Mr . Gatiey : Mover . — Mr . Ua ^ shawe : Then , tor anything you can tell , you man b :. buying srofeu goods , and may get them
ehen .:-ji- btiil . —Mr . O . itiey wished to speak agaiu . —iir . Bag . littvve said , I think you had belter nor . — - ilr . Gauey aiid he had understood that when woikmui i . ad a » i * ocd to tako good . ^ , it was not contrary to hiw . — Mr . Palfreymau—If you say that you m » de a contract with them to take goods , youjire liable lo another pcnulty . —Mr . Bagshawo said , Mr . Alders . oii concurred with him iu ihiukhig that ttieir dtei-. vi . m in this case was one of importance , and as M <\ U .-uloy luig'it nothavo understood the law , they feit bound , in justice to all panics , to impose such a iionaicy as should mark their opinion of the ofTonci * .
In t ' : o case they had heard , thty imposed a penalty of £ 10 and costs , and m each of tho others of £ 5 . Air . Gatley would understand the law now , and he hoped would not again trausgrcs , for if another conviction took place , the minimum penalty would he £ 20 . After tho evidence thac tho clotii ' chargeu to thj man £ ( i 2 > . 6 d ., was only told tor 33 .., ( Mr Aidcrsoii : Aud was worth no more , ) they i ' eic called Upon ihus to deal with tuo case . —Mr . Palfreymau ri ' quos ; cd the Bduch to any how tho penalties bhuuld bo disposed of . —Mr . Bagshawt : Considering it as v public offence , tho whole must go to the treasurer oi the countv .
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w * Fatal Effects of a Fuulic . —In the evening of Wednesday tue 24 ; h , a party was drinking together at Lhc public-house ,, at Old Roinuey , when a bet was litiu about running 20 roda . Two of the party , named Randall aud Uuggett , accepted the bet , and pro .-ceded to execute their task . The goal was a lighted candle in a lantern , which in a frolic had been first placed , or afterwards'removed , 10 the opposite side of a puud . Both Raudall and Huggett ran iuto the pond , when the former unfortunately found a watery grave and the lacier was extrmateu with some difiicuUy . Ob die following day an inquest was hold on the body , aud a verdict of " ¦ Acuiaurual Dca ' . ii" recorded .
Successful Insurrection i . v a Workhouse . — Lasc we .-k eleven men , who had boen previously convicted of insubordination in the Cambridge Union , were brought up to the Petty Sessions for judgment . A man , who was considered to be the ringleader , having been previously sentenced / to twenty-one days ' imprisoment , tho Vico-Chair . uan of the Guardians , a Air . Livett , begt » ed to say , that " though the Guardians were determined to suppress any thing like a spirit of insubordination with promptness and
vigour , they were at all times ready to hear auy just cause of complaint , if made in a proper manner ; aa a proof of which he would state , that now the complaint had been so made , the Guardians had petitioned the Commissioners ( without whose sanction they had no power to make alterations ) for an increase of four ounces of rice-pudding for their dinners , and also one ounce cf bread and one ounce of cheese . The men , after being csuitiorod by Gaptain Purchaa in a very ab ! e and feeling manner , were dischargad !!!"—Weekly Dispatch .
Attempt to Rob the Dublin Bank . —Very considerable excitement was created on Thursday , tha 25 th ult ., in consequence of a rumour which gained general credence , that the Bauk of Ireland had bf . cn robbed the night before . It appears ti \ at a daring attempt to do so was made . The strong doors of one of the iron Bafes were found bi \ ken open by some person , who , it is supposed , managed to secret himself in the office during the day , but there were inner doors which resisted iho efforts to ibrce them . An investigation Las been held , but no light was thrown upon this affair , vrhioh is iaTptaed in Bvjeteiy .
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It has BBKt rumoured in Paris that the French Cabinet was disposed to offer its meditation to arrange the M'Leod dispute with the United States , Om At «» iPtEft Monday , the 1 st of March , the foot toll at Waterloo Bridge mil bo one halfpenny only . The Goldsmiths' Company have sent & donation of ten pounds to the poor box of erery police office in the metropolis . Mb . Whittle Harvey . —It is reported that Mr . Whittle Harvey has intimated his intention of retiring from the office of City Commissioner of Police . Thb Right Hon . Sir Joseph Littledal « t , Knight , has been sworn of her Majesty ' s most honourable priry council . ¦•;¦ > i ;
The Chamber of Perrs has again gone over tho law rep , ulaciug the labour of children in manufactories , which vna discussed and almost passed last session ; , . ' '" Tna GENERAt-CftMiiiTTEB of elections have appointed March ( her 18 t ]) , for ohoosing from panel No . 1 , the select committee to try the Sudbury election petitiohs . Ths Colossal Likeness of the Duke of Wellington , for the equestrian stalue to be erected opposite tho entrance to Hyde Park , is said to be cast from a gun taken at Waterloo . A Pktixion to the Court of Common Council , praying for aid to the widows and orphans of Captain Hewitt and the crew of the Fairy , wus referred to the finance committee amidst acclamations .
Tub Provost of Eton vetoed the perm i ssion given by the , head master to tho two sena of Count Baihyany to '' eiudy at . . Eton College , on the ground that they arc Roman Catholics . Military-deaths in France aro represented as 22 in 1 , 000 , while civilian Jcaths were only 13 j in 1 , 000 . Thamortaliiy of soldiers in Africa is spoken of ' dS 75 iu 1 , 000 , but tiiis must be incorrect , for it is known to be infinitely greater , Thb Hertfordshire magistrates met to appoint a chief officer of the rural police , pursuant to their former resolution for its adoption . An adjournment tine die was , however , carried by 51 to 41 , which virtually rescinds tue whole proc « edinj ; a .
Kobbkry by a . Skrvam . —A young man nasned Miles , hiH been committed to trial for robbing his employer , Mr . Richard Dunn , tailor , Golden- ? quare , London . He had taken goods to tho amount in value of forty or fifty pounds . A plan of the Emperor Nicholas has been mentioned for mocifyiug the Russian system of making nubility and rank depend on official place ; and of creating a higher nob . ' esse , with entails , &c , founded on landed property . A him has bken thrown out to some independent member of the Hoube of Commons to move in Parliament for a return of the expense to tho public of the performance of tho farce enacted in the trial of Lord Cardigau . » From the establishment of the Apothecaries ' Company in 1815 , to the month of August , 1840 , the sum of £ 67 , 280 has boen recohed by it as fees for licences to practise , being at the rate of ^ 2 >' U 0 a year .
The Courier Suisie asserts that a woman was caugnt , up by it l . uriicaue iu the canton of Uri , one day la » t month , an" carried through the air a epace of two leagues . Her body was found some days after with all her bones broken ! Thf . rk is now pending in the Arches Court a proceeding against the Rev-Mr . Bruder , perpetual cur . ito of Thames Dhtun , charging him wiih intoxication generally , and on specific occasions . The aryumeuts are expeeteu to occupy some u&ys . Wb were shown , a few days sinca , some writing paper , with maker's name , and dated 1842 . Persons drawing up documents of importance should be carclul not to use any p ^ -t dated paper , as it ii ay lead to unpleasant mistakes in futare . — Cheltenham paper .
Chartism . —It appears from a summary of the number of Chartists now in prison in England and Wales , or who had been from June , 18 . 39 , to June , 1840 , that it amouius to 443 . Among the number there itfoiieturgcou . one barrister , one schoolmaster , one magistrate , and about ha : f a dozen licensed victuallers . The late failure ih Dublin . —Tho Dublin papers state tiiat ihe liabilities of Alderman Perriu , tho particulars of whose flight have already been allnd « d to , are variously emanated at from £ 10 ^ , 000 to £ 5 Q , 0 Q 9—the iatror , it is supposed , bding nearer to tlio mark . — Globs .
A obneral order has been issued from the Horseguavds ior supplying b b ! es and prayer-books to the sok-jors in tha army . The supply , however , is to be confi ' -ed to those who cas read , and who actually apply for them , and each miu ' a name is to ba dislinctly written in the lirst page at the orderly-room , or by tho schoolmaster-serjeant , with the date of issue annexed . The Th-. mes frigate , which has been lately converted to : v cuiiTict hulk , aHd fitted up at Dtfptford , got aground on the " slip" close to tho wharf , and was laid ou her beam ends , with 300 convicts on board . Tho old convict ship , which has for so many years lain in the same place , has been lately broken up .
r hiday night , about twelve o'clock , a diabolical attempt was rr . ade in the town of Hammersmith . It appears that . some blackguards—supposed to be of " t : ; o butler s > r . " —affixed a maroon to the Rhop dot . r of a bookseller , which they contrived shuuld explode whan t ' isy had loft the place . It shattered the door , and demolished nearly 40 squares of glass in the bhop and other windows . John Frost ' s Cell . —The Monmouthshire Beacon btatcs that an inqm st has been held ou a pensioner , who died in Mori-nouth Gaol , from fright at being confined in tho ceil where John Frost wag imprisoned . Ue told tho cook of the pi'ison he ehould never see him again , before he was locked up tor the night . Tho verriift of the jury was given iu accordance with tho f ^ ct ? .
The Gkrman p apers mention a discovery of Profest-or Dienleiibaeti , which is exciting general attention at Berlin . He has discovered a method for the cure of stammering , by an incision of tho tonguewfiich is t-ai ' -i to have btjcsi iu all the instances in vvliiohhehasoparati . il , compku . 'ly successful . Aceordii ;^ to the Professor , siaaimeriug proceeds from iho diineulty of applying tho tongue to the roof oi he muuth , &nd his remedy of course consists in the removal of tiio impediment .
A Dkci lTER . —A choftsomonger , named Luke , of Church-street , Bethfial Green , London , was recently brought up at . Worship-street PoUce-office , for obtaining money and goods to the ataounc of £ 13 , from a young woman named Charlotte Eslam , under ( also pretences . His pretences were that he would inairy her , but he has since marri-id another female . His letters to the young woman were read up .- He was ordered to repay the young woman the amount sho had advanced to hioi , by monthly instalments .
Extraordinary Suicide . — . On Tuesday , the 26 tn ult ., C . C . Lewis , Esq ., the Coroner for Essex , held an iuquest . at the Swan , Rowford , on view of tho body of Thomas Blown , aged fifty-eight , lato ostler at tho above inn , who committed suicide by cutting his throat witli a pruning km Co a few days before , Nervous depression as t » his prospects in life , it is proved , caused him to commit the melancholy act . Loss of Life ur Fire . —By returns from the city of Westminster , and the eastern division of Middlesex , it appears that during ( . he last twelvemonths no less than two hundred and forty-five children have been burnt to death in those districts , chiefly owing to thoir parents leaving them aione in a room witii a fire in it . The greater number were the offspring of the working and poor classes of society , whose business takes them from their ho i . es .
The Standard , following out its plan of rejecting tiie " alien'' part of the House of Commons , the Irish Members , finds that Ministers have a British majority against them of thirty-two ; while the nominal majority was swelled by fivo of " the tribe of Grey , recent , tieserterb" from Lord Stanley ' s side , Lord Liatowel , " who occupies a worse thau doubt * ful seat , " aud the Tory equivocal , Mr . Baring Wall . Stabbing with the Knife . —Jaue Iledditch , a
Froncuwoman , waa brought , before Mr . Jardine , at Bow-street , ou Friday , tuv final examination , charged with stabbing ami wounding Thomas Day , & waiter , with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm . It appeared chat the waiter had endeavoured to prevent tiva prisoner ' s husband from turning his ( prosecutor ' s ) brother ' s wife out of a room at the Red Lion public-house , Houghton-strcet , Clare-market , when she ( the prisoner ) stepped up to him and stabbed him in the bowels , bhe has boen committed ior trial .
Des-perate Ruffianisu . —At Union Hall Police Office , on Saturday , Jehn Elliott was charged with committing a violent assault on Henry Blawer , under the following circumstances . The complaisant stated that about three weeks ago , his wife eloped with the defendant , after selling the whole of the furniture to a broker , and abandoning her children . On the following day complainant met his wife and her paramour together in the street , and immediately went up for ths purpose of gifing him into custody for boiug concerned in stealing his furniture . The
defendant , however , insteadof making any reply to the charge , immediately cominenoed a most violent auack on the complainant , whom ho beat about the heaa and face untii Its fell from exhaustion , his ( complainant ' s ) wife being a silent spectator of the illtreatment to which he had been subjected . Evidence was given , that tho complainant ' s head and face were very much cut , owing to the maltreatment inflicted by the defendant , who was fined £ 3 , and in default of payment committed for twenty-ene daya .
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At a IATB meetin / r in Cork , Mr . Kennw * Secretary to the General Temperance Society gut «? that the / h * 4 eight Roman Catholic prelates eni rolled , 700 of the CatholU d « r « y , and of the pono . lation altogether not less than 4 , 647 , 00 (} . Distress" in a Chbistian Country socamed-. At Hatton Garden police office , within the last few days , two young men , who wore nearly naked , wf > ra charged with valiancy . A police constable , No . 112 N , said that on Friday morning the prisoner ! accosted him on his beat , and implored him to taka thein into custody . Ho told them they had committed no offence which , would justify him i » complying with their request , when one oitlvr . dtfen . dants said that begcing was a crime in the eye of tho law , and he and hia unfortunate coropanioa im
mediately stopped a Jady and genuerosn , fIMn whom tnty solicited alms . Witness immediate !? took them to the station-house , and procured fn » them Eome nourishing food , of which they sto od greatly in need . They were both in a very dreadful stale of health . In answer to Mr . Combe , one ot tha defendants said , that he had been a patient in s ? Thomas ' s Hospital , arid was discharged as incurabla * he had also beoa iu Whitwhapel Union Working ? from which he had absconded because he han rna enough to eat . For seven weeks he had beeri l \ in » about the streets , but was now no longer able to wandtr about . The other defendant said , that threa months ago he left Norwich in search of empl 0 ^ ment , and he had since been in tho open air aeekina for food Mr . Combe said he really did not know what to do with the prisoners—a prison certain ] .
was not a proper place lor them . The unfortunate defendants here , in a heart-reading manner , supp ]? . cated the magistrate to commit them to prison , if / Mould , the clerk , humanely suggested to the worth * magistrate that they might possibly be procure d an admittance into GreTiUe-street Hospital , if applied tion were made to the honorary secretary , the Re y " Mr . Packman , whose eare were always opea to th » wants of the poor , and who was cver . rcs . tly to alle . vi&te their sufferings . Mr . Combe agreed that that would be the most humane courae , and he requested Inspector Jaivis , of the G division , to acconjoanT them thither , and to supply them with e omo el-a » apparel . The defendants , with tears in their eves expressed their gratitnde . On arriving at tfio h 0 J pital they were immediately attended to , r . ouvuh . standing tho institution is crowded , and the fun d * very low . It was stated that the house sur ^ tou wat of opinion that one of the defendants would most likely have to remain under his caro for a lnn » time . »*
CiiABGE op Bigamy and Seduction . —At La » . beth-street police office , on Saturday , Joseph Norris a shoemaker by business , and a ranting preacher by profession , who has been in custody for weeks past charged with the twofold offence of reduction and bigamy , was placed at the bar , before the lion . G C . Norton , for final examination . From tho CTideVoa of a young woman , named Green , it appeared that she went to live with the prisoner and his second wife . The prisoner at first expressed a great kindness for her , and taugkt her to read her Bible jbft shortly afterwards he began to solicit her favours . and she congeuted to his wishe ? . Ssme timg aftej the improper connection coirjmenced , he discarded his second wife , and weut t 6 iive with coaplaiaant at lodgings he had taken for her , but hesooueol tired of , and deserted , her also . While living ¦ vrith him , she bad learned that he had married the second wife
, though his first was living . Tiio prisoner when asked what he had to say to the charge , said that there was one part of the evidence which he wished to contradict . On a former occasion , complainant had stated that she was not aware thit hia ( the prisoner's ) first wife lived in aiultery wkh a man , named Warner , in Baker ' s-row , WhiUchapeJ , Now , the facfc was , that the first place ho a ; : ri Green wont to was tho residence of his first wife aad Warner , and they had stopped there for two days , Tho night they removed there , they all four—namely hi- ? first wife and Warner , and Green and himstlislept upon the same bed ; eo that it wa 3 ridiculous on the part of the witucas Green to swear that she was not aware of the teriuB upon whioh his formes wife lived , indeed , his first wife was then prtsbntj and ho felt satisfied that neither hhc nr . r Gieen could deny this fact ! 1 Mr . Norton committed tho prisoner for trial .
Death tubouoh Actual Starvation —Bk ^ ad o » thk Bastile . —On Friday an iuqnat w ^ a htld btforc Mr . Wakley , M . P ., at tha Three Kingi Tavern , Clerken well-close , on view of the body of Eiizubcth East , aged 33 , whose death was occasioned through actual starvation . Martha Dawi-ils , a miserable-looking object , deposed that she lived in Cock-yard , Turnaiill-atreet , Clerken well ; e ' ectas-ed lived in the same houde , and . had been cohabiting with a man named Holmes . Deceased usrd to sefl lucifera , and . Holmes went about boiie-pic ' ning ,
which was also witness s occupation . On Moudajr afternoon last , deceased asked witness to go and sell for her a cap and ajjron , whicii sue did- and got 2 ifor ihtm , with which , a ^ deccaifed ' s request , she bought a small quantity of tea , and made a basinful for deceased . On Tuesday morning witness afked deceased , who was thon iying on ainatire ?? , how she was , to which 6 he only replieii , " Uh , dear . " Witness saw hex no more ative , and abouvthrea hours ufterwards was t ^ ld that she was dead , whiea sho found to ha the fact . Witness did tu . t kuaw
whether deceased had ever applied for relief from tha parish , but was aware that bIio received noae . Deceased was in great diiircss , oftentimes went for days together subsisting only on a lilile ( i ? y breiiii and pump water . Sho ' could never earn mire than 2 s . a . week , aud did not pompiain of illness . Edward Holmes stated that he obtained a living as well as he could . He had known ucceascd for ths last four months , during which tiaio sho had n-. 'wand then lodged with him . About ; three weeks ago h » told h-r she must shift for herself , and ehj went away . He fc&wuo more of her till Friday last , when she came back to him . He ad viced hrr , as he had often done before , to appiy to the worktioase ; Ldt she ' said , " Oh , no , no ! Hi not go tho workhcois *
while 1 can scrape a few halfpence by seiiiii «< eon-Krevo .- ' , " Decoased had nothing to ent thst day , iK > rat any titna previous to her death , sha haying no money , and ho not haviug any thin si to give her * The man vrho rented the room , thu last witness , and dec-.-ated ( wiieu she was tli-. ro ) all lived together . Mr . Wakley— " Is it possible ? Then how iois teat all you people , being in the Famo room , couldse 9 this poor woman starving ? " Witness— " Wny , Sir » we -ato obliged to go about our oven business , su'd forage for ourseives . I did not consider thar she hsd any kgaA claim uj , f : miKi . " Mr . Wakley rewarked that it was a very melancholy ease . As far as
they ceuhl iearn , the deceased had had lv . u 3 bisin of tea from : ho Friday rill she di- d . The decked had been storvoci to dentil without any pcrscn being legally accountable . He cfji&if " end the conduct of the witnc -fes to bo exceedingly ( . lit ^ race ' ul , and cculd ^ nat . discover tho mowing ofm / ii a fi : ^ hdnl state " of Pocioty . Workhouses , since the pa-sin ^ of the New Poor Law Act , had beooiirc as much i : rtufiea as the inquUitiou was in Spain . —The Jury , having ( . xptesseti their full concurrence in what }; ad falitn from theCorouer , returned ihe i ' oUuwing verdict : — "TiJat tho deceased died from eihauscioi ; , conse * quent on starvation , arising fioui ber not haying made application to the paribi ' . ior relief , and from her reiural to to to ihe woikhouse . "
Sheffield Trades' Unions—A numerous meeting of 'delegated , from the various trades o ( iho town , was held on Wednesday evening-, the 24 th , a *^~ * Moseley ' s , the Old London 'i ' rentico , caU .. d by public placard , in cona . quenee of tho apprehension that Mr . O'Coimeli was preparing to propose some measure in Parliament to restrict the rights or ino working classes to combine . Mr . Kirk was called to the chair ,- and stated that they had two objects in view , namelv , to clear thcraMves from any stJgm * that might attach to Trades' Unions , in cou ^ qaenca of the recent proceedings at ^ shtoi ; , snd to vinaicato the rnjht of working men to r ^ sochie t ' ot' tM 1 ' i
own protectiou , Sir . Waullc propc-: ed—"' tiat " was the opinion of the meetiiij ; that ic was wesmj for the industrious classes to watch with vi «!! ance any measures proposed in the Legislature to rpbir . a their right to meet for tho protection ot ' neir labour , ^ eueraily their only property ; a' & * timo they protested against-any rescrt b : inic had to acts of violence , of any kiud , for that purpose- Mr . Harrison suggested ttuit a previous ic-solutioa was needed . He thought they should dtciaro their convieiion that it was their n ;; ht to associate , ho ^ ouio moYe— ' That the meeiin ^ was of opinion tli : is it was tho inherent right of the workmen to form a : i < l
support Trades' Unions , as the only protection tor t ; i « J only ' property , their labour . " Mr . Makiu sec-onaea the motion . Mr . Harrison did noi ; opw ^ ***• Wardio ' s resolution , but thought that his v- a . < necessary prior to it . Mr . Wardle had no object ! ou to tne passing of Mr . Harrison ' s as tho first rcsoluiisn * , " was put aad carried unaiiimously . Mr . * " 'fJ * of the table-blade grinders , moved , and Mr . yr and Mr . Broadhead seconded and supported tno motion read by Mr . Wardle . Mr . Gill suPP " ®* the resolution . He held the opinion that all ciasa » identified with production had the same ir \ [ * All other classes had a separate interest . U " ° were lower wages , it did not benefit the er"Pif ) ^ The competition reduced his profits ako , I * * ""* mere couBuming classes , neither employers nor employed , ware benefited by tho competition or in » producers . Mr . O'Connell was living on large ^ ant ini ? hnsinpfls . It inn a . neaeKRarv business , *"
liable to great lossee , but he had the advantage « issninR worthless paper , while the eouutry masl , "" tha loss of the metallic currency . While , ic ««" fore , the unproductive consumer was beu . cnt . eo " ^ the reduction of prices , the producer was uol . ° T fitted . The resolution was carried ^ mmoutay- j committee was then appointed , and it was r .. . that a report of the proceedings of the » ee ^ K forwarded to Mr . Ward , M . P ., requesting him i * » fully to watch any procee { liu « 3 which Mr . u V" » . might adopt respecting Trades' Unions , * ^ jTej form the committee of them . It was afco ¦ re » that the report of the meetiu ^ be trausmittea iu ^ leading journals of the -manufacturing di stric-o . the speakers disclaimed any desire to keep tw v ceediugs of their respective Unions secret .
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THE FIRST FACTI 05-FIGHT OF THE SEFjSi 0 N : " IN FOR ANOTHER YEAR . " The fifth yrtek . of the session ii over : w ' nat has been ione ? The fl « i font weeks »» e cbaract ^^ asd by listless idlenoss . In tho course of that t jn 9 the House of Commons held fifteen meeting * , : yveragicg somewhat less th * n six hours e&ch . counti-jg from four o ' clock , the nominal hour of meeting . The Committee sittings have scarcely begun yet . P ? jring has been frequent , and the unaunounced abseriCe of Members still more frequent The slovenly m dinner in which the routine business ol the House is conducted renders it .
impossible for even Members , to say -what progress has been made in the indispeumble work of the session . One or fwo Committees have been named , one or two bills have been introduced , one or two have been allowed to be introduced . Four weeks have been -wasted by our Representatives since their meeting , much in the same way that boys -waste the first hour or two on returning to school after the holydays , listkssly fingering their dictionaries , maps , end copy-books , unable to muster courage to resume their taskj . Our overgrown schoolboys of the Legislature have evidently no Trery hard taskmaster over them : the public Is but an indifferent pedagogue .
Oa Monday last the scene changed . " Ob , then and there " » r \ s mustering in hot ha * te . " For four successive evenings early and crowded sittings were protracted till far in the night Spet ches of immeasurable length ¦ were delivered . Members of both parties gathered -within the House to cheer their friends and hoot their opponents ; and out of the Home—in the liaytimelooked as suspicious as blacklegs calculating tho longodds . The most unenlightened lbight ace that the business ef the Bession had begun at last The business of ths session?—truo , tho business of the partisans within the House : but the business of the p » op ! e , has it begun yet ? or when begun , will it receive the same attention' * * * * The business of the people has not beirun yet . This anxious week has been , after
all , nothing mure than the first faction-Sght of the session . The tpetches during the debate on the Irish Registration Bill do not seem to indicate any nearer approximation of parties . They consist chiiflj of the st » pl 6 material— " you , -who now say thit , formerly said thai . " But they -were little more than ebulitions of personal Jrpleeii . Sheil pecked at Graham , and Peel at RiiAiell , after this fsshlon ; bat these were single combats . There -was nuthing of the hurling of a personality by s > -whole party against a whole party , wfairb used in 1830 und 1 S 35 to be trT-. cted by the cheers tn masse which accompany i a homeirust Tiie prevailing tone on both sides was more guarded than formerly .
The iliniswriaiis ' . B seemed to have an awkward consciousnee * that they hold their seats on and around the Treasury-beach on sufferance , and the Opposition that a premature storming of that citadel might be danger * ous . Meanwhile , the Whigs are in high f = ath « r . While the debate lasted they -were anxious and gloomy , but now they are smirking and shaking hands at every corner— " We are in for another year . " When that year is at en 4 , perhaps the chapter of accidents may again befriend them : why damp the joy of the present by gloomy conjcciurts as to the future ? For one day tho cittual word " dissolutioa" has not been prononnced .
Bat the people's business has yet to begin : -when will it b « gin ?—Spectator .
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REMORSELESS OPPRESSION : INFANT LABOUR IN FACTORIES . We have long deplored the fate of the unfortunate children docmtd to the toil and tortures of the factory s ; . s ' tin . The evidence taken before the Selwrt Committee , in 3 S 32 , for regulating infant labour in factories . ? iiovs that Mr . Sadler ' s suiements in the Hou * e of Commous r «! alive to the ptrniciius tflVcta of the factory system upon the health and habiti of 'he children of the p » or , were not only exaggerated , but ( ell 1 st short of the ru ^ 'ancboly truth . It viil appear increcv-ble , hen-after , that such a system , notwithstanding the h ; irted civilization and morality of England , could tx-jT h-ire exisud in the Very heart of this Christian jia-i , . ind tha : the 6 uST ; rinis which it inflicted upon «<>
many thos- « ui-. is of the most helpless of uur fellow-creatures &hotil . i have been so long uuuoiiced , while British phUiEthTo ^ y fle vr to all q uarter s « f the globe—travers- ; ing f-ct-ans ; il j deserts—braving the hurricane atd tno pcs . iltnce lo release the cap : ive from his chains , to « tr . i . o the scourge from tLe band of remoretiefcS opprei » i _ n , anil vindicate tise insahed rights of rnmirvnUy Wht-D the children of Israel -were f . ppressed the taskmasters wtid rtnmgers to the iin-jage and religion of tt . eir vfi-urci : but in Christian Encisnd thu oppressors and the oprre > ssil are of the one r .- c ;—Lfce ono nationof tbe sum c-jluur sud the sa .: ne cived—toth the subj ¦ cts o ; a free £ tat = —both believers in a rs'igion of mercy . ' B ^ t cnpij-ty crtar . cs tyrants as pojiiiy makes . "• laves . 1 " n-i wirs whici ; ambition causes produce iirevi : V . c .. an : . t . ts to maakind . Tre Bjrdid spirit of acccmulatii-n
weapons , ana , thon . h less speedy , is no less sure in its ries ' . rueirre proc-. ss . The ii flctit i uf p ' -. ysieal infinnity a :. d Ti \ o"a' lU-basemerit up ^ n mjT . a ' -S «¦ ! the infant poor of E !? ian : l , is aroung t * " d-plora'le results for which tlie cur . try has to th ^ Lk tbe upholders of that system , who would sacriSco tho comforts , tho health , the morals of a -whole people , to eiiible a few individuals to become possessed of riches which they will cot diffuse rn : l cannot er joy . Po ? m- Iy the very persons who ancnaiiy destroy in this country a number of children by the premature ar . d unwholesome labours of nur fict « rits , ¦ vrouV . l shuticer in reftiing an account of a Car ^ ha ^ inhr . sacrifice of children to Moloch ; yet in That do our infant offerings to . Mammon differ from the Pagan oblations ef tbe young and innocent upon the a-. tars of an rvnnry deity ?—in what , sav-j the nio ^ e and icstrumentah ; y by whxli the sacrifice isperformetl , anil tbe more protracted n » : ure of the suffering ?—Weekly Dispatch .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 6, 1841, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct845/page/6/
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