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ON THE MANAGEMENT OF SMALL FARMS ; Givine fall Instructions respecting Rotation of Crops , Management ef Cattle , Culture , & < s . BY FEARGUS O'CONNOR , ESQ ., FARMER AND BARRISTER . Nos . 1 and 2 , constantly on hand . No . 4 will be ready in a few days . Also , on Sale , in Two Numbers , at Fourpenoe each , THE "STATE OF IRELAND , " Written in 1798 , by Arthur O'Connor . A compendium of Irish History , and a more correct Account of the Grievances of that Country , than any that has appeared upon the subject . Cleave , London ; Hey wood , Manchester ; Hobson , Leeds .
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Just Published , Price Threepence , Handsomely Printed on a Laree Royal Sheet , fitted to adorn the Labourer's Cottage , a Faithful and Spirited Representation of the Bloody MANCHESTER MASSACRE ! riONTAINING also a Memoir of that Untirin ? \ J and Unswerving Advocate of the Rights of Labour , Henry Hunt ; with Full Particulars of of the " Deeds of the Murderers" on the Field of PeterJeo ; the names of the Bloody Monsters ; the names of the Killed ; and the Trial , Conviction , and Sentence of Mr . Hunt . It also details the means employed by the Governmental Spies to entrap him ; the famous Spa Fields' Meetings ; the Election of Mr . Hdki as M , P- for Preston ; his conduct ia Parliament ; his just estimate of the humbug Reform Bill ; his communing with the Working People on that measure ; and his lamented Death . The Sheet also contains a VrEW OF THE MONUMENT erected , to perpetuate his Memory , by the Working Classes . Published , for the Hunt's Monument Committee , ( the Proceeds to go towards the Completion , of the Monument , ) by J . Hobson , Northern Star Office . May be had of Cleave , London ; Hey wood and Leach , Manchester ; Hobson , Huddersfield ; and Paton and Love , Glasgow .
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LONDON CHARTIST MONTHLY MAGAZINE . On the 1 st of September will be published No . 4 of this periodical , price 6 d . Contents . —On Organization ; Authentic Dialogue between O'Brien an 4 O'Connor ; Cleave and the Victims ; Hitl » O'Connor and the late Executive ; Watch Watkins ; What must we do with the Charter ; On the State ef Chartism in London ; Poor htw Martyrs , a Tale , &c , &o . Published by Watson , 5 , Paul ' s Alley , Pateraoster Row , London ; Hobson , Leeds ; and may be had of all Bookseller ? .
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WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE . ADJOURNMENT OF THE MIDSUMMER SESSIONS FOR THE TRIAL OF FELONS , &c NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , that the Midsummer General Quarter Sessions of t he Peace , lor the West Riding ef ihe County of York , will be holden by Adjournment , at Wakefield , on Monday , the Fourth day of September next , at Ten o'clock in the Forenoon , and by further Adjournment from thence will be holden at Sheffield , on Thursday , the Seventh . Day of the same Month of SEPTEM » rR , at Half-past Ten o'clock in the Forenoon , for the TRIAL OF FELONS AND PERSONS INDICTED FOR MISDEMEANORS , tvhen all Jurors , Suitors , Persons who stand upon Recognizance , and others having business at the said Sessions , are required to attend the Court . Prosecutors and Witnesses in cases of Felony and Misdemeanor from the Wapontakes of Staincliffa and Ewcross , Claro , tho Ainsty , Aftbriggaad Morley , Sky rack and Barkstonash , must attend the Sessions at Wakefield ; and those from the Wapontakesof Strafforth and Tiekhill , Ospoldoross and Staincross , being the remainder of the West Riding , must attend at the Sessions at Sheffield . A Second Court will be appointed- which will proceed with the Trial of Felons , as soon as a sufficient number of Indictments heve been brought into Court . C . H . ELSLEY , Clerfc of the Peace . Clerk of the Peace's Office , Wakefield . 17 th August , 1843 .
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THE PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF IRELAND . ON SATURDAY , 9 ih September next , will be published . Price Three-pence , ( to be continued every succeeding Saturday till finished , ) No . I . of a HISTORY OF IRELAND AND THE IRISH PEOPLE , under the Government of England . To be published also * in Monthly Parts , Price One Shilling . The whole to be concluded in about Twenty-four Numbers . The Work will embrace an account of the means by which Ireland . was brought under subjection to the English Government , and of the legislative and other cruelties systematically inflicted oa the Irish People . It will also include sir History of the Civil and Religious Wars of Ireland , the dreadful persecutions of the Catholic People , their struggle for Emancipation , and the means by which they ultimately succeeded . The deeply interesting proceedings and transactions connected with the Irish Volunteers , the United Irishmen , the Rebellion of 1798 , the Union between Ireland and England , and the infamous means by which it was accomplished ;
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A NORTHERN TOUR . ** A cbiel ' d aironx je titin notes , Ana , faith ^ U print IV 5 © TSB EDITOR OF ! TB 3 KOKTHB *!* STAB . Dear Sib , —I addressed a very good open-air meeting of tbe Chartists of Dumfries , on Monday evening , August 14 ih . Considerable enthusiasm was manifested by my auditors , ana xny return to the "Afrieea of the Sonth" at an early period , was "warmly nrged by ray kind-hearted and truly patriotic Mends . There are some of tfeeiiost ardent and thoroughgoing democrats in Damfries that it i * s ever ~ been » y good-fortune to » eet with . A wellconducted Reading-room ,, continued tiirongh the Trorst -of times , and inder the moss disheartening circamstEBces , has "been the bend of onion which has kept the " good men and tree" of this locality ,
to-Stber . For a considerable tame past much apathy s prevailed ; bni thei train of react ion appears to ie lakljsnd only reqnires the fUme ^ f English * g itstioato be rekindled to set the democratic spirit of Dnarfries once more on . £ re . Even as it is , the Chartists are the moral masters of the town l and faction and mere party cannot breathe in its purified a&sosphere .. ^ Neither the "freebooters" nor * ny other description of state-quacks can exist m it . Pcblic opinion is here guided by men of intellect , ¦ crorage , and political : &onesty . Uniting the mind ¦ Of . "Scotland Tn 9 i the-energy of England , few places « sn ont-riTal flie" Qaeencf the Sonth " . As " a matter of conrse" being in Domfries I paid
jny devotions to the « hadB of mhdbiai . Besots . J baa listed Ms tomb in January 1840 , at which 4 imel had the honour of sapping with Robert , the * ddesfc son , of the poet . I now , for the second time paid a fist to the grave ^ fireedomVbard . Hating * DO ^ knowledge ofarcitectiire , I am incompetent to describe the Mausoleum . The nearest thing I can ¦ liken it to h ^ ontward form is a Turkish , mosqne , on 4 small scale . It > is nearly circular , and -crowned With & sort of dose , supported { it 1 remember Tight ) iyJonic columns . Bntof rhisl did not takepariieolar notice . "Within , aod against ihe back-of the
huildmg , are figures ytx-aUo relievo of "Barns attte plough -and the muse throwing her mantle oTer him . " He stands with his "bonnet in one hand , and with the other holding on by the old Scotch ploeg b * The -attitude is extremely graceful Tie countenance is said to he excellent f but I am told that , phrenologic&lly , the head is not well formed . On this subject I can Bay nothing : for I am do _ " bumpologist . " The inscription I much admired : it ib amply—BURKS . Here is more said , than the most laboured panegyric could hare expressed : the name of ihe ~ zoaa around whose hrow fame
hath" Entwined a garland -which shall never fade Till ScotJa ^ s realm is low in ruin laid ; 2 ior even-then J onbreezsand bUlow-curl'd HiB joame is co-eternal with the world . " In the same tomb reposes the wife of the poet , the famed yet unhappy Jean Armour . Rejecting for a moment on the domestic life of this favoared son of genius , and recalling-with feelings of any thing bat satisfaction the record that has i > een left us of his errors and fallings , his trials and cares , we find in lis"Bardi Epitaph" the most correct picture oi Us own / character drawn iy his own hand : — f Is tiei * a mart , ybose judgment dear , Con others teach tke course to Eteer , Tet ruEa himself life ' s mad career .
Wild as the-wave ? Bete jaws ©—anfl , throBgh tfee starting tear , Survey thiB grave , The poor inhabitant below Was-gaiek toleamand wise to know , JldA keedy feHthe friendly glow , And softer ilime ; But il » Bjihtless follies laid him low , And stain'd his name i " But to other subjects . The -rirtues , rather than she errors ; the genius , ratter than the failings , of the glorious Burns , are themes most suited to my taste 5 for " -. The light that led astray Was light &om iieaven /'
The applauding tos of -millions of -misguided men may follow -t « Mb Testing . plaee the remains of that -srch traitor -to the rights of man and wholesale murderer of -ins . fellow-creatures , If a ? oj . boj » ; but , let me kneel -herel This man of men , - "be he xaj hero , saint sod sage . He was the Boldier of freedom , that hatred for the light . He was -the devotee ¦ of tTHthj whose creed was " love thy brother as thyself / 1 He-row the teacher who , it may he , was enable always to act upon Ms own teaching ; bnt ¦ jrho has , BeTer tbeles 5 , lefVtousand those who shall follow a lesson of unalloyed wisdom , based on manly independence aed ihe honest pride of worth . " Yet , ju onahnmble ^ fd has song : —
« Yet still * Bsno-sr-mxaded few , A feebtej-eantm ? , creeping crew , Conspire te blast his honest time , And h £ * p reproaches on Ms name ; Because , alas 2 the bard has shown Fax finer-feelings t >"" i their own . He - waa-ca just a saint like Sonttiey , "Wia neret annefl , nor yet was drowthy ; Bat though be liked a social glass , And tSocgh he kTed a bonnie laas , He ne'er fiiagraced Ma wellrstranelf » , ByrfiwTrnaag balderdash for hire . Kor roosedbeon ; conrfly ell , Or bow'd &e knee lor warld ' a pelt " The church-yard , or rather kirk-yard , in which iheashes of Burns impose , is & moss wonderful place ; -containing a greater nnmber of monuments , —some - « f them of a very superior order , —than I hare seea -on other part of Britain . It is a sort of * eity of ths -dead ^* a Palyrma in miniature ; and , independent -of Burnai ' stomb , i 3 well worth ayisit . The ^ Mardryr > a stone /* a xnonotent erected to the memory of -some of the murdered covenanters is an object of Jparcrcubr interest . JTaesday , August 15 * .--Lefl Pumfriea by a certain conveyance , which shall be Ti ^ TOAl ^ a . tThe greater pan of liie rosui to Sanquhar winds along the banks of that romantic stream , the Nith , < elebiated in several of the pieces of the national hard
On-mjfToad , I passed the mansion ( one of the maasions ) . of the Buie of BcccleHgh . On inquiry , I learned that . the ** yomyj ^> rds" Trere expected bosaa that d »; and that his ^ race" was expeeted oa "&B Mlwnng ^ atnrday . I believe the Dake ha 3 the iepu » 4 a « a of being s-Yery few landlord ; I « a glad fiiatl esa say thns much fojr him . Still it is monstrous that one man sbould , independent of his virtnesorLis -viees , Ms -wisooiE oi Ms folly , usurp to Jus own possession that soil arhich the plain prin-• Ciplesof ccaamonsense teach us belongs , of right , to the whole , without distinction of person ; while -thousands , most of them his eqaHs , and not a few Ms taperiors , should be altogetier dispossessed of lieir natural right , und denied eren the possession i ) f one foot of ground in their fatherland .
"Irt itidly in a body ' s power lo ieep , at times , frae being aonr " , To see how thiugs ars aJbared ; How beat o'chiels are whyles in want , Wh 3 e cools on eountless thoiaanda rant , AD'iennaehowto wairt . " ^ Herret mind ! as Robert ! Nicol says , we mnst just
try" To maV the warld better yet " I reached Sanqhuar in the course of the morniBg , and was speedily surrounded by a numerous body of old friends ; Chartism here is bodily defnnct ; btu jrpiriixtaZ ^ exists widely . TThpre is no association ; infc the number of adherente to the principles is snpposed to be much greater than two ^ or three years since , when an association did exist . I breakfasted with an old friend , named McEnight , a veteran in file democratic Tanks , by whom and Ms family I was most cordially received . The good lads
were-de-ST 9 U 3 that I should have Etaidover that day and held a meeting . I would have liked to have done so very weH ; but , I was already some days beyond ihe time that I should have reached Alaachiine ; and -wasxelnctantl yoompelied tereruse . A number of my goodiriend 3 proceeded with me some miles on the road . Passisg through Kirkconnell 1 had Ihe aunt , for the first-time , oflone of ihe Non-Intrusion i ^ ths ' as 6 i , S fifeld-preaching since the defection ol * be Kon& . " * - £ -om sold mfcher kirk . " The English T ^ enmistBot suppose that the teni in < mf » rioTi is
^ tect iwJ ^ , « a » idrft& , meant to cover and 53 ffi £ ? 2 i " 2 ffil- tttl ? llMW ' ' * e flock as isa . sortof ^ 1 f" hmgoflhe sort - The tenf SW& fe ?^^ K = ftS " -SS 33 SSS ^ 3 Lfrt / J 3 aatfes «|^ a ? ffsa son makes one cwan ^ pk keSflne lsa ^ 5 - ** V ** - leasfnarmle ^ T we feave ^ MT ' * mi 6 h >* Bghter , aud ^ tainly Tot a wo ^ eT ^\ irimstone-thrfcateninEs A « ^ - ea J * : but the appeals to xS ^ S Sw ^ ofS ^ T ^ i fte calculated-and rSff ^ S ^ J the i Priest ' sm ^ aslli sapenor ^ nctity , and ourWfiSE xesg md latred towards ourorethrM vt . v efgiich :. » a . the ftiest TalfeiX «? S 2 P There ja this djfererce—Pnneh is coBtenT ^ ri ^* * ^ ewcopperiMdipes ^ t ri&vou ^ kSj" ** Theftiest not conteat
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nock , I found myself in Ayrshire . Finally , after a walk of eighteen miles , 1 reached Old Cumnock and put up at ihe Black Bull Inn . I saw Beveral old friends in the course of the evening . Chartism ib for the present down in Cnmnock . =. Wednesday , August 16 th . Anniversary of the Manchester Massacre . May that day of blood never be forgotten until its stains , by ample justice , are eSaced from the page of British history !! Left Cumnock by the coach at eight o ' clock , and , passing throngh Eatrine , was speedily at Maucbline . Here I was met by my fr iends , and received with all that warmth of affection so characteristic of the people of this beaQtifal portion of Scotland . Passing orer all domestic matters , which could fee of no interest to the Chartist public , I come now to my visit to the birth-place of Barns .
Triday , August 18 th . Accompanied by a brotherin-law , I started for Ayr . which we reached after a walk of eleven miles . We breakfasted at an excellent Scotch hostelry ; aDd after calling on a friend or two , proceeded on our mission , accompanied by two friends from Ayr . Alloway Kirk , so renowned as the scene of the exploits of the famed Tarn o ' Shanier , is situated about three miles from- Ayr , on the road to Maybole . The coitage in which the poet was born is near the Kirk , and on the Ayr side of it . 1 * is a low bail t , old fashioned thatched house , having only a ground floor . It haB long been used as a public-house ; and , as such , is now kept by the widow of the late John , better known as Miller Gondie . Before crossing tie threshold
the attention of the visitor is arrested by two boards , one on each sice of ike door . The inscription on the one runs thus : —* ' Burns' Cottage . Robert Burns , the Ayrshire Poet , was bora under this roof , on the 25 th of January . A . D . 1759 . Died 21 st of July , A . D . 1796 , aged * 37 £ years . ' The inscription on the other is simply—** Mrs . Goudie , licensed to retail ale and f pints . " "Within the house , in the usual drinking room , is a large portrait of Burns , with the inscription of the daie of his birth . The most interesting articles in the room are three tables , cut and hacked with thousands of names and initials , of the pilgrims who , from time to time , have visited th&J > irth-place of the bard . The windows are seratened , and the chairs and corner cupboard are carved after the same fashion , la the kitchen
we were shewn the bed , or rather bed-place , where the poet was born . In the parlour attached to the kitchen are several excellent plates , including & representation of the "Jolly Beggars , ' the " Cotters ' Saturday Night , " and a portrait of Burns when young . Old Mrs . Geudie is a fine " cracky" body ; and rhymes away her tales about Bares in a manner pleasing enough . We staid bat a short time ; and having entered our aames in the book kept for that purpose , departed . The next spot of interest was the Auld Kirk , dismantled of its roof , and nothing left but bare walls . I looked through the key-hole , bHt neither Auld Nick , witches , or" Cutty Sark" were to be seen . The " haly table" was gone , and with it its contents and the attendant" ghaists . " All was desolation . But the " Auld Kirk'' will still
" Livs m the verse that immortally saves , " when every stone of which it is composed shall hare mixed with the dust where its immortalizer
reposes . In the Kirk-yard is the grave of "William Bums , the father , and Agnes Brown , the mother of the poet . A plain bat substantial stone marks the spot with the following inscription ;—" Sacred to tfce memory of Will ' am Burns , farmer in Locblie , who died on the 13 ih of February , 1784 , in the 63 rd year of his age , and of Agnes Brown , hia spon .= «> , who died on the 34 ih of January , 1820 , in the 88 ; h year of her age . She was interred in Bolton Church-yard , East Lothian . " On the reverse side , the well-known , lines" O ye whose cheek the tear of pity stains Draw near witn pious . reverence , and attend : Here lie the loving husband ' s dear remains , The tender father , and the generous friend . The -pitying heart that felt for hnman woe ;
The daunt ] ess heart that feared rtofcuman pride ; The friend of man ; to vice alone a foe ; For even hi * falling ' s lezm'd to virtue ' s side . '" From the M Anld Kirk" we proceeded to the s Monument" . For reasons already assigned , 1 most define attempting a description ; Enough that it is a splendid structure ; and one that no man or woman of taste wiU fail to visit . To it may be most appropriately applied the lines written by the poet M For an Altar to Independence" — ** Thou of an Independent mind , With soul resolved , with Jiool resigned ; Prepared power ' s proudest frown to brave ; Who will not be , nor have a Blave ; Virtue alone who dost revere ; : Tcy own reproach alone dost fear 1 Approach this shrine , and worship here , "
But while the " MonnmeDt" is worthy of all admiration ; not eo the conduct of that class who patronised its erection . " Seven cities contend for Homer dead ! Through , which the living Hornet begged his bread , " says some one ; and , thongh literally this was not the case with Burns , it was nearly so ! Who that remembers his dying appeal to his £ dinbnrgh bookseller—** ForGod ' a sake to send him Five Pounds " , to save him from a prison , but will join with me in regarding this cold stone pile as a monument of the meanness , as well as pride , of the Scottish
Aristocracy . Within the ** Monument , " and enclosed in a glass case , are the two Bibles of Burns and his Highland MaTy , recovered by some enthusiastic Scot in Canada . The story has but ^ ery recently gone the round of the press ; aod I have not space to repeat it here . A portion of Mary ' s hair is in one of the Bibles , and shews her to iave been of fair complexion . The next object which ezoHed our curiosity was the faultless figures of ** Tarn o * Shanter and Souter Johnny , " the work of tke celebrated Mr . Thorn .
Here , again , I saast decline to attempt a description ; a task for which I -eaafess my incompetence . Enongbf that admiration , -the most fervent , was the all-absorbing feeling of mymind , while entranced with gazing on this almost matchless production of human skill , which only seems to require the Promethean spark to call ** Tarn" and his " worthy , trusty drouthy croney" into actual breathing , feeling existence . All else seems perfect . The cold stone seems ready at a word to burst into joyous , laughing life . ;
We next visited ** Mungo's Well f and . \ took a hearty draught to the memory of BufnB fn " ^ m the pure , cold , chrystal stream . Lastly we visited the " Auld Brig , " where ^ " am ' s mare Meg *' lost her tail f and from it * sm Tunit gazed down upon the " banks and braes o' Bo . iuie Doon ; " a scene lovely as Edeu , and beautiful as Elyeicm , 1 almost wished myself a Scot as I gloat * d on its charms . Bat time pressed . I left the hallowed ground . i may never—or years may elapse ere I tread it again ; bnt the reareinbiance of its glories shall live green in my memory , while brain throbs , or heart beats within . I returned the same evening to Mauchline .
I am writing this in the very heart and centre of the Land of Burns . " Within the village are many spots famed in his writings : ** Poosie-Nansie ' s" immortal beggars crib ;— " Auld Nance Tihnock ' s , " no longer a whiskey-shop , and shorn of all its glories ; Mossgiel , tbc farm of the poet , is within a quarter of a mile , where are the fields where he ent down the " daisy , " and turned np , the nest of the * ' mouse" —the exquisite lines on ' both these subjects are almost universally known and as widely admired ; the" Braes of Ballocmyle" are within a short distance of the village ; so is Barskimming near which is the spot where BarnB conceived his
" Man was made to mourn . " At Trellford still resides in the asylum for the aged poor of the parishes of Mauchline and Tarboiton , James Humphrey , the famous " blethering bitch f ' in the neighbourhood is the small born where Barns parted with ** Highland Mary , " each standing on the opposite sides of the stream and exchanging bibles and -yowBof their eternal affection . AtCoilsfield House Mary resided as a servant ; and in the grounds is shewn the thorn tree , reputed to have overshadowed the lovers for some hours before their sad and final separation : —
*¦ How sweetly bloomed the gay green birfe , How rich the hawthorn ' s blossom , As underneath its fragrant shade , I ciasp'd her to my bosom ! Ths golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me as light and life , Was my sweet Highland Mary . " Again to * -Mary in Heavea" the scene is thus beautifully pictured" That sacred hour can I forget , Can 1 forget the haJlow'd grove , Where , by the winding Ayr we met , To live one day of parting love ! Eternity will not * fface Those records dear of transports past ; Thy image at our last embrace ; Ah ! little thought we twas our last ! " Ayr , gmgling , Msaed Ma pebbled shore .
O ' trhung with wild woods thickening green ; The fragrant birch , and hawthorn boar Twin'd amorous round the raptut'd acene ; Thsflowea sprang wanton to be prest ; The birds xang love on every spray ; : Tm « oob , too Boon , the glowing west Proclalm'd the speed of winged day . " tv ?^ lt 0 n . ??• * Hule beyond Coilsfield , where ^^ T ^^ ra ^ m&er Burns spent some time , ?? 'V ™» , i ^ e and son ! of the Eteemasons , ana his fa / roame « Bachelors'Club . " JaKjs ^ -S - ^ ssr rs K S ^ irs ^ M s , ^ - ss SS ^ ^ aSSMss&r
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Tnisisthe clime of beauty and of song . Female loveliness . seems to be part and parcel of the natural beauty of the soil . 1 have travelled net a little in the land of both Saxon and Gael ; but of all spots I visited commend me to the " Land of BurnB" for forms to inspire a poet ' s sobI . Reader-jarfc thou a stsgle man ? Hast thou an eye for beauty , and an oar for the poet ' s lay 1 and dost thou doubt my praises of thw Scottish Eden ? Comet Worship at the shrine of Bnros ! See and judge for thyself ! and thou art made of cOid materials indeed , if natural effects do not follow natural causes . George Julian Hauney . Mauchline , Ayrshire , Aug . 21 st , 1848 .
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HA WICK . —Thunder Stohm . During the whole of last week the heat was intense , particularly the three last dayB , during which it was absolutely oppressive . On Saturday night , lightning was seen as soon as darkness began to Bet in , and it gradually increased ¦ in frequency and brilliance . Fer five hours , flash succeeded flash incessantly , accompanied by the loudest claps of thunder heard hero for a number of years . Between two and three o ' olook on Sunday morning the lightning struck a house at the
West end of the town : it shattered the chimney , throwing down one large stone , and leaving several others in a most dangerous position ; it also Btniek the bell-handle at the door , wrenching it ( the doorhandle ) , and a board at tho side of the door , clear off , and leaving a scorched mark on the door lintel . The electric fluid appears to have made its way through the window , immediately above this door , smashing nine squares of glass and scorching the window blinds . The damago inside is trifling , and providentially none of the inmates were injured .
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Strawberbt . —A remarkably fine strawberry of the Eitoro . variety , was gathered , iast week , in the garden oF Mr . William Itumley , of Seelbury , which measured six inches in circumference , and weighed one ounce . Large Importation of Fruit , &c—On Monday last , the south shed of tho Humbcr Dock presented the appearance of a market , the Emerald Isle steamer having arrived on the preceding evening with upwards of two thousand baskets of ftuha and vegetables—a quantity hitherto unprecedented this sea- son . A special order having been received from the Board of Customs , facilitating greatly the delivery of perishable -articles brought by this conveyance , the unloading commenced at six o ' clock precisely , and
the whole was landed in excollenl condition . Buyere having arrived by the first train from Leeds , purchases proceeded pretty briskly , and befoio the delivery of the cargo was completed , early in the afternoon , upwards of 1 JG 0 pecks of apples and pears , and 5 , 040 ! bs of red currents had been despatched by railway for tho markets of the West R-. aiBg . We believe Borne further parcels were sent by the next train . This cargo included 1 , 010 baskets ( 3 , 030 pecks ) apples and pears ; 336 baskets , 181 bs each , currants ; 63 ditto plums ( . 50 of which went to Leeds ) ; 1 of melons ; 2 of cucumbers ; 80 of girkinu ; 2 crates of cauliflowers ; and 637 bushel baskets of potatoes , together with several packages of flower rcots , and twenty baskets of dried yeast , with wine , madders , &c .
BATH . —The Rb-Okganization and the Approaching CojiFEREKCE . —A special meeting of the Council of the National Charter Association was held on Wednesday evening , for the purpose of i aking the above subject into consideration , thj result of their deliberation is to be laid before the members of the Association on Thursday , on which evening Mr . Clark , Chartist lecturer , will address the members , al their rooms , Galloway ' s Buildings .
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SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED BY MR . CLEAVE . FOR VICTIMS . £ . s . d . Wadsworth-row . near Halifax 0 10 0 One of the middle classes , but an enemy to oppression . 1 10 0 Mr . Deacon 0 0 6 Mr . Young .. 0 1 0 roa m *» o \ jall . Mr . M'Pherson , Ipswich 0 S d Female Chartists , Rochdale 1 7 7 Proceeds of a raffle , Rochdale 0 12 5 One of the middle classes , but an enemy to oppression . 0 10 0 FOB DKFENCF FUND . Chilwell , Kotts ( per Mr . Sweet ) 0 3 0 - * * * S- ^ S ****** * -+ **^^^^*~^**^*^~~ r ** r *' ~ r ^* r * * r ~~
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STARVING OF A CHILD TO DEATH .
GROSS AND CRIMINAL NEGLECT OF POOR LAW OFFICIALS . A case of death , from disease brought on by scanty and innutritious food , has just occurred in Leeds . For that " scanty and innutritious food , " the Poor Law Officials are to blame . They knew of the otter destitute condition of the family of which this child was a member ; and they refused adequate relief , affording only so much as would barely allow them to procure " scanty and innutritions food . " This case is one of the most horrible in all its features of any that has come under our cognizance . The studied neglect ; the systematic ) refusal on the part of the Poor Law Officials , is the most coldbloodedly cruel , aud exhibits such demonial feeling , that we would fam hope the treatment is not to be matched on this side of hell I
In the third Edition of the Star for last week , we bad a public announcement of the state this family were in , particularly regarding the child since dead , who then lay "dangerously i 7 / , " and Whose case called for immediate attention . We shall here insert the " notice" we then gave , as it contains a statement of the actual condition of the family at the time . Itis as follows : — ATTJMPT TO MURDER . — CADTIOJJ TO ALL CONCERNED . A person has called at this office this afternoon ( Friday ) to state the case of a family residing at New Church Place , Mabgate , Leede , of the name of Stock ? , who are at present suffering all the horrors of actual starvation , and likely , if relief be not immediately afforded , to starve to death . Tho
head of the family , William Stocks , is by trade a miner ; has been ontof work some time , having had an inflammation in his band , and been under the care of the General Dispensary . He has a wife and seven CHI 1 DRKN . One of them is working , the oldest girl , in the factory ; and her earnings are 3 s . 2 d . vweek . One of the children is , at the present t moment , lying on a sick bed . For some time Stocks h ; \ s been " relieved" by the Dewsbury " Board of Go ardians" with four and sixpence a-week i and to enti ' * l e i » m to that uoKSTROUssum , they have required him Xo 8 ° fro * Leeds to Dewsbury , or Batley-Carr , to bn * k stones for it ; a distance of eight miles there and eh Tht miles back 1 For the nine shillings pay for a fo * tnight , he has had to walk that distance six miles
six timei . ' over ! or a distance of Binfity- , and break fot ' anda-half tons of dross ! The whole family the . "efore , have enly haa seven and eightpence per week to k& P ' ° f t ^ al * . ^ s ' ' cn ' ^ is under the c * re ° * *^ General Dispensary ; and on Thursday th e House Surgeon gave the distressed father a cert . Se 2 ie to take to the Overseers of Dewsbury as ^ ° condition of fhe child . Ol that certificate the ft 'Bowing *« * «? P 7 •'— . , ..... This is to cert ' ^ J tnat William Stocks ' s child has been a patient of *•' « Dispensary , and is at this time dangerously ill . 1 "kr-disease appears to have been brought on by sc . * nty and innutritious food , and the family seem to i * ia ihe m 08 t deplorable state . . . CO 0 P £ R PlGG ,
House Surgi « D To the General Dispensary . Leeds , August 10 th , l ^ 3 - With this document ti ie serving father waited on the Overseer . He thowe <** *<» h , - . J 60 elve j four shilliDgs and sixpe . ice back with him , and an order to go break dro « again , so as to entitle him to four MlRujs and * 'rpmce more on Thursday , the 17 th in > t . ; will , an mumation that if he do « not bo earn it , he will i * t receive it ! BOW THIS IS AN ATTBM-Pi ^ T MURDER We warn all concerned to , * e *> it ! U THE utmost to have
chiid DIE , we will do our a Jegal inv ^ iiaation ; and an ind . ctmgnt for Murder shall be preferred ! The Guardians and reliev . ng officer of ihe Dewsbury . V « w » have had Jair warning . They have had it c «™ TT t ° £ that this child : "is DANGEROUS . *? . ILL of a disease brought on by scanty and innut . " ^«*«* Jood They have had it certified to them that * bfJ * S seem to be in the most deplorable slate" 1 ty $ have wiiKidd the neccsary reluf ! If they i W » withhold it , and the child , or any of the family «**» tney are GtnLTT of MURDER . ' ! . ' They had ***« i
therefore , look out !!! The " Certificate" states that " the family * & % ? to be in the most deplorable condition . " The p wtaJ will judge of that condition when we tell themvO ?* the only furmtnxfr m the hovel ' they " dwell" in , w » an old cradle , a stool , a single bed and bedsteavV and a few pots . One single bbd job ninb per-5 oi « s 2 !! AND ONE OF THEM " DANGEROUSLY ILL" 11 ! That bed has not a blanket ! The ** sheetiag" is composed of two old flax-bags ! These , with an old coverlid ( a borrowed ono ) , is the stock of bed-clotbiDg . This man has worked for nearly thirty years . He worked for " Tottie and Ga . unt" for twelve years continuously ; and be worked for thirteen years together for Mr . Fenton , of Waterloo ] And after all his toil , the .
above is his lot ! Ikmog the time that he has been recdving " relief " from the Dewsbury Board , his wife has been confined to bed with an
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inflammation in thek ^ ieeflme has had four the children down in the small-pox ; and he himself laid up with an inflammation inuhQ hand , which is not vet well ! He is unable to wofk , were he to procure work to morrow ; and consequently unable to break dross . The surgeon informs him that if he attempts it , his hand will be as bad again as ever it was . i We -advice , the father to go to the Leeds Overseers , and ask them for relief . If they refuse , we advise him to go . to the Leeds Magistrates . If they refuse , we advise him to go to the Dewsbury Relieving Officer ; and if he refuses , WE THEN ADVISE HIM TO GO AND STEAL . If he permits that child to DIE for want of food , while there is so much around him on every hand , he will be ( morally ) a MURDERER !! If he tries all the means we point out , and they fail , every principle of reason and common sense will justify him in taking where he can get it ! We seriously afvise him to do so , AFTER HE HAS TRIED ALL THE OTHER MEANS , AND
THEY HAVE FAILED ! , On Sunday morning the child died . Saturday passed over , and no one went near the dwelling of Stocks , except the medical gentlemen , who were unremitting in their attentions . We mean that 110 one belonging the Poor Law Fund went to administer relief . The poor father had been desired to procure for his dying child a little wine . Alas ! he had not the means ! She sunk undtr her affliction ; and on Sunday morning winged her way to where we hope no Poor Law monsters are to be found ! On Monday forenoon : we heard of the death . A 3 there did not seem to be any preparations for an inquest , a letter , of which the following is a copy , was sent both to the Chief Constable of Leeds and to the Borough Coroner . •—¦ Leeds , August 14 , 1843 .
Sir , —I beg to apprize you that aMhis moment there lays , dead , a child belonging to William Stocks , of New-Church-place . Mabaafe . L-. eds : and which child has died , of a disease brought on by starvation I That this ia the fact will be best shewn by the following certificate from the House Surgeon of the General Dispenary : — [ Here was given a copy of the Certificate inserted above ] . There is great reason to believe that gross neglect has been manifested in this case by those whose duty it was to » ff ; rd relief ; and that had thby done their duty , the child would have been at this moment alive !
As an inhabitant and rate-payer of this town I appn ' zi you of these facts , with a view to induce you to perform your necessary duty , and cause an inquest to bp holden over the body of the MURDERED child . She died yesterday morning . I have the honour to be , Youta , respectfully , Jos . Hobson . Mr . E . Read , Chief Constable , Leeds . this letter had Us effect . Preparations for an inquest were immediately made . Mr . Hobson , within a few hours after he had dispatched the letters abovementioned , had to depart from Leeds to a distant town ; and did not reach Leeds back again until the inqnest was oveT . This accounts for his not being present at it , had intimation been afforded that it was to be holden .
What follows is the evidence adduced at the in * quest , and the finding of the Jury . We shall first insert it , and then have a word or two to say respecting it :- ** : The Jury having been sworn , proceeded to view the body , which presented a very emaciated appearance ; it was laid on the only bed in possession of the family , and the few articles of furniture which remained gave proofs of the depth of poverty into which the miserable family had been plunged . The following evidence was given : — s ..
Mr . James Cooper Pigg—I am house-surseon at the Leeds Public Dispensary . I first saw deceased last Saturday week , at her father ' s bouBe in Mabgate . I found her in a very low , depressed btate , complaining of pain in her body , loss of appetite , aud extreme debility ; and there were some symptoms of fever . I prescribed for her , and saw her every- day afterwards ; she died on Sunday morning . About three or four days before she died convulsions came on , which continued upon h » r every day up to tho time of her death . The immediate cau ? e of death , 1 should apprehend , would be effusion of water on the brain , the result of it fl ^ mmntion . The succession of fits would lead to h naramation of the brain , and suffusion would be the consequence . When I fiiat b&w her Bhe WaB unable to take nourishment .
except liquids ; she waa unable to eat , and the glands of the body bad been diseased , which might arise from want of food , or food not sufficiently nourishing . It may have been-brought , on from other causes . The consequence would be a wasting of the body . Extreme irritability of the bowels would bring on the low kind of fever which existed whan I first saw her . Thb parents had not the means \ of supplying her with necea . saries white I attended tier . I should not think the want of the common necessarien of life the sole cause of the state in which I found her . but I think it may have been au accelerating cause . 1 think the want of the necessaries of life has been the predisposing cause . . I cannot say It was the solo causo . Many persona sleeping
in one reora , producing an unwholesome nir , would be likely to bring on the state in which the deceased was when I first saw her . The food not being sufficiently nutritious might also produce it , although there might have been sufficient in quantity . All this might hiyye arisen from natural causes , but the want of sufficient food , or food not sufficieutly nutritious , would accelerate the disease . When I first saw her tne family was in a most deplorable ¦ state , and . from what the mother said to me , as to their want of food and necessaries , it appeared to me at that time that the disease had been brought on by scanty and innutritious food , and I gave the certificate to the overseers under that feeling . I do not say that it was the sole cause , but no doubt it was a predisposing cause .
Bj ; a Juror- —There are other children in the family who have fared the same , and are not in the same state . Their constitutions may be very different Win . Stocks— I am a mirier by trade ; I have lived In Leeds since last October . Deceased is my daughter ; she la eleven year * of age ; she began to bt > poorlj about ten weeks since . She was not delicate , but hearty , all the way through till she began to be poorJy We had no udvice to her until the Dispensary doctor attended her . We were not able to procure advice She first complained of her legs and her head aching . I belang to Dawabury ; I have been out of work , and have had 4 a . 6 d . a week from the parish of Dewsbury for three or four months . I have a wifo and seven children ; my eldest girl is 13 ; she bas worked occasionally at Walker ' s , aud has bad 33 . 6 d . a-weok . For the 4 a . 6 , t . a-week which I got I bad to break dross on the Batley Carr and Dawsbury Moor roads . I bad four
tons and a half to break fer 4 s . 6 d . The 4 s . 6 d . and 38 . fld . has been all we have had to live on far tbe last three or four months . Deceased has not had the necessaries of life—none , of' us have ^— we conld not get them . I lamed my finger with breaking the dross nine weeks since yesterday , and have not brokeri any since , and the 4 a . 6 < i . a-week has been continued . I Wanted to go into the Union , but the evem-er would not it * me . I toefc Mr . Pigg's certific ite last Thursday to Dawabury . I did not show it to Picfcersgill the surveyor , but I showed it to the overseer at tbe boar » l ; be said I < sould have no , relief until tbe following Thursday . We have sometimes had oatmeal and water ., sometimes bread , and at other times nothing . My wife and 1 have been two days at a time without any thing but water . We have pinched ourselves out of tbe ( little we had to give to the children . The Dispensary doctor haa done all in his power . We should all have been lost but for our neighbours .
Martha Cross . —I am a neighbour to Stocks ; I have lived" near them all the time they have lived there They have boen in a rery bad state indeed the best part of tlje time . They have only had 4 s * 6 d . relief , and what the eldest girl made . Since the father was out of work , they have not had the common necessaries of life . ; I and the reat of tho neighbours have given to them what we could spare . Their furniture was taken for rent the week the deceased began to be poorly . ¦ - . This being the whole of the evidenee , the Corone * commented upon what they ; had heard , and the jury , without hesitation , returned tho following verdict : — " Diedifrom effusion of the brain , produced by inflammation , but bow such inflammation arose , or was produced , there is not sufficient evidence to satisfy the jurors . "
Tbe Coroner and jury subscribed the sum of £ 1 6 s . Gil . for theirelief of toe exigencies of the family , and the jury desired tbe Coroner to write to the overseers of Dowabury , calling their attention to the circumstances , with a vie- to obtaining fer them further relief . Let the reader read over the evidence well , and try to reconcile the " finding" with it , if ho can . We confess we cannot . We mast avow a convictiou that there is plenty of evidence to show " how the inflammation aros .: " and bad this been a casa in which any of the jury had been personally concerned , ' they would nate said 60 too , with a vengenance ! What is the evidence . " The glands of the body has been diseased , which might arise from want of food , or food not sufficiently nourishing . " " I thiuk the want of the necessaries of life the pre ¦ disposing cause . " " The want of sufficient food , or food not sufficiently nutritious , would accelerate the disease ! " " When 1 first saw her , the family was in a most deplorable ; state ; and from what the mother
said to me , as to their want of food and necessaries , it appeared to meatthattime thatthediseasehad been brought on by scanty and innutritious food '" Such I is tbe medical testimony . True , h& says the disease " might ' have been brought on by other causes . But ' this " might , ' * though made tio serve very materially , | is not worth ouo straw . The evidence is clear that t&anty food , or innufcritioua food , would bring on ' thsdisease . There ia plenty of" evidence that , ihe iVpd was " scanty" indeedt Tbe father swears" JOfieeased has not had the necessities of life ; none of . is baVe ; we could not get them / ' " We have sdnuHfm « s oatmeal and water ; sometimes bread ; and at other timea nothing . " "My wife and I have been t » ' ? days at a time without anything but water . " " We should all have been lost , but for our neighbours . " Ueresurely is evidence enough ot" scanty " food , and of no food at all ! But there was not one word that co ^ ild by possibility be twisted so as to hang oh it th ? supposition that there bad been any
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other " causes" then the M predisposing" one , " scanty food . ' ) The verdict ia in direct opposition to the evidence . But because there was a " might , ' without a parliolevi ' of evidence to sustain it , that reality which ^ r as fitijstained was giv en the ** go-by * in favour of the " ihight" ! Bat that is not all . The inquiry was incomplete Who had caused this food of this child to be " scanty "; and thus " brought on" the disease which terminated in death ? Should this have formed no portion of the inquiry \ The jury w « re impannelled to ) ascertain the cause of death . -They had it shown to them that "scanty food" was the " predisposing jcause" of the disease which ended fatally . They had it proved to them that that -- " - ^ f- ~ r - _ _ . ^ - __ _ . __ * . « - ^ w V * A- * H « 4 il «« 11
^ scanty food" had been caused by the neglect , the wilful refusal , of rhe Poor Law officials to afford the necessary means of existence . They had it before them that they only allowed four shillings and sixpence a-weejc to keep nine persons—Sixpence a-head per weelt ! Was this sufficipnt ? Could the " food" be anything else but "scanty" ? Were not they culpable for not allowing more ? Is the law of murder changed ? It used to be that " if an overseer of the poor withhold the necessaries of life , he is guilty of murder . " There was a withholding hero J Ought not that to have formed a subject of inquiry ? Ay | indeed , and it ought : aud both Coroner and Jury evinced a gross disregard of duty in not sifting the matter to the bottom . Had they
done so , some of the parties who now fancy themselves safe , wo \ ild have been sent to the County Gaol , to be " delivered" from thence , most likely , by tho hands of the common hangman ! The child has ] been starved to death > That starvation might and ought to have been prevented . It would have been prevented had the Dewsbury Board of Guardians an'd the Relieving Officer done their duty . They refused to do that duty . Tney refused to allow sufficient wherewith to procure food . The DEATH OF THAT j CHILD IS ATTRlBtrTABLE TO THEM . Their conduct towards this family has been atrociously criminal . ] Uf that the public shall judge ; and judge also whether wo are not justified in charging th ? death of thejchild upon them .
For some four [ or five months , Stocks haR been receiving what they call " relief . " But before be got any " relief" at-j all , he had to go from Leeds to Dewsbury three times , three several weeks ! At kst , the Relieving Officer , Pickeksgill . gave him a ticket to go work &t tho stono heap , to earn 4 s . 6 d . a week . At the \ very time that he was refused all aid . his wife was \ ill , just recovering ; and his four children down in the small pox ! They wouM then have been all starved , had it not been for the Benevolent Society . He worked for a number of weeks , for the 4 s . 6 d ., going from Leeds to Dewsbury to earn it , walking ninety-six miles for nine shillings At length his hand got lamed while at work ; a piece of dross flying and hitting the finger ; and
incapacitating ; him for work . When he was thus lamed , Pickersoill paid him 4 s . 6 d . for the week he received the injury ]; but he refused all reliff when he went to Dewsbury the week after ! He told him " to get work "; 1 " mere was plenty for him , if he sought ouu for it . ? Stocks , when he visited Dewsbury on that occasion , had been for two days without food ; AND HaD JtO RETURN TO LEEDS WITHOUT A bits or means | to gut one ! The child , since dead , was then ill , and had been so for a week or two . The first food the family had was about ten o ' clock that same ] night , when a neighbour woman went in ; and on ascertaining that all relief had been refused offered to let them have a few shillings till " relief" could bejgot . The week after , ho went to Dewsbury again , with
his hand in a shocking condition . He saw Pickersgill . As soon as Stocks entered the door-way , Pickersgill said : ] " Now , thou may goe away ; I'll not give thee a fardin . " There was tbe collector of trie Tates present , aud also one of the Guardians ; at least Stocks topk him to be one . On this brutal refusal , Stocks loosed down his hand , and showed it , putting it to tho .= e present whether he was fit to work or not . PiickersgiU did not speak ; but the person Stocks took to be a Guardian , said : " O shocking ! it is nojt likely the man can work . He is notable . You must relieve him . " Pickersgill then s-aid he would give him 33 . ; but he ultimately gave 49 ., telling Stocks * to " get his hand weel as sooin as possible , and get towark : for be was stalled wit seet o' his face . "
After this , Stocks got 4 s . 6 d . weekly for Borne time , going to Dewsbury w ^ ek ' y for it . In tho mouth of July , the goods Stocks had , were distrained upon for rent . Stocks waited on Pickerssill at Dewsbury , and told him that tho " goods were marked . " ] lie also saw , " the Board" and told them , and showed them the distress warrant . The Board said , '"they could not do any thing ; they had given up paying any rents at all ; and he must do as well as be eould . " They gave him only 4 s . 6 d ., his usual week ' s relief .
When be got home , with no chanoe of saving his few " traps" ; and seeing the family pining away before his eyes , he determined to take the whole of them before ^ the Leeds Overseers . He tried to do so oa Tuesday , July 18 th . When he arrived at the Workhouse , Pickersgill was in the room . The door-keeppr said , !* ' Here's a family for yon , Pickersgill . " " Who are they" ? said he . " I don ' t know ; but walk forward ^; he ' s here . " As soon as Pickersgill saw Stocks , he exclaimed— " I'll not gia thee a fardin . Thow may goe as soon as t » likes . I'll not relieve thee . " Stocks said , " I ' ve come to see what is to be done for me , either by yo' or somebody else ; and I'll see afore I go back . " " Well , but , " Pickersgill said , j" I'll mak thee go . " Stocks
rejoined , * ' Well , then , I'll be made go . " Pickersgill then seized hold of the children , saying , * ' Go ; go out , bairns ; yo'it not stop here . " Stocks said , " Bairng , stay where ye are , " bringing them back , and further observing , " when he keeps you , he shall be master over you , but not before . " Pickersgill theu said to Stocks , " But I'll mak thee go" ; to which the answer jwas , " Well , but I weant go . I will bo made , afore I do go ;'' and Pickersgill then seized him round the middle , and tried to put him out of the room . In this he failed . He couJd not accomplish it . When he failed , he said : " Now then , if thou stops here for seven year , I'll not gie thee a fardini" " Well then , " said Stocks , " I ' 11 go see Mr . jNaylor ( one of the Leeds Overseers ) and hear what he says ; " and suiting the
action to the word ! , he took the family forward into another office . Mr . Naylor was not present , but some one who was ] writing told Stocks that he must go make application in the Application Room . He did as he was directed . There he again met Pickersgill ; Mr . Brown , the receiver of applicants asked of Stocks " } what do you want ? " Stocks told him his condition ; that he had applied to Pickeri = gill for relief , and been refused ; that he could stand it no longer ; and must now trouble the Leeds Board . Pickersgill , addressing Mr . Brown , said : " Don't relieve him . If yo gie him ought I'll not pay a half-penny of it back again . " Stocks then saidj " Well then , what am I to do 1 Will yo file mo an order to go into th © workhoufe V Pictersgill made answer , " No ; Pat giV thee nought here ; nor will I gi ' e thee a paper to go into 'th houke . If thou has ought ihoa ' st come to Dewsbury for it . If thou is lame , thou
shall walk . Stocks then departed ; and on the Thursday after he went to Dewsbary , intending to seethe Board . He had with him a letter from a visitor of the Leeds Benevolent Society , detailing his horrible condition , and pressing npou the Board to afford him adequate relief .. He had also a certificate from Mr . Lowe , surgeon , of Lady Lane , Leeds , to the effect that he ( Stocks ) was unfitted for work . He met , Pickersgill at the door of ihe lower room of the building in which the Guardians meet . Accosting Stocks , pickersgill said , " Why did not ihou come yesterday for thy brass V " Because 1 thought you would not give me it ; and I thought I'd see the Board . " ] "Then , " said ho , "thou must take this . 4 s . Gd ., and go thy ways home again . " He prevented him irom seeing the Board . Observing him lingering abtmt , talking to the others wait ing to be relieved , he ordered him off ; telling him " to go home , as he had gotten satisfied . "
The wcvk after ho went to Dewsbury again , and got his 4 s . 6 d . ; and the week after that ; t e . ou Aug . 3 rd , he went again , and sfcw the Board . He then laid before them the letter from the visitor to the Benevolent Society and the certificate from the surgeon . He also explained that the the child , since dead , was very ill ; that his wife was also ill , having had an attack of tic doloureux . But it availed uot . " They could not do more than they were doing . " " They could only allow tue 4 s . 6 d . " They did not offer
him the workhouse , j At that time his goods had been seized for rent , by his unfeeling and hardhearted landlord . He had the only one bed in the house , the stool , ! and few pots before described . On the Thursday after , Stocks weut attain to Dewsbury with the certificate from Mr . Pigg . He did not then see Pickersgill ; but saw Mr . Fryer , the overseer , ( assistant we believe ) . He ordered his son to give Stocks 4 d . j 6 d . ; and gavo him an order to go break stones , or else he was not to have any more pay . 1
On August 8 th , Stocks waited upon Pickersgill , at Leeds , where he attends every fortnight to relieve those residing i « Leeds chargeable to the Dewsbury Union . Stocks had ] with him a note from Mr . Rhodes , assistant surgeon to tbe Leeds Dispensary , testifying to the then | dangerous state of the child ; saying that she was not able to be removed . Stocks asked Pickersgill to ! go dowu and see the family and judge of her dettitute condition for himself . He refused , saying " he [ had not time . " Mr . Stocks showed him the certificate from Mr . Rhodes ; and Pickersgill then gave ! him 4 s . 6 d .. Stocks urged on
him to go see the family ; but could not prevail oa him to do so . On ( another occasion Pickersgill actually passed over the door- stones , and refused to call ! Stocks ' s wife , seeing him in the yard , wen * out and asked if he ( was not going to call there "No" said he ; " I'm jtoo stiff and too straight ; I can neither look right nor left : nor yet stoop . " We ask , was not this child mbrdered ! we also ask , were not those who refused it food , when it was their duty to giv e it , the murderers * We ask further , ought they not be made answerable for the life they have sacrificed 1 ]
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Leeds Woollen Markets Aug . 22 . —The demand for almost all kinds of manufactured goods continues rather on the improve , and both in the Cloth Halla and Warehouses there is considerably more business doing than has been the case for some time . The orders for the fall trade are much larger than were those of last year . . Leeds Corn Market , Aug . 22 . —The supply of Grain to this day ' s Market is smaller than last week . Ihe weather has been very fine up to early this morning , when we have rain , and still continues to the close of the market . Wheat has been Is to 2 a per quarter lower , but a fair demand at the decliae . Oats and Beans go off-slowly and are rather lower , f nere are a few fields of Oats cutting in this neighbourhood , but Wheat will not be ready of a week yet . J
York . Corn Market , Aug . 19 . —We have only a small supply of Grain at this day ' s market , but our millers are not disposed to give last week ' s prices , and we quote Wheat 2 a per quarter ; Oats Id per stone ; and Beans Is to 2 s per quarter lower , though tew of our farmers are willing to sell at the decline . On Tuesday we had heavy rain ; since that day the weather has been very hot and forcing . M Alton Corn Market , Aug . 19 , —The supply of all kinds of Grain waa better than for some weeks pa .-t , and the farmers evinced more eagerness to part with stock , but the millers purchased sparingly of Wheat , at a reduction of from 3 i . to 4 g . per quarter from the rates of last week . Oats 3 d per stone lower . Flour 3 a per sack lower . Wheat 60 a to 649 per quarter . Barley , 303 to 32 g per quarter . Oats , lOd to 10 ^ d per stoue .
Newcastle Corn Market , Aco . 19 xh . —At our market this morning we had a large supply of country Wheat for the season , and haying a fair arrival coastwaye , this , combined with the favourable state of the weather , caused a great flatness to pervade tha trade , and it was uot untii a , great reduction of fully 4 s to 5 s per quarter was submitted to that a clearance could be effected .
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Middlesex , by JOSHUA HOBSON , at his Print * ing Offices , Nob . 12 and 13 , Market-street , Brlggatet and Published by the said Joshua Hobson , ( for the said Fbargus O'Conkob . ) at his Dwelling-house , No . 6 , Market-street , Briggate ; an Internal Cemmunication existing between the said No . 5 , Market-street , and the said Nos . 12 and 13 , Market-street , Briggate , thus constituting the whole of the said Printing aud Publishing Office one Premises . All Communications must be addressed , Post-paid , to Mr . Hobson , Northern Star Office , Lee ( Saturday , August 26 , 1813 . ;
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 26, 1843, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct944/page/8/
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