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      «¦ Iw ^^ P . ^ f ** da that Lount , one of ilacW ' s on ^ nal confeaerates , and ( atamanfe ra-cbef at the ridiculous attempt npon TomnhTl ? been arrested and committed toprisoiT ' ^ Vie havcihe Montreal papers of th * 2 ( J ft _ . contain nothing of importance . The wafrr £ „«\ \ rery high , and there was much distS 5 ?? benevolent had done all in their powe ? tn ^ * providingatemporaiy honse ^ lwf ^ i ^^ ontpro ^ ions , clothing , and&d 8 ^ and Semn § rltlPss gSgsss { Fronithe Buffalo CommercialAdcertiserZStk fosU ihe greater part of the . militia , who were called out a few veets since " for the defence of this frontier vrere yesterday discharged , and have Veturnefl 1 ™ ' S ! J ^ 5 ^^ ^ iSmtSr

      , UNITED STATES . Prom the . New Yort papers to the 1 st , received by the Mediator . ] { From the New York Commercial Advertiser ) Important from Washington—H is ru-* " ?!? f- ! bngton » ^ d the rnmour has been embodied m form by the correspondent of the Jourml of Covimerce , ^ Mr . 3 > iekerson , the Secretary of the Navy , has resigned , as he ou ^ ht to have done W ago . The feet , says the corresondent of the

      p journal , is , that Mr . Dickerson tendered his resignation last Friday . The Presi dent however , declined receiving it , without a general resignation b y the whole Cabinet . The same writer adds , as certain , that Mr . Tan Bnren Has given a gentle intimation of his willingness to receive the resignation of the Cabinet as an unit Most sincerel y do we hope the rumoar may prove to be true , holding it to be impossible for 31 r . Tan Bnren , or any other man , to form so bad a Cabinet taken as a whole . '

      The Pre-emp tion Law . —All the letters from Washington speak of a sharp passage of arms between Mr . Clayand Mr . "Webster on that stupendous Sand upon the Old States , the Pre-emption Bill * As at present advised , we are with Mr . Clay on feat question , and against the bill . "We await fcmrever , and with no ordinary anxiety , the report 0 ; the debate between those distin'nushed states - men . s ( From tf K New York Gazette and General Ad \ vcrliscr of Hie 1 st hist . )

      I 3 V THIS MORXIXG-S SOUTHERN MAIL . ( Correspondence of the Nete York Gazette . ) WASHINGTON . Jan . 30 . lhe pre-emptioners or squatting bill has finall y passed the Senate by a vote of : J 0 to 18 . It has seea a pretty hard struggle . Sir . Clay fought like a lion against the bill , and denounced it , as ^ givinc lie-ease to fraud and robbery . Li will , it is said , be proved in the house , that of the 30 , 000 settlers in loiray , the greater portion are merely the representatives of speculators , paid cy the month or year ta suqat , for the benefit of speculators . Half of the senators and many of the house members arc spatters , by prosy , in this way . Mr . Clay says ikit" speculation is at the bottom of it all . " Eut . ' if

      ire can t trust a vote of 30 to IS , ' what can we trust I ' ! Ir . Clay did not say that Mr . Webster was a sc atter , but he intimated that-he had to do with spatters . The squatters may be , and no doubt are , a very good sort of people—quits as good , on the average- as the bank speculators , who buy out the squatter ' s land and improvements at the public knd-ofiiee for the Government price of one dollar and 25 cents per acre , turning him out of house , land ; and home . It appears that the army is absnt to be increased in earner . A bill was reported tu-day in the House , wldcli irill add seven re « iiaeats to the army . The Senate Bill , which must also vass the lions ? ,

      increases and reorganizes thu staff . This is a capital time fur increasing buth . the army and navy , and pufJiigtlieinon a respectable footing . The country is ripe for it . and Consrress is ready for it . A better juncture lor pushing it coald not occur . Tim soatliem people are crying out against the express jaail , and in favour of tlie expedition of the great mail—the people ' s mail . This great object lias leen effected in regard to the mails between this city and Xew York . TIwiikuIs are to go , after the ]< t of Feliruray , twice a day . by railroad dually , Lence to New * York , leaves at five o ' clock in the eieniiur with the soiitlwru express mail , and at sis in the morning with the great southern mail . ( From the New York Commercial Advertiser of themih .

      _ DESTRUCTIVE FIRE . _ Ai e stated in a postscript yesterday that a large Sre was raging in the upper part of t ' ne city . It did not destroy as inucli property as was anticipated at tiie time of the Commercial Being put to press , butnevertheless , a vast amount of danr .-. ge was done , as trill be seen by the annexed statement . The tire originated , as we nuderstand . from a furnace used in the yard of one of tlie houses , from which a spark was blown into one of ilia stables in the rear of Sixth-street . The buildings destrored were mostly owned bv Mr . J . G . Coster , and were probably worth 40 , 000 dollars , principally insured . The loss will be niost severely fflt by the families who have been deprived bv this calamity of a home .

      Tlie lire department are deserving of much praise for their successful exertions in staying the progress of this fire . There was scarcely a person whosaw tlie fire at its height who did not expect that doable flie amount of property destroyed would be consumed . ~ \\ e should be wanting ill our duty to the public if we did net mention cue tiling in relation to this fire , and that is , the faintness of the alarm given ye-terday . The only bell that ran ? , south of the

      Far ]; , was tlie North Dutch , and that soandud but a few minutes . Many of the iiremen first learned that there was a fire by the eveuing papers , and from the bulletins . Several of the companies did not lave one quarter of their complement of men upon the ground at the time when we left the fire . It will'be seen by reference to the proceedings of the Common Council , that theBoard of Assistants passed a resolution last night appropriating 1 , 000 dollars for- the relief of the sattererc by this ca-1 amity .

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      Axothex whig Job . —From the Court Circular it appears that , on Tuesday week , Sir Robert Otway succeeded Colonel Armstrong as Groom in Waiting on the Queen . Sir Robert Otway is therefore hound to give personal , attendance at Buckingham Palace during his weeks or months of service . But Sir Robert is also Commander-in-Chief at the Nore . His flag is on board the Hmce at Sheerness ; and while he is playing the courtier at Buckingham Palace , he is actually receiving as naval commander- Pay £ 5 per diem . Table-money 3 per diem .

      £ 7 per diem . This is permitted by the "Whi g praters about Tory jobs —the No-Patronage Government—the "Reform " Ministers , forsooth I—Spectator . The Great Das at Court . —Mr . O'Connell is in raptures at his reception at Court , on "Wednesday . He made his appearance in the largest "Whi g worn by the highest of his order ; and it was admitted by all that he became the "Whi g as the . "Whi g became him . It was quite obvious to bystanders , that the Queen was anxious to have a Ml survey of this great pillar of her government ; for after he had iissed hands , the Duke of Sussex came forward and cordially recognised the great Agitator . Upon the

      Xlukes retirement , Melbourne stepped up ; and , fliat the Queen ' s curiosity might be fully indulged , the Premier was relieved by the Home Secretary , who also expressed his acknowled gments to the head of the tail for his powerful support ! Other members of the Cabinet were preparingto take their-tura , when there was a general inquiry , " "Who stops the way ?'" whereupon Mr . O'Connell moved on / giving one of bis best loving leers to his royal mistress The on dit gains ground that the Queen-mother and the Queen's minister contemplate a coalition . — Weekl y True Sun . , t "Workings of the "Boon" at Mass-—The various branches of frame-work

      a very depressed state , and much " *¦ the workmen , whose wages , : i <« inadequate to main""* " * silk knotting ~ ' ' vis been Eli ., . tfigr *® ** - st ^ Msafe ^ .

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      Bki tish SLAVEUY . - \ Ve hear a great dea ? about slavery m the West Indies , and of slavery in tactones and we would at all times do all in empower to ameliorate the condition of both the one and the other ; but there are alsoothef slaves in whose hehalf ^ would also engage the public sjmpath y . The following case will explain our meaning :--VVilli am Sargesen , a child only eleven ^ " ^ was last week brought up by the police of Hull in a most forlorn and dirty condition , having been employed asa ' sweep . He was found ma blacksmith ' s forge , on the previous ni ght , and on being dragged out and questioned b y the officer , He said he had been in the employ of " Mr . Wilkinson , the sweep , who resides in Waterhouse-lane but m consequence of ill-treatment , and want of tosd , he had run away . In consequence of this statement , and the boy asserting that he was not an apprentice , Mr . Newmarsh , who sat for the M *™ t 0 be * l ? ll ? IL ? ? ' ™? - ~ y * tea a gnsi dea ^

      ZfT \^ tel sent for » and in a short « t ? t T lkmson appeared at the bar , and said that her husband was from home . The charge was then gone into , and in answer to questions nut by the magistrates , the boy stated that he belonged to London , and came down here with an elder brother to seek work , and had been employed by Mr . Wilkinson for the'last six months . He had never been properly washed and cleaned since he was blackened , —he had been beaten and pinched of food , and had no change of clothes for a Sunday . Mrs . \> ilkmson said the boy ' s tale was not true ; she had only taken him from pity , and that he was of nouse to her ; he had not made her a shilling since she bad him , and he was not fit to be trusted to send to

      gentlemen ' s houses . Mr . Ayre , Clerk to the Magistrates , here interposed , and said she had no business to take away the poor lad ' s character . This un-. ortunate interruption completely nonpluss'd the good lad y ; she became confused in her story , while the bold , yet artless manner in which the poor child , with tears in his eyes , rebuttedher base insinuations , convinced every one on which side the truth lay . Mr . Ayre told her she had subjected herself in heavy penalties under the Act 4 and 5 , William TV which imposes a fine of not less than 40 s . upon any person employing a child as a sweep , ( except as an apprentice , or on trial , ) under the age of fourteen years ; it also requires that all boys should be well wished every Saturday , andhave a change of clothes

      , and be taken to ' . some place of worshi p on the Sunday . Mrs . W . became more stupid , and the bench and the audience more interested . Mr . Lawthorp took up the ease warmly , and told the woman that she should not have the boy again , that she mi ght depend upon , and he felt disposed to punish her e by itstticting the penalty . This produced a revolution ; she began to whine about her poverty , and said the hoy might go , and she would , if they thou"ht proper , give him a shilling or two to take him by the packet to London . Magistrate : — " That won ' t do ; he shall go to the Workhouse for the present . I

      have no doubt that be has been treated as bad as the little Negroes in the West Indies . He deserves protection , aud he shall have it ; and if yon will not give him 5 s ., you shall take die consequences . " . Finding that she could not alter the decision of the bench , she promised to pay it the next day , but said liis cap , slices , and scraper was her property , and she should expect thtsn to be given to . her . One of the inspectors said he had no shoes on . His mistress suid that he must have left them in the forge . The Magistrates consulted , and directed a policeman to sea that he was provided with cap and shoes , the scraper was to lw riven to his mistress . We never

      witnessed , in a Police Court , greater interest than this case excited . Youthful Impostors axd Magisterial Flogging . —On Saturday last two boys , named "Win . Brookbanlc , ai > . d Michael Hart , each seemindy about twelve years of age , were brought before the Leeds Magistrates by a policeman named Child , charge : ! with begging and » obtaining charity under false pretences . Child stated that ' he had * caught them in the act of presenting at a house , a pstition which slated that thiy were two orphan boys who were obliged to beg to get a living . The lads being questioned , one of them stated that he had no mother , and that he had been a long time out of work . He had formerly worked at the mill of Mr . Moses Atkinson . The Magistrates said that they

      should be remanded till Monday , when with the parents' permission they would be flogged . " "With a eat of nine tails , " cried ons of the blue coat officials . On the same day , a lad named Dunderdale- was brought up , h-, wiBg been remanded from the preceding day , that with his mother ' s consent he might be treated to the pleasures of a whipping , " for stealing twopennyworth of beef steaks . Eis mother appeared before the bench and bathed in tears begged the Magistrates to look over the offence . To her entreaties , she was answered that if she would not consent to his being flogged they must commit him to Wakefield , which would be a great disgrace to her family , and would very likely make him a much worse character . The " flogging was administered in the court yard .

      Carmarthen Working Men ' s Association . —Mr . H . Williams has delivered a course of lectures at this institution . The subject of his third lecture was " Sketch of the Character and Policy of Daniel O'Connell —Louis Papineau and O'Connell compared . " The room was crowded to excess and a great number were unable to gain admission . He contended that Mr . O'Connell , by every act of his life , was the pledged supporter of priests , priestcraft , and of middle-class government ,

      and that the complaints of the-Canadians and of the Irish spring from the same cause . Music and popular political songs were afterwards introduced . At the conclusion the assembly requested Mr . W . to delirer another lecture that day month ; on assenting , three tremendous cheers were given . Sixty additional individnalswere admitted members , and each undertook to propose another at fhe next meeting . We understand that the lectures are now in the press and about to be published in Welsh and Enelish .

      Bueakixg Sotjases . —John Brook a notorious character , who has been very frequently before the Magistrates on various charges , but who has always managed to escape without being committed , was brought before the Leeds Magistrates on Saturday last , charged with breaking several sqtaTes of glass in the house of a man named Harrison . He bad also a new silk handkerchief in his possession , of which he could give no satisfactory account . He again escaped , in consequence of Harrison not appearing against him .

      Assaulting a Policemas . —Joseph Handley was charged before the Leeds Magistrates on Saturday last , with assaulting a policeman , when endeavouring to take him into custody for creating a disturbance in ihe street Handley had been drinking at a beer-house , in Water-lane , in company with some others . Owing to his disorderly conduct , he was turned out of the house ; and when attempting to regain admission , was taken by a policeman , whom he violently assaulted . He was fined 20 s . and costs , and in default of payment was committed to Wakefield for one month . A Jew Outrogued . —On Friday morning week , a Jew named Jordan , living in York-street , appeared before the Magistrates of Leeds , to charge nis landlord named Brown , and a bailiff named Hartley with an assault . It appeared from the evidence that Jordan had for some time been a tenant

      of Brown , and that he was unwilling to leave the premises notwithstanding he had been frequently requested to do so . The landlord being nnable to obtain his rent , seized Jordan ' s little stock of furniture , amongst which was a medicine chest , by which Jordan obtained his living . An agreement was entered into between them and signed , by which it was stipulated that Jordan was to give up peaceable possession of the house on condition that his medicine chest was restored . The Jew being unable either to read or write , signed the paper by his mark , without knowing what it contained . When it was signed the landlord failed to fulfil its conditions , on- perceiving which Jordan also turned obstinate , and

      refused to give up possession of the house . The landlord and his bailiff proceeded shortly afterwards to make a forcible entry by demolishing the door . Jordan stated that when they got into the house by this means , they threatened " to murder him , the one holding a pickaxe , and the other a large poker over his head . He also complained of shameful usage towards his wife by the landlord and bailiff . His wife corroborated the statements . The landlord produced the agreement , in which , there was no mention of the medicine chest , and- the Jew avowed that they ' H written what they pleased on the paper after he H it , and that the signature to the blank'• . " "' from him through fear . The ¦ - <* the landlord had not medicine box should * he expenses of

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      THE NEW POOR LAW . TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES . s ' —To every humane reflecting mind the cruel results of tins Ke . w Poor Law become apparent in every comer of this vast metropolis and its suburb * it is an enl that requires to be looked at in detail in order to arrive at the full extent of the misery it produces ; and I feel confident if the police were examined on the subject that their experience would enable them to state innumerable cases of the most appalling character . Only last nidit , in walkin" home througliNewingtonButts , myattention was attracted ny the faiut wailing of an infant . I observed a policeman conveying a squalid group—a man , a yomi" female , and a young child—towards the station-house . I questioned him on the matter . The policeman , who seemed to be possessed of feelin " answered , that it was onl y one of those distres « ii ° « cases which so frequently occurred since the New Poor Law Act . " I found , " said he . "these nersr ™

      starving , as I believe . The inspector ordered me to bike them to the workhouse for shelter and support . or the night , but the parties at the workhouse refused it ; and I am now conveying them to thc-stariou-honse , rather than let tliem die iu tho streets , though we have no accommodation ; neither have we any means of providing them with the neces ? nrie « wmci they seem to refluire . " I gave the policeman a taile tor their temporary support during the nieht , winch of course I could not srud ge : but how W will this inhuman state of things b " e allowed to continue , and how far must private charity be taxed to prevent the sacrifice of even a few of theinmunera-Wtt victims to this iniquitous law ? Your obedient servant , L . . Newington , Thursday , Feb . 22 . I send you my name , and the number of the policeman ; but perhaps it is better not to point him out publicly .

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      Serious Accident by Fire . —Early on the morning of . Friday , the 9 th inst , a fire broke out in the dry-house or stove of Messrs . Helliwell& Co . ' s , bobbin-manufactory , at Pudsey , near Todmordenj which to . &ther with the mill , was at the time plentifully stored with wood , dried and prepared for use . The fire was notdiscovereduntil ithad communicated with the factory , which adjoins the dwellins-house , occupied by Mr . Helliwell ; such was the " rapidity of the destructive element , that it was with the utmost difficult } - that Mr . HelliwelFs children , ( six in number , under nine years , ) together with his wife , who at the time had ' only been confined about a fortnight of her youngest , were rescued from their

      perilous situation . . The mill , machinery , wood , and a large stock of ready made bobbins ; also the dwelling-house , and the whole of the furniture and wearing apparel of the family , ( excepting one suit of clothes belonging to ? , Tr . Helliwell , and a waistcoat belonging his partner , ) in little more than two hours were completely destroyed . The different members of the family have for the present , been taken into the houses of several humane individuals in the neighbourhood , and clothed , where they are to remain until some plan can be adopted to relieve them in their distressed situation . The amount of the daronge ( which is more than the partners were possessed of , ) is estimated at about £ S 00 , none of which was insured .

      Accident . —A serious occurrence took place at Messrs . John and Joseph Storer ' s colliery , at Ibstock , near Ashby-de-la-Zouch , in Leicestershire . Early on Thursday morning last , as Sanvnel Shaw , aged twenty-four , and John Rawson , aged twentytwo , colliers , were about to descend the old shaft , one hundred and thirty yards deep , at Ibstock colliery , each having got upon thebarrel and reaching out their candles to another who was holding a shovel with fire to light them at , the chain affixed to the barrel snapped , it is supposed in consequence of the effect which the frost had upon it , and precipitated them to the bottom of the shaft with a fearful velocity : their bodies were immediately drawn up , which were greatly bruised by the fall , and both of them dead .

      WRECK OF THE PACKET RANGER . Falkouth , Feb . 15 . —The fearful , tremendous liurricane which has prevailed from E . S . El for the last twenty-four hours along this coast , and , although partially subsuji'd , still blows a gale , has left behind it tokens of its visitation' in the wreck of her Majesty ' s packet Banger , - which packet broke from her moorings at five o ' clock A . m ., from which period , for three hours , guns were continually fired by her . The constant fall of hail and snow prevented its being known on shore what position the vessel was in , from which the reports were heard as signals for assistanre . On the weather becoming a little clear , she was discovered tohe the packet above mentioned

      , and an express soon after arrived at Captain Plumridge ' s to report the event . The sea had driven her broadside on the shore , under Trefusis-hill , on the spot where the Queen transport was lost some years ago . In a short space of time the coast was " lined with sailors belonging to the packets , with their officers , and the gallant commodore of the port ; who had hastened round to the point , about four miles distant from Falmouth , by land , and were engaged in saving her stores , &c . It is to be hoped that she will yt-t be able to be got off on the next spring tides , if the continuance of the recent gales does not shatter her frame . A man called Andrews was drowned .

      An instance of great intrepidity occurred to-day . When the wind was at its height , two men were seen on board a coal hulk in the harbour exerting themselves to the utmost in pumping her , and likewise a coal bag hoisted to a spar , indicating distress . It being known that the hulk was leaky , the circumstance was talked of among a erowd of persons who were looking on as one of the greatest peril , and unless the men were taken off immediately , that they would perish . At this moment , Lieutenant Field , R . N ., happened to " he passing , and on his bearing the circumstance , hastened to the pier and engaged a six-oared longboat , to attempt to rescue the poor fellows from destruction ; the gallant officer 1 ¦" '" boatmun with his pocket , but ~ H after very great " — 'tins the

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      WHOLESALE ASSASSINATION . We give in our present number another of those calm and sober , but yet searching and soul-harrowing letters , from Mr . Bowen a Guardian of the Bridgewater Union , to the Editor of the Times . In this letter the public is apprised of the denouement of the Hell Broth" tragedy in that Union . The horrible facts detailed in these letters , which have now , for three successive weeks , been re-published in the Northern Stor , should be made familiar to the mind and memory of every working man and woman in . the . three kingdoms . Wo have rep « atedly averred that no honest man ever could

      or would lend his assistance to the carrying into effect of the Poor Law Amendment Act , We have repeatedly avowed our conviction , that the spirit and tendency of this law was to enhance ami make permanent the thraldom of the industrious classes , by compelling them to give their labour on whatever terms the Middle-class Moneymongers might choo : e to oiler ; but we have here the most clear and damnable development of the soul paralysing . fact , that its object and intention is to provide the means of at once sweeping from the face of the earth the shoals of population , which , having been made redundant by a monopoly of the productive powers of machinery on the part of the rich , come to be regarded as a pecuniary burden b y the villains who have robbed + hem of the means of independence .

      These ate not the " ravings" of an " incendiary . " They are not the crude declamations of " those who are totally unacquainted with the subject on which they so loudly declaim . " They are not , in the honied phrase of the Leeds Mercury , tlie " gross fabrication of some of the hired purveyors of slander for the Anti-Poor Law agitators . " They are the deliberate statements of a gentleman of ur . hnpeached character , whose means of knowing the . facts which

      he details were of the best possible kind ; whose inclination to pervert or falsify any one of those facts , even if such an inclination had existed , must have been repressed by the knowledge that it was impossible to do so without instant detection and exposure ; and who affirms nothing but simple matters of fact , officially reported by the myrmidons of the system , referring continually for proof to their own record , of these facts in the several

      minutes of their own bonk ? . What , then , are the facts , detailed by this gentleman , himself a Guardian of the very Union in . which the occurrences took place ? Why that , in direct contravention and and defiance of the medical officers recommendations , a course of Dietary was enforced by the Guardians , at the bidding of the Commissioners , which , almost immediately , produced , among the wretched and helpless inmates , a loathsome infectious disease . He tells us , not on his own authority merel yj but also on that of the Governor of the workhouse , who in describing the effect of the gruel , said that—< : It did not affect the poor people so nincu at first , bit after the use of it for a fcw days thuv Wimn b-rriHt- li , , i ;? ,-. „

      tool it . It nflectejl them . upwards iind dowmvavils . All the war down the stana across the hull , and down tho garden U ' nit v l ? a oveiy ninn ™* , - » ni " « stench was horn-L 11 J ^ tte » mak"g ^ r ^ ffl a ^^^ _ " Tims a nauseous pestflenca appears to have pervaded the the wliole house , not cnhfinod to those who took the gruel , hut lmVctmgothers who were-obliged to breathe an atmosphere saturated with fetid exhalations . The family of the Governor were attacked ; the Governor himself , although previously a healthy and a powerful man , became unable to eo into the pawcre apartments without being violently affected , and the m « uical attendant , after repeated attacks ' of diarrtea . and temporary respites , was at length obliged to rclinonishhis post

      Such were the beneficial effects of the " gruel Boon " conferred on the poor by the illustrious Duke of Sussex , the infamous Brougham and the whole gang of Whig , Tory , and Sham-Radical Scoundrels who hatched , enacted and support the measure , out of which , these atrocities arise ! But then of course the " Guardians . "—the . humane and tender-hearted men whose business it is to see that" really deserving objects of charity "—the " aged , " the "infirm , " aui the "destitute" shall not be oppressed-of cmrose

      the " Guardians" the moment they ascertained ; the effect of this gruel to be- the production of a dangerous disease ordered ite - aiscontfnuan . ee ,. Did N ; y ? Hear Mr . Bovren . , . - ' ' "" hoZ ^ from th , ° mea ! cal officer ' - * «» Briage-3 on , P 1 g , that lle v lliia ' ¦ watdutf the effect of . 3 » n « d » yS i ' andthathehad ! j taCl \ , there ? u \ t , nittee , . ' as . producing d- . arrhoia . o "* ' nrdians to ' sai " " ' . v , - . ¦ ,, ii

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      *» tfSfo ^ ' ° ChUdrtlli kd ^ 0 ther 3 wts . " -75 ?! <* K desirea SWi' » ays an active and Jmmano mem-? w Ji . ¦ ^ toseommitteo , , ' .. to infonn-the medical officer & 1 ¦¦ 5 e ? l ? i / v £ r ? ? f *«« ' '

      . Thus" did the monsters styled Gjijtrdiitns of this union continue to ouu e r , the wretch ' cdyicfuns of their devilry throughout Jhe wholeiyear , to the conclusion bf , their term ofoffice . During , all this time , it is proved by their own books that the disease generated thereby , ' - and so fearfully described , by . their own paid . official , the governor , was still ragiag as the necessary consequence of their murderous pertinacity . Not content with thus , in due obedience to the commandu of the commissioners-,, murdering the wretched beings who had already fallen into their dutches , they persevered , —though w ai nauseous pestilence pervaded the whole house , . —not" confined to those who took the gruel , but infecting others , who were

      obliged tobreathe an atmosphere ; , saturated with fectid exhalations , "—though " the- stench was horrible all through the house , mating the people ill and sick who had not got the diarrhea , , " —they still persisted in consigning new applicants- for relief to all the hoTrors of this terrestrial hell . ' "During the whole awful period comprised Between the hrse death from diarrhoea , which took place in Sen&mbcr , to thn onU of , the following . March , the termination o " f ! the parochial year , the Board wilfully persevered in sondinitivregular succession ot helpless-vwtims to breathe the poisonouB'aunospnere or that pest-house , saturAted with the elfinvi »' of > putrid excrement , and to be GlttfEEtED in precisely the sitmo manner as that which had occasioned such extensive sufi ' crins . and produced sueh fatal results . " ¦ ¦ ' s

      By this horrid system Thirty Persons were Gp . UEI . LED O UT OF EXISTENCE , BY A PROCESS OF EXCRT / CTATING TOKHENT , IN MIXE MONTHS . And when , - after this appalling fact had been demonstrated to the new board , the snrgeon of the establishment , finding the disease still increasing , and knowing its cause recommended the use of rice and milk that recommendation being enforced , - in the strongest manner , by the Visiting Committee Mr . BowEN tells us

      that—So far were these sta tementa from eflecttna anv amelioration m the condition of the unfortunate inmates o ' ftho work-Iinnse , that THE RECOMMENDATION" OF T » E SURGEON V 4 S NOT EVEN PUT TO THE MEETING , ur uuy communication made to him on the subject . The matter was not only passed by as altogether unworthy of attention , but it was authoritatively declared from the chair , that a resolution ombodvin " such a recommendation cm < U not be entertained } that THE J'Kn CAL MAN HAD 00 X 15 OUT OF HIS COURSE IN MAKING bUCH A KKCOMMEXDATiO . Vj that , although it was emu , potent lor lnm tn proscribe diet for the sick , lie could not I *

      , permittee ! to make « x | -.-riinenta on the diet of those who were not actuall y on the list ; that the dietary was an important partul tho npuliitinu * of the Pour Law Commissionors , m , that theBoard mwht as w « : ll talk of alterim ; the l ' oor Law alb . gcthrr as ot making any .. Iteration in the dietary . The immutability ot thu Couimusioiwrs' dietary table beinf thus authoritatively propounded b y the Chairman , was reli&ntli received b y the Board as a legal decision on the subject . No vote wa * taken , and thus a number oflidplcs-i men . women and children , were DKUiiERATKiA * given VI TO thk vim ' TllKlt OPERATION Of THE FATAL UKUEL "'

      And it was not until Mr . Bowen as a Member of the Board , declared that , whatever mi ght be the consequences of invoking the wrath of the Commissioners , ho would not be longer associated with this system of wholesale murder—it was not until after many months of strenuous exertion on the part of others , and even six months after the medical attendant had solemnly called the attention of the Board to the fact , that tho Commissioners' gruel had produced a most distressing complication of

      diseases—it was not until alter this long and fri ghtful period of torture and death that a reluctant permission was extorted to abate the deadly nuisance . But , surel y , the Commissioners knew nothing of all this , or , if they did know they lost no timu in immediately putting forth their high authority , and unlimited powers , to investi gate the matter and bring the perpetrators of such fri ghtful enormities to justice . A pretty story , trul y , to expect that THEY should interfere for the punishment of those who , like good boys , did merel y as they-were bid . But did they not enr uirc into these matters ? Yes : truly , so testifies the letter

      in our present number . They sent down a " thing " in the shape of a tramping pauper named Robeut Weale , with full powers to empire into the truth of these awful allegations and to examine , on oath , either secretl y , or otherwise , all such witnesses as it might think necessary . And what sort of witnesses did it think necessary ? Did this tramping pauper compound of Judge , Jury , and Advocate , call before it ' any of the few surviving sufferers from the gruel ? Not one . Did it examine the nurses who , as long as nurses could be obtained , attended the wretched creatures who had died ? Not one of them . ' Did it examine the Matron , who was hourly among the sufferers , and had a full opportunity of judging of their respective cases

      having nearly sacrificed her own life to the discharge of her duty ? Not it . Did it think necessary the evidence of the humane Member of the Visiting Committee , by whose determined exertions a change of dietary had beeif accomplished ? No . Did it call for the evidence of the Medical Officer of the Establishment , Mr . King ,- who had seen the beginning of the gruel and the beginning of the disease , —who had watched the progress of the gruel and the progress of disease , —who had personally suffered from the infection—had pointed out the cause of it to the Guardians , and implored them to desist from their murderous career ? No this gentleman ' s evidence was not " thought necessary" by Mr . Weale . "

      What witnesses then did the " thing" examine upon this awful charge of wholesale murder against the administrators of the Poor Law ? Wh y it called the paid Clerk of the Board of Guardiansthe paid Governor of the Workhouse , and inasmuch as something in tho shape ¦ of Medical Evidence seemed to he- indispensible , it called a gentleman , who , when Mb . King was laid up of the disease which he had caught in the Hell-hole , had occasionally officiated for him in his absence ! Arid what is the recorded testimony of these carefully selected witnesses ? Why Mr . Poole , that gentleman who occasionally attended as Medical Officer , swears that— .

      "Amongut the inmates at that time , there were many diseased persons , and during the prevalence of disease , and in a very sickly season , he considered the house ir « s ( oo thhkln inhabited , and , to this , addml to the dielanj then in use , he attributes the prevalence of diarrha > . " ¦ ' Now , we ask if any case can be more clearl y established against the accused parties , than their own witness here establishes this case against the Poor Law Administrators ? The same witness being sworn before the Guardians also distinctly said that "He attributed the sickness that prevailed in the house to the dietary that was then used . "

      This seems to have somewhat staggered the " Board" and " the thing" for they are Tvavyv enough not to ask . either of the next witnesses a sin- - gle question of any importance " . The Clerk of ., the Union , who was ; the next witness , tried to -u ^ set Mr . Poors testimony of the house being overcrowded , during the prevalence of dfeeas- e , by deposing that , at the formation of the Un ' . on , th % buildiaf commute © had reported th * hou ^ e c ' ap fxVTp of hd'j ing 140 inmates , while tVJ re na <\ ^ aty neen } '¦ paupers in it , but not a ' g ^ g ie wor'A does , he , ji j about the gruel ar its effects , the goverr / , , flw workhouse wa' ^ ft ( j next maa wn minea : FV ie , the thing - t : hatne had hee ^ fivetimea ; V attac with the dis _ i i '¦¦ wiui had fo . such

      ' __ .. ^ _ >* -u «« - ' roe wr ^ ^^ , h&V / qc . in ] E f ^) . af ' e ; « TStw 6 " d \ 4 " not think ' ifc ¦ „ ¦ « ; fiarj- _ tfj e' ^ f rcml him . any opinion . of what gav rise to ^ a ^ ease , The GuardiWo - -were m ^ " gfjous ' ini -ftve , " Xftfcttet . ttw » " thje thing v -f sy ; ' lcn 6 vfin t 5 i W' ' . ' ^ eV )^ at * & governor A **' ' ; tan& » tl" ' l pot much himself , asked wh av ^^ i * - ^**" " " i . -r

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      case , had been occasioned V . ^ SHgrff teSdi and this too , knowing that that person had . befor ^ declared the infectious' " stet ich" to be horrible all over the house . . "" ' . . ' " , ' \ . , ' . , "But , ' , saw Mr . BoWfrt , « although no suchmatter araufcrj on the record , Mr . Govei-, Ihe Governor ,- aserts that wl 5 * w was examined on oath , by Mr . WeaiI / at the PWl \ ^ . ¦ naafter ^ ri . « ttta , i ^ rfGi £ SiS ^|^" SS& STATED THAT THERE WAS 1 * 0 DOUBT ' OF THE ; » uS £ HAVIKG iSEEN OttWSIONBD BY Tim GRt ™ S ™ J HOUSE WAS SO FAB INFECTED THAT NO 1 S . ™ , ! "f HIRED TO ATTEND THE SICK AUn DYING xl'IvV ^ tp AND THAT HE WAS COXSEQUESTLV ORI . rpri ?™ ln * ' HIMSELF , - AND THA'JT IN THE PihFOBVu v « ° D 0 IT DOTY HE CAiJGHT THE SuSoA WB ^ ffi ™ AT

      Upon this'startling statement , Mr , Bowen well observes : — ! "I 1 Mr > G ? t state ftkV not oneworS of which •««<<««» onthe-recora , then has this A . ^ utant , Commoner SEE *' ' evid e nce BiyoH- . on oath , and witlvheld AatemenfiTMS otwhicb t . Wfe , fortuimtely for-mankind , batfewexaSs ; But suppose Gnver has wrongful ^ made the atrave stSenf - —sflppoae nfflaboiinr under some- hallucination—was never asked , arid did not state anything to the above eGoet- ^ ftmposeall ttao , and wfiut follows ? Why , that a public functionary holding a confidential and lucrative appointment , speciaite ' directed by his superiors to institute- an enquiry iato certain : : allegations ; betrayed the trust Teposod in him , by not asWnir ' one question on thfpiiiioipal subject which he wasspeciaUy v delegated to enquire into , ' >'

      Let " the thing-- " then impale himself upon ? which horn of the dilemma he pleases . Either he ' wilfully antfinowiiigljrsuppressed evidence , given onouth , calculated to estatilisli the charge of wholesale " marder against himself and his employers , and ac- ' complices , or lie wilfully and wickedly betrayed the * i most'important trust that eaald have been confided " to any human being .-Here is a sta t ement horrible enough to make ' every linir of every man ' s-heaet who reads if stand * upright ; - here are charges of the most' horrid ,, syste- - ; ¦ matie , delihcr ' ate , and . intentional mUrdeb ,

      suh-; stantiated-by evidence of so irrefragable a character , * - ; that the araftiest , the most wary , and most valorous ' | of the thre ? -headed Davil King ' s specially selected " ¦ agents dares not to face- it—but takes shelter behind : the villanous-redoubt which despotism furnishes , and 1 ^ declares th at'to he unproved , the procf of which he lias not'dare&to seek , or , having found , has dared to- ' : smother . Ani-yet tlie commissioners exist , as commissioners ! and yet this " thing '' is allowed to' ; dip his unholy fingers deep into the public purse . t ' and yet the people of this ill-starred ,- despotridden country arc baae , mean , - crouching--slaves enough- to bear- it ! ! ! Heaven

      grant us patience , or take away our . powers of reflec--tion , for it is enough to drive one mad to 'think of ! Will the veracious Editor of the Leeds Mercury tell us that these are " the gross fabrication of some of the hired purveyors of slander for the New Poor Law Agitators ? "' Will he dare to rank this 1 among the- numberless misrepresentations pufc lished in the Times of the New Poor Law ? " If ' so , we shall be most happy to see his disproval of the facts alleged by'Mr . Bovten ; for that is the only means of getting his friends out of the mes ? ..-"We hope our contemporary has seen the letters in iiuestion ! but , lest he should not have seen them , we shall take the liberty of handing him copies of '

      the Northern Star in which they are reprinted . We have observed our contemporary to have a particular fancy for reprints , especially on this question for we find tlie most pungent of his comments , those on the Great Meeting at Barnsley ,. to have referred to the reprinted report of that meeting in the Times , rather than to the original report in tlie Northern Stur . There is no harm in the fancy of our Mercurial neighbour , and we are ¦ very happy to have an opportunity of gratifying it .-In commenting upon that meeting , the Mercury unhesitatingly gives the lie to one of the speakers ,. Mr . Crabtree , who " had asked whether the tearing of the beautiful white babe from the breast of its distracted mother in the Bast ties of our own .

      country , was not au act ot atrocity to . be regretted .-and lamented !" Now , whether Mr . ChabtREE be in a condition to prove that any such fact as this ever took place in England , we , of course , cannot know , though we suspect there would he no difficulty at all in the matter ; hut we do know that the letters of Mr . B ow E N to which we request our contemporaries most especial attention , prove facts a thousand times more awful ,. and we fear that the Mercury will find it a much , easier task to say that they are false than- to prove them so . Talking cf the Barnsley Meeting ,,

      we perceive that our contemporary has obtained some information telegraphically , or otherwise , respecting other circumstances connected with that meeting , the truth of which , but for our nei ghbour ' s universally known veracity we should have been in- clined to dispute . But we will not suffer minor matters to occupy our attention at so important a . moment . The Mercury scouts the idea of a mother - being separated from her infant child under the New-Poor Law Act , and exclaims , " As if such-an event had ever taken place iii this country , and . were not the gross fabrication of some of the hired purveyors

      of slander for the Anti-Poor Law agitators . " Now ,, we challenge the Mercury to . show us by reference to the Poor Law Amendment Act thai ) such , an event might not take place under the provisions of that Act . If he can do this , then his censure of Mr . Chabtree is just—if not , it is at best rash-, and undeserved . We are sorry to see fife . Mercury . * exhibit on this great subject a temper , so- 'Tery different to that blandness of manners aadifcrndness ofV demeanour which we know him to ex ^ ibijt in private .-life . We give our neighbour credit for . ( - an attachment to the New Poor Law , as sineeru , as is our

      own detestation of that measure ; and we have been : somewhat surprised , knowing our neighbour ' s talent to be equal to his honesty , to nni' . on looking over ¦ " his attacks , on what he is pleased t o ternii the "Poor Law A gitators" that , they consist-of ' purely personal and /_ general vituperation .. Wehave never yet serai in our , contemporary ' s , columns one sins le attempt at argument . upon this subject ; i ' nor one ' . - single effort at saying any one thini g in favoui ' v of the lam whose * denunciation so- sorf / Jy vexes--. his : irascibility-.- Did . we love the New Foer Law . as , dearlv as we

      believeour neighbour to >! love it ,,, we : should' regreitfhis , because common nr fads wsilcl be apt to conclude that : that must bfr 7 / jad indeed which has nob . the , gooi ; word of its ; b «/ , t friends . Wo hope , therefore ,. for ? our ContemW rary's own credit , and fosthat . ofhis-i friends , . ancL / for that of ; the law he so hi ghly vege-.. rates ,, that' / fle will forthwith proceed to rescua-his darling ; fr / ira th « paw of the " ineo , Qdiaries ., the . " storm ; ¥ / , ras , " and the " agitators , " by shewing to , b'is- nniuy jr 0 Us readers wherein the . i . eal advantages ; of this ;}/ aw do lie .. The Mercury has no sincerer-¦ frien dsy ^ an the Editor of the Northern Star ,, nor' , wquW / , any one be more sorry thrvu we should be to ..

      'be ey jmpelledto draw the inference th&Vour neig h--' ^ ov / r was either willingly supporting that which he > , **/ lieves to be wrong or incapable of . ^ fending that y ,-hich he believes to be rigjht . I Longas this article is , we cannotret conchule with , ' I out one word upon tho unusual tone of -exultation - ' ' assumed by fne " Me . rcH ^ " aV the' result of Mr , ^ ' Fieldbh ' b motion .. Italics , small capitals , and 03 notes of admirations , wer e made to assume all but ^ living powers o . f expressi on . Every type in our ^ neighbour ' s cas , es seemed to dance with joy that ° Mri Eieldet had found only 17 supporters in tho

      thi & or . di « * , ed Houseof Co . mmons . To our mind tius proves only he wbatwe w ; il know , that the House of Commons ^" repr esents , any thing but the interests and opinions ? e of the British people , and is , therefore , a »» f «™ > re argume ; jt in the absence of all others for u ?»™ > . " - s ^ ffr af , . - Our Contemporary thinks 9 *^; , ^ Ud lhas bright to do so ; but we must « £ * £ ¦ £ , „ $ \ tie- of o . rgument w ould hate p leased us Pette ^ } br Vbii mnte exptessions of delig ht .

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      CLASSIFICATION OF PARLIAMENTARY .- . AND OUT-DOOR PARTIES . ' Whigs ; there is the . old-constitutional ^ Whig ; the «* M 8 « Udicai-tanied hWhig ; the- finally-Reformed Whi g ; -the . Conservative Whig ; " the expectant Wbi g ; the ^ oianytTu % t 6-st T ay-m Whig ; and the gone-far-enough : Whig .. The easy-going , place-hunting Devil-may-eare / Whig ; •; Tories : there is ¦ the church , or ' giorioug-pibus-andlmm ortal-menibry Tory ; the landed-ascendancy , church-clipping , , tithe-transferring Tory ; the Conservative Tory ; the spiteful Tory ; the dorany-thingto-put-the-Whi gg-out Tory ; the do-any-thing-to-g ' etm-Tory ; the strong-side Tory ;; and the Devil-maycare Tory . Radicals Parliamentary : J . Fielden , T

      'ihomas Wakley ,,, GtTa . J" 6 hnson Vand the . Hon . Col . Butler . Out-door-Radicals : every Wkirig-man in in England ,. Ireland , and . Scotland . Out-door Agitators r there is the old-Tump-of-the-tranfef-6 f-power party , or those who are satisfied with the change of power from Tory to Whig hands ; ' there is the shoot ct scion from the old rump , consisting of step-by-step , 'bit- and-bit Reformers ; the pedantiemetaphysical-fop , who called himself the judicious Reformer and gives us the benefit of his day-dreams and night-mare ravings , who directs attention" to impossibilities in the hope of diverting the people from the right scent ; the : noviee-whovputs-himselfunder-tutelage-of-some-sage-ol-the-old-r « mp , with a promise of mowing down the Radical ranks with a

      feather , or of marshalling them-with a goose quill men who usually know nothing of the people , but who endeavour to judge of the present political season , by the old Almanack-history -what Bronterre calls the squad from which the press indiscriminately recruits without much reference to political bias . Then there . is , the parlour ' or pot-va 5 iant agitator , who meets the elite of the party in 'd ozens and legislates for nations . There is the Corporation * Whig-Demagogue , and the Dinner-Whig-Spouter ; then there is the paid-Platform-Agitator : the vain and idle declaimer ; the jealous-that-he-cannot-speak teeth-gnasher , and the bold , \ mpaid , unflinching , untiring advocate of

      popular riehts . Then comes the Press ; first , there is the Whig paper , with a hall-radical Editor , trying to kecp _ the people in good humour with Whiggery , while it professes to admire Radicalism , if its day was come , but which it will take care never shall come : there is the all-liberal paper , that would give the people every thing , if they were prepared to receive it , by a system of national education : there is the OM-Maids ' -don ' t-ab . rm-us ^ or Jim Crow paper : there is the paper belonging to a Tory , with a Whig Editor who squeamishly angles with a bite of Whig-Radical bait upon his hook : there is the Millers ' -Dog paper : the I' 11-abuse-yonif-you-don't-give-me-plaee paper : the Buy , or the Enemy-will-have-me paper—and a very , very few Democratic papers . : .

      Poor-law Logic—At a recent meeting of the Poor Law Guardians , application was made b y a woman , about seventy years of age , for relief . Inquiry was made what family she had . Her reply was that she had two sons , one a ' shepherd , the other a labourer , and that th ' ey were very good to her in paying her rent . She was considered nol a fit object for relief , on the ground that her sons ought to support her ; and a small allowance was made to her , with the declaration that her sons' wages would be attached for her support . Another woman of above seventy years of age also applied , who had a son who lodged in her house , who was not of good character . In this case it was prononneed . tbat the aged woman was not a fit object of relief , because she had this son under her rGof and an allowance was made only on condition that she got rid of him . So that it seems that aged and infirm people are equally unentitled to relief , if they have childr en whether these be good or bud ' . —Lincoln Gaxrttr .

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      PROGRESS OF SOCIAL REFORM . DeJ . r 5 ir , —I hasten to forward to you the gratifying int eJ'gence , for the .. information , of -your f ellow-lahourers' ^^ social friends , that ' . the . sum * 1 advised you 6 f a & ^ time since , of one hundred pounds being place ' d in the hands of our committee f or the purpose of promoi ? . ' ? the social system , is increased b y a further sum of n . « e hundred pounds , making now the sum of one thousand pounds , which is placed in the hands of myself and' committee to aid your society when you commence to rent land ; but the . magnitude of the sum , and the ca'ntion of v ! P ? J fi 6 s w ^ ° have subscribed it , have led them to the adoption of a systematic plan of operate , which you will find fully stated in the resolutions I send you . - .-.. ¦¦ , PROGRESS OF 11 7 ^\ T \ I I I l ' l " l ""

      I shall forward the five pounds alluded to in the second resolution , in the first week in March , and I remain . Dear Sir , Yours most trul y , ' W . D . SAULL . lo , Aldersgate , London , 3 rd Feb ., 1838 . The following are the resolutions referred to : — 1 st . —That this society adopt the name of the Educational Friendly Society . " 2 nd . —That five pounds be sent , on the first of March next , to Mr . Fleming , towards the auxiliary fund of the " National Community Friendly Society . "

      3 rd . —That this society , impressed with the conviction that no establishment can confer a more complete and correct education than a social community , do advance twenty shares of fifty pounds each , to an equal share of meritorious individuals of either sex , anxious to join the above community , but who may not have that sum at their disposal . 4 th . —That with the view of promoting the earliest establishment of the National Community , these shares be advertised in the New ' Moral World , and that all candidates do forward written particulars { post paid ) respecting their qualifications , to W . D . Saull , Treasurer to the Educational Friendly Society , No . 15 , Aldersgate-Street , London .

      5 th .--That all applicants approved by a committee of three members of this society , and voted in according to the 12 th . rule of the National Community , shall be among the first members drafted on the land , on condition . of returning to this society the amount of the shares advanced to them , in conformity with the 19 th rule of the said National Community . Gth . —That as long as the shares shall not be disposed of , the members of this society shall be entitled to withdraw their respective subscriptions , and that in every such ease , the amount withdrawn and the motive for withdrawing it shall be published in tlie New Moral World , but the interest shall invariably be acquired to this society . —New Moral World

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      ML « L " ' " and jVIarch 3 , 1838 . - ^ gg ^ —* j ¦ , ¦ ] f . ^ . ffi Mi ! BENmiikite nn-y $ . erat ! " 'Tf ^' " ^ ' '' '" " ""^^ ' T ^ ^* - ^— - ¦ >*¦ - * ' - ' - - ¦ ^•^ ¦ ¦^ ^ ^' . ¦ - - , --- ; - ¦ -. .-3 ,,- , .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 3, 1838, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct995/page/3/