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      UONMOVTH . Fobgbb tbt WHei _£ SA _ . —Heniy New , aged 32 , . „ _* a marked in the calendar as able to read and _S imperfecfly- a respectable-looking sort of * «? _wasT indicted for uttering-, on ibe 31 st of ' flJfn " . t aQ t at Wincncombe _, ia Gloucestershire , to _•^ Thomas _Higgins Brydges , a forged note , for % _SSing _fbeanotlof _theBankofEnga Tt was proved that the prisoner -went up to _if - Rrvd _* _-es at the " _vFinchcombe fair on the above-* Wr _i _*?„ _i «? dav and was anxious to bay a horse v h that --entleman-ha d toseU ; but he having _-SSSm-fl * prisoner for along time , and thinking J ? , twv unlikely person to buy a horse , was dis-* r « Jto show off the merits of his animal . There _* onnther n-an with the prisoner , and the latter _*•* " ! a * a it was & r this person he wanted him . If Swot-Id not sell at their offer , and rode Biyog _**** , _f 0 ] j owe _j bjr the prisoner _* _* 1 _JdrteTdoor . The prisoner offered £ 6 10 s . ; _^ _^ _Pcntor wa nted-eiO _. bnt at last said if the a _" r would fetch the money , he would seU the _f t £ " The prisoner affected not to have the " norse nnd said he would go to his principal for it , _j about 1 W arua _wwarusi me iair ior

      _cuuu- , _^ _jjy y " _•""^ twined purpose of getting it . The prosecutor -the R _^ _nf _W observed that , he went into the ' _*? _fTn-i for some five minutes , spoke to no cine , - _^ _% wreturned aud produced a £ 10 note , ont or " _^ _K rosecutor took his change , and gave _trhieh thc f « bai anCe . The latter then said the _F"f j _* , * - nothing by the transaction , as he f _^ 1 _¥ J 1 Mend , and asked ihe prosecutor to treat houg _htOTj _^ s 0 to the extent ofa shilling "him- an rfup parted , and the prisoner afterwards fm % » horle in the fair . In a few days the pro-- _*« _discovered that the note was a forgery , and _^ iZa . _-Twarrant against the prisoner but he was 0 _««« ted till last January . In order to show _rt , t he ' knew the note was a forgery , it was J & that on the 23 rd of that same month of _S _?^ h he nassed off another note , for £ 5 , to a Miss _S _^ _w * dr aper and hosier , at Stockport , in / fire * and another £ 5 note on tlie 26 th of that th to ' a Mr . Woolley , a chemist , in the same ? _ktT When the officers went from _Worcestershire to arrest him at Birmingham , they were t

      j nwred * _j V a brother oi nis , ana as , ney came near _Ihfinn where they had learnt lie was staying , lie _«™ © ut dressed in a smock frock , looked round , l _^ be' _-an to mn ; but tbey soon overtook him , ' _™ s nnder the smock froek they found a complete _SS of black . He waa found " Guilty , " and a "rrl _focs conviction for felony at the Gloucester _Jessions was proved a _** ainsthim .-Mr . Cooke then said that he was instructed to prosecute him for four distinct acts of uttering , within a period of two hours inthe town of Monmonth , four £ 5 notes , -nnrnortm" to be notes of the Old Abergavenny and

      Sfonmou th B « nk —ms Juorasnip sain , under tne circum stances , it would be unnecessary to go on with those cases , and therefore sentenced him to he _tr ansported for life . It appeared that he had met with extraordinary success in passing off the for _** _eriC 5 ofthe Old Bank in this county . He began in Abergavenny , and circulated several there . While the coach stopped to exchange horses at the little village of Ragland , he contrived to change two of them . "He reached Monmouth hy that coach at two in the afternoon , and before eight o clock , when he went off by the mail , he had passed off upwards of sixteen of them at various shops under pretence of buying Borne articles , though all he purchased might have been bought for £ 1 . In shor t , the forgeries on the Old Bank passed of by him and his fellows within a few days in this district , in -which the notes of this bank are chiefly circulated ,

      -exceeded £ 2 , 000 . . .. , , _Bubglaut- — Henry Wilkins . was indicted for "burglary in the house of Mary Jenkins , at TJsk , in -this county , on the night of the 30 th of October last . It appeared from the testimony ofthe _witnesses that the prosecutrix kept a pnblic-honse in the town of -TJsk , in the parlour of which was a table with a draw containing a quantity of silver spoons , money , and other articles . Adjoining the p arlour was the tap-room , where the prisoner had partaken of refreshment on the morning preceding the night when the offence was committed . When there he had the opportunity of seeing the prosecutrix go to the table to proeure change for a

      customer _. About three _o clock in the morning of the 31 st a carpenter of the name of Simeon Trotman , ¦ who was watching his timber-yard , situated opposite to Mrs . Jenkins ' s public-house , hearing a noise in an orchard next to his yard , went there and found the prisoner standing near a table with the drawer broken , and a silver spoon in his hand . A violent struggle ensued between them , in the course of which the prisoner , who was much the stronger man , dragged Trotman a considerable distance , heat him " severely , endeavoured by twisting his -neckcloth to choke him , and thrust into his month

      a quantity of manure , during which process , however , Tronnan got the prisoner ' s finger between his teeth and bit it off . Trotman , however , gallantly secured his prise . The table , with its drawer and its contents , which the prisoner , when disturbed , wa 3 inspecting , were proved by Mrs . Jenkins to have been the same that were in her parlonr on the Bight of the 30 th ult / when she retired to bed . The prisoner cross-examined the witnesses , and addressed the jury at considerable length , bnt "was found " Guilty , " and transported for ten years—The learned Judge awarded Trotman the sum of £ 5 for his gallant conduct .

      The Moxsioexhshihe Bank Foboebt . — "William Morgan was indicted for three distinct utterings of forged hank notes of the Monmouthshire Bank , on the 22 nd September last , at Bristol , with intent to defraud James Pillers , Charles Taylor , and Charles B . Stock . —Thejury found the prisoner " Guilty , " and the Judge , in passing sentence , said that the case was a clear plot , and that unless it was visited * sith severity no tradesman wonld be safe . It was clear tbat the prisoner was conneetei with a Birmingham gang of forgers , who simultaneously set out at _ite * same moment to pass the forged notes at a time when detection was most difficult His lordship sentenced him to 15 years' transportation .

      LIVERPOOL . The St . He _ s " s Savisgs Base Defaulters . — John Johnstone-, aged 53 , the actuary of ihe St . Helen ' s Savings Bank , and "William Johnstone , aged 42 , the under-seeretary of the same hank , * were "brought up for judgment on the charge of having conspired together to retain and use the monies of the depositors of the bank to their own profit , contrary tothe Savings Bank Act , to which they pleaded " Guilty . "—The Attorney-General said , there was one fact of which his Lordship ought to be informed , and which did not appear on

      the depositions—namely , that the younger prisoner had heen in his brother ' s service from the age of 16 until the year 1843 , when the younger prisoner succeeded him at tbe bank as nnder-secretary , and all the defalcations occurred before that period . —His Lordship , in passing sentence , said , it was distressing to see two persons who had borne excellent characters , and had moved in a respectable sphere , _"brought np to receive the sentence of the court for having committed a misdemeanour . His Lordship then sentenced each to be imprlsosed in Lancaster Castle for six months , amongst the first class "misdemeanants .

      Assaclt bt Two _PoiicEHES . —Two policemen , Sheridan and Page , were charged with using a cutlass and making a violent assault , at Bootle , upon Mr . Eilshaw , on the 22 nd of January . —John Kilshaw , timber dealer , Bootle , the prosecutor , sworn , said : On the day named I was at the house of Mr . _Hoghes _, publican , Bankfield-terrace , Bootle . "Was lather drunk . There was a disturbance in the house . I was holding one ofthe men , Dood , to prevent Lim fi ghting . The police -were sent for , and I walked away alone . I saw the two prisoners with Dodd in custody . They asked my name and his , and then released him . Dodd and I went back to the public-house , as he had left his hat behind him . "We

      then went to my lodgings . I heard a knocking at the door ahout ten minutes after I had got home . I did not go to the door . I was just then going to the timber-yard . I stopped at the stable-door to listen if all was quiet . Dodd followed immediately after . Whilst I was listening the prisoners came op , and asked Dodd to go along with them . I followed as far as my own door , ami said I wiU go in . "The prisoner , Page , then struck at me with his -Stick , knocking off my hat , and hitting me on the Lead . He was ahout striking again , when I took hold of the stick and held it against his breast , asking him what he struck me for , and what he -wanted . He made no reply , bnt commenced kiek--Isgme ahout tte legs . The prisoner , Sheridan , then came and struck me with his stick . In defending-myself from the blows Sheridan was eivin _? . his

      Stick broke over my arm . Page then said , " Draw yonr cutlass . " Sheridan drew his cutlass , and 1 received a . blow on the head which laid me senseless in the entry . I was confined to bed for a week . — This was the material evidence for the prosecution . The witnesses called were Mrs . Caldwell ( with "Whom Mr . Eilshaw lodges , the servant girl , a _Nei ghbour , Mr . Cookson , and Mr . Matthew Gosling , the _stn-geon . The latter gentleman deposed to the oxtent of injury which Mr . Kilshaw had received . 3 _* here were two large scal p wounds on his head , whieh did not appear to have been inflicted with sticks . —Mr . Sergeant "Wilkins addressed the jury tor the prisoners . —The jury retired , and , after an absence of two hours , returned into court with a rerdict of " Guilty . " Sentence-Twelve months ' _znprisonment-with hard labour .

      KINGSTON . Isdicimksx toe Maksueghieb -. William Trigg , drayman , 36 , was indieted for the manslaughter of Tho _*^ _Philhps .-It appeared from the evidence for the prosecution , that the prisoner was in the service of a brewer at Kingston _and on 25 th _oflastAngust he was atDitton , on his way home witha dray , _whenmeetrng with tw » young Wnen £ _Qfte * r < M _gwugafte Bans _"fiKcjJMi , lis iwited

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      them to ride , and they accepted the offer , and got upon ihe dray . Thedeceased came up at-the time , and . he also insisted upon riding , and after some demur , the prisoner allowed him to do" so . It would seem that the deceased was very drunk at the tune , and he began to abuse the prisoner , and made use of very bad language , and called him a bar three times . At length , after a great deal of angry altercation , the deceased jumped off the dray and challenged the prisoner to come down and fight , and , after some hesitation , it appeared thathe got off the dray , and -when he had done so he observed that the deceased had alarge flint stone in his hand , ¦ which he appeared to he in the act of throwing at him , bat , before he did so , the prisoner snatched one of the iron pins from the dray and struck the deceased with it , and knocked him down . He remained insensible for some time * , and when the

      prisoner saw the consequences of his act , he expressed great sorrow and washed the deceased's face , and did all he could to restore him . The deceased was ultimately removed to Kingston , where he was attended b y Mr . Ellis , and also by Mr . Roots , two medical gentlemen living in that town , and he died on the following Thursday from the effects of the injury inflicted upon him by the prisoner . —Several witnesses gave the prisoner an excellent character for general humanity and good conduct . —Mr . Sergeant Gazelee summed up , and the jury found the prisoner guilty ef manslaughter , but at the same time strong ' y recommended him to the merciful consideration of the court . —The learned judge said in passing sentence that , taking into consideration the imprisonment he had already undergone , he shonld only order him to be further imprisoned without hard labour for one calendar month .

      Charge of Manslaughter . —Thomas Day , 22 , George Beden , 23 , and William Clark , 23 , were indicted for the manslaughter of Eli Wing . —It appeared that on the nig ht of the 24 th February , the prisoners Beden and Clark had the charge of a four-horse waggon _belonging to a carrier at Godalming named Holden , and that they were on their way to London . As they were on their road towards Kingston , two men named Carter and Dyer got into Day ' s cart , and another man named Bishop got into the one driven by Holden , and after they had gone through Esher-gate , Holden gave Beden four-pence halfpenny to pay the Robin Hood gate , which was the next towards London . The whole ofthe vehicles stopped at the Fighting Cocks ,

      public-house , at Kingston , where the prisoners and the other men had some beer and gin , and they set off again on their way to London about twelve o ' cloek at night , and almost every thing that occurred after that must be left to conjecture . The unfortunate deceased , it appeared , was the toll collector at the Robin Hood gate , and , according to the evidence of a person who lived in a cottage close by , about the time when the three vehicles would have arrived at the gate , the noise ofa violent altercation was heard between the deceased and the parties npon the road , who refused to pay the toll , and a good deal of bad language was made use of , and shortly afterwards the carts were heard to drive off . Very soon after this occurred a

      police-constabie who was on duty on the Kingstonroad , and going in a direction towards the gate , met the waggon and the van coming towards Trim , and shortly after they had passed he met a cart driven by the prisoner Day , going very fast , and soon after it had gone on , he observed upon going near to the toll-gate the body ofthe deceased lying in the road , and he turned him over and he died almost immediately . Upon an examination of the body it became quite evident that the death was occasioned by the deceased having been run over , several ribs being broken , the spinal column also severely injured and the lungs lacerated , and almost instantaneous death must necessarily have been the result of these injuries . Upon seeing what had

      occurred the police promp tly went in pursuit of tbe prisoners and succeeded in coining np with them at Wandsworth , and they were taken into custody . It appeared that some of the party were asleep at the time , and they all professed entire ignorance of anything wrong having happened . When the matter was subsequently inquired into before the magistrates , however , it sppeared that Day made a statement to the effect that when he got to the turnpike at the Robin Hood , and pulled out his money to pay , Beden , the driver of the waggon , called out that he had paid for him , and he then said he would not pay a second time . The toll collector refused to let him pass through , and a quarrel ensued , and the deceased laid hold of his

      horse ' s head , and he plunged forward nnd threw him down , and the wheel went over him . These were the principal points produced in evidence against the prisoners , but there was no direct testimony to show in what manner the occurrence actually took place . —The prisoners were acquitted . Muedeb . —Thomas Denny , 32 , was indicted for the wilful murder of a certain _unbaptised male child hy stabbing it in the throat with an awl . —A woman named Eliza Tarrant was originally included in the charge , but the grand jury ignored the bill against her . —The facts of this atrocious case will be seen by the following evidence . —James Denny , a son ofthe prisoner , was then placed in the witnessbox to be examined . He stated that he wa 3 eight

      years old . —Mr . Justice Maul put some questions to him with a view to ascertain whether he could properly be examined upon oath . He stated that he could "" say hisAB C , hut he did not go to school . He appeared to he an intelligent child for his years ; and the learned Judge eventuall y decided thatthe oath should he administered to him , and that his evidence should he taken . —He was accordingly examined . He said , the prisoner is my father . Eliza Terrant used to live with my father . We all lived together in the hayloft at Ewell . I recollect Eliza Tarrant having a baby . I went to my father when it happened , and told him to come home directly , as mother was very 31 , and he did so . When we got back I saw Eliza Tarrant lying in the loft , with a

      haby by her . My father took up the baby in his arms . He then took up an awl . [ Here the poor child became much affected and cried bitterly , and it was some time hefore be could proceed with his testimony . At length he went on . ] My father took up the awl , and killed the baby with it . My father then took the child to Eliza -Tarrant , and asked her if he shonld make a coffin for it . Before he said this he asked her if she would hel p to kill it , and gave her the awl . She did try to kill it also . My father gave her the child and the awl , and she did the same to it thathe had _uwve . I was very much frightened at what I saw , and ran away , and when I came hack I found Eliza Tarrant in bed . — Cross-examined : While my father has been in

      custody I have been in the Union Workhouse . I could not say my alphabet when Iwas first taken to the workhouse . I can say the Lord ' s Prayer . [ He did so at the request of Mr . Clerk . ] My mother taught me the Lord ' s Prayer . My father made the coffin the day after he killed the baby . I did not tell this story till after I had been in the workhouse . I am sure Eliza Tarrant did something with the awl to the baby ' s throat . —Eliza Tarrant , the woman referred to , was then called as a witness . She appeared to he very weak and ill , and it was found necessary to allow her to be seated while she was giving her testimony . She deposed as follows : •—I am a " single woman , and for the last two years I have been living with the prisoner as his wife . He

      was in the service of Mr . Moore , who was a farmer , in August last , and we occupied one of his lofts . I was delivered of a child in that month . Before I was delivered I bad bought a piece of cotton print to make clothes for the baby , and the prisoner tore it , and threatened me , and made use of very bad language , and said tbat I should not have the stuff to make up for the baby . This was about a month before the child was born . I had bought the print with money of my own which I had saved . The child was born on the 16 th of August . On the morning of that day I had taken the prisoner his breakfast , and when I returned I became very ill , and soon afterwards I was delivered , ifo one was present at the time but the prisoner ' s son , and I

      sent him to fetch his father , and they both returned together . When the prisoner came into the loft , I was laying upon some hay witb the child , and he came and took up the child , and carried it tothe other end of the loft , and I saw him hurt it . There were several awls in the loft , and the prisoner took np one and stuck into the child ' s throat . I was lying down at the time . I saw the awl again the same day . "Very soon after this Mrs , Trigg and Mrs . Dunford came into the loft , and the child was taken away . —Cross-examined : Prisoner had been a shoemaker , and he used to mend his own shoes . He used to make drills and other agricultural machines , and frequently mended the straps belonging to them . Before we went to Mr . Moore ' s we had been living at different public-houses for two or three months . It wasonaSnnday that I was at work upon the print , and the prisoner told me that Mr . Moore was a strict religious man and that he should _f-et into

      trouble if 1 continued at it . TMb was the reason wh y he was angry . The prisoner came to the loft in a very few minutes after I had sent for him . His back was turned to me when he went awav with the child . I was charged with this offence myself , and I made a statement to the policeman who took me into custody . This was not my first child . I had another three or four years ago . when I _vvas in the Hartley-row union , Hampshire . 14-4 n 0 * _; * - _, w the prisoner at that time . That child died of water on the brain . About a week ago I expected to be tried on this charge myself . —Several other witnesses having been examined , Mr . Justice Maule summed up , and the jury returned a verdict of "Guilty . "His Lordship having put on the black cap , passed sentence of death upon the prisoner in the usual form , at the same time informing him that he could not holdout the slig htest hope of any commutation of the sentence . The trial occupied nearly ten

      hours

      WARWICK . _Shoohhg a Pomcehaw . —Daniel Davenport , aged 28 , was charged with shooting with a pistol with intent to "kill , Ac ., Jagnes Bead , at Wormleighton , on _tte 23 rd _August , ? te _SWSWU _^ C _{&*& \\ _sAis

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      August last he was a . sergeant . in , the county police force ,- and ' apprehen-ieer the prisoner on a warrant for non-payment __ of money towards the support of an illegitimate child . ; Upon ; th " e adjudication being made by the magistrates the prisoner said , " some one shall pay dear for this . '' The prisoner when apprehended for the noh-paynient ef the arrears ' requested Bead to let him go fo his uncle ' s hoiise to g et something to eat and a clean shirt , as he " did not like to go before the magistrates in his dirt . The constable assented , and afterwards ; went some little distance further with the prisoner , at his request , as there was ho shirt at his uncle ' s . Theother _houBe . was where the prisoner ' s father lived . ' ' He asked Read to have some drink , and said , " You won't want to go up stairs with me , " towhich

      Bead replied that he must go where the prisoner went . The prisoner then took something out ofa box , which he placed in his pocket , and then changed his shirt . He then asked not to be taken through the village to Southam , and to this Read consonted . The two then proceeded towards Southam , and asked if the constable bad not had a brother killed in the force , and Read said he had . A conversation then arose respecting a man named Jfewbold , and Read said that he knew him , and saw bim in a great passion ence , and that he thought TSewbold would have shot him . To this the prisoner replied "He did not shoot you then ? " and Read said , " No . They were now near to a canal bridge , and the prisoner repeated the question in the samo terms , and upon the prosecutor saying again that

      _Aewbold did not shoot him , the prisoner said " Then I will , " and immediately _shet Read in the left side of the neck . Read fell instantly , and on recovering his senses , saw the prisoner standing over him , with a revolving pistol in his hand ; he said "I ' ve got some more barrels for you , " and pointed the weapon towards Read ' s head . Read held up his hand and begged his life . At this moment a boat came in sight , and the prisoner ran away , saying , " Now I'll leave you ; I knew you weren ' t going to take me to Southam . " Assistance was rendered , and Read was conveyed home , as he could not stand . He was bleeding from the neck , mouth , and nose . Tho surgeon who attended him stated that he had called

      in other aio , but had been unable to extract the ball , which remained , in his opinion , under the right jaw bone , at the base . of the skull . Portions of the powder were driven into the skin . The wound was of a most dangerous nature , and Read ' s voice had become changed , from partial paralysis of the tongue . There was also evidence given to prove the purchase ofthe pistol by the prisoner . —Inspector Smallbones , of the same force as Read , apprehended the prisoner at Ludlow , in Shropshire : The prisoner was disguised , and had plucked out his eyebrows and cut off his whiskers , — " Guilty " on the second and third counts , hut " Not Guilty " of the intent to murder . —His lordship said it was a merciful view of the case , and sentenced the prisoner to be transported for life . —The court rose at six .

      GLOUCESTER . Mr . William Ogborne , aged 68 , a respectable commission agent , was indicted for havin'' feloniously killed one George _Millett , at Almondsbury , in this county . —It appeared that on the 21 st of September the prosecutor , who was a cattle-drover , was marking some cattle with blue stone , when , as a practical joke , he marked Mr . Ogborne , who was standing by , on the back of his coat , and burst into a loud laugh . Mr . Ogborne turned to a farmer near and asked what the man had done , npon which Millett laughed again , and cried out , ' ' Ha ! ha 1 old fellow , I ' ve marked you , and now I ' m off . " He then ran a few yards , and Mr . Ogborne followed and came up tb him ; They both stopped , and Millett continued

      still to laugh and jeer at Mr . Ogborno by grimacing at him with his mouth wide open , when Mr . Ogborne , being very much incensed , said , "You scoundrel , you ' ve marked me , and I'll mark you , " and thereupon he raised a walking-stick he carried in his hand , and "jobbed " the end of it towards the open mouth of Millett , but by accident struck him in the left eye , and made a wound an inch deep , wliich so seriously injured him that he died a few days afterwards . —The prisoner being found guilty by the jury , with a strong recommendation to mercy , his lordship , in consideration of this recommendation , of the high character given to the prisoner , and of his having been seven weeks in prison , sentenced him to pay a fine of £ 5 , and to be imprisoned until tbe fine was paid .

      James Smith , aged 46 , was indicted for having , at the Forest of Dean , v unlawfully attempted to discharge a gun , loaded with powder and a leaden bullet , at John Jones , with intent to kill and murder him ; a second count charged the intent as being to do some grievous bodily barm . —Thejury found the prisoner guilty on the second count , and he was sentenced to fifteen years' transportation .

      TAUNTON . Hiohwas Robbeby . — Joseph Britain , William Gunning , Samuel Bryant , John Rogers , and Samuel Rogers , were indicted for having assaulted and robbed Joseph Wyatt of a silver watch and other articles , his property . There were two other indictments against them for highway robberies on other persons . —Mr . Phinn and Mr . Allen were counsel for the prosecution ; Mr . Stone defended the prisoners . —These prisoners were five of a band of desperate fellows , who have for some time past infested the nei g hbourhood of Bath and Bristol , committing the most daring highway robberies * , for a long time they evaded the vigilance of the police , but at last were detected , and , as it will be seen by our report , brought to justice . —

      The facts of the present case were simple . It appeared by the evidence of Mr . Wyatt that on the morning ofthe 5 th of January he was returning home to Wick , a village about six miles from Bath , and had to pass over Lansdown-hill . He was suddenly attacked by six men , three of whom came from each side of the road . They pulled him from his horse , and beat him severely ; took his wateh , chain , and seals , and other property from him . During the time that this was going on , Britain said , if he did not be still they would beat his brains out , but Samuel Rogers interposed , told him to be quiet and they should not hurt him . After they had robbed him , tbey wentaway . Powell , who was one of the six , was called as an approver ; he stated

      that he and the other five prisoners had been together at a village called Honham thc greater part of the day , where they had planned the robbery , as Mr . Wyatt was known to be in the habit of returning home on the afternoon of this day , the marketpay , every week . They divided themselves in two parlies , but met on Landsdown-bill . He then gave an account ofthe robbery similar to that given by Mr . Wyatt , and several witnesses were called who confirmed him in some particulars of his story . He had 2 s . 8 d . for his share of the booty . —Mr . Stone addressed thejury for the prisoners , but they were all found " Guilty . " Former convictions were pr oved against Bryant and Gunning , and they were transported for life . Britain and John Rogers were transported for twenty years , and Samuel Rogers for fifteen . —Mr . Justice Erie ordered extra exp enses to be allowed , and also a reward to the constable , by whose vigilance the prisoners were brought to justice .

      Assault . —James Fletcher was indicted for feloniously assaulting John Hyatt , a police officer , on the 17 tfi of December , 1848 , at Bath , with intent to kill and murder him . There were other counts varying the charge . —Mr . Hodges was counsel for the prosecution ; Mr . T . M . Saunders defended the prisoner . —It appeared that the prosecutor , on the night of the 17 th of December , 1848 , saw the prisoner and another man carrying a bag . He insisted on knowing what it contained , but they threw it over the wall , and immediately attacked him . Another constable came up , and attempted to take tbe other man , when Fletcher knocked Hyatt down , and kicked him severely about the head and face , so that his life was in danger for some days . He then ma'le bis escape , and was not seen in Bath again until February last , when he was apprehended . —The jury found him guilty of wounding with intent to resist his lawful apprehension . —He was sentenced to ten years' transportation .

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      _PROCLAIMED THE blood . _x-av v _» - 3 rdly . — That such _** n-CIROULATION OF THE purity can only he eradicated by a purgative such as BLOOD . Morison _' s Vegetable Universal Medicine of the British College of Health , Newroad , London . 4 thly . — That the deadly poisons used as medicines by the doctors are totally unnecessary in the cure of diseases ,

      Re-Buttmng Of Thb Temple Op Jeausawu.-It...

      RE-BUttMNG OF THB TEMPLE OP _jEaUSAWU .-It is stated , in tho Berliner Allgemeine Eirchen Zeitung , that the Jews have obtained a firman from the Porte , granting them permission to build _^ a temple on Mount Zion . The projected edifice is to equal Solomon ' s temple in magnificence . Millions ( i ) of money are said to have been collected for this purpose in America alone . . A raw Sundays ago , at a village meeting-house , not far from Melton Mowbray , a junior " local , from the latter place , in expounding his text , " Darkness covereth the earth aud gross darkness tht minds ofthe people , " defined the term " gross darkness" to mean a darkness of Hi times ( or a gross "darker than dark , " a definition" wbich set _arort s & to _hearoa laughing ,

      -Thb-Condition Of England U*,:- - ,- .>:...

      -THB-CONDITION OF ENGLAND u _* _,:- _- _,- . > _:.-.., " ¦ i _oQUESTiQjfr . * ' ' ( C-md « iged from the Xikming Chronicle . ) NEEDLEWOMEN OF THE METROPOLIS . ! _H _£ _^ ICHE SH 0 E : BINDERS , ASD STOCK-MAKERS . , ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦'¦ I procured ah introduction to one of the largest wholesale stay-malters in the City , in the hopes of obtaining some account of the' trade . But I soon found that my time" was waisted in so doing . The gentleman assured me that there were scarcely any stay-stitchers resident in London . He could get his work done so cheap in the agricultural districts , owing to the number of people out of employ in those parts , that he had scarcely any done in town : and , indeed , he Was loath to make the least communication to mc on the subject and object of my

      Accordingl y , finding it useless seeking any information from the employer in this particular branch of business , I made the best of my way to two workpeople , who had been engaged at the business for upwards of twent y years . Tho following are their statements : "I work at stay-stiching . I ' ve worked at it these thirty years ; yes , that I have , full . "Well , I can ' t —and work hard at the work I am now havingearn more than 7 Jd . a day . Now that is tbo kind of work , " said she drawing some drab _jean ready marked for stitching , " audi can't do more than that pair , and half another , from seven in the morning tiU ' nine at night , and havn ' t timo scarcely to get a meal in the meantime , and I get Gd . the

      pair , and if they run very large indeed I get no more . Why , sir , at the outside I can ' t do above nine pair a week , not if I ' re full employment . And nine pair a week at 5 d . is 3 s . 9 d „ and that ' s my earnings at the very outside , if I work fourteen hours every day for six days , ; and sorry I am to say I m obliged to break into the Sabbath-day to make out a living . They find me in thread , but I have to find a candle , and they cost _ljd . a night now the _^ g hts are so long , or say Id . a night , or 6 d . a week all the year round , so that my clear earnings at the very best are 3 s . 3 d . & week . If I had the work , perhaps , I might manage as much as that all the year round , but I oan't get it ; the trade is particularly dull just now—I ' ve been very slack for this last month . I've no book where I works—they pay

      me as 1 take it in . You sec I ' ve done four pair this week , in four days ; and shan ' t have more than two p air done by Saturday night ; so that my earnings this week will be , for the six pair , at 5 d . —2 s . 6 d ., or reckoning candles , 2 s . clear . Last week I did five pair , and they brought me in 2 s , Id ., or ls . 7 d . clear . Taking one week with another , all the year round , I think I may say I earn 3 s . a week , and that is to the full extent as much as I do ; or , reckoning candle , I can safely say I don ' t make more than 2 s . 6 d . clear all the twelvemonth through . ' I ' m just able to raise a cup of tea , and that ' s as much as lean do out of it . I have my work direct from'tbe shop . They only employ the

      journey women m the stay trade . There ' s no second-hand or piece mistresses in London . There ' s plenty there round about Deptford and Greenwich that has the work out so many gross at a time , and employs a number of young women . Some of the old Greenwich pensioners work at stay stitching for some of them . The parties has it down in bagful ? . I once used to have my work second-handed from a party as got it from the warehouse , and she employed , I think , about nine of us . She used to get 7 d . _andfid . a pair at that , and she usedn't to give us more than _2-Vd . each pair ; for the children ' s we usedn't to get more than l * d , Ifc would take us three-parts of the day to ' em . All the stays were stitched with silk in that time ; but that is , I

      _supposei five and-twenty years ago . It ' s eighteen years ago since I worked at'Portsmouth for a party who is now one of the _largeBt wholesale dealers in London , and all be gave me was 2 d . a pair , They was stitched with blue cotton . I don ' t think ho gives even so much now down there . I worked for another party , who gave me only seven fardens ; but'I was obligated to give the work back , to him . I was starving aa I am now , but I ' m sure it was -vorse then . I can manage at least a cup of tea at present ; but then I couldn ' t even get that . They are mostly stitched at Portsmouth now , They can get it done cheaper there than what they can here , owing to the sailers' wives / round about there I suppose . Yes , it must be something like that , for no one can get a living at it . The party as I spoke

      of , who is in the City , got on , I know , in this here way . He got a number of the poor peeple to work for him , and made ' em all put down 5 s . each hefore they had a stitch of work . Before you got work you must raise the 5 s . somehow . Well , the 5 s . lies in his hands until such time as you want to leave him ; if you worked for him for ten years it would be in his hands all the time . The reason why I was obliged to leave off working for him was that I wanted my 5 s . to make up some rent . My goods were threatened to be taken . That 5 s . 1 knew would save them , and I applied for ifc . It was on a Wednesday when I did this , and I couldn ' t get it until the Saturday ; he wouldn't give it me till then , so I lost my work of course , ' cause I

      hadn't 5 s . moro to leave . Well , it was by the number of 5 s . that he got from thepeople in this manner ho was able to launch and take a large establishment . He didn ' t care how many hands he took on so long as he had the 5 s ., and of course he had the interest of it all . Why , he had as many as three hundred poor people ; aye , moro . It was said he had as many as seven hundred in his employ working out of doors , and from each he had 5 s ., and that was the cause of his uprising—that it certainly wasr . The downfall ofthe stay business was all through hini and another as lived close to him . They were the first to cut down the prices of the workpeople , They sent the work into the country , to get it done in the cheapest way they could , and

      have always been lowering the price of the poor people . Thirty years ago I have made as much as seventeen aud fivepence fov my week's work . At the very Commonest I could have made from 12 s . to 14 s . a-week ; and now the most I can make is 3 s . 6 d . Aye , Hint ' s tothe f ull extent ; and not that every week . It ' s about twenty-five years ago since the prices _. first began to be cut down by the two parties 1 speaks of . Up to that time the prices we had for stitching were about the same as those I had thirty years ago . Till then the _pricey had remained about the same . Wo could make a very tidy living out of it . But since the two parties began the prices have been falling and falling , and we've been starving while he ' s been a getting richi

      Now all I get is 2 s . od . a week clear , and that is to keep me and niy family . I ' m a married woman . My husband is a plasterer , but has been out of work this two years . All he ' s earned is 2 s . for these last three months . Indeed , he ' s not worked for a regular master this two years . They prefers young hands , and he ' s getting into years . He'll be sixtynext September . He only gets a flying job now and then , and that ' s mostly from the landlord we live under . My eldest boy gets 5 s . a week . My youngest foe s to school . Seven shillings a " week is all we ave to keep the four of us , pay rent and all . I pay ls . Od . a week for my room , and that leaves us 5 s . 3 d . for us four to maintain ourselves upon , or live upon , if you can call it a living . Yes , that ' s ls . 3 } d . each a week , or not 2 d . a day , to find us in food , firing , or raiment . Oh , God bless you , I am

      ready to drop sometimes , when I get up , I feel that faint and loss for really the common necessaries of life . ' I don ' t taste a bit of butcher ' s meat not from one month's end to another—no , not half a pint of beer I don't get . My husband is a sober man . I hadn ' t a pinch of snuff for two days , until a friend { -ave us a bit out of . his box . It came very acceptable , I can assure you ; it quite revived me ; that ' s all I ' m extravagant in . I can't say but what 1 likes my pinch of snuff , but that even I can't get . We're never out from Monday morning till Saturday night . If I ' ve got nothing to do it ' s no use going and making an uproar nboufc ,. for I ' m very certain there ' s no one about here has got nothing to give me and I ' m very certain my opening my mouth won ' t fill theirs , And when I ' ve got work why I sits hard to it , and is glad to have it to do . "

      The next class of needlewomen that I visited were shoebinders . I found three working together in one small close attic . I give their account of their incominrrsin their own words : — " It ' s a very poor trade , indeed , '' said one ofthe hands , " Ah . ' it ' s high time something was done for the people , for it ' s cruel work now . I make snow boots at present . I bind them—that is , I get them read y for the maker . The cloth and lining is cut out and given out by the warehouse . We have to stitch them together , make the buttonholes , and sew on the binding and the buttons . I get seven farthings per pair , and find my own thread and cotton . That costs about a halfpenny per pair . We get about a penny farthing per pair clear when they are finished . It takes about three hours and a half to do one pair . We can't earn more than 2 s . a week at oar work . A person must work very hard to do three pair a day , but it ' s

      impossible to do that every day ; and then there ' s thread and cotton to be found out pf the 2 s . a week , which leaves about Is . 6 d , for our clear earnings . I ' m up by six , and don ' t leave off till twelve or one , and then I can ' t do more than three pair . It takes twelve hours' continual work to do three pair . The rest of the time I must mind my children and my own affairs . I generally work about eighteen hours a day . We have been working at the snow boots now full two months . Never had a book till last week . [ She produced book of employer . ] Three , four , and five pair , or eleven pair were taken out last week , you see . Thoie I finished . And four and six pair I ' ve had out this week , in all ten . Of this I have ] ust done five pair _sinct Monday .. I do generally about nine pair in six days , and a little less than four pair in three days The reason of my not having had a book , is owing to my master ' s death . His wife has recently taken the business , and sue lias _gWeabooks . to ' _. aJl the hands employed _;

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      I _^ hin _^ _commonlaating somen ' s side lace boots ; By binding them I nieau I ' make them' up en tirely , with the exception of the sole . I have to make sixteen eyelet holes , to stitch the _laatinrr tn _gethor _. and tobmd them . 'F or this rget 3 d p _£ pair . lhaye to 1 buy silk and cotton ; It bosts about | d . each pair of bootS i id . for silk , and a Jd for cotton . I clear about , 2 Jd . per' pair . Can ' t do a pair in much less than four hbu ' rs , or three pair a day-at . the vory outside , to work hard ! the day through . : Bufc we can ' t keep that up . But the end ofthe week we seldom have more than eight pair done—for getting them out and taking them in all takes time '; and eight pair at 2 £ d . clear brings us in Is . 6 di a . week as our weekly earnings . Out of

      this we have to pay candles , and they come to Cd . a week . I know I burn a penny candle every night . That makes our clear gains about Is . But it comes in handy . It ' s a few . halfpence every day . We have constant employment at the warehouse * We ' re never standing still . lama married women . I ' ve a very queer husband . He ' s a big drunkard . He ' s a sawyer . I ' m sure if I have enough of him just to get me over Sunday it ' s all , that I do . I can't tell what my husband gets a week . I never know what he earns any more than a stranger ; After he ' s paid the rent I might get perhaps 4 s . or 5 s , of him , and that ' s to keep me ; him . and the child . Formerly I used to work at the boots in the country . Then the prices were much better . That's

      as much as twelve or thirteen years ago . The best 'lasting' boots were Is . Od . and some 2 s . then j now , I don t know what ' s the cause of the prices coming down . I find it very hard work to live . It isn't living , We ' ve nothing but bread from one week ' s end to another . I know I shall have nothing to eat until I take my work in to-morrow morning . " 1 do the same work , " said another of the women at work in tbe same room , " and get the same prices . [ Produced book of employer . ! I work for the samo person . " The account was one , four and four , or nine pair , taken out last weeli , and four pair this . "The nine pair were finished by last Saturday ni g ht , and I shall havo finished six pair to-monwy . They are paid the same , and the

      expenses are the same , so that my clear earnings are Is ., deducting candles . It ' s a good job we don't tako snuff—neither snuff nor beer . I am a niarried woman , to my sorrow . My husband is a pewterer . 1 don ' t know what ho gets a week . I only know I have very little ' of it . I have got three children . The eldest is ten , the second seven , ' and the youngest three . M y husband brought me home about Is . last week after he had paid the rent , and that was to keep him , me , and two children . Sometimes he illtreats me . If he don ' t with his hand 1 know he does with his tongue . He has the most dreadfullest tongue ever heard on . He drinks very hard ' . He ' s drunk whenever he ' s the money to be so . He ' s tipsy three or four times a week . lean

      assure you that I havo been obliged to live upon my two shillings . It is not living—it's only , just enough to say you keep life together . I have , indeed , sir , a very hard time of it . I ' m ready to run away and leave ifc very often . If io wasn ' t for my children I should do it . I ' m obliged to work all day to keep my children . If I take my work in the morning , and get my 5 d ., that must keep me and my children all day , unless 1 can get a trifle of my husband at ni ght time , and some days lie don ' t bring any home . - The girl ' s ten . years old , and she ' s with her grandmother . When I take my work in the ' clipper' holds it up to the light to see if any of the stitches gape , and if so , he turns it on my hands . "

      " 1 am a boot-hinder , too , said the third hand employed there , " . but I get a better price for my work . I do the lasting , the caehmere , and the cloth boots . I get from Cd . io Is . per pair . I get 6 d . for the caehmere and the lasting as well , and Is . for the best cloth boots , goloshea . A shilling pair will take me a whole day to do ; and 1 can do two pair each day of the sixpenny ones . Out of this I have to pay 2 d . for silk and cotton each day . I take generally 6 s . a week , and earn about 5 s . clear ; but then there are candles , and that ' s Gd . a week , so tbat 4 s . 6 d . is what I make _. 'taking one week with another . I work about thirteen hours each day ; I bare no book . My master gives me none . I work second-handed . 1 get the same price as the first

      hand does herself , only I don ' t go into the shop . I am a single woman . I pay Is . Od . a week rent . I have everything to buy myself . 1 have been at the trade five years last August . I have worked for two houses in that time . The prices are the same to me as they were five years ago . I don't know that there are any boots paid higher than what I get . A shilling is the highest price that any shop gives , I believe , for binding boots . The trade is very slack at present , ana the prices aro being lowered 3 d . just now—nincpenny boots aro being reduced to Cd . The fact is , I think they wants to have more profit out of the poor people—that ' s as near as possible . I can just pay my way . 1 never

      have any meat . Shoes are _Jd . a pair binding , We have to put them altogether and bind them . Aper son may do about nine pair in a day of twelve hours _, —tbat would come to GJd ., and then the expenses would be about 2 d . for silk and cotton for the nine pair ; so that the clear earnings at this would be 4 _| d . a day , ov deducting candle , about 3 d . Children ' s leather boots are 3 d . per pair , or 6 d . per dozen . A person can do about eighteen pair of these a day . Tliese would come to 9 d . The expenses for thread and cotton would be about 2 d . for the eighteen pair , leaving Yd . a day , or 3 s . Gd . a week for the earnings , and deducting candle , about 3 s . clear . "

      The next class of needlewomen that I wended my way to was the stock-makers—and here I found an instance of filial affection , and almost heroism , that would be an honour to any station . The characters of the parents , I should state , have been inquired into , and they are said to be worthy , hard-working , sober people : — "I work at stock work . I have tho work home . I work first hand . I have 6 d . a dozen for ' Albert ties , ' 9 d . to- ls . a dozen for ' opera ties , ' Is . 9 d . a dozen for ' sham pleats , ' or Albert stocksthose are the stocks with hows to them , and long ends . The ' Burlingtons' —that is the stocks without ends , and waterproof top and bottom to keep the perspiration from coming through—tliese are

      2 s . 3 d . to 2 s . 6 d . a dozen . The ' Napier ' s' stocks are 3 s . Gd . to 4 s . a dozen . The Napiers have long ends hemmed on both sides , with a knob in thc centre . 'Aerial' ties are 6 d . a dozen : they are the new-fashioned ones lately come up . Of Albert ties , lean make about eighteen in twelve hours , or nine dozen a week . The expenses on these , including candle , cotton , and silk , would be ls . 9 d ., leaving 3 s . 3 d . a week clear . Of opera ties 1 could do about nine a day , or four dozen and a half , at 9 d . per dozen , or four dozen of those at ls . in the week ; the expenses about thc same , or Is . 9 d . a week , leaving 2 s . 3 d . to 2 s . 6 d . a week clear . Tho Opera ties are worse than the Alberts , for though there ' s more money paid for ' em , there ' s more work

      in ' em . Wc reckon to do about a dozen of the Albert stocks in about three days , or two dozen a week ,. at Is . 9 d . a dozen , or 3 s . 6 d . a week . The expenses are about ls . 6 d . ; there ' s not so much cotton used in them ; the clear earnings at these 2 s . a week . Of the Burlingtons I couldn't do more than one dozen in three days , or two dozen per week , at 2 s . to 2 s . 3 d . per dozen , making 4 s . to 4 s . 6 d . for the week ' s earnings . The trimmings and candles come to ls . 6 d ., leaving about 2 s . 6 d . to 3 a . for the clear gains . Wc couldn ' t do more than eighteen Napiers in the week , at 3 s . Cd . to 4 s . the dozen . These would come to 5 s . 3 d . or Gs , The expenses of these , candle and all , would be 2 a , leaving 4 s . for the clear gains for the week . Of the

      _Aerials about one dozen could be done in . 1 day , or six dozen a week , at 6 d ., coming to 3 s . Tho expenses are about Is ., leaving 2 s . for tho clear gains for the week . Tho Napiers are about the best work with us , and the Aerials and the Albert stocks about the worst . I keep one hand myself , and a little girl . I pay the hand 3 s a week , and thc little girl I pay nothing , she comes with tbe other to learn . I give the hand her tea , and she brings her bread and butter . The expenses of tho tea , sugar , and milk , Ac , for the week , would be about oil ., so that the hand I employ costs me 3 s . Gd . I can earn with the assistance of the two hands , from 8 s . to 9 s . a week upon an average , clear of trimmings and candles , and deduct tho expense of the hands ,

      3 s . Gd ., I make about 5 s . clear of everything . These , I think , are my clear earnings all the year round . Sometimes I get more by working extra hours . I have made as much as 7 s . royselt by my own bands in one week , but to get that I had to sit up about three nights out of the six * , and some weeks I earn only Is . 2 d . and some nothing at all ; that is when the work is slack . Tho work is generally slack at Christmas time and in the middle of summer , about three months each time , so that tho trade is about six months brisk and six months slack in the course of the year . I remember the prices of the Napiers being 8 s . Gd . a dozen . They ' re 3 s . Gd . to 4 s . now . Thc Albert stocks used to be 3 s . Gd . to 48 . when they first came up . They ' re 2 s . to ls . 9 d . now . The Burlingtons I had 5 s . a dozen for . Now they ' re 2 s . to 2 s . 3 d . The Opera ties I had from 2 s . to 3 s . a dozen for . Now they ' re 9 d . to ls . The Albert ties I had ls . 9 d . for when they first

      came up . Now I have 6 d . a dozen for the very same work . The Aerials I had Is . 3 d . to ls . Gd . for , and they cut them out for me . Now I have Cd . a dozen for them . The Albert scarfs I had 2 s . a dozen for only a month back , and now I have 9 d . The prices have fallen considerably moro than onehalf within this last year and a half . I had all those better prices that I have mentioned eighteen months ago . I can't say what is the cause . I believe it is owing to one hand having no work and going to underbid another . 1 myself know that one hand offered to work at a less price than I was getting , and that was the cause of my being reduced , fid . first and then Gd . more per dozen in one article that I make . I took my work in on the Saturday , and my employer offered me Is . 3 d , for what he had before been paying me 2 s . a dozen . I told him I could not do the work at that prioe—I really ewW not live by it , when » person

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      inthe shop told the master she would take the work at that price . Since , they have reduced the same article to 9 d . si dozen , and this has all been done within a month . One of . thecauses of the cheap prices is , the master puts up a'ibill iri his window to say that he want 9 ' hands , whether lie does or no . This I believe is done , - not because extra hands are wanted , but that the master may see how many people are out of work , and how cheap he can get his work done . Those that will doit the cheapest and the best he employs , and those that won't they may starve—or something -worse . In tbe warehouse I W ° i fo _£ . the" " e a" * about fifty hands , mostly young girls . There are some married women ; but I believe thirty get money by other means . I know by

      tneir dresses that they do not get the gowns they appear in out of stock work . I think its about the same . m every other house . I have a father and a mother dependent on my labour . I am nineteen years old on the 28 th of February last . My mother occasionally hel ps me ; but she is upwards of fifty , and cannot see at night nor to work at black things . She _broke a blood-vessel nearly seven years a » o , and is nofc able to go out to a hard dav ' s work . Mv father had an accident thirte en weeks a < -o next Friday . De was thrown out of a cart and brolce his ribs , and pressed his chest bono in , His chest is now bandaged up ( showed it . ) He was a carter at a builder ' s before ; but since his accident his master tells him he is unfit for work , and he is now whollv

      dependent upon me for support , and I struggle hard to keep him and mother from tho workhouse . I was up for three weeks . I never took my clothes off nor went to bed for the whole of that time , so that I might support him and pay the doctor s bill . The only sleep I had during the whole of that time was with my head on the table . I was at work nig ht- and day , * and now I find it very hard work to pay rent , support tbem , and keep myself respectable without doing as the other girls do . I have been obliged to part with almost all my clothes to keep them . The doctor said he was to have port wine , and 1 used to have to give him two gills every day . If I hadn ' t got rid . of my clothes I couldn't have kept Lim alive . We have been obliged to pledge ono of our beds for £ 1 as well . But I hope to Le able to get on still . " ( To Is Continued . }

      The An Ti-Truck Movement Ik Stae-, Fords...

      THE AN TI-TRUCK MOVEMENT IK _STAE-, FORDSUIRE _.-MEETING AT DUDLEY . The agitation against the " truck" or " Tommy system / ' so extensively practised in this part of the country , gains ground rapidly ; associations are in course of formation in all parts of the district , and on Monday a large meeting for the purpose was held here , the Mayor in the chair . His worship convened the meeting on tho requisition of nearly two hundred of the most respectable persons in the parish , and there were present deputations from Bilston and other towns . The Mayor , in opening the business , expressed his regret at the necessity that existed for their moving in tho matter , especially as many of the parties who carried on their business under the truck system were gentlemen of high standing and excellent character ; it was , however , a system tbat

      could not be longer endured : it oppressed the poor , and was _Unfair to the money-paying tradesman _. He hoped that a vigorous effort would be made to lay the axe at tho root of the evil . Mr . England , brewer , moved the first resolution , — "That this meeting regards tbo system adopted by many manufacturers and masters of paying wages in truck or tommy , as cruel , arbitrary , and shamefully unjust to the working man , highly injurious and unfair to the retail tradesman , and no less to the honourable money-paying master , and being at the same time in direct violation of the act of parliament , passed for the express purpose of preventing this unnatural and unrighteous monopoly , pledges itself to use every lawful and constitutional means in its power , in conjunction with other similar institutions in this district , to put it down . "

      L . Lester , Esq ., seconded , the resolution . The " tommy " system was , as his experience had shown to him , bad in every sense of the word ; and'he Wife very sorry to have heard that some of the most respectuble manufacturers in the town had declared that unless the " tommy system " was put down they would be compelled to adopt it in self-dence . Mr . B . Houier moved , and Mr . Cook seconded the next resolution : — ¦ That an association be now formed to embrace the borough and neighbourhood

      of Dudley , and to be called ' The Dudley Anti-Truck Association , ' for the suppression ofthe illegal , unjust , and degrading practice . And that the follow ing gentlemen constitute a general committee for that purpose with power to add to their numbers , via . ¦—T . Lester , E . Terry , jun .,, T . Badger , jun ,, W . P . Parkes . E . Hollier , T . Haynes , E . Granger , E . F . G . Clark . J . Owen , W . Self , J . C . Cook , W . Badger , S . Bagott , D . Jordan , A . Paterson , T . Wood . T . Light , J . Rudge , W . Harrison , and S . Baker .

      It was moved by Mr . _Grakgeb , seconded by Mr . Harbison : — " That subscriptions be immediately entered into for defraying the necessary expenses of the association ; and that tbe Dudley and West Bromwicb Banking Company be Treasurers . Messrs . Terry , jun ., and Hollier , Sub-Treasurers . Messrs . England , jun ., and James Darbey , Secretaries . Mr . G . L . Boddington , Solicitor . " It was moved by Mr . T . Hatnes , seconded by Mr . _Jobdan : — " That encouragement , aid , and protection be afforded to such honest and sober workmen , or other persons as shall give evidence loading to the conviction of parties offending against the laws in this behalf , and that money-paying masters ho requested to find employment for any such who

      may be thrown out Of work by so doing . Mr . _Linnev , of Bilston , said that tbe registrar in his parish had reported the number of children burned to death in a short time , whilst the mothers were waiting at tbe tommy-shop , to be twelve ; they had , however now commenced in good earnest to put down the system , and be hoped they would succeed ; one person had already succumbed ; and another against whom there were informations for penalties to the amount of £ 1 , 000 , had intimated his purpose to shut up his tommy-shop , and . he had no doubt but that others would follow . He understood that some ofthe iron-masters had threatened to open shops in the towns , and by under-selling ruin the retail trader ; let them do that . All they

      asked was , that the men should be paid their wages in money , and spend ifc where they liked . The _masters were trying in every possible manner to evade the law ; one method was hy giving checks on banks unconnected with the concern ; he hoped ; however , that they would be able to beat them in that device —cheques for less than twenty shillings had been refused payment by the hankers , and if the men who received such would take them to the association , they would sue the parties issuing in the County Court , and so bring them within tho operation of the Truck Act . It had been said , that the pressure of the times bad induced the middle class to assist the working men in this matter ; but if the middle class bad felt the screw , had not the working men doubly so ? He understood that the _iron-mastera had already subscribed £ 600 to defend the informations laid against them . The association with which he was connected had ' subscribed £ 1 , 000 , and they

      were determined to have the best legal assistance available . ( Hear . ) That such an iniquitous system should be practised by the rich iron-masters was contemptible ; it was no uncommon thing to meet one half of these magnates in a splendid equipage , and the next half hour to see him at the tommyshop , measuring yards of tape , or selling _Iollypons or blacking . However , tbe association had already worked some good : a poor woman told him ( Mr . Linney ) last week , that at her tommy-shop the price of soap , sugar , and other articles was reduced a penny a lb . ; and at another place , in consequence of an apprehension that informations would be laid , there was £ 300 paid last week in wages , instead of £ 50 , as heretofore . The speaker strongly advocated the necessity of union , amongst the working men , and further said , tbat they had received information to the effect that if the present law was not sufficiently salutary for its object , government were prepared to assist them hy bringing in another

      bill . Mr . Harris , of Bilston , said , that the working men must help themselves—they must refuse to take the tommy tickets altogether , or if they did receive them , hand them over to the association , that the case may be investigated . The meeting was addressed by Messrs . Granger , Harrison , Cooke , and other gentlemen ; the whole ofthe resolutions were passed unanimously , ami a vote of thanks was past to the Mayor for presiding .

      The Education Qubstion. -A Large And Inf...

      The Education Qubstion . -A large and influential meeting of the inh abitants of Manchester waa held in the Town Hall , on Monday , convened by the Mavor . in compliance with a requisition signed by 500 merchan ts and manufacturers , for the purpose of considering the propriety of petitioning Parliament in favour of a national system of education upon a purely secular basis . John Potter , Esq ., the Mayor , occupied tho chair ; and the hall was crowded at an early period ofthe morning ; indeed , for several hours before the opening of the doors , they were literally besieged by the friends and opponents of the Lancashire Public School system . So great was the crowd that a very small portion of thepeople in attendance could be accommodated in the hall , and a second meeting , embracing from 2 . 000 to 3 , 000 people , was constituted outside .

      Upwards of an hour having been spent mnids indescribable uproar and confusion , the Bev . F . Tucker proposed the adoption of apetition in favour of a national secular system of education . The Hev . J . J . Taylor seconded the _pi-onosition . The Rev . Canon Stowell moved ap « _mlirptiwt in favour of the introduction of the / 'VeJ' _^ o # _efeiwt' ? _- * after a long and very Bt _^ y _^ aiie 1 _% - _-t _» Bet *» pn ymadopted . j ; _lM _^ _jk ? L _$ _C 9 £ * ¦ ¦ § _yfi _®? _i % _vte-tafS

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 6, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_06041850/page/7/