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    • THE SHORT ^ TIME QUESTION.
    • g=g= v 1 T > ggg= _ _ ASTONISUINfl BFriCACT -^ HOLLoWy'S PILLS.
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      The TostiaeaT fa CUrgv » a « TMfkUg to Mima Cases f Cum kv tk «« waiderfal Fills . SMrrot of * !* $ «¦ fr ** «*« JUe- **» rr « Prior , Cwrate of Mtcjgh , LetterK * my , Ourifart , Irelmd , ltft Jan . 1846 . To Trofesstr Hollaway . gm ^ j -jtni you * crade list tffme eUve * eases , cared fcy the u « e of yonr PiU » - I MUHUt exactly give yOU aprofessiomalname M the T * ri »« s « W # l « ints , bat this k » ow , some * f them inBlei tlie skill « f Dm-y and this ( founty . In a previous letter tais gentleman states as fallow * : —Withut a skort disUnc * of my bornse resides a ¦ vail fanner , wh » for More tnam twenty jears has been jb a bad state of health ; Mrs . Pri » r gave him a box of the Fills , which « u * d hum so much g » od that I beard him gftj , for twenty years past he aereratehis food or e » jojred it so mmch as « hc « taking y » ur rills . ( Signed ) GeoxgiPriob . « # The ab » Te rererena and pious gentleman purchased some p » mnis' w « rth f tkt Pills far ths benefit of kis p » or parisnUners . Bad Digestisn , with « tr ««« Weakness and Debility—an Extraordinary Cure . Mr . T . Gardiner , « f »•• 9 , Brown-street , Grosreaortfure , had bw « in a » ery bad gtate of kealth for a long time , suffering much from a distendtdstomach , very im-7 aire ' a Digestion , with constant pains in ais Chest , was extremely nePTous , and so greatlj debilitated as icarcely able to walk one hundred yards : daring the long period ef his declining health he had the advice of four of the most eminent physicians , besides five surgoong © f the greatest celeirity in Londen , from whose aid he derived oo benefit wkaterer ; at last he had recourse to Hol-Jowaj ' s Pills , which he declares effected a perfect cure in -a very short time , and that he is n « w as Strong and vigorous as ever he was in his life . This being to extraordinary a case , may lead aany persons almost to doubt -tMs statement , it might therefore be necessary to say th » t Mr . Gardiner is a broker , and well known .

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      ^/^•^ f -f-f-fSr - ^ ii-j-i ^ ' fj »* i-ijij ^« MEETING AT HOLMFIRTH . On Friday erening , a public meeting of the inhabitants of this town was held in the town hall , tor the purpose of petitioning the Legislature to diminish the hours of factory labour , the attendance was numerous . Near the chair , which was occupied by tlio Rev . llr . Fearne , we obserred the Rev . Hr , Woodland , Joseph Charlsworth , Esq . J . P . ; Mr . James Charlsworth , banker ; Mr . David Charlsworth ; Mr . JohnHill , Methodist preacher ; Mr . J . Matkin , surgeon ; Mr . J . Farrar , manufacturer and dyer , Mr . W . Hinchcliff , manufacturer ; Mr . J . Hinchcliff , manufacturer ; Mr . R . Hamiden , manufacturer ; Mr . John Hinchcliff , of Scholes , manufacturer , Mr , Joieph Crost .

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      k , manufacturer , and Mr . John Crawshaw , manu-Tbe Rev , Mr . Woodland , in an ' eloquent addresi , moved , "That a reduction in the hours of factory labour is a growing necessity , from the greut increase and high perfection of machinery , whose use is to lessen , and _ not to augment human labour :-tLat long hours , though at first not felt to be so great a social evil , aro now found to be very injurious both to the personal and pecuniary interests of the parties employed . " Mr . Wm . Hinchiey , one of the largest worsted manufacturers in this neighbourhood , rose to second the motion , and was roost enthusiastically applauded . He ( Mr . Hinchley ) had from the first supported this measure one called for on " the principles of humanity and

      as justice , and which , if carried into effect , would be likely to prove beneficial both to tbe employer and the employed , and he had not heard any arguments advanced against the cause sufficient to change his opinion . One of the principal objections to the measure was , that if carried , a reduction of wages must ensue . That argument was merely put forward as a bugbear to frighten the ' advocates of the measure . ( Hear , bear . ) Ho had been tauntingly asked , " Would you give the operative ^ the same wages for five days that you give them for six . ' Now , if he really thought that the passingof the measure would have | the effect of reducing wages , he should he sitate in giving the measure his continuous support , forhe did not think the wages were quite sufficient at present , but he firmly believed that a reduction of the time

      of labour would have the contrary effect . ( Hear , hear . ) We were sometimes told that the price of labour was regulated by tho demand for it , Vow , the demand was not altogether independent of the supply , and we might have an excess of time as well as of hands . - By working long , hours , " the supply of labour was made to exceed the demand , goods were produced in a -quantity disproportipned to the demand for them , the markets become glutted , and both masters and operatives were made to suffer , ( Cheers . ) It had keen said that the manufacturers would increase their machinery if the time of labour were reduced . Be it so . Would they not require more hands to work the additional machinery ? He trusted , however , that henceforth machinery would not be used merely as a means to enable a few individuals

      to amass wealth , but as a benefit to the community at large . IIo bad heard some ask , " Are the' operatives prepared for such a change ? Will they employ their spare time in a ' proper manner ? Will they not spend it in the beer-shopV lie had no great opinion of beer shops ; he considered them the pest of the country , and regretted to think that many young men spent their time in such places to their own shame and disgrace , and to the grief of their parents hearts . . ( Hear , bear . ) But he had not so bad an opinion of his fellow men as to think that they would spend their precious time in the beer house . Besides , the larger portion of factory workers were children and females . The latter , instead of going to the beer house , would learn to clean the house , make the shirt , knit the stockings , malce the bread , brew the beer , and mnke themselves acquainted with all those things which tend to tbe comfort and well-bt'Siig of a family . ( Chiers . ) But

      h * thought it was taking too low a view of this question to make it a matter of pounds , shillings , and pence . Besides meat and drink , a man was bound to give his family moral and religious instruction—to capacitate them not only for their well being in society , but for eternal happiness hereafter . ( Cheers . ) AVhen he laiv little children sitting at the door steps before five o ' clock in the morning , he could not help saying within himself , '' This is what I would not let my children do ; " and was he not taught to love his neighbour as himsi If ?—( Cheers . )—and to do unto others as he would they should do unto him ? What availed their halls and their mechanics' institutions , if , on account of protracted and excessive toil , the operatives could not attend them . They were now debarred from such institutions by long hours of labour . They were so protrasted by labour they could not avail themselves of the advantages those institutions were designed to confer . ( Cheers . )

      The resolution wits then put from the chair and carried unanimously . Mr . Samcel Clendennino of Huddersfield , manufacturer and local methodist preacher , moved " That the recent and present Factories Regulation Acts , were forced upon the country in opposition to those proposed by Michael Thomas Sndkr , and Lord Ashley ; and while the objects of there Acts , according to their promoters , was to give ^ reater advantages to the employers by relays of children , still even those measures have proved of considerable blessing by the ' greater equalisation of labour

      throughout the factories , the prevention of . night working , and the opportunities , though small , given to children for instruction and recreation . Mr . R . Rahsden , manufacturer seconded the motion . Mr . Oastler rose to support the resolution , and was loudly clieered on his appearance in front of the plfttform . Mr . Oastler spoke at great length , in his usual eloquent and feeling manner , and was much applauded . The resolution was then agreed to . On the motion of Geoboe Lock , a weaver , Seconded by Ceoboe Ives , it was resolved that a petition shonld be presented to Parliament in favour of the Ten Hours '

      Bill . Thanks having been voted to the chairman , the meet ing dispersed .

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      immense quantity of goods in the hands of the cotton manufacturers of Manchester ,, and th at there was no means of selling thorn ? but by ' stopping theproduotionofthem ; and , therefore , they were desirous tliatthe working men should strike , that they , the ma nufacturers , should be saVed a losa on those goods . A great deal had been saicVjabout the importance of their foreign trade , and ttie'injurr that would " follow the adoption of a . Ten Houra ! Bill . What did they want to export ? 'Corn they had none . Then did they wish to ' export cloth ? Had every working man in Leeds got a good suit of clothes and a top ceat for this inclement weather ? ( Cries of " No . " ) Then if it was absurd to export corn when they had none to spared was it not equally absurd to talk about exportintr cloth when the makers of it had none to wear themselves ? ( Cheers . ) The real trade for their woollen cloth was at homo . Let every man be well clothed , and then they might talk of exporting ; but

      it was tbe greatest folly in the world to talk about sending the produce of their labour abroad , and leave themselves naked at home . He had been desired by Mr . Fielden , M . P ., to thank them for the invitation given to him to attend the meeting , but which the state of his health prevented him doing , and to ask them whether or not they were in favour of an Eleven Hours'Bill ? ( Shouts of" No , no ; ten hours is mou ^ h . ") They wight depend uponit that no set of millownera could long bolster up a Government . a » ainst the riahteous demands of the people ; for they being backed by the clergy , t . he _ middle classes / and the most valuable portion oi . M » e community , their claims in the end must become irresUtibb ; but if , after all , the miilowners should induce the Government to refuse the prayers ot the people , which they themselves acknowledge to be right in principle , God would maintain the caiiae of the afflicted and the rights of the poor . ( LouU

      cheers . ) The resolution was then put and carried unanimously . . The Rev . G . Hills moved the fourth resolution , as follows ;—That from our amazing powers of production a still further reduction in the hours of labour is found to be essentially necessary ; and this meeting calls for the adoption of an efficient Ten Hours' Bill , it having been sufficiently proved that such would bs a general advantage both to the employer and the employed ; for the growing intelligence of the age requires that more time ba set apart for the moral and religiow instruction of the working population ; more time than can be afforded by an eleven hours' regulation , with which the factory operatives never will be satisfied . It was seconded by Mr . Hatwood , a town-councillor . ¦'¦ " ¦ _

      Mr . Fbbbamd , who was received with the most enthusiastic cheering , which lasted some minutes , said that when he received the unanimous invitation of the Short Time Committee to appear among them that evening and take part in their proceedings , he felt he had lost nothing in the estimation of the working men of Leeds —( cheers)— and that whatever prejudice he had to combat elsewhere , they who had lived near to him during the whole of his life were fully able to appreciate his motives and to believe in tbe honesty of his intentions . lie would ask the opponents of tbe measure how long were the working men to struggle for their just rights ? how long were they to implore the rulers of this country ? how long to petition parliament ? how long to hold up their horny hands in supplication to Heaven , as will as to th : ir rulers on earth , imploring that justice may be done to them ? ( Cheers . ) The present factory

      system liad been in full operation for the last Jorty years . They had seen men grow vastly rich , they had seen the workmen grow vastly poor ; they had seen their employers become inordinately rich , whilst they themselves were weighed down by distress heartrending to behold . ( Cheers . ) The factory system was nursed into its present mighty power by kidnapping the orphan children throughout the whole of England ; and so easer were the master manufacturers in the competition to obtain them that they literally consented to take one idiot in the score . ( Groans . ) The poor children were bought by the manufacturers andsold by the overseers 'of the poor in the various parishes throughout England . This was not his assertion ; he would { live theni the authority of members of Parliament at the time , On the 3 rd of April , 1816 , Mr . R . Gordon made the following statement in the House of Commons : —

      It appears that overseers in parishes in London are in the habit of contracting with the manufacturers of the north for the disposal of their children ; and these manufacturers agree to take one idiot for every nineteen sane children . la this manaer waggon loads of these little creatures are sent down to be at the perfect disposal of their new masters ,-( Loud cheers . ) If anything more than another had disgusted " him during the time he had been in Parliament , it was to find Sir R . Peel , who owed to the working men of England the whole of the vast wealth he enjoyed , the bitterest opponent of the working men- ( loud cheers)—to find him marshalling the forces , and bringing up his tail of Janessaries to fight asainst their Ten Hours' Bill . Supposing the late

      Sir R . Peel cleared 10 $ t a week—and that was only a moderate computation—by the labour of each of his 1 , 000 orphans , from the age of six or seven years till the term of their apprenticeship of 21 , he must during that time have pocketed no less than £ 20 , 000 a year out of the blood and sinews of those kidnapped orphans . ( Loud cheers . ) And he would tell the present Sir R . Peel , that when the working men considered how vast the wealth and how great the power which had thus been accumulated , they did not think that out of gratitude at leaBt he might vote for tlie Ten Hours' Bill . ( Loud cheer . * . ) When he looked at his own neighbourhood , and thought how happy it used to be , and how miserable it now was . —when he heard the poor people narrate how

      their clock and other furniture had been sold to pay rent , and not a bed left whereon to lie , his blood boiled in his veins —( loud cheers)—and whenhespoke thus lie was called a " violent" man . ( Chens . ) Ferrand , they said was an honest fellow , but tco violent . ( Cheers . ) He would a * k them one thing : Lord Ashley had been a calm , quiet , calculating , benevolent , and honest man ; but his calmness , practised for fourteen years , brought him no nearer to the enactment of the Ten Hours ' IBM , His calmness had driven him irom the House of Commons , and when he heard Sir J . Graham , immediately previous to the Easter week in 1842 , when they carried the second reading of the Ten Hours' Bill , implore Lord Ashley to postpone the measure until after Easter ,

      that it might be ' calmly , " deliberated upon when Parliament again met—that a question of such vital importance should not be hastily carried—and whon be saw Lord Ashley on the floor of the house , calmly acquiesce in that suggestion , he said , "his calmness " has sold the working men of England . ( Loud cheer * , a \ d " That ' s true . " ) Had Lord Ashley stood up in the Elo " use of Commons , andsaid , " Wait till after Easter ! No , nqt one hour . 1 am the representative of millions ; £ hey have waited for twenty years , and they shall wait no longer , "~( locd cheers)—bad such been the language of Lord Ashley , he might have been called violent , but it would have led to victory . ( Loud cheers . ) What had been tlie result ? Dating the Easter reces 3 were Her Majesty ' s Ministers

      calm ? W / re they deliberating upon the greatness of the question ? No , . the Tadpoles and Tapers were sending circulars throughout the country , and in "violent" language threatening members ot Parliament with the resignation of Ministers if they did not come up and vote against the third reading of the bill . ( Loud cheers . ) They compelled the House of Commons to stultify itself , to eat its own words , or , to use tbe language of Mr . Hume , to vote tb&t black was white . ( Cheers . ) He ( Mr . Ferrand ) might be " violent . He would tell them another thing ; he would be violent until redress was granted to the working men . ( Prolonged cheers . ) When ho went to Parliament , he told his constituents that every interest , except that of labour , was overrepresented

      in the House of Commons , but if he did not get a seat within those walls , his feeble voice and humbler talents should fight the battle of the poor ( cheers ); so long as he had a seat there , he would continue to redeem that pledge . ( Cheers . ) The blessing of one poor man upon his head was far better for him than the blessings of a thousand of the rich , So long as he h ad the good wishes of the poor and the working man , he cared not for those who cursed him through their talk ; there and elsewhere he was prepared to meet them ; he dared them to the contest . ( Cheers . ) Ilia worthy friend , Mr . Oastler , had alluded to Michael Thomas Sadler , whose eloquence , as well as that of his friend now present , had induced him to liecorae a public man . The first time he ( Mr . Ferrand ) had ever uttered his voice at a public meeting was at the great assembly at Low Moor , in favour of the Ten Hours' Bill , and so " violent" had he even there been , that at his own expense he hired

      a band of music , whioh paraded the town of Bingley at 5 o clock in the morning , and set the church bells a ringing , so that , when the factory bell drowsily tinkled the hour of 6 , the factory workers—men , women , and children , marched off to the sound of music to the Low Moor meeting—all went off together to fight under the banner of the Ten Hours' Bill . ( Cheers . ) Returning home many were weary , because of the distance , but he hired waggons , and bought up all the bread and cheese that could be procured , and at length they arrived comfortably at their homes . ( Cheers . ) This took place in 1832 , bu < little did he then think be would have H years to wait betore their victory was achieved . The hon . gentleman concluded by saying he there pronounced that whoever should henceforth in secret attempt to deprive the working men oi the Ten Hours'Bill was arobbi-r and a plunderer of the poor . ( He retired amidst loud cheers . ) The resolution was canied

      nem . con , It was then determined that petitions to both Houses of Parliament , based upon the foregoing resolutions , should be handed round for signature . Thanks were then voted to the Vicar , who thereupon vacated the chair . Previous to the meeting breaking up , Mr . Oastler read a letter from Mr . Fielden , M . P ., which combined three questions for the working classes of Leeds" 1 st . Have the hands employed in factories in Leeds any power to determine the number Of hours

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      they will work per day , without running thT ^ lo 8 ! n * employment , or else having A 3 ' * » l &xg ? tF ? .+ ** SiJrsii \ f § Mr . O . sxr ^ Haveyou that pmr ,. ^ content the people of Leeds , oT , are fe M never to rest satisfied until a Ten Ho fr ? K * been passed by Parliament ? " 8 Bl 11 ha « ¦ « w ° Wit i ! V ? h 6 tols ° " tor ••) ora . Do those who work in faefn * :,, ' J hoar , of aotaal hboar to be « g £ & * f < for Breda ™ in th , „„„) , ';„ £ J ™> ' » 4 , vSSRfitift ¦* . " ™ » 5 " 5 JS 95 * J 52 asfeasj& , asr ** . m «™ gp , « er . topping , t , „„ iHJ » I . horn , tor tkkMr . OM , l . r , 8 plK ™ b , , 8 iS ^ is ^ iMtfs * - *!

      sa ^ jsSLSsSSS AS ^« £ *? *? fiS You will remember that it was two years ai S ! addressing a meeting in this very room I chlS him , and I charge him again- ( cheers ) -witl ^ ffi sieps to procure a report that was false £ « £ * " « pose of cruto me in Parliament H 7 denied : solemnly in the House of Commons j , TiTi . * solemnly that the man whoTrZ ^ ti tfX question , which is false from beginning to end h S received any instructions whatever , to visit Kril ley . Well , the party he has identified h 21 fS has filed in the Court of Queen ' s Bench the Ve v " structions he received , and which Sir J . Gr . ilnrn rm his word and honour , denied in the House nf fW mons . ( Cries « f Shame ! " ) Mr : MotUh " a £ tant Poor Law Commissioner , went down to KeMtU

      by directions trom a . Poor JLaw Commissioner ho draws up a report charging me with the most base the most corrupt , the most dishonourable conducts ! with jobbing as a magistrate—with legal dispute * that the attorneys might pocket the fees—and with spending the poor rates that I ' mfeht cheaply earntta name of the poor man ' s friend , That was the char « falsely brought against me by Sir J . Graham . Th « could not deny having made the charge , yet would you have believed it ? On Tuesday last Lord Sn man , in the Court of Queen ' s Beneli , called this " negligence perhaps" Now Lord Denman is Lor Chief Justice of tneland ; I am a-justice of th peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire . As a ius tice of the

      peace , I am charged with this comipt ' and dishonourable conduct , and the Chief Justice of England calls ifc " negligence , perhaps . " Let me put a case . Suppose the question of a mot-tar ' s right to the custody of her own child until it is seven years of age brought before the Queen ' s Bench-Lord Denman would be bound to pronounce in favour of that right , and his decision would break up every union poor house in Great Britain ( Cheers . ) Suppose , further , that Mr . Lewis and Sir J . Graham should take steps secretly to procure a report that was false , as they did against me charging Lord Denman , in his office of Chief Justice ' witk jobbing in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , and

      creating legal disputes in order that the lawyers might pocket tbe fees . Suppose Sir J . Graham should use that report , and make this false and n ? . fariouscharge in the House of Commons ; would Lord Denman be content with merely calling such conduct "negligence , perhaps ? " ( Loud cheers . ) No , he would denounce them as , " the gravest charges conveyed in the very groaseat language , " ( Lftud cheers . ) He would do more—he would thro ? off his wig and doff his gown , and declare he would never put them on again until his foul calumniators had been visited with the condign punishment thej would deserve . ( Cheers . ) Let me tell Lord Den . maB , then , that it is necessary for justice to flo * unsullied through the narrow stream in the valle ; where reside

      I , as in the broad river which floiq through the Court of Queen ' s Bench . ( Loud and long ^ continued cheering . ) My character , as an Englishman , a gentleman , and a magistrate , is aj dear to me as LordDenman ' s is to him , and if netto sanction such charges against me as those I have referred to , why , tho sooner I retire from the coicmission of the peace the better . ( Cheers . ) Ifea ' . lessly pronounce Lord Denman ' sipse dixit decisionfor to call it a judgment would be a libel on \ k court—I fearlessly pronounce his dictum to be , ; - ;¦ thing more nor less than " a mockery , adelusi ^ and asnare . " ( Loud cheers . ) And as the aggrif ¦ ¦ . ? . ! party I tell him , after defending Lewis , Graham , at : the rest of them as he did , it would have been on ? a friendly act in him to have told them , as was im

      on another memorable occasion which his Lords « will long remember , to go and sin no more . LojJ cheers . ) My best wishes were accomplished wiica the rale was made absolute , Sir J . Graham and Mr . Lewis , walking arm and arm , have entered fie citadel , and I have locked the gates behind than , nor shall they ever come out but before a jury and through the ordeal of the witness-box . ( Cheers . ) I tell Sir J . Graham , he shall stand in the witnes . box —( cheers)—there to be riddled by a cross-examination which shall expose him to the backbone ! ( Cheers . ) And here , before this public meeting I challenge , I dare Mr . Lewis to go into the wito box ; if he shrinks I will brand him as a coward , and the country will brand him as a guiltv man .

      ( Cheers . ) He has pursued the cowardly course of filing a criminal information against me ; and the only chance he has of acquitting himself is to appear ih the witness-box . ( Cheers . ) I challenge , I dare bin to the combat . I call on him and Sir J , Graham to lose not one hour in going before a jury , where I , who have been charged with base and dishonourable conduct , will prove that my accusers have been guilty of it , not I . ( Cheers . ) I have hitherto kept an honest character as a public man . In the face ofniy country I pledge my word and honour that it will come elear and spotless from the ordeal of « jurji and I pledge my word and honour that that is mote than my opponents will do . ( Loud cheers . ) The meeting then separated .

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      Mystebioub Affair . —Curiosity and wonder v . more than ordinary interest were excited among t : i inhabitants 6 f Dartmouth , in the early part oft : 2 week , by the disinterment of a corpse which liadtKtn buried in the Roman Catholic Cemetery there , an " by the empannelling of a coroner ' s jury for an «• • ¦ quest on the same . It was noised abroad that * . w deceased was the lawful consort of Mr . G 6 » rp Forbes Thompson , of Lake Loon , formerly an owe . '• in the corps ot Royal Engineers , but at present retired on half-pay , with the rank of Lieutenant <¦* nel , and that she had been kept in eonfinement . <» : on starring allowance of food , fora long period «««• death released her from bondage and oppressi oH ols nature unimaginably dreadful . Other reports say she was an aunt of the Colonel ' s , yet this is opposed by authority equally credible , with the assertiontW » she was his wife ' s aunt . Again , her birthplace tj alternately alleged to have been Spain , Ik > l )'> SD * Corfu . The deceased was interred without any

      solemnity in the burial ground of a community whoss particular and jealous regard for their place or sepu ' ture has ever been proverbial . Her esistenca fflj previously hidden from the puWic eye ; and hints '"" tales discreditable to Colonel Thompson were putM ? circulation , so that however disagreeable to him " a clearing up of the mystery through a judicial in * vestigation became needful . The jury returned J verdict , " That the deceased was the wife of Colow Thompson ; that she was not insane ; and that she had not received proper care or treatment . "— ## * Nova Scotia ) Recorder .

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      TO LADIES . . ,,-ne , " Avec de mauvais dents jamais femme n ' ctoit « c Avec de jolia dents jamuis femme n ' etoit laiile . " „ J . J . Boossw' - Value and Importance of Artificial Xeet MK . HOWARD ' S PATENT . ,. wmil ! . The teeth influence the form and expression of tnc 1 " ^ tenance much more than is generally imagined , " ! " j finest lace is disfigured if any of the teeth are * ' , t 1 a disagreeable impression is produced . Where tllo j t are good , there is when speaking , or smiling es c , J | iii fascination present , which prevents further exsu " of the countenance . , _ j [ r . The new Patent Composition Teeth , introduced 1 m . HOWARD , Surgeon-Dentist , W , Berners-stMWt , «» ' 0 , street , London , are fixed without extracting any > w w teeth , or giving any pain whatever . They win j

      tound more economical tbau others . . { e j Necessity or Free Will lias in former times ag > - the public mind more than in tlie present day . » " tll 8 t says , "It has been either by chance or necil >" ; # ? all the great discoveries in medicine lias "eeD yre * but 5 till hehas left thequestion of Necessity ««» . Will undecided . And although Blair ' s G » ut a | «"' ie 5 . matic Pills are manifestly one of the gieatest ui * . ^ with which the world has been blessed , it « i w '^ ut not brought us nearer to the decision ot tne « "i auestion . « isoisl »!«* Sick Headaches with Weukaess ana ^ ,. -ou-Stomachs cured by Holloway ' s rills .-It was ¦ "I ? ^ iU * derful Mils that cured the Earl of Aldboroug h 0 t ^^ l eoniplaint after the most eminent doctors m z » h . lrt . on theContiuent failed to give his Lwilsuip tiift M , v . lief . This famous medicine will cure « ny p ?« , rajr ever bad bis case may be , who » suflm >\ S ** . J , Of fi . nm . nmornl itehilitv or from the head autl sw * " -. eW '

      biUoi liver . It is confidently belwvevl , « <» -- yet ; cina ( unlike all others ) acts directly « g * fesU « mainsprings of life , that 110 dis . « as » wha tever < f t&mftuenee .

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      RENEWED AGITATION FOR A DIMINUTION OF THE HOURS OF LABOUR IN FACTORIES . MB STING AT BABNSLEY . A meeting was held at Barn ' dey , on Wodncnday , in the Odd-Fellows Hall , and notwithstanding the very unfavourable state of the weather , was' numerously attended by the . operatives of both sexes . Hr . Oastler met with a most cordial reception ag lie entered the town , and was tacorted to the place of meeting by a band of music . None of the clergy or manufacturers were pres » nt . Tho placard announcing the meeting wag headed with tbe following quotation from lord John Russell ' s speech on tho Ten Hours' Bill : — "Let the trade of England perish , it it can only be sustained by the gioam

      of women and infants . " The placard a ' so contained the following eulogium on Mr . Oastler : — " Mr . Oastler has unceasingly struggled for mure than seventeen years to obtain a legislative enactment whereby the emaciated factory slave might be protected from the relentless iron grasp of the unfeeling portion of millowncrg of this country ; this noble and disinterested conduct has won for him tho esteem of all the great and good in the land , and the eternal gratitude of the poor factory children . Whenever and in whatever form oppression has shown its hideous deformity , Oastler has ahvays been ready to give the monster a blow , therefore , With a thousand welcomes meet him , And with ten thousand welcomes greet him . "

      - Mr . Geobge Utlet , hand-loom weaver , having been called to the chair , read the placard convening the meet , ing , and requested that if any one present preferred an Eleven Heurs'Bill to a Ten Hours' Bill , he would come forward and stdte his reasons . ( Hear . ) Mr . Robekt Gabnett , a hand . loom weaver , in moving the first resolution , remarked that the use of machinery and the factory system generally had greatly deteriorated tbe condition ^ of the working classes . The atmosphere of the generality of spinning room s was from seventy to eighty degrees , and impregnated with so much water , that it fell like rain from the top of the room . Emerging from such a place on a frosty winter ' * morning was frequently the ea ; : se of a diseased state of the lungs . ( Hear . ) The speaker having read some statistical tables , showing tbe number of deaths to be very numerous in manufacturing to- » ns as compared with agricultural , concluded by moving : —

      " That a reduction in the hours of factory labour is a growing necessity , from the great increase and high perfection of machinery , whose use is to lessen , and not augment human labour ; that long hours , though at first not felt to be so great a social evil , are now found to be very injurious both to the person and pecuniary interests of the parties employed . " Mr . Frank Muefield , a hand-loom weaver , seconded the motion , and it was agreed to , Mr . Michael Seobate , weaver , then moved : — " That the recent and present Factories' Regulation Acts were forced upon tbe country in opposition to those proposed by Michael Thomas Sadler and Lord Ashley ; and while the object of these Acts , according to their promoters , was to give greater advantage to the

      employers by relays of children , still tv ^ n those measures have proved a great blessing by the greater equalisation of labour throughout tbe factories , the prevention of night working , and the opportunities , though small , given to the children for instruction and recreation . " He should like to see some of those gentlemen who had advocated the cause of the black Blaves endeavouring to do something for the white slaves in the factory . ( Hear . ) It had been said that a redaction of wages would result from a reduction of the hours of labimr , and that we should also lose our foreign trade . He would say , if the manufacturers could not compete with foreigners without reducing wages , then awaj with manufactures and the foreign trade altogether , ( Cheers . )

      Mr . John Claeke , a weaver , seconded the motion , and it passed unanimously . Air . WiLtiAM Alexander , a shopkeeper , then moved" That from our amazing powers of production , a still further reduction is found to be essential necessary ; and this meeting calls for the adoption of an efficient Ten Hours' Bill , it having been well proved that such would be a general advantage both to the employer and tha employed , for the growing intelligence of the age requires tliat more time be set apart for the moral and religious instruction of the working population than can be afforded by An eleven hours ' regulation , with which the factory operatives never will be satisfied . " Mr . Frank Mubyikld seconded the motion .

      llr . Oastler , on riRing to support the motion was hailed with thr-ei * hearty cheers . He said . Mr . Chairman ; working men of Barnsley . accept the sincere and grateful thanks of—your old King if you will—( Cheers)—for the kind » l < 1 enthusiastic reception which you have Eiven , in hii person , te the Ten Hours' Bill this evening . It is s « lifting to me to find on my return to Barnsley after 6 W-y years absence—some of them years of real affliction—it is gratifying and enlivening to me to find , that after all the various agitations which this country has passed through since we first began to ask that the groans and tears of women and children might not b » the cement of the trade of England—that after all those questions which had so tarn und rent this empire are closed and ended , it is still pleasing to find that the Ten

      Hours' Bill men have come out of the furnace refined . ( Cheers . ) Wo can now go through the manufacturing diltr ' cts and discuss like rational b ings this great question , a question which is as deeply important—whether it be as interesting I cannot tell—to the employers as to the unemployed ; a question tvliieJi is as deeply important to the clergy of this country as to thtt people . Wo can now meet and have no angry passions stirring in our breasts , while we lav before the people our reasons for a T * n Hours' Bill . It would have been more gratifying le me if we had Been , as we ought to have seen , all the professed friends , of whatever sect and party , rt-prcsented by their leaders and heads on this platform . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) I deeply regret that those of your community who move in a higher sphere , should , hy their ab >

      sence from you this night , prove eitlier that they are careless of your interests , or that they have not thought as they ought to have done , of the importance of this question . Tbe musters are not here . The question we are about dtciding is one of real interest to them . It is their interest that the trade of England shall be founded on a just and righteous principle . It Is their interest that the working people employed by . them . should look up to them as their guardians and friends , rather than as their tyrants and oppressors , . ( Cheers . ) I come here && thei * friend , because I knaw I sh ' 11 bo able to demonstrate to you that at pesent the trade of England is built on rottenness , and believing as I do in the Word of God , t am constrained to believe that the curse of the God of justice rests on that trade wbichjs manifestly founded on

      oppression , robbery , and wrong . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Oastler proceeded to comment on the evils of the factory system , and added , what ri ght had the manufacturers to build fraud houses , to keep carriages , and set themselves up as nabobs , unless the working classes had plenty had the first share—had a sufficiency , for he did not mean a niggardly portion which could onl y keep body and soul together . If the manufacturers wanted to have parks , and carriages , and all the grand paraphernalia of stato , let them have those things ; but let them not be procured out of that portion of the reward of labour which God himself had given to the labourer , let there be justice first and then luxuries if jou will . ( Cheers . ) AfUr seme observations on the Poor Law , Mr . Oastler resumed his seat amidst loud cheering .

      A petition to Parliament fouuded on the resolutions having been adopted , On the motion of Mr . U . Smart , seconded by Alfred Haughton , Three cheers were then respectively given for Richard Oastler , John Fielden , Feargus O'Connor , T . S . Duncombe , and other friends to the Ten Hours'BiV .

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      GREAT MEETING AT LEEDS . On Monday evening a large and influential meeting of the inhabitants of Leeds , convened by the Mayor , C . I . Medea , Esq .. on the pre-entation of a requisition numerously and respectably signed , was held in the saloon of the Music Hall , for the purpose of petitioning Parliament in favouf of limiting the hours of labour for women and children in factories to ten hours per day . The meeting was fixed to take place at half-past seven , and at that time the room was crowded in every part , upwards of 1 , 000 persons being present . The Rev . Dr . Hook , Vicar , took the chair , . and amone those present on the platform were W . B . Ferrand , Esq . M . P ., Richard Oastler , Esq ., and a great number of the clergy and influential persons eneaeed in trade .

      Mr . Fielden , M . P ., was expected to be present , but was prevented by indisposition . The requisition convening the meeting having been read , The Rev . Chairman opened the proceedings . Mr . J . Parkin moved the first resolution : — That a reduction in the hours of factory labour is a growing necessity , from the great increase and high perfection of machinery , whoteuse is to lessen and not to augment human labour;—that long hours , though at first not felt to be so great » social evil , are now found to be very injurious both to the personal and pecuniary interests of the parties employed . Mr . Jamks Stansfield , another operative , se conded the resolution . - I > . Lees supported the resolution in an excellent speech ; The resolution was carried unanimouslv .

      f he Rev . Mr . Dalton moved the second resolution in a neat speech , for which we regret we have not room . Mr . Sykes seconded the resolution , which was as follows : — That the advocacy of the shortening of the hours of labour has been of incalculable benefit to society at large , having diffused rounder notions of political economy amongst all classes— -produced a better understanding between masters and men—corrected many of tbe errors oi theorists—nn'l taught the operatives that It is useless to war against machinery , but rather to struggle for the regulation of the hours of labour , as a nieaas of comfort and happiness to themselves and families .

      Richard Oastler , Esq ., in supporting the resolution , after some preliminary remarks ,, in which he denounced tho factory system as degrading alike both to the masters and men , proceeded to show , that a reduction of the hours of labour would not necessarily bring down wages . Some time ago , in Leeds , it was the custom for hard-raisers to work ten hours a day , and in fluddersfield they worked twelve hours . Now , according to the principles of political economy , wages ought to have been one-twe ! fUi more in Iluddersh ' eld than in Leeds . But what was the fact ? Why , that lor many y&ira operatives who had wires and families residing in Iluddersdeld , came to Leeds , preferring to work there in order that they might carry home two shillings a-week more than they

      could have obtained nt the former place ; and he , Mr . Oastler contended , that the only way to obtain a just reward for labour was to bring the hours to that exact level which would bring into occupation every labourer in the community . The speaker then alluded to the declaration of Mr . Bright , the Chancellor of tbe Exchequer , and Mr . Phillips , that the working chsses were not in favour of a Ten Hours ' Bill , because they did not strike . Why , it had been the ob ect of those , w ho advocated the Ten Hours ' Bill , from the first movement of the question to the present time , to prevent the masters and the men from coming into collision , and the latter had found that it would not be to their interest to enter into any sucn combination , and therefore there was no

      proof whatever that they were not favourable to the measure because they did not strike . ( Hear , hear . ) He had attended meetings in various parts of the country , some of them attended by 60 , 000 persons , and when the proposition was put in favour of a reduction to ten hours , he had never seen more than five hands held up against it . He strongly urged the working classes not to listen to any advue , come from whatever quarter it might , to enter into a strike for the purpose of attaining this object ; because such a step could only produce a reduction of wages , and the misery of themselves and their families . How would the working people stand under such circumstances ? The relieving officers would

      give them no relief ; and if they had no employment and no means by which to live , he asked , how it would be possible that the hundreds and thousai d < of persons thus congregated together could be kept in a state of order ? Whether , therefore , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , Dr . Bright , or any other millowner thought proper to say that because the workins ; classes did not strike that they were indiiferent to the question , he ( Mr . Oastler ) begged that the meeting w 6 uld take it as bo proof whatever that the working c'asses were not determined to have a Ten Hours'Bill by peaceable means . ( Cheers . ) He had been told by a Lancashire mill-owner what the obct of a etc ke meant . He was told that there was an

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 5, 1846, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1395/page/2/