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      " Sib , — now years n nan mis sorely afflicted with Uheumatic Gout , the suffering from iviiicii induced me to try all the proposed remedies that extensive medical experience could devise , without obtaining : iiiy satisfactory rcli'jf from pain . Muring one of tlie paroxysms ii friend advised me io tr > - iJiuir ' s Gout ami Rheumatic Fills , observing that he had in some severe cases taken them himself , and they proved very successful . I instantly adopted iiis advice , and to my joy the excruciating torment soou began to abate , and a tow boxes restored me to health , since wliicli I liavc had no rctuni of tlie complaint . I trust . vou will give publicity to my case , that suffering humanity may know how to ' obtain a remedy for this distressing disease . —I am , Sir , your obedient humble servant , Michael Nasmcth . "

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      YOU MAY }))¦ ; C 17 KED YET ! IIOLLOVrAY'lToiXTMENT . CURE OF lUffiU \ LVVl * . \ iTsi > RHEUMATIC r- CtL'T . Extract of a Lcttrrfrom . Mr . Thomas Brunton , l / . m . llmd ' of tho Waterloo laveni , Chatham , Yorkshire , b . N- .. ( the-Life Guards , datcii Siptemlier 2 Stli , 1 S 4 S . Sib , —For a lung time I was a martyr to Mlieumatwiu and Rheumatic Gout , and for ten weeks previous U > using yortv medicines I was s . > bad as not to be able to w . ilk . I had tried doctoring mid KicUiemes of every kiml . In it all to no avail , indeed I daily !; ot worse , and felt tlmi J l . iust shortly die , i- 'rom seeing-your remedies advertised in the paper I take i ::, I thought 1 would g ; ive them a trial . ' did so . I rubbed the ointment in as directed , and l . vpf cabbage leaves to the parts thickly spread with it . - . ' ¦\; i look the i'ills night and morning . In three weeks I \ v ; t ^ ( . ( milled to wnlk about for an hour or tivo in the day with ; i .- ick , and in seven weeks I could so anywhere without oiu ' . I am

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      [ Advertisement . ]—Scorbutic ! Humoots cuued by HoiiOwax's Ointment and Tills . —Extract of a letter from Mr . Georgo Williams , of Blacktoek , near Cork , dated June -14 , 1818 : — "ToProfessor Holloway . —Sir .: —I beg to state for your , satisfaction , and for the information of the afflicted , the wonderful effects your Ointment and Pills have bad upon me . ¦ I have suffered severely from Bcorbuti ? humours affecting me in . diffeVent parts , and , amongst othbrs , for tlie last seven years my eyes have been dread , ¦ full y sore . I tried almost' eyery remedy without obtaining anvjelief , at last I was prevailed upon to use your inyaluablo ' ni 6 diein 63 , trhichldid , and am delighted to say that am cured by them . ( Signed ) George William * . - Lancashire ' . — Tatal Railwat . Accimnx .. — Ufl ^ oiiday morning one of the guard * of tho London ana flbrth : Woiternajallway , named Ireland , was fcillea at ftowton Junction , in foolishly attempting to WOBB the line while a train vraa apw- ( "v » Iung .

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      LKES ON LIBERTY . [ The following lines , extracted from a poem by George White , one of the lurkdale political prisoners , were m our possession long before the author ' s trial and sentence to unmerited incarceration . ] Say , suffering mortals , how toegin the thome With -which the indignant breast each moment throbs , Or how find words to solve this dream Catt'd life , first hright with hope , but witherinff into sobs ? Prom what source spring the toil-worn pallid cheek ,

      And countless miseries to which we're bound ? Shall we believe the preachers , fat and sleek , Who say on earth 110 solace can be found , As if there were not food on this fair soil To render joj- and health to honest toil ? Base hirelinss , liars , hypocrites , and knaves , Heady , at all times , at the rich man ' s nod , To preach contentment to poor plundered slaves , And would , for pelf , re-crucify your God—Bow much of misery to you we owe The blackest part of history's page can tell , You first great cause of mankind's bitter woe , "Whose cuiinins cant has made this earth a hell . ? » * * Tour sophistry with friendly eyes they view , Knowing your craft essential to their schemes ; And , but for your assistance , in all nations , The oppressor ' s table would have fewer rations . But not on you alone rests all the blame ; Society itself—oh 1 strange perversion 3 Refined cannibalism ' s a better name—As people understand that plain expression . But you can read these matters in detail . The world ' s history * s a long sad story , That causes human hearts oft to bewail , And shudder at the blood-stained glory Of kings , and priests , and money-mongers' crimes Even in these boasted islands miscall'd free , The insatiate robbers take another shape—Church , Commerce , Law—the insidious three , Tor plunder are continually a-sape . * at x *

      It is surpassing strange that those who toil To pamper luxury , and clothe the vile—Viha dig the mine and cultivate the soil "Without a ray of hope , or cause to smite"Who , blest with genius , and surpassing skill To raise the palace—deck the gay saloon—To stem the boisterous ocean as a rill , And paint for Folly ' s hall the rich cartoon—Should thus be blinded , tamely bend the knee To worthless fops—mere skeletons—through lust May your own manhood teach you all to see , AnJ spurn the vermin to their native dust . "Was it for this you were endowed with sense To iudsce aright the great Creator ' s will ?

      Then laugh to scorn each robber s vile pretence , "Who out of our credulity their coffers fill . Stand up like men and tell the worthless crew , That not for them alone this world was made ; That ' tis preposterous in the idle few To think our claims much longer to evade . Bo this , and childhood ' s voice in gladsome strains , Shall sound in joyful , cheering tones ; And Nature's smiles o ' er lovely fruitful plains Shall substitute all nations * bitter groans . Then shall we shout the anthem of the free ; Then shall the rule of tyrants be no more : All nations join in one grand jubilee , And Freedom ' s sons rejoice from shore to shore .

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      II LU ACROSTIC . T hine is the heart where love of Erin dwells , II igh , heaving proud beneath the tyrant stroke , 0 ' er history ' s fight , e'en trodden down , H swells ; JI idst all the ruin it can ne'er be broke . A chaplet like the emerald shall shine S erenely pure upon that brow of thine . P lvsedom has nursed ihee for a nation ' s throne ; E . ich flowers of eloquence were on thy tongue , A nd nobly taught our country ne'er to moan , 2 f or rest appeased till glory had been won .

      C orrnption filched thee to her cell of chains , I n Erin's annals hut to live enshrined : S ucharethe gifts she gave to great remains . M artyr of truth , and sun-burst beaming mind 2 E rin , though sad and weak to-day , has wings ; A nd fondly still her proudest wish shall soar—G rand as the eagle ' s , when back to earth he brings H eaven s gaze of light to glad the triumph o ' er E ach caitiff—they yet shall tremble at thy name , R euowned young chieftain of all cloudless fame . TmVERART .

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      CHAKTIST TKACTS FOE THE HUES . 3 fo . 2 . Why are ice Poor ? The Landed Aristocracy . B y the Kirkdale Chartist Prisoners . Joseph Barker , Wortley , near Leeds . London : Watson . We have received Itfos . 2 and 3 of these excellent tracts , but must defer comment until next-week . For the present -we can only give our readers the following taste of the excellent quality of H \ o . 2 : — Here then , -we take our stand , and unhesitatingly declare the present misappropriation of land as the primary cause ofthe excessive poverty which obtains in these countries . "We go still further , and fearlessly denounce the monopoly of the soil as the

      fruitful source of human misery and degradation in all civilised countries , without exception ; for even in Republican America , the evil is found to operate as an antidote to national progression , and to be productive of much suffering , and nothing but its immense territory preserves its inhabitants from-enduring the same hardships as afflict the population of European states ; aud so much is this felt by them , that the educated and intelligent operatives of that country have already had their attention directed to the monstrous absurdity and injustice of such a system , and have formed an extensive organisation to enforce its abolition . Let us not be here met by the unmeaning and oft-ropeated charge of being levellers . The question of life or death to

      millions of human beings is at issue , and the people have reason io demand" by what right a few individuals arrogate to themselves an exclusive claim to that soil which a title deed , older than all the musty parchments in existence , proves io bo the common property of all . The right to the exclusive control of the land , according to the whim or caprice ofa fcwlargcproprietor 3 , implies the power of taking human life , and the abuse of this power has vesuited in the death of thousands in Ireland within the last few years . In fact , the operation of our institutions , and the power which they confer on the proprietors of land and capital , have at length reduced the millions to such an abject condition , that

      they now ask the fearful question , whether the property of the rich , or the life of the poor is of the greatest importance ? To this alternative has our boasted civilisation brought us . This question is being solved on the continent amidst scenes of strife and bloodshed , and not all the sophistry or special pleading of the whole army of bookmakers or newspaper scribblers can obliterate the true Cause of this lamentable struggle . They may rave in their hireling prints about Communists , Red Republicans , Socialists , and Chartists , the operating cause is the same throughout , namely , the dcath-strugttlo of down-trodden . labour- against rampant and aUdevourmg capital .

      On the pne eide we behold privilege , wealth , and title , claiming not only the earth , but its inhabitants as their patruuo ' ny ; for , disguise it as they may , they not only claim indirectly , but they possess actuall y a . property in their fellow creatures , as absolute as that of the ' black slave owner , and ; tueir title to which consists in the butcheries , plunders , and musty records of the past . On the other , stands the mass of mankind , comprising the utility , strength , and intellect of society . The battle has fairly begun between these contending parties , the Stake at issue is well understood , and whether it be conducted by the force of reason and argument , or hy more objectionable means , the ultimate result is neither doubtful nor remote .

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      Death op the Klvg of Houisd . — "William II ., King of the Xetneriands , died at the Hague , on Saturday hist , of inflammation of the lun ^ s . He had only completed his 57 th year in October last . The late King was educated in England , and had been mi every relation intimately connected with this country . Having been driven from Holland with Ms father , on the foundation of the Batavian Republic , he was placed under the charge of the late Archbishop of Canterbury . At the age of nineteen he was appointed , as Prince of Orange , a lieutenant-colonel of the British army , and served as extra aide-de-camp with the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula from 1811 to 1814 . He was present

      at the sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz , and the battles of Salamanca , Tittoria , Pyrenees , and Xirelle . He commanded the Dutch troops in the campai gn of 1815 , and the 1 st Corps d'Armee at the battle of Waterloo , in which he was severely bounded , after having taken an active part in the preceding engagements . He acceded to tho throne 101840 , upon Ms father's abdication . —Times . The Taxes os IJewspapebs . —A petition has been adopted by the letter-press printers of Bath , and is BOff in course of signature , praying the House of wfflanons io repeal the duty 0 ° pap 61 " and adrerksemeiits . knd the stamp duty oa newspapers . Lord 1 ) Da « ii fiaBUgreed to present it .

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      ASTLEY'S THEATRE . Coroito , or the Warrior ' s Steed , was presented on Tuesday evening , for ths 32 nd time . The scene is laid in Mexico , at the time when the Spaniards invaded that country . The plot shows the power and tyranny exercised by the priesthood of that { . eriod , which has been found to difier but little ( no matter what the creed might be ) , even in more modern times . Corasto , ( Mv . T . Fredericks ) , general of the Tiascalian army , is successful in a battle with the Spaniards : in the inr ' an time the Inca vo * s to consecrate hi-s only daughter , Solma , ( Miss llosa Henrv ) , as a virgin to the sun , if the Mexicans are victorious . Corasccr returns , laden with the-spoils of the enemy , confesses his love for ihe princess , and

      claims her hand , which is given him by her father . J he High Priest ( Mr . Crowther ) , reminds the Inca Of bis oath—Solma is given to the priest—and Gorasco leaves the palace , after having accused the Inca of folly and ingratitude The Princess is rescued b v her liver from the Temple of the Sun , when her life would have been forfeited for suffering the vestal flame to expire upon the a tar . Their retreat is . however , discovered , and Solma is once more in the power of the Priest , who having assassinated the Inca , professes his lovefor the Princess , and offers to share with her the throne ; but treating his overtur . s with disdain , she is condemned to be burnt alive . To avert such a dreadful fate Corasco leads 'he Spaniards to Tla cala , where he arrives in time to rescue the Process from the funeral pile , and destroy the usurper ; for which he is rewarded with

      the hand of Solma , and the crown of Tiascala . The sp ? ctacle Is produced with great splendour , and the park assigned them are well sustained by Messrs . T . Fredericks , Crowther , and Attwood ; and Miss Rosa Henry . ller UemJer performs the most daring and extraordinary feats upon the tight rope , with graceful e ' egance ; amongst which may ba mentioned his playing on the violin , and discharging a musket , whilst in the act of throwing somersaults , backwards and forwards , which he did with as much ease and precision as other artists could upon level ground . The chief attraction , however , is the performance of the Young Anurican , Hernandez , whose clever feats we Save already noticed . He is nightly called before the delighted audience , amid showers of bouquets , and the most rapturous applause .

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      ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE . A benefit in aid of the Victim Fund was taken at this Theatre on Wednesday evening . March the 21 st , The house was well attended . The pieces performed were , * ' Ruth ,- or , the Lass that loves a Sailor ; " " The Wild Irish Girl ; " and the Burlesque of " Fayre Rosamonde . " The audience appeared well pleased with the performances , which alternately drew bursts of laughter , tears , and applause . Miss Vincent p ' ayed with her wonted ability in the two fir > t pieces . Mr . Forman made a most graceful Fair Rosamond in the burlesque , with more than Adelphian humour . Forman and Miss Barro welifle , the ( Queen Eleanor , ) were well supported by the other characters in the burlesque . We have great hopes that the Fund will receive a considerable acquisition of strength from these renewed exertions of the Victim Committee . In the cmirse of the evening the Marseillaise Hymn was played by the orchestra and elicited a universal encore .

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      Royal Polytechnic Institution . — A specimen ofa cork mattress has lately been deposited here for the purpose of giving the public the opportunity of viewing the advantages possessed by this material for bedding in all kinds of shipping . A number of experiments were last summer exhibited on the Thames and in the basin in Woolwich Dockyard , to prove the efficacy of an invention by which the lives of sailors and passengers in ships , &c , could , in the event of shipwreck , be saved . The invention , which was very simple , consisting in substituting cork cuttings or shreds in the place of horse-hair , wool , or flock , as the stuffing for mattresses , pillows , &c , to be employed in ships of all kinds , The experiments were perfectly satisfactory , and were approved of by Sir G . Bremer , and by many persons connected with the navy , and by scientific men who witnessed them . The cork was cut into small

      shreds of various fineness , and a few pounds of this material were found to possess a most extraordinary buoyant power . The difficulty at that time was to procure the article so manufactured in such quanti * ties as to render it generally serviceable , the instruments employed to cut the shreds , from the toughness of the cork , not possessing sufficient power or being sufficiently adapted to cut large quantities , excepting by very slow -process . The consequence wa * , the invention did not become very generally known or used . Sines that time , machinery has been contrived , and is now at work on the premises of the patentees , at the City Saw Mills , Regent's Caual , by which the cork is cut with the greatest despatch and facility , llad the ill-fated vessel , lately wrecked on the Essex coast , possessed a few mattresses stuffed with this material , most of the passengers and crew would have been saved .

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      __ TO THE TRADES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND . Fellow-Men , —In again addressing you , I have the pleasure to announce that oar organisation is progressing in the most satisfactory manner in London . The Trades of the metropolis seem , at last , to have awakened from their lethargy , to bestir themselves in earnest—and it appears" to me to be of the highest importance that no mistake should be made in our future policy , but V at we should commence at the right end of our work , and adopt the motto of Burke , " That which is worth doing , is worth doing

      well . " You will , no doubt , have learnt by this time , through the medium of the press , tiiat the London Trades have held a large , public meeting , at which a petition to Parliament was adopted , calling upon the government to assist the Trades in procuring useful employment by the establishment of Home Colonies . That and the question of the Suffrage will , in reality , be commencing at the right eud of the work . t he delegates have issued an address to the Trades of Great Britain and Ire ' and , pointing out the manner in which they can most effectually co-operate with the men of London . You wi'l behold in that

      address—if its spirit be energetically carried into effect—the necessary machinery to more even the empire itself . Let the Trades in the provinces convnenceth ' s great work without delay . Bear in mind , it is in that talismanic word—Union—alone , that you will find the lever to extricate you from your prostrate condition . It is , therefore , to the formation and proper direction of a national organisation of Trades , that I am anxious to direct your attention . Every Trades' Unionist will , I think , at once discover that be has hitherto commenced at the wrong end of his work by asking himself the question— " How it occurs that the Trades in their aggregate capa ity , after having spent hundreds of thousands of pounds .

      and , in many instances , suffered the greatest privations , to prevent labour from being devoured by its own offspring—capital—that , after years of conten « tion , you are further from therealisation of that ill-understood phrase of ' A fair day ' s wage for a fair day ' s work , ' than you were the hour you first commenced the contest V The answer will be found in the fact that you have hitherto been striking , and striking in vain , against the effect , while you have-wholly left untouched tlie great primary causd " The supply and demand in the labour market regu ' ate the price of labour , " say the Political Economists of a certain school—and it is so ; and in that fact you may behold the complete triumph of capital overlabour . The usurpation of the soil by the few , to the exclusion of

      the many , on the one hand , and superseding manual labour by machinery for the sole benefit of the capitalist on the other , in the face of an increasing aud systematically slave-made population , has left the workmen of all nations only one of two alternatives to choose—either to accept the terms offered bv an employer , or , otherwise , to turn round and look starvation in the face , in which case the crowded state of the labour market compels some less independent or more necessitous workman than the objector to snatch at the terms the other has refused . Oh ! if the tales of woe which nearly every workman could unfold respecting the terr . ble operation of this most vicious and destructive principle of supply and delnacd , by which the labour , or , rather , slave market ,

      is regulated at present , were placed on record , such a frightful catalogue of human suffering would be developed to the wo-Jd , that would stamp with e ! ernal infamy the oppressors of their race . Thoreis not a warkman ' s home into which the effects of thi 9 pernicious principle has not entered . Its effects are felt alike in the cottage of the peasant , as in the hou 5 eofthe mechanic in London or Paris . You may behold it in the cheap ticket and show shops m almost every street in our large towns—those execrable establishments for perpetrating wholesale fraud upon the public , the operative , and the citieen . Its direful effects are also to be seen in the thousands who daily throng our streets , searching in vain for employment . Nor is its mission of iniquity completed , until it has driven them within the wal ' s of a

      prison or a workhouse , to add to the bitterness of their misfortunes , where they are compelled to labour ; but which has been refused to them until £ ! & . m thus Abased . These are stern and stubborn truths , which it is the duty of every working man to destroy . There is but one way to remedy these feaiful evils , and that is by creating for yoursdyeB . aa far as possible , aniodependentlabour markeU-tobecome , in reality , your own employers . Such is our object in proposing Home Colonisation , and I rejo i ce to find there is a strong feeling among several of the Trades to form co-operative or Joint-Stock Companies within their own respective Trades . These societies would pe most powerful auxiliaries in effecting the emancipation of labour . Let greet fare , however , be taken that they be com-.

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      menced on sound principles , and conducted with honesty , and they cannot fail to be of immense benefit to the Trades . For instance , what is to prevent the tailors , shoemakers , hatters , and others from effectually superseding those destructive engines to their respective Trades—tlie show and ticket shops ? All that is required is ifnihn in the fir t place ; and , secondly , co-oi > eration among themselves . With union , the working classes would be all but omnipotent ; without it they will ever remain slaves . I nw beg to earnestly direct your attention to the second proposition of " the London Trades delegates , namely that of Universal Suffrage . I loak upon th : it qui'Stion as being of equal importance to that of labour , lam deeply impressed with a belief that the emancipation of labour will never be complete , until the

      people are universally enfranchised . Where is the man so lost to every sense of self respect as not to look upon himself as being fit to exercise the franchise ? Surely none who belong to a Trades Union will underrate ; this great and glorious principle of political equality . Who among us can b-hold the great and heroic struggles which the workmen iiiall the civilised nations of Europe have made , to establish their freedom , witiioutTeclin < j the burning glow of admiration at their magnanimous conduct ? Behold the men of Italy , even now in arms against the oppressors of their country , who are conspiring to rob them of their wtll-asserted rights ! Will Britons , who have been taught to sing they " never shal ! be slaves , " remain alone with the ignominious brand of slavery upon them , to become a byword among the

      nations , at whom the eivi isation of Europe shall point the finger of scorn ? Oh , no , let us wipe off this foul stain ! and swear by every sacred tie of family , of friends , or of country , that we will each do at least the duty of one man , to leave the world better than we found it . The question ? of employment and the suffrage , are the rallying points to which our energies ought to be immediately directed . It is impossible for any concessions to be made in either of these questions , without giving entrance to the thin end of the wedge , and it will be the fault of the people if they do not drive it home . The question of labour must be kept continually before the attention of Parliament , as well as the suffrage ; and even though no concessions be made on the question of employment , tire very fact of its

      continual discussion will be found to be more valuable to the people , when the hour of their political enfranchisement arrives , than all the gold of California . It will create a powerful mind in the nation , an irresistible intelligence , which will turn the suffrage to proper account , when it is attained ; but fovthe want of which , other nations have not . is yet obtained those benefits from their enfranchisement , which more intelligence respecting the rights of labour will beeure to confer . " For a nation to be free , it is enough that she wills it , " says a celebrated writer . But she requires something more than that . Sherequirestheknowledget-iconsolidateherfreedom , as well as the power to will it . The history of past revolutions throughout the world proclaims to us in

      the language of disappointment , that when the last shot was fired , and the sword of the people was again returned victoriously to the scabbard , the hour of the revolution may then be said to have only commenced . It was no longer a conflict of arms—it then became a conflict of minds ! and , unfortunately for the side of labour , it has in that as yet been unsuccessful in coping with its adversaries . These are facts replete with instruction . Let us profit by them . Let our watchword be union , and our course be onward ; and we will show to the world that we are not that lawless , ignorant rabble , we are represented to be , but that we are a brave and generous people , deserving | to be free . Alfred A . Walton .

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      THE GRIEVANCES OP THE COLLIERS OF THE NORTH . TO THE EDITOR OP TnE NORTHERN STAR . Sir—The Colliers are assuredly the worst-paid class of men who earn their bread by the sweat of their brow ; but however ill requited for their dangerous toils , it will startle the readers of the Steer to learn the nefarious practices resorted io by their employers , to abstract and curtail their scanty wages , under the legal authority of the " Bond of Agreement . " The bonds by which the miners of this district contract to do certain work for a certain amount of wages , invariably contain the following or a similar clause : " That the standard weight shall be 7 J cwt ., and any tub being- deficient , and containing only 7 cwt . 21 lbs ., shall be deemed forfeited ; the hewer thereof not being entitled to any

      pay for working the same . This is termed " setout , " and tho hewer hews and fills such tub , the nutter puts the same—both parties risking their lives—and because the weight of coals is a little below the standard , neither hewer nor putter get any pay for the quantity sent ; m fact , they work tfiat till ) for nothing . Then there is " laid out , " another net spread to catch the earnings of the workmen . The bond again states : " That the workmen shall send to bank coals of a merchantable character , and that any tub containing small coal , foul coal , or splint , shall be forfeited , and tho parties will not be entitled to any pay for working the same . " The bond generally states the number of quarts of small coal , i'C , to bo in each tub before such tub shall

      become forfeited ; the quantity varying at different collieries—some having it fixed at four quarts , and some at eight , &c .: but oven taking tho larger quantity , how small it appears when contrasted with the great bulk of coal—7 * cwt . in the tub ; and if eight quarts or a peck of small coal be found there , the party is subjected to the penalty above stated . It almost staggers belief that so little feeling should be found in an employer , as to take the whole price earned by a servant because a handful of dirty coal appears among the bright or clean coal—yet such is the fact , and it is every day practised upon the colliers of this district .

      It may be said that the workmen ought not to mix small with the round or large coal . The fhulc is not always tho workman ' s . I know that in nine cases out often he ought to bo exempt from the f ) ena lty . For example , coals are worked in large iimps and put into the tubs with as much cave as possible , and although no small is put in during the process of filling , yet that , and every tub worked , has to travel in many instances a mile before it reaches the shaft . Now it is next to impossible but that the coals should have their jagged edges broken off , and a sort of grinding process being in operation during the transit ( which is often down inclined planes and over rough and uneven roads ) , makes small coal to a considerable extent , and yet the

      workman has to forfeit the price of working such tub of coals , when it is evident he has no control over the circumstance . Again , it is highly probable that a tub may be forfeited by having the quantity of small coal in it , and yet have also the full weight of round coals as stipulated by the bond—and then how stands the case ? The hewer has actually filled and sent to bank 7 h cwt . of coals , according to agreement , but because a few quarts of small coal occupy the interstices or fill up the hollows , he must lose his pay for working the same , which to me appears most unjust and uncalled for . The employer , in my opinion , has no business to interfere , so long as he gets his weight . For example , I order a box of eggs , stating the quantity 500 , or whatever

      number wanted ; it would certainly bo monstrously unjust to take the eggs , and coolly tell the merchant I would not pay because he had packed them with straw . The cases are similar , as by agreement the hewer is bound to send to bank 7 $ cwt ., and if he chooses to pack those round coals with small , thus filling up the tub by a layer of lumps and a spread of small , which would preserve the lumps from contact , and prevent them grinding each other and producing small coal , what right has the employer to complain , so long as he gets the full wei g ht stipulated ? yet such cases as the above are of general occurrence . The following detailed account of the " laid out" and " set out , " at Seaton Deleval Colliery , will assuredly rouse the dormant energies of the miners , and prevent such extensive forfeitures as avo here exhibited : — Tons ewt . ' Laid out" at C and D pits ... 5203 13 „ E „ F „ ... 5210 C " Set out" at C and D pits ... i 4 E „ F „ ... 113 2 . Total 10 , 531 5 The average pvico paid for working is Is . 2 d . per ton ; hence 10 , 531 tons 5 ewt ., gives the amount of wages lost £ 614 6 s . 5 Jd ., every farthing of which the miner has worked as hard for as any other part of his earnings . There is another feature of advantage which ought to be recorded , as bringing a large sum into the pocket of the employer , viz ., these 10 , 531 tons which they get for nothing , are really worth , and will sell for the enormous sum of £ 3 , 510 6 s . 8 d ., taking the price at 6 s . 8 d . per ton , which is below the mark . Xow these 10 , 531 tons , giving a loss to the amount of £ &H Cs . 3 Jd ,, and producing by sale £ 3 , 510 6 s . 8 d ., are all the result or what has been experienced in 1848 , a loss to the workmen of upwards of £ 2 per man for the year . At the beginning of this year tho employers of the above colliery ( Deleval ) offered very extensive reductions to their workmen ; to this they

      demurred ; and after much altercation the matter was submitted to arbitration . The arbitrators being viewers ( according to the bond ) , came to the conclusion that the reductions wera uncalled for , and agreed that certain prices should be fixed , iwng a little higher thanthose offered by tho masters . To show that those prices aro still too little , durmg the fortnight the aggregate of tho wages was £ 293 5 s ., for 2346 shifts , giving each man 2 s . 6 d . per shift , or day s work out or which sum the hewer has powder , candles , and took to find . ; fully demonstrating that some additional price is needed . Thus we have a brief history of the position of the general body of miners in the north / and unless they bestir themselves , and by union and combination seek to bring about a better state of things , they may rest assured their position will get worse ^ The miners of EadcUffe Colliery , , x > ear . Wark-

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      worth , have struck , to resist some encroachment upon their privileges . Three weeks agothe miners ot that coUusry took a fancy that the tubs wore too largo , and expressed their apprehensions to their employer who to Id them that they had nothing to 1 fn Si S S n ? ° . > bufc si "W t » P « t in the S nhfif ? ™ S - Tho workmen sought i ?„« frL v minent ad J * ' of coal-weighing , mh n ^ X 7 Casfcl 0 ( tho authorities at AlSwick having refused to attend ) , who , when he arrived at the eolhery , found some difficulty in being allowed IS' ? L W * *™ - Subwquon&r ho inspected . . tUo inaehmo , and ascertained that it gave regularly focwti , whao tho wopkmea ^ only paid for 6 J cwt . Tho employer immediately agreed to pay for all surplus weight , and wn ,-k

      Av-as resumed the next day . On Monday week the men were given to understand that the surplus weight would not be paid , and also that the prices paid tor- brasses would bo discontinued . These unexpected disclosures brought the workmen to a stanu still , who seem determined to stand until they can command pay for all surplus weight , and be paid for the brasses , as heretofore . Tfieso tosses aro a species of vefuso intermixed with tho strata or seam of coal which it has always been customary to send to bank , but which it is the interest of the employer to pay tho workmen to keep oat ; and as it entailed a great amount of labour and time they were certainl y entitled to receive pay for the same . Yours truly , ,.. i M . Jt'DE . at- ; 1 o J ° ,- recehred avv AdvlYess t 0 the Scotch Miners , calling strongly on them to unite for theii preservation .

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      „ ... . ... SWIFT ' S 1 AST MtfES . Swift , in his lunacy , had somo intervals of reason . On one occasion his physicians took him with the " to enjoy the advantages of fresh air . When they came to the _ Phwnix r . irk DubIin gvvlft re C miXfl a new building which he had never before Se ™ and asked what it was designed for V To which Dr lungsbury answered , " that , Mr . Dean , is the magazine for arms and powder , for tho security of the c ^ 0 " . oh ! " says the Dean , pulling out his pocket-book , » Let mo take an item of that This is worth remarking ; « my tablet ' s ! ' as Hamlet says , ' my tablets ' , mwnqry put down that . '" Which produced the following lines , being the last the Dean ever wrote : —

      - ' Behold a , proof of Irish sense ! Hero Irish wit is seen ; When nothing ' s left that ' s worth defence , We build a magazine . " and then put up his pocket-book , laughing heartily at the conseit , and clenching it with , " When the steed ' s stolen shut the stable dooi " . " Peksevebance . — " Perseverance , " said a ladv , a lnend of ours , to her servant , "is the only way " you can accomplish great things . " One day eight apple dumplings were sent down stairs , and they all disappeared . " Sally , where aro those dumplings V '' I managed to get through them , ma'am . " " Why , how on earth did you contrive to oat so many dumplings 1 "By persevering , ma ' am" answered

      , Db . Johnson PounTiurEn . —Johnson is better known to us than any other man in history . Everything about him—his coat , his wig , his figure , his face , h \ s scrofula , his St . Titus' dance , his rolling walk , his blinking cye^—the outward signs which too clearly marked his approbation of his dinner—his unsatiable appetite for fish sauce and veal pie , with plums—his inextinguishable thirst for tea—his trick of touching the posts as he walked—his mysterious practice of . treasuring up orange pool—his morning slumbers—his midnight disputations—his muttermgs—his gruntings—his puffings—his vigorous , acute , and sarcastic eloquence—his vehemenceni 3

      ma iusoiujice—nts ot tempestuous rage , are all familiar to ii 9 .- ~ Mucanlay . " Ladies' Improver . "—Amongst the " new and original designs of utility " lately registered , is one by Thomas Wri ght , of Birmingham , "for a ladies ' improver , or bustle . ** The Climate of OAi . rFOB . viA . —Dan Marble strolling along the wharfs at Boston , U . S ., met a tall , gaunt-looking figure , a "digger" from California , and got into conversation with him . " Healthy climate , I suppose ?"— " Healthy . ' it aint anything else . Why , stranger , you can choose there any climate you like—hot oi cold—and that without travelliu' more than fifteen minutes . Jest think ' o that

      tho next cold inornin' when you git out o' bed . There ' s a mountain there—the Sawyer JJavaday , they call it—with a valley on each side of it—the one hot , and t' other cold . Well ! git on tho top of that mountain with a , double-barrelled gun , and you can , without movin ' , kill either- summer or winter game , jest as you will . "— " What ' . have you ever tried it ? "—Tried it ! often , and should have done pretty well , but for one thing . " — " Well I what was that ? "— " I wanted a dog that would stand both climates . Tile last dog Ihild / ivwe off his tail while pintin' on the summer side . He didn ' t get entirely out of the winter side . Trow as you live !'' Marble sloped . —Albany Argus .

      mis secret . In a fair lady ' s heart a Secret was lurking—It tosscd / and it tumbled—it longed to get out : Tho Lips half betrayed it by smiling and smirking , And Toxoue was impatient to blab it , no doubt 1 But Hosour looked stern on the subject , and gave it In charge to the Teeth , ( so cnchahtingly white !) should tho captive attempt an elopement , to save it By giving the Lips an admonishing bite 1 ' Tvras said , and 'twas settled ; Sir Hoxour departed ; Toxoue quivered and trembled , but dare not rebel Wiien , right to its tip , Skchet suddenly started , And half , in a whisper , escaped from its cell ; Quoth the Teeth in a pet , " we'll be even for this !" And they bit very hard above and beneath ; But the Lrrs , at tho moment , wove bribed with a Kiss , And they popped out the Secret " in spite of their tect / i . ' "

      Practical Application of Good Advice . —A mother admonishing her son ( a lad about seven years of age ) , told him that he should never defer till totnorrow what he could do to-day . Tho little urchin replied , " Then , mother , let ' s cat the remainder of the plum-pudding to-night . " Scen'e is as Ameiucan Police Coukt . —An old man , of very acute physiognomy , answered to the name of Jacob Wimont . His clothes looked as though they might have been bought second-handed in his youthful prime , for they had suffered more by the rubs of the world than the proprietor himself , — Mayor : What business do you follow , Wimont !—Wimont : Business ! 2 ? one—Jam a traveller . —M .: A vagabond , perhaps . —W . : You are not far from

      wrong ; travellers and vagabonds are much the same thing . Tho difference is , that the latter travel without money , and the former , generally , without brains . —M .: Whore have you travelled ?—W . : All over this continent . —M . : For what purpose ?—W .: Observation . —M .: What hare you observed ?—W .: A very little to commend , much to censure , and very much to lau « h at . —M .: Humph ! And what do you commend ?—W .: A handsome woman that will stay at home , an eloquent preacher that will make short sermons , a good -writer that docs not write too much , anda fool that has just sense enough to hold his tongue , —M .: What do you censure ?—W .: A man who mavvies a girl for her fine dancing , a working man who believes in the sympathy of professional gentlemen , a youth who studies law or medicine whflo he has tho use of his hands , and the people who elect a drunkard or a blockhead to office . —M .: Ahem I And what do you laugh at

      ?—W .: I laugh at tho man who expects his position to command that respect which his personal qualities and qualifications do not merit . —M . ; Oh ! I perceive you are an utterer of pithy sentences ; now I am about to utter one that will surprise you . —W .: A pithy sentence from your honour would indeed be matter for astonishment . —M .: My sentence is , that you discontinue travelling for the term of thirty days , while you rest and recruit yourself at Moyamensing . This retort was a poser , and Ml * . Wimont , submitting to the requirements of the Vagrant Act , retired from the hall of justice without uttering another syllable . Consequences of Using a Bad Pen . —An ignorant but quick-witted person was rebuked by a friend for his bad spelling in a letter ho had just finished . " Bad spelling is it ? " said the first ; " look , at that ! " holding up a stump of a quill to him ; " how can a man epell right with such a pen as that ?"

      The Soidier and his Parish . — A maimed soldier , who was refused relief , by an overseer because he did not belong to that particular pariah , said , "Ah ! Siv , I lost my limb fighting for all the parishes !" Hobses ^ nd Asses . — " Oliver Cromwell and his troopers , says the Liverpool Albion , " stabled their horses in our cathedrals . Our Whig and Tory ' governing families' do worse—they stall their asses in them . " The Cap op Liberty!— " The Cap of Liberty " is the name bestowed by Mi's . Trollope on a widow ' s cap . Not a bad idea . A Fact . —It is too true , that for one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes , there are thousands who sincerely hate our successes .

      Laziness . —Laziness grows on people ; it begins in cobwebs , 'and ends in iron chains . The more business a man has to do the more he is able to accomplish ; for ho learns to economise his time . — Judge Hale . ' HiERooMrrjnc Types . —Tho National Printingoffice of Franco has just published a work entitled , " Chronology of the Kings of Egypt , " bylesueur ! This is the first book in which the new hieroglyphic types of that establishment have been used at any length . They are said to bo extremely delicate arid beautiful—very superior Jo anything put forth by the J-nghsh or German presses . The work iff also the first bearing the new formula used' utder the repmblie to dietinguish a boojt printed af the cost of the government . r :.

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      March 24 , 1849 . THE NORTHERN STAR . ' 3 i —HllMl 1

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 24, 1849, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1515/page/3/