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Tsx SaTam Stats . —Voltaire having read Roassewi ' B paradoxical eulogy of the savage state , With dry iromv remarked , that it vraa bo seductively Written , that it really tempted a m * a to vr * lk on all foots &fter reading it . MXBCH OF IHTKLLKI—A poor WOman , Said to be » inety year * of age , tu waiting ouwiae the doors of the Cheltenham Theatre two hours before their opening , having walked eight miles to see Jane ShoreT Mrs . M'Gibbon , who was to hare enacted the heroine , deeming rech devotion to the drama madnew , wkedherdresser , who narraUd *•! « r " creature had her intellects
cumatinee , if the poor . ^ Id ^ tinow , EaW « id the lg . Jl * # gotten nonmui tied up in her pocket handkerchief . Gbacb Mai-a- propose-A milliner ' aapprentice , boat to wait spona Pnebe « g , wag fearful of ^ committing some error in her deportment , bhe therefore consulted a friend aa to the manner in which ahe diould conmlt this great personage , and was told that on *!» ing before the Duchess , she was to aav her Grace , and ao on . Accordingly , away went the RirLan * on being introduced , after a very low . urteW ; she *" > " < * whlt * "J , R °£ « H ?^' ihe Lord » ake me truly thankful . " T « which the TWhess answered , " Amen !"
A W *« , in the pit of Covent G * rdea , » few uighti ago , wbe » it was excessively crowded , baying no eat , placed off an amusing joke on tfee audience . * Lord Cardigan is in a private bor , " be exclaimed , * I insist that he shall leave the fewree ! " The pit rose t « -Bee the notorious Peer ; the wag edged himself iBto a seat , and was conformable for the remainder of the evening . Lord Cardigan , it is aha * st unnecessary to add , was set ia tbe bouse . A kk&s Mattkb o ? Tastk . —It is stated in a revest American paper , that a bill hadbeen passed by I 44 to : 92 , by the Legislature of Massachusetts , the object of which was to repeal that portion of the Biarraga act prohibiting the intermarriage between blacks and whites . According to the paper , the oeaaare was advocated on the ground that such marri&ges , when they did occur , were matters of taste , as much as the choice of a frlack or white ribboa for a bonnet . "
A Hopxtui . Babs . —A fellow had grown so tall that he could not stand out of doors , and said to be go t&in in the face , that there could but one person look at him at a time . Csb is Evebtthikg . —An elderly gentleman tra-Telim / c in a stage coach was amused by the constant fire of words kept up by two ladies . One of them at last kindly enquired , if their conversation did not xaake his head ache ! when he answered , with a great deal of naivete , " No , madam , I have been worried tioentg-eight years " The Poet Campbell is stated to have calculated that a man who shaves himself every day , and lives to tbe age of threescore and ten , expends during his life as much time ia the act of shaving as weuld hare sufficed for learning seven languages .
*• Who shall decide when doctors disagree \ In the Lord ' s house the doctrine laid down is , " Thou jhaJt do no murder 1 " In the House of Lords the recosimeadatien is , " Mnrder away , and welcome —the more the merrier . " Truly a perplexing anomaly . LrriuB things amuse weak minds—hence the amusement some people derive from speaking and speculating on the a&toniBhing precocity of the Anglo-^ renB&n infant . A- B . C—TO B 2 SCSG OB SAID I * ALL 5 ATI 05 AL
SCHOOLS . Air—A was an archer . A was Parses Albert , to Britons most dear B was a bishop , v * iih thousands a-year ; C was a courtier , who wanted a place ; D was a D . D ., and had a red face ; E was an earl , of the high Tory crew ; F was a fiddler , and rich as a Jew ; G wa 3 a gambler , high in the State ; H was a horse-jockey , equally great ; I was an innkeeper , fat once , now lean ; J was a jumper , and jumped for the Queen ; K was & king , with Bmall work and great pay ; L was a lab ' rer , on sixpence a day :
M was a minister , cho * e for his birth ; N was a nobody , raised for his worth ; O was an officer , plastered with lace ; ? was a parson , all goodness andgrace ; Q , was a queen , far renowned for her stable ; £ was a Radical , willing , Dot able , * S was a singer , Italian and rich ; T was a tradesman , and died in a ditch ; U was an usher , and carried a stick ;* V was Yas AHBtBGH , the joy of Queen "Vic ; "W was a Whig , whom we'll leave in his glory ; X the ex-Premier , who strove for victory ; Y was a yeoman of the true Tory sort ; Z was a ziuv , attached to the Court .
* For instance . Usher of the Black Rod , Gold Stick , & . C . Q , aery—Has Lord Hill's' office any analogy with that indicated by the gilded stick adopted as a sign by nightmen and chimney-sweepers ? Oke ot oca daily coutemporaries , speaking of the ** interesting situation ' of ihe Queen , " congratulates lie country on the auspicious event . " What there is for congratulation , we leave that multitudinous personage , John Bull , to determine ; for our own parts , we look , upon every fresh Royal charge as a charge that can be ill affordedin these limes , and as an additional abridgment of the comforts of the labouring classes ! A Fekkch aothor aptly remarks that the English people boast of their independence at home , but practise it abroad ; and thi ; upon the principle of giving freedom to the black 3 in the West Indies and enslaving ihe whites in England !
Imxediatelt on the arrival of " the Royal West Pennard cheese" at Buckingham Palace , the Queen signified a wish as soon as she had Been it , to have a Welsh rabbit made of a portion of it , in the hope that it might assist in certain conceived notions relating to a fnture Prince of Wale 3 J KingB and Queens have a divine right to indulge in supersution-The Jokb played off upon the Lord Mayor by Melbourne at the Mansion-house banqaet , the other day , has been much commented upon both east and west of Temple-bar . Everybody knows that the "Worthy Lord Mayor keep 3 what is called an oil shop , and deals largely in every description of thing usually sold by tradesmen of the kind , so that wisen the Premier called his-civic lordship his "worthy and excellent friend , " some doubt arose in tee minds of many whether the noble Viscount wa 3 not availing himself of the privileges of free trade , to attempt an opposition in the article of soap !
Ii mcst be gratifying-to know that tbe extensive alterations now in progress at Cumberland-lodge , for the accommodation of Prince Albert ' s brood mares and hunters , are progressing much to bis Hojal Rigness ' s satisfaction , and that M breeding in all its branches" is likely to go on under the Royal eye most prosperously . The Hon . Col . Anson and Colonel Wemyss have joet reported to the Prince , after careful inspection , that all the Royal mares in the Royal stud are in an "interestics situation . " A good woxi-f called on Dr . B— , one day , in a great deal of trcuble , and complained that her son had swallowed a penny . " Pray madam , " said the doctor , " was it a counterfeit ! " " No Sir , certainly Dot , " was the reply . ** Then , it will pass , of course , rejoined the facetious physician .
A Fit . —We yield entire assent to the position , that no reward can be too great , from either man or woman , for a Jit at once close and easy , a boot tha : satisfies the pnde without a pinch- Poor Petrarch , it is well known , lamed himself from his pinchings to look well to Laura . What Homer Bays of the well-booted Greeks , it would be needless to advert to . What Horace says about large-looking feet , every scholar knows . It was one of the greatest comforts of Lazarillo de Tonnes to be free from all responsibility as to tbe look of his upper leathers . ( How ihe beany regue l&ugfeed at the incapacity of bootmakers and the vanity of boot-wearers , whom he counselled to have their feet fairly " pared" with ? © at much ado !) Nero ' s solitary friend was the shoemakiBg slave who fitted well ; and we never had a . doubt that it was he who , in return for the Emperor s grateful kindness , strewed his tomb with flowers . Hear what our own Gay Bays , in liaes that are made for this weather :
«• Let firm , well-hammered soles , protect thy feet Through fretting coowes , and rains , and soaking sleet , ghonld the \ &g last extend the « aoe too Wide , Stcb . stone will wrench the unwary step aside ; The sodden tarn may stretch the « welling vein , The cracking joint unhinge , or ankle sprain ; And when too abort the modest shoes are nwrn , " Toall judge the naaons by your shooting corn . Truly , an awful method of judging the seasons . On the other hand , old Chaucer paints the reverse of the picture in these soothing lines ; which may be
said to carry to their highest point the aents and advantages of an accomplished shoemaker . The god of love is giving sundry recommendatk ** to the poet , asd amoag the first it a due aiteoiicc to the appearance of his feet : M Of aboon and bootes sew asd fab Look at tb » least thoo bare a pair And that they fit so fetoualr [ proper ! ji That these rude men mar mtterly Harris , site that they sit bo plain [ alose ] H « W IHtT COMB OH AID OF * ACAIS . "
How perfect the definition of an exquisitely perfect pair of boots ! The tortured street-walker of Gay aarvels , as the light-stepping dwidy of Chaucer passes him , how ever those boots " come on and off again r In referring to this passage , Mr . Devlin justly chasacteriae 3 i ; as descriptive of the perfection of the trade , and concludes that the art of the old poet ' s time is Almost hopeless of achievements in the present , whan certainly , notwithstanding all the late improvements , it is only the besl dam why ib the hm yrmnx . —Emm + usr .
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THE FIRST FACTION-FIGHT OF THE SESSION : " IN FOR ANOTHER TEAR . " The fifth week of the jeaalaa 1 m orer - . what has been done f Tbe first , four weeks were characteritsd by U » tieM idleness . in the course of that time the House of Commons , -faeld fifteen meetings , averaging somewhat leu than . jix hours each , counting from four o ' clock , the noxr jnal boor of meeting . The Committee sittings have « j&reely begun yet Pairing has been frequent , and tb £ unannounced absence of Members still more freqiv ait The slovenly manner in which the routine busin eu of the Hotue is conducted tenders it
impossible for even Members to say what progreu hat been mad e is the indispensible work of the session . One or two Committees have bees named , one or two bills ha ? e been introduced , one or two have been allowed to be introduced . Four weeks have been wasted by our R- iprwestatiTes since their meeting , mach In the same w ay that boys waste the first hour or two on returning t o school after the bolyd&ys , listlessly fingering their * Jictionaries , maps , and copy-books , xxn&ble to muster eourage to resume their task * . Our overgrown schoolboys of the Legislature have evidently no very hard taskmaster over them : the public is bat an indifferent pedagogue .
on Monday last tbe Bceufc changed . " Oh , then and there was mustering in hot haste . " For four successiTe evesisgs early and crowded sittings were protracted till far in the night Speeches of immeasurable length were delivered . Members of both parties gathered within the House to cheer their friends and hoot their opponents ; and out of the House—in the daytimelooked as suspicious as blacklegs calculating the longodds . The most unenlightened might see that the business of the session had begun at last The business of the session ?—true , the business of the partisans wSUiin the House ; but the business of the people , has it begun yet ? or when begun , will it receive the same attention * * * * * The business of the people has not begun yet This anxious week has been , after
all , nothing more than the first faction-fight of the session . The speeches during the debate on the Irish Registration Bill do not seem to indicate any nearer approximation of parties . They consist chiefly of the staple material— " you , who now say thit , formerly said that" But they were little more than ebullitions of personal spleen . Sheil pecked at Graham , and Peel at Rossell , after this fashion ; but these were single combats . There was nothing of the hurling of a personality by a whole party against a whole party , which used in 1 S 30 and 1835 to be effected by the cheers » n mast which accompanied a homeuunst Tbe preT&iling tone on both sides was more guarded than formerly .
The Ministerialists seemed to have an awkward oonsciousnes 3 that they hold their seats on and around the Treasury-bench on sufferance , and the Opposition that a premature storming of that citadel might be dangerous . Meanwhile , the Whigs are in high feather . While the debate lasted they were anxious and gloomy , bat now they are smirking and shaking hands at every comer— " We are in for another year . " When that year is at end , perhaps the chapter of accidents may &g » vn befriend them : why damp the joy of the present by gloomy conjectures a 3 to the future ? For one day the dismal word " dissolution" has not been pronounced .
But the people's business hu yet to begin : when will it begin ?—Spectator .
REMORSELESS OPPRESSION : INPA'NT LABOUR IX FACTORIES . We have long deplored the fate of the unfortunate children doomed to the toil and tortures of the factory system . The evidence taken befere the Select Committee , in 1832 , for regulating infant labour in factories , shows that Mr . Sadler's statements in the House of Commons relative to the pernicious effects of the factory system upon the health and habits of the children of tbe p « or , were not only exaggerated , but fell far short of the melancholy truth . It will appear incredible , hereafter , that such a system , notwithstanding the boasted civilization and morality of England , could ever have existed in the very heart of this Christian land , and that the sufferings which it inflicted upon $ o
many thousands of the most helpless of our fellow-creatures should have been so long unnoticed , while British philanthropy flew to all quarters « f the globe—travers- ; ing oceans and deserts—braving the hurricane and the pestilence to release the captive from his chains , to strike the scourge from the hand of remorseless oppression , and vindicate the insulted rights of humanity . When tbe children of Israel were oppressed the taskmasters were strangers to the lineage and religion of their -victim ; bat in Christian England the oppressors and the oppre * std are of the one rsc—the one nationof the same colour and the same creed—both the subject * of a free stua—both believers in » religion of mercy ! But cupidity cieates tyrants as poverty makes slaves . The vars which ambition causes produce dreadful calamities to mankind . The sordid spirit of accumulation does not destroy mankind indeed by the bayonet and grape shot , but it has its exterminating
¦ weapons , and , though less speedy , is no less sure in Its destructive process . The infltctUj of physical infirmity and moral debasement upon myriads of the infant poor of England , is among the deplorable results for \ rhich the country has to thank tbe upholders of that system , who ¦ woold sacrifice tbe comforts , the health , the morals of a -whole people , to enable a few individuals to become possessed of riches -which they ¦ will not diffuse rind cannot enjoy . Possibly the very persons who annnaily destroy in this country a number of children by the premature and unwholesome labours of our factories , -would shudder on reading an account of a Carthaginian sacrifice of children to Moloch ; yet in what do our infant offerings to Mammon differ from the Pagan oblations of tbe young and innocent upon the altars of an angry deity . '—in what , save the' mode and instrumentality by which the sacrifice is performed , and the more protracted nature of the suffering ?—Weekly Dispatch .
FRANCE , AND THE WARLIKE ARRANGE . MENTS OF THE CONTINENT . It must be a subject of surprise , as well as regret , to find that the result of five and twenty years' peace has been to produce in almost erery European state a more military organizition than has ever hitherto taken place in modern times . The war which lasted from 1792 to 1815 was so favourable to the French during the greater part of that time , and their reverses were owing to causes * o easily traced to mismanagement and the personal obstinacy of their chief , that instead of deriving from the result of that struggle a conviction that it is unwise and impossible for them to dominate ovtr the rest of Europe , or extend their empire beyond the limits filled by their own race and tongue , the French
remain , on the contrary , in the conviction that it requires no gigantic effort , and no more than a happy combination of circumstances , to permit their recovering their ascendancy and empire , at least of 1803 . Another , and an unsuccetsful war , can alone convincs the French of the impolicy or hopelessness of these schemes ; and another "war is , sxmer or later , inevitable . The longer this war is pnt off , the better , in our opinion . For the true rival and antagonist of France is Germany ,- and Germany gains more in strength and wealth , unity and national spirit , in ten years , than the French can gain in twenty . During the last ten yean the German * have made the progress of half a century . They have shot far beyond the French in communications between different parts of the conntry .
In commercial ideas , freedom , and unity , they have also gone beyond the French . The superiority of the German race is undoubted as to physical strength . In one respect Russia has got the start of all other conntries , and s « t them , it is to be feared , a fatal , at le *> t a most momenteus example . Russia , in order to makeup for her exiruity of territory , makes soldiers of her entire population . Ta be Bore she has manated this so as to interfere us little as passible with the time that professions , commerce , and other civil avocations rtquire . In some cases one year , in others two years ' actual service in the camp suffices . But out of a population of 14 , 000 , 000 , Russia has & paid army of 120 , 000 men , which , at the sound of a trumpet , can be raised to 550 , 000 men .
\ V ith such an example on her frontier , and with such a military organisation possessed by a power -which holds the greater part of the provinces that France desires to recover , it -was but natural to expect , the moment military ideas and a military party came to prevail in France , that something like tbe Russian system would be introduced there . Accordingly , Marshal Soult has introduced it A few facts will enable one to appreciate better the advantages and disadvantages of the new military organisation ef France . The thirty-three millions of French gave , about ten years back , about 288 , 000 young men of twenty ya » ra ol age , and consequently inscribed on the lists of conscription , of these , in 1831 , abont 80 , 000 were rejected as unfit , from physical causes and want of height , to make soldiers . Thus , if the portion of the male population , aged twenty , be divided into seven parta , two-ninths are rejected as unfit , two-nintbB
taken and stade soldiers of , and three-sevenths left to civil oeaipations . Of the 80 , # 00 aataally levied , not more than « 5 , 000 become soldiers ; but 5 , 000 are to be added t « t voluntary enlistments and re engagement *; and abottt ^ i per cent for eack succeeding year is to be deducted . The term of service being for eight years , one-half fcefrg sent home as a reserve after four years . the result will be that France , after eight yean' duration of her new system , willfcaTe an active and paid army of 43 t , O 0 Q men , wi * a reserve of 120 , 000 . Mawhal Soatt , indeed , speak * as if the whole 80 , 009 lived and became soldier * , aad aa if there were no deductions . This would make 380 , 000 troops receiving pay , and 32 M 00 ia nmrn ; bat with tbe deductions that tbe Freseb statistical aoeocst * themselves indicate , their army will not be mare than is above indicatednay , it will not besom neb , wdeas the mortality of military in Algiers can be put a stop to .
One result of French armamenta will doubtless be the extension of the landwehr syrtem to & mth Germany . The States of Germany , independent o f Austria and Prussia , keep up aod can famish a > military force equal to Russia ; whilst Austria , wit h its thirtyfive millions of population , eo « ld , with U tcility , as far as numbers -went , triple iU present fore e of 390 , 00 » men . France , therefore , need not , and . sannot , claim Europe by toe number of bayontta . She js far more
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formidable ky the floorishinf rtate her finance * , and these she wastes and weakens the more she extends her army and her military expence * . . The French are beginning to fee ! this , and they will feel it more » ad mere each day . Their Minl » tCjB b » Te announced to tbeot that railroads , canal * , publio works , and improvement * must atop . The greatest difficulty ia experienced about a loan . Without the wai-cry France would have got money from Englaad to complete her railroads and publio works . 5 owr » be will not get a maravedi , whilst capital of her own aha has comparatively none . She baa ample revenue , but nothing more , and she must probably re-establish the odious tax upon boissoru . which wa » taken off bypopnlar acclamation in 1830 .
The effect of the present idle war-ery in France will thai be to fling the country back some twenty yean in every path by whkb . nations progress . Fortunate , indeed , it is , that as nations advance in wealth , civilisation , and real power , military efforts become more irksome , mote eneroaa , and more intolerable . To the Russian aerf , or the Bohemian peasant , the conscription ia no great evil . To the Norman peasant it ia death . Tbe mortality amongst French conscripts from mere nesUUffr * ia enormous , and that tax on man ' s life and time has bees doubled in Franoe by late events . The French , too , must feed and pay their army better , if they intend to keep one . The mortality of French soldiers in peaceful garrisons is doable tbe mortality of civilians . They talk of employing soldiers on public works ; but a French soldier la not able to do half the work of a French peasant , because he is underfed . Such a system cannot endure ; and thn French will find even the keeping up of their present army a much
more expensive thing than they have hitherto found it In the smaller states of Europe , the mania of directing all attention and effort to military preparations is even more conspicuous than in the larger ones . The King of Piedmont , tor example , has doubled his army , and has showed a great deal of spirit When Austria proposed to occupy the passes of the Alps , Charles Albert declared he would oppose by arms the entrance of the Austrian army , and he spoke in defiance to France . In Spain , also , the great question is the army . The revenue of that country ia about 550 millions of rials ; the army alone requires 466 millions of rials to support it ; yet the Government gives little hope ot being able to reduce the force . The press of Madrid has taken up the question , and one writer seriously proposes settling a portion of the army on some of the waste Government lands , and forming military colonies , as Sweden did with such success , aud as Russia is dolpg . —Correspondtnt of the Examiner .
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DISSOLUTION OF THE HUDDERSFIELD POOR LAW UNION . The following report was communicated to us last week , but , in consequence of the many demands on our space , we were compelled to delay its insertion until this week , and we call the attention of oar readers to the facts adverted to . In the Bastile Room , at Hnddersfield , at a recent meeting , Mr . Pitkethiy deemed it his duty to call the attention of the Board to certain circumstances connected with the present method of doing the business of the Union , both as it affects the ratepayers , and also the victims of the system . He said , at the urgent desire of a numerous body of ratepaying inhabitants , I have often been urged to bring forward the motion
which has just been read fron the notice book . I bring this motion before you with greater confidence , because the subject which has just occupied the attention of the Board , must have impressed you all present with a firm conviction that even so far as you have gone , you have involved yourselves in the greatest difficulties , added to the ruinous additional expenditure which you find it impossible to meet , while some townships owe large amounts to the Union of HuddersfieJd . They had , in order to get money , been driven to the alternative of signing cheques , or things called cheques , at twenty-eight days' date , thus breaking the law , and defrauding the revenue ; and surely that was a strong reason why we should desist , and revert to
that good old law , the forty-third of Elinbetb , which could be carried out with justice to the rich as well as to the poor . He brought forward that motion with the greatest pleasure , because he knew that ninety-nine out of every one hundred of the inhabitants of this place were most anxious for tbe consummation of the subject of this motion , and that the ratepayers of the different townships liiight have the management of their own money and their own poor ; because the poor were in a state of tSvtxa- Knowing , e « they aid , the cruelties wliioh were inflicted on the poor in Bastiles , they , feeling that tha pressure ot tbe times was drawing them nearer to a date of pauperism daily , and with the prospect of a Bastile before their eyes , bad a just alarm .
Because those abodes of misery and woe were a constant terror to the halt , tbe lame , the blind , and the impotent , and horrifying to every one possessing one particle of mercy or benevolence . Because where the law is in full force , if any starving family dare to apply for relief they have no alternative , but must submit to go into tbe house , and be torn asunder from every family tie ; and their little furniture is either taken by the landlord for rent , or sold by the Union , and placed to the general fund , and when , if they are able and fortunate enough to get work out , they have no home to -which to return , and so become houseless wanderers , houseless vagrants , liable at nny moment to be sent to the treadmill , and thus the poor artisans of England are driven to madness , desperation , and despair .
Because we have before us the case of the Eton workhouse , where a Rev . Gentleman , to his honour , hid taken up the defence of tbe poor , and exposed and punished the perpetrators of cruelties not so great as had been scouted when brought btfore this Board . Because tbe gates of the poor-bouses are shut against the rate-payers , and the same houses which formerly were houses of refuge are turned by the new and hellish scheme into tbe worst of prisons . By referring to evidence taken before a committee of the Peers of England , it would be seen that the inmates of a Bastile after the surgeon of the house bad remonstrated with the Guardians , that they ( the Guardians ) bad told him ( the surgeon ) that he had no right to interfere with the dietary , that his duty was to attend to those that
were sick only ; and in this ceurse did those Guardians go forward , until disease arrived at such a height that they themselves dared not to enter the bouse , for fear of infection , until they had gruelled them , contrary to the remonstrances , of the surgeon , and crammed them together , -with five and evtn seven in ono bed , and the gruel ran thruugh them as they walked across the flour , and while they stood at their meals ; and in bed the evacuations were to the extent of eight and ten in one night , while there was no ono to clean them , and they lay in an indescribable puddle , and died off like rotten sheep : so that , by this wholesale new system of murder , they rid themselves ot numerous paupers , and reduced the expenditure by more than £ 4 , UdO , and this was clearly the intention of the framers of the Bill ,
Mr . P . then gave other extracts from the evidence , of tbe most appalling nature , during tbe reading of which he was interrupted by the Chairman , -who begged him to desist ; however , he continued for some time longer to give the friends of the system some specimens of its working , when he concluded by saying , "Tbig is what yon are bringing upon us—this is what the people are alarmed will be their fate—this ia what they deplore as the fate which their fellow creatures are now enduring ; and , therefore , I feel it my duty to bring those cases before yon in order that you may not plead ignorance , and that you may have an opportunity to refute m \ arguments . Another , and a local reason is , that conbtant complaints are being made that justice is not equally meted eutin this union : that one township
bears tbe burden of another township ; that we appoint most unfit p' -rsons to fill various offices , and in one instance , you appointed an officer without any credentials , or the production of aDy , or without any proper reeommendation ; without even seeing him , and when he came to perform the duties of his office , it was discovered that he was actually insane , and had not been in his office many days when he fell down in a fit , to which he had been subject , and had to be wrapped in blankets and packed off to his mother at Sheffield . I state this in order to show more clearly that you are in a worse pesition than we ever were uuder the good old law , for under it-1 defy you to show one Bingle instance where a lunatic was placed over the sane inmates of a workhouse ; under the old Bystem there never was any
difficulty to find sane and active officers to place in such situations ; but now the thing had changed , and Buch individuals scooted the officers and tie system also . The inconvenience to the paupers , who were really able , and tbe misery to those who were unable to come from tho distant parts of the union , to have these cases heard before the board ;—in some instances eight and as much as twelve miles to be buffetted by the understrappew , and sent bajck again witll empty bellies , and without even being permitted to go before the Board . The guardians too had complained heavily of the great individual expence and inconvenience of attending every week at so great a distance , and the great additional expence incurred by wh&t was generally called establishment charges , namely , rents , salaries .
and other burdens which were making those who were the Btauncheat supporters of the bastile scheme wince , and many had been converted by tbe impositions effected by the triune kiags of Somerset House ; and this , too . while they -were compelling old persons from seventy to eighty years ef age , all but blind , and bodies diseased , to labour on the highways for the mere pittance they received for breaking stones on the highways . Mr . P . implored them to desist from their ruinous ootuse , and save themselves from the ruin , which , if they did not retreat , must come upon them . He then moved " That the so-called Hudderfield Poor Law Union be divided into thirty-four unions , and be named according to the designations of the thirty-four townshi ps whith form the Hudderafleld Union . "
Mr . Batley moved as an amendment , ** That it be taken into consideration that day six months , " which being seconded by Mr . Bull Briggt , en a show of bands being tailed for by tbe Chairman , there appeared for the amendment , seven ; for the motion , eight The Maltbusian crew looked unutterable things , and Batley moved that the votes be taken down , and told the Chairman that if he would vote and give his casting vote , it would just turn it the other way . The Chairman declined to rote , but would take the votes down , but tbe confusion was snob , that be left the chaic , saying Out he could not
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do bosiness in aoeh a state . He waa stopped on his ¦ way , and pressed into it again . Mr . P . said the Chairman not having voted in the first instance , and having given hia decision , could not vote on the question at &U ; the votes were taken down as follows ;—For the motion . For the mendmeni . Neutral . Mr . Pitkethley Mr . Gockill * Mr . Maxfield Mr . Whitworth Mr . Bull Briggs Mr . Littlewood Mr . Peppleton Mr . Bottomley Mr . R . Wrigley . Mr . Pogson Mr . W . Batley Mr . Clarke Mr . J . Batley Mr . Stevenson Mr . Tinker Mr . Senior . Mr . Sykes .
It was then moved that the votes be added to the resolution , and that both be transmitted to the Commissioners forthwith . . Mr . Joseph Batley had a notice on the books for the giving up of Burley workhouse , and for the enlargement of Almonbury workhouse . He said he would postpone bis motion , as he understood that the people of Aldmonbory would not layout the money , and he did not think tbe state of their finance * would justify them in any extra outlay . Truly that ia the case , when they cannot have their cheques discounted without breaking the law , and defrauding the owners by drawing a bill at twenty-eight days' date , and falsely calling them cheques ,
* When the names were to be taken down , he wanted to vote for the motion ; this was not allowed !
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ZJ 3 EDS . Election of Auditors , See . —On Monday last , the annual election of Auditors , Revising Assessors , and Ward Assessors , for this borough , for the ensuing year , took place , when-the following were elected : — Auditors . —Mr . Matthew Jehnaon , Woodhouselane , merchant ; Mr . John Beckwith , Hanoverplace , short-hand writer . Revising Assessors . —Mr . John Hope Shaw , Albion -street , solicitor ; Mr . Edward Bond , Springfield place , solioitor .
WARD ASSESSORS . Mill Hill . —Mr . James Gilston , Merrion-street , woollen-draper ; Mr . Thompson Clarkson , Briggate , tallow-chandler . West . —Mr . Thomas Tennant , Little Woodhouse , gentleman ; Mr . Thomas Tilney , Wellington-street , stonemason . North West . —Mr . Edward King , Grove-terrace , wool merchant ; Mr . John Leadman , Queen-square , gentleman . North . —Mr . Thomas Simpson , North-street , painter ; Mr . William Mawson , Camp-road , stationer . North East—Mr . John Mawaon , Burmantoftg , manufacturing chemist ; Mr . Edward Walker , BurmantoftB , maltster .
East . —Mr . Horatio Wood , Hill-house place , solicitor ; Mr . William Heywood , Wheeler-street , pawnbroker . Kirkgate . —Mr . William Kettle well , Kingstonplace , draper ; Mr . William Middleton , St . George " sterrace , solicitor . South . —Mr . Hutchinson Gresham , Hunslet-lane , pawnbroker ; Mr . Thomas Robinson , Chapel-allerton , solicitor . Hunslet . —Mx . Samuel Walker , jun ., Chapel-street ,
maltster ; Mr . Stephen Chappell , Leeds-pottery , Hunslet ; earthenware manufacturer . Holbeck . —Mr . Roger Shackleton , Holbeck-lane , com miller ; Mr . William Greaves , Holbeck-laue , chemist . Bramley . —Mr . John Waite , Bramley , gentleman ; Mr . John Walker , Armlej-moor , cloth manufacturer . Htadmgley . —Mr . Edward John Teale , Queensquare , Leeds , solicitor ; Mr . George Howson , Headingley , gentleman .
SHEFFIELD . —Payment of Wages in Stuff . —At the Town Hail , Sheffield , a few days ago , Mr . Thos . Gatley , of that place , file manufacturer , appeared to answer to three informations preferred against him by his workmen , for paying their wages in goods instead of money . The first case called upon was that of Wm . Rhodes , who deposed that he was obliged to set up seven shillings out of every pound he earned to pay for stuff . Ott tho 4 th of November last , he was obliged to take three and a half yards of woollen cloth , lor which Gatley asked 40 ? . per yard , but agreed to take 35 d . per yard . Rhodes afterwards eold the whole piece for ' S 3 ' ., which it was sworn was its full worth . A solicitor attended for Gatley , but he could not shake the
complainant ' s evidence . Mr . Luke Palfreyman , solicitor , tor tho complainant , said he should press fur a conviction in each of the three cases in which informations had been laid ; he could bring forward similar informations from every man in Mr . Gatley ' s employ , but , if he would promise to relinquish the practice , no further informations should be laid . Mr . Gatley baid he was not so old a manufacturer aa many others , but he had his eyes and ears about him , avid he had beeu led into this course by the example of others . It was not his own inclination , for he had always detested the system . When his workmen consented to part payment in stuff , he made three propositions to them ; iirst , that they should Bet up to the debts they owed him one-third of their wages ; or that ho
should stint them ; or that part of them should bo discharged . He had erred through a feeling ot compassion for his men , not desiring to throw them out of employment , and he was sorry he had rendered himself amenable to a law that he was not aw » re of . —Mr , Bagshawe : The illegality of the payment of wages in goods could scarcely be unknown to a man with his eyes and ears open , and it is an extraordinary circumstance that the cloth you charged 35 s . a yard should be worth only Us . 6 d . — Mr . Gatley said ho was not a dealer in these things , and charged according to the prico they cost him . Mr . Palfreyman said he could have proved , in one oi the other cases , a conversation with the defendant , shewing that ho was not ignorant . —Mr . Batrahawe
said the plea of ignorance could not be entertained , They could not suppose that any master could be ignorant on this subject . —Mr . Alderson concurred in this . —Mr . Bagshawe said , if the defendant would shew them his invoices from the manufacturers oi Leeds , he thought they would not justify the outrageous price ho had chaTged . —Mr . Q-atiey said he did not buy from manufacturers , lie made exchanges with hawkers . —Mr . Bagshawe : Don ' t you get it from regular houses?—Mr . Gatley : ftever . —Mr . Bagshawe : Then , for anvthing yon can tell , you man be buying stolen goods , and may get them cheaper still . —Mr . Gatley wished to speak again . —Mr . Bagthawe said , I * . think you had better not . — Mr . Gatley said he had understood that whea workmen had agreed to take goods , it was not contrary to law . —Mr . Palfreyman—if you say that you made a contract with them to take goods , you . are liable to
another penalty . —Mr . Bagshawe said , Mr . Aiderson concurred with him in thinking that their decision in this case was one of importance , and as Mr . Gatley might not have understood the law , they felt bound , iu justice to all parties , to impose such a penalty as should mark their opinion of tho offence . In the case they had heard , they imposed a penalty of £ 10 and costs , and in each of the others of £ 5 . Mr . Gatley would understand the law now , and he hoped would not again transgres , for if another conviction took place , the minimum penalty would be £ 20 . After the evidence that the cloth charged to tho mau £ b" 2 i . 6 d ., was only eold tor 33 s ., ( Mr . Alderson : Aud was worth no more , ) they felt called upon thus to deal with the case . —Mr . Palfreyman requested the Bench to say how the penalties should be disposed of . —Air . Bagshawe : Considering it as a public offence , the whole must go to the treasurer of the countv .
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Fatal Effects of a . Fttouc— -In the ev « ning of Wednesday the 24 th , a party was drinking together at the public-house , at Old Roinney , when a bet was laid about running 26 rods . Two of the party , named Randall and Huggott , accepted tha bet , and proceeded to execute their task . ' The goal was a lighted candle in a lantern , which in a frolic had been first placed , or afterwards removed , to the opposite side of a pond . Both Randall and Huggett ran into the pond , when the former unfortunately found a watery grave and the latter was extricated with some difficulty . Ou the following day an inquest was held on the body , and a verdict of " Accidental Deaib . " recorded .
Successful Insurrection in a Workhouse . — Last week eleven men , who had been previously convicted of insubordination in the Cambridge Union , were brought up to the Petty Sessions for judgment . A man , who was considered , to be the ringleader , having been previously sentenced to twenty-one days ' imprisoment , the Vice-Chairman of the Guardians , a Mr . Livett , begged to say , that "though the Guardians were determined to suppress any thing like a spirit of insubordination with promptness and
rigour , they were at all times ready to hear any just cau 3 e of complaint , if made in a proper manner ; as a proof of which he would state , that now the complaint had been so made , the Guardians had petitioned the Commissioners ( without whose sanction they had no power to make alterations ) for an increase of four ounces of rice-pudding for their dinners , aod also one ounce of bread and ono ounce of cheese . The men , after being cautioned by Captain Purchas in a very ab ' e and feeling manner , were discharged !!!"— YTukly Di § patch .
Axtemft to Rob thb Dobux Bank . —Very « onaiderable excitement was created on Thursday , the 25 th ult ., in consequence of a rumour which gained general credence , that the Bank of Ireland had been robbed the night before . It appears that a daring attempt to do so was made . The strong doors of ? ne of the iron safes were found broken open by * o » e person * who , it is supposed , managed t « ^ secret himself in the office during the day , but there were inner doers which resisted the efforts to fane them . An investigation has been held , but no ( light was thrown upon this affair , which is ic * ol * ed ia mystery .
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It has bmh rumoured in Paris that the French Cabinet was disposed to offer its meditation to arrange the M'Leod dispute with the United States . On and apter Monday , the 1 st of March , the foot toll at Waterloo Bridge , will bo 900 halfpenny only . Thb Goldsmiths' Company have sent a donation of ten pounds to the poor box of every police office in the metropolis . Mb . Whittle Habtet . —It is reported that Mr . Whittle Harvey has intimated his intention of retiring from the office of City Commissioner of Police . Thb Right Hon . Sir Joseph Littledale , Knight , bas been swora of her Majesty ' s most honourable privy council .
The Chamber of Peers has again gone over the law regulating the labour of children in manufactories , which was discussed and almost passed last session . The general committee of elections hare ap- < pointed March the 18 th , for choosing from panel No . 1 , the seleot committee to try the Sudbury election petitions . Thb Colossal Likeness of the Duke of Wellington , for the equestrian statue to be erected oppoaite the entrance to Hyde Park , is said to be cast from a gun taken at Waterloo . A Petition to the Court of Common Council * praying for aid to the widows and orphans of Captain Hewitt and the crew of the Fairy , was referred to the finance committee amidst acclamations .
The Pbovost of Eton vetoed the perm ssiou given by the head master to the two sens of Count Bathvany to study at Eton College , on the ground that they are Roman Catholics . Military deaths in France are represented as 22 in 1 , 000 , while civilian deaths were only 134 i " 1 , 000 . The mortality of soldiers in Africa is spoken of as 75 iu 1 , 000 , but this must be incorrect , for it ia known to be infinitely greater . The Hertfordshire magistrates met to appoint a chief officer of the rural police , pursuant to their former resolution for its adoption . An adjournment sine die was , however , carried by 51 to 41 , which virtually rescinds the whole proceedings . Robbkry by a Skrvant . —A young man named Miles , his been committed to trial for robbing his employer , Mr . Richard Dunn , tailor , Golden-square , London . Ho had taken goods to the amount in value of forty or fifty pounds .
A plan of the Emperor Nicholas has been mentioned for modifying the Russian system of making nobility and rank depend on official place ; and of creating a higher noblesse , with entails , &c , founded on lauded property . A hint has been thrown out to some independent member of the House of Commons to move in Parliament for a return of the expense to the public of the performance of the farce enacted in the trial of Lord Cardigan . Froh the establishment of the Apothecaries ' Company in 1815 , to the month of August , 1840 , the sum of £ 67 , 980 has been received by it as ftes for licences to practise , beiug at the rate of { £ 2 , 600 a year .
The Courier Suisse asserts that a woman was caugnt up by a hurricane in the canton of Urf * , one day last month , and carried through the air a space of two leagues . Her body was found some days after with all her bones broken ! There is how pending in the Arches Court a proceeding against the Rev . Mr . Bruder , perpetual curate of Thames Ditton , charging him with intoxication generally , and on specific occasions . The arguments are expecteu to occupy some d * ys . We were shown , a few days sine ? , some writing paper , with makers name , and dated 1842 . Persons drawing up documents of importance should be careful not to use any post dated paper , as it may lead to unpleasant mistakes in future . — Cheltenham paper .
Chartism . —It appears from a summary of the number of Chartists now in prison in England and Wales , or who had been from June , 1839 , to June , 1840 , that it amounts to 443 . Among the number there is one surgeon , one barrister , one schoolmaster , one magistrate , and about half a dozen licensed victuallers . The late failure im Dublin . —The Dublin papers state that the liabilities of Aldurman Perrin , the particulars of whose flight have already been alludad to , are variously estimated at from £ 108 , 000 to £ 50 , 000—the Jatter , it is supposed , being nearer to the mark . — Globe .
A general order has been issued from the Horseguards for supplying bibles and prayer-books to the soldiers in the army . The supply , however , is to be confined to those who raw read , and who actually apply for them , and each man ' s name is to be distinctly writieu in the first pa ^ e at the orderly-room , or by the schoolmaster-serjeant , with the date ol issue annexed . The Thames frigate , which has been lately converted to a convict hulk , « Hd fitted up at Deptfovd , <; ot aground on the " slip' * close to the wharf , and was laid on her beam ends , with 300 convicts on board . The old convict ship , which has for so many years lain in the same place , has beeu lately broken up .
Friday night , about twelve o ' clock , a diabolical attempt was made in the town of Hammersmith . It appears that some blackguards—supposed to be of " the better Ron "—affixed a maroon to the shop door of a bookseller , which they contrived should explode when they had left the place . It shattered the door , and demolished nearly 40 squares of glass ia the shop and other windows . John Frost ' s Cell . —The Monmouthshire Beacon states that an inquest has been held on a pensioner , who died in Monmouth Gaol , from fright at being confined in the cell where John Frost was imprisoned , fie told tho cook of the prison he should never see him again , before he was locked up for the night . The verdict of the jury was given in accordance with the facts .
The German papers mention a discovery of Professor Dienl ' eubach , which is exciting general attention at Berlin . He has discovered a method for the cure of stammering , by an incision of the tonguewhich is said to have been in all the instances in which he has operated , completely successful . According to tho Professor , s : aininering proceeds from the difficulty of applying the tongue to the roof of the mouth , aud his remedy of course consists in the removal of the impediment .
A Deceiver . —A cheesemonger , named Luke , of Church-street , Bethtial Green , London , was recently brought up at Worship-street Police-office , for obtaining money and goods to the amount of £ 13 , from a young woman named Charlotte Eslam under false pretences . His pretences were that he would marry her , but he has since married another female . His letters to the young woman were read up . He was ordered to repay the young woman the amount she had advanced to him , by . monthly instalments .
Extraordinary Suicide . —On Tuesday , the 26 th ult .. C . C . Lewis , Esq ., the Coroner for Essex , held an inquest at the Swan , Romford , on view of the body of Thomas Brown , aged fifty-eight , late ostler at the above inn , who committed suicide by eutting his throat with a pruning knife a few days before . Nervous depression as to his prospects in life , it is proved , caused him to commit the melancholy act . Loss of Life bt Fire . —By returns from the city of Westminster , and the eastern division of Middlesex , it appears that during the last twelve months no less than two hundred and forty-five children have been burnt to death in those districts , chiefly owing to their parents leaving them alone in a room with a fire in it . The greater number were the offspring of the Working and poor classes of society , whose business takes them from their hooiea .
The Standard , following out its plan of rejecting the " alien" part of the House of Commons , the Irish Members , finds that Ministers have a British majority against them of thirty-two ; while the nominal majority was swelled by five of ** the tribe of Grey , recent deserters" from Lord Stanley ' s sidej Lord Listowel , " wno occupies a worse than doubtful seat . " and the Tory equivocal , M * . Baring Wall . Stabbing with the Knife . —Jane Hedditch , a Frenchwoman , was brought before Mr . Jardine , at Bow-street , on Friday , for final examination , charged with stabbing and wounding Thomas Day , a waiter , with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm . It appeared that the waiter had endeavoured to prevent the prisoner ' s husband from , turning his ( prosecutor ' s ) brother ' s wife out of a room at the Red Lion public-house ,. Houghton-street , Clare-market , when she ( the prisoner ) stepped up to him and stabbed him in the bowels . She has been committed for trial .
Desperate Ruffianism . —At Union Hall Police Office , on Saturday , John Elliott was charged with committing a violent assault on Henry Blawer , under the following circumstances . The complainant stated that about three weeks ago , his wife eloped with the defendant , after celling the whole of the furniture to a broker , and abandoaing her children . On the following day complainant met hit wife and her paramour together in the street , and immediately went up for the purpose of giving him into custody for being concerned in stealing his furniture . The
defendant , however , instead of making any reply to the charge , immedately commenced a most violent attack on the complainant , whom he beat about the head and face until he fell from exhaustion , his ( complainant ' s ) wife being a silent spectator of the illtreatment to which he had been subjected . Evidence was given , that the complainant ' s head and face were very much cut , owing to the maltreatment inflicted by the defendant , who was fined £ 3 , and in default of payment committed for twenty-one days .
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At a laib meeting in Cork , Mr . Kmuuu * Secretary to the General Temperance Societv rftfl that they had ei | r , hfc Roman Catholic » rellt 2 ?* rolled , 700 of the Catholic clergy , and oftX en lation altogether not less than 4 $ 47 , 000 . ^ " DlSTBBsVllf . l ChBISJTAW CoOTTTRr SO-Clli » At Hatton Garden police office , within theW # * " * flays , two young men > who were nearly naked J * £ charged with 7 * K *» ney . A police constable , No 1 v 5 N , said that on Friday mornin g the Dri » di : abated him on his beat , and implored htfiow ? them into custody . He told them they had « Jz * mitted no offence whioh * would justify hhv complying with their request , when one of thedefi * dants said that begging was a crime in the eva * the law , and he and his nnfortnnate companion w mediately stowed- , * lady and gentleman , fwl
whom taey solicited aims . Witness immediate took them to the station-house , and procoredf them some nourishing ; food , of which the y ^ t « vA greatly in need . They were both in a , verydreadbS state of health . In answer to Mr . Combe , on * of th * defendants said , that he had been a patient in « f Thomas ' s Hospital , and was discharged as incnrablal he had also been in Whiteohapel Union Worl £ lioni » from which ha had absconded because he MiUm enough to eat . For seven weeks he had been Ivino about the streets , but was now no longer abla if wander about . The other defendant Baid , tW th « £ months ago he left Norwich in Bearch of en »> iov ment , and he had Bince been in the open airs&A ;/* for food Mr . Combe eaid he really did not know what to do with the prisoners—a prison certainl ! waB not a proper place for them . The nnf ortun » 2 defendants here , in a heart-rending manner , suddU caiea 10
me magistrate commit tnem to prison \ fo Mould , the clerk , humanely suggested to the > Orth * magistrate that they might possibly bs procured an admittance into GreviHe-street Hospital , if apDjiW tion were made to the honorary secretary , the 1 ReV " Mr . Packman , whose ears were always open toTtU wants of the poor , and who was ever readv to ii !«; viate their sufferings . Mr . Combe agreed that tbil would be the most humane course , and he reqnesteS Inspector Jarvis , of the G division , to acconjDaDw them thither , and to supply them with some clTan apparel . The defendants , with tears in their eves expressed their gratitude . On arriving at the hov pital they were immediately attended to , notwjtlw standing the institution is crowded , and the funda very low . It was stated that the house surgeon was of opinion that one of the defendants would nosk likely have to remain under his care for a Ion * tinre . ^»
Charge op Bigamy and Seduction . —At Lam . beth-street police office , on Saturday , Joseph Norris a shoemaker by business , and a ranting preacher br profession , who has been in custody for weeks DasL charged with the twofold offence of seduction and bigamy , was placed at the bar , before the Ho n G C . Norton , for final examination . From the evidenca of a young woman , named Green , it appeared thai she went to live with the prisoner and his second wife . The prisoner at first expressed a great kindness for her , and taugat her to read her Bible ¦ but Bhortly afterwards he began to solicit her favour * and she consented to his wishes . Some time after the improper connection commenced , he discarded his second wife , and went to live with complainant at lodgings he had taken for her , but he soon got tired of , and deserted , her also . While living with him , she had learned that he had married the second
wife ,, though his first was living . The prisoner when asked what he had to say to the charge , said that there was one part of the ev ' id « nce which h « wished to contradict . On a former occasion , complainant had stated that she was not aware that his ( the prisoner ' s ) first wife lived in adultery with a man , named Warner , in Baker ' s-row , Whittchapel . INW , the fact was , that the first place he and Green wept to was the residence of his first wife and Warner , and they had stopped there for two days . The night they removed there , they all four—namely his first wife and Warner , and Green and himselfslept upon the same bed ; 60 that it was ridiculous on the part of the witness Green to swear that sha was not aware of the terms upon which m ' B former wife lived . Indeed , his first wife was then present , and he felt satisfied that neither she nor Green could deny this- fact !! Mr . Norton committed tho prisoner for trial .
Death through Actual Startjltion . —Driut > d » the Bastile . —On Friday an iBque « t waa held before Mr . Wakley , M . P ., at the Three Kinga . Tavern , Clerkenwell-close , on view of the body of Elizabeth East , aged 33 , whose death was occasioned through actual starvation . Martha Daniels , a miserable-looking object , deposed that she lived ia Cock-yard , Turnmill-street , Clerkenwell ; deceased lived in the same house , and had been cohabiting with a man named Holmes . Deceased used to sell lucjferB , and Holmes went about bone-picking , which was also witness ' s occupation . On Monday afternoon last , deceased asked witness to go and sell for her a cap and apron , which she did , and got 2 d for them , with which , at deceased ' s request , she
bought a small quantity of tea , and made a basinful for deceased . On Tuesday morning witness asked deceased , who was then lying on a inaUress , how she was , to which she only replied , "Oh , dear . * Witness saw her no more alive , and about t * ire » hours afterwards was told that she was dead , which she found to be the fact . Witness did not know whether deceased had ever applied for relief from th » farish , but was aware that she received none . ) eceased was in great distress , oftentimes went for days together subsisting only on a little dry bread and pump water . She could never earn more than 2 s . a week , and did not complain of illness : Edward Holmes stated that he obtained a living as well as he could . He had known deceased for the last
four months , during which time she had now and then lodged with him . About three weeks agoha told her she must shift for herself , and she went away . He sawno more of her till Friday last , when she came back to him . He advised her , as he had often done before , to apply to the workhouse ; but she said , " Oh , no , no ! Ill not go the wojkhcrass while I can scrape a few halfpence by selling con * greves . " Deceased had nothing to eat that day , nor at any time previous to her death , she having no money , and he not having any thing to give her . The man who rented the room , the last witness , and deceased ( when she was there ) all lived together . Mr . Wakley— " 16 it possible f Then how is it that all you people , being in the same room , could see
this poor woman starving ! " Witness— " Why , Sir , we are obliged to go about our own business , and forage for ourselves . I did not consider that she had any legal claim upon me . " Mr . Wakley remarked that it was a very melancholy case . As far a « they could learn , the deceased had had but a basin of teafrom tho Friday till she died . The deceased had been starved to death . without any person being legally accountable . He considered the conduct of . the witnesses to be exceedingly disgraceful , and could not discover the meaning of such a-frig htful state of society . Workhouses , 6 ince the passing of the New Poor Law Act , had become as much dreaded as the Inquisition was in Spain . —The Jury , having expressed their full concurrence in what had fallen
from the Coroner , returned the following verdict : ¦—lk That the deceased died from exhaustion , consequent on starvation , arising from her not haviug made application to the parish for relief , and from her refusal to go to the workhouse . " Shefeield Trades' Unions . —A numerous meeting of delegates , from ihe various trades of tho town , was held on Wednesday evening , the 24 th , at Mr . Mos «! ey ' e , the Old London 'Prentice , called pj publio placard , in consequence of the apprehension that Mr . O'Connell was preparing to propose some measure in Parliament to restrict the rights of tM working classes to combine . Mr . Kirk was called to the chair , and stated that they- had two objects m view , namely , to clear themsi-lves from any stigma
that might attach to Trades' Unions , . in consequence of the recent proceedings at Ashton , and to viudi " eate the right of working men to associate for their own protection . Mr . Vvardle proposed— " That it was the opinion of the meeting that it was necessary for the industrious classes to watch with vigilance any measures proposed in the Legislature to restrict their right to meet for the protection of their labour , generally their only property ; at the same time they protested against any resort being had to acts of . violence , of any kind , for that purpose . M *« Harrison suggested that a previous resolution was needed . He thought they should declare their conviction that it waa their right to associate . He would move—* ' That the meeting was of opinion that it vf «
the inherent right of the workmen to form and support Trades' Unions , as the only protection for their only property , their labour . " Mr . Makin seconded the motion . Mr . Harrison did not oppose Air « Wardle ' s resolution , but thought that his was necessary prior to it . Mr . Wardle had no objection to the passing of Mr . Harrison's as the first resolution . AS was put and carried unanimously . Mr . Whitelefi of the table-blade grinders , moved , and Mr . Taylor and Mr . Broadhead ( seconded and supported tna motion read by Mr . Wardle . Mr . Gill supported the resolution . He held the opinion that all cUsse * identified with production had the same i " *' ' All other Classes had a separate interest . If there were lower wages , it did not benefit the employer . The competition reduced his profits also . But tna mere consuming classes , neither employers nor employed , were btnefitted by the competition of tw bans
producers . . Mr . O'Connell waa living on large - ing business . It was a necessary basinets , anu liable to great lo « 8 es , but he had the ad vantage w issuing worthies * paper , while the country no 8 * !** the loss of the metallic currency . While , therefore , the unproductive consumer was benenttea dj tbe reduction of prices , the producer was not oew * fitted . The resolution was carried unanimously .. j * committee was then appointed , and it was resoiveu that a report of the proceedings of the meeting o « forwarded to Mr . Ward , M . P ., requesting him carefully , to watch any proceedings which Mr . 0 wnneu might adopt respecting Trades' Unions , and taw form the committee of them . It was also resowa that the report of the meeting be transmitted to « w leading journals of the manufacturing districts . a « the speakers disclaimed any desire to keep tne pw ceedings of their respective Unions 6 ecret .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 6, 1841, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct696/page/6/
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