Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-17 00:00:00

the Vielent, a 1,

ved half of one w

the captain wanted to
reduce their wages to 23s a week. To this they demurred,
and they were ordered off the vessel instanter. They
sought to recover 12s for the half week they did work, and
£4 16s in lieu of four week's notice. After some legal
squabbling between Messrs. Bluck and Almond, the latter
horn appeared for the defendants, the magistrates
decided in favour of the seamen, and it was hinted that it
would be creditable if the defendants paid the money at
once, and not subject the poor fellows to the annoyance of
waiting for the arrival of the coaster and its seizure.

THE WORKING CLASSES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES

Nu, 1L uas lumen° oeen cousiaerea a wen-
established fact that, even at the present day, there
is scarcely an art. or science which has not some
concomitant circumstance of danger or disease. The
Factory Inspectors' reports for the half-year ending
31st October, 1858, just published as a blue book,
painful total of accidents, with forty-one
The workshops of the world are replete
vith danger to the life and health of the workers.

show
deaths

The disabled potters are human. sacrifices whom the
dust of flint and burnt earths—the heat of the
colossal ovens—the draughts of cold air through
those blind and shapeless burrows, and the strong
poisons of the mystery, force into early decrepitude.
Amongst them all the dipper is conspicuous. He
breathes the arsenic of the " glaze," and must
embrue his hands in the mixture. He has swellings
of the, joints; he is paralyzed; he dies not unfre-
quently, while yet a boy, in bodily torture, and

raving mad.
The Sheffield grinders and Whitechapel seam
the glass-blowers of Whitefriars, the miner

of on

collieries, and above all, the guardsmen of
k.rmy, know but too well that their span of life
turally contracted by the influence of their
, I am bound to admit a
theory, and one which I and many others, pre-

Neverthel,

vious to Satu

;, was not aware of

le articles on VII(

History of the

IVorking (

a your invaluable

newspaper, in that of Saturday's impression, I read
that the shortest duration of life is the aristocracy
and wealthy, and the longest the working classes.
beginning with the most humble, and
ne: on to the middle and upper classes, a
;radual deterioration in the duration of life takes
place." The learned writer speaks with confidence
on the subject, and is entitled to all credit and
but to me it is as strange as true.--I am,
sir, respectfully yours,

Moreover,

respect

gE OF THE WORKING CLASSES,

To SHIPPERS AND EXPORTERS.— A most profitable
article of export, to warm climates especially, are the Self-
cleansing Charcoal Filters, patented by Messrs. Saunders
and Co., of 16, Parker-street, Liverpool—in fact they are
invaluable wherever there is bad water. S. and Co. allow
a liberal discount on export and )viiolesale orders
EXODUS OF SHIPWRIGHTS FRO

SUNDERLAND. -The
yr./emu-lent dockyards,

work. Not fewer. than 600 have left
.within the last few
weeks, and on Friday-and Saturday 80 additional 'hands
-went by the London steainers from Newcastle and Sunder-
land. From the village of Hylton nearly 200 carpenters

many emK,y

Wear has, for th

eighteen month's, been very far below the aver

many men were ready
;.,

to embrace the offers

the men have hoe

)f employment •for months, and perhaps of the
600 hands on the Wear not more than one-third
The Carpenters' Union

15s. to a single

nent had been obtained