Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-26 00:00:00

THH COAL-WHIPPERS OF LONDON.

At the Mansion Howie, on Friday, the Rev. W. Weldon
Champneys, rector of Whitechapel, and the Rev. T. J.
Rowtell, of St. Peter's, Stepney, waited on the Lord
Mayor, with a crowd of half-starved coal-whippers, to
make an application respecting the so-called strike of the
coal whippers.
Mr. Champneys said, that he, Mr. Rowsell, and other
clergymen had taken great interest in behalf of the coal-
whippers, who are now out of work, in consequence of a
misnnderstanditg on the part of the coal owners. It is
erroneous to suppose that the coal whippers have struck;
they have not done so. His reverend friend, who was fully
acquainted with the facts, would now state them to his
lordship,
_ _

The Rev Mr. BDwsell said that the coal-whippers now
out of work were most industrious men, who had been for
years perfectly contented with their work, and nineteen out
of twenty of them wish to go on in the same way under
Mr. Gladstone's act, under which the wages were paid at an
office ; and although, with hard work, they could earn only
14s. or 15s a week, they were perfec ly satisled.
under another system, the wages were paid at a public-
house, and, after deducting for drink, vary little was left to
be brought home to a man's wife and chi'dren. When Mr.
Gladst ne's act expired Mr. Lowe let it drop, as he did not
like the precedent of interfering between labourers and
employers, and he felt sure that the spirit of the act would
be respected by the coal owners. But paying at public-
houses had again sprung up, and, in a case which occurred
a fortnight ago, when a poor man had earned 10s. by work-
ing hard for three days, 73. 41 were deducted at the public-
house for drink The men require 7d. or 81. a ton, bat
only 61. is offered, at which price they could not live. He
had seen several caves of severe distress. In one case,
where a man had five children, none of them had shoes,
and the poor mother lay ill with a baby by her side. The
poor men had not struck at all. The men could only starve
at 6d. per ton, and the coal ownes had given them 7d. or
Bd. a ton. The grievance is that, although they obtained a
committee in the HOURS of Lords, they failed in the Com-
mons Under the public•hou.se system the men would be
starved. The object is to revive Mr. Gladstone's act.
The Lord Mayor : The Corpora ion of London did all
in their power to get that act renewed ; but the coal
owners got the ear of Mr. Lowe, and the bill was lost, and
the system of paying wages in public houses was revived.
I shall be happy if you can point out any way in which I
can be of service.

Mr. Rowsell : If you arbitrate, the men are willing to
work according to whatever you may decide.
John Foley, a coal-whipper, corroborated Mr. Rowsell's
statement., and said that the men hal offered to arbitrate,
but the coal owners refused

The Lord Mayor : How many days are you employed on
an average Fuley : Ten days out of thirty is considered
go Al employment. Some who have acquaintances in the
docks get work there occasionally ; but we are generally
walking about from morning to niet, for fear of losing a
chance. At 6,1. per ton we cannot earn more than 2s. sd.
per day, of which we pay 2d. for water dues.
The Lord Mayor : It is one of the hardest cases I have
ever met with. The coal-whippers are a body of men who
deserve well of the city, and if you tell me how to serve
you I will do it.

- After t• n 3 eonv_rsaticn it was arranged fiat the Lord
Mayor should see the Chairman of the Coal-whippers'
Committee, and endeavour to bring the dispute to &termi-
nation in favour of the men, and communicate the result in
a day or two.
The deputation then thanked his lordship and retired.

At LEWIS & COMPANY'S, Renehigh-street.
BOYS are CLO HIED from the Aga of Six to Twsety Years.

Vice-Admiral Sir M. Berkeley, who has resigned his
post of First Lord o! the Admiralty, will, it is said,
be raised to the peerage prior to the meeting of Parlia-
ment.

THE SOUTII-WESIERN RAILWAY TRAFFIC.---llllder this
head Iferapaek says : —"The following exelenation of
the decline of the week's traflle on this line, has come to
us fr rn a trustwerthy source. The S uth-Western tied&
of 18;56 w•s upwards of 17,000/. in the week; this year
it is 1 4001. less, which is thus explained. There was
up eards of 5001. received,last year f troop', which is an
excep`ional traffic, and the fading off at the Aldershott
station still c nitietns from the fact that there is a very
small number of troops in the camp. This is to be imme-
diately refilled, and we understand that Were 'Christmas
there will be between 18,000 and 20.000 troops of all sorts
again at the Aidershott camp, which alone will make a
weekly ircrease of ,5001. to 6001. Tnere is also still a small
falling off from the itemsof tourists, who have eons in such
large numbers this year to the nerd) instead of to the
son'h of England. This has effected the South Western
traffic to the extent of 1,0001, per week, during many
mon be, end is still felt to the amount of 2001. to 3001.,
but will cease after this month to infiaerice the receipts."
ComreeneerrAave—A Tipperary priest, writing in. the
congenial (columns of the Kilkenny Journal, draws. a
lugubrious anal not very 'lettering sketch of polities and
politicians, as they are t) he. found at pretent in the once•
famed county of Tipperary. The Roman Catholic
clergymen referred to by the writer had in their day heen
very ardent agitetors, but the eoiscopal curb has for a lone
time past restrained them from taking part in aff irs of a
purely temporal ntture —" We have n 4 a word about
politics here. You c add not i,istineuish a Whig from a
•Nationalist among us at present. 'Time who. we, e must
ardent in y'nr time here have not a kic'e in them; they all
went off Ihe stage wi h the leader.' Besides, it is useless
to talk of politics at present ; and thee,eagain, we have a
new bishop, who might strap us up if wa entered once more
into the politieal areal. The honest men are all prostrated ;
the English Treasury would corrup', any place less holy
than Heaven itself. We are a nation of place beegars.
See bow our honest :tie 'de in the diocese of Waterford—
Father Me my, Father Shanahan, and all the rest of
them—were treated. It is useless to talk of priests in
politics while this system prevails."
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ON BLACKFRIARS-BRIDGIL-02
Saturday morning information was received of the following
frightful accident, which took place at a late hour the
previous eight upon Blicktriars-bridge. It appears that a
car`, blonging to Mr. Lencefield, a butcher, residing at
Camherw el, was being driven over the bridge on its way
home from the cattle ma,kat, when another cart, coming
at a rapid rate in the ether direction, came into violent
collision with Mr. Lancifield's vehic'e, which was com-
pletely thrown over. A mar, named French, and another
person, whose name is unknown, who were in it, together
with a number tf carcasses of sheep, pigs &c, were
thrown into the road in wild dieerder. French was picked
up in an insensible state, apparently much injured. He
was conveyed with all speed to Sint Bartholomew's
Hospital, where it was found that bath his arms were
broken, and that hi had euetainel other serious injuries,
The other person had both his legs brolien, and like his
uncortuuate companion, he had received other serious
injuries. He was taken by some of the bystanders to St.
Thomas's Hospital, where every attention was bestowed
upon him, and where he now remains. In the cenrusion,
conscvent upon the accident, the party who ran into Mr.
Lancetieliiee cart got away, and is at present unknown.

Exclusively for CT.OTHING BOYS front Six to Twenty Yenra,
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THE DUKE OF RUTIAND ON THE INDIAN
MUTINIES.

A meeting of the county of Leicester, convened by the High
Sheriff, in aid of the fund for the relief of the sufferers from
Indian mutinies, was held in the Nisi Prius Court of Leicester
on Thursday. The attendance, though not very numerous,
comprised the leading noblemen and gentlemen of the county
and a considerable number of the clergy. The High Sheriff
(M. E. C. Middleton) presided ; and there was also present—
his Grace the Duke of Rutland, Earl Howe, Lord Berners,
Viscount Curzon, M.P., Mr. C. W. Packe, M.P., Sir H.
Raiford ('ate M.P., for South Leicestershire), Mr. E. B.
Farnbam, M.P., Colonel Ring, Sir A. Hazelrigg, Major Powis,
S r J. Fowke, bir F. Palmer, Captain Knight, Sec.
The High Sheriff, in opening the p:oaeedings, said, he had
convened the meeting in puisu ince of a requisition which ho
had received from a numerous body of the principal residents
of the county. The object of the meeting was to sympathize
with the sufferers from the recent Indian revolt, and to enable
the people of Leicestershire to express their abhorence of the
cruelties which had been practised upon their fellow country.
men, women, and children. He felt persuaded that the county
would not permit such atrocities to pass by without publicly
declaring the feeling with which they regarded them and their
warm sympathy with the unfortunate sufferers, (Elear, hex.)
He begged to call upon his Grace the Duke of Rutland to
propose the first resolution.
The Duke of Rutland said,—Mr. High Sheriff and gentle-
men, as you have done me the honour of asking ma to move
the first resolution upon this occasion, it gives me the greatest
gratification to respond to the call. lam quite sure that it
will not be necessary for me to trt,uble the meeting with any
lengthened remarks to induce you cordially to pass this resolu-
tion. The resolution itself has a double object. In the first
place it calls upon us to express our warm sympathy with our
fellow brethren who have suffered in the East from the muti-
neers who have lately murdered women and children ; and,
in the second pace, it calls upon us to add our subscriptions to
those of the people of the borough of Leicester, in the hope
that by the relief which we thins afford we may iu some measure
mitigate the bodily sufferings of our countrymen, though un-
fortunately it will be impossible for us to alleviate their mental
sufferings. (Hear, hear.) Horrors equal to those which have
been enacted in India no ale of the world has, I believe, ever
witnessed. (Hear, hear.) This is not the time to consider
what provocation the mutineers may have received, nor is it
the time to consider whether the East India Directors have
done their duty, or whether the Government at home have done

theirs, as our olject now is merely to express our sympathy
with the sufferers in the East. But one thing is certain and
is agreel upon by almost every man and woman in England—
namely, that henceforward we must declare in a more oprn
manner and in the ftce of day our Christianity. (Cheers.)
Unfortunately in India we have gone to the other extreme,
and we have endeavoured to coaciliate men who have not had
tbe feelings of men, and who have returned our kindness and
our attempts to conciliate them by acts of treachery and murder.
(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, this mutiny must be put down.
I hope that it may be done very shortly, but whether it is
crushed in a month, or in a year, or in ten years, this country
must re-assert her dominions. It is not only necessary for our
own dignity, but it is a great moral du y, a right that we must
perform, and I am quite certain that every Englishman
will do his utmost to effect this great national
obj et. (Cheers.) lam sure that every man now present
will do all in his power to furnish recruits both for the
militia and for the regular army, and I am happy to say
that the militia of this county, under my excellent friend
near me 'Colonel Xing) has nearly received its full comple-
ment of men. (Cheers.) His Royal Highness the Commander-
in-Chief stated yesterday at Sheffield that already he
considered the turning point in the mutiny to have been
giined, and I trust that by the next mail we shall hear that
the revolt is entirely crushed. net vlcaory will be ours
those who have seen the gallantry of the small handful of
troops we have had in In lia rip to this time cannot, I think,
for a moment doubt, but when victory is achieved let me
express a hope that we shall not in the flush of victory allow
our passions to carry us away and seek for vengeance, even
upon Indian Sepoys. (Ilear, h ar.) Justice, and severe
justice must be done; but let us discriminate between the

guilty and the innocent. Let not the page of history that
shall record the heroism of our countrymen and women in the
East—that shall record the gallantry of a Havelock and of a
Nicholson against innumerable hosts, have also to add that,
when victory was ours, we condosended to use the weapons
that had been- wielded by such dastardly hands. (Loud
cheers.) Again I say let justice los donor but let it be a
discriminating justice. Let an example be made of the
murderers, to show them, and to show the world,, that England's
Jaws ate not to be violated with impunity,. but that death—
and an ignominous death—is reserved for those who show
that they have- no principles of humanity and no feelings either
of common kindness or of Christianity. (Cheers.) In
conclusion I beg to move the following resoltrion :—" That
this meeting views with the greatest abhorrence the barbarous
and inhuman cruelties inflicted on their fellow countrymen, on
women and on children; by tho mutineers in India, and desires
to give expression to the warm sympathy which it feels for
those who have undergone such brutal' and unparalleled
sufferings.!'

Earl V Howe, in seconding tho resolution, said, his noble
friend had so admirably expressed all that he (Earl Howe)
could say upon this distressing sulaj..et that it would be useless
for him to- occupy the time of the meeting for more than a
single moment. Circumstances had happened in his own
family which had made him more susceptible, probably, than
any other gentleman present of tho dreadful nature of the

atrocities committed in India. ,He should, however, only
harrow their feelings if he were to attempt to describe-them,
for they were of such an atrocious descrip ion that even the
public press had abstained from entering into details. All he
would say was, that they were unexampled i❑ the history of
the world, and he sincerely trusted„ thOugh agreeing with his
noble friend that there-should be no revenge in the punishment
awarded, that the sword of justice in which the red hand
should yet be visible should be severely laid upon.theoffmders.
(Hear, hear.) He hoped that all who•beard him would a free with
him that in these times no p,litical feeling, no prejudice of any
kind should interfere with the support which they gave to Her
Majesty's Goveinne;nt in sending out the last man that could
be found in the country to restore the brightest gem to be
Lund in Her Majesty's diadem, (Lend cheers.) He believed
in his conscience that every exettion had been male to
forward our gallant soldiers to j-Jin their heroic countrymen in
India. He felt deeply grateful to the Government for those
exertions, and he wished to impr. ss upon the people generally
that it was their duty to support the G..}vernme.nt by every
means in their power in lestoring tranouility. (Cheers.)
The resolution was then put by the High Sheriff and
unanimou•ly agreed to.

Lord Berners said he was anxious before proposing the next
resolution to thank the High Sheriff for the prompt manner in
which ho had answered the requisition to convene the present
meeting, and to thank also the noble Duke for having originated
it. Though that court was only thinly filled, he wee. well
acquainted with the opinion entertained gen rally throughout
the county, and ho know that in no county could there be a
more anxious desire to express sympathy for the sufferers and
abhorrence at the abominable outrages which had been perpe-
trated in India. (Hear, hear.) He believed, however, that ho
justly attributed the thin attendance in that hall to the fact
that a subscription had already originated in the town which
had been contributed to by numerous gentlemen residing in the
county. Ho could not but regret that the borough had taken
the lead in the matter, not front any wish not to co-operate with
the town, because he thought it desirable that upon all fitting
occasions the county and borough should go hand in hand in the
proesotion of every hing good, charitable, and for the welfare
of the community at large ; but he regretted that, in the first
instance, a public meeting had not been called on so important
an occasion as this by the highest authority in the county,—the
Queen's represeet&tive, —in ender that their proceedings might
hive paresken as much as possible of a national character.
(Bear, hear.) He thought that a question, and a very serious
question might be asked—namely, had we as a Christian nation
done that which a Christian nation ought to have done ? Had
the Government of India acted with proper vigour as well as
discretion ? To use the words of one of the most eloquent
prelates of the present day, had not our whole policy been one
of timidity? Had we dents our duty? Instead of acknow-
ledging that authority by which kings reign and princes govern,
had we not almost appeared to have been ashamed of our
Christian profession, and to have truckled and given way to the
cursed practice of expediency rather than acting upon principle?
(Hear, hea%) Had we not yielded where we ought to have
remained firm? Was it true that a Sepoy had been turned
out of his regiment, not in obedience to the desire of his co-
religionists, and not by the wish of his fellow-countrymen, but
by the decision of a Christian Government, solely because, by
the blessiee of God, he had been converted to Christianity ?
(Hear.) Was it also hue that Sir Peregrine Maitland was dis-
missed from his commas). in the army in the East because he did
not order Christian soldiers to fire a salute in honour of an idol's
car? The time was come when that system of misrule and timidity
of which so much had been latterly said by the public
press must be put an end to. He held that, as a Christian
nation, a great responsibility attached to us as to the way in
which we discharged our duties. In future these should be no
timidity, but we ought to be bold in declaring the faith that
we held ; and, although he would ❑ot have any man suffer for
bis religion, he thought we ought to he always ready to proclaim
the faith which we professed. (Cheers.) Ho would not
trouble the meeting with any further remarks except to bring
under their notice an observation which bed been made to him
since he entered that court by a gen 1 area who would be
known to most of those present from the capacity which he had
filed as distributor of the funds collected in aid of the sufferers
in the Crimean campaign—Major Powys.. That gentleman
suggested that in the distribution of funds of tlis nature a
recommendatio❑ should be sent to the commi'tee in London to
reserve a large portion of the funds for the widows and orphans
of the soldiers who lost their lives. (Hear, hear.) He (Lord
Bensons) believed that at this moment the widows and orphans
left totally unprovided for in consequence of the mutiny
numbered no less than 40,000, it, iu transmitting the

contributions from the county of Leicester, a suggestion was
made to the central committee to set apart a portion for the
widows and orphans ho was convinced that it would be
attended to, and that it would receive the cordial approval of
the entire country. (Cheers.) Ho begged, in conclusion, to
move the following resolution :—" That, with a view to the
alleviation of the misery and destitution in which so many of
our fellow-subjects in India have been involved, a subscriptio❑
should be invited throughout the country."
Mr. Farnham, M.P., briefly seconded the resolution, which
wai unanimously agreed to.

Mr. Packe, M.P , moved the next resolution :—" That the
several banks in Leicester and the different market towns of
the county be requested to receive subscriptions in aid of the
object, to be forwarded, in addition to those already
collected in the town, to the central committee in London."
The hon. gentlema❑ said.he did not intend to enlarge, after the
addresses which had been delivered, upon the disastrous nature
of the calamity which had overtaken us in our Indian empire.
The details of that calamity were far too painful and heart-
rendi❑g for him to wish to enter into them; though living, as
he did, occasionally in the neighbourhood of the port whore
the greater part of the sufferers who survived were brought, on
returning from India, ho felt bou❑d to say that the stories of
mutilation and dreadful suffering which had occupied the
columns of the newspapers were not exaggerated. He appre-
hended that the present meeting was not altogether for the
collection of money, inasmuch as that had already been done
to a considerable extent in the county, but rather to enable the
residents of the county to give expression to th, it opinions and
feelings. At the same time he trusted that even in a
pecuniary point of view the meeting would not be with•
out success, but that it would ho the means of considerably
augmenting the fund. He hoped that the day was
not far distant waen this unfortunate revolt would be
crushed, and that we should never again be called upon to
express our abhorrence of cruelties revolting to• human nature
and unparelleled in the history of this great country. (Hear,
hear.) It was personally a source of great gratification that in
the plates of the different churches in which collections had
been made the widow's mite had stood prominent. He sincerely
trusted that every man in that county who was a husband and
the father of a family would contribute, even if his contribution
was only a penny, as a thank-offering to a beneficent Providence
that he and his family had been spared the dreadful cruelties
and suffering which had been inflicted upon our fellow-
Christiana in India.

Mr. Hodgson, a county magistrate, briefly seconded the
resolution, which was unanimously agreed to.
The Duke of Rutland then moved a vote of thanks to• the
High Sheriff for his kindness in having convened the meeting,
and for having presided over it.

Earl Howe seconded the .resolution, which was carried by
acclamation, and the High Sheriff having briefly responded, the
proceedings t erm us' ed.

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