The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, rITESDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 19, 1344.

are ignorant of the loathsome selfishness and utter
shamelessness of their practices—a doubt which, after
the experience of the last twenty years, it would
be idiocy to entertain. We have already avowed our
opinion that the time has arrived when such sys-
tematic robbery of the poor ought to be prevented
by a stringent law; but until the Legislature
shall adopt some such measure of protection,
let the malefactors be at least punished by the
loudest and most universal expression of public
scorn. Thick-skinned as they may be—and in
this respect the Irish mendicant can challenge
a comparison with the rhinoceros—still the punish-
ment of loud and universal scorn will reach them,
because it will awaken their slaves to the disgraceful
condition of the thraldom to which they submit, and
cause them to withhold their " halfpennies" and their
" farthings." For arguments are necessary to persuade
men generally to refuse to give money which they can
ill spare ; but the strongest of all arguments,
with an uneducated people, is the assurance that
all the world are laughing at their stupidity.
Without giving the Irish credit for all that Intel.
lectual superiority which they modestly arrogate,
and which empty travellers like Mr. Grant and Mrs.
Hall allow them, we must suppose even the most
ignorant among them elevated in understanding
a degree or two above " the beasts that perish,"
but to this elevation they can scarcely pretend if they
submit to be robbed by such gross and transparent
frauds as the O'Connell tribute and the repeal rent—
frauds which never would have deceived them so
long if we all had not aided them, as our contempo-
raries now aid them, by reasoning with Mr. O'Con-
nell, and thus covering the nakedness of his giant
scheme of swindling.

DEMAND TOR HIGHER WAGES.

In many of the manufacturing districts there has
been a general movement among the factory opera.
tives for an advance of wages. The following are the
accounts from the provincial papers :
ASHTON-UNDER- LINE.—For several weeks past,
various meetings have been held by almost every
branch of factory operatives, at which preparations
have been making to adopt some steps to obtain an
advance. On Wednesday evening the power-loom
wearers again met in the Charlestown meeting-room,
where they were addressed by It. Pilling, " General"
Lee, G. Hough, and others. The following resolu-
tions were agreed to, viz. :—" That it is the opinion
of this meeting that each weaver is in duty bound to
pay Id. per fortnight, for the purpose of enabling the
committee to forward delegates to the out districts,
to get up an agitation for the purpose of endeavouring
to obtain an advance of wages." 2. " That it is the
opinion of this meeting, that lists be obtained from
other districts, and that deputations be sent for that
purpose."—The meeting then separated.
STOCKPORT.—The turn-out of spinners and self-
actor minders in this town, still continues to some
extent, but not so generally as at the beginning of
the week, the hands at several mills having accepted
the price offered by the masters. The spinners in
twelve mills are fully at work at the list price, six
partially at work ; and there are only nine in which
the spinners are all out, two of which are standing in
consequence of repairs.
OLDHAM.—On Wednesday morning last, the ope-
ratives at the cotton mill of Messrs. Wild, Moss Hey,
Shaw, Crompton, returned to their employment, on
the understanding that their wages should be ad-
vanced about a: shilling per week; but the dispute
does not appear to be yet fully settled. On Saturday,
the turn-outs at Mr. Wrigley's factory, Littlewood
mill, Hey Side, returned to work at an advance of
about one shilling per week. On Saturday, the hands
of Messrs. Milne, Travis, and Milne, of Skaw,
Crompton, struck work for the purpose of obtaining
an advance of wages, and they are still out.
WARRINGTON.—Messrs. Hadfield and Frost, cotton
manufacturers, have advanced the wages of their
work-people ten per cent.

ComAsmic or VEssELs.-L-The ship George, Capt.
Roberts, from St. Vincent, arrived in Kingroaci late on
Wednesday night. during a heavy gale of wind from
S.S.E., having during the day. lost two anchors and
cables off the Ness Point ; having, moreover, another
over the bow ready to let go. In ranging up past the
quarantine ground, off Portshead, the night being very
dark and dirty, the schooner Nora Creina, Orfeur, 173
tons burden, which arrived on the 10th from Smyrna,
with a cargo of valonia, and lying at quarantine, was
run on board of, end on, and immediately sank. All
hands were providentially saved, but the vessel and cargo
are a total loss. The schooner is sunk in 8 fathoms low
water, and was" anchored with 45 fathoms chain, in
charge of a steady careful pilot, James Ray. The
George is in charge of Mr. Joseph Bunn, licensed pilot,
and was towed up to Cumberland Basin this morning by
two steamers. She has lost top-gallant masts, and ap-
pears to have sustained other damage.—Briatel Gazette of
Thursday. ,
SUICIDE OF A THEATRICAL TAILOR.—On Satur-
day evening Mr. Payne held an inquest at the Crown
and Anchor, Charles-street, Westminster-road, on the
body of a man, name unknown, but supposed to have
been recently employed in the wardrobes of Covent-
garden and Drury-lane Theatres. It appeared in evi-
dence that the deceased engaged a lodging at the above
house a fortnight ago, but never disclosed his name, nor
gave any information about himielf except that he was a
tailor, and that he had been employed in making dresses
for the actors of Covent-garden and Drury-lane
Theatres. He was a cheerful disposition, and was in the
habit of talking about theatrical matters. On Wednes-
day night last, whilst in the tap-room in conversation
with some of the neighbours, he was observed to empty
something he had been mixing in a basin into a pint pot
and drink it off. The mixture appeared like honey, but
what it was no one then distinctly knew. The following
morning, however, the landlord of the house found him
analysing dead in bed. Mr. Hooper, surgeon, said that upon open-
ing the body he found in the stomach a quantity of gela-
tenous the latter, he detected
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known, but he had not yet found any one to recognise
him. The inquest was adjourned in order that evidence
to prove his identity might be obtained.
The returns of the Bank of England being now
gazetted weekly, the public will require at the hands of
the press no special exhibition or comparison of fluctua-
tions, unless, perhap7, occasionally, and at somewhat
distant intervals, say intervals of 'a few weeks or months,
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ring between one week with another, and suggesting far-
fetched causes for the same, would be no less ridiculous
than wearisome, an extract of the items themselves, as
given in the Morning Post,
being all that is needful for
the guidance of the country, in regard to the tendency
of the circulation, and of the policy of the Board of
Directors. The figures presented by the return pub-
lished in Friday night's Gazette, and copied into the
Morning Post of .Saturday, show some further diminu-
tion in the stock of bullion in the hands of the Bank, the
total, applicable to the two departments of the establish-
ment, having decreased to 14,025,6291. With the ex-
ception of this reduction in the effective means of the
institution, the falling off, which is one amounting to no
more, however, than about a million in the course of
many months, there is nothing in the recent returns to
which it has appeared necessary to direct general atten-
tion.—Post.

PUBLIC WALKS AND PARKS.—The subscriptions of
the week exceed.7ool, including a donation of 2001. from
Messrs. IL Bannerman and Sons, and one from Mr. P.
Novelli of 100/„ besides a number of subscriptions of
smaller amounts from firms and individuals. We are
glad to see several subscription of the parties employed
in trade establishments, and one from the Society of
Calenderers and Makers-up, of 151. There is also a
continual and regular flow of subscriptions from work-
ing men, under ss. each, of which there were sixty last
week, and about thirty this week. The total amount of
the subscription, up to last evening, is 26,7011.-hi-an-
chester Guardian.

A MAN SUFFOCATED BY SLEEPING ON A BRICK-
KILN.—About eight o'clock last Saturday morning the
dead body of a man named Richard Hudson. a sizer
late of Burnley, was found lying on a brick kiln belong-
ing to Mr. Thomas Banton, in St. George's-road. The
smoke from the kiln had been very dense all night, and
it was supposed that the unfortunate man had lain down
to sleep, and had died through suffocation. Mr. Banton
caused the body to be removed to:the King's Arms public-
house, St. George's-road, where the inquest was held
before Mr. Chapman, on the same day • and it appeared
from the evidence of Mrs. Ogden, of dollyhurst-bridge,
that the deceased called at her house to ask for relief
about half-past four o'clock on Friday afternoon ; but
there was no evidence that he had been seen afterwards.
It was stated by a relation of the deceased's that he was
a man of very irregular habits ; that in consequence of
his conduct he was not able to keep any situation. He
was forty years of age, and unmarried. The jury re-
turned a verdict to the effect, " That the deceased was
found suffocated on a brick-kiln."—Manchester Guardian.
ST. PAUL'S CATEEDRAL.—The Lord Mayor at-
tended Divine service on Sunday afternoon at
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Cathedral. His Lordship did not come in state, nor did
he wear his official robes. He took the seat appropriated
to the chief magistrate of the City, and at the close of the
service retired in the same private manner in which he
entered. It was stated in the Cathedral that many
years have elapsed since a Lord Mayor took his seat in
the Cathedral except on State occasions, and when the
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THE INCOME-TAX.--It is a positive truth that,
though Sir Robert Peel is in receipt of two years' in-
come-tax, the surveyors of taxes have not yet had one
farthing remuneration for their excessive labours and
unpleasantness ; nay, oven the health of some have been
impaired through close application, and deep anxiety.
This is too bad," and, if those officers be not ade-
quately compensated before Parliament meets, we trust
this just ground of complaint will be brought forward.
Sir Robert and his class take care to be well paid for
their work (and their " friends" unmerited pensions
lavished upon them), but those who have the labour,
toil, anxiety, and hazards of unjust dismissal to run, are
niggardly paid. Injustice, now-a-days, stalks through
the land, but 4 Chiiinge must take place.--'Tom a Cor-
respondent.