The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1845.

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THE TURN-OUT AT HEY WOOD. FRIGHTFUL DEATH.
On Saturday morning, as we stated would be the -se.-
A PRISONER SUFFOCATED BY SETTING FIRE
TO HIS CELL WITH INTENT TO ESCAPE. LATEST PRICES OF SHARES
case, the hands at ten factories in Heywood did not IN RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND
go to their work, in consequence of the expiration of
OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK.
the notice which the masters had given a fortnight (From the Bath Herald, Feb. 15.)
An awful occurrence took place at Chandos House, in From the Official List,
previous, owing to the support afforded to the hands .
this city, on Thursday morning, a prisoner confined in
lately' working for Messrs. Hilton, Kay, and Son, this
eof the cells having perished by the work of his own PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING.
who turned out eight weeks ago for an advance of n ,
hands, in attempting to make his escape. His name was ---eme--
James Thomas, a man about thirty-six years of age, and
lid. per cut. The following are the names of theLONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14.
millowners whose mills stopped on Saturday :-Mr. who
ear r
for some time past has been living at Pipe House,
n
R6bert Kershaw ; Messrs. Harrison and Co. (two reshford ; he was brought before the magistrates RAILWAYS.
dills) ; Mr. James Clegg, Fold Mill ; Mr. Moses at Chandos House on Tuesday last, under circumstances
Cheetham ; Messrs. Clegg and Hall, Bowling Green which we shall detail below, and had been remandedDividend Amount
BIM ; Mr. William Hartley, Rochdale-road; Mr. until Friday (yesterday) for the production of further Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Stare.
John Clegg, Vale Mill; Mr. John Hargreaves, and evidence against- him. It would appear that on the •
Mr. John Wild. The hands in the employ of Messrs. night of Tuesday there were several other prisoners in £ s. d. £ s. d.
Chadwick and Diggle, and also of Messrs. Hacking, the cell with him, but on the following morning they Aberdeen •••••• •• • • • • - - 200 2%
Birmingham & Gloster 31. bs. perch. 100 0 0 100 0 0 135%
were also out on Saturday, in consequence of the ma- were removed to Shepton ;
. chinery having broken down. they informed the constable, Bindon, that the prisoner Brighton,Lews,&llast. - 50 0 0 50 0 716
- About ten o'clock, on Saturday morning, several Thomas had tried to persuade Bristol and Exeter.. • • 21.165. per sh. 100 0 0 70 0 0 83v
them to attem tan escane Ditto and Gloucester - ,50 0 0 30 0 0 59'2
hundred persons met near the Britannia public-house that they would not agree, but that he (thpe constable Caledonian - 50 0 0 50 0 74
Wrigley Brook ; and, accompanied - -by a band of music, when he got hack,
se, had better take care what he was about with Thomas Cambridge and Lincoln
for he was a desperate fellow, and had Chatham & Prtsmouth -- 25 0 0 110 0 34t
- 20 0 0 1 0 0
proceeded through the principal streets, after which' expressed his determination to break out of the cell. Chester and Holyhead - 50 0 0 50 0 8
Chichester & Brighton - - 5 0 0 54
they held a public meeting on a space of ground In consequence of this information, Bindon, on his re- Churnet Va11ey....... - 20 0 0 2 0 0 8%
called Angel Meadows, near St. James's Church. turn from Shepton, leg-ironed the prisoner Thomas, Cornwall ............- - 30 0 5
About 1000
,persons were here assembled. A cart with the view to his greater security, and on the night Direct Northern. ••• • •
lltrect Norwich • . -
- 50 0 0 210 0 2%
20 0 0 1 0 0 11,4
was provided for the speakers ; and Patrick Wall, aof Wednesday he was locked in his cell with the irons Diss, Beecles & Yrinth - 25 0 0 119 0 1%
shoemaker, having been appointed chairman, advised upon him about seven o'clock. The room in which he was Dublin & Itedifast June. - 50 0 o 210 0 5%
confined at night, was an inner room, the door opening Ditto fled Galway.. - - 210 0 234
his hearers to be firm and peaceable; he then intro- Eastern Counties ..,.. • . 4s. per sh. 25 0 0 25 0 0 174
into another chamber in which tile prisoners are allowed
duced a shoemaker, named Brown, who complained Do., Perpetual, No.l 5/ per et. 613 4 3 I
to be during the day time. Nothing was heard of Ditto, ditto, N. 2... .- - o 133 44 341 pm.
.
of the newspapers calling a person from Ashton, who-
Thomas the but
Th during night, upon the constable going Eastern Union - 50 0010 0 0 19
had been amongst them at Heywood, " the noto- Edinburgh & Glasgow 21. ss. p. sh. 50 0 0 50 0 0 64
to open the doors, about half-past seven o'clock on Ditto, Quarter Shares I Is. 3d. p. sh. 12 10 0 12 10 0 16 4
rious Pilling." His text was " five farthings, and Thursday morning •he discovered to his great terror, Ely and Bedford - 25 0 0 10 0 1%
no surrender." The manufacturers were getting that the outer room' was filled with dense and suffocat- Grand Connection •• • • 50 0 0 210 0
3d. per cut more for their goods than they got in ing smoke; after two or three attempts, he succeeded in Grand Junction
Ditto, Half Shares • • 101. per et. 50 0 0 50 0 0 1124
1841-2, and the raw material was lower. It was his reaching and opening the window, and then he found
opinion, the masters' intention was to reduce the that the door of the prisoner's cell was on fire. He G
tD.
si tot ou,t2eurantrirSehsat
err Shares 101. per et • 2505 00 00 2.55 00 00
12
operatives to the lowest pitch of poverty, whilst they opened it with all despatch and then found the prisoner Great North of England W. ss. 100 0 0 100 0 0 180
Ditto, New.• •••• • • • - 40 0 0 5 0 9 36
• themselves were rolling in their bottles of wine, riding dead upon the floor, a dreadful spectacle, his head rest- 71. percent. 100 0 0 80 0 0 17714
ing close to the burning door, his hair and scalp burnt off, GreattoWetern
Half Shares • • 71. per cent 50 0 0 50 0 0 99%
in their coaches, and heaping up fortunes for them- his face blackened and disfigured, and the floor beneath Ditto, Fifths 7l.per cent: 20 0 0 20 0 0 40
Selves and families. It was not in the spirit of EnGuilford Junction.- - " - " 50 0 0 35 0 0
him still smouldering. Bindon had procured the assist-lishmen to work for Bs. or 9s. per week ; they hadg-
Harwich - 20 0 0 1 0 0 2
once of police-constable Francis, and having succeeded Hull and Selby .• •• • • 51.55. pr et. 50 0 0 50 0 0 75%
therefore to look out for a wife who was a good in extinguishing the fire. they began,
to invtehsatigathtee into
__Dentol, Quarterlvc Shares - 12 10 01210 0 17%
weaver, and the men had to stop at home and cook for its origin, when it soon' became apparent tale.
Hisun- K - 25 0 0 110 0
their wives and children. The speaker complained happy prisoner had himself kindled the flame. Lancaster and Carliesrlee - 50 00150 0 29 1
and Bradford... - 50 0 0 5 0.0 21%
of the combination of the manufacturers, and said the mattress had been ripped open,_ a portion of the straw Leeds
Liverpool,Htsfircheess tr. 110014 per et. 12 00 0o too 0 0
placard they had put out was not a fair average state- pulled out, and evidently placed under the door to set
Ditto, Quarter Shares 101. pere ct.ct 25 0 0 520 0 0
ment of of the eareings. The abatements made from it on fire, for fragments of burnt straw were found still Stock. 240
the wages of power-loom weavers were unjust. He lying upon the floor. The door itself, which is secured impittlol,Br•NßewirmTifigrhaam
110011.. per ct.
32 --
0
had never been in a factory but once in the whole during the night by a strong iron-bar, was partially Ditto, New 4 Shares 10/. per
rr
cc.e 25
00 0 22 00 00
3404
consumed, about two feet of it being charred away but London and Blackwell - 16 13 4 -7%
course of his life, at Oldham, and then the shuttles
nothing in the interior of the cell had the fire reached; London and 31. Os. per sh. 80 0 0 50 0 0 56%
and machinery had such an effect on him that he was • 5/. per cent. 10
12
150
40 10 0 0 13%
the clothes of the unhappy man himself, who was London and'Green =ll- 11
tormented with the rattle of the shuttles for several even
lying, as we before stated, with his head close to the Ditto, Pref.or Priv 5/.percent. ta 17 2 - 2416
weeks after. For his part, he would not work •
in burning door and his feet
s towards the back of his cell, London and S Western 31 ssper h 41 610 80
a factory for a guinea a week. The trade he followed had not taken fire; the mattress on which he slept was Do., New C '-••'8 . 40 0 0 -
Ditto,
New ous. Bths 6 0 0 25%
- 50 0 0 2 10 0 12%
was shoemaking,
,where there were never any abate- still uninjured, and his hat, containing the bread which
-- - . sondon and Croydon • • 10s. per sh. 13 15 9 - 18%
meets. The chairman then introduced a power-loom had been given him for - 90 0 40 0 4%
London and York.• •• • - 50 0 0 210 0 7
weaver named John Matthew, who said they had found under the bed. Lynn and Ely •.• • • •r 1 - 25 0 0 210 0 5
met together that morning because the millowners Information of the dreadful occurrence was immed. 1- Manchester and Leeds 4/. 7s, 6d. p. s. 100 0 0 70 0 0 135
had prevented their going to work. The question ately transmitted to the Coroner, and Ditto, Half Shares.. 1/.175.6d.p.5. 50 0 0 30 0 0 61
now was between capital and labour. He hoped THE INQUEST Ditto, Quarter Shares
Ditto, 4s.
Sixteenths .• • - 25 0 0 20 0 14%
6 5 0 1 5 0 54
every one would be peaceable. Formerly men had Was held on the same day, at Chandos House, before A. et4loo_ 0 0 402 , 0
.65
been imprisoned for what they had said at • public •
H. English, Esq., and a respectable jury, of which Mr.. .'
Vitte,sotru'ar4iej3rirgirlet-21.-Pu fi4"e-
- 0 6 114
Midland ... •• • • ...... 41. 4s. per sh. - Stock. 12534
• Wisden was foreman. After having viewed the body,
meetings, and for combining together in an unlawful
the following evidence was adduced :- Ditto, Fifths .••• • • • - - -
Ditto, Dim. &Derby 21.135. per sh, Stock. 90%
2 0 0 316
manner. He would not be entrapped. There was James Bindon-I am a constable at Chandos House, Newcastle & Berwick - 25 0 0 110 0 17
no combination amongst the o • peratives. The and the
deceased was a prisoner in my custody. He se,.-ewestle& Dart. June. 6e. 25 00240 o. 71
weavers of Messrs. John Hilton, Kay and
Son slept in the apartment in which he now lies ;he was North British .. - - 710 0 144
.
had turned out for an advance of fire farthings committed '
for felony on Tuesday last. At ten minutes after Ditto, Scrip, iss.s/.d. Iss. 50 0 0 25 0 0 4G
per cut, because their masters had demanded that seven o'clock last evening, I saw for the last time Di
him ,Quarter Shares - 12 10 0 12 10 0 16%
North Kent .. •.. ..... - 2 15 0 3%
they should put four more picks to the inch than they alive ; he was in bed ; and I locked the door and left
NoDrrt•ticohVwß..re.nd.o.n... - 20 0010 0 0 toe
bad done previously. The weavers had put 72 picks him. In the afternoon of yesterday, he broke - to 0 o eeso 0 314
of 39's weft to the inch for 11 d.' cut ; the masters the windows of the room in which he was confined. PortsmCuth Direct,. .. - 50 0 0 210 0 2
had lately made the weft 3G's, and wanted four picks Last night was the first on which he had slept alone, there R
Preston rd,lVy_re_ • • • •
V E June. -
- 50 0 0 50 0 9
20 0 0 1 0 0 3
having been other prisoners in the room with him up to I
Rugbyli 11.
B'''
‘. •
1 0 4
t more to the inch for the same price; but the weavers, that time. This morning, at half-past seven. I went Ditto, 2d Pref., 1842 -
- -
25 0 0 25 0 0
knowing there was more work in the latter, demanded
to let him out • when I opened the door of the outer Sheffield and Lincoln.. - 25 0 0 15 0 ps
an advance of five farthings per cut. When the manu- ! policeman • 'theft 11 & a
room, I found it full of smoke ; a went in -. e t 1 tanchestr 5/. per cent. 100 0082 10 0 /
shDilt,t,tco,lrrter Shares - 25 0 0 80 0 13
facturers reduced the number of picks to the inch, with me ; and after getting open the window of the
Lele,oivn.,Duennir - 50 0 0 210 0 6%
they always reduced the wages in proportion. On outer room, I found the door of the cell in which de- South 50 0 o 10 o 0 16
the 17th January last, the millowners held a general ceased was confined was on fire, as well as the floor. South-Eastern. & Dovr -1/. Is. 33 2 4 - 48
meeting at the Queen Anne Inn, Heywood, at The deceased was lying on the floor, and there was south Ditto, New iss.lB/.dis - 50 0 0 80 0 234
some burnt straw lying about the room, which had been
e tes•enlsNo'lail'sesPr.;* ••• • • - 210 0 5%
which they determined to send deputations to Ashton- ?au:), - - 210 0 2%
pulled from the mattress on which the deceased had been Thames and Medmn
under-Lyre, to see what prices were paid there ; - 19 5 8 - 1014
sleeping. He was quite dead. On the previous night I Trent Valley • - 20 0 o 20 0 19
but they had never made the result of their in-Yarmouth & Norwich 20 0 0 20 0 0 264
had taken the fire out of the grate of the outer room •; - -
qiiiries known. Some of them had said that, at Ash-Ditto, :New.. ...... 20 0 0 8 0 0 16%
the deceased was searched on Monday night in my pre- York & North Midland 10/. per et. 50 0
ton, there was a bounty of is. paid extra to th05e52.05 00 00 10,3..
sence ; and when I wasgoing lock to him up, I missed Ditto, Half Shares.. 10/ per ct. 25 000
weavers who could bring out nine cuts in a certain a
little poker, and on asking him for it, he said he had Do" searbro' Branch • - A
- 20 0 0 44
given time. The speaker concluded by saying he it, and I found' it in •
his bed, and took it from him. Ditto, Selby Scrip ..
In Ditto, Extension.... - - 20 0 0 67
would advocate for the rights of labour according to consequence . of having been told by other -
- 25 0 0 1 5 0 124
20 0 0 2 0 0 5%
the tenets of Scripture ;he would meet any manufac- deceased " was determined to make his escape • I put the tit. Northern of France - 20 0 0 4o 0 5%
Orleans and Vierzon.. 20 0 0 2 0 0 12
-
toter on fair grounds, in public or in private, and irons on his legs. There was no fire-place or fire •in the Orleans & Bourdeaux - 20 0 0 20 0 7
discuss the merits or demerits of Messrs. Hilton cell in which lie slept. Paris and Lyons • ....• - 20 0 0 20 0 3
Kay's weavers' demand.-The Chairman then came Mary Bindon, wife of the last witness, was next exa- Paris and Strasbourg.. - 20 0 0 20 0 2%
i Paris and Orleans. • ... - ,20 0 0 20 0 0 44%
forward and said, he understood it was rumoured mined :-Yesterday morning I took the wood and coal, Paris and Rouen ...... 2/. '2OOO 20 0 0 42%
R
in the neighbouring towns, that they were going in the absence of my husband, to light the fire in the _Tten and Havre .... - 12000 12 0 0 30%
to burn effigies ; •but the Committee of the turn.. room where the prisoner and another were • I left the
wood, coal, and some straw, together with a lucifer JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
outs denounced such proceedings, and he hoped no
match ; I left only one match, and that I gave to a man
one would attempt to do anything of the kind He who was discharged yesterday. Some time after, one of
Dividend Amount
would advise them to insult no person on any account, my children came to me and said the fire would not Name of Company.
per of Paid. Price
for a Committee would be got up in Heywood,
by burn, and I took another match and some more straw, Annum. Share.
whom the conduct the other prisoner. The
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£ s. d. £ s. d.
would be investigated, and the result laid before the child said the men had asked for another match, as their
the
Australasia .. •• • • .... 8/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 44
Members of the House of Commons, as early as fire would not burn. Yesterday afternoon deceased Britsh North American 6/. percent. 50 0050 0 0 45
possible. The procession was then formed headed broke the window; he broke two panes. I told Mr Commercial of London 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 21i
Colonial. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0
by the band of music ;it consisted of about three Lovenbury, and ho had the deceased locked up in • the* Londn and Westminatr 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 27%
hundred femiles, and from five hundred to
ide room. London Joint-Stock .• . Cl. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14
The Coroner then proceeded to address the jury. Metropolitan - 25 0 0 7to 0
hundred men, mostly young, who proceeded through
Though the evidence would o to show
g that the de- Prrit
inthelaNl
eowf Ireland • • 814 peerr ccenntt.. 11I'ilfl 00 00 25 0 0 44%
the principal streets four abreast. Apprehensions had ceased's death was the act of his own hand, they were not National of Ireland .. 5/: per cent. 50 0 0 1170 100 00 161/
been entertained in some quarters of riotous proceedings justified in saying that he did it feloniously, with the Nat. Provncial of Eng. Si. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 3731
on the part ofthe turn -outs ; indeed, it was said they in-5/. per cent.
2250
00
00
210,
00
00
27
heview of committing suicide, as the presumption was that Union of
iNi.ei:t.r.a. 1i• e : : : .
tended to march to Rochdale, and stop the mills there.had set fire to the room with the view of effecting his neon of L0nd0n.....• 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 12:::/i,
We are inclined to believe that these rumours
escape. As to the cause of death, there was the doubt,
had little,
one time an intention, which was afterwards aban- or both ; and if they were in any doubt, and wished for
doned, of burning some of the obnoxious masters in medical evidence upon this point, a medical man was in Dividend Amount
effigy. During the whole of the dav, everything the room, by whom it could be readily cleared up. Name of Company. per of
Annum. Share. Paid. Price.
The jury decided upon taking the evidence of the me -
was perfectly peaceable, though numbers of opera-
(Peal man, and W. A. Cox, Esq., surgeon, was then £ s. d. £ s. d.
lives were strolling about the streets. Captain Wool- examined :-I was sent for between eight and nine Albion Si. 109. 100 0 0 50 0 0 74
ford, chief constable, Captain Shepherd, assistant o'clock this morning, to Chandos House ; I found the Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0011 0 0 19%
Ditto Marine... ... . 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 5 o 0 6%
chief, and the superintendents from Bolton, Bury, and deceased lying with his head against the door of his
atlas .•••• • • • • ....... 13s. 6d. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 16%
Rochdale, together with a number of policemen from can. The scalp was off and his hands and hair were '
British Commercial .. 7s. per share 50 0 0 0 0 7
Bury, were in Heywood• also burnt ; he was still warm, and my opinion is that ei •im d &G ' . 5
me ~ e . en. Life 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 63/
,4
The hands at one mill were at work on Monday ; burns to so small an extent would not have been ffi su -
County
....... ....... 3/. 100 0 0 10 0 0
9s. and
and, we believe, continue so, in consequence of the cient to cause death, but that it resulted from suffoca- Crown .. ..
.. .. ..
..
/6/. ss. 1)3.1 40 0 0 5 0 0 10
notice there-required not having yet expired. The lion; I should think that the scalp was taken off partly Eagle • .. 6s. 50 0 0 50 0 5%
operatives paraded the streets during the day. At by his violently beating his head against the door, and Economic Life
half-past three o'clock in the afternoon, a meeting of not altogether from burning; I should think he found * t &30s.bs. j
Eng.& Scot. Law Life Si. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 2v
the turn-out weavers lately in the employ (if Messrs. himself suffocating and endeavoured toget his
John Hilton, Kay, and Son, was held at tile Britannia under the door to procure air. Freemasons' .. ..... .
The jury consulted for a few minutes and returned a Globe - 142
public-house, Wrigley Brook, when it was resolved to
verdict that the deceased died from suffocation, through Imperial
n}:i•r•e• •••• • • • • 5/. per cent. 100
continue the strike until they got the advance of fivel2/. tr2.rs.cent. 110000 00 00 5010 00 00 19165
setting the door of his cell on fire with the intention of Imperiali' Life... :: :: : :
farthings per cut. It was also agreed upon, that a making •his escape. Indemnity Marine.- • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 30
statement of the proceedings at Heywood should be Law •Life
drawn up as early AS po- • ssible, and forwarded to Messrs. Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 sv,
Duncotnhe and Ferrand, Members of Parliament. THE WIIOLE DUTY OF WOMAN. London Fire •• - .....
London Ship
10s. 25 0012 10 0 16'
25 0 0 12 10 0 16
I y„my ear, I am going to offer you a
At half-past five o'clock in the evening, • Sincere] ' d •
g, a meeting of few Marine •••• • • • •
Med. Invlid & Gen. Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 3
the operative hand-mule spinners, and self-acting words of advice as to the conduct and behaviour most National Loan Fund. • AL per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2%
calculated to insure your happiness; and lam sure you National Life.• •• •• .• • 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 9y,
winders, was held in the large room at the D - uke of
Wellington public-house, for the purpose of devising will take it kindly of me, considering the experience I Palladium Life... ..... 5/. per cent. 50 0020 0 2 -
3/. p. ct. & bs. - -
have had, and your early time of life. What an ad- Protector 'Li
means for the support of the operatives in those trades Life.. •• • • . 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0
vantage it is to be told things, instead of having to find Frrnev(i;ltelrtt ifse
during the strike, when it was agreed to send dole- them out! I wish I had had somebody to advise me Rock
Life
.....!• •••• • • • 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24
- •
•• • 4s. 5 0 0 0 10 0 4%
gates to Manchester, Rochdale, Bury, Bolton, Oldham, when I was at your age. Of course, my dear, between Royal Exchange • • 51. per cent Stock. - 1921
Ashton, Hyde, and other places, to solicit subscrip- ourselves, almost every young woman is either married Sun Fire - -
Ditto Life . • • ...,.. • • I/. 6s. - -
tions from those who are employed in the same or intends to he. It is what we have to look to, poor Universal Life
. branch oF business. It was stated that the weavers at things! Now, in order to
get married, my love, -on
Messrs. Hacking's mill, which hail been stopped must learn to manaee yourself; and, after
three weeks
married, to marine your husband, and both •
clainery• , , had commenced work that morning, but had what I call the whole duty of woman. As long as you Dividend Amount
received a fortnight'
s notice. The proceedings passed
are single and looking out, your first study Must Name of Company, per of r
Annum. Share. Paid. Price.
off in a peaceable
. manner. The mill-owners have be to control your inclinations. All of us, 3ou know, -
had. several meetings ; they maintain that have our little failings ; the great thing is to conceal £ s. d. kS. d.
they • give fully as high wages for the them.. For instance, dear, suppose you have a hearty Commercial
East and West India slid. pr cent. Stock. -
_ appetite, you should restrain this a little in company • it- 142
same kind of work, as can be'
got
at other is a thine' that ~, many gentlemen (particularly the most
' East Country
London 1/. per sh. 100 0 0
,41i/. pr cent. Stock
- 21
- 11714
towns in the neighbourhood of Manchester, and • susceptible) object to ; and you can '
indemnify yo If arse.. St. Katharine .. • .... ; 5 per cent. • 118
they say that Messrs. 'Tilton, K ,and Son, by nice ' •
a 3 , on, a supper in your own room.
You will thus, • , ..
per , stook. -
Southampton • • ......1 4/. cent. 15000, 50 0 0
have offered their hands an advance of three farthings dear, please •
the kind of men who make the best hus-
per cut, which they are of opinion will make their bands-those most easily managed. Always keep down WATER-WORKS.
wages quite equal to those paid by other firms. The your temper, my dear; never speak sharply, or look cross, -
masters whom hands are out had a meeting at the whatever you may feel ; and be cautious, my love, Name of Company. Dividend Amount
per of
how you talk scandal, or say spiteful things of friends Paid. Price.
Queen Anne, on Monday evening, but what passed Annum. Share.
behind their backs; many good catches are lost by little
has not transpired. Many of the turn-outs assembled
weaknesses peeping out. If, my dear, you have any per- £ s, d.
in the street, opposite the inn, while the masters were East London.... •.• . .. 8/. 100 0 0 - 230
sonal blemish, or peculiarity, which you think would
deliberating, but all was peaceable and quiet. prevent a certain person from liking you, hide it from (;!rand Junction ...... ; 3/.
Kent . 46 13 4 -
' 2/. 10s. 100 0 0 - 90
65
Yesterday morning delegates were sent to various him ifyou can, and let him find •
.it out after you are
est - 60
towns to solicit subscriptions for the hand-mule' married. If anybody is attached toyou, never
contra- w Middlesex ...... 41.16 x. pr et. 63 12 9 I - 126
spinners and self-acting winders who are out. The diet him, dear, but fall in • h with all his little wishes and
simple facts of the case relative to the general strike whims, however unreasonable. In short, -devote your- LIST Or SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES.
appear simply to have originated under the following self to him entirely • your turn will come. When you are
circumstances :-There are hands at ten firms and married, dear ou
my ear, you should pursue another course Dividend Amount
Name of Company. . per •
of Paid. Price,
twelve mills, including those of Messrs. John Milton, altogether. The ob. tof 11 husbands • jec a is, to put Ann Um. Share.
Kay and Son, who are now on the strike. The upon their wives as much as they can, by making per-
fect slaves of them, and stinting them in their pleasures
weavers at Mr. Kay's mill turned out for an advance and enjoyments, so as to have the more to lay out on nileasekalellfaSiXo tlfaSncdotland 66/1.. perper cent.cent. 4••• 20 00 . 1721
of five farthings per cut, on account of having four themselve Yu
will
will most likely find your husband very British Linen Company 8P per cent. --
1000 00 0 226168 V2l
picks more to the inch of three hanks coarser weft He
near. e be trying to calculate how much you re- Commercial Bunk •. -6/. per cent. - 100 0 0 tes%
than previous. The masters have offered an advance quire for housekeeping andwill , want to allow you so •
National Bank • ..... . • 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 15%
of three farthings per cut. The manufacturers much and no more. At the end of the week or month Bk of Scotland 7%1. pr cent.
Union all .. -
Western Bank ••• • • - 50 0 0 97
50 0 0 76
whose notices expired on Friday have offered to he will ask to look over your account-book, to see how North of Scotland Bank 6/. per cent. - 5o o 7
allow their bands to resume work, on condition that the money has gone. Now, my dear, you will find that Clydesdale Bank - 10 0 0 14%
they will sign a paper, by which they engage not to there are numerous trifling extrasthat will
you want • '
Eastern P ank... -
, Caledonian Bank ••. • • 6/. per cent. - 15 0 0 11%
2 10 0 ay,
make collections in the mills for the support of the which you would wish him to know nothing about
; Ediub.& Glasgow Bank 5/. per cent. - 50 o 7)i
tarn-out weavers at other places; but the hands have little suppers when he is n absent ; presents to friends, City of Glasgow Bank. Si. per cent. - 815 0 13%
as yet declined to accede to this condition. When and a thousand other odds and ends. You will make Scottish Union Ins. Co. Si. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 DA
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Our re these up by putting 4ed. or ld. a-pound upon the tea or Insur. Co of Scotlnd . • 5/ per cent. 10 0 0 All • paid. 10
pert left Heywood, late yesterday afternoon, all
was sugar, or by charging so much for imaginary soap or pearl- North• British• Insur.- 9/:per cent. 200 0 0
10 0 o 24%
Peaceable and uiet,and
prebabiwyn_. q , there appeared everypriceCaledonian Fire Insur. 101. per
ash. And then, love, if you find him questioning thecent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 25
t flt.B • '
continuingso.-ManchesterGuardian.ofthis h"
t ing, or inquiring about the quantity of that, you Edinburgh Life Insur. 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 18%
,G,Alashrh.aßraelslway 414/. percent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 65%
must seem hurt and angry, as if he doubted or mis- Etc.!
,41/.pereent. 12 10 0 All paid. 16u
Qutes. TRaereerene trusted you ; and it' he persists in being inquisitive, you Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0020 0-
0 15
with the followin ---G.-e-We have been favoured
December 31, 18Lez. extract from a letter dated Boston, should get into a little pet with him, slam the door, and 21asgw it Ayrshir Rail. 4% /. per cent. 50 0 0 All pald. 66
&GGamrelekkßßaaill.
5211.. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 1234
ing, the 27th of I left Quebec on Friday morn- run upstairs crying. And observe, when there is a tiff oisagwv per
cent.ecnt. 252.5
00
00 All paid. 28
Canaan, Lancaster, and Decemberp bY way of the Gosfore-road, between you, never come to till he has made amends by Dundee es Arbrothßalf. 5/. per All paid. 32
where I Arrived on Monday, to Bogen, 346 miles, promising you something that you want-a bracelet, for
with a day and a half to spare before
30th- of December, instance, or a new bonnet, or dress. Your husband will - CANALS.
the January steamer. I would r fore taking passage by sometimes wish you to wear a particular sort of cap,
decidedly the best, chew recommend this route as or other article or ornament ;if he does, let it be a Names of r_.: Dividenill price. Names of Dividend
Pe4t, and most per Price.
passengers from Quebec hence. I - expeditious for bargain between you for some concession or indulgence. Companies. 0
= Per Companies.
.0
t is 100 • tis Annum. Armin.
tulles shorter He may not behave himself at all times as you could
than the route by Three Rivera. Mr.
Bailie, who wish ; in that case, dear, there are plenty of -iettys to £--
line of, stages from Canaan, will undertake' runs a •I • - £
passengers from Quebec to Portland in
36 to enn„y bring a man to reason. His buttons may be not sewn Ashtn & 01411 97,5/.55. p a 72 Sionmouthsh 100 it
kithby-d-la-Z.113! . 4/. 70 Mntgomrysh 100 51.. I:
I hours, and on ; his dinner kept waiting ; pickles or potatoes not -
from thence to Boston in four hours.Barnsley.... 160 12/. 180 Macclesfield. 100 .. 'IS
couldof have provided ; and there may be nothing for him but a cold -
coma in much shorter time; and when a lineßasingstoke.. 100 - 5 Neath
stages is shoulder, when, he expects a hot joint. There are two lirkuk&Abrg 150 5/. 85 Nottingham l5O 12/• '5
established on this route, the expense from Quebec thi in 2400
100 18/. 164 Peak Forest. 78 3/.•
Boston would not exceed 31. 10s. to 3/. lox. -Quebec things, conclusion, love, that I would strongly im- eremsera....
press upon you. One i--nev rl t I b d e e your ius an have tu.rdi1,eY.•........ 1
.. 100' 41. 80 Regent's ... • 33 1/
Gazette. a latch-key, or he will ' too. 1 Si. 103 Rochdale •85 4/. 24%
takeob ndvantage of it to stay out. Ellsnylre&Clis 1331 4/. 62 Shropshire... : 125 Si. 15205
John Davies, Esq., hat manufacturer, of Chester- The other is this-tell
field, who died a few days ago, has bequeathed 4,500/. my dear, that human nlifeody your age •; for, recollect, Erewash 1 ... ;1001 321. 440 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 123
Forth & Clyd;100; 4/. 105 Do.LkEd St 12 6/. p. c. 11
Co.
me a
widow ;
and,
in
thatis uncertain. You may be-for the support of religious objects of strictly evangelical GrandJunetn 1001 71. 157 Stffrd &Wore 140 28/. 480
case, find the disclosure a ,
disadvantage.-Punch. Grand Union:1001 IL 105. ;.25 , Shrewsbury l2l 151. 230
character and eminently useful tendency ;-2,000Z to the
Glamorgnsh :1721- 'lPir.• 210 ' Stourbridge 145 20/. 360'
Derbyshire Congregation Union, for aiding in preaching --______________-....._, • Glstr &Brklyi '00; - 8 Strard on Av 79 1/. 10s. 30
the Gospel in destitute villages, supporting poor ministers, BRISTOL SUGAR -MARKET,
.. ARKET, FEBRUARY Grantham • .11501 121. 185 Severn and 26 11. Bs. 30
UART 1 4.--About Huddersfield. 571 - 20 Wye Rail. j
and erecting chapels i-2,000/. to the Congregational 700 hogsheads West India and 600
Union of the county of Salop, for the same purposes ; been disposed of since our last report, amt aftrsomidaiurs itius have taeln'ettnts&terAvn 391
71si 64.
4010 'Trnt&Mr-}
50 30/. 465
and 5001. for the poor members of the Church in Os- per cwt. on the former currency ;no sales report.etd'oislsi364. Leeds& Livrplloo; 34/. 623 Teheltx% V.lthied 19 - 10
Leicester ....1140' 10/. 139 Worestr &I
westry, under the pastoraga of the ROY. Johu Davies.- gals, for want of supply. Rum sad 'molasses continua en"
very Leicstr &Nth 83 4/. 70 Binning. j7B 41. 50
fihrfwesury Chronicle. di 1... &Miry. Lougt.borogh 142, 701.
--,.......... 1050 Wllts & Brks 67 11. 4s.
. Air

Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Stare.
.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Aberdeen...........- - 2 0 0 2%
Birmingham & Gloster 31. Os. perch. 100 0 0 100 0 0 13514
Ditto, New, iss.7l dis. 15s. 25 0 0 17 10 0 33
Brighton,Lews,&llast. - 50 0 0 5 0 0 71%
Bristol and Exeter •• • • 21.165. per sh. 100 0 0 70 0 0 8334
Ditto and Gloucester - 50 0 0 30 0 0 59
Caledonian - 50 0 0 5 0 0 74
Cambridge and Lincoln -- 25 0 0 110 0 34t
Chatham & Prtsmonth - 20 0 0 1 0 0
Chester and Holyhead - 50 0 0 5 0 0 8
Chichester & Brighton - - 5 0 0 514
Churnet Valley.. ••• • • - 20 0 0 2 0 0 8%
Cornwall .. ••.•• • • • .. - - 3 0 0 5
Direct Northern. •.• • • - 50 0 0 210 0 2
Direct Norwich • . - 20 0 0 1 0 014
Diss, Beccles, & Yrmth - 25 0 0 119 0 1%
Dublin & Bedfast June. - 50 0 0 2 10 0 5%
Ditto mid Galway.. - - 2 10 0 234
Eastern Counties ... • • 4s. per sh. 25 0 0 25 0 0 17%
Do., Perpetual, No.l 5/. per et. 613 4 313 4 1 pm.
Ditto, ditto, No. 2. • • - - 0 13 4 34 pm.
Eastern Union - 50 0 0 10 0 0 19
Edinburgh & Glasgow 21.55. p. sh. 50 0 0 50 0 0 64
Ditto, Quarter Shares I Is. 3d. p. sh. 12 10 0 12 10 0 1614
Ely and Bedford .. •• • - 25 0 0 10 0 1%
Grand Connection •• • • - 50 0 0 210 0
Grand Junction -• •
Ditto, Half Shares • • 101. per et. 50 0 0 50 0 0 1124
Ditto, Quarter Shares 101. per et. 25 0 0 25 0 0
Gt. Southern &Western - 50 0 0 5 0 0 12
Great North of England 31.55. 100 0 0 100 0 0 180
Ditto, New.• •••• • • • - 40 0 0 5 0 9 36
Great Western
Ditto, Half Shares 7l. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 99114
Ditto, Fifths..• ••• • • 71. percent. 20 0 0 20 0 0 40
Guilford Junction.- .• " - " 50 0 0 35 0 0
Harwich ••••••.• • • • • • - 20 0 0 1 0 0 2
Hull and Selby Si. ss. pr ct. 50 0 0 50 0 0 75114
Ditto, Quarter Shares - 12 10 0 12 10 0 17%
Kendal & Windermere - 25 0 0 1 10 0
Lancaster and Carlisle - 50 0 0 15 0 0 29
Leeds and Bradford - 50 0 0 5 0.0 21%
Liverpool & Manchestr 101. per et. 100 0 0 100 0 0
Ditto, Half Shares. • 10/, per ct. 50 0 0 50 0 0
Ditto, Quarter Shares 101. per et. 25 0 0 25 0 0
London & Birmingham 101. per ct. -- Stock. 240
Ditto, New Thirds.. 101. per ct. 32 0 0 2 0 0 44
Ditto, New 4 Shares 101. per ct. 25 0 0 2 0 0 30
London and Blackwall - 16 13 4 -7%
London and Brighton.. 31. Os. per sh. 80 0 0 50 0 0 5614
Ditto, Loan Notes 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 13%
London end Greenwich - 12 15 4 - 11
Ditto, Pref. or Priv • • 5/. per cent. 18 17 2 - 24114
London and S. Western 51. ss. per sh. 41 6 10 - 80
Do., New Cous. Bths ' - 40 0 0 6 0 0 25114
Ditto, New .. •• • - 50 0 0 210 0 12%
7,ondon and Croydon • • 10s. per sh. 13 15 9 - 18%
Ditto, Guarntd. sp. c. . - 90 0 40 0 4%
London and York... • • - 50 0 0 210 0 7
Lynn and Ely •••• • • ' - 25 0 0 210 0 5
Manchester and Leeds 41.75, 6d. p. s. 100 0 0 70 0 0 138
Ditto, Half Shares.. 1/.175.6d.p.5. 50 0 0 30 0 0 61
Ditto, Quarter Shares 4s. 25 0 0 2 0 0 14%
Ditto, Sixteenths .• • - 65 0 1 5 0 51%
Mancliestr.&.l3irraing._.2laffr thue. 4P_ 0 0 40 0 65
Ditto, Quarter Shares - 10 0 0 2 0 6 -114
Midland ... •• • • ...... 41. 4s. per sh. - Stock. 125,
Ditto, Fifths .••• • • • - - 2 0 0 314
Ditto, Birrn. &Derby 27.135. per sh - Stock. 9034
Newcastle & Berwick - 25 0 0 110 0 57
New cstle & Darl. June. 6e. 25 0 0 24 0 0. 71
North British .. - - 710 0 144
Northern and Eastern. 21. ss. 60 0 0 45 0 0 61%
Ditto, Scrip, iss.s/.d. Iss. 50 0 0 25 0 0 4G
Ditto, Quarter Shares - 12 10 0 12 10 0 16%
North Kent..........- - 2 15 0 33%
Norwich and Brandon. - 20 0 0 10 0 0 161,E
Ditto, New.........- 10 0 0 170 0 314
Portsmouth Direct .• .. - 50 0 0 2 10 0 2
Preston and Wyre •• • • - 50 0 0 50 0 9
Richmnd &W. E June. - 20 0 0 1 0 0 3
Rugby • . - - 1 0 4
Ditto, 2d Pref., 184/ - 25 0 0 25 0 0
Sheffield and Lincoln.. - 25 0 0 1 5 0 1%
Sheffield & Manchestr 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 82 10 0
Ditto, Quarter Shares - 25 0 0 8 0 0 13
Shrws.,Wolv.,Dud.,Bir - 50 0 0 210 0 6%
South Devon • - 60 0 0 10 0 0 16
South-Eastern & Dovr 1/. Is. 33 2 4 - 48
Ditto, New iss.lB/.dis - 50 0 0 8 0 0 231
South Wales .•••• • • • . - 210 0 5%
Stevenson's Prtsmouth - - 2 10 0 2%
Thames and Medway - 19 5 8 - 10,4
Trent Valley
Tort
Di tDitto,t&o,
NNiar ivfh •
Shares..
a.i •dr
le.
..s
ni
di - 20 0 0 20 0 19
Yarmouth & Norwich
110011.. -ppeerr
et.
20 0 0 20 0 0 26%
252005 000
000
52508
000
000
1501631
.11 -
Do., Searbro' Branch - - 20 0 0 44
Ditto, Selby Scrip .. - - 20 0 0 67
Ditto, Extension.... - 25 0 0 1 5 0 121/
Boulog,ne and Amiens. - 20 0 0 2 0 0 534
Gt. Northern of France - 20 0 0 4 0 0 5%
Orleans and Vierzon.. - 20 0 0 2 0 0 12
Orleans & Bourdeaux - 20 0 0 2 0 0 7
Paris and Lyons • ....• - 20 0 0 2 0 0 3
Paris and Strasbourg.. - 20 0 0 2 0 0 234
Paris and Orleans..... - 20 0 0 20 0 0 4414
Paris and Rouen ...... 2/. 20 0 0 20 0 0 421
Rouen and riavre .... - 1 20 0 0 12 0 0 30%

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
• £ s. d. £ s. d.
Australasia .. •• • • 8/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 44
Britsh North American 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 45
Commercial of London Si. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 21 j
Colonial. Si. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0
Londe and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 27%
London Joint-Stock .• . 61. per cent. 50 0 8 10 0 0 14
Metropolitan
Provincial of Ireland• • St. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 44%
Ditto, New Bl. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0
National of Ireland
Nat. Provncial of Eng 5l. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 37%
Ditto, New. •••• • • • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0
Union of Australia 25 0 0 25 0 0 2734
Union of London 151. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 1234
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ s. tl. s. 0.
Albion 3/. 109. 500 0 0 50 0 0 74
Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 19%
Ditto Marine... 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0 6%
Atlas .•••• • • • • • ••• •• . 13s. 6(1. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 16
British Commercial
Clericl,Mcd.&Gen.Lifo 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 6%
County .......
Crown •. .••• • • .. •••• { 9s. and
6/. ss. bs.] 40 0 0 5 0 0 10
Eagle • Gs. 50 0 0 5 0 0 5%
Economic Life .
j & 30s.bs.} 1000 0 0 250 0 0
Eng. & Scot. Law Life 3/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 234
European Life •••• • • • • 556 per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20
Freemasons' •. ..... •• • Si. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
Globe
Guardian
Imperial Fire •••• • • • • 12/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 195
Imperial Life. •••• • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 16
Indemnity Marine.- • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 I 30
Law Life .••• • • • • I/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45%
Legal and General Life 50 0 0 2 0 0 511,
London Fire • ..... 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 16
London Shi •• 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 16
Marine
Med. Invlid & Gen. Life h 0 0 0 2 0 0 3
National Loan Fund• • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 234
National Life ••••• • . •• 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 9%
Palladium Life •• . ..... 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2
Phoenix • -
Prot e;.tor Life• •••• • • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0
Provident Life •••• • • • • 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24
Rock Life.. ••••• • • • • • 4s. 5 0 0 0 10 0 4%
Royal Exchange 5/. per cent Stock. 192)4
Sun Fire •
Ditto Life . • . • • I/. Gs.
Universal Life

DOCKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of raid. Price.
Annum. Share.
I A I

WATER-WORICS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of raid. Price
Annum. Share.
£ s, d.
East London...—. .• . • , 8/. 100 0 0 230
Grand Junction , 3/. 46 13 4 90
Kent 2/. 10s. 100 0 0 65
Vauxhall ...... • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 60
West Middlesex ••• • • • 4/. 16s. pr ct. 63 12 9 I 126

LIST or SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per . of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Bank of Scotland
Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. 100 0 0 1684
British Linen Company 81• per cent. 100 0 0 226
Commercial Bunk • • • . 61. per cent. 100 0 0 167%
National Bank • ..... • • 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 15%
Union Bank of Scotland 7 IA 1. pr cent. 50 0 0 97
Western Bank • • • • • 6/. per cent. —• 50 0 0 76
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 7
Clydesdale Bank
Eastern Bank...
Caledonian Bank . • . • • 61. per cent. 2 10 0 31/
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 5/. per cent. 5 0 0 74
City of Glasgow Bank. Si. per cent. 8 15 0 13y,
Scottish Union Ins. Co. Si. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1%
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14►%
Insur. Co. of Scotlnd • • 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10
North British Insur. 9/. per cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 24%
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 25
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 18%
Edin. &Glasg. Railway 4% /.per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 65%
Ditto, % Shares 4% /. per cent. 12 10 0 All paid. 161%
Edin., Leith, & Grantn 20 0 0 20 0 0 15
Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 434/. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 66
Glasgw &Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 121%
Glsgw &Garnkirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 28
Dundee & Arbrothßall. 5/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 32

SPIRIT of th.- PUBLIC JOURNALS
PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
GLOBE.—The Premier has taken a bold course. While
he remains in office the income-tax must be continued. He
has no alternative, except giving up the protective system ;
and as that would, in all probability, involve the imme-
diate relinquishment of office, it is to be avoided at all risks.
On the whole, the most obvious inference, from a review
of the statement of last night, is, that Sir Robert
is painfully conscious of the failure of his financial
schemes of the last three years. Nothing has been success-
ful but the income-tax, the imposition of which involved
no financial ability beyond that which is every day displayed
in the parish vestry—an estimate of the amount of income to
be taxed, and of the percentage upon it which will yield the sum
required. Even in this he was far from accurate. The produce
was estimated at considerably less than 4,000,0001.—it yielded
more 'than 5,000,0001. Vast apparent changes were made
in the tariff with the ostensible object of largely dimi-
nishing the cost of subsistence, and so increasing consumption
as to revive the ordinary sources of revenue. At the end of
three years the cost of subsistence is found not to be sen-
sibly affected ; and any increase in the consumption of taxed
articles, and consequently of revenue, is traceable directly to
causes which would equally have operated under any system
of taxation not involving an entire stoppage of our foreign
trade. As a general rule, wherever the tariff has been
altered, the result has been a loss of revenue. The
duty on copper-ore smelted for home consumption,
forms, we believe, the only exception. This, however, as it
amounted merely to the removal of a prohibition, originally
absurd, and which had long been found practically injurious
to all concerned, and is, in reference to the great objects now
in view, extremely trifling—would be unworthy of notice,
were it not thus singular. A comparison of the tariff as it
stood before and after the changes made in July, 1842, is
sufficient to show that the reductions of duty were almost
entirely upon articles (as, for instance, drugs and other
things of a similar nature, used in medicine, and in various
manufacturing processes) upon the price of which, to the
ultimate consumer, the duty can never have more than a
very slight effect. The inefficacy of such reductions, for the
purpose of reducing prices, extending consumption, and so
materially increasing the quantity of the article brought to
charge, cannot indeed be better expressed than it was by
Sir R. Peel himself, some years ago. " I know," he said
in his speech on the Budget in 18.30, "from experience, and
it is easily proved with respect to several articles the duties
on which have been reduced, that the benefit of the
reduction is enjoyed by the dealers, an that the price of the
article does not decrease in proportion to the remission of
duty." Sir Robert's deductions, from "experience," made
fifteen years ago, have now been amply proved to be correct
—not " easily, if we consider that the experiment has been
conducted at the expense of three years' time, and a good
many millions of money—but, it is to be hoped, sufficiently
to convince all future doubters, and render any more of
such experiments unnecessary. The revenue from
the ordinary sources has increased. But nothing is
more clear than that the measures of the pre-
sent Government have not only had no share in
producing such increase—that it has arisen solely from
the increased prosperity of the country, which has re-
sulted from the recent extension of our trade with foreign
countries—but that the increase from these sources would
have been much larger, while the real burden upon the
country would not have been materially greater, had no
alterations whatever been made. In short, the " expository
statement," lately published, furnishes conclusive proof
that no modification of our system of indirect taxation
which a Minister, supported by what are called the
" protected interests," can possibly effect, will furnish
the means of dispensing with an income •tax. " Protection"
. has now been continued to the point_ at which it renders the
ordinary income of the country permanently inadequate to
its expenditure. To rescue those whose interests are identified
with " protection" from the growing influence of a sound
commercial policy—to preserve the vicious and absurd ar-
rangement by which the effective weight of our taxation
upon the productive resources of the country is more than
doubled, recourse must. now of necessity be had to a direct
tax, admitted to be unjust, because unequal in its operation,
and necessarily attended with the exercise of arbitrary and
inquisitorial powers which nothing but the direst neces-
sity can justify in a country such as Great Britain.
The result may not be immediately obvious ; but
from this time forth the advocates of free trade need
look for no effective commercial reform from the party
now in power. In effect, it is now fairly con-
fessed to be impossible. Particular interests may be
conciliated for a time by the removal (under the
shadow of the income-tax) of imposts appearing to bear
more immediately and exclusively upon them ; but the real
incubus—that which now alone cripples the gigantic
manufacturing and commercial power of this country—the
protective system—which every year will inevitably render
at once more deeply destructive and mere difficult to deal
with—will be continued. Peel and protection are now one
and indivisible, and an income-tax their necessary attendant.
STANDARD.—Sir Robert Peel's financial statement last
night was characterised by Members of the Opposition as, in
its propositions, " unexpected," " unlooked for," " surprising,"
"bold," "gigantic"—and was generally admitted by all to be
sound in principle, and eminently promising of good to the
industrious and humbler classes of society. The state-
ment otherwise a lucid and business-like detail, which
rose into the higher order of eloquence only when the speaker
had occasion to refer to the " magnificent economy " of the
Queen—deserves all that was said of it by the Opposition
speakers; its propositions are indeed bold and gigantic, and
directed principally to the permanent benefit of the humbler
and industrious classes, amounting to the reduction of nearly
- three millions and a half of taxes, all pressing with undue weight
upon the classes in question, while, concurrently with this
relief, the defensive establishments of the empire are to be
- fully maintained, and the naval department augmented to the
extent of 4,000 men. This is a proud and encouraging por-
trait of the British empire at this day ; and if we may so
speak, the artist who had to exhibit it to the view of his
fellow-subjects, gave the best proof of good taste in allowing
his work to speak for itself. Here is a reduction of nearly
three millions and a half of taxes, the greater part of them
very old taxes, reduced at a stroke, not in submission to
popular clamour, for there has been no clamour on the sub-
ject; not in pursuit of !popularity, for the Minister was
never so strong in Parliament or in the country ; not iu
concession to public distress, for the country enjoys un-
exampled prosperity; but because the Minister can make
the reduction with safety; and he can make the reduction
with safety, because his measures have, in three years of
their operation, converted a deficit of more than three
millions annually into a clear surplus of five millions; for so
_ great will be the surplus on th sth of April.

HORRIBLE DESTITUTION.
One of the most appalling cases of human misery
came under the notice of the police en Wednesday
morning last. On that day it was reported at the station
of the V division, on Clapham•conamon, that a girl had
been found in a dying state in a loft over an old and
ruinous cow-house, in the Wandsworth-road.
Several constables, under the direction of a sergeant,
were sent with a stretcher to convey this wretched hu-
man being to the Wandsworth Union. On a heap of
filthy litter in the corner of a loft over a cow-house, now
in disuse, and situate at the corner of the Albion-road,
Wandsworth-road, they found a being with scarce any
signs of life, and presenting all the appearance of an
exhumed corpse. Her apparel was but a bundle of rags,
and wholly insufficient to conceal her person, much less
protect her from the intense cold. Some weak brandy
and water was poured with difficulty through her lips,
and the police then proceeded to place her with extreme
care upon the stretcher; they covered her with horse-
cloths and sacks, and then coaveyed her to the union,
hardly daring to hope that she would survive the
journey.
Mr. and Mrs. Trine, the master and matron of the
Wandsworth Union, received the unfortunate creature,
and had her instantly convey ed to a warm apartment.
Within five minutes of her anival she was undressed and
placed between hot blankets. Her clothes, which
swarmed with vermin, were immediately burned. An
assistant to Dr. Conner, the surgeon to the union, was
in the house :st, the time, and after examining the young
woman, directed arrowroot and diluted wine to be ad-
ministered often, but with extreme care and in small
quantities, as it was evident that her life hung, as it
were, upon a thread, When this miserable object be-
came partly sensible she was minutely examined, and a
more horrible and soul-sickening spectacle, perhaps,
never be-`ore met the human sight. She is, it appears, not
more than 16 years of age, but she looked 30. Her coun-
tenance was as pallid, and the skin as contracted, as that
of a corpse. Her back was one mast of sores, her frame
was frightfully attenuated, and her feet, swollen and
frost-bitten, seemed to be fast approaching morti-
fication ; but the most appalling sight was the myriads
of vermin that crawled over her person, and even exuded
from her mouth. The walls of the room were covered
with them, and the colour of the blankets and sheets on
the bed could not be distinguished. Her head was
covered with a mass of living corruption, at least an inch
in thickness, and its appearance was horrid in the ex-
treme. The nurses, to whom the task of cleansing this
miserable creature was intrusted, were, for the safety of
their own persons, enveloped in sheets, whilst they per-
formed the necessary offices. Within a very short space
of time nine blankets were placed upon her, and were
removed, loaded with vermin, and immediately burned ;
and to preserve the health of the house, she was obliged
to be moved into another room, that that into which she
had been first brought might be whitewashed and other-
wise cleansed of its impurities. During the night the
poor creature was watched most assiduously by two
nurses. Her constant cry, when sensible, was for food,
which was given her as often as was compatible with
safety.
Yesterday morning a hair-dresser was directed to
shave her head, and this he accomplished with difficulty,
the stench being so horrible that he was repeatedly
compelled to relinquish the task.
In the course of Wednesday night this wretched being
was enabled to converse with Jane Toplis, one of the
nurses, and she informed her that her name was Mary
Loveday, that she was 16 years of age, and the daughter
of a gardener in the Union-road,Larkhall-lane, Clapham.
She said her father, who had recently married again,
turned her out of the house on the let of December
last, and told her to go and support herself by pros-
titution, as he would no longer support her. The first
night she slept in a sand-pit ; she then went upon the
streets and wandered about from place to place.
At last she came back to the neighbourhood in which
she had lived • she found out the loft already spoken
of, and as her clothes had become shabby she lay there
all day and crept out at night, when she picked up what
pittance she could. A number of carpenters and brick-
layers who were working at some new buildings in the
Albion-road, and who knew her father, were aware that
she had taken up her abode in the loft, as were a chaff-
cutter and a milkman occupying contiguous premises,
but none of those persons attempted to remove her. On
the contrary, they behaved kindly to her, and occasion-
ally gave her food and half-pence. On Thursday last she
became too ill to leave her miserable bed, and from that
day until Wednesday morning last no food or water
passed her lips. On that morning she had some dim
knowledge of one of the carpenters, accompanied by a
gentleman, coming up to her, and speaking to her, but
she was beyond the power of utterance and soon after-
%;,,arde became insensible.
The father, the mother-in-law, and the brother of the
unfortunate creature visited her yesterday. The mother-
in-law did not seem the least affected, but upbraided the
girl for not having gone to service. The father and bro-
ther were greatly grieved. The interview between the
brother and sister was peculiarly affecting : he is a
soldier, has been absent from his country seven years,
and had only just returned home. The father and
mother.in-law both assured the master of the union that
their daughter might have come home if she had chosen
so to do. It is certainly most extraordinary that the