Star.
London, England, 1831-02-12 00:00:00

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This day is published, price sd. or 201. per hundred,
rrl7, ANTI-SLAVERY REPORTER,
No. 76, for FEBRUARY 15, 1831, containing—
I. Testimony of the Rev. J. M. Trew on Colonial Slavery.—l. Ad.
nevistration of Justice; 2. Slave Evidence; S. Compulsory Manum.
~,,n 4. Arbitrary Punishment; 5. Marriage ; S. Rest of the Sabbath ;
Religious Instruction ; 8. Emancipation.
11. Testimony of the Christian Record of Jamaica on Colonial
swery.-1. Profanation of Sabbath; 2. Religious Instruction; S. Con-
duct of Bishop and Clergy ; 4. Power of Arbitrary Punishment and its
dreadful effects; 5. Libertinism of Jamaica; 6. Minutes of Evidence in
the Case of the Rev. G. W. Bridges, and his slave Kitty Hylton.
111. Miscellaneous Intelligence.
To he had of Messrs. Hatcbard, 187, Piccadilly ; Messrs. Arch,
41, Cornbill ; and at the Office of the Anti-Slavery Society, No.lB,
ildermanbary.

:XTRAORDINARY BARGAINS IN TAM CUTLERY
AND SILVER-HANDLED KNIVES.
Large Quantity must (under peculiar circumstances) be
Cl. converted into cash during the present and early part of the en-
suing month, at a loss of go per cent. upon the manutietarer's net
price. Such an opportunity may not occur again for many years.
They are warranted of the first make and quality.
PSICEII.

X. s. d.

Four-inch ivory octagon-handled table knives and forks,
per dozen. of 24 pieces
Dessert knives and forks to match . . .
Carving knife and fork to match . • . .
Knives without forks, twn-thirds of the above price
Silver-handled King's pattern table knives, the bandies
warranted to weigh 15 dwts. per dozen of knives only 5 8 0
0 0
Dessert, solid silver, per pair
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Carving knives and forks, per pair . . . .1 2 0
Also a few lots of common bone-handled knives, SO ps. 0 12 0
An immense and extensive assortment of Mechi's celebrated pe-
culiar steel cutlery, both large and small ; also the greatest va-
riety of writing desks, dressing cases, work boxes, Russia leather
writing cases, pocket books, card cues, jewel and card boxes,
bagatelle, backgammon men, draft and chess boards, and chess
men, the best steel pens In England, the rhadiographic pens, tke
celebrated taxers, strops, and paste ; all kinds of combs, brushes,
soap dishes, and other useful articles of outfit; steel watch chains,
guards, purses, key rings, purse slides, &c. about thirty per cent.
under the prices usually charged.—Observe MECHI, No. 4, Lead.
enhall.street, the fourth house from Cornhill (removed from opposite
the East India House), where a printed list of prices may be ob-
tained gratis.

UPHOLSTERY and CABINET FURNITURE, war-
ranted of the best Materials and Workmanship, chapter than
nny other House in London. The Nobility, Gentry, and Public, are
respectfully solicited to inspect the largest and best selected Stock of
Cabinet and Upholstery Goods in England, at the CABINET
MAKER'S SOCIETY, 71, Leadenball-street, City, which Society is
enrolled agreeably to Act of Parliament, and founded for the support
and encouragement of industrious Mechanics, who all combine to pro-
duce only the very best Articles, and at the lowest possible price. The
Funds of the Society provide for its Members in sickness, old age, and
fig survivors at death. The Society beg to return their sincere thanks
to those numerous patrons, including Royalty, Nobility, and many of
the first Families in the Kingdom, for the extensive and generous pa-
tronage bestowed on them during the last thirteen years, and hope, by
their humble endeavours, to merit future favours ; at the same time
:no, earnestly solicit a trial, as the only criterion by which the merits
and decided advantages of this establishment can be fairly estimated.
};very article is marked at the lowest ready money price. and from
v.hich no abatement is made ; they are all warranted, and if a fault ap-
pears. arc exchanged within twelve months, free from charge of auy kind.
A printed list of articles and prices will be forwarded on addressing the
Secretary. By order of the Trustees,
71, Leadenball-street, City. THOMAS HASLER, Secretary.
Full size mahogany 4 post lath bottom bedstead - - 3 IS 0
Full sized tent bedstead . . . - 1 6 0
Ditto with furniture - - - - - 5 is 0
Bordered airaw mattresses to fit • - - • 1 1 0
Ditto doe hair mattress to fit - . . - 1 1 0
Feather bed, free from dust or smell - ••• - 5 10 0
Three ft. 6 in. feather bed, ditto - . - - 212 o
Four ft, I in. bordered horse hair tick mattress - - 210 0
Four ft. 6 in. ditto of the best horse hair in tick - Z 3 0
Four ft. 6in flock bed and bolster - 1 10 0
Si: japanned chairs in oil, any colour or description - 1 6 0
Best japanned ditto dressing table with drawer - - 016 0
Ditto ditto wash band stand ditto - - - -036 0
Common japanned wash band stand - - 0 8 0
Common ditto dressing table - - - - 0 8 0
Three ft. chest of mahogany drawers - - 219 6
Three ft. 6 in. ditto - - - 3 16 0
Mahogany box glass British plate, two drawers - - 015 0
Mahogany 2-step bed step eight convenience . -1 4 0
Ditto 3 ditto night convenience - - 112 0
Ditto bidet and pan - - • - - 1 6 0
Ditto - - - - - - 116 6
Bed room sofa bedstead, 3 mattresses to fit, with top
French bedstead japanned
Bamboo tent bedstead - - - -
- 1 12 0
- - 2
Five feet mahogany 4-post bedstead and furniture, with- SS BO
French draperies, lined with silk fringe -
- II
SeTvants' chest of drawers
Mahogany pembroke table - - -
Ditto dining table -
-
-
Eight mahogany chairs, six and two elbows, covered in
horse hair - - -
Mahogany sofa or couch, covered in hone hair to match
chairs
Celiatet sideboard - - - - a l4 14 0
0
2
. 1 16 0
-3 3 0
- 5 60 0

. 8 10 •
- 6 10 0

Handsome pedestal sideboard, carved back . - 10 10 0
Set of 4 ft. mahogany dining tables 11 ft. 6 inches long -14 .10 0
Small dining table on patent principle - - -810 0
Nisoic stool covered in morocco - - 1 5 6
Patent Sm.dwich tray, brass lock - - - 1 8 0
Butlers' tray - - - - -010 0
Fight TrafalLar chairs, loose seats, brass moulded -. 10 10 0
Drawing-room couch, imitation - - (upwards) 55 0
Drawing.room Trafalgar chairs, ash - -018 0
Best horse-hair cushion - - - - -0 50
Common ditto - - - - - 0 4 0
Real rosewood drawing-room tables, in two card and sofa, 19 0 0
Ditto - - - - - - -21 10 0

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No. 13,707. SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 1831.

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PANORAMA OF TIIE BRIT. SII

LEEDS PATRIOT.
Monday evening, a meeting was held at the Brewer's Anns, in Kirk-
gate, to make a subscription in aid of those who are suffering from the
strike at Ashton, Stayley Bridge, 'cc. Mr. John Wats was called to
the chair. Messrs. Grundy and Slater, two delegates from Ashton,
wen present, and entered into detail! respecting the wretched system
of oppression exercised by the masters over their workmen. They
stated that about twenty thousand individuals laboured under the effects
of the strike. Fifty.two masters in the cotton district had cont.
bitted and , eutarod into a bond of five hundred pounds
each, to compel disk respective hands to submit to any mike-1
tion propose& bg any one of the fifty-two. The masters had made a cal.
eulation on the hob of the National Union, and they expected, by
throwing all tlit werkanen on its tenure,* at ones, to crulkit in its in.
fan*
decreaselted IMI exlherfore, propeeni.a sedans* which would
make aknelt man 'a earnings of as. pee week.. Many affect-
lag instances Mere adduced by the delegates, of the starving an& dia.
nand state of the working claws in Ashton and its vicinity. It was
stated that whatever subscriptions were contributed, would be an-
nounced in the newspapers of the National Association, the " Voice of
the People." A committee of eleven was appointed to manage the
subscriptions.
it another part of this day's paper we have given at length the par-
ticulars of the decision of the Court of King's Bench, in the cause be-
tween the Hull Dock Company and the Mr and Calder Company res.
paling the freenavigation to the port of Goole The judgment of Lord
Tenterdon was clear and decisive. The result, it will be seen, is, that
the Hull Dock Company are not entitled to any dues on vessels salmi
into the post of Goole.
HireasSßOltOuGll.—A mast extraordinary petition has been got up
in this town, praying for "aGs x zeal. Farr." Now, to our -know.
ledge, no place in the kingdom has less occasion for a prayer of this
wet, as the majority of the inhabitants could well dispense with "AM
tie ter days of plenty. We recommend certainly the getters up of
to "fair' as long as they like.
11:1111.1°C110ACH ACCIDSX T.--Oh Monday se'nnight, about six o'clock,
the Illseilleld mail upset a little below the sign of the Sind Mill, Roe
Osseo, near alotteram ; the coach was full of passengers at the time, but
no lives were lost, though all the-passengers were hurt more
erlimisselisa.iste man bad his leg broken, another was very ill-crushed in
Ms inside, and a female was also very much hurt in her arm and back.
[Tbe miseries of the Truck System may be conceived by the following
statement 4—Wages have beenibrought to the lowest minimum ; those
' paid in money have been reduced to the lowest ebb, and those paid in
goods have followed till the poor weaver, with fourteen hours' labour,
OM scarcely earn a livelihood for himself, exclusive altogether of his
Emily ; tents cannot be paid, and necessaries moot be procured, with-
out taking more than is allowed to run into the master's debt. At
Christmas they put them under stoppage, and Christmas is the time
for the poor weaves's punishment. For flour or meal he is gene-
rally charged threepence to fourpenee per stone higher than the
market price. When the poor weaver wants money, bbis work is
stopped, and he is told he cannot be employed any longer. He
tellais master he wants to settle his , milk-stick ;' be is told to send it
in to his master. When be wants to pay his shoe-bill, It is to come in
to him to be discharged in his shop by truck ; if the tradesman is net
willing to comply with this, he goes to the low court, and take" the pow
man's goods away, or himself to prison. Some of the mosefactmem
boast that their shop makes them five hundred pounds a-year. Hs for
their trade, they care nothing for it; when they mime into the market
can sell with any, the profit is got before. When spar mumfalls tick
the/ena
er a misfortune, he has to face a select vestry, who imtly
toll en rto go about his bustness,they will not relieve him,and if Makes
=lon a magistrate he sets him at nought, and his summansten.
sl to
ay kind and upright quaker' have relieved m:tatani and
aids them comfortably warm, by covering their
imilles apparel and in bedding. Well may we say is
t" thalt, midi Orrin." Let any one come into the
Cingteek
el Wibeey, ,101 Northowram, and Queen's endifineg,
they will ma 2=2 and wretchetbsess,and injustice wlehemilimporig
all ie, y ; manufactures without feeling, ma pomelgimell
I want seadv4ll disestie=
A ismithis, temperate, and well-written address has been put forth by
ebe Union of Haddonfield, Almondbury, Henley, Kirkbeatm, and
I•entost,ht defence of thole political principles and views. We give in-
sertion to part of it with peat pleasure
" There can be no goals curse betel a country than that it should
be reduced to a state, in which the virtue of the peasantry is under-
mined by the destruction at that self-esteem, and honest, industrious,
and manly pride, which makes a peasant prefer his own exertions to any
other mode of obtaining a subsistence. Unless such are his feelings,
the country which be its can never become (or never remain) a
great country. The greatness of a Gooney does not consist In the ex-
tent of its empire, nor even in the knowledge and publicity of useful
and oenamental arts; such things may be amongst the proofs of its
greatness, but they are not its cause; nor by them alone can a nation
always hope to remain great. A esuatry may truly be and to be great,
when the mass of the people are in the enjoyment of comfortable and
easy circumstances ; a state in whist, alone they can always be ex-
ted to be virtuous; and he is thee gee benstacter who lends his
pec aid to introduce such a state amongst them."—Lorvl Chief Judie*
Bests Address at thsSallsestl Dissoss Irises. 1817.
Mee AND Bsonewns,—We, the Rolimeame of Huddenfield, Al.
mondbury, Haley, Hirkbesten, Lapses, and their immediate neigh-
bourhood, find it difficult to meet with moods sulloisady smog and
forcible even to convey a faint idea of the sitillekgs, distress, and par.
rations we are doomed to endure, end have mthms4 fora great length
of dine, until we are at last brought to that sumo wltw we madder it
would be a crime of great magnitude not is mks our arts known,
and make every lawful effort in our parer to sman 't.
_ourselves
and our families from misery the meat appalls, and aidtAvn the
most revolting, especially to faroborn Englishmen ;—s state of
which has been induced by the moat insinuating and .
degrees, which, for a number of yeas, has lien hi active and
gradually increasing, until at length we find ourselves of dame
cowman necessaries (hot to name consfsrts) which maks in any way
tolerable. A vast number of us at this thee, and foes long time pre-
vious, have not had food solliclent to supplies us during the btheanect
toil we are doomed to perform, in consequence( of the low Mate of wages,
and the opprewive and overwhelming berthas of taxation, which, MM.
bitted, have pWpitated us into such a state of extreme distress as to
have compelled us to dispose of almost every piece of furniture sem
humble abodes contained ; so that our cottages on the almdes atom.
fort and commitment, have now become ase habituating 'if Wretched-
neis sad misery, sad present &scene salaamed to malt the moss callous
hart. When we take into consideration the capabilities, of oar assay
--tits wealth, its industry, and view it (as it really is) pomading all the
elongate of prosperity. and ecatemplate the situation of tie ' great mass
of its iodestrions inhabitants, we aro knelled In stating that we nag be
considered as having arrived at the very climax et human suffering and
endurance, with consequences the most fearful, together with a long
train of evils that are now following mg to give a finish to the horrible
picture. Unable to pa our rents, and discharge the debts we have bees
compelled to contract, anti shopkeeper" who have assisted M
in every emergency, are now fast hastening into ilte vortex into which
we have already fallen. Painful as the subject may be, lore* II&
selves, oar wives, our children, and one fellow manna, loyalty, pa.
Watkins, and en ardent desire for oar cautery 's weal, induces us ti
dwell upon the nrolantholy tale, end proclaim to all our fellow-country.
men our dire situatioe, and tell them that this unnatural state of thing,
Is the soul.sdning cause of our various and persevering attempts at
bettering our condition. But what is the prospect ?
• We have tried every legal means in our power; we have pedoismod
both houses of Parliament, sod faithfully detailed to our govomms
our state and situation; but what is the result? Our petitsoos keys
been unheeded—our cry has not been heard, or, if heard, net seabed •
and, notwithstanding the genetul voice of the people km ham
forth, and the whole moony has sounded with "diebeas, yak tits ratite!
' mant—even to the present—has refused to inquire Mee tbeennee of that
unprecedented distress—nay, mote, the repeated tostimmiy ifthossonds
upon thousands of loyal B blab subjects has been *papa ind tee at
nought, and the private' teedmouy of &few, do pathless of pasta, km
•bein received, prolfered; and acted upon, in eiligftlif the pantie" evi.
Asses of tens of tboussods of the =firing mineepeudn ! This being
ear situation, aid no prospect of alt 'em ti be:ams, we fiel it our
duty to unite together, and form oil Adroit glimisethrphilanx, for
the purpose of exercising the abillasibill ',Mass midi Plesidlisee hes
endowed us with, in elder to the seiIIIMIIIMIRei deale rlablhead Pgivilart
which the constitution of ourrepectMarribm whit psoplc—that trs,
meg be truly and faithfully ivi Parent,' and have as
grievances =dressed.
In making this declaration, we disdain my er the snakiest iatentiolit
or wish to violate any known law of the lan& We envy no men's PPD.
petty. We are desirous of yessarving the good Institutions of the coun-
try. We want not to destroy, but to build up and maintain good order

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