The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-24 00:00:00

Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe

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Liverpool Average

meek ending,May 17, 1,

Wheat. I Bal'ley, I Oats. t Beans.
308
dgs. 3d. Os. Od. I os. —od. Od

. Is. 6d
os. 7.1 d

842.
Pease

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, 3 P.M

We have had what may be considered, for Tuesday, ano-
ther large business in our Cotton market. Fully 5,000 bales
have been sold, at yesterday's prices.

Speculators have been very busy, and have taken 2,000
bales, all in American descriptions, and buying

WHITE SLAVERY

s still going

IN ENGLAND

(From the Halifax Guardian.)

How would the following anecdode, from the report of the
Children's Employment Commission, have roused the sym-
pathies of a crowded auditory, if it had been told on an Anti-
Slavery platform ? _ _ _ _

" One of the most disgusting sights I [J. C. Symons,
Esq.] have ever seen, was that of young females, dressed like
boys in trowsers, crawling on all fours, with belts round their
waists, and chains passing between their legs, at day pits.
* * * In one, near New Mills, the chain passing high up
between the legs of two of these girls, had worn large holef
in their trowsers ; and any sight more di,- igly indecen
or revolting can

han

work—

can bea

And how would the white handkerchiefs of our fair coun-
trywomen have been bedewed, had the following narration
been given as the words of a married negress :—" I have a
belt round my waist, and a chain passing between my legs ;
and Igoon my hands and feet. The pit is very wet where
I work, the water comes over our clog tops always, and I
have seen it up to my thighs. My clothes are wet through
almost all day long. The belt and chain is worse when we
are in the family way."
Or this :—" 1 have worked in a pit since I was six years
old. I have had four children ; two of them were born while
1 worked in the pits. I had a child born in the pits, and I
brought it up the pit shaft in my skirt."
Or this : I have wrought in the bowels of the earth 33
years. Have had nine children; had two dead born ; thinks
they were so from the oppressive work ; a vast of women
have dead children and false births. I have always been
obliged to work below till forced to go home to bear the
bairn, and so have all the other women."
And yet true charity will be as active for these poor Eng-
lish and Scotch women as it was for the African population
of our West Indian colonies. What ! have we paid twenty
millions for the abolition of West Indian slavery, and shall
we hesitate for a moment to put a legislative stop to this
worse than West Indian slavery, this harder than Egyptian
bondage ? Is the philanthropy of England so perverted, that
like the love of Desdemona it moves only towards a black
visage? Or has our English charity such a telescopic eye
that it can only see and magnify distant objects?
Surely not. The " Report" shows (as we may next week
prove) that these barbarities are not required or necessary
(the tyrant's plea) for the purpose of coal getting. The em-
ployment of girls has been forbidden by the Low Moor and
other great companies ; and the use of infant labour can also
be similarly dispensed with. Surely, then, the " philanthro-
pists" (egotistically so-called) will join us in this work of
mercy—this labour of love. The ten hour bill then niust
also join us; for there is not a single argument against infant
factory labour, that comes not with accumulated force on the
employment of children in coal mines.
Was factory labour commenced at too early an age ?—in-
fants are sent to coal pits at five, four, and even three. Was
factory labour prolonged to a wearisome length ?—the hours
of labour in coal pits are 11, 12, and 13, in Yorkshire and
Cumberland; in Derbyshire, Durham, and Northumber-
land, from that to 16 hours; and in the east of Scotland,
from 15 to 18—" from two in the morning till six at night."
Was it the practice in factories to have night work in addi-
tion ?—in some mines in Northumberland and North Dur-
ham " boys and young men work in the pits what is termed
double and treble shifts, i. e., for twenty-four or thirty-
six consecutive hours ; and some instances are stated of
their having worked quadruple shifts, that is, for 48 con-
secutive hours ;" and John Dixon, 11 years old, says in his
evidence, " Last fortnight I was down the pit three days and
three nights without coming up at all." Is it the tendency_
of infant factory labour to cripple the "human form divine,"
and to bring on premature old age ?—we have undeniable
evidence that infant colliery labour produces " a crippled
gait, often connected with positive deformity"—that in York-
shire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Shropshire, and Staf-
fordshire, " there are no old colliers"—that in South Dur-
ham " they are generally short lived"—that in Scotland
" most of the men drop off before they get the length of 40
years"—that in Derbyshire one race of them is old at 28 or
30—and that in East Lothian "the men die off like rotten
sheep." Was it proved that the air of factories was perni-
cious ?—and is it not equally certain that the atmosphere of
coal mines is more so, and therefore less fit for a child to
whom pure air is more necessary than food itself? Is factory
labour liable to many aceidents?—and are not coal mines
equally full of danger, though equally open to be made
innocuous if the legislature decree that they shall be so made?

NATIONAL EDUCATION

(From the Ulster Fes.)

The subject of national education has long been a matter
of contention in Ireland. It has given rise to a controversy,
in one sense, not yet settled, though all men, who prefer
principle to expediency—who are willing to forego mere
temporal advantages for the sake of adherence to Scriptural
instruction and Christian truth—regard it as set at rest for
ever. Men may flatter themselves into a pleasing belief that
it cannot be far wrong to give up some of their own con-
scientious scruples, if they can thereby secure what they may
regard as substantial benefits. But it is dangerous, indeed,
to adopt such a grievously erroneous idea—an idea that, if
once carried out to its legitimate consequence, might lead to
the rejection of the most important doctrines of Christianity
itself. Besides, we ought to be fully aware of the danger of
countenancing a system which abounds with acknowledged
evils, such as the present Board of Education for Ireland,—
not to speak of the criminal and and ominous silence as to
witnessing against those evils, necessarily, it should seem,
imposed on all who have consented to receive a portion of its
funds. These remarks have been drawn from us by reading
the subjoined letter, from the pen of an able minister of the
Church of England, in reference to the subject of education,
which we shall present to our readers without further preface,'
as it sufficiently speaks for itself :

" TO THE REV. HENRY MOORE.
" DEAR SlR,—The address to Sir Robert Peel, which you
have been requested to forward to the clergy for signature,
and which, as you report, above eight hundred of them have
already subscribed, 1 cannot sign, even after its recent alter-
ation. I think that it still states the principle of scriptural
education most vaguely, and our chief objection to the un-
scriptural system of national education insufficiently; that it
is further capable of being practically interpreted in a sense
which the great majority of the subscribers have wholly dis-
claimed, and is consequently, on the whole, for more likely
to do harm than good.
" I am, dear sir, yours faithfully,
" J. E. MA&TIN•
" Rectory House, Killyshandra, May 17, 1842."

WHIG CORRUPTION.-All the corruption, or nearly all
the corruption, practised at the late election seems.trao
dical
been practised by whig-radicals. The cases of g
whari e—Sud-
corruption proved, either formally or virtqapani 2,
Brid.
bury 2, Ipswich 2, Lewes 1, Truro 1, Nottingu
conservative side,
port 2, Newcastle 1-11 in all. On
the not a trifling
o one,
Southampton 2. Here is a balance, canrruption..
in favour of Whig-radical bribery and

SECOND

EDITION.

Standard-qffice, Eleven o'clock

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MISCELLANEOUS.

e.other day, a raw cavalry recruit, under.
else, performed 2 cut six" with a sweep

the sergerit's nose off.
Rev. Mr. Tomlinson, one of the Secretaries of the
Christian Knowledge Society, has been appointed Bishop of
Gibraltar.

The Co
St. Helen

ant de Las Cases, who accompanied Napoleon to
a, died at Passv on Monday last.
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The London and Brighton railway has nearly driven all the
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off the road

The Gazette of Upper Germany states that the King of
Prussia has sent 500 Louis-d'or to the sufferers by the fire at
Hamburgh.

Sir Gregory Lewin, one of the learned counsel who goes
e northern circuit, was on Thursday last appointed re-

corder of Doncastcr

The Sydney Gazette, New South Wales, is now conducted
by Mr. Grant, formerly proprietor of the True Sun, and
lately police magistrate at Maitland.

A. dividend of ss. in the pound has been declared on the
estate of Messrs. Hobhouse, Phillott, and Lowder,
ankers of Bath.—Bath Paper.

arlet fever is raging to a great extent at Lewes, and
1-crier has been round the borough, cautioning the
-om going through John-street, in consequence
y house being infected.
e Central Criminal Court, last Saturday, a woman
,ed Dowdell, was convicted of throwing vitriol in her
sband's face, and sentenced to three years' hard labour. It
ppears the parties bad been living separate, and the wife had
seized her opportunity of inflicting the injury. The man
loses the sight of an eye and is otherwise disfigured.

habitants f;

of nearly ever

On Wednesday week, as Major Elmsall, of the South
Yorkshire Cavalry, was exercising his horse, with
prior to the assembling of the corps next day, the
)ok fright and sprang off, when the major, by coming
cmtact with the bough of a tree, was thrown down and se-
verely hurt.

EARLY HAY-MAKING.—On Monday last a field of nine
statute acres belonging to James Alison, Esq., of Carus
Lodge, and adjoining that gentleman'sresidence, was cut in
fine condition, and, but for the late rain, would, no doubt,
yen safely housed. The grass averages two feet in
and is of the ordinary kind, no Italian rye being mixed
—Lancaster paper.

CAPTURE OF OTTERS.—Withia the last three months no
fewer than 29 otters were caught in traps in a drain or burn
on the Scone policie, opposite the mouth of Almond. Otters'
skins are very valuable ; and 29 of a fair or average size, in
the proper market, would fetch £lB at least.—Perth paper.
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