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Rtare On Spinal Disease. _ __
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THIS < fcvi » pnbMiea . price Ss . Gd ., CAS _. _J-. » na - 6 ER YATIONS illustrative of the beneficial results _« Wch m _« J be obtained by close attention and _persever-Zrice »> some of the most chronic and unpromising _m-_» nces of spinal deformity ; wiJ . eighteen engravings on wood . _By _SAMO £ t . IU » E , M . lt . C . S . _-fcondon : Jalra Churchill , Princes-street ; and may lie h ad of aU _bool-seUers .
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HEALTH , LONG LIFE , AND HAPPINESS , SECURED BY THAT POPULAR MEDICINE _"VTO Medicine yet offered to the world ever so rapidly _XiV & ttainedsuch distinguished celebrity : it is _questiona"bleiftberebe now anypsrt ofthe civilised globe where its extraordinary healing virtues have not been exhibited . Tins signal success is not attributalile to any system of advertising , but solely to the strong recommendations of parties cured by their use . The Proprietors of Tan's lafe Pill's have now in their possession upwards of fifteen hundred letters , several of them from Clergymen ofthe Church of England , many from distinguished isseiiting
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ON DEBILITY AND DISEASE . frice 2 s . ti ., in an envelope , or forwarded to any address free , on receipt of a post-office order fo i 3 s . 6 d ., THE MENTOR . OF HEALTH , a Medical "Work on _JNervous Bebility , and the Causes of rremarure De-Cay in Man , resulting from Excess , Infection , or Imprudence . Also , OBSERVATIONS ON MARRIAGE , and certain disqualifications , together witli treatment for diseases of the Generative Organs , hy J . S . Tissot and Co ., Consulting Surgeons , C , Caroline-street , _JBedforasquare .
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WH AT'S srECIFIG MIXTURE for Gonorrhoea , war ranted to remove live thral Bischarges iu forty-eight lonrs : iu thc majority of cases twenty-four , if arising from local causes . Sold ( in bottles , 4 s . Gd . and lis . each , duty included ) at 118 , Holhora-hill , and 32 * . Strand , London . Sold also by Sanger , 150 , Oxford-street ; Johnston , GS , Cornhill ; Barclay and Sons , So , Farringdon-street ; Butler , 4 , Cheapside ; Edwards , 67 , St Paul's Church-yard ; and by all medicine renders in town and country . Advice given gratuitously to persons calling between
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CAUTION!—Unprincipled _indirid « al « _prepare-Oie most spurious compounds , under the « me names ; they copy the labels , Wlls , " advertisements , * nd . test i « monials of & e-original Thomai _' s Sucoedaneum . ft is , _thereforey-highly necessary to see that the words " Thomas and Howard" « reon the wrapper of each article . . All others are _fraudulsnt imitations . FOR _STOi-PI G DECAYED TEETH Price 2 s . _6 d . 7
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Just published , Sixteenth Edition , illustrated with cases , and full-length engravings , price 2 s . Gd ., in a sealed envelope , and sent free to any part of the kingdom , on the receipt of a post-office order for Zs . Cd .
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UNDER ROYAL PATRONAGE , ; DW LOCOCK'S PULMONIC WAFERS . THE TESTIMONIALS already received of Cures -of Asthmas , Consumptions , Coughs , and Colds , and all disorders of the breath and lungs , by Dr . LOCOCK'S PULMONIC WAFERS , now fill upwards of fifty sheets of closely printed paper , ancl iKimbers continue to he received almost daily—not only from England , but India , America , and all othci parts of the world—proving them to be the most unfailing and speedy remedy ever discovered . The following has just been received from the Rev , J . Stainsby , Rector of Hanover , Jamaica : — Dated Nov . 20 , 1844 .
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CAUTION . —AH Persons advertising Succedaneum for stopping decayed teeth , fraudulently attempt to imitate MB . CLARKE'S ORIGINAL _SUCCEDAiSEUlI ; and if any Succedaneum than Mr . Clarke ' s be purchased , it will he discovered useless . Mr . Clarke cau say , without the slightest exaggeration , that hc has sold 0 , 001 ) bottles of Succedaneum within 1 C months : and 2 , 800 individuals have been able te use it successfully ; and most of the other purchasers have been to Mr . Clarke , at his residence , Ci , Lower Grosvenor Street , Uondon , to have their teeth stopped , without any further charge than the original cost of the Suecedauoum , price 5 s . Sold wholesale to all the chemists in town and country : and none is genuine unless had through Messrs . Barclay and Sons , wholesale Medicine Warehouse , 95 , Parringdon Street ; Edwards and Son , C 7 _, St . Paul ' s Church Yard ; Ilannoy and Co ., 63 , Oxford Street } Collect and _Moaely , ISO , Upper Thames Street , London ; and other respectable wholesale Medicine Warehouses ; or Mr . Clarke can send it by post to any part ofthe United Kingdon , on receiving a Post-office order .
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ALL MAY BE CURED !! BY HOLLOWAY ' S OINTMENT . FIFTY ULCERS CURED IN SIX WEEKS . EXTRACT of aLetterfrom John Martin , Esq ., Cftroniclc Office , Tobago , West Indies : — February ith , 1 S 15 . To Professor Holloway . Sir , —I beg to inform you that the inhabitants of this island , especially those who cannot afford to employ medical gentlemen , are very anxious of having yourastonishing
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BILE ! BILE ! BILE ! _WOltBOYS'S PILLS remove , in a few days , those distressing symptoms arising from a disordered state of the biliary ducts , viz ., heartburn , sick headache , loss of appetite , fluttering of the stomach , & e . Being free from mercurial and antimonial preparations , they may bo taken nt any time with perfect safety . Sold in boxes , ls . lid . each , by W . S . Worboys , 70 , New Cut , Lambeth ; Barclay and Sons , Farringdon-street ; and by most respectable medicine vendors in town and country . N . B . —Persons desirous of making trial of these Tills , may , by enclosing a postage stamp to the Proprietor , have a dose transmitted gratuitously .
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MR . DOYLE'S TOUR . To TnE Ciutviist Body , _ak » Members op the _Co-orEiuiivE Land Society . —The Chartist Co-operative Land Society has been in existence between four and five months , and during that period every opposition has been offered to its onward progress by our opponents , and yet , thanks to your exertionsthanks to tho lato Convention , who made the plan simple , easy to be understood , feasible and practicable— -it has triumphed over its enemies , and is now in a position that must be truly gratifying to every lover of social happiness and comparative independence . I say comparative independence , and why ? Because I believe that the working classes of this country can never be really independent , so long as
they arc without the possession of political equality . But shcIi of them , as have taken , and will take , advantage of the blessings hold out to them by the rules of our society , may become independent , as compared with their former position . I may be asked how I can prove this . I'll prove it thus : —In the factories and workshops , whether the hands be weavers , spinners , slubbers , carders , reelcrs , warpers , mechanics , or whatever occupation they follow , they are bound by certain restrictions , certain rules , which they must not break ; but should they break them , through accident , or any other cause , they will most assuredly suffer in the shape of enormous fines and exactions imposed upon them ; and should any one of the workpeople refuse to submit to such fines or
exactions , he is instantly discharged from his employment as a refractory and dangerous character ; and if thc master who discharges him be of a revengeful disposition ( whieh , luifortunately for the poor fellow , is but too often the case ) , he will take immediate steps to prevent him from getting employment in any other mill throughout the town or district . I need not say that the rules in factories are tyrannical and unjust . I need not say they aro made without the consent oftlie workpeople—I need not say that every person who is compelled to obey them—and every person must who intends to toil in one of those modern hells—is nothing more or less than a miserable and degraded slave . 1 need not say all this , and more—I need not attempt to prove it , and for one
very tangible reason , itis well known by almost every person in the United Kingdom , and has been proved by hundreds—yea , thousands of witnesses both before committees in the House of Commons , and other bodies of men . However , I may perhaps be permitted to record a few of the monstrous and minddebasing rules whicli are carried out in many—very many—of the mills in the manufacturing districts , For instance , in Mr . Fieklen ' s factory in Todmorden , the silent system is carried out with the utmost rigour—that is , no weaver is allowed to speak to another weaver during working hours ; and I have no doubt but some gentlemen , if they had power , would stop the working classes from speaking to each other after working hours . In the prisons of this
Christian land , the most infamous and despotic rules do not go beyond , this . Ah . I working men , if this is not slavery of the most galling nature , I know not what is the meaning of the word . In other factories , though you are not prevented from speaking , yet if you should be heard whistling , or making a noise , by the manager or overlooker , you are lined the sum of sixpence . In others , for sitting down , there is a fine of sixpence . In all of them you aro compelled to rise with the first bell , to commence work with thc engine , and not to cease work until it ceases ; and should you not do so , should you be a few minutes late , no matter through what cause , a portion , and a large portion too , is deducted from your wages . In fact , your blood , bone , and sinew , _aveputuponim equality with steam , wood , and iron . Now let us look to the position of a man upon two acres of land , with a good cottage , at £ 5 a
year rent , under our Land scheme . In the first place , he may get up when he likes , work when he likes , and go to bed when lip likes . __ Again , at any hour of the day , ho may visit his friend and neighbour , and freely converse with him for any length of time , without running the risk of losing sixpence . In a word , he is his own master—master of his land and cottage ; and no man dare insult him , or molest him in any way , without being subject to his just resentment . Again , he may venture to a public meeting , called for the purpose of devising thc best means for emancipating the working classes from the fuul dominion of the tyrant land-lords and money-lords . He may , at that meeting , boldly and honestly express his opinions , and return home , sleep soundly , get up in the morning , enter upon his field , and no man can turn him off . So much for comparative independence ; and now I will give a brief report of my last week ' s
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LEEDS . On Sunday , September 28 th , I addressed an open air meeting , on Westheath-moor ; Mr , Firth , one of the active members of the National Charter Association , occupied the chair , and made a brief but appropriate speech . Thc meeting was a numerous one , and apparently each and every one appeared satisfied with the afternoon ' s proceedings . In the evening there was a goodly gathering in the Bazaar . Mi \ Farrar , an old and staunch veteran in the cause , was unanimously voted to the chair , who , after making a few introductory remarks , called upon me to address the meeting . I spoke for an hour and a half upon the subject of the Land ; and during that time I endeavoured to show the advantages likely to result from the adoption of our Laud project , and replied to some of the objections offered to it by our _oDnonenta Theplantakes well in Leeds ; and I _am'lapp y to say that tliere is a strong branch of the society held in the Bazaar , w *« . i . _)
_„ , , CnERWEIX , NEAR LEEDS . On Monday evening I addressed a meeting held in a _lai-geschool-room of the above village , Sailed to _TSbVdnte 1 " "I * _««<* , and the means of obtaining it . Some two or three years _ao-o i few co hers in this village took a _Sity of \ ° nd _l _Z TI _n _Zfe * ' _^ a ? nUal _^ t Of £ 5 _ttC acre . Tho employer , a cunning fellow , took good C n ! £ v _° _S , _*\ rccjnenfc with them highly _favour able to himself , but not to those who took the land . I fie agreement was , that _tiiey were only to hold the ! . an < l so long us they worked for him , or rather so long
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_astSiey worked for whatever wages he thought pro--pcr to dole-out tothem . However , the-men did not _i-clishthisone-sided _-ft-ay _^ f doittg _business , and Uiey broke through it , by tuniimr out in _consequence of their wages being reduced . This was not tobe forgiven by this very kind-hearted " " coal king , " and he has lately given them notice to quit the land , and if they refuse , of course he will take means to eject them . Now mark , when they first took this land it was not worth 10 s . an acre , but they have since that period , bv the expenditure of their labour and money upon it , " made it worth , at least , four times the value . _ROTHEnnAU . Perhaps there is scarcely a town in Yorkshire , or probably in the whole country , to compare with Rotherham , so far as the nlivsical condition of the
working classes is ' concerncd . The working men there are truly the aristocracj * of labour , inasmuch as thoy are principally engaged in the iron trade , with plenty of work , and consequently wagc 3 high—high as compared with the wages of others . There is another fact connected with the trade of that town , viz .: — That during the long and dreadful panic of 18 * 12 , when such vast numbers of the workpeople were thrown out of employment in nearly every town in manufacturing districts , there was full " employment for the people of this town * , " and yet , though the people have had , and still enjoy tolerable comfort , they are . haters of tyranny , lovers of true liberty , and unflinching supporters of our Land project . Many have joined our Land Society , and
also , a Local Land Society , established for thc very laudable purpose bf buying land ( not renting it ) out and out . On Tuesday Mr . Kimpster . jun ., took me to see four acres which the society had purchased at the rate of £ 10 the acre , within a mile and a half of the town , and certainly I never saw land better cultivated in my life , though the men who liave managed it knew nothing about land three years ago . They were not _brought up to farmingno , but to working iron , & c . He pointed out half an acre , the property of Mr . Lear , which he ( Lear ) set with potatoes upon Mr . O'Connor's system last spring ; and what , think you , is the amount of produce realised by him ? Why , no less than eighty loads of excellent potatoes , which at the time of my visit was selling at 7 s . the load . Now , eighty times 7 s . will amount to . £ 28 for one crop upon a half acre
of land : and consequently , if hehad had an acre , the produce would realise £ 5 C . Mr . Lear desired mc to return his heartfelt thanks to Mr . O'Connor , tlirough the medium of the Northern Star , for the information hc has imparted to him upon the all-important subject of the Land , its capabilities , and the best way of cultivating it . The society have , in addition to the four acres already mentioned , lately purchased fourteen acres more , for tbe sum ol * £ 1900 , which is a very high price , but then you must bear in mind that it is situated within half a mile of the town , . and is of first-rate quality . I addressed a largo and enthusiastic meeting which was held in a commodious school-room , the only one that could be procured in the town cither for love or money . I spoke at great length , and when I had concluded , several questions were asked iue , _vrtuch . I _aussveved to the satisfaction of the parties .
_SHEFFIELD . Oif Thursday night 1 delivered a lecture in the Town-hall . Subject— "Surplus , the giant evil—the Land , the only remedy . " Mr . Briggs , a sound , straightforward / and unflinching democrat , occupied the chair , who opened the business ofthe evening with a pithy speech , which told well upon the audience . At the close of the proceedings votes of thanks were given to the chairman and myself . Christopher Doyle .
SUNDERLAND . On Friday and Monday , the 3 rd and 0 th inst ., an opportunity was afforded us to bring the constitution , principles , and objects of the Land Society before pub . lie meetings of the inhabitants of this * town . Mr . Dobbie , a veteran democrat , presided on each occasion . Mr . M'Gratli , of the provisional directory of the society , addressed each meeting , and satisfactorily acquitted " himself , although suffering from hoarseness and exhaustion induced by uninterniitted lecturing . Many copies of the rules were purchased by the audiences , and since our first meeting - several persons have paid their instalments on shares in the society , Wc cherish hopes of having ere long a powerful branch ofthe society in Sunderland .
NORTH SHIELDS . Mr . M'Grath lias during the past week delivered two most instructive lectures on the Charter and the Land in the assembly rooms of the Scarborough Spa , King-street , and although the very word "Co-operative" has something ominous in it to thc cars of the inhabitants of this district , a most favourable opinion has been created iu regard to the Chartist Co-operative Land Society . Within the last three years cooperative stores had been established under tho most favourable auspices at Newcastle , Sunderland , and Shields , but owing to thc incompetency and thc dishonesty of tho parties entrusted with the management have failed , and some who had had shares for whicli thoy paid £ 30 havo not received a single farthing of tlieir money . These failures have been caused through the shareholders neglecting the advice " to take tlic management of their affair- ; into their own hands . " The greatest recommendation of the Land Society is its being founded upon this principle .
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The extraordinary attempt to palm olf upon tlie ratepayers of Andover a discarded officer , as it is believed , of another union , is , I am informed by letter , the subject of animated conversation in the town . The circumstances of the case at Oxford , where Trice is said to have been , very much resemble those of that at Andover , The surgeon of tlic house brought under the notice of the hoard of guardians the neglect of the master to give to the paupers the medicine and diet he had ordered for them—charges which Price , like M'Dougal , at first indignantly repelled , and challenged Mr . Wyatt , the surgeon , to the proof . This led to an investigation , the result of wliich ivas that tlie charges wero substantiated , and the master , to avoid worse consequences , resigned . The history of that investigation is as follows : —
ilr . Austin , the Assistant Poor Law Commissioner , attended the weeltly meeting of the board of guardians on Thursday , June 27 th , 1 S 14 , and opened his inquiry , making it a public one , in spite of much opposition from many of the guardians . Mr . Wyatt , the medical officer , repeated his former _cyidcncG . Tho man Thomas , whose wife died in the workhouse , and the woman Ilolyoakc did the sumo . The surgeon mentioned thc case of an inmate named Ilarpuv , who had disease of the heart , and whose medicine was not delivered to her , by which neglect her complaint and sufferings were much aggravated , The surgeon underwent along cross-examination by one of the guardians , a friend of Price , but nothing was elicited in his favour . In reply to questions put by other guardians , Mr . Wyatt stated that he had heard Price use language of a very improper character . " Monstrous , by God ! " was a common expression of the matron to the children .
At the meeting ofthe board on Thursday , July _-un , several charges against the master were brought forward —1 st , for striking a little girl , an inmate ; 2 nd , for not sending the breakfast of an inmate named David Hanks , who had been taken in a fit , and could not go down stairs to get it ; and 3 rd , fov confining , a girl in a room for six months , and giving her oakum to pick when she was near her confinement . Evidence in support of the first two charges having been taken by the assistant-commissioner , the third was adjourned to Saturday , the Cth of July , for the production of a hook of material importance in proof Of the charge . The Inquiry was then again adjourned to the 18 th , to give Price time to get up his defence , and the Poor Law Commissioners an opportunity of perusing the evidence against him . The interval , however , was much greater , as the case was not again taken up until the meeting of the board on Thursday , the 1 st of August , when a new but serious feature in the inquiry presented itself .
It appears that on Monday , July 22 , an inmate of the workhouse ivas reported to have been found dead in his bed . He was a person of weak mind , and latterly subject to convulsions and to fits of excitement , during which no would talk loudly and incoherently , and throw himself about . The medical officer had ordered that he should be placed in a room by himself and be kept quiet _, instead of that two other idiots were with him . An inquest was held on the body , and the jury , after two sittings and a full inquiry iuto all thc facts of the case , returned verdict of
a " Died by the visitation of God " but added tliis censure- " The jury are of opinion that the deceased has not had the attention ordered by the sur geon _. in consequence of the master not carrying out his orders ; and it appearing that it has not been the practice Of tho _mastoi * to look to the medical orders , but to leave the same solely to tho matron , the jury hope thatthe guardians will m future make some regulation by which attention to the sick may be better insured . The iurv consider the conduct of the master and matron in the present instance to be censurable . "
Tins verdict and censure , signed b y Mr . Slatter , the foreman , was communicated to the hoard in a letter Irom the coroner , which was entered in the minute book . One of the guardians ( Mr . Allbutt ) moved this _vesolu--ration :- —" That it is the opinion of this Board that the present master and matron are not suitable persons to discharge the duties of the offices they now hold with satisfaction . '' This was seconded , and some discussion ensued , during which two of the guardians commented _"VdttM-c-n-lence given liy the master before the coroner pointing out certain discrepancies . ' The motion was carried by a majority of 20 to 2 Three guardians declined to vote . The Assistant Commissioner then said , that aftei what had just transpired he should postpone his inquirv The resolution which tho hoard had passed might altei the course to be pursued b y the master
On the following day , however , the Assistant Commissioner resinned his _inquiry , and took a great mass of evidence pro and eon , relative to charges of neglecting to deliver medicine to the sick , contravening the written orders of the medical officer as to the diet ofthe sick , in neglecting to supply the food prescribed , and giving that not ordered and injurious , and acting ; contrary to the rules of the house , both in suppl ying food of a bad quality , and , on complaint being made , continuing the same ; dieting paupers not on tho medical list on food not recognised by any mle of the how , and of Ms violentl y striking a girl . The Assistant-Commissioner said ,
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he should go no further into tho investigation . lie had read the depositions made before the coroner , and he should report all the evidence to the Poor Law Commie .
sioners . Things had now arrived at a crisis , and at the meeting of the Board , on the 22 nd of August , the Chairman rea ( 1 a letter from Mr . and Mrs . Price , the master and matron of the establishment , stating that in consequence of tht opinion expressed by the Board , they considered tliey could not continue In their offices satisfactoril y , _anj therefore , they begged to tender their resignation , conl senting * to continue to act for another month , or fora longer period , if their successors should not be appointed by that time . Tlieir resignation was accepted—in fact , the Board had before dismissed them ; and thus , as far as I am aWc to learn at present , ended the matter .
. If what I hear is correct , there appears to bo a rcular system of juggling going on ; M'Dougal being _uuable to remain at Andover , it is said , will go to Ilungcrford frorn which the master has just been ejected , for being too " good natured ; " while the rejected of Oxford will take his place at Andover—that is , if thuratepaycrs quietl y su \* , mit to bo treated as slaves and fools _. The similarity of the cases at Andover and Oxford ac far as the conduct oftlie respective masters is concerned " is striking ; and so is the contrast between the behaviour of the Assistant-commissioner , Mr , Austin being polite and impartial , and tho other otherwise . Tlio Oxford board of guardians conducted their meetings with oiicn doors , and were and arc at all times ready to giveiiiforniation upon matters of public importance—au example which might be followed with great advantage to them _, solves hy tho wiseacres fat Andover ; such a wholesome
check upon their absurdities would no doubt refine n , en a little , and gradually make them respectable and respected . Mr . Smythe , a clerical guardian of Andover has taken upon himself to declare that those of the guar _, diiins who disclose what may take place at their meetings are guilty of a "prostitution" of the board . That is a term of which some of his dearest colleagues could produce some living illustrations ; but the rev . gentleman seems to remember the old saying , " The truth slionM not be spokcu at all times . " This truth , however , 1 wffl HO longer conceal : the Mr . " George" Price whom hy , Assistant-Commissioner Parker introduced to the board as of Southampton , is really the Mr . " Charles" Price of Oxford , and who , since he left the House of Industry thero ( as the workhouse is called ) has been , according to liis own account , " working ; about for the Commissioners , " and therefore found another house of industry suited to his qualifications in Somcrinet-house .
Andover , Saturday , Oct . -t _. The proceedings at tho weekly meeting of the board of guardians to-day ware both _extraordinary and important . The Rev . G . W . Smythe , who is very ambitious of bocoming permanent chairman , presided iu the absence of Mr . Dodson , who , with his vice , lias resigned , and deserted Hie board altogether . Mr Westlake said , he wished to be allowed to make a few remarks in reference to a communication made to him respecting thc present master , Price , who was recommended by the Commissioners , and specially recommended hy Mr . Assistant-Commissioner Parker , l ' rom the communications received he hnd been led to investigate the matter , considering it a duty hc owed to the guardians as well as to the poor . The evidence he bad collected he would submit to them , that they might judge whether Price was a fit and properman to have the cliarge of the poor for any time , however short .
Mr . Westlake was scarcely allowed to finish this remark before he was attacked by Mr . L . Lywood , Jir . J . I _' othccory , Mr . P . Loscombe , and others ; but particularly bj the chairman , Jir . Smythe . Mr . Lywood said , tliey had nothing to do with the man ' s previous character , and thatthe _Assistant-Commissioncr _, Sir . Parker , had sent Price strongly recommended , lie proposed that the subjeet should not be discussed . Jfr . _Potlieoai'y seconded that proposition . Mr . Smythe would not allow Mr . Westlake to read ' the evidence before the coroner at Oxford . With great warmth of temper he asked if Mr . Wcstlakc's charges aft ' ected Price's moral character , and was told they did , lie also engaged to show the charges as they were arranged , and had been inquired iuto before the Poov Lav-Commissioners . Mr . Smythe objected to Mr . Westlake reading or showing the evidence , and imperiously said , he would have nn answer to his questions without an ; referring , and that Mr . Westlake ought to know what the cliarges wero .
Mr . Westlake refused to give any answer but what he could fully prove from the written evidence , as copied from the minutes ofthe guardians . Mr . C . Holdway then remarked , thathis report ought to he attended to , and that they were indebted to ilr . Westlake for any trouble he had taken to bring thc facts forward . The Chairman was asked whether he did not consider Mr . Westlake bound , after this communication being made to hiin , to bring it before the board ? Mr . Smythe said , that he should object to answer tbat question . Mr . Sopcr proposed thc following resolution : —
" That it appears to this board , that the Poor Law Commissioner has recommended to the guardians Mr . Chas . Price as a fit person to be intrusted with thc care and charge of tho poor in tho Auilover workhouse , knowing that he was a most unfit person , by reason of liis misconduct whilst master of the House of Industry at Oxford ; resolved , therefore , that the poor of this house be not continued in the cliarge of so improper a person . " Mr . II . Mundy seconded the resolution . A . discussion ensued as to the propriety of calling in rricc to give an explanation to tbe guardians , which , after a warm debate , was decided in the affirmative by the chairman ' s vote , there being seven f « r calling in Price , and six opposed to it .
The Chairman addressing Price , said , —I have a simple question to ask you ; were you master of the liouse of Industry at Oxford ? Price—Yes . When did you leave ?—At Michaelmas last . What was the cause of your leaving ?—I did not like the old system , I wished to get into the new one . Did any inquiry take place respecting your conduct 1—No . Did any inquiry take place ?—I think they talked of au inquiry . md jou leave on account of sucli an inquiry ?•— _~ SO _' , I waited to see the result , and then resigned . Was there a coroner ' s inquest at the workhouse while you were master 1—No . The question was repeated , and pressed , when Price admitted that he thought tliere might have been , Was any censure ever passed upon you nt a coroner ' s inquest ?—Never , that I am aware of .
Was this workhouse at Oxford uuder the control or direction of the Poor Law Commissioners ?—No . Price , then , addressing the hoard , said , —Gentlemen , I Will now give you tho reason why I left Oxford . The chairman , Mr . Grimble , was anxious to get rid of me , and put in my place his own father , which he did tliree weeks after I left . Price was ordered to retire , and , Mr . Smythe then putit to Mr . Sopcr Avhethcr he would still press his resolution . Mr . Soper said he should . Jir . 1 * . - Loscombe then proposed a resolution , to the effect that , the Poor Law Commissioners be immediately wiittcn to , to ascertain if the several charges brough t forward by Mr . Westlake against Price were true , und 'o request an investigation of thera . The original resolution being withdrawn , the amendment was adopted in its stead .
One circumstance took place during the proceedings of the day which ought not to he lost sight of : —A poor ragged little hoy , aged 11 years , an orphan , living with his grandfather , an aged pauper of seventy-six , presented himself at the hoard , hogging a pair of shoes toen : 'We hira to take a place offered him at ls . lid . per week if _l' _« could get shoes , and which unless he got , lie must come into the house . A long discussion took place whether the boy should have shoes , some of the guardians being for and others against . It was at last , by way of meeting the difficult y , suggested that the boy should have an oW pair ; when Mr . Mundy very manfully came forwa rd .
and said that even a new pair of the union shoes were o very little value , not more than 3 s ., and an old pair wona * not be worth receiving , as no master would take the ) unless he had good shoes . Price , the temporary masw , remarked that he considered it a had princip le to g" < _^ paupers anything new , as they generally , to his - *" " ledge , pawned or sold the article given . Mr . Munay - marked that such an observation was unbecoming a uncalled for , and that the guardians had been too oib compelled to listen to such observations applied to tno- _^ who were _Iperhaps undeserving tliem , and "' _''^ j _^ _^ events , were not present to answer tliem- i ' ) cided at last that a pair of old shoes should be _giu
the boy . . -.. Mr . F . Losoomhe said ho had an App lication torn . * on behalf of Mv . Price , who considered that the sci va _andtheagea men and women should bo » ' c " . _^ That was contrary to the regulations , unless _una « order of the medical officer , which had not nee case since the commencement of the recent "" l " _^ ' ui Mr . Westlake informed the Board that Mr . Parke r _^_ objected to liis entering any name but that o _^ pauper in the medical book ; and ho did not Kii what other book such an order could be entered . _^ Mr . Smythe thought a certificate would ansve purpose . . , , „ order Mr . Westlake said he would cheerfully give t" - _>" _ if tho Board would give him authority . The torn _^ sioners might censure liim for doing so with ou - authority , and the guardians ought to share the _resp sibility . h . Mr . Loscombe and others objected to take any » of responsibility , and said that Mr . Parker had si » that it was left entirely with the medical officer to u
the beer . Mr . Westlake—When and where ? Mr . Loscombe—In the Board Room . Mr . Westlake—In my presence f Mr . Loscombe—No . . _^ Mr . Westlake—lu consequence of Mr . Parker Iia" j > publicly told me I should not order beer excep t for persons , I cannot do as the guardians wish m matter . k . The placing of such a person as Price in tne _*» house by Mr , Parker is regarded by the inhabita nts Andover as a gross insult and something worse . I ' of serving his superiors on the pres < at system by proceedings , he has done infinite 7 " . mage to alii . aroused such a feeling of hostility to them as it wi exceedingl y difficult to allay .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 11, 1845, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_11101845/page/2/
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