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      To The Imperial Chartists

      TO THE IMPERIAL CHARTISTS

      My Dear Friends ,—I Need But Direct Your...

      My dear Friends , —I need but direct your attention to the report of the proceedings at the Crown aid Anchor meeting on Monday last , to convince you that the spirit of Chartism lives in the heart of the metropolis ; and that the cause—the chief , if not the sole , cause of the treachery of our rulers , and the indifference of class to our principles , may be traced to the venality , corruption , and baseness of the public press . Every newspaper in London was represented at that meeting ; every reporter took notes of the several speeches j and yet the proceed

      ings of the very largest meeting of the "working classes in the centre of the metropolis has been wholly unnoticed by the daily journals , with the ^ seeptioa of the Morning Jdvertiser —&& journal of the pothouse—which gives afew lines of a ridiculous and erroneous report , and the Daily News , which gives as few , merely noticing the occurrence and the 'HLorning Post ditto . After the several well-merited castigatiotts that I have given the press , in presence of its representatives , Icannot expect much favour at its hands but I do declare , that there never were six more splendidVspeecb . es delivered at any public meeting , or in any senate-house , than those delivered by M Grath , Jones

      Harney , Kydd . Dr . M'Douall , and O'Cavagnah , at the meeting at the Crown and Anchor 5 and yet , but for the Northern Star , they would be lost to you and our cause , save the impression—the deep impression , they made upon the audience , and upon me , as cue of that audience . They were an so truly goodthe six best that I ever heard upon one night—that I know not to which to give the preference ; -while I feel convinced as I do of my existence , that their publication would have established the principles in the minds of many who are now ignorant of them ; and that , you will say , is the reason for the press of the factions withholding them .

      -If ow , we have always understood that a newspaper was a kind of national mirror , faithfully reflecting the several characters performing upon the public stage . However , this opinion , which now appears to he an error , has been most unblusningly controverted by the Daily News , in its recent advertisement announcing its evening appearance under the title of The Express . In that advertisement we find the following words ;—"BUT THE FULL AND CAREFULLY PREPARED REPORTS OF THE MONET , RAILWAY PRODUCE , CORN , CATTLE , AND OTDER MARKETS WILL BE THE MARKING FEATURE . "

      "AS , HOWEVER , THE INTEREST IN SUCH A PAPER MUST NECESSARILY BE LIMITED TO A Ct ASS "—1 * 0 w , this candid announcement , coming from a journal established to supply the demand for a popular organ , will at once convince you of what -vou have to expect from the most liberal portion of the press , which must be written for class and confined to a review of the monetary , cattle and grain transactions . I have spent many years in pointing out to the people the manner in which , and the mode by which , they may destroy any single grievance , and I am practically carrying out the plan by

      which I hope to destroy the land monopoly and labour competition grievance . Believe me , then , that , as it is the pence of the poor , and not the pounds of the rich , that constitute the shopman ' s wealth , so it is the industrious classes who read newspapers at news-rooms , coffee-rooms , clubrooms , beer shops , and public houses , that constitute the circulation and the wealth of the press , and yet , strange to say , although you know this fact as well as I do , yet yon prefer those journals which misrepresent you and your cause and cater to your morbid taste for murders and the horrible , to those inwhichyousee your strength , your power , your cause , and your interests , advocated and defended .

      In order to effect any one sectional change it is necessary to bring the whole popular weight to bear upon it . If , then , you would meet and form dabs , denominated NEWSPAPER CLUBS , and resolve upon ejecting from yonr places of resort , all that misrepresented you or refused to represent you faithfully , you would very soon have the press under as wholesome a contronl as yon have publicans , beersellers , and coffee-house keepers . In my several comments upon the general baseness of the press , I never failed to recommend a partition of yonr support with those journals which , like the Star ,

      advocate yonr principles . I have counselled the men of Nottingham to divide the exclusive patronage now extended to the Star with the Nottingham Review * for the purpose of supporting that journal in the advo of yonr rights , and I now tell the Chartists of Norfolk and Norwich , that it is as much their duty to support the Norfolk News and Norwich Gazette as it is to support the Northern Star . I think I may aver , without any fear of contradiction , that I might have made the Northern Star the source of an immense revenue if I had made it less of a national organ and more of a class journal . It will

      also be borne in mind that I was the first person to aim a blow at the circulation of the Star by the establishment of public news rooms , and by recommending the reading of the most important portions of its news at the several Chartist assemblies . I did this upon the principle that I would rather hare a circulation of one thousand read by and to two millions than a circulation of two millions read by and confined to one thousand . If pelf and individual power had ever

      been , or were [ now , my object , I would undertake to start in the money-mongering market on Monday morning next , with a certainty of realizing £ 10 , 000 a-year , and upwards , for every year of my existence . And it is a proud consolation to me to know , that although the Northern Star no longer possesses its circalation of 43 , 700 weekly , that , nevertheless , the reduced number is read by three times , aye , ten times , as many as it was in the days of ha larger circulation .

      During the existence of the Evening Star , which I edited free of charge , and discharging many of the costs at my own espence , as well as sometimes supplying it with the necessary stamps , I bad worked the Chartist cause into the miuds of parties who had never Uefore sanctioned it . It was taken at many club-rooms , news-rooms , and coffee-houses ; and there was this distinguishing feature of attention and industry about it , that it presented daily from three to four columns of original matter , commenting upon the leading articles of the Morning Journals of the day . And , strange as it may appear , I have frequently written four columns of original

      matter , besides perusing the Morning Papers from seven o ' clock in the morning till one at noon . Now , I think , that we have in our ranks men who are quite capable of conducting a Chartist Evening Newspaper ; and , although the existence of the Evening Star materially injured the circulation of the Northern Star , yet I , for one , have no objection to contribute my mite in support of the more active advocate of our principles . In the days of that Journal it was a usual complaint against me , that I furnished it with much original news which would have materially served the Northern Stars however , I persevered , because I have always attached the greatest impor . tance to a Daily Newspaper .

      I remind you now of these circumstances lest you might suppose , according to the usual custom of Journalists , that what I airaed at was to substitute the Northern Star for papers now taken by the working classes ; whereas , my object is to induce o ; her papers , by your patronage , to compete with the Northern Star for your favour ; and I shall always be , as I have hitherto been , the first to recommend their substitution . I really did not think that it was in the power of eloquence to have thrown the new and refreshing blaze around o : ir

      My Dear Friends ,—I Need But Direct Your...

      principles , that those six gentlemen succeeded in communicating to them on Monday last . I do assure you , that every standing . place and every hole and corner of the large room in the Crown and Anchor , even to the very stairs , was wedged , and that it was with much difficulty that I made my way through the dense mass , and that I never heard speeches in my life more loudly , more rapturously , more deservedly applauded , ' while not a single newspaper has reported , a single . sentence spoken . Now , observe every London Journal has its own special reporter at Conciliation Hall , and its own

      correspondent at every foreign court , that the rigmarole of the Irish patriots , and the cabals of foreign courts , are all carefully chronicled , while the same press does not consid er a meeting of the working classes in the metropolis worth its notice . Can yon doubt , then , that the proceedings in Conciliation Hall are considered as the support of faction through popular delusion , while the meetings of the Chartists are looked upon as the embodiment of national strength , threatening danger to misrule .

      But where is the use in my writing , if you do not act upon my suggestions ? Let your fellows throughout the land learn by next Saturday that yon have kicked some of the false mirrors from your places of resort , and , take my word for it , the popular action will very soon bring the press gang to its senses , and produce a more wholesome state of popular representation . Your faithful friend and servant , Famous O'Connor .

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      And National Trades' Journal.

      AND NATIONAL TRADES' JOURNAL .

      Vol. Ix. No. 464 London Saturday, Octobe...

      VOL . IX . NO . 464 LONDON SATURDAY , OCTOBER 3 , 1 ^ 6 . ™ « VEPEWCE w 1 JX > - * - L , vy * ** ** | uv" ___ FItb Shilling * and Sixpence per quarter .

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      TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CHARTIST OOOPERATIVE-LAND SOCIETY . My dear Friends , —When famine now stares my countrymen in the face , and when it is on the march to your homes , I know you will bear with me while I lead you through the course by which I hoped to arrest the progress of the monster , or at all events to reconcile yon to his ravages , if scarcity could be satisfactorily traced to the will of God . I so much hate and detest the tricks and the mystery of the press , that I have preferred treating this master g rievance—this largest and most pressing questionin a familiar letter , to clothing it in the solemnity of a piece of heartless bombast . The reason I write to you npon the subject is , because I look upon you , every one of you , as my own children ; and the difference between me and a hired editor is this :

      that he will make extensive lunges at the property of others to show his sympathy and prove his humanity , while I wonld divide my last crust with any member of the Association—nay , with any poor man who really wanted it—giving him the largest share . Moreover , I am better qualified for the task by habits as well as by feelings , than the mere hired scribes , because I live frugally , I live humbly , and never spend an hour in dissipation . I devote my whole time , my whole thoughts , my whole strength , and my whole fortune , to the cause of the poor ; and my heart sickemrwhen I read the announcement , that a Privy Council has been held to agree upon a

      form of prayer to address to Almighty God to avert a famine created by man . And when I see this pious announcement followed by the intelligence that , upon the same day , OUR QUEEN , who is the head of God's English Church , is to entertain a distinguished party of foreigners and domestic leeches , who are to be regaled after their repast by the merry music of military bands , I ask you—whose bowels of compassion a fellow-feeling may have opened towards your starving Irish brethren—whether such conduct is not anti-Christian , hypocritical , irreligious , irreverent , damnable , and insulting to the Deity ?

      I don't think that I could seize a more opportune time for rivetting upon your minds the value of the plan that I have propounded as a means of securing you against famine , when it is the dispensation of man . God never created a famine since he created the world ; and I'll prove it to you thus : Although some may have died of hunger , yet there was more than enough of food to have sustained them if it was distributed according to God ' s injunction that he who produced it should be the first partaker of it . There need be no famine in Ireland now . There are oxen , and sheep , and pigs , and 03 s , and

      fish in the seas and the rivers , and birds j -he air and venison in the deer parks , game in the preserves ] and rabbits in the warrens , and , therefore , what is meant by famine is the impossibility of the producers of the most of those things , and the rightful owners of them all , being unable to procure them at that price set npon them by those who have usurped them to their own kindly use , and have fenced them from the eye aad placed them out of the reach of the poor . Is it not deplorable—is it not horrible and sickening—to read of the forced marches of the military , and the removal of stores of

      ammunition as a means of arresting the cry of hunger ? Is this the grace to which the national prayer ordered by OUR QUEEN will appeal , or would this he the response of our God , to tbecry of his hungering children . Wereadof the wordy bounty of Irish landlords , who cheerfully tax themselves to ten times the amount they mean to pa )' , We read the sickening missives of the old vampire , who has sucked Ireland ' s best blood , and prepared her people to die in humiliating thankfulness , lest

      the even course of patronage should be impeded . Ireland then is starving , and all that her patriots can do , after sacking every poor man ' s hovel , and debasing every poor man's mind , is to . / all back upon the frightenedjcleraency of those to whose tyranny they had been wont to abscribe Ireland ' s woes ; and in the midst of this crying distress , every missive from the juggler concludes with an ardent appeal for a g overnment composed of those very oppressors , apinst whose tyranny even tbe Saxon law in vain contends .

      The mouthing , punch-drinking , ranting patriots , who have drank the cream of every poor man ' s cow , and picked the bones of every poor man ' s hen , and gathered into their own trough every scrap that could be scraped from the poor man ' s platter , now constituteParliamentaryCommittees , tofeedastarving people upon the airy and metaphysical nothings to be produced in the approaching session . We are told that the present famine is a dispensation of God , but is God unequal or unjust in his dispensations ? And does be visit them on the poor alone ? The poor who are his especial care 1 The poor who produce all , while it will be as impossible for the rich man to

      enter the kingdom of heaven , as for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle . Has God stinted Queen "Victoria , or the lords of parliament , or the cotton lords , or the parsons , or the bishops ? And is the Lord ' s vengeance so unequal , that the idle alone shall live luxuriously , while the poor who support them pine away and die from want ? I tell you my friends , that famine is not the dispensation of God ; and the reason why I wisli to ] ocate yon on land of your own is , to enable vou to contend against tbe dispensations of man . What a woefully rmserable picture Ireland ' s present condition presents , as contraste d with the high state of moral

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      dignity and political elevation , in which the Archbishop of Tuam , Dr . McHale , painted it . One root has failed , and a nation is reduced to beggary . Now mark , if you bad your land , and if potatoes failed , wheat may not fail ; if wheat failed , oats may not fail ; if oats failed , cabbages , parsnips , carrots , cauliflowers , kidney beans , and turnips may not fail ; and if they did , beef and mutton , and pork and bacon , and milk and butter , and honey and cheese , and poultry and eggs , and rabbits , would not surely all be struck with blight together ; and if it was even so , credit which willever follow possession of the land , would secure shelter for each during the rainy season ; and if all

      should fail , then the will of God may be pleaded , his mercy may be appealed to ; and all , from the prince to the beggar , would be suppliants of equal degree , would pray with equal earnestness , and with equal resignation bear their equal share of the Creator ' s malison . This is the reason that I wish to take your fate out of the hands of the profit-monger , and out of the Government of the unjust ruler , who restrict your earnings by the stringent laws of political economy , and increase the price of your food by the rules of commercial speculation . Bear in mind , that I do not seize the shocking phantom for the purpose of exciting your feelings , for to me it was a reality seen in the distance . While chemists and professors

      of starch were engaged in investigating the condition of the potato crop of last year , I told you that they were but looking into the surface ; I told you that , although the crop was of the year , disaster would be of a longer duration , and while they were talking of the colour and complexion of the skin , and the extent to which the arteries and tubercles had been affected with disease , I told you that , however imperceptible through the telescope of the professor , that consumption had reached the heart . But as we newspaper scribes are in the habit of prophecying after events occur , allow me to call your attention to the following passage in my first letter from Belgium , published in the Star of the 20 th of September

      1845 :-I conclude this , my first address , by telling yen that , the potatoe crop has failed in this country . Mote than the year ' s crop has been lost . ' I must solve that riddle for you , not only is this year's crop gone but it will be impossible TO GET SEED FOR NEXT TEAR . Now , there is the passage with the last words , emphasised precisely as in the original , and the paragraph concludes thus : — OUR Parliament only has occasional sittings , to " suspend tbe Habeas Corpus Act , " or to shoot the Chartists . When shall WE have a Land Parlla ment . Again , on the 1 st of November , 1845 , you will find the following passage , in a leading article written by me

      —If , however , those , at present uncontaminated , are pitted with the smallest portion of the infected , ALL WILL GO . Again , when writing npon the subject in the spring of last year , I told you , that the farmers wonld not be able to discover the real extent of the calamity until their eyes were opened by the failure of the succeeding year ' s crop . Again , in my letters to the Irish landlords , written so long ago as 1841 , from York Castle , in my second letter you will find the following passages : —

      My Lords and Gentlemen , " political economy " has no " finality ; " and , believe me , that the political economists will never rest satisfied till they make you tenants in your own houses , stewards to your own estates ; and beggars from the Pole , the Turk , the Russian , the Prussians and the Americans , upon your own land . They wish to place you upon the shop-board , making breeches and coats which the foreigner mayor may not purchase , according to convenience ; while they wonld make you dependants upon the foreigner for that which you must have three times a day , or starve , or do that which I am quite sure you never could bring yourselves to , as vou have transported thousands upon thousands for the same—STEAL . .

      Now , do not think the picture over painted . Do not reject the advice because it comes from a " Obstructive . " Do not despise it because it comes through the only paper in England which dares to support the labourer against his evory enemy , from the monarch on the throne who gives asstnt to laws for his ruin , down to the policeman who executes those laws—no not . And ever bear the alternative in mind , REFORM or TRANSFER . That you may come to a righteous , a just , and a sound conclusion , is tbe devout prayer of Your obedient , And very humble servant , Fbargus O'Connor . York Castle , Condemned Cell , . 14 th of fifteenth month of solitary confinement .

      Now , I think you recognise the fulfilment of that prophecy in the coercion to which free trade government is subjecting the mortgaged estates of the Irish landlords and making them tenants to their own land . You know that a settling day between us is always profitable , it tends to increase your confidence in my judgment and your belief in my foresight , while the facts that I am enabled to lay before you lead your minds away from the flimsy sophistry of prostitute hired writers , whose' sole attention is directed to the dressing of passing events in mysterious phraseology , each miserable mental abortion presenting them to his own class of foolish readers according to his own foolish

      imagination , while I present them to your contemplation in a solid and substantial form , deducing what must be the inevitable result of existing causes . I will , then , proceed with afew more extracts . In my third letter to the Irish landlords you will find the following passages , and although the free traders denied the announcement of Mr . Acland , made to me in June , 1842 , relative to the intention of the mill owners to turn out their hands , you will find from the following extract , that in July , 1841 , the year previously , I looked upon the step as a natural consequence of existing circumstances , and that I also predicted want and famine would be the only things that would open the eyes of the Irish landlords . The following is the extract to which I refer : —

      Mr Lords and Gektlbmen , —As it is my intention to devote this letter exclusively to a consideration of the labourer ' s case ; I t ' eel myself compelled to refer to the arguments now in use , and elied upon by the antagonist political parties . In order as much as possible to avoid the introduction of politics , I shall merely state the professed object of the parties , and the success which , by their ascendancy , they hold out as the political thing to be contended for by the people . You are both agreed then upon the principle , or rather upon the object , which is to better the condition of the working classes ; the manufacturing

      class declaring that you are the impediments in the way of social happiness ; while you charge your opponents with false pretences , a desire to plunder vou and to usurp political power , without offering to the people , as the manufactures do , even a pleasing fiction , such as " cheap food , " to feed the imagination of the starving , \ our position being good , your cry jj— WE arc very well ; let well enough alone . Now , my Lords and Gentlemen , it is my intention as assessor , faithfully to discharge my duty between you as rivals for power . In the first place then , thu manufactures hold out something to the people , although it is a delusion ; while you , sturdy and

      obstinate in your newly-acquired power , have not even yet in the eleventh hour , offered anything substantial as a set-off against the manufacturers'shadow . You hope to ward off their encroachments by Parliamentary majorities , while they expect to assail yonr granaries with a legion of starving besiegers , whose passions , by the stoppage of their mills , they hope to inflame to an extent unassailable by the voice of reason , uncoutroulable by the influence of their leaders , and invincible from their numerical streng th and their masters' implied consent , to see all law set at nought to a certain point , that point being the exact one where their own object shall

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      have , been achieved . To , these inducements for revenejfeadd the hope of impunity and the heavy stake of life or death , and weigh them against your political majority , and your scale will kick the beam ! My Lords and Gentlemen , thus I prepare vou for a state of public mind over which reason , argument and influence can have no control , even for a moment ; when judgment and common sense shall be overcome by necessity and want . I tell you that yeur social abuses havefedto the anticipation of such a moment . ^ Hook to first causes rather than to results , and inasmuch as I would altogether acauit a

      drunicen man of the crime of wilful murder , who in the moment of intoxication had deprived his fellow man ot life , while the act would nevertheless increase my ayeraion to a vice the indulgence in which had led to the result ; so with you ; while I sincerely dep ore the shocking results to which the uncontrolled power of manufactures has led , nevertheless , I cannot banish from my mind the fact , that your monopoly has been the cause of those results . Had you given to natural labour , wholesome labour , and healthful labour , the full reward of its real value , the manufacturers never would have been able to drug the markets of the world with the produce of cheap labour , made cheap by expulsion from the land .

      In my fifth letter I show that the application of a certain amount of money raised b y government , for the purchase of Irish , land , upon which the Irish people should be located for ever , at the then value , is the only-means by which your extensive domains < can be protected against the ravages of the hungry ; and I conclude my third letter thus — My Lords and Geh & men , believe me that no human being has a more thorough contempt for a mere politician than I have , whether he be Whig , Tory , Radical , or Cbnrtiat , except he has some great social object in view . Lock up tbe land to-morrow , and I would not give you twopence for the Charter the next day . because you would have deprived it of its jewel . The Charter can never give the people

      any control over the land of those countries to which their attention is directed ; neither should it ; but it can give them control over it at home , so far as to relieve them from a hand-to-month dependence upon all who make unjust profit by their labour . I hare no doubt that in ray progress I shall make many enemies ; but all who know me are aware of the hopelessless of an attempt to turn me from any course that I once undertake . I may be before the public mind ; and ifso , I shall wait till it comes up tome : but a single backward step I will not take . I am moderate in my demand , because it lessens no man's store , while it gives plenty to all . I am sincere in my undertaking , and I am resolved to procure the greatest amount of happiness for all , or if needs be to perish nobly in the attempt .

      My Lords- and Gentlemen , I have now told you how to build a wall of hearts around your persons , and of bone around your estates . You mnst make the people part and parcel of the nation , or they will cease to have any interest in the well-being of the country . Now , I ask you , if prophecies could be more comp letel y fulfilled ? Did not the cotton lords turn out their hands ? and tell their starving slaves to besiege the landlords'properties ? Has not the very first effect of free trade been to compel the mortgage of then- estates , for the sustenance of the poor ?

      And do not those barriers , those straitened limits , to which they would now gladly bend , stand in danger of falling before the cry of want , and pressure of hunger ? And have I not shown you , that it has always been my opinion that the Charter would not be worth possessing , if the land was locked up from the uses of the poor , and fenced in by the capricious landmarks of the rich ? But , I made a more recent prophecy for you at Nottingham . In analysing tbe construction of the present Cabinet , I told you that

      free trade principles predominated—that it possessed within itself the elements of dissolution , as Grey , and his relations and tools , constituted a majority of that cabinet ; . and which , from the disposition of its leader , wouldjie kept in perpetual turmoil . Well , what do we now learn ? Why that Lord John Russell was anxious for the immediate assembling of Parliament , but was overruled by the Grey faction ; no doubt iJpon the principle of political economy , that hunger , like water , must find its level .

      I do not dissent from this maxim , while I beg to remind Lord Grey , that art can dam up water , and procure for it an artificial level , by opposing artificial barriers to its course ; while hunger , in its full tide * creates an overwhelming torrent , which no artifice can arrest , subdue , or level . It is unequal in its progress , raging in the valley , roaring on the mountain top , and descending the hill side in an irresistible torrent of uncontrolled and uncontrollable fury ; take heed , you lord with a crooked mind and eco-. nomical heart , how you build upon the science of political economy as a means of resisting unnatural want , and "lay not the flattering unction to your soul" that your cabinet . breath can stem the torrent , or arrest the storm , created by the wild elements of popular indignation .

      It would serve but a poor purpose thus to place the ripe cherry before you , without pointing out the means by which you may pluck it . I think , then , that I have made one gap , and not a small one , in the hard wall by which , for ages , your native soil has been enclosed from your nse , or even from your view . As I told the Irish landlords more than five years ago , I was then before the public mind , and I was obliged to bear the torrent of public anger , until thought and reflection had soothed it into repentance and approval ; and I now tell you

      that , although I am practically keeping pace with the existing meagre mind of ' the day , yet , nevertheless I am as far before it in bold , in natural and manly conception , as 1 was then . I saw that field of happiness , the gates of which would be open to the poor without a single loud knock upon the mere approach of their united voice . I know of nothing easier of accomplishment than the achievement of a sufficient amount of land for every man who wishes to live upon his own honest industry , —thus thinning the artificial labour market of its idle reserve . I have

      pointed out many of those means , many of which have been neglected ; but one has become sufficiently fascinating , even in its sectional progress , to give the world a taste of what national co-operation may effect . I can build a good house , fit for a prince to live in , for less than £ 100 ; I can purchase four acres of land , capable of being turned into the richest garden , for another £ 100 , and , divested of the law of primogeniture , it is worth to the industrious occupant £ 400 in the retail market . My landlord , Mr . Short , a mechanic of Bilston , in whose

      house I now live , upon his own three acres , has visited it , I am sorry to say in my absence , as he came for HIS RENT ; but I am told by those who saw him , that he was nearly frantic with joy when , for the first time in his life , he entered a castle of his own , and saw it surrounded by his own little territory , and for his title to which he said be would not take £ 4 . 00 , and he was perfectly right . And although for the present I am the landlord , yet my tenant coidd eject me .

      1 would gladly give him a £ 100 rather than surrender the spot to which I am so much wedded . However , it delighted my heart to hear of the ccstacy of his , and I beg leave to tell him , that he would not know it , if he saw it now as it is , in a perfectly finished state . In my last , I told you that I was going to inspect a farm of between one and two hundred acres . I have seen it , and have bid for it , and hope to secure it . It is in the very centre of the mining districts , with a population of nearly a million of consumers within a circle of twelve miles , and I am now about to start to where you shall learn next week , to bid for another farm

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      of larger amount , but for which I expect to pay an enormous sum as tbe land is marrow in the most healthful district , and near one of the best market towns in England . But I don't care what I pay for land , provided it is good ; for I have always told you that land really worth £ 60 an acre is better value for £ 80 , than land worth £ 15 an acre is worth the acceptance . Therefore you must look out for squalls next week . I must now conclude with the most characteristic anecdote . At the meeting on Monday night last , there was a man eternally bawling out— " The Land ! The Land ! Why don't you buy more land . '" and a person who knew him said , after the meeting , " Sir , did you know who it

      was that was continually calling out about the land ?" I replied , " No . " "Well , " said he , "I stood near him , and he was one of the contractors who was disappointed in not being able to make his pickings out of the land . " Now , my friends , you will invariably find that those who have been disappointed in their pickings are the greatest sticklers for economy and rapid action . However , you may rest assured that neither scribes nor brawlers will drive us a single hair ' s breadth from our course . By this time tbe weatber-cock is on the spire of our national school , and our flag is proudly waving over the first Chartist seminary , and which , without comparison , is the handsomest public building within fifteen miles . I am , my friends , Your faithful friend and bailiff , Fbarocs O'Connor .

      Public Prayers To Avert Famine. The Foll...

      PUBLIC PRAYERS TO AVERT FAMINE . The following is a copy of the prayer composed by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury , by order of hor most sacred majesty , Queen Victoria , and ordered to be read on three following Sundays at the several places of worship throughout the kingdom . O most merciful Father , the creator and giver of all things , and who hast been pleased to create this world for man ' s enjoyment , we beg humbly to approach thy t hrone in the hour of affliction , to lay before thee our manifold sufferings , to the end that thou mnyost be pleased to relieve u » miserable sinners from want and scarcity and famine caused by man ' s disobedience of thy holy will and commandments .

      O most merciful Father , we , thy unworthy servants , thank thee most heartily for thy manifold kindnesses , and we feel assured that thy bountiful gifts , if divided according to thy holy judgment , would be ample for- the sustenance of thy whole people . But , O Lord , the nobles and rich people have taken all the produce of thy people ' s land and their labour to their own kindly use and have left the producers to pine and starve for want-O Lord ! we bless thee , and save ns , we beseech thee , from those who oppress and misgovern us . O Lord ! we thank thee and pray that thou mayest be pleased to defend thy people from famine caused by neglect of thy holy commandments and law , wherein it is written , that man shall lire by the sweat of his brow , and th it the producer shall be the first partaker of the fruits of his own produce .

      O Lord J we toil and sweat , but the great ones devour our produce , and impiously tell us that famine has been caused by thy holy dispensation , bat we heed them not , O Lord , because we put our trust in thee , and because thou hast opened our eyes to the evil werks of our enemies . —Amen .

      That it may please thee to indue the lords of the council and all the nobility with grace , wisdom , and understanding . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it . may please thee to reform the magistrates , giving them grace to execute justice and to maintain , truth . Vf e beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people . We be ?« ech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee te give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth , so as in due time we may enjoy them . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to protect and defend thy people from kingcraft and priestcraft .

      We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to save thy people from overtaxation , starvation , and misrepresentation . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to save thy people from nil National Debts , idle pensioners , and standing armies . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to preserve us from all state churches , tithes , and church rates . We beseech tbee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee so save us from all Bishops Parsons and Church dignitaries . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to defend and protect the poor from all hereditary legislators & nd corrupt lawmakers , We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to defend thy people from all landlords , cotton-lords , and money-lords .

      We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to save and defend us from unjust judges , packed juries , and cruel magistrates . We beseech tbee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to defend thy people from cunning barristers , petty-fogging lawyers , and their clerks . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to defend thy people from all false witnesses , lured spies , and informers . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please tbee to defend thy people from all soldiers , sailors , and policemen . We beseech theo to hear us , good Lord . Thatit may please thee to save us from all distillers , publicans , and brewers . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to save us from all Jews , pawnbrokers , and money jobbers ,

      We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord , That it may please thee to save us from aU bankers , merchants , and brokers . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to » ave us from all rattle boxes , poor lawbastilcs , ai ) d bono crushing . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to save us from all newspapers , magazines , and pamphlets . We beseech theo to hear us , good Lord . Thatit may please thee to save thy people from land commissions and Parliamentary committees . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to save us from all poor law commissioners , their assistants , and clerks . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please tliee to save us from mob orators , demagogues , and all artful and designing men .

      We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to save us from all Whigs , Tories , and free traders . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord , Tliat it may please thee to save us from all patriots , beggars , and jugglers . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to save us from all placemen , pensioners , and idlers . From tyranny , oppression , and misrule , Good Lord deliver us . From slavery , tribulation , and woe , Good Lord deliver us . From railway directors and political economists , Good Lord deliver us . From the hulk , the dungeon , and the tread-mill , Good Lord deliver us . From the loom , the factory , and the mine ,

      Good Lord deliver us . From class legislation , monpoly , and all peculation , Good Lord deliver us . Oh Lord ! we beseech thee to restore the land to thy people ; to grant them strength of hoily to cultivate it , so as in due time they may enjoy its fruits , and to grant them strength of mind to resist all the evil machinations of their enemies , who would teach them that thou , O Lord ! and uot they themselves , had aUlictcd thy people ffith great sorrow and sore affliction , We beseech thee 0 Lord Almighty ! to grant our prayer , and then , O Lord' ! there will be no mote famine in the land , and thy people will be happy—yea , joyful , and will sinjj praises to thy holy name—for we love and adore th * c , in spiu of the machinations of your enemies and

      Public Prayers To Avert Famine. The Foll...

      ours ; for O Lord ! it is these grievances which we humbly beg you-. to redress , that cause plague , pestilence , . and fami ne , blttles , murders , and sudden deaths , and other disobeoionco of thy holy commandments , which the laws ofour rnters will not allow us to keep . , ! : . We bless thee 0 ! Lord , and put o * r whole trust in-thee , ' Amen , ¦•¦ ¦ . ' ¦¦ - ¦ ¦ [ It is earnestly requested that a good reader maybe selected to read the above prayer at all congregations of the working classes on Sunday next , the people ' jominem the responses with , a solemnity becoming the awful occasion . !

      Receh'ts Of The Chartist Co-Operative Land Socibtt.

      RECEH'TS OF THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIBTT .

      Per Mb. O'Connor. Section No. 1. Sbakei....

      PER MB . O'CONNOR . SECTION No . 1 . SBAKEI . £ I . d , Exeter , per P . Clark - 1 8 o Tavistock , per R . Holl « - .. on 3 Dodworth , per T . Croft .. » - 2 0 0 Artichoke Inn Locality , Brighton , per W .-Flower .. ? J 2 2 Plymouth , per E . Rohertson .. - •¦ i , „ S Newcastle-on-Tyne , per J . Nesbett £ .. » * 10 2 Norwich , per J . Hurry .. " ? -, A Cheltenham , per T . Ulett „ .. j l > < J Nottingham , per J . Sweet .. .. * * » Worcester , per M . Griffiths .. .. 0 12 6 Birminghamner W . Thorn .. .. " 1 5 ?

      , Todmordeii , per J . Mitchell » .. " « 2 Kilmarnock , per J . Dick ., .. „ 1 8 3 City of London , per J . Dunn .. .. .. 070 Preston , per J . Brown .. ' .. 3 12 9 Manchester , per J . Murray „ „ .. 2 1 G 0 Oldham , per W . Haraer .. „ „ 0 18 0 Aahton-under-Lyne , per E . Hobson .. .. 2 2 !• Sheffield , per 6 . Cavill 12 6 Wignn . perT . Pye 4 6 2 Leicester , per Z . Astill .. .. .. 10 6 Colue , per R . Hey ... .. .. 0 15 6 Bolton , per E . Hodgkinson M M „ 0 15 11

      SECTION No . 2 . 6 HABis . Halstead , per J , Hurry „ „ .. 1 10 0 Exeter , per F . Clark ,. .. „ ,, 201 Winchester , per J , Gallagher ,. ,, .. 130 Tavistock , per R . ail ! .. .. .. 280 Artichoke Inn ^ Locality , Brighton , per W . Flower 012 8 Devizes , per J . Stow .. .. .. .. 9 H 0 Congleton , per J , Qosling 0 12 9 East Retford .. .. .. .. ,, 116 Chepstow , per C . Walter .. .. 1 11 6 Hawick , per J . A . Ilogi ? .. .. .. 15 0 Plymouth , per E . Robertson .. „ .. 028 Cripplegate , per J . B . Cartwright .. .. 4 9 t NoweastIe . upon . Tyne , per J . Nesbett ... 9 0 10 Cheltenham , per T . Ulett . 3 * 6 Nottingham , per J . Sweet .. - .. 0 19 6 Norwich , per A . BaRshaw .. .. .. t 4 11 Worcester , per Jf . Griffiths .. .. 0 19 8

      Birmingham , per W . Thorn .. - .. 15 8 Atherstone , per C . Yero l w Newark-on-Trent , per W . Walton ., ~ 10 0 Barnsley . perJ . Ward .. .. .. .. 5 0 0 Corbridge , per R . Hawley .. .. 1 3 0 City of London , per J . Dunn .. .. .. 16 8 Preston , per J . Brown .. .. x .. 3 16 6 Manchester , per J . Murray ., .. ,, 348 Droylsden , per do . .. „ .. .. 3 H 2 Oldham , per W . Hamer „ ., ., 328 Paisley , per J . Lithgow .. ., 280 Torquay , per J . Stoneman .. .. .. 3 14 1 Lynn , per J , Scott .. w .. .. 2 0 10 Nevrtoii Abbott , per J . B . Crews 20 0 0 Ashton-undcr-lyne , per E , Hobson „ .. o 17 o Sheffield , per G . Cavill 1 14 9 Clapton West , per E . Evans .. .. 4 2 10 Leicester , per ' L Astill .. .. .. 138

      * S M * j « VI ) | V . II **» w »» w »» *• ww ~ Wolverhampton , per J . Steward .. .. 1 18 O Swindon , per D . Morrison .. .. „ 5 e o Bolton , per E . Hodgkiuson ¦ .. .. .. 3 19 6 £ 116 J 9 _ j ) PER GENERAL SECRETARYg SECTION No . 1 . SHAKES . £ a . A . £ 6 . d . Jas . Smith . - 0 0 6 Ely . - ¦ 012 6 Mr . Barton . - 0 10 0 Hyde . - - 1 6 6 Whittington and Pershore - . 220 Cat - - . 246 Totness . - - 1 0 3 Croydon » . 080 Stalybridge - -500 Warrington - - 0 13 0 Hull . . 0 15 0 Hanley - . - 2 3 9 Wellingborough . 018 6 £ 17 12 6 SECTION No . 2 . " ™™ Jos . Harriett , Lit . Derby - - - 013 5 tleton Pannell - 2 10 0 St . German ' s de 3 . Sainsbury , do . 0 10 0 Navarre - - 7 3 1 Edinburgh . . 1 10 0 Square Buckley . 094 1 . G . Harney . 020 Northampton . 0186 Darvel ( Scotland ) 14 8 Hanley " . - . 246 Portsea - . . 069 Sleaford - 0 15 9 Ar . Russell , Bittern 1 10 0 Mr . Chancellor strood ( Rochester ) ' Yarmouth - . 044 per Willis . . ' 832 Horsley , per Hard-? red . Capern - 0 1 0 iug - - - 0 4 6 ? red . York - - 0 1 0 Joseph Miller . 048 Westminster . 0 lo 4 Ely - - . 14 0 r . J . Rodborn -040 Thos . Moore- -010 Whittington and Hyde - - . 040 Cat - - - 4 8 4 Pershore - - 1 0 0 Edward Sullaway 0 2 6 Ayr . . . 054 Croydon - - 0 19 0 Totnes - - - 2 4 2 Market Lavington 1 13 8 Stafford - . 054 W . Cuin . . . 0 3 0 Hull - - -070 Chorlcy- - - 2 16 6 Sidney Bow - - 1 It 8 Joseph Pattison . 026 Stevenson Cullen - 0 1 6 Joseph Vowel - 0 3 0 Perth - - . 208 Wnrrimrton . - 018 0 Lambeth . 550 Washpound ; - - 1 12 0 £ 64 13 11

      TOTAi tASD FUND , Av . O'Connor , Section No . 1 ... 37 8 £ dr . ' . Whecler „ „ ... 17 12 6 £ 55 0 10 - lr . O'Connor , Section No . 2 ... 116 19 0 , lr . Wheeler , „ „ ... C 4 13 11 £ 181 13 8 NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . PER MR . o ' CONNOB . EXECUTIVE . Jr . J . H . Longraend , Cornwall .. „ o 2 s FOB WUOCAifS AKD JONES . Arlington .. .. .. .. .. 030 1 ECEIPTS OP NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . PES GENES A L BECTLZTAHT , [\ Salmon - . 006 C . Willis , do , - 0 0 [ V . Salmon . . 006 Hull - - -070 iV . Lepper , Roehestcr 0 1 4 FOB MB , PROST . Newport , per J . H . Anderson -610 WiUiams - . 276 Jrighton . per Flower - - 0 18 6

      WILUAES AND JOSJDS . AV . Lepper - . 010 Bradford , per Cole 050 RFGISTRATION POND . Cockermouth - 0 3 9 YETiBlUNS ' , WIDOWS ' , AND ORPHAK ' 3 FUSDS . Cheltenham - - 0 a 3

      CROWN AVD ANCHOR MEETING . Mr , Jenkins - - 1 0 0 Mr . Black - - 0 0 6 Tuosus MamlnWiieixeb , Secretary .

      Erratum—The £2 Acknowledged From Paisley...

      Erratum—The £ 2 acknowledged from Paisley on the 19 th of Sept ., should have been in the 2 nd Section .

      In Answer To Numerous Correspondents Rel...

      In answer to numerous correspondents relative to the amount and object of tho Directors' Levy , I have to refer them to Uulo 21 , where tliey will find that it is one half , penny per share per month ; that is—fid . a-year for One share , Is . a-year for two shares ; and unless a fresh arrangement is made by tlie ensuing Conference , it would be advisable that , in future , it should be paid in advance , T . M . Wheeler . Sec .

      Ensuing _ Land Cospebeece. — The Directo...

      Ensuing _ Land Cospebeece . — The Directors , in ac cordance with the powers entrusted to them by the late Conference , have decided that the above body shall assemble in Birmingham , on the first Monday in December , as specified in the rules ; they have also decided that the country shall bo divided into districts , containing as near as circumstances will allow , 400 members in each district , such district to return one member to the Conference ; to carry out the above decision , it is necessary that " each sub-secretary" should immediately make a return of the exact number of members in his branch , including both sections , this return must be sent to me , prior to Thursday , October 8 th , tho Directors will then divide the country into the requisite districts , and make a levy adequate to bearing the expenses to be incurred . 17 l L'niilAV m . H . i . i . l ^ nr llti . T . / vmiiict l ? n .. li li « nn / ili knn

      the power of nominating candidates to fill the ofilce of Directors of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , such nominations must be sent to the General Secretary , T . M . Wheeler , 83 , Dean-street , Soho , prior to Thursday , Oet , 15 th , ( lifter which no nomination can be received ) in order to their being published in the SUir of the ensuing date ; lists of the candidates will then be furnished to the various branches , out of which five persons duly qualified must be elected , the mode of election must be by ballot , and the number of votes recorded for each candidate , in order to the same being laid by their delegates before the Conforenee . Printed instructions will bo duly forwarded to each sub-secretary upon the receipt of the Nominations . Thomas Martin Wheeleb , Secretary .

      Aurmixg Explosion Op Fireworks. — On Monday

      Aurmixg Explosion op Fireworks . — On Monday

      . Alarm Was Created In Sidney Street.Pop...

      . alarm was created in Sidney Street . Poplar , in consequence of a fearful explosion occurring upon the premises in the occupation of Mr . Edward Doal . He was preparing a quantity of combustible matter used in the manufacture of fireworks , and whilst so engaged , the whole of the compositiun exploded with fearful violence , setting the shop on fire , and demolishing-between 40 and 50 squares of glais . The force of the explosion was so gre : it that the unfortunate occupier of the premises was knocked down , his clothes set on fire , and the flesh in somo parts was torn from his inns , f he engines of the parish ami School-House-Lane , Shndwcl ! , promptly attended , and the fire was speedily extinguished , but not until considerable damage had been clone to the premises . As soon as the fire was got out , a mcdicalgeiitleman was sent tor to attend , Ali ' i Deal , it w » s tlien ascertained that he was severely burnt all orer the body .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 3, 1846, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_03101846/page/1/