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m * n January 15 , 1848 . ' the NORTHERN . STAR * . ¦ . __^_ — . „ . - _ -. = —3 ^ J * —— " ^^ ' ,
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h i i TO THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL LARD ! COMPANY . Tte to *« amwi daUbTthe ««* P artaker of the fi nits of the earth . " My dear Chixdbbn , Having nearly completed the cottages at Minster Lovel , and having created a Paradise in the wilderness , I arrived here ( Snig ' s End ) yesterday , ( Tuesday evening , ) and have been e ngaged all this morning with the surveyor , aving out roads and sites for Labour's castles . " Nature appears to smile upon us , as the morning is lovely , and I dare say the hope of coming summer is banishing the frown from those who have passed through the ordeal of a first winter in their new avocation .
Yesterday , a portion of our stud—thirty of them— with bright harness and light steps , passed through the sickly town of Cheltenham , headed by a band , and thousands of Labour ' s sons , who contrived by exertion to keep themselves healthy in the midst of pestilence ; while the poor invalids , pampered into unnatural disease , peeped with their muffled heads , imagining that Sir Willoughby Jones had been unseated , and that a contested election was at hand ; while many ofthe knowing ones , who witnessed the spectacle as the regeneration of Labour , looked on with an intensity of surprise that I have seldom witnessed . In ' truth , it was a cheering sight to see such a cavalcade , followed by two vans of Englishwomen and their children , and Irishwomen
and their children . But if the sight-seers liad followed them to { their destination , and seen them housed in stables as good , if not better , than" her Majesty ' s , and built for the accommodation of forty-four horses , and built for the sum , not of £ 70 , 000 , butof £ 64—and capable of being taken down in the morning , and erected twenty miles off in the eveningeach horse , like a snail , carrying his house upon his back—then they would be astonished . But , as I propose devoting the whole of the next to
"Labourer , " which may , perhaps , run seventy-two pages , to the completest illustration of our whole plan as regards the working ofthe Company , and the princip le upon which I propose to conduct the Bank , and having much to do in commencing operations upon a new estate , von will not expect much upon the subiectofth ' eLandin the present number of the Star ; while , as seed time approaches , 1 shall devote a certain space weekly to the most minute instructions as to the agricultural operations to be performed in the several
seasons . I cannot , however , fail to call your attention to the very ludicrous fact , that some of the most virulent opponents of English agitation , and who have been wholly silent upon the Land Plan , are now claiming credit as being the originators of agricultural improvement . For instance , read the following assumption of originality , which appeared in the " Nation" of Saturday last ;—"WHO IS THE AUTHOR ! " Here is a malignant attempt to'deprivethat profound statesman , Lord Clarendon , of hie well-won laurels : —
" TO TEE-EniTOa OF THE WATIOS . " Sia , —I see that the English press is giving Lord Clarendon great applause fer his agricultural missionaries , magnif / tag the project into all the dignity of a new and quite original idea . If yon turn , however , to the files of " Tee Natios" for some of the fpiing months ofiSUSlarch , Ithinls—you will find therery thing proposed in an article , under the head of « Project of a Society for Public Instruction . ' It struck me at the time as a very good idea , and I hare since had it in ray head . The praise V of originality , therefore , belenjrs to "The Nattoh . " Yok /^ have had the start of Lord £ Ja-sr . iiGE-uj- ~ nsa £ iy foo . /^^ *^^* £ i £ --- «? 3 K ? jatis' 3 ue to him for carrying your y ? j ~| "" ^^ iY ;' ni _ iyii ; t him have full credit for it . Detur sawn ¦ ~ "«—* . < ti ^ y it neither Lord Clarendon ' s nor any other Englishman's projects will ever do Ireland a halfpennyworth of good . "A-Cokstakt Ruder ov The Nation . "
Is not this a joke ? when for thirteen years and more I have been showing the absurdity of sending military and diplomatic Lords-Lieutenant to Ireland , and have been urging the necessity of sending such men as the Duke of Portland , the late Earl Spencer , the late Earl of Leicester , or Lord Ducie , to discharge the duties of a chief governor , and who should he surrounded by a Staff of practical agriculturists , disseminating'agriculture and knowledge throughout the country , instead of being
followed by a staff of liveriea Iacquies , who didn't know the land produced the livery upon their backs , and the feathers in their hats . And as earl y as 1835 , nine years before the notable discovery ofthe Nation , " I insisted upon the propriety of adding a Minister of Agriculture and Public Instruction to the Cabinet ; and as early as 1831 , in a Letter written to the Irish People , and circulated throughout Ireland , I enforced the necessity of the Small Farm system , and the complete alteration in the law , or rather custom of tenure .
Well , my children , did I not tell you that ¦ when we " had turned the " excitable mind of moonshine followers to the pursuit of substantial reforms , that the ignorant Press would lose its charm ; that ignorance of a subject susceptible of proof from practice , would rob the theorists of the profit of speculation , and wild and extravagant assertion ; and that , like all other in venters ef a new system , we would be first hi «; ghed at , then reviled , then howled at , then jiersecuted , until at length our opponents , deriders , scoffers , and persecutors , would be compelled to adopt our principles . But , my children , the value of the Land Plan is , that they may mock , deride , and scoff as they please , but I DARE THEM TO
PERSECUTE . If Pitt bound the idle to the Throne by the golden link , I have bound you to the Labour field , and the free castle , by the brazen link and the heart ' s affection . My children—my family , my Land family , —sowhumbers nearly half a million—that is , a hundred thousand heads of families , to whom their wives and 'children are rendered more
dear , since 1 have shown them the way out of the house of bondage to the Labour castle ; and as I look from where I now write upon the prospect which is before those who shall be located here , I vow , before Heaven , that I would rather risk my life against the most fearful odds —? . nd so would you—than abandon a project which makes temperance , sobriety , frugality , and good example , a pleasure to me , and worthy of vour imitation . i
I always feared that treachery might have arrested my progress before it arrived at the defiance point , but now I stand upon defiance —as I defy the devil himself or even a Whi" - Sovsrnmeut , though I perish to-morrow , much longer to withhold the Land of this country from those purposes for which its Creator designed it ; and those who make a wrong estimate of my views and intentions , would very soon discover that what I seek to dobv honourable purchase , others would mar'b y revolution after a frightful sacrifice of life aVd property . tr
^ In ance as well as in every other country *? , * l ™ > tIis ^ formers , seeing the impossibility of longer mystifying the mindly the propagation of exciting theories , are , now that we have taught them the way , propounding the necessity of marshalling the public mind upon practical questions . I dare say that many who have not the brains to comprehend the grandeur and magnitude of our Plan , will wonder when I tell them that between now and the latter end of February , I shall have made nearly a hundred miles of furze hedging ; thus supplying the ' occupants with the very best description of food for cattle , from the 1 st of Nevember till the 1 st of April—I mean that by that time I shall have enclosed every allotment with a furze hedge , and which , for three « r four years will constitute the Lest and the
most lovel y fence imaginable , while every allotment will be completely enelesed with the Labour castle in the centre . After my day ' s work , I devote my thoughts to the best means for establishing a new Company , and which I hope to propound in the next number of the " Labourer . " There is one fact however , which , till then , I cannot withhold from you , as of all others it proves the valii j of co-operation as well as the necessity for vigilance . „ . revived estimates , for supplying the cot-
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tages at Minster with water , and by the plan recommended by those who were ready to undertake the job , I discovered that their estimates for completion would amount to 4 , 600 / ., each occupant having then to go fifty yards for water . This difficulty cost me many an anxious thought , as it would have added 151 . an acre to the price ofthe land , —one half of what I paid for it ; and perhaps the critics of
the " Dispatch "—who are not water drinkers , by the way , —will be horrified , when I inform them that 1 have contracted for sinking a pump in every man ' s back kitchen , giving each a full supply of water , for 320 / ., thus savingthe company ifiQOl . upon this item , besides providing against great casualties and the probability ofthe disarrangement of very complicated machinery .
While I am in tbe vein , I must inform those who object to herse-power app lied to drawing stones , lime , sand , timber , slates , and dung , and ploughing , that I have now forty-two of the finest horses in England ; that , by Saturday next , I hope to have ten more , and that before the middle of May , I hope to require more than one hundred ; and then , as I shall prove ; in the next number of the " Labourer ' ' beyond the power of refutation , I shall save the Company , in the item of horse-labour alone—over 200 / . a week , besides the manure of one hundred horses . What will the " Dispatch'" say to that ? I am requested , by many correspondents , to invite those who have shares to sell in tbe
Company , to notify their intention , with name and address , to the Directors at the LandOffice , as many are anxious to purchase , and will cheerfully pay up principal and interest ; and I have received several letters , stating that the unfortunate Mr Field , my dupe , and a correspondent of the " Dispatch , " refused to sell his four-acre share , receiving principal and inte rest , and he had the manliness to state that he
preferred retaining it , that he may be qualified to complain , so that he may fire away till he crack his lungs . In the course of a few weeks , I shall be able to announce the day when the occupants will be located at Minster Lovel , Snig ' s End , and the Moate ; and when the weather justifies me , that is , within the next month , I shall be able to announce the time when all now balloted will be located .
I forgot to state that I have thirty-six head of cattle making manure at Minster Lovel ; that I am going to purchase twenty-four more , to make the number up to sixty ; and that I am going to purchase sixty head to make manure here—thus giving to Minster Lovel estate the manure made by forty horses for nearly four months , as well as a large number of cows during the same period , and the manure of sixty head of cattle and seven horses from the present time till the latter end of March ; and to this place , the manure of forty-four horses and sixty cows for nearl y
three months ; and that I shall have a large p rofit in making that manure , deposited on the farms , instead of drawing it fifteen and twenty miles , besides paying for it , as many farmers do . The value of this system may be best understood , when I tell you that I paid 220 / . for London manure put out at O'Connorville , and nearly 100 / . for drawing it from tb / v ^^ sTT and which I could have done v & sp'My own horses at a cost of about -SSt ., besides having their manugj , but the small amount of capital then inhanuTwGuId not have justified' me in
undertaking so large an expenditure as the purchase of horses and waggons ; while at Minster and Sni g ' s End I shall have more than twelve times the quantity of manure put out on Herringsgate , and when I am justified in having a couple of hundred horses and a couple of hundred head of cattle , I will make a garden of every old worn-out estate that is released from the possession of the idler , and committed to the proprietorship of the industrious . There ' s a mouthful for the poor" Dispatch . "
Your fond and affectionate father , Snig ' s End . Feargus O'Connor . P . S . —There is not a stone upon this estate yet ; there is not a road made or a well sunk ; and before the first day of April 1 will have ninety cottages and the necessary agricultural operations completed . F . O'C .
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UJWiLDrwisiLB . —On Monday , the 3 rd inst ., we had a tea party and ball , which was got np in a few hours , by the Foxhill Bank Temperance Brass Band , in connexion with ns . The hall was crowded almost to suffocation . After the cloth was removed , and tbe band bad played & few favourite am , Mr Thomas Ghippindale was unanimously called to the chair , who opened the meeting in a short but pithy address , and calledup-m a member tosing' Base Oppression , ' ( from the Chartist hynm book , ) in the chorus of which all the assembled multitude joined . Another
member gave an address , in which he showed the evil effects of the present system , and pointed to the Land and Charter , as the only remedy for ' existing evils , and advised the assembly not to rest satisfied until tbat remedy wag attained . The chairman then e ' ung , * The Lion of Freedom , ' in which all heartily joined . He then gave , ' Feargus O'Connor , E ^ q . M . P ., the unflinchin ? ( champion of the people ' a rights , and may he live to see the Charter the law of the Land ; ' which was responded to by three hearty cheers . The ball then opened , and was kept np until eleven o ' clock , when all separated , highly delighted with the entertainments .
Birmikgham . —Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., M . P ., will lecture in the Town Hall , on Tuesday , the 25 th pst ., at seven o ' clock in the evening , on the capabilities of the Land . & c . All persons wishing to become members of the National Co-operative Benefit Society will meet at 111 , Rea-itreet , on Wednesday , the 19 ih inst . Manchester —The members of the Manchester branch of the National Land Company intend holding a tea party in the People ' s Institute , lleyrodstreet , on Monday , February 7 Ji , in honour of the establishment of tbe Company , and tbe return to
Parliament of its energetic propounder , Feargus O ' Connor , Esq . M . P . Chartist members of the Land Company , now is the time for evincing- your gratitude to the man who has so long , and so faithfully , advocated the rights of labour , despite the slanders of the press and the malevolence of its hired tools . —Tea on the table at seven o ' clock . Tickets may be had from any of the committee , or at the People ' s Institute . The monthly meeting of the Manchester branch of tbe National Land Company will be held on Sunday , January 16 th , in the People ' s Institute , lleyrod-street . Chair to be taken at nine o ' clock in the morning .
__ Ckotdon . — The friends sire making exertions tor holding a large meeting in this town , to make known the principles of the ' Fraternal Democrats , ' and push onwards the People ' s Charter . The meeting will come off on an early day . Messrs Julian Harney , Ernest Jones , T . Clark , and other friends are invited to attend , and it is hoped that the meeting will at once be worthy of tho town , and the great cause its object ia to forward . . IhuPAX — The first branch of the National Cooperative Benefit Society will be held at the house of Mr George Buokly , Church-lane , on Saturday , JanuarylSth , where every information can be given and members enrolled . Midgley . — Mr Bowden will lecture at this place , on Sunday , January 16 th , at six o ' cloch in the
evening . BiTH - "The disciples and admirers of Thomas Paine , are informed that a public dinner will take place to commemorate his birth , at tbe King William , Thomas-street , Walcot , on Monday , Jan . ' 31 st . The committee ef management are requested $ b attend at , Mr Cottle's . No 1 , Margaret ' s Hill , Walcot Parade , on Sunday evening next , at seven o ' clock . Cut asd Finsbury Locality . —Mr Dixon will lecture here on Sunday evening next , January 16 th , at half-past seven o ' clock . Subject : — ' The People ' Charter . ' Halifax . —Mr Tomlinson will lecture in the Workin ? Man ' s Hall , on Sunday , January 16 th , at six o ' clock in the evening . Queenjhead . —Mr Clissett will lecture in the Roand Hill Chape ! , at this place , on Sunday , Jan . 6 th , at six o ' clock in the evening .
Ellakd . —Mr Thackleton will lecture at this place on Sunday , January 16 th , at six o ' clock in the evening . BinsiALi ,. —The Chartists of this locality meet twice a week , viz ., Tuesday and Saturday evenings , at half-past seven o ' clock , in tbe Baukerite Chapel , Chandler ' s Hill . The Tuesday meeting ia for the purpose of discussion . The friends and opponents of Chartism , are both requested to attend . Lancashire Miners . —The next general delegate meeting of Lancashire miners will be held on Monday the 25 th of January , at the sign of the King ' s Head , Parr Stocks , near St Helen ' s . Chair to be taken at eleven o clock in the forenoon .
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THE PEOPLE'S CHAPTER . IMPORTANT PUBLIC MEETING . The fourth metropolitan gathering convened by the Chartist Council , was held in that capacious building , the Royal British Institution , Oowperstreet , Finsbury , on Tuesday evening , January 11 th . On the platform we noticed Stafford Allen , Esq . and the Rev . Dr Campbell . Julian Harney was announced to preside , bnt not having arrived at eight o ' clock , Mr Dixon was appointed chairman pro tem , and briefly opened the proceedings , remarking that the present possessors of the Suffrage held it not because they were virtuous , not because they had moral or intellectual qualification for the purpose , but simply from the accident of their possessing a little more property than their neighbours . Anything more absurd or ridiculous it was impossible to conceive . Now he demanded the suffrage in virtue of his manhood , and ' his person was his title deed . ' ( Loud eheere . )
Mr Thomas Clahk—amidst loud cheers—rose to move the first resolution , and eaid , her Majesty ( by the way the very highest authority ) in her Speech from the Throne , expressed her regret for the Bufferings of the people , but her Majesty ' s parliament had not done much . True , Christmas had intervened , and members of parliament preferred its festivities to legislating for a starving people . ( Hear , hear . ) Besides , those gentlemen gave their services for nothing . ( Ironical cheering . ) Well , her Majesty had admitted that great distress prevailed , and on this subject he ( Mr Clark ) perfectly agreed with her Majesty , but the people had no hand in creating thia distress . The resolution that he was about to ^ propose declared , that parliament had to do with it ,. for had that body attended to the interest ofthe people ,
and cultivated the resources of the country , it was impossible there could have been any distress amongst the wealth producers ! ( Loud cheers . ) Yesterday he was in the north of England , la Manchester the -working classes , and the class immediately above them , were in great distress , indeed such severe privations had never been known at any previous period ef England ' s history . ( Hear , hear . ) It could not be right that one m « n should hold the francbiseto the exclusion of six others . ( Hear , hear . ) And , indeed , he did not believe that at any period six parts of the community had ever delegated their electoral ^ powers to the other seventh ; but if auch a contract di ^ exiet , it was nothing but right that it should be produced
for their inspection . ( Load cheers . ) He denied the justice of a Property Qualification ; but if property was a test of fitness , surely the working classes must have a very strong claim , seeing that thoy were the prodncers of all wealtb . ( Great cheering . ) As the working classes were bound by the laws , so ought they t ) have a controlling power over those who made them . ( Hear , hear . ) And if they were denied that power , surely tbey could not expect that the working classes should feel m & raliy bound to obey the laws . ( Cheere ) Bat had aa many of the laws wore , he cou'd not recommend the breaking ef them . ( Hear , hear . ] True , they had hitherto failed in their attempts to eet within the pale of the constitution , but still they had the consolation of knowing that wo were engaged
in a just cause , and that by perseverance and organisation they would ultimately prevail . ( Loud cheers . ) The prime minister , Lord John Russell , had admitted the . truth ofthe principle , in his speech in favour of removing Jewish disabilities . ( Hear , hear . ) If the principle was true as regards Jews , it must be equally true as regards Christian ? , and the working classes generally . ( Cheers . ) And their friends Harney , M'Grath , Dixon , Jonbs , and West , had as much right to take their seats as had Baron Rothschild . ( Great cheering . ) It was not for him to come there and denounce the aristocracy , while the working men themselves were to blame for not sufficiently bestirring themselves—( hear)—as he was thoroughly convince ^ that when the people demand their ria ^ in
earnest , then , and r , ct 4 i ! l tnfti , would , the People ' a Charter bs emblazoned on the scroll of the British Constitution . ( Loud cheers . ) Her Mtjesty has admitted the distress , and her prime minister had pleaded the justice of the auSrage , and it was therefere the duty of the people earnestly to demand their own , and nothing could prevent the obtainment of their just rights . A word as regarded Ireland . Their class legislation had shown their utter incapacity to eovern England , * and if they could not govern this ia ' and , it must be admitted they must be enti . ely unfit to legislate for another country , and hence he demanded a full , free , and fair representation for the Irish people , in a parliament in their own country .
( Loud cheers ) His demand was equal justice for England and Ireland—and he trusted that they would not only hold up their hands for the resolution he was about to submit to them , but rise to-morrow morning with a determination to carry its spirit into practice . He had now great pleasure in moving— 'That this meeting is of opinion the awfully depressed and degraded position of the industrious classes of Great Britain and Ireland , arises from the monopoly of the elective franchise ; and that the people of these realms can never be permanently benefitted until the whole male adult population are within the pale ofthe Constitution . ' Julian Harney having arrived , Mr Dixon vacated the chair , which was taken by J . H ., who waste , ceived with loud applause .
Mr John Skelton , in seconding the resolution , said : If they had no power over those who made the laws , what could they expect but that those who made them would do so for their own benefit ? ( Hear , hear . ) That that great wrong existed , ap « peared te be generally admitted , and the question is , how came that wrong ? An inquiry into man ' s , nature , at once told them that individually he was weak , but that in his corporate capacity be was strong— ( hear , hear )~ and hence , tbe wisdom of cooperation . The resolution he was seconding said , that ciasi legislation was the cause of the wrong , and that truth was confirmed by the sins of commission and omission on the part of the legislature . ( Hear , hear . ) Surely , in a country go abounding with wealth , and a population so famous for their ingenuity and industry as the English people were ,
if properly governed , no portion of the inhabitants wonld be permitted to starve . ( Loud cheers . ) The reason why the industrious wealth-producers now starved , was because tbey were . excluded from the franchise . ( Hear , hear . ) But was it right that a few gilded flies , basking in the sunshine of a court , should batten oh their miseries . ( Loud cheers . ) Their friend Clark had justly told them that when they would they might alter the system . ( Renewed cbeering . ) He called on them to think deeply on their state , and let those who were able to live , do something for those who are starving . The present system was a system of fraud and rank delusion , and must be destroyed before they could found a just and good one . ( Hear , hear . ) But they must not expect those who grow fat by that system to work a change . No ; for they required no
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change .. Ti ^ vTITSf ^ H ^ riEeff *^ the mere name of reform , whilst the people required the thing itself . ( Hear , hear . ) At the present time , the middle class reigned almost supreme . How ? By the power the people had delegated to them , by the means of a dishonest distributive system . ( Hear , hear . ) The people had hitherto conferred power and wealth on others , henceforth let tbe-n keep both for themselves . ( Loud cheers . ) If the people wished a change , they must will it to night and to-morrow , and persevere until victory crowned their efforts . The Chairman then introduced , Mr Ernest Jonbp , who came forward , and said , is d in
Mr Chairman and Friends .-There a perio a public movement , when after a time of depression it rallies from its own vital energy , ever inherent in the breast of truth . At that period we have arrived—it is a period of promise—it is also one ot danger . At such times some men caught by an incautious zeal , w . sh to hurry progress beyond the bounds of safety , and by trying to fcrasp all in a momantj lose all for an nge . ( Hear , hear . ) There are also ' some men , who , influenced by personal ambition , talk to the peopleof their strength and their power ; tell them to shatter their foes ; are more democratic than democracy—and have got something still more furious to propose than every man who preceded them . These men are the humbugs of the movement . There are also some wet
blankets , who fear the spirit they have helped to raise , and tremble at the power of which they form a part . These men are the drag-chains of the movement . I trust we shall be influenced by none of these to-night . ( Hear . ) I conceive wc are assembled here to assist in passing a Coercion Bill against the government , and to produce such a 'pressure from without , ' as shall squeeze poor little Lord John into something like a decent an <* statesman-like shape , ( Cheers and laughter . ) Seeing then that we never had a more middle class , nor , therefore , a more hostile parliament —since the middle class are our greatest enemies . ( A voice : ' No , no . ') A gentleman says' no ; ' but I tell him that no class has ever proved as Hostile to the working man , as the middle class of England . ( Hear ,
hear . ) It has cast down aristocracy on the loft , aud democracy on the right , and lives on tho ruins of both . I do not wish to raise aristocracy . Let the bruised serpent lie , for it would sting the hand that healed it—but your money law his been worse than the feudal one . lUnder feudalism , the people were fat slaves—under your rule , sir , they are lean slaves . ( Loud ch ? ers . ) Seeing , then , that we never had a more middle class , and , therefore , a mere h-stile parliament , 1 believe the hour for temporising has past vre have felt the pulse of the patient lor-g enough , nnti now it ia ti \ ne to apply the lancet , , The people Know this , sir , and theretpre are organising . We , too are increasing our army : the Old Guards are in the field again ! ( Cheers . ) We , too , are enrolling our
militiathe starving mil ions lor the peaceful , but none the less unyielding : struggle We , too , are strengthening our" national defences ;' courage in our hearts , disciptaein our ranks , and unity in our action . ( Applause . ) But there are some gentlemen here who are not ntasfiedI with this . Who sa / E millions of arSnT fllSy- i 8 e t' « Sd well-informed [ men ™ Z 1 T 1 i ^ the Cn rter from a crippled I ? mx Eft Jn !) P ^ W » defenceless army ( that Lord Ellesmere recommends to walk out o ^ ne end of London , when the French walk in at the
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other . ) and a divided Parliament . ( Cheers . ) These gentlemen tell the peoplethey must gro ^ noh , if they want to become free . I tell them they must become free , if they want to grow rich . ( Loud cheera . ) Mr Shelton exhorts the people ts become wealthy . Will Mr Shelton be kind enough to tell them how ? He will say co-operation-but I much fear nothing cooperating with nothing , produces nothing . Become rich-what ? In the workhouse or the gaol ? Become rich-what ? In the deer forests of oar nobles ? Become rich-what ? On 6 s . a week ? Become rich -what ? In the church-yards of Skull , or by tte graves of Skibbereen ? ( Hear , hear . ) Go tell it to the unemployed in Manchester—to the 20 , 000 desti . tute in Bradford . Go tell it to the Irish tenant , dying
by the light of his burning cottage . Go tell it to tne beggar at thedoora of Grosvenor-square . Go tell nim at once to be a slave , but do not let ns insult bis misery , by telling him to become rich . ( Hear , hear . ) I know you will here point to our glorious Land Company , and say : See what the money-plaft hag done ? So it has—it has shown you how happy" you could be , if you had the power of the Charter legislating on the Land . ( Loud cheers . ) Do you suppose the government will let you go on ? Da JOQ suppose the middle class will let you enjoy the fruits of your co-operation ? No ! this Company hassucceded—thaak God ! 50 , 000 families are rescued from destruction under the protection of the law ; bo act of Parliament Can be retrospective , but rest assured Parliament will throw such difficulties in the way of future
companies , as to render their formation next to impossible—unless you obtain political power . ( Hear , hear hear . ) And rest assured the middle class , if they find you can spare enough from your wages to buy land , will hit on the expedient of lowering your wages still more , and you know they need not fear you if you are merely money-grubbers , instead of men . ( Hear , hear . ) Moreover , the people were still in work , when they subscribed to the Land , the premises of free-traders still gave a galvanised action to the dead corpse ofour commerce—but non-employment and pauperism become more and more with every day , and the power of subscribing grows less with every hour . ( Hear . ) And how is the working slave to keep hia noh _ es , if
he had created them ! He has crested wealtb , all the wealth the country boasts of . Has he kept it ? Na 1 And why ? Because he had not the political power to ' protect it from the privileged robber . ( Cheeis . ) Be assured if you make money , government will find soma means to get it from you ; If you think to put down monopoly bj this alone , yon are much mistaken . Itis like trying to catch fish with a bait , but no hook to your line . The Whi $ fish will swallow your bait , and be all tha better for it . ( Cheers and laughten ) Here again you may point to the Land Company—but the allottees of that company are not safe without the Charter . Let them remember their forefathers , the yeomanry of England , all owned the land . How did they lose it ?
Why by taxation . A freeholder was obliged to do military service , and supply the costly equipment for himself and Iforee , according to his holding . Frequent service ruined him—he was unable to supply the equipment—then he was fined ; at last he could not pay the fine—then his land was seizedand so you became landless and houseless slaves . The present system has the same resa'ts , taxes and poor-rates grow heavier every year , and these will fall crushingly on the allottees ofthe Land Company . Every fresh surge of taxation dashing against that social rook , will crumble another fragment . You may say taxes fall as equally on the farmer and the landlord . Not bo . They employ labour , and make up the difference of taxation in difference of wages .
Those who employ labour escape taxation—thoee who labour for themselves , they pay the tost . ( Cheering . ) Now then . eentlemen , will money-grubbing do ? Now then friend ? , co-operate ! make money , it will " . '¦ ap ^^ tjor the .-militia , and the added army ! iV ^ g ^ vmey—it will be wanted for fresh palaces . "SiaKe money—it will be wanted for new bishops . Make money—it will be wanted for royal babies , since you must give the royal babies pap , and you must build the royal babies nurseries . ( Loud applause . ) Make money—and is this impossible task your panacea ? Not one word about Registration and Election—not one word about the triumph at Nottingham , and glorious stand made by other con ^ stituenoies ? We have seated one roan—the same
power that seated one can seat five hundred . Parliament makes laws—members make parliamentand yon are making members . ( Hear , hear . ) Not one word about the National Petition—the only means we have of letting the world and the British people know how strong we are ? Not one word about the National Convention—the only legitimate authority of democracy ? Not a word about presenting that vast petition , with the National Convention sitting , England waiting in terrible expectation , Ireland engulphing armies , Scotland gathering in the Highlands , and London thundering in their ears , till the palaces of St Stephen ' s vibrate ?_ ( Immense cheers . ) No ! But go money-grubbing in the mine of industry , forgetting that monopoly , like a fiery
dragon , interrupts the way . Ay ! Work harderstarve longer—that the rich may get more than they expected , and the board of luxury be garnished by the neskeggs of co-operation . This is , indeed , folding a wet shroud around the heroio heart of Chartism ; i Xou say millions ^ of pence—I say millions of men \ Political power must precede a real amelioration . ( Much applause . ) Yes ! Men of London ! We must agitate and organise ! One simultaneous meeting , at one hour of one day aU over the United Kingdom , to sView our organisation . One vast petition , to provothe people themselves how strong they are in their numbers . One vast procession of the men of London to present it , while a Convention watches the debate , and keeps
piling the pressure from without , till every town in England and Scotland rallies with the same spirit , and concentration on the part of government becomes a force . ( Hear , hear . ) Let a member of your executive be constantly travelling ' through the country ; let all England be divided , according to the principles of theCharter , into equal districts ; let meetings , at fixed periods , be held in these , it will , as it were , drill the people into organisation ; let those , who ! can subscribe so well to the Land . subseribe but a little to the Charter , and , depend upon it , we shall soon obtain the Land . ( Loud cheera . ) Men of London ! you have more in your power than the rest of England . You are at the fountain head of monopoly , and you can stop its course most easily . ( Hear , hear . ) The
gallant men of the North are a long way off , and the creditor who enforces his claim in person , is always more attended to than he who sends a letter . Your petitions from afar will be scorned—there are hundred of miles , and plenty of barracks between those petitioners and Parliament . But you , Men of London ! can go in person , and knock at the doors of St Stephen's ti . l your privileged debtors tremble—as they gasp . We owe them for centuries of misrule , we owe them for blighted homes and dying of children—we ewe them for ages of miser / .-ui ^ a land of wealth—we owe than for millions of murders—and , vb-Bs £ 4 **& 9 ?> s the terrible creditors are come at last , to call us to the reckoning . and demand the payment ! ( Thunders of applause . ) One word to those who are afraid of Chartism . We certainly have a knack of frightening the old women , and especially those in Parliament . ( Laughter . ) But let them be reas-j
sured . We are men of peace . We abhor bloodshed and violence . But we are not men of non-resistance and passive obedience ; we will not be the aggressors—but if we are struck , will return the blow , and they must stand the consequence . ( Loud cheers . ) Rally , then , throughout the three kingdoms . Rally , men of Scotland ! Not in vain must Margaret , Skirving , Gerald , and Palmer have suffered . Rally , men of Erin ! not in vain must Fitzgerald and Emraett , Wolf Tone and Arthur O'Connor , have been the martyrs of their country ! Rally , men of England ! Not in vain must you have filled the prisons of York , Lancaster , and Stafford ! Not in vain must the widow and the orphan mourn a Peterloo ! Not in vain must our exiles hope for a return ! Not in vain must the Oli Guards march under their green flag , and an O'Connor pioneer the path of liberty ( Mr Jones resumed his scat amid continued and hearty cheering . )
The Chairman then put the resolution , which was carried unanimously , The Chairman ( Julian Harney , ) after explaining the cause of his non-arrival in time to take the chair at the commencement of tho proceedings , said : —I understand from the advertisement calling this meeting that our principal business is to be the adoption of a petition to parliamentfor a redress of grievances . It has , before now , been said that—• Petitioning for pity is most weak , The sovereign people ought to demand justice . ' It is not for pity we petition ; even were we caoable of so degrading ourselves , the experience of all time has proven that the oppressed never owed their deliverance from suffering and sorrow to the sympathy
of their oppressors . ( Hear , hear . ) It was not by supplicating the mercy of the Persian invader that Marathon was won and Greece was freed . It was not by prayers and bribes that Rome was delivered from the barbarians of Gaul . It was not by cringing to the insolence of Austria that Willhm Tell created Swiss freedom . ( Applause . ) It was not by base submission to Edward that BanEackburn was immortalised ^ ( Applause . ) It was not by vain attempts at exciting the sympathies of a despot ' s heart that our fathers rescued themselves from the treacherous tyranny of Charles . ( Cheers . ) It was not bv petitioning for pity that America broke her chains . ( Loud cheers . ) It was not by crying , 'Pityuseood
nooies—pity us good prieate—pity ua good king / that the people of France were enabled to obtain a remission ol the cruel bandage of feudalism , priestcraft , and monarch y . ( Greatcheering . ; No ! the powernil and the privileged never concede anything to those who ask their pity , and their sense ef justice is never awakened until the oppressed are in a position to do justice to themselves . Any petition adopted by thjj meeting , or a thousand meetings , will be the very vanity of vanitie ? , unless the people exhibit the will and determination to take other steps to enforce their claims . But a people that petitions nst for pity but for justice , has already taken the first step in the right direction . It ' that people are in earnest they will follow up their petition for justice by a demand—taking care that that demand is expressed
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not merely towards butly . dsedB .-byj ll &**«& which justice and sound pshey , combined , may sane tion . ( Hear , hear . ) Let ue , then , resolve that ) i to-night we petition it shall be no vain work done , and forgotten in the passing hour . Let us resolve is devote all our energies to obtain those franchises which we claim as our right and our due . Other speakers have commented on the wrongs ot your class and the sufferings of your order ; andspeaKers yet tocotae will illustrate and defend the principles of our glorious Charier . Let me show you the glorious prise which may be yours , if with resolute hearts you will but stretch forth your hands to take your own . Behold this mighty empire , bailfc up by the Btrong arms and cemeated by the blood of onr fathers . Britain ' s emnire is greater than ever o / rned ¦ In Imilhn di fik ifnff ^ ^
the sway of Assyria , Persia , or Rome . Vast as are the wilds and numerous as are the nations and tribes which own the away _ of the Muscovite , both are exceeded by thedominionslorded overby this 'tight little island . ' Collectively , the whole empire covers an extent of eight millions and a half of square wiles , and contains a population of 164 millions . One-sixth part of the dry land of the globe owns the flag of this country . On England ' s empire' the snn never sets ;' the [ chari of our colonies is a chart of the world in outline ; for we sweep the globe and touch every shore . ' How strange that millions of the heirs of this magnificent heritage are steeped in poverty ; that thousands parish for lack of bread , and hundreds , thia very night , hove no shelter from the wintry blast .
( Hear hear . ) Tho owneraand conquerors of million of miles of this fair earth have not in their possession a foot of land . The natural and manufactured riches of every clime are contained within the limits of the British empire . Corn and cattle , oil and wine , the fruits of the earth in every variety , wo » l , silk and cotton , iron and coal , furs and precious stone ? , gold , silver and copper abound in prolusion . Our manufactures are the wonder ; and envy of the world . For skill , industry and heroism , our artisans , labourers , and sailors are the most celebrated on the face ef tbe earth . All the elements of true greatness and hap-Einess abound , in spite of which shame and misery ave established their master sway . Shame npon
us that it should be so . This empire is rightfully the property , not oian idle , a scheming , and a privileged few , but of the entire people . Is not such a prize worth struggling for ? ( Hear , hear . ) The Charter is the means , and that prize is the end . ( jCheers . ) When , therefore , the usurpers of your inhsritanoe ask yon to arm in defence of the country , ask them , what country f If they reply England ; tell them England is certainly youra by right , but is not yours by possession , and you refuse to arm for its defence unless you have your fair share of its advantages . ( Applause . > The Duke of Wellington has written a letter in rrhich ,, Vith every symptom oi real or affected alarm , he has set forth the feasibility of a French invasion , and the incapacity of this country to successfully oppose the invader . The Duke wants an addition to the army of 40 , 000 men ,
and 150 , 000 militia men . The Duke is & soldier ; homicide has been his trade , and a very successful trade he has driven . You remember the fable of the city in alarm , when all the wise men were collected to devise means for its defence . ( The stonemason declared , very disinterestedly , iha £ there was nothing like stone , the carpenter with equal patriotism gave his vote for wood , and the tanner declared there was nothing like leather . ( Laughter . ) So the Duke of Wellington , true to his trade , declares that there ' s nothing like soldiers . ( Cheers . ) He advises feelingly , as this will show : — An Account of pay , pension , and votes of money , levied on the public , for the support of the Duke of Wellington end his neirs , to 1847 inclusive !! '<& - _ - Money received as pay since lie entered the army , np to 1818 SO . 000
Do . ns commander-in-chief in Europe Do . aa his share of prizemoney in Spain , said to be npon £ 800 , 000 Do . do . prize-money in Franco , said to he npon « £ t , COO , 08 Q So . as salary whilst nm- > bassador to France > ' 50 , 000 Do . do , do , to Vienna J 1811 . Pensioner £ 4 , 000 perannum —this has been paid 37 years , 148 , 080 1812 . Grant per 53 rd of George III . 100 , 000 85 yean'interest thereon ... 180 , 000 — 289 , 000
1812 . Grant per 52 rd and 51 th George III 406 , 000 1813 . S 5 years' interest thereon .,, 700 , 000 1 , 100 , 060 1814 . Grant psr 55 th George 111 ... 200 , 000 24 years' interest thereon 840 , 000
¦ 840 , 000 ( The 2 nd of Victoria recites ihe several grants—together £ 700 , 000 ) 1115 . Vote per parliament after the Battle of Waterloo ......... 60 , 000 ' 3 S years' interest thereon ... 99 , 009 169 , 000 Interest is charged as above , as the public have to pay the interest on the war debt ....
The Coke ' s pay aa field m & ru ehal , 1818 to 1847 , 30 years at £ 2 , 0 n 0 per annum (! 0 , 000 The Dake has since obtained , in addition , tbe following lucrative appointments : — 1820 , Appointed col , of the rifle brigade , pay £ 28515 s , per annum 28 years 6 , 672 1836 . Appointed Constable of the Tower , pay £ 947 1826 . Warden of the Cinque Forts , pay £ * 7 i
Fronts of these offices for 22 years £ 1421 per annum ... 31 , 362 1827 . Appointed colonel of the 1 st regiment of guards—21 years pay at . £ 1 , 200 per aninum 25 200 1827 . Appointed commander-inchief , retained the same till 1830 , 1 years pay , at £ 3 , 458 per annum 13 , 832 1842 . Again appointed commander la-chief— G years pay , at £ 3 , 458 per annum 20 , 748 34 , 580 £ 2 , 465 , 014
That is one aide of the picture , now for its opposite . in iC recent numoer oi" t ' na 'Ti & CS « i > i € Zi ^ tne following : — Mihtabt Execution in iNDiA . —The progress of insubordination amongst the European soldiers of Her Ma jesty ' g corps in the Upper Provinces has not been at allcheckedby the threats of severity that have been held out , and tbe Commander-in-Chief , pfter issuing a long order , framed with tbe object of dispelling the delusion prevalent with respect to tho treatment felons receive on trantportatien , has found it necessary to order the sentence of death to be carried out in two instances . In one of these a man named Atkins , who had been convicted of striking an assistant-surgeon , was selected es the victim , and twelve men were ordered to act as executioners . AU tha troops at Meernt were assembled to witness the scene . The unhappy man to the last expected a reprieve . At length , however the mandate was given to fire ; and , strange to say , but one bullet struck him , and that in the thigh . The provost-sergeant stepped forward , and blew out his brains with a pistol , aud all the twelve men who hud fired were cast into confinement , and will he tried for a conspiracy to evade the performance of their duty .
Working men , that ' s your share of glory ; it is from ypur . class is drawn the rank and file upon whose palpitating hearts , brain-spattered heads , and goredyed limbs , such men as the Duke climb ihe heights of power , and achieve what they call glory . Your share ef the glory is to fall beneath the sword of the stranger , un-named and unknown ; or mayhap be batchered in cold blood for what tyrants call « insubordination . ' The slaying of Atkins , I denounce as a foul and frightful murder . ( 'True . ') Doubtless , poor fellow , he had some one living who loved him , and looked forward to the time when he would return to bless the sight of those who mourned his absence , mayhap , some grey-headed father , who sighed for him as for the staff of his old age ; or a mother , who had Buckled him at her breast , and little dreamed , when parting the curls from his innocent , infant brow , that the hour would come when luav
. Home or mought , that palace ofthe soul , ' would be torn , splintered , shattered , wrecked in a sea of blood , by the bulkt of an assassin—the murderous slave of murder-lovinfj tyrants . Remember , if the militia is embodied , you may be forced , not merely to serve in England , but also to leave home and fight the battles of despotism abroad . In the time of the last war , numerous bodies of the militia who refused to volunteer into the army , were disaimed , and at the point of the bayonet driven on board transport ships , in which they wero taken to the continent to swell Wellington ' s armies , where they perished by thousands From fatigue , hunger , disease , the bullet , and the sword , and tuc same lot may be years , if you tamely allow the militia to be re-embodied , subject to the wil ! of your oppressors . If the aristocracy fear the loss of their broad acres , of which their fathers robbed ours , let them fight for the protection of those acres . ( Cheers . ) If the Church fears the confiscation of its immense revenues , Jet the parsons fight for the Church . ( Cheers . ) If the Jews and jabber of'Change Alley fear the swamping of the funds , let them fight tor the protection of their plunder . ( Cheers . ) If the millocracy fear the sacking of their rattle-boxes , let them fight for the protection of those dens of slavery and temples of Mammon . ( Cheers . ) IF the shopocracy—that despicable class T that class , who like Shakespeare ' s Young Ambition , first used us to mount upon to power , and then
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kicked us from them , and trampled an viown-. | j ) a { organised combination of usurpation and usury- ^ f j they fear the seizure of their tills and their led geta » let them fight for the protection of their dirty hack , ¦' Btering . ( Lond cheers . ) But you , snen _ of the ta \\ . [ lion , over-worked arid ill-paid sons of toil , houaej ega , and shivering serfs of privilege , yon , who have neitL » lands , nor revenues , nor tithes , nor funds , n 0 ! , profits , nor usury , nor rotes—to whom the throne i affords no protection and the law no security-, , against whom the legislature closes its doors and the i Church its sympathies , fight not at all , or fight fo . . none of these things . ( Great cheering . ) If m ; mast fight , fight for yourselves . ( Renewed cheering ) ] When lords , and priests , and usurers , and polity usuroers . and social tyrantsi ask you to armta ; " *** «** " »*«* . « " ? " ^ , » *""> - *•'
their protection , let your answer be , 'Novote , musket !'— ' The Charter and No Surrender ! ' ( T re mendous cbeering . ) Knaves and fools with one ac cord are now rushing into print with their schema of national defence ; the Chartist scheme is , after all theonly true defence . The land for the people , ' man a home , every man a vote , and every man a mus . ket . A nation ' s defences consist not in armies , n ^ vies , fortresses , and artillery , but in the courageous hearts and strong arms of a people , possessing ' Happy homes , and altar free . ' 'Men , high-minded mm , ifen , who their duties know , But know * their rights , and knowing , dare maintain , ' ( Enthusiastic and prolonged cheering . )
Mr John Fosseti , came forward to move the second resolution as follows : — ' That this meeting pledges itself never to cea ^ agitation until the People ' s Charter shall become the lm of the land . ' The subject of the Charter bad been before the world for a period of something like einht years , yet there may be some who would be in . olined to ask , what is' The People ' s Charter V He , for one , thought it the principle of political truth , and that to agitate for any . thing less was all humbug , and sheer nonsense ( hear , hear ) . The people had been too often deluded by the middle classes ; the few had a privilege which was the right of the masses , ( Cheers ) . The church had been alluded to , and this of itself was such a gross wrong , tbat it demanded a
searching reform . The queen held 130 livings in the church ; that disreputable noble , "VVaJdegrave , was also a church patron , as was also that ambitious sol . dier , Wellington . There wero no less than 4632 parsons holding livings , who' , had never preached . from the time of taking possession , and never would until the day of their death . Let universal suffrage prevail , and he would never give a vote to any man except he pledged himself to the correction of this abuse . He too would look for a revision of the funding system . He wished to have a parliament that would make laws such aa the people could understand . The Times recently told us that during the last four months there were 4 , 213 , 000 persons out of employ , and 13 . 000 more who were only employed three days
a week ; he thought a state of things like this called loudly for the Charter ( cheerj ) . Mr W . Dixon , who en again coming forward was loudly cheered , said he was a Chartist because he believed that God and nature gave him at ' . birth certain rights , and he had been deprived of these rights , and he wished to be placed in possession of some instrument by which he could regain them - such an instrument was the Charter . Mr Harney said , he had nothing to fight for . He , Mr ^ Dixon , had , namely the right to lire . For the last forty years he had been deprived of that right , having only existed ( hear , hear ) . Universal Sui frage was the great principle ; the other five points of the Charer were simply the meansof working out ( hub principle . The Ballot under present circumstances was necessary , or honest men would be crushed for daring to perform their conscientious duty ( loud cheers ) . Mr Dixon then justified the principle of and
Annual ^ ParliamentB , showed their absolute necessity . It was far better to pay their servants than to permit their servants to pay themselves' ; and there was many a tinker or tailor possessing more brains than half-a-dozen of those Iordlings ; and when Mr Harney was , as he certainly would be , elected for Tiverton , ( loud cheering ) or his other friends were returned for the several places for which they were candidatea , they wonld be perfectly justified ia looking to their constituents for their wages ( loud cheers ) . The Charter puts forth the great doctrine , justice to all—injustice to none ; a *> r > „ ader its principles , Land , Labour , and Cr - : would be fairly represented . Mr Dixon re ed his seat amidat great ap » plause . The Chairman then introduced Mr John West , of Macclesfield , whom ho highly eulogised as a sound thinker , an eloquant speaker , a talented advocate oi Chartist principles , and an honest man who had suffered greatly through the oppression of the enemies of labour .
Mr West , who was most heartily cheered , said he had much pleasure in informing tbem , that tbe men of the west and the north had pledged themselves never te cease their exertions until the Charter became the law . Time w . is when the tail moved file head , but now the bend moved the tail . ( Laughter ) , London had assumed its proper position ; the Chartists were the true pioneers of liberty—the herakts of peace—not the messengers of war . All converts would be welcomed , bnt the old guards must lead . ( Cheers ) . lie asserted that every human being had a right to live , and having the right to live , also had a right to possess the means of living . ( Hear hear . ) He contended that he was the rightful member for Stockport . Richard Cobden sat for the WeBt Riding of Yorkshire , for which he was elected by show of bands , and by the same rule he onght to sit for Stockport . ( Cheers . ) The British constitution
was like a three-legged stool—it had two good legs and a small twig . Well , let them repair it by putsing in a third good leg , instead ofthe twig , and then all might sit on the constitution without any fear of falling . ( Laughter and cheers . ) But to effect that the People ' s Charter must become the law of tbe land . ( Loud cheera . ) If they wanted Church Reform , let them get the Charter . If tbey wanted Law Reform , let them get the Charter . If they wanted the gallows abolished , let them get the Char , tcr . Some said this was the wrong time to advocate the Charter . He wanted to know which was the right time . This meeting was a good beginning , and themen of London might depend on being well backed by the men of the west and north . The nexj petition would be the best , because tbe most numerously signed of any petition ever presented . Mr West resumed his seat loudly applauded . The resolution was carried unanimously .
Mr Charles Keen moved the adoption of the Nationa !; PetitioH which was seconded by Mr Luca ? , and carried unanimously . Mr Dixon moved a vateof thanks to the chairman , which was carried by acclamation . Thundering cheers were then given for Feargus O'Connor , M . P ., the Land Company , and the Charter , and the meeting . wa ? xlissolve . d .
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Northampton— A general meeting of the members of the Land Company will take place on Toes lay next , January ISth , at the Temperance-hall , Newland , at half-past seven o ' clock , to receive the report of the auditors , to appoint officers for the quarter , and to take into consideration the propriety of adopting the . petition suggested by Air O'Connor . Nottingham . —The next meeting of Land members will be held at the . Rose , Mount-street , on Sunday evening , at seven o'clock . Rossesdale . —The general quarterly meeting ot the shareholders will be held on the 22 nd inst ., at the house of Mr Robert Ingham , Swan Inn . Plymouth . — The members of the Plymouth branch are requested to attend next Monday night , at the meeting room , High-street .
Bethnal Gruen . —Mr T . Clark will lecture here on Sunday , January 16 th . Chair to be taken at eight o ' clock-Leeds A meeting of the members of the Land Company will be held on next Sunday afternoon , at two o ' clock , in the Bazaar , Briggate . Litilkiown , keak Lbeds —The committee and auditors of thia branch will meet at Mr Charles Brooks ' s , on Sunday , January 23 rd , at nine o ' clock , for the purpose of auditing the branch books . At ten o ' clock a general meeting will be held . Those in arrears with their levies are requested to pay the same .
Mr J . IIuktbr will be at Thorney Colliery on Monday , the l ? tb , to hold a meeting , and arrange for the organising the various branches in the county of Durham ; and at Wingate Grangeon Wednesday , the 19 th inst . Any other place requiring his services in this district , will please to correspond With him . Address , at Easington-lane , county of Durham . Burt .--The members of this branch are requeued to meet in their usual place behind the Albion Hotel , on Sunday ( to morrow ) January 16 th , at six o ' clock in the evening , to take into consideration the propriety of raising tbe local levies . Worcester . — A general meeting of the Chartists and members of the Land Company will be held on Monday night , at eight o ' clock ^ at the City Arms , Church-street , to adopt means * to assist the Land Company .
Long ™ ( Potteries ) . — The membeta of this branch are informed , tbat Mr Isaac Ilaramerslay , has removed to Flint-street , near the Loaf and Cheese , where this branch ofthe Company will meet on Sunday next , at half-past two o ' clock , and continue to do so , LEAMiriUTaN . — A public meeting of the share « holders will be held at their reom . Kenilworth-street , on Monday , the 17 tb , at eight o ' clock intheevening , for the purpose of establishing a money club , to assist the National Land and Labour Bank .
Fruited \X Dougal M'Gowa.Ts, Of 16, Great Windmill, Street, Haymarket, In The City Of Westminster, At Tho
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urace , in tne same Street and 1 ' arish , for the Proprietor , FEaUGUS O'CONNOR , Esq ., M . P ., and publishet ! by "William Hewitt , of Ko . 18 , Ckurles ^ tveet , Bran , don-strtet , Walworth , in tho parish of St . Mary , Nt « . ington , in the County of Surrey , at tho Office , No . is , Great Windniill-street . HajainrUet , in the CityofWo tminster . —Saturday , January i [ tli , 1848 .
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