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V THE NORTHERN STAR September 19, 1M6.
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Mansion House. A Friend.—On Saturday Joh...
( Continued front tnc First Page . ) ' who , like tbe Whig government , will fly to the cry of FREE TRADE IS IN DANGER . Besides a duty , I have an interest in writing this letter , because I feel and know that 1 shall be the greatest sufferer from popular folly . I point out your proper course and your former errors , hut I know myself so well , that I am sure to go with you whether right or wrong , rather than allow the enemy to suppose that the folly of the multitude had driven me from the movement Your errors are not a consequence of folly , they are the result of the evil influence of those who can starve vou into submission to their will , or enlist yon as COERCED VOLUNTEERS to fight their own battles .
Beware of the " Free Trade" trap . Let the landlords fight their own battles . Let every thought be uirectsu . to secure twelve Buncombes in the next parliament . I TOLL NOT BE ONE . I will remain upon the watch tower , for slander shall never brand my motives with the base brand of self interest . Allow me to manage tbe wild phrenzy of ^ represented influence ; the wide region of enthus ' lasm is my natural element ; I will marshallit to
aid our chief and bis staff in the battle of right against might , of knowledge against bigotry aud intolerance , of liberty against oppression and misrule . Keep your eye then npon the next electioncompel your trustees , as tbey call themselves , to execute their trust faithfully . Get our twelve men in the House of Commons , and no power on earth can resist the triumph of your princip les . The World will receive them as tbe wise adoption of an improved
age , and nations will marvel that so gieat a power should have been so long concealed by a hireling prostitute , servile , advertising press . Let our motto be " Twelve Chartist representatives to send our principles to the world ' s end "—
ONWARD AND WE CONQUER , BACKWARD AND WE FALL , THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER . Then I bind on my armour to face the rough world . And Pro . going to march with the rest ; Against Tyrants to fight , for the sake of the right , And if baffled to FALL with the BEST . Tour faithful friend and servant , Feakgub O'Cossor .
V The Northern Star September 19, 1m6.
V THE NORTHERN STAR September 19 , 1 M 6 .
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KIDDERMINSTER . GLORIOUS AND TRIUMPHANT MEETING FOR THE CHARTER AND THE LAND . To those who wonld deny the influence of the Northern Star upon the working classes . ^ or those who are sceptical about the strong fraternity that now exists amongst that order , we merely observe , that OUe line m that journal on Saturday last , announcing the intention of Mr . O'Connor to attend a meeting in forty-eight hours after . had the effect of crowding the Albion room , in the Falcon Inn , to inconvenience . The body of the Hall , as well as the gallery , the platform , and the passages , was literally crammed , while deputations of the working classes were in attendance from Wolverhampton , Walsall , Dudley , Stourbridge , Brierly Hill , Bilston , Bromsgrove ,
Worcester , and the surrounding districts for a distance of thirty miles , many of whom had walked , and all of whom spoke eheeringly of the new resolve , "to bind on their armour once more ; " all admitting , that but for the addition of the Land plan , Chartism , as a principle , would have lacked much of its present enthusiasm . Mr . George HoHoway . and a few devoted friends who have struggled hard and suffered much in the cause , made the most of the short interval that was allowed for preparation , and although a charge of a penny was made at the doors , we never witnessed a more enthusiastic , res ; ectable , patient , or satisfied audience . Precisely at seven o ' clock , that staunch advocate of the principles , who has accomplished so many benefits for his own trade , the
chain makers , Mr . Chance , of Stourbridge , was unanimously called to the chair . He said , that he had once more resolved upon joining in the renewed struggle for man ' s natural rights . ( Cheers . ) He was there to proclaim the fact , that If the people were" ignorant , Queens and Kings , Peers and Commoners , Parsons and Manufacturers , and all who had an interest in the individual comforts of the working classes , were bound to assist and co-operate in substituting knowledge for that ignorance . ( Cheers . ) "Where was the monarch who looked npon the ignorance ot his people as a gem in his crown , or as an honor to bis throne . Where was the titled aristocrat that would avow it to be the jewel of his coronet , or where
was the master that would preserve it as the title of bis ascendancy . ( Loud cheers . ) Surely all had an interest in national prosperity , which knowledge would cultivate better than ignorance , but mayhap ignorance would lead to a more profitable appropriation of its products . ( Loud cheer ? . ) He bad as much confidence in Feargus O'Connor as in any man living , but he would caution themasainst allowing reliance upin individual exertion lulling them int-i * individual apathy . ( Loud cheers . ) If the bu-iness was to be done labour must do it for itself . ( Cheers . ) Capital managed its own affilrs , and j labour must do its own work . ( Cheers . ) That meeting was to him a chearing proof that the principles of the Charter were still uppermost in their mind , and that the
adjunct of the land had rather strengthened than weakened their affection . ( Great applause . ) Apart from his public duty , he had also a private duty to discharge , and he thought it the bounden duty of every honest man to rally around Feargus O'Connor , -when the disappointed ambition of would-be leaders - was used as a weapon to weaken his usefulness and dislodge him from the affections of the people . ( Cheers and laughter . ) The appearance of themeeting , and the attention of the meeting , convinced him that his task as chairman would be one of easy performance , as be must presume , that all came there to learn , and he ( tbe chairman ) would secure for every
teacher a fair and impartial hearing for their respective doctrines . ( Loud cheers . ) They courted discussion , and he invited itas theirgreateststrength . It would not be decorous in him to take up more of their time , when he was sure that they were all panting with anxiety to hear their tried and distinguished friend . ( Cheers , and go on . ) No . I shall now conclude by introducing Feargus O'Connor , I believe for the first time , to a Kidderminster audience . ( Loud cheers and clapping of hands followed the chairman ' s excellent address , which was delivered in a manly tone , and with great fluency , force , and eloquence . )
Upon Mr . O'Connor presenting himself , he was received with several rounds of app ' aase . When tbe cheering had subsided , he said , Sir , I quite agre with you that you . best testify your loyalty by your endeavour to banish ignorance from the land , to base onr institutions npon knowledge , instead of upon caprice , and to set a monarch over them that will be governed by the enlightenment of the age , rather than by the darkness of byegone times . ( Cheers . ) There was not a word that had fallen from the chairman to which he ( Mr . O'Connor ) could not cheerfully subscribe , but more especially to his injunction to the people to do their work . On lhat day week he
was amongst the hills of Devonshire , wedding the agricultural labourer to the manufacturing operative , and he was happy to find that their new policy was never again to fight the battles of faction , never again to contend for the spit without the leg of mutton , ( cheers and laughter . ) or for the empty shadow which had been labour ' s share of middle class triumph . ( Cheers . ) If he was asked why he had again entered the field of action , his answer was because he thought that it was the season for renewed vigour , labour ' s opportunity for renewed action . In 1 S 31 and 1 S 32 he struggled for the Reform Bill in bis own country , but observing that , if not followed by full , free , and fair representation , it would be an injury rather than a blessing to labour . He was aware that it was thp
mere contest of faction for its own ascinilancv ; but he felt convinced of the impossibility of convincing the papular party 0 f the hollowness and treachery of their leaders . That measure had failed , and he would ask them , as he had asked their brethren in other prrls , -whether there was a single man in Kidder-J ?' -S f » * ki h , ad depIved faenefit f rom Jt ? ( Cries of Ao . ) The last triumph was the triumph of free trade—a measure which was to have been instantly followed by high wages , cheap bread , and plenty to do ; a measure which was to have been magical in its instantaneous effect upon the comforts of the poorthe Pandora ' s box , at the top instead of the bottom
of which labour ' s charm was packed . ( Loud cheers . ) Well , labour has opened the box , but has it found the treasure ? ( A manufacturer in the corner , — - "It hasn't had time to work . " ) Ah , it has worked wonders , sir , but in tbe wrong direction . ( Cheers . ) It was t ) have been the charmed operator that was to have worked by magic , and set every fibre of labour to remunerating employment . ( Cheers . ) Has not bad time to work I It has worked down wages , w irked up bread , and worked hundreds out of their bouses to starve in the streets , or beg employment , for God ' s sake , at any rate that capital shall con de-• sead to offer , ( Tremendous applause . ) But I will
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test the principle by tbe verdict of those who must be the best judges of its effect . Is there , then , a man in this vast assemblage who has benefited aught bj free trade ? I mean a labouring man . ( Shouts of * ' Not one—but worse . " ) Now , then , you have furnished me with a theme for my discourse . The Reform Bill promised much , and performed little . Free trade promised all that the Reform Bill had failed in , and has performed less . 1 allowed the day of trial to pass by , lest that I may have endangered the cause of Chartism by propounding the old principle in the hour of mixed and hesitating excitement . I allowed tbe mind of labour to settle down into fair calculation upon the promised boon , and , finding that the country was prepared to give an honest verdict , after calm thought and matured reflection . I resolved upon
once more marshalling the now connected but dissatisfied mind for another struggle for its own rights and privileges . ( Loud cheers . ) Sir Robert Peel told us that it was necessary that the landlords should surrender something to national requirements , and I told him that whatever was pared from their board would be absorbed by the griping appetite of the capitalist . ( Loud cheers . ) I told him , and I told you , that it was impossible to adjust labour ' s share in the change until labour , like capital , was represented in the House of Commons . ( Cheers . ) Sir Robert Peel told us that the science of agriculture was but in its infancy—it was the wisest sentence he ever spoke : but if it is necessary to cherish and encourage the science of agriculture , and if the landlords must yield up and surrender some of their rights to that
end for the nation ' s goad , it is also right that the capitalists should surrender a portion of their unjust rights and privileges . ( Great applause . ) That was his present mission , to prepare them at the next general election to stand between contending factions —not aiding one in the pillage of labour , or the ether in its whimsical protection of native industry . ( Cheers . ) And when their streets were again paraded by the exciting promise of high wages , cheap bread , and plenty to uo , surmounted by » large free trade loaf , only requiring a free trade parliament to insure it , let the sons of toil cap the climax by placing the land and the charter over the pinnacle of the free trade tower —( tremendous cheering , and waving of hats)—the land that produces the loaf , and the ch . irler that defends the land . ( Repeated cheers . )
Ignorant as you are , and mysteriously as free traders would have concealed the fact , you have learned from them , that if it is good to have cheap bread , it is better to have cheap land which produces bread . ( Cheers . ) They vainly hoped to confine the strugfc- ' thequestionofwheat , to thelandofAmeriea , of Poland , of Prussia , and the world , while they insolently hoped to obscure the benefit that may result from your own land , worked by your own industry . ( Cheers . ) They never thought tbe English artisan , disinherited b y machinery , would discover tho fact that he could produce bread for himself without being dependent upon the foreigner who may be pleased to export it , or upon the master who may condescend to buy bis labour for tbe price that is to purchase it . ( Cheers . ) Baptist Noel has told us that we have five hundred
thousand starving creatures living within the precincts of royalty without God and without hope ; while politicians tell us that we have four million paupers depending for a precarious subsistence upon workhouse relief . There is enough , and more than enough , for all , if the government of the capitalist was not compelled to mea are produce and employment by the standard of class caprice instead of national requirement . ( Loud cheers . ) And in the midst of this degrading poverty , this unnatural want , this unwilling idleness , free traders and Malthusians told them that the creation of so large a number of producers would cause a surplus of food in the country . ( "Cheers and daughter . ) Well be it so , better , far better , is a surplus of pigs , of bread , and milk , after consumption , than a surplus of breeches , hats , and
shoes , with a proportionate surplus of bare legs , bare feet , and bare heads . ( Great cheering and waving of bats . ) The man who had a surplus pig would never be without a surplus breeches , while the man who was making breeches for others all his life may scarcely find time to patch his own . ( Cheers and laughter . ) We were told that there were unerring " , laws which we must obey , unerring rules of nature , by which we must be governed . Kings and princes , however , who tell us those things , are not so observant of the laws of man or God when they stand in the way of their own desires , or would act as an obstacle to their own ambition . Hence we have the anomaly of the King of the French , in the teeth of what is called a solemn league and covenant , or religious contract , or compact , entered into by a
league of'kings for the controul of the natural feelings , passions , and desires , of the sons and daughters of royalty yet unborn , enforcing his son ' s ( claim to the hand of a child , the sister of the Queen of Spain , in violation of the treaty of the ] quadruple alliance ratified at Utretch for the preservation of royal authority , and rather than forego bis illegal demand he would set the working classes of the world in arms , to thed each others blood , to gratify his morbid lust for power —( cheers . ) What would not labour suffer in such a struggle for royal grandeur , and what care we whether the little Queen ' s little sister marries the son of the King o' | France ,, or the bloody Narvaez , who has been sent as chambermaid to make his royal mistress ' s wedding bed . But here ' s another hitch
—it has been discovered that all the upholsterers in Spain cannot make aroyaJ bedstead in seven weeks , and the poor little Queen is constrained to put up with that in which her royal father had so many startling dreams . Ah , my friends , while this is a royaljiardsbip . 'how many thousands of labour ' s sons , upon whose sweat royalty lives , would be glad , but too glad , to be secured in the bed that their fathers lay upon —( loud cheering . ) But so it ever is with th- 'se who work for others , and those who work not at all—the one , after a day of anxious toil , one of the Queen ' s neighbours , one of Baptist Noel ' s free trade army without God and without hope , lays his weary bones upon some stranger ' s cold flag , and is unconscious that he is a trespasser , until roused by the truncheon of his nijihtly guardian ; while royalty
reclines on down , culled gently from beneath the cherub ' s wing —( tremendouscheering . ) And , yet England , and tho world , may be embroiled in war by this kingly disregard of an inter-national treaty ; and yet , while Kings thus controul the laws , and violate " the treaties of their order , we arc told to obey all the musty parchments left by our musty ancestors , as the token of their musty age—( cheers)—but I tell them , that it is folly to sit before the swelling waters of knowledge and say to the flood-tide of mind , thus far shall thou go , and no farther—( great cheers . ) I tell thou that genius knows no bounds , but will knock down and level all the landmarks within which ignorance , prejudice , and tyranny , had vainly hoped to hem it . and sweep away every vestige of controul . Mind is the preceptor that
subtilizes tne soul ; the key that attunes the human heart to softness ; the battery that nerves the arm to action ; it is man's centlnel , and the nation ' s body guard , which no combination of Kings , or kingly edict ? , can disband . It is the parent of conception ; the child of nature ; the tonic of resolution ; it is thegiftof God to man , which human fetters cannot shackle , or human tyranny controul ; it is here , it is there , it is everywhere ; its magic influence thrills through every passing breeze ; it boldly rides the whirlwind , and proudly sits upon the storm —( tremendous cheering and waving of hats . ) In vain then is the combination of cabinets against the combination of minus —( repeated cheers , ) I see that yoa do not recognize your triumph in any change that has yet taken place , not even in the property or
income tax —( laughter . ) You were told that direct taxation was a measure of justice to the poor , as it threw the national burthen upon the rich ; but I will show you now that direct taxation , without direct representation , is indirect plunder —( cheers . ) The landlord is taxed three per cent , and increases his rents live per cent . ; the manufacturer is taxed three percent , and reduces your wages twenty per cent . ; the parson is taxed three per cent , and increases the idle reserve poor rates five per cent ., by reductions in his household , and parings from his servants' wages ; the shopkeeper whose profits exceed . £ 150 a year , is taxed three per cent ., and he visits it to the amount of five per cent , upon the wages and comforts of his shop b-ys , while all those classes are doubly benefitted by reductions made in
all the articles of your produce , and consequently iu your wages . And thus they are burning both ends of the candle , so that in fact taxation , whether direct or indirect , without representation , is precisely similar to a duty—that is , if I am a manufacturer , and produce a yard of goods from five untaxed materials , and charge five shillings a yard for it , if there is a duty of one shilling put upon the five articles , instead of then charging them six shillings I charge seven shillings and sixpence a yard , making oneshilling and sixpence , or a hundred and Gfty per cent , profit upon every transaction — ( loud cheers . ) Now , then , the property and income tax , although called direct , are nothing more than a duty imposed upon the wealthy , of whieh they may make profit from the poor . I am for taxing every man to support tho state , but then I am at tlie same time for giving eery man a voice in the propriety and apportionment of the tax . ( Cheers . ) Let us now , my friends , consider whether
or not we have sacrificed any principle in looking for the land . America , after being three quarters of a century in possession of political rights , is only now after her many struggles for class ascendancy , beginning to awaken to tbe value of the land . ( Cheers ) France , with her population of nearly forty millions , is better satisfied with a constituency of two hundred thou-and than England with a population of thirteen millions is with a constituency ofa million Now why is that ? It is because in France the people possess the land , and , however the artificial labourers may be driven to revolution to procure bread , the small landed proprietors are never threatened with famine . When I first visited my uncle , Arthur 0 Connor , who next year will have suffered half a century of banishment —( Cries of shame )—I thou « 'hV the whole commune or parish in which his chateau is situated belonged to him ; but in my first walk I saw peasants witb their baskets and spades passi ' n * here and digging there , and I asked what it meant «
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He told me that four-fifths of the domain belonged to the peasants , and that no man would sell an acre of it though you offered him ten times the value . ( Loud cheers . ) Many have told you that I exaggerated the capabilities of the . land , while Free Traders have endeavoured to persuade you that population pressed too hardly upon the means of subsistence ; but it is not population that presses hardly upon the means of subsistence , it is bad cultivation , it is the political power that the land confers upon each owner , it is tho law of settlement , the restrictive conditions contained in contracts , and its enormous appropriation to pride and useless sporting purposes . However , my friends , I am now in a situation to call reverend authority in aid of my assertion . There was a meetine in Dorsetshire last week , for the
purpose of course of improving the condition of the labouring classes . It was under the patronage ot a noble lord—it was to introduce the allotmentsystem , which means nolhing more or less than a gilded chain of slavery to bind the slave to the . interest of his employer . ( Loud cheers . ) But still it proves how much man loves the soil , and it proves that his tyrants know it . Of course there was an abundant crop of parsons —( Laughter)—they would see the report in last Saturday ' s Morning . Post . ' . the paper was in his portmanteau , ne regretted that he had not brought it . The Hon . and Rev . Mr . Ward was one of the speakers , and he told the meeting that in his recent tour he had visited a plain near Naples , four miles long and two miles wide , being eight square miles of land , and upon which thirty five thousand persons
received a good day ' s wages for a good day ' s work . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Now eight square miles of land is considerably less than five thousand acres . So that here we have the testimony of a clergyman , that every acre is capable of giving seven persons a good day ' s wages for a good day ' s work . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Now where was the man who would venture to say , that a man and his family could not exist upon two , or even upon four , acres of land . ( Cheers . ) You imagine that because a cabbage is a vegetable , that it is nothing more ; but I tell you vegetables are beef , mutton , veal , pork , milk , butter , cheese , and iwhen manufactured will exchange for bats , coats , breeches , shoes , bedsteads , watches , and every thing in the world . ( Cheers . ) Is is not natural , then , that man should prefer producing for
himself that , that wiD ' exchangeforeveryproduceable thing rather than depend upon the caprice of others for the scanty wages that must buy all . ( Loud cheers . ) The land is man's great bank from which he can coin every thing that he requires , and its present raw state is to the state to which it may be brought , precisely what the raw flax is to the finest cambric or lace that can be manufactured from it ; what the rough marble is to the speaking statue after it has acquired labour ' s polish . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Now , my friends , travel with me abroad . In other countries , man ' s first darling object is to secure a nest , and he cares not what price lie gives for it , and although it is an object , it is not indispensable that it should be on the land he cultivates . He next rents a field for his labour at an enormous
rate , or purchases it at an enormous price , in many cases two or three miles from his home , in France tliey live-in villages , and cultivate the land at a distance of three miles ; so in Belgium , and in Belgium they will give at the rate ot £ 260 a " bundle , " which is an acre and a quarter of land , and a whole family will live and thrive , and grow rich and purchase more from the produce . ( Cheers . ) Well , mark the advantage I give you , and mark the real tax upon English wheat capriciously grown . The nation turns up its nose at an 8 s . fixed duty , while the man who holds a thousand acres of ground , with his house in the centre , cultivates wheat at a tax of over £ 1 Cs . a quarter more than the man whose cottage is placed in the centre of his four acres . ( Great cheering . ) Yes , I . will
put out more manure with a wheelbarrow in a day than a farmer will with six horses and four men in the same time . ( Cheers . ) But beyond that , there is the question of Home , sweet Home ; the proud consolation that the husbandman sees his castle when he raises his head , that ho can fly to the domestic summons ; that he can stand independently with his arms folded , and listen calmly , but not anxiously , as the needy employer bids for his labour . He can then measure its value better than in the market place , where he stands as a slave , in the poor house where he sinks as a pauper , or in the cellar for which he pays rent , whether he works or plays . In the one case he is a man of the world ,, for whom
the world cares ; in the other , he is an outlaw with whom the world would gladly dispense . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Then the mother , the anxious brokenhearted mother , who wakes her sleeping babe that it may dry her for the day ' s toil , and curses it because tl will not suck to her convenience . ( Great sensation . ) They know that the realization of my plan will compel ten masters to bid for one man ' s labeur , instead of an idle reserve running after one master , and competing for the mere existence point . ( Cheers . ) I tell you that you are not free to bargain with capital , until you stand with your heel upon your spade , and have ascertained the value of your labour in the free labour market . ( Cheers . )
The following is the extract for Mr . Ward ' s speech to Mr , O'Connor referred : — " He the Hon . and Rev . Mr . Ward had been away from his benefice for a year for the purpose of recruiting his failing health , and on returning recently visited a spot where many of his parishioners resided . The aspect of the place was altered , the old landmarks had been removed , dirty cottages made clean , and incommodious houses rendered capacious . To what was all this to be attributed ? Struck with the marvellous change which had been effected , he natura ly inquired bow such great improvements had been effected , and he found that the reason was , that the landlord had created a vast number of field garden
allotments , all of which were assiduously and efficiently cultivated by the persons to whom they had been let . As a clergyman , he was glad to bear testimony to their great worth . This brought him to make one or two remarks on the subject of spade husbandry . During his absence from England , he visited a plain near Naples , four miles long , and two miles wide , on which there were 35 , 000 persons . There were no poor laws , no beggars , but every person received a good day's wages for a good day's work . ( Cheers . ) Not a single horse or cart was employed , but all was done by spades , mules , and men s backs . He found that as all was done by these means , the produce was large , and every one was employed . "
Mr . O'Connor continued , But still there were men so sceptical that they would not believe in the capability ot the soil , but , let them understand that his whole plan depends upon the principle of co-operation , of buying in the whelesale market , and letting in the retail market at the wholesale price . ( Cheers . ) A hatter makes retail profitofhiswliole 3 alehats , agroeerofhissugar , ahosier of his stockings , a baker of his flour , and a butcher of bis meat . No one man could make a railroad of considerable length , no one man could establish a joint stock bank or an insurance company , or make a canal , or work an expensive mine ; and yet individuals thus co-operating can drive individual speculators from the market of traffic . For instance , a man may travel a hundred
miles in five hours for 8 s 4 d ., and if be travels by gig with one horse , ihc property of an individual , he will pay that much turnpike at a penny per mile . He will pay three-pence a mile , or three times the amount as the legitimate wages of the driver , and he will pay £ 5 , a shilling a mile , twelve times as much as his railway fare , for the hire of the horse and gig besides living away from home , and the loss ef fifteen hours labour instead of five . ( Great cheering . ) Mow , then , that ' s co-operation , that's tbe value of the land , but while we have a Minister of allspice and nutmegs , of cloves and cinnamon , of ground ginger and sarsaparilla , of saltpetre and starch , and indigo , and mace , and citron , and candiedlenion peel , and all the rest of the dainties , and thread , aud needles , and tape , and bobbing , we have no
Minister of agriculture —( loud cheers )—and , hence we find at one and the same time , a whole / brave , hospitable , generous , and industrious people threatened with famine , which , we are tokl , is a dispensation from God . while the palace is to be improved which , no doubt . isalsoadispcusation with which the people would willingly dispense . ( Cheers and laughter . ) Free traders would disparage tlie value of the land , while the worlun » classes were ignorant enough to give at the rate " of £ 20 , £ 30 , and even £ 40 per acre for small plots , and whatever was the rent they would make any sacrifice rather than lose it —( cheers )—Did they ever reflect that the labouring man , whether employed for six days or four days , or not employed at all , had to pay seven days rent for his house . ( Cheers . ) Now , my friends , it is to break down and for ever destroy this anomaly that
I am contending . ( Cheers . ) The old traffickers will try to make the next struggle for religious liberty , but I tell you it is all moonshine . Political inferiority is quite compatible with what all sects call , religious liberty which means nothing more or less than their own ascendancy , while civil liberty and political freedom would banish religious dissension and distinction for ever from the laud . ( Great cheering . ) It is for that that I wish you to struggle . Notwithstanding all the attempts of faction to break us up , netwithetanding the fearful odds against which we have had to contend , wo have still a staff of bold and sturdy hearts , sufiiciently powerful to make an impression on the dying house . —( Cheers)—and what I ask you is to uoe and exercise your right to the fullest , to strcugiuion Duncombe ' s hands , — ( tremendous cheering ) — . to fight labour's battle in the House of Commons , / c is
childish and foolish to say that you possess no power , for 1 tell you . that , you have the same power over your trustees that the law has over the trustees of ihc property of others . The law obliges them and coerces them into the faithful discharge of their trust , and then do you oblige and coerce your trustees into a proper execution of their trust —( loud cheers ) our weakness is but a consequence of our folly . We have withstood the power of the throne of the Lords , of the Commons , of the bishops , the parsons , the judges , the juries , the magistrates , the shopkeepers the army the navy , and the police , and worse than all , the hired slander or interested silence
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of a corrupt , a prostitute , an infidel , a venal press . ( Great cheering . ) Yes , our fraternity and exchange of opinion is ns complete as that of the Jesuits . Our principles fly from tongue to tongue , are caught by every ear , and impressed upon 0 V fH llea " ; ( Cheers . ) Our cause lives by oral tradition , let us then seek through the House of Commons another channel to spread it throughout the world , and to all corners of the earth . ( Cheers . ) Send twelve members to aid Duncombe and the work is done . We have the ascendancy of numbers , the ascendancv of mind , and theascendancy of principles , but the inferiority of action / If I had the power ot making one law to-morrow , and that that law was not to be the CharterI would take from the press
, the power of advertising and throw it upon the ascendancy of mind for its livelihood , and I promise you , that the Times would go to bed a Whig and rise a Chartist to insure the largest circulation . ( Cheers and laughter . ) The man must have a heart of adamant and a mind impervious to all the best feelings of nature who can tamely look on and witness the oppression of the poor . I was once a man of the gay world myself , I kept my hounds , my hunters , and my race horses , I loved thechace , the race ground , and the ball-room , but now my mind ' s improved , and directed to more profitable gratification to the benefit of my fellow-mon . I would now rather be on the scaffold witb the bricklayers in the field of industry with the husbandman , in the wood with
the forester , or on the hearth with the labourer's child and one of the happy circle living by their own industry , contented , prosperous , and happy , and blessing God that they were in their natural sphere , and that they were able to earn their own bread by the sweat ot their own brow . And I have gained immeasurably by the change—it is what monarchs look for , but few enjoy—a peaceful , mind , a healthful constitution , a good apetite . and frugal fare wherewith to satisfy it . ( Longand continued cheering . ) My friends , I am getting excited , but I trust that my over zeal will not injure your cause , or my over caution postpone its consummation . There is a time to build up . and a time to pull down , a time for wild enthusiasm and sober
thought . I have played my part in both , but I have not deserted either . ( Loud cheers . ) I have called murder murder , before you were able to distinguish between sudden death and lingering torture . There was a time when I feared that the long training to which I had been subjected , would have numbed my speed , would have cooled my courage , unnerved my mind , and damped my ardour . The trainers tell you'that too much galloping damps the courage , and numbs the speed of the racehorse , but I have had no gentle exercise , I have taken my physic kindly , my sweats copiously , and my gallops freely . I may be under the influence of overlong training , but still I feel as sound in wind , as hale in constitution , as light of limb and resolved of purpose , as any
colt that is enteral for the Chartist stakes , and when the word "Away" is given , he will be swift aathouaht that beats me by a nose . ( Tremendous cheering and waving of hats . ) Yes , my friends , 1 have tried myself , and I think I shall be equal to any emergency that the age , any necessity that the people , or any expediency thatthe Whigs , may imposeuponme . ( Renewed cheering . ) I have lived down prejudice . I possess the undivided confidence ef your order . ( Loud cheers . ) I have been the first to open a market for those who never dared to hope that they could traffic in the world of speculation , and of all men living , the teetotallers should love me , when I tell them that of the £ 15 , 000 subscribed to our fund , £ 5 , 000 or more has been snatched from the gin-palace and tho beer shop . ( Cheering . ) I have shewn
man the road trom the House ot bondage , to the land of freedom . I have furnished him with the opportunity of making himself independent of the frowns of the wealthy , the terror of the law , and the temptation of committing crime to live . ( Tremendous cheering . ) I have done all this without being a tax upon their poverty , and when I shall have added a National Benefit Society to the Land Plan , and when I shall have founded an Agricultural College , in which a thousandjpeaBants ' sons shall receive a generous education , self-sustaining , and at their departure each-taking- his full share of surplusafterconsumption , then , my friends , I shall have done one man's snare . but in the language of the chairman , I tell you that I must fail unless sustained by your cooperation and confidence . I shall now conclude with the inspiring words of Mr . Jones , the inspired Chartist
poet—Then I bound on my armour to face tbe rough world , And I am going to march with the rest Against tyrants to fight , for the sake of the right , And if baffled , to FALL with the rest . Mr . Holloway then proposed a vote of thanks to the Chairman , which Mr . O'Connor seconded in a speech highly complimentary to that gentleman ' s consistency and talent , but previous to taking a show of hands he first begged to make proclamation for any person who had any opposing doctrine to advance , when he ( Mr . O'Connor ) would insure him , under the chairman ' s guidance , as full , fair , and impartial a hearing as he had had , but if the invitation was declined , he trusted that the opponents would for ever hold their peace . No attempt at discission being offered , Mr . O'Connor put the resolution of thanks to the meeting which was carried by acclamation , and amid great cheering , and after
Mr . Chance had returned thanks , Mr . O'Connor said that he was so highly gratified with the evening ' s proceedings , that , although fatigued from standing , that with their permission he would take a sitting shot at them . lie then sat down and delivered a most pleasing and highly instructive address upon the capabilities of the soil , and the practice of agriculture , which was listened to for nearly an hour with breathless silence , and at the close was responded to by several rounds of applause and waving of hats . Lusty cheers were then friven for the Charter and the Land , Duncombe , Frost , Williams and Jones , O'Connor , and the Chairman ; after which tho Secretary disposed of a number of the rules , and Mr . O'Connor retired , with thirty or forty of the leading spirits , who remained together till a late hour , in profitable , instructive , and entertaining conversation .
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i ^ i TOM STEELE . Verbatim report of the celebrated speech delivered by the Head Pacificator of Ireland , at the Conciliation Hall , on the occasion of his illustrious Liberator ' s visit to the Saxon Viceroy in his aldermanic robes . ( From our otvn Reporter—exclusive . ) 4 My countrymen , —If tbe pulsations of my exuberant soul were smothered and held in subjection by the august and overawing presence of our illustrious leader and chief , our immortal Liberator , there is no superhuman reason in the all-seeing eye of God or man why I should restrain the exasperations of an overflowing generous Irish heart in his absence . ( Loud cheers . ) Who , I say , but a renegade refugee of a reprobate rapscalion degenerate ' Young Irelander '—( great cheers)—could behold his majestic
charmed form , robed in the magnificent garments , wove , as it were , out of Ireland ' s exalted affections , and spun by Ireland ' s patriotic love of liberty . ( Tremendous cheering . ) A feeling of an ecstatic pulsation , and internal sympathetic joy seizing the inmost recesses ol every interstice of the mo ? t debased and sluggish , heart . ( Vehement cheering . ) My friends , when we out an evolutionary , perspective , scientific glance at the stupundousand pregnant past , how can we do otherwise than , exulting , pronounce our heart-bounding adulation of the glorious , pious , and immortal ( sensation ) leader who encompassed the rational and peaceful mind of his own cherished , loved land , into one vast and overwhelming category of indefinite ethereal expanse , ( loud cheers , ) and
precipitated it , like a mighty avalanche , with a territic , but peaceful and ponderous grandeur ( great applause ) upon the . benighted mind , and worse than heathen Euyptian darkness of the Saxon oppressor . ( Cheers . ) His harlequin magic hangs like a bencficient and gorgeous mantle over all the regions of the globe , from the Punjab to the Giant ' s Causeway—from Hong Kong to the Land ' s End . ( Great cheering , ) — enlightening and illuminating the morbid and benighted understanding of the native tribes of barbarians yet unborn , ( cheers , ) and spreading and inspiring a salubrious mystification , encompassing the whole civilized and uncivilized world . ( Loud cheers . ) Must we not exclaim with the immaculate and ever-adorable S * . l ' au . mother
of Moses , and the most inspired prophet of ancient times , when heathen mythology and Egyptian darkness enveloped all the regions of the habitable globe —( tremendous cheering)—must we not exclaim with him , I say , Proceed , O mystic prophet with thy mission and thy wondrous works . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Is there , I ask . one peripatetic conception , impulse or pulsation , lurking in the glowing heart of an Irishman that does not redound withtranscendant , effulgent and incipient gratulation as he paints to his eyes' fancy the majesty of his divine and adorable chief , going to receive the courteous exchanges of civilized urbanity and royal etiquette from the illustrious representative of our ever loved und adorable Queen Victoria . I call for nine cheers for that ani mated imprint , that infinitive corporeality of generous and unsullied royalty . ( Loud and tremendouselicering
and waving of hats , ) Did ' nt I know tho soul-stirring ennobling theme that would make every Irish heart reverberate and echo the pure sentiments of unsophisticated loyality for the first English Queen that ever possessed the feminine delicacy and amiable tenderness of lovely woman —( great cheering)—and r th 1 who but the veriest , foulest traitor , with a poisoned heart ot a venomous viper or stinging hornet , could think of excoriating her royal diadem , or causing a palpitating pulsation in her royal bosom . ( Grea t cheering , and Pikes . ) Pikes is it ; is it pikes ') 'ou say ; eternal emasculation to your coward soul , yt *« undulating varmint , from tho stinking purlieus . « nd foetid cesspool of the traitorous , regicide , patricide , & atvjcide , suicidal NATION . ( Groans . ) When did i ever mention pikes but as the emblem of Irish lov . V and adoration of my illustrious and divine chief , and as the angelic and mystic type of Xrisb Joyality jWd the peaceful aspirations of Irish
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hearts palpitating for the regeneration of their own loved land ! ( Great cheering . ) Yes , my countrymen , take into your glowing conception and proud retrospective imagination , the exalted position that Ireland has achieved under the peaceful guardianship ef the . apostolic liberator . ( Cheers , and Potatoes , ) Potatoes is it ; where is the spurious Irishman , or where is the real unmitigated and unalloyed descendant of St . Patrick —( Loud cheers)—whoso sordid mind would stray from the ethics of supernatural metaphysics , and the study of the natural history and geological position of his loved Ireland , into the foul and murk y mazes and unexplored regions of the potato field . ( Loud cheering . ) I was drawing your minds to the contemplation of a more
magmheent aud holy spectacle , the emission of your loved chief to testify Ireland ' s loyalty , gratitude aud love of moral force , at the feet ef the representative of royality , whose arms hold half the civilized world in subjection to her royal will—( loud cheers)—and who , in the midst of such gorgeous aspirations , can allow his animal thoughts to stray from the ethereal world of vast , and mighty , and boundless conception to the dark and unexplored reigions of vegetable science . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Oh that you could all feel as I do , or that imagination could furnish inspired words to convey the effect upon Ireland's mind of his super-eminent , super-excellent , superabundant pulchretude . ( Great cheering . ) Yes , my beloved countrymen it has so totally ignined my
, masseratedmicrocosom , and reduced my corporeality to an infinity of sensuality and materialism , that it transcends all the herculean power of the metaphysician , to give verbose utterance to my moribund conceptions upon so glorious , so inspiring , so ominous , so portentous an occasion for Ireland . ( Great cheering . ) To what shall I compare his mag ic influence ? Is it not like the supernatural power of the moon upon the mighty expanse of boundless ocean ? Yes , does not the electrifying spark of love of Ireland , in his glowing generous heart attract every fibre of latent affection from the breast ot Irishmen , as the moon attracts the swelling bosom of ocean . Thus incorporating the refreshing waters of the mind into
a vast and incomprehensible deluge , rushing and overwhelming Saxon prejudice , as the ocean , by the moon ' s influence breaks her legitimate landmarks . ( Three cheers for the moon . ) And is not the allegory complete ? Is not tho metaphor strictly appli « cable , for is not the ocean the inspired messenger between our expatriated brothers in transatlantic regions , and their loved kindred , from whom Saxon oppression has severed them . ( Cheers . ) And do they not send joyous and cheering messages of exulting and transporting joy upon the boundless wave , that comes from the coast of Labrador , unbroken until it is scattered into spray at the foot of the Liberator ' s native hills . ( Three cheers for Labrador . ) The Head Pacificator retired amid a hurricane of applause .
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Chartist Co-Operative Land Society. Shar...
CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY . SHARES , £ 2 10 s . The first section of the above flourishing Institution , consisting of 6 , 000 members , is now complete ; the members in it hold , among them , nearly ten thousand shares , upon which they have paid
£ 13 , 000 . The second section advances rapidly towards completion , it numbers at present four thousand members , who have subscribed upon their shares £ 2 , 000 . Thus , although the society has been but fifteen months in existence , it has enrolled ten thousand members , and created a capital of £ 15 , 000 . The following are the benefits which the society guarantees to its members ; holders of one share , a house , two acres of land , and £ 15 ; holders of a share and a-half , a , house , three acres , and £ 2210 s . ;
holders of two shares , a house , four acres , and £ 30 . Leases for ever will be granted to the occupants . The society affords facilities for enabling members to purchase their allotments , and thus become freeholders . The rent of the allotments will be moderate , as it will be regulated by a charge of 5 * g cent upon the capital expended upon each . The society having been called into existence for the benefit of the working clssses , the rules enable the poorest to avail themselves of its advantages , as the shares may be paid by weekly instalments as low as threepence .
Meetings for enrolling members are held as fol lows : —
SUNDAY EVBNING . South London Chartist Hall , Wo , Black Wars-road : at half-past six o ' clock . —City Chartist Hall , 1 , Turnagain-lane : at six o ' clock . — Westminster : at the Partheniura Club Rooms , 72 , St . Martin's-lane- at half-past seven . —iSomer * Town : at Mr . Duddrege ' s Bricklayers' Arms , Tonbridge-street , New-road , at half-past seven . —Tower Hamlets : attheWhittington and Cat , Church-row , Bethnal-green , at six o ' clock precisely . — - Emmett ' s Brigade : at the Rock Tavern , Lisson-grove , at eight o'clock precisely . — Marylehone : at the Coach Painters' Arms , Cirous-stieet , at half , past seven . Gray ' s Inn Road , Mason ' s Arms , Britannia-street . —Hammersmith : at No . 2 , Little Valeplace , at ten in the forenoon . —Newcastle-upon-Tyne : at the house of Martin Jude , Sun Inn , Side , from seven till nine . —Leicester : at 87 , Church-gate , at six , — Bradford : Woolcombcrs' Arms Inn , Hopestreet , at five .
MONDAY EVENING , Rochester : at the Victory Inn , at halt-past seven . —Camberwcll ; at the Montpelier Tavern , Walworth at eight o ' clock precisely . — Kensington : at eight o ' clock , at the Duke of Sussex . —Limehousc : at the Brunswick Hall , Ropemaker ' s Fields , at 8 o ' clock . Leicester : at No . 17 , Archdeden-lane , at seven o ' clock . — Chepstow : at the Temperance Hotel , Bank Avenue , at eight o'clock . —Armley : at the house of Mr . William Oates , boot and shoemaker ,
Armley Town-gale , at eight o ' clock . —Liverpool : at eight o ' clock , at Mr . Farrell ' s Temperance Hotel , 4 , Cazneau-street . — Helper .- at the house of George Wigley , the Dusty Miller , Field-head , from seven till nine . —Bristol : at No . 16 , Horse-fair , at eight o ' clock in the evening . —Darlington : at John Moss ' s , No . 24 , Union-street , at half-past seven . —Charley Wood Common : at Mr . Barber ' s at seven o ' clock . — Rkfcmansworlh : at the Cart and Horses , at seven o ' clock . —Mile End : at the Golden Cross , at seven o ' clock .
TUESDAY EVENING . Greenwich : at Mr . Paris ' s , Cold Bath , at eight o ' clock . —Oie , hea : Cheshire Cheese , Grosvenor-row , at eight o'clock . Whiteehapel ' . Brass Founders ' Arms , Tuesday evening at eight o clock .
WEDNESDAY EVENING . Aberdeen : the office-bearers meet at half-past seven , at No , 1 , Flour Mill-lane Hall . —Brighton : No . 2 , at No . 3 , Charles-street , at eight o ' clock . THURSDAY EVENING . Shoreditch : at Chapman ' s Coffee House , Churchstreet , at eight o ' clock . Halifax . —A District Meeting will be ho ' den at the Helm , Sowerby , on Sunday , Sep . 27 th , at two o ' clock in the afternoon . The different localities arc requested to send delegates . Brighton . —No . 1 Branch of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , meet every Wednesday evening , at eight o ' clock , at the Artichoke Inn , Bri g hton . Halifax . —Mr . Bawden will lecture on Sunday ( to-morrow ) in the Working Man ' s Hall , Bullclosclane , at half-past 0 o ' clock in the evening .
Nottingham . —The next meeting of the Land Society in this district , will be held at the Chesterfield Arms Inn , Carlton , on Sunday evening next , at six o ' clock . Accrington . —A meeting will be held at the house of Mr . W . , Beesley , Abby-street , Accrington , on Sunday , the 27 th instant , to form a branch oi' the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , the meeting to commence at 2 o ' clock , p . m . Parties wishing to become members are requested to attend , Barssley . —On Sunday evening ( to-morrow ) ' a discussion will take place in the Chartist Room , on
the advantages the public have already derived by tho Chartist agitation , and our present position contrasted with what it probably would have been had no such agitation ever taken place . Manchester . —On Sunday evening next , Sept . 20 th , 1840 , Mr . Edward Crappen Clarke , will lecture in the People ' s Institute , chair to be taken at half-past six . Siuney Row . —( County Durham )—The members of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society in this locality , meetevery Monday evening at seven o ' clock , until nine , to enrol members and receive subscriptions , at the house of Mr . Thomas Blackcy , junr ., hoot and shoe-maker , Shiney Row , County of
Durham . , Manchester . —Tne Observation Committee beg to inform the various localities in South Lancashire , that a Delegate meeting will be held at Ob - ham , on Sunday , the 11 th day of October , 1846 , when it is requested that each locality will . have its representative present , as business of gieat importance will bo laid before the delegates . The following is the resolution of the Committee ;—•' That a Delegate meeting of the South Lancashire Chartists , be held at Oldham , on Sunday , the
11 th of October , at 10-o clock in the forenoon , to adopt moans for carrying into effect the decisions ot the late Convention . " Pueston . —A General Meeting of the Preston branch of the Land Society , will take place on Monday evening next , September 21 st , at Mr . llool's Temperance Coffee House , Lune-street , to elect a sub-secretary for the branch , for the next half-year , and to take into consideration the letter of Mr . W . C . Smith , of Halifax , which appeared in last week ' s Star .
Uiudford . —A meeting of the members of the National Charter Association , will be held in tho large room of tho " iVoolcomber ' s Arms , High-street , ou Sunday next , at two o ' clock . A meeting of the members of tho Chartist Cooperative Land Society , at the sameiime and place . Biusotobd , —A meeting of the Woolcombcrs ol
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Bradford and neighbourhood will be held on Monday , September 21 st , at half-past five o ' clock in the evening at Peckorer ' s Walk , to consider the case tho Wbolcomber / s of Keighley , who are * suffering the mostcruel'V oppression from their unprincipled emplojjere . ' Fifteen thousand of them with their wives and ' families , having been thrown out of work , for asserting their right to unite for the protection of their labour . Lancashire Miners . — The General Delegate Meeting of Lancashire Miners will be held on Monday , September 21 st , at the sign of the Horse Shoe , Whiston Lane Ends ' , near Huyton Quarry , chair to be taken at eleven o ' clock in the forenoon . There
will also be a public meetine which will be addressed by W . P . Roberts , Esq ., and other gentlemen . Chair to be taken at 3 o ' clock , p . m . Manches ter . —A meeting of the Shareholders of the Chartist Co-operative Land Association , will be held in tlie hall of the People's Institute , on Sunday morning next Sept . 20 tb , at ten o ' clock in the forenoon . The members are requested to be punctual ia their attendance . Lrratpooi ,. —The quarterly meeting of the members of this locality , will beheld at W . Farral ' s . Temperance Hotel , i , Canneau-atreet , on Sunday , ( tomorrow ) eveningat seven o ' clock
, . Derby .-. A general meeting of the Chartists of Derby will be held at the Buck in the Park , Trafficbtreet , London Road , on Sunday , September 27 th , at 6 o ' clock in the evening . Rochdale . —Edward Clark , of Manchester , will lecture in the Chartist Room . Mill-street , on Sunday ( to-morrow ) evening , at six o ' clock , t-gtritai Hull . —A general meeting of the Chartists , will take place at the Ship Inn , Church-lane , ( to-morrow ) at two o ' clock in the afternoon . The Chartist Cooperative Land Society , hold their weekly meeting at the above place , every Tuesday evening , at eight ; o ' clock .
Brighton . —The members of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , No . 1 , meet at the Artichoke Inn , William-street , every Wednesday evening , between the hours of eight and ten o ' clock . A special general meeting of the Chartists , will be held at the Artichoke Inn , on Wednesday evening , Sept . 23 rd , when the whole of the members are earnestly requested to attend .
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National Association Of United Trades Fo...
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNITED TRADES FOR THE PROTECTION OF INDUSTRY . The Central Committee met at their office , 30 , Hyde-street , Bloomsbury , on Monday , Septembir 14 , T . S . Duncombe , M . P . in the chair . A maSfcff letters were read by the secretary , including tho ^ m ^ lowing from Leicester , containing the adhesion ongSj sock frame-work knitters , numbering seventy-t ^ g from Clithero , containing the adhesion of the powerloom weavers , numbering three hundred and fifty ; from the Potteries , containing the adhesion of the China figure makers , numbering a hundred and thirtythree from Manchester , containing the adhesion of the Tamworth small ware weavers and winders , numbering eighty-five ; also the Measham small ware
weavers and winders , numbering one hundred ; from Mr . Jacobs , Scotch missionary , giving a favourable account of his tour amongst the trades bodies in that country , and their eager manifestations in favour of general union , co-operation of strength , mutual support aud self-employment ; from Mr . Gimblett ,. detailing his mission to the nail makers of Lye , whohave now commenced manufacturing on their own . account , under the auspices of the United Trades , reporting also his interview with the nail makers of Belper , and the silk glove makers of Duffreed ; from Mr . William Robson , reporting the result of his mission to the shoe-makers of Holywell ; he had interviews with both employers and employed , and a sue * cessftd termination of the strike was the result . Thefollowing resolution was unanimously adopted : —
"That in all cases where a district committeeshall be established , the secretary be hereby authorised to supply such committee ( carriage free ) with a sufficient number of copies of rules , at one penny each copy , as shall meet the demand of such district , "
NOTTINGHAM . In consequence of receiving a circular from a portion of our trade in London , who never belonged ? to our union joined by the mal-contents of our Association soliciting us to join them in forming local unions on the old system , a general meeting was called on thd 4 th inst ., to consider the proposition ,. when the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : — That viewing with regret that a portiom of eur Londonshopmates attempting to destroy our union , and to return to the old system of isolated union , we knowing the inefficiency of local unions to resist reductions , or support tramps , and , belitving it would annihilate most of the small societies now in existence are determined to support tbe Association to the utmost of our power .
That our portion of the Available Fund be transmitted to the treasurer forthwith . We call upon Ihe districts throughout the country to assist us in the perfecting of this great union , and not allow the men of London a se--cond time to destroy our attempts at progression .
BELPER . A very numerous meeting of the Horse Nail Makers was held last Monday evening , to enquire into the evils practised by some of their employers . After the business for which the meeting was convened had terminated , Mr . Gimblett one of the Board of Directors for the Association of Employment of Labour in Agriculture and Manufactures , spoke on the utility of that Association , after whieh a number of shares was took up . A vote of thanks was given to Mr . Gimblett , and the Association to which he had the honour to belong . The meeting then seperated .
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Corn Exchange, September 14. The Market ...
CORN EXCHANGE , September 14 . The market of this day opened with a moderate supply of wheat from Essex , Suffolk , and Norfolk , but from Kent the samples shown were more abundant , not comprehending wheat alone , but barley , beans , and ( to a limited extent ) peas . There was not all the activity manifested among the millers to purchase wheat this mornin ? , and if to the prices of last Monday be added Is per quarter increase , the currency of this day ' s trade is fairly represented . Barley , generally , both fine and second rate samples , meets" rather a more languid trade at last week ' s prices . In the value of oats there is no quotable ' altera , tion , but this grain , like barley , is somewhat slow of sale to-day . Beans and hog peas are altogether unchanged . White peas continue to find a very active sale , and to-day bring an advance of 2 s per quarter . In flour no alteration is spoken of . The absence of rain keeps the demand for winter sowing articles for feed dull . Tares bring , however , fully late rales . In the seed market there Is nothing fresh from Monday last . Supplies are fully carried oft'by u regular and steady demand .
SM 1 TIIFIELD MARKET . The arrivals of Foreign cattle into the port of London , during-the past week have been much larger than usual , amounting in all to not less than 4 , 500 bead , of which 470 arc oxen , S 30 ecus , 154 calves , 3 , i 88 sheep , andtiolambs . There was a large supply of meat at Smithtitdd this morning , but trade wes notwithstanding , brisk for everything at full rates , and clearances were effected bv " the close of the market . . * - ¦ s
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PROVINCIAL MARKETS . KlCHMOVD ( YORKSHIUE ) C () BN MARKET , SEP . 12 . — "W © had u tolerable supply of grain in our market to-day . Wheat sold from 5 s . to 7 s . 6 d . ; Oats , 3 s . to 3 s . ( id . - Barley , 3 s . 9 d . to 4 s . 3 d . ; Beans , 4 s . Cd . to 5 s . par bushel ' . LivEurooL Corn Market . —Since Tuesday last tho wheat trade has maintained a firm aspect , but there has not been any very active demand , and prices are without change . Several pa \ -cels of Irish new red wheat have armed and sold during the week at 7 s . 9 d , to 8 s . per 701 bs . Some speculative purchases of American flour , duty paid , and in bond , have transpired at full prices . All descriptions of Spring earn have further improved in value . Oats have advanced 2 d . to 3 d ., aud barley fully 3 d . per pushcl ; peas and beans each 2 s . to 3 s . per qr . Oatmeal is 'Js . per load dearer , aud the market barley supplied . Thu high rate at which Indian corn is held lias checked the demand , but holders evince no willing , ness to give way .
» Coit . v Market . — We have very largo arrivals of wheat , all the vessels from the south being now up . 1 ha attendance was very good , and a large business done in new wheat at an advance of 3 s . per qr . ; old samples 2 S . dearer . New barley in better supply , and sells trom 86 s . to 3 Ss . ; Norfolk 3 Ss . to 40 s . and " is Is . higher . Oats I stone and sheUing Is . per load , dearer . Boaus fully Is . above last currency . Malt in demand , and Is . higher . Manchester Corn Market . — At our market this morning , holders of wheat , encouraged by the further improvement noted in the value of wheat in London vester-Uiij were him _ m demanding an advance on this article of 4 d . to lol . pev iDlbs ., at whieh amendment , however , only a moderate extent ol business occurred . With a steady sale lor prime home-made flour and advance of 2 s . pur sack must be quoted ; and Foreign was also fully 2 s , per barrel d earer . The few parcels of oats and oatmeal olteniig realized 4 d . to fid . per 451 bs . and 2 s . per load respectively over the currency of this day sa ' iiuirfit
. Hull tons MAitKET .-At to-day ' s market wo had very little wheat shown , the farmers preferring to hold at present ; what few sales have been made were at an adv .-inco Of 3 s . to 4 s . per ijr . ou last week ' s prices ; free foreign held at rates too high to attract buyers . All sorts of $ uriii | T cm-n rather dearer , l . insced we quote Is . per qr . hii'lier Linseed cakes have been in groat demand at higher rate * and none now to be had under our full quotations . The stock ot foreign in the port is very trifling , nor do wo hear ot many being expected Turnips are badl ' v spoken of in some districts as being affected with tlie same disease as potatoes . Our importations of rapeseud arc chietly for mwlwvs' account . Raps cake in demand at the quotations . Hones held with greater firmness . In guano nothing passing .
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, llaymarket , in the City of Westminster at tho Oflice , in the same Street ami ¦ 1 'arisli , for the IVoprietor , r'EAUGUS O'CO . VXOlt . Esq ., and published by William Hewitt , of . No . IS , Charles-street , lirjn dun-street , Walivorth , in the Parish of , St . Mary , Sew ingtou , in the County of Surrey , at the Office , l \ o pj (" real Windmill-street , llaymarket , in the City o We * tiniustor . Saturday , September 10 , 1 S 4 C »
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