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gr _^ Badie 8 d _^ Asso < _aatJon _"M Marylebone , at Stockpor t , aad . _t & Tongbouc _my-, several subsequentj , tours > I _sbfiwedyoiurcry _dewlyibat , in ] essthan-two 7 ean . you might purchase as much Land as " -would bean equivalent for the tithes ofthe country—that , in fire years , yon might purchase as much as represented the interest of the _National Debt-and in twenty years _"foumightpurehase all the Land of the country—npon the principle of Co-operation * Since then , I have pointed outio yoa tliat all the properties , made hy canal companies , insurance companies , _i-ailw & y
companies-, and joint stock companies of every description weTeaUm _adenpontheprmcipleofco-operation . _Now-I-willla-f . _dos-r _^ ja" : _Smpte" f _*^ _i - _& J J ° _n » * ' one strictly _analii-gQuatofe _oMy _progressing mth . _Inl 83 _*) itiised to cost me for cnachmen , guards , and living on the road , about £ 6 : 103 *' -to . go id Manchester in twenty hours , with my . Jegs cramped : up J » " my chin , and unfitted for _acHve busih _^ yfor twenty-four hours . I can now go tu l _^ chester with comfort in thirteen hours for £ 1 , living included , and can go from the tram toa public meeting . Now , no one man could have effected this reduction , ' nor could all the coach proprietors in theklng
dom , of themselves , have made a road to Manchester This has been all done by co-operation . So precisely _irith Labour and the Land : even 100 of you cooperating could not have withstood the legal ex - pence of making ; out title , and transfering the property , and performing such other requisites , nor , were yon able to purchase it , _coold yoa have sufficiently assisted each other to insure ultimate success . I have so far succeeded , however , in taking the veil from your eyes ]! as to have ' eonvinced thousands and tens of thousands ofpersons , not only of the capabilities of ihe soil , but ofthe people ' s ability to possess themselves of it . Believe me , that this was no
easy task , and one in the accomplishment of which I was sure to meet "with the hostility of the press , the opposition of those _wholive upon labour , and last , not least , those who thrive by mouthing labour ' s wrongs and preserving labour ' s sorrows , that they may fatten upon its misfortunes . They hoped that your ignorance ofthe science of Agriculture ; and of the value ef Land , would make you easy believers in their ravings . They never told you that their own opposition , in part , sprung from their ignorance of the subject , and thata want of knowledge of it would render agitation an unprofitable trade . I shall shortly , however , be in a situation io pnt a few
awkward questions to ihe several philanthropists who , cotemporftneously with myself , proposed to build houses for you , and otherwise to relieve you from a portion of your sufferings . I shall resort to my old plan npon such occasions , and shall ask those gentlemen for THEIR BALANCE SHEETS . I shall ask them to show me what has really been done in the process of emancipation ? And before they answer me 1 _shaTTbe able to point to not less than 500 Jtcres , not of barren Land , but of the best deserlption of Land / _prirchased witbinLESS TITiN OSS YEAR since your Association could te said to be established . . " - > - ¦ - _}~ - _? - ¦ ¦ - ?¦ _&&¦ '' > _£ _v-s : >
' Every pnblie man who really desires to better the eondition of the working classes , will always _gjurt fhe fullest and most searching inquiry into _iwery one of his actions . In fact , the very life of our society is INTEGRITY . I would mnch rather be . cheated out of £ 500 ot the society ' s money hy being taken advantage of in a speculation , than that one of its most insipiificant oficers should be _adefaulterto the amount of sixpence . And , besides all pecuniary considerations , there must be confidence in the ability as well as in the intentions of those who undertake the management of so gigantic a scheme . In order then to establish that confidence in roe , it was
necessary ihat men from different parts of the conniry should see and judge for themselves , between the anticipations and forebodings of my enemies , and the real thing itself . This opportunity has now been extensively afforded . Hundreds of persons , from all parts of England—Manchester , Liverpool , Leeds , _Nottingham , Northampton , London , Es ? ex , and in fact from all parts , have visited the Chartist Estate ; and the plain blunt truth is , that they would scarcely believe it possible that sueh a paradise eould fall to the lot of tlieir order . It gave mc extreme pleasure to escort these parries , so interested in the underiakunr . over labour ' s first purchase : and the many
timc 3 they shook my "hand and implored blessings npon me , and turned up their eyes in wonder , more than repaid mc for all the trouble ihat I have taken for them . Some matters of minor detail appear to _stagger some of our distant friends , who will not believe that cows afar off always have long horns , and who were sceptical abont my cow , though she has no horns at all . I showed my cow to every one , as I take great pride in her , especially as I have made her so tame tliat she will come up to me in the middle of the field and put up her head to have it
scratched . One of our members from " { Nottingham ( _Hanbing ) who has five cows of his own , visited me on Tuesday ; he will tell the people in his district whether or no I overrated the cow . lie said , that he never saw such a cow in his life—that he recentl y bought one himself that gave TWENTY-SIX quarts a-day—he offered to pay me down the money I gave for her , although 1 sold the calf for 45 s ., and to leave me the use of her for two months . "Now all that I shall say of my cow is , that all who don't believe in her let them come and see her , and judge for themselves .
I shall now direct yonr attention io what to you is ofthe greatest importance , namely , the "knowledge as to how money is _ma-Je oflabour . I have shown you many a time that the man who employs a thousand operatives , and who reduces their wages by two pence a day each , makes £ 2 , 000 a year by this filchin g alone . I will now show you Low a farmer can make his money , though more creditably , just by attending to his men . A fanner who employs twentvmen , and stands over them , can always , independently of his fair profit on labour , make £ C 2 C a year as a bailiff , thus—Every labourer who works under the eye of a master will return that master 2 s .
a day over and above the legitimate profit upon the other two shillings a day . That is , the twenty men scientifically put to work will do more work in three days than twenty men left to themselves will do in a week , jnst as twenty well officered men will beat forty who are badly officered . This Is a subject which lam most particular in keeping for ever in your view , because in the case of our occupants , every soldier is fan officer ; every man works task work , but it is for himself , and he will take care not to go beyond his strength . As to the buildings , some of the _shai-eholders have seen the materials , and when
they saw the seasoned old oak for window and doorframes , and the strong pannellcd doors of the best deal , their observation was , "Eh ! but that ' s rare stuff . " l *« ow let me show yon what co-operation can effect . Lady Bentley , who professes to be a great p hilanthropist , has built some cottages for the poor jn the neighbourhood of Herringsgate : each cottage consists of two rooms , a kitchen and a room above it , and in order io MAKE THE POOR COMFORTABLE , her philanthropic ladyship lets them at a rait of 2 s . Cd . a week eaeh , or £ 010 s . by the year , without a morsel of ground , and without the . £ 1 . 5 . the £ 2210 s ., or he £ 30 , and even without
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the _certonty _^ of remaining jn beyond her ladyship ' s _uleasure" " * J cH _M * J _? * JTJus 8 ubjecti 8 so irew _andthe advantages _^ Uie _pWsobnafe _^ mn . _ti nB _^ _-S- _^ ce _^ _. _'riib _^^ I naust _fc g _9 jM ; teraa _% _Jbefiir _^ o , _nA , _Lcaja jr _^ e r , tO _jjJlffl speeches upon they subject and so can you , and ' you must bearln m _^^^ t- _^ b _^ t _^ _yoo _^ _iiil : _^^ not want you to go , iu carriages _m _^ _eren to _JtldO— -tn 8 . t „ A didn't want you _Vfeidk ji _| fi _£ i _& the yearrexcept i
when you were notable toyg * gfeJi but * tnai _; wnai , * om want * - , _wa-r-fc ? -. ' mate _~ _you _^ _a _<^ naent * of _^ aU c _^ -f & Iu _*! _^ [ wu'in € _& end , _entfrf _^ _e-imflttcnce > of - -capital , the I _GRDfl ) _lNGT : FFEeTS ' ' OFl _4 _AeHINERYrand 1 _thfr _^ _pce _^ _fmasters . 1 What I did want was to see yon with _yeOTfenihes comfortable aHd independent about you , never wanting a day ' s meal or good clothing , able to give every one of your children a good education , to see yoa independent of . pansb . re
lief , and to find you every day in the year with more money in your pocket than wonld be demanded to meet any casualty , calamity , or uncertainty . Well , I _assert without the fear of contradiction , that I have done that , aud more than that- _^ that I have placed eTery shareholder and his" family in a situation to eat , if they can , every particle that ; -grows upon , two , three , ' or four acre 3 of ground , while their / spare labour , sold at the lowest rate , will always fetch more than will nay the i rent . "Nay more , I now assert , in the teeth of the eniemy , that in less than five years from the day each
man is located , he will he enabled to purchase his allotment for ever , while , besides that , the land will be worth £ 2 an acre more , than when he gets , possession , as every inchofit will be like a market garden within that time . I am determined to put this question before you in every shape and form . A man gets four acres of land , say worth a pound an acre ; in five years that man will have lived upon it , and have saved as much " as will purchase it , and at the end _o _/^ e / _i / e year * it will be worth £ 2 an acre mere than his rent , that is £ 8 a year , which , at 25 years purchase , is £ 200 , which he wilt have _earned , besides living and purchasing his land within the five years . ' . " .
"Sow , I defy any man living to controvert this as . sertion ; or I defy any located member , unless he is an idle vagabond , to want a day ' s meal . Let me now suppose a man to be in . the lowest state , and to be copartner with a breeding sow , and never to devote his time to working off his _farmland his family never to earn a shilling , and that their whole labour is devoted to the maintenance of themselves and the sow ; and suppose that sow only to have pigs once a-year , and six pigs at each litter , and that the young ones are sold when they are worth 25 s . " each , this partner of the pig has £ 3 a-year over and above the rent of his house and land—in short , there is no possible way by which the weakest man can apply his labour to two acres ef ground , that the produce will not pay the rent and produce double as much as his family can consume .
The houses of the _^ emancipated paupers are now proudly rearing their heads as a sample of what cooperation , energy , aud integrity can do . The estate appears covered with industry ; and besides the future blessings that it will bestow upon its owners , it is refreshing the whole parish with the expenditure ofthe Society's funds . It would he impossible to describe the difference ; of the appearance either in the estate or myself , lrom ¦ r- _^ _-k to week . M'Grath and Boyle are _** _ealonsly and _mauhilly aiding in the good work , and are .. T _* as : > ure you , fully earning their wage by savingit ! and mvxe to the Society . I hope , _whUe G 2 _» $ - e and _Tvlic-eler are performing cabinet _bu-, _SHiis 5 s , soon tftbe ui . a situation to makei ajconHnencementfor _^ ctloti No . 2 arid now IshaU conclude with iri anecdote that will make you laugh . On Monday
_% t lwas superintending the cutting down of some " underwood . I was sitting on the stump _ofatrcein the shade , when an Irishman with a bundle on his back accosted me , and the following dialogue took place : — Well , my good fellow , what ' s the matter ? I ' m come to see if your honor will give me a job . I have no job for you I ' m afraid : what have you been working at ? Wisha ! 1 was a soger . Were you discharged ? I was . Did they gire you anything ! Wisha ! they did . How much , and when were you discharged ? About nine months ago , and they gave me two months '
pay . "Well , and have yon spent it all ? Oh ! then , and indeed I have . What , spent it all in nine months , and ow want a job ? Ah , then , where the devil is thc use of talking that way Share you knows that there ' s fools as weU as wise men in the world , and I ' m one of them . WeU , 1 am very sorry , but I haven't a job for you . Wisha ! its bad enough , may be you'd have something to give me agin the road ? Indeed I have not . Go to his lordship , and ask him to give you something . [ Doyle was his lordsbip . J Who the devil is he ? LordTorrington . Presently my friend returned , and the dialogue was resumed as follows
;—Well , what did he say ? By J s ! but he is a poor lord , he says he has no money . Go ta him again , and _teU him that _there ' s no compassion in this country for a poor Irishman , if he happens to be a Tory and a Protectionist . Well , what does his lordship say ? lie said he never _interfered in money matters , but to come to you , and that he left it all to you . Well , but you know I ' m but a working man myself . A working man is it , by J s but you ' ve got a fine easy job of it , if you call that working . ' Now , my friends , requesting that no one will recommend parties to leave tlieir homes on tho chance of setting work , and that all visitors will
REMEMBER TO PAY FOR THEIR MILK , - I remain your faithful friend and bailiff , h-juncus O'Cosson .
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HOUSE OF LORDS , Thursday , June i . This evening the House of Lords re-assembled , after the Whitsun holidays . The Earl of _Oaluousie moved the second reading ofthe Customs Duties Bill . The Duke of RicnMo . _vn opposed the Bill , and moved that it be read a second time that day six mouths . This amendment was supported by the Earl . of WicKLowand Lord _AsuBunios , and resisted by Earl Gret and Lord Mosteagle . Ultimately , the question was put from the Woolsack , the amendment negatived , and the Bill read a second time . On the motion of Lord Dalhousie . the Committee on the Bill was fixed for Monday week .
Tbe Friendly Societies Bill passed through a Committee , And the House adjourned at a quarter past eight o ' clock _.
HOUSE OF LORDS .-. FRinAT , June 5 . Lord _Rii-ON moved that tbe Hardinge and Goug h Annuities Bill be committed . Lord Monteagle strongly objected to the clause which provided that the annuities should not be given during the lives of their Lordships , in consequence of the East India Company having settled pensions on their Lordships for life . The Duke of Richmond moved , in committee , to expunge thc third clause , which made the parliamentary grant to cease so long as that of the East India [ Company of £ 5 , 000 was paid to Lord Hardintfe . Lord RiroN opposed the amendment . After considerable discussion a division took place , in wliich the amendment waa corned by a majoritv of 3 S over 20 .
The Bill then went through Committee , as also did Lord Gough ' s , which was similarly amended . Earl FminiMAM then brought forward his-resolutions , with regard to railway schemes , which , after some observations from Lord ' Daihocsie were withdrawn .
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- HOUSE _-OF * _OOfiMONSr _^ _FMDAxf _JoWS . - Sir _JiMaS _GSahAm stated , ' in * reply to Mr . G > _BramwltaiatnValterali & n- 'of the present system 1 rf _« _deUvemgiettura _^ _onT _§ ft 4 d 4 _yi -was ! ml _intern - _plation _^ "s- " _" _* - J _* _^ V _^ _a-r _^ _fcpr _t-t- _'Ptf * _v-isucr _- * V _^ ' _-THE _^^ OO _^ U _^ _MOtA-LiBIlli _^ * _* _fc-sMr-AE . _BraraortBove « i _^ a ' n ) 6 iffi instruction to _% _?«^ m e ° r n h _Bffi . _** make provision-foVthe _ttl _^ _rt ° _^ n i 6 iclfttemen _^ _Afterfc- da _- y * to to i _^' _* T _^^* l _<^ _^ _l _^> _^ _* PariBfie _' _cokprisipgitte _unlon _to _? _te _/|^* _k _! _ift _^ _the _' _* _^ _I _^ _bn _, and * t fotr _^ _irFAnyi _pimsh _JbtMrt * _unionl _^ _l-Tnat end : yspaupers , te _^ _amiabm _^& d _^^ -iexneAslSk defrayed from _af _^ _iM ( _jdjfcci _&& 1 } H _pariah ; in the proportion » of the- e _^ U $ B _^ _9 » idM _**^ o _^ inonT _^ ed by _^ eB _pansteio _^ Mlaltlevenyeaw Debts already charged on _thelrateBWifiT _titeresfttoe m respect of _snch'debiaf _^ i _^ & l & ei'ed hy'the 11
change . t _^ _T & _SW _& _Z ** _* _** Mr . Bankes _opposed / the instruction , because no proposition could have be _^ _n'madetohich would more effectually operate to _^ revenfthe employment ol labourers . Hi m t - * ' H Sir James Graham said ,- that as" the principle-in volved in the instruct _^ was one which he had him self proposed to the house in a , former measure , he would support it , but if if should be the pleasure of the house not te sanction that instruction , he should not on that account recede from the Bill proposed
by her Majesty ' s government As to the delay whicli would be occasioned by adopting the motion of the hon . gentleman- he could only say , that if the house should carry the motion , he would take care that the Bill should be altered accordingly ma few days , and laid on the table of the house early-next week . After observations froni Sir , R . Inglw , Colonel Wood , Mr .- Rice , Mr . Christopher , Mr . Strutt , Mr . Packington , Mr . C . "Wood , Mr . Henley , Mr . V . Smith , and Mr . Newdegate . ' Mr . T , Duncombe moved as an amendment , " That it be an instruction to the committee on the
Poor Removal Bill , that they be empowered to make provision , for the repeal of all Jaws regulating the settlement of the poor , and to make provision that all poor persons entitled to relief henceforth shall have the . necessary relief afforded to them within the union where such necessities occur ; and shall also make provision to supply the requisite funds from the county rates , or such other equitable assessment as Parliament in its wisdom shall devise . " The House , the country , and the Ministry , must be well aware that free trade in the abstract had not been popular with the great operative classes ofthe country . They had looked upon the contest between the landed : and the manufacturing interest with apathy and indifference , regarding it as a sort of
'pull-devil , pull-bakerconflict , "the baker being upon the whole rather the . favourite . —( Laughter . ) And why was it ; that they regarded the struggle with apathy ? Because . they did hot . believe that the capitalists of the country , whose fortunes had been amassed by their labour and skill , were sufficiently mindful of their interests in times of depression . The large manufacturers ; who had accumulated immensefortnnes by theindustry of the labouring claiises , ought not to be the persons to turn them adrift to wrestle with adverse fortunes in the moment of distress , after they had taken out of their sinews evenparticle of sap which they could extract . ( Hear , hear . ) The poor had too often reason to charge the manufacturers with such oversight during periods of
commercialdepression . ( Hear , hear . ) The Right Hon . Baronet atthe head " of the Government on the occasion , of submitting to the country his plan ol commercial reform , held out an adjustment of . the law of settlement as a great boon to the manufacturers and landed interest . It now , however , appeared the question wasto be treated in a very different manner , he ( Mr . Duncombe ) would have been content to take the measure as he found it , if the right hon . baronet had remained firm to his principles . It was not the provisions ofthe Bill that were valuable , but in the address ofthe right hon . baronetthere _wasavaluable communication , to the effect , that where the labourer
required relief , that relief should be given upon the spot where it was requisite , instead of driving the poor person from post to pillar , as under the present law bf settlement . The right hon . baronet had , however , altered his . original intention , and had acceded to the proposition of the hon . member for Malton . He ( Mr . Duncombe ) was . sure , that . the counj _^ yywould _; nit permi _^^ the measure , as unquestionably it would be , if the proposition of the hon . member for Malton were to receive their sanction . The hon . gentleman concluded by moving his amendment . General Johnstone seconded the amendment .
Mr . Bright was at a loss to discover whether the object ofthe hon . member for Finsbury was to oppose the Bill and the instruction ofthe hon . member for Malton , or to have a blow at the manufacturers . He stated , that the working classes felt no interest in the change about to be made in the Corn Laws ; but he ( Mr . Bright ) believed that those classes felt the greatest interest in that change , and that the union which for the last two years existed between them and their employers had had the effect of bringing the leaders of both sides of the House to the opinion that the Corn Laws could be no longer maintained . "Wherever manufacturing establishments were supported by large capital there was more attention paid to the comforts aud
education of the operatives than was bestowed on them in concerns carried on by limited capital , and yet the honourable member for Finsbury pandered to the prejudices of ignorant persons by speaking of the disadvantages inflicted on the operatives by large capitalists . There was a concern at Halifax which , for three years paid wages to the amount of £ 120 , 000 , and during that period the proprietors did not return one single sixpence to the income tax . ( Great laughter and cries of " Hear , hear" from Lord George Bentinck . ) He ( Mr . Bright ) hoped that the noble lord , the member for Lynn , did not think so badly of human nature as to suppose that this was not possible . ( Laughter . ) During that period the proprietors of that concern did not make Od . profit .
He told the lion , member , for Finsbury , that those parties with whom he was found at public meetings out of doors had been the greatest enemies of the repeal of the Corn Laws . ( Cries of " Name . " ) Let the hon . member read the public reports of those meetings , and they wonld find out the names . He ( Mr . Bright ) stated the fact , and he meant to maintain it . He would only add , that the hon . member did not represent the opinions of the working classes when he said they were apathetic on this question , and though he might have succeeded in inflaming the bad passions of the working classes within his sphere , he ( Mr . Bright ) would warn him not to call himself the representative in that house of the working classes in Lancashire and Yorkshire .
Lord G . Bestinck regretted that such an attack should have been made on his hon . friend ( Mr . Duncombe ) . He believed his arguments to be true , his reasoning to be conclusive . He could instance 310 cases of poor suffering individuals who were thrown into the infirmary from the Wounds and afflictions they had been subjected to in the mills , and of timt number he knew that only two were compensated . Arc thc charges Against the lion , member for Finsbury just ? 1 should have thought , if there were any man in this house who had a right to say lie knew something of the feeling of tlie operatives , it was my right hon . Mend the member for Finsbury . ( Hear , hear . ) Unon what interest is he returned to this house ? Is it on the interest of the millowners , or is it on the interest of tho landed aristocracy ?
Is he not especially returned by a constituency consisting of the lower classes — ol the working classes ? Therefore , I think we have a right to take tho opinions ofthe hon . member for Finsbury as affording a just criterion ofthe feelings ofthe operatives ofthe country , ( near , hear , hear . ) And I do believe he has told the house tlie truth when he told you that the operatives took no great interest in the question mooted between the agricultural and the manufacturing interest , ( llear , hear . ) Sir , I do not believe that the operatives are Free-traders . ( Hear , hear . ) He thought as regarded the motion of the member for Finsbury , that the further consideration of it should be adjourned , in order that the house might bo able to consider the matter _fuMy and maturely . ( Hear . )
Alter some observations from Lord John Russell and Lord J . Maxxebs , the Ilouse divided first on Mr , T . Duncombe ' s amendment—For Mr . Duncombe ' s Amendment 39 Aeainst it 105—Majority against tlie Amendment ... 4 G Thc Ilouse then divided on Mr , E , Denison ' s instruction—For thc Instruction D 2 Agaiistit 10—Majority for the Instruction 22 Mr . T . Duncombe said , lie considered that some amendment ofthe poor law of this country would be more acceptable than an Irish Coercion Bill , and should have precedence of it . On Monday , therefore , he should make a motion to that effect .
After a short discussion , it was arranged that the Ilouse should go into committee pro forma- on the bill next Monday , in order to intoducc the amendment consequent upon the instruction which hail been carried ; a future day to be then fixed for going regularly into committee . The other orders of the day were then disposed of , and the house adjourned at half-past twelve o ' clock .
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. _consiflelajlvMwillbe _^ ufloien _^ _jto _^ convince any man of I tbis triithj > ln all _ages _) i * _itna * ytall governments , however constituted , ( his has _eier- _'peanVdone _, either to a greater or _a-less _, extent , and in proportion to the efficiency of these check ! have the people been ill or happily governed In facfc / _S'sir , society could not long exist without them yef , * in de § an , c _"* > . of this _obvieusitruth , there are a set of men . pretenWk fg to know more of thc science and philo ' _gnphy of governing than hath ever before dawned upon the intellect of man , calling themselves political econo mists , who maintain that these checks ought not to exist , ahd who have already infected government with then doctrines If ever doctrines deserved the name of l _* damnable , ,, _'jkbeseareo _^ the number , and if they mu _^ t continue to pervade _thti councils of the nation , theu * effects " will be direful in the ,, extreme . _^ „ _..:- ,. - -
Wheuinventions have been discovered calculated to mitigate the primeval ban , they have ever . been wrested lo the unholy purpose oi ministering to the ambition of a few ; and when , in the conflict of opinions , principles have been elicited which exhibited in too glaring a light to permit its continuance-, the injustice , of any law or institution then in being , advantage has been taken of the moment to make or establish another , tinselled over with mock liberality , which gave to the oppressor a still wider range . Under the pretence of fostering science for the benefit of the human race , the former was encouraged , and under the mask of Krowintr civilisation , ths latter
was removed . The landless were once the acknowledged property . of the owners of the soil , and bought and . sold them like their cattle . Benevolence and humanity warred against the system , till the mind of age would no longer tolerate it . Their--emancipation -followed—a freedom which absolved the ? rich from the ] Charge of support in helpless infancy ,. decrepit age , and secured to the poor the privilege to toil whilst strength remained . Thus the advantages of emancipation have . been on all sides ; the poor have gained _4 n name only—the rich in reality . So that were the poor to desire the restoration of their former state , it would net be permitted ; and they might lone for the flesh-pots of Egypt in vain .
But , sir , whether our wanderings through the barren wilderness since hath brought us nearer to the " promised land , " I know not j yet , from the tops of our long chimneys " goodly countries" have been descried , where wine , and grain , and fruit exists in overflowing abundance . The " spies" have given a good report ; Cobden is one of them . The march is begun . The advance-guard has crossed the boundaries as miraculously as of yore ; and Jeruho's walls are evidently about to tumble from the effects of mere sound , like the blasts of . ram ' s horns , alone . Our sorrows are nearly at ah end ; and case , and
plenty will soon he enjoyed by all . Do not suppose that the opposition of our great leaders to women and children toiling only ten hours a-day , proves anything against this ease and plenty being hereafter enjoyed . It is only for a great principle that they contend— " to buy in the _cheapest market , and sell in tbe dearest , either food or human labour , " without the interference of law , as heretofore , to limit the freedom of commercial intercourse . Wine and spirits may hereafter be brought us without incurring the penalties for smuggling ; and women mayprostitute their persons and men their strength , without encountering laws to restrict their _bargain .
' : Jf the land was not monopolized , and tithe and rent exacted for the mere liberty of cultivating the soil , there might be nothing in all this freedom inimical to man ' s happiness ; but owing to this monopoly , our females arc driven from the country to * overcrowded cities , where hundreds fall victims to licentious wealth ; ami men depressed by competition ; must hire out their labour , as in Ireland , for sixpence per day . It is a gross delusion to talk about freedom of barter , whilst such monopoly exists ; our necessaries become a la w more binding . and imperative thanaoy which _eanbejnadejfrj . i _^ but hunger _moref _/ •• . ¦ ¦'¦' ¦ ''¦
This course then , fellow workmen , must be pursued in future . Either our natural inheritance to which we , as equal descendants of Adam , are alike entitled , must he restored , or government must protect us from the avarice of our employers . Hitherto we have foolishly imagined that the removal of some great tax would benefit us . If the national debt were removed , we should not derive a years' advantage therefrom . "We have alike deceived ourselves with regard to Trades Unions , forgetting that the power of Government was for good or ill . Many legal restrictions have been placed upon the owners of cotton factories ; if no such restrictions had been laid , the machinery would have remained unboxed , regardless of the number of cripples , and our mills have still been running like the lace factories of Nottingham , night and day , though thousands sunk yearly to the grave , from sheer exhaustion . The battle must be transferred from the employers to the governing power , the petty warfan upon minor fortresses , for an attack upon the Capital ,
Our labour is now performed , not as formerly in an isolated , but in a collective capacity . We must insist on the hours of labour being reduced to those limits , whicli crowded rooms and a vitiated atmosphere , renders _absolutely necessary to thepreservntion of health and strength . The wages of the workman must not be reduced below that standard required for a full supply of the necessaries of life ; and our unemployed must have full support , not left to the Guardians or Poor Law Commissioners to limit , but fixed by law . These things are essential to our safety—our very existence in times which are rapidly approaching . We may contend for them without losing
sight of those principle of political freedom , which will enable us to command that which all are compelled to admit , as justly our due . They cannot deny the fact of a limit to man ' s endurance of toil ; they cannot deny our being entitled to a sufficiency of food for our labour , or _uur right to support when labour cannot be had . Thc mean dastardly villains , who , like Cobden and Bright , are drawing thousands a year from your toil , may say , and will say , this cannot be done ; but when new inventions have multiplied so within tlie last forty years , that thousands may now produce , what would without these inventions have required as many millions , are we to believe that we cannot be as well fed as before ? Pshaw !
they saw we are devoid of intelligence ; we have been fools it is true , but our folly has mainly consisted in believing that they meant us well , and in trusting to their professions . They have abused our confidence , and furthered their own ends at the expense of our too credulous faith . That credulity is at an end , all confidence is destroyed . Neither tlieir sympathetic twaddle in Parliament , nor their professions at the hustings can be any longer believed , but if the present system must continue , it is high time to seize upon overy opportunity to bring within the arena of public discusssion , the leading doctrines of the unfeeling political economist . If these doctrines must prevail , it would be mercy to put at once into practice Marcus ' s plan of painless extinction ; nnd also to give a death dose of laudanum to every working man who has attained to forty years of age . Already half our children die before they are five years old , alter enduring an amount of suffering which would make
the stoute 5 UicnvtuleetUo behold ; and if a man has arrived at the age of forty , and should happen to lose his situation in a mill , it is an hundred to one if lie ever pets work in any of them again .- If this horrid state of things must continue , I wouid if nothing better could be done , cry loudly . for mercy ; mercy to the infant by _legalising the theory of Marcus , and mercy to the unemployed , by hurrying them with equal speed to a premature grave . Xothiwr but a limit , fixed by law , to tbe grasping power of avaricious employers , will ever amend our condition , whilst society is constituted as at present . Peel ' s present measures or liny others , however extensive and liberal , without this limitation , will only end in miserable disappointment ; and like Catholic Emancipation and the _llcform hill , but increase thc power of our oppressors , add to our privations , and rivet more firmly our chains . Yours respectfully , Preston , June 2 nd , 1 S 1 C . _IIicuaud Maiisden .
Foreign Affair
FOREIGN AFFAIR
Algeria. Massacre Of Tiiuee Hundred Plte...
ALGERIA . MASSACRE OF TIIUEE HUNDRED PltENCII PRISONERS BY TIIE ARAHS . _MARSEILLES , May 27 . The France Algaienne , in date of 23 rd May , has thc following : — "The master of a small sailing vessel , whicli left Djcmmaa-Ghazaouat on the Oth instant , has announced to us a horrible event—the massacre in thc Deiraof Abd-el-Kader of all the French prisoners . General de Lamoriciere immediatel y ordered the
Gregeois steamer to repair forthwith to _Djcnimnfi-Ghazaouat with Col . Martimprcy on board to examine the merits of this alarming report , to establish its authenticity , or otherwise , and to collect all the particulars _^ of this odious act of barbarity , of thc fact of whicli we would fain doubt , but alas ! wo fear it is but too true . The state of thc sea prevented for three days the execution of M . de Maitimprey ' s mission ; the Gr ' _egcoi'v however , arrived at length this night . From the report of M . do Martimprey , as well as from all thc reports collected
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_ roi EUgaj . ojiiue uow _^ ii w _jnwnv _- try , and of general insujrieQtion haviug . broken oiittin that _country . [ Pub " _j _* c _expteipsnt was _afyts _gteatesfc height , nnd deep alarm Oiled the minds ofal _^ _ciasBes . _* The _dissolution ofthe government took place on 4 he 17 th of May ( The Queen had commanded the Duke dePalmellato form a new ministry / 'but upAio . tl . e 20 th he had not made any sensible progress in the _cxeoutioiPoi his task _Clount _y ilia Real j _had been previously sent for by _tfie _& _uecaHo form a ministry , but he failed in the attempt 1 "Vfith regaid to the extent of the msunection , the Lisbon correspondent of a morning paper says — "'Ihc shadow // of this approaching event had been peroebtible tor
some days before , for , although ' the } ' official journals daily announced thc defeat and dis peision of the insurgents , facts had come to Lght which plainly showed that the insurrection , on tliooontiary , must _have < - been gaming ground . ' It was known that young Villa Real , a son of Count Villa Real , had put himself at the head of large body of armed peasants , and taken possession * of the town of Villa Real , in the province of Tras os MonteS _i whence his father ' s title is derived ; that another body of malcontents had * surprised and disarmed a " strong detachment of troops at Amarante , and by making themselves masters of the bridge over the Douro , at that town , had opened a communication with the Minho , insurgents , * and tbat the movement had extended through other parts of Trasos Monies .
Notwithstanding all this , the Lisbon public was completely taken by surprise , when , on Sunday morning , the Oporto steamer ., came-, over the bar , having on board , evidently as a runaway , tbe Minister of Justice , M . Jose Gabral ,: the very individual who so shortly before had been sent to that city armed with the most ample and unrestricted dictatorial authority . As far as I have been * able : to learn , it- appears that the flame of insurrection Bpread . rapidly from the Minho _/[ all over Traa os Montes ,- in whicli latter provincealone about 8 , 000 men were in arras , under the direction ofa junta composed ofthe most influential of its proprietors , including young "Villa Real , . and that tho commander ofthe military division , Viscount Vinhaes , seeing this formidable array , and observing
an evident disinclination on the part of the soldiers to act against the people ' ;; entered into negotiations with the Junta ; the result of . which was an agreement to a suspension of hostilities for six days , to . wait ' _tlie Queen ' s answer to the demands of the insurgents , which were—the dismissal of the Costa Cabral Ministry , and the repeal of all taxes upon labour . On receipt of this unwelcome intelligence , and perceiving unequivocal symptoms of a revulsion of popular feeling against him in the city of Oporto , M . Jose de Cabral thought it prudent to make a precipitate retreat ; and the Duque de Porto having been kept in readiness ivith her steam up , he stole , quietly on board during the night , and when daylie ; bt came the redoubtable dictator was mojj inventus . In a few hours after the arrival of J . Cabral in this city , a Council of Ministers was held , at whicli itwas resolved that they should tender their resignations . The whole _papulation of the province
of Beira has now risen . A body ot insurgents , computed at from . 4 , 000 to 5 , 000 strong , have entered Coimbra , driving out the troops there stationed , who at first offered some reeistence , but gave lip the contest and retreated towards Oporto , on finding that the inhabitants of the town were against them . Coimbra is the seat of the University , and is about 70 miles south of Oporto , and 130 north of this city . Reports are in circulation of fresh outbreaks in all directions , and by this time , no doubt , nearly the whole country ig in a state of insurrection . In this city the ferment is constantly increasing . So strong is the feeling against the Cabral brothers in this city ,-that it is generally thought they will be off _for-England _bytthe packeVgbing to-day ; "'; Tliat ' . they ' ave _^ _n'jgreai . _l ' _-bodily tear" is evident from the fact of their having slept last night and the night before at the barracks of the municipal guard .
THE INSURRECTION TRIUMPHANT . We have advices from Lisbon , by the Pacha steamer , to thc 30 th of May . A most extraordinary series of events had taken place , which will be foundfully detailed in our correspondent ' s letter . The Cabrals had fled in thc Pacha to Cadiz , where they had been received with distinction by the Governor . The Cortes had been dissolved , the entire legislation of thc Cabrals had been abolished by Royal decree , the Bank of Lisbon had suspended payments for three mouths , in consequence of the . excessive run on them for metal , and the impossibility of immediately converting the jewels , gold , and securities deposited with them in the excited state of the country . The Company Confian a had likewise been permitted to suspend payment for three months . The new administration had been definitively constituted as follows ;—
President of the Council and Finance Minister—Duke tie Palmeixa . Minister of War- Marquis de Saldaxha . Interior . —L . S . M . _D'AinvQVEricivE . Foreign Affairs—Conde de Laviudio . Justice—J . F . De Soure . Marine—J , J . Loubkiro . INDIA . The Bombay mails of the 1 st of May have arrived ; tiicy are remarkably barren of exciting intelligence .
The Governor-General and tlie Conimander-m-Chicfhad reached Simla , where they intended to remain during the hot and rainy seasons . The troops had taken up tlieir stations for the same period in the newly acquired districts along tlio Beas , and also in Lahore . The Sikli . soWiers were tranquil , but not satisfied . The Governments of Lahore and Jamoo were engaged in tracing out the frontiers between them . Gholab Singh is not popular with thc Sikhs , who accuse him of having sacrificed their country to gratify his . personal ambition . Dliost Mahommed , who was delighted on hearing of thc invasion of the British dominions by the Sikhs , has since resumed a pacific policy , for the rapidity of the British conquests had not allowed him time for any offensive operations against Pcshawnr , although some preparations for that purpose appear to have
been made at Jellalabad by his son and Wuzeer , Akhbar Khun . It is evident from the position ofthe different Rajahs and their _adlicranrs , as well at Lahore as in thc neighbouring states , that thc present cessation of hostilities is kept up rather as a temporary armistice than a lasting peace . The division of the spoils of Runjeet Singh ' s kingdom is not satisfactory to them , and it is highly probable that before lS-iti expires there will be other conflicts . In the meantime the British arc not idle cither in consolidating their new provinces or in weakening their enemies . Amongst the materiel of war surrendered by the Sikhs , were specially enumerated thu guns which had been pointed against the British Indian army . Tliose guns , to tlie number of 250 , have reached Delhi , and they are to be taken with all the pomp ofa military procession from that citv even as far as Calcutta .
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POLAND'S REGENERATION . The Democratic Committee for Poland ' s Rb-GKNEKATiOiV assembled on Monday evening , at thc ollice of thc Chartist Executive , S 3 , Dcan-strect , Soho ; Mr . T . Clark in the chair . A balance-sheet of tho receipts and expenditure was laid before the Committee , and will be published in this journal after being examined by the auditors . Tho following propositions were then discussed and ultimately unanimously adopted : —
OBJECT OP THE COMMITTEE . The object of this Committee is to aid the Polish patriots in their efforts to establish the independence of their country , and the equal political and social rights ofall classes of the Polish people .
means . 1 st . By the creation of an enli ghtened public opinion in support of the Polish cause , towards creating which opinion , the Committee purpose to publish atcertain inter vals , Reports , Addresses , and Tracts _illustrating the past and present state of Poland , the wrongs , _suilei-ings , an . l patriotic acts of the Polish people , and thc _bearing which the question of justice to "Poland has upon the general cause of European progress . The Committee will also hold public meetings whenever by so ( loin- they may best serve the Polish cause . Lastly , tho Committer iviii endeavour hy petitions and other available means tu agitate the Legislature and influence the _Jli-itish Government in bclialfof Poland . 2 nd . liy obtaining for thc patriotic exiled Poles pecuni . ury assistance when needed , and aiding them and their cause by every other practicable means .
RESOLUTIONS , 1 st . The Committee will hold regular meetings Ihe first Wednesday in every month .
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, tng debris _. _tvihiofearpestfidyte _^ rogress , or the cata- _* 1 strophe _^ QuMMve _bep iCannaling As it fortunately ' happened J > howev er , ' _^ tii , ej « eaninad been tinned off > and the _wasehousetchecked the momentum oi the tiain , _^ _Tbfe BhopJ _^ _aa _^^ _btchnrse , extremely _ilarm" tug , and _theTsureamin _^ oCtnl passengers , principally females and young persona , was heard at some distance in the town , which soon caused a large crowd * to assemble The railway attendants , however , gotthe pissengers out as soon as possible , and closed the " station gates . None of the carriages were broken Or displaced , and they were very soon detached from theengine and-removed on to thc other line . Several-6 f ; the passengers received blows , and two or three- ' ¦¦¦
had . slight abrasions . '" _Sewous Riots in Glasgow . —The notorious 76 th , *" —Since the arrival of the ; 76 th Regiment in Glasgow the inhabitants and police have been _^ seriously annoyed by the drunken , disorderly , and _blackguards ' conduct ofa large number of the corps , who , soy fair ; as present appearances are concerned , seemed bent- ' upon setting the laws of ordinary decency at defi—' ance . On Monday evening a very formidable riot ' took p lace at the foot of Saltmarkefc-street , chiefly ' occasioned , we hare no hesitation in saying , by the- ' irregular and improper conduct of a large party of "; the 76 th , during which 24 of tbe police force were ' more or less injured in their persons . The disturbance was commenced about 6 o ' clock by a number
of soldiers coming into collision with the police , and ' the rioting after that time , particularly in the ' vicinity of the green , had all the characteristics of a regular engagement . The evening being celebrated ' as . the birthday of Her Majesty by the youth of the - eity in the usual noisy way , there was mbie than an ' ordinarily large turn out of people in the streets , par- ' ticularly at the Cross and the foot of _Saltmarket .- ' _' The soldiers mixed themselves up with the crowd in parties of three , four , five , and six , exciting them by exaggerated statements of facts connected with * some noting on the previous day , and by and by the ' police , to the number of about 20 men , were attackednear the Adelphi Theatre by an immense mob of ' blackguards , who had congregated on the green op- ' posite the Old English Chapel . Staves , brickbats ,
and all kinds of missiles were showered upon them , and they were forced to retreat up Saltmarket-streeti On Tuesday night a riot similar to that detailed above took place at the foot of Saltmark _« . t-street , accompanied , if possible , by more ruffianly and outrageous conduct on the part of the soldiery of the 76 th Regiment and witli more serious consequence to the bodies ofthe police . As in the former case we have referred to , the soldiery were encouraged and supported by the veriest scum of the city . The riot commenced about 6 o ' clock , and was continued for several hours , during which no fewer than 31 officers and watchmen were struck with stonoa , sticks , and soldiers' belts , and many of them were seriously injured . The origin of the affray , so far as wo have been able to learn , is entirely to be attributed to the conduct of the military .
_DifiADFCL Shipwreck . —By the Cambria steamer which arrived in the Mersey on Thursday afternoon , intelligence of a distressing nature has come to hand , announcing the appalling shipwreck of the Kalscrona ,, ' a Swedish Indiamam , and the loss of ' no fewer than 115 lives , in a dreadful storm off the coast of Matanzas . From all we hare been able to , bo } leet _, she ! appeal's to haveI-beenoneof the _largestrclass ihi the _. Swedish me ' rcantii _^ servioe 7 "" Iii all , there were 13 Jpersohsbhbbardi" ; _l'heIastjorfc she touched at was _Havannah , where she shipped a valuable cargo . On her departure , the intention of the commander was to proceed direct to Sweden- On the morning of the 1 st of May , when the ship was a head of the coast of Matnnzas , she encountered one of the fiercest
hurncans ever experienced in that quarter , during the height of which she capsized and instantly _hank , carrying with her 115 persons , every soul of whom was lost . Seventeen ofthe crewrannagea to lay hold of one ofthe ship ' s cutters , wliich , as the vessel went down , floated over the deck , and saved them . They endured the greatest privation , being without provisions and water for several days . Thev v _* er & picked up on the sixth day after the deplora _' ble occurrence , in lat . 25 , long . SO . In the course of tne same storm , or , as it has been termed , tornado , no fewer than 13 vessels were driven ashore on thc coast of Cape Canso . Many lives were lost . Amongst the ships wrecked were the Princess Alice Maude , of London and the St . Martin , from Liverpool . Both were insured to a large amount .
Fatal Accident in a Stone-tabd . —Mr . Payne held an inquest on Tuesday , at St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , on thc body of Timothy Flannagan , aged sixty-six , a stone-mason , in the employ of Mr . Lee , of Chiswell-street . On Thursday last the deceased , with another man was employed in moving large blocks of stone from a waggon in the street , into hismaster ' s yard . lie was putting ono of those blocks , weighing about 3 cwt . on to the rollers , to wheel it into the yard , when it slipped on one side , aiul fell upon his foot , crushing it almost flat , lie was removed to thc above hospital , and died from the offsets of the injuries on Monday morning . Verdict , " Accidental Death . "
Fatal Accident at a Ship-builder ' s . —An inquest was held on Wednesday forenoon , before Mr . * W _* . Carter , the Coroner , at the Duke of York , Cliurthstreet _, Rotlierlilthe , respecting the death oi William Smith , aged 67 , a shipwright , lately residing at Mo , 19 , Upper York-street , Rotherhithe , Old Town , The deceased was a sober steady man , and had been in tho employ of Mr . flack wood , the ship-builder , for many years . On the evening of Thursday last , the deceased was at work on a scaffold erected on the larboard side ot a large vessel , which was undergoing ; dock at the of
repairs m a dry rear the premises of his employer , when one of the planks by some means was displaced , and when the deceased was stepping from the scaffold the outer plank gave way , am ! precipitated him about fifteen feet to the bottom of the dock . Lie was lifted up in a state of great aaonyv and promptly conveyed home , where he was seen by Mr . Burdock , a surgeon , who ascertained th . it ho had fractured several ribs , and sustained other internal injuries , which caused his death at an early hour on Sunday morning . A verdict of " Accidental Doath" was ultimately recorded .
Fatal Accidknt in Botolp ' u-laxe . —On _Wednesday , Mr . Payne held an inquest in St . Thc . lias ' s Hospital , on the body of Charles Matthews , aged fifteen , a labourer in the employ of Messrs . Pick ford of Wood-street . It appeared that on Tuesday last that the deceased was walking up _Botolph-liinc , City , at thc time another of Messrs . Pickford _' _s moii was leading a horse and cart through the thoroughfare , when all of a sudden the deceased fell _forwa-ri into the gutter , and the wheel of the cart _pressed his back against the granite kerb . He w _. -is taken-in nn insensible sta te to the hospital , where lie died . Verdict—'' Accidental death . "
Fatal Accident by Earl Fitzwilliam ' s Cariuage . —On Wednesday evening an _inoiiest was held before Mr . Bedford , at St . George ' s Hospital , on the hotly of John Allen , aged eighty , a shoemaker . The deceased resided at 7 , James-street , Oxford-street , and was in a very feeble state of health . Between ten and eleven o ' clock on the night of the 25 th ult , thc deceased was crossing thc _cavriacc-road in _Parkhii-e , opposite to _Uolderness House , when a c ; _H-i _*; a « e and pair ot horses , belonging to Earl _Fitzw-Ui-im , ¦ yas passing at the time , driven at a steady pace , and the coachman called to him to get out of the way . Ihe deceased did not hear , and before the horses could be stopped the pole of the carriage suuek him over the left eye and _knucked him down . 11- was removed to the above hospital in a state ot insensibility , with a severe wound over the left evebiw . Inflammation ot the wound ensued , which caused his death on Saturday last . Verdict- "Accidental death .
Suicide by a _Cu-mc-Mr . W . Baker , Jun ., d - puty coroner , held an inquest at the Three Crawns _, " _Ncwcastle-screet Whitechapel , on the body ol John Dark Davis , aged 2-1 , a collecting clerk , residing in _iNewcastlc-street . The deceased was very ecccnSic _, and complained repeatedly of pains in his head . Onlhursday evening , he retired to rest verv earl v , and iu , i ¦ a Lai _* in ot" _Srucl to be sent ' to ' liiin When his landlady the door locked , and became alarmed , and when the deceased bed-post , with a . _4 ate of nudity . He a surgeon sent for , who dead some time . The 'Accidental Death . " _iuvi iu ut _twniL
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 6, 1846, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_06061846/page/1/
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