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" My Deab , ; my Old , am > _Honoured COMPANIONS , —I have . received very many letters rom Lancashire and YorlcBhir &_ from Dudley and Teignmouth , and many other towns in England , and from many parts of Scotland and Wales—all kindl y aud generously expressing unabated confidence in me , and the warmest thanks for my advocacy of their cause , telling me that they never will place confidence in any other leader , and telling me that I shall not resign my commission with their consent ; andiu reply to one and aU , I answer , that I will hold the helm ; and , their confidence being so warmly expressed , that I will , after Easter , in spite of the Gagging Bin , revive , in person , an agitation for the
LAND AND THE CHARTER . And then I will show the revilers that I have neither lost my energy nor abated one particle of my enthusiasm . And , to tell you the truth , I pant for the revival of the much-reviled animal . I cannot conclude , this letter without submitting to you one that I have received from Bolton ; and , in truth , the perusal will repay you , as it is a strong fflastration of my oft-repeated assertion , that I have received abuse in the exact proportion in which I have conferred alms— -the largest recipients invariabl y being my greatest revilers . Here follows the letter : — Bolton , April 1 st , 1849 .
__ Most Respected _Fbiesd of the People , —I have no desire to give yon any unnecessary trouble hy Writing _thii letter , hut I consider it my duty to let you know what the viper , Cooper ( the poet ) has heen saying here . We have hadhimtalldiigintheTownHaU tn-o nights , about some infamous men that lived 30 ft- years ago , and when he retired to the Temperance Hotel , he must needs have a fling at 34 r . O'Connor . 1 will tell vou jus ; what he said : "Tnat he ( Cooper ) was not in favour of the Land plan , and did not beliere Mr . O'Connor to be sincere in carrying it outthat O'Connor only started that Land plan to recruit his _ethavifited -means -for carrying on the Star , aad that he ( Cooper ) never handled any of O'Connor ' s money . " This
may he true , that he did not handle any of your money , hut we know something about that dirty trick . It appears that Cooper is soliciting the patronage of the Free Traders . He has seen ttroron-s of houses , one called Bright Terrace , tiie other Cobden Flace ; these house ? have been built out ot the blood , bones , and sinews of the factory operatives ; and Mr . T . Cooper seems to be quite in love with this cotton loud . I should not be surprised if he brings out a poem in his praise—that is if he can get some one to pay the printer . Ah , Mr . O'Connor , I could give you a true picture of this same liberal cotton lord , but you know enough about these tyrants . Nineteen votes were polled from these houses at the last election , all for Walmsley . Tours , in the cause ,
P . S . —I forgot to tell you Cooper ' s errand—it is the circulation ofhis penn * - paper . He has engaged a man to deliver circulars aB over the town . Beak Sm , —In reading the Star last night , I was sorry to see a hint about your resignation , but before losing your inraluable services , I should like to know who is to fill up the vacancy . I know of no man living so well qualified for the office , and there is another consideration , it would be a more honourable way of doing business for the people to pay their debts , before they give you the bag-. Sffi , —Never mind the vipers ; yon have beaten all the Whigs and Tories in Europe with jour Land plan , not forgetting the few Republicans that cannot see quite so ferasyon . Whether the base , brutal , and bloody Whigs register the plan or not , they cannot undo what is done . Spring-time is come , and they ' re aU . a growing . Yes , Sir , there is a power on the earth , as weU as a principle , which the things cannot destroy .
I thank my friend for the information , as to he forewarned is to he forearmed , and here is my answer . The Poet waited upon me , with his child under his arm , and told me that he had waited upon Disraeli , Douglas Jerrold , Dickens , and several other literary characters , in the hope of receiving their assistance to bring out his poem . - ; He fold me that they all gave him iair words , hut added , with tears in his eyes , that I was his onl y hopa His tears softened my heart and opened my pocket . I gave him an order upon a printer to print and find paper at my-expense . He gave me a hill for £ 26 os ., which was dishonoured and has never yet been paid , except _m-umnitigated abuse .
Tom is a most comical genius . He has been Protestant , Dissenter , and Infidel—Puritan , Saint , and Atheist—total , teetotal , abstemious , and boozy ; in feet , he is the very impersonation _, of trinity in unity . He has been all things to all men , and God only knows what he may he next ; hut I sincerely hope that he neverwillhemy Poet Laureate , or the advocate ofthe Land Plan , as , in such case , I should
suspect _myself and fear the sterility of the soil . This Poet did more to paralyse Chartism in the midland counties than any other man ; he confessed himself a physical force Chartist , hat relapsed into moral force resistance ; and , as confession is half-way to repentance , I hope that the soul of the Suicide may escape Purgatory . I remain your faithful friend , FeaBGUS O'CoiilfOB .
P . S . The following resolution coming from Mr . _O'Connor's constituents , we extract from the " Nottingham fiaseic" of this morning . This we consider justifiable for the short _Bpace it occupies , while the voluminous correspondence from all p arts of the kingdom would fill the " Star" which must be an apology to all for the non-insertion of them , as it would he invidious to select .
" _Coshdesce is Mr . 0 Cossob . —At a meeting ; of & e Charter Association ( ffm Treece in the chair ) , held at the Colonel Hutchinson tavern , ou the 1 st instant , it was resolved , —* That we have full confidence in Mr . O'Connor as our representative , and likewise as the head of our association , and in expressing our confidence , we earnestly hope that he will continue to exert his great abilities in the conducting of our movement . ' *
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . My Fbiexds , I need not draw your attention to the fact , that now nearly for a fortnight , the whole time of the House of Commons has heen occupied in discussing the Land Question , and I think , without vanity , I may say in discussing the Land Plan .
Sir Robert Peel has announced his Plan , which is the location of small farmers with limited capital upon the Irish soil—the facilitating the transfer of landed property—the _complete destruction , or , rather , removal , of those legal quirks and quibbles thrown in the way ofthe transfer of property by artful and designing lawyers—and , stall further , the necessity of making leases for ever to ensure the application of the greatest amount of reproductive labour tothe cultivation ofthe soil ,
In fact , every word of his speech was a repetition of those means for ensuring the cultivation of the soil , and , through it , national contentment and tranquillity , which I have _submitted to yau . one thousand and one times , and with which you are now more familiar , and in which you are better instructed , than the Bight Honourable Baronet himself . My friends , you remember that one of the great difficulties of Ireland was over-population , and that one ofthe League maxims was , "that population pressed hardly upon the means of subsistence . " Well , as in Rush ' s case , murder will out ; and on Monday night
Bright , in the most powerful , the most able , the most pertinent , argumentative , and conclusive speech that has been made in the House of Commons during tiie present Session , admitted , and satisfactorily proved , that Ireland was not _half-poptdated , if facilities were allowed for tiie transfer of property ; if that monster evil—the Law of Primogeniture—was abolished ; if the poor , proud landlords were compelled to abandon the « destructive sporting establishments , and betake themselves to industrious pursuits , and if the Land was economically sub-divided ,
with proper statutory enactments for the _encouragement and protection of industry , and tue destruction of Land monopoly . There were five good speeches delivered upon the subject . Napier ' s was ingenious , legal , but not pertinent to the point . Peel ' s was comprehensive and statesmanlike , but mysterious and ambiguous ; he was charged for not having _applied ibe House with details , but in this he _flowed 4 fe _srisdom , as , hadhe done so , every legal tfnioMer and every snarling cur would him m a ms _$ at the lion's heels . Bright s —as I have _idd _jou-- ira * powerful , masterly ,
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e point;—nay , it would have suited a Chartist meeting . It was much too good , but nevertheless appreciated by the House of Commons . Lord CLATjDEHi 3 ffl . T 0 N _* g was Ingenious , and very consecutive , but smacked of the landlords' interest ; and Mr . _Horsmajt ' s was clever and intellectual , but not at all to the point . However all—one aud allwent the length of admitting the indispensable necessity of a comprehensive , practical Laud Plan , and we have—thank God—furnished them with the only model which the nation will accept or the people will consent to adopt . Now let me show you the value of money expended upon the Land , in the shape of inducing _ the application of reproductive labour to the cultivation of the soil .
Within the last four years twenty millions of money have been expended in idleness , and in the suppression of opinion in lireland ; just as much of your , money as was lavished upon the West Indian slave owners . Let us now see what ;—as regards the past , the present , and the future—that amount of money , if expended upon reproductive labour , would have produced . But let me first make up the amount . Over twelve millions have come from the Imperial Exchequer ; while fifty thousand soldiers , constabulary , and pensioners , together with a host of well-paid officials , have heen required to coerce starving
men into passive obedience and non-resistance . I say not a word of legal expenses , convict expenses , and feeding thousands of able unwilling idlers , in gaols and hastiles , but if we average this force , including officers , at . £ 40 a man—and we are under the mark—in the four years , the pay of these fifty thousand idlers would amount to eight millions of money , or two millions a year , which , added to the twelve millions , makes a total of twenty millions ; and now , instead of making that a Sinking Fund , or rather a Sunk Fund , see the effect that its beneficial application would have had upon Ireland , and the nation at large .
I will not stand at the four-acre system , as we have not a population to permit of such a subdivision , but I will extend the allotments to ten acres , and in Ireland , where labour is much cheaper , I will allow - £ 20 per acre , or £ 200 for ten acres of good Land ; £ 150 for a good cottage and convenient homestead , and £ 50 aid-money , to every man thus starting . Then what would be the result ? Why just this —that , allowing £ 400 a man , and ten aeres for each , the Government might have located fifty thousand families ; and receiving in the
shape of rent six per cent , upon the outlay , they mi ght have added one million two hundred thousand a year to the Exchequer , instead of robbing it of twenty millions ; and upon half a million of acres , or the fortieth part of Ireland , they mi g ht have located fifty thousand families , or a quarter of a million of people ; and those quarter of a million would have given an impetus to English trade and manufactures , and a spur to domestic labour , instead of—as now—constituting an idle convict pauper class .
Now , then , would that not have been a more proper , just , and profitable-appropriation of your money ? And can any man forget , or can any man deny the fact , that the twenty millions lavished upon the West Indian slave owners , has but tended to revolutionise our West Indian Colonies , precisely as the twenty millions expended in Ireland has destroyed all landlord exertion , inspiring the belief and the hope that English money would become the substitute of their negligence , indifference , and
tyranny 1 Peel's Plan may be sneered at by the visionary , and scoffed at by the interested , but it has already taken fast hold ofthe mind of agricultural Ireland , and will worm itself into the mind of commercial England . As John Bum ., once convinced by an able statesman , in whom he has confidence , that Ireland , if properly governed , can not only support its own poor , and cease to he a pensioner upon the British Exchequer , but would also become a better customer than all our distant colonies ,
will compel the immediate adoption of those statesmanlike measures by which alone both Ireland and England can be saved . My friends , it will be a great jubilee when the _Peee staff appointed to carry out the Peel project shall visit O'Connorville , Charterville , Lowbands , Snig _? s End , and . Bfdmsgrove , to receive practical information from my dupes . But so , depend upon it , it will be . Tour faithful friend , Feargus O'Connor .
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TO THE CORDWMNERS OF LONDON . _Frie-sds a _* _sb Shopmen— It is becoming , every day , more and more evident that oar wages are being rapidly reduced to ' starvation point' by the unprincipled competition of the rival capitalists who trade in our labour . The ' question of questions , * then , with us is—how may we best rescue ourselves from this labour-enslaving and misery-engendering system ? Hitherto our energies have been frittered away in mere denunciations of au iniquitous system , or in futile appeals to our labour-mongers for a * better ordering of things . ' But that « experience' which ' makes even fools _wi 5 e
has now taught us that we can , and must , help ourselves , without waiting for the help of any one . For ( as "William Howitt wisely remarks ) , « you may wait on the tanks of the great and ever-growing river of poverty for the golden boat of the capitalist to carry you over till you perish of starvation . ' Therefore , let as be wise in time by resolving , that as we are the creators of capital we will now begin to create it for ourselves 1 How ? By combining within onrselves the hitherto antagonistic characters of employer * and employe /? . And such is the object of the City of London _CO'Operative Company of _Cordwainers .
It is proposed : 1 st . —To accumulate a capital of £ 100 in shares of £ 1 each , payable by instalments of not less than sixpence per week . 2 nd . —The requisite capital subscribed , a shop will be opened for the sale of goods , manufactured by shareholders , so that the profit , now absorbed by the capitalist , may be added to the labourers * wages , and the capitalistlabourer be enabled to compete with the most purse-proud capitalist-profitmonger . 3 rd . — After deducting a moderate per centage , the proceeds of sale will be immediately paid to the workman . The incidental expenses of the shop will be defrayed by
one portion of sueh n * _ed per centage - and the surplus will be periodically divided among the shareholders as interest on the capital advanced by them , 4 th . —To ensure that * honesty , ' which'is the best poiicy , » the instalments are invested , weekly , in the National Land and Labour Bank ; and , as short reckonings make long friends , ' the Banker ' s receipt for the previous week's instalment is submitted to tbe next weekly meeting of shareholders . 5 th . —Desiring no drones iu its hive the Company dispenses with paid officers ; and as' equal burdens break no backs , ' every shareholder serves office in rotation .
If it be objected that our proposed capital is inadequate , * we answer—that as we have justice for our object so we have prudence for our guide . ; We attempt only _« bat which we can accomplish without injury to o ur present necessary limited resources _^ Besides , if we succeed thus far , we shall be famished with the means for attempting yet more ; and our success will incite to other and more mighty efforts for Labour ' s independence . There / ore , you are
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most earnestly invited to become shareholders in tbe City of London Cordwainers _Co-operative'Company . You can make yourselves fully acquainted with its princip le- ) , and its proposed mode ot action , hy attending any of its meetings , which are held every Sunday evening , at the ' George , ' Paul ' _s-alley , _Redcross-street . Come , then , _Shopmates , and decide for yourselves whether you cannot thus raise yourselves to the dignity of independent capitalist - labourers , instead of remaining the ill-paid and despised slaves of _capitalisUprofilmongers . ' John Ladd , Secretary .
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THE NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION TO THE CHARTISTS AND DEMOCRATS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM .
Bbethben , —In the month of October last an assemblage of delegates from all parts of England ar id Scotland met at Birmingham , and called the present Executive Committee into existence , for the purpose of re-organising the Chartist movement , and once more reuniting the dismembered Chartist body , and , in the name of the great democratic party , pledged them your support _., Your Executive Committee , having heen thus called into existence , set to work with renewed energy and untiring zeal—devoting themselves to your
services . They drew up a " Flan of Organisation , " which met with the most cordial and unanimous support from the Chartists of Great Britain they also resolved that petitions from as many parishes , towns , cities , and districts of the empire as possible , should be forwarded to Parliament in favour of the Charter . With this view they have caused copies of the petition to be printed , with which any localit y can be supplied at the rate of two shillings per hundred , or any individual , at the rate of onehalf penny each . A motion will also be submitted to the House of Commons in the month
of May next , by the honourable member for Nottingham , founded' on that petition . The Executive Committee , therefore , appeal to their brethren , in aU parts ofthe United Kingdom , to be up and doing . Let the petitions be got up in accordance with the instructions recently issued in the " Northern Star . " And now , brethren , your Executive Committee would fain call your attention to the exhausted state of the Exchequer ; and having fulfilled their engagement to you , call on you to' use your best energies during the Easter Holidays to supply the necessary funds , aud enable your "Executive Committee" to meet the calls made on them to send out missionaries , and to
speedily hold such a conference of members appointed from your body as shall be worth y of , and tend much to , the advancement of the cause of Chartism—that is , the cause of justice , liberty , and true political equality , which must and will ensure true and lasting social happiness . Placing before you the annexed statement of our financial affairs , and appealing to y on to at once remit your subscriptions to the Secretary , at 1 M , High Holborn , we subscribe ourselves , Devotedly yours , The members of the Executive Committee , Thomas Clark , William Dixon , * James Grassby , Philip _M-Giurn , G . Julian Harney , Henr y Ross , Edmund Stallwood , Samuel Kydd , Secretary . March 30 , 1849 . FINANCIAL ACCOUKT OF THE NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION , From November 2 nd , 1848 , to Marc 0 . 31 st _, 1849 . £ . _s . d . Receipts , from all sources 77 4 11 Expenditure 77 8 7 Due to the Treasurer £ 0 3 8 Debts due by tbe Association , on account of printing , officers' salaries , d : c ... 12 8 2 £ 12 11 10 Property in hands of Association , good debts , « fec 4 0 0 Balance due by Association £ 8 11 10 April 3 rd , 1849 . —Audited and found correct . John Arxoit , John Cure .
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The Executive Committee met at their rooms , 144 , High Holborn , on Friday _evening , March 30 th ; present , Messrs . Grassby , Stallwood , Clark , and Dixon . Mr . Clark in the chair . Mr . Dixon reported that Mi * . O'Connor was desirous that the Executive Committee should form such a notice as they would like him to submit to Parliament on the "People ' s Charter ; " and call on nim with it . Messrs . M'Grath and Clark were appointed a sub-committee for that purpose . —Messrs . Kemplay aud Pike attended from Bermondsey , and informed the
Executive that they hoped to get up a large meeting very shortly in Bermondsey , in favour of the Chartist petition . The wish of tbe metropolitan _delegate council having been submitted to the Executive , relative to the non-delivery of lectures in publichouses , it was resolved unanimously , " That tho understanding be set aside , and that each member of the Executive be at liberty to use his own discretion in the matter . " —The assistant-secretary was instructed to draw up and publish through the Northern Star , in the name of the Executive Committee , a short Address , appealing for funds to enable them to carry out , with elect , the Chartist movement ; after which , the committee adjourned until Friday evening , 13 th April .
National Registration and Election Committee ; —This body met at the Two Chairmen , Wardourstreet , Soho , on Monday evening . Mr . Black in the chair . It was resolved , on the motion of Messrs Stallwood and Arnott , " That a Hand-Book and Guide to Registration and Elections be published , at twopence each copy . "—On the motion of Messrs . Shute and Godwin , " That Messrs . Grassby and Stallwood be a sub-committee for compiling such work . " —On the motion of Messrs . Stallwood and Grassby , " That the various Chart ' iBt localities throughout thc United Kingdom be requested to
aid in its circulation , and the consequent registration of Chartists as electors . "—On the motion of Messrs . Grassby and Shute it was resolved , " That active steps be taken in the matter of registration in the borough of Lambeth , with a view to returning a working man , in conjunction with Mr . Charles Pearson , at the next election . " —On the motion of Messrs . Stallwood and Arnott it was resolved , " That the secretary put himself in immediate correspondence with his brother electors of 1 am betn , with a view to elicit their support in the good work . "
Metropolitan Delegate Council . —This council met at the Executive Rooms , 144 , High Holborn , on Monday evening , April 2 . Mr . Miles in the chair The following persons handed in their credentials and look their seats . Messrs . Nicholas 'Kirby and Ferdinando , from Crown and Anchor , Waterloo Town ; Mr . Dodson , from the Commercial Hall , Philpot-street ; Mr . W . Goodman , from South London . —Mr . Dixon reported that the deputation appointed to wait on Members of Parliament , relative had written to several
to the case of Dr . M'Douall , and had obtained a personal interview with the honourable member for Manchester ([ Mr . John Bright ) who had promised to do all in his power to aid their object . —Reports were delivered in from the several localities on the state of Chartism in the Metropolis , and the arrangements in progress for holding great public meetings in the City , Tower Hamlets , and Pinsbury , shortly after Easter . The several reports were greeted with most hearty applause . —The following are thc Objects and Rules adopted bv the " Metropolitan Delegate Council s "
objects . " That the objects of the Council shall he the furtherance of Parliamentary Reform , founded on the princip les of the People ' s Charter , _liy means of a good organisation of all its members , by petitions to parliament ; by public meetings . and lectures , by the diffusion of sound information , by means ofthe _registration court 3 , and every other means that the laws ofthe realm may permit , and wisdom and discretion shall justify . "
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- . ; ; ; rules . ' wJ ? _% _* ' ounoiI consist of two members from _, each _Chutist locality within the Metropolis and its suburbs , . and such of the Executive Committee _residing within the same limits . " _v 1 * _\ a _$£ _r-leS ? . te sha 11 be elected for six months , but _snaHge at liberty to resign his office at any time hemay . _pnkfit . " > " ThatsIlB members meet for despatch of business at least o : pe evening in tho _weeks-. the chair at such m _™^ » e taken at eight o ' clock precisely . " .. _" - _*«& secretary and treasurer be appointed by „ _Ti _* _£ , lt ttle first meeting after election . " _ThaMuch funds as may be required for the nurt
_poses ome council , shall be raised by lew on the several _localities , in proportion to the number of member | in each locality , in such way as the _locahtiesmajf ; deem gt . " _"Thateacii . delegate , on taking his seat the first time after hlS election ,- shall hand in credentials duly authenticated by the secretary of the locality of _whicKpfcis the representative . " bers _, tB _^^ _retarT _^ iairat any-tJme ' _oWa - _specHal meeting-of the council . " " That in thc event of any delegate neglecting to attend tho council for move than two consecutive meetings , the secretary shall communicate such fact to the locality from which the negligent member is sent . "
" That the secretary keep a register ofthe names and addresses ofthe members ofthe council . " ** That at the first meeting in each month , each delegate shall deliver to the council an account of the state and prospects of his locality . " " That two auditors be appointed to audit thc accounts of the council every quarter . " " That a balance sheet be published once in every six months . " Charles Utting , Treasurer . Alfred Fennell , Secretary .
CmppiEGATB . —Mr . Britcsk delivered an able address on the " Bearing of Religion on Political Rights , the evils of a State Church , that great barrier to progress , " at the Assembly Rooms , 28 , Golden-lane , on Sunday evening last . The room was numerously and respectably attended . The lecturer elicited the warmest plandits of his auditory . We understand that the Assembly Room is open every Sunday and Tuesday evening .
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_WiiiTiisoTON and Cat Branch . —At the quarterly meeting of members of the Whittingtoa and Cat branch of tho National Land Company the hooks of the last quarter were audited , and officers appointed for the ensuing quarter . It was resolved that the weekly meetings be held on Sunday evenings for the future . Westminster . —According to adjournment , the members ofthe Westminster locality ofthe National Charter Association met last Sunday evening at their room , but in consequence of a notice in the Star of Saturday , trom air . T . Clark , that he could not lecture to such , small audiences , we resolved , though very reluctantly , to meet for the future at the Two Chairinen , Wardour-street _, Soho , at halfpast _' eight , on the evening of Tuesday in each week . It is hoped that the subscribers towards getting a Hall will attend , also the members ofthe Land Company .
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THE PETITION FOR THE CHARTER . TO THE _EDIT 0 B OF THE NonTIIERS _STAK , Mr Dear Sib—The Executive Council recently resolved to call on tho country to petition Parliament for the enactment of tho People's Charter . The resolution has met with general—although I cannot say hearty—approval . To petition parliament seems to me to be a proper step ; but its efficiency must rest chiefly with the manner in whichjiie _^ quest is responded to . ' Whatever is worth doing , is worth doing well , " was a maxim of Edmund Burke . It would be well for all of us that we would remember and practise it . The Chartist movement has suffered much from a union of causes . It has often relapsed , and excitement has subsided ; it has , however , never quite lost its vitality—in honest truth , it never can . Even
now it 8 tauu 8 out in characteristic relief from all other movements . Suffrage associations out of number have been established , but they have never taken deep root either among the working or middle classes of English society . Thc reason is obvious . Chartism , despised and rejected as it has been hy many , has still remained true to itself . It is broad , comprehensive , and generou sin its sympathies , and whether its opponents know it or not , the mind of England is drawing towards it . The youth and intelligence of this land are democratic . In the Church and out of the Church , there are sign of progression . What means all this cry about popular education , which I so much rejoice to hear ? It is an indication of remote and still powerful causes , _showing that _nouular intelligence is paving the way
for popular government . Power ia _Eist passing out of the hands ofthe few , to be vested in the hands of the many . No government , no barrier can effectually stop this progress . We may have motions and _COUnter-motionSin the Parliament—Disraeli against Cobden—Peel lording it over Lord John . The very difficulties of- the state will force aristocratic _donnv nation _' _onto subjection , and whether the result be profitable or profitless , the trial must be made ; the problemof—Can the many govern wisely and well ? will be solved at no distant day . The time of the solution' rests in a principal degree with the people themselves . . Therefore it is that I call on my _fellow-couutvymen to take up this question of petitioning in good earnest . Some of you may say , " We are weary of petitioning . " Perhaps you may but
is it wisdom to refuse to apply the power you have , because you have not a more active and efficient means at command ? Truly , no ; common sense and experience dictate a different course , The battle of the ' people against the privileged orders must be fought out , and every available and honourable means must be used on the side ofthe oppressed . Petitioning is a practicable means within our reach . Tho Whigs , who have been guilty of many base deeds , have always affected to look on petitioning as a sacred constitutional right of the people . Let the people , then , use this right . Such a right efficiently and _energeibaUy used , will ensure a discussion on the Charter in the House of Commons , » report of which will find its way into the columns of the _newspaper nress . and cause a general discussion
throughout the country on the suffrage . Every discussion on the people ' s claims to political power is of interest and value . Truth and just demands gain popularity by discussion . They grow strong from the antagonism of opposition , falsehood and unjust monopoly lose from the same cause , and there-opening of the discussion on the organic question ofthe suffrage , will prove at this time to he of value to the popul _& r cause . Since I visited the counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire , I have seen several signs of revival . The meetings I have attended have , on the whole , been rather satisfactory than otherwise . At Holmfirth I was honoured with the most numerous audiences for two nights that were ever known in the history of Chartism in tha district , and I have goo d
reasons for affirming that those lectures have b een of value to the movement . At Oldham ; on Sunday last , I lectured to a most numerous and respectable audience , -and at Royton , on Monday night , to a crowded house . I do not mention my success from motives of personal vanity . I do so merely to show grounds for my belief that the seeds are yet to be found that will one day yield an abundant iruifc . Care and management , of course , are necessary ; butexperience—dear-boughtcxpericnce—has taught some of us a limited share of wisdom . Iamunpressedwith the idea that the star of aristocratic domination has culminated , never again to be seen towering in the zenith . An anonymous American writer of aristocratic tendencies , was recently constrained to write , in reference to England , that " _Everyyoar , more and more deference is required to the popular will , YOUT present Forms may continue to exist ( and I would not that they were
changed ); you may still have a monarchy , and preserve your three estates of King , Lords , and Commons , but your government , nevertheless , ishastening to virtual democracy—a consummation most devoutly to be : deprecated . This tendency has now , however , become inevitable . No human might can arrest it . The people never willingly surrender any po _»* er they have once obtained , and the day in which . they could he dragooned into submission by physical force has passed by . The rule of opinion now stands out in bolder relief , and asserts its sway with » more commanding voice . Opinion of ono ; Sort or another , governs the world . Even when it is but a prejudice , an error , there is no power in the moral world comparable to its power . Fruitful in phantoms , it borrows all the colours of reality in order to deceive . Source inexhaustible of good and evil , it is through it alone that we see—by it alone that we will arid act . ' . '
Although not subscribing to all the views of the writer , and sharing none of his respect for King and Lords , there is a vein of penetrating _Jobservation
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pervadmgthe whole sentiments that cannot be overlooked by thc most prejudiced reader . Democracy is destined to triunipn , and the scorned ofthe past will be the adopted ot the future . I am , as ever , your obedient servant , ¦ _,-, Samuel _Kydo . Manchester , March 27 th , 1849 . P . S . —I request all parties desirous that _rshould lecture or attend meetings in their district , to . write immediately to Thomas Ormesher , 52 , Little Bvidgcwatcr-strcct , Deansgate , Manchester . S . K ?
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LATEST NEWS . Four Persons Suffocateo by Charcoal . —Thc residents of Miss C . Mann ' s ladies' school , Liburnahousc _, St . JoiuYs-wood , -were greatly alarmed on Wednesday early by discovering that three of the female servants , Eliza Tidd , aged 21 , Fanny Carter , aged 17 , and Elizabeth Griffith , aged 16 , had died during the night , and that a fourth was in a state _oLinsensibility _, front which she has not at present recovered . The facts ofthe case appear to be that the cook , who had been ill some time / and who on Tuesday evening felt herself worse , asked permission of her mistress to sleep in a room adjoining thc kitchen , in which tho footboy had temporarily slept , as she thought she could repose more quietly there than in her own bedroom . This was assented to on tho condition that one of the housemaids should sleep with her , in case she might require assistance . It was thought that the room .
which had no fire-place , might be too cold for an invalid , and a patent stove , which had been constantly used in the hall , was brought into the room to warm it . Another servant also expressed a desire to accompany them . This arrangement havinff been made , the lady ofthe house and family retired to rest , but it is conjectured that afterwards the fourth female servant , not liking to sleep alone , took up her abode with them . Tho custom ofthe family was to call up the servants at six o'clock in the morning . On being called at that hour on Wednesday no answer was given , when the door was opened and the appalling scene disclosed of three of the servants dead , and a fourth , Annette Peyke , gasping for life . Instant medical assistance was obtained , which was useless to all hut the ono , who was found in a state of insensibility and partly dressed . She is not yet sufficiently recovered to narrate the _particijlars of thi 8 _Dielan _« choly affair .
Death rpom Scaldlvg . — -An Inquest wa s held on Thursday hefore G . Payne , Esq ., at Gray ' s Hospital , on the body of Margaret Stephens , aged three years , who died from having a saucepan of boiling milk accidentally thrown over her by her eldest sister , aged thirteen . The deceased was one of seven children left by the mother at home on the 31 st ult . The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death . " Desertion of a Cuiin . —On Thursday an inquest was _hehfrbefore Mr . Carter , at Lambeth Workhouse , on the ; body of a child , aged three months , unknown , who died irom the want of nourishment and exposure in tho public street . —A verdict was returned of wilful murder against some person or personsunknown .
Extensive Issue or _Toboed £ 5 j \ otes . — On Thursday , at the Borough Court , Manchester , a young man , named W . _JScales , was brought up for final examination on a charge of paying several forged £ 5 notes . So loss than four cases were established against him . The prisoner was committed for trial at the assizes . The Livertool MimnER . —The poor servant girl Parr , died on Thursday morning . Poisoned Flour . — Worcestershire . — Several persons have had a narrow escape from death through the carelessness of the _fiesh workman of a miller , who , requiring some alum to mix with some flour , by mistake used a quantity of _sugar of lead . Nearly twenty persons suffered in Stourbridge after partaking of bread made from some of the same kind of flour , sold in that town , and which on analysis was found to contain sugar of lead . Fortunately none of these cases have proved fatal .
North Hants Election . — -The contest for the representation of the northern division of Hampshire terminated on Wednesday , in the return of Melville Portal , Esq ., by a majority of 331 over Wm . Shaw , Esq ., editor of the Mark-Lane Express . At the nomination on Saturday last , Mr . Andrews , coach builder , of Southampton , proposed as a third candidate Timothy Falvey , Esq ., of Southampton , editor of the Hants Independent—hut the proposition was not seconded . _AriEMPiEn Homiceoe at Bristol . — At about eleven o ' clock on Thursday night a man named William Harris , a corn porter , attempted the life of alabouring man named John Lucas alias " Fat Jack , " by stabbing him in three places withaknife . It appeared that the porter with some other men were drinking together at apublic-hovse called the Britannia , which forms the corner of the Welch Back and Old King-street when a quarrel arose
between them" about some trifling matter , which eventually led to a fight , and Harris and Lucas went out into the street , where blows passed between them . Subsequently another man interfered , and Harris and he came to blows : while this was going on Lucas had approached them and Harris called to him , and threatened that if he would come at him again that he would give him something . In the heat ofthe quarrel Lucas went up to him , upon which Harris was seen to take a knife from his pocket , open it , and plunge it three times into Lucas ' s person below the waist . The poor fellow fell exclaiming ; that " lie had been stabbed , and upon his being picked up it was found that he had received some severe wounds of the abdomen , through one of which the bowels protruded in a dreadful manner * The police were immediately informed ofthe occurrence , and arrested Harris : the injured man was taken to the infirmary where he now' lies .
Another Charge of Stabbing . — Tho same night two sailor of _tfnVcuttev Argus , lying on the quay at Bristol , got into _' a quarrel with some men , one of whom drew a knife and stabbed a man named Healing through the leg and another named Pawridge on the head . The fellow then made off and has not since heen taken .
APPALLING MURDER AND SUICIDE IN LEICESTER . On Thursday the town of Leicester was thrown into excitement by . a report that a woman had murdered her child , and afterwards committed suicide . It seems that a man named Groce lives in Simpsonstreet , and has two children . He is a frame-work knitter , and in the morning of Thursday he went to breakfast as usual , and on his return at dinner-time he found the door fastened . Upon entering a bedchamber , a razor was found on the floor , and a child , only three months old , had its head nearly severed from its body . The unhappy woman , his wife , had also made an attempt upon her own life , and a deep gash was made in the throat . The poor creature , when discovered , was not dead ,
and immediately medical aid was called in , but the steps taken to prevent self-destruction were of no avail—the unhappy victim had done her work effectually , and died in an hour afterwards . Perhaps , nothing more lamentable than the appearance of the house could be possibly imagined . The floor was literally a pool of blood ; the child lay on a box , with its head nearly severed from its body ; and the wretched woman , who had just expired , on the bed . Ail that the neighbours seemed to know was , that the deceased woman was labouring under an impression that they should starve . On thc other hand , it was stated that the husband was now in work ; and , moreover , thero was nothing indicative , in the appearance ofthe body , ofthe deceased ' s having been under the pressure of want .
INQUEST ON THE BODIES . Yesterday ( Friday ) afternoon an inquest was held on the bodies , at the Duke of Devonshire Tavern , Leicester , before J . Gregory , Esq ., coroner . —John Groce , husband ofthe unfortunate woman , deposed that he had been married to the _deeeaeedahout three years , and had another child besides' the one now dead . He went to work on Thursday morning , leaving his wife and children in bed , and returned before nine o ' clock to breakfast . His wife was then up , and had the breakfast things on the table . He got his breakfast , butshedidnotseen disposed to have any . He spoke to her about it , _andshe then had some . After breakfast he went to work again , and
returned to dinner about one o ' clock . On entering the house , he found the eldest child , two years and a quarter old , in the cradle , but could not sec anything ofhis wife . He called out , but got no answer , and went up stairs , where he saw a quantity of blood on the floor of the bedroom , and his wife lying by the bedside . He ran down stairs and gave an alarm , when some nei ghbours came in and he went up stairs again . He then found the _youngest child lying on the floor at the foot , of thc bed , _* and a razor lay on the floor between' the two . Ho immediately went for a druggist who lived near . The razor was his , and was usually , kept in a small basket which hung over the mantelpiece . He had been in depressed circumstances for about nine months past , and had made application for a iree passage
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to Australia . His _rife was willing to go at first , but after he received the necessary certificate , sho £ _: i ri d W 4 » VC 1 _'J-l _™ - _¥ nted . They did not know -Mat would become of them , as his own earnings and hose of his wife ( who worked at ? _facforv put together were not sufficient to maintain them . — _M _^' a * lShh 0 W . Grocc _' s . deposed to rmmW mtoh s house on heanngthe alarm . < W had _Vivco next door to him . about _C or 7 weeks , and he never knew _hinjand his wife to quarrel but once in that time . —Sarah Wri g ht ( another neighbour ) , « aw Mary Groce nursing her child about ten o ' clock on Thursday morning , and had some ¦ conversation _, with her . She could not perceive from her , conversation that she was insane . —Ann Paynter ( another neighbour ) gave similar testimony—Mr .
John Buck , surgeon , deposed that he was e . illed ' upon to see the bodies of the deceased persona about half-past ono o ' clock on Thursday afternoon . He found thc woman lying on the bed , _sunVring from an extensive wound in the upper part o £ her neck . The wound was from two to three inches in length , and very deep . She lived about an hour after his arrival . Her death was produced by the effects of the wound . From the situation of the wound , he was of opinion she had inflicted it herself . The child was dead when _, he arrived , and its extremities were quite cold . He should say it must have Lecn . dead an hour at least . It had a wound on the left side of
the neck , very small in extent , but » o very deep that the vertebral column was severed and the head was quite loose , as if it had been yfokntly twisted . The wound appeared rather the result of a stab than a cut , and must have been inflicted intentionally . —Mv . Anderson , druggist , gave simihur evidence . —Harriet Langton , mother of thc deceased woman , deposed that tho father of the deceased had been confined in a lunatic asylum that his mother had died a lunatic ; and that some . times before her death she had attempted to commit suicide . -We have not heard the result of this investigation . There was no other witness to he called and no douht a verdict in accordance with , tho evidence will be returned .
Trial op Messrs . Wariskn * and Fuller , tub Bath Goldsmiths . —At Taunton yesterday ( Friday ) , before Lord Denman , tho jury returned thc following verdict : " Guilty of the addition , Not Guilty ofthe transposing ; verdict , Not Guilty . " A burst of applause followed the verdict , and the accused were escorted to their inn by several hundreds of persons , Dublin , Friday . — The friends of Mr . Gavan Duffy are , it would seem , infinitely more numerous than mi ght havo been supposed " . The Catholicbishop and all tiie Roman Catholic clergy of tlie diocese of Clogher have addressed a memorial to Lord Clarendon on behalf of Mr . Duffy , and throughout the country similar demonstrations are being made . Condition or the Country . —In thc small parisit of Clondalkin , within four miles of Dublin , there arc now not less than seventeen hundred acres of land to let .
Mr . Richard _O'Gorman , sen ., has published a statement ofthe fund for the convict Mitch-1 , by which it appears he holds Mrs . Mitchel _' s receipt for £ 1 , 622 15 s . 9 d „ in addition to £ 150 handed her by the local collection at Newry . Thero are several defaulters , who have not paid their subscriptions yet , but it is expected thev will do so . The Clearance Ststem . —The Rev . John Buckley , parish priest of Milltown , has addressed a tetter to the Cork Examiner , giving an account of evictions in Kerry . The letter is dated March 30 . Ho
says : " I am over thirty years parish priest in this diocese , during which my humble name has never appeared in print ; nor should it now , when my hairs are white , and my days drawing towards a , close , had I not to relate a sorrowful talc , and describe a scene of woe . I have witnessed this morning on a farm called _Callynafcvcy , _thivty-ftve dwelling-houses levelled ; I have heard the weepings and the waitings of thirty-five families whose housek were levelled yesterday , and in their waiiings of woe , I have seen them joined hy thirty-five other families whose houses were to be treated in like manner . Out of these seventy families five fathers havo died since yesterday . " There arc most painful accounts of mortality in some western counties . The Limerick Examiner says , " The deaths in the Baliinasloe workhouse for the last week were 110 , "
POPULAR MOVEMENT AT GENOA , —A popular movement took p lace at Genoa on the 29 th ult . The gates of the city were closed , tlio tocsin was sounded , the people flew to arms . The Genoese municipal councillors Musso Montebruno , Montecelli , and Papa have set out for Turin , to assure the deputies ofthe support of thc Genoese province , and offer an asylum to the representatives of the nation . A letter from Genoa announces that a Provisional Government has been proclaimed in that city , and that energetic measures have been adopted to repel the Austrians . The latest accounts from Genoa state that the people had seized upon General Ferretti , tlio governor , and imprisoned him , because he endeavoured
tO suppress the insurrection . M _. M . Musso-Montebruno , Monticelli , and Papa being sent to Turin to offer the national representative an asylum in Genoa . When the steamer left Genoa , the drums were beating to arms throughout thc city . SICILY . —A steamer from Sicily has arrived afc Leghorn with the intelligence that 700 ofthe Royal troops in garrison at Messina have deserted to the Sicilians , taking with them their arms , ammunition , and baggage . GERMANY . —The sentence passed by the tribunal of Fribourg on Strove and Blind , the leaders in tho insurrection of Baden , is five years and four months' solitary imprisonment and the costs . The public prosecutor announced that he would appeal against tlie sentence , as not being equal in severity to the gravity of the offence .
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CLERKENWELL . _—Doiso a Friexd a Turn . — Charlotte Simpson and Ellen Barrett were charged with robbery . Mr . H . Warner deposed that on Monday afternoon he was at a public-house in Britannia-street , St . Pancras , when he was addressed by the prisoners , who implored his assistance , re-Er esenting that they , with thoir children , wove , and ad heen for several days , in want of the common necessaries of life , lie accompanied them to a baker's , where he purchased them some bread , and directed them , to vetuva to him for further aid . They did so at a time when-he was the worse for
liquor , when , acting under their advice , he was led home by them to his own residence , and while he was asleep they absconded , taking with them nearly all his worldly effects , consisting of money , plate , bed linen , and wearing apparel . The prisoners , who were apprehended while offering some of the property for sale , were committed for trial . George Richardson , a young man , was p laced at the bar before Mr . Tyrwhitt , charged with an indecent assault on Elizabeth Hutchinson , a little _^ girl 13 years of age , residing with her parents at No . 6 , Maiden-lane , Battle-bridge . The prisoner was ordered to find bail to answer the charge at the
. MARYLEBONE . —A Gentleman in Search op Himself . —Mr . F . Bailey was ' charged with having Created a terrible uproar in the neighbourhood of Wimpole and Welbeck-strcet , at a very early hour of the morning . —A constable said he observed the defendant knocking at several hall-doors , and the query ho put to the servants upon _opening was , " Is that infernal rascal , Fred . Bailey , here ? The replies being in thc negative , Mr . Bailey became exceedingly indignant , DUt upon his threatening to inflict personal chastisement on a burly footman the services of the constable were called into requisition . He was fined 5 s . SOUTHWARK . CHARGE OP Manslaughter . —
T . Bush and J . Ashton , in the employ of a butcher , were charged with , causing the death of T . Bunty , aged ei g hty . The prisoners were driving along _Blackfriars-road in a chaise cart , and tiie deceased , who was passing , was knocked down by tho vehicle , and when picked up he was insensible , and bleeding from the forehead ; lie was conveyed to the hospital , and it was found that some ofhis ribs were broken , and that he had received a concussion , of which injuries he expired soon afterwards . In the course of the prisoners' examination it was stated that although they must have been aware of having run over the deceased , they continued to drive on , and would have got away had not some persons who witnessed the accident run after the vehicle ,
and succeeded in stopping the horse , they were both sober at the time . —Mr . Cottingham said that it was only matter of astonishment that more persons were not killed in the streets , owing to the reckless manner in which butchers' carts , especially , were driven in crowded thoroughfares . The -worst feature in this case was , the attempt of the prisoners to escape after running over the old man . He should remand thc prisoners until the resultof the coroner ' s . inquest was known . LAMBETH . —Robbery . —Ann Phillips , a _TTOPiaa ofthe town and an expert thief , was placed at the bar for final examination , before thc Hon . G . C . Norton , on a charge of robbing John Brookes of _.-i
•• old watch , a gold guard-chain , and other _nvnnei'tv , on the Hungerford Suspension Bridg _^ _-wTu ; prisoner , who stoutly denied the robbery , w & _s fully committed for trial . Several robberies of a similar description , and generally attended with considerable violence , have within tho last two or thv .-c months been committed on the same _bridge . They are generally committed by a man and wor . an acting in concert / and as soon as they are accomplished One of tho tliiovos starts for the Middlesex and the other for the Surrey side . On the present occasion it is believed . that the prisoner had a-male accomplice , \ fho , securing the watch and guard , started to the Hungerfovd-market end of the bridge * n d got clear off .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 7, 1849, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_07041849/page/1/
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