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THE NORTHERN STAR j ^e ^J^L
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I™ Qoeawteeet, to which upwards of sixty...
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THE NORTHERN STAK. SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1815.
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THE CHURCH REALLY "IN DANGER." The fiist...
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John Aotv, Yobkshibi- —The address bearu...
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MONIES RECEIVED BT MR. O'CONNOR. CARUS ....
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RECEIPTS OF CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY, P...
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TO THE HEMBEB8 AND FRrEUBS OF THE CHAETI...
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I ™ Qoeawteeet , to which upwards of sixty sat ft * Onthe cloth being removed , Mr . Charles _Thunder , delegate to the late _Coherence of the bade , was unanimously called to the duur , who opened the proceedings of the meeting by observing tfiathefelt proud atbeing their p _*? esidenton so jnte restingan occasion , the moresp , as he _nadbwntheir _iCTMsentativem-Uie -Iaaore ' Par lament . Hehoped the _mepfiiffl would nay attention to the bnsineBB that
had to be done ; he would not waste more of their time , but call upon Mr . Fox , the secretary of _the-sec _tjon , to give the first toast—Mr . Fox gave , " The "United Tailors' Protection Society of Great Britain : may its principles ere long be promulgated and adopted by all in the trade thronghont the country !" The toast was drank with all tiie usual honours . — Mr . Hugo , in a neat speech , gave "The Executive Council : may they receive that support which will enconrage them to prosecute the work they have so nobly begun . * " Mr . Maunder responded on behalf of his colleagues , and was followed by Mr . Colbeck , who ably -reviewed the past and [ present state ofthe trade , as also the services ofthe Executive . —Mr . Fox then gave "The health of our truly praiseworthy chairman , Mr . Maunder , our delegate to the Conference , exertions shall
for -whose -firm and untiring we ever _fedg-r * - ttefuL" The whole assembly here gave the Song " He is a jolly good fellow , " with three times three . Mr . Maunder thanked them for their gratitude , and hoped that he should continue to be , what they had long found him to endeavour to he—an honest fellow labourer . ( Cheers . )—Mr . Aylenthen gave " The Jersey section : may they be as strong in friendship as they are in numbers , and may their officers never relax in their exertions . " Several pafjiotic songs and toasts werc afterwards given _, litis being the first anniversary of labour in union in Jersey , naturally created excitement ; the more so , when they beheld tiie Union flag flying with the tricolour , surmounted with beautiful caps of liberty ; and " Union ! -anion 1 " was the departing shout of neary every one .
Addhess of tbe Scottish Deleoates Assembled tor tbe Purpose of Fobmisg the Natioxal Trades ' _Usios . —Fellow-Workmen , —How often has it been sounded in our ears , that "Britons never would be slaves , " and in the face , too , of aUthe misery and degradation which so universJdly prevail amongst the working classes of tbis empire . We are aware that different patties have attributed this to different causes ; among others , overpopulation , introduction and improvements of machinery , and restrictions on feadeand commerce ; but , after due deliberation , it is our own solemn conviction that the great radical evil of all , of which we complain , arises from the want ef a proper _rmderstending of the true position we ought to hold in society ; for if it be a fact that labour is
-the source of all wealth , then how has our state and character as the producers of this wealth become so contemptible and degraded in tiie eyes ofthe capitalists of this country ? Solely because we Lave been educated to consider that the existence of rich and poor was a law fixed both by religion and nature : a greater insult , perhaps , never was offered in the face ofthe Deity , who has declared He is no respecter of persons . —Fellow-men ! Seeing that all parties bave puled to point out a remedy for the evils which exist in _Bociety , and after many long and arduous struggles as isolated Trades' Unions , we have been unable to emancipate ourselves—the fact is , that , so long as we remain so , we must be the prey of every designing individual and party ; we wonld therefore earnestly
raU upon _wiose trades who are already organised to stand forth , and , by their example , endeavour to _infosea new spirit into those who have allowed their former _orgamsation to go down , or who have nerer as yet been organised as Trades' bodies . The objects which we have in view are , to put the working _-tAaaaeo on & _morelatsimg and secure _umvn ihan ever could , "by any posablemeans , he accompushedhy any mdmdnal trade , however numerous that trade Blight be , and to form , when we have * _Ae opportunity ? powerful security for labour , by convincing the various trades that the combination of all the labouring classes in one Union , to uphold one _smother when threatened by imposition of any
de-* cription , is-the only mode by which they can emeige fi _^ m th e rjosition they hold in society . The delegates -who have already been appointed by the Trades , do earnestly call on those trades not yet represented to hold meetings , for thepnrpose of electing delegates to represent them at _themeeongsheld onthe Wednesday evenings , at eight o ' clock , in the Teetotal Chapel , _Kelson-street , where the delegates already chosen sit for tiie purpose of framing laws and devising means for placing tiie Union on principles which are likely to « ndure . We are , fellow-workmen , yours , & c , The _Dhleoaies . Glasgow , 22 nd May , 1845 . Those trades who may have any suggestion to offer will be BO good as to address Peter _M'Juner , No . 17 , _Balmoanu-street .
_14 BSSBIBE . — -The next General Delegate Meeting ofthe Miners of Yorkshire will be held at the house < A ~ Mr . Robert Wilson , the Waggon and Horses Inn , Ossett-street , on Saturday , Jane 14 th , 1845 , to commence at eleven o ' clock in the forenoon . _Lancashire Mkees . —TheturnoutatMessrs . Swire and Lees ' , in the Ashton district , still continues , and the brave fellows seem as determined as ever . On Monday last they had a splendid procession through Ashton , Stalybridge , Hyde , and Dukinfield . The men on strike were joined by a great number of their _inimfflgbretliren from other pits in the neighbour hood , and preceded by a band of music . There were * bo nnm _« roiis'fiags and banners inscribed with _apfroijriate mottoes , and the whole scene was truly _mag"tificent . It was late in the evening when Mr . Bobert aimed , owing to important engagements at Bury ; as soon , however , as liis arrival was made
known , the procession moved on to fheplace of meeting , near to tiie Half Moon , in Dukinfield , the band _tdaymg , "See the Conquering Hero comes" Mr . Char 2 esParliirjsonwa 9 _*^ i £ _d to the chair , who < n ) ened the basiness by a " brief bnt truly eloquent speech . The -meeting was subsequently addressed by W . F . Roberts , Esq ., Messrs . Davies , "Clark , and "Wild . After giving three cheers for the Union , the large assembly peaceabl y dispersed . The "Mosses , late in ihe employ of Messrs . Swire and Lees , return theksmcere thanks to the men of Burslem for their liberal donation of £ 2 lis . ; and should an ; of tiie trades at a distance feel disposed to contribute anything towards the 243 men now onfltrike _, it wouldbe thankfully received , and the _arnonn notified in the Northern Star . All orders to ade payable to Mr . Joseph Brookbank , care of Elliot-, Miners' Arms , Oukinfield , Cheshire .
-Tbe hkxt" Gssebal Delegate _Meehno of Lak-CASHiKEMiSEBSwellbehel dat the sign of the King William , Platt-bridge , near Wigan , on Monday , 16 th Jane ; chair to be taken at 11 o ' clock inthe forenoon There will " also "be a public meeting , which -will he addresse d by W . F . Roberts , Esq ., and several other gentlemen . The levy for the fortnight , in . eluding general contribution , is Is . 8 d . per member . The _Cordwadjebs' AssociAnoiy . —Since the late Conference , this association has been making rapid progress in the metropolis , as the reports in
onr paper for the last few weeks testify . We have already noticed tbat three ont of the four great branches of the London Men ' s trade have given in their adhesion ; and now we have to add that the Borough Men's-men have done the same . Exeter also has lately become a section , and from letters -which haTe arrived in London , we learn that the Men ' s-men of Cork , and both branches of ihe trade in Belfast , are expected to follow the example as soon as the delegate from England goes amongst fiiem , which itis supposed will be in the course of next week .
Snass o ? Ghusmasehs . —The men lately in the employment ef Wood Brothers , at _Wolverhampton , at con strike , occasioned by the resistance of that sua to the just demands of the men for an advance of wages , and their persecution of the _Chainmakers ' Union . We have received an account of this strike , "but so illegibly written as to prevent ns giving the _paxticolan . DtracovBE _Testoioxial . —Central Committee of Trades , Ac , 72 , St . Martin ' s-lane , Wednesday , Jane 4 th ; Mr . J . Grassby , Carpenter , in the chair . — The following sums were received : —Mr . John Brown , per Edmund Stallwood , 2 s . ; Mr . Manning , tailor , 3 s . 6 d . ; per Mr . Wilkinson , fhe subscription ofa few Hatters , Bs . 9 i- per John Jones , of Bowler ' s shop
( Hatters ) ,-fa . 9 i ; per Mr . H . Williams , on behalf ofthe Gilders' meeting at the Green Man , Berwick Btreet , £ 1 ; per Mr . T . Farrer , the proceeds of an harmonic meeting at the Feathers , Ids . -id . ; per do ., profits on sale of Northern Star , 10 s . ; per Mr . Evan Jones , Shoemaker , the result of a penny subscription , 2 s . 6 d . ; per Thomas Carey , a subscription at Mr . Robertson ' s shop , 3 s . 6 d . per Mr . Amos , Hatter ( second contribution ) , 8 s . ; per Messrs . John Shaw and John Frazer , on behalf of the Limehouse Local Ckimmittee , £ 1 Ss . 3 d . ; per Mr . A . Sharp , 8 s . ; per W . Smith , - Mr . Dickinson , 2 s . 6 a \; per Mr . J . Moore , Coach Trimmer , 2 s . 6 d . ; Mr . W . Shaw and friends , 3 s . fid . ; per Air . Pattenden , Marylebone
Chartist locality , 8 s . 3 d . ; per Messrs . Hornby and Humphries , the fourth subscription from Somers Town District Committee , £ 110 s . lOd . ; per Mr . W . Flower , Brighton , on behalf of Local Committee , £ 2 Os . 6 d . ; per Mr . R , C . Payne , Halptead ( secondsub scription ) , 10 s . ; from the Working Men ' s Mutual Improvement-Society , Landport , Portsea , 15 s . 6 d . ; from Glossop , per Mr . John Sears , £ 2 4 s . ; from Northampton , per Mr . Munday , on behalf of Chartists , 18 a . 4 d . ; from Sheffield , per Mr . Hammond , on behalf of- the ha & -pressers , 9 s . ; from Coventry district committee , per Mr Butler ( second _wAscription ) , £ 2 9 s . 4 d . ; from Southampton , a few Shoemakers , per Mr- J . _Jlinton , 7 s . ; per Mr . C . _» e | rave , Croydon , Is . ; from tho Iron Moulders ' friendly _Society of England , Ireland , and Wales , P _^ Mr . Wto . Glaiebrook , £ 10 ; from the Chelsea
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and Pimlioo district committee , per Mr . W . Dixon , the amount of six ball tickets , 3 s . ; per Wm . Cuffay , acollection from a few Tailors ( third subscription ) 2 s . 6 < L ; per Mr . H . Stall-wood , on behalf ofthe Great Marlow distriet committee ( second subscription ) £ 1 19 s . lOd . On the motion of Messrs . E . Stallwood and T . Barrett , it was unanimously resolved " That the General Secretary convene a special general meeting of the Central Committee on Wed nesday evening next , and that the General Finsbury Committee be requested to send a deputation to such meeting , to take into consideration what further steps shallbe adopted . " Agreed to . A special general meeting of the committee will therefore be held _attiiePaituenium "Rooms , 72 , St . Martin ' s-lane , on Wednesday evening next , June llth , at half-past eight precisely .
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_PEESECnrioN of Mb . D . Ross . —Hotdbbshkld . —A meeting was holden in the Guildhall , on Wednesday evening , the 4 th of June , for the purpose of giving Mr . David Ross , of Leeds , an opportunity of clearing his character from serious charges brought against him by Dr . Coffin , of Leeds , and also of hearing his statements relative to the practice of Dr . Coffin . Mr . Ross addressed the meeting for upwards of two hours in a most eloquent manner ; after which two gentlemen , servants of Dr . Coffin , gave statements to the meeting on the Doctor ' s side , but failed in pr oducing any favourable impression for the Doctor .
Themeeting concluded at twelve o ' clock , fcy adopting the following resolution : — " Resolved , That this meeting having heard the statement of Mr . David Ross , of Leeds , concerning his connection with Dr . Coffin ; and also the manner in which Dr . Coffin has treated him ; is of opinion that David Ross is worthy ofthe confidence of the people of Huddersfield , and of the public in general ; and that the people of Huddersfield open a subscription to enable Mr . Ross to meet Dr . Coffin at York , to defend himself in an action at law which the Doctor has instituted against him . " The Hall was densely crowded .
Fatal Colliebt Accident . —On Saturday . last a fatal accident occurred at St . Helen ' s Auckland Colliery , by which a collier named Joseph Richardson was killed . The deceased had just commenced his work , when a large stone fell from the roof andkillcd him on the spot . On Monday an inquest was held on the body before William Trotter , Esq ., coroner , and a verdict of accidental death was returned . The deceased was an untiring advocate of the rights of Labour ; and of him it may be truly said , that a warmer heart death ne'er made cold .
The Northern Stak. Saturday, June 7, 1815.
THE NORTHERN STAK . SATURDAY , JUNE 7 , 1815 .
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"PHILOSOPHY" AND COMMOA' SENSE . "DIVINE PROVIDENCE" AND « LONG HOURS . " " " Philosophy" has been the curse of our time ! Whenever any cruelty had to be perpetrated , or any measure founded on justice and common humanity had to be defeated , " philosophy" was sure to be appealed to—to be adduced ; and its dictum has , unfortunately , been too often received and relied on , to the nprooting nf natural feeling and the destruction of all just principle of action .
When the enormous debt and crushing taxation in combination with the devastating effects of Bank Restriction and Peel's Bill , —all consequent on the unholy wars undertaken to " put down" the rising spirit of liberty , —had produced their natural results , an impoverished people ; when wealth had been abstracted from the hands of its producers , through the operation of the all-absorbing engine of paper-• wncyandhigh taxation , into the lap of the " greediest and most inexorable of tyrants , " and every tenth mau in England converted into a " pauper" —or a liver , to more or less extent , on the poor-rates ; when the
, sum originally levied for that description of poor which we "have" and always shall " havjj with us "—the maimed , the infirm , the _misfor tunate , the lame , and tiie blind — was increased from £ 1 , _* 720 , 316 , in the year 1776 to £ 9 , 320 , 440 in 1817 ; when this was the case , and when this frightful extent of " pauperism" was increasing on every hand , a Philobopbsb arose , named Malihcs , who set to work—not to show how we were to get rid ofthe debt , by an equitable adjustmekt between the nation and its creditors ; not to remedy the all-devastating effects of Peel's Bill ;
not to arrest the downward progress to national bankruptcy , caused by the enforcement of a taxation imposed in a depreciated currency , and meeting " engagements , made in paper rage , " with payments in gold of " foil tall and fineness ; " not to " tear the leaves out of the accursed red book , " and rid the nation of the " dead weight" that was pressing it into the earth ; not to reduce the salaries of the judges and the officers of State to the amount they were fixed at by Act of Parliament before the "Augmenting Act" was obtained , to enable them to meet the high prices of provisions caused by the
depreciated paper currency ; not to put a stop to " grants " of public money to public servants for services performed , even after they had been regularly paid for these services , and even afterthey _haAengaged to give those services for the pay ; not to discontinue the extravagant " allowances" andthe sinecure places , given as rewards for political tergiversation and perfidy towards the people ; not to dock the pension-list of one single name , —for on that list appeared Parson Maltbub himself ! he being a lazy pensioner on the means of the producers of wealth to his dying day , betides enjoying hi * portion of that " church
plunder" which was originally " set apart" for the erection and repair of the church edifices , the maintenance OF IBB POOB . AND THE SIBANQEE , and the keep of the priest : it was not to do any or all of these things that Pensioner Parson _MALTHuspfttfotophstd : bnt it was to inculcate the impious dogma that the poor have no right to live ; that " a man , bora into a world already possessed , if he cannot get subsistence from his parents , on whom he has a just demand , and if society does not want his labour , has _nodaimofright-totfiewnaSert portion of food , and , in met , no business to be where he is : at Nature ' s
mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him : she tells him to be gone : " it was to inculcate these atrocities , that the pensioner , the liver on the labour of others ,-wrote his book , and deliberately proposed thata law should be enacted , providing , "that no child born from any marriage taking place after the expiration ofa year from the date of that law , should bo entitled to parochial relief , " thereby hoping to put a " check" to that " pauperism" which , in the increased and increasing amount of poor-rates , threatened "to eat up the estates . " Itwas to inculcate such impious doctrines as these , and to promote such heartless measures of starvation and
death for the children of the toilers , that the pensioned parson , —with every morsel of food he swallowed and every rag of clothing on his back , purchased by taxes wrung from the parents of those whom he was thus seeking to doom to a lingering death , —laboured with his pen : and his teachings were so congenial to those who , like himself , lived ont of the taxes , or who were otherwise bound np in the existence of the ACCURSED THING , that they eagerly imbibed his " principles , " and puffed the pensioner off as a -very saviour .
Again . In 1834 , when the evil effects of debt and taxation , and Bank restriction , and _Peel's-Bill produced-low-p rices-trith-depreciaUd-paper - money-en gagements , had manifested themselves more unequi vocally ; when " _pauperism" was stridingover the land when the Corn Laws of 1815 and of 1822 had failed to secure 82 s . a quarter for wheat , and Peel ' s Bill had caused the estates to be jeopardised—in danger of falling into the hands of the Jews , through mortgages made in a depreciated currency ; when , to keep THE THING on its legs , it wot -secesbabt to get further at the wage * of labour—to " reduce the labourers of England to live on a coarser sort of food ; " when this was the
taut , we had more " philosophy I" A heartless mountebank ; a man who has earned a character for unsafeness ; he , that has betrayed every person , every party , and every cause , that has confided in "him , or been confided to him ; he , that tried to prevent Queen Caroline from roming to England to face her accusers , and proposed to herthat she _shanld live on the Continent , on an allowance drawn from the pockets of that people against whom such an act -wonld have been an admission of TREASON * , he , that basely deserted the persecuted Qtjbbn , when entrusted with her defence , andleit matters easily answered , totally unexplained , with all tkeir appearance of guilt against his unlucky " client ; " he , that tried to
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wheedle the constituency of Westminster into the . electing of him as their member , in the place of Lord Cochbahe , by pretending to advocate Universal _Sufltage and Annual Parliaments , — - writing out his speech , in favour of those two " points , " in his own hand , that there might "be no mistake "—and who , when petitions for these same two " points , " —Universal Suffrage and Annual Parliaments , —were presented by Lord Cochrane , signed by a million and a half of Englishmen , sneered at them , and called the " points , "—his own adopted " points , "— " little nostrums for big
blunders ; " he , that prevailed on the Yorkshire crackskulls to elect him M . P . for that county , in 1830 , on tiie distinct pledge that he would agree to no plan of Reform that did not extend the franchise to all householders at the least , and who averred that he held the honour of representing them to be far greater than any the King could bestow , and that he would never desert them to fill any place—and who , within some two mont hs of that declaration , turned his back on his constituents when the post of Chancellor was offered him by the in-coming Whigs ; he , that was party tea"
measure of Reform , " excluding nine-tenths of the householders of England from the franchise—and who , when difficulties beset the Grey Ministry in 1831 , offered , Vo "take -office v / rer Lord _Gu-bv ' ahead , and reduce the emasculated franchise of the original Reform Bill from £ 10 to £ 20 : he ; this man ; this faithless one ; this betrayer of trust ; this mouthing buf foon : he ; thisjack-pudding , in 1834 , when the " state _NECBssm" above set forth aroBe , made the walls of Parliament ring with maledictions against "the accursed statute of Elizabeth , " denouncmg every provision for the poor , " be it tithe , or be it tax , " as a
frightful evil , and bidding the legislature to passthe measure he presented to it , "if they would save their estates from being devoured up by the horde of paupers created by the fund set apart as the reward for idleness , laziness , prostitution , and profligacy . And " Philosophy" for the ; time triumphed . The measure was agreed to . It was avowedly founded on the principle ofthe prime " philosopher " of allthe Pensioned Parson ; and it was as distinctly avowed that the measure itself was hut introductory , but " one step , " towards dispensing with Poor Laws altogether . As such , it passed .
Where is it noxv ? Where is the " principlo " on which it was founded ? Where is the " philosophy" which sustained it ? Gone . Shivered to atoms ! Scouted—detested—exploded ! Where is the man now , who dares to get up in the legislative assembly and deny the right of the poor to live ? or their right to a maintenance from the soil *? Where is the man now , who dares to avow the " principle " of Pensioned _Malthos , and state his readiness to " carry it out" to its legitimate conclusion **?! The man who would now have the temerity to propose Buch a compendious scheme of spoliation would be
considered little better than a maniac . Cobbett , and Oastler , and Stephens , and O'Connor , and the Times , and Charles Dickens , and gloriouB Toil Hood , and Laman Blanchard , and Douglas Jerrold , have not written and acted in vain ! The hell begotten "philosophy" has been unable to " stand its ground . " Nature and common feeling , combined with reason , hare driven it into the shades of darkness , from whence the Pensioned Parson first drew it . The Poor Law , enacted to reduce the labourers to live on a coarser sort of diet , has been amended again and again . The " wages of pros
titution , " in the shape of pay for bastard children , have been restored . Affiliation is once more the law of the land , — and the aristocratic betrayer of female confidence is now no longer able to ,-visit on her head the whole punishment and cost of his perfidy . The principle of " out-door relief' is acknowledged as just and humane by the amended law . The " test "—the infamous and brutal "test "—of destitution has been in part dispensed with ; and so far from our approaching the period when " all Poor Laws willbedone away with , " and "the poor thrown entirely on their own
resources , " we have , of late years , given Ireland a Poor Law , acknowledgingthe right ofthe destitute to live out of the soil : and we areat this moment engaged in amending the Scottish Poor Law , because it is found inefficient for its purpose—the proper relief of the destitute . This is indeed progress ! The " curse " ofthe age is being put under ! _Malthusiahism is tottering to its fall . As the Times well says : — " This detestable doctrine is now so utterly scouted , that it -would be difficult to find any person who professes to
adopt it , except , perhaps , a few ofthe administrators of the New Poor Law and their partisans . All other persons including even the Scotch judges , admit that the destitute have a right to live , and that this right lies deeper than the right of property itself . This is progress—most important progress , too , considering the -vitiated state of public opinion on this subject scarcely eleven years since , when even the House of Lords obsequiously crouched under the Malthusian impieties ofthe introducer ofthe New Poor Law . "
But it is not alone with the question of Poor Laws that" Philosophy" has interfered . The abolition of the legal relief for the unemployed ; the denial of all relief , except on terms that would deter every one but the soul-destroyed starving slave from accepting it ; the institution of the " workhouse test " , with its workhouse dress—its brand of poverty—its classification—its separation of man and wife and- mother and child—its " scientific" dietaries , of skilly , bread , 4 ozs .. of bacon for a whole week , and a morsel of cheese—its dysentery , hurrying off its inmates as if stricken with the plague ; all this was well
calculated to make the labourer offer his services for almost any amount of wage , sooner than subject himself to the cruelties that awaited him if he applied for aid in his necessity to those facetiously termed his _"< 3 iMarrftana . " Aud thus "Philosophy" accom . pushed its aim . It got at the wages of labour . The Poor Law screw was well adapted to twine the labourer down to less and still less comfort . The less the " share" of his productions kept for himself , the moretherewasforthosewholivedonhislabour . Thus was the object of driving him to " a coarser sort of diet" to be accomplished—and for the said purpose .
Whatever , therefore , interfered with , or thwarted , this settled design , met with disfavour from " Philosophy" The question of short hours of labour has been particularly opposed by it . The reason is sufficiently obvious . Short hours would have counteracted the designs of the " Philosophers , " as manifested in the law to reduce the labourers to live on " a coarser sort of food . " Short hours would have caused a greater demand for labour . With increased demand comes increased price . Increased wages would hare given the producers a greater SHARE of their own productions . This would not hare
answered the purposes of "Philosop hy . " The interest of the debt could not have been paid unless the livers on the workman ' s labour had consented to hare their incomes reduced , and a portion of them handed over to " national faith . " Lady Juliana Hat would have had to go without pension—and Parson Maltbub would hare been equally " destitute . " The " Dead-weight" men would have had the supplies stopped ; and the _sinecuriste would have been witbont salaries . Conld tins bare been borne ? Were those tbat fatten on the taxes to see their means of luxurious existence taken away , without an effort to _prerent it ? No . Interest , the all-binding tie of THE THING , forbade it . "Short hours "
could not be endured . No matter that the helpless and the unresisting were being sacrificed . No matter that deformity , disease , and premature death were the consequence to the young—to the infant . No matter that law-produced poverty had caused the order of nature to be reversed , and the mother sent into the factory to earn the livelihood of the family , while the father stalked the streets like a spectre . No matter that "science" and " improvement " had "dispensed" with the labour of the man , and called in the woman and the child . No matter all this : what availed itagahist the other considerations ? A failure in the amount of taxation necessary to be raised would have been destruction to the
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whole . THING . The-evilB of long hours might carry some few , or even a considerable number off ; but were not there " more" to supply their place ? Had we not already " too many mouths *? " Was not population increasing in a geometrical ratio , and subsistence only in an arithmetical ratio ? Therefore short hours could not be thought of . The existence ofthe State itself depended on the working of little children and females twelve hours a day ' . Well , but there were little children and females , employed in most unhealthy and most improper ( for them ) employments , and for _^ longer time than that fixed by "Philosophy" as "the least possible limit "
that State-necessity could admit of . These were those employed in print-works and calendering establishments . Humanity interposed in this case , and said .- — "Surely , 'Philosophy' will interfere here , and apply the rule it has itself laid down . " To this all reasonable men gave ready consent . They argued , that if " State-necessity" could not admit of the ten hours' limit for factory " hands , " because the existence of THE THING would thereby be endangered , still if it could manage to keep its head up with twelve hours' toil from those that worked in our
manufactories , there did not appear to be any necessity for those who were even worse circumstanced at labour , to work longer tune ; and they anticipated that the modest proposition to place the latter party on the level "Philosophy" had made for the former would have met with ho opposition whatever . Humanity reckoned without its host . Though the adherents of "Philosophy" in the "lower house" could not muster courage to oppose so reasonable a course , the " incarnation of deceit and mountebaHkism" in the " upper house" could not forego the opportunity of proving itself " true to nature . "
Thc Bill to extend to calico and other print-worki the provisions of the Factories' Regulations Act enacted two sessions ago , with such modifications as were suitable to the nature of the works , passed the House of Commons , without opposition , after its introducer , Loan Ashley , had consented to make certain alterations suggested by Sir James Graham . On Friday last the Duke of BUCOIKDOH moved that the House of Lords , where the Bill had had its first and second readings , should " go into committee " on the measure . On that
occasion-Lord _Brouohak . said , he could not refrain from enter ing his protest against their insisting , year after year , on thus legislating in the wrong direction . Professing great concern for the working classes , they were doing all they could by their legislation to injure and oppress them , and were treating them with what he held to be mere cruelty , under ihe false guise and garb of humanity . He had formerly entered his protest on the journals of the house in reference to this kind of legislation , and the objections wliich he had then urged appeared to him to apply with as much force to the present bill ,, although its operation was restricted within narrower limits . He chiefly objected to the 32 nd section . The dealers in humanity should be dealers
ia morality . After these women left at nine o ' clock at night , from nine till eleven their morals would not be improved , unless an act was brought in by sone humanity-monger to require them to go to bed . ( Hear , hew . ) By stopping the children from working , the work ofthe men was stopped , as the children ' s labour was as _neceesary for the labour of the men as theirs was to the printing . His ( Lord Brougham ' s ) opinion was that it was not for lawgivers to _protcctehtTdren ; it was fob Naium ahd Divine _"Providence which had provided the tare of the parents . But the objection he had to the bill was one of principle , though he had a specific objection to that part of it which related to women being prevented from working with their own consent and that of their husbands . The Legislature had no right , with their
fantastical opinions , to compel women to withhold their labour . Men were allowed to work all night , and why not women f They allowed jockies tobe brought up in a manner which entailed upon them all sorts of diseases , in order to ride at races . He wished they would legislate against their own persons , if tbey legislated for humanity . In the name of common sense , and common justice , and common humanity towards the working classes themselves , he hoped they would not be constantly haunted with one of these measures after the other of cheap humanity , which cost nothing to the framers , but was at the cost of others . In the next stage of the bill he should move for the omission of that part ofthe bill which prevented adult women from being allowed to work as they pleased , leaving all tbe children and other adults to the ravages of humanity .
The pttiful buffoon ! "Nature and Divine Providence" protect factory children and women ! What knows "Nature"of afactory ? If themountebank will but be consistent , and leave children to " Nature and Divine Providence , " they will never again ask him for protection . But if they are to have " Nature and Divine Providence" doled out to them , when they seek _hr . protection against the effects of the murderous unnatural system which subjects them to its iron control , they must have " Nature and Divine Providence" throughout the piece ' , andif they have , the brutal blasphemer , who talks so mouthingly of " Nature ar id Divine Providence , " would find his account to be far different than it now is ! Is
£ 60 , 000 , 000 taxation a-year theprotection of " Nature and Divine Providence ? " Had Nature to do with the " unnecessary and unjustifiable" wars with America and , France , to put down freedom ? Was it Nature that brought about the Bank-Restriction ? Did Nature prohibit the old Lady of Threadneedle street from paying her debts ? Was Nature the cause of the extravagant loans Lord John Rubbell told of last week , where £ 200 was set down for only £ 100 "lent ! " Was it Nature that issued the one-pound notes , and that caused papermoney to become so depreciated as to _cauBe iwo prices—when pineas of _twenty-one shillings nomina l value , sold for twenty-eight shillings in " paper ?" Did Nature pass the act to double the Judges and Officers of State ' s salaries , to enable them to meet the
enhanced price of provisions ; and then pass Peel ' s Bill to reduce the prices , but without reducing the salaries ? Had Nature to do with the * ' prosperity " of 1824-and " THE PANIC " of 1826 ? Did Nature enforce the provisions of Peel's Bill , to the deterioration of all the property in the kingdom , and to the utter ruin of hundreds and thousands of our merchants and traders ? Was it Nature that made it necessary for the working people to be reduced to " a coarser sort of diet , " that rents and taxes might be paid ? Had either Nature or Divine Providence to do with these things ? And yet these are the things that have made it necessary for women and children to ask our "law-givers" to accord protection against the evil effects which the unnatural system has entailed on them .
Butthen " itisnotfor law-givers toprotectchildren !" Then what , in heaven ' s name , are they for ? Do they only exist to levy taxes , and absorb to themselves the fruits of industry ? Is that the "be-all and the end-all" of their existence ? If so , would not society be better without them ? There is this blaspheming buffoon , for instance : he has a pension of £ 5 , 000 a year . To raise that sum , many a woman and many a child has to groan and toil , and groan and toil again . Of what use is HE to them ? They ask him for protection : and he tells them that " it is not for him to protect : " " they must go to Nature and Divine Providence ! " Would it not be well if they could refer him to " Nature and Divine Providence" next Quarter-day , for the payment of his pension ? If they could , they would have to groan and toil thc less—and so stand in less need of
protection . " Nature and Divine Providence" are not to be forgotten , in the reckoning and SETTLEMENT which every day draws nearer between the oppressed and plundered people , and the brigand-horde , of which this blaspheming mountebank is one of the most meddling . When we ask them who gave them THE LAND , we hardly expect that they will answer " Nature and Divine _Proridence ! " If they do , we Bhall ask for _' _. the PATENT : if they do not , we shaU appeal to Nature !
What a fool and dotard this busy "lord" is ! Why will he so provoke the contest ? Why does he so urge the people to an examination of tho origin of all law , all right , all possession , all property ? If he was oruinarily wise he would hold his tongue . At all events he would not refer the people to " Nature and Divine Providence . " Neither of these will serve his side of the question . He has move to losr- than to gain by an appeal to that court . For his own Bake , and for the sake of his order , it would be well if Punch ' s suggestion could be acted on . That _far-seeing personage remarks that : —
"Philosophy" And Commoa' Sense. "Divine ...
* _" Ihere has been a deal of talk in the House of Commons about some new marine glue , which is bo odiesive , that when two thingB have "been joined together by it , it Is Impossible to separate them . If it were made into lipsalve , what a friendly present it would be to Lord Brougham ! Leaving those most concerned to deal with the " fantastical opinions" of their brother Peer as they deem best , whether in the manner Punch points out ,
or in the voting of him a bore and a nuisance , we conclude this notice of his impious vagaries by chronicling the fact that his influence for evil seems te be fast waning away . Time was , when h was Sir Oracle— " philosophy" itself . Now he is laughed at . Spite ofhis "fantastical opinions , " the Bill for protecting infants and females went into committee . In answer to the old dotard ' s ravings , the Duke of Bucclecch said : —
There were some parts of the process of calico-printing very injurious to health , in the washing and dying of cloths ; and he thought that sixteen hours'labour in one day was sufficient , without sitting up the whole night stitching pieces of calico together . Nothing had been said to induce him to alter his opinion , especially after the satisfactory manner in wliich the bill of last year had worked . The House of Lords generally seemed to think so
too : for the bill , with a few amendments , was agreed to ; and in a short time it will be the law of the land . Thus another move has been made in the right direction . The principle of protection and restriction has been applied to another class of workers : and the day of success for the workers generally , on the question of short time , brought so much nearer : and this too in spite of " Philosophy" and " Philosophy ' s " < w t
The Church Really "In Danger." The Fiist...
THE CHURCH REALLY "IN DANGER . " The fiist portion of the fable of the Shepherd ' s Boy and the Wolf has been so often realised in relation to the Church and threatened "danger , " that it is not at all unlikely that the latter portion will come true also , and poor _Ou > _Moihbb be left , in her day of real peril , without aid or help . The cry of " danger " lias been raised so oft , and such cruelties and enormities practised by virtue of such " cry , " to avert the Bvil , that people have not only become indifferent to it , on the ground of apprehension to the " establishment" itself ; but actually rejoice when the cry of "danger" is set up , because they know the day of real tribulation is at hand .
A very short time , and Old Moihkr ceases to exist alone . For years past she has been in a sickly condition . The measure of 1829 gave her " a physicking . " Repeal ofthe Church was the meaning of the Emancipation Act . The statesmen ofthe day denied this : but events have proved the truth of the allegagation . Since that period the Penal Laws , passed to maintain ascendancy , have disappeared : and with these the principle on which the Church was founded was wholly given up . Cotemporaneously with this , we have had the project to endow another Church ! and we have that project ail-but the law of the land . The Maynooth Endowment Bill has " passedthe Commons ; " and has " passedthe Lords" also , on the second reading , with the thumping majority of 157 •'
It is well known that we are no admirers of either State Church No . 1 , or State Church No . 2 . We are not in love with State Churches at all—and with very few of the churches not connected with the State . We have done our best , in common with a great portion of the people , to prevent the Bill for endowing Church N _*> . 2 from passing . We looked upon the church we had as one too many ; and we did not see how any man , recognizing the principle of _roluntaryisin , could do otherwise than oppose the new Bcheme . Our views and feelings on tbat head are just as strong , or even . _stronger , than they were : and yet there have occurred one or two things during the debate in the House of Lords which , it' anything could , would have reconciled us to the project . For instance , the Bishop of London said : —
The endowment of two antagonist churches ( hear , hear)—for antagonist churches they were in tbe strongest sense of the term —( hear)—in the same country , seemed to him to go a great way to tin _ngection and abandonment of the principle which alone justified the _exxdowxxwntefawy ( hear ) - and he believed that their lordships were in great danger by passing this measure of sanctioning a principle that would rivet upon the church a chain of evil from which they would not be able hereafter to set it free . ( Hear . ) The consequence of this measure would be a severance of all connexion between the Church and State in Ireland , axid , he feared , at no distant period , in this country also . ( Hear . ) That was very clearly perceived by those in other
countries who saw the strife that was now waging here between principle and expediency . ( Hear , hear . ) They were not blinded by those personal interests which were so apt to lead to error—they could take a calm survey of the consequences of this measure without looking to any great depth . As a proof of that , their lordships would permit him to read a passage from a paper published at Lausanne , in Switzerland , within the last fortnight , the editor of which was hostile to the principle of all religious establishments , and who therefore exulted at our recognising a principle which might lead to that result here . This was the language which that writer held in the _jlntWesuit of the 19 th of May : — " We do not hesitate to
regard the bill which is about to pass into a law as one of the most important events in the history of "England . Some few have said , but everybody has perceived , that tbis endowment is only a preliminary measure . The endowment of a seminary will soon he followed by the endowment of the Catholic clergy . From that moment England may be considered as having adopted the principle of paying different forms of worship . But is the meaning of that principle understood ? To salary more than one religion is , in fact , to recognise none , To pay a Catholic clergy while maintaining a Protestant church is to make a profession of indifferentism . It is to acknowledge indirectly the incompetence ofthe State
to judge of religious truth ; in a word , it is to renounce in every way the principle of a « ationol church . " We need not wonder that the members of the Anglican church should be alarmed , and have covered the table of the house with their petitions . Tbey comprehended instinctively that it was a question of life or death for the establishment . The bill will pass . The last hour has struck for that ancient system which connects itself with all the recollections of the country . It is fallen . We , who ' have no great- sympathy for State churches , see reason to rejoice at what is happening in England . When the State pays
several modes of worship it will aoon come to pay none . " Now , that is not a very unphilosophical view ofthe subject . One thing is certain , that if we pay two churches , we shall have claims from more ; and if the claims are preferred , as they are certain to he , what answer can be given to them ? And thus we shall in time have as many State churches as there are sects . TMs will not do ! Long before it comes to that , we shall have all the sects calling out for " no State Church at all . " In this they will have " good head ; " for already , in reference to only two Churches , the Earl of WiNCBiLSEAhas said : ¦—
He would raise his voice to the very last against the measure , _axxd he would fight it out . ( Hear , hear . ) Let not the lofty mitre be unfaithful to its high trust ; let not right reverend , prelates abandon the sacred duty which they were now called upon to perform ; let them not desert the church , of which they were the honoured heads , in this the hour of its danger anddlstresB . How could they , or any of them , support a measure of tbis kind without justly forfeiting the respect and esteem of the great body of the church of this country ? ( Hear , hear . ) He would join with the rightrev . prelate who had last spoken , and say , that rather than see the disgusting spectacle of a State endowment of two churches , HE WOULD RAISE HIS
VOICE FOR A SEVERANCE OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH FROM THE STATE , nor would he cease his efforts until he had effected it , ( Hear , hear . ) This was a bold declaration , and their lordships might consider it go . ( Hear , hear . ) Has not the day of " danger" really come ? Could it be more imminent ? The Endowment of Church No . 2 is just upon completion * , anil thenceforth we shall have the Earl of Winchilbba " raising his
voice for a severance of Old Mother from the State " —and he pledges liimself before the country , that " he will not cease his efforts till he has accomplished " such purpose . He solemnly vows that "he will fight it out . " All power to his elbow , say we ! We have been almost tempted to bless Peei . for introducing the Destructive measure . ' Let us hope that its effect , in the way of Destruction , is sufficient to satisfy its author .
The BiBhop of London would join Earl Winchusea in his "fight , " were it not that the revenues of bis _bishoprick were so cumbersome ! As it is , he is obliged , now that the Maynooth College Bill has ailbut passed , to " confine liis attention to _hiu duties "— . and the emoluments . The Earl is not a Bishop ~ or he -would not have made his " rash vow . " flow long shall we be ere some of the Peers are turning Chartists ? Who would have expected Ww _CHiLSBAto lead in an effort to dissever Church from tate ? Verily , we live in strange times !
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John Aotv, Yobkshibi- —The Address Bearu...
John _Aotv , Yobkshibi- —The address bearu-, rh r name would be much more effective , on the clasB whom itis addressed if printed as a handbill , and - culated amongst them . ' Clr * M . P ., Nokwich . —Payment of the poor-rate can _ve c 0 pelled from alt householders , no matter whut mav h _^ the amount of rent , small or great , unless there _^ local act specially exempting cottages rented bei ovr specified amount . By the general law , all property ¦ * liable to be rated ; and where the liability exists the means exist to enforce payment . ' James Hoeseb , * _Wkike « -icb . v .. — "Wi < _tt _\« ATM ) ' t . answer r question , nor have we the means of reference . ' "
James Starke ** ., Kettering . —Ifthe landlord gavev a receipt for the amount of rent due , on condition th" he vacated the premises , ov on any other condition h cannot now recover the amount . If ho brings an actio ' for the alleged debt , our correspondent must plM ( - " ment , and put in the receipt as proof . * f' Tub _llNHEn States . —We have been requested to Rive publicity to the following extract from tlic letter of a late _sub-secretary of the National Charter Association now a settler in the state of Indiana , North America ' addressed to a Chartist friend nt Hammersmith bear ' ing date April 20 th , 1845 : — " It is now twelve months since I left England . I like this country as a residence far better than England . There lire noiie of those - _^ . parsons coming for tithes—no " king ' s tax-gatherers i 0 bother you—no Poor taw commissioners to starve ihe
people , as in England ; aiid since I have been here 1 have not seen a single beggar . The people here , w h 0 will work , can obtain * rorli , and far better wages than in England . The labourers are paid 75 cents , equal to 3 s . lid . English money , per day ; and provisions are cheaper . After I had been here a few weeks , I pur chased eighty acres of land , forty acres Of which are cleared , and under a good fence ; the other forty acres being thickly timbered with hickory , oak , beech , and maple . I have a good well of water , sixty . five fat deep , on the ground , well bricked up . I paid 750 do ' s for the land and its appurtenances ; and I can make double that sum of the timber , by cutting it up for are
wood , and hauling it to Fort Wayne , the nearest _toxm about one mile and a half distant , and which contaias about 4 , 000 inhabitants , and where the timber finds a ready sale . I can convey four loads there daily . When you reply to my letter , let me know how the Chartists are getting on ; and give my best respects to my Chartist friends . We have three papers published here weekly—two Whig and one Democratic ( the Fort Wayne Sentinel ) , edited by a Mr . Thomas Tigre . My self and the young man who came with roe are in excellent health . We have not known a day's illn « since we have been in this country . My brother and a young man has just arrived quite safe from England , and are residing here with me . "
Ross , BaoapTOs . —The reason why his 1 etter was kept over for a week was , that we had not room for it the week it was received . It was prepared for the pressand Mr , O'Connor ' s note written to accompany it ; but we were pressed for voom , and had to withhold what _, ever wouldnot " spoil with the keeping . " Wc see no good to be obtained by the publication o £ his present letter , or the adoption of the course he recommends ivith re ference to a portion of his last . Por ourselves , we can truly say that we have never named the gentleman he speaks of in point , nor even alluded to him * . aud what Mr . O'Connor tvas lately unwittingly made to do , he has amply retracted . As for the statement of Mr . Porter , of Birmingham , we neither affirm nor deny it . We have heard him make , it , with great apparent circum . stantial exactness : and it is for the party implicated , if , after what has passed , he deems it worth while , to seek an explanation from Mr . Porter himself .
Zeta . — "Received . Extremely glad to hear from him , With pleasure the communication shall be inserted next week ; we shall be happy to hear from him again . The _Bsadfoeo _Sahatobt Report . — "We shall make use of this valuable report , and the meeting on it , in our next .
Monies Received Bt Mr. O'Connor. Carus ....
MONIES RECEIVED BT MR . O'CONNOR . CARUS . Ship Inn , Birmingham .. ., „ „ .. 010 I BUHCOKlMB -rEBllMOMIAl , From Thomas Jameson 0 18 From Fotovens , near Wakefield , per John _Invnau 010 0 roB the executive . From the Chartists of Dundee , per James Graham 0 3 d VICTIM _TONU . From the Chartists of Dundee , per James Graham 0 2 RECEIPTS PER GENERAL SECRETARY . 6 DB 8 CEIPTIONS . s . a . s , d , Lambeth ., .. 060 Tonbridge Wells .. 046 Brighton .. .. 030 South Shields .. 0 S 0 Preston , old locality 0 5 0 Southampton .. 0 3 2 JJBVY . Manchester 2 0 0 CARDS . Hanley „ ,. ( 18 6 South Shields .. ft 2 8 Longton ., ,, 018 VICTIM FUND . Southampton .. .. „ ,. 019 nUNCOHBE T £ BXIHONIAI . Reading , per G . Wheeler .. , 17 10 Alexandria , Jfr . if'Intyre 0 10 Mr Millar , per Mr . Dear 0 10 4 _W . Salmon 0 0 6 T . Salmon .. .. .. , .. 008 Bristol , per T . _Frankham „ 2 9 David Millar , tailor , and shopmates .. .. ,. 031 James Thompson , Calico-bridge , near Oldham .. # 18 Mr . "Slaver ' s book _.. „ „ j * - THOMAS _"MJWTIN -WHEELER , _Secretai-y .
Receipts Of Co-Operative Land Society, P...
RECEIPTS OF CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY , PER SECRETARY . SHAKES . * s . d . £ s . t , Leeds , per Mr . BrookG 0 0 Mr , Isaac .. .. 014 Lambeth , per Mr . Mr . Parker , Coven-Dron .. .. 200 try oil Reading , G . _* Wheeler 0 14 Lambeth , 6 shares 0 7 8 Ditto , J . Wheeler .. 6 14 Isaac HoIIworth .. 0 I f Ditto , E . Rous .. 014 Dockheadmeeting , Ditto , G . Burr .. 014 8 shares .. „ Q 10 « Longton .. .. 030 Clock-house , 7 do . 094 Oxford , per Mr . CityofLondon , 3 do . 0 4 0 Bridgwater .. 080 Clock-house .. .. 070 James Smith .. 014 Somers Town .. 040 CAUDS AHD BOLES . _^ s 0 12 6 Mr . Patterson , for Preston .. .. 026 rules .. .. 0 1 « _Stratford-on-Avon 016 8 Dockhead meeting # 38 Blackburn _. perMr , City of London , per Beesley .. .. 076 Mr . Gover .. 0 0 M Longton .. .. 016 Mr . Wheeler ( 16 Mr . Hopkins , Saf- single rules ) .. 028 iron-hill .. .. 030 THOMAS MARTIN WHEELER .
To The Hembeb8 And Frreubs Of The Chaeti...
TO THE _HEMBEB 8 AND _FRrEUBS OF THE CHAETI 8 _T CO-OPEBATIVE 1 AND _SOCIETV . Friends , —We have to congratulate you upon the sue cess which , in all probability , will crown onr exertions in the prosecution ofthe land plan , and to submit the following observations for your consideration _andguidance . Wherever a few friends reside , desirous of joining the society , let them meet to ** ether , elect a sub-secretary and treasurer ; and , if sufficient in number , a committee , to consist of from five to nine persons . Let the sum of Is < d be then collected by the secretary from each person _desirous of joining , and the money thus collected must be remitted to the General Secretary , 243 ) , Strand , who will furnish the parties with cards of membership , rules , account-book , bills for distribution , Sic One shilling of the above will be a deposit on the share . The weeklv
subscriptions must afterwards be paid to the local treasurer , who will remit them to the General Treasurer , in accordance with the rules . AH reasonable and legitimate expenses for paper , postage , money orders , & c ., will be borne by the _dirtctors ; the sub-secretary sending a monthly ' account of the same to the General Secretary . No extra i expenses for advertising or meetings . will be guaranteed , , unless by express authority from the directors . The 3 directors intend , as speedily as circumstances will permit , , to take a small but suitable office in the metropolis , and i to give increased publicity to the objects and proposals of if the society . They also suggest the ide a of a cheapweeklv y publication , to be devoted to the interests , and to contain n the monetary and other accounts of the society . Iu _u answer to various communications , they havo to state te that the first location will be essentiall y an experiment on in two-acre allotments , which , from the evidence of Mr , r , O'Connor and other practical men , they believe will be be
sufficient to maintain a famil y in comfort ; but if expert- rience should demonstrate its insufficiency , the size of the he allotments in future locations could , without any disar- _irrangement , be easily increased . Many—especially our ur Scotch brethren—have expressed a desire to have their air allotments situated in the vicinity of each other . This bis would be impracticable , or nearly so , as tho location would ild depend upon the chances of the lot : but in order to meet eel this , it could be arranged that persons desirous of forming ing a family or social locality could , when they had drawn a i a prize , reserve their holding until their friends were _eauallj Oil successful , and the objeet wouW be thus effected . Many _mj persons willing and able to pay up their shares , afterpay- ay ing a first instalment , bave stated their intention of paying * in | up the remainder at one payment , as soon as they see 8 te _t prospect of operations being commenced . This , to say _saj the least , ib very unwise , and unjust to the society . If aU f al
acted upon this principle , the capital would never be sub- m scribed . Let all who can , immediatel y pay up their shares , re They will thus stand a better chance of an early location tii upon the land , and hold out a stimulus to their poorer or brethren . Several questions have been asked as to whatvh would be done with the capital of £ 87 , 324 , the value of the * t estate afterthe tenth sale ; and strong wishes have been be expressed ( from Coventry and other places ) that it should ou form a fund toward purchasing back the estates previously ) Ui disposed of , thereby rendering them freehold , and serve let the double purpose of ensuring a vote for the county ( with- _irfl out danger of the decision of the revising barrister ) and | a also of relieving the tenant from the necessity of pay ing -yi the yearly rent of £ 5 . This could be easily effected by tbe , y 1 following process : At the tenth sale , 192 a persons _wouldyoi he located on 3846 acres , on each paying £ 5 per annum _uu for rent : 745 of these acres would be tbe property of therf ' the
society—remaining 3101 acres would have _previousljiousljl been sold . The rent of the 745 acres would amount to at toi £ 1861 per annum , which , if allowed to accumulate , and . and ! expended at the end of every three years in purchasingiasing back these estates at the original cost , would in abou t bouti sixty-two years purchase back and exempt from rent f ' _of nt fori ever the 3101 acres previously disposed of , and accoini , a '') iiil , a " Hying cottages ; and it must be borne in mind that Ods , t tld 8 * location of 1923 persons and possession of an estate pro- * producing an annual rental of £ 18 G 1 in the period of about about four years , would be the result of an original capital « i _* tal w £ 5000 : and if 6000 shares are subscribed for-of whi _^ ivhiclii the directors have no doubt—they will produce _a-cap i _> ! ap i _> al 1 of £ lS , _000 _, 3 nd realise results threefold more beneficial than _, i than : the above . Trusting that you will nobly exert youvsolve ' _solve' ' to procure this desirable result , I remain yours truly , ly , TnoMAs Martin Whebw »> " _»•"•> _SecretafJ _retafjI
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 7, 1845, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_07061845/page/4/
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