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Januam 11 , 1845 THE _MORTHERf STAR _
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HOW DOES " THE CAUSE" GET ON IN DUB
LIN AMONG THE LE ADERS ? The World of Saturday last " lets light" on the workings of the Burgh Quay Agitation _Machinery . The article is both curious and amusing , it is withal instructive : shewing that the feeders on Irish _credulitr are about to quarrel over the carcass , and , m _tKrenzy , " _kAegoos . " with the golden egg . But here » the : World , let it tell its own talo :-A renort has crept into circulation which may be true _SeTforanihtweknow , tothe effeet _timtacertoi party in the Corn Exchange attempted t _?* _r V _£ ; _O'CffiHreii in his wish to obtain a resolution of the Association condemnatory ofthe CharitableBequests BilL Be this as it may , it is quite clear that not only at Burgh Quay has _theaubjeet been hardly mentioned bvmi bv those _earruloua orators who talK aOOUt all
manner of things—but the Nation newspaper has also ynaintaineda reserve respecting this measure , little in keeping with its dashing ana independent pretensions . The silence of an ordinary newspaper , touching a measure of such public importance , would be _Bufliciently remarkable ; but when we recollect that the _Nation professes to be the organ of the " Young Ireland , " or the go-a-hcad party—that its conductor has plumed himself upon revolutionizing public opinion ; and thatmany ofthe writers— -fdrtncy arclegion —who have had the modesty to declare themselves , are known to be the shining lights of the Corn Exchange ; then , indeed , it does seem more than curious that wc have not had a prose-essay , or _ a melodious elegy , denouncing in scathing terms the hateful fepawn of Saxon treachery . We have noted deliver
that Mr . O'Neil Daunt saved his distance by - ing a speech against the Bequests Bill , and , if our memory play us not false , Mr . Mike Doheny "did ihe state some service" by pouring forth another philippic in some part of _Tipperavy upon a similar topic . But What are wordsto _theburninglavawhich streams from the pens of these incomparable writers ? Neither Mr . Daunt nor Mr . Doheny would venture to assert—without hlushing to the eyes—that any speeches they have ever made have achieved the miracles which their writings in the Nation have accomplished for the country . "Very eloquent they are , no doubt ; voluble speakers , it cannot bo denied : hut { key will not tell us that their tongues in the arena have been at all _eonaltp their pen ? in th « elnset : ana , tneretore , wc cannot understand why they nave
been contented to skip over a subject which . we would think they might have dwelt upon with benefit to the public . We cannot comprehend why those who boast that they belong to a new generation , which , if it does not possess tho experience of age , has less craftiness and caution , should playapart so different from their professed character . We only sought that some stalwart juvenile should have met Doctor Murray in wordy warfare , or wo would have been satisfied with a single lyric to the epirit-stirring air of " Step Together , " were it merely to encourage the opponents of the bill—yet have our hopes been disappointed . We almost pitied poor old Lord Roden , the other night , when he imploringly besought , in his journal , his young friends at the Nation to get np a row with Mr . O'Connell . lalstaft we believe it is , who has
said that " discretion is the better part of valour ;" and we cannot blame that slender corps who delight to call themselves the "Young Ireland" party , if , actingunder the management of a shrewd guide , Mr . Peter Purcell , they decline plucking the Lion by the beard , and endeavour to overcome Mm by stratagem If the writers to whom we allude have adopted a measured tone in the Nation , we can trace " the fine Soman hand" of one of them in the pages of Tait _' s Magazine ; and unquestionably the scribe administers as severe a flagellation to the leader of the national movement , as if he had never eaten salt in Richmond Penitentiary , orreceivedhis hebdomadal wages at Burgh Quay . Let us now quote a passage from the puffing pages of the Scotch periodical : —
On the whole , the Repeal cause looks many degrees less respectable , as seen from our British point of view , than it did during the months of Mr . O'ConneU ' s trial and imprisonment . The Inuneme moral advantage which he had gained , first by his martyrdom , and then by his splendid legal and constitutional victory , has , so far as regards puhlic opinion on this side of the water , been completely frittered away . And the present state of the agitation itself since its commencement—without a single definite point of policy to interest or alarm us —all the old plans of Monster Meetings and Preservative Societies gently relinquished , the "impeachment" business postponed , and nothing new substituted in thenplace—is not calculated to impress English minds with any high sense either of the importance of the thing in _toelfj or ofthe generalship of its head manager .
3 _Tow , we believe that any inference which we British people might he disposed to draw from all this , to the effect that tha Repeal cause is really decadent—is essentially one Whit feehler , or less dangerous than it was in the days of the 2 f ouster Meetings or the captivity—would be an erroneous inference . What the British people may think , may even rightly think , of Mr . _O'ConneU's discretion , or consistency , or dignity of conduct , is an affair of very secondary concern , either to us or to him . It is more germane to the matter to ask , what do the Irish people think of those things?—a question which every man who reads the newspapers may answer for firm self . The recent aspects of Irish agitation have , moreover , given striking confirmation of a portentous fact ,
which we have more than once urged on the notice of our readers—l & r . O'Connell is not the Bepeal movement . The agitator has ceased to be master of the agitation . The magician is impotent to exercise—has only a qualified and conditional power to command—the spirit that his spells have evoked . He cannot now do quite what he _wiU with his own . There is a power , in the Loyal National Bepeal Association , behind the chair , and greater than the chair "Why did Mr . O'Connell take the first opportunity he could find to snap his fingers at Federalism so soon after having deliberately and elaborately avowed a preference for it Not merely because Federalists stood aloof , and did not seem to feel flattered by his preference ; hut chiefly because MR . VUFFZ WHOTE A CERTAIN _lETTEB IS
ibs Nation —a _lettes , we _xax sat is _tassikb , which XOBE THA * CONFIBM 8 THE VIET BESPECTFDX SENSE WE HAVE LOXG INTEBTAISED OF TBIS GENTLEMAN ' S AXD HI 6 _Coadjctobs ' talent , sincerity , and mental independence _—refusing , in pretty flat terms , to be marched to or through the Coventry of Federalism . Mr . O'GonneU has Since , UOt in the best taste of feeling , sneered at " the young gentlemen who thought themselves fitter leaders than he was ; " but tho young gentlemen carried the day , nevertheless , against tho old gentleman . "We see in this , that there is a limit to the supremacy of this extraordinary man over tha movement which his own genius originated ; what he has done he is quite unable to undo ; Bepeal has a life of its own , independent of his influence or controul ; his leadership is gladly accepted and submitted to , but always under condition that he leads the : light way . Mr . O'ConneU ' s recent overdoing of the part i Of A SniPiE KEEEALEB IS A TRIBUTE TO THE : POLITICAL POWER AND INDEPENDENCE OF TOUKG IRELAKD AND THE NATION .
We conclude , then , despite all transient and super-; ficinl appearances to the contrary , that Repeal is , essenitially and at the bottom , just as powerful and dangerous i & _s it has ever been - as able and as likely to trouble us in _ipeaco , and _cripplauj in war ; and any inference which -i we may draw from the signs of indecision and littleness I Of character lately exhibited by Mr . O'ConneU , cannot be i safely extended beyond Mr . O'ConneU individually . One i important novelty , in this agitation , of an encouraging Hand there unquestionably is at this moment : would that _iwe could credit our rulers with wisdom to turn it to good ( account ! Repeal , just at present , is stationary . It is
_^ without any definite , tangible line of policy , so far , at _lleast , as is yet known . A new campaign of agitation has cconunenced ; but the plan ofthe campaign does not seem _EEettled . The monster meeting * are not resumed ; the IPreservative Soeiety of Three Hundred is deferred sin idk , on account of unexpected legal difficulties ; and no mew move is , as yet , announced in its- stead . Repeal has snot made that prodigious advance which might have been aanticipated as the result ofthe triumph of the 4 th of _September . The- enthusiasm awakened by the reversal of tithe judgment has not been turned to account ; and tthings remain , for the present , pretty much where they
nwere . Here we have a mutiny in the camp : and the flwheeling round which we long anticipated now seems tto be no longer remote . The rent is pouring slowly onto _Conciliation Hall , and sedition is regarded aa Dnot a safe speculation ; and we will " wager a ducat " fthat Mr . ex-Alderman Purcell will not , in future , ppermit thc Nation to be carrying the Repeal luggage , oor yoking itself to a declining cause . It is to us hbighly amusing to behold how Tait _aneers at Mr . _CO'Connell and John Tuam , and takes finch a fancy Mo the unfledged strip lings of "Young Ireland . "World .
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STRANGE DOINGS IN IRELAND . iT . i . i ( im _GOKSPXBACr TO MUED 2 B THX CATHOLIC ABCHTSISHOP . The Dublin correspondent of the Morning Herald , wwriting on Jan . 6 th , gives the following :- — "Yesterddiythe Rev . Mr . O'Garroll ascended the pulpit in _Westland-row Chapel , and previous to his sermon Dbbserved that it was his most painful duty to intorm Ufchecongregation that a conspiracy had been discovered innthecounty of Tipperary _. whiohhadforits object the mmurder of the most Rev . Dr . Murray , Archbishop of DOublin . _ITusexiraor-dinary statement produced _considerable excitement . The rev . gent , proceededto obie » rve that the intelligenc e of this awful design was Mat morning communicated to their revered prelate iyjT a _magistrate ofthe county of Cork . Having heard
ttthe foregoing statement in a public news-room this mmornlng , I confess I entertained some doubt as to its Cffiorrectness ; but , on inquiry at the chapel-house , the fefflct was confirmed . It appears that an anonymous letetter , with the Tipperary post mark , was received _bibr a magistrate in the county of Gork , calling upon iuium to go at once to Archbishop Murray , and apprise _ifnhn that 'three devils' had determined to take his if ife . The magistrate enclosed the letter to Dr . _Mur-* _J * 7 _t _& 7 * whom it was received yesterday morning , mind we must infer that his grace believed the conwentsto be true when he gave permission to the Rev . Wfr . _O'Carroll to allude to it in the pulpit . " The IhtWn Monitor of Monday ihus announces the jujwt : — " The greatest excitement prevailed in this
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city yesterday and to-day , -in . consequence of ; a rumour having been _extensively _ovulated and generall y credited of a conspiracy h * _vmg been discovered in Thmerary , the object of which was to murder his GraceDr Murray . As may be naturally expected , _auch a rumour spread like wildfire , and created the greatest excitement . For our own part , we attached no credence to it whatever ; the thing was SO im probable—so outrageously extravagant , that we could not bring ourselves to consider it in any serious light . However , as the statement was confidently repeated , we made some inquiries to ascertain whether there was any foundation for it , and we believe that the following may be relied on as correct —A magistrate in the county of Cork received an
anonymous letter , the purport of which was that 'three devils , ' as the writer said , had agreed to take the life of his Grace Dr . Murray , and the writer requested the magistrate to go at once and Eut Dr . Murray on his guard . The letter was om Tipperary , and , of course , the magistrate enclosed it to Dr . Murray , stating tho manner in which it came into his possession . Such , we believe , may bo relied on as a correct account ofthe circumstances which gave rise to the rumour which has caused such a sensation in this city We confess we do not at present' " attach much * importance to tho statement . We are inclined to think that some mischievous person in Tipperary has been at work that he wrote the anonymous letter to the magistrate , who certainly acted very properly in forwarding it
to Dr . Murrav . We repeat , we cannot bring ourselves to believe that even among the diabolical ruffians of Tippearry there could be found three fiends in human shape to conspire to take the life o such a -venerated prelate as Dr . Murray ; and for what ?—for merely acting according to his conscientious judgment in support of the Catholic church , of which he is one of its brightest ornaments , though by so acting he has incurred the calumnious invective and scandalous imputations of unscrupulous agitators ! We cannot dfcguise the fact , that the language in which Drs . CroUy , "Murray , and Denvir are assailed is calculated to work upon the worst missions of the neople , and to make them regard
those prelates as so many ' wolves in the fold / as enemies to the Catholic religion—as having sold themselves to the Saxon , and betrayed the interests ofthe church . This is the sort of style in which those prelates are spoken ef . " The Manitnr then gives RpfimraMui of tho _langliago held out both by clergy and laity at different meetings , respecting the three Catholic bishops , who have consented to form a portion of the Commission to administer the Catholic Bequests Bill , and then concludes as follows : —It is a pretty pass things are come to when _^ such a spirit actuates priests and people—a spirit infused by __ Mr . O'Connell—a spirit to which he has pandered , in the hope of swelling the Repeal agitation . "
The Freeman ' s Journal affects not to believe the statement . It says .- — "The Monitor , though the official gazette of the party who originated this base slander seems either not to be cognizant of the fact , or careful to conceal it—that this rumour was whispered about for some days , and that the calumniators of our land—those who would affix upon our noble , our generous people , the contemplation of a crime of deeper die than any wherewith our Saxon taskmasters ever sought to blacken the fair fame of our country
—sought in vain to get curroncy for their guilty He , till a rash clergyman , connected with Weatland-row Catholic Church , perhaps in mistaken affection for the most rev . prelate whose name was mixed up with the foul fraud—perhaps through over-heated zeal for the new doctrines he has espoused , that the clergy should become the tools of the Castle—or perhaps to demonstrate the working of Castle connexion—was found on Sunday last to give publicity to the aspersions against his countrymen , which he , at least , should have inquired into before he promulgated . "
Chambers' Philosophy Reputed.
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Just published Price Fourpence ( forming a Pamphlet of 56 pages demy 8 vo ., in a stiff wrapper ) , A FULL and COMPLETE REFUTATION ofthe PHILOSOPHY contained in a TRACT recently published by the MESSRS . CHAMBERS , of Edinburgh , entitled the " Employer and Employed . " This valuable little work contains the most complete defence ofthe demands of the "Working Classes for their fair share of the enormous wealth created by Machinery , as well as a justification of Trades Unions . The numerous appeals that have been made to Mr . O'Connor from nearly every part of the kingdom for the publication , in pamphlet form , of those Dialogues that have recently appeared in the Star , have determined him to gratify what appears to bo the almost unanimous wish of the Labouring Classes ,
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THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , JANUARY II , 1815 .
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THE REVENUE . TBZBX NEVER WXRX SUCH " _PBOSFBBOCs" THUS . An abstract of the net produce of the Revenue of Great Britain , in the years and quarters ended the 5 th of January , 1844 , and the 5 th of January , 1845 , shewing the increase or decrease thereof , has just been published ; and as by those tables it appears that Sir Robert has discovered the means of wringing £ 51 , 235 , 538 out of tho labour of tho producing millions , that portion of the press which supports his administration is in extacies . " Look here ! " they triumphantly exclaim ; " see the benefits of Consertisml Tou , Whigs , could only manage in 1840 to
scrape together £ 45 , 000 , 409 ; and in 1841 only £ 44 , 746 , 400 ; while our man , Peel , even after the relaxation and abolition of duties by his Tariff has easily : collected £ 51 , 235 , 63811 " " Is this no . thing ? Is not this a proof that the people have confidence in him as a financier ? Has he not saved the nation from the destruction to which you , with your deficient income , was fasfchurrying her ? Peel is the ] man—the man to get the money ; therefore , hurrah for Peel ! Long life to him , and the £ 51 , 000 , 000 a-year . " Such are the seemly boasts made by the Ministerial press-gang ; boasts and
feelings , no doubt , participated in by those who lint on the taxes — the dead-weight men ; the pretty misses ofthe Pension List ; the annuitants of tho "debt ; " the recipients of salaries , andthepockctters of allowances . All these may well glory in the fact that the Revenue has reached the point it has , became in that fact they see the chance of their several " pickings" being continued some little time longer undiminished in amount : but it by no means follows that inn people—those who have to furnish the means , will be so ready to join in the chorus
Ofthe " song of triumph ; " for the fact on which the loud boast of the Minister and his time-servers over the "Whigs is based , is simply this : —that Peel has managed , by his " crooked hook" to filch out of their pockets in 1844 , £ 6 , 489 , 13 S MORE than the Whigs did in 1841 ! Blessed source of comfort and congratulation that—especially in these days of real Retrenchment ! Curious cause of merriment and joy!—Shout , boys , shout ! " Clap your hands and be joy ful , O ye people ; " for Peel has taken six and a half millions more from you than tho " rascally robbing " Whigsdid !
It may be useful to inquire from what source Peel derives his "increase ; " and a single glance at the table solves the question . The amount of the Income and Property Tax , for the year ending January 5 th , 1845 , is £ 5 , 191 , 596 : a not inconsiderable item of the six millions and a half . Then the increase in the " customs" in that year over tho year ending Jan . 5 th , 1844 , is £ 1 , 305 , 453 ; and the increase of the "Excise , " for tho same period , is £ 365 , 305 . No doubt hut that ciroumstanoes have greatly aided Peel ; all of which his supporters would gladly _ . place to his own account , treating him as the cause of them , when in fact he has been but the creature . The two good harvests that have followed each other , making / o « l
AT dome plentiful , and consequently " cheap , " have left us the means ai home , which in times of " scarcity" had to be employed in getting food from abroad : teaching us the simple and natural lesson that if we would ever remain " prosperous , " we wust product enough of food AT HOME , and not have to " buy" it , either with " money" or " labour , " from abroad . It has been calculated that the last harvest made a difference of £ 5 , 000 , 000 in amount of produce between it and the harvest of 1841 ; i . e ., to havo secured in England in 1841 , the amount of food which the harvest of last year gave us , would have taken £ 5 , 000 , 000 or £ 5 _, 000 , 000 ' s worth—it matters not Which—to havo purchased the deficient quantity fw » m other states , la there not causa for " pro *
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perity _^ _. in that ? And was Peel atthebottom of it Did he controul the seasons , and make the seed to fructify and bring forth abundantly f Was it of no advantage to havo the £ 5 , 000 , 000 at bomi , to spend in the manufacturing market ? And has not the "prosperity" thus caused greatly aided Pebl to the result that his " increase" of Customs and Exoise exhibits _?—« ye , and this too , without any thanks to him . A deficient harvest would have caused his Revenue table to toll a far different tale !
There is all the difference in the world between nasural abundance and an _ixtificial abundance of food . It is true that in years when the harvest is scanty , wo can procure the deficient quantity from other sources : but then we have to give labour for it . If the last harvest had been like tho one of 1841 , £ 5 , 000 , 000 short of what it really was , WO could hate purchased the required amount of food : but though we should havo acquired the bread , we should have lost the money . There would have been £ 5 , 000 , 000 _Zeis amongst us . It would not have mattered one straw whether the £ 5 , 000 , 000 worth of food had been
paid for in gold , or exchanged for in calicoes or woollens ; the result would have been the same . We should have been minus the £ 6 , 000 , 000 ' s worth . Bread thus procured , howover " cheap" it may appear to be in nominal price , is the " dearest" of all . It follows of necessity that this must be so ; for , besides the fact that you pay the full price for it in labour , or labour ' s worth , you decrease your means of employing other labour ; you decrease the means of profitable consumption ; you pauperise your producers : jou then fl _4 Y _0 them to maintain in idleness ; you strive to starve them off the rate-books : you thus engender
" sullenness "; and then you have an extensive armj of police to maintain , to watch the stackyards and homesteads , to see that the " sullenness" does hot manifestitaelf in " incendiarism" ! Produce enough as home , and let the producer have his fair share of it , and all these evils are annihilated ! True , we cannot bespeak a good season , or put back a bad one : but we can , with skill and culture ; aid the one and greatly mitigate the other . We can cultivate enough of land . We can cultivate that land well . We can , on an aveiage of years , produce enough of food at boms ; and it is clearly our interest so to dc ; and as clearly not our interest to purchase from abroad .
The two last harvests , abundant as they were , have greatly aided Peel , and have mainly contributed to produce the " prosperity" attempted to bo laid to his account . To these add the amount of manufacturing industry caused by the _tenporart settlement of the paper-money affair in America , which has caused a " brisker" demand / or woollen and worsted goods , ademand we have " satisfied , "—wise folks as we are , —to beflbiton . Let us not forget the * ' demand" consequent on the troubled state of Spain , which has enabled us for a series of months to imugglt British manufactured goods through
Portugal into a country where they are all but prohibited : and when to these items of " prospe rity" we add the extravagant expectations engendered by the ratification and promulgation of the Chinese Treaty , which have led to a " block-up" in that quarter ; and also take into account the spirit of gambling speculation in Railway Shares let loose by the operations of the Banking system and the consequent " a & undance of money , " wo shall have little difliculty in divining the cause of the present apparent " prosperity" ; see how it has worked , _io far , in aid of Peel ' s administration , making it
appear success fu l before the unreflecting portion of the community ; and enable us to estimate the real value of the loud boasts by which the public ear is now greeted . A slight examination will show that the " prosperity" is unreal , evanescent—fleeting as a summer ' s cloud . Reflection will show that tho re-action is at hand ; that the speculative mania is sure to produoe its effects : that nine-tenths of tho Railway schemes that have been propounded , and which the gamblers on the Stock Eichangeandthe gamblers out of the Stock Exchange , have turned to such good account at somebody ' s captnse , _vrill molt
away in Parliament like snow on the river , leaving the poor innocent confiding " holders" of shares a tremendously ugly "dog to hold "; thatthe enforcing of " call * " on those who "hold , " but who have not means to pax , will tumble the "market " of sharesdown mveh faster ihanit " went up " that the loss thus occasioned to other holders will make ihvm i & a huwy to sell ; that the decreased value of the property (!) will bring hundreds to btggary—and these , in their turn , will bring down hundreds more ; that the " blow to confidence" thus given will not bo wnfined to the share-market alone , but extend to all the operations
of trade ; that the last accounts from India and China represent the markets there as all but glutted , and that scoure of "prosperity" ail-but cut off : that the American demand is all but annihilated by tho " eiccsiive " shipments of woollen and worsted goods during 1844 ; that the consequences on the home market , from the foregoing causes ; - must be injurious : reflection on all the ** matters will _» how that we are far from being out of the wood > and that it is worse than senseless to boast . It will also shew to the wiBe the necessity of being prepared for tho coining time !
And what , after all , haa Sir R . Pwn to he proud of ! It is true that he has got six-and-a-half millions more than the Whigs could get ; but he has not got more than he wants!—aU he has got is little enough . He has an expenditure of £ 51 , 139 , 614 lis . 5 } d . [ how exact the accounts are !] to provide for ; and he haa but just met it ! No very great _^ thing after " all . There is not much of a " surplus . " A good large one was expected .. There are many mouths wide open , in anxious expectation of " a plum . " The demands' of the _Beieral parties for f Mr * far « will be inconvenientl y pressing . The remission ol one tax will be asked for ,
and the abolition of another ; none of which can P « el spare ; for if " prosperity" only makes ends meet , pray what will adversity or " panic" do ? And thus does Piel approach the only "fair trial" he has had . He has the question ofthe Income-tax to face . The giving up of that "iniquitious impost" will be demanded , and the faith of Parliament pleaded that it was only enacted for three years . The other parties that wo formerly enumerated will also be at the Minister , all making and pressing and enforcing their claims ; so that on the whole , _Psel will have a most comfortable berth of it ! We wish liim joy !
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YOUNG ENGLAND IN PRINT . _Wa confess ourselves to havo been among thMe who felt _eome little anxiety , as well as curiosity , about the appearance of tho " coming man . " We had not figured him in imagination by any of the distinguishing types or preconceptions by which the youth , speaking for himself , informs us he was prejudged by the eurious . The advent of " Little Britain "—( for such in all justice to the gentleman who has at length made his appearance wo must christen the young stranger)—by no means conjured
up notions in our mind of " white waistcoats and certain impracticable fancies ; " but , on the contrary , the loud and ominous _thundetf that preceded the nation ' s accouchement , had prepared us if not for a monster , at least for a giant , capable of grappling with the several wrongs of which Old England complained , aud of remedyinf the several abuse * undo * which _sha was tottering . Judge then , our sorrow , vexation , and disappointment on Saturday last , upon being presented with a kind of
whim , wham , waddle , O , _Jtck Straw , straddle O . Littlo hoy bubble O , Over the moor ! A second edition of General Tou Tncirn strutting importantly aa "tho Napoleon ' . " - It was not either impolitic , injudicious , or unseemly , that the party calling itself , l Young England" should ask the nation , upon whoso behalf so much was promised , to pause until the day of judgment should arrive , when the " new bom" might bo judged out of its own mouth . In common justice to this very reasonable appeal for delay , we withheld criticism and comment until we had something more tangible than tropes figures , or metaphors to deal with . Accordingly we
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waited-patiently , yet-anxiousl y , ' for the development of tho character , and the enunciation of the principles , of the party which promised so much , and from which so much has been expected . The first number of a newspaper , entitled " Young England , " was published on Saturday last ; and to it we verynaturallylooked for a declaration of the principles and objects of tho " now party , " as well as the mean * of carrying them out . The declaration of objecte and principles has hitherto been held as an indispensable ingredient in the formation of new societies ; but after perusing the three columns headed " Pkisciplbs or _Touxo England , " we found ourselves , at the close of our labour , _inthesamo
" blessed state of ignorance" as when we oommonced . We looked with a species of awe , if not of revoronce , to the sacred record ; and abandoning for tho moment all notion of self-importance—all preconceived notions—all recollection of by-gone teaching , wo wore prepared to receive a now lesson at tho hands of our new preceptor . Wc had anticipated tho utter dissipation ofthe world ' s darkness by the burst of a new light of a new philosophy ; but , alna ! woe is man , and " happy is ho who expects nothing , for he will _nevep bo _disappointed . " Instead of receiving the anticipated instruction , we di » covcred that tho great Schoolmaster of 1815 had mainly derived his education from the previous year ' s philosophy of Mr . Glaostojix , and Mr . _Chables Bullbb .
That tho world haa been turficd topsy-turvy for the last whole century , was a self-evident and indisputable fact : that the many rapid changes which havo followed each other in . quick succession during that period had disturbed some interests , and affected all , ore incontrovertible moral , social , and political truths ; and the cause of the capsize and rumble , as well as the consequences of the " ups and downs" of life , were enigmatical problems thus solved by Mr . _Glaosiomi and Mr . C . _Bullm , in the year 1843 , when the former assured the flouso of
Commons , that it was one of the most melancholy features in the social state of the country , that while there was a decrease in the consuming power of the people , and an increase in the privations and distress of thclabovring and operative classes , there was at the samo time a constant accumulation of wealth in the upper classes , and a constant increase of capital . " A few weeks later Mr . C . Bullbb repeated .- " We see extreme destitution throughout the industrious classes , and at the same time uiwntestible evidences of vast wealth rapidly augmenting . "
We do not mean to dispute the truth of the assertions of Messrs . GLAnsToirK and Buller ; but wo do ohject to being charged with ignorance on subjects which for the last seven years we have kept prominently before the people , because the oft-repeated truism has struck upon the ear of our juvenile teacher as a novelty , when hinted at by the aforesaid two members of . Parliament . Old " John of Greenfield , " the Lancashire prophet , propounded the very same doctrine nearly a century ago , but in more homely and touching phraseology , when he said" that all the stuff in the world was made for all the folk in the world—and he hadn't a share of it . "
Young JSnglandvrould appear to _liava a very cloarper ception | of the past , present , and futuro ; and although we are kept in the dark as to the means by which the principles ofthe party are to be carried out , or indeed , of the principles themselves , nevertheless the prospectus furnishes us with ample work for generations yet to come . The Church—its dissensions , backslidings , and innovations ; the landlords , and their obligation to dischargo the duties consequent on the possession of property ; the application of chemical and mechanical power to the wants of the whole human race ; fitting regulations for tho adjustmtnt of trade ; the
pressing demands for reforming our colonial policy ; the greater responsibility of the rulers to the ruled ; tho necessity of National Education and religious instruction ; the union of the two Irish rival churches , to the end that both may be moulded to ministerial will ; tho indispensable necessity of crushing brawling demagogues ; the better adjustment of our currency ; the preservation of our firm adherence to the Established Church , watered by the blood of the martyrs ; the transportation of convicts , with a view to extending civilization to penal colonies ; emigration , as a means
of promoting increased markets for the produce of English labour ; the relations between crime and punishment : _auoh are a few only of the social questions which our youthful friend tel » us demand investiga tion ; while the only defined remedy proposed , at a meant of present correction , is the propriety of English labourers , who can find no employment at homo , _ejiioratino to those wide tract * which are nominally dependant ton tho English crown , there to " subjugate the _FOBMT AMD CONQUER TUB WILDERNESS . " This , we presume , is to be the English labourers " stake in the hedge" !
The work that our active coadjutor has cut out for himself , both abroad and at home , would naturally lead us to suppose that the co-operation of all would be sought for its completion . But no ; the flame singleness of mind and purpose that has inspired out friend with a _dssiro for universal regeneration , further prompts him to Bpurn all aid , and determines him to do the work alone . " Chahtisu _, _TJwivebsai . Suffrage , Socialism , sullen disaffootion .
crime , incendiarism * _, riots , and almost rebellions , " — . ALL of whioh Young England tells us are " the offspring * of ignorance , » _uUeuTie «« , and tights mth held , " —are to bo swept away , and for ever , from the land by th _« wand of [ the new magician : and to the _performance of this Herculean labour our indomit * _. hie champion very candidly tells us that the Young-Manhood of the British nation is roused , not by a sense of duty so much as by a sense of danger .
We beg to jusnre " Littlo Britain" that tho Young _ilngiand aristocracy aro many years behind Old England ' s toiling sous in that description of education which alone can fit man for the office of ruler of the present generation . It is not from _Gladstone or _Buixsn that Young Englamd should derive information ; but , as ho professes to be friendly to the principle of discussion , we would strongly urge on him the necessity of taking counsel of those whose wrongs we believe he would cheerfully redress , and who will teach him , that although CnaniiBM may be a
CONSEQUENCE OF RIGHTS WITHHELD and hope deferred , nevertheless the working classes of England recognise in the very name a charm possessing greater power than any fascinating novelty the most lively imagination c « n present . Although wo have been constrained to speak thus despondingly ofthe first number of Young England , yet , with more generosity than our "repudiating" friend , we shall be happy to mark his improvement in social and political knowledge , and to record the effect that a closer intercourse with the working classes is sure to produce . Aa our principal objection to all
crotchetmongers has been the want of defined principles , and a deficiency ofthe niean * necessary for carrying oven their own nostrums , we must refuse , adhesion to tho present policy of Young England , —ot Ids " principles" as yet wc know nothing , —until we see a more clear development of tho means by which oven the most simple of tho ten thousand proposed changes is to bo accomplished . The value Of Chartism has been its determination to remain a mountain : and now that it has brought forth a mouse , perhaps our young child , —for after all _Founo- _England is the _owspbing op Chaktibu , —may condescend to leam from its parents before ho can hope to teach .
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Anothsb Pill _j ? ob thb League . —In a recant number ofthe Bel / art Vindicator , in an article headed "The past and coining _Segiiong , " the following wholesome truth _appears : « Tho cheap _brea 0 question remains as yet undealt with m a manly spirit by the _Lot-islature and W . must say , that the League , with all their _eg _. ays aud pamphlets , and £ 100 , 000 fund , have scarcely nud , it a _question of real attra ction . It is a question of great and _^ extraordinary West ; it is a plea of humanity for the liberty to live ; yet it has been cackled over by lecturers after a fashion that is ' ludicrous and repelling . There it a _«««{ of heart in them , _'fhev appear rather to piead for the employers than tho cmployed . " ..
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The Secbetabt ik thb _Localwt where John _Jfoss ii none to reside , late of Derby , Boot and Shoe Maker , « requested te _correipond with Wm . Chandler , Upper _Brook-stroet , Darby , when he will receive information of importan ce , ¦ WiLMiK Saxbv , FavebshaH , Kent , returns thank * to those friends who have forwarded Start to him for di » - distribution f ' and begl to assure them that the Stars so distributed tend much to break up new ground . Bo douht the seed thu « sown will In duo time bring forth good fruit . Joseph Haoghtok , " _Wabbxngtok , writes u « to _eay _, that a number of friends in that town are making
subscriptions weakly to purchase a quantity of Mr . O'Connors repV to Chamhera _' _s tract on the Emphyer and _Emptoysa , for general distribution & B a tT & ct ; and he particularly recommends the adoption of the plan by all other localities , as one calculated to produce immense good .-John _IIzAr and Ambbose Tohlinson , Bdbnlit . —It would not comport with our plan to publish their resolutions on the particular mhject embraced by them . If they wish other localities in the neighbourhood to know that they have been adopted , the _sub-iecrctary can communicate them . There is no reason why the public in other parts should be troubled with them . William _Wibtbam , _IIanmt . — The address of Mr . O'HhTsins is— " P . O ' Higgins , Esq ... North Annu-street ,
Dublin . " Mr . C , _Debbv . —Yes . A lease , if its provisions aro abided by , will always " stand good" for the term included in it . If any party succeeded to tho estate , either by _purchsie _, demise , or descent , it would etui be subject to the lease , as long as it was in force , Wm . Paine , _Stratmed-on-Avon . —Wo never promise to publish anything until we see it . If he choses to send the communications he speaks of , if deemed of sufficient interest they _voll appear . But they must take their chance like all others . One point our correspondent sadly neglects ; he addresses his communications to everybody but the right party . His last was addressed to the printer . Has he not seen it several times repeated in the Star , that communications for the paper'are to he addressed to "the _Editob , Mr . Joshua Hobsm , 840 , Strand , London" ! Let him attend to this simple instruction , and his letters will reach in ' due course ; while if he sends them , as he has sent his former ones , delay in reaching the Editor is the
consequence . Allotments of Land . —The benevolent intentions of many of the land-owners , who have become convinced by recent discussion aud Parliamentary inquiry , that land allotments to th » labourers on their estates aro calculated to add to their means of comfort , and aid in repressing the deep feeling of discontent and " sullenness" which Young _England says ' * breeds Cnautism and Incendiarism , " aro _thwartsd and rendered of non-avail by the conduct of their " stewards , " who interpose all sorts of difficulties , and evinco every unwillingness to aid the misery-stricken worker in bettering his condition . It will be at once apparent that these gentry , whenever they set themselves to such a task , can , jwithout seemingly departing from the strict line of "duty , " so harass and
trouble those who . seek to havo allotments under . them , as to render the tenancy an unbearable one , and either prevent them from engaging in the undertaking at all , or drive them from it in sheer disgust . In a majority of cases of this sort , the real facta never reach the ear of thc owner who sought to render some portion of his possessions available to the _producers on them for the production of comforts for themselves ; but he hears the version of the story vamped up by the agent , who shelters his own conduct behind the "ingratitude of the lower orders , " who " met the benevolent intentions of their landlord iu such an unbecoming spirit "; and the landlord imbibes a notion that he hat attempted to dolus " duty" towards
"the poor" —and they would not let him : therefore he is at liberty to care no more about them , —at least till they come to their senses , and show they have hearts to appreciate th _» " kindness" intended them . And thus the sufferers aro left to suffer on , because the tender sensibilities of a leaden head aud _steeled-lieirt hare not been awakened in their favour . The manner in which such a matter as this _ii managed by the " go-between" gentry will be learned by a perusal of the following , from the pen of Mr . Robert Wild , of Mottram , _^ who has been an active actor in the scenes ho describes , and who , very properly , determined that the landlord should , in this instance at least , be made acquainted with the doings of his " servant" : —
The Hon . J . _Tollemache , being the principal landowner iu ouv village , and having been informed that he was favourable to the system of allotments , a number of operatives—block-printers and others—whose avocation had gone , through the application of machinery to their crat ' t , applied to that gentleman for portions of land each . He promptly returned an answer , stating that all who lived in Mottram _, and wished to have allotments , might have to tho extent of half an acre . each . Previously to this communication being sent to the hop . gentleman , several labourers applied repeatedly during the past summer to Mr . T . Dearnelly ( agent to thehon . gentleman ) for small plots ; but he , being opposed to the plan , used every subterfuge to defeat the _appUcants . Enraged at Ids conduct , the labourers determined to _ac-: quaint tho hon . gentleman with the proceedings of his
steward ; and Mr . Tollemaihe , believing that theirs were well founded grounds of complaint , wrote to the applicants to say that he would lumself come over , and choose the fields most suitable for them , trying to settle the affair to their satisfaction ; and in tho meantime he intimated to his " faithful steward" that the duties of hia stewardship had not been discharged with fairness and impartiality . Time flew on . The appointed day arrived ; but with no Mr . Tollemache . However , it was rumoured he had been in the neighbourhood , which report turned out to ba correct , as appeared from a letter sent by the hon . gent ., _apologisingitbr non-attendance on the day fixed . Report says also , that the hon . gentleman and his steward ( Mr . Dearnelly ) had au interview , at which sharp words were exchanged , but which ended in tho steward ' s pretending willingness—nay ,
promiseto select the most suitable plots tor the purpose , with reference to _prico and situation . In the letter from Mr . Tollemache , it was 6 tated that the agent was anxious to do hie best for the appUcants : whether he has done so or uot , let tho following brief statement testify -. —In the first placo , he selected land ( three fields ) , for tho best of which he oidy wants Is 3 d for the Cheshire rod ( 64 yards !) , and seeks to compel the labourers to fence all round thc piece—an item of expense the farmer never bears , hut which the poor man must ! Yes , he must _koejp up the fences to _protect his lumpers and cabbage against the depredations of the farmers' cattle . Another field he has selected ; the farmer who has held it some time says it never paid : iu fact , it would be folly to expect aught in the shape of remuneration for labour from an old brickyard . It is , in fact , an old brick croft
from which nearly all the soU has been taken , or buried beneath the brickbats and rubbish ; for this he only asks £ 5 tho acre ! Charitable man!—good soul ! What can prevent his going to Heaven — being clothed in garments of gold—and welcomed with : " Well done , thou good and faithful servant ?" Having , in the first instance applied _myaelf for a small plot , thinking that half an acre of garden ground would better my condition , I , in company with a few other labourers , last week applied again to this worthy agent , telling him iu a proper manner that tha land he had selected was not suitable for our purpose , or in accordance with the expressed wish of his employer . The following conversation took place : _—^ _oent : "Let me see : what is your name V Answer " . Robert 'Wild . " " Ah ah ! Yob , there has been a great deal of writing between you aUotmeut fellows and
Mr . Tolleinache , in which you have held me up as a bad man-as the blackest villain on earth . Through your mistaken notions you have niisrepreseated me , and have caused much unpleasantness . And 1 beheve it is in your hand-writing » " Answer : It is nothing more than you might expect . " " WeU » said ho , I don't care a straw . I have determined vou t _* : lj _l" ? _* _" '"?• " " How is a _* » " " > hy , because in 1 _° _^ al agamstyou . " "For what ? " " 0 , 1 know all about you . " _wcu _, let me hear what it is V " O ! I _S » ° w , hht iu y ° o _^ racter " . " Well , point k out . why , man , you have been in prison two years L _li'f ? _£ I _£ „ F _evolutionary doctrines . You are _f- _^ m Ch , ? rttl , t - , ! _i-ejoined , " and you arc a Tory ; and Oharfcteni , when examined , wUl be found equally honourable , and when reduced to practice more _benc-S ii ? iau your mucll-vaunted Toryism . " " Yes , " said he , I know you have impudence enough to say so ; but you can't convince me of that . " I answered , "I shall not attempt . However , sir , I have one more question to ask to
. Do you object me having an allotment merely because you and I differ in _poUtic * ? - that because I am a Chartist , have been kept down with poverty for years , and am seeking to improve tho condition ot my family by means of my own labour , and that of my neighbours , by securing the fruits of our toil through _theenactment ; f the Charter " - ( Interrupting ) said he , "Your Charter , I tell you , wiU ho your niin . Your Uiarter is opposed to the Queen and constitution , and aims at nought but revolution . Yes , and I tell you again , that those who hold such inflammatory doctrines as yours aro enemies to their country , and must not be encouraged with allotments . If I had my way with such as you , who poison the minds of all well-disposed people , I would banish you totally out of the country . You are not fit for society . I have scratched your name out , you must have no toad—with your Chartism . " On this beautiful specimen of Tory liberality I shall offer no remark , but leave you and your rcadars to make their own comment . O , dear ! I am cut off for ever from the soil '
Robebt Wild . It remains to bo seen whether the hon . landlord will countenance the vindictive aud disgraceful proceedings of his underling . If ho does , all his professions of a _desu-e to improve the condition of the workers , are mere moonshine . We trust , however , that he Will show lumself superior to the revengeful feelings that prompted tho conduct of his "faithful steward " " Chautism aud Incenmabism , " Young England gravely states to be "the . offspring of sullenness and riqhts withheld . " Will the "sullenness" of Robert Wild bo lessened by " withholding" from him his " right" to the laud ; and will that be the best mode of convincing him that Chartism is wrong _« . Let the Hon . Mr Tollemache look to this matter . His character is
involved . He has , it is true , evinced a disposition to cause " withholden" rights to be restored to tho allotment applicants , by personally interfering to prevent the spleen of his vindictive and cruel-hearted " representative" from having full play-. but his interference is needed now more than ever ,. or it will be apparent that , in his opinion , to be a Chartist is to be a pariah —one deservedly thrust out of the _pnle of social life ' Surely the " putting down" system is at at end ! Experience had proved that it is utterly inefficacious for its purpose ; that it never did , and never can , succeed : bmt that it will produce " sullenness " , which , whether it engonder 3 Chartism or not , is but too likely to end in _"hwndiarim" ! Let the lion . Mr . Tollemache read a lesson in this instance , to brutal and over _, beating " stewards" ; and teach Ids brother
land' owners how to go to work to cause their benevolent intentions to have- due effect , and all fair . play . Wo shall anxiously watch this case , and roport the result at a future time . "
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_PlflXBEWiwa Ca . _«^ _op" Mio . - - Ems . —The _Commit _, lately formed in London to take steps to extricate the Whig-made _widew from her present situation of extreme distress , and consisting of _ delegates from th ! various localities ' about town , have issued _subscrin . don-hooka to their several frionds , and desire us £ publish the following address in aid of the good ffl ) fL they havo engaged in . We gladly comply with the t & , quest , trusting that the appeal so _earnestfully ma ( j may meet with due response : —Through a _variet y » unforeseen circumstances , the sanguine _expectation of Mrs . Ellis ' s friends have not been realised . \ f . state with regret , that this law-made widow , and h _^ bereaved orphans are in great distress . Perhaps it would have more weight if Mrs . Ellis ' s situation was depicted by herself . On the 7 th ult ., she wrot 6 thuSi without any idea of its being printed : — "To , night ( Saturday ; , I am almost broken-hearted , _harit _^ scarce anything in my shop . I had been _expecting
to obtain a little money , hut being disappointed I did not know what to do . I was obliged to plcdr , „ some bed clothes , as all my wearing apparel is gon ° I have ho hope , unless my Chartist friends _thinfe of my situation . " . Since that period Mrs , Ellis ha lost a beloved daughter—her who was the darling { Ellis , the expatriated patriot . Such is the present _posj . tion of Mrs . Ellis ; forlorn ; almost friendless ; naked _, her remaining . children often without food ; her heavy bereavement weighing on her mind , and the reflection that her husband , the father of her i £ ttle ones , is in bondage , unable to follow the remains of his beloved one to the grave , or be a partner in her sorrows . Her condition is indeed deplorable ! Indeed If something is not done forthwith , there is no nltor . native but that this victim must return to tho t _' _ov teries to become the inmate of a Union Bastile . _^ _. Will the Chartists permit this ! With them thc _caaa is left . Lot all that have hearts to feel get instantly to work . Johw Abnott , Sec .
The Scotch _Beadebs . —dlaring used our best endeavour to supply the readers in Scotland with the Star oa _Saturday , we find it . impossible to comply witktu & _it wish until our own machinery has been erected on the printing premises , which , wo hope , will be the ease in the first week in February . Mb . O'Connob begs to say that he has been compelled tq leave _seyeral private communications unnoticed for the last month , inflammation is one of his eyes ren . ders it painful for him to read or write . They will ba all noticed in due time . JOBtf Lowbt has forwarded payment for the Star , and also put a question requiring an immediate answer ; but he has omitted to give any address , not even tha name of the town or county where he resides . We can answer his question ,. though we cannot forward tha paper . Ashe pays £ 11 rent and the taxes , he has _s . I _^ rfcct right to the vote ( if he resides in a borough ) , notwithstanding his former difficulties .
Ewas Hitcmn , H * bden BainoE . —The insertion of hi * inquiry is rendered unnecessary by the announcement in the Bradford Chartist _intelligence . Pboper _Aodbess pon _CoKHUKiCATioifs . —Our friendi will greatly oblige , and much serve themselves , if they will but observe the simple directions given for tho ad . dressing ofthe different sorts of communications . This week several parties have written to Mr . Hobson , order _, ing papers . Others , who have been sending conimuni cations for the paper , have sent them to other pavtici
than the Editor , even to the printer . Now , all this is blundering . Mr , Hobson is not tho pub . lisher ; and , therefore , has . nothing to do ttiih orders for the paper . He is the Editor ; and _thorofora _aK matter _infeucfeaJ for insertion or notict in Ihs papw shouldle addressed to Urn . Orders , advertisements , and payments , should be addressed to " Mr . O'Connor , _Nofihtrn Star Office , 340 , Strand , London . " Letters and other _cammunieations for tho Editor , to " Mr . HobBOn _, Northern Star Office , 340 , Strand , London . "
Monies Received By Mr. O'Connor. Cabds, ...
MONIES RECEIVED BY MR . O'CONNOR . CABDS , £ ¦ i . d . Prom Vale of Leven Oil SUBSCRIPTIONS . From Sowerby Longroyd .. 0 5 4 From Vale of Leven .. 0 5 0 victim rusD . Stockport—Collection made by the Chartist Singers on Christmas Eve , per Thomas Webb .. .. 1 11 J RECEIPTS PER GENERAL _SECRETARY _SUBSCElPTIONS . s . d . s . d Southampton .. „ .. 1 6 Barnoldswick .. .. 5 0 H . H ., Lewisham , ono Sawley ,. 0 8 year in advance .. .. 11 Merthyr _Tydvil .. ., 5 0 Trowbridge .... .. 4 0 T . Salmon , * London , Brighton 3 0 monthly subscription 0 5 Haslingden 18 W . Salmon , ditto " .. 0 I Blackburn ...... 5 6
caw > 9 . Merthyr Tydvil .... 3 0 Ditto , Card 0 5 Bacup 0 3 _Blackburn _. Hand Books 1 0 Ditto , Hand Books .. 3 5 _Oswaldwhistle , ditto .. 0 8 Haslingden , ditto .. 2 8 _BOKATIONS . Haslingden—three _power-loom Weavers , a Hew Year ' s Gift .. .. .. .. i o Ditto , Gilbert Rushton .. .. .. ., „ .. 0 VICTIM F 0 _HU . Mi-. Blackmore _. of Ply- jug , per Mr . Batemouth , proceeds of man .. .. it 0 a raffle for a glass VICTIMS , _HASWEIA COLMERT . Per Mrs . Windeler .. .. .. .. .. .. 7 8
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* Several gifts of stationery from this gentleman a « thankfully acknowledged .
THOMAS M . WHEELEB . | _Bbotheb Cha * tist 9 , —The period is now rapidly ap . I _proaching when , in _accordance with tho rules , we shall | have to resign the trust reposed In us ; and having , during | our period of office , discovered that % contrariety of | opinion exisu relative to the best mode of electing your S Executive Council , several important towns—including | _Manhcaster _, London , T avistock , and others—being in f & - % vour of an election by the votes of the whole of tho mem . | _bers instead of ths present system , we think It advisable 1 that some decision should be come to upon this subject _; | and therefore recommend that each locality in the king- | dom shall coll a special maotlng of its members , and pro . | cure their _Several decisions , by ballot or otherwise , upon I the following questions : — . I First . —Shall the ensuing Executive Committee lie | elected by the vote of each member possessing a card of | the current year , or in accordance with thc present plan | of _organiGitlon—v \ z ., nomination by the _mamhaii aud 1 election by tho votes of the Delegates at tho Annual Con- I ventlon _? m
Second . —if the decision should be in favour of doction by the votes ofthe members , will it be advisabloto hold the Annual Convention ? Third . —If the decision should be in favour of holding the Convention , shall its sittings be in London or ( in accordance with the decision of the late Convention ) at Leeds . Let the answers to the above questions be rccordod j in the following manner . The sub-Secretary shall , hetween the present period and tho 1 st of February call a special meeting of the members , when the above 1 questions shall be submitted to thom , and each member j shall write on a ballot-paper an answer in the following manner : — . . . I First . —Members or Convention . i Second , —Convention or no Convention ! ; j Third . —London or Leeds . i
The number of votes pro . and con . shall be carefully j recorded , and a return made to the General Secretary . | The votes of the whole of the Localities will then tw | published , and the Executive will feel bound to act upon | the decision of tho majority . _Kftssl | _raiENDs _, —The greatest advantage to be . ' deriTcd from I the principles of democracy is that of enabling the Exo- 1 cutive , under doubt , hesitation , or necessity , to appeal 1 to the whole people ; and feeling that the required confi- 1 dence cannot be reposed in a body as to the mode of 1 whose election there exists the slightest , doubtwc have 1 it
thought our duty thus briefly to submit the foregoing I questions to your consideration and adjustment And 1 the election of an-Executive being the principal dutj I to be performed by the Annual Convention , your decision I upon tho first point may help you to an easier solution of | the second . Many locaUties complain of tlio double ci- 1 penae of paying delegates , as well as their regular con-1 tnbutions _, to carry on the movement . However it is our _^ duty to suggest all matters upon which tho fate of our % cause depends—it is yours to decide upon them . | P . _M'Gbatu , _Tresident . 1 Christ . Doyle . 1
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Suspected Child Murder . —On Wednesday after-1 noon , just about dusk , as a policeman of tho Af _«»« ' 1 sion was going his round in SparrickVrow , near | Mnzo-pond m the Borough , he saw a bundle _Ivinff OD | the ground , which he found to contain the bo ' _clv of * | newly-born male child . As the body was quite ' varin | tbe ofiicer thought there might vet be life in it , _R » I he conveyed it to Guy ' s Hospital to ascertain tin § lact ; but upon examination by the surgeons it _«* | pronounced to be quite dead . | n _^ _F ™ Porso ! r A F amily at _MixcnEsrss . " | On Monday evening last a most atrocious attemp t _f « I poison his wife and two children was made by Bcnl «* | mm Anderson , a millwri ght , living at No . 91 , Lou ? - 5 street , Ancoats , Manchester . It appears that i « | several days past Anderson , who is in the emp loy « " | Messrs . Fairburn , the _engineers , had been _drinking _; -
and on Saturday spent the entire of his wage * i _» i Iqu , or- On Monday afternoon lie came home ab » n halt-past three o ' clock and asked his wife to _|» nun have some tea . Mrs . Anderson told " _W that the kettle was on thc fire , and as soon » she had made some for her daughter , _«* worked in a factory , she would make him some . ! immediately became very abusive , and told both 1 " ' wife and son ( a boy about eleven years old ) that tin should not stop in the house , and under a threat « being beaten _thevwont into t _. hn utrnct . Anders "
then bolted the door and refused for some time to alio them to eome in . As she stood near the windo _^ Mrs . Anderson saw her husband go to tho cup bwr and take a quantity of onions out , _whieh ho place *
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