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6 THE NOHTHERN STAR. December 12,-18^ .
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Crtfua' fltobtroeiust *••;
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TO THE WOOLCOMBERS OF THE WEST OF ENGLAN...
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CORN EXCHANGE. December 5. During tlie p...
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STATE OF TRADE. Leeds.—On Saturday the m...
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A certain cure for Scrofula, or King's E...
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COMMITTAL OF SEVENTEEN WORKMEN FOE CONSP...
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Dbbadful OcccitRKKCE.—Last week the body...
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A Thief's Dodge.—-On Saturday night a <h...
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6 The Nohthern Star. December 12,-18^ .
6 THE _NOHTHERN STAR . December 12 ,-18 _^ .
Crtfua' Fltobtroeiust *••;
_Crtfua' _fltobtroeiust _*••;
To The Woolcombers Of The West Of Englan...
TO THE WOOLCOMBERS OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND . Tcllow " Workmen , —In introducing to your notice a subject uf the very highest importance to our interest ., a _su'jvct involving our _Yi-ry existence as si _Cuum . nam * ly , the pr . teetiou of our wager , we think apolo gy unnecessary . Submitting to you our views on this subject , witn propositions for your approval , we most earnestly •••• licit your favour and attention . The distrust and ¦ _iisaftVni . in at present prevailing in many of our _Bocwtie-, tugeth- r with our exhausted treasury , cur want of _prot _cti-in , and our utter helpbss condition , demand tbat speedy and efficient ineasur . s ba adopted , to enable ns _t « renin the remnant of that which we once held _sabred , and to show our merctiary an . _l relentless
_tafkmnstrrs that though disjointed , we are _um-ouqu _* -red and invincible in the cause i _« f 'ruth and _jus'ice . The paramount obj _: _* ct _« . f Trades' Unions is , or should be , the protection of wage * : wc * have lonj ? h « _-ld this position , _althottth tho principle has never been _n-cognisrd iu the government ofthe Union _Tliefuiieralfund _. andthe walking sysUm , are highly benevoleut and praise-worthy objects , but as these laudable- institutions depend entirely on our Wjg & _i _. itis evident that the latter should be the primary object of union . The most superficial observer must be aware , that the object ef Machinery , anil a vaiiety of other causes bave entirely changed our circumstances , and onr social relations , tbe laws that mice governed us will go . ern no _longer , and it is to this altered state of _lliin _^ s tli 3 . _£ we ixrast adapt : _-jureelves , our laws , and our Union . It is * ° this pur _|* ose that we have for some time watched withiniense interest the progrtss Of " THE
_NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNITED TRADE- * . " andnroongtlie _numerous iustlmiionsnow in _progression , having avowedly for their _olj _.-ct the moral and _physical adranc-ment of the working classes , we kn « w none so admirably adapted to our immediate necessities . Its object * , its advantages , the high _, character of its leader- -., the lib .-ralitv ofits government , the equity of its laws , and its moderate contributions , Set forth irresistible <* 1 _tiins on _u- * , and on every body of working men in tbe United Kingdom . This monster association , under the _distinguished leadership of Thok & s Slinosbi Dus-COHbe , E _** q „ Member of Parliumeut . already numbers fifty thousand members , and thousands are weekly flocking to its standards . ' Tbe great good this association has already effected is unparalleled in the history of Trades ' Combination . This association we have joined , we are
membra of tbis " mighty confederacy , " and as such , we take this opportunity to propose tbat the whole district join it to one man . To those working at the trade , but not at present in anion with us , we give a most cordial invitation to co-operate with us in this _g _** od cause , and Should any feel disposed to join in this , without _belonging to the General Union , we freely accept tbem ; ne have all the sa-neiiiter-. st'U stake , we have all one common object in Tiew , let us then lose sight of past differences , and unite iu one indissoluble bond , which shall say to tyranny and oppression in unmistaken language , "Thus far , but no _lartht-r . " We furnish every society with a copy of rules and regulations , and other documents for tbeir information , by which it will be seen that if ten jlillingg is the rate of wages set down , which we propose , our contributions can in no case exceed five peuce per
month , and will sometimes be no more than one penny . 3 K « iw brethren , what is our true position ! are we not without funds , without protection of any kind , without union ! Here then we have an association exactly suiting our ciicunistances ; au association to which neither the religionist , the moralist , or tbe politician can object ; an association having no individual interest , or sinister motive lurking in the back ground , hut an association established ou purely benevolent principles , having no other object but your elevation in the scale of society . "What say you then , will you join this association ! We leave this subject to your most serious consideration , and that we may ail go hand in baud in tbis glorious union for _self-preservation , is the prayer of jour breihreu at South Molten . South Molton , December 2 nd .
'I o Tne _Ishahitasis of Leicester . —The r ramework Knitters in the straight down branch , are _nuani compelled to solicit your aid and _assistance to _withstand the encroachment of ILipkins , whose men have now been out for thxve weeks aua nst a reduction , and the firm of Corah , who are reducing the wages of their workpeople irom ls . Cd . to 2 _t . per hand a week , ( we say nothing of the Messrs . Corah , retiti _.-iiig the wr-ught hands from Cd . to ls . 6-1 . per -week , which he has done , further than this , wc hope ihey will publicly expose their reductions as wall as their advances , ) which wil ! make a total reduction in a year uf £ 3 5 s . each from the scanty earnings of this class of workmen . Messrs . Corah are determined , as usual , to be . the forerunners in tbe work of destruction , by reducing t ' lcir workmen as follows : — they must m ike round feet for ihe same priec as long , which is a reduction of 3 d . a dozen in this case . The men remonstrated against it and appealed t *> the committee of t ' ie branch for protection against this
infritig ' .-metit—plenty of work was offered at _thes-e prices . The committee w .-dted on Mr . Corah , when he _stated ' * be did not want the work . " The men iuiinet'iately watted up-a : him and solicited him to give theni a note , to pass the Board of _Guardians , bat he . refused giving them any , saying , " they might take two leads cut and make half an inch shorter . " saying at _thesame time that , ' * tbat would be in equivalent to making long feet . " This is not the case , round feet are a ! ways 3 J . a dozen more than long—and thc biking out of two leads and half an inch shorter , is only Id per dozi-n , leaving a real deduction of 2 d . per dozen . At a meeting of ihe trade held at the Barkby Anns , it was agreed to pay 3 d . per frame for the support of the men on strike ; fail no . in your _subscription .- - , or it may be your tuui next . Please forward your subscriptions to the Barkby Arms , on Saturday , between lour and ten o ' clock . Signed , M . iluut , J . Murby , S . Holmes , J . Xing , J . _Br-. wn , Committee ; D . Lucas , Secretary . Committee Room , Upper George Street , December .-
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MOVEMENT OF THE OPERATIVE BAKERS FOR SHORTESISG TUB HOOKS ** OF LABOUR ASD ABOLISHING NIGHT WORK . Another great meeting was held in the large room of _lhr Xing and Queen , Paiidington Green , on Saturday evening . Decern fer the 5 th , for the above worthy _ol-j . _cis , Hr . M'Laren was amidst considerable applause , called to thech . iir . Mr . Geokge Read , author of the Practical Biscuit Baker , who was-received with much cheering , vail , this metropolitan movement had beeo commenced by a few working men , who desired to see tbe condition of their fellow men improved . The movement had originated in { Scotland , and -Scotia sons had been eminently _succe _.-s fill , and now only worked twelve hours per day , without Any detriment to their wages . ( Hear , hear . ) Iu Elizabeth ' s reign , baker * were notailowed to commence work nntil niue o ' clock in the morning , and where allowed _, _three hours out ofthe day fur refreshment , _recreation ,
& c , but now they were f o degraded that th _.-y had to slave from eighteen to twenty hours without intermission . ( Loud cheers . } He would put it to them where they of less value than bricklayers labourti s , —true it was , they were worked as hard , and for a much longer period , aud in many cases for a less remuneration . { Great cheering . ) lie thougl . t if journeymen baker * constitutions _werectipahleofEUStainingei- _'ht- 'eahours labour per day , they at least ought to ban six of them fer the improvement of themselves mentally , morally , am ! physically . ( Vehement cheering . ) How did this overworking system _affect their pecuniary interest *! Why , every third man was employed —( hear ,-hear )—consequently one third of the jouru-yroan , bakers were reduced to the necessity of living , or rather existing on tiie benevolence of their brother operatives . ( Loud cheers . ) Aud competition for work , and a reduction of wages was the natural conse . iu .-nce . { IIear , hear . ) Mr . Head concluded by moving a resolution denunciatory of the present syBt « m , and resume ! his seat amid great applause .
Mr . William ? , m seconding the motion , said the system required serious consideration , he hud been iu the baking business since he was eight years of age , and felt tbat thu hours of labour was far too lung , it not only affected the journeymen , but the masters their wives * nd families , as they had to rise and admit the men , and ( he wives of the journeymen was als _> injured as they had t « sat np to call their husbands to go to work . ( Hear , hear . ) He thought a : clay of hands better than the entire aboli tion of night work , and he wished them to act with such caution aud prudeuce as to ensure a certain and speedy success to the movement . ( Hear , hear . ) Au Act of Parliament aad beea passed to emancipate the bakers dogs , whilst the poor miserable baker was still left
unheeded in degraded slavery and bondage —( great applause)—but he was most happy to see so many of his trade come forward with the firm resolve to emancipate themselves . ( Loud cheers . ) The resolution was then put and * carried unanimously . Mr . Ives _rosa much applauded , to move a resolution in favour of abridging the hours of labour , and said he bad no doubt that the operatives -would succeed in tbeir present struggle , and he thought it would be then necessary to obtain an Act of Parliament teprevent a relapse . ( Loud cheers ) The success of their movement must bave a natural tendency to create a demand lor labour , and the increased demand would , as a matter of course , tend to advance its value .
The resolution was seconded , and carried unani < nously . Mr . Bubs , In a brief but eloquent speech , moved tbe formation of a district committee , which was seconded "by Mr . Watts , and carried unanimously . It was re-Mlved that the district committee shall meet every Wednesday evening , at the Windsor Castle , Churchstreet , Portuian-maiktt , near the Marylebone Theatre , at eight o'clock . Mr . G . Head passed some high compliments to the press iugeiieial and the Northern Star ia particular , for tbeir exertions in favour of tbe operative Bikers' movement , and was _Iiudly applauded . He also announced that Mr . Webber , of Lombard-street , had consented to become their treasurer , and that many master bakers _, bad _fuUWed hia excellent example , aud subscribed to their funds . ( Loud _cteers . ) A vot * of thanks was awarded by _acclamation to the chairman .
Mr . _M'Laveb , iu responding , announced that the j \ _orthti-n Star of that day , contained a report of a column and a half of their late meeting . He thought they c eld not be too grateful to the reporter , editor , and _proprietor ef that Journal . ( Great and reiterated ap-
To The Woolcombers Of The West Of Englan...
_iause . ) The beat way to requite it , and serve them " selves , was to extend the sale of tbat excellent paper as widel y 06 possible . ( Loud cheers . ) He thanked thom for their attention and determination , and he had much Pleasure in stating that tiny , on this night fortnight , would hold a meeting in the suburban district of Clapham . ( Loud cheers . ) After the enrolment of u v * _tt number of members _, we believe four huudrcd , thki enthusiastic meeting dissolved .
TO TnE MEM 3 ERS OF TnE JOURNEYMAN BASKET MAKERS' SOCIETY OF ENGLA 3 SD , SCOTLAND , AND IRELAND .
Fellow Workmen . —I have seen a paragraph in the Star of November 14 th , h _.-nded « ' FeisecuMon of Basket Makers . " which after repeating a string of _resolutions past at a meetinc of Mast , r Basket Makers at Birmingham _, conclude . ! with recommending tlie journeymen to _woikfor themselves ; but as Mr . Wileman has neither laid bare the ruinous effects of the Masters tyranny , nor _explained how or on what principles the _journeymen are to work for th . _msi-lves ; 1 consider it of imp _.. rt : mce to lay before you the following remarks •—
In the Birmingham _resolutions , it is requested by the Masters , that the Men go back to the prices of 1830 . Now I _consider _tl _. is an _unreasonable request , inasmuch as every working man ' s labour heing his own pr-perry , his only property "hereby he . can live , deprived of which he can _n- _> longer exist without being a burden on society . The man , tberel ' « r _*? . who dictates to another the price lit which he shall sell him his labour , is a base soulless money nrasping _n-ntch . But more than that , he w ' : o dictates trie prire of another ' s labour , dictates on what he and his _fiimilyshall live , in what sort of a dwelling he shall abide _, what education his children shall receive , at what aire they shall commence tn l . _ihour . Inn word , it is onenian fixing the destinies o his fellow man .
Before the Union , there were not two shops in one town that paid alikf . One master would have his article made half a size lamer than another for the same price ; or , in some _instancps . less . Som <* would have more stakes put in , s < me one thimr extra , nnd gome another , nnd t he man had to comply or go on tramp , greatly to his injury . Now < ince the Union , where strikes have taken place , the men liavc invariably made their listR for all to pay alike , all sh « ps to make work of one size , and a fixed numberof stakes , sticks , and _dsc . . In each shop also the men used in many places to fill troughs and rods , puck up work , and in "ome placs carrying it home , and pet all
the rods in for nothing , which is now charged as lost time . This is wl . y the masters kick , because they find the men more like men , independent and unitnd to put down oppression . But _among the Birmingham resolutions is one stating that they will not employ any man thnt is a member of the Union , another , that they wish the men to workby alistmsde out by masters and men ; and then make a wonder at tbe men ' s assurance to employ themselves _whi-n they won ' t employ them . It is _strange that men dare be $ - > _independent as to commence _business for _henrelvi-s , especially after serving a seven years apprenticeship .
I think the establishment of a hive _amonsst the Union masters of Birmingham or _Leicester , or anywhere else , on the plan I am about to submit , is much needed , and would be the means of enabling the members of our trade to carry out theprinciples of " a fair day's wage for a fair day ' s work . " Inthe Stat of the 21 st November , it is stated that the London Soci-ty hive eiven £ 20 tn assist in the present struggle . Lst us put £ 100 to it by private subscription . Let a qualified person to _overlook tbe business be selected , and after paying for raw matersil _, rent of premises , wares , and interest of money advanced , let the profits be divided in the following manner : — lst . An equal per centage to the Society for advanced money . 2 d . To the manager _according to his wages , and 3 d . To every man and boy employed In the establishment , according to their rate of earnings by i icce work
Only set one of those hives of _independent industry to work , with the understanding that it is to be permanont , ind rot to be broken up when the masters find out that they _csnnnt make thc men submit to tbeir terms , and the death knell of Ba « ket-making tyranny will begin to toll . Let in hare a general subscription _throughout England . Scotland , and Ireland , to take place on one day to be fixed _1-y the Central Committee . I would suggest " -J * ew Year ' s Day , In conclusion , let us remember , that if we allow the men now on strike to be sacrificed , we must not complain when it comes to our turn to suftvr , as it most _assnredly will . Resting _assured-that Ihe _Irade will fly to the rescue as one man , and raise a fund « herewith to e = _faM * sh a hive that shall stand as a monument of our resistance against unjust and oppressive employers . T remain .
Your _brother operative , Richard Grassby . Leith , December 7 th , 1846 . _MKRcn-isr Seamen —The Commissioner of the Customs department have received acomnuincatinn from Mr . Parlc « r , Secretory to fhe IiT'ls Commissioners of her _Majosty's Treasury , stating that witb _r-efrrenpe to tht ? _i--reports relative to the Merehant Seamen ' s Act , he has been commanded bv their Lordships , to acquaint them that their Lordships approve ofthe _successions therein contained , "for notpr - (• _cilina asrninst , parties who _hnve _omitcd to require
the name of tbe seamen to _bs sinned at full lensth , and for _pivini : full publicity to the same : " and that _, _pending the re-ndjus . tment o f the law , their Lordships desire that Mr . Field , the Collector of tbe Customs at the Cane of Good _ITnpe ( as well as the other col lectors in tbe colonies ) may be apprised , that the 1 w does not impose npon the collectors of customs the duty nf _pror-oedino- hy information b > -fore lier Majesty ' s Justices of the Peace , and that it forms no part of hi * duty tns'ie in tbe character of an informer for the penalties _imposed by the . Merchant Seamen ' s Act ( 7 and 5 Victoria , cap . 112 . )
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Corn Exchange. December 5. During Tlie P...
CORN EXCHANGE . December 5 . During tlie past week our arrivals of English wheat were very large , and th « -rc was a good show of samples at this day ' s market . With so large a supply , the trade was well supported , although prices _w-.-re rather the turn in favour of buyers .
Provincial Markets. Ricuhond (Yorkshire)...
PROVINCIAL MARKETS . Ricuhond ( Yorkshire ) Corn Marki : t , Satpiidat . — We had a tolerable supply of grain in our market to-day . V ? AKEFiF . tn Cobs Market . —The arrivals of wheat are fair : the demand tolembly good , ami in snme cases ls in advance ; inferior samples without change . Manchester Corn Market . —At our market this morning there were but few samples of wheat offering , and for which holders generall y required enhanced rates . "Both _s-ick and barrel flour met an improved sale , the former at fully the previous currency , and the latter on hi gher terms . _Warrisgtos Corn * Market . —There -was a fair attendance of farmers at the market , and a moderate show of new wheat , which sold at 2 d per bushel advance . Hull Coun Mauket . —The corn trade has been verv dull during the weak . At this day ' s market we had a middling supply of wheat from the farmers , for which the millers were free buyers at last week ' s rates ; no trans . ic tion in foreign , either free or nnder lock . Birmingham Corn Exciiavck . — During the present week there has been only a moderate sale of wheat at former rates .
Newcastle Corv Market . —We had a very fair supply of wheat at this day ' s market from thc growers as well as coastwise , hut the attendance of buyers being unusually small , the trade ruled dull throughout , and to effect sales a decline of fully ls per qr . on last Saturday ' s rates must have been submitted to . Liverpool Corn Market . — Wheat has been in good demand ' throughout the past week . Extensive purchases have occurred daily fur shipment to Ireland , and our own millers and de . _tlers have also supplied themselves pretty liberally . All descriptions of wheat have advanced 4 d to 6 d p er bushel , aud flour Gd to ls per barrel , and sack over the quotations of last Tuesday .
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STATE OF TRADE . Leeds . —On Saturday the market at the Cloth Halls were of tho same dull character as of late , but Tuesday ' s market was still worse . There has scarcely been so little business done on any market day this year . _Mancuistei _' . —We have had a most depressed week for cloth . The advance on the staple has caused manufacturers to ask higher rates , which , in no instance , we think has been complied with . _BaADPonn . —There is some improvement in the demand for wool , as the spinners are in general out of stock . The spinners are very generally contracting their working hours . For moreens and heavy goods there is much inquiry . _IInoDEi 8 Fia . D . —There ha g been a _slight improvement in the market to day for heavy goods , which may partly be attributed to the inclemency of the season . Halifax . —Wehave again had rather more business doing in the piece market , but do not yet hear ofa corresponding improvement in tho demand for yarn , fhepriees of which are extremely low compared with the current rates of combing wools . Rochdale Flannel Market . —There is no improvement in the demand for flannells to-day , and business still continues languid and flat . Noitikoium . —There is a shade of improvement in the cotton glove trade , but every department of the cotton hosiery manufacture remains stagnant . The lace trade continues in a most depressed state . The plain trade , especially the plain quilting trade , is not suffering in the same proportion as the fancy branches , but the prices for making those articles are wretched . Leicester . —The demand both for the London and country trade is very limited . Glasgow . —Cotton Yarn : Our market is still in a depressed state , and prices may be quoted a shade lower than even last week . Cottou Goods : There has beeu a very general depression in the market , and little appearance at present of any immediate inproremcut .
A Certain Cure For Scrofula, Or King's E...
A certain cure for Scrofula , or King ' s Evil by Hoi . loway ' s Ointment and Pills . —Many of the Hospitals find _, iugthat a number of their patients , afflicted with ulcers , abscesses , and sores , be mure particularly from Scrofula , who had been discharged as incurable from various medicalinstitutions , were afterwards soundly healed by Holloway ' s Ointment and Pills . This fact has induced several Infirmaries to purchase , by weight , from the Pro-| prietor , Holloway , Ointment for Hospital use , for tbe pur . pose of curing this class of patients . All such patients would , therefore , do well to havo recourse to those famed : remedies when suffering from similar ailments .
Committal Of Seventeen Workmen Foe Consp...
COMMITTAL OF SEVENTEEN WORKMEN FOE CONSPIRACY AT NEWTON . ( From the Jfaii « 7 ie « t « r Courier . ) On Saturday last , Mr . Thomas Lyon and Mr . wm . Stubbs , two county magistrates , sat at the Court-house , 'Warrington , to examine into a chnrgo of conspiracy , preferred _against no fewer than sevent- en individuals , hy Messrs . J . nos and Potts , ofthe Viaduct Foundry . Newton , iron founders and _enginceru . The partic * brnueht before the magistrates were—Henry Sclby , of Manchester , ( chief secretary to tho Mechanics' and Engineers' Union ) , John Hou-mcld , Alfred _Clueseborough , ( chairman of the committte of union ) , Francis Dawson , John Dumbell , Gilbert Gray , Peter Grundy , Samuel Mills , Wm . Murgatroyd _, Joseph Piatt , James Quarry Matthew Ramsdale , William Reed , Joseph
, Smith , Robert Wastewater , Thomas Wilson , and ThOS . Wright and tbe formal charge made against them was thatupon certain days named , they did'unlawfully conspire , confederate , and agree to oppress John Jonefl and Arihur Potts , to persuade workmen in their employ to leave it . Bud to prevent other workmen from entering it . Mr . Marsh , solicitor , ofthe firm of Wagstaff , Marsh _, and Barrett , appeared for the prosecution ; Mr . W . P . Roberts for the defence—Just so much of the case was heard as to warrant the magistrates in _adjourning , and then the case was remanded to Wednesday , all the _pities except Selsby and _Cheeseboroush being admitted to bail , Mr . Roberts being bound for them . Thc case orig inated in a dispute between tho masters and the men , the for ner determining to carry out a system of adult apprentices , to which tho men objected .
On Wednesday , the case came on for hearing again . before Mr . Lyon ( chairman ) , Mr . Stubbs , and Mr . _Gilbert _Grcenall . Mr . Pollock-was retained b y Mr . Marsh to conduct the prosecution . Mr . Roberts again appeared for the prisoners , who came up at the proper time . The greatest excitement prevailed among certain portions oftlie working classes in the town , and when Mr . Roberts went to court , be was loudly cheered by u very large crowd , who had assembled in front of the'Court House . As soon ns the doors leading : to the _spectntors ' ar e a in th c cour t wer e o pca ed , the crowd rushed in with great impetuosity , and it was somo time before order could be obtained . They were crammed in the spot . and in consequence noiie wns frequentl y made ; but upon tho whole they were quit , and showed the deepest attention , now and then audibly expressing approbation , or the contrary , at what fell from the different speaker * , and once warmly applauded _.
Mr . Pollock then opened the case . He went _through the circumstances , which he _nllcged showed the existence of an extensively _ramim-d combination of a dangerous charact r . ne laid down the law upon the case , and said that , though he might not be able to show all the parties charged altogether at one time , yet he could prove them all _working independently or in company for the same object , and as thc acts of a conspirator , _however distant in time and place , were the acts ofa coconspirator , even though they might be performed hifore be became a conspirator , and were evidence againtt him , if he could prove single acts against each for tbe same ob j ec t , he had made out his charge . >
Mr . Joseph Jones , deputy corn-table of Warriugtoii _, deposed to the apprehension of Murgatroyd , _Cheesebrrough , Wilson . Bontfield , Wastewater , Dumbell , anil Henry Selsby . the Inst named at Manchester , I asked Selsby if he was secretary to the executive council to the trade ' s union . He said he was , the chief secretary ; lie said everything they had done was open , and he _woulj show mc all the public addresses they _hao _issusd j I pro ! duccd some addresses he gave mo , which had been _isguei by himself ; I then produced an address , and asked him if he had another similar to it , and he gave me one : he said hehad Issued it , and bis name was attached to it ; it purports to come from Henry Silsby , for the exocutive council ; I then showed him a letter found in a book taken from _Checsebcrough , and he admitted the handwriting of the envelope and the letter was his . He said
it had contained a post-office order , and was sent to Cheeseborough , at Newton . He said two persons had been with iiim that day from Newton , who had stated that a number of men had been taken into custody , and be had sent them back to get the particulars of tho charge on which they wero apprehended , ashe could do nothing without the p irticulars . I afterwards went to the place where Quarry lived . In a box in the house I found gome papers which I now produce . Elijah Bowman lives in the same house , ne was not there , nor was his name in the warrant . In a box which was pointed out to be his . I found certain papers which I also produce . They both lodge in Crow-lane , Newton , about -. _« _quarti r of a mile from _Mcs'r _* . ' Jones and Potts ' works ; I got the copy Ofthe bill I produced to Selsb y from Mr . Marsh .
Cross-examined . —Selsby made no opposition to me when I arrested him . I did not know him _personally before . I have not seen _Svlsby in Warrington before . I have , during the last three months , seen several men at Newton , who were appointed out as picqucts , nenr the railway . I saw five or six of them there nbout a week ago . Attbe . time I have seen th" « n there has not been any violence or threatening _language , or threatening gestures . T think I have read the book tak . n from Cheeseborough all through . I don ' t see anything warlike in it ; it is all ofa business character . I did not live it to Mr . Jr ) ncs , or let bim look at it ; I gave it to Mr . Marsh last Sunday morning and he retained it til ) Monday mornine ; , and then he gave It up to me ; I ' am not personally acquainted with nny of the prisoners ; when I look _possession of Quarry ' s papers , I got a small memorandum book and a trade card .
Mr . Roberts : I apply that that card and memorandum book may be put in . The parlies I represent are anxious to have the whole case brought nut , nnd are willing to take all risk of _tliosi documents . Mr . Pollock said he should have them . _Crosa-examiriati _. in continued ; When I went to Quarry and Bowman ' s lod _^ inrs I had not a search warrant , or any warrant against Bowman ; I had an ordinary warrant agaiust Quarry ; Mr . Johnson , Jones and Potts ' cashier , was with me ; he assisted me ; Bowmmi ' s box was open , Quarry ' s was locked ; I tried some _kejs to it , but they did not open it ; Mr . Johnson then tried a key ; I am not aware that Mr . Johnson was deputed to assist me as constable . The Chairman _: You know he had n right ( o charge him to assist , having a warrant , Mr . Roberts .
Cross examination continued : Mr . Johnson broke open the box with a hammer , which was furnished by a young ; woman , _daughter of thc person who lives in the house I took the papers I produce out of a box and Johmoh took _sometliinirour , but lam not able to speak what ; I bave not brought here to-day all I took out ; I toek out a numberof letters and some papers ; the letters arc at the police-office . Mr . Roberts : Perhaps you will send for them , Mr . Pollock . , The Chairman : It is quit ; a matter of choice whether he gives them or not . Mr . Pollock : I believe the letters are very numerous , and don't belong to the case ; I have no instructions that they do . Mr . Roberts : Then , sir , I beg to make an application , which IdowllhalUolt-mnUy , that _tliOAC lell . _'l'S b . * produced , and not that we be kept in _ifrnorauee of the contents , and then th .-y be _brought down upon us at the _trial .
Mr . Marsh said he had seen those letters , and he selected those from them which bore on thc case , those of a private nature he abstained from reading . Mr . Roberts said he was instructed that there were among those letters documents very material for the defence ; showing the _natuiv . of their connection with the society . Mr . Pollock said he would be happy to produce any one letter on which Mr . Roberts relied . Mr . Roberts said he relied on tbem nil , and asked for them all . They were most important to his defence Uiat day . Eventually it was decided that the papers should be brought into court , and a gentleman on account of the prosecution , and Mr . Blake . Mr . Robert ' s cb _. rk , should examine and determine on the private papers , and reserve the rest . This was done in the course of the sitting .
Cross examination confonued : I went to thc Quarry ' s about ten o ' clock in the forenoon of Friday ; I gave the papers to Sir Marsh , the whole of th- m , on Sunday morning , and got them back on Monday morning ; I got them back in two bundles ; " I was directed to produce one bundle here to-day , but had no particular directions us to the other ; " when I received them I did not make any inventory of them ; I did not read them all myself , but I read most of them ; there was nothing else but papers that I took from the box ; I can ' t say that Johnson took anything ; from Bowman ' s box I took a quantity of papers , but nothing else ; I tied them in a handkerchief and kept them ; they are not here to-day ; I gave them to Mr . Marsh also ; I did not make an inventory of them ; I read some of them ; Mr . Marsh gave them me back on Monday morning , but he did not give me any instructions as to producing them .
Jobn Richard Marsh ; I received the papers And books mentioned , from Mr . Jonee , and they remained at my house until I returned them iu the same state as when I got them . Enoch Marks : I am time keeper to Messrs . Jonos nnd Potts ; at the latter end of August or the early part of September , for the first time , I say a picquet on Messrs . Jones ' s establishment ; by a piequet I mean a number of people standing together day after day to prevent any one coming in search of employment ; "I have never s _» er . any violenoe used to such persons : " I produce memorandums of names taken down by ma as I passed the picquets I have spoken of ; after I passed by them I got some scraps of paper , and put down in pencil the names ofthe parties I saw standing er walking , and I entered them regularly and accurate the same day , one day aftor another ; I have since destroyed the 6 craps of paper ;
referring to my memorandums I can tell the names of all the parties on pickets , day by doy . [ The witness proceeded to read a sort ef journal ofthe names ofthe parties whom he observed on picquet from Monday , November 16 th . ] In the courso of his cross-examination the witness a * id , —I have been with Messrs . Jones ami Pott * upwards of eleven years , and am still their servant ; I have not boen a member of any union during that time ; _"Ihaveseon a great deal of tlnse _picquels at different times , and an far as I have seen their conduct has been peaceable ; " they go and talk to people who come to seek work , but non « that I have seen them talk to have come to work ; I have seen people that have been coming ; to . wards the foundry , and they have been stopped by soma of these parties , and after that they have gone away * I have seen one during the last month , but not to my recollection in the last week . By being asked If J , hare
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seen '' one , " I suppose itis meant have I seen one of these picqucti turning men away ; I have seen it happen several times during- the last month ; less than a month ago Francis Dawson was the picquet , and had two men whom he was taking away ; there was no one but the two men wUh him when they passed me ; " they were _coffS sociably and comfortabl y together ; " I can ' t call *•* mb * d _whether I have seen any one of the prisoners'N _* tDaW 80 n taking men away ; I cannotpositively say H- * have Betn Dawson take any mm away * I have s _< en Dawson in » piequet with other men where mei * _were-stoppi-d . hut _l cannot call to mind exactl y when . His compa nions were parties of the picquet . _Wln-n 1 speak of preventing persons , I can ' t say what the picquet were to do to prevent them ; I can ' t say that it was to prevent by force .
Joseph _Shatwell : I am an _engine fitter , and have been regularly-brought up to that trade ; on thelCth of November , I came to Newton in search of employment , and at tlmt time I had not heard anything of a dispute at Jones & Potts * works . 1 applied there on Monday night , but did not get work , and between seven and eight on Tuesday morning I applied igain . When I got near the work I met two men , one of whom , Joseph PI ' 1 " * l had worked with ; hu is a fitter , and is now in the dock ; I fee tlie other man there too ( Thomas Wilson ) : they came up to me , and Wilson asked me where I was going : I said to sock a job ; they said there was a _diilurbanco at _Jwnes ' _s foundry , and I had batter not go ; they did not say what the disturbance was about , but that it was between the master and men ; I said I was out of a job , and I would like to get a job somewhere ; I was not aware there wns imy _disiurbiuioc : Piatt said if I was bard up they would give me something lo
eat and drink ; one of them also said ir I vent tiiere I _shouldu't stop long , and I should be told of it when I went to another shop , and be called a " knobstick ;" I consider a " knobstick" one who goes and takes another man ' s place and works under price . 1 went to the _worke , but did not 9 ee the master , and oad to return after brea _k-. _astjasl wont after breakfast , IsawPlatt , about 300 or 4 ( 10 yards from the worku , walking backward an . l forward , in the same way as a soldivr on guard . When I came back before breakfast Piatt nus bv himself , and guid if 1 went to work theie I should repent it before the winter was over . I went to a public-house near the works , and as I was going Piatt made use of a foul expression and said 1 must not go into tliutb y hole but go with him and ho would give me _Hometking to eat and drink and a shilling to go on the roud with . Afrtr breakfast , I went again , and got work , and I work there still .
In the course of his cross-examination this witness admitted that he was not frightened at whht the prisouer had said to him , but workeil ou as he thought _pioperi John Daggers : 1 live ai Foster ' s at Newton ; 1 have been in the employ of Jones and Potts since the 10 th of November , as a turner . Last Thursday but one I saw Peter Grundy and Thomas Wright on the road to Jones ' * hop , between 200 and 300 yards from the shop ; Grundy nodded his head at me logo to I . im , ami when I went to him he said , What's been in th y _h-ad Jack , to com ** here , and I said , Where must I wor _'< ! He raid I had done a bad job for myself in coming , and he said I could not gtt made into the society now ; be said , Art thou going to sleep here _i and I said yes ; hu _sat . l , We ean raise thee 4 s . or 5 s . to get tbee on thu road , and thou"U get work at the Vulcan as they were wanting hands there . He said they would give me a note , to certify that I had come out
when they wanted me ; I left them , and went to my dinner . On the Saturday following , as I was going to my work , I met Dawson , Bousficld , Mills , and Piatt , and several other * whom I don ' t recognise ; about a dozen in all ; tiiey were opposite Foster ' s dnor , between 30 ( 1 aud 400 yards from thc works ; I asked Dawson whether Grumly had none to Preston , and he came to me nnd told me he had gone , and then said—What's ta ' en in thy head to come here I and then one of the men called out , Frank , come away , what's the use of talking to such a thing as that ? Dawson said , Thou _sevst they are uli vexed at me for talking to thee . Dawson said , An thou for stopping htr ? and I said I don't know ; he saw me on Saturday night , and he said , If thou'Il come out tlmu'll get a job at the Vulcan , and a certificate to say thou canm out when we wanted thee ; I have seen Dawion standing near the works at meal times when the hand * were _passing .
Cross-examined : I have been in gaol for selling stolen goods , not knowing they were stolen ; I was tried for it in lS 12 jund pleaded guilty , though I was not _i- 'Uilty . Joseph Hill : I have been in the employ of Jones and Potts since the _lOrli November ; on the Ctli I engaged to go into tucir employ , and on that day Bousfield ami John Frith came to me , opposite Jones ' s new buildings , close to the works ; _lioustield ask < d me to have a glass of ale with him ; I told him I would not g > _, and then he called ine a d—d rascal , who deserved my throat cutting ; they wanted me to come out , and they said I should not be thure above a month before I should be kicked out . John Oatcs , Joseph Baker , Peter Taylor , Thomas Terry and Thomas Davies , who had all been working nt Jones and Po . ts ' s , gave similar evidence to that of the preceding witnesses . Mr . Pollock , in _announcing the close , said he thought hehad established a strong casc _. andhe now applied that these men should be committed tor trial at the assizes ou the charge laid against them .
Mr . llolierts then rose to address the court for the defence , when Mr . Stubbs remarked tLat we cannot refuse to commit ; "itis _iinpossiul _.. * notwithstanding what you may say . " Mr . _Hober _' . e , in auuhsing the evidence as against tlie dill ' rent prisoner- ' , said tlure was evidence against ull _, perhaps , connecting tliem wilh this affair . There had been maiiyloolish things said , but they were onlycoui - mou observations , capable of being used for a prosicutiwn , but capable 11 U 0 of a different signification , they were the mere ebullition of passion , and not the result of any couapirucy whatever . Th .: charge resolved _usulf into one of intimidation , and as such , perhaps , it might be treitcd under the Intimidation Act , but it was not oue of conspiracy . Conspiracy was a combination to do _certain acts illegal in themselves , or do a legal act by _illegal
means . But it was not an offence at law to persuade a 111 : 111 not to work for a muster , as was the cue here . He _ittlmitti'd that the old view of the law held that it was , but Bar « u Kolfe hud declared ' in the case of O'Connor und the Chartists who were tried at Lancaster , an opinion _, which from the fact of the then universal ugitation ot tbe question of conspiracy all over the kingdom , was entitled to more attention , because the judge must have givin it in a _peculiarly deliberate manner , and aftir the calmest and most searching inquiry . Baron Rolfe at that trial fittid _. tliuttodeteriuiuejoui _' s' _-lf not to buy of a tradesman was a legal act , and to combine to persuade others uot to buy of him was not an illegal act , but it was not the less a conspiracy . Conspiracy iu itself was no crime , the very meaning of thu word settled the question . It
was to breathe together , to think together , and so far these meu certainly had gone . In a club , if an obnoxious member gut in and could uot be removed easily , did not all the other members act in concert to drive him out . That wns a conspiracy of thc rich ; and were they to have their conspiracies with impunity and not the poor also . Why ihere wus a conspiracy within a very , short distance of that place ; there had been a very large meeting of masters from nil part- ol the _liingdom ; they came to combine and conspire together not to employ any individual who belonged to a union . They entered into a conspiracy , and whoever thought of indicting them for it . Mr , Pollock : It is quite possible some one has thought of it .
Mr . Roberts continued to speak at some length for the defence . The magistrates , when he hud concluded , announced their determination to commit all the prisoners for trial at the Liverpool assizes 011 the charge of compiracy . Mr . Itoberts then applied that they should be admitted to bail ou Monday , when tho assizes commence ; the application was granted , the amount fixed , £ 30 each for Selsby and _Cheeseborough , and two sureties iu £ 40 each ; end £ 40 for each of the others , and two sureties in £ 20 each . This it was understood was only one half of what was origiuully intended . Mr . John David iinyd and Samuel Fletcher , of Manchester , gave bail for Selsby , the others were bailed out mostly by men employed ut thu Vulcan _Foun'lay .
Before the court broke up Mr . Marsh aiked Mr , Roberts if he intended to traverse at the assizes ; to which Mr . Robirts replied , he should net on the instructions of counsel . It was probable the _casa will be traversed . Thecase was not over until nine o ' clock at uight , having been on from a little before twelve . Mr . Robert ! was loudly cheered on retiring .
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_Dbbadful OcccitRKKCE . —Last week the body of a man wns found , in a literally roasted state , in the hot ashes , at Mr . Dixon ' s works , Gavan . It appears that the ashes , as they fall from the furnace , s ink inteva bed in successive layer . * :, forming a _ninsa , which is constantly in a heated , if not smouldering state , and emitting noxious gases . The deceased was a poor , houseless creature , supposed to be a _ibieyuer , and of whose name or connections notlvng is known , lie had , however , been frequently seen about the works , aud it appears was in the habir . of
making the aah-heap his bed , having no place of shutter , nnd finding comfort in its warmth . It seems probable that , on the occasion in question , he had been over p owered , perhaps suffocated , by the gas irom the rubbish , after laying himself down , and while in a state of stupefaction , or rather , it is to he hoped , after life had totally ceased to exist , the burning of the body had gone on by a slow process , until found in its partially consumed state , with the _iutej-umerits , it is said , crumbling to tlio touch . A more shocking and deplorable result of destitution h a s s eldom occurred .
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{ From the _Gatetttof Tuesday , December 9 . ) J . Donaldson , Regent-street , and Margaret-street , Middlesex , coachmaker—P . Howard , Ilingham , Norl ' olf , wine merchant— S . Nelson , New Bond-street , music suller—' . Spence , Queen-street , Hoxton , china , glass , and earthernwarc dealer—K . J . Hows , Deptford , china dealer—J . K . _Uullcn , _I'ctci'b-irough _, tailor , draper , and hatter—J- _liusscy , Bear-street , LeieG 9 ter-squ ! ire , _iconmongi-r and _brassfiiundcr—11 . Sntchell , jun ., Winsley-street , Oxford-street , and Hyde , Middlesex , eowkeeper—W . Cameron , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , confectioner — O . Evans , I . _iverpoul , innkeeper anil victua . Vler— J . J . Jackson , Liverpool and Birkenhead , wine merc . ' _iaut—J . II . _Itodway , Birmingham , commission , agent—W . Barker , Nottingham , hosier—W . Thomas , Treforest , ¦ . iear Cardiff , Glamorganshire , draper—M . Burton aud IT . _ghaen , _Mauchister , cotton sp inners . >
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To Feargds O'Connor , Esq. Respected Sir...
TO FEARGDS O'CONNOR , ESQ . Respected Sir . —I have seen in your address to thc oppressed and cruelly persecuted Irish people , an allusion made to an article in the Times in regard to the Irish finding a home in the Highlands of Scotland . Whether this ha * , come from any of _V . _is Grace of Suthcr . land ' s _Stirlhiga , I know not , bu t this . I know that no true Highlander would give such iniquitous advice , a « it is well known , or st ould be , that ther .- has been atrocities committed on the poor Highlanders unparalleled in the history of any country by the Highland Lairds , and especially by the Sutherland family . Let nny person
read Mr . D , M'beod ' _s pamphlet on the cruelty of the Sutherland family , or Mr . Cobbett , or Mr . D . Miller , of t h e Edinbur g h Wi t n e ss , and then they will be satisfied in regard to the happy Paradise that awaits the oppressed Irish in the H ' ghlantls of Scotland . The Highlanders of Nova Scotia have not forgotten the . monstrous cruelty perpetrated on their fathers on that memorable nipht _, when four hundred _families were ejected from their houses and lands by a brutal military force ; their dwellings burnt to ashes in their si |* ht , and the aged and infirm left a pray to the ' devouring flames j nnd all nt the command of a tenant who bas no more right to an inch of that soil than the Emperor of China has .
Those brave men , although subjected , are yearly in enmmunication with their friends in Britain , waiting for a favourable opportunity of showing the world that they have not fontotten _' their oppressors . Go on . then , Noble Sir , in your endeavours to _cemr-nt that union , which has been so long wished for . and rest assured you will have the hearty support of every true Highlander . I am , respected Sir , Your , ever grateful smant , A . M'Leod . UIgham , December 5 th , 1846 .
To The Roman Ca T Holic Hierarchy Op Ire...
TO THE ROMAN CA T HOLIC HIERARCHY OP IRELAND . _Hiqut Rev . and Rev . Sirs , An an Irishman I may be permitted to address you upon a question which has hitherto occupied the attention of the people of this _tmpire , and in which you have taken a very active part , and at present hold u very prominent position . Ireland has been for mnny years the theatre of a contintiaus agitation , _profi-sse <* ly for the purpose of procuring an amelioration of the condition of her _people , but of » H 'he various measures of reform sought to be obtained , that of a repeal ofthe Legislative Union claims to be the chief ; it is , as _Repeabrs say , the grand climax of national hope and happiness ; it is , to use the words of the man you call a Liberator , his "ULTERIOR MEASURE ! " all Other measures previously introduced were intended to be only pioneers to this last and greatest of
your -nation ' s achievements , and to the _cre-lituf the Irish people they nobly supported tlieir leaders , und constituted in word and deed nil that the mnst enthusiastic patriotism could possib ' y require . The monster meetings of Ireland ' s sons , and the monster sums of money contributed hy t he ver oores t class of bein g s in ex i s t ence , were _convincing proofs that Irishmen loved their country , nnd were determined to free her from bondage . TIiub far the agitation was perfect ; butlet us examine whether all this _enerjry , patriotism and expenditure have been well or ill applied ; let us see what repeal really _meaus , and what it would do for the millions who echo the cry of "Ireland for the Irish , " and who , although starving , contribute their pence to thc Repeal Exchequer . ' Let us examine whether the existence of a parliament in College Green would promote the interests of the nation ,
or whether it would be ns stated the panacea for Irish grievances ; but , above all , let us examine whether your mode " of agitation is likely to prove cfi" ctual ; whether it is based upon sincerity , _m-irked by consistency ' ; or whether it will bear the test of honest politic .-il criticism . The first great principle of a reform movement requires that the party ngitatini ; should he well _acquainted with he nature of the _gri-. vance to be remedied or removed ; the seem 1 , that they should use only such means as ave best calculated to produce the speediest and most permanent results . I will admit , for brevity , that the leader who assumed the guidance of your agitation for repeal wis well informed on the subject , that lie was conversant with tho nature of every evil with which his country was _bnrthened , and that he possessed transcendent abilities to conduct it to a successful termination . The third
requisite in an agitation is to create publie opinion , first concerning the nature of the grievance , and , secondly , concerning the best means of removing it . Unity is strength , is a favourite theurism with Repealers , ami so it is , provided it is based upon honest principles ; but unity may be weakness in a political movement when it has to contend with might forthe victory , and has only broken reeds and harmless missiles to oppose the enemy . It may be very well for a people to say we are _aggrieved ; but that is not attempted to be denied even by those who aggrieve them , and it may seem an act of heroism to rise up to declare their determination to defeat the oppressor , but it would , if I may use nn example , be ridiculous to see a donkey , with his teeth draw and his hinder hoofs unshod , rise up to encounter a lion . Such a battle would
be like D -n Quixotte ' s encounter with the windmill , the peirof the one and the ears of the other are synonymous . It maybe asked . Why make such an analogy ? My reply is simply and plainly this , I consider them to bo perfectly alike in every sense of the word , except thnt in one ease wehadbut one Quixotteand one SanchoPancha . but in the other we have a host of " Knight _Errauts " and a whole nation of Sancho's _bestriddled on eaeli other ' * backs , braying most lustily without knowing wlp ther all the uproar would cv . r bring them a grain of corn or a a potato more than they were accustomed to . I would not be misunderstood , I am not oppnsi d to aRepenlof the Union , if accompanied with proper guarantees for national good ; but , according to the Repeal system , every man possessing a sound » nd thinking mind , and who loves his eountry , must feel dissatisfied .
Gentlemen , as you are conversant with the doctrine of cause and effect , it will be only necessary to ask you , whit the cause was which led to the existence of the union betwixt Ireland and Great Britian t I need not to be told that it was the corruption of one party who bribed , or the treachery or treason of another who sold you into slavery . Tese are answers daily and hmirlv given to the people of Ireland , and with which they and you , gentlemen , seem satisfied ; butwhich will not satisfy me , as I consider their is a cause far above this perfidy nf that baseness ; these iniquitous transactions wero but the effect of a causp . and that cause still _exi-ts , and _n-. t a man amongst the Repealers , from the " Liberator " to
the humblest associate , or even amongst the clergy , has as yet the courage or political honesty to recognise it , although It is ohrious to thr meanest capacity , Let me ask . upon what kind of suffrage the Parliament whieh contracted the Union was elected ! Did it _represent the whole people ora class of thtm , or did it not rather represent itself ? Itis quite certain thatthe people _wu-e not fully and fairly represented , and it is equally certain if they had been they would have possessed a power capable of compelliiij * - the legislature tobe honest . Thus the want of _pouticai . _rowBB , or a voice in making the laws by which they are governed , was the cause which led to the Act of Union .
Now in order to remedy tho effect , would it not be advisable to remove the cause , seeing that by doing so the effect would assuredly cease ; for if repeal were to be ob tained by your present mode of seeking it , it would still be objectionable , whilst the cause was permitted to exist ! Would it not be more patriotic to remove the cause , and grant to every man of sound mind , 21 years of age , and . unconvicted of crime , a voice in choosing hia representatives—to give him the CHARTER—which the Liberator declared to be his right to protect bim , and without whieh Repeal would be wonbless—nay . worse , it would be injurious ? Can there be any danger to the country
from the fact that the people would have nn interest and a power to promote Its prosperity ? Assuredly not , aud as we now see the connexion betwixt slavery and non representation , it may fairly be assumed that unless your agitation embodied the principle of equal , full , and fair representation for the entire people , it could be an honest agitation , and consequently all the energy , patriotism , and expenditure contributed towardsit have been nothing less than time lost , useless vapouring , and arrant swindlinr of the people ' s hard earned pence . What man in Ireland will have the hardihood to assert that Daniel O'Connell ever intended to extend the franchise to his
countrymen , to protect them against the class interests or class legislature , or who will venture to affirm that in the absence of such protection Ireland would not be , even witb Repeal , a nation of slaves as she is now ? It is to be _ruiM'attad that the people have been so long deluded with false hopes and expectation , but itis more deeply to be regretted that you , most Rev . Sirs , should linvo lent thc weight of your influence to a movement conducted so injudicioue , nnd bearing the impress ofthe most reckless political profligacy . I would be sorry to imagine you have acted throughout the agitation otherwise than as you believed to be consistent with just principles , or were guided by other motives save your desire to render your country all the service in your power . I am of opinion you felt convinced you were pursuing the best course to render Ireland independent , and her people
happy _; and I am willing * o admit you are sincerely desirous to raise to that position in the scale of nations , to which she is so pre-eminently cntit . ed ; but , notwithstanding the respect I enttrtain for vour motives , I deem it to be my duty to remonstrate wiih you on ( he impolicy of giving support to a measure without having previously _giv- _* n it the most attentive _consideration . It is plain you have not done so , und in this particular lies the great error of your movement , and the developement of its failure . It was not be expected that the poorer classes of society could understand the sophistry or specious measuring * of such a mun as Daniel O'Connell , in whom they were taught to confide , arid whose word tbey were
led to believe wns infallible . Thoy might not be expected to ask themselves questions concerning the propriety of doing this thing or doing that , when they learned to leave such thintrsto their " betters , " and to render _obedience to their will . The poor Repealers hnve their unfortunate position to plead in extenuation , but ti . e Clergy of the Roman Catholic Church have not so _cueii _*> a _suben-fuue to screen them from political criticism . Iheir education should hare taught them to distinguish the relations betwixt ciiusn mid effect , and . Mv influence and position in society . should have restrained them from renileriug a blind support to an agitation iu which their example must _necebUitrily be productive of evil consequences ,
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The Irish people are sometimes-at fault in being too grateful to pretended benefactors , and the clergy i > ate fallen into this error as regards the question of Catribr Emancipation . They unfairly attribute to Hr . O'Conn u tho sole honour of having-achieved this important victory , and thus con 3 equently rely upon bis _njaertio n and give him credit , for so much political integrity , as to induce tbe belief that they suppose him to beinc ' ap abl of error . You we ' re grateful ! but mark how your gra «» tmle has been abused—witness the result of your ex •> mp ! e in the shattered remnant ofa once great Katirioal Morement , slandering each otherin "Conciliat _' onllaiiH
Look at Ireland as she was—as she IS— -STARVl- _* ot Look at the Liberator ( t ) at ono lime swallowing Repe »{ in mc _. uthfuls of Tory venison fattened on _Phomix Park * at another gulping down the accumulated subscription _^ of his wretched victims , and NOW drivellimr and into *; mated with . the fumes of a " _mes 8 " of Whig " pottage" and slops I ; Look at these things and ask yourselves whether your energies and patriotism " t . ave not been misapplied and learn from the fact that a man may get credit for sincerity r . a patriot , without being a patriot in realit y With the kind permission ofthe Editor ofthe Northern ' Star . I will continue this subject , and endeavour to convince you that if you wish to set Ireland free , you must obtain political power for the people , and direct their at . tention to the cultivation of her internal resources amongst which as the chief , is thu laud , upon which they are at pres _.-nt but "Hewers of wood and drawers of water , " _stiangers and " aliens" in the land of * their birth , I am Right Rev . and Rev . Sirs , Your most obedient Servant , W . H . _Cl-IFTOK .
Repeal. To Tne Editor Of Tbij Nobthebt* ...
REPEAL . TO TnE EDITOR OF _TBIJ _NOBTHEBt * STAR . Sin , —I beg to forward you ( requesting its puhlication ) the copy of a letter addressed by me last week-to the _E'litor-of the iVatton here . This letter was 6 ent probablv too late for insertion , certainly not for notice . I cannot say what course the Editor ofthe Nation may take with regard fo my paper : whether , actuated hy the noble _sentiments wbich he hubdomadally puts forth for our edifiration , he will bravely set narrow and ridiculous prejudices at defiance , and give it the publicity it chal . lenges , or whether he will still hesitate to ( Injustice from motives of sordid prudence , nnd repel me as ungraciousl y as he- did the English Chartists . In either case , sir , it becomes me as secretary to the Irish section of the Uni . versal Suffrage movement , to do my duty hy those with whom in politics I am associated , and as the Northern Star comes into hands which the A ' at ' _on does not reach _aisIi lish to know that
I our Eng we are neither dead nor sleeping here ; we " bide our rime , " and have little doubt but the " war of internecne factions , " otherwise the Irish battle for the bone , will terminate in tbe adoption by the _poople of the enly panncca for their miseries the Charter ; which can alone raise them from serfness to freedom , aud from wretchedness unparalleled to that _itafrus of social comfort in which eternal justice require ! that the industrious classes of these _countries should bt found . To hasten the _auspicious moment when the work _, ing classes oftlie two countries shall me dourly to under _, tand their own interests , and rightly estimate their own _power-liould be t'ie object of our _unceaiing exertions ; and it is because I believe no man too humble to contri . bute to this good work , that I set many interests aside to occasionally devote a part ) of my time to the _brit-fl j laying my thoughts before my countrymen . I am . Sir , Tour obedient Servant , W . II . DlOTT . MATERIALS FOR AN ENGLISH REPEAL PARTY , TO THE EDITOR OF THE NATIOW . Sir , —In your last number you have invited attention k > the above subject , a most Important one . In reply to your invitation I beg to assert tbat an _Ennlish repeal party does exist , ; there a-. e three and a _tialf millions of British men pledged to that measure ; they _are ' _af that " workin ? class" whom you have laterdenominated " brave . " and expressed | a hope at " s ome futute time to be better acquainted with ; " they love liberty ; they are attached to the principles of Cartwright
and Cobbett ; they read your journal and admire its integrity and spirit ; they have on many occasions given proof of their utter unselfishness us _regards their Irish brethren ; they have petitioned for Repe : il ; remonstrated against the monster indictment , and the _subsequent imprisonment of its victims ; they armed the ungrateful hands of Mr . O'Connell with hosts of _English _signatures again 9 t . the Irish Coercion Bill : in the H » use of Commons their acknowledged chiei'tain is one of the most distinguished denunciators of every governmental fraud and ministerial , tyranny ; he at all times upholds the cause of 'Ireland ; his name is Thomas Duncombe , and his political supporters have adopted as their proper designation their nickname—they are called Chartists ,
I must confess , sir ,. th : it unless in the junction of this party , and the Irish residents in England , I can see no materials for forming a powerful repeal confederacy in that country . That such a _c-nfederaey wouid be power _, ful—nay , all-powerful , we have the testimony of _RicharS Lalor Shiel , when pleading for Mr , O'Connell on occasion of the state trials to prove . On that memorable occasion he put * t to the gratitude of the Queen ' s government that Mr . O'Connell had stood between the English and Irish working classes , the latter of whom , lie a _* _: s _. ; rtecl , were as eager to . hold forth the hand of political amity to their fellows . of the sister country , as the _English operatives
were ardently anxious to clutch that hand with faithful and determined gr . _isp . Mr . Sliiel _declured that Mr . O'Connell had prevented this union , and affi r m e d t hat had this junction taken place , no administration could have withstood its collected power ; and he pie ded that Mr . O'Connell , because he had prevented this junction , checked the fraternising impulses of generous men , and retarded the advent of a nation's enfranchisement , was , therefore , entitled to a _grafiful consideration and ac . quittal from the government he had served and saved , for any un-guarded escapade in the moment of oratorical effervescence .
Is not this fact extant , and written in very choice English In the book of the Irish State trials ? Mr . Shift ' s opinion I fully concur in : Lthink thc union of the " brave" working classes of the two countries would soon repeal the union for this , and achieve the franchise for both countries . It is not the tones who will form a repeal [ party , though they may frankly ¦ . urrender to one when it becomes sufficiently powerful . 1 * is not th « Whigs—pledged to resist repeal to the death—itis not - that pestilential and perfidious faction whose treachery and cor / uption are " only equalled by iheir imbecility and incapacity ; it is not those dribbling statesmen ; petifogging economists , and namby-pamby orators , who will for « or foster a repeal party in England . Neither is it to the profit-mongering middle _clnsses , who
gorge upon the spoil wrung from this _plsiidt-red land that you may look for sympathy or assistance ; it is not to the church-ridden Exeter Hall clique , nor yet to the ignorant and bigotted bores you must appeal . No ; it il to the justice and generosity resident io the bosoms 61 the ' brave " and intelligent artisans and qperatives of England that you must have recourse if you desire to find materials for a repeal party in Saxon land Sir , you must unteach the Irish people much tbat has been sedulously inculcated on them ; you must show then * that it is unjust , as well as absurd , to charge upon a body of men the acts of individuals , or declare that principles are vitiated because some of those who hold tbem may , under strong excitement , act imprudently . You must show them , sir , that much of what Emmet died for has been achieved , and that his death , far from turning us trom the nationality for which he died , should rather heighten oue enthusiasm in the cause to which he fell a
self-deserted sacrifice . Sir , you must go further , you must dispel the delusion that men are unfit to serve their country because in religion they msy believe less , or in politics go for more , than the majority of their countrymen : even , sir , should some of the points in men ' s religious or political principles justify , in yonr estimation , the . use of the strong phrase ' _« abominable , " you should , even if yon declined to point out where the abomination lay , yet honestly admit , that where there , was no moral taint , and where there was perfect willingness , nay , unxiety , to assist in working out the measure on which Irishmen had set their souls , such auxiliar aid , instead of being—to serve some poor tad paltry purpose of the hour—disdainfully and contumeliously spurned , in common justice to the generosity of the parties offering it , be courteously received ; while refusing to turn it to the account of the country and the cause , could only—if Mr . Shiel _' s assertion be worth anything—be considered the act of madmen or of traitors .
Sir , you like brevity and favor boldness * . 1 have the audacity tO address you these lines not exactly expecting that you will publish them . I have no "miserable vanity " to gratify : but I am a poor and humble man , though an ardent worshipper of truth and of my country , who thinks that it is thc duty of every mail to take a part in those public proceedings which so considerably affect the private relations of society . Give me a living reason that the principles of Chartism , which you sneeringly ' _sayare- _' good enough for En gland , " are " unsound , unconstitutional , or uusuited to the people of Ireland ; and tell me why the " brave " men who bore and forbore under all O'Connell ' s rancorous abuse and transparent misrepresentation , are not worth y to coalesce with the Irish who live amongst them , as well as with the great bulk of the deluded people of this ill . _treared island .
I am Sir , Your obedient and admiring _Kerraut , W . H . Diott , 29 , North Kind Street , _Dublini
A Thief's Dodge.—-On Saturday Night A <H...
A Thief ' s Dodge . — -On Saturday night a < hief went into thc shop ofa watchmaker , in Mark-lane , just as thc proprietor , who waa in the habit of packing up his goods in a bit ! - and taking them home every evening , was preparing to depart . The bag lay upon the counter , the thief seized it , threw » handful of pepper in the face of the _shopkeeper , and rim down _Murk-l-nic- The plundered man roaJ _"* _* f out lustily , and notwithstanding the _blimJir-i * effect of the pepper , ran out after the thief , who threw down the ba >„ _* , and vanished . None of the properly was lost , The thief escaped . _Puikok Louis NAPOLKOK .-On Tuesday rrince Louis Nap »! eon , accompanied by tiie _Marqms 01 Dou g la s , arrivod from Arrau at the btar nowi , ( M'Donald ' a ) , _Geortj-J-squnw _, Glasgow .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 12, 1846, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_12121846/page/6/
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