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0 16 Thomas February 19, 1848 Tlis North...
February 19 , 1848 TliS NORTHER _^ _st AR , 5
To The . Members Of The Land Company. Fr...
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE LAND COMPANY . _Friekds _, —The seeond of March next is fixed for the trial of the Petition against the return of Mr O'Connor , ss Member for Nottingham . The Directors expect to be able Bext week to publish a hst of subscriptions in the Star , containing the names of every _branch ofthe Company , and subscriptions of private members , ( which may be sent in postage stamps , ) will also be published . Tha expenseto Mr O'Connor will be enormous , and the exertions ofthe members must be equal to the emergency . By order ef theDirectors , Thohas Clabk , Corresponding Secretary . RECEIPTS OF THB _NATIONAli LAND COaiPAN' 2 " . POR THE WEEK ENDING FEBSUARY 17 . 1818 .
PER MR _O'COSKOR . » SAsre . £ B , a . Bramhope _., 1 6 0 Newport , Salop 11 10 Tonbridge Wells 2 7 6 Manchester .. 22 19 6 _Torquay .. 1 19 0 Northampton , ¦ William » . 10 O 0 Monday _„ Is 0 0 Oldham .. 5 16 Burnley , Lawson 4 4 6 Jlinster Lovel .. 13 0 Sew Radford .. o 17 6 _-tf-ingate Grange 0 16 6 Clitheroe .. 8 0 0 Kochdale _„ 2 4 11 NoUingham , Sweet S 9 6 _Cambenrell .. 2 17 0 Stockport .. 10 0 0 Hammersmith .. 0 8 0 Yeovil .. 2 17 0 Bermondsey .. 18 0 Iveston "„ 7 7 8 £ > reston .. 22 0 0 Chorley * .. 3 13 0 South Shields .. G 13 o Hull .. 7 lo 0 Glass : "" " •• ll 9 0 Congleton .. 29 0 0 _TTafcetield .. 6 16 _Giggleswiek .. 12 6 Cheltenham .. 4 7 8 Dewsbury .. 13 S 6 Bath 4 4 6 Bury ( Lancashire ) 5 o o Bilston « 5 0 0 Heywood .. 114
_jSandbach .. 6 19 3 Afosley .. 15 12 e Colne » 3 19 7 Teignmouth .. 4 10 fl Crieff ~ 10 4 Leicester , Astill S 6 0 Holmfirth Z * 6 610 Tillicoultry .. 2 6 10 Bradford ( Wilts ) 1 12 6 Bacup .. 5 0 0 Salford .. 6 0 0 Bury , TJnsworth 2 IS 0 Bristol .. 4 10 0 Birmingham , _A'hton-under . _Geodwin .. 3 0 0 Lyne - 4 14 6 _Kexby „ 019 0 Sutton , near ilansfield , Wood . Keighlev n S 8 6 house .. I IS 9 Spalding " .. 15 0 Hexham m 0 19 0 Isham , Shrires 0 14 0 Braintree .. 2 0 0 Yarmouth ., 5 0 0 Huddersfield .. 5 0 0 Xxeter .. 2 12 Bradford „ 6 17 0 Limehouse _, B . H . 2 10 6 B Longbottotn .. 0 5 0 Aberdeen .. 26 7 2 Charles Connor 0 6 6 Chester .. 13 6 Robt Clark .. 0 5 0 City .. 5 15 4 Wm Baillie .. 0 0 6 _TTedne'bury .. 5 19 S John Key .. 0 7 6
Smnej Row „ 17 0 George Martin .. 0 4 0 Holme , Kelly _« 2 7 8 Wm Baillie .. 0 1 4 Hammersmith 0 17 0 Wm Borrett .. 6 9 d Sheffield .. 8 0 0 WO White .. 0 8 0 Boston .. 0 15 0 Joseph Vipond .. 0 2 6 Middleton ¦• 4 15 O Joseph Rain ., O 2 G Cravford .. 1 18 7 James Ashton ., 0 16 HasVell .. 0 8 0 Wm Pierce .. 8 2 0 _Oswaldtwistle .. 7 0 0 Geo Randall ., 0 10 0 CeRtral Rossendale 4 S 0 Geo Randall M 0 10 0 Cassop .. 2 14 0 Geo Bishop .. o 1 t Walsall .. 811 0 Andrew Wilson 0 8 0 Westminster _ 1 12 7 "Wm Wall .. 0 16 Brighton , Arti- James _M'Lean 0 2 0
choke .. 6 2 0 Thomas Towe'l 10 0 Sir Walter Scott 0 6 6 James D . Thomas 0 2 6 Hvde .. 15 0 0 William Brvson 0 3 0 Halifax .. 5 IS 0 Thos Collins .. 0 4 e Totness .. 1 ll S J M Friend .. 0 2 8 Aberdeen .. 1 19 3 John B Ford .. 1 0 0 Coventry _« S 0 0 Wm Long _„ 0 3 0 ThosBiemner ., 0 10 James Canteld ,, 0 10 o CEC ? . 0 10 0 TV P SichoUs .. 050 Robt Crow _„ 0 2 0 AnnSicholls ,. 9 2 6 "Wm Crow .. 0 2 0 John Chislett „ 0 2 6 Vim Thatcher „ 0 10 Josesh Armstrong 0 2 0 Thos Martin .. 0 6 0 Mary Crookshani 0 2 o John Stephensoa 0 16 Charlotte Parker 0 2 6 Thos Devonport 0 7 6 £ 15 t 15 18 BXPEKS 3 FUND . ———' City .. 0 18 6 Leicester , Astill 2 0 0 _KottinshaiB , Sweet 10 0 _Till-coultry .. 0 7 11 _TTedneibnry ., 16 6 Bury , TJnsworth . Oil _Sfcinry Row M 0 9 0 Birmingham , Kidderminster .. I 1 0 Goodwin » . 0 5 0 Sheffield .. 2 0 0 Mansfield , Wood-Boston .. 0 10 house . .. 0 3 0 _Kiddleton .. 6 5 0 Oldham - .. O 12 o Bnsbv .. 010 0 Stonej Stratford 4 15 0 Central _Rotsendala 012 0 Rochdale ,. 13 0 Cassop , Transfer 8 10 Camberwell .. 0 6 0 Walsall M 0 1 0 South Shields .. 0 5 0 Brighton , Arti- Glasgow .. 8 3 0 choke •! 016 6 Wakefield .. o 6 o Halifax ,. 2 17 0 _Cheltenham _~ 0 12 9 _Totness ~ 0 15 0 Bath _~ 0 4 0 Aberdeen .. 0 6 5 Colne , Tomlinson 0 10 5 Kewport , Saloo 8 8 0 Holmfirth „ 0 . Manchester ~ .. 13 3 Salford _> , l 5 o _Burnlev _, Lawson 0 15 6 Bristol .. 1 10 0 New Radford .. 0 3 9 Exeter ., 0 8 0 _Kertingham , Sweet 0 li 0 _Limebonse , B H 0 4 6 _Yeorii .. 0 2 0 Chester .. 0 0 9 Xvestoa .. O 11 O Joha Baldwin .. 0 2 0 Hull .. 0 12 0 Wm Wall .. 0 2 0 Heywood .. 018 8 George Jlilnes .. 0 2 8 Mosley .. 8 3 9 Joseph Armstrong 0 16 £ 36 14 5 Total Land Fund ... ... £ 456 16 10 Expense Fund ... ... 36 14 5 Rules ... ... 2 6 0 _MQ 5 17 3 Bank 610 4 9 £ y 06 2 0 NOTICE . Branch Secretaries not having _received return sheets fer the Fifth Section , or monetary return -sheets for the quarter ending December 29 tb , 1847 , Trill notify the same to the Directors thatthey mar be forwarded forthwith . Wk . Dixow . Cb & _tjstotuz * . Doiie , Thos . Clam , ( _Corres . Seo . ) _Paiti ? l £ * GBATH , (? in . . )
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—— _{ .. ; RECBITED AT _BAN . K Lane Snd Sick List Church , near Blackburn 109 0 0 Esse of England lodge , No . 273 of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows .. .. _M „ 30 0 0 Prom Manchester .. .. _ 99 11 0 Total frora Manchester .. 129 ll e The _Averaje Receipts from Manchester during the last seven weeks hare been £ 110 . A Working Han , _Saddleworth .. „ 20 0 0 Orange Society , _Qneenshead , near Halifax „ 20 0 0 _BallArrrrliaryBank „ - .. .. 2 . 0 0
_NOTICE . The _llanager acknowledges the receipt of a rurtter sum of _i' 10 , on account of * the National Co-operathe Benefit Society , ' from Edmund Stallwood , in th » Deposit Department . ' T . Pbice , Manager . _BECEJPTS OP 5 ATI 0 NAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Xeughborough _.. 0 3 0 Hanley _M 0 9 0 Birmingham , per _Ireston M 0 2 10 Goodwm M 1 0 10 _Marylebene •¦ 0 6 0 £ 2 1 S rot _peosicctiox er _bliafoid _hcxdes case . Retford .. o 4 0 Hertbyr .. 0 0 4 Dobson ' s Widow 0 1 10 Dobson ' a Widow 0 3 9 TiliicouSry Branch of Lanu Company 0 3 6 _jgQ 12 5 C . Doyle . Secretarv .
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DErEKCE or its . < j _' caSHOE *« SEAT IS _MILIIXIKT . Mr Featherston- G Julian Harney 0 10 P haugh _„ 0 10 Mary C Harney 0 5 0 ¥ Lane ~ 9 1 0 Berry Edge Na-Lndlow _, per C tional Charter Connor n 0 13 Association _^ O 12 0 Bedford M 0 7 8 liTerpool , a Pew Clifford _n 0 4 3 Friends _» 0 3 0 3 Irvine _M 0 2 0 Liverpool .. 3 8 0 Cheltenham „ 5 0 0 Mr Whiteley .. 0 0 6 Bath .. 3 5 0 Ur Gardiner „ 0 0 6 John Addison » 0 2 6 A Few Journ _^ _- . Senry Pashley 0 10 men Hatters , JPashley .. 0 1 6 per J Foster .. 0 3 0 Ann Pashley .. 0 0 6 W J R Betts _« 0 2 6 J . Ward .. 0 19 Haworfh _« 0 8 6 Geo Ward _„ 0 10 Lincoln , per Budd 110 JHardcaBtle .. 0 8 « Mr Christie .. 0 2 6 JFassley .. 0-0 6 Sutton , sear
T Beveri-j „ o 0 « Keighley .. 1 0 S JDennison ,. 0 10 _Wigtdn .. 0 S 0 S Hoison _„ 9 1 O R Redman - 0 10 WmCoatts „ 0 0 6 J Ham - O 1 _^ O Wm Chatwia „ 0 1 0 J Willis - X c WmDoodey _„ 0 0 6 J Gane m 0 8 6 3 StoweU _^ 0 1 0 W Coombs m 0 I 0 Haswell _- 0 10 0 S Pinkard u 0 0 6 - _rTSnaker _~ 0 0 6 JJame — 8 0 6 AC ~ 0 5 0 J Edmunds .. 0 Q _« H Harding .. 0 0 6 Wakefield Land Walter Thome 0 I 6 Members .. 1 14 6 Thrislington _« 0 4 4 TwoOssettChar-J Webster _ 0 16 tists .. 0 2 6
WColatn 0 5 9 Mr _Mornson , _Oswaldtwiitle _« 5 0 0 Dundee - 010 0 Witham .. 0 10 _Salfori , per S J S Clark M 0 1 Thornley .. 0 5 3 W Place - 0 i a J Foulkes , Wel"Witney _~ 0 6 1 _linetOH <> 0 16 _-jyp _„ 010 HSM .. 909 SL Waller .. 9 18 Holmfirth .. 10 0 P Collit ~ 0 0 6 J Ford , Limehouie 0 2 8 JHorley .. 0 18 R Eagle , ditto 0 2 0 Wm Barker _„ O 1 _F Dench , ditto 8 2 6 A Few OEca J Squires , ditto 0 2 0
Members ., 0 10 0 H Squires , ditto 8 2 Hull .. 19 9 R Lamb , ditto o 1 _° Hr D Maloaey " .. C 10 S T Griffiths , ditto 0 1 0 A Ultra Tory .. 6 10 T Falconer , ditto 0 10 _Walsali .. 1 15 6 Mr Stephenson , W Jermyn .. 0 0 6 ditto .. 0 10 Hanley M 0 17 0 Witham .. 0 6 0 Lowmill M 076 Carron , per Leslie 1110 Egremont ., 0 4 9 Falkirk _„ 0 3 5 _Stratford-on-Aron , Torquay .. 0 7 8 Coombs .. 0 4 6 Nottingham » 5 0 0 Lev . Wm Lin- Stratford •¦ 0 9 0
wood , Mansfield 0 2 6 Duffield .. 0 ie Shipley .. 0 0 7 Huddersfield » 0 9 4 A Few FrieBe * s 0 1 S Leigh - 0 14 0 Belper , Wheatley 15 o Crowland „ o 6 a Ditto , Gregory 013 J Stereos „ 0 2 $
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Lover of Fair-play 0 16 Thomas Dale .. o 1 Three Friends , Henry Bedford ,. 0 1 ® Portsea .. 0 16 James Parke „ 0 1 0 A Few Working Wm Taylor „ 0 0 6 men , Halshall- S Wardle „ o 1 0 moor .. 0 . 4 0 T Buckley „ o 1 0 Chorley .. 0 9 0 Wm Turner .. o 1 0 Tillicoultry Land J Foxley „ 0 10 Company .. 16 9 J Foxley „ o l 9 Merthyr , Morgan 19 0 Mrs Foxley „ n n 6 Isham _flortflis .. 0 10 8 J Wardle ,. o 1 0 Stalybridge -. 017 0 R Wardle „ 0 0 6 Dttto , per Lawson 0 8 0 F Holdsworth .. o 1 fl Ely > . 0 8 0 D , Bedford .. 0 10 Bramhope ~ 0 7 0 D Burrows „ o 1 0 Ditto , per Smyth 0 10 0 Tillicoultry .. 0 10 0 Bradferd Char- Wm Scrimgeor 0 0 6 tist and Land B Scrimgeor .. 0 0 6 Company .. 0 18 0 T Scrimgeor .. 0 0 6 Clitheroe .. 2 o 0 T Sewell „ 0 0 6 Teignmouth .. 0 10 0 SN L , Frome 0 2 6 Texby .. 0 9 0 Newport , Salop 0 2 6 Messrs Cro 3 sley _* s a Friend , Chep-Halifax 2 2 3
Men , stow .. 0 5 8 Land Members , a Friend , Lime . Halifax .. 1 10 9 house „ 0 10 Chartists of Halifax 1 7 0 It Ritchie „ 0 10 John Sands .. 0 6 9 A Moore „ 0 0 6 A Few Friends T Franklin .. 0 0 8 at Gorton and J Barnard m 0 0 6 Openshaw .. 0 10 1 RBranic .. 0 0 C Manchester .. 0 10 2 J G Spiers .. 0 0 6 Campsie .. 3 2 9 G Hayan - 002 T M .. 0 I 0 J Cain ., 0 _« 3 Alnwick .. 2 9 3 S Bowitt .. o o 2 Wingate Grange 0 5 6 J Leech .. 0 1 0 Leith .. 0 18 Jonas Smith , Stoney Stratford 0 7 0 Norwich .. 0 6 6 A Few Friends 0 2 0 E Clayton , _Hud-Tunbridf-e .-. 0 2 5 dersfield .. 0 5 0 Richard Rourke 0 1 0 G Brook , ditto 0 10 Oxford .. 2 0 0 G C Oxen .. 0 10 Chepstow ' ., 0 9 6 MrBenn .. 0 10 _WUravfield .. 0 2 6 MrsBrayfield .. 0 2 6 £ ; t 13 fi _Mk O'Co . vkob _' s Seat . — Errata . "—R . Fox last week ought to have been B . Fox . Several 8 inall sums acknowledged as Manchester ought to have been Norwich , Gs was excluded from the list of last week .
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Huddeksfikld.—At A General Meeting Of Th...
Huddeksfikld . —At a general meeting of the raembera of the Land Company in this district ' at Ibbeson ' s Temperance Hause , Mr John _Marsland in the chair , it was resolved : — ' That a levy of not less than sixpence be laid on each member in thia district towards thedefenceof Mr O'Connor's seat in Parliament , to be paid immediately to the treasurer , or to those appointed to collect the same . ' 'Thattbis meeting having considered the petition proposed to be presented to Parliament on the Land Question , are of opinion that the clause wherein it is proposed to hand over the management ot the Company to
Government nominees , is decidedly objectionable , and we cannot consent to resign the power we now possess into the hands of an irresponsible government . ' ' That rules should be drawn up for approval , for forming an auxiliary to the Land and Labour Bank . ' The Hedge End branch ofthe Land Company held a general meeting of the members at T . _Norris's , _tf hen the books were audited and found correct , and the following officers elected : —Richard Uulbert . secretary ; Richard Croker Hulbert , treasurer ; Robert Jurd , scratineer ; James Hasler aBd William Bov 8 , auditors .
Uaiiilto . v . —After three nights' discnssion it has been decided by a . majority of two that the petition reoommended by Feargas O'Connor , Esq ., MP ., be adopted , with the exception of that part of it which hands over the property of tbe Company to trustees appointed by government . A subscription has been opened to defend Mr O'Connor ' s seat in Parliament . Lbamisgtos—At a meeting of the members of this branch the National Land Petition wag unanimously adopted . Petition sheets will lay for signatures at the following places : —Mr Green ' s
newsagent , Winsor-street ; Mr Stiffs , Temperance Hotel , Clemens-street ; Mr Allen ' s . grocer _. fAlthorp-street ; and at the usual meetiDgs , No . 2 , _Kenilfforth-street , every Monday _evenins-MiaiHTR Tidvil , Emueit Brigade . —At a quart terly meeting of this branch it was resolved : — ' Thaa delegate meeting ; be holden at Cardiff , to consider the utility of appointing a Welsh lecturer to agitate and get signatures to the National _petition ; the meeting to be the first Sunday in March , and that each branch send a delegate . ' Communications to be sent to Thomas Price Powell , _On-the-steps , back Of tbe Star , Merthyr Tydvil .
Gloucester . —This branch holds its weekly meetings at the house of Mr Bailey , taUor , Old Spa House , Eastgate . Worsbrocch Couuos . —At the usual weekly meet _, ing the following resolution was unanimously adopted ,: — ' That we are ef opinion that tbe directors ought to open a new Company without delay . ' It was alf o resolved : — ' That a general meeting of the members shall take place on Sunday evening next , February 20 th . ' Alta . —At the weekly meeting of the members of this branch the following officers were elected : — Committee—Charles Thompson , Thomas Malcolm , Robert Hempseed ; Jame 3 Marshall , president ; William Fair , _tecretary ; William Archibald reelected treasurer ; John Wallace , scrutineer ; William BishoD and Peter Robertson , auditors . After which £ 1 " wa 3 voted out of our lecal fund , and a subscription was commenced in aid of the defence of Mr O'Connor ' s seat in Parliament .
_Manchester . —The monthly meeting of the Manchester branch of the National Land Company was held in the People ' s Institute , on the 13 th instant . Mr Gibson in the chair . The minutes of the previous meeting were confirmed , and the balance sheets of the last month past . Mr Alcock read Mr O'Connor ' s letter to the members ot the National Land Company in last week ' B Star ; after which Mr T . Rankin proposed the following resolution , viz . : — ' That this meeting request , for the sake of a ptoper understanding , that the delegates of the late Conference give their opinion upon the resolution of Mr Grassby—whether that resolution authorised the directors to open another Land Company . ' Mr T . Rankin , in supporting the above resolution , strongly denied that the Conference gave the directors any instructions to open another Land Company . Messrs Sutton and Foster followed in the same line of argument . Mr Whittaker moved the following
amendment : — ' That we , the members of the Manchester branch of the National Land Company , hearing the statements of our delegates , that there was no resolution passed at the Land Conference at Lowbands , justifyihg the directors opening another Land Company , came to what wenow believe to be a premature resolation ; having since received the report of the Conference , ' we are now convinced that the resolution of Mr Grassby ' s fully justified the directoro in opening another Company . ' Mr Whittaker based his arguments upon the report , as it appeared in the Star , on the 28 lh of August , 1817 . Mr Henry Nuttall _Eecocded the amendment , and followed the same arguments . Messrs O'Hea and Burley supported the amendment . A very warm discussion ensued , which lasted frem ten in the morning till two in the afternoon , when the amendment was carried by a majority of five , the numbers being _eighty-eigbt for the amendment , and eighty-three for the original motioB . . . .
_ _Hahvesskith . —At a meeting , held at ths district office , 2 , Little Vale-place , on Sunday morning , February 13 th , the secretary ( Mr Stallwood ) reported progress to the depositors in the National Land and Labonr Bank , and handed in the scrip . Several new depositors were added to the numbersand additional sums were added to the Bank , th O'Connor seat defence , the Tartan club , « Sso . _AtocnESTBB . —In consequence of __ Mr William Foster ' s time being wholly occupied with the business of the National Land Company—the Manchester district comprising 3 , 678 members—and Mr David Byre , of 15 , Buckley-street , Rochdale-read , having volunteered his services , and , at the request of the Land members , is the duly authorised agent for the Manchester district of the National Co-operative Benefit Society , and will give any information and enrol members at his residence , from seven until ten o ' clock every evening , and on Sunday evenings at the Land officePeople ' s Institute .
, Limehouse Mr J . Barnard , of the Brunswick Hall , _Ropemaker's-fields , will give information and enrol members for the Charter Association , Fraternal Democrats , National Land Company , and National Benefit Society . Greenwich asd Deptford . —Chartist meetingroOB , 39 , Butcher-row , Deptford . Mr Sweetlove in the chair . Mr Howe-mare a very instructive address . Mr Davis kindly _oifi-red hia services to lecture on Sunday evening , the 27 th instant , Subject : 'Prejudice and Reform . ' The working men ef Greenwich , Deptford , Woolwich , and _Lewieham , are respeetfallyiBformed that the meeiiDgs ofthe members efthe Co-operative Benefit Society are held at the _housa of Mr Morgan , 89 . Butcher-row , Deptford .
To the Lasd Members . —This branch ( Cheddington Bucks ) of the National Land Company , numbers about fifty members , the greatest part are agricultural labourers , earning about seven or eight sailings per week , and some of them are out of work and _therefore can do" but little towards helping a fellow member in distress . Brethren , I always feel great reluctance in appealing te my fellow-workmen , knowing that by _ferthe greatest part of them have as much as they caH do to keep body and soul together ; but , brethren , I feel I should not bs doing my duty towards the fatherless and widow , were J not to make an exertion to get a small trifle , tor a poor idiot boy , and a weepiDg widow , who on bunday had a husband , and the boy , a father in good health and anxiously waiting for the Uma when he expected to be located on his two acres of land but now their hopes are gone . The psor man had _aenrived himself of almost necessaries to pay up me dean in
tWO Shares : he ' , was well-taken ill-and fifteen minutes . The poor boy and _widwr _seB noth . ing but starvation or the bastile before them , aa JW their dependence was oa the poor man . , _^ _" * fo a ;; honest and industrious man ; should any brother leei _diiBosed to _relieye the BufferiBga of tlw fatherless
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and widow , subscriptions in postage-stamps or otherwise will be received by the branch secretary , Johs Andrews , Cheddington , near Ivinghoe , Bucks . Manchester . —First Anniversary Tea Party of the Manchester branch ot the Land Company . On Monday evening , February 7 th , about 400 of the members and their wives sat down to tea in the People ' s Institute , Heyrod-street . Ample justice having been dope to an excellent tea , provided by our good friend Mr Jonathan Saxon , tho band played some enlivening airs , and the tables having been cleared , the president of the branch was called to the chair , and opened the meeting in a truly eloquent address . He _concluded by calling upon Mr Edward Clarke , to speak to the first _sentiment , 'The People , the only pewer whose will can be
morally binding ; may their sovereignty be speedily established and universally recognised as the legitimate basis oi equitable government . ' Mr Clark ' s speech was warmly applauded . The next was' The Charter ; may an enlightened community appreciating tho value of its principles , devote their untiring energies to its support , until it is numbered among the statutes of this realm . ' Spoken to by Mr Dan . Donovan , in his usually plain and straightforward style , in which he showed the progress of Chartism in the district , and its superiority over the other political tinkerings of the day . Mr Taylor ef Openshaw _^ also spoke to the sentiment . Mr J . Alcock , in a truly practical speech , spoke to' The Land Company and Labour Bank ; may they continue to act unitedly until they finally aecomp ish ,
through the general support of the working clas _^ _ea _, their emancipation from the iron grasp of tbe oppressors . ' Mr Rankin also spoke and Baid , from the carrying out of this sentiment , with the Charter to protect both , must the working men expect relief . The Chairman called on Mr E . Birley to move ' a vote of thanks to the founder , proprietor , and _conductsr . of the Northern Star ; ' the speaker eulogised Mr O'Connor , and said he visited him in his prison cell at York , but yet found him the same as he had found him elsewhere , cheerful and hopeful-hearted , looking forward to the final triumph of liberty and equality throughout the land ; he concluded by calling on the people to rally around their well tried chieftain . —Mr J . O'Hea in seconding this vote of thanks , spoke in eloquent terms of the
enthusiasm of Julian Harney , who had come out of the fire of persecution unscathed and un . « ubdued . Mr O'Hea held up to the approval of theaudience _. _tlie foresight of Mr O'Connor , iu establishing the Northern Star te guide democracy to the goal of freedom . "Without it Churtiam could not have existed , ne then earnestly asked the members to support their leader , for he well remembered , that although Mr O'Connor was honestly elected for Cork , yet the sham patriots on the parliamentary committee contrived to oust him to the mortification of the people . The motion was carried most enthu _siastieally . The wheat _dibbling machine was then exhibited by its inventor , Mr Conway , who having put on his clogs with rollers attached to the sides to level the seil through whieh the machine passed ,
performed to the delight of the audience as much work in about a minute , as two men , cheered on to their work , did in seven minutes and a half . It haa given great satisfaction here , and we strenuously recommend ta the directors the necessity of securing it to the Company by patent . Tho vocal entertainments then commenced , by Mr John Sutton singing 'May O'Connor live for ever , ' > hich was rapturously encored . A comic song , by Mr James , showing tbe dear delights of glory , which was followed by Mr Alcock reciting the 'Chieftain , ' from Henry Gracchus . 'Tell's speech of Liberty , ' by Mr Rankin . ' Song , ' Peace of the Valley , ' by Mr
O'Hea . The hall was then cleared for dancing , after which Mr James gave ub in a truly comic style ' The Cobler . ' Then dancing , and a comic song by Mr Sutton , after whieh a young lady recited a very beautiful piece , the Company returning to the enjoyment of the ' light fantastic toe' UDtil an early hour , when tbe _procedings terminated by singing * Hail , Noble O'Connor , ' all evidently pleased at this drawing together of human hearts , during which not a single discordant look , word , or _ action escaped , each praying inwardly that they might live to see many convivial reunions in their cottage homes , on tbe promised Land . J . O'H .
Brighton . —At the weekly meeting of the Land Company , held at the Artichoke Inn , Mr Percer in the Chairf the following resolution , proposed by Mr Giles , and seconded by Mr Mockford , was unanimously adopted : —' That it is the opinion of this meeting , the National Land Company was established for the benefit of every _isdustrieus working man , and m consider it but just and right that tbe present directors should possess the power to establish a new Company . ' We have many of the working classes here waiting to join our glorious Land movement , and trust tbat tbe directors will not be deterred in carrying it out by any factious opposition .
Nottingham . —At the usual weekly meeting ef the Land members , held at the Robin Hood , in Hockley , on Sunday _evening _' _last , Mr Fletcher is the oliair , the following resolntion was proposed by J . Skerritt , seconded by C . Roberts , and unanimously carried : — ' We , the members of the National _^ Land Company in the Nottingham distriot , hail with satisfaction , the announcement of the directors of their intention to commence another Land Company , thereby enabling a very large portion of the workinp classes of this country _] to become independent labourers , instead of being compelled , as at present , to work at slave labour , who otherwise wonld be exeluded from _those benefits in conaequence ol the present Company being closed . We therefore pledge ourselves to assist those gentleman in the above undertaking to the utmost of our power . '
LiVERrooL . —A quarterly meeting of this branch took place at the rooms , Rose-place , on Thursday Feb . 10 th . Mr ' _. Black in the chair . Itwas resolved : — ' That a contingent fund be established in tbis locality , and that a levy of Is . per member be made for sHch purposes ; and , should any member refuse to pay the same , he or she shall not be returned good to the ballot for the future , until such be paid . ' — ' That £ 3 . be sent on behalf of Mr O'Connor , in defence of bis seat in the _Commons'bouBe of Parliament . '— 'That this meeting be adjourned to Fridaj _, the 25 th of February , at _hali-paat seven o ' elock in the evening .
Forthcoming Meetings. Manchester.— A Spe...
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS . Manchester . — A special general meeting of the shareholders of the People's Institute , will be held in the large hall , on Sunday next , February 20 th , on business of importance . Chair to be taken at two o ' clock . The balloted members of Manchester , Stockport , Droylesden , Ashton , _Stallybridge , Mottram , and Oldham , will meet at Mr _Whitakers , on Sunday next , at tea o ' elock in the morning . Birmingham , Ship Inn . —The members are requested to attend on Sunday evening , at 7 o ' clock , for the purpose of electing officers for the next six months . Dukinfield . —A general meeting of the members of this branch , will take place on Sunday evening next , at two o'clock in the afterneoHi Bubt . —The members of this branch are requested to meet in future in the Little-room , in Clarkestreeton Sunday nights at six o'clock .
, _Halifax —The members of the National Land Company are requested to attend a meeting in the Largeroom , Bull Close-lane , on Sunday , Feb . 20 th , at two o ' clock . Nottingham . —The next meeting efthe Land members will be held at tbe Britannia , Beek-street , on Sunday evening at seven o ' clock . Bbthnal Green . —A discussion will take place on Sunday night , at the Sir Walter Scott , _Cambridgeyoad , near the Mile-end-gate , on the propriety of _opening a New Company . _UfWHi-mNQTON asd Cat . —A general meeting of the Land members will be field on Sunday erentag , at six o ' clock , on important business . A general meeti _ng of the Chartists will be held on Sunday _evening at eight o ' clock , to re-organise the movement in the Tower Hamlets .
, , A general meeting ef the members of the Co operative Society will be held on Monday evening February 21 st , at eight o ' clock precisely . Limehouse , Brunswick Hall . —The members and friend 9 of thia branch are requested to attend a general meeting on Monday evening next , at eight o ' clock , to form a money club for the purpose ot assisting the Land and Labour Bank , and to consider the best means of agitating this locality for the _Peonle _' _s Charter . BEKRV . EDOE . ~ The next meeting will be held on Sunday , Feb . 20 th , at the house of Mr James Reads , at two o ' clock in the afternoon . Norwich . —A special meeting of this branch will be held on Monday evening , Feb . 28 th , at seven o ' clock , at their rooms , St , Edmund ' s . the
DrM'Douall ' s Route . — Edinburgh and Leith , week beginning Monday , February 21 st ; Aberdeen and neighbourhood , the week beginning Monday , February 27 th ; Dundee and neighbourhood , theweeK beginning Monday , March 5 th . The secretaries in these respective towns must be corresponded with by parties requiring Dr _M'Douall ' s services , as they will arrange his route towards Glasgow . Bolton—Mr Warden will lecture on Tuesday evening next . Tower Hami , et _3 . —A public meeting will take place at Mr Smith ' s , Weavers Arms _, Lower Welham Street , Mile End , New Town , on Sunday evening , February 20 th , when a lecture will be delivered by Mr Philip M'Grath , one ofthe directors of the Land Company , on the principles contained in the people s Charter and the Land . Chair to be taken at hall past seven o'clock .
Martlebonk . —An adjourned discussion will take place on Sunday evening , Feb . 20 , at the Coach Painters' Arrai , Circus-street , New-road , subject : ' The best means to gain tbe Charter . ' To commence at seven o'clock . Mr Samuel Kydd will deliver lectures as follows : —Bradford . Sunday 20 th ; Leeds , Tuesday 22 nd ; Sheffield , Wednesday 23 rd ; Wakefield , Thursday 24 th ; and Doncaster , Friday 2 _ffth , Leeds . —Mr George White will deliver a lect ure to-morrow evening , at half-past six , in the back rcomBasaar .
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' Cloth * it in words . ' _—Shellet , Leiisr VI , _thisKtS _^ _""?' _? _^ _? ropose to consider in o con Se _nL h _? _- the _pollcy bywhic _" _* ae » k we have hftw „ _S 8 t , nto ? much more fu » y _&™ to _nrodun _^ _- _^" u ° Ur la 8 t ' _endeavoured 5 _SSt i _-V ° V ° ning upon the folly Andifvo _^ w _^ r _" _^ Under certain _droumtancei . £ 5 « r «« 7 _»» _JWJ turn your attention to the latter part of our last letter , you will read the following remarks relative to an offer ofa reduction in Se ? - ' The very offer of the employer is an evidencelof wo things ; either that he has more 0 Tand
_gooYa _„ than he can dispose of , or that he knows , if his men urn out or strike , that there are _plenty- of starSS labourers ready to turn in and take tbeir _phS " ' Now we boldly assert this to be the _rule-olbourse there are exceptions , but they aro rare-nevcvthele _^ s 7 Lt T . hatti - ? 1 e are some employers who at tempt reductions without the reasons off « red above whenever that is done there is not the least danger ' of their succeeding ; this I think will be _clew-Iy seen tiUARDiAN - A month since notice was given in the rn n ? th h P 0 U ° n _^ _'i _* ° *> e town ( Blackburn ) , that J _™ _Whence a reduction would be made o ? ten per cent , on _, the wages of the bands . The _onerativeS neia rious
va meetings . en the subject during the month to express their feelings and purpose with regard to tho threatened reduction . It camclnto operation on Friday , when the hands turned out at _Klfr _Winston Brothers and Co Messrs W . Eccles and Co ., Messrs Livesey and _Rodgett , and Mr Joseph Eco . es . At Lower Danven , the hands haye been out for a fortnight , tbe notice given there having expired . The hands have expressed a desire it is said , to return to their work ; but Messrs Eccles are rather disposed to keep their mil s closed longer yet . ' Now , I shall leave you t 0 reflect upon this , which I give as the rule by while a reduction in _wages ' , is determined against , which I say again and again , tbat we can do nothing by the policy of _turn-outs to counteract it ; and , therefore so long as their is . a redundancy of labour in the ' niarket _, so long must the reciuction in the nrieo of
labour continue . And here yru will observe the great difference in the condition ofthe capiialist and the labourer . The first being wealthy , is in _possession of the means to sustain himself independent of labour ; but the labourer is in possession of nothing , he , therefore , is forced by the cravings of hunger to work just for what ho can get , consequently the choice of the matter has nothing to do with it . And I venture to assert that were it possible , if by some unforeseen circumstances the demand for labour should increase far beyond tho supply , and if the unions feeling that it was how tbeir turn , ventured to enforce the right of selling their labour in the best market , and lor thnt pni " pose were to combine , and through combination
were to effect the object , it would not be lon » before both the men of capital and the political economists , with the government to boot , and the corrupt Whig press , would all join in one loud cry against the tvranny of trades unions ; and every means within their power ( and they are all-sufficient ) would soon be brought to bear upon our devoted beads , for the purpose of doing legally the very thing which _toev say , they bave no right . to do , when we are too weak to offer any opposition to the cruel and heartless destruction of human life , continually in operation amongst us throii » li that social and political injustice which bad it origin in force , and which is sunported and con tinued through the most abominable fraud that can po ? sibly be conceived ; and if you will just mark the cunning of the government ( and never forget that that government represents only the interests
of our oppressors ) , you will see with what design and care the abolition ot the combination laws was effected . From the first notice of combinations anion- the working orders in the year 1648—the 2 nd and 3 rd Edward 6 th , c lo—up to tho year 1824 , the terrible struggle wbich labour made to sustain itself , is evident from the very many acts of parliament passed during near three hundred years ; ay , my brothersi we could tell of _aorae , nnd not a few , of the most heartless cases of cruelty practised towards our order _during this time , when every thing in the shape of union was entirely prohibited by law . And we could speak of a moral courage on the part oftho sons of lahnut _' , which would have shamed any but a set of the vilest scoundrels that ever disgraced a country , but to do this would require a history of trade unions , ( and you shall have it yet ) rather than a series of letters to unionists .
I ask you now , then , just to look atthe difference in the circumstances , and you will find tbat when manual labour was the only means Which capital could obtain for its purpose _. Hhat being the only productive engine of the country , all union for the protection of wages was made an offence against tho law , although no legislative power conld ever effect our annihilation—for men will ever combine to resist oppression—therefore , tbeir efforts to crush ub were of no avail ;' they incarcerated , transported , fined , and hung hundreds of unionists , but still we survived in spite of ihem , and nothing that they could do was ever half so effectual in putting us down as that change in the social condition of the w ' orking man which soon began to manifest itself after the the introduction of mechanical power , in opposition to the means which existed previously .
1 will just give _ ynti one quotation from the evidence of ' Combinations on Trades , ' taken by a committee of the House of Commons , in tho year 1824 , tho year , recollect , _thtta & w repealed the combination laws ; and you will see that our _pnsition ( wliich had been even then for SO years gradually declining ) wa 3 _prosperous nnd encouraging in comparison to what it has since been ; look at the evidence given in that house , and then see ifourconditionwas such that ' up to the year 1824 , each trade in London bad its organisation , and the tradeB of Glasgow , Bolton , and Manchester—several of which had long been rich and powerful—the hatters , Liverpool shipwrights , tailors , and others , who differ in no respects from the societies now in existence . '
And now tell me why the combination laws were repealed ? What had been the results of mechanical invention up to 1824 ? Do we not know that the labour of a mere infant could , and was , made the means of producing more through the aid of steam , than a thousand men could produce by their joint exertions without it _; which threw thousands , who were previously in full employment , upon the world , to compete for life by any means within their power ; and that this brindne continually of fresh _labourjnto other trades , gradually rendered them weak and ineffective . * It is , in fact , the constant aim and tendency of machinery to supersede human labour altogether or to diminish its cost by substituting tbe industry of women and children for that of men or trained
artisans . ' From the date , then , of 1704 , with the invention Ofthe spinning jenny by Hargreaves , followed by Ark _vright , in the year 1769 , we may fairly consider as the commencement of that phase , which is so easily distinguished in the character of tbe British labourer of the present day . I will now dive vou a few quotations , in order that you may see clearly theosaot relation in which we stand at the present time . Potter says , in his statistics ofthe British empire , page 205 , vol . 1 ., that there was _manufactured in tho year 1797 , 23 , 000 . 000 lbs . of cotton . From that year up to 1841 , which was forty-four years , the trade of the country had so increased , that in that year there was manufactured 523 , 000 , 0001 _bs , or twenty-three times as much as in the year
1797-Now , just observe . ' 1 he average wages paid to adult l abourers in 1797 , ( says Mr John Fielden ) , was 26 s . 8 d . l > er week ; in 1841 it had decreased to an average of 33 . 61 ., ' and , as Scrope justly _obsorves , ' _GreiTt Britain offers no choice to the labourer but starvation or the workhouse , because wages are by excessive competition reduced below the level of comfort . ' Speaking of mechanical power , Mr Gorden , an eminent _engineer , says , ' Considered in its application to husbandry , the hoe , the pickaxe , the sc < the , the sickle , every implement of rural toil which ministers to his necessities , are produced by _Bteatr _, Steam bruises the oil cake which feeds the farmer ' s cattle ; moulds the ploughshare which overturns his fields : forms the _sheari which shear his
flock , and cards , spins , and weaves his produce . Applied to architecture , we find the steam-engine everywhere at work . Stone is cut by it ; marble polished ; cement ground ; mortar mixed -. floors sawed ; doors planed ; chimney-pieces carved ; lead rolled for roofs , and drawn for gutters ; rails formed ; gratings and bolts forged ; paint ground and mixed : paper made and stained ; worsted dyed ; carpets wove ; mahogany veneered ; door bricks ornamented ; curtains and furniture made , printed , and measured ; fringes , tassels , bell-ropes , chair-covers , chair-nails , bell-wires , linens , blankets , china , earthenware , pierglass formod ; the drawing-room , dining-room , kitchen , pantry , closets , all—all owe thoir niOBt essential requisites to steam . '
And such has been the progress of invention , that often when we have been within a _bair-breadth of obtaining a victory againBt a reduction , some piece of mechanism has been brought to supersede our labour , and not only have we lost the strike , but our labour ; aad _consequently , tho means by which we were kept alive . In 1832 , a strike took place among the bricklayers' labourers at the Liverpool C'lotom House , wh « na machine was introduced which threw every man completely out of employ . This machine would convey 16 , 000 bricks a day with eight tons of mortar , and get to any part ofthe building . Before this was introduced , twenty men were employed to do it , and with it , two men could do all the work of the twenty . I could , in fact , show you , in a thousand instances , where this has heen the case .
Under present circumstances , then , it appears to me that it ja necessary , beyond all things , that we introduce altogether a different policy into our unions—for not only are we subjected to the terrible alternative of competing with _inanimatepowers , which neither reqaire to eat , drink , nor Bleep , bnt to
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stand _ by and see the wealth of the country accumulate in the coffers of tho great , whilst our order gradually perishes in hopeless misery . And , in order to show you that I am not overdrawing the picture , read the fol lowing facts : —The first which meets us is , that the poor rates of the kingdom have risen , during the progress of mechanical adaptation to processes previously demanding human labour , to the enormous sum of £ 8 , 000 , 000 sterling per amium . Tho second fact is , that a tide of demoralisation has swept over the land , greater than even faucy could possibly conceive . __ A great part of our population have become a Jiving mass of moral pestilence . Completely outlawed—driven from the pale of social protection—without self respect , thought , or hope for the future . The third fact is , that _fram 1812 up to
the prenent time , upwards of 800 , 000 persons have emigrated to America in search of employment . The fourth fact is , that there are two and a half millions ef people in a state of actual pauperism . Th 9 fifth fact is , that there are one million of human beings dependent on hand manufacture , who are totally starving in the midst of the magnificent ediGces housing the ateam-engine , without the slightest hope . And thus might we go on increasing our evidences , but of what avail is it ? Who can remedy the evils ? 'Ay , there ' s the rub . ' Shall we look to the government , as it is now constituted to doit ? If so , we shall look in vain . Shall we ask the man of capital to give up his influence over Labour , and return again to the time when Labour and Capital went hand in hand ? If so , wo ishal )" ask gin vain . Shall we ask the great landholders to take us and ourfamilies upon the same terms that _reftulated Labour with tbe _Saxnns and Normans , and bind ourselves and our children to them and theirs for ever and ever , if they , in return ,
will feed , house , and shelter us ? If so , we shall ask in vain , also . They have learned , too , that free lnbour is eheaper even than cat ' s meat—that human flesh has become a burthen , and they , too , would mock our miseries with the cry of freedom . And thus are we confiued within a magic circle , paralysed in onr physical exertions , without tbe slightest hope for the future through any of the means which at present exist in relation to the economy of Labour . To _Btrike _, or turn out against such odds , is madness , the veiy extreme of folly . We must resort to other means . We must co-operate with our pence , for in that there is a power equal to every evil . But , before this can be done , we must first agree as to the modeof doing it . We _miistBeeic in convictionfeel it in faith—and go to work with an unity of spirit . Each trade must increase its numbers upon the foundation of co-operation . Our surplus hands must be withdrawn as fast as possible from the labour market ; and believe me , my friends , when I say that I know it to be a work which the trade unions of
this country are fully equal too ; and all I ask is , your assistance in the good work—and permit mo to say thatl will , in next week ' s Star , endeavour to ( bv down a plan by wliich we may escape from the social asd political Gomorrah , which is now fast swallowing up so many of the most useful class of our fellow creatures . To you , then , the leaders of the trades , I now address this letter , As you value honour , virtue , truth , and , above all , the welfare and future prosperity ofyour unions , suffer yourselves no longer to bo deluded by a belief in the virtue of strikes , but direct the whole of your energies to the rescue of your order from the destruction which _awaits tbem , if they longer continue to trifle away the time and _menns which even yet remain , waiting only a new application to enable us to effect a thousand times mora than was evei * contemplate : ' , or than can be conceived , by those who rely only upon the present policy of the trades . I am , my brothers , yours , A _TwEKir Years' Unionist . London . Feb . 16 th .
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* Union for the MMim . ' The Central Committee of the above Association met on Monday and following days for the transaction of general business . The correspondence on the whole , has not been of that gloomy aud desponding character that has pervac'od the great mass of correspondence transmitted to this omces within the last few weeks . Still the distress and depression v / ith which the trades have been so long afflicted , continues to an alarming extent , and in many places without any prospect of things changing for the better . '
The strike among the colliers of South Staffordshire may be said to have terminated , but we are sorry to say , they have not heen able to effect much by the strike , as the demand for labour is exceedingly limited , but it is presumed that as spring sets in , and as the favourable aspect of affairs increases , they will be able to obtain , or rather they will be mutual participators in an improving state of trade . Those who remain out , have expressed themselves desirous of effecting an amicable adjustment of so fearful a contention , by suggesting a principle by which their wages may be regulated , and strikes in future obviated , as the following extract will show : —
_Mkxting of _Coiliebi . —On Wednesday a meeting of miners was held at the Lodge Holes , situated between V 7 edne 8 bury and _Darlnston , for the purpose of _considering whether auj means could be devised for coming te an amicable arrangement with their employers . After some discussion a deputation was appointed to wait on the employers , to confer with them , and it possible , make a settlement , according to a series of propositions which were drawn up signed by the committee , and transmitted to us . They in this document , express themselves willing to agree to a suggestion thrown out in our columns , that is , when iron is reduced 10 per cent ., to submit to a reduction of 7 } per cent , in tbeir wages ; and that when iron advances 19 per cent , a rise of 7 i per cent _, should ba given them . The workmen express an opinion , that until some arrangement of this kind is come to , no lasting co-operation between thera
and their employers can take place ; that in the eventof this proposition beingagreed to , there would be no strikes for wages , that during slackness of trade they would be obliged to work short time , _whi"h would hurt neither ; and that the damage which ensues to the machinery , and falls upon the employers , in consequence of its stoppage , would be avoided , Further , they express themselves willing to resume labour at the rate of Is . per pound per ton on the present price of pig iron , namely 3 ' . 6 d . a day , and to rise and fall in the proportions previously named ; or they are willing to agree to a settled rate of wages . In conclusion , they arc anxious—not to extract money from their employers for less than it is worth—but to have a fair price for their labour , and to work harmoniously in future . These propositions have , we understand , been placed in the hands of several of the masters .
The following reports have been received from agents and members of the Central Committee : — To the Gentlemen ofthe Central Committee of the National Association of United Trades . Gentlemen , —It is with heartfelt pleasure I have toreoordthe Fentiiaents of the District Committee ofthe associated trades of Bristol , in reference to Mr Humphries ! the late missionary to this city and neighbourhood , whose urbanity and unflinching principle in the cause of justice , has won him the esteem of all who heard bim explain his subject and witnessed his impartial proceedings . Gentlemen , Mr Humphries' visit to this city will long bo
remembered by the trades as the seeds he has sown p reEent a prospect of ripening into maturity , and of bearing good fruit , _essentially to the benefits ofthe Association . Undor these feelings , the Distriot Committee , and the trades united , feel themselves called upon thus publicly to bear testimony to hia merit ? , and to acknowledge their thanks to the Central Committee , for favouring them ( the trades ) with _| the services of so able an advocate of the people ' s rights _. Signed on behalf of the District Committee , William _Cooulan , District Secrotary . Bristol . Feb . 10 : b .
Another Act of _Oppression . —A case of base oppression occurred on the 28 th of January , at Davey Lever in Lancashire , under the following _circumstances : —During the depression in trade , ' . the miners in conjunction with many other trades , were compelled to ' submit to a general reduction . Some of the masters , however , thought it the best policy , instead of throwing the entire burden upon the shoulders of the poor workmen , to take part upon themselveB , and consequently withdrew one half of the reduction ; the men in question seeing this , appointed a deputation to wait upon their employer , to see if they could not induce him to follow the same example , hut he turned round upon them with the
utmost consequence , like some austere and vindictive autocrat ; he treated them with _^ the greatest indignity , and at once discharged them , for no other purpose than asking for a small portion of that | whicli had been so basely purloined from them . Thus it is , that if a poor workman only dares to see his employer , and to ask tor a remnant of his rights ]; if he only does this , he must be discharged , victimised , branded as a union man , and he literally starved to death . This was the object—this was the intention—but vre are happy to say , the base and cruel intention of thia tyrant has been frustrated , as two of the men have obtained employment , and the others the Central Committee have agreed to support .
On Wednesday , the 9 th inst ., Mr Humphries attended a public meeting , held at Mr Tucker ' s , Theatre Tavern , Bath . The meeting was not a numerous one , but an excellent feeling in favour of the Association was created . A number of ques-
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tions were asked the lecturer , which were _sa'isfaetorilv answered . Scotland , February 1 st . —Mr Claughan attended a meeting of the lath sp litters of Fisher-row . in reference to an application to the Central Committee for support _. On 'J hursday evening he attended a meeting of the skinners of Edinburgh , at Cannon Mills , when an excellent spirit was manifested towards fhe Association . On Saturday , the 5 th , Mr C . attended the Lanark nailmakers , in reference to a threatened reduction .
On Tuesday , the Sth , Mr C . attended a large meeting of the coopers of Glasgow , which was held in the Nelson-street Chapel , and wliich he addressed at great length , on the duty of the trades towards the Association . At the close of the address , the following resolution was unanimously carried : — ' That we , the journeymen coopers of Glasgow , consider that the National Association of United Trades , as at present constituted , is the onlv means
by which the working classes of this country may expect to gain what , in justice , they deserve , viz . ' A fair day's wage for a fair day ' s work . ' This being our conviction , not only from what wc have heard to-night , but from eight months' experience , we , therefore , pledge ourselves not only to continue members , but also to do all in our power to convince our fellow workmen to join the same ; and not to cease our exertions till we have all the producing classes pursuing the same straightforward course . '
The same evening , Mr C . attended a meeting of lathsplitters of Glasgow . Oil Thursday , tke 10 th , Mr C . attended a meeting of the printers , cotton-printers , and weavers of Elderslie , where a good feeling was manifested . On Friday , Mr Claughan addressed a very large meeting at the Lennox Arms Inn , Campsie . The Milton instrumental band lent their services to enliven the proceedings of the evening . After an able and lucid address frora the lecturer , a resolution , highly approving of the principles of the Association , asset forth by Mr C , also a tote of thanks to the Milton band , for their attendance on that occasion , was unanimously carried . The labours of-Mr C . have beeii attended with great success during the past week .
Wigan . —Mr Lenegan has attended a meeting of the unemployed miners of Wigan ; and , on tbe 11 th instant , he attended a public meeting at Hindlygreeu . Mr Higson in the chair . The speaker proceeded , at great length , to show the principles and objects of the Association , and said , that nothing short of a national combination would effectually secure the rights efthe working classes . A committee was appointed to agitate the district , which will meet on the 19 th inst . On the 12 th , Mr L . attended a meeting at Lam . berhead Green , and explained the principles of the Association , to the satisfaction of all present .
Newcastle-on-Tyne—The following resolution was unanimously adopted b y the engine-builders , in general meeting assembled : — _« Tbat this meeting , finding that the masters act in combination to effect their objects , and finding that we have no power to withstand their unjust aggressions , we take the lesson by the same , and do resolve to form ourselves into an association of working men , for the protection of our labour ; and the more effectively to do this , we further resolve to join the National Association of United Trades . ' Mr J . West being in the town , was invited to explain the principles ofthe Association , which he very kindly did . for which a vote of thanks was awarded for his able remarks . A fine impression was made , and we anticipate much good to follow .
NOTICB . A public meeting of the unemployed and nonsociety journeymen women ' s shoemakers , will be h » ld at the Bull and Bell , Ropemaker ' s-street _, Finsbury , on Monday evening , the 21 st inst . Chair to be taken at eight o ' clock .
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TRADES' MOVEMENTS . Hawick Tkades . —A few weeks ago , the firm of W . Wilson nnd Sons , manufacturers here , attempted to reduce tho price of wirking a certain Kind of hosiery goods , which tbe men , backed by the trade , resisted . The consequence was , that a number of hands were thrown out of employment , which the trade resolved to support , althoDgb the majority aro stinted , and bave been for a considerable ! time . A few days after , they ( W . W . & Sons ) , ordered another of their hands to go into one of the frames to make some of the goods they wished to reduce . The man refused , and was , along with his son , immediately turned off . This tyrannical conduct—although it was nothing unusual in the history of tbe firm—they never _misBine an _bpportunity of reducing their
workmen's wages—notwithstanding they took the lead here in tbe ' Cheap bread , good wages , and plenty to do' agitation ; and all for the sake of the workman ! Good , disinterested souls I This , tyrannical conduct , I say , had the effect of rousing public opinion against them ; and , in order to put tho firm to all the dis * convenience in their power , a considerable number of _tiibi" _, or barrels , which they had in various places ia the town and vicinity ( mostly small workshops ) , for the purpose of collecting urine fer _scouring blankets , < ke .. were taken or sent in to the workhouse . Im _« mediately after this occurrence , W . W . _|< fc Sons put a notico on their warehouse door , to the effect that they would give their hands no more work out till they took the tubs or barrels te tbo places they had been removed from . Aa they bad taken no part in removing the tubs whatever , they indignan-ly refused to degrade themselves by a compliance with such an insulting proposition . A meeting ofthe factory was held , and a deputation sent to
remonstrate with their employers en the injustice and degrading nature ef the demand , but all they could obtain , in the shape of concession , was , that they woutd ba allowed te take the tubs away after dark I A _Rer . eral meetins * of the trade was called , and the case laid before it , when it was unanimously resolved to support them in their resistance to such arbitrary and humiliaf ing proceedings—those in full work pledging themselves to give one shilling , and those stinted , sixpence per week . A . placard wa 3 issued , stating their case , and appealing to the public for support . This appeal has been nobly responded to by the working classes , considering the depressed state of trade , but those who were appointed to wait upon the shopocracy , to solicit their ai * l , were soon compelled to desist in disgust . WiH working men never see their true interest , and learn to do without a class ,, _wbe _, with a very few exceptions , invariably join with their oppressors ? In _csnsequence of these _proceeding , there are about 100 men thrown on their brethren for support .
The foregoing is a simple statement of tacts _> and needs no comment -, and if you can find room in the next Stab , the insertion will oblige a large number of constant readers , It may be added , that two of the 6 rm are J . P . ' s , one of whom is presiding magistrate in tho police court , the records of which contain many monuments of his wisdom , penetration , and moderation . AC 0 . N 8 TAM liEABfiB . ___ Sombr 3 Town _SnonMAKERS . —On Monday evening next , a _general meeting of this body will be he ' d at the Bricklayers' Arms , _Tonbridgc-strcet , New-road . Chair to ba taken at nine o ' clock .
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TflK Uawkbb ' 8 Act _Amamtsyr _Assoeiaion . — On Tuesday evening _laat , a large and important meeting of the Loudon hawkers was held at tho Charter * Coffee-V . ouse , Strulton-grouiid , Westminster , for tho _purpose of petitioning Parliament to reduce tbe license on hawkers , and to modify tho Act generally . —Mr William Brindle , of Paddington , was called to the chair . The Act of Parliament , _relating to hawkers , having been read , the chairman drew the attention of the meeting to the Act of Parliament , and said a more tyrannical Act never passed the legislature—in fact , they were treated more like outlaws than anything else . If a person was fined whatever sum under the Act , there was only one term of imprisonment—three months . He ( the chairman ) had been a licensed hawker for the
last twenty-nine years , and his experience had taught him that if the license were reduced , the revenue would be immensely benefited . —Mr Fergusson said , he entirely agreed with what had fallen tronl their chairman . The hawkers wero sneered at as a low body of men , but he begged to state that they tended , in a great degree , to the support of the manufactures , for the ha wkers carried goods tor sale into places where the shopkeeper could not go . In fact , the present meeting wns a proof tbat tbey were not ignorant men . ( Cheers . ) And they knew how to wield their rights when they once obtained them . ( Loud cheers . )—Messrs Cooke and Webb then addressed the meeting in a similar strain , and
it was resolved than an address be issued to the hawkers throughout Great Britain , calling upon them fM their co-operation . A committee was then formed to carry out the objects ofthe association , and the secretary announced a list of subscriptions amidst loud cheors .-Mr _M'Sweeney ( _Westmintor ) said , before the meeting separated he had one duty to perform , and that was , to move a vote ? f _thanl « to that fearless advocate of tbe people s rights , the _NoBtOKRH Stab , which wss the only journal present . He had met Mr Reading , and that gentlemen bad promised to attend , and he had done so . -Mr _Reiding , in acknowledging the thanks oftho meetin _" . said tho Star was ever re . idy to assert the
rights of the people . A vote ot man * $ _syjarTOeijsiven to the chairman , and the the following Tuesday evening . The Chartists of Torquay have selves a meeting room capable of 2 , 000 persons , for a term of three
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 19, 1848, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_19021848/page/5/
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