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e & _HplalTlEuOfintiltjpEtltiOBi He also desired him to Bay ft' _-. _tasoiumt _sbrinls froa investl ; at _' oa . ( near , hear . ) But _although that declaration was honourable te him , ho ( Sir R . _Inslis ) hoped too house wuuld nit consent to t > . e _matios until the committee already sitting oa the _sulj _^ t had ffiadC its report . He objected alto . _gather to the appointment of a _ECCuurl _tribunal _having concurrent jurisdiction wAh one already appointei . Sir G Gset _caincided with tbe boH . baronet in this view _, aad advised the withdrawal of the motion for the _present . Mr 0 . GOBE Withdrew _iis motion oa that _un-ler-Heai / _th cf Tows 5—The _TIiiucb then went _in'o committee oa the _Publis Heaitb Bill , and tils greater por . tion of ' . he evening was occup ied in tbe _discussion of its claases , the House resuming after tbe 104 th clause had _ce = u _agreed to , aui the _cemmit'ea tu si : again en
Thursday . _PessioKs —Mr lliCGSEGOB _, pursuant to bis not . ee , moved for the following returns : —vis . ' A return of the services of the _foliowiug persons , _^ vhB r _. _^ _eive tho sans Charged against tbeir _aaa-cs _frsa ths P _.-ncy ? OSt . cffice revenue Biica amounts being deenctid tcerefrom in its _progress to _theEicbequer , and stating tho _Kimss and heirs of bis Grace tbe Duke of Schora ' _airg ; _ihd Duks of 2 _*> rib-r 03 g ' a £ 4 , ; the _Dados'Grafton , £ ' 3 , 4-07 103 . ; heirs of the » = _ke of _Schmborg , £ ' 2 , 900 — total £ 10 . 307 10 s ., feeing tha amount of fhe gross portages on 2 , 47-5 S 00 letters , and of set _postages , deducting tbo _expeneeof 7 , 321 , 400 letters ; a similar return of the services and duties of the _fo'l _^ _sviDj _persons , _-nho receive annually the _uadermtntiened sums out of the revenue of thesxci . se , iu its progress to tbe _Exchequer : tbo Duke cfGraftoa ( _esclusive of annual pension of £ 4 , 000 from Post-office ) , £ 7 , 912 12 a . ; _Bsrl Cawptr . £ 1 , 595 IG ? . ; I
_assignees ofthe late Crnrles Bum , being moiety of Earl Of _Bata's pension , £ 1 , 200 ; total £ 9 . PS 7 Ss . _Rstara of the services far wbica tha folio * i- ' 5 _? um 3 are paid oat of the revenue oflreland , vie . : —Prince of Hee _' ulenbnrg _Strelita , £ 1 , 778 4 s . 43 . ; Viscous : Dancan , now Earl oi _Camper . lown , ( exclusive of pension cf £ 2 , 000 from _revettuso '" Uai ; _eaKingdom , ) £ 997 9 s . ; tot & l £ 2 ] _775 Voi . ii . Lor . ! J . B , css £ tj , _suia he could hardly tbink that tfce Treasury , or any other public department , roald make anything like an accurate re _' _-urn of tbe services _>> f tho great Duke of _Marlborough , _baS ha believed there _was not only a book entitled , ' Cost ' s L'fe of Marlborough , " but also _^ _t-verel histories of the reign of Qaecn Anne ,
Wbich _vroald farahh tbe ion . _jaetoYiS ? with tbD SsrviCii rendered by tbe Duke of JIarlboreugh , for which the pension a'daded to had beea charge *! _npoi lhe rtvrnueB of the crown . ( Hear , hear , and a laugh . ) As to tbe services efthe Dake ot _Sckombirg , they were well kno _« n _toanvbody wko had read the history of tbe period in which he iired . ( Hear , bear . ) If , however , the _^ _oa . member wished to know to whom of the Duke of _Scbomberg _' _s heirs the money were paid , no doubt such a return conld ba procured . Bnt oi whst US 3 Tfould it be ? j Grig-Belly these Bums had bsen pais _est of the hereditary rtvenaes _' of the crown ; but sine ? the _legislEturo bad taken those revenues to tbe public account , and bad added thDse burdens to tba civil list , be did not see , after tbat arrangement , bow these _burdens so un ' trtaken could now bs avoided , or that the _obih-stion consequent upon the crown ' s _BurrsuJer of ita hereditary revenues could be got rid of . He , therefore , hoped the house wctf . 3 not consent to grant fee motion , ( Hear . ")
ilr _MicGSEGoa could not but _regrat that the no ' elc lord should , ia fee manner he had , have stifle * with a question affecting ths fixation ofthe country , ( Oa , oh . } He ( Mr _Het-greger ) had broog _* tt forward tbis motion as having a _dirsct _bsaris ; _-apan thepro c . S _2 withdrawal of money from the public revenues of the na ' . _icn _, and be referred not fo the first , bat to the present Dak ..- of * _b £ arlbcrcu > b ; and he conUnrkd that if the _parliumtn ? by _-ttfcicfe tbe original _pensioa had beea voted , bad tern so corrupt as to vote it in psrpetuity _, it was time tbat a _reform d _parliemcat should put aa esd to tbe iniquity .
Tae first Dcka cf _ITarlbsrcugh , to whom the pension was _gramid , died _sritioct _iinue , and he ( ilr _llafgrejor ) _submitted there were no public grounds on whicb it GTCfct to bo continued to tte present duke . Ia the same _vfiyhe might speak 01 * tbe pension _tnjjyed by tbe present Duke of Grafton . If the noble lord _refused these reteas , 'die COiatry wm 'A _dcmind at Lis bauds an inquiry . Tee gallery was cleared cut no division took plac ; _- , the motion being withdrawn , ss were other motions by the _sams member for similar returns , tbe house _adionraed at one o ' clock .
TUESDAY , Mat 23 . _HOTTSE OF LORDS . —The Parliamentary ProcscdiEgs Bill passed through committee , rmd after some o & er _reutine _busiasss the house adjourned at an early hoar . HOTJSS 0 ? _COilMOXS . —Dismissal OF OCX _Misistee bt tss _Coubt or _Spaik . — To questions pat by ilr 6 . _BaSEIS , _LcrlPiX-UiSSTOs replied tbat , from despatches received tbat morale ? , he was informed that , on the 17 _tb install :, Sir Htnry Eal > ver was about to leave _sisaria _, having received his passports from t ! _ie _Spsnisb . _mlnist-. r . The _nob _' . i lord intimated that he would oa Thursday _present : he _despitch to parliament . Mr Akstst asked whetter Sir H . _Balwer ' _s _departure ttas _caustd by hi 3 removal to anotiier _embassads _, or _Tftcther it WEB iniicatiTc of a _ruptcr _: 01 frk-ndly relations with tha _Soacish court .
Lord _PalitsbsxOK siid that Sir H . Balwer ' s departure vras not _ciused by his _appointmeat to any other court , nor did it proceed from a rupture of friendly relations bat ~ : ea _tlais country aud Spain , ' The _Desst , '— Lord G . _Bzsxiscs meved ibat tht hsss ? . at its _risinj , should adjourn over 'Wefins 3 fiay de' Derby' day . i £ r _Huks orppsed the motion , and divided the house 00 it . There were—Tor Lord George _Bsnlinsk _' s motion ... 103 Against it .,, , 90 Majority for the proposed adjournment — . 13
_SrsriTs 0 ? Fse 2 _Thadz . —Lord _G- . _Bentiscs moved for _rfturns , sborring the quantities and prices , duty paid , Of _Ca _^ aiiiau timber sold by public sale ia London oa the 30 m of Ifarch ; also , shomngr any reaUCi ! 0 _H 3 of duties on t _* irown silks and on Indian silks which msy have been made in 1 S _42 , _together with tbo _importations of Such silks ia tho years 1 S 12 , 1315 , and 1 S 1 G respectively , Oa whicb such _reductions may bave beea made ; likewise , _showisg the quantities of _ra < r and waste silk im por ! td , _eipDr ; e 3 _, and _cocsamed at home in the vearj 1 S 44 and 1545 , as compared with the two years , 1 S 1 G and 1647 , _Ri-. h _sinilar returns in regard to thrown silks ; also showing the various articles of foreign _taaaufactur _. ; lopsrted into ths port of London _during the four months _endins 5 ih ef May instant . The noble lord said that bs moved fo > - " the 5 _s returns in ord _^ r to clear up statements
made by kim on a former _oicasiou , the accuracy of which Toad been doubted . At this time , when tbe great _qus ; - tien before tbe country was what moie ot _taxation bore most _lightly on the people , it was of the utmost importance to obtain correct _informaticn relative te the working of these alteration * made in the tariff . It was ids opinion that direct taxation was not that description Which bors most _lightly ou _ttepjopls , butth _2 t by Customs duties the public revenue should in great part fe _? : _raissd . The noble lord _proceeded to show , from the in-: form , 1 : 103 he was able to collect , tbat while ths pries of ' . Baltic timber had _risea eleven shillings per loa _4 since ' 1542 , the price of Canadian timber had fallen , thus 1 establishing that foreigners alene had benefited by 1 the redaction 0 ! tha duties on timber' aad that our 1 colonists and our revenue had betn the Enfurers
1 Oa a former occasion he spoke of the great distress that ] _prtTailed in Sp ! ial £ _elu 3 anil Bethnal Green , aad he at-1 tribated tbat distress in a great measure to tha _compsti-! tion of foreign goo 3 _s . He dated the commencement of i that distress from 1 S 42 , and contrasted the state of sati ters previously with those of 1 S _;» and 1346 ; but he was 1 told _thaths had committed a great chronological error ; 1 that h > was totally mistaken in ascribing the _distreis 1 tbat _ce-rmeaced in 1312 to any alteration in the law ; for 1 that ths law was not altered till after the distress took J place and could not produce such aa di ct previous to 11 S 45 . At that time tho boose cheered that statement a » t one _exclusive upon the subject , coming , a ; it did , from t the fa hr of the measure , or , if not from tbe father , at 2 least from tbe fa ' . her by _a-Joption , for _osrtainly they _kaa _ibeen tuldthat all these alterations were tha _emanations 0 Of the -nines of Mr Macgrcgor and Mr Lring _. ( A laugh . )
1 The s' . itement ofthe right hon . gentleman on that cccaslsiori was cheered hy the house , asd it went forth to thf-C count . 5 stemped . _vsith his high auit _' jrity . The _espiess ' _sioa h _? ( Lord G . _Bentiack ) thea used wa ? , that tbe silk ti trade bad been dabbled with , and , though _tf _> e accuracy _0 of his statement Iaa 3 * oe ? a called in _quettion , heteiieved _t that by the returns now Bought for it woald be found tthat tha alteration ia the silk trade took placa in 1842 . 1 That _alteration bed his hearty concurrence , because it V was c ' lnsilteat with all the principles he had ever _advo-C cated , It _^ as an alteration admitting tbe silks of tht I British transmarine possessions into consumption on eeasy t _.-rrisin this country ; it was an alteration whicb a acknowledged the principle that the colonics and British _pposseEtions abroad should as nearly as passible be p placet ! on a level wi \ h ourselves ; that the silks and Isand danas of the British _posssyioas in India should have
t the duty on them _reduced from twenty to Sve per cent . 0 On their outlay . The _effect of this redaction was , thnt > _s While 41 , 003 pieces ' ot India silk aad bandanas were il _imports in 1342 , thsre were imported in 1845 cot _feirer tl this 178 , 009 pieces ; while in 134 G ( wbich was not go . v . Terns : " , by tte measure of that year ) they h & d increases t < to IS" , 000 pieces . ( Hear , hear . ) Tfo hod ttaud on a fo former occasion that tiny had dabbled with the Bilk _btoae , _nohgariaca that it Lai materially _iDjarefl * _ce w weavers of Spitalfields and Bethnal Green . Tbe noble lolord opposite then tola ths old tale that ths distress of ti these wearers was not owing to the competition of fo rereLjnere , but to the competition cf _M-mcbcsttr . ( Hear _, _hthesr , ) Now , he could not find tbat there was any such grgTe . _" _it iBcrcase sicca 1642 in Xhi number of silk
millei _eitablishcdin Manchester ; so far aa he could judge _frona _rereturus hefora the _bcuEe , but not very cleerly drawn out , th there were eight or nine silk mills in Manchester in _ISlSss ; tnd he fcand that there _wsre in full _emplayment : atat this time bat & zven mills in tbat town . Eo _bt _' . kvel ita that nil the persons togetlier in this coun'ry _engaged in ith the si'k trade did not esceed 55 _, CO 0 ; and then _? , hen he _ftatarnsd hi 3 eyes from Manchester and _lecked at the _im-IP / _Oportations from abroad , he found tbat there _existta r -vevery different state of things . He bad asked that _thcrt ieh _ehoald bs laid b & fo . re the house returns of tbo imparta . _itiotioc , among other thing ; , of silk alone into tbe pott of X p L p :. Qon—not the _importatlocs into Southampton , oi-• _LrLiTErpoo " , or the Uuitia Kingdom , but inio the port of LoLondoH alone ; f-. nl having looked into fee pap ; -r which ¦ _iw _irManasrstesato ' _cs tae c £ cisl paper ofthe Custom
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House , he might state that he found that , in tbe four months _eadidg tbo 5 th of May , tha silk goods imported into thatport alon _&—reckouing £ 3 , which was tha value put by the trade on each pound weight of manufactured silk goods—amounted to £ 505 , 77-0 which represented a sua of _moBey amounting at the end of the year to upwards of £ 1 , 500 , 000 . Kow , if they took tbe wages of the people cf Spitalfields arid _Bethnal-green at an _average of 9 s . a week , they would find that into the port of London alone there had been imported silk goods wbicb , after dedacting ens third for tho material consume * , wonld afford employment and wages all the year through tool . OOO persons . ( Hear . ) When , therefore , he stated that there were abaut 53 , 000 people engaged In thc silk trade in tho united king dom—that there had been imported within tbe last four months into London
• ilonegoodB paying 5 ? ., Bj ., 7 _j ., aad 83 . on tho pound _wiigbt , and £ 10 and £ 15 per cent , ad valorem , which ad valorem was charged on tho _iavoico price , and tbat these important good 3 wero equivalent to the labour and wages of 64 , 000 men , did he not prove tbat it wasfordga _compatltion , and not the competition of eight mills in _Miliches ter , that was destroying the energies of such places as Spitalfields and _Bettraal-green ? ( Hear , hear , ) And wben aa argument wa 3 attempted to be _uaed egainst him , drawn from figures , to show what was tbe _average efthe ten years' importation betwiit 1833 aad 1843 , nnd a comparison with that of the importation of toe last two ye _& _rg _, his answer to such au argument was , that distress was known to exist in Spitalfields and Bo ' . hp . _al-green equal to tho amount of the labour emplo ; cd on these imported foreign goods , ( Hear . ) But
when he was told that the average importation offorefga silk _gcoas during tht se ten years was 200 , 0001 b , weight , he had to set against that G 30 , _0031 b . of raw material _. He had aiked for a return of what had been consumed , inasmuch as _rsturn _* ofthe exportation of silk had been _altogether omitted and overlooked , aud if tbe right hon . gentleman would look to the returnB , ond deduct the asportations from the importations , hc would fiad a very different result from tbat which he had arrived at . He vrould find that the consumption ofthe silk of various descriptions , of raw silk , of thrown eilk , and of waste _cilk , in the two years 1816 snd 1 S 47 , was less tban tie consumption ef 1844-1855 , by a very large amount . He ¦ iad moved for a return to show the quantify of silk con . _turned at home In 1 S 46-47 , as ccmpittsd with tha years 1 S 44 and 1 S 45 , and ha found _thstthire was a decrease in
I the fi _.-r . t yrsre , 1 S 4 G-47 , as compared with the years 1844 . | _-15 of _2 i 6 " 000 i ' D , Oftbrflwn 8 ilk , cf 99 , 0001 b . of raw silk , snd l , 143 , 000 ib . cf waste Bills ; that was to say , after _deducting tbe exportation from the importation . ( Hear . ) [ But _whea the _right hon . gentleman lightly treated the distress ofthe Spitalfields and Bethnal-green weaverEwhen hotiied to urge them by figures into the belief th _; _t thry were not in _distrtsB , he would read an extract from a _letter addressed by thercctor ot _Bctbnsl-green to the noble lord at tho head of the government , and no one ceuld deny lhat tbat gentleman was well able to 6 _poak on . the subject . He said : — . ' I am how iu the seventh _yissr of my residence in this parish , and from my posi tion as incumbent of the poorest and moBt populous district of the parish , I am compelled to state that I have seen the weaving population year after year become
more and aoro _destitute , worse clothed , worse housed , and worse fed—their wages being continually reducedaad , ia _addition to the reduction ef WBges , there bas been a still greater diminution of work , so that during the past winter a far greater _ntimcer tban was ever before known had been obliged to become inmates of the workhouse . ( Haar _. _hear . ) Sueh nag the state of matters in 1841 , when the silk duties were altered . The right ton . gentleman , tbongh he might baTe _scoffedand jeered at bim ( Lord O . Bentinck , ) would scarcely scoff _i . nd jeer at the sufferings of these honeBt people , or ena . _javeuT to _psrsuaie them by statements of figures deduced from _oScials returns that they were in a high state of prosperity . The rev . gentleman went en to tell tbe noble lord : —• And if jour lordehip knew to what _extremity of _wrstchedness tbese people will submit
bofor 3 they resort to this alternate of the workhouse , 50 U trouia ba better able to judge of the extent of destitution which _prsrails , f « r it is _eot till every availablo picseof furniture is disposed of , it is not till they have no longer a ben to lie down upon or a cbair on which to sit , that these poor people can be induced to break up their little homes and consent to be classed as pauptrs J and yet during this winter nearly tte whole weaving _popnlaiian has been reduced to this extremity . ' Such was the result of a competition almost comparatively free with foreigners . It had brorjght above _halfa-mUlisn sterling worth of foreign silk and manufactures into the country within a period of four months ; an amount which would have given employmtnt to 61 , 000 psople . It was some consolation that he could turn from this miserable picture to what was rather a
better state of things ; for he waB well aware that _thi-jgs were rather better now , and that there hs 3 been a spring and a start in the trade of Spitalfields , Tbe disturbances which had occurred on the continent of Barope , the organic and democratic changes which had _Bbekcn ike _cJ-nSrkfcCe Ot Capital in _fofc ' gn countries , and had made it dear , had been giving a ckeck to foreign manufactures , which , if tbe people of this country persevered in their efforts to preserve order , as thiy seemed disposed to do , woald , he trusted , bring biok ¦ grist to their mill , ' and restore their trade , f , o that they would see it rise again on the ruin of lhat of their rival ? . But white he atvribu ' ed tbe improvement of trade to the present state of matters abroad , he fvlt that other cau ; es also had been in operation . Tbe statements he was about to quote were not the statements of
wild proteeiionists . Ho found them fn a weekly paper cf strong free-trade opinions . In that paper , which was of very large circulation , he found tbat' healthful excitement , ' 83 it was termed , whicb had sprung up in _Spitalfields , ascribed to different canses ; and it muBt be _gratifying to all their feelings of loyalty when they fo' _-n _* . that this ' _i-ealthfal eicitement' _vrai attributable to an order which hadj heen given on the _psrt of ber Majesty . This _free-trade paper , w ' th great hon-sty _, msds the following statement i' We are much gratified in finding that the considerate act of the Queen with respect to _dreua at tho ap . _pro-iching _draiiicg-room already promises to accomplish the purpose for which it is intcnied . A healthful es . ci : _emeut ha 3 been produced in _Spitaifields . Stocks I that _hung _heati-y on hand have been disposed of ; orders are following ; ani , in mogt sanguine hopes cf a
revival _taking place , the gloom and despendeBcy sre dispelled wbich have hitherto prevailed . Added to the _tiirect effect , of her Majesty ' s drawing-room is tho ex . simple oi a uumber of ladies of rank and influence who _bavs engaged tofce the patrons oftho industry and skill cf th _. ir own countrymen , end wb 06 e example will not fail to operate first iu their own circle . ' , then in the descending scale on tbe various grades which never fail to copy their betters in mitters of tas ' e and fashion . ' So there vrer _^ the ruin and the remedy presented in strong contmt . There was , on the one hand , tho ruin of beds and tables snd chairs taken away to be sold , of these _peor psople deprived of all their comfort . By the act of her Majesty , as they were told by the first Min . _isttr of the Crown , not upon tbe advice of a responsible _Miuiattr of tli _3 Cabinet , but aciing upon _'Natare _' s impulse all _uachsik'd by art .
_vTiih feelings kind tbat now from out the heart , 'b-: y fiund _Hcrj _ilajesty bad _cancelled { he mischief and mitigated the injury infl . cted hy those free-trade measures which had brought into the port of London alone half a million of silk manufactures from Prance , Belgium , aad Germany , The returas for which he moved were not _eosfined to silk ; neither did be wish so far to narrow Ms vio _^ v of the _questioa . He found there hud teen imported into the port of London , bearding thc _Epinners in their owa country , cotton goods free of duty , within a period of four months , to tbe value of £ 137 , 974 , which , at tha same rate of wages ( and he feared that the operatives wero not getting so much in Manchester ) , would give employment to 11 , 000 or 12 , 000 persons engaged as operatives in that trade . He had read tbat ciay a statement of Captain
Willis , from which it appeared that th--ro were 14 , 000 1-perstives o-it of cmploym :-nt , or _employed oa short time , in _Manchester alone ; of these the number altogether out of _cmplo _/ _rajut _wsb 6 . 000 . The house had to . 'd A \ ibis trade was very good tor _Bradford , that if silks were imported _pantalccne from _Bracf . rd would ba sent out in exchange , Hu found from tha same returns , that tbe woollens imported from foreign _csunrries into the port of London within the same four m & _nths , free of duty , amount : d in value to £ 98 , 831 , which , calculating as before , would represent on the yecr a sum of £ 38 G , 000 , _fufflcient io givo employment to _toaio 15 003 people . Bnt , wbat T _? as ths _faetfiB regarded lhat towa 6 f Bradford , which was represented as so prosperous S There were 15 , _' jOO _persons receiving relief in tb . o parish in Br & _iiford . The gallant colonel counted wilhouthis host
_wh _. n he reckoned that it waB only necessary to admit _untair-3 and littlo taxed foreign Bilks to hava the _^ auJ ta ! oon 3 of Bradford exchanged for tbem . It was not only cot £ on 3 and woollens that were Imported in this way ; but aB a native of _Nottinghamshire , he might be permitted to call tha attention oftho hou 3 e to tha state of the lace trade in the county town of his native county , being tke chief seat of the lace manufacture . Into the port of London alone , he found there had been im . ported within four months lace to tho value of £ 30 , 793 . Hon . members had probably seen a _httcr from Mr _YTrij-ht , a barker ia NotliBgham , containing the reports of different clergymen of that town oa the present state of Nottingham . But to begin with the laeemakn _' _a . It _appeared from the letter of a _lareruaker that * the business of pawnbrok ' ng wes pressed by unusual efforts to g _^ t advances , Sales of _eccond-hana furniture were of everyday occurrence . It reBultctl that one-fourth of the manufacturing workpeople were bordering on
_dtstitution , many being without any means of subsiitesce whatsoever , ' ( Hear , hear . ) Bui _fiiis was almost exceeded by the description gives by the _clergymen ; Mr Brooks , vicar of St Mruy '& ascribed to tho distress of the peeph the spirit of _Ckarilsrn whieh prevailed —( hear , )— aud stated that ho had beard men say , when warned of tho probable evil consequence of sedition r . nd _rab _' _- 'llion , ' A man can only dlo once , and I would die as soon ia tbat way a 3 by starvation . Mr Brooks said , ' they would r , t go into the union wo . -kbonso , tbey would rathtr starve . ' Ho believed ' a large portion of tho working _ebEies vreru in a _stata of _stmi-starvntlon . Numbers who , when he came to the place in April , 1814 , v . cro in different _circumsfrmccs , he now recognised going about cirty , ih rags , end emaciated . ' ' Oae of my curates , ' he added , ' who W _33 in Ireland last year , who wa ; on one of the relief committees , declares that hc saw no destitution in that ccuntry worse than what hc taw iu Nottingham . ' Ho was ' surprised at tho gatieaca with which it was borne . ' Another clergyman
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( the Rev Ur Davfe « , facambent fn Nottingham ) i & fd he verily believed that for eighteen months not half of the mechanics' families had more th & _nofiOttSh to keep tbom from absolute starvation . ' The Rev . Mr Howard represented tbe distress existing among the lewer claases ae more general and severe than ever , and as truly painful to witness . The Rsv . Mr Butler _etattd thnt io 1815 6 rates ivere made of 4 s . 21 . perpound In St Mary ' s parish ; there wan a large balanco and comparatively small arrears of rates not recovered . But ia April , 1846 , rates were made at & 3 . lOd , per lb . ; tbere was a balance of only £ 197 in the bank , and the arrears amounted nearly to _i £ 7 _, 4 O 0 , He observed thst they always expected improvement from winter to summer , but ho feared there was but partial work for the operatives . Ho added , however , that ' the change was simultaneous with tha
changes in our commercial policy . ' ( Hesr , hear . ) The Ber , Mr Milton stated , of a street which he had te pass through , that five out of seven _houseB wero empty ; the poorer sort of people wero driven from tboir cottages into tha unions , and those of better condition wero unable to pay the very heavy poor-rates , wbich amounted to 12 s , 63 , per pound . ( Hear , hear . ) It used to be argued that the levying of Ecmething like a fate of 2 s . per pound is Ireland afforded a sufficient reason for ex . _emj-ting that oountry from the income-tax ; Nottlngbam might surely , with bb much justice , claim _i xemptlon from taxation . Mr Milton said that his surprise was that the people were not desperate long ago . Sufch was the state ofthe lace trade , met as it was with tbe competition of foreign couutries . But thore was another class whose sufferings claimed the attention of tbe house . He
meant the poor needlewomen , in whom tbe noble lord the member for Bath ( Lord Ashley ) , as well as his noblo lady , took so great an interest . Their distress was not _surprising when it was borne in mind tbat in tbe same four months needlework , nine-tenths of the value of which alone consisted of labour as distinguished from mnteria _' j bad been imported to the extent of £ 30 , 000 , which his noble friend ths member for Bath , if he were in the house , would shore , at a rate of wages far beyond the ordinary rate , would gWc employment to 6 , 000 or 7 , 080 persons . With referenco _^ to the foreign manufactures imported into the port of London , then , he found tbat , exclusive of cambrics , boots and shoes , boot front * , clacks , and watches , and other small articles not enumerated , amounting in value to about £ 190 . 000 , of the three ar .
tides of _cotten _, woollen , and silk , aBd also of lace and needlework , there had been imported within Ihe four months , ending tbe 5 th of May last , as much as would have given employment to something over 100 , 000 per « sons . ( Hear , hear . ) Ho bad got a statement of the number of bankruptcies wbich bad occurred in England in tbe last nineteen wetks of tbe present year , acd be mustlook to the year 1826 to find a parallel to them . He found that in England , in the last nineteen wetks alone , tbere had been 848 bankruptcies , and yet if hia right hon . friend , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , were present , be would probably tell them tbat bankruptcies were now getting quite out of fashion , thcBo matters be . ing now arranged by friendly inspection . Ho now came to Scotland . Stands Seotlandwhereitdid ?
Alas ! poor country , almost afraid to know itBelf . ' He found that , ia Seotland , there bad been nothing at all approaching to tbe amount of sequestrations which had occurred during thoso nineteen weeks . The only year which came near It was 1842 , when great _distress existed in Paisley and Glasgow , and when , in the corresponding nineteen weeks , there were 222 _eoquastrations . He held in hia hand a statement from the Economist of last Saturday , from which it appeared , that three manu . _facturers in Paisley hadgiven notice of their intention to turn off 1 , 000 families out ol their houses ; that there were 3 , 000 other families who had also received notice tbat they were to be turned out ; aud that , out of fiftyone mills , eighteen had stopped altogether , and seven were working short time . It was not only manufacturers and operatives—it was not only merchants , and planters ,
and brokers who were ruined . Ruin could not assail the _miUowncr and the merchant , the planter and the broker , without descending to those In a lower scale ; and it was in vain to reduce the price of produce , if , by ruining these who _gtew tbe produce , we disabled them from employing the same number of servants as before . He held in his hand a statement of the advertisements for servants' _piBCOB which had _appeared fn the Times newspaper in the first twelve days of May , a 3 compared with the same period in antecedent years ; and also a similar statement respecting the advertisements from masters seeking to engage servants . These told their 6 tory very plainly . They included the whole class of dependents who were employed by the wealthier classes , such as governesses , ladies ' _-maids , cooks , housekeepers , housemaids , butlers , coachmen , grooms , gardeners , and others . He found that in the first twelve days of May , 1 S 42 , there wero 1 , 455 advertUtmentB from persona of different descriptions , wanting places . In 184 S there were 1 , 828 ; in 1847 tbey bad increased to 2 , 000 ;
and in the present yerr tbey amounted to 2 . 430 . ( Hear , hear . ) Let not butlers , gardeners , coachmen , grooms , _govirncjaes , an d nu r _sea , imagine that they must not share the falling fortunes of their employers , who had been ruined by too free competition , ( Hear , hoar . ) He foond that of advertisements for servants there were 99 in the first twelve days of 1845 ; in 1846 there were 143 ; in 1 S 4 T there were 177 ; aud in 1848 they had fallen to _one-half what they weie in 1840 , _Dietreas ron through the whole categoiy of trades ana classes . Ho did not ascribe the whole of this distress to free trade ; there were other causes to which it was partly owing , such as bad harvests ; but he thought he bad shown good ground fer _ascribing much of tbat distress to tbe change RhicL had taken place in the commercial policy of tho country . He thought he had l & ii a aufficlent foundation for asking for the returns which he now moved for , and which , though perhaps they might occasion some little trouble , would tend to throw more light upon the _SUtjt'Ct thaa the Board of Trade had ever yet vouchsafed to show to the house or lhe country . ( Hear , hear . )
Mr Gladstone argued that tho present moment of collapso after a period of extraordinary enterprise was not a time to test fairly the new commercial principles ; but be denied that the colonial timber trade had fallen , although he admitted that the price of Canadian timber had beenreduced in a small degree—a reduction brought about by foreign competition , which be highly approved of . Admitting the distress of our silk weavers , he denied that the periods selected by the neble lord , to show the contrast of _formor _prosperity with present depression , were _junt , or could present a correct idea ofthe working of the new tariff . The right hon . gentleman _contended that the consumption of foreign goods had increased , that the importation ef raw materials had increased , that the total consumption of goods by tho British people had largely increased , and that while the rates of duty had beenreduced , there hadbeen a small increase in the revenue .
Mr _NewDsoiTE adduced the frightful and unprecedented distress prevalent in tho district with which ho wa 3 connected as evidence of some deep cause of depression , and coming , as it did , immediately after a great and novel experiment in commercial and financial legislation , he thought that there could ba little doubt as to tho origiaal evil , Tho hon , member controverted the d 3 ta and averages _relied on by Jtr Gladstone in support ofthe successor the Free _Trade theories . Sir & , Clebk defended the commercial policy carried out by Sir R , Peel , aad contended that it had worked satisfactorily , Mr _Labscchebe said that nothing had occurred to make him regret the support he gave to Sir R . Peel's Free Trade policy ; on the contrary , he felt convinoed that the changes made , especially the repeal of the Cum Laws , bad had a most beneficial effect politically , socially , and _moraUy on this country . The right hon . gentlemen offered n o objection to the returns asked for . "
Mr MiLNEa Gidson complained that , by an unusual debate on uuoppeaed returns , Mr Hume ' s reform motion had bsen _postponed . Hu bolieved that debatos euch as this wero mere waste ofthe time of tho houso , Mr Henlet congratulated tho hon member on his return to his old seat , and reminded him _hoiv often ho and his friends had again and again and again wasted tbo time of the house oa their pot theories , never ceasing until they had obtained all they wanted . The returns moved for were agreed to . Elecicsal RFFoaM . —Mr Home , on tho pretence of the hour being too late ( eleven o ' cloik ) , postponed the motion , of whicii ho had given notico on tbis eui'jcut , until tho 20 th of June . Tbis announcement gave rise to a debate , which our readers will find fully reported by the _Hobhikq Cheokicle , and appended to Mr O'Connor's letter npon the subject . Lord John _Russell _tuok the ad . vantage of a very uncalled for and _unjuatiOublo attacli upoa Mr O'Connor by Mr Co ' _nden , to make the assertion , that tho middle and _wurklng clauses neither wished for the People ' s Charter , nor Mr Hume's Four Points .
Mr H . Bebkelev postponed his motion on tho ballot to the 2 Qtb . o £ June , The other orders wore disposed of , and tho house adjourned to Thursday . THURSDAY , MaT 25 , 1848 . HOUSE OF LORDS—Jews Disabilities Bur , . -. Tne Marquis of LandsDow . ne moved the second reading of this bill , and ia so _doicg , contended that the constitution excluded no man from _participation in the regulation ot tha affairs of the country on account of his opinions , and that by no Act of Parliament bad the Jews ever been specifically refused admission into Parliament . The oathB which formed tho only barrier against a Jtw _takicg his seat as a Member of either House had beon enacted solely and avowed ' y for the purpose of excluding Roman Catholics at a critical period , when it was feared p ; -r = ons of that _reunion were favourable to the causa ot tht , _PruUiiilitf . lie did not b & _lUva that on religious grounds they wero bouad to excludo Jews , nor did ho consider persons of tho Jewish persuasion unfit to have a voice in tho _legislature .
The Earl of _Ehenboeocou moved that the bill be read a second time that day Bis months , The Duke of Cambridge opposed tho bill . Viscount Canning supported the bill , and tho Archbishop of _Cir-TEBnuta and Earl vVincuei . bea briefly declared their intention of giving it opposition . The Duke of _Aegice supported tha occend reading of tha bill , as did also tbe Bishop of St David ' s . The Bishop of Oxpobd opposed tho bill , ou the ground that tho Jews wera a teparato nation , aad that they verged on infidelity . The Earl of St _OsiuiANa said no reason was ad . duced , nor did ho know nny reason why the Jawa should not enjoy civil rights in their full extent , mid he believed that if tbey wero admitted to acats in tlw lef ? islRtnro thoy would become useful nnd proper _li'irls-ZatorB _, Lord Stahtav bind Wa _optiosUUm on re-Halo . un
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grounds . Be oould not consent to pbee Jews 011 the same footing as Christians . Lord Bbqoguah _oupported the bill . The Marquis of Lanbdownb replied , after which the house divided on the question , that the bill be read a second time , when there _appeared—Contents : —Present , 96 _Proxioa 32—128 _Noa-centents . '—Present 125 Proxies 38—1 G 3 Majority against the government ....,.... —35 The Commons were occupied the entire night in commutes on tho Public Health Bill . Ereutrjally progress was reported , in order that the bill might bo reprinted . FRIDAY . Mat 26 th .
HOUSE OF LORDS _. —The Bishop of _Oxfobd pre sented a Bill , wbich was rend a first time , to prevent and punish the seduction of females for hire and reward . — HOUSE OF COMMONS—The house went into a Committee of Supply , _whaa , after some discussion , the Secretary of the Admiralty took several votes on account ( or Naval Setvicee , The Qualification anel Rfglotratlon of Electors Bill ( Ireland ) was read a second time , Tbe Elections and Polling Places ( Ireland ) Bill was read a second time , and ordered to be committed on Monday week ,
Mr Hindle ; obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend the laws relating to Sunday trading , aa far re gards the metropolis .
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LOCATION ON _SNIG' 5 END ESTATE . Tho _following is a correct list of the two , three , and four acre shareholders to be located afc Snig ' s End Estate , on the 2 nd Monday in June , 1848 . Thomas Clark' Oorres _. Seo . TWO ACRES . 69 Emma Adams Banbury 6 G 3 Samuel Wba i ley Manchester 146 Jarre 3 Holt Ditto 198 _Jslin Hudson Leicester 137 John Carter _Upton-on-Severn 826 Charles Frith Greenwich
4074 W . H . _Curtii Whittington and Cat 17 Wm . Peckett Office List 44 Constantino Jay Hull 1822 Robert Wilson _Walsoken 108 CharkB Firth Office List 208 James Harmer Ditto 132 James Smith Birmingham 121 Stephen _Ntedham Derby 1236 Thomas Sutton Office List 42 John Langley Norwich 151 George StapleB \ j Family Ticket 15 2 Henr y Sta p les f \ Offic e L i st 619 John _Teaeuo Bilston
20 Mary Clarkson _Addingham _^ 707 Isaac Goodhall Market Lavington 690 William Gray Ditto Ditto 32 C . II . Buddecombo Southampton 2038 Edward _Edesbury Office List 237 G William Dart Exeter ! 21 G 7 Thomas Hopo Ledbury 161 Thomas Ashman MeUs , Somerset 34 Robert Heppenstall Hull 70 Robert Baines Newcastle-on-Tyne 11 John West Office List 35 John Robertson Stalybridge 1557 Thomas _Halsale Chorley 1910 Richard Daniels Office _Liat 1383 Dennis O'Brien Alva
THREE ACRES . 32 John Kay \ / _Ashton-under-Lyne Thomas Buckby j" \ Family Ticket 1624 , 407 Jamea Watson Dewsbury 55 Alexander Cleland Glasgow 0 John _Bnswfll Banbury 1080 . 1 C 90 George Cose Nottingham 1607 , 138 Thomas Savillo Halifax 18 Robert Winter Hull 20 H e nr y OJ i v a r N e w p ort Pa g _aell Matthew Brown Office List 793 , 62 Donald Robinson Edinburgh Wm , Gent Wellingborough FOUR ACRES .
M r C . Doyle O'Connorville Mr Baker Birmingham Mr G . Wheeler Reading Mr Cornwall Bradford Mr Rawson Manchester Mr Smith London MrKindell Bradford , _Wilfca 449 W . Colston Derby 273 , 274 Jamea Wakeman Torquay 531 T . Newson Dewsbury 1078 . 1079 Daniel Powell Merthyr Tydvil 1620 . 1521 James Br » na Sleaford 05 John Rice Bradford , York 514 T . Franklin Limehouse 3 G 1 . 3 G 2 John Kinross \ / Family Ticket 2351 , 2352 Andrew _KinrosHj \ Alva 15641565 Juka Lawton Retford
65 John L . Simpson > J Family Ticket 1087 _Eather . _^ Hunt j \ Manchester 506 _Robert _Jarvis Office List 6061 Joseph Smith Rouen , France 3507 3509 Edmuad Gee Wigan 1929 W * . James Merthyr Tydvil 75 , 76 John Miller _Newion Abbott 921 , 922 James Cafew Manchester 177 John Ramsey Glasgow 1390 , 1391 W . Jarrett Office List 1066 , 1907 T . _Launchbury Kidderminster
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I request the members of this committee to meet mo nt the office ofthe Northern Star , on Thursday evening next , June 1 st , at eight o ' clock . G . Julian Harnet .
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ALLEGED successful _Swisdliso . —Some weeks ago , amongst the arrivals at Tenby , _Walea , were a _gentleman and his sister . He g ave h is name a s ' Captain W y mer , late of the llth Light Dragoons . ' He was rather shabby in appearance , but that was ascribed to eccentricity on his part _; lie engaged for the year the furnished house , No . 5 , Rock-teri'ao- _> , and shortly after he took , for no le s s t b an six ye a rs , a snug little cottage , a short distance out of town , on the new road ; this ho set about repairing and fur . _nishing in good earnest . Being fond ofaquatio sports , ho hired a boat for a year . It must be confessed , snys the Carmarthen Journal , he dealt rather fairly by tho tradesmen , for he distributed his favours amongst them with remarkable equality . A
sale of furniture taking place , the captain attended and purchased , and so plausible were his accounts of himself , that ho succeeded iu getting credit to the amount of £ 50 . Everything so far had gone on comfortably enoujh ; and although it was remarked generally that he seemed rather short of cash , still no suspicion of his honesty was entertained . It hap - pened , however , that in the _banianing of the week before last , the pleasure yacht of a gentleman came into harbour , and one of tke crew immediately recognised tiie captain as a chevalier d'industrie , who last summer had fleeced the tradesmen of Teignmouth , Weymouth , and other places in Devon . The tar was not backward in ( jiving publicity to what he knew of the exploits of the ' Captain , ' and immediately
every one whom he had _condescended to patronise paid him a visit : and on Saturday _ae ' nni g ht , he managed to skulk out of the town unknown to his friend ? , until late in the evening it was ascertained that be had been seen at Begelly , quietly waiting for the mail , by which conveyance thera is little douSt he managed to increase the distance between himself and thos ? he had succeeded in victimising . He is about six feet in height , very c o r p u l ent , weighing some seventeen stone . According to the account of thc yachtsman , his hair and whiskers , when he knew him , inclined to that anomalous shade termed sandy . At Tenby he sported no whiskers , b ut a mou s ta c he , which , with his hair , wss black , supposed to bj dyed , H 8 walks with the least perceptible limp , fr .: m , as he says , & gunshot wound in the knee received in India . Oldham . —On Tuesday evening laut , May 23 rd , a publio meeting took place in the field behind the
Albion Inn , to hear the result of the trial of Mr John Mitchel , the _L-ish patriot , aud to expre 3 B sympathy with bim and ttre people of _Ireland , m the , present emergency "; tho following resolutions wero passed unanimously : — ' That thia meeting feel gratefully thankful for the noble and disinterested manner in wh i oh Mr John M i tch e l , h a s a d vocat ed the cause ot hia distressed , and _down-troddsn countrymen , and the _eauso of liberty throughout tbe world , That thia meeting feel indignant at the _bwe _coaduct of our tyrannical governors , in prosecuting that noble patriot , Mr John Mitohel , as a- felon , and we pledge ourselves to support him and the people of Ireland in whatever manner thoy choose to proceed , as far as in our power lies . ' Tho above resolutions were ably supported by Messrs Archdeacon , Clark , Donovan , Leach , ard Kydd . The meeting was adjourned to Friday evening , at seven o ' flock .
Rochdale . —A lecture will bo delivered in tho Chartist room , _Yorkskire-street , on Sunday evening the 2 Sth instant , by Mr Archdoacon , of Manchester . ' Chair to be taken at _half-past five o ' clock . A general meeting ofthe L : _\ nd members will be _held in Ihe samo place at two o'clock in the afternoon . _Ckoyd-in . —At ademocratiogathering at _Loveday'a Coffee II iuse , on Monday evening , to take into considerati' 11 the new _organisation agreed upon by tho National Assembly , fan following resolution war proposed by T . bront , seconded by W . _Ilodgea ami carried unanimously ;— ' That wo havo perfect confidence in tho Provisional Executive appointed bythe National Assembly , and recommond their conlirmalion by ho _lenple' - 'lho Bura cf ten shillings was then voted to tho Liberty Fund , R 3 _uart oftho quota lor this town . *
h « i 1 « r _» _2 « « _" " _g tric _Mcl _* 6 ato meeting will bo hold atthe 1 Seven Stars , Barker-gate , at _ekht 0 clock , on . Monday evening mt to % hi _^ _^ ious _looAltUeu nvo _wiuostea to _soml _dolegatos ,
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THE MIDDLE CLASS AND THE CHARTER FINSBURY . At a publio meeting ef the Inhabitants of St Luke's Middlesex , held st tbe school-rooms , Cowper-street _City-road , to take measures for obtaining a full representation of the people , and a more equal mode of taxation , Mr _Waklet took the chair , _MrPAMjsuB moved the first resolution—I . That , notwithstanding the increased suffrage afforded by the late Reform Bill , the _Houseof Commons , aa now constituted , doeB not represent the population or
industry of the country ; but , according to Lord John _Ruaeell'a own acknowledgment , the Reform Bill was so devised ' a s t o s e cur e the p re p on d er a nce of th e landed interest in parliament . ' A majority of the House of Commons is thus eleoted by one-fifth of the total registered elootorB , while the remainina four-fiftha are represented by a comparatively small minority ; and this meeting is also convinced that the existing system of taxation is so contrived as to favour the aristocracy , and unjustly to burden the industrious classes ofthe people . Mr Hatch seconded the resolution ,
Mr Kydd then addressed the meeting , and proceeded to condemn the present system of taxation . He would propose no amendment ; but he urged tbem to remember that the principles of the Charter were the true principles on which their welfare depended , The resolution was carried unanimously . Mr Dale then moved— ' 2 . That for the permanent protection of the constitution , the preservation of public order and tranquillity , the prevention of bribery and intimidation , the promotion of a more equal mode of taxation , and the reduction of the publio expenditure , thi s meetin g p le dge s its e lf to advocate tbe widest extension of the Suffrage , Triennial Parliaments , Vote by Ballot , and Electoral Districts formed in proportion to the number of electors .
Mr Outbam seconded the resolution ; and after a short _address from Mr Vines on the same side , a call was made for Mr Ernest Jones , who wa 3 among the gentlemen on the platform . Mr Joses _accordingly came forward amidst loud applause . He congratulated them on the union which was taking place between the middle and working cla s se s , whose old animosities appeared to be doing away with tbe Whigs and Tories . He stated he would not move an amendment , though he , as a Chartist , was compelled to vote against the resolution , He then appealed to the meeting to add the other points ofthe Charter to the three they had adopted , and showed how they followed as a necessary consequence . He challenged the middle _olasse _* - to show why they w ere opposed to the remaining three points , and how they eould possibly suffer by their adoption .
The meeting unanimously acquiesced in the _prinoipies ot tbe Charter ; but , the committee refusing to alter Mr Dale ' s resolution , it was put , and unanimously negatived . Mr Waklby then rose , and said there must be some mistake . ( 'No , no . ' ) He should hear of that in another place . They did not want to make a laughingstock of him . Could they not make a compromise ? Mr E . Jon e s said , they never oeuld effect a union on the ground of compromise , but they mig ht rati f y one that moment on the ground of principle—the Peo p le ' s Charter . The mover and seconder then withdrew their motion , and moved it again with the omission of ' Triennial Parliaments , ' and embodying ' Universal _Sutfrage t Vote by Ballot , and Equal Electoral Districts . '
This was carried by tacit consent , the meetin g pledging themselves to the Charter , with thre _a cheerB for which they shortly afterwards dissolved g
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THE LONDON TAVERN . A crowded meeting , called by the People ' s League , wa 3 held on Wednesday eveningi at the London Tavern . Col . Thompson in the chair . Tbe admission was by tickets . The Rev . J . Barn e _tt , Mr Shaman Crawford , M . P ., MrR . Gardner * , M . P ., Mr C . Luahineton , M . P _., Mr Joseph Sturge , Mr Edward Miall , and Mr J . E . Parry , were on the platform , and addressed the meeting . The Rev . J . Babnett moved the first resolution : — 1 That this meeting , looking at the ngrrow , Unequal , and unjust basis upen which the existing system of parliamentary representation rests—at the numerous
p roofs , patent to the whole empire , of the extent to which corrupt influences are usually employed to place the popular branchof tho legislature under the exclusive control of a selfish oligarchy- —and at the entire want of agreement between public opinion aa expressed out of doors , and as professedly interpreted by Parliament , declare their conviction that the House of Commons does not truly _rej resent the people , acd that , so long aa it shall continue to be constituted as at present , it neither will nor can becorxe a proper organ for the expression of the nation _' a will . '
Mr R . _Gardner M . P ., supported the _resolution . The resolution was then put , and carried with _onlj one dissentient . Mr J . E . Parry moved the second resolution , ' That in the judgment of this meeting , the franchise limited by such regulations only as may ba necessary to secure for it a legitimate exercise , is the right cf every man ; that whilst the power to voto is distributed with reference to the possession of property , purity of election can neither be had nor reasonably expected ; that any reform of the House of Commons whioh fails to recognise this right will be incomplete , and , to the excluded classes , _unoatiafactor ) and unjust , and that the constituency created by a frank aad unreserved admission of all men within the pale
of citizenship , would be more intelligent , and more independent , and more conservative ef order than any one restricted within arbitrary limits . For _thece and other reasons thh meeting avow thoir [ _conriction that justice and expediency unite in recommending a hearty union of all reformers for securing the adoption of this principle by the imperial legislature . ' Mr C . Lushisoto } _-, M . P .. seconded the resolution . Mr Joseph Sturge siid , he fully sympathised with the Chartists in their six points —( cheers )—and had always sought to promote union between the electors and the non-electors . The principle once affirmed , that man and not property was entitled to tbe suffrage , all minor mattera might safely be left in abeyance .
The tenor of the speeches of the above gentlemen was highly | condemnatory ofthe government , a nd advocating an extension of the suffrage , and a shortening of the duration of Parliament . Mr Gaedskr especially dealt some heavy hits at Lord John Russell , though an attack he made against the National Convention elicited a storm of disapprobation . Mr Edward Miau _, moved , That thia _meeting _rojoice ia the formation of the People ' s _LeagurT _having for its object to secure for the people Univers al S uffra g e , or the right of every man , _twenty-one years of age , of s a ne m i nd , and unconvicted of crime
, to vote in the election of members ef parliament , _together with auch details as are easential to Ua exercise ; and engage to render the _assooiation all the aid within their power in the prosecution of its arduous but noble enterprise . ' Mr Miall exhorted to union , and said , even if they oould aot go all tbe way together , expediency demanded of them to go together as far as they conld . If they could not get all , they could get something , and should take it . ( Disapprobation . ) He waa favourable to tho six points of the Charter— ( cheers ;—bathe would first wish them to go for what they could get .
Mr J . Robertson seconded the resolution , and urged the necessity of union at tbis _momont , if tbey did not wish to play the game of thair enemies . If all classes did not now unite , tbey deserved to be lau g he d at , even by so small a great man as Lo ** d John Russell . ( Loud cheers ) Union was necessary , i f Eu g lis b m e n woul d n o t b e d i s t a nced in th e r ace of freedom by even Austrians and Bavarians . ( Cheera . ) Mr Ernest Jones , who had been repoadly called for , now _rosa and Baid : —Ho also was desirous of a union between the middle and working _olasses . He belioYed that all admitted that united they could carry any measure of reform—nothing could resist
thera . Well , _tben , if they felt convinced of that , he trusted they would well digest their measures , and not be afraid of going for anything that was just and right . ( Cheers . ) Every speaker who had spoken tbat night , had declared himself favourable to the Chatter—acknowledged the Charter to be right . Now , as they acknowledged the Charter to be right , and a 3 they themselves hsd said that united they had the power to carry anything , he hoped it was the Charter they would carry . ( Loud eheers from the _mcet-ng , ard great interruption from the platform . ) Their united power was admitted by all , Let them not demand half measures .
Mr J . E . Parky rose to order , and protested against the insinuation that this association had adopted half-measures . Mr _Eknest Jones requested Mr Parry to wait till ho was acoused ; if theoap fitted , he could not help it . But he would ask him and the committee a question —their resolution was for the Suffrage and details . What where the details ? ( Uproar on the platform . > _Ilndthey made up their minds about tho details ? ( Uproar . ) If so , it was but houest to tell the public . ( CJroat confusion on the platform . ) Had they not decided ou the details ? If so , tell the meeting so , and tho meoting would suggest the details to them .
Mr _Lovfiir said , he had first convened thia League , and ho was favourable to tho principles if the People ' s Chatter ; but , finding that there waa much difference amongst thoir friends as to Household Suffrage and Universal Suffrage , and the details necessary for the oxcrciso of tho Suffrage , they had adopted the princi ple of Universal Suffrage , _reviving that the princi- j p ' es of viva Chait' . v _showld bo _conslieved at their next gcaeral conference . Mr E Jone s said , then it appeared the league had not mado up their minds a 9 to the details , lie would not tuovo any _amrnilment , lor _vheroyer there was un approximation to union that should bo fairly mot . ( Choera . ) Aa the league would doubtless bo guided by the publio voice , ho would show them that tho dotails of tho Charter were the details that ought to I accompany universal suffrage , Some of thera thought
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universal suffrage waa sufficient in _itself—nrT _^ [ versa ! suffrage _mig _' ifc be universal slaver _» „ _. _"i- " _»' that suffrage was guarded by theother point ,, _« rS * ! _" » I Charter . What was tho use of _girini ; the nil _T S *•< poor , if you only allowed them to be _repredent . j y _* * ' the rich ? _Giving the vote to the lamb Mr b ? ? him to elect tbe wolf I ( Lond cheers am ? " _^ * interruption from the platform . ) All the _bdo _^* l _* who had addressed the meeting had said thev " _* ' in favour of the Six Points of the Charter nit * * no , ' from several on the platform . ) Oh ! th . » ti I ' '' right after all ! Then you are not for the Ph . ! " * ' ' after all ! Then I tear down the veil , and £ _'? through the flimsy pretence . ( Load cbeers , and mm t c o n f usion " on tho platform . ) What have you bi trying to make us believe you were Chartists wW * * you are not ? ( Cheers , and great tumult . ) Thenr r say , ' Up for the Charterand no Surrender . ' ( Enthr , ablatio cheera . ) Now , gentlemen of tbe League T f
' demand a patient hearing . Some of yeu can tait very grandly in the _house—(^ reat tumult )—here ia » 1 troop of you now present—here thon are the Chartists \ —here is a platform—and here is an audience _Doa * « your courage tail you?— do you thing to ' con , . quer' by your senseless clamour ? Bib t { will wait till your are tired of yelling . ( Cheers \ 1 Now , then , as you offer union , let us strike a bar gain . Settle the terms . You , midd . ' e class _menf ' 1 are being ruined by poor-rates , and taxes . _NW * tenths of ysu are insolvents . You want to be re * lieved from poor-rate- ( hear)—you want to hav « I cheap governraens- ( hear ) _-you want to separata church and 8 tate- ( _cheers ) -ycu want to have horns trade-Chear !)_ and foreign trade , too—gentlemen ? _» these are yonr terms—we will help yon to all this * , ' I we will relieve you of poor rates by taking the com _petitive reserve out of the labour market , and hi I
giving a lair ( fay a wage fer a lair day ' s work' ' through placingthe peop _' e on tha Btate church lands common lands , and crown lands . We will give yon home trade by thus erecting a class of consumers at home ; we will rescue your foreign trade , by spread , ing the doctrine of' all men are brethren '—and send ! ing the missions of peace instead of the armaments of bloodshed . ( Cbeers . ) Now , our terras are Uni . versal Suffrage , Vote by Ballot , No Property Quail , ficat i on , Annual Parliaments , Payment of Members and Equal Electoral Districts . ( Immense cheering from the ilall , and a storm of interruption from thi platform ) These are the terms ! Will yoa strike a bargain ! ( Great tumult ) Now , Sirs , we , will bave ths charter and yeu cannot prevent us-, but we hold out the hand of friendship , if you choose to take it . ( Uproar . ) Mr . _"Vliaii ha _^ told us we must not refuse the first step if we have to take a _ijumnr
Certainly , but I tell him if he takes broken-winded horses he will not got to the end of tha firat stage I want to put strong Chartist horses to the peop ' eV chariot , not poor _wherzing jades of _Whig-expedienov ( Immense cheering . ) Mr Miali says , will we refuse ' a boat if we have to cross a river ? Na ! But we Jn . few a , _eaky tub _toat will sink halfway ( lrotracted applause . ) I tell you , gentlemen ! tha people are not to be trifled with . The lives-tha hope 3 of millions are at stake—the fustian _jacketn were the firtt in the field of reform—they shall ba the hrst at the banquet of victory . ( Great cheering . ) We are not to be _caug _' _it b y s u g ared words ' If you want to _jiin us you know the terms ' . will
I not move an amendment because . I wish to leave you to your reflectionsand I wish to bring you to a cordial union ' But , remember , the green flag is in the field once more-we'll never furl till we conquer—we wish you to march as brothers » t our sides—but , if yon will not—remember ! we ean conquer by ourselves and don ' t b lamo us should 70 U be _forgotten in tie hour of victory . [ Throughout the abuve _gpeeeh the most violent and disgraceful interruption was contiuued almost incessautly on the platform , amid crowding and confusion . —whereas the publio had listened _resfestf ' _uJJy to mry speaker of tha League . ]
On the _Chairman _putting the third resolution , it wa 3 negatived by a vast majority . Considerable ex . citement then arose—the gentlemen on the platform becoming bo violent , thai several Chartists advanced tothe platform , when Mr E . Jokes then moved , and Mr _M'CARiny seconded a , vote of thanks to the Chairman , which web car _. ried by acclamation , order waa restored , and the meeting separated .
Forthcoming Meetings. Tower Hamlets.—On ...
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS . Tower Hamlets . —On Sunday next , another monster meeting will be held in Bishop Bonner _' _a-fields-Chair to be taken at five o ' clock . The meeting will be addressed by Messra Sharp , May , Shaw , and others . On Sunday evening , a lecture will be delivered to the tciddle classes , at the Wolverley Arms . Chair to be taken at eight o'clock . Somers Tow . v . —On Sunday evening next lectures will be delivered at the Bricklayers ' A rms
, Ton bridge-street , by Mr M'Crae ; at the Nottingham ArmB , by Mr Martyn ; and at tha Masons ' Arms , Britannia-street , _Gray ' _s-inn-road _, by Mr Dixon : on Tuesday _evening nex t , at tbe Jolly Farriers , Iligh-atreet , Camden Town , by Mr Vernon , and at the Olive Branch , St Pancras-road ; to commence at half , past eight o ' clock . On Sunday Iternoon , May 28 th , at tbree o ' cleck , a meeting will be held . in St _Pancraa Fields . —A meeting of the mem « bers on Monday evening next , will be held at Mr Doddridge ' s , Bricklayers * Arms , Tonbridge street , Ne _^ _-road , to elect local officers . Every member is requested to attend at eight o ' clock .
Mr S , Kydd ' s Route . —Todmorden , Saturday , 27 th : Leeds , Sunday , 28 th ; Halifax , Monday , 29 th ; Bradford , Tuesday , 30 th ; Sheffield , Wednesday , 31 st ; Barnsley , Thursday , June 1 st ; Elland , Friday , 2 nd ; Manchester , Sunday 3 rd ; Stockport , Monday , 4 th . Tab CouficiL of tho National Charter Association will meet for the transaction of business , on Sunday ( to-morrow ) evening , at six o ' clock , in W ils on ' s Coffee-rooms , next door to the Temperance-hall , Southgate . > The Members of the Chartist Assooiation . meet * - mgin _Butterfield-builditigi'will assemble on
Sun-, day , at six o ' clock in the evening . Clerkekwell . —There will be a lecture at Deadman ' s ( late Lunt ' s ) Coffee-house , Clerkenwell Green on Monday evening next , at eight o ' clock . An en ma s se meoting of the _inhabitants of London will ba held on Monday , June 5 tb , to take into considera « tion tho cenduct of the Whig government in tha case of Ireland ; and to sympathise with John Mitchel add the other Irish patriots , cow _fufferirg for their country . Lord John Russell and Sir _G . Grey will be invited to attend and explain their ronduet _* . Chair to be taken at half-past five o'clock .
Tower Hamlets . —A new locality will open on Sunday evening , May 28 _* h , at tho Suffolk Arms , _Boston-street , Hackney-road , opposite tho Nag ' s head . The meeting will be addressed by Mr John Shaw and others . Salford . —The officers of tho Salford branch of the Land Company will , in future , meet at the house of Mr Jo h n Ro bi ns o n , 1 , Jo h _naon _' _s-yard , near Cork-street , Chapel . _stieet , Salford , to receive subscr iptions and transact business , every Sunday afternoon , from two till four , and every Wednesday night , from eight to ten .
Warwick and Lkamikgton . —An aggregite meeting of the Land members and Chartists of Warwick and Leamington , will be held at the Portubello Tavern , Emscote , at eight o ' elook on next Tuesday evening , May 30 th , to elect officers , according to the new plan of organisation . Leickstbr . —The members ofthe National Char ter Association will meet at No . 20 , Cariey-street , on Sunday morning , tto enrol persons desirous ol becomin g memb e r s , from nine to ten o'clock . Liitle Town , near Leeds . —The Land members are requested to meet at the house of Mr Charles Brooks , oa Sunday , May 23 th , at ten o ' elock in the forenoon . The paid-up members are repeate d to pay their local expenses , otherwise they will not hava tbeir tickets placed in the _balbt-box . Bristol . —The general council of the National Charter Association meet at Mrs Snow ' s C _? _ff'erooms , Temple street , on Monday and Tuesday eveainge , afc seven o ' clock , to enrol members & c .
, _ Goib . au . —Mr J . Skevington , of Loughborough , will speak at Gotham , on Mo n da y , the 29 oh _matr on ' the People ' s Charter . ' A South _La-icashihe Delegate Meeting will take place at the Spinner's Arms , T y ld s le y Banks , Chowbent , on Sunday , May 28 th , previous tothe camp meeting . Delegates are expected from the following localities — Manchester , Royton , Shaw , Bur y , Boltcn , Wigan , Liverpool , St H e len ' s , Stockport , Rochdale , Oldham , Hyde Middleton , _PrescotJ , and Warrington . A Public Meeting will bo held at the John Ball publio house , Seven Islands , Blue Anohor-road , on Sunday morning , at ten o ' clock . Mr M'Grath will address tho meoting ; and on Monday ev iiin ? _, at the Fountain , New-street , _Horseiydows , _Southwavfc , _«' eight o ' clock
_Bethnal-Green — An address will be delivered by Mr _litasr , at the Albion , 223 , Bethnal Green-rea d . A Lecture will be delivorod by an eminent , advocate of the People ' s Charter , at tie _Wwiiiu _^ Brigade , tho King nnd Queen , 1 , Foley . place , _<>* bunday evening next , May 28 th , to _coamsneo _& eight o ' clock precisely . Tha members & re _rt-que-itea to attend at seven o ' clock . IJoxtoj _* . —A pubiie meeting will bo held ca _Mo _" day , June S t h , in the now Chartist asscmbiv _raoffl ) at _the Oak nnd Ivy-ter ? ace , II xfr _.-a Now ' iWn _.- " Mr Ernest Jones is expected to attend .
t Chartists of Bradford will meet in tluir various / ooalities a 9 usual , to arrange for thoaaupfil " of the New Plan of _Organisation . _^ _*^ _*^ _' * * _*^ ' _^ ' _* i \ _nfnrf If _MTiT , _tTTRlr 71 _rTTTYW > r ¦ _¦ ¦¦¦ -ntr _7-rimMJia-JH * 3—3
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 27, 1848, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_27051848/page/8/
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