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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1841.
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AND WILL BE READY VERT SHORTLY , PRICE ONE SHILLING , HYMNS FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP SUITABLE FOR CHARTIST CONGREGATIONS . rf iHIS is a desidaratum which is seriously felt , and ± it is booed that the present effort will be thought efficient to supply it . In order that some idea may be had of how many should be printed , it is urgently requested that all the several localities , throughout the Kingdom , will consider of the Number likely to be required , and send , through their Sub-Secretaries , to the Editor of the Chartist Hymn Book , 5 , Marketstreet , Leeds : pre-paying their letters , of course .
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CONVENTION . iJHE P&p VISION AL _ : EXECIJTI ¥£ TO THE PEoPLZ ° E ^ LA-XI ) , SCOTLAND , AND WALES . Bboxhbbs nr the Cake of Dotoeaic " . —in BOnseqnenee of the conflict of opnrisa regard' iag t _ e selection of ten persons ( from those nomir ^ ted ) to form the forthcoming Convention , we d < v not consider it right to have anything * t all ^ < jo with such selection ; tmt we would reeommen <\ &e following coarse to t _ e country : —Lst there or , -public meeting ealled immediately in every ^ wu ^ nd all the persona nominated submitted to e \ ch publio meeting , which meeting shall choose ten ' from th « whole list ;
let all returns be forthwith t ent to ' the —tutors ol the Northern Sfar , Scottish . Patriot , ' and Dundee Chronicle newspapers , who shall p * blisa a correct account of the whole proceedings . By this means , whichever ten would l _ ve the sanction of the greatest number of pf olic meetings would be the veritable repres * nt * tiv es of the people . This method , in our opinion , wo _ d be the best that could be adopted ; and we i ^ onfess we Bee no othtr P ^^ by which satisf-oiwn can be given to all parties . The public m eetings could all take place next week , and the result psblished in the above-named newspapers on Saturday , the 17 th instant , and the Convention vtset in London as soon as necessary afterwards .
We de not decline taking the affair into our own handsfrwn any direspect toany indrridual , bntbecause it might form a dangerou 3 precedent in an Executive body , by too orach power being placed at their disposal , and , in the end , bring them into collision with the people ; a cirstaastancB winch crust carefully be gn&rded agains .. We remain , your fellow-labourers in the cause of genuine Chartism , Jakes Leech , President . Jahjes Cartledge . Richard Littler . Johjt Camx-mklj ., Secretary .
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THE PROVISIONAL EXECUTIVE TO THE CHARTISTS OF ENGLAND AND WALE 5 . Fellow-Democrats , —We call upon yon to send li the names cf the persons you will nominate as candidates for the permanent Executive , by Saturday , the Sith instant , at tie farthest ; in order that correct lists may be made ont , and sent to each sub-Secretary . We -would \ ri _ you to bear in mind that we will not ( because "we cannotj be accountable for any nomination of any person , unless an account fee stnt to the General Secretary , of the individuals nominated , by letter . We do this to ensure -punctuality , and to prevent mi _ taies ; and then fre will get the whole list printed on circulars , and send one to e . vrh sub-Secretary , with ir «« str _ ctidns concerning the elections .
James Leech , President James Cabtlkdge . RlCHAEB £ l TTI . ES , Jobs Campbell , Secretary . All communications must be made to Mr . Jo __ Campbell , 13 , Adderiey-street , Shaw ' s Brow , Salford , Maiehester .
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FEOM OCB 1-OSDOS OOSBESPOSDEJST . Wednesday Even ing ^ April 7 th . [ A statement in my last week ' s communication ( relative to the Corn Law League ) having been declared erroneous ; by & letter from " one of the reporters " to the Weekly Dispatch , inserted in that paper of Sunday last , 1 beg to say , that my informant is in every Tray entitled to implicit belief ; and that , if there be any error in my statement , it- is abonf equal to this : —instead of bavi _ g used the term "bother , " I ought to have said *• fuss . " As to the fads stated by me , relating to "our cont « mporary , " I have oaly to add , that they were related to me shortly after the application , and before the meeting- So thas , dearly , the * error " is not of our maiiEs . l
Chartism in Loughboeough , Leicester , and Nottingham . —I have been favoured with the sight of a priv&ie Iciter from Mr . Vincent , dated " Nottingham , April 3 rd , " in which the following interesting passages ocsur : — ' Tnose who hope to crush Gnarnsm know but little of the spirit which now a&im&tes the people . During the past fortnight , I have visited , the towns of Leicester , Lcugbborongh , ftnd Nottingham ; and . the people in all these towns are speedily advancing in morality and intelligence , and in a desire to obtain their political and social rights . Persecution has not abased the _ 2 _; of the Chartist party . All is activity , and everything bears erlcecce to the onward progress of our cause . - - - - In Lonehborough , I delivered three
lectures to crowded audiences . Tnepeopie are miserably poor . The men eagiged in ids stocking trade are in & shocking slate of destitution . Many of them work from six o ' clock in tee morning till twelve o ' clock a * . ni «; ht , and Jo no : earn ( after deducting rent for frame ? , and other expeuces ) mom iham from 5 s . to 03 . a week ! Little children , of both sexes , are put to work as early as from fire 10 si _ years of age . These children work from six in the morning till nine at night . They can earn from ons chilling to one and ninepsnee a week . No time for education or moral eukure . All is toil , destitution , disease , and ignorance . The people generally are Chartists ; maiiy of them teetotallers . There is a Chartist Teetotal Society , and a society composed of those who are not teetotallers .
- In Leicester , I delivered four leeteres in the New Hall ; about 600 attended at each lectare ; niiny of the middle classes , including numbers of iadiss , were present . At the close of my 1 as : lecture , 1 administered the Chartist teetotal pledge to sixty-three persons . ---------In Nottingham , I have delivered three lectures in the large theatre . This is a famous Radical wvrn . Reading-rooms and libraries abound ; though some of them are unfortunately fceld-at public houses . - - - - - - I am delighted wnh the people oi
Nottingham ; and I may sai ' ely assert , that never did the Chartist cause look so nourifibing . " A subsequent letter says : — " I have had the devil-to-pay at I ) erby . Three rooms were engaged , and taken from us . Last night ( Monday ) , the town was all excue-Bient ; ihe market filled " with peopie vowing execrations upon the authorities . 1 wem down in a' fly 'the fly-man was threatened—I sent the people out of th 3 to vn , and mere disperse i them , insisting thai they must not allow their feelings to ge ; the better of their judgments . The authorities are beaten—the teetotallers have come tn thp . rescue—and have
in-Vited me to lecture on leetolali&m , in the Wesleyan Chapel , on Wednesday night . The chapel will hold 2 , ( KA ); and tyc s-aaii " nave it full . - - - - I JfcCture again in 2 vjriiii £ J _ am nex ; Monday aad Tuesday ; entirely at the request ei some ox tee workiag lasses—men -who have hitherto been our biutr opponents , " Ths Petition Commutee hell its * reeklv meeting it the ui . ~ p 3 . - ca c-iffee Houfe , Bride Lv ^ e / iast evening , Mr . Sirapsoa 32 the chair . The Srcrcury , Mr . Bails , read a letter ironi Mr . Huwes , M . P ., Btating tcs : he Arould pres ; nt to the House of
Comnoiis tie pennons on bmalf of O'Counor , Frobt , and the Charter , which had beeu forwarded to him for that purpose by the Committee . A ktier from Mr . Diincombe , M . P ., was also read , staling that the individual petixions he bad presented to the House vrere not injerted in the votes of the Houst . iD consequence of an informaijty , the pttitijners iiot having signed their names at ihe ead of the petition , at tcell as at the top . The Committee , therefore , request that their brethren will , for the future , « Jgn th-ir names at the end as well as at the beginning ^ of individual petitions . A great nucber of petitions were received by the CemmiUee , pr « viou 3 to adpurnmeat .
Destitctios . —Yzst numbers of poor persons are wandering aJxmt the streets of London , in a wholly destitute condition ; and such is their horror of the JSew Poor Law , and iheir aread of the workhonse , that soais or them commit petty depreA&tions for the rowed pnrpose of getting sent to Bride-well ; they eldom go far enough to « et hard labour a : tacb # d to weir sentence—and no blame to them ! We saw to-day , quite a Dew ri with an individad who was » few we *** since sentenced to gaol for begging He would not beg ; but armed himself with a ma- ' ion ' s trowel , & mortar-board , & * d a whitewash krash ; these were tied together , and « n the board WWB painted , in dear characters— " I want employ—« y children vtant breai . " " Ah , " said his , to a peeler , who told him to move on , " you cant auod Wt * ioi that , any how I" y
Stkkkt Acx : rDK 2 rrs . —This eveniig , about six •' clock , a htile girl , about seven years old , was Tossing Farringdon-street , near WaithmanVObelisk , when a gentleman , in a low pi seion , was driving &t a rapid rate from the direction of Bridge-sireel BlaekfriarJ . Ths horse knocked the pvjr child iMwn , and one of ( he wheels of the vehicle passed ever toe child ' s head , crushing it in a most frightful Banner . A crowd soos collected ' ; and , as some f the spectators attributed great negligence to die nstlemaa who was irivinf , he was for soaetise U danger of SDjamary vengeance , but ww , » t length , taken under tb « protection of the police , and the
• faild ifM coaveyed to a Burgeon ' s , near Farringdon-Maet , who prononnced her life to be in great danger . —About the sane time as ffie above , as one ti the London Parcel Delivery Company ' s c » nwyance carts was ascending Holborn-hill , it came a contact with an omnibus which was " descending , owing , it was said , to the nnskilf uJness of the carter . The result was , that the wheel of the conveyance eart was knocked from the axle ; the persons m the ambus got a clumsy jolting , bnt no material ffljnry ; but the Parcel Company ' s driver was thrown from Ms seat and serionEly bruised . It was seme rase before the "spill" svas cleared away , to enable jwneles to pass this awkward and dangerous thoroughfare . -
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Walwokth and Cambekwell Chabtists . —A toeepng was be'd on Moaday eTening , at the Rose and Cro ^ r ^ wonu Wd , for & »^ ctioaof S ^ ta-al business , and aiding in the getting u ? « the pabKc meeting to be told at White Comdmt House on Easter Monday , for whioh purpose a Bum of tnonej ' was voted by way of loan . The following resolution was also unanimously adopted :- ^ That it be an instruction to the Committee calling the meeting at White Conduit House , that a petition be sent to the House of Lords for Frost , Williams , and Jenes , ia reference to the points of law in the case of Lord Cardigan . " The cause of Chartism looks well in this locality . Several new membtri bavp . been enrolled , and the weekly meetings are we ' d attended .
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Christopher Dean , of Manchester , the Chartist chairman , was tried at the Liverpool Aseiy . as on Monday last , before Mr . Justice Maule . He was charged upon two indictments , with seditious conspiracy , unlawful assembly , &c , with the liev . W . Y . Jackson and others , at Manchester , to toth of which he pleaded gniity ; and was called upon to find two sureties in £ 50 each , or four in £ 25 each , to keep the peace , aud appear when called npon . Acquittal of thb Men Charged with thb Asbton Murder . On Tuesday morning , Mr . Wilkins addressed th » Jury on behalf of the prisoners , in his usual able manner , at some length . Justice Manle followed , and concluded a very lengthy and full address , by stating shortly the two views of
the case , the one that ol" the prosecution that the prisoners were the murderers , and against that view there were ma » y difficulties ; and the view taken for the defence that Davies , who , according to hiB own admission , was participating in the murder , with the two Hardwieks , who were mixed up with the transaction , were they , or some of them , the actual murderers , and that they , having opportunities in prison , had together conspired to make the charge against the present prisoners . If , considering the character of the accomplices and the positioa in which th « y stood , the Jury thought the confirmations were sufficient to support the truth of their statements , they would find the prisoners guilty . If , on the contrary , thsy entertained any reasonable doubt ,
they would give the prisoners the benefit of the doubt . If they entertained a doubt as to one prisoner , and not as to the other , they would make that distinction in their verdict . The Learned Judge concluded his address at twenty-five minutes before four o'clock , having continued it to a length of four bcurs save five minutes . The Jury retired , and returned in ten minutes , "finding both tho prisoners " Not Guilty . " They were then arraigned on two other indictments , one charging them with having discharged the contents of a pipe at Benjamin and James Cooper , on the 20 th of November and oth of December , with intent to murder them . No evidence was offered , and verdicts of acquittal were taken j and , there being ao other charge against Hulme , be was discharged .
The Northern Star. Saturday, April 10, 1841.
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A NATION OUT-LAWED BY A FACTION . STARVATION . A new contract has been executed between the landlords and the steamlords , whereby the people of this country have been handed over as so much surplus lumber , to be dealt with according to tho supreme will and pleasure of the three Somerset-House Iord 3 of the creation . . In the » ew contract , we find full and ample justification for * the most violent resistance which has been hitherto offered to the " damnable law . " We also find full and ample reasons and just grounds for the people ' s growing aversion to all classes placed in authority over them .
After seven years of national discontent , and , after having a fair trial of the measure , and after the strongest censure that popular indignation could cast upon it h& 3 been pointedly and incessantly expressed by the whole people , we find that the very evil most complained of , the irresponsible power of the Commissioners j has been magnified from the mere interference with local Guardians , and the capricious maintenance of the pauper , into entire and supreme contronl over all local bodies , making
those bodies , either mere creatures or cyphers , and a power over tho religion , education , trade , calling , and even oountry , of every Briton , who is first reduced to the level of degradation by the infernal machine . Thus have the people been handed over , body and soul , life and limb , trade and calling , to three journeymen paupers . Taste destroyed , preference set at naught , nature turned topsy turvy , and soe : al order shaken ta its very centre , by the very parties who are paid , and well paid , for perserving its harmony .
But , we are told , that it is yet the Briton ' s right to use all constitutional means for the repeal of this odious , unchristian , ungodly , un-English , unprincipled law . Let us now , for oaa moment , consider what this " constitutional resistance" means , and the odds at which constitutional popular resistance has to contend against the positive power of the makers of the law .
The people have met and petitioned , many have died , many more have been driven from tk « homo of their fathers to the Whig charnel-house , thousands haf e fled their father-land , in the hope of being able t » preserve a miserable existemce , for another-short period of misery in a foreign land . The sea-bound dungeon has rung with the piercing cry of the vi « tim of ambitUns lust , aad with execrations against the unholy law , which unbinds Bo : iety—diBsolves those tie 3 whic God has formed , and compels the pauper to exhibit the galling qualification of utter despondency and destitution , before he is thought worthy of relief . What other constitutional means ef resistance does this nation of helpless paupers possess 1 None .
What , now , are the powers by which even such constitutional resistance is m ; t by the advocates of the law ! It i 3 made in their Honss ; it is supported , defended , and upheld b y their nominees opposition to h is tried by their judge 3 ; its constitutionality judged of by their law officers ' , paid by their vote with the people ' s money ; decided upon by jurors of their creator es , to vrhom , in return for confidence , they render them supreme power of being judges of the constitution ; judgment is given
against the constitutional opponent Of the law , by their jndges ; the strictest rules of prison discipline are enforced against the virtuous hater of the law , by their inquisitors , in . their bastiles ; the enemies of the measure are denounced by their press !!! In what , then , we would ask , consists the Briton ' s right of constitutional resistance 1 Is it in the right of spending nine months in solitary Confinement , in a felon ' b cell , as 0 'Con . nob is now doing , for the following bix lines , called unconstitutional , libellous , and illegal opposition \ In the Star of Dec . 22 nd , 1838 , the following sis lines appeared : —
" WaRHIXSTEB . Bashle . —A little boy , last week , for tome small offence , was confined in one of the cells belonging to the above workhouse , and was literally starved to death . Tha poor fell ow , daring bis confinement , actually ate , in consequence of hunger , two of his fingers , and the flash from hia arm . " Now , for these six lines , taken from another paper , and upon which O'Connor was convicted by a Jury of money-mongers , Mr . Justice LlTTLKDALB told him that , taken ia conjunction with the other verdict , he Bhould divide the judgment of the Courti that is , nine months for each offence .
Again , will any man in his senses believe that Thorkhill ' s incarceration of his oM and ' iithful steward , just at the time when his present might have been fatal to the re-enactment of the Bill , was other than a Whig contrivance , at a substitute for a verdict of Guilty , which they knew they could never get against Oastlkh , in Yorkshire , without too palpably packing a Whig Jury , * to the ' exclusion ot every particle of Tory feeling . Yes , yes , thus it is that the friends of the poor—the constitutional opponent * of the measure , are victimised , equally with the paupers themselves .
We have been sincere in our denunciation of this measure , and also Bincere in our expression of belief that nothing short of Universal Suffrage can for ever crush that monst er . In this belief we have been fully oonfirmed by the " artful dodgers , " led on by the redoubtable Mr . Chronicle Easihope . This dodger boasted , as we have before shown , that the Whigs outbid the Tories in hunbng ; but what was the upshot ? Why , that while we find the faid " artful dodger" Eastsopk , proposing a ckp-txaa
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amendment , as to the time of ibe Ino&ter ' s ^ uiktion , and which he wo » ld . never have prop < , [ haa fjuc < s ? 8 B -been at aljl oalculata ? u& 6 n r ** find h }^ rating ^ in Commirt ^/ 4 n everj m&jority to co&fer Addition ;! power upon the triumvirate , and additional poignancy to tho measure , and increased Buffering and degradation to those whom necessity shfcll compel to look for relief . If , by the late sham fight , the Tories have been unmasked , as % party , the Whigs have be « n discovered as a set of unprincipled " dodgers . "
0 / the Hibernian tail , we have only to say that , throughout , they have shewn their consistency , love of the English poor , and regard for civil and religious liberty , by handing over Catholics , Dissenters aad all , to the tender mercies of a Law Church ! How will th « Right Honourable Richabd Shiel , the Right Honourable Mohb O'Fbbrali ,, the Right Honourable David Pig » tt , and the Right Honourable Thomas Wtsb , all honourable men , jmtify their votes npon the question !
Fielde . n deserves the full and unqualified thanks of the nation at large , for his uniform and consistent opposition to the hell-born monster ; while those to which Duncomde , Waklbt , and a few others are entitled , are much diminished by their miserable support of the originators of the Bill upon all touchand-go measures . They , together with a number of our half-and-half outside friends , remind us strongly of that party in Athens which was
considered the most infamous , namel y , those " who endeavoured to keep well with all parties , and ventured with none ; " or , as we have described them mere than once , those " who run with th » hare , and hold with the hound . " Our position is this : that if the measure merits all that 6 overo censure which Duxcohbe and Waklet have so unmercifully heaped upon it , they , as supporters of its supporters , deserve all the oiium attachable to accessories before and after the fact .
We do not expect a repeal , or any relaxation of the law from a Tory House . As far as regards the inside passengers , it has become a mere perch for stragglers to perch upon , on the dull eve of a general election . None but Pielden have shown themselves haters of the law for the love of the people . Many , very many , it is true , have opposed it strenuously , but none have devoted the soul to the opposition , but that ono single solitary individual . What chance , then , have we from the House , and " constitutional resistance ?" None , none whatever .
In what , then , consists the nation ' s hope , and the chance of the monster ' s death ! In the nation ' s self—in making it a spur to the Charter—in vowing eternal , everlasting , Indomitable vengeance against it . How \ Why , we have lately had Sunday meetings ; Mr . O'Connkll has boasted that he ' held one within gun-Bhot of the Horse Guards , and he held another upon tho plains of Kildare . Let us profit by good example . Dare the Whigs allow constitutional meetings ; for repealing a Legislative Union , and obstruct and declare those meetings illegal , which are held for the purpose of cementing God ' s union ? No : we dare them .
Then , as tho poor are too hard worked upon six days of the week , aud as wo look upon the law as an ungodly la . w , we must confer together for the maturing and adopting such means as will allow the whole people to turn the Sabbath to the Christian and holy work of uprooting and constitutionally overcoming the machinations of hell . We shall not offer any undigested or illegal plan for thus devoting four or five Sundays to an exhibition of English feeling upon this subject , but we shall take council to mature a plan which shall be legal and constitutional , because , the infernal act must be constitutionally resitted , and , " the better day the better d » ed . " The whole Act should be burned bv the common hangman .
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EMIGRATION . Emigration and starvation are twin devils ; " Siamese youths" of the infernal regions : and hence we find a new struggle for emigration made cotemporaneou&ly with the re-enactmeut of the starvation laws . Let us take a retrospective glance of the parties by whom the Poor Law Amendment Act was conoocted , with a view to discover whether or not any of those parties had a strong interest in the measure , in so far as it could be rendered a powerful auxiliary to assist in raising the value of their foreign possessions , at the expence of a compulsory abandonment of their father-land by the English people .
The law was concocted and introduced by the Grey cabinet ; Edward Ellice , M . P . for Coventry , is the brother-in-law and mouth-piece of Lord Gbet ; he has little « r no land in this country , but is possessed of immense Canadian property . Ellice is uncle to the Countess of Durham , and the late Earl would not accept of any office savo that of uncontrouled , but undefined , King of Canada ; he also was in Eluce ' s leading strings . Lord Howick is
son of Lord Grey , and nephew to Eluce , and gives to Government a very crooked support upon all questions save those of starvation and emigration ; but upon these points he goes * the whole hog " with them . Charles Wood , M . P . for Halifax , is son-in-law to Lord Grey and nephew to Ellice , and he also runs in couples with HOWICK , and is a staunch supporter both of starvation and emigration . Iu fact , Eixice is a kind of house steward mouse of the cupboard of the Grey family .
Now , in brief terms , what was their object in passing the starvation Act ! Was it not to insure the transportation of the wealth of this COUntry , rendered Burplu 3 by machinery , and desperate by insults and degradation , in order to confer an in creased value upon their foreign possessions , rendered valueless for want of population ? Is not every acrd of Edward Ellice ' s land in Canada increased fifty per cent , in valne by each ship load of white slaves , who are banished , by starvation , from their native land !
If any man doubts the interest which some powerful parties have in emigration , let him read the following audacious and mendacious article , which we give from the " artful dodger ' s" paper , the Chronicle , of Saturday last . He Bays : — '' Now that Canada fs tranquil , and that the differences with the United Status no longer wear a menacing aspect , the stream of emigration will , from various obvious causes , set in more strongly than ever for that interesting portion of our colonial empire .
" We have perused with the greatest satisfaction a most able and interesting publication , drawn up under the direction of the Canada Company , by their Secretary , as we are informed , which ia sold by Smith and Elder at the very moderate price of one shilling . The title of the publication , to which we would direct the attention of all who wish for correct information as to the real stats of things in Canada , is ' A statement of the satitfictoiy tesulu ¦ which have attended emigration
to Upper Canada , from the establishment of the Canada Company until the present period ; comprising statistical tables , and other important information , communicated by respectable residents in the various townships of Upper Canada , with a general map of the Proviace , compiled for the guidance ot emigrants . * Emigration to Canada ought to be set about as soon as tbe St . Lawrence is opon , for if the emigrant , is not on hia laod * in the early put of the summer , he cannot successfully contend with the lone winter .
" In Ainenca-generauy , and Upper Canadaiaa highly favoured province ; every industrious labomrer may soon obtain a competence . The man who in this country can aever hope to < o more than keep himself cut « f the workhouse , may . by removing to Canada , by the mere exertion of hu them and sinews , become in a abort time a substantial yeoman . The tale which this publication tella is calculated to" carry joy into the cottages of these islands , where at present many strong-armed meu carry on a cheerless straggle , day after day , with privations amounting almost to famine constantly staring them in the face . B ^ nerolent individuals should circulate the publication extensively throughout the rural districtfl , that well-disposed , industrious men may be enabled to profit by the body of evidence presented by the Canada Company . " In the introduction we are told , that
' In order to obtain Ute intelXigetux— thai its fidelity and accuracy might be tstablished btyoml the reach of cavil or aapitien— they procured the instrumtnla . ii y of IQme of the most influential , longest settled , and respectable Etn-
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fc&itatas , klsi&mgUn ix& ui& p&is of the province , to colled the nwmry infomattrn ; They vxrt directed to ¦^ re neither trouble nor expejtce to ^ procure t he -pitst mimOeranSlfditVfiii rvhurris . * ) . . , ' ' , ' "'¦ ¦' ¦¦ The accounta are truly gratifying . " Aye , > the accounts are truly flattering , but not flatteringly true . Then follomra manufactured tale of profit made , and property amaised , by settlers , in a period of little more than ten years , and with which a common shop-keeper in England would not be half satisfied , and yet they are manufactured for the mere purpose of decoying the young birds . But we give the whole pudding for this one plum which it contains : " The man who , i » this covnt&t , can
NEVER HOPE TO DO MOBE THAN KEEP HIMSELF OUT of thfi workhouse , may , by removing to canada , by the mkbb exertion of hw thews and sinews , become , in a short time , a bubstantial yeoman . The tale which this publication tjeixs is calculated TO CARRY JOY INTO THE ^ COTTAGES OF THESE Islands , whebe , at present , hany strong armed men carby on a cheerless struggle , dat after day , with privations , amounting a 1 h 0 st to famine , constantly staking them in the face . "
There , then , is the working , the hard working man ' s share of the first ten years working of the " Great measure , " and , from it , let him guess what his share of the next ten years will be . This is honest of the " artful dodger "—this is mlly putting the Poor Law Amendment Act to its intended purpose . A few mote such articles as the above , and we fear a return of " the torch and d agger-men" will be the result , and then Howick will cry " Fire , fire , fire—now you must hold . "
Good God ! was there ever insolence equal to this , that says , struggle as a bard working Englishman may , the most he can expect is to be kept just out of the " workhouse . " This is moral force emigration ; and , let it be further observed , that the whole system of emigration is to undergo purification . Loud and constant complaints have been made , by the white-slave-merchants , that the scheme has partially failed , ia consequence of those entrusted with its management , prevailing upon bad instead of good characters to emigrate , and we have the assurance that , henceforth , more circumspection will be used , and that none but " ticketed" men will be allowed to fly their homes . In other words , every honest man is to bo forced oufc of his country .
In the distance , and not far off either , we see the following events rapidly preparing for us . We see the Jews about to take possession of the mortgaged lands of the landlords ; , we see the landlords robbing the Treasury and the Savingb'Bauks , to put their foreign houses in Australia and Canada in order , and sending the best men they can procure , before them ; wo see the refuse made slaves by tyranny , and villains by slavery , marched in chaingangs to the mill and from the mill , under the protection of the" civil-power * ' with musket and bayonet ; we see the land , not wholly uncultivated , but not a
tenth-part cultivated under our noses , ecause the money-monger , who will own . £ 5 , 000 a year of landed property , will own from £ 20 , 000 to £ 100 , 000 a year of slave property , and therefore , it will bo their interest , if they cannot accomplish their end by any other means , to throw £ 5 , 000 a year away for £ 20 , 000 a year , by making the food of their slaves as cheap as possible , and soiling the produce of their labour as high as possible , thus destroying all native agricultural industry . To this conclusion we must come , in a very short period , if the progress of starvation and emigration is not stopped by equalization .
Pending the struggle , however , it 1 a our duty to take care that thoae who may be banished , bo not lost for want of advice . We , therefore , recommend t ' uose who have money , and who wish to emigrate , to go to America , and those who have not money we recommend also to go to America . If they go to Canada , or Australia , they meet with branches from the blasting , blighting , destroying Upas tree , which has driven them from house and home , and , if they go to America they at once become their own masters .
With regard to the accounts of the success which attends emigration to Canada , nothing can be more false or vile . The fact is , munh more nearly , that one half of the poor who have gone thero have died of cold , and that many ot the other half have begged their way into some American State which suited them as to climate . We have not the slightest pity for the landlords ; their days are numbered , and they themselves cast their own lot . No power on earth , but tho Charter can save them .
An audacious attempt has been made by the press to separate the new powers given to ex officio Guardians and other irresponsible bodies , from the spirit of the bill , and to persuade the people to swallow the pill , because some of the powers given to the Commissioners , under ths old law , have been considerably abridged' , while the fact \ 3 , that where they had power formerly , which , in some cases may be disputed now , in those cases their word is law ; and where responsible bodies had the power in other cases , now that power is vested ia irresponsible agents . The Bill , as a whole , cannot be otherwise
considered than as a sale of white flesh , by landlords to steamlords , let economists call it what they please . The power of certain parties may be less under the old than under the new law , but the power of the law ia a thousand times more oppressive . Such a law as this , fifty years ago , the Boroughmongersdare not have passed , andthepeople would not have obeyed . What has cowed them ! Machinery , distrust of each other , and competition for a mere livelihood , which has created class distinction , even in the very poorest ranks of the contending operatives and weavers . Wait till all are equally destitute , and then all will be equally valiant .
The further consideration of the BifJ , it will be seen , has beon postponed to the 3 rd of May , and Lord John Russell , fiuding that Borne of his clauses have beeu damaged , proposes to produce several Tithe BilU as ridera to tho monster .
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m ~ SCHOOL HAS BROKE UP . THE BOYS ABE GONE HOME . ' * 3 oy be -with ttaeia ancl a bottle of moss ; If they never rome back they'll be no great loss . " To attempt any review of the works of the lads for the past tin weeks , would be but adding insult to expence . Suffice it , therefore , to Bay that , in that ghort period the " Reformers" have turned John and Judy Bull ' s hard cash , by some " harlequin , andism , " into "paper kites ; the moral force , re . trenching , peace-making Commons have voted about
one-half of the rental of the land of England to soldiers and sailor ^ arid the economists have sold the people , dead and alive , to Poor Law Commissioners , " ex efficio Guardians , and emigration Committees , and all this , while our leading journals have been fighting a Pusey battle for England , a nonintrusion battle for Scotland , and a non-enfranchisement battle for Ireland . So much for the first act of the ninth Reform Session , and now for our
ahare . The prisons are still full . Dankz . ia preparing to deal a heavy blow at the Whigs and Whiggery ; he has got all that he is to get , even to his share of legal appointments in Jamaica , for which young John contended , as the right of the Irish patriot ! . Pan sees Peel ' s move , and knows what he is to expect from it , and he has flone ta put "his house in order . " And well the Whigs Have helped him ; and if their return is not what every one kaa received who has confided in the Honourable Gentleman , why , as he says , " Nabocklish "—never mfnd it . Now , then , let us put our "house in order , " so that house may be ready to meet house when the struggle
comes . It will be seen that Glasgow , always foremost in the good fight , and always prudent , has elected a delegate to the Convention ; and , with characteristic caution , has ako undertaken both the payment of his . expences and salary . The men of Glasgow view the coming Convention as we riew it—aa a grand stroke ,
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which should not be badly aimed , or feebly dealt . They say wa are not prepared—neither IF ' -iTic country prepared—let us , therefore , delay the project till the 3 rd « f May , itt order to insure its full value . ' TbisiB not "despotism , * ' but ' . good , sound , rational Scotch sense . In this transaction , our duty is to obey , the peoples' to command . Let the people , then , speak out , and at once , and aay whether or not they approve this , ohango ; and , . if bo , let us have the names of all delegates elected , transmitted to us at once , that we may lay th « m in order before the country .
Sutherland , it will be seen , is preparing , but is not raadyj bo are many other places ; therefore , claiming our full Bnare of citizenship , we . unhesitatingly declare , in favour of the view taken of the subject by the men of Glasgow . However united the general feeling may be , one thing is quite certain , that the arrangements ara not completed . We find that Hull , and Leicester , and other place * , have , much more despotically than O'Connor , elected the whole Convention . Thte , in the first instance , if generally adopted , would have been a very fair and satisfactory mode , but it was not according
to the proposed plan . Each place is to elect one delegate , and to send that delegate to London , and to beax hia expences back from London , Bhould he be chosen by ballot as one of the ten , and , while in London , he is to receive £ 3 a week as his wages . Let every place which has elected a Delegate Bend us at once the nam « of the Delegate and the date of the publio meeting at which he was elected for publication in our next . In the mean time , we have the pleasure to ' announce that the petition promises to be muoh more numerously signed than the National Petition . of
Now one word as to ^ he value our plan bein g well matured . Firstly , the several delegates can arrange to take with them the several sheets from their respective districts . Secondly , those sheets will have time to be fully signed . Thirdly , the London Committee should instruct Mr . Duncombe , or some other Member , to move , firstly , for a return of the names of the several persons convicted of political offences in the year 1839 , together with the offences charged , and the . sentences , with the name of the Judge before whom the
parties were tried ; and , also , a return of the several persons sentenced throughout England and Wales during the same period , to be confined in any of her Majesty ' s prisons , amd the period of their confinement , with the orimes charged . Secondly , a return should bo moved for of the legal expences paid for political prosecutions , for that period , and alao for a return of the legal expencee paid in criminal cases , during the same period . Thirdly , a return of all persons hald to bail , with the amountjof recognizances , distinguishing eaoh offence with which the offenders stood charged , whether | for political , or crime by common or statute law .
Now , these returns will speak to the House in the language which the oountry will understand , and they are absolutely necessary for Mr . Duncombe ' s guidance , and for the people ' s satisfaction . When we name Mr . Duncombe , we merely do so for brevity , as , of course , our London friends will make their own arrangements in that respect . From these returm we will , we promise our readers , make the sins of Judge Jeffries , though red as scarlet , white as snow-, by comparison with one , only one of our modern Daniels , ( not O'Con-NELL . )
Suppose , then , the Convention meet on the 3 rd of May , they give the country , and their active MeAber more time for returns aad arrangements . The delegates have a better opportunity of assisting the general object in their several localities , and in collecting knowledge and opinion to bear upon the questions vnhich th « y will be called upon to discuss . Wo know that some parties feel sore to the quick and wouBded to the core by this new movei because
it will terminate in the utter extinction of all " lights" but the true light , in the metropolis . The old pilots and river-pilots , see no chance either of a job or profit from the people ' s job , and they are literally paralysed . This Convention will unite the veritable country party with the veritable metropo-. litan party , and must create a union for action never before known to exist in this country . We hope , next week , to publish the names of sound country delegates , no" cock-tails , " we say again .
Go on , then , with the petitions , about which thero appears to be some misconception , many parties having applied to us for printed headings , while printed petitions are not received by the Honourable House , and only one heading is necessary , or rather two , one for the men , and one for the women ; we implore the Iadie 3 , one and all , to assist with their fair hands .
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THE CONVICT MITCHELL . The life of this unfortunate youth has been spared , and , W 6 think wisely and justly spared , for although his life , young as he is , surpasses in atrocity that of any man , of any age , of whom we have heard , yet we were bound only to consider his part in the act with which he stood convicted . In our last we announced that we were in possession of his narrative , which , however , -we forbore publishing during the life of the convict then about to die . We shall , however , now present it , as a wholesome lesson of advice , in about two columns at a time , to our numerous r «» a < ler »; aud when wo tell them that this youth confesses to have been guilty Of MORE THAN X THOUSAND robberies , some accompanied with tho greatest violence , and many with extraordinay results , before he had attained , his seventeenth year , we may at once declare him to have left Robin Hood , Turpin , Jack SHEPPARD , and all the tribe of vulgar villains far in the shade .
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THE "GOLDEN SUN" AND HIS ANGLOSAXON FRIEND , UPON THE LIBERTY OF THE SUBJECT . The Strand luminary , determined sot to be outdone by the " Artful Dodger" in rendering good service to his masters , has this week published a letter from a very freeman , who writes himself down as an Anglo-Saxon , " upon the law of public meetings . The Saxon friend recommends that in all towns the Mayor ( as he is a County Magistrate ) shall preside , ex-offioio , and that he shall commence by having the police in
attendance and the military in rea diness to deal summarily with . the movers , seconders , and bacVers of all amendments proposed to amti-Corn-Law or other original resolutions , for which the same meeting shall be . called ; merely leaving to the opponents of any proposed measure the right of negativing or affirming the Mayor ' s propositions , but no right , by resolution or amendment , even to declare their own . The Mayor , our " Anglo-Saxon " declares , shall be fiqle judge of what is legal and discreet . This beastly thing in this beastly Whig rag , requires bo comment : not another paper in England would have published it , but our friend ' s
columns are , we fear , become a refuge for the destitute . Suoh , then , ia henoeforth to be the golden rule of the golden Sun ' t new acquaintance for taking stock of public opinion . The man must be a fool t » Vf rite , and the Sun must be mad to publish such jargon . Does not every child of twelve years of ag « know , thai upon a motion made in the House of Commons , that the debate apon the eivil lut be resumed , an Honourable Member may more as an amendment that the Chimney Sweepers' Bill be proceeded with . But what amendment ao pertinent to a proposition to repeal any bad law , as one to get the means of . repealing all Toad lawsl
When the " £ ¦« » " altitudinal height Had illumined the " bum " of the Mayor , The Chartists beginning to sweat , Cried , " Dang it , what smoke from the chair I Ob , Wungo Yonnif , Mungo Toung , Wterefore art thou , Mango Young t
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FIRST TICKET SHOW MEETING AT THB CROWN AND ANCHOR . We last week reported the First Ticket Show foi the season ,, at which one single Chartist , Mr . Watkins , attended , and where he conducted himself in every respect , as » gentleman ; and we would point that gentleman ' s attention to the manner ia which he has been treated by the press and the Unionists ; while the Greenacre Chronicle dwa not condescend even to mention his name . They > an | supremacy , not union ; power , not equality . —Hn humbugs !
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Mb . Watkins trusts that those who sent forcopist of "John Frost" have reecived them ; aTuf h $ requests others who may wish for copies ^ t » apply in time , as the printer must soon disperse hu types . Geok . ce Whliam Machin Ellis , Brighton , wishet his name appended to the Chartist Total Ab& ~ nence Address .
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The Monet from Bradford , per J . Siavely , should have beenfrom "Daisy Hill , per J > StavelyP Wm . Umpleby and J . Janson . —We do noi stll them . Thb sum 10 s . for Convention , noticed from Deutbury , should have been , " 6 s . from Daw Green , and is from Deursbury . " To Agents . —The price of the paper with ptate thu week toill be 6 d . to agents . The papers of all those whese accounts are not settled will bt stopped after this week . POLITICAL PRISONERS' AND CHARTER CONVENT 10 I FUND . £ S . d . From Castle Donnlngton , Leicestershire ... 0 7 0 _ twenty "Working Men of Temple
Cloud , Somerset ... ... ... 0 14 8 ^ Pratt-street , Eirkaldy , per R . Taylor 3 00 „ a few Friends at Hnnslet 029 _ J . Sunderland , Harescroft ... ... 0 1 < J „ a Friend ... ... ... 0 0 e * ' _ Bradshaw , near Bolton 0 l ( j ^ . four persons at Wakefleld ... ... 0 3 0 ^ the National Charter Association , Mansfield , per D . Farquharsen .... 0 8 1 «» the Friends at Bronipton , near Northailerton ... ... ... ... 0 1 i „ thirteen Chartists , Little Horton , per J . Alderson ... 0 3 _ Canker well-lane , Leeds 0 0 7 .. J . Dowson , Heading ... 0 j 0 _ the National Charter Association ,
Kidderminster ... ... 0 6 0 ; « . D . Ireland , Donfermline ... ... 0 10 0 « , the Raucliff ArmB , Nottingham ... 0 3 0 „ the Newton's Head ... 0 2 1 | „ New Basforct , by Mr . Wright ... ... ... 0 2 0 „ New Radford , by Mr . Mason 0 2 0 ^ Bingham , by Mr . Huskisson 0 10 0 .. Stapleford ... ... ... 0 2 9 1 1 10 % Post-order , &c . ... 0 0 4 j _ . 1 1 « _ , Hebden Bridge Chartist Association 0 7 8 „ Weavers at Bumber Bridge and at „ Bindle , per G . Hal ton , Preston . ... 0 9 I „ the Female Chartista of Daw
Green ... 0 0 9 ¦ „ Saml . Badgeley , Daw Green 0 2 6 j , Frederick Hunt , ditto ... 0 » « 0 3 9 _ Bradford , Wilts ... ... ... 0 5 0 „ the Political Union , Letham ... ... 0 2 6 „ twenty persons &t Abergavenny , per Thomas Ingram ... ... ... 0 15 9 J „ Kettle Radical Association , per J . Moves ... ... ..-. ... 0 5 0 FOR THE WIVES AND FAMILIES OP THE 1 NCARCEBATJB CHARTISTS . From Booth . Tows , near Halifax , pet B . Wilkinison ... ... ... ... 0 5 0 „ Wandsworth : per C . Westerton ... 0 4 0
FOR MBS . CLATTON . From Hanley , per J . Yates ... ... ... 0 13 OJ „ Wandaworth , per C . Westerton ... 0 i 0 FOB . THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE . From Leicester , per T . Cooper ... ... 0 i 0 FOR PRESS FOR J . B . O ' BRIEN . From Castle Donnington , Leicestershire ... 0 2 0
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HAWICK .-A meeting of the stocking-makers —the most numerous body of workmen in ™ T ? ' ~ was called on Tuesday , to consider and oense * remedy for a number of grievances . It » P ^ «« that a number of themanufacturera have , beea m tne habit of frittering away the wages of their wori ^ men in the most mean and paltry manner , more esueciaUy when any dullness of trade gave them more power over the men ; and all *!»» « I . *™ SJ and robbery enacted by men who are loudest intne outcry for the repeal of the Corn Lf ^ and we tending all the while it is all for the Rood rfth * working classes ! The meeting . resolved tojuue » fund immediately for the protection of thejrlabour their only property-frpm the grasp of these hypooritioal Whig corn-oraiks .
SOCHDALE .-The election of P < x > n ]* £ Guardians has terminated here without » ^ "f ' tbe list proposed by the 'Chartiste ^{^ adopted . There are eightem in number , sateen of wLom are ChartistAnd two ^ or ^ - ^^ termined op ponents of the blessed boon , wniofl is detested by all parties . TODMORDEN .-The marter ^^^ of Todmordeir- have had two or three "MWjgfcJ take into consideration whether j * ^ ^ JgJ * a t « itn « A-thA waires of the operatives , or to run w **
day 8 per week . ° So » e m for a redaction ^ - wagesVand some for short time ; but ^ they gjjjj adjwrn for a fortnight , so that they •" gj'g fufl time yet . The verv man who wg " « Jgj chair at a raeetra * of tne CoraLaw % * JJ ™ firat to speak for a reduction of w « e »' , *^ fS clearly tTbat it is all humbug *^ H ^ SS the interest of the workkig men ^ t h eart , , ^ wa same worthy made use of the ^ Uowinx erpnnag at a meeting held at the Spring G ^ Xa wfc * " * means nothing how toon my workW ° " % ^ fr to death , for there will bo pfenty more wpn * ** iheir places . "
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Thh Nkw Poor I *^^ JPBK 2 wF sitionsof the witnessea . examined ™ " ^^ o 7 trates at Bp ^ eater , ag « Mt J ^ ep . themM *^ ^ Hooniuon workhouse , who , U ^ bawmeinwrw was charged with various « ta . of « rudtj ^ ehildren under the care ^ of jKSESSofih ? as required , duly forwarded to the M * r ° ««« J » £ mancy . Tarreceipt of , ^ CSuJy * bS to lodged by a letter from the ' N « W » j * S 8 S 5 AW haa ^ ufi ered the ^ ues jo vMjffiUa
soMEothe HSri ^«« f « jBfiW in the case . Miles still " ^ " ^ . ffiSb * astffS&pS ^ TgSSfes ssiiftMss . . sssM ffe RoeWter , have Bince bean . . . fw ^ SffiB ¦ 8 We * W guessed by whom ) mth impri 8 owa «» 8 W falsely against him .
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NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . * We now publish the list" « f nominations fdf The General Council , so . farianWe have received them . The people have certainly taken time enough to deliberate upon : the' choice « f their men ; at we only , received several of the nominations thi week . - If all have jbeen done in accordance with the cautions given iu a > former mug . ber of the Star , the election to be BOW
taken is merely formal , and each sub-Secretary will hand in the affirmatoxy decision of the members resident in his locality at oncfl . No time must be lost ; The declarations of election from every place mu 3 t appear in next week ' s Star . After which , the next duty of the Association will be the nomination and election of the Executive Committee who must be chosen from amongst the members of the General Council .
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4 THE NORTHERN STAR , _____________
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 10, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1104/page/4/
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