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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1841.
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F. O'CONNOR TO MR. HENRY HETHERING TON, ONE OF THE SHOPOCRACY .
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1 STAX OYEBTHROW OF THE MINISTERIAL HINIOXS AT XEWCASTLE-VPOXTYXE . I fai informed by an agent ot the WhigB that they intended to try tho Mayor to convene a public meeting < rf the inhabitants to adopt the Anti-Corn Law Petition , sfc BeTsn oVloci , P M ., to giTe the working cistsses an -opportunity of attending , and if be acceded , that , they would not placed the town until after two o ' clock of tile same day , that all the working men might be -gone from dinner . But his worship would not grant them thy boon , bnt called the meeting for Friday , one O ' clock P . M- 28 th ifay . a day of the week of all others
the most inconvenient for men that had work to attend , tad at an hoar that none could come without making a great sacrifice . Soon after twelve o ' clock , the Gaitdhail was densely crowded by the working classes and Others , the bench Wai occupied by inch persons as intended to take a part in the proceedings . Soon after one o ' clock , the chief acton in the play , such as Mr . lockey Harie , Mr . Alderman Losh , Mr . Justice Phillipmm , Mr . Greenham , Mr . Allhnsen , Mr . Charles Kayne , Mr . Charnly , ic surrounded the h # nch ; they looked blue when they saw such a number of " workies * arrayed before them .
Mr . Harle said he hoped the working classes would act attribute the meeting being at this hoar of the day fco the persons who got up the meeting , for he could assure them that the whole fault lay with the Mayor , who would not call the meeting at any other hour , and tt the Mayor could not attend himself , he would more thai Mr . John Kayne should be called to the chair , Vfcich was allowed to piss without opposition . Mr . Rayxe read the bill calling the meeting , and Bid he hoped every gentleman that addressed the meeting w ^ a'd hare a patient hearing , and that they would be unanimous in their , desire to repeal the Corn and Provision Tax .
Mr . Alderman Losn moved the first resolution ,, which was in effect , " That the Corn Laws were injurious to the working millions and prejudicial to the interests of Commerce , and ought to be abolished . " He made the most unconnected and confused speech ever uttered by % Councillor . He wished to tell us that the tax upon bread amounted to fifty millions annually , and was Wrung from the people to enrich the landlords . Mi . Christian Allhcses seconded Mr . L- " s resolution , whose reniarfe generally , as well as Mr . L ' s , " were principally directed to conciliate the industrious classes , and bo endeavour to dupe them into a general npport of the ministry in the deplorable predicament In which they are placed . ¦
Mr . Maso > ~ ( Chartist ) rose to move an amendment to the resolution , which went to show that a full and fair representation in the state to the working classes was the only effective remedy for the great evils occasioned by tie Corn Laws , and for the redress of the manifold grievances under which the industrious classes laboured . He entered into a long argument which showed that the repeal of the Corn Lavs alone would not bent fit the labouring classes , but the great capitalists ; that it would sot induce the continental countries to discourage their own manufactures for the sake of encouraging the British manufacturer ; that it -would seriously injure the landed proprietor and agricultural labourers , and reduce all whe depended upon agricultural prosperity to the worst condition of pauperism , for which the infamous Whigs had prepared already splendid bastiles all " over the land . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . M . concluded an energetic speech by exposing tUe true character
of the present Corn Law agitation , and expressed his decided opinion that it was got up for the sole purpose of keeping the worthless ministry in office , &nd that their only object in bringing forward their resolutions on the sugar duties and Corn Laws was to deceive the people , as they had hitherto always done , and that he would not now trust them again , nor would he consent that they should make their claptrap measures the means of deceiving the people as to their real principles . He also adverted to Lord Melbourne ' s memorable declaration , that the men would be mid who attempted to repeal the Corn Laws , and ridiculed the idea that they should now be caUed on to help Melbourne in his official difficulties , by entering upon the mad carver of agitation , which the ministry Wat now endeavouring to get up throughout the country . llr . M . was loudly cheered throughout his address . Mr . SINCLAIR seconded Mr . Mason ' s amendment
Mr . HaRLE replied to Mr . Mason , or rather Tended a tirade of abuse in which there was neither argument or reason , after which he i-.-quested of Mr . Mason to let his amendment go as a separate resolution , but as Mr . Masan would not accede , the Chairman tried to put the original motion first , when Mr . Mason contended that the amendment should be put on the motion , and if negatived , the original motion should then be put . A allow « f hands being taken , the amendment appeared to have the majority , but as the Chairman seined unwilling to decide which party had the majority , it was proposed that they should nil go down to the body of the hall and range themselves on e ^ ch side . I afterwards learnt , from good authority , that at tho time
the arrangements were making for the division , that Harrison ( the Whi ~ man of all works and several others , had gone among the Bhcps , warehouses , &c , canvasiing fur men to come to vete for them . . A 11-hasen and several other masters , paid their ~ m = n a day " s wages for attending to vote when the signal was given , and to hiss when a certain gentleman in black who officiated in the capacity of fugleman , cut a certain caper irith his hand . The Quik-r ot Friar ' s Goose had his men therp , so properly trained and drilled , they went and told the QniyMde labourers , that if they came and voted on their side , that they wonld reniunsrate them for loss of time . Several pieces of eilv « ¦ were given to indnce men to coiaa to their side of the room .
AfWr the Whigs got all settled , at about a quarter to three o ' clock , wh ? n the most of the working men that had work to go to , had to be at work , the Chairman , from an eminence , viewed both parties , and declared the nnjority , although small , to bs in favour f the original motion ; and I believe that one third of the ministerial side did not know what they were Totinx for , having been in their stalls until summoned by t )> e Whig heralds ; but this they knew , they were paid for their services . A result so unexpectedly fortunate to the Whig Corn clique , was received with sevenJ roor . fls of cheering . They became less timid in expressing their ideas in the presence of the honest working men , and chuckled heartily at their late triumph , but a haughty look often precedes a fall , as the ssquel will shew -was the case with them .
Mr . Gfi £ E > HAM rosi and moved the second resolution , wL : ciJ said something about the merciful intentions of Proviutnce being impeded by the Corn Laws , but there was such a noise that I could not hear the whole contents . Mr . 6 . extravagantly praised liberal men and liberal measures , eulogised the ministry for their great boons to the people , and smacking his-lips , talked energerleaUy cf the advantages of receiving French win&s in exchange for the manufactures of this country . So much was he transported with the quality of the ¦ wine , that be handed his spectacles to the Chairman , instead of the resolutions , and lifting the resolution , which at a distance appeared rolled in a triangular shape , to his Lead , went through the maroeavres of drinking a glass of wine to the great amusement of ill who observed him . Mr . Pollard seconded the rtsoluUon ., but very prudently did not ent * r into any of the intoxicating quaiiiiBS of the Ministry .
Mr . MaSON denounced the allusions to the merciful Intentions of Pr-.-vidence as a gross blas-phemy , and protested against the generai tenor ol the resolution , but suggested no unendrneEt . The motion was put from the chair and carried . Mr . Locket Hable proposed the petition for the adoption of the meeting . As Mr . H . was going to read the petition , the R ? v . fugleman seeing the agitated state Mr . H . was in , plucked the petition out of his hand , aiid was going t « read it , when Mr . H . retook it , amidst the convulsing laughter of all present ; even thos- thit were paid for hissing for them all day , joined in the laugh . Mr . H . would wish to make the people believe that the Whtes -were their best friends , and had always stood forward as tha friends ot liberty .
¦ several voices asked at once if there was any friendship in incarcerating hundreds of the honestest men in England , for no otutr ieason than wishing to be free , and 'wishing the accursed Whigs to do something in tke shape of justice to the starring millions . Whrre is Frost , Wiuiams , and Jones ? Where is O'Connor . O'Brien , &c . Are there any signs of friends of lii > erty in their conduct to them ? Wh « re is Ciayton , wham they niar-ler-rd , it 4 c ? Where are the knights of the pestie . Sir J . Fife and lir . Headiun ? are ~ they friends of liberty' Where is Charley Larkin ? where is the her « of the Forth ? Where is the knL ? ht ? Sir John is a knight ! where is the shabby turn-coat ? The people became indignant at Mr . H . ' s presumption , and would hear no more from him .
Mr . Phillipson seconded the adoption of the petition , which the Coairman was aboaJ to put to the meeting , when a scene of cenfusion ensued which baffles all description . Stveral working m » n , in fustian dresses , denounced the base Ministry for prosecuting Chartists for political agitation , which the * Whigs themselves first taught them , and were nsw attempting to revive , so as to enable them to delude the people , and cheat them out of their just rights . They had isai'i Mr . F&nlough ) only on Tuesday night last , on Mr . DiincQmbd ' s motion for an address to the Qaeen to pard » n political prisoners , stepped is to stay the prerogative of mercy , and their pauper Whig Speaker , a man named Lefevre , gave his casting vote against the motion . . , The Chairman made another attempt to submit the petition to the meeting .
Mr . Cook ( Ciartist ) rose , and in a very eloquent speech , in which he recapitulated many of the infamies of the Ministry , moved that the following resolution be incorporated wi ; h the petition , viz : — " That whilst this meeting is of opinion that the Com Law is bad in principle , and unjuit in practice , itill it has no confidence in the sincerity of her Majesty's Ministers , it would , therefore , humbly implore your honourable House to exercise your power in eaasing the Sovereign to drive har present advisers from her councils , and make a selection of honest men for hex iJinialeTS , who vrill not only repeal the Com Liwg , but ¦ will abo take into consideration the propriety of rteJoeiag the debt cvteil national " Mr . Mason , in a verr able and appropriate speech , neonded the resolution .
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The Chair . » an sal I that it could not be incorporated with the petition , signifying that it was inconsistent with the resolution that me adopted . The poor wall thrashed Whigs became again as ciopfallen as they were at the unexpected array of the industrious classes . At one o ' clock , coaxing and blarney were then resorted to , to induce Mr . Cook to relinquish bis addenda being incorporated with the petition . The trick however failed , notwithstanding tha earnest entreaties of Messrs . Lackey Harle , Greenham , Charles Rayne , Lash ; the Chairman , &c Mr . C * ok still retained his integrity , and insisted that his resolution should be incorporated with the petition . The Chatrhan still continued to refuse to put the amendment in connection with the petition , declaring it irrelevant , and inconsistent with the object of the meeting .
Mr . Byrne then rose , and , In a very able speech , proved that it was quite relevant to the principles of the petition . He contended that if the object of the projectors of this meeting was honestly to petition for a repeal of the Corn Laws , it was quite consistent to adopt the addenda of Mr . Cook , in connection with the petition . He came not there to screen Ministers in their villany , but to expose fraud in whatever quarter he believed it to exist . He owed much to the Whigs : he owed them three months' lodgings , and he was determined that they should be at no lots by him , for as soon as he had it in his power he would pay them with Interest . The Whigs were confounded ; they had sent their voters on the former division away . The Chartist * were apprised of the roguery used on that occasion , and were determined to force the Whigs to be honest for once in their lives : the heralds were arrested in theii
attempts to summon their minions . They bad no alternative ; the Chartists would not move a peg from the position they had taken , and the Whigs , with the tear in their eye , consented . . The Chairman submitted Mr . Cook ' s addenda to the meeting , and four-filths of the hands then were held up for it The Whigs made a grand retreat , and in the confusion they lost the petition and all the resolutions , which accounts for me not giving . a verbatim copy of the resolutions and petition , with the exception of Mr . Cook ' s .
We are determined to watch them , and to protest against any other petition being imposed on the Commons as emanating from the inhabitants of Newcastleupon-Tyne . —Correspondent
The Northern Star. Saturday, June 5, 1841.
THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , JUNE 5 , 1841 .
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WE ARE TWO MILLIONS , AND
SOMETHING MORE . Thb observations which we purposed making upon the all-important National Petition presented to the House of Commons on the 25 th of May , and conveyed to the bar of the House upon the shoulders of working men , have been in a great measure forestalled by the letter of Mr . O'Connor , which we this day publish upon the subject . Nevertheless , there are reflections other than those contained in that letter , to which the whole proceedings must give rise .
This document , the most numerously si / jned ever yet presented to the House of Commons , is laughed at , scoffed at , ridiculed and derided ; and after being made the sometime butt for aristocratic Peer and speculator , the merits of its doubted prayer are discussed in double quick time , while the presentation of such an array is not considered worthy a single line of comment in one newspaper throughout the land . In fact , a stranger to our mode of conducting proceedings in the " Honourable House , " would be led , by a perusal of the English press , to
suppose tha ; such a petition constituted a necessary portion of each day's debate . That it was a common thing , a usual thing , an unimportant thing . While this mighty " silent monitor , " the reflex of Chartist moral force , is thus unceremoniously treated , we find double the space devoted to the discussion upon it , bestowed upon a clap-trap motion of Mr . Easthope ' s , which immediately succeeded it , for leave to bring in a bill to humbug the Dissenters and assist in his ( Mr . Easthpes ) return for Leicester . Whatever the Parliamentary title of the Bill may be , the return of Mr . Easthope is the grand object
. But what of the serpent appears most conspicuous in the whole proceeding connected with this most mysterious affair ? Thi 3 . While we find the proprietors of the two " leading journals" " pairing " on , in order to avoid the damage which neutrality would inflict either personally or on their respective parties , we recognise the real motive ior the act of eaeh in the silence of their journals .
Yes , yes , the country is wide awake now , and knows enough to be assured that if service to the prisoners had been the objset of either Walter or Easthope , their columns would have supplied aid to their vote , but inasmuch as the whole was a forced bid for popularity , eur good friendB the " fustians" still remain of the opinion that Walter or Eastbopb , having the casting vote in case of the life or death of every prisoner for whom they felt so much sympathy , would , without hesitation , vote for the hanging of all those in custody , and for otherwise disposing of all those Chartists at large-Of this no man in England of common sense entertains a moment ' s doubt .
But let us ask if it was right or just , or , what is just now far more important , was it expedient , thus to treat the moral exertions of a very powerful , & very outraged , and insulted party \ Is it prudent to add derision to insult and oppression ? Let those who speak so much about the torch and dagger take heed lest they really provoke their use . Again , is it prudent just sow , or expedient , to laugh at the
petitions of the people at the very moment when the Noble Leader of the House of Commons sets a time specially apart for the mere purpose of ppeakiug the national will through the medium of petitions ? But mayhap , the lone of the petition ¦ was not to the tune prayed for by the Noble Lord . Not one paper but the Slar published the petition , while we find every scrap from hole and corner meetings , and Common Council meetings upon the question of
' COMMERCIAL REFORMS " Pompously paraded in every paper , and their petitions set forth at full length . Now , we ask , was this treatment fair or prudent ? Or wa 3 the most made of such an opportunity afforded to the Whigs for the expression of contritioD , sorrow , and repantance , for having abandoned such support for the exeruci&tiDg and murdering caresses . of Tory perfidy ? Ays , aye , courtship of perfidious friends and neglect of real ones has been the " Alpha and Omega" of Whig folly , and even now being determined to " die gime" in the
language of Lord Palmekston , which we take to mean that they are resolved to commit suicide with a blunt Tory instrument , they and their journals are even now in the last hour of the iast day , madly admitting the fact , that they are fearful of being guilty ef an act of retiibution to men whom they confers , have already suffered ton much , lest tfte act ihou'd subject them to Tory taunt , and Tory suspicion of courting popular favour J Poor fools ! had they courted papular favour instead of Torj support , they would not now have been in a glorious minority in their own packed Parliament . The
Whigs hare lost this opportunity , which fickle fortune in a fit of kindness , threw in their way as a last resource . Much might have bean mad 3 of the monster petition . If England had an Alfred , he would order the Petitions of 1839 to 1841 to be made the supporters of his Throne , and sitting between them , and with , an arm resting upon each , he wonld receive the Ministers and Ambassadors of all threatening Monarchy and say , " Behold , go tell your master that yon saw the King of England sitting
npon his Throne surrounded by his people . Tell him that in his dominions you saw no barracks , but many sentry-boxes , that in the streets of bis metropolis you saw no regimental soldiers , but many detachments of the great national army , of which behold the " muster roli ; " say that when he ballots , it is not for martial service , bat for domestic duty—net to see who shall figlit as an unwilling serf , but who shall remain at hom 8 to keep watch and ward—and that so great ia the en-
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thusiasm of his people , the man on whom fortune ' s lot lights as the peaceful centinel , esteems himself insulted by fate , as all burn to flock to the standard of their chief , when summoned to the defence of his people ' s liberty , their country , their families , and their homes . " Such is the use which a constitutional monarch would make of the M master roll" of a nation ' s strength ; that in our day , and with our legislators , one Honourable and Gallant Gentleman " splits hairs" about its legitimacy , and the House splits factions about its constitutionality , while the hostages are still in dungeons . But , treat it as they will , we are
TWO MILLIONS , AND SOMETHING MORE ! and death alone can Btrike a single name from the regimental roll of the noble army of Chartists . The following is a list of petitions , with the amount of signatures attached to them , presented to the " House , " from the commencement of the Session to the 20 th of May ; and whioh we extend to the 25 th , that we may adorn the rude file of" broad cloth" with
TWO MILLIONS AND TEN THOUSAND FUSTIANS , for the release of Chartist prisoners , the return of Frost , Williams , and Jones , and for making the Charter the law of the land !! It will be seen by this return that the "Fustians '" Petition—got up in the teeth of all intimidationis nearly four times as numerously signed as all others put together : —
PUBLIC PETITIONS TO MAY 20 . Petitions . Signatures For Proposed Sugar-duties 22 - > . 1 , 718 Apinst _ _ _ _ 43 2 , 767 Against proposed Timberduties w . ™ ~ « . 12 ~>~~~ 652 For Repeal of the Corn Iaws w . «~ ~ . ~» 2 , 066 599 , 095 Against «^ « . « . 636 35 , 120 For proposed Measure on Corn Laws _ _ 15 5 . 198 Against « . „ 136 9 , 592
For Revision of Importduties -. -. « . 104 39 , 368 For proposed Measures on Import-duties — ~ . 490 110 , 603 Against _ - _ 2 408 For Release of Political Prisoners , the Recall of Frost , Williams , a . nd Jo . nes , and the enactment of the Peopled CHARTER ~ ~ . 1 2 , 010 , 000
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THE MORNING CHRONICLE AND THE " GREAT COMMEHCIAIi REFORMS . " We have before noticed that our friend the Chro ' nicle invariably selects the last , or the secoHd last day of the week for the publication of a "lie with a circumstance , " in order that it may pass current with us poor country bumpkins , for at least ten days . We select the following passage from the Chronicle of Friday Ia 3 t , ( we write on Thursday , ) for present comment , and as illustrative of Chronicle practice . The Chronicle
says" The manufacturers do not wish or expect to lower wages by lowering the price of corn ; but , on the contrary , they exptct that wages will riise , because employment will be increased—and that , in point of fact , the Corn Laws inflict a double injury on the working man , by diminishing the demand for labour at the very same time that they add to the cost of living . " In addition to these facts , it would be shown that the Corn Lairs have already driven us from some of oar best markets ; that they cannot be continued without losing those which we at present possess , and sacrificing our foreign export trade of £ 35 , 000 , # 80 a year , which gives employment to upwards of two millions of our population ; that they are no less injurious t'i
the home trade and to the revenue , by obliging the labouring classes to spend more of their wages in food , and less in clothing and other comforts—that they are the occasion of the ruinous nuctuatiens in the money market , which have occurred regularly for the last ten or fifteen years , whenever we have had a bad harvest —and finally , that we have come to the point when we have no longer any choice but to break through our restrictive system , and adopt a sounder policy , or to see the manufacturing and commercial greatness of Britain pass from her hands into those of rival nations , who do not tax tlie necessaries of life in order to protect class interest * , atid to strengthen an arisiocrati * faction .
" These are facts which the Tories can neither dany nor explain away . Can we winder that they shrink from a discussion on the Com Lvws as they would from a pestilence ?" After having perused the above , let the operative reader take the following bold assertion from the leading " anti-Monopolist , " for dissection : —He says , " The manufacturers do not wish or expect to lower wages by lowering tho price of corn , but on the contrary , they expect they will rise . " Now here is a positive , not a relative position . The Chronicle does not say , that under the contemplated scale of duty
the value of wages relatively to the consequent price of corn might be increased . No such thing ; but he says at once boldly , presumptuously , and foolishly , not only that wages will not fall , but that wages will rise ! If , then , wages do rise , we ask our friend what is to become of the £ 35 , 000 , 000 now derived from our foreign export trade ? Will high wages create lower prices for the produce of the operative ! or will the increased price brought about by a rise in wages induce our cheap producing neighbours and customers to buy our produce at a laucy price to square with a popular "tariff ?"
But we like figures . The Chronicle estimates the numbers to be directly beneStted by a " Great Commercial Reform " at 2 , 000 , 000 . We take the census as correct ; and will admit , for argument ' s sake , the propriety of sacrificing every thing to the most convenient method of making 2 , 000 , 000 slaves workfrom morning to night for the benefit of some few purseproud slave masters . Well , then , suppose tho object to be to give , not to sell , but to give , corn to those 2 , 000 , 000 . How much does the Chronicle suppose that they the 2 , 000 , 000 wouJd consume in a year ! Let us allow live to a family , or any number , it matters not , as we mako our calculations by the
single mouth . But suppose five ; 2 , 000 , 000 quarters of wheat per annum , would allow nearly five stone of flour per week to each family oT five , and which at forty shillings per quarter would cost £ 4 , 000 , 000 sterling annually ; to that amount then , even if gratuitously presented , would the actual slave producer require the sti < ff of life . " Yes , yes ; " say the monopolists , "but then see the vast quantify which all other persons would consume . " They would so ; and for the purpose of giving it to then ) , ( who are the rich classes , ) cheaper , the 2 , 000 , 000 must work cheaper in order to undersell all their rivals , else must the whole export tradi * be stopped .
Let us follow this portion of the question up a little . One would rea'ly suppose thut ihe operatives were to be eiernally swallowing bread and evacuatiag bales of cloth , or that the foreigner would kindly take more of our produce than he required , m order that we may Lave as much of hia bread as we wished for ; and thaJ ali Europe w « uld forthwith be devoted to producing corn for the purpose of purchasiDg coats , breeches , shirts , waistcoats , and other comparative luxuries , at a higher price than they could gel the same articles at home .
Now , we beg to assure ihe Chronicle thai a very small portion of Normandy , on the banks of the Seine , lying between Havre and Rouen , would produce more than all the operatives in EDgland could consume ; and lei us even go further , and argue from precedent . It never strikes the "anti-moaopolists " that any great advantage contemplated by England , from free intercourse with other nations , must be sanctioned by those other nations ; and while our
rulers are speaking of destroying monopoly at home , they are actually laying tho foundation for an extensive and universal monopoly abroad . They may require a precedent ; and we furnish it in order to show how the rulers of every country will either by " ad valorem " duty , prohibition , or fixed duty , make the most of their tuple commodities , dead or alive . Thus . The emigration of mechanics and artisans from England was formerly prohibited .
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The exportation of their tools was prohibited ; the exportation of machinery was subjected to » heavy tax . and much of our produce toheavy duties . Why was this ! Because they were articles in which we had an advantage over our neighbours , and for which we consequently made them pay . Well , then , let the monopolists once bring Britain to that position when she will , * be wholly dependent upon her foreign customers not only as consumers , but as producers , and foreign rulers will Bay , according to precedent , I must levy % tax upon that article of food which I find you require from us .
Now , suppose a case . Suppose the Cora Laws were repealed to-morrow , and suppose America , Ruttia , Prussia , Poland , Germany , Holland , Belgium , Turkey and France , all set out upon the speculation of supplying the increased demand . Would not , in suoh case , the farmers on the banks of the Seine , who could shoot their produce from the barn into a steamer within a twelve hours passage of OBr ports , undersell those at a greater distance , paying heavier freightage and insurance , by at least 7 s . per quarter 1 and we a 6 k would those who could supply us cheapest and with
all that we required , take our goods in retnrn for their produce ! What would Mr . JEasthope say to the manufacturer who attended the arrival of a French vessel from Havre , Dieppe , ; Calais , and any other of theoontiguousFreneh ports . laden with whmt , for the purpose of purchasing the cargo , who should say to the French merchant , " you must take goods in return , or else I won't purchase your corn ; the Americans , the Turks , the Russians , and others take goods in exchange . " Would not the Frenchman say , " well , if you don't , here comes a speculator who without reference to the two commodities , will
buy as cheap as he can , and will yet make a profit by retailing the cargo at prices lower than those at a < tfstance can sell ; and he will pay in cash ; and let me see whether your two million operatives will take so many yards of their manufacture , to exchange with the Turk for dear corn , or so much of their wages to exchange with my customer for cheaper corn . " What in such an emergency would [ the Government of the nearest producing countries do ! Why just this . They would have their Corn-Law League ; and the Kings of France , Holland , and Belgium would say , ** we must have a fixed duty upon our exported corn . France can export at so much per quarter cheaper than such and such places , and
can actually run across in three hours with a supply to meet any demand . Holland , in twenty-four hours , can do the same ; therefore we must have our sliding scale , and put in oar pocketB the difference between the price at which our land can furnish it , and the prices at which the most distant can supply it . " Prussia and Germany would have their sliding scale , and then would John Bull be compelled to pay the very highest price at which the most distant of his growers could supply his breakfast , dinner , and supper . In the midst of all this confliot , it would appear as if England alone was to progress in manufactures , and all other countries
were to become '' smashers , " and destroyers Of manufactured goods , for the mere purpose of supplying 2 , 000 , 000 of English operatives with cheap bread , while the fact is that England is at this moment exporting prodigious quantities of her most improved machinery , and , as soon as England , with her drag-chain of a gormandizing oligarchy , quits her hold of monopoly upon any one artiole , her neighbour will embrace the earliest opportunity of grasping it . It is a contest between the rival factions of the earth , the committee of monarchs and their satellites , for the subjugation of popular rights and liberty ; and before anything
permanently beneficial can be done , we must all start equal under the law , and then we shall hear of no anti-Monopolists , as there will be no monopolies to oppose . This subject has never been made familiar to those for whose advantage it is boastingly offered and they have discovered that God only helps those who help themselves , and that the masters having very abundantly helped themselves , appear hitherto to be the favoured of providence , but in proportion as the people help themselves , in the same proportion will the Almighty smile upon them , and join them in their righteous work . The Chronicle concludes thus : —
" These are facts which the Tories can neither deny nor explain away . Can we wonder that they Shrink from a discussion on the Corn Laws as they would from a pestilence ?" We , as Chartists , have not only denied the Chronicle ' s facts , but we flatter ourselves that we have also explained away his fallacies . So much for cheap wages , by which the English slave is to undersoil the < foreign slave in his own market ! In fact , ' the whole schema is a pitting of the
working classes of one country against those of another country . We trust , however , as we have m 6 re than once said , that we are not far from the period when we shall see a congress of working men of all nations meeting annually , to devise means for the preservation of peace , law , and their ordera noble substitute for a congress of kingly tools , who have met for tho purpose of shedding blood for the ascendancy of faction . The Charter is the only repealer .
TREACHERY AND SUICIDE OF SIR KOBERT PEEL . "A long day , my Lord . " Oun readers will now bear in mind our several hints about Peel and Stanley , and the horror which the Right Honourable Baronet saw in being prematurely pinked forward by the hungry hounds of his own pauk . In confirmation of all we have said , let his course be now watched , and who can , for a moment , doubt his object , and his treachery to his party .
Unassisted by Sir Robubt , the Whigs must inevitably have died a natural death ; but , well knowing his own dissolution would speedily follow , Vie assuxed the bold and open man , ( which neither becomes him or sits comfortably on him , ) for the mere purpose of saving himself , by saving the Whigs for another season . The debate goes on , as the ministers are speaking against time and the quarter day ; while we have very little doubt that the artful opposition of the leader of as wily a conscience as ever haunted man ' s breast , will drag to their support all the old rotten fragments , ever ready to declare big upon abstract principles , but to fly to the cry of the Whigs , ( id . est . i " our seats and our pockets are in danger . "
Peel has done this with his eyes open , and has thus put another prop under limping , hopping , hobbling Whiggery , that he may " rule in hell" with all the delights of forcing others to establish precedents for his future acts of tyranny , without being himself a responsible agent . There breathes not on the earth a more wily , artful , sleek , oily , and cold-blooded politician than Peel—the Right Honourable Sir Robert , M . P . for Tarn worth . He would prefer a pound to commit an act of popular injustice , to a guinea to do an act of substantial justice to the people .
We never can meet the Conservative army openly so long as it is commanded by its present retreating General , who only gives battle when he may secure a personal triumph from his party ' s defeat . Victory was within the reach of the Tories , but Peel ha 3 told them his policy is—by keeping men in , you keep them eut ; juBt as the ladies say , " By repulsing mea you encourage them . " What are the odds in the event of Peel's motion being negatived , " That little Jack Homer Don't come from the corner " And speak as follows : —
" Siry—The nation having , at this eventful crisis , again , through its representatives in Parliament , registered its confidence in her Maje 6 ty ' s Ministers , we should , upon our part , bnt ill requite that confidence by abandoning tho country , just as personal danger and responsibility threatens us . ( Iudescribable cheering . )
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* Sir , —I now state that her Majesty ' s advisers will not desert their Sovereign , her people , or their trust . ( Renewed cheers . ) " But , Sir , finding that we are in advance of the country , and that an immediate appeal upon the gigantic reforms which we hare propounded would be taking the country by surprise , arid that considering the many interests at stake in the proposed alterations , we have thought it our duty to continue in our very unenviable position until the full weight of national judgment shall have bees thrown into the Ministerial scale . ( Tremendous applaum , which may last for many minutea . )
** Sir , —When it is further considered , that an immediate appeal to the country would interfere with the approaching Assizes , and with the harvest , —( hear , hear , and cheers , )—I feel assured that our self devotion , by remaining in office for twelve months longer , will be justly estimated by the country . ( Loud cheers . ) " Sir , —My Rt . Hon . Friend is now prepared to satisfy the House as to the manner in which he proposes to get over hit present financial difficulties . " And then comes Baring , the Rt . Hon . Francis , Chancellor of the Exchequer , with the " old hat" ( a lump of Exchequer Bills ) to stop the hole , to keep the Whigs in and the Tories out , and so may end the farce , when
" Imperial Robert , dead , and turn'd to clay , May stop his hole to keep the wind away . "
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" CORN LAWS AND COMMERCIAL REFORMS . " The following is a list of the most recent discoveries of Liberal Depots , by that praiseworthy and energetic antiquarian and navigator , Professor Easthop £ , who is now upon a voyage of discovery in quest of Whig Land , said to be seen by Captain Pabby , but of which very little information is contained , either in his or Captain Cook ' s voyages .
. _ _ . It will be seen from the Journal and Log-Book of the gallant professor , from both of which we give copious extracts , that he has encountered heavy gales , and has had many hair-breadth escapes , " being more than once driven upon the Chartist rocks by the prevailing winds , known in that latitude by the name of Tory squalls , and which come on very suddenly , appearing as if they sprung from the depths of the ocean . But to our extracts ; we begin them with : —
" Farringdon without St . Sepulchre ; [ an awful name , it should have been reserved for the last ;] Hackney ; Paddington ; Town Council of Liverpool ; Town Council of Hull ; a Cambridge Correspondent ; A Huddersfield Correspondent ; a Hythe Correspondent ; Dover ; Feversham ; Newcastle-Emlyn ; [ not Newcastle-upon-Tyne—there the good ship struck upon a Chartist rock and damaged its keel . ] Lime Regis ; Aberchirder ; Peterhead ; Kelso ; Preston-pans ; Woodside ; Leslie ; Girven ; Dunbar ; Ward of Portsoken ; Wick ; a Man cf Kent ; Civis , and a bread-eater ; the Wilts Independent ; Windsor Express ; North Wales Independent ; a Bilston man ; Rugeley ; Ajlesbury ; open air meeting , in a house without a roof , at Romford ;
Leamington , in Dr . Jephson ' s medical labaratory ; Lewes ; Guild of Dundee ; the Anti-Bread Tax Circular , alias , the Young Liar of the North ; from the Scotsman of the 26 th of May ; St . Anne ' s , Limehouse ; St . Luke' ? , Middlesex ; Chelsea pensioners ; Liverpool , continued for a month ; [ Pot-house at ] Stroud , [ having been licked in the open air ]; Pollokshawd ; Torquay ; Clayton ; Northampton ; Town Council ; Wednesbury ; Dunblaiue ; Kinross ; Kincardine ; Mortlake ; Liverpool , still sitting ; Portobello ; Haddiugton ; Markincb ; Galston ; Largo ; a subscriber to the Chronicle ; Agricola ; Gatton ; Old Sarum ; East Redford ; Parish of St . Luke , Middlesex ; Parish of St . Botolph without , Aldersgate ; a Correspondent at Walsall ; a Correspondent at Sheffield ; Ditto at High Wycombe ; the Aberdeen Herald . "
" To be continued in our next ; " ad interim , be assured , Mr . Professor , you will fail in your object , You have Chartist rocks and Tory squalls to contend with , now , in every inch of your course . Yoh are a good Whig , but a bad politician , and a worse navigator .
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~ - ~ ^ mm - ~~~~ r . PUBLICOLA AND THE CHARTISTS . Publicola , who has recently become a pure Whig , and nothing more , most ludicrously informs us that he is a Chartist and " something mote . " That our ignorant readers may judge for themselves of " Publicola ' s" principle and logical powers at the same time , we submit the following extract from his letter of last week , under the head
"CHARTISTS STAND BY YOUR COUNTRY , " And introduced with the quotation from Nelson , " England expects every man to do his duty . " Uuder these banners , " Publioola" writes thus : — "If a Whig will not pledge himself to all these , ate the Chartists to fly to the Tories , that will pledge themselves to none ? Let them get the most that they can . With some of the six points of Chartism I by no means agree . I am thoroughly disinterested in my disagreement . lam enamoured of the Ballot , Annual Parliaments , No Property Qualification , and Electoral Districts ; but because I like these , I dislike Universal Suffrage , on a conviction that it would destroy them all . As to the sixth point , the Payment of Members .
I hold it absurd ; and it never deviates from absurdity , excepting into mischief . Do the Chartists mean to say , that a disinterested candidate , who went the four points , and gave substantial reasons for not gtingthe other two , onght to be opposed , and this in favour of a Tory , who gave up no point at all , and whose principles and practices were diametrically opposed to all of them ? It is almost Impossible to suppose any party so infatuated as to pursue such a system . Such doctrines create a suspicion that the Chartists have enemies in their camp . Permit me , Mr . Editor , to say , that the Chartists' principles and doctrines do not go half far enough for me , aud at any election I would vote for a Chartist candidate ; but I would not be so infatuated as to vete for a Tory , or Whig , or Radical candidate , because the Chartist did not go my length . " Now , we have only to ask , was thsre , ever a loai of rubbish shot on " Chalk Farm . " equal to-tbu '
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" A Chartist , and something more , " and oppo ^ firstly , to the whole spirit—indeed , the , only spin which the Charter breathes , Universal Suffrage , and , again , opposed to the only measure of detail ' 11 the payment of Members , * by whioh a free choice under "Universal Suffrage" could be secured ! But , " Publicola" is a Republican , and yet opposed to Universal Suffrage ; and the Chartists don ' t ea
far enough for him . Poot "Paradox" i Wehavelatel j monrnedlonnd the principles of the" Great Diipafcyi and of Publicola" to be guided by the principleg of the Times . Whatever the Times is , " Publicol *" is resolved not to be , and nothing more ; and if the Times came round to the thirty-nine paradoxical articles ef our friend to-morrow , he would , we tett put on new political spectacles , and see error in every opinion that he now holds .
We have marked this governing power , orer the rnling passion , " vanity , " ever Bince the rejection of Mr . Habmeb by the citizens of London ; and now , before it goes too far , we would merely say : — Turn again , Publicola ; Lord Mayor of London . Turn again , Publicola ; Lord Mayor of London . Turn again , Publicola ; Lord Mayor of London .
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Sia , —I am honoured with another letter from you , in type , ready tor insertion In jour own paper . Immediately upon its receipt , I sent for every number of your p » nj published from the commencement of the " new move . " I never saw one of them before ; and judge my honor my indignation and scorn for you , upon finding tag you had not published my answer te your letter , while I published both . O , you immaculate lover of Uit play , what will the country say to that I Nay , mote , you-sent slips to many journalists , wh # published yom letter , fcut not one published ray answer .
Now , I merely write these few line to inform yon , that as yon complain of my last being published along side of your first , I abstain from interfering vith your second till next week . Your poison shall remain in the stomach of the country , and your triumph in your brain , for that short period , when I will jppj . the stomach pump to the former , and will give you head . suoh a thump against the wall you have built in your own path , as will addle your brains , if yog have any ; but will , at all events , raise such a boms in . your forehead as will enable all young phnnolo . gists , as they pass you by , in pity to exclaim , "Mr £ SE , what a fool ! " Yes , Sir , I will raise tin bump of folly on your front .
Till Saturday , I admit every word yon say , and claim credit for each ; and then I shall show that you , » know lege-monger , have fallen into trouble , simply from not understanding the difference of meaning between the two words—circumstances and facts . Circumstance is a substantive , and means something appendsnt , or relative to a fact ; accident , something adventitious . Fact means a thing done , reality , action , deed . Now , Sir , while Mr . Hill was merely speaking of circum stances on the 10 th , I was speaking of facts on tb » 24 th .
As to Mr . Whittle , the new Editor of a new paper , his motives will be easily seen through ; bnt I promise him a lick also . I fiyht you all ; I will not present a dignified silence . F . O'Connor .
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POST-OFFICE ORDERS . —All person * sending money to this Office by Post-efflce Order , are especially requested to make their orders payable to Mr . John Ardill , as , by a recent alteration In the Post-office arrangements , any neglect of this would ' cause us a great amount of trouble and annoyance . The Manchester Radicals . —I feel some apology due to our hard-working friends of Manchester
for the very unceremonious and uncalled-for criticism on the phraseology of their resolution , which was most unwarrantably affixed during my absence from the office , and without my knowledge or authority . I am fully of opinion that the hateful Whigs richly merit all the opprobium that can be heaped on them . I think no language too marked or too emphatic for the venting of the good men ' s loathing of the " bloodies . " I have , as I hope , taken means to prevent the recurrence of any such liberty . —
W .. Hill . . » . To Rochdale Shareholders . —Afr . O'Connor hat . directed that the four shareholders of Rochdale w ho lost their scrip shall get new ones , and shall be allowed to receive their money whenever required . Received Bt Feabgus O'Connor , Jrom twofnendt at Sunderland , 2 s . 6 d , for the persecuted frith Chartists . Me . O'Connob in account with the Convention Fund : —
Mr . O'Connor , Dr . £ . s . 4 To amount received , as published ... . 88 7 3 To interest while placed in Bank to Mr . O Connor ' s credit ... ... 0 3 8 £ 88 10 S Mr . O'Connor , Cr . £ . s . d . Paid Mr . Pitkethly as Treasurer to Convention ... SO 0 0 Paid Mr . Cleave , as Treasurer to Convention 28 10 9 £ 88 10 9 Balance due £ 000 09 0
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^ A Chartist's Address to his Irish Bbethm shall appear . George Walker . — We received no letter from him last week , and therefore know nothing of tM case to which he refers . ., Robert Gill , of Bilton-street , York , would be glad to hear from Mr . Charles Siuait , late of the Chartist Association , York . Peter Needful . — H e have no room . J . L . —His '"¦ Stanzas" shall appear . "Ode to Freedom , or Lines to Chartists , atdined . J .- * - We have no room . A Chartist—We have not room . A London Working Man will see in our preseni
paper that the fault was not ours . The French Republican's Song , and the » nn « accompanying it , shall appear . A Newry Chartist . —His song shall appear . A Political Vision declined . _ , Staplefobd CHABTiSTS . —AI present we cannot o $ m ihe space ; but we do shortly purpose to takeu ? the subject ourselves . P . V ., Chowbet . — We cannot read hii poetry . J . S ., Alva . —A Property Qualification it not required in the Scotch Representatives . J . S . Smith , Plymouth . —// " the Devon and W " wall friends will take the trouble toletus ftw notices of their meetingsand send them at a
, early part of the week , they shall be notice *' R . G . Gammage . — Wf have not room . An Irish ChartistTo * Pontypool , cannot su W ™ that we should insert such , a letter ai hts upon anonymous authority . R J . . C ., of ' PotteryFieldi , Leeds , will be obliged to n . Steele and D . Black for a few lines . "The Corn Laws" shall appear . nU f . M ' Cautney— We do not know ihe address oj me . correspondent referred to . 3 . R ., Camberwell , — We have not room . Mb . Charles Cross , of Galeshead , asksjor ^ / 7 ceic /« Ti / . i . in veferertrp . tn Ihe Gatetheaa report "
We will always give it cheerfully ondfne'iaj ' and we do , most effectually , in S ™' 9 . ™ ,, t following advice i-The Galeshead Chartists ^ we learn , on Sundays-let the report be aucay posted the same night , so tkat we can have u v Monday morning to begin the week wim . , The National Petition . —Some person " <"«;? . / , the pains to cut out and post to w a rabmj ^ on this subject , containing sundry ^ isant ^ « furious pseudo philippics agamsi . CA ««»™ . general , and Frod and O'Connor «\ par ^ We shall not nurse the " liting" mto * t f *** L ' As a composition , it would be accounted , ™ > j Yorkshire boarding school , nigh ' ydt > fratej ^ it hn ,. •>;« ., » ., * nr < , nf / me . In every other ~ ** i f ..,
is too filthy to be touched even with a ten } John ° / on es . —We did receive hisformer' WjjV j \ we did not choose to pri » t it , because vev ' J opinion that he could have had no food ™! ™' . writing it , and that it was not ™ ™ f j n y « . duce any good result . John Jones *» £ * $ & fectly well that there if no such " ^ Jg ,- ^ as that which he complains of—that U w «« h ( disavowed-and the whole thing explav *? V author in his preface . We do *?*• ££ , * & * fore , under these circumstances , to lend on to the creating ef a prejudu . » » JJ'ggj / , minds against a worthy and ] tale ¦ tied va without doing any good-at all by U . f" ° * . hfr reason-whivk we should not »« % 'n"SJ ' "J expressed if the second letter of Mr . J *™ not made it necessarf&
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IRISH "MORAL FORCE . " The Dublin Monitor gives the following cheering account of the characteristic mode of preserving peace and exhibiting " moral force" practices by the Corn Exchange patriots , at one of their recent meetings ; the Pacificator General in the chair : — " LOYAL REPEAL ASSOCIATION . " The usual weekly meeting of this association was held jeaterday at the Corn Exchange . " Thomas Steele , Esq ., in the chair . " Mr . John O'Connell was about to address the meeting , when
" Mr . Doheny claimed the attention of the chairman for a few minutes . He said an attack had been made upon him in that room , andke wished to have an opportunit y of refuting it " Mr . Doheny—If I come heresolely for thepnrpose of vindicating myself and not to charge any other person whatsoever , I am sure the meeting will hear me . ( Hear , hear , order , order , and chair . ) " The Chairman intimated his intention not to hear any discussion upon the sul-ject introduced by the last speaker . " Mr . Doheny—I merely want to vindicate myself against statements made here on the last day of meeting , which are totally unfounded . ( Order , order , and great confusion . )
•• Mr . Reynolds—In reply to that I say you are a liar . Those statements are true . ( Increased confusion , and loud cries of ' order . ' ) " Mr . John O'Connell—I rise to order . " The Chairman—It is most unpleasant to me to be obliged to listen to such language as this . " Mr . Reynolds—I say he ( pointing to Mr . Doheny ) is a liar . ( Loud cries of ' hear tht * chairman '— ' order , order' —and great tumult ) " Mr . Reynolds here scizjd a piece of paper , upon which he wrote his name and place of residence , and having flung it across the table towards the place occupied by Mr . Doheny , addressed him in the following terms : — ' Here my good fellow , take that with you . These are the civil gentlemen who prate abou ^ the violence of the " miscreant Chartists . "
F. O'Connor To Mr. Henry Hethering Ton, One Of The Shopocracy .
F . O'CONNOR TO MR . HENRY HETHERING TON , ONE OF THE SHOPOCRACY .
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4 THE NORTHERN STAR .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 5, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1112/page/4/
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