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      TO TFR CHABTIST 8 OP NOSTHTJMBERLiLNT A 2 SD DTJBBAM . Brother Chartists—I was elected your Treasurer for tie lecturer's Fund , at the delegate meeting held at Newcastle , XNscember 5 th , -where a resolution was passed , that as Boon as each locality transmitted Hts BMIHngs to me , 3 dx . JSeesley -was to commence his torn arooEh the two counties . I ask yon has this been dsne ? I am sorry to ay it 2 m not Tbere are only three loealitiefl that have acted op to that resolution , ¦ ra ^^ Bouth Shields , Onsebnrn , and the " Wiole hog CfcarfcBJt brigade" of Sanderlsnd . What are the Chartists of-thB « ty of Dmbam doing , ( the tmginatora © ftfce lectnrePnnd , ) the Chartists o ! Newcastle , &c Brother Chartists , waiting amrions ' y for your response

      to toe above , I am , yours tmly , johs Hall Onsebnm , 2 f ewcastle , Jan . 23 , 1843 .

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      HABMONY HALJj . £ 0 THE EDITOR . OF THE SOJtTHEKS SlAlL SlE , —The residents of ttus est abii ^ hmmt have read "Witti much interest , the article in your paper of the 21 st instant , headed , " TheXand ; th-a only means of Miration to the starring workers . " It gives them mncb pleasure to see ttiat the attej > tlon of their Chartist brethren is not only called to this important subject -, tot , that the efforts of the Soc ralists are brought fairly and prominently before the pablic eye ioi examination . It will be readily seen , by / Jl parties in ths state , that ~ ihe culfiTatioa -of our own 12 uds , for the nsa of our own people 5 and a sound practJ cal education for eTery per-Bon in the country , are the- grand leading remedies for the distress-which eTery t rhtre -exists ; and the chief topic for consideration , is , how is this to be accomplished practically , in the shortes t possible time .

      Ton justly state tha ^ ' no single sect of men hara had « tithe of the opposition te contend with that the Socialists hsrre had . 1 m spite of all , they haYe secured -to themselves an " aba'odant dinner . ' * K at only is this true , but , that they are determined not to rest themselves satisfied , or to relax their exertions , until they tare procured an eojtally abundant dinner for every one of their fellow beings ; and in addition to a mere supply ¦ ofthmphyEicalirajito , to afford them the opportunity of developing to tliehighest point the mental and moral portions of their nature . "We believe , however , that the manner in which this opposition hss been overcome hitherto , has been by an adhsreace to certain clearly defioed principles , which ¦ contain within themselves the basis of unity ; and that the progress has been in proportion as these principles haTe become understood t > J the members .

      You say truly "that we are engaged in an experiment , which , in its issue , xaay advance or retard the -caase of the poor Tery materially . " Of this we are all aware , and we are also aware that our progress will depend upon the extent to which we can procure , and rightJy apply , the means of introducing a science of society : Tor , whatever the public generally may think of our crotchets , or of our talking of extreme circumstances ; Socialism , or as we prefer calling it rationalism , is as truly a science as the mathematics , or any other .

      If the working classes can be induced to lend their aid-to the development of this science , they may im-3 nB § iately command any just terms ' which they shall dictate to the other classes of society , and it will be a matter of great congratulation to all parties when this shall be the case . What has hitherto been done , has been done by a very limited number of individuals , many of them most unfit for the tasks assigned them ; and all labouring under the greatest difficulties ; but a strong determined combination of the working clause ? 1 will be irresistible .

      Ton further state , "The world will now watch us ! The public eye is opened upon us ; and if we are not careful , rancour will Beira upon some false step of ours , and prevent public confidence in ns . " That this win occur if we deviate in the slightest manner from our principles , I , for one , am well aware ; tut , if we be tzne and consistent to those principles which have hitherto carried themselves above all opposition , from the emanation of the -mind of a single individual who combined from them a rational system of society to their present advanced position ; there is no fear to bd entertained for all the scrutiny , nor for all the rancour and falsehood , which - the world has to

      Onr system is either founded entirely . on truth , or it contains an admixture of eizor , and In either case investigation win be alike beneficial ; for , what is true cannot be injured by being exposed , and no parties can be more interested in discovering what is erroneous in the system , than those who are staking everything ¦ upon it . Ton promise on some future occasion to enter into s 'frfpn ^ iy TPTp nng fygTipA f i ^ h some of the Socialists on their " insane" and 'unaccountable policy towards the Chartists ; and I trust this remonstrance mil not long be delayed . There has hitherto been too great an estrangement between two bodies having in view the same important objects , and this can only be overcame by a clear understanding rendering the subject intelligible to both parties .

      Whenever you remonstrate I snail have much pleasure in explaining how far we can coincide with the -rifiwsyou take ; and , if a closer union can be effected by the explanation , a proportionate good must be the result ; f ox all that is now required is that the working classes shall ascertain in what manner they can best combine to effecsthe object desired . You say the Socialist ought to "aid the Chartist in obtaining the power which shall procure the " salvation < jf the starving workers , by means of the land ; " but I trust to be enabled to point out , that the working classes have within themselves all the power and all the means requisite for the most entire success ; and , all that they are deficient in , is the knowledge how to combine those irnqmn in such a manner as to exhibit to the world a superior state of society ; and all must of necessity desire to adopt it

      As the subject of Home Colonization , or the land question , is an all-important one , sad will attract more attention ; and a * we are here combining theory and practice , and acquiring experience on a tolerably extensive scale , I shall have much pleasure in furnishing for your columns a series of letters explanatory of what is contemplated by the Socialists in this experiment , and . tbs degree of progress they have hitherto made . In the meantime , I am desirous you should bear in mind that the objects of the Socialists are universal , and their practises public ; and any persons who desire to inspect their proceedings , from whatever motive it may arise , win have every facility afforded them fer doing so ; all that will be required ef them "being an attention to those general regulations of society which tend to promote the comfort and happiness of

      Trusting that you -win not object to the insertion of this letter in your paper , I am , sir , Your obedient servant , WlXLlAll G-AXPJS . Harmony HaH , near Stockbridge , Hants , Jan . 23 , 1 S 43 .

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      TO THE EDIIOB . OP THE JfOBTKKRK STAB . " Sib , —last night I heard a better defence -of Chartism than ever I heard in all my life before . J have heard a few of the big guns , but 3 Ii _ Thomas Davies , of Hawick , has outreached them alL His arguments ars all-powerful His sentiments are short , and clear ] "distinct . The lectures delivered by him are so beautifully set in order , that his hearer * can follow him with the most perfect ease . The above lecture -was delivered in this locality

      -where general satisfaction was manifested . The police ¦ were sent to hear and see that all was right . But these modem figures had to go away as they came , after hearing a full and masterly development of their own immoral character . The antMTom law League are ticking up a shine in this locality . There are men here who-have had frcm three-quarters of a day to three days' work within the last three or four weeks , and yet their employers have deducted from their wages one shilling per slave to augment the £ 50 , 000 Plarue agUaSon . ,

      At an auti-Com Law tea party in Bolton , when sen-Semen {?> were going round for an extra subscription , an ex-official gave one shilling in the same of a h&ndlocmi weaver ; upon which Mr . M—^ -r , of Manchester , spoke Tery emphatically , stating ttat "if a four shilling * per week hand-loom weaver hated monoponly bo much as to give one-fonrthof his weekly Income to tleaSioy such monopoly , how much more ( not Moore ) « asgit they , asmanufaeturers , to do all they could to « fect their Soa-Hke object 7 " A gentleman who saw the iMk-meafiouea trick played told me of it himself , TO one of the League up to the time , but since which SJ £ ? " t ^ - * " * > ****** <* ** Pkgay SF ' v ** anottjfl ? ««» . - Jnm , the nnuWoer thought he would to the " free ^ offiainr prmm&sss&s *

      oniy as . DOOJte * lor the League , by the "iree- consent of ** hunt * . atf-t afc , daves ! oS geSSma ^ was bo exasperated at the "free offerbw dLanrvrfnHnZr tMt on the following pay flvE rt ^ SKSSSS penlwe U 12 ) , and toW them ttat if ttey did ^ S ^ fi ^ aight lave their shillings , *^* j £ v £ mace to tt » e Charter , ^ either by irerd oriterfTttev ahouMie discharged from hi , « nploy ^ -lSS toLyae . ^ -The above genUemaa is so pious , that his mfflgoesijytteEame of "Ail SiHns' Facto *? . - 116

      ZP * £ !* *» West Kaing-distoicts , ae follow-^" TO ^ £ "f 5 ?¦ " * ***• * f *• » nff * erer bim-• ff * 7 ffi ^ last twelve months , his master ree ?*^ m * li T t * *? - ^ Pieces , worked-by 5 wmratae Bteam-loom , for which he ( master ) chawed sin sniffings per piece , "While m HaMfcestermarketthe same snalttyana quantity of goods irere sold ai At . 60 . per piece . TVhenfhe jalave asked hu master why he ttns extortioned Mm ? The master answered , »• we moet have tie Cora Laws repealed , and get free trade - and then times - » ffl mend . " This gentleman takes an active part in Hie religions (?) movement of the Methodirta Iq joother place , the League are raising a

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      Dafence Fond , when necessary to be applied—( the Chartists must take tile w / aming given them by Feargus last week , for another ¦ game is at band )—and every slare in certain mills are compelled to contribute towards the same , whi \ e at the same time the said slates are not allowed */> contribute towards the Chartist Defence Funds , -under pain of being turned out of employ-By Heavens , Sir , if we only watch a little longer , we shall see che defeat of faction , and the triumph of true democracy . While in Manchester , last week , I learned tire following facts connected wit the bleaching department . In lS- ' js , twenty men could bleach 2 , 000 pieces per day , tea which those twenty men received for "wajjes £ 30 p- ^ r week , while , in 1842 , seven men could bleach 3 , 000 . pieces per day , for which those seven men receive as wages £ W per week . ^

      In 1829 , the pieces to be bleached were only allowed to be twenty-eight yards long each , while , in 2842 , such pieces are to be to the bleacher forty-low yards long . There is in Manchester an establishment upon the above improvement , ninety-eight men employed , for which they receive , in wages , £ 140 . The same number of men , in 1839 , got £ 145 10 s . Let alone throwing out of employ 322 men , out of 420 men , for the performing of the above labour , besides dragging out of the money market £ 483 , out of every £ 630 , without ever mentioning the extra sixteen yards , upon every twenty-eight yards , being bleached for the lesser som . The above labour , in 1839 . cost £ 1 , 350 in wages , while , in 1 S 42 , it only cost £ 140 , tkrowing out of the money market £ l , 21 « a week , besides 532 men out of every 830 men out of employ , to seek an existence out of the pauper list .

      The late William Cobbett once said , " No damned Paupery . " 1 wonder how soon the ihopocracy will learn sense ; sever till it goes through their " guts . " By giving the above a place in your next number , you will much oblige an enemy to aU humbug . PbtbK Rigbt , From Chorley . Staffordshire Potteries , Jan . 21 , 1843 .

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      THE ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND . Her most giaciou 3 Majesty the Queen and her illustrious Consort , the young gentleman who does Great Britain the honour to receive his pay , have announced their intention of visiting the Metropolis of the Emerald Isle ; bat for what purpose the deponents ssy sot . On this , we suppose we most Gcxss , as the Yankies say . We opine that it is not

      for the purpose of alleviating the sufferings of the tiro millions three hundred thousand poor victims of misrule , who are perishing in that ill-fated land , for want of the common necessaries of life . No , no ; the Q , aeen and M Albert dear ! " know nothing of all these things . They wallow in profusion at the expence of an oppressed people , and they are too short sighted to see beyond the precints of the Palace .

      u Majesty , " say the . organs of the Court , H desires her visit to be as pnblic as possible "; whioh is tantamount to telling Mick and Norah to mount the chimney-tops and make the welkin ring in praise of the superlative condescension of the illustrious pair . Punch and Judy wast to be seen , and to see if folly still holds dominion over the minds of the Irish people . We trust that the sons of Erin will satisfy the admirers of monkeys , parrots , and dogs , that they

      are not the asses they would have them to he . We trust they will avail themselves of this opportnnity to show those sporters of borrowed plumes the manifold . evils resulting from the extravagance of misrule ; and that they will also give them to understand that th * y are not the dolts to believe that empty pageantry and tom-foolery , —though conveyed to their shores in a bran new yacht , —will give them better food , better clothing , or more comfortable dwellings .

      Wealth , wrung from the bowels of poverty , may be displayed by Punch and Judy and their retinue , sut the lot of the poor of Ireland will still be starvation . Sea-weed , ioffal , and the infernal root , " mnst remain their dish until the system of misrule be annihilated . Flatterers may dilate on the beanty of the sovereign ; sycophants may talk of her amiable disposition ; but the one would be more enhanced in oar estimation , and the other would be better exemplified by administering to the necessities of the poor than by exhibitions of consummate folly , intended } "no doubt , to feed the unfortunate passion for display of a too-long infatuated people .

      The men of Ireland ought to tell the advisers of royalty that they want not raree-show but the comforts of life ; and that it would be far better for the nation if some women would learn to knit socks for their children and mend their own stockings , rather than go jaunting about at other people's expence ; and some men betake themselves to some honest occupation , rather than pocket other men's hard earnings for merely enlarging the brood of idlers , attending majesty J when taking an airing and feeding royal whelps . Won ' t Ireland have a treat ?!

      BIBLE SOCIETY OPPRESSION . Of all the cants in this canting world , save us from the combined cant of hypocrisy and oppression When the powerful exert their power for the oppression of the weak in individual cases , our blood stirs ; when they do so upon a scale of wholesale class depression , it rises ; when the sacred principles of justice and benevolemce are openly defied

      from avowed selfish motives , we feel indignant ; but when oppression puts on the face of sanctity and clothes itself in the warm garments of benevolence while it outrages the common feelings of humanity with heartlessness , we have no words to express our contemptuous loathing and abhorrence . Hence we do not trust ourselves to comment on the following simple statement of the journeymen bookbinders employed under the British and Foreign Bible Society : —

      " The Bbitish and Fobeigs Bibi . e Society is an Institution whose * Bole object is to encourage a wider circulation ef the Holy Scriptures , ' in doing which its management professes , in the language of the 2 nd resolution of the 37 th Meeting , Exeter Hall , May 5 th , 1841 ; that they desire to cast themselves upon the continued divine blessing of Almighty God , as on that which can alone sustain them in their present prosperous course . * " About a month since the Committee of this Society thought proper to reduce the price of their Bibles and Testaments bound in sheep , and in roan , gilt edges , to which we refer .

      " As what applies to one sort of Bible or Testament in this binding applies to th . e whole , we only particularise the ruby Bible , 24 mo ., roan , gilt edges ; they reduced the price of this Bible to Is . 6 d ., and as before stated , the price of all other Bibles and Testaments in thiB bindisg in the Fame proportion , thereby underselling every other trade in the market . " To enable them to accomplish this , they did not , as might have been expected , apply any portion of the ample funds of their Society to that purpose , but SEDUCED THE PBICE OF ITS BINDING for the WHOLE

      AHOtrNT O ? THAT HEDUCHO * . " They entered into ft calculation of the price of materials , and of the wages of the labour employed thereon , apportioning so much for ! materials and profit , and so much for wages ; and after ascer taining the wages paid to journeymen bookbinders in their trade , considered that these journeymen were paid too much for their labour , and that , therefore , the low price at whieh they required

      the work to be done might be easily made to pay the employer by a corresponding reduction in the wages of the men , and also of the women in their employment . A reduction , amounting to nearly one-half the wages formerly paid , was therefore made by the employers who bind for this Society to whom remonstrance was useless , it being soon found that the price they received would admit of no higher wages . " Scarcely believing this of the committee of a society which owes Ub existence to the benevolence

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      of the pious , whose object is the dissemination of the holy volume which , above all others , is heaviest in it , 3 denunciations against those who ' grind the faces of the poor , ' andiwho profess to cast ' them-r selves upon the continued blessing of Almighty God , ' we determined to make them acquainted with the circumstances in a Memorial ; in the hope thst they were not aware of the grievous ruin they were inflicting , and in the hope that what we had heard of their deliberate intention ^ to effect a reduction out of the wages of labour , was untrue . To this memorial , a copy of which accompanies this , —they returned for answer , that they felt the subject therein referred to was one which they could not take up . __^

      portion of the funds of this Society is appropriated to achieve this redaction in price . Indeed , supposing the discount taken from the printer and the binder to be of equal per centsge , this Society must obtain on the book we have particularised , the Ruby 24 mo . Bible , Roan , gilt edges , Is . 6 d ., even at this price , a small profit . " We submit that it is a contradiction in the conditions of thte Society ' s existence , that the cheapness of this book should be obtained at the almost utter ruin of those ( male and female ) who are employed in its binding , while this Society reaps a profit by its sale .

      " We are aware that wages axe regulated by the laws of demand and supply—that where there is a permanent surplus of labour in any trade , wages will fall . But a surplus of labour has not produced this result in the present instance . Worldly-minded men , who possess no zeal for religion , had not discovered that the distress produced by the present unprecedented want of employment , afforded them

      an opportunity of increasing their profits by a reduction in our wages . It has been reserved for the Committee of the British and Foreign Bible Sooiely , whose professed object is the glory of God , to take advantage of this deep distress—men wbo , in their last report , p . xvii , ' would adopt the devout exclamation of Holy Writ , and say , Let the Lord be magnified who hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servants' !

      " The Society may thus monopolise the whole trade in Bibles and Testaments ; but will not the scoffer and the infidel triumphantly inquire— ' Do these men really believe in the divine inspiration of the Book they circulate 1 Do they really believe that the Almighty has power to infliot the wrath denounced in it against those who aggravate the distresses of the poor ! ' And with greater triumph exclaim , * Look to their acts , and judge ye , they have oppressed the poor , in the very act of circulating the Book whioh denounces its heaviest curse upon them for what they have done . '" A postcript to this address of the oppressed operatives adds : —

      " In the above it will be seen we have only referred to two kinds of this Society ' s work ; while it was being put into type , as if in mockery of the injury inflicted , and in contempt of those by whom it is sustained , a reduction has taken place , at our cost , upon the whole of the Sooiety ' s work . It is of course in the power of this Society , by means of the great capital it possesses , to overwhelm ns who possess nothing , — -just in the same way as a rich oppressor devours the peor ; but surely the Lord

      will recompense their way . They hope to prosper ; bnt their hope is not in the Lord . They trust in their riches , and in their worldly wisdom ; they oppress the poor , while they profess to ' cast themselves upon the continued blessing of Almighty God , ' ( 2 nd resolution , 37 th meeting , Exeter-hall , Msy 5 , 1841 . ) Bat God hath said , * The hope of the hypocrite shall perish , whose hope shall be cut off , and whoBe trust shall be a spider's web . — Job viii . 14 . '"

      We repeat that upon this statement we do not trust onrselves to comment . We leave it to tell its own tale , only pointing the attention of the sleek haired Saints" to the following texts from their own book , which the poor men have very properly put at the head of their address : — « He that oppresses the poor reproacheth his Maker : but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor . "Pb . oveb . bs , xiv . 31 . " Behold the hire of the labourers wbo have reaped down your fields , which is of you kept back by fraud , crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entet&d into the ears of the Lord of S ^ boath . "James , t . 4 .

      " And I will come near to you to judgment j and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers , and against the adulterers , and against false swearers , and against those that oppress the hireling in bis wages , the widow , and the fatherless , and that turn aside the stranger from bis rigbt , and fear not me , saith the Lord of Hosts . "—Malachi , iii . b . " Woe unto him that buildeth bis house by unrighteousness , and his chambers by wrong : that usetb bis neigfebonr'B service without wages , and glveth him not for his work . "—Jeb . xxii . 13 .

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      ANOTHER SAMPLE OF INJUSTICE . The many instances of refined tyranny and barefaced extortion which are almost daily communicated to us , are not only evidences of the extreme degeneracy of the human kind—of ibe inveterate hatred of man towards his species , —and of the declension existing in our courts of law , but they are manifestly indicative of the speedy overthrow of the rotten system which has too long cursed our father-land . Our forefathers justly complained of the evils of misrule , but they were only flogged with whips—we are lashed with scorpions . Their prospects were gloomy , but we dwell in the midst of thick darkness —darkness that can be felt—that is felt , and cannot be dispelled , save by the energies of an united people determined to possess their rights .

      Arguments the most cogent and incontrovertible have been reiterated in the ears of the rulers of the land , but they have been as the deaf adder . Petitions have been laid at their feet repeatedly , praying them to adopt measures to stay the evils of which the people incessantly complain ; and over which our legislators have , unquestionably , oontroul , yet they regarded not the prayers of the needy . Now , facts whioh none can veil—not even themselves—are staring them In the face at every turn , and they are

      compelled to acknowledge that something iB wrong ; but instead of applying the only panacea—a radical reform in the system of Government— -they think to amuse the people with their tricks of political jugglery , and thereby perpetuate the reign of despotism . But this cannot be . They have been weighed in the balance and found wanting . The hand-writing is upon the wall , too conspicuous and plain to be misunderstood , and it decrees that the reign of tyranny shall depart .

      Yes , the petty tyrants , vested with brief authority must be humbled , as well as their masters whose deeds they ape ; for the change must be a radical one , extending through every ramification of the system and to every corner of the land . Aye , even toMiddleton , near Manchester , and to Rochdale too , where acts of atrocity are perpetrated whioh are a disgrace to our country and kind ; one of whioh we here subjoin : — " A poo ? widow woman named Ann Lees , having six children , residing in the township of Hopwood in the parish , of Middleton , was taken into custody on the 18 th of January , under a warrant , and put into the lockups

      of the police station of Middleton , by order of the overseer , fer owing six shillings fox poor rates , together with costs , amounting to £ 13 s . 6 d-, and was the day after taken to Lancaster . It appears that , previons to that , the overseer's father-in-law had distrained her goods for rent The sum due he said was £ 3 0 s . 8 d ., and the charges were £ 2 lls . lOd ; but it appears that after the goods were all sold they had £ l 17 s . Od . in band after all costs were paid , though the goods did not sell at half their ' value . The overseer knowing ' that this money was in hand , summoned her to Rochdale before

      the magistrates , and , their worships asked her if she was willing to pay the rates ? She answered , 1 have nothing to pay with , when the magistrates told the overseer he must be paid ont of the money that was over ; he therefore applied to the auctioneer for the money , but he would not or could not pay htm , consequently be took out a warrant , as is before stated . The poor unfortunate woman has applied several times to the overseer for relief , but he has as frequently refused to give her any , tellinghor she might go to the baatile , which she refused to do . "

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      With what feelings the reader will arise from the perusal of this horrible recital we will not say ; but for ourselves we cannot find words sufficiently strong to convey our detestation of sHoh villany . Those Sends in human form who have figured in this deed of infamy ought , for ever , to disown the tome of men , and insult society no longer by their presence . They are the wretches which the arm of the law should seize . But , though the principals in this atrocious act are doubtless punishable—firstly , for disposing of more of the widow ' s goods than paid the rent and other

      incidental expences , and , secondly , ( if this statement be correct , and we Bee no reason to dispute it , ) they are actionable for falsely imprisoning the poor woman ; yet , still the piper would have to be paid , for justice cannot be obtained in this Christian land , except at a great and ruinous expence , and not then , in most cases , where a middle class jury occupies the box . In fact , justice cannot be obtained for the poor under the present system . Hence the necessity of laying the axe to the root of the tree , and sweeping the augean stable with the broom of Radical Reform .

      it will be but poor consolation to the agonised mind of the bereaved widow to be told that there is an insuperable barrier betwixt her and justice . However , so it is . The underlings of corruption may , under present circumstances , drag the poor from the bosom of their families , immure them in dungeons , and complete their ruin with impunity ; but they have well nigh reached the extent of their iniquity . Right must ultimately triumph over might , and the haughty tyrants kiss the dust . They have already overcharged their infernal machine , and mast politically perish by its explosion , amid , the joy of a too-long oppressed and insulted people .

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      ORGANIZATION . We receive continually from all partis of the country application for advice and instruction aa to how the frionds of the cause of good order and good government should proceed , under the anomalous circumstances in which they are now placed ; of a national organization without any recognised head or centre of operations . We see that the metropolitan delegates recommend the immediate election of the General Secretary , in order that the business of the Association—the preparation and issuing of

      cards , the enrollment of members , the correspondence , &o . —may go on . We advise the people to be in no hurry . The conduct of the last Seoretary Bhould Burely have given them enough of a dose to make them very careful in the matter of appointing a successor . The Seoretary is the most important officer in the whole movement . He ought , in fact , to be the very marrow of the movement . Bitter experience must , we presume , hare shown the people that a false step in the appointment of Executive officers , and especially of

      Secretary , may do more mischief than all our exertions can retrieve for a long period . Our Secretary must be a man of busine ? # habits , a man of comprehensive mind—a man 6 t' some information and intelligence—a man who understands the movement—a man who knows the bearings of the law upon political societies , who thoroughly understands our Organization , and who will have sense and honesty and industry to " work" it . It is no easy task to " work" a national Organization , in the teeth of such laws as we have

      to contend with and steer clear of . We need for this purpose an educated , intelligent man , an industrious , persevering , and honest man . We do not want an ignorant , impudent , bully , who cannot return a civil answer to a respectful letter ; wedo not wanta fellow to spend his time in public bouses , drinking and smoking and playing at cards , instead of minding the duties . of his office , and to occupy the chief part of what time he can spare from the public house in . his own private business , while he pockets the people's money for doing their work , which is left undone ; we don't want a man to leave his duties , and run up and down the country lecturing every time that he may want a fresh '' . drag" of

      money , more than his wages . We wafilsja man who knows his work , and can do bis work ; who will be content with his wages , and content to work for his wages—a man who will devote to the cause his wholo time , energy , and talents , and whose time and talents are worth having . With such a secretary , our organisation could not fail to progress , and our cause to prosper . And unless the people can find such an one they had far better have none at all ; a vacant office is preferable to an inefficient or dig * honest officer . But such a man must be searched for carefully . There must be no hurry in the selection The people must take time to think and to deliberate , before they decide .

      There is one fact to whioh we would point attention ; that no honourable , or even honest , man would be Seoretary , under present circumstances ; because it would be to associate himself in office with two men who still , in defiance of every principle of democracy , impudently cling to the tenure and name of office , though covered with a load of obloquy and disgrace which would have paralized and kept within doors any meu having a grain of decency . The country have no right to expect that any decent and good man will allow himself to be brought in

      contact with the filth from whioh the charaoter of these men stands unoleansed . No man who valued his own reputation would for an instant act in any public capacity with either of them . It wants but a few weeks to the time when they must " go out " by the lapse of their term of office ; and the people should in the interim be looking out for honest men to supply their places , and making such amendments in the plan of Organization as may render less likely the recurrence of the mischiefs which have resulted from the jobbing and profligacy of the present men .

      I Some parties seem to think that no steps can be taken in the matter of amending the organization , because we have in reality no Executive . And because Campbell won't give up the books and cards , it is thought that the enrollment of members can't go on . We think quite differently . For the enrollment of members we advise every sub-secretary at onoe to provide a book for entering the names , trades , and residences of all the members of his own district . Let no regard be paid to the fact of " card or no card , " but let the Society for all practical and immediate purposes be a local

      one for that town or place ; every one being acknowledged as a member , whose name is on the Secretary ' s book aud none else . Every newly enrolled member to pay . his twopence and all these twopences to go to the formation of a fund for the use of a New Executive when appointed , and the weekly contributions to be applied to the furtherance of the cause in the immediate neighbourhood . No cards need be given ; but when a member removes to any other place , he should have a certificate from the sub-Secretary in the following form .

      •» Hall , Jan . 27 th , 1843 . " I certify thai John Smith is an enrolled member of the Chartist body . « Petes Tboeman , sub-Secretary . " Id any town where he presents this certificate , his name would be enrolled among the Chartists-of that place , without any additional fee but the payment of the weekly penny . Thus our Association will become a multitude of distinct local societies , all governed by the same laws and acting on the same plan , and ready for amalgamation into one body as Boonasthe connecting link , a honest Executive , may be supplied .

      We shall next week show how the whole matter of considering and arranging , and amending , the Organization , may be effectually done by the people in thei * localities , ahdageBeral vote taken upon it , andrecorded , wifehouTThe intervention of the Executive or the expense of a delegate meeting . We shall also suggest such improvements in the plan of Organization as we think it needs . Meantime we advise most strongly that the registration of members be immediately commenced by all the sub-

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      Secretaries , each acting as Secretary for his district . This is necessary to be done , and to be done in the first place . 1

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      MIDLLE CLASS BENEVOLENCE J We are informed , on the best possible authority , that a finnj whose establishment is not one hundred miles from Mabgate , in this town , and who work on material no ] less hard than iron , wish to be . thought benevolent , ! and to have their names published as men who commisserate the starving condition of the destitute poor . At present , we will not gratify the zsst of those very benevolent gentlemen , by publishing their names —but , on a repetition of their disinterested ' ness , we may do so .

      We now merely state their method of " raising the wind . " One day , last week , they intimated the necessity of their men subscribing one shilling each in aid of the Public Soup Kitchen . This call the men did not feel disposed to respond to , for one very substaatial reason—namely , that their wages had been recently reduced , and , consequently , they thought charity was required at home . However , on Saturday night last a paper was handed to the men , and , nolens volens , the shilling must be paid .

      This act needs no comment . It is quite in keeping with the class , and is a very genteel way of obtaining notoriety as a charitable aud liberal firm . No doubt , the Bashaws of the establishment will lay all claim to the generous act . We have heard of aid being rendered , in this neighbourhood , by the same means , to the Missionary and Bible Societies . What purity of Christian principle !

      THE POOR AND THEIR " GUARDIANS . " Many , aud humiliating , have been the exhibitions made by differont Boards of " Guardians , " in their anxiety to *| carry-out" the infamous provisions of the New Poor Law Act . But many as those humiliating exhibitions have been , —humiliating to our common nature , —it appears to us that the regulations enforced in the Huddersfield and Dewsbury u Unions" transcend all we have previously heard of for heartlessness and rank oppression !

      It is well ( known that one of the operations of machinery in these manufacturing districts has been to drive men out of employment , and to cause them to roam over the country at large in search of work , —sometimes at their own trade , and oft-times at trades and occupations for which they were not trained or fitted , excepting that , for the time , they served an avaricious master's temporary purpose , by accepting ] work at a reduced rate of

      remuneration ; and thus enabled him to sink all his "hands " in the scale of comfort . The system has compelled men to leavejtheir homes , and betake themselves to distant parts ; of the country ; where , after being employed for some months perhaps , destitution has overtaken them in consequence of " general depression of trade ; " and they have been compelled to apply to the parish-fund for the means to keep them from the jaws of death .

      At the present moment there are many belonging to the Huddersfield and DewBbury Unions so circumstanced ; and it has been determined that no relief shall be afforded them , unless they go to their respective settlements , and there earn the " relief " they are to receive , by breaking stones on the highways ! ; The operation of this determination will be best understood by the following statement of facts : —

      Joseph Dawson , belongs to Huddersfield Township . He resides at present , and has done , for some time , at Halifax , with his family . He is compelled , by dire necessity , to appl y for parish relief . Before he can have a penny to enable him and his family to exist , he must earn it at the Paddock stoneheap . The wages for working at that stone-heap are 2 s . a day . He is allowed to work three-and-ahalf days a-week . It is a fact , that for months together , this poor man has walked from Halifax to

      Huddersfield , ; a distance of eight muos , every morning , for four days of every week ; and walked back again at night !! It is a fact also , that if he is ten minutes later than the usual time of starting " work" at the stone-heap , he is not allowed to " work" at all that day ! This Joseph Dawson is fifty years of age ! and for the munificent sum of seven shillings , he has to walk a distance of sixty-four miles , and " work " three-and-a-half days ! 1 Whether are the stones he has to break , or the hearts cf bis kind paternal " Guardians , " the hardest ! :

      " Ah ! but , "i we hear one of their sapiencies exclaim , " Why does he go back at night ? Why does he not lodge in the town 'till his work is completed , and then return to his family" ? Because he has but seven shillings ja-week for their entire su pport ! Because his lodging , in a common lodging house , would be threepence a-night . To save that threepence for his family , he walks sixteen miles ! And yet the poor are accused of improvidence ! and profligacy ! Who would exchange the heart of this man , for the heart of the most benevolent of his " Guardians" !

      The kind doings , however , of the protectors of the Huddersfield poor , do not end here . It is a fact , that partieB residing in Leeds , sixteen miles from HudaersfieM , are required to " work" at the Paddock stone-heap , before " relief" can be afforded them . ' They are to travel from Leeds to Huddersfield , " work" two days , travel back again , with the remains of four ! shillings in their pooket , after they have kept themselves at their work and paid for a night ' s lodging )' , and this miserable remnant of four shillings is all that can be afforded them to maintain their j families for seven days . ' ! What mockery of "relief" ! and how heartless and insultingly oppressive the conditions on which it is granted ! !

      This practice of foroing the absent indigent poor to go " home" (!!) to " work" for their " relief , " is not confined to the Huddersfield Union , as the following fact but too abundantly proves : — An old man , named Megson , SEVENTYTHREE years of age , and now residing at Hnddersfield , is compelled to waJk to Thornhill , a township in the Dewsbury " Union , " and distant from Hudderefield eight miles , to " work" for two days , at Is . 6 d . a-day ! It takes him a full half-day to perform his journey , he is so feeble from extreme old age and insufficient food . He starts on

      Monday mornings , reaches Thornhill by Monday noon , and works till night ; worka again on Tuesday , and again on Wednesday morning , reaching home ( Huddersfield ) on Wednesday night , with the remains of 3 s . in bis possession , after he has paid for his keep during his journeys , and while at work ! He would have to journey backwards and forwards every night and morning , like Joseph Dawson , of Halifax , were it not for the kindness of another of his ** improvident" and u profligate" brethren at Thorahill , who gives him a bed for the two nights he is there . !

      Reader , remember , that this labouring man , who has laboured all his life ; who has caused more of the good things of life to b& than he could possibly have consumed , even had he " lived like a lord ; " and whose rights are ( thus Guardianized ; " remember , that this son of toiil so used , is SEVENTY THREE years of age J ! Remark it well ; too , that while the poor are thus forced to labour { hard for their w relief , " their relieving officers ] seem to get on very easily !

      Remark it well , that Needle-Jack , of HudderBfield , has now a horse of his own ! I and can afford to sit drinking in public inns for hours together , while the poob . axe kept waiting until be condescends to go to curse them ! Mark these things well ! and mark , too , that jtne authors , and enforcers , and present supporter ? , of the accursed law by virtue of which these crying enormities are practised , are the Free-Trading , Corn-Law Repealing ruffians , who want to persuade us that they have the welfare and interest of the poor at heart !

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      DORKING , Surbby . —Mr . Bravery , the person whose corn and mill were destroyed by fire , as reported in the- Star , of the 14 tb , died suddenly while superintending his men , who were clearing away the ruins of the mill , and preparing for its rebuilding . It appears that the deceased left home in his chaise , about one o'clock on Thursday , apparently iu good health , aud after remaining a short time with the meni he retired to a stable on the premises , where , in a tew minutes after , he was found by one of the workmen lying aoross Borne sacks quite dead .

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      FOR THE NATIONAL DEFENCE FUND , £ . id . From Maachline , per John Cunningham ... 0 15 0 — Hunslet , per Mr . Longbottom ... 0 10 0 ~ - Wm . Smith , New Pitsligo , Aberdeen 0 4 2 FROM THE SOMERS TOWN VICTIM COMHITTES . For Mrs . Roberts , of Birmingham 0 5 0 ~ . Mrs . Wild , of Mottram 0 I 0 ~ . Fund for locating Mrs . Ellis 0 5 0 FOB . MBS . ELLIS . From Joseph Smith , Hunslet ft 0 J ~ . William Richard , Bedford 0 10 ~ . The Chartists of Brighton , meeting { at the Cap of Liberty , per Mr . Flower 0 6 0 FOR WIDOW RUSSELL , OF NOTTINGHAM . From the Chartists of Brighton , meeting at the Cap of Liberty , per Wm . Flower 0 6 0

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      Huddersfield . —John Chapman is Sub-Secretary t this district : his residence , Water-gate , $ h chester-street ; and to him all communicant must be addressed . ™ Williah Magee . —His communication is insert i We are as well aware as he is of the great hu ] to a journal of typographical errors and earth ! printing , and do our best to avoid it ; but / ie m > know that these arz often the effect of bad mawf script and careless writing . a * D . Abell . —4 * . 6 d .

      Executive Votes of Confidence again . ~]^ i a letter from James Leach acknowledging than * had no authority whatever from the Chartist . Newport , in the Isle of Wighty or any of them r the statement which he made at ^ BirminohZ during the Conference week , about a vote 6 f ^ fldence in him and his colleagues , andafierieatJ suppressed by us . He says Campbell told hfa ~* but he knows not what authority Campbell ih for the statement . From a paragraph fnj Chartist intelligence , it un'll be seen that «!

      Brighton Chartists have by resolution in tmjj meeting disclaimed all knowledge of the risQh ? tion which they at the same time were ~ ffinneih have passed and sent to us for publication . . jRn the country ever be satisfied with the honetly < J » truthfulness of these men ? . ' ¦ The ' * Plotting" and m Conspiracy" Letters ... In reply to o ir demand of when the letters VZ to be published , Mr . Leach says , " it will depend much upon circumstances , when or whe thereva those letters will be published or not . " WeaJL

      oeiteve tms , ana we can tell Mr , Leach whai the circumstances are . The circumstance h ^ j prevents their publication , is the little factor they are not in existence , and that no such led ever were in existence . John M'Nacghtrn . — We cannot give him then ,, formation he wishes . James Webster , York . —We know all about fa meeting . We know exactly how many ^ present . We know that our statement is cottJ and Mr . Webster has not impugned it . The rtl lution voted

      was by eight persons , and no tnorr James Leeson . —His letter is forwarded . Charle 3 Stead . —In the National Charter Assoe iion there is no such distinction of offices as & . oretary , " and" Corresponding Secretary ; " hu every local and separate body of Chartists m » have what offices they please . The Marylebone Election of Delegates . - ^ do not conceive that any good can come oj yub lishing the letter from several members o / th Committee , which we have received . We « gu Mr . Farrar ' s contradiction to the alleged Jab and we do not think reasonable men can remdtt more , especially as the matter is now over nni done with

      J . Tearce . —Never mind the chattering fools , fa them lie till they are hoarse . W . H . Dyott begs to intimate to his English Cftarfti friends , that there has been a wceful absence of SrA . R-light lately in Ireland . In a political sentL Egyptian bondage , and Egyptian darkiieistoo prevail in Ireland . The rays of the Star « u {| do much to dissipate the latter , and lightJor Irifa men , too poor to purchase ., the true rood | j freedom . The address required by the South Wales delegate . -. Mr . J . H . Clarke , Surveyor , Ledbury , Here fori shire .

      Ma . J . Sweet , of Nottingham , is still agent for th Northern and Evening Stars ; he also best ft acknowledge the receipt of 4 rf . from Bleak-hoi Buildings , for Mrs . Ellis , and trusts that them of Nottingham , and its neighbourhood , vMfif ward their subscriptions without delay . The Chartists of Northumberland and Durhamjn respectfully informed by James Sinclair , tkatay communication to himafterthe 2 nd ofFebrwj { should be directed to James Sinclair , NewsAgat ^ Chartist Depot , 25 , High-bridge , Newcastle . Bradford—Stars to Ireland . —Mr . Joseph AUif ion calls the attention of the Bradford Cftsrffcj to the fact , that very few Stars are now rewind by the Council for Ireland . We hope teitk ^ n that this remissness will be immediately remM Manchester . —The clothes raffle next week . ¦ '

      Mr . Con Murray wishes us to stale that liii friends corresponding with kirn between this ad the 4 th of February , may address to thetind Mr . William Smith , 52 , New Market , Neuxasllt . upon-Tyne ; between the 4 th and \ 2 th , to Mr . James Arthur , bookseller , Ricker-gale , Cartisli , after which he goes into Scotland . Thomas Da vies . —An " Appeal to Patriotism and Humanity , " next week . S , C . S . — Upwards of 20 is above 20 . Cmmtyom fingers . Suffering Humanity . —Their communicoXms John Screaton , Lambley , Notts , and A Friebdio are received , and shall have attention . Manchester Packer . —Next week . Northwich Chartists . — We really cannot teU « k the 5 s . was not acknowledged in the balance ; tiitj had better ask Sir John Campbell .

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      J Stiven , France . —Eleven shillings and SetsDpenee halfpenny . F . Skillicorn . —We can send the Plates by part fa 6 d , or we can forward them to London , care i Mr . Cle / ive . W . ThojiaS , Merthyr Tydvil . —Apply to . D ;; v » gan . Malt Mill Sqiare , Merthyr TidvO , lb » receives the Stars regularly for sale . J . Skidmore . —The Plates are sent to Mr . Harne / . '

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 28, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1197/page/4/