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      * IN the Prospectus which the NORTH AMERICAN LAND AGENCY has already published J tfeeir views , it is hoped , have been sufficiently explained aa regards the promotion of Emigration to Lands and Estates , purchased through its intervention in Canada , &c The AKeins oo » fMently submit , however , that the same views , more fully developed , may be made essentially useful , not only to tbe unemployed classes in thin country , but aiso to those who are possessed ot some capital , ( bough insufficient in amount to secure , of itself , their permanent welfare and prosperity . It wi'l ba admitted that Emigration has heretofore been oonduoted on a system productive , in the aggregate , of much individual hardship and distress—and especially to the Emigrant of the poorer class ; for on arriving at his port of debarkation , he has found himself , generally speaking , with little or no money , and no friends to assist him in procuring work , or even to point out in what part of tbo Province 1 ho would be most likely to obtain it , —while he who possessed some little capital has met with similar difficulties , in making choice of a location . Canada , though ail things considered , perhaps the most important of out colonies , is virtually a terra incognita—simpl y because there is no one willing , if able , j to * fford the requisite information to those who seek it , and it is this deficiency which it is the aim and object of the Agents effectually to remedy . : There are hundreds in Great Britain anxious to emigrate , but who , from WMit of sufficient means , are deterred from , or unable to do so . To such the Agents can off . r facilities heretofore unthought of and unattainable ; for example : —A man having no more than £ 100 , would not better hia situation by , emigrating to Canada as an agriculturist—for the purchase of his Land , and she unavoidable preliminary j expenditure thereou , the expunce of oonveyanoe thither , and his support , however frugal , until hia first crops were gathored in , would absorb more than his entire capital , even under the most favourable circumstances . Such a capital , on the contrary , would be totrad not only sufficient on the plan proposed by the Ag <» nto , as hereafter explained , but at the same time , immunity from the usual hardships and privations would be secured , and to the prudent and industrious a comfortable and permanent oompetentoy n the future .: But the great body of our emigrating population ia composed of persons having no capital whatever , > generally without even the nieanB of paying their pafsage-money to a Colony , however approximate to ; the mother country . The sufferings which too of ten befal th ^ se poor people , are greater than would be j generally believed—not on shipboard , for there they are now well-oared for , owing to the strictness with j which the wholesome regulations of the * ' Passengers' Act ' are enforoed by the Government Emigration J Agents here aud in Canada . It is on their arrival in the Colony that the struggle really ooramenoes , a - tni £ gle not confined to the more labourer , but more or lesB participated in by the email capitalist to whom \ reference was first made . ! He must search for his Land in a country , to the localities of which , its soil and seasons , he is a perfect BtrsDgar ; and when selected , however judiciously , he must live upon his own resources until the ; gensuing harvest . He mu .-it erect his own log house , clear aud fence his laud , wasting valuable time , aud i spending much of his already too scanty capital unprofitably , from inexperience in the work he has j undertaken . The former , on landing at his destined port , applies for work , which if unattainable on the spot , be i must seek for elsewhere , or starve . If without funds , he is provided by the Emigration Agent appointed ' by Government , with a free passage in a steam boat to wherever he chooses to go , and then every resource j but his own labour ceases . It may not be irrelevent to mention , that the money thus expended in Canada I in 1842 , wan £ 18 , 161 ; and in 1843 , nearly £ 9 , 000 ; Emigration in the latter year having fallen off 51 p * r ¦ cent , as compared wiih the former : a plain proof of the generally helpless condition of our emigrating I brethren , and that the distress alluded to is tar from being exaggerated . _ j The Agents will now proceed to state as britfly as possible , those remedial measures which they are , sanguine enough to hope may remove in a great degree , if not altogether , the evils complained of . 1 it has bern observed in the first prodpeciua' that the Agent in Loudoa has for sale upwards of 600 , 000 1 Acres of Land in different parts of Upper and Lower Canada ; and it is ia a great degree owing to the exceedingly low terms on which the Agents ore authorised to dispose ol some of the best of these properties , that they are enabled to & > r to tho consideration of the public the following scheme : — Tho statement marked A shows , that with no greater capital than £ 77 , a single man , forming onb of a pabtt -of- nor less than XB « families , ob principals , will acquire in fee simple , or Freehold , Land 10 ihe extent of 100 Acres . That for a man and hi « wife , or two single men , the capital required will be ouJy £ 87 , or £ 43 } 0 j . each ; with one child , £ 92 5 * ., 01 £ 30 15 s . each ; the amount per head decreasing as the numbers in a family increase . It has been remarked , that with so small a sum at command as £ 100 , the agriculturist would not better his condition by emigrating ; and it is presumed that the reasons given are a sufficient evidence of the fact . The plan now submitted goes , however , to prove that even this Bniall stock of money can be made not only ample fur all useful purposes , but will leave a fund to meet contingencies . The Btaiemem markeu B shows in like manner the capital required to entitle the Emigrant to 50 Acres of Land in Freehold , aud this aoale is intended to apply to those who depend upon the assistance of others , partially or wholly , to enable them to emigrate . To this table the Agents bespeak the especial attention of those who support Emigration from j benevolent views . Looking at the brightest side of the picture , it has been , to the poor man , merely a transition from labour iu one couatry , 10 labour in another , with the prwpeot , if successful , of saving in the course ot y « ars , tuffioient to procure those advantages which ate herd offered him on setiing toot in Canada . Not oniy will he bo exempt from the prospect of want , provided of course he be prudent and j industrious , but he will be spared those hardships and privations heretofore inseparable from the change of hum » and eountry ; and secure to himself a state of comfort : and independence beyond any expectations | he could ever have ventured to indulge in . ! The-publio may fairly require some guarantee beyond the mere character of the Agents , that they ! have the power as well as iho inclination , faithfully to carry out that which they undertake to perform . j Snch a guarantee they are prepared to offer , and in a form which they trust will be approved of They propose—Tbat when the purchase is made , the money contributed by each family or principal shall be placed in tke handa of tbo Bankers of the Agency , in London , in the joint names of tho Agent in London , and some ouc appointed by ihe Settlers , to be applied ia the manner following , viz . : — 1 . To pay the purchase money of tho Land go soon aa the Title Deeds of the same , legally excouted in the Colony , are delm-red over to the Purchasers . 2 . To defray the Passage Money of the Settlers in tho manner usually practised in Emigrant Ship « , and 3 . To repay all other disbursements undertaken by the Agents , so as , but not before , tbe Settlers shall have arrived on their location , and are therefore in actual possession of the settlement prepared for them . North American Land Agency , RICHARD NORMAN , No . 2 , New Broad Street r London . Agent m London . STATEMENT A Table , shewing tbe amount required to be paid bv each Family according to the number of its members , to eniiile them to a Fbbehold Fabu of 100 Acres , a Free Pass-age to Canada ; three Months ' Provisions alter their arrival at the Settlement ; and a participation in all the advantage offered by the Agency , whioh are as follows : — 1 . —A Log House to bo built on . eaoh Farm . ... m . 2 . —FiveAores oi Land to be oleared on eaoh Farm , of which four acres to be cropped with Wheat , and one acre witb Potatoes and other vegetables . 3 . —The setters to beturnished witb the necessary tools , such as Axes , Hoes , Siokles , &o . ; and also 4 . —Witb one Yoke of Oxen for the general use of the Suttlement . 5 —A foreman , and two experienced assistants , to be engagsd and paid by the Agents for three months , to work with and instruct the Emigrants in clearing Land and fencing it ; and in the erection ot Log Houses , of which five will , tor that purpose , be built after the arrival of the Settlers . 6 . —Tnree Months' Provisions to be supplied to the Emigrants after they have reached the Settlement , thus securing them against the possibility oi' want while their crops are ripening , and they are engageu in the work referred to in the foregoing paragraph . TT . . . XT , Amount to bo Paid . Under Above Number Members of each Family . 14 14 . in „ . u . Yam Y '"' - Fanil ? ' lSa ! L ^ ts <> . 1 . , : ~ e „ .. £ a d A single man 1 1 77 0 0 77 0 0 No . 2 . A man and wife 2 2 43 10 0 87 0 0 No . 3 . A man , wife , and 1 child 1 2 3 30 15 0 92 5 0 No . 4 . A man , wife , and 2 children 2 2 4 24 10 0 98 0 0 1 No . 5 . Aman , wife , and 3 chi ] . < ren 3 2 5 20 15 0 103 15 0 1 No . 6 . 1 A man , wife , and 4 children , 1 child above 14 years- 3 3 6 18 17 6 113 5 0 No . 7 . A man , wife , and 5 children , 1 child abovo 14 year ? 4 3 7 1700119 00 No . 8 A man , wife , and 6 children , 2 children above 14 yrs 4 4 8 16 2 6 129 0 0 j STATEMENT B ' Table shewing the Amount required to be paid by eaoh Family according to the number of its Members , to emitle them to a Freehold Farm of Fifty Acres ; a Free Passage to Canada ; three Months ' Provisions afn > r their arrival at tbe Settlement ; and a participation in all the advantages offered by the Agencv , which are as follows , v ' z .: — 1 . — A Log House 10 be built on each Farm . 2 . —Four and a Half Acres of Land to be cleared on each Farm , of which four acres to be cropped \ with Wh ^ at , and Half an Acre with Potatoes and other vegetables ! . 3 . —Tbe settler ^ to ba furnished with the necessary tools , such as Axes , Hoes , SickleB , &c ; and also i 4 . —With one Yoke of Oxen for the gpneral use ot the Settlement . S . —A . foreman , and two experienced assistants , to be engaged and paid by the Agents for three mon hs , to work w th nnd insTaot the Emigrants in clearing Laud and fencing it ; and iu the erection of Log Houses , of w ; . ich five will , for that purpose , be built after the arrival ot the Sellers . ' 6 . —Three Mon'hs" Provisions to be supplied to the Emigrants after they have reached the Settlement , : thns securing them a ^ ain ^ t rbe possibility of want while their orops are ripening , and they are engaged in [ the w * r ) s referred to m the f- regoing paragraph . I : Unde . Above Numbei Amount to be paid . Members of Each Family . 14 14 in " ~~~ ~ . Years . Vears . Family . , By ?? ch By each Individual- tamily . j : No . 1 . £ a < T £ a < T ABingleMan 1 1 59 10 0 59 10 0 No . 2 . A Man and Wife , ; ... 2 2 34 12 6 69 5 0 No . 3 . A Man , Wife , aad Child 1 2 3 25 t 0 73 0 0 No . 4 . A Man , Wife , and tiro Children 2 2 4 2 » 2 € ' 80 10 t No . 5 . A Man , Wife , and three Children i 2 B 17 * © 86 SO No . 6 . A Man , Wife , and four Children , one Child above 14 yeare ... 3 * ' * -16 0 -96 0 0 + ' No . 7 . A Man , Wife , and five Children , ono Child above 14 yeara ... 4 3 7 14 10 0 10110 0 No . 8 . A Man , Wife , and six Children , two Children above 14 yearc 4 4 8 13 17 ' 6 111 0 0 ; 1 N . B . —A party desiring to have a larger Farm than above desonbe < J , can obtain Land in any quantity at r the mere : cost oLBuoh Land , free from any increase in the other items of expenditure .

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      THE XAKD ! Tk £ LaKO ! THE LAKDl 1 ! GUAM ) MOYS ^ EXT IN THF TJ . VITJED STATES . iiAKCH OF AGR \ E 1 ANISH . JjEBTIKGS OP THE NATIOXA 1 REFOBMEB& f Frpmtfte ITortiiy-man ' a Advoai ' e of May , 4 th ) FBOGHTSS OF THE CATSE . The third Ward ^ dee ^ e "was belt' in the Fourteenth \ T » r ^ , on Monday evcEvna , arxl -was much better &T- > nded even than the two priced in * ones , - bnt we oii-bt tohsve , snd we beteve * b * li have , thousands , ic * ' tad of hundreds , at thts- hi- f tines . b < fore the circle of tie city is 8 cscm ) - ] i 6 be 1 . There is evidently a . tow-Ji e interest in ttMm . - : T-nit . ? t as tbe election excitement d ^ s a—ay . The Tr « fcing men are beginning to optn tfc ^ ir eyr a .

      ^ Oae mode in which tbe patriotic entit-i ^ e— : of tbe pi ^ t ^ r reformers has exn . hiled itself , wss'ia vhe prcdi ction of a splsndid trai sp ^ rencj to be p < aced in fr- ' .- uf the plica of me-ttnu . Trberever tbat c . cj be . , A : 'be bead of tbe transparency , in a half circle are tfc- -words "Freedom of Uis Public La ^ s f under . r « 3 * b . tbe design of the m * n on tbe gio&e , txhijntins tt g at Xhir-n ' 3 D ^ nseoatic H > c : d Qiarters . 3 > jniel F- * ster , cta-nnan . J . XVindt . secretary . Mirmtes of last mettirj ^ read ; nd approved .-Afrer reading the pledge , Air . Comm _ ford ¦ wub called out to address the mtttinz .

      The speaker , in opening , alluded to tbe Native AiirricanlParty , and compared tbe narrowcefs oftc « -ir Ti ¦*•« -with tbe pkitanthrupic . oempreberisive , and truly ¦ A-r < Tican principles sustained by tbe Ifa ' . innal RtTora A ^ nation—ridiculed i £ * = id ° a of r % qairir : ? such nighty ic ' - ^ e cte as Prit *? ley , E : r , nj ^ u , Owen , and tboasnuds of ^ liters , of egoal miEd , and . qu = I devotien to dtnio--crs ^ c principle , to p * s ? tn sp > rt .. tict * bip of twentycr > - ; . ears » o sindy tbe rsrere e / our Q ven > n ; t-nt to qn-Wtfy themselves for cr . z B * fe : p Tbe ei 6 * : je = ; pirtitaprrpd in tbe liS-ra ! scDtmiants of tee specter , staring thea feelings by hearty applsnss . He then gs .-5 an able rtview of ? £ > - r :. s ? and pro £ r--js of ine

      pre-; - movement us IsTr = \ iT - \> f fi « -irg the PnMic L . 3 ? -as jj ( i - » e * d Gejseral Jocksori'a t-ff-r ; in the csnse vri : l ^ be ¦ Ws * President ; c&n * . rt . « ted it - ^ itii the early , un-. fjnn , ar-o coDtinued opposition cf Henry day to & ¦ lowing es--j access to the PablieD --ujaii!—spote of tba ubsence of tie ordinary paity lires on this snfcjt-e 1- ; that we sb ¦ tid find opponents -among democrats , * o eaBwl , and some frienda . aaioDg Wfcics ; that for some time *» e jnns . % expect tte open and coTcrt opt-osition of al ] elzsses of ¦ profissed politicians until the * -working aen Bbo . i be aroused to tbe Tsst iccportance <¦{ tbe moveiDs-nt , aud © f tfee "wortbieisnrEs to -the j ^ reat mass of tbe laZ ^ uxing tommuniiy of tbr c- > jictsacd ends of tbe two gTfait political partit-s of the day ice .

      Tbe speaker iidti a-JTerttd to our landlord and ter . s . iii zyetesi , and txposeO its utter iBei-n-paubility *; th tbe freedom inte ^ ceO to t-xist D 3 iJer « ur Corsh : nfci > a ; and tbat th « c&ly tB ^ irt-ly un < j > j-cuonibit : re-EtCvlayin the measure -we advocate in . reisrence to Sh * Pablic Iiinds . l-3 TematiB * er 8 greeted -with the "vrarBi plauiita of the j-niMenea , frt-Q 5 t ? ntSy cxprtE ^ sd .

      BBFOR 3 I AT -WIXLlASSBrSGH . The ATnSiary BraDcn of i&b Sationai Srfonn Assoosvon tf WilliaiMbuT ^ n , ruetai tbe KiKib Amrr . csn H >" el , in that village , on Tburs--ay evensse , Aaron SxE'sb , the President , in tbe chair , * i » d Tnomua A . Dtvyr , Sscrfetary . ? 5 r D ^ tji opened the meeting by staticg , ' in a lord rle and lucid manntr , the objects of ihe Aeso-CiV . oa . Considerable disenssion tocfe place , mating the meeting raore than usually I- twtecing . ( From Hie Working-man ' s Advocate of May 18 ft ) XHE PUBLIC IUJDS . A meeting of the Ifational B = f--rni Association was held at tbe 3 Iilitsry EaJl , corner of JLudlow iiirt Grandttrtxzts , on TVtsdnefdsy tTrning ; Ch&ilts P . Gar . jper , cha-rrcan , and Orsargo H Efans secretary , pro tan .

      ILe csll of the mtctiag . as pnbiisbed in our last paper , -was read , and then tbe pledge , to -whisk several naiccs were added . Sir . Cammeribrd tras then cali « d upon to address tbe meeting . He Eaia it ¦ w-aa discouraiiiDg that a largtr meeiing could not be oblaintO on this subject ; bnt it » as bis duty to expiain the oljects conttanpiated by the k&scd ^ tion , even if be could convince fcni odk . As the call of our meeting inUmstea , over 50 :-M > 0 ptrsoaa claimed relief from ihe c ^ miniasioEers of tbe Aims-Hoote in this city , list yt&r , or cne in se * en of the poj tilstfon , a condition os things , as regards thi » city , aku- * : as bad us that of Giest Britain , whose paupers are ^ kx to one of tbe popaistia a . Somepersj ns might be disposed to denbt the 3 tattmeni ; bat those -who bad oppormnitiea of fajo-sra ? bow many -Were out ol unploy laal-BinterTFOTildnot . We prop »» s not enly to tats eff to th * public lands those out of empioy , but to ^ ff = r faci'iuea to all "who aie Desirous ot em ^ siEtinz . We to of

      des ^ n orgat : z = voriicg classes ociup ^ tions ; and if they will ors ^ niz--, cur otjec * . can eaiilj be carriai out . "We have litO , 000 , 000 of Ecre 3 ofpnblJc lanas wbich are i > O" » sc- ! d at a dollar and twtn-j-nve OcalsiSi ace to specBlators , a ' rtoujrh Lbc txpcuccs of onr -s-its . for "which o ^ r iaBcs v ^ sre pledged , c-ve been ligaicaifcd long sza . It is ramo cow tu restore vhat belt-n « to tht people . JT :- m-ji now ctulo Save any guarantee o ? steady emj .. l-yinc 3 t , and , if empiott . ~ i , f = w have-any bttter prcspect tor-old age bnJ the p-.-or hi use . Tbtptsople cf England are not niucb low « r thin inis . AnU rven enr own pocr-lic-jEe sysrem is vrz ^ ng . It is tbsr icieres : of the poor-hoiisr a ^ -jit to msfce bis party ' appeal as economical aa p ^ ssin-e , so ib ^ poor are half ; Btaiic-J on a mietiatis 2 s . or 4 i a-wetk . Tbera 13 no ; reed of this -s-hateTcT . It is the wrong agency of cm representatives at Wastkimrton on this euljt ^ ct , j that has cans&d our prcssnt diffisuiSes , mbkii ;? the Vrort . n 2 mas look on his fellow man as an tntiDT , i

      If Uie system that "tre propose vraa in optra ^ n , tbe ffiff-rvct societ-es , shoemaktrs , tailors , cabtnet-znafcera , or t ^ use-carpsnters could Send those ont of empl-jy to the ^ nd . And it -would be to tbe interest of all to create a fund for this purpose . The nsaner could be so nicely arranged tLst there -would" b * no -j ? ant of tmploymect . All the trades sbould combine to tfij ^ t this otj-ift . In comparison -sriti tbe rtlief that this measure ^ t-oii'I tffjrd , how Email -would be the gain of the native American party from a Hiers distribution of o 2 k =: ? "What "waa to be g »\ ned by coropeiii : g foreigners to ii-, T ; a twenty-one yeara app-enticcship in this country befrrg they conisi bs allowed to Tuie ?• Oar party should be ths party that "would go for our Jteas-ttrts , the < i -J ; y measnica that -would bring the desirtd relief . The p ^ rty that "wcuid do this WGuidbe the true American rarty .

      Tijsjre would be no Deed of one poor man -or one 3 joc = in society if this mfejsure Vha in full optration . Svcrj Tr . an could g « = t a living by bis labour , and no mai ^ yculd be enabled toiivu without seme useful emplojju ^ nt . If ini- -ma a p 3 rty msf ting , on which c&css tfere dej ^ r-jing , there sron ' id '^ aa good atUndanc : ' , and men would be present to dcJiVijhigh soucamg harangues ; but as it-was oiiy for huTtum ^ pu-posrg lbs trading politid-u Tould not attend . We want the co-operation of tte -ixTrkvug classes , to attract the attention cf these genile-aren . They wili fiid us out after we hold a meeting in the Park .

      It is said by some that every industrious man can get & living . This might b 2 Ve been said once , but it could no L « 5 feT be said . Twenty men of vast "wealth in this city can control tfee rents , and compel almost every family of this vast population to move every May day . Sir . G-, however , did not 2 nd fault -R-itJi tbe landlords , but * rith the system that gave them tbe power , siad -with thfc ap -thy of tbe ^ farki-g classes trader it If the peopU of Grad Britain Jiad the power as ire Ttave , to seas . -- * to every needyir .-tn a home on 160 acres of land , ihey TK , Tdd soon aeconi ^ 'isb it . Mr a believed we shunld yet get fevonrable ktterj from sosie of thfepresvietdal candidates on this subject , but Mr . Ciay was committed to 3 paliey that denaed the poor Tn ^ -n a r ^ fnge oc -tie BoiL Richard M- Jobnsoa had-J ^ ays contaioeQ for the rights of squatters / and he hop * d would 50 for excluding speculators from the T > n -Uc lands .

      General Jackson proposed that tbe poor should h ve possession of the lands for the msra expense of snrvpy » frg And if it had no * been for his celebrated specie circular , all tbe choice lands would have now been in the bunds of speculators . As it " was , they bad been compelled to TeliEqaiah some that they nad-ebtamed—( applause ) . Tnis , . raid Mr . C-, is a matter that appeals to tbe jicb as well as the poor man ' s interest , while it proposes to take from tc mzn . WsaVlh has mags , bat tb < s measure effijs a certja ^ . It offers to the -Borkic ^ ynm a home for e ^ er . It was aa idea of I ^ napirle , Trtiileviewing the Pyrsmids , that forty ages ^ ere : 00 king down upon hiis . L = t us -accomplish itr _ s rr ^ a ' . uje . and it will ba lonlifca up to all * lerairy . His a mature Viat would re-ad upon England , tchose millions would , vciih cur example heMe I em . regain Jieir rijht 0 / soil if necessary , al the pof : J of the bayonet : atS v > tistai ^ t pv eximplt would be followed by the tshole

      wond—( applause ; . . Jdi . a again allnded to tbe Native partj . American working men fibonlu not war-with men -srhoooma to lrbik with Uiem , but with 3 rilii » h Capitalists , who are sfle&tly stealing the heritage of tbe cbiiaren , and who , in * iew years wCl become tteir land-lords , if you do noi adopt this measure . Any man who ^ spould throw cold water on . this project sheuld bei ^ aided a * youi lrortteBemy —{ applause } . ^ Politicians admit this i $ ~ great subject , but they fear it will jeopardise the petty claims ot this or tkat man to office . They are traittn Tb « KeKHro ij not altojethw new . Eren andtr SeK * bd » , an Egyptian king , every man was a landbolder . WhJ Eboald it not be so hers ?

      Hr . C . th »» ipoke ol Qiemlsenble cpaditiM of aany powfaiHales in winter in tills city , showing fch »« oa-BWtioBof poverty and crime , and then adverted totfao Blsenble condition of ffimalm asd other operative in fisEartem factoriti . He then alluded to the State PrUon bill celebration , a miserably inefficient mea-« oe , tt « xneapa sratted in caUbraGng - which would h » T » placed Qu * great measure fairly before the mttioi . A few meo , » id Mr . C ., own the whole of England , nd . ifycm do not adopt tkii meaiire a few wiD « xm owatt * land here . L 4 nd . Jtord * wiilK > ODbavethepower

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      to say bow much you shall spend . So long as a man was at tbe mercy of a land-Lord , he could not see much d fftrfnee whether it was a British , an American , or the Devil ' s land Lord An American should ba noholy ' s landlord but his own . Some may boast , with the poet , that " No pent np TTtlca contracts onr powers . The whole , thebounulesa continent is oura , " bnt it is false . Not one in a hundred new haa anythinc to do with the continent , except on sufferance . Jf rbe working men wonld free themjelves fruin the British system of Land Monopoly and become independent fret-men instead of degraded tenantry , they mast fcnppoit a paper Wedded only to the poor man ' s interests , and join the- National Reform Association ot its Auxiliaries—' . cheerB ) .

      Mr . Dcvyr , after illustia / ini ? in various ways the immense importance to tbe woiking classeg of this movement , co : ; tinned : tiere are men embarked in tbe cause who win not give it up while they have a dollar left , and who will never rest till they have aroused the men of l \ e-s > York to a sense of its momentous importance . Tbe intmciency of their partial strikes , and tbe rapidly accumulating powers of capital and machinery , ought to open their eyesto tbe fact that there is but one way in ¦ = * hich th » y may live free from tbe thraldom of landlurds and factory owners . Tne great and good Baing has created the broad , green earth , and endowed it with tbs fruitful seasons , the vernal sun to quicken vegetation and tbe winds of autumn to ripen its fruits , all to meet the wants of man ; and here , fortunately , tfeo -whole earth is not in possession of individuals &a in Europe , where every acre bears tfce mark of the beast , tvery green field the brand of the capitalist .

      Are we men of &ense , or are we slaves and idiots ? What -p-ould the men of seventy years ago say if they couli now look down upon ns , and Bee that we allow a B . itiah Lord "with a week ' s rent of his unrighteous possessions to bny up thousands of acres of our soil ? In Enslsnd and Ireland tbe people are beginning to iiivtst . gatfc tbe real question , tbe right of the soil , and if -we cominue our unnatural and absurd system , a L-nni of Tipperary or of Lancashire wiil &ay to his syn , " Here , Jack , tbe author of our Nature , when be made us subject to cold and hunger , at the same time gave a > tbt bountiful e ^ rth to supply our wants ; cur lenauts fcrrt- are beginning to see all this , and we know what -w * have to depend on ; but the Yankees have not fenrd this out You take a year ' s rent of the manor .

      go over to tbe United S ; ates , and buy up a million acres of their land , and in a few years yon can have an estate mere profitable than that which we now hold . " Yet our streets are filled with overgrown children in the an . pe of men who cannot see these things ; men with bnsby whiskers and cigars in their mouths but no Efuse in their heads ; men willing to give their daily toil lot a daily pittance gradually decreasing without one thought about the cause of their degradation f Lucifer himself must laugh at tbe abominable folly of permittirg British nabobs to invest money , wrung out of tbe sweat and blood of tbtir oppressed dependants , in tbe purchase of American . soil , that their sens when dnven fmm the land they pollute , may become the Izsr-lords of Americans , who in fifty years , if you

      continue the present system , must euVmit to their terms . If yon be men worthy to breathe even in Europe , much less btre . ask in secret of your own breasts , is it ev * n K > 2 niy in you , t * look on , with your mouths o ^ en , and ert this -wrong , without making an tff . irtto atrest it . Wnat figure will you cat in history wben it is recorded , as recorded it will be , that when a few men banded thutnslvcs together , and invited your co-operation , you f but your e ^ rs and your eyes ? Let each one of you talk to your acquaintances ou this BuVj ^ ct , and , if they cannot show you thi > t wbat we waui is of no use ; if they cannot deny that all our subsistence comes from the bnd , and that , therefore , to be free man must have free access to the land , then urge them to join with us in this work .

      Mr . D . said that some months ago , before the present movement was thought of , several working men of Wiliiamsburgh , of both political parties , bad associated themselves together for tbe purpose of emigration to some of the western lands . WbilB tbey were layioz their plans , a man named Daniel Jackson , from New York , came to them , and told them he was eon-Decttd with a company who bad possession of a large tract of rich land , about seven miles Ion ? , on the banks of the Mississippi , on which they were anxious -to have settlers . Mr . D . said it was just wbat they wanted , to settle in a body on some navigable stream , and asked him bis terms . Said Mr . Jackson , we will let yon have the land for five years free . And what tb- n ? said Mr . D . Why , then , said Jackson , yoa may

      have it at half a dollar an acre . Why , aaid Mr . D , that is very Tearonab'e , I thought there was no land to be obtained for less than one dollar and a quarter an acre . O , said Mr . Jackson , I mean fifty cents a year . But , said Mr . D ., we want to buy the land , not to become tenants . What will you sell it for ? O , said he . we have no intention to sell it : we only want it tettltd . Now , aalfi Mr . D ., dont you see this principle T If you de not , if yon cannot , devise a remedy for thii evil you ought to be asbemed to go borne and look you ? wivcB in tbe face . Dmt talk about a bank or a tariff ; thfese are questions that may be settled at any time ; but let your Daniel Jackson ' s monopolise your territory , and hold it for tbe purpose of speculation , and ycur country rcrut go in tbe way ef all other

      nations that have tolerated a monopoly of the land , whether of the » ld repnblics or the new monarchies . l . tl this monopoly co on here , and the wife ' s sunken eye , and the little ones' cry f « r bread , will be a lash in the b ^ cdB of the northern taskmaster , a thousand times more potent than tbe southern whip . The evil ought to have been remed'ed twenty years ago ; but it is not yet too late . With our unequalled advantages of soil and climate ; "with our railways , our stearaerB , and the preFS , and wiih a territory , not yet monopolised of twenty-five tinea tfce extent of the BritiBb Islands , we have bnt to ray to government , thus far have you gone , bnt no farther shall you go in this course : and never on

      this globe was Ibere an opportunity like this to establish a true republic . This cause , said be , must be advanced by incessant exertioni on the part of thOBe enlisted in it r by the publication of small documents and papers . There are m « n who will do all they can in this way for a whole year , believing tbe cause to be one , the enVire beneficial extent of which , to yourselves and posterity , no human mind can foresee ; and if , alter they hsve done all they can , from day to day , w « ek to week , and month to month , for * whole year , they still prove unsuccessful , they will at least leave it on record that they attempted with all might to stem the torrent of monopoly , but that the men of New York vrould not help them .

      The Association adjourned , to meet at their new Head Quarters , corner of Chatham and Mulberry-streets , on Thursday evening next L ; t every man , then , bring his man , And Boon well have them all .

      SAT 1 VE AMERICANISM TJUMASKED . On tie 24 : h of April . Mr . Wetbered of Maryland opened his speech on tbe tariff , by calling the Tariff Bill reported by the Committee of Ways and Means a " British Bill ; ' * adding , that " ibe discussion on such a bill was suitably opened by tbs gentleman from Indiana iMr . Owen ) so lately a surject of Great Britain , and still doubtless retaining his predilections for tbe land of nis birth , 4 c . After two unsuccessful attempts , ~ Hi . 0 weD obtained the floor , through the courtesy ol Mr . W . Bunt , whe gave wa 5 for big explanation , whereupon

      Mr . 0 wen said ; I have been anxious to obtain the fi . jc-r , iu reply to the personalities of tbe gentleman from Maryland ( Mr . Wetbered ) , because , if snch tr . fl-. s are to be replied to at all , it is bttter it should be duce at once ; they are not worth sleeping over , i ever regret wbea a discos ies degenerates into saeh iireievandes They can add nothing to an argument . What matters it whether it be ( as tbe gentleman baa truiy aaid I am ) a foreigner born , or whether be be { as he is ; a manufacturer ? How sbali it influence tbe question in discussion , whether I have " BritUh r-naflections , " or he " manufacturing predilections ?" Shall we sit in judgment on each o ; her ' B srerei motives J That belongs to a higher tribunal than ours . That be should attribute to me foreign feelings , or 1 to him mercenary intentions , would be eqoail ? unparliamentary , irrelevant , and unfair .

      The gentleman spoke of me as one " so lately a sub * jees of Great Britain . " I don't know what tbe gentleman understands by " lat « ly . " Eighteen years ago ( then just entering on manhood ; 1 left tha British monarchy , and came to these fihores . If that was & crime , it was ona that has often been committed by ibt > wisest and best It was the crime of the Ptlgrim Fathers . The gentleman's own ancestors—he is not of Indian birth , I presnme , Sir—( laughter )—and if be be not , his own auct-stors committed it Eubteen years a § o isettledTin tbe West , then almost tbe frontkr West ; and kindly and indulgently did my adopted State receive me , and well do I love btr f » r it . E'zbteen years ago , I renounced allegiance to ev .-ry sovereign upon earth , save one ^—a frte people . Tuat is my offence ! That is the txtent <» f my crime !

      Bat the gentleman from Maryland takes exception to it , fch . it I , & natural cit ; z n only , should have opened such a debate as this . Sir , frben I lo ^ k around this hall , I see two portraits , and but two , a-iorning its wslls . The one , the father of his country ; an American truly by birth ; an A-Tntrican far more by noble principles he cherished , by the glorious deeds that have made his name the first—the brightest—on the page ol human history ! The other—aye 1 Sir , who is the other ? Let the gentleman from Maryland anawer me , whose portrait , is the other ? A European ' s , an aristocrat ' s , if to be born among ta aristocracy make * & mBDjine of tbenaelTes ; a rahject of a European king ; the

      one bred upTtf very atmosphere of a court . Wbat dou ki » portrait there I' WouldMt-abi 1 be well for the jienHemaB , the first day that TaiolBtioM are in order , to introduce , eoe for . tbe pvrpoM » f taking iownof snatching from it * station there—the portrait of Out man ; of tb * good , tot wiie , the great , the venuabl Xataystte ; * f hlia wboa thli saUoa delighted to honour ; of him who , when- be aonsgbt"these ahoret , wh received by . America a * never nation , till then , received a man ? If . I , becanie . I am foreign berh , be unworthy to open « ucn » discussion aa tBU ; that portrait I « unworthy to look opon it . - Yet "what aacrilegious hand dare pluck it thence J ~

      Sorry am I , Sir , to tecognise ihi « bastard Bpiritof Native Americanism here . I know that it Baabad Its brief hour in New York ; but I did not know that it wut « find an advocate , its partisan , in a member ef r

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      this house . Uawo . nhy , Sir , —utterly unworthy is jthst narrow and ; illiberx 1 spirit to find a representative in any legislative ht > dy—least of all , on the floor of the Congress of America . America ia tha land—not of one class , one tribe , one people—a home , sot for those only to whom favouring fortmce has granted birth within its borders . Tbe world . claims birthright in America . ' Tbe world admits America own claim , to be " the land uf tbe free and tbe uomV of tbe brave . " Tbe free claim this for their country ; thV brave claim it for their country ; I—foreign born though I be—I rlchifaUj claim it for my country . It ia mKie bj tree eelection , by deliberate preference ; the gentleman ' s by accident only . Noip , I am willing judgment ahfli !* 8 ° > and tha decision be made , which of us has the h > Bst of it —New York Working-mans Advooats .

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      Thobwaldsen ' s Statue of Loed Byron . —I will be recollected thai a statement appeared in thf papers a few days since , to the effect that a Btatue of Lord Byron , executed by Thorwaldsen , imported into this country some yeara Binoe , and deposited in the King ' s warehouse < or security , and which had never been removed by the parties , has be ? n allowed to go to decay , or at all events waB not forthcoming , and that the executors , having applied for it , and not having received a satisfactory reply , intended to proceed against the Cus'oms authorities in London

      ibr the same , which was valued at £ i 0 , 000 . The facts of the case are , that the Statue in question wa > - imported about 10 years ago in two cases , one of them a very largo one , containing , it is supposed , the figure in a sitting po 9 ture . and were deposited in one of the warehouses at the London Dooks , and not in the King ' s warehouse , in Thames-street , as has been erroneously siatt d . Very shortly after these cases were brought over to ihU cauntry , the proper duties were paid upon tbe game , it being the intention of the sculptor : o present the fignro to the authorities 01

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      Westminster Abbey , to be placed there as a national monument ; of the poet . It was subsequently found , however , that the Dean refused to permit the statue of the author of Don Juan to be deposited in that hallowed place . The consequence has been that the statue was never removed from the docks , and has remained ever since where it was originally deposited . The statement , therefore , about the packages being lost or destroyed is a fabrication , and no doubt they will-be delivered up oy the Commissioners of Customs ( or , more properly speaking , by the London Dock Company ; for immediately the proper duties are paid upon packages warehoused at the docks , they are delivered out of charge of tho Customs into the hands of the company , until their dock charges , &oM are

      paid , ) on satisfactory proof from the executors of v heir right to claim the same . It is belived that the - ' xCQutoTB are not aware of the place wero the packages were originally or are at present housed ; but no doa ^ t they will shortly recoive a notification to that effeo t- The security and identity of the packages has been . discovered , in consequence of an inquiry having been Bet on f °° * hy the Customs' Board into the matter . . 1 * * y De considered as oertain that the statue is in . a state of perfect preservation , as the case in which it u deposited is nearly two inches in thickness , and has never been disturbed since it was

      first brought to this Country . —Morning Advertiser . Mr . YouATt , in one of his orations to the members of the Vdtorinary College , observes , "that by the improvements in modern chemistry , the medical profession ar « enabled successfully to treat diseases which wore previously auppo'sed as not within the reach of medicine . " This truth has been manifested for many years , but in no instance of greater importance to mankind than by the discovery of "Blair ' s Gout and Rheumatic Pills . " The Polish Ball . —We are glad to learn that the receipts of the Polish ball will amount to about £ 900 .

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      THE COAL KINGS CONFUTED . Sir , —Tbe pitmen of Northumberland and Durham have been off work somewhere verging on three months , and to all appearance they will hold out for some weeks longer , rather than go to work on the terms offered by tbe masters , and the masters are seemingly determined not , to agree to the terms offered by the men : thus the parties are at the Opposite extremes , and each or either party would be considered culpable for any amount of distress or privation to which many hundreds of other psrpons are subjected 'hrough the protracted nature of the strike , who do not move from the position first taken up , so as to j meet and make some approximation to an amicable adjustment of all differences .

      From what I ha > ve learned from tbe published doonmenta of the pitmen , and from all other sources of information , they bave always from tbe first , nay , previous to tbe late engagement being ended , offered to meet the masters tb discuss the polits at issue , so that the strike might jn < 3 t take place : and although such offer on their part j wus rejected , yet since the strike they have continually repeated the application for a friendly meeting between thsm and their masters , but all has failed . As ] a last resource they offer to submit the case to arbitration , the 0 wners to choose one person and the workmen another , to adjudicate on and settle at once this important matter : yet it appears this mode is objected to in a document bearing the signatnre of the "Coal Trade Committee , " and published in the various newspapers . Thus it would seem that all and every reasonable means have beeu resorted to by the worfcraea to persuade the masters to pnt an end to this unpleasant , disagreeable , and unfortunate dispute without effect .

      I bave read the published report alluded to above , and in answer to the alleged difficulties enumerated by the masters in respect to tbe arbitration . I beg to state that the masters' bonds contain a clause that each colliery case can be } arbitrated upon as far as regards wages ; and that eunnot be a difficulty which has been regularly a condition in the bonds fur a vast number of years . \ With regard to tbe necessity of appointing arbitration for each colliery it is nonsense ; for . with the exception ef the wages part , all tbe other conditions of tbe bond are alike , and always have been , and are still wanted to he kept so boib by the men and the masters , as witness the published conditions of each party ' s bonds , so that any disinterested person can look at the two extremes , and , as a matter of coarse , find

      the centre , or settling point With respect to the cavil at Mr . Dancombe ' s assertion — " That it was not a question of wages , " any Bane person could see at once that it was a mistake of the press ; what Mr . Duncombe uhou d have said , and wbat I am well assured ] be did say , wax— " Toat it was not a question of wages alone" ho . That mist-ikes can be made , take tne report of the masters , as pub ) shed In last week's Observer , wherein it is stated that tbe Pitmen were asking an advance of fifty-eight per cent on the average ; whereas in their first report it is set down as twenty eight per cent .: but the Pitmen do not take advantage * of such mistake , knowing , as they do , that such errors are not intentional , but tbe result of a little want of care , and are bo common that not a newspaper report can be said to be free from them .

      It is a question ! of wages , and has emanated and sprang from the previous and continued reductions of prices . In reference to tbe report published by the Pitman , wherein they show that the reductions on tbe two previous years was more by four and a quarter per cent , than the advance atked at the present time , so no doubt could be in the "Binds of tbe owners , and I am sure none exists iu the minds of tbe Pitmen but that it is a question of waxes ; and if they , the owners , would consent to give their late workmen half the prices and privileges they are giving to those they have employed at present , tbe strike would be at an end tomorrow , i

      With regard to the amount of fines only averaging one halfpenny per man , per day , tbas has been shown not only to be absurd in reason , but ridiculous in comparison , and cannot be butter illustrated than by putting tbe question—Has th community any right to complain of the robberies perpetrated , when tbe amount , upon an average , would not give one halfpenny per thousand persons ? i " Comparisons , " it is said , " are odious" ; bat when the owners state such ridiculous , absurd , and nonsensical statements , they cannot comp-ain if comparisons are draws to their discomfiture und defeat . But if it only average one halfpenny pax man , per day , that in itself amounts to no less a sum tban £ 16 200 per annum , and from every man in tbe

      trade upwards of 13 s . per year , or one week's work ; and when it is recollected , as it should be , this sum falls upon a fuw , say one-third of tbe htwera , it cannot be denied but that £ l 10 s would be better in the pockets of tbe workmen tban the owners : for be it remembered that fines are wages ; and the proper way to look at it is , tbit when a hewer fills an sends to'bank wbat he expects to be six cwt . of coal , for which ( if ali ia right ) he will be paid threepence , yet if deficient one-balf cwt . or leeis , at some collieries be gets no-pay : consequently he loses one hundred per cent , and surely that cannot be considered a trifla , wben the masters ore complaining about the advance asked being twentyeight per oent . j

      Th * owners reply " that the new system of bonds has been forced upon them by the treatment they have received by their ! workmen adopting a systematic restriction of labour : ' how that could by any possibility affect them it is difiicul : to d < termme , as at the end of one year ( und when a farther reduction bad been entered into ) Jarge heaps of coals were at tbe various pitn , which lasted , in some instances , between six and eight weeks , and when the statistical tables published in March last showed tbat there was at that period several hundred chaldrons of coals more at market than at tbe same period ) last year , and which was given with an emphasis necessary to induct * tbe pitmen not to strike , as the market was well supplied with coal . It should also nover be forgotten ] that the owners bave themselves set the example of restriction by tbe system of the vends l « ng practised to their especial advantage , and to the

      disadvantage of the workmen . As regards chancery suits there has enly been one colliery that has bad to undergo that " ordeaL" Tde Owners' Committee go on to say " that the men may work a whole fortnight and be in debt if they choose to do so , '; thereby intimating that neglect on their part was the causa . Apply to this particular . case , ( for ttiey are connected ) , that if the Owners of Thornley Colliery , or rather ! tb" viewers had used proper discretion and a more humane policy , they would not bave seen themselves involved in a chancery suit ; but when the fir at , bis . men were lawfully discharged from the commitment at Dmharu , the masters , through their Attorney , threatened to put all the men into Gaol ; and it was then from sheer necessity and as a protection that this was done . If the owners did not intend to pursue a similar unfair course , they had nothing to fear from chancery Baits or any other

      Witb regard to the reasoning that no other labourers or miners are hired yearly , and , therefore , the pitmen of Northumberland and Durham ought not to be so , it is , to say tbe best of it . a lame mode of reasoning ' , and the parties adopting It would seem to have been at a loss for a better ; for they thus place themselves in the position of the very parties who made the strike , by an attempt break : up a general custom involving tbe interests of many thousands of individuals , and to whose superior condition over other miners , they exultingly call attention , and at the some time bave come to a fixed determination to bring their workmen to tbe same setvile condition and slavish dependance , stating that if the pitmen wiil not submit to tbe same , the result must fall on their own heads . The pitmen are prepared to abidej by the result .

      The Committee : next take up and expend a considerable amount of reasoning on what Mr . Duncombe said , relative to the desire of the mea to be paid by weight instead of measure , and take advantage of a little error tbat Honourable Gentleman had fallen into , by arguing that all were paid by measure , whereas there is only a certain 1 ; umber of collieries that pay by measure and another part of them by weight What the Pitmen want is that all be paid by weight . Tue committee bave tried to ninkti it appear that such is the-case at present ; whereas , nothing is further from the truth-As regards the reluctance of the men to the . introduction of the weight , why , they had a good reason ,

      when on the change being made tbe twenty peck corve when accurately weighed did not exceed 6 j cwt , yet wben weight was introduced , the workman bad to send 6 cwt to bank , and no advance of price for the additional . But that is not all ; the hewers want to be paid for coals they send to bauk individually , and not ( as has hitherto been j tbe case ) lumped together and paid by an average of the whole , whereby those who send overweight are made to suffer for those who send underwdgLt : and it was this condition of sale , and it is tbe only fair way , that Mr . Duncombe was desirous of calling tbe attention of the House to , and the same is made plain by the bonds or conditions which the men bave given in to their master ? .

      Tbat the Coal { Trade Committee should expect any person to believe that any workman in bis senses would labour hard a whole fortnight and contrive by neglect or purposed inattention to not only bave nothing to take , but to be in debt , is an assumption that 1 should not like to hsve placed to my account ; and at the same time make it appear that it is the interest of the workmen to stew j clear of fines if possible . Whether tbe course is equally for the benefit of the Owners , I cannot say . With respect to the average amount of flaeij j that has been referred to above . It speaks for itselt , and need not bo farther regarded .

      The Committee jlasUy draw the attention of the Hon . Gentleman to the system of paying ' # ages , wherein he shows the unfairness of keeping one week's wages con * tiDoslly in band . ; The eommifctee reply that it makes no difference to them ; asthe lame araoint of wages have to be paid , whether weekly or fortnightly : but they , allege that it is imjx ^ ble to get the acaount ready ¦ ooaerthan by hav ^ ag a- week of ninaing-on day * . In reply it may fcea » ked how our forefather * did when they had to make up the account * with pnly two ru * - ning-ondayjtr Are we lew expert than they ? Certainly not The ttewards of large factories make up their accounts and pay their workmen : weekly , " and the greatest number of them on by the piece , as well as the Miners . If , say the Committee , the Hon . Member only . saw an overman ' s bill he would be convinced that it would take a week's labour to draw it out and fill it up properly without error . Certainly , if it had to be begun with at the end of a fortnight ; but inch bill can be and ia regalarly filled up as each day ' a work is per-

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      formed ; consequently the adding together of the several days' work is all that has to be done : and any school * boy could do that in six hours , and , in fact , it ia done at present , for if any workman apply to have any additional thing made to his work ; notwithstanding bo should apply on the Saturday night , or if need be on a Sunday morning / he is invariably told that it cannot be got in , as the bill is closed for the inspection of the viewer ; and then there are six days to elapse before payment . The committee conclude , that having been subjected to a vexatious line of proceedings , for the future they

      are determined not to tolerate them . What those proceedings are they do not specify ; but it may be stated that the workmen bave been considerably annoyed by tbe attempt ? of the masters to withhold their earnings , and when those earnings were requested to be paid , though tbe application was ever so humble , it was in general treated with contempt and insult ; and such treatment frequently led the workmen , to adopt other proceedings which might be considered by the owners vexatious ; and however determined they , the Owners , may be to put an end to snch things , the only sure way to accomplish that object would be to give a fair remuneration to their workmen , and treat them with kindness as men . I bave the honour to be , Sir , Yours respectfully , Newcastle , June 20 th , 1844 . . Veritas .

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      ADDRESS TO THE OPERATIVES OF GREAT BRITAIN , FROM THE CENrRAL ASSOCIATION OF LONDON TRADES , THE HIKERS' STRIKE . Fellow Workmen , —We have often of late been compelled to address you in behalf of your oppressed campanions in toil—for the hand of the task-master is every where busy in endeavouring to bear down to the earth tbe members of tbe working classes :: but , fre-* aent as the appeals of the Committee of the Central Association have been , and grievous as have been the wrongs of the various Trades that have from time to time been brought nnder year notice , they are little better tban trifles wben compared with the enormous

      evils and 'he inlqaitons oppression which that great class of Workmen—the Miners of England—have long endured from the avarice and inhumanity of their employers . So great , indeed , have been the sufferings of these men , tbat at length an endeavour has been made by the Miners of Northumberland and Durham to im » prove their condition , and to redress their wrongs . The attempt has been made peacefullyand legally ; and 22 , 60 # men ( and with them , 10 , 000 boys ) bave suspended theif iabour , and determined manfully to endure every pri « vation to procure justice for themselves , their wives and children .

      The contest of the Miners is nit for wages alone . Bad as their remuneration is and has always been , the ; might have endured that grievance : but they are struggling for the safety of their lives ,, and to rid themselves of an iniquitous system of fines which Have become an evil too grievous to be longer endured . From a deputation now in London , the Committee of the Central Association have learned that the Miners have nobly and firmly stood out for a period of ten weeks against a new form of agreement proposed by their tyrannic oppressors . Hitherto , this toiling mass have been b » uad from one year to another ; the

      employers now want to introduce a monthly agreement , so that at a month ' s notice they may have the power of turning adrift every man who will not jeopardise hia life , and submit to be kept hi the dark and dismal bowels of the earth for twelve and fourteen hours per day , » t a distance from the surface of the earth varying from ten to fifteen hundred feet , and after travelling through narrow windings for three or four miles , and working with a candle requiring forty to the pound , not knowing but every moment will be their last ; when the danger of their situation might be removed at the small expence of ten-pence per day .

      It appears , also , that they are in most cases paid by measure , and have to give twenty-one pecks of coal to the tub or box should the tub or box want a quart or pint , the Miner loses the whole of bis labour ,. although his justice-loving employee takes good care to have the tubs large enough to hold from twenty-three to twenty * five pecks . The Miners now want to do away with this abominable system , and to be paid by weight Another grievance la , that should font quarts of stone be found in the twenty-one pecks , the Miners are subject to a fine of five shillings ; and , in many instances , after toiling in the sunless mine the whole day , the Miner finds , to bis mortification , be is in debt , ia consequence of stones being mixed with the cosls , and be not being able to see them for want of a better light

      Tbe Miners , also , have to work three weeks before they receive any pay , and then they oniy receive a fortnight's money—the master keeping the other ia hand . This custom puts the workman to serious inconvenience , by having to « eek credit during the three weeks . The Miners require to be paid onca in every week , like other branches of society . The average amount of wages tbe Miners got in 1843 was only 22 s . per fortnight ; they now ask , and very justly , to be guaranteed 30 ^ . per fortnight , working five days per week , at 3 s . per day ; this would equalise their labour , improve their oondition , and be a great public advantage .

      The Miners , it will be seen , are struggling for a rsjfular period of employment . At present , their days of labour . ire few . Hundreds do uot earn more than 3 s . per week , not because there is not work for them to do , but because it is the interest of the coal-owners to limit the supply and tnus keep up tbe price of coals . Give the Miners only five days' wort , per week , and coal might be sold in every port of England at half its present price . E ? ery working man is therefore deeply interested in the struggle . The combination of the coal-owners and thyir restrictive regulations keep a necessary article out of the market until it reaches an exorbitant price . Give the Miners libour , and coal must flow in , and tbe working man after a hard day ' s labour might have a cheerful Ire .

      Of tliB 20 , 000 men and their families , who have sus pended labour as the means of procuring redress , there are many living upon credit The Central Association , therefore , earnestly call upon the trades of Great Britain to come forward to the aid of the Miners . Inured to hard living they do not ask for luxuries—only give them the means of purchasing bread , and bread only for a time—and their employers will be compelled to do them justice . By order of the Association , Thomas Barratt , Secretary . t& Subscriptions received by the deputation from the Miners ac tbe Bell Inn , Old Bailey from seven till ten o ' clock , every Saturday and Monday evening ; or by Mr . Dooley . at the Bar , every day ; or at Mr . Owen ' s , the Yorkshire Grey , 53 , Lower Thames-street .

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      Leeds . —The colliers of Leeds and ^ neighbourhood return tbeir sincere thanks to the public fox sympathy and support , and beg to acknowledge the following suras : —J Robsoa Is 6 d ; Wm Brook Is ; J Worth 2 $ ; J Word Is ; J Burton Is ; Mrs Wright Is ; Mrs Walker Is ; S Wilkinson Is ; R Bayldon 10 s ; C Hewitt Is ; C Burrell Is ; Albion Foundry 6 s ; W C 4 < 8 d ; J J Riffect ' s men I 63 6 d ; Friends , York Road 4 * 81 ; Spinners 2 s 6 d ; Safety Lamp Is ; Farsley CuNierj 53 4 d ; Peacock Fribnds 7 s 8 < 1 ; Beeston £ 115 * Id ; Horner ' s men , three in number 12 s ; two Verities Ss ; Sarvants Sykes , and Co 12 s 2 d ; friends of Meadow Li e 7 s 9 d ; Folly and Holbeck Lane End 14 s ; friendl unknoMu 7 a lid ; friends of Rawdon 9 s Id ; total from Beeston'a Collectors £ 6 19 s Oid ; Moses Mills Is ;

      Gildersome Collectors £ 5 15 s 7 ^ 1 ; Cburwell Collectors £ 5 0 s 3 jd ; Ltwson ' s men 7 s 4 d ; Howard ' s weavers lsfld ; AD , Webster ' s 9 a 8 . 1 ; Camp Road , Moffitt ' a men lgi 81 ; M'Lea ' s Foundry 9 * 61 ; J Long U ; Messrs Stocks 6 d ; Cooper's Mill 12 s ; WelHneton Foundry 18 i 5 Ji ; J Taylor Is ; Joseph Bedford 5 81 ; Marshall ' s new mill 10 » 9 d ; ditto blacksmiths 6 s 91 ; Sweet-street 4 a 8 'jd ; Camp Field 2 s o £ 1 ; Mann ' s F" * Id 12 ild ; H Stillhouse 5 s 2 d ; ditto P Mill 2 s 10 i ; friends , Foundry Inn 4 s 8 | i ; Brewery Field 5 $ 3 i ; StOGk ' s Hill and Hogg ' s Field 2 « 11 J 4 ; Marshall-street 8 i lid ; friends in Wortley Lane 3 s 4 . ii ; T and W a men 10 s 0 ^ d ; F in W Lane Is ; J Stead la ; F , ill btuk 7 s ; Bowers and Wilson ' s men , little coal 10 s 6 i ; ditto , aog coal fis fid ; ditto , deep coal £ 1 4 s 9 % d ;

      Fisherman ' s Hut 4 s 2 d ; Wm Qorslde 'U ; friend * March Lane 5 a Id ; George Dnrenwr , White Hoase 2 « 6 d ; Crown and Anchor , Is 2 d ; Mechanics' Shop 4 s 2 d ; W O ls 9 J ; Craven Heifer 2 s 1-1 ; Thomas Giles « 1 ; a few of Dorrington's weavers 3 s 81 ; a few cabinet-makers 83 3 d ; received of Samuel Whate and Josiah Lister , from Newton and Taylor's F ondry , Leeds 16 s ; total from Ross ' s Coffee House £ 1 12 * 101 ; Leopard Inn Is ,- Mr Hall's Coffee House 2 i 7 aj-Ardill ' s and Pickurd ' a men 6 s 6 1 ; Mr O Wiilan's and Son ' s burlers 2 v 6 i ; Mrs Brown lj ; friends in tn « surrounding neighbourhood of Laeds £ 4 2 s 8 £ ( L «* order of the Committee , Wm . Toft , Secretary . N-B j —No book is authorised unless t : e sSamp of the Miners Association be upon it , with the words " Leeds ana

      Halton . " Bradgate Lodge . —RyiHEnHAM . —We return ofli sincere thanks to the trades of Roi&erham , and ^ m ? public in general , for tbe liberal snpport . received . « their hands , and beg to acknowledge the fc > Hi >* » sums : —Wm . Turner , « 1 ; V . Slack , 61 ; Bells a " * Tpmpkins , Men , 3 s fld ; Print Office , la 34 ; Ben Diki »« 3 $ d ; a Friend . 3 d ; Jobn ' fieslewpod , 6 d ; W . m . li" * * son , 6 d ; M . Gregory , 6 d ; Geo . Heatewood , 2 *; J ^ Baanell , ffd ; John Watson . 3 d : Wm . Twiggei 61 IJ

      Ernnghani Works . 21 lOd ; Tfcomas Stirin , 6 d ; Jw Warini 6 d ; James Goodinson , Is : James Muss , MS Wm . Banks , lS 6 d ; ThomasBrant , 8 d ; Geo . HestD , « d ; Win . Duck , 3 s ; GeolJamei , 3 *; Ben James , 33 , Goo . Gobdinson , 4 s David Goodinion , 3 o ; Joan Pu <* Is 5 John Gooduison , 3 «; Win . Goodiiuion , 3 n «*• Walker , Is Od ; JohnYirniin , 3 d j Thomas BiRneif * U ; Geo . Thornsbjr , Ss . Geo ; Gopdimion , Jon . 3 >; W » Sellars , 83 j Jas . Frost , Si ; Wm . LittUwood , 2 s ; . W » Taylor , Is 0 d { Wm . Yirnim , 3 »; Qm . ' Jv ?* i " d Wm . Sellara , 3 s W ; Sam Sfaeppard , 8 »; Friends a »

      Rotherham , £ 2 16 s . . : -ai " thi South SrAFFORDSHiBB . ^ Sabscriptions * ° r *"" men of the Nortb ^ - ^ rhomaB Pard on's , £ it , BanK 3 «» Field 6 s Jd ; Quarry Pit ; 'BagiwiVNew Field ^ soa-George HiU Is id / Thomas ; Watlis , JJradk . y ^ Bilston Miners 4 s 8 d ; Hollow Tree Pit ^ C HjW Pit , Sparrowfield 5 s 6 d ; . Fletcher ' s Pi * . ^"'^ uja 6 s id ; 4 rawn from the Iwalfunda ^ . - . Wii """ Aspley . is ; a friend is ; smaller minis 2 s 6 J .

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      6 THE NORTHERN STA B : ] Jwm . 29 ' _ 1844 «

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 29, 1844, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1269/page/6/