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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, DECEMBER U, 16M.
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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE Llotb ' s , Fkedat Night . — The brig . ^ Thomas , of Sunderland , was "wrecked at Skerries on Sunday ¦ nip- Tit All ilie crew -were saved . On the same nisrht a wreck happened off Bilsby-om-end , on the Lincolnshire coast . The vessel proved to be a schooner , called the Mithers , of Dunbar , la'den "with oats from Konigsby , bound for London . There was a heavy sea at the time : so much so that no sooner was the boat got overboard for the ^ rew to save themselves than the -waves dashed her i © atoms . The wreek being shortly seen iran the adjacent town , the life-boat was immediately got ready , and the poor creatures savwL
—A distressing ship-wreck took place on luesday week , off the Northern part of Scotland , of the schooner Bates , of Maryport , which was lost on some rocks situate about ten miles from the shore , between the Tillages of Haris and Skye . The crew were saved , bat tie vessel has become a total wreck . The other vessels are the Jane , for London , lo > t in the Swin , at the month of the Thames ; the Victoria , smack , of Liverpool , wrecked off . the Skerries ; the Leopold , of Peterhead , lost off Lessoe ; the Albion schooner , stranded on Prince Edward Island ; and the schooner Prince Oscar , lost on the coast of Ger manv .
Tttrtk Vessels Hex Dowx . —On Monday evening about six o ' clock , a collision occurred near Beachy Head , bv a vessel named the Rose , belonging to Tarmouth , being run down bv another , which proved to be the Hebe , of London . The crew escaped in the boat . Another coHiaon happened on Tuesday morning , off Holjhead , which was attended by the total loss of the schooner , Portmadoe Packet , Mr . W . Jones , master . She was from Liverpool , for Carnarvon , with a general cargo , when , during a flense fall of sleet , some unknown vessel ,- apparently a brig , about 300 tons burthen , ran into , and stove the bulwarks in to such , an extent , that the vessel sunk in the course of a few minutes into deep -water . The crew saved themselves by their own boats . Another vessel is reported to have l > een run down between Languard-fort and Aldboiwujh , v > n the coast of Suffolk , i ) j one of the Scotch steamers , but the fate of the crew we are -vet unable-to learn .
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REPEAL LN LONDON . Thtksdat Evemsg , Dec . 12 , iS 44 . —The Inspector-General has returned to London , and his appearance does not indicate that he has suffered much from his 1 ate Illness in J&nblin- At the "Wardmote , on Thursday last , hfi announced his intention of visiting all the wards in succession—a plan which , if" carried out , will remove much dissatisfaction which has been hitherto occasioned by some wards not having been visited at all . An extraordinary placard ^ was put into circulation at the close of last week , calling upon the Inspector-General bv name to meet Messrs . Hvde and
Hussey at the "Westminster "Ward , relative to certain alleged attacks made upon them . Some misunderstandmg lias also arisen 3 n Liverpool amongst the Repealers . These dissensions are deeply to be deplored . Tie project for establishing reading rooms in Ireland is warmly recommended By the London Repealers , and they are beginning to ask , why should there not be grmtlfn * reading rooms established in England ? If they were established , great good would follow , and persons would spend in profitable reading the time which is now worse than lost in angry discussions and bickerings .
Gsatta > - "Wabd , "Wwttt : Laos , Dbubt-1 , a > ~ e . —On Sunday evening last the- large room was respectably attended . " Mr . J . Eugene Cavanagh , son of the celebrated translator of Moore ' s Melodies into Irish , was in the chair , and addressed the meeting in a speech which elicited the warmest applause . The Rev . Mn J . Tnrlong followed , depicting the various modes of persecution resorted to by the English Go-Ternment against the Irish "priesthood , and said a
new era was dawning upon Ireland , and the time was 2 iot far distant when liberty would be proclaimed throughout the length and breadth of the land , and Irelandwould then be anation . Fifteen were enrolled . -Ltberatob ' s TVabd , Love-Ljlse , Shabweix . —In this ward the wardens have established reading rooms , which are well attended every evening ! They are under the superintendence of those inestimable gentlemen , the Bev . Messrs . Moore and Polev , and already are the beneficial results beginning to be felt .
G&ay's Isk Ward , Alkeet , Ghat ' s-ess-laxe . —On Sunday evening last Mr . Burke presided , and the meeting was addressed by Mr . Collins . Several were Hoiheehitee 2 £ ew Wabd . — At the meeting of this ward on Sunday evening , at the Rose and Rummer , Paradise-street * Rotherithe , Mr . J . Koach in the chair , Mr . Casserly read the proceedings of the last meeting at the Conciliation HalL Several able speeches-were delivered , and twenty persons- enrolled themselves under the banner of SepeaL . Ixspectok-Gjekksal ' s " Waed , Pbixcb ' s Head ,
Sjobet ' s-Gate , Vestjoxsteb . — On Sunday evening , December , the 1 st , a meeting , which was weB attended , was held , Master J . Riordan , in the chair . Mr . T . Dalj , _ R- "W . and T . ( Dr . Gray ' s "Ward ) , addressed the meetiDg at jrreailength , and jughly complimented the parents of their ycmthiuLchairman for instilling pataotic-principles into Ms young breast . He then dwelt upon the present -prospects of Repeal , and emphatically called upon those present not to relax in their efforts for lather ) and . Twenty-one persons were enroDficL
-Us— Grit's "W jxd , -Bbtush Qiteex , Whiiegbosssxkekt- - — -At tie last meeting of tlm ward , Mr . Sei , lOr . presided . Mr . T Daly , R . W . and -YraB& « 5 seoTihe meeting . Several were enrolled ! Trt ^ BppEcjOB-GE ? H ^ ,,. Ti 5 ited the following ¦^ ai&fc H&wAik- ^^ e'AiaersgsteonSundav ^ the St . Jsnle ^^ a * ie&v J ^ dlhe O'Coarieli " on Tuesday .
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Beightoh . —CoscniAnos "Ward . — A meeting of this -ward "wasKeld on tJie 1 st lost ., Mr . Baraman ( an Englishman ) presiding on the occasion , who , in an eloquent speech , declared iis sympathy for Ireland . Messrs . Butler and M'Cornick addressed the meeting at great length upon the- question of Repeal . Extracts from several journals were read , and the meeting adjourned .
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O'CONNOR AND CHAMBERS . "We last week assigned a sufficient reason for not having sooner noticed the tract , entitled the " Employer and the Employed , " recently published by the Messrs . Chambers , of Edinburgh ; and we trust that the first part of Mr . O'Connor's reply to that document , which will be fonnd in our sixth page , will amply compensate for the delay . "We received scores of letters from all parts of the country , directing our attention to the tract ; and , having perused it carefuily , we cannot come to other conclusion than that the Messrs . Chahbehs hare been made
the instruments of the Free Trade party , the manufacturing class , and the Poor Law Coinmissioiiers , to devote that power which their long services had procured them , to the destruction of any little self-pride and esteem that their former advocacy of Labour had raised in the minds of the worMnjr classes . Tie masterly , familiar , and convincing manner in -which ilr . O'C-ojjsor has handled the first branch of the subject leads us to anticipate , when the reply is concluded , one of the most able and valuable defences of the cause of the working classes that has ye been submitted to their consideration .
Mr . O'Cossob ' s minnte calculations , as well as the close manner in which he keeps Mr . Smith to the points urged by his antagonist , are set forth clearly—and though in a familiar , yet in a " slashing " style . Gonixgsbt , the hero of Mr . IVIsxaxli ' s last novel , is made to attach all importance to a good " cry " and a " slashing article . "' >' o doubt the case made out by the unopposed Mr . Smith would . have furnished a valuable cry" for the Tree Trade school , and would have afforded ample justification to their representatives for purifying the labouring classes of those many ' excesses , " and that great " improvidence , " which the Messrs . Chambeks complain , as the necessary
preliminary to the enactment of such measures as would be satisfactory to the " master" classes . When the people "riot" and demand redress , their advocates contend for the necessity of first disarming : and then legislation can be temperately deliberated upon . Aftt-r the same fashion the Messrs .. Chambers puint out tin- ^ i-veral obstacles which staad in the way of popular redress , —the gruaU- > t being Labour combinations ; and thus hint to a class , — who . as Mr . Chambers very candidly informs us , haM- no thing t-j d . t with - lWling , " but consider all a ' ma Her of •¦ 'bnskie »* . —the necessity of destroying combinations before redress can be administered . Such is the
- cry upon carry " s ympathizers triumphantly through the forthcoming session . if Parliament ; while we have hope enough yet left to believe that the " slashing article , " intended as an answer to the "' cry , " will stilic that mock sentimentality about to be offered as a substitute for substantial relief . We are led to the belief , that , whatever the intentions or prospects migit have been which induced the Mt-5 srs . Chambers to fulminate their dreadful anathemas against the labouring classes , the masterly , convincing , and triumphant reply , which it is our pride this week to publish , will caust them t-.- abstain , in future , from i > trikinf a blow at
that hand by which they have been raised frum povert y to ajflueiier . As long as the Ik-ssr * . Chambebs remained mere compilers of interesting' work--., —as guagers ^ ticking the brains of others , —they stood high in the world of literary compilation . Thev were free from criticism ; whilt-tlieir happ . T selections gave them a character for taste which insured them a certain amount of well-merited popularity . They hai e now plunged into the troubled waters of authorship ; and , according to the raging fashion , would assume originalirv as their introduction . In this new character ,
honevrr , zhr \ have signally , totally , and disastrously failed . There was a time when the hard blows of ' buffer" SatrrH might have told upon the unresisting ' mummy " Jackson ; and if the previous teachinsr of the Messrs . Chahbexs has led to that nice criticism , which has taught the working classes to distinguish between matters of " feeling" and matters of '" business , " we trust that its proper exercise upon their recent tract will convince them that the labour bestowed upon the enlightenment of the working classes has not been lost , and that the pupils are worthy of the roasters .
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OCO . NNELL A > D THE " WHITE BOYS . " Wi have read somewhere an account of a practised pickpocket , who , having relieved a gentleman of his purse in a crowd , and being pressed , took a knife out of his pocket and cut his fingers across , and then holding them up streaming with blood , screamed out murder , and succeeded in diverting the attention of the mob from the cry of " Stop thief '" to that of 'Murder , murder ! " Thus he escaped , takinjr with him the sympathy of the bystanders , as well as the purse of his victim . At the last
meeting of tie lojal Repealers at the Conciliation Hall , Mr . Gsmis , M . F ., was at great pains to Justify the agrarian outrages now becoming prevalent in Ireland . He adduced very good authority to establish the fact , that as the Government broke the laws by day , the people were justified in breaking them by night ; in fact , the general admission that the administration of all law in Ireland is a farce , should at least insure some kind of consideration , if not toleration , for those who , in the wildness of despair , are compelled to eiecnte for themselves that jusnee which the laws < rf their country withhold .
"We have laboured industriously and incessantly , and we flatter ourselves not ineffectually , to prove that every act of agrarian outrage committed in Ireland is a consequence of oppression and misrule , and not a characteristic of the Irish people . At the same meeting Mr . O'Conkell issued a commission to Mr . Steele , the head pacificator of Ireland , to hold special commissions under the loyal royal seal of the National Conciliators , for the trial of the White Boys of the counties of Leitrim and Cavan . Vfe have always deplored those occurrences of a pnedial nature , because they must inevitably injure the people ' s
movement . "We think , however , that upon examining the speeches of Mr . WCoxrEn . , the most censorious will discover some justification for those acts of atrocity so universally complained of ; while we assert without fear of contradiction that the " hope deferred" by Mr . O'Connell himself ; the many juggles by which for a time he succeeded in allaying that thirst for vengeance for personal wrung which the law refused to redress , has now caused the long pent-up passions of the Irish people to burst forth , and has induced them to put a literal interpretation upon Mr . CCosxeio- ' s
motto" Hereditary bondsmen , know ye not , Who would be free , tKtHiAeleet must strike the blow . " The Irish people , long accustomed to look upon Hr . 0 'Coxsei . l as the embodiment of their every hope and every wish , supposed the word " themsriu-s" to mc-an Mr . O'Cossell , who was to strike the blow for them . Disappointed at last , however , they have now " taken theirafiairs into their own hands . " The " repeal year" of 1843 has
passed and gone , while the sason swaj is as powerful as ever ; the " clenching year" of l&fl is drawing rapidly to its close , to be succeeded by 1845 ; and the Irish people are now told , " WHO ESOWS BUT THE BEPEAL ilA"S COltE AT LAST . " HoWever , Mr . T . Steile is to add the honourable office of " Government Spy" to that of " Head Pacificator . " The consequent cold-blooded sacrifice of innocent blood , which Mr . O'Cossell assures us will be shed upon the scaffold , is horrifying to contemplate .
Admitting the act of an oppressed people taking the law into their own hands , under the name of White Boys , to be wrong , because likely to be unsuccessful , yet we ask Mr . CCossill , andhis commissioner . Mr . Stxeli , whether the odious duty of bringing the thoughtless , the confiding , and the injured to . justice , might not be safely confided to the guardianship * bf the " strong Government" the police arrangements of" their local minions ? 2 fr . O'Cossell cannot set up morality as his creed—because he rejoiced
in the SeSecfe outrages , as a means of compelling the GdverameatTfddo jnstice , Mr . O'Coxxell boasts of having -fceeinjisJljlT instrumental in carrying the EmancipationTt&ff ^^ ljft we tell ^ him that had not popular discontent , marshallecfcrtinder the name of - White Boyism in 1823 , compelled ii& Gottlbuxk to saddle the Protestant landedproprietors with their share of the tithe , and thereby weakened that link which bound them to the outwardand visible sign of Protestantism , Emancipation would not yet have been achieved .
As -sre are told that all Catholic Ireland ifi associated as one inan of one mind in the determination to accomplish aTlepeal of the Union , it is no great stretch of fancy to conclude that the body of Cavan and Leitrim Whiteboys consists of a number of Repealers ; aye , and of Repealers too , who have largely and deeply contributed their share to sw . Jl the immense revenue of their Liberator .
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An-d should they be called upon to expiate on the scaffold Trith their lives the crime of " striking the blow themtdves , " which they paid Mr . O'Connell liberally to " strike " for them , we trust that his " Headskan , " Mr . Thou a a Sttele will render a faithfal account of the several amounts paid by the several victims to their own confidence . In the speech to which we refer , Mr . O'Conxeli , invokes the aid of 900 , 000 men of fighting age : and , merciful Providence ! what inferences are the poor deluded Irish to . draw from such bombast and gasconade . Let him talk as he will—let Mm preach as he may—and declare his adherence to the principle of Repeal as best he can -. yet we tell him that his riding-off on the Catholic Bequest Bill , and crying out " blood and the scaffold , " while he has picked the pockets of the sufferers , will not satisfy the Irish people .
His denunciation and threatened destruction of the poor White Boys , is in perfect keeping with his desertion of the Dorchester Labourers aud Glasgow Cotton Spin ners—with his crusade against the Dublin Trades , his de- " nuueiations of the Rechabites , and his exultations at a handful of Irish beardless recruits having slaughtered the people in the streets of Newport . Laboub is getting too strong for Mr . O'Connell : and as lie was never the friend ofLABOt'E , he dreads its vengeance when the day of retribution shall come . He . mouthed his lamentations and
heaved his sobs over the Catholic blood shed at Rathcormac , which , in his several associations , he has oftenitmes declared yet cries to Heaven for vengeance ; but while the straw in the widow's haggard was yet crimsoned with the innocent blood of the widow ' s son , and while the event was fresh and feverish , and before the just excitement had passed away , when Mr . O'Conxoe gave notice of mo tion upon the subject in the House of Commons , Mr . O'Co . vnell requested him not to " embarrass" the Government with the question !
Is it wonderful , then , that the poor Irish , deserted by all whom they have paid and in whom they bavefaithfully confided , should look to other than hii'el advocacy for the correction of their grievances ? Again , we say , that while we lament tliis recurrence to outrage and the necessity which leads to it , we look with loathing and detestation upon the man who offers his services to ferret out victims for the Saxon law . Nor will it satisfy the Irish people that the act is superinduced by the necessity of preserving perfect tranquillity as a means of
acconij > lishing " a Repeal of the L ' nion . What we say is , that if it is necessary , Mr . O'Connell is the last man living who should finer upon the task ; while , perhaps , Mr . Steele will be found the must efficient to discharge the painful duties imposed upon ) iim by his now ufiice . No doubt , the Irish Catholics « ill yet continue to furnish ¦ bluoJ raone \ " for the persecution i > l" Uieir own flesh and blond . If « u , be it so . We only hope that the time is not far distant when the disciples of a Matiiew will see , tin juggles by which the confiding Irish have Wi n so 3 onir amused .
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ROBINSON CRUSOE , AND HIS MAN FRIDAY , AGAIN . ' He . Joseph Stobob has some general notions of mill tary tactics , but is deficient in the art of bringing his troops into the field . Just about this period of each year , Mr . Stuxge Btarts on the recruiting service , and his battle-field being very extensive , he renews the outposts , commencing " far north . " "We learn from the Scotch newspapers , as well as from our Glasgow correspondents * that Mr . Stcbge has been recently engaged in the fruitless endeavour to take the Chartist garrison of Glasgow by storm . Mr . Stukge , with characteristic obstinacy , appears to be resolved on a renewal of last sessional foDy and again his man Friday , who has so signally failed as
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leader of the Irish Federalists , is to lead on . the " forlorn hope" against the " strong chest . " To aid in this project , our present harmony is to be disturbed ; and all the competitors for popular support having failed to get a " bid" for working men ' s support by " wink or nod , " Mr . Stpkge and his staff see the necessity of being less reserved with the Chartist body . Hence we find Mr Malcolm , one of the keys to the Stcrge bugle , sounding the new conditions on which the units of " Cvmpletism " will condescend to fraternize with the hundreds of Chartism .
We have silenced the " physical foroe " key-note ; and Mr . Malcolm tells us , that we must also give up the note of " obstruction , " a 3 far , at all events , as regards opposition to the Free Trade party . This young jackanapes has been " all things to all men , " and no doubt his teeth are watering for a snap at the Free-Trade cherry . Mr . Sturqe , however , should bear in mind the several lessons that the Chartists have already taught him ; and by this time he should understand , that if the ocean and the streams are to unite , the streams must run into the ocean , and not the ocean into the streams .
However , if in these days of novelty and invention , the universal waters of Chartism are to be turned up the hill into the narrow streams of Sectionalism , Mr . Crawford is not exactly the engineer to direct the new course , or to apply the several " locks" to the establishment of the new level . Mr . Mom , Colqchocn , ami others , notwithstanding the results anticipated from the apparent apathy of the Glasgow Chartists , appear to have been watchful sentinels , wide awake on their post , and therefore not so easily reconciled either to become passive instruments in the hands of the League , or to be dragooned into a {( reference of Whiggery to Toryism , Our preceptors tell us ,. that on two conditions only can we be admitted into fellowship with the wandering minstrels
of " CompletUm , — " the one , that we are to prefer the League to every other thing in this world ; and the other , that we are , upon all occasions , to give th « preference to the Whigs in contests between the two rival parties . It is strange that the position of Mr . Stitboe at Birmingham , and his frequent denunciations of the League , did not serve us a curb to the flippant tongues of his obsequious followers . -However , for ourselves , when We daily discover such discrepancies between tile theory of the soldiers and the practice of the Generals , we are irresistibly led to the conclusion , that with such an army we can enter into neither contract nor union , until they ire first united ammiyst themsd' -cs ' . As to the part that poor Mr . Cuawfoau is designed to play in the revived farce , of ' ¦ Stopping the Supplies , "lie is old enough to know that any advantage that could be . derived from
its revival , has lost its i I'ctrifying novelty by the total failure of last year's cxjiirimctit : and to advertize it " for representation this year , ' will be but to confirm tht public in a belief of his unntness for Unit post of leadership which Mr . Stkkg ' e is so anxious to confer on him , as the great hiinhmtn / flestin ^ l h ) obscure the FlNSBCttY Light ! In nothing have either Mr . Sti-rge or his party strengthened the hands of Mr . Ukscombe ; but , on the contrary , there has existed a perceptible desire on their part to weaken his influence and to substitute their own leader in his stead . It is marvellous that cis men grow older they do not grow wiser : for if those two gentlemen possessed one particle of rutlective power , thi'y might have discovered by this time , that the labour of disturbing Pi'NrowiK from the affections of the working classes , was a task wholly beyond their pigmv power .
We cannot , iu addition to this warning word to Messrs , STtRGE ami Crawford , conclude without noticing the claims of Messrs . Mom , Colqi'iioun , and the gallant Chartists of Glasgow , to the gratitude of the working classes in general . They are ever ready at their posts , when danger threatens , or when treachery assails their principles . We presume that the failure of the attack on the " outposts" will save the " ritidel" from such another assault as was made upon it last year by dissenting parsons , tnilncking " pedlars , " and masked Leaguers , under the guis-o of Labour ' s friends . However , should the attempt be repeated , we shall be at our post , to add another victory to the many that the united Chartists have achieved over their disunited opponents .
FKOST , WILLIAMS , JONES , AXl ) ELLIS . The following correspondence from and with " Secretary Sir James Obaham " shows that the " pressure from without" is not yet sufficiently strong to cause the " unbending Minister " to yield to public demand what he ha 1 - so often denied to justice . The , people , therefore , must make the " call" a little louder , and more earnestful . Let them try what petitioning Parliament will do . It will yive Mr . DcNroJiBE an opportunity , at all events , of seeking in " the House" for mon : " reasons" from the Home Secretary , for his deturmiuatiun , than he vouchsafes in his formal , cold , official , refusals . Tavistock , Devon , Nov . 9 , 184 * .
Sin—At a numerous public meeting , convened October . 10 , 1844 , in tin . " Guildhall in the town of Tavistock , in the couuty of Devon , for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of memorializing her Majesty for the restoration of John Frost , Kcphuniuh Williams , and William Jones . The accompanying memorial was unanimously adopted . Hoping you will accede to the request of the mooting , and fM it consistent with your public duty to lay the siiid memorial before her Majesty ! I am , sir , your obedient servant , William Welch , Jun . The . Hight Hon . Sir James Graham , Hart ., Tavis-tuck , Devon , Nov . !» , 1 S 44 . Whitehall . 16 th Nov ., 1844 .
Sir . —Secretary Sir James Gruham having carefully considered your application in behulf of John Frost , William Jones , and Zephauiah Williams , I am directed to express to you his regret that there is no sufficient ground to justify him , consistently with his public duty , in advising her Majesty to comply with the prayer thereof . I am sir , your most obedient humble servant , J . M . Phillips . Mr . William Welch , junior . Tavistock , Devon , Nov . 21 , 1844 . Sik—I beg to acknowledge the receipt of a letter from your secretary , J . M . Phillipps , stating that there is no
sufficient ground to justify you consistently , with your public duty , to advise her Majesty to grant the prayer of my application on behalf of John Frost , William Jones , and Zephaniah Williams . Sir—I beg to state that my letter did not request you to advise , but to lay the ! memorial before her Majesty . It appears evident to me , from the tenor of your letter , that the memorial sent by me has not been presented to her Majesty ; considering you , sir , as the public servant of the State , I beg , with due respect , to state that it is your duty to lay all appeals from the people before her Majesty when requested to do so .
Waiting your answer , before the adoption of a petition to the House of Commons , and believing that the same will be adopted throughout the country , I am , Sir , you humble servant , William Welch , Jun . The Right Ifon . Sir James Graham , Bart . Whitehall , Nov . -iSr . l , 1844 . Sir , —I am directed by Secretary Sir James Graham to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the l (> th inst ., transmitting petitions from Hilston , Birmingham , liolton , Carlisle , Congleton , Dumfries , LiverseJge , >« e » port ( Isle of Wight ) , Nottingham , Oldhani , [' enzance , and Queenshead , on behalf of John Frost , William Jones , iind Zephaniah Williams ; and to acquaint you that Sir James Graham cannot advise Her Majesty to mitigate the sentence of these Convicts .
I am , Sir , yourimist obedient humble servant , T . S . Duncombe , Esq ., M . P . J . M . Phillips . Whitehall , 23 nl Nov ., 1844 . Sib , —Secretury Sir James Graham having carefully considered your application iu behalf of William Ellis , I am directed to . express to you his regret that there is no sufficient ground to justify him , consistently with his public duty , in advising Her Majesty to comply with the prayer thereof . 1 am sir , your most obedient humble servant , G . M . Phillips . Thos . Duncombe . Esq ., M . P .. ic ,
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Specially Agents . — . agents , whose accounts have been sent in , will please to remit the . amount before next Saturday . Notices of Forthcoming Meetings . —All notices of forthcoming meetings , to secure insertion , must be in the office by Wednesday mornings , excepting such as are arranged for after that day . Several came to hand last Friday , which were necessarily excluded . R . EPOBT 8 of Scnday Meetinqs . —All reports of Sunday meetings in England must be in the hands of the editor by Wednesday morning , or they will be excluded . Our Scotch friends must write so as to reach on Thursdaymornings . The bad Postal arrangements makes it necessary to give them a day ' s grace . In all other places the time named , Wednesday , is late enough : as late as the other duties to the paper will allow us to give .
Ma . T . Clark would oblige by writing sooner . A . C . A ,, Islington . —liefer to the Stay of August 31 , 1844 , and you ivUl there find your subscription aeknowleged . " Politics and Parties in Switzerland . "—We were requested last week to notify to our readers that the edition of the Journal de Geneva has for the present discontinued the articles " on the state of Partiss in Switzerland , " owing to circumstances of a local character . J 3 , Lunn , Hampstead . —Get a copy of the last Tariff , from the Parliamentry Publisher , Hansard , of Parliament-street , and Great Turnstile , Holborn . T . Fathill . —The last National Petition , signed by 3 , 500 , 000 tax-payers , and presented by Mr . Duncombe , had in it a clause pleading for , anjl praying for , a repeal of the Irish Legislative Cuion .
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f ; Mb . Patrick O'Higgins , and Chartism in Ieelahd . —> A good deflJ of anxiety has been manifested by our English friends to learn the present position of Chartism in Ireland . They missed the reports of the meetings of the -j Irish Univeral Suffrage Association from the Star ; and numberless have been the applications to us , to learn the reason why . This information we were not at the time in a position to impart ; but we are now glad to have in our power to set inquiry at rest , by publishing the following letter from Mr . O ' Higgins hjmself , a copy of which has been kindly forwarded tp us . There are several other matters included in the letter , to which we invite attention : —
"Dublin , December 3 d , J 844 . —Dear Sir , —A good wafer is better and safer than a bad seal . It is right to mention this , as your letter of the 2 d instant came to hand open ; the seal having beeu broken apparently by the carriage , or , perhaps , tossing from bag' to bag . Doyle called ; here on Monday , but I did not see him . I understand that he has gone to some part of the country . There has not been a meeting of the Dublin Chartists since August . They will meet early iu January . The weekly -subscriptions here did not cover a twentieth of the expenses . I carried on for four years at
an expense out of my own pocket , of from £ G 0 to £ 83 ayear . Tliia jwas too much to fall on one individual ; besides being made a target of by the O'Connell party , without any means of defence except through the columns of the Sortliem Star , which was of' no use to me here . The Chartists either in England or Ireland do not support their own principles . My opinion is , that he who smokes tobacco , or drinks intoxicating liquors , while funds are wanted to carrying out Chsirtist principles is more a Tory agent than a Chartist . Half the money spent in filthy , stinking , tobacco would , if subscribed honestly and manfully to Chartist pur . poses , place it upon a footing that could not be resisted for any length of time . What right have the working classes to make victims of those , who for pure' love
of justice and right , step out of their ranks , cut all connexion with [ their former friends , with a view to promote the happiness and comfort of the oppressed millions who make no sacrifice to promote their own welfare ? It is melancholy to see how in every age political knaves who natter and cajole the people succeed , while Iioncst men arc allowed to perish by the very meii for whose interests they sacrificed everything . Look at thu history of the O'Connor family ; see how they ; have always taken part with the people of Ireland—alvjays advocates for extending the . Suffrage to the working classes—even from the earliest period to the present time , using their most strenuous efforts for Universal Suffrage . See how they have been persecuted , their property confiscated , their houses burned , a price
set upon their heads , and for what ' For their devotion to the interests of their poor , persecuted , and oppressed countrymen .: Well , see , on the other hand , how the bitterest loejthe most malignant enemy ever the working elassc * had , drains , by flattery aud cajolery , some r / iiBTY -tuoesAXD rvcxDs a r £ AR for his own use ami b'jiiftit , tYoin his miserable dupes : and upwards of £ 0 n , ( loo a year , in addition , from the same creatures , for the sole I purpose of restoring to power their insidioui- f . n s , the j -bast ! , bloody , and brutal Whigs . " Many a truly hunePt man is deterred from taking that part in the Chartist ! movement which he would wish , in consequence of j tlii- apathy of the Chartists themselves . They do notlsupport their own cause—they do not support their own leaders , or rather , political teachers . I .
for one , will ( never descend to natter men for the sake ( if popularity . And I tell you honestly and candidly , that it appears to me both ridiculous and disgusting to see . a man declaiming against a Government with a pipe , in his jaw . ! It is just s . nying to his enemy , ' ¦ ' Here good sir , I know you are my oppressor , and that you could not oppress me unless me and my class furnished you with the means . My wife is sick , and my children are hungry : jyet f will lay out this thirteen pence , which is all 1 have . jin tobacco , because I am well aware that , by doing so ; you , my oppressor , will get twelve pence out of it , as- duty or excise , while I get not one halfpennyworth ; as another grinder of the poor must have
his profit out ut' the penny . " 1 ask you , now , is not this the ' trui' state of the case ? Bear in mind , that the test of devotion to a cause is to be found in the way it is sustained by the sinews of war , and these alone . Hear also in mi ml that every pound you save from the excise and subscribe to the Charter , deals double blows on the heads , of your enemies . —I am , faithfully yours , Patrick O'Hiooins . —Mr . Thomas Webb , Stockport . An Old Sibscbibeb , Stockport , cannot compel the Board of 'uiardiaii . s to do any thing , in the way of relieving the poor . They are elected , and selected , to ' starve the poor ; and if they only allow Is . Gd . per wvck for an old woman , seventy-two years of age , why
, " 'Tis their vocation , Hal . " They could irefuse even that starvation allowance , and also admittance into their " house of horrors , ' - ' and who is there to call them to account ? The protection of the poor has been taken away : we are trying to have it restored , i Charles Gwilluh , Liverpool , need not be under no alarm about the splenetic effusions of the wincing ' / Actor . " jll-e is powerless , either for good or evil . Like the venomous scorpion , he has been made to hite himself ; and his own destruction has followed-by his own virus . > A . r ., Ahbboa-xu . We really cannot answer his queryfor we cannot understand it .
Cadtion against Imposition . —We have beenrequestt-d to caution the public against an attempt which is being made in certain parts of Ireland , by a set of unprincipled men who are g"ing about with petitions , craving charity for the nankeen weavers of Wigan , without the Consent or knowledge of that body ; and beg to state that they discountenance sueh proceedings , as being calculated tp mislead the charitable and humane part of the community . Theydeein . it prudent tolay this statement before the public generally , in order that the individuals ; going about under false pretences , may be dealt with according to their merits . W . DlXON AND THE MANCHESTER " GCABDIAN . " In Wednesday ' s Gviardian there is a report of a miners meeting at the Old Mess-house , Oldham , at which Mr . Dixon Js
represented as speaking . The fact is , Mr . Dixon was never out of Manchester on thatday . This is an old "dodge" of the Guardian , as it respects Mr . Dixon . During the Plug war , it represented that gentleman as a speaker at a meeting in Tinkers ' -gardens , putting into his mouth a most flaming speech . Mr . Dixon , in that case as in the present , was never near the meeting at all . He wrote to the Guardian to contradict the misrepresentation , ( error it could not be called , because so o ' ft repeated ) —and no notice was taken of his letter . What can be the reason ; for such conduct ? Is it paltry spite , because Mr . Dixon is a reporter for the Star f If so the Guardian is a mean dog . John Roberts , Shrewsbury , overlooker in the Flax mill of the [ Messrs . Marshal ] , of that place , writes to correct what he calls a " gross misrepresentation and
libel" in a paragraph inserted in our last , stating that , " sixteen hands had struck work on account of severe fines ; " but in what either the misrepresentation or the libel consists we confess ourselves unable t <> discover j for Mr . Roberts distinctly says , " that such a strike did take place ; I admit . " He defends the act of " arbitrary fining" on j the grounds , first , that those he inflicted were snrnW . ; in amount " — only two-pencts and three , ponces ; arid often times only one penny ; -and Second , that it is ( necessary to p rotect the character of the manufacture of the Messrs . Marshall from the effects of " unjustifiable , indolence and carelessness . " He also vouchsafes the information that he " fears God and honojirs the King , " both of which he may do as long as he likes ; but he should not " rob the labourer" either for the benefit of thu Messrs . Marshal ] or any body else .
Mr . Roberta ' s Address . —We often receive letters for Mr . Roberts , with a request that we will forward them , the parties writing not knowing where to address . To save ourselves trouble , and to irapftrt information to many who ; may need it , we here give the several addresses to which communications for the " Attomey'Jeneral" may be sent : 11 , Royal-arcade , Newcastle-on-Tyne ; H , Princes-street , Manchester ; 2 , Hobert-street , Adelphi , London . At each of the above offices Mr . Roberts , in his absence , is represented by an eflicient clerk .
To the Chartists of the West Riding of Yorkshire . —The Chartists of Wakeficld , deploring the total want of organisation in the West Ridiug , and anxious to cooperate with their brethren in raising a sufficient fund to Secure , the services of an efficient lecturer to agitate the Riding , and make known the glad tidings t > f Chartist principles , appeal to . their brother Democrats of the Riding to lend their assistance to the good work of revival . They particularly appeal to the Chartists of Dewsbury , Heckmondwiek . Little-town , Cleekheaton , Birstal , Batley , Ilorbury . f Osset , Earlsheaton , Dawgreen , and Gawtliorpe , to take this appeal into their serious consideration . The Wakefield Chartists suggest the calling of a delegate meeting as speedily as possible , to be held at Dewsbury , as the most central place . In the . meantime they request communications from the places named , to be addressed to Thomas Batty , Wildes' Yard , Kirk-Kate , Wakefield .
J . B . L . —We are again compelled by press of matter to withhold ) his first communication . That received this week will be found in another column
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' 1 FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ON THE DOVER j RAILWAY . Wednesday morning , about one o ' clock , a most frightful and fatal accident occurred on the Dovei * Railway , near the Bricklayers' Amis station , Old Kent-road , by which one man , named Robert Buckley , an enginedriver , waW killed on the spot , and Aaron Wilkinson , the stoker , received such extensive injuries that his recovery is utterly impossible . Several other persons
were also ! severely injured and conveyed to Guy's Hospital , phere they received every attention from the resident house-surgeon , It appears that about twenty minutes after midnight the goods train destined for Dover , left the station at the Bricklayers ' Arms . The engine ( a new one , manufactured by Berry , Curtis * and Kennedy , of Liverpool , and named the " Forester" ) was attached to the trains , consisting of several ( trucks heavily ladon . When the train was ready for I starting , the engineer , Robert Buckley , a
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fine young man , and Aaron Wilkinson , the stoker , being tola "all was right , " proceeded onwards with it along the line , and it was observed by the men on duty that "she ran beautifull y . " Unfortunately , however , before the train had reached more than halfway to thejunction of the wooden with , the earth-raised Une , and just as it had passed the timber-built viaduct near the Blue Anchor-road , the engine exploded with a report which was heard for some miles distant , the police stationed as far off , as Woolwich marshes having heard it , and the reflection at the moment caused by the fire and steam was so strong , that Deptforddockyard and the station at the Bricklayers' Arms were quite illuminated . There were three guards at
the time with the train , and upon recovering from the stupor into which they were thrown by the occurrence , they discovered that the engine had leaped completely over the side of the railway , and that the tender had broken through the latticed work fanning the left side of the line , on to the ground , a deptn of nearly eighteen feet . By the aid of their lamps they immediately began to search for the engineer and stoker . The latter they found about twenty feet from the train , bleeding most profusely from an extensive wound in the head . He was also so much scalded by the sudden escape of the steam that his flesh peeled off upon their attempting , to touch him . The most judicious measures were used , and Mr .
Harvey , the deputy superintendent of the luggage department , having now come up with assistance from the station , Hue poor fellow was without delay conveyed to the Bricklayers' Anns station , and thence to Guy ' s Hospital in a cab . Search meanwhile was made for Buckley , and he was first perceived by the whiteness of his trousers , the knee of which lay exposed from beneath one of the luggage trucks remaining upon the line . By great exertion the load was lifted from the body of the unfortunate man , but he was dead , being literally crushed to a mummy . The scene immediately after the accident baffles description . One of the trucks , piled fnR of bales of merchandise , < fcc , having by the violence of the shock
been shattered to pieces , the various articles wer e forced from their enclosures , and strewed all over the line . The engine lay in the field , several yards from the spot on the line where the accident occurred , the wheels deeply embedded in the earth , and the body , boilers , and tiie machinery literally splintered to pieces . The side of the railway , which consists of a latticed work of wood all along the inclined plane , from the Oreyhound-bridge to the junction with the Now Cross line , over which the engine and tonderfell , is torn away for about eighteen feet . L pon instituting further inquiries , we found that that intended journey of the Forester engine was only the fourth it
would have made . It was considered a very good one up to the time of the disaster . What caused the explosion has not yet been ascertained . The * poor fellow Wilkinson was said to ho so seriously injured that his recovery was considered hopeless . No information as to the probable causo of the accident could be gleaned from him . It is most providential that at the t ime of the accident no passengers were with tire train . The authorities of the railway unite in declaring- rtjat the unfortunate deceased was a most sober and steady man , and respected by his employers as well as by all who knew him . Both he and the stoker were sftniarried .
Fuhther Pahticclaks . —As soon as possible' the line was cleared of * all obstructions , so that the regular traffic might not be impeded ; and at an early hour the directors who had assembled on the spot , with Mr . Cubitt , the lomocotive engineer , and Mr . Gregory , of the Croydon line , considered it necessary to forward immediate intelligence of what had hap pened to Colonel Pasley , the inspector-general of railroads , and who arrived soon after nine o ' clock , when a strict examination was gone into , the result of which is as follows : —The bui-sting of the locomotive being the supposed cause of the accident , their first object was to examine the engine as it lay imbedded in the earth . After getting off the viaduct , it had pitched head foremost into the earth a depth of four feet , then turned over . They found the fire-box was blown out as well as the whole of the fire bars , and the inner casintr , between which and the outer casing the steam generated , was also torn away . The next point was to
examine what effect the explosion had had upon the viaduct , and the probable cause of her getting off the same . They found , upon inquiry , that there had been two explosions , the first apparently took place about eighty feet from the spot where the engine was lying . The fire-bars at the bottom of the fire-box had been blown completely through the viaduct into arch No . 134 , making a hole three or four feet square . The second explosion not only blew the fire-box through the arch No . 133 , but such was the force of the steam , that the engine "jumped , " and descended partly on the rails and partly off , a distance of eight or ten yards , crushing the immense pieces of timber that supported the viaduct . The front door of the smoke-box was discovered about 100 yards distant . Although General Pasley's opinion was not publicly made known , we understand that he attributes the cause to a flaw in the copper , or a defeat in rivetting the casing .
The late Dreadful Explosion ox the Dover Hailwav . —Additional Particulars . —This unfortunate occurrence , which is unparalleled , it is said , in railway accidents , has attracted the most serious attention of the officers and directors belonging to the line , as well as of the other metropolitan railway officers , several of whom have inspected the spot for the purpose of collecting information ; for it has- not previously been known for the boiler of a locomotive , while running , to explode and cause such havoc as on the present occasion . It has been stated , that Colonel Pasley examined the shattered engine a few hours after the accident , and he has since sent his report to the Board of Trade . We have subsequently learned
that other circumstances ha-ye since transpired which will throw , it is said , additional li | ht on the cause of the explosion . In the examination of the engine by Colonel Pasley and the engineers , on Wednesday last , part of the inner casting round the fire-box was found to have been blown away , and the same piece to have been forced through the viaduct into the arch beneath , a considerable distance from where the engine lay . The current opinion then was that the explosion had been caused either by some flaw in the copper casing or else from some defect in rivetting it . Yesterday , however , upon further search being made by Mr . Cubitt , the engineer of the line , Mr . George ' , and
other gentlemen , it was discovered that the safetyvalve was " hard down , " from which it was inferred that the explosion arose solely tVom the circumstance of the engine-driver having neglected to open it The steam then having no means of escape , had caused the casing to collapse and the explosion that followed . Upon further consideration , this might have resulted from the engine capsizing and making a donble turn over , as she must have done previous to going off the' viaduct ; the drum of the engine it a quite eertaim , struck one of the iron rails , tbr the indentation is still clearly perceptible , and this might have driven the valve into the position described . The most unaccountable circumstance is . that the engine was
found with the steam shut off , by which some of the railway officers conclude that ' the driver had suspected something was wrong , and had shutf off the steam , The body of the engine-driver , which lies at the Bricklayers' Arms station , is that of a fine yotmg man , upwards of six feet in height , and from the appearance it is probable that death was instantaneous . The neck was broken , aud also the left arm where the waggon wheel passed over . A very remarkable circumstance is , that he was not in the least degree scalded , whilst his unfortunate companion wss severely so . During the time that the men were
employed in removing the waggons off the line another accident occurred , which nearly cost an excavator his life . He , with several ' other men , wa 3 clearing the line , when a waggon fell from the top ot another one , and to save himself he ran forward m fell through one of the holes to the bottom of tne viaduct . When picked up he was found to be perfectly insensible . Without loss of time he was conveyed' to Guy ' s Hospital , where he received surgic * assistance , and he was enabled in the course of tw morning to walk to his own lodgings . I ' pon ^ n < f ^[ on Thursday night as to the state of tbv stoker Wb " kinson , we were told that a change had takcnpl ** for the better , and that the surgeons entertained sanguine hopes of his ultimate recovery .
Strange Accident . —Mademoiselle Brohan , ^ actress of the Theatre Frangais , some time back $ ® knocked against in the street by a man carryin'S a heavy package . The blow struck her on the boswfl j and caused such acute pain that she f : l » lte < * vjf ? j two months she suffered constantly , the part ^^^ being exceedingly swollen and inflamed . RecentlJ on her consulting an eminent surgeon , he S ^ . as his opinion that some substance had got into to flesh , and caused the pain . He prescribed cer r"j remedies , and two or three days after a needle worK ^ its way out . It is supposed , that having been ace " dentally placed in Mademoiselle lirohan ' s dress , i was forced into the flesh by the blow . —The m
now doing well . —Galignani's Afesscng <* t \ ^ Fatal Occurrence on the Thames . — A ^ = Jz ^ quiry was gone into on Wednesday evening , W ' Mi-. W . Payne , at the Vestry Hall , Horsley down ,, < J the body of David Daniel , aged 27 , late captain orw Aquilla barque , of Aberystwith , who was drown ^ S the river Thames , under the following melancu ^ circumstances : —Mr . Joseph Lewis , ofXo . 8 , nf . street , Bermondsey , medical student , said he wa the deceased's company on Tuesday night , at Watermen ' s Arms , Shad Thames , which place tw ; left about three o ' clock on Wednesday ^ Y ^' J&'S the purpose of proceeding on board the decease "
vessel , lying off Pickle Herring Wharf . Alter »« - ing some distance they turned down a m 1 * * ^* leading to the water side , the deceased wing dj ^ six feet in advance of witness . In a J " " " ^ , heard the deceased slip , and a sp lash in tne w < i ^ He got to the end as soon as possible , and ' y *" = ^ j ,,, of an iron loop , he put out his hg for d «« a ^ was struggling in the water , to lay hold ot . «» ^ called out that there -was a man in the water , » "s the same moment his foot slipped , and / * f # i * came immersed . He was picked Up by a ooai- ^ deceased was not quite sober , but eotikl v r £ t : & well . The tide was very high , and the ni p j p tremely dark . The jury returned a verdict v ,. Accidentally drowned , ¦ ¦ ¦; . :.
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T . « J . Dl'NCOMUE , M . I ' . Whill the active genius that represents money is strained towards ever ? point of the compass in quest of " saft- investment" _ or " profitable speculation ; " while the snrplus of Labour ' s produce has made money as well . a . * oilier indigestible things , a . drug ill the marUtrt , its value becoming daily diminished by reason of its wrongful distribution ; while landlord is ready to devour landlord—Churclilto eat ( . 'hurch—rival manufacturers devising the surest means of making themselves " safe" without reference to any single consideration pave that of
self-{ jrutectum ; and while the Government , which should adjust all these differences , looks tamely un at this game of '" Dog eat Dog , " it is s-mie consolation to findthe sharpened intellect of Labocr directing its energy , not to the correction of any one of these abuses , which would but confer advantage on one section of a class to the prejudice of another section , hut to the remodtUin ;/ of the present si / tttm , iu that shape and form from which all would he reciprocally benelittcd . The present state of the combinations of the labouring classes is somewhat analogous to that "f a stagnant pool , which the several competitors for Laboitk ' s support are afraid to disturb : e : uh being fearful lest the slightest pebble should cause an unlooked-for commotion .
Tlence , mc find bishops and parsons , landlords and far . mers , manufacturers and free-traders , constantly tread , ing on the brink , but fearful of too near an approach . LorJ Plun KETT , in commenting on loose plcadings , once observed , " thut counsel sometime ^ went about the thingr , and about the tiling , but not a bit nearer the thing . " And so , in truth , we may say , " all classes of sympathizers , renovators , regenerators , and njritators are going about the question of Labotr , but have not come a bit nearer to it . " Each , in its own peculiar way , would take that burden off LaboPB ' s shoulders which would be least injurious to the patrons ; but none v . itL allow Labour , that feels the pinch , to REsrcE itself .
The . movements of the money-party are active , and consequently produce their effect upon Government . Those of Liiouji arc sullen , and scarcely conspicuous , llonever , as a party , though ever so strong , must be represented in one shape or other , that its strength may be developed to its opponents ; and lest our present quiescence , might lead to the false notion that the people have embraced Sir Robert PrEL ' s " no poUticB " policy , it is indispensable that Labour should have its demonstration in some manner which will exhibit its strength , without the violation of its principles , or of even a pledge of its leaders ; or without violating the deliberate injunction of its representative in Parliament . Seeing the manner in Which the petition of 3 , 500 , 000 working men was treated bv
the Committee of Capitalists in the House of Commons , arranged on both sides of the house , Mr . Duncombe very properh told the people that " they mightpetition THAT PARLIAMENT again if they pleased , but he would not be made the instrument of their folly ; " and , notwithstanding all that has been said and written about the " dangers of Leadership , " we have considered that the people . were bound by thiB injunction of their " Leader ;" aye , their great and triumphant Leader . At the same time , we have racked our brain to devise means , by which the people could obey the commands of their general ; and at the same time convince their opponents that the determination not to be again wantonly insulted was not to be taken as the triumph of the enemy .
From this dilemma we have been relieved by the proposition of Mr . O'Co . vnob , made at the tea-party on Tuesday night . To meet the difficulty , he proposed that on the day of opening Parliament , while the Capitalists were accompanying their Queen in triumph to open the session , in which Oveir interests would be discussed aud protected ; the sons of Labocb should meet in Finsbury , and accompany their champion to the arena . It would be impossible to convey the faintest notion of the enthusiastic manner in which this proposition was received by every individual present . Ail ruse simultaneously , as if electrified by the thought , and cheered and cheered again : and when it is borne in mind that the tea-party to welcome the Star to
London was the most numerous and by far the most respectable that lias ever taken place on any occasion in the metropolis ; and when it is understood , as observed by Mr . O'Consok , that every district of London and its vicinity was fairly represented in the vast assembly , the manner of receiving the proposition gives us strong hope for the success of the plan . There is just time enough to carry it into effect ; and it ' , without at all interfering with the route of the gingerbread coach and the annefl outrideTS , Laboub shall on that occasion do its duty to itself , the demonstration will be worth five million ; 8 of signatures . To work , then , let us go ! Let each district appoint its committee , and as Dcncombe is in the hands of the Trades , let them take the initiative
"We hope in our next to be able to report that a general committee has been appointed to make the necessary arrangements ; and that the several localities will vie in supplying the small wheels to work the machinery . ! After the procession , let us have a Tea-party at the Crown and Anchor , and invite to it all those members of Parliament who' > Till pledge themselves to resist further encroachment on the rights of the working-classes , and to confer an them the power of self-defence . This may be made a powerful auxilliary to aid our chief , who will be strong within in the exact proportion in which he is supported without . Let the " Man ' s-men " then at it , in right good earnest .
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SEPEAL OF TfflS MAIT-TAX . —IMPORTANT MEETING AT CROTDON . Cbotbos , Satuedat jEtexisgj Dec . 7 .- —A numerous amdlrighlY important meeting of the gentry and influential farmers And agriculturists of the county of Surrey , took place this afternoon , pursuant to a numeroasly signed requisition in . the Town Hall , Grojdon , for the purpose -of considering the propriety of taTting steps for urging on her Majesty ' s Government a repeal of the Malt-tax . Mr . Bieados was , at one o ' clock , unanimously called to the chair , and ha-ring read the requisition , calling the meeting , lie saiiLhe felt great pleasure in being
called on to preside OTer so numerous and so respectable a meeting , assembled , as he considered , fora most laudable purpose . He felt that an article of general if not of universal consumption , had been raised to such apriee by the Government duty , as to be beyond the reach of the labouring classes , -which'demanded , in Iis opinion , an immediate amelioration ; he { the ehairinan ) , thought that if the Jlalt-tax iras abolished the Minister could-do -without it , and . thatthelabonrers , irho were entitled to consideration , would be benefited . { Hear , hear . )
Ma . "Wesix proposed the first resolution . He said this was a subject not only of importance to the farmers , but to the labouring men of England , and no greater benefit « ould accrue to the fenners or the labourers of the eountrr at large than a repeal of the 3 la 2 t-tai . ( Hear . ) The effect of a repeal of the 3 d " ali-tax would be to call into "operation the use of second-rate barley , which , because it was not grown on the genial lands of this country ; was precluded by the GoTernment taxation from becoming a malting barley . AH therefore that could be done with such barley was to the disadvantage of farmers , who could onlv sell it at the rate of 10 s . per < piarter for the feeding of pigs and poultry . It was not the priee o land that tended to inerease the priee of malt , but
the Government taxation . The averase price of land was sixteen shillings per acre , at the outside twenty shillings , and that land it was presumed would grow £ ve quarters per acre . The Govenrment tax was twenry ^ woshifiings per quarter ; thus , whilst the acre of land at twenty shillings grew forty bushels of bar ley , £ ve pounds ten shillings per acre was levied by the Government . Some time since the Government took off the tax npon beer ; and it was said that it was a boon to thejfarmers of the country . 2 vow , as one of ihat bodr , he ( Mr . Weall ) denied £ hat it was a boon either to the fenners or the labourers ; for it had created those smV * of iniquity and iniainy—the beer shops—which had not only injured the farmers , but mined labourers and their families . Many schemes . had been proposed for the benefit of the
agricultural labourer : some said the allotment system , others xhe system of emigration "would be best ; but he thflught that the employment of labour was xlit only * remedy for existing evils — ( cheers j — but what with the existing Corn Laws , the late Tariii , and the infamous Canada Bill , tie fanners were unable to give employment to labour . \ Hear , hear . > After expressing his conviction that there was not more labourers rhan were actually -wanted in England , Mr . Weall conclnded by moving a resolution— " That in the opinion of the meeting the Malt Tax was unjust in its principle and oppressive in its operation , inasmuch as it imposed entirely upon the- labouring masses of this country , who are thereby taxed to sueh an extent as almost to prohibit the use of the beverage best adapted to their wants . "
Mr . Kouxd seconded the resolution , which , on being put irom the chair , was carr ied unanimously , amidst loud acclamations . Mr . Thomas Eixmas moved the second resolution , " Thai the Malr-taxhaviijg been submitted to during a long period , while hopes were held out that when the war ceased that tax should be removed ; and tbk meeting iaving witnessed that sixteen nifllion > of taxation has been removed whilst the Malt-tax remains , and that a moiety on the dutv of wines has also been removed , is of opinion that the time has now arrived when this severe impost on the comfort and necessities of the people should at once cease /' The resolution having been seconded by Mr . Bbows , was-at once agreed to , and a committee was appointed consisting of the gentlemen who had signed the requisition convening the meeting , to carry out its objects-Thanks were subsequently voted to the chairman , and the meeting separated- "
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