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THE NORTHEBN STAR. 8ATDKDAY, JUKE 28,1845.
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A SLIGHT TOUCH OF " ADVERSITY". TO SWEETEN PRESENT "PROSPERITY."
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THE CENTRAL REGISTRATION COMMIT . TEE TO THE CHARTIST BODY . Friesbs , —Having been appointed , in conformity with tbe resolution of the lr . te Convention , a committee fer the purpose of registering electors and promoting the return to the ilousc of Commons of men pledged * ° soppoi "" c ca ^ of social and poiitical justice to the r jauy , yk feel called upon to address yoa upon th < vitsjjy important labours of which ttety isopcrati ' . dy w \ tiires the performance < c-n your fats and . trars . Kro the lapse of many « opihs a general diction KUst take place . The fctou factions will thcr ^ « is * feeir wonted custom , be -eo . the alert , stroking foHtmt a scendancy which wSl ^ ive to the victov the p «* er of dividiag tie spoil which unjust
IWs make < £ the people s anwary . * VYe shall then have the two jjrafc Tarliamehtary headers , &O 5 sell and Pcei , wid "the -stnall fry of nostrum nf"n £ -jrs under a'fflEtety of aspects , bidding for popalai ¦ support . We ahall douBtl-ss sec Russell and Ms sup 3 «/ rters ravenotfi , « s ¦ WolvesHbr the luxuries of office , * eliciting poptflsr support as men of altered \ ietf £ ~ . ind principles , ? n > mu < gt&ing a new political * iith » discarding the philosopher of " finality , " reKn-• qu&aug their favoente gsJibsd duty on the iix ^ or-Jtti&M of corn , adweatiageten hour factorr bill , "a ik" willing to concede to tffaiand political privileges * feeial to those possessed byfagland . So far , indeed , ^ tes the film bera-reHrtvett * from the eyes «» f Lord ~ i ? jhn _ that he now perceives what the nation , has
J iong seen , felt , ' and *« mdcrstood , namely , tint the v TH > tfcing man docs-iMt-Eceive o fair sisrc « f the : * produce of his itskistry- ! 0 wonderful perspicacity ! i penetrating perceptim ! A noble and learned lord ; s alegisktorofnierotbacaquarterofa center ' s experience ; a . sretfyffctewan discovers in tie year 1815 : that the haadtoom weaver , earning Eve shillings a-week , andihe'powerlooni weaver , getting eight or nine , the agticaltvisl labourer receiving seven or , eight , are nst <* MHteWy remunerated for their toiH ! j Jlow was it that ' ltcssell did not make ( his discovery during the ton -years that he occupied tbe wctobiower of Britain ' s 4 estinies ? How happened it that lie did not perceive this , when from his elevated position his view of the political horizon should have been far more distinct and extensive than at present Russell did-fee it ; but he lacked the honesty to acknowledge < it . He and his supporters were
cognizant of the working man ' s political and social degradation ; but-instead ^ of meting out to him political justice , elevating him from social thraldom , and securing to him by wise and equitable legislation , a fair rewardjfor his industry , they spent ten years in riving us Poor Law Bills , Coercion Bilk , Rural Police Bills . ; -snd had plenty of prosecution and persecution—the Asngeon and the treadmill for those who , impelled % a love of justice , sought the restoral to the people of those immunities of which they have been stripped by the ruthless hand of usurpation . Russell hes seen that thecomparativelystatesmanlike . measures of Peel have thrown his dwarfish policy into the « hade ; he sees that his only chance of ever again occupying the treasury benches , is to outbid Peel in ihe liberal mart . In our opinion he will ¦ attempt Ihis at the forthcoming general election .
Frienfe , under these circumstances , it behoves us tobeonilie alert . It is our ; duty , as ardent supportersof the cause of human emancipation , to seize ¦ upon erery incident to promote its weal . We cherish lopes , that at tbe next election , by an energetic and concentrated system of action , we shall be able to secure the return to Parliament of some ten or twelve advocates of the People ' s Charter . The exertions of £ uch a little band of patriots agitating for the Charter in the house , battling with the hacks of faction , proclaiming fearlessly the rights of man , filling die press ' with , lucid expositions of his wrongs , refuting the pitiful sophisms by which fraud attempts to prop injustice , would nut only give excitement to hope , « nergy to action , courage to despondency , but would fix the attention of the civilised world upon the grandeur and holiness of the object to the accomplishment of which their labours were directed .
Friends , without saying another word upon the importance of the tiling to be done , we will at once -come to what we deem the means of its realisation . The Reform Bill , it appears , has more extensively enfranchised the people than was generally supposed . We find that the provisions of that bill are couched in language so ambiguous , that it is not yet understood by its authorised exponents ! A ' rare commentary upon the wisdom and capability of our legislators 2 It has , however , been ruled in the Court of Common Pleas , that the occupants of tenements , paying an annual rental of £ 10 , although the taxes should be compounded for , and paid by the landlord , are entitled to vote for a member of Parliament , pro-Tided such occupants be duly registered . Now , our
object in issuing this address , is to place even man in the country , qualified by the decision aforesaid , in a position to exercise his franchise at the next election . In order to effect this desirable object , let every city and borough in Great Britain have its Election and Registration Committee . The work must be commenced immediatel y , as all claims to be rated must be made previously to the 31 st of July next . Let the Charti > t bodies in the various localities promptly bestir themselves in this business . The course of proceeding whiek we recommend in each instance is , first , that a requisition be got up , as numerously signed as possible , and that it be presented to the chief magistrate , soliciting him to convene a public
meeting for the purpose of forming an Election and Registration Committee ; and furthermore , that he grant for the use of such meeting some suitable public hall , over which he may have jurisdiction . Should the magistrate refuse to convene the meeting , let the requisioniits call it on their own authority . Secondly , let the conveners be provided with forms of claims to he furnished to such of the meeting as are qualified iy rental to be rated as electors . Thirdly , let the Jo cal committees immediately communicate with the fie ntral committee , who * e duty it is to furnish any ini irmation required . Fourthly , let the local commi &es exert themselves to collect funds to further
- the object , and let especial care be taken to appoint -a co mpetent person to attend the Barrister' Court to < fefe ad such claims as may be objected to . Fr lends , we have now briefly stated our object . "We 1 are endeavoured to impress you with the importas ice of that object . We have , as concisely as possib te > pointed out the procedure to be adopted . We ft el that it is unnecessary to appeal to you for « xertio b * We are resolved to do our duty ; we hope thatyoi twill do yours . We now leave your part of the wot fc in jour own hands , ardently hoping that jour per . % rmance of it will be marked with promptitude anu energy . Signed on behalf of tuc comjnittee , Pdiup M'Grath , Secretary .
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LONDON . Somsrr Towx . —On Sunday evening lastameeting washel'i in the Hall of Science , KinsVcross . Mr . W . Pjirris was called to the chair , who in a few pertiDfcnt remarks alluded to , and called on Mr . Arnott , tb read , Mr . O'Connor ' s , letter from the last number of the Northern Star , which was listened to with , preat attention . Mr . J . S . Sherrard then delivered an eloquent and instructive lecture on "The Wealth of Nations ; " and ably demonstrated , fromUhe ancient history of Egypt , Rome , Maccdon , Pers % » , and other nations , and also from the writings vjf Dr . Adam Smith , M'Culloch , and otliet eminent writers , that
the irce wealth of nations < oeasisteaui the land in a proper state of cultiva 6 o »> flu * land justly and equitably divided , the wsrking ( tfasses enjoying the fruits thereof , with the Ibtnchisefor their protection . In a lucid and « 3 abmiaSte = sfcyla , the lecturer tcok a rapid view of the < cemaercial , monetary , and speculative raraifioatTOBS < jff society ; and gave it as his opinion that aU ntfdons not founded on the above basis must ineritg % conie *» decay and fall to ruin . Several -questions were put , and satisfactorily answered . Sfr . 'Skermrdiseceived a unanimous vote of thanks ; -and , after a * rte of thanks to the chairman , tfceaneetmg sepsnfced .
LANCiSHIPoE AND YORKSHIRE . ; Gjhp % erxg . —Oe Sunday the fourth aanoal , camp meeting took plr « e on Blackstone-edge ; it was : intended to be held sin Robin Hood ' s Bed , but the lordof : tbe manor-sent his keepers to inform us we should disturb lib ^ oung birds if we did so , so the ! bravemea and wonen of York and Lancaster con- , gregated togetheren a pleasant spot of rising ground attbofcick-df theWltfte House . At two o ' clock ai waggon was drawn up , when Messrs . Christopher Doyle , William SellAmbrose HurstandMooney .
, , of Colne , took their stations . On the motion of Mr .. waiiam Bell , Mr . Edward Mitchell , of Rochdale , ! was appointed io preside . The chairman commenced ! by singing a Chartist hymn , and in a brief speech he ' introduced Mr . Anibrose Hurst , of Oldham , who ' delivered a seul-stirring speech , exciting much applause . 5 fr . Wm . Bell next gave a very powerful speech . Mr . Doyle , of the Executive , next , at great length , entered into the Land question , ' and gave great satisfaction . A vote of thanks to the chairman concludedaglorious day for the cause of liberty .
HUDDERSFIELD . The -Lujd . —The second meeting of the district committee of the Co-operative Land Society was held on Monday evening last , at Turner ' s Temperance Hotel , when seven new members entered their names , and paid their first instalments . The committee will , in future , sit on Tuesday evening , at half-past eight o ' clock , instead of Monday , when all persons desirous of taking shares are requested to attend . "
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Os the 26 th of April last , we sounded the warning note of " approaching PANIC . " We showed the combination of causes that had led to the present flush of " Prosperity ; " showed that those causes were evanescent in their nature : and that PANIC and depression must as assuredly follow , as that night follows day .
We know that there are in this world those whose constitution of mind and uniformity of conduct fully | entitle them to the designation of croakers : men who can see no good—no stability in anything ; men who were born grumblingly— -and whose special " mission" seems to be to grumble everlastingly at everything . There are such men ; men who can never afford a good word , not even for the most perfect embodiment of goodness , or the best devised system ever propounded . These men are " true to nature" in little things , as well as great . You never meet them , but you find them croaking . Their whole
life is spent in murmuring . We know also , that some very good , easy , cozy souls , set «* down as belonging to this class . Unable themselves to trace effect to cause ; blind as bats to the moves on the political chess-board ; unable to calculate the " game" of governing ; ignorant of all but that which jmt is at the moment , these parties , in all single-mindedness and simplicity , set down as a croaker the man who ventures , in the hey-day of " Peospekitv , " to hint at the possibility of "PAMC" and " adversity" breaking up the charm . Poor simple fools ! They do not- perceive that
they , the blind and ignorant , are in the same category with the croakers they affect to despise ; that both are but different species of the same genus . The croaker grumbles not on system , unless , indeed , it be a system to be always murmuring . But he murmurs not because he has cavsc for murmuring —because he knows why he murmurs . He merely obeys a blind instinct of his imperfect nature . Reason has nothing to do with his fault-findings . If it had , he could discriminate , and would . be able to
surprise himself at times , by . speaking approvingly of somebody , or some project . So with the good easy and simple . They just take things as they find them , and are utterly unable to look back on what has been , or to judge of what may be . Reason with them is as blank as with the croakers ; and any opinion they may give , on intricate political or social subjects , is just as much worth xs the grunt of a most inveterate unreasoning grumbler , and not one whit more .
But there are other men in the world—men who have something like heads on their shoulders . Society is not entirely composed of the simple and the croaking . There are some who can " put'thisand that together ; " who " can guess eggs when they sec shells ; " who can penetrate some little below the surface of things—* ise their reasoning powers in divining the causa in operation—and speak somewhat confidently of the effects that are likely to follow . There is indeed another class—those of " profound
gesics ; those whose ipse dixit is gospel ; those whose opinions are infallibly correct—to doubt which is death everlasting ( politically , we mean ); those who modestly set themselves' up as the world ' s " sclioolmasurs , "' averring that it has been left for TIlEMtotcadi what most folk know—thatthcy are possessed of a great deal more arrogance and self conceit than integrity or honour . 'To the first of the last two classes named , we are'impudent enough to make pretension to belong .: with the . last-we for
swear all lot or portion . - We candidly confess that we fnliy believe it is not in oar nature ' tobeableto " set the Thames on fire . " . Thoseiwjio wish , for . the accomplishment of that feat , must seek for-that heap of " prtfundity , " the corruseations of whose GENIUS have been sufficient to destroy everything he engaged in : end if Ac can . only be . prevailed on to . meddle withi * l » TUine » - (« ndhe will if you will only pay him for U ) ^~ " old Father Tame " will receive o sweating' ! . . . .
Reasoning then on the causes that had brought about our jneeent state of " glorious prosperity ' . ' . ; . on the -effects of the last two harvests , in giving us abundance . of food ; without our 'having- to send money or money ' s-worth abroad' to pfoburte it ; on the effects . pf . the . reobvery from the M P ^ ic'V aniicon-Eternatioa produced in : America ¦ - ¦ by the glorious dibits of the democrats there to rid themselves of ihe " INBXORA « LE TYKANNY" ; of tfejpperhobhoi -mongers , . wbsse scheming . to " absorb the weaHiiout . of the . hajids of the producers into their ows , " had ^ Smost ; iipset the Refobuc , and erected
« e He nuns afell mojbc-ougarcht , whose " . tender maeW wauM have ^ Erpassed the worst erueltie * that ere { be ( tw * pscourg 6 B of Kingcraft and Priest , eraft inflieied-on mankind ; on the effects of the late treaty m& China ; on the fiffects of the " disturb inces" in Spaia , srlueh had icoabled our honea merehanis to smuggle iafo that otuntry immense quantities of manufactured goods , almost prohibited by Spanish law ; on tbe effeete of the " accommodation " afforded by the " Old Lady of Threadneedle Street , " and the consequent " out" of the money-market :
reasoning on these things , and particularly onthewei la * spirit qy wild sPKCDUTioxthey had given rise to , and which had ramified itself over the whole island : reasoning on these things , with the history of former times and the operation of former similar causes before our eyes , we warned the-public that a bevbbse was at hand ; iliat" PANIC " was at the door ; that gad gloomy depression was ' sure to folW , and that speedily , on the presenthecticflushof " PBOSPKBITT . " We are now going to see how far subsequent erents jw&fied as in bo speaking . . " ~ ; :
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It Will perhaps be remembered that on , the occasion nap- ied , we adduced the opinion of two noble lords " » U confirmation of our own—Lord ? . Brougham and Ashburtox . To the opinion of tub last named nobleman we attached much weight . He has the character of being a clear-hwided , far-seeing , but cauikm man . Indeed , tka manner in which he executed his arduous mission to America , respecting the Boundary and Slatts questions , shows him to be one far from being «« tevoid of judgment , or a business-mind . The options of this man , therefore , we held to 1 * entitled to respect ; and when we found / tmtfttering suck a solemn warning as follows , we 1 could not but '» ttenk that there was occasion . The words of Lord-XsHBURTox were : —
J » ething m < j ) je important could occupy the attention of Parliament tfcan the present feverish state of the gambling connected with railways . In this case , how . ever , as in nutny others , it was easier to point out the difficulty thsn to suggest the remedy . Still , it was desirable , ' -wMlst they were patting down the gambling nouses iu St . James ' s-street and Jermyn-strect , and in Ihe purlieus of Westminster , that they should , at least , consl&er tl « gambling which teas pervading everg country town , every country club , and every family , from one end of the country to rte other . They could not prevent the people from dealing in shares ; but , at the same time , it did become important to consider the extent to which this gambling was earned on , and , if they could not repress tht gamUing , they ought it least to consider rrs operation ON THE OBDINART PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNTRT ,
on oob HONETABY TBAHSACTioNS , and o ) i the industry of Vie country . . With regard to its influence on the ordinary business of trade , he might give one instance of its effect upon the iron manufactures of the country and , the derangement it caused to the iron trade . There had teen 300 per cent , advance in the price of iron during the last eighteen months , and the consequence was , that all tho ordinary commerce connected with that trade was disturbed . . They found a competition arising in Belgium and other countries , who were unable to carry on their ordinary processes , since they found the raw materials in this country too dear for them . This raised a competition in other countries against us , and opened channels o . f trade from which- they could not afterwards be driven out ; so that when irou in this country came back to its ordinary price , we should find that we had lost the markets that bad hitherto depended upon us .
Let the reader , note well the instance the Noble Lord gives of the influence of the "GAMBLING MANIA" oh the ordinary business of trade . Let him note well that thepricc of iron had heen advanced by it ; that is , iron selling eighteen months ago at £ 5 per ton , was then selling for £ 15 . Let him mark well also the consequences spoken of , as likely to follow from the unnatural advance caused by the "gamblers . " Let him note these things well ; and then let him con over attentively the following , which we extract from the Times of Mondav : —
Wednesbdrt , Satcbdat . —The crisis which for several months has been predicted seems fast approaching . The extravagantl y high priees to which iron had reached could not , as was stated in the Times two or three months back , be maintained ; and now , instead of being at Ul . per ton , such has been the depreciation , that no man presumes to say what is Us markttaVU valut . It has been mentioned that in Scotch pig iron there was a rise of 20 s . per ton on ' Friday week , at Liverpool ; but on Tuesday last , only four days after , a corresponding reduction took place .
The unsettled state of the iron trade in South Staffordshire is attended with the most inconvenient , if not ritinou * , consequenees . The manufacturers , especially the makers of heavy goods , are suffering under the depression caused by the recent extraordinary advance on th « raw material , although there is an abundance of orders from Canada and the United States in Wolverhampton , Birmingham , and Walsall , the completion of which cannot be longer delayed . The home-market suffers in the same degree from the same cause . Travellers for factors now on their journeys in all parts of the kingdom are in many instances unable to take , andtheir emp ' oyers at home unable to execute , orders for manufactured iron goods , on account of Me uncertainty intheprieeofiion . The late rash advance and
TOE FBESENT KAP 1 D AND CONTINUOUS SEDUCTION have indeed completely deranged the principal trade of the neighbourhood . But , bad as this state of things is , the mischief does not end here . At the time of the advance the ironmasters considerably raised the wages of the workmeu ; and now . as a matter of course , tome of them are proceeding with tht reduced price of the article to attempt a corresponding reduction of the price of labour . It has already , too , been attempted in this neighbourhood to reduce wages at the rate of 3 d . per day , and the consequence has been a partial turn out around Bilston and this town . Some hundreds of workpeople are to be seen loitering about the roads .
ana , as might be expected , when such a class of men are unemployed , several acts of violence have been committed . On Monday night a serious riot occurred at BUston ,, when a large body of workmen attempted to rescue a fcllowworkman from the custody of the police ; It did not transpire whether the man ' soffencearoseout of thestrike , but it is nevertheless true , that the eolliers and ironmen , when not at work , are always ready for mischief , and for the most pnrt entertain a deadly hatred towards the pelice . An additional body of police , under the command of Colonel Hogg , has arrived in the neighbourhood , and the military quartered at Wolvtrhampton are in constant readiness to ac t when called upon .
Should a general strike take place , it is thought that the men are letter organised than they toere at the last turnout . Chartism is , however , defunct , and the leaders of that party , who so materially aggravated tho differences between the masters and men on that occasion , will have little influence , should another turnout take place . Combinations and protective societies appear to have been formed , not only amongst the colliers and the ironmen , but to have extended amongst the nailors , the gun-lock makers , and all other descriptions of workmen employed in the make of manufactured g « od * . If the price of iron is reduced to what it vmt in 18 * 3 , « U these trades , and ( he wages of those employed in them , must be afeeled , AND THE CONSEQUENCES WILL BE SERIOUS INDEED . Let us hope that the late over-speculation maf not lead to such a result .
Lord Ashburtos spoke , as above , in the month of April last . It is now only-the end of June : and so soon has the result in the particular instance he quoted been realised 2 It will be well to mark the terms that abound in the above description of the present state of the iron districts . It is almost made up of the phrases" depreciation ; " " no man can say what is the market value ; " " unsettled state ; " " ruinouB consequences ; " " uncertainty in price ; " "rash advance , " and " rapid and continuous reduction . " These are queer terms to use , when describing a whole and important branch of our native trade and commerce during a state of "GLORIOUS PROSPERITY V But what are used just now in relation to the iron trade , wili before very long be needed to describe the condition of every other " interest . "
The " tide of luck" has . turned I The " gamblers " have been pretty successful so far , while Dame Fortune ( aided by the she-devil of Threadneedle-strect ) smiled on them . But her fickleness has passed into a proverb . She only lures to destroy . The "tide of luck" has turned ! Woeful will be the Equalling , and rueful the visages , of the jackdaws , when stripped of their borrowed plumes . "Old times" are coming again .- " Reductions of wages ; " "turn-outs ; " "hundreds of people loitering « bnrt tin wtfc ? ' "• oto of violence ;! ' " serious riots ; " "' additionalbodies of police ; " and " themilitary quartered , in constant readiness to act when
called « n 3 "—why , Jure are all the symptoms of "bad times 1 " We have been fancying ourselves securdg wrapped in the arms of Dame Prospkiuit : and bete we are , at once plunged into all the difficulties and * turaMils of " Panic" and adversity ! . Lctone thing ie noted . Ab soon as the 300 per cent . price-of dm is affected , wages are attacked ! The ironmasters ^* not wait for the price of iron to recede to the * nwant it was in 1 EI 43 , before the " eonsideotte : ad \ M * ce" of wages took place . We dare lay airiflingibet . -only that would be very like OAMoiaio , wfcich'weihate , —that the wages have not beettadTanoei . SGO 52 Mr . coit ., commensurate with the
advaaeed price of iron : ! If not , was it FAIR of the irontnastem i » fcegin { inductions of wages so soon ? Could they net fcave-been -content with the enormous PHonis they iave realise ^ , in the difference between the 300 per oenfc . increased , price of iron , and the riighfly advanced wages -of ihe workmen , for some time at least , ?« & it came te the -workman ' s turn to bear a share of the km ooBBequevt on depreciated price ! But , 00 . The workman is thejfrrt to feel depreciation , though the last to benefit from advance . " Reductions of wages follow as i matter o . f course . " Thus it has ever teen , and thus it ever witf be , so long as the waster-class and the sUute-ck&s exkt >
One " comfort , "; however , there ig , in the opinion of the corresponding scribe of the Times : for though tA e men are better organised than they were at the last " turn-out , Chartism is defunct ! What sUly fantasies some men will amuse themselves with ! . Why organisation , to secure the . wages of industry , is Chartism—the essence of Chartism ! It Is a prac tied application of the theory of CIiarti « & ; ftsi
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what a man earns he or . ght to enjoy . National Chartism would do , nationally , by means of national institutions , what heal Chartism seeks to do locally . The scribe of the Times need not " lay the flattering unction to his soul" that Chartism is defunct , while " a better organisation for the protection of industry exists . " The one is the soul of the other . Let us ask now , was not our warning justified ? Was there , not reason to say that " breakers were a-head ? " We seemed to be sailing along on the sea of " prosperity , " wafted by the breezes of good luck , and aided by the tide of fortune . All seemed to be
" As merry as a marriage bell , " few dreaming of the possibility of reverse . And yet uncertainty and ruinous consequences have reached a most important vessel of-the service . She lias struck on the hidden rock of "PANIC , " and the shock is tremendous . The whole fleet is environed by dangers most formidable . The storm is gathering , which will , before long , spend its fury , and drive us on the shoals , or sink us in the abyss .
Well will it be for those who * ' look out" in time , and prepare for the worst . AU former storms of adversity that have been encountered will be light indeed , compared with the next we must experience . Us ik Ready ! : .
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GOOD NEWS FOR THE TEN HOURS' BILL FOLKS . In the Morning Herald of Wednesday we find the following announcement : — We hear , with the greatest satisfaction , that the prospects of the " Ten Hours' Bill" never were so bright as at the present moment . The truth of the cause lias carried it forward ; many manufacturers have become satisfied of the real expediency of justice and humanity . The Factory Inspectors observe this , and honestly kepobt it ; and an impression is rapidly growing in the best-infouhed qoahters , that before long the whole question for which Miciuel TnoiiAS Sadler and Lord Aciilet sacrificed everything but honour , will be openly and fkank . lt conceded , as tlie . dictate of truth nud righteousness .
The Herald is the Ministerial organ . The time for the general election grows nearer every day . Lord John Russell has joined the ranks of the Ten Hour advocates . He voted for the measure throughout the recent struggle with the "last two hour" Ministry . Ho resisted tho effort of Peel to causa the rescinding of the vote by which the measure was resolved on . He has since that time , in open public meeting ,
reiterated his opinions in favour of " short time . " Can it be possible that Pkel is about to cut the Ten Hour ground from under the feet of Russell , by giving way on the measure before the general election takes place ? The announcement in the Herald looks very like it . The " best-informed quarters , " and the " 6 cforelong the whole question will be frankly and hoxestly conceded , " would almost say asinuch . We trust that it is so . Let us have the Ten Hours' Bill
from any quarter , and right thankful shall we bo . In this feeling we shall be joined by thousands , who are now suffering from protracted and almost never-ending labour—one of the blessings entailed on them by our " high state of civilisation . " Let theso have the Ten Hours' Bill , and they will duly appreciate the boon . Gratitude is far from being an absent ingredient in the composition of Englishmen ; and when the factory workers experience the additional comforts that short-time will confer on them ; when they see the wife attending somewhat more to the concerns of her household ; when they see a chance
for the daughter learning some little of domestic duty ; when they have an opportunity , even though it be but for " two hours , " to send the " lads" to school ; when they enjoy a cleaner and more comfortable home , with father , and mother , and children , on the hearth-stone all together , teaching and learning that which family affection alone can impart and receive ; when sickness is comparatively driven from the door , and everything puts on a comparatively healthy appearance ; when these things manifest themselves generally in the factory districts , as a
consequence of the ten kours' limitation of labour , — and they have followed in those places where short tim 6 has been allowed , as witness the case of Mr . Gardner ' s "hands , " at Preston ; when the good effects that have , followed in that case become general , through the " concession" of the Ten Hours ' Bill , the factory hands generally will not be insensible to the boon , but > yill properly appreciate the act and intention of the Minister who so " concedes" the "dictate of truth and righteousness , " whoever he may happen to be .
It is to be hoped , therefore , that in this case , Old Gratidmother " speaksby the card . " Every one who lias paid attention to the question , must join with her in tho assertion , that "the truth of the cause has carried it forward . " It is well known that numbers of the " manufacturers have become satisfied of the real expediency of justice and humanity . " The success that has attended the praiseworthy attempts of the Messw , Starkey of Huddersield , ami Mr . Gardner of Preston , has had its due effect . It has , by those gentlemen , in both instances , been shown that no loss ( pecuniarily ) to the manufacturers
has followed from acting on the " expedient of justice and humanity , " but , on the contrary , again to both the employer and the employed . The conviction that short hours of work will bo of advantage , has also made great progress since the last Parliamentary battle , in the minds of the trading and sbopkeeping classes . Witness the strenuous efforts made in almost every large town , from the great wen . downwards , to close their shops at a reasonable hour [ in the evening , to give the young attendants an opportunity for recreation and for improving the mind . The laudable
desire in their own case has led these parties to look with a favourable eye on the efforts of factory workers for a limitation of toil : and petitions , numerously signed . by merchants and traders , praying for the enactment of the Ten Hours' Bill , have been obtained Peel , therefore , if he be now disposed to " concede ' * the "dictate of truth and righteousness , " will do so with the feeling of the middle classes in his favour . He is emphatically , the Minister op the Middle Classes ; and the knowledge that these are * in favour of the course , will have no slight influenoe in determining him to take it .
Whether he does thus determine or not , will not make niuoh difference . " The truth of the cause has carried it forward" beyond the power of any Minister to long withhold the " concession . " The Nation has "become satisfied of the real expediency of justice and humanity .: " and no man , and no consideration , will be allowed to long stand in the way . The advocates of the Ten Hour Bill have but to do as they have done , since : the last open fight : to silently progress with the question in the public mind . Let them not relax in their effot ts . There need be no agitation—no noise—no stir . The time for all that
has gone by . ' A deep-rooted conviction has followed the great and strenuous efforts made to rivet public attention to a crying and shameful wrong : and they have but to use that conviction in a quiet and unostcntatioua manner ; to-ciiuse it to produce an inevitable result . Whoever is . Minister . this measure must be . " conceded . " Jf Peel is wise , he will be the man to take advantage of the new facts and the new feeling thtt . have arisen , since his last refusal : if not , there will be a good " CRY" against Kim on the hustings ! This we fancy he sees , in all its force ; and hence the demi-Ministerial announcement in ¦ the Herald .
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The Land Cut sssroNDED 10 fbom Abroad , —We crave attention to the following letter , for it is well deserving of it . It shews the working people . of Bnglaud that their efforts for their own Emancipation are appreciated , even abroad , by their own order , in spits of the interested misrepresentations of hireling scribes and poor bankrupt speculators , who hope toti « " ont of them through the exhibition of an immense " stock" of " assurance . " It wns but the other day that we inserted a letter from a workman in Antwerp , who liad thtre witnessed the beneficial effectB of ' small holdings of land in tho hands of the workman ; and wh « inclosed agoodly sum from a number of English' residents there , to show the in . terest they took in ( he measure proposed for England ' s benefit ; and to- lay we present one of a similar nature , . and to a similar end , from fi « aen , in Franco . And let it be borne iu mind , that these are 6 o » ajS < fc letters ; not letters manufactured for lie punwse , like tiiose of your
" William l-wish-I-may-get-if fellow * . Iittespeaks a bad cause when /(* rJ « a « oii ! jias . toJi 6 rcs 9 rt 64 to , tosus . tain or aid it : and if the ' jbankmpt prfljodejr of the " Great Assurance Company" cauuot obtain tbe support of tho public without using suth netuu to jdacry ^ not a . rival plan , —for it has never been plaeetJ In competition ; . with his own , but by himself , —but an £ fforJtmade in good faith by working men for their own fceuefiii , lie is undeserving of . success . Let him content himself w ^ .. . going fairly before the public . The public jvill judge •|» th him and tils plan too : . and when he can get letters such as the following , from all parts of the continent in support of his scheme , he will not . need to " vampup" aay of his "William I-Wish r JW * ' " , ' ? . ™ l then ' let him nct " »* k « Uy a * his « stoc 4 " of " amnnee" will allow :- "nouen France , June , 19 1845 . M , dear Sir ,-I am happy ' to perceto by tho Northern Star , that the all-2 pirtaut o / iesUou of . the Land is at length beginning to ftrouae th * too long dormant spirits of my brother
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Chartists of England . It was always my opinion , pre * vious to leaving England , that if the working classes would unite for the purpose of obtaining the land , the In dra-heailed monsters of oppression and misrule would soon bebroughttoacknowlcdgethcjustice of their claims , and concode anything rather than they should mako themselves possessors of a share of that land which an all-wise Creator hud given for tho maintenance and support of his people . I have said that I was favourable to the , Land scheme before I left England : hut it ' L had not , the three years I have lived in France , most of which time I have spent in the country among thoindependent and happy peasants of Normand y , liaB . been sufficient to convince even the most sceptical , that the land is the only thing wanted to make England
what she ought to be . My friends iu England will scarcely believe , perhaps , when I inform them that almost every resident in the country has his lot of . land . There is scarcely one family but what has suf . ficient clothing to change every week for six months without washing . They have a practice here when a young woman gets married , to present to the husband dresses and linen of every description to last them for years . This is something worth having the land for . Where is the father who can present his daughter with linen for her use for years in England ? Here the son is presented with a portion of land , accordin <* to the means of the parents : and the daughter with clothing for her use . Blush , then , you hard toiling sons of the land of the brave , and arouse yourselves
from your present state of mental and moral degradation . Avail yourselves of the opportunity now af . forded to get possession of the means of destroying the system which has sent thousands to eternity before their time . Myself and a few friends intend taking shares ; and as soon as convenient to be located on the land . Send me , as soon as you can , the rules of tho society . I should send you the whole of my share now and also my father ' s , but a friend is coining to England in a few days , and I hope by that time to bo . enabled to send you more . 1 trust , Sir , that butui'Q long , the society may be enabled to make its first pur . chnsc . If every member that could ,, would . at onco pay up the whole of his share , it would soon be done . What lies in nt » power to do here , shall be done with .
pleasure . Let every member do the same , and thework of redemption will goon be accomplished . That that day may soon arrive , when every man can sit un . der his own vine and his own fi o' tree , is the ardent , desire of yours , in the cause of democracy , John Siimwat . A Fancy Sketch of William- Carpenter hv his "Friend" and " Co-paktner , " J . 1 ) . O'JJkien . —The following precious morsel , from the last number of tko-National Reformer , will afford no small share of amuse , ment to the readers of the Northern Star . They will find that the most " strange" character of all in this " very strange" world of ours , Mr . " liiiiccrjoil ^ oiispired-againsl" O'Brien , has , with most " strange" taste , and manner , appeared as the DEFENDER of Fvargus O'Conuor ! Now , not to let the readers of the Mar
know of this fact would bo a grievous sin . To uuuiit ourselves therefore of all blame in ' this particular , we give the entire article , so far as it relates to the subject we have named . It is true that other matters ara contained in the said article—amongst tlie rest a"fancy sketch" of Mr . William Carpenter , late " friend " and associate with Mr . O'Brien , in the " property" of . the Southern Star . That sketch will also amuse com . ing as it does from onii who formed a " Co-partnership " with the " COKRUPT" and " seditiods" Editor , after he had " actually recommended insurrection . " Het ' oragiving the article itself , we must premise that ths occasion of its appearing is Mr . O'lirieu ' s re . tailing , at second-hand , the pcurile nonsense of a writer in Lloyd ' s Newspaper against the Chartist Co .
operative Lund Scheme . In the course of his article Mr . O'Briwi quotes the following extract from Uoyd ' i Newspaper , and then comments on it , as inn . » lately follows : — "The name of Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., stands at the head of the society , and it is held by h b followers that Mr . O'Connor says , enrolment or re . gistry is not necessary to constitute legality ; ' and that Mr . O'Connor , being a member of the law , ' ought to know . ' Being a member of the law , he certainly ' ought to know ; ' but , unfortunately , his knowledge of the law was not sufficient to protect his disciples from falling under the lashes of the law in 18311 and 1840 , nor even to protect himself from imprisonment in Turk Castle , at the same period . "—Lloyd ' s Newspaper . — . " These remarks are as unfair and unjust as they were
unnecessary to the writer ' s purpose , which was amply effected without them . Had O'Connor and his disciples possessed till the legal knowledge in England , it noiild not have saved them from imprisonment in 183 lM 0 and that simply because the Government had made up its mind to prosecuty , and middle-class juries were as determined to convict . In fact , there was not a shadow of legal protection for Chartists at that period , nor pro . tection of any kind save in the insignificance or COR . ¦ RUPTIBILITY of the parties themselves . Lloyd ' s editor toiK understand this . No man knows better than he that legality or illegality had nothing to do with , the Chartist convictions of 1839-40 . Indeed he has himself recorded the fact , at least scores of times , in sundry newspapers . He knows that in
1839-40 , the question with the Government and the . undtUe-clnss juries was not whether the accused parties had violated any law , but whether their talents , or their virtues , or their influence , had made them formidable to " the powers that be . " He knows that some of tho best men in the kingdom were imprisoned at that epoch ,, without having violated any law - / while others , who had committed serious legal offences , were let quietly off without being prosecuted at all . If Lloyd ' s editor will have proof of tliis , we need not go beyond the case of himself and Feargus O'Connor . O'Connor , absurd and mischievous as his conduct was at that period , Bin not BttEAK THE LAW IN WORD NOll DEED , HOR RECOMMEND otiierbtoiireak . it . Notso , Uoyd ' seditor . IIE iuconjunc . tion with Doctor Taylor asid liussey , drew up the most
. thoroughly illegal and dangerous document that issued from anyportionof the Clurlhlbody during thetvttokperiod of the excitement—A DOCUMENT WHICH ACTUALLY RECOMMENDED INSURRECTION—and trtic / i , if O'Connor or O ' lirien ted drawn tip , would Juice cost them three yean' imprisonment , if not transportation . We speak of the Address agreed to at the Arundel , in September , 1881 ) . -To that address O'Brien offered his most strenuous opposition , whilst Dr . Taylorand Lloyd ' s editor were the two mini selected to revise and prcparo it for publication ! With facts like these before his eyes ( et quorum pars magnafuit ) Lloyd ' s editor ought to have been ashamed to taunt O'Connor with his
im-. pnsonment iu 1839—the « nore especially as that per . sonage had so many other real sins of a gravercharacter to account for . We could point out , in the Southern Star , or in the 1 ' olitical Alphabet , or in sundry other publications , « hundred times more seditious and indictable language from the pen of Lloyd ' s editor , titan aerftll front the lips or pen of Feargus O'Connor . The fact is , O'Connor ' s delinquency lay not in his violating the law , nor in exhorting others to violate it ( for he did neither the on » nor the other ) , but in Iiib publicly caressing m \ & patronising the men that did both , and in his basely aiding them to destroy the influence of the men of mind nnd principle , who would have saved the movement by putting down the conspirators . It was not bv the )
violent language of O Connor , O Bnen , or any one else , that the movement of 1839-40 was ruined , but by tho overt acts and illegal proceedings of such men as Taylor , and Bus 6 ey , and Harney , and Xeesom , and JJoyd ' s editor , who gave the Government au opportunity of . stepping in and laying hold of the principal men . And O'Connor ' s guilt lay not in doing as these men did ( for tltat he did not do ) , but in basely conniving at their fully and villany , and even publicly eulogising them , in order to make them his tools and adherents , and in his suffering them to destroy tho good men of the movement , nnd even the movement itself , in order to get rid of O'Brien , Frost , and others , whose popularity gave him umbrage , but of whom he always took caie in pulv lie to appear the bosom friend . Lloyd ' s editor is well
aware of all these facts ( no man more so ) , and , therefore , Lloyd ' s editor ought to be the ve * last man in . England to refer sneeringly to the victims of 1889-41 ) . "Natioml Reformer . —Now , some may wonder at this " strange" proceeding on the part of " THE Reformer . " If they know anything of the manj and know that iii Lloyd ' s Newspaper , some writer or other has been allowed to call in question " THE Reformer ' s" infallibility , tha wonder will cease . We hinted above that" THE J / cformer" formed a connection with the man he now " falls so foul on , " a / ferhehaddonc all that he now charges him with . The result of that connection was , morU offence on one side at least , which will never be either forgotten or forgiven . We stated on a former occasion that it was the refusal of the conductors of the Norllum
Star to allow its columns to be prostituted to the baso purposes of Mr . O'Brien ' s deadly hatred against Mr . W . Carpenter , that first embroiled us with the former " gentleman : " and even at this day , so long after tho " quarrel of the till" between them , the rancour of Mr . " J . B . O'li . " manifests itself on verj slight occasion ; However , between the worthies be it . We shall see how Mr . Carpenter meets his former " friend" and " partner . " I ' whaps out of the contest will come a full nnd complete vindication of Mr . O'Connor from the falsities of both , as there has ( in the above ) come a refutation o » many of the insinuations , inuendoes , nud direct charges of " TnE Reformer" on former occasions . PoKTRilT OP JOHK WATK 1 KS , BV THE SAME "HaSD . "The Carpenter of Lloyd ' s is not the only one whose features our bilious artist endeavours to pourtray . Another good "friend" of ours lias , by him , been taken in hand ; and the following is the result of the first sitting : — " We see by Lloyd ' s Paper of last week , that the
Editor , not content with demolishing O'Connor ' s ' rattle in the air . ' has employed tlie erudite and fascina ting pen of our / rieiid Watkins to terite down our doctrine * on Land , Currency , Exchanges , and that Mr . Watkins has accepted the EMPLOYMENT . Verily , « e live in strr . nge timea . Lloyd ' s Editor has , on scores ot occasions , both publicly and privately , professed tlie identical doctrines we have preached on Lnnd , Currency * - an d Exchanges ; and nerer , till the week before lust , dif the profound genius of Mr . John Watkins discover thenr to be all humbug , demagoguism , and quacki *) '' - Verily ., we live in strauge times !! " Pretty well so for ; but as , 'lie " painter in gall" never does thingaby halVA he adds ' - th ° following , as a "finishing touch : " -f " Friend Vfatkins has talten us all by surprise- ** really cam \ account for the sudden change tlm t I ' ' ' c jme o ' er i ni } sP »« t of his dream . ' 'Tis a pit ? - r f though hisk . geu wry limited , andfti * « a *> ni » i powers very de j Vctiee , he possesses abilities enoug ; * mefui , if he wo ^ < " » ty w&e on what be undKiteaw
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Wholes " * Poraosraa nr Lbeds . —Setesiy Lives Lost is O . ** Bat . —We Lave this week to record a case of who ] tsafe poisoning unparalleled , we believe-, in the anna * of Leeds , in which not only a number ol policemen ai % deeply implicated , but it is more than suspected tlu it a gentlemen holding the highest muniopal rank in the borough , as well as several magistrates , are fa » ' . from being cleanhanded . One thing is certain , tha t a coroner's inqnisition has been strictly avoided , and 1 rfe was scarcely out of the bodies of the unfortunate vii i ^ ms , before they were hastily removed in a covered va n , and buried ia the outskirts of the
town . These i w 0 circumstances combined , would , had the bodies t een those of human beings , haveraade a " mostmystci Vras affiur , " but as they were only the corpsesof so . *> an oogS f of course no mystery remains . Last wet « «» e magistrates , with a praiseworthy regard fo r the welfare of her Majesty ' s liege subjects , issued a i 'lacard orderingall owners of dogs to keep them confit ted from the UtkinsL to the 13 th August nest , giving - them notice at the same time that otherwise they v would render themselves liable to a penalty of £ 5 ; Md t *« t all dogs ftand loose in -tbe streets " would I « destroyed . Up to Monday afternoon , about seve uty of these animals bad been captured , and were » destroyed by means of prussic sad—martyrs to the ] 'ublicgood . A number of the owners are to be sumn * med before tie tea * dtrrin ? the week , and , m addi uon to the fossrf tiieirdqgs , they will probably be & wd in a mitigated penalty .
Awoobsed IxqoEST . — Bdhhui , TwjRsatt . —Theinquest was resumed j esterday morning , at ten o ' clock * and the coroner pi 1 ° ceededtocxamioese ( reral ' papers aad letters contaim » in the pocket-booi produced oE ^ he preceding da T- After doing so with great care , Jie observed that , be could mt fiadaHything whi& bore in the sli ghtest deg » ee npsa the present case . , He then rcsni ued the examinafaan -of witnesses . * t the conclusio . i of the exaBuasfioq . the coroaertreMj over the evid ence addHced . ^ observed that tfe « i- had simply t . enquire £ ow and % «* wn Mrs . Goafe came to her « teath . Tbej hzi ih € evidence of Mrs . ' Giles , that M . * s . Goole received a . shot inier leftasi . ' on the 10 th of June , wiieh dvst « as fired br Mf . tG 9 . 1 le from a pisrol . and took effect ::
Green , that her detdL" arose from a pistol shot w « and in the arm , <* £ « f « 4 L & a bullet had been extracted . So far , then , u totte- manner in which the deceased had come bf her deali , it -was perfectl y dear , * nd it was also satisfactorily 1 -roved that Mr . Goule had fired tl » t shot . - Tte ditt > nction in these case ? between murder and maiH raghter was this-to be murder , there must be prei neditation . If the jury were of opinion that . Mr . Gt 'aleprocured the pistols « a theprecedinjr Tuesday with . tlie intention of shooting his wife , there would he , n 0 doubt the offence was premeditated , but if he eotVhem in the tourse of
iiis business for the purpose ot defending himself against smugglers and protecting h . 'sown life , and ( as itappeared ) aquarrel subsequently x rose between him and his wife , ~ and , Mme . resistance t * ^ place in the ptssage , in the course of which he - fired the pistol , then be thought the jury might retur . i a verdict of manslaughter . The jury . then retired , aM after an Msenoe of a quarter of an hour , returned a verdict ef Manslaughter against Louis Hen 7 Goule , At the wroesi of the coroner they reduced itinto theibllow-\ % i £ 5 ^ JP ££ - Gonle came to her- death S ^ 'ss ^
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^ gl ^^ lMHMMMiWmaMHHBB ^ MlWMBBM ^ Hi his services ate not required . Thus , we fear , it will be with the descendant of "John wiiu-tiie-Briohi-Sword . " Having taken it into his head that he can cure the social evil of " removal" in particular cases , he may , notwithstanding the present rejection of his potion , employ the vacation to compound another . Should he do so , we trust the parties who have declined his present " services" will be alive to the next attempt to foist his specific into the social system ; and wo trust , too , that the people at large will be ready to resist tho disorganising efforts of a mere Quad :
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• w~—^ ^ — . . ' .. ' THE " GRAHAM SETTLEMENTS " . . SETTLED ! ABANDONMKNT OF THE BILL . The opinion we expressed last week , that in all probability the " Graham Settlement" Bill , for uprooting the existing landmarks of parishes , and to substitute in their stead great big thundering Unions , would not be persevered in , at least this session , has received jpeedy confirmation : for on Monday : — , ¦ . In answer to a question from Mr . S . Crawford ,
. Sir J . Graium said , that not only in that house , but in the ' country , there existed so great a contrariety of opinion respecting the law of settlement , that it was not his intention to press his proposed alterations during the present session . But , as he believed there was no great objection to the remaining and larger part of the bill , 'which related to the law of removal and the mode of trying appeals , he hoped the house would agree to the second reading of the bill , in order that a legislative remedy might be immediately applied to the existing state of the law upon these two points .
Thus the revolution is put off—thanks to the " contrariety of opinion" ! We are not to have all existing social arrangements disturbed , that the rule of the Three Kings of Somersot House may be rendered perpetual—thanks to the efforts of the administrators of the existing law , and the representations of the independent member ^ of tlie House of Commons . These parties have told Sir James Graham that his proposal would produce interminable confusion and every evil attendant on the disruption of social ties , without conferring one particle of good on any party other than the Somerset Ilousc conclave ; and Sir James has beenforced to Iialt—to cry "back . "
It is well it is so . There is now a chance of public attention being directed to the real evils of the present law : and the devising of such an alteration in the mode of obtaining a settlement , without entailing the tremendously evil consequences the withdrawn-Bill would have inflicted , now becomes the duty of the statesman . This can only be done by adopting the first principle set out with by the Home Secretary—that of making industrial residence confer a settlement . Whether that residence shall be one two , three , four , or five years , is matter for deep
consideration : but the principle is the otic' that must be applied , if we would at all reach the evil , complained of . For our own part ,-we incline to the period of five years . We are not friendly to continual change . We think that a shifting population is far from being desirable . There is much truth in the old adage— " a rolling stone gathers no moss . " This is true , when applied to tlie people of a country , both as it respects wealth , and those other characteristics and qualities which are far better than a mine of mere wealth . Patriotism has been well defined to be a
love op home . The wanderer has no home '; no peculiar spot , to him more dear than all the earth beside ; no place to which he is attached , by ties of love-and deep heart-rooted regard . All places are ailkeito him ; and he never can experience the ennobling feeding—never can be animated b y the exalted sentiment , which would prompt him to " do and dare ' everything , rather than permit his home to become the prey of tlie spoiler ! Country even , to such a man * has but few charms—and fewer claims . Not so with tlie man to whom the word home speaks to the heartraises emotions which dignify his nature—fills the
soul with kind endearment and undying love . With Aim , country is everything—life itself . His stalwart arm is ever ready in . defence of fatherland ; and every danger is braved , rather than the sanctity of home shall be violated . This is true patriotism : and the statesman , if he knew his mission , would guard as the apple of his eye all those arrangements and circumstances which tend to inspire the love home . T ) iis characteristic has hitherto been more predicable of Englishmen than of any people of which past history treats , or present knowledge knows : and it was because Sir Jameb Graham ruthlessly attempted
to break up the admirable parochial system , which has ' mainly contributed to implant and foster this holy feeling , that his attempt has been deservedly met by such an overwhelming torrent of indignation as to . cause the withdrawal of his rash and imbecile measure . It is the dread of interfering with this mainspring of patriotism , that inclines us to the period of five years' industrial residence , as the best to fix on for conferring a settlement . A shorter period would tend , we fear , to induce and encourage a mere migratory habit . This would be an evil to the whole of society , of far greater effect than the evil
' n'the present law of settlement , which it is desirable to remedy . It is no doubt a case of great hardship and gross injustice to "remove" a labourer , when his working days are over , or when he otherwiso becomes "chargeable , " from the spot which his labour has enriched to a distant place where he is a " stranger" to all he meets , and with whose habits . and modes of work he is , unacquainted : but here the hardship and injustice arc comparativel y confined . It . is only the "removed" man himself and his dependencies , together with the parish . he is " removed" to , that suffer the direct evil effect * of
the present system : but introduce such a change in the law of settlement as shall lead to universal migratory habits ; give to the . people a love of change instead of a love op home ; tear from the heart the eriflearihgtiesIBf kindred f supplant the . deep-seated » ff $$ Hon for the parent and the " family ; " uproot thatstrong and restraining attachment , which leads THE MAN-even ± o i « re the spot where his childhood wds passed—which ttamps every trivial object with an interest unsurpassable , and endears the locality " while memory Mils its seat ; " do ' this , and you produce a state of society . whicii must constantly
deteriorate in character . ; -. becomo looso- klisorganiseddebased—degraded—predatory . The " cure , " in 8 uehcase weiild be "far worse than the disease . " It behoves us to be careful what new causes we bring into operation , when dealing with social maladies . We < jan much-sooner pull . d « wn than build up . That of good which it has taken < eeaturies to develope and establish , may be uprooted in a generation ; and it , therefore , ia a duty of paraisount importance oh all to beware how far they permit the Sooial Tinker to operate in the way of " aneading . " The evil of " removal" is bad enough , Gad knows , in far too many cases : but the destruction of the most eminent characteristic of Englishmen , the love of home ,
would be a far greater . We must have a care , therefore , what are the lort « f pranks we permit " the Borderes" to play with our metal constitution . For the present we are free from imminent danger . Indignant remonstrance at Graham ' s proposed ruthless , attempt has crushed the crude ehallowconcep tion , and made the rash blunderer gladly wrail himuelf . of the " great contrariety of opinion , " to back out of his present measure ! But theiueddlerhas the recess before him . Like a dog , he may return to his " vomit . " Your Social Quack is the hardest of all to tj-wtoff . Defeat his effortB-- ( all for your good ) -sX one' point , and he will speedily present himself at anotuer . * » His pertinacity is only to be equalled by his ladtVc omprehension ; for heneYw c «» Uarn tb 4
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