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seems to us that he mi ght more aptly be called the Talleyrand of Sovereigns . " Onjthe 3 rd the Duke de llontpensier tod arrived at Tiltoria . According to the Monitewr and the Phflippist journals , the prince is everywhere received with the greatest enthusiasm by the Spanish people (!) The National , however , tells a very different story . Accordingto a letter from Iron , published in that journal , the Journey is a military procession , the carriage of the prince being accompanied by " two pieces of artillery , two thousand infantry , and six hundred cavalry . " The utmost precautions are taken to prevent the populace approaching the prince ! The persecution of the Spanish press continues nnabatea ^ The Marn ' ng Post states , " on unquestionable authority" that the French government has de-Siandedthe surrender of Don Cailo < £ Louil , Corate de ,, .. . «_• ¦ ¦ _•
Montemolin , by the English Cabinet , The Post idds that the r eply of Lord Palraerston was , that England was a free country , and that any foreigner , no matter what might be his political opinions , was entitled to an asylum so long as he respected our laws . Quite right . The Pope is kicking out the Corruptionists , and prepar ing the way for a Roman Constitution ! " Time works wonders . " Particulars will be found in our seventh page , The intelligence from the United States and Mexico does not call for comment .
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THE CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER ! GRFAT PUBLIC MEETING IK THE TOWER HAMLETS TO ADOPT THE NATIONAL PET 1 TION . On Tuesday evenin <» , October the 6 th , that magnificent building , the Eastern Institution , Commercial Road , nil honour to the racn of the To war Hamlets , was crammed to overflowing , to . adopt the National Petition to Parliament praying the enactment of the People ' s Charter . At half-past seven o'clock , Mr . Ernest Jones was . unanimously called to the chair , and amidrt loud applause sni ^ , the Parliament had not thought it worth while to attend to the great interest of tin suffering people ; no , its members were too anxious __ . __^_ . a . « a nrjin « - * . A \ TT \ < k v « _ - _« .- ^ .
to be pursuing other game en the moors of Scotland . Rumour had stated that . Parliament was to re-ai > - semble early in November , to concoct a remedy for the evils inflicted by class do ninations on unfortunate Ireland , but past experience bid him have no such hope This meeting was assembled to forward the great cause of reform , the Charter , ( Loud cheer * . ) Tfee necessity for that reform was shown in the existence on the one hand of regal luxury arid gauiij palaces , and on the other in the squalid faces of tin starving poor , ( Loud cheers . ) ThiB meeting w called to give its sanction to that reform whioi . had already received the approving voices of millions That Reform measure was the People's Chariei . ( Immense applause . ) Many plans had been suggested with a view to the amelioration of the condition oi the people , but he knew of none so sure as the Charter . Then let the people employ every honest means to obtain that great measure . Let them not
by any little weakness or division mar their strength . Their miseries and wretchedness were a tower of strength to them , as they appealed powerfully to the sympathies of all in their behalf . Let them then not attempt to hide them , but , bare them to the world , and thus shame the legislature into the grantin ; those rights , alike "due to justice and humanity . { Much applause . ) lie knew that in their course per * sccution might assail them , as a man the other day ¦ was discharged for being a Chartist , but they held the remedy for this in their own hands—let all workin ; : men become Chartists , and the masters would grow tired of discharging their men . ( Great cheering . ) Mr . Jones then spoke of the bad social state of the people in America ; but , ssid the speaker , the American consoles himself , he has his vote and his land . The English mechanic , however , duringTiia time ofsorrow , reflects on the Charter and its younger brother the land , and says , " Brother Jonathan , 1 shall soon be freer than yoH . " ( Rapturous applause . )
Mr . Clark , who was received . with applause , snid , Mr . Chairman , ladies and gentlemen , it has fallen to my lot to submit the first resolution to your consideration , and I do so , in the full hope that you will adopt it . au it solicits all to join in the righteou .-struggle for labour ' s emancipation . I will read it , in order that all may understand it . It runs as follows;—That in the opinion of this meeting , the subjection of the liberties and property of one man to the will of another , if ? gregiously unjust ; and teeing that the present Parliamentary system inflicts thi « injustice ou millions of'the community , thi « meeting hereby pledges itself to continuous exertion until this unnatural order of thing * shall have been rectified , by the Hoase of Commons being based upon the suffrages of the whole male adult population of the Empire . ( twill be seen , sir . that the rewlutl n proclaims the injustice of one class ot the community making lavs lor the others without their consent and
concurrence , and in that sentiment I cordially agree . ( Cheers . ) According to the existing constitution , five-sixths of the male adult population of the country are excluded from the exercise of that political power , which is the right of all ; but of which the working classes * lone are deprived . ( Hear . ) All other classes and interests have representation , and hence the flourishing condition of all but the unrepresented and degradedlabourer . ( Cheers . ) Then as representation had secured protection to every other species ot property , we seek the enfranchisement of labour as the only means of protecting it ! ( Cheers . ) The land is represented by the landlords , commerce , by merchants and manufacturers ; the array and navy , by their officers and commanders ; the church , by the vonnger brothers and the beBCh of
bishops , and we think that with labour enfranchised , we will be Able to dispense with the service of the aforesaid gentry , in order that they may follow some more worthy and useful occupation . ^ Cheers . ) It is objected " that although the franchise is abstractedly the right of alL yet that it would be inexpedient toj grant it to working classes , because ¦ of their ignorance . "" Now , 1 say that if the working classes are as Ignorant as their revilers represent them , then I look upon it as one of the effects of the rile system , and one of the strongest reasons why it should be mended . ( Cheers . ) Again , if itie people are really so ill-informed , what h : tve their instructors been doma ? ( Hear , hear . ) There are , I believe , almost Eighteen Thousand parsons belonging to rbc essab isbtd church , and
who extract the sum of Ten Millions of pounds sterling annually , from the wealth of the nation for the ostensible purpose of affording the people sound and practical instruction , and it' the charge of ignorance is at all sustainable it proves oneof two things , either that the parsons , after pocketing the money of the people , are too ignorant and ¦" « annot , " or thevare richest and " will not" instruct them , and , in either case to take the money and not perform the labour is a downright robbery , and , if justice were done , they would all be banished for receiving money under take pretences . ( Cheers and Ltughter . ) Pretty gentlemen these , to complain of the ignorance of the people , { Hear , hear . ) But it is an additional proof of what they are capable of doing in order to perpetuate , the horrible system . { Cheers . ) I deny .
however , that the people are ignorant , and I will prove it . I will take the present Prime Minister , Lord John Russell , for example . His lordship ia considered to be a very « rudit « and clever man , certainly , he is a p&triotio man —( laughter)—but , notwithstanding his learning and ability , I think ho would present a most ridiculous and contemptible appearance walking down i ' arliament-street , barefooted —( laughter )—and yet the man that has sense and intelligence enough to make his lordship | s boots is considered too ignorant to exercise the right of voting , and his lordship , who can neither make boots , hat , or coat is intelligent enough to govern millions , who spend the whole of their lives in manufacturing these useful articles for others . ( Cheers . ) Withrut at all depreciating the species of intelligence
whjch the Prime Minister is known to possess , I maintain that the intelligence of the weaver , the hatter , tbe tailor , the shoemaker , the baker , and the cultivator of the soil , are all indispensable , and without which , society could not exist , and arc , therefore , more important and useful than any other , and if intelligence is to be made ihe test of fitness , then , not only would Lord John Russell , hut his who ' e ^ las * , be disfranchised in consequence of their ignorance . ( Cheers . ) Lord John Russell has recently declared , in his place in Parliament , in reply to a question from Mr . Duncombe , that the " princi ple" of extending the Suffrage is right—that the poBsession of the franchise would lead to the moral , physical , and intellectual elevation of the people ; but , yet , he would oppose
the Charter . I cannot understand the consistency of such logic , aud I believe , that if the people were once in earnest , that Lord John Russell would be compelled to carry into practice what be has already admitted in theory . ( Cheers . ) We want the Charter , to enable us to sever the unwatural and unholy connexion betwixc Church and State , ( cheers . ) To break down the monopoly of land , which is the greatest curse inflicted upon us by class legislation . ( Cheers . ) If the whole people were represented £ 54 , 000 . 000 would not be filched from us , under the jruiseoflaw ; nor would the scaffold , the " cat , and the triangle , be longer used as instruments to uphold our glorious institutions in Church and State . ( Cheers . ) The change , great and comprehensive as it might appear , could be effected by the workini ; classes themselves . They have many ways of accomplishing their freedom . ( Cheers . ) There is no Act of Parliament to force them into tbe Gin Palace .
( Cheers . ) Or if their appetites or inclinations lead them that way , there is no law which says they shall go to the shops of Whigs or Tories , or that they shall spend their earnings with their enemies . ( Cheers . ) Let them agree to deal with friends alone , and they would soon convert enemies to friends . ( Cheers . ) I hope , ere long , to see the people engaged in an earnest struggle for their emancipation , and believing as I do , that bo Government cnn ' tlong resist , thejusticeof our claims , if we are only true to ourselves , I will implore every working man to assist us in our laudable attempt to secure freedom for the whole human race . ( Cheers . ) We have much to contend against , but with the assistance of the people , we will break every obstacle that may present itself , and ultimately by our union and perseverance guide the agitation to a successful issue . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Clark concluded by moving the resolution , and retired amidst loud applause .
Jui . uk IutXBT , who on coming forward w »* warmly apj > iau < ieu , said , Sister and Brother Chartists , with pleasure I second this , resolution . I believe that the total number of registered electors under the present system of representation , is something like one million . The adult male population of the couiit' -y amounts to nearly seven millions five hundred thousand persons , so that there are nearly six iniltioni fiveihundred thousand adult males unrepresented in that hoiise ; -. * fhiek pretends to be the Commons House of Parliament . ( Hear , hear . ) In 1831 Lord John Russell , advocating the Rufonn Bill , remarked of the then borough-mongering parliament , that' . No man of common sense could pretend that that assembly represented the commonalitv or people of England ' " I ask his little Lortoliii ) if lie will now aasei't that the present Ilouse ef Commons represents the commonality of England ? That house does not even fairlv represent ; the one million of registered dectors . ; < ]
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JiLfaJ £ n ?" sthafc a raa J ° rityof that house » «? n * raino "ty of the registered electors , owing rhfohS v er ? absiir <* division of the conatituenciei , ™ "f to miserable place like Harwich , as m » r \ ? T * f $ ™ M the Tower Hamlets . ( Hear , mar . ) Under this system , therefore , at least six out ri- ^ 1 86 T 1 en ° ftue men of this great empire are t \ , X Tn y ave 8 < ( Cheii ra- ) We are constantly told tuat slavery cannot breathe in the freeair « f England ; hat the moment the slave touches the , free soil of -. ntfland , h 18 shackles fall from his limbs , and he stands erect a free man ; that _ »_ . .
Th » flag . that has braved for a thoucamd years The battle and the breize , " proclaims in every clime , and every sea , our existence "is a great nnd free people . Admirable claptrap ! [ Cheers . ) Magnificent humbug ! ( Great cheering . ) Behold six millions of men , to say nothing of their wives and little ones , the slaves of " a system which aifords them no voice in the making the laws they are co obey , no part in levying the taxes they have to P ( Great applause . ) A people who have laws imposed upon them without , or against , their consent . A people , the fruits of whose labour is pillaged from tliem in the sliape of rents , profits , taxes , tithes , tolls , ates and other means of extortion—who may be . lunished if they sell the produce of their labour «; tlioHt a license—who be punished as
may vaga iou-. s ( by privileged VagalK > nds ) if they cannot find abour—who after labouring too much for too little ilnd themselves in old age or sickness '' driven like wrecks down the rough tide of fortune , " may . be . iiiuislied in a bastile—a people who are liable tobe s tolen from their families by a press-gang , a crime vlnch may not ; be perpetrated upon negroes whom even these English pressed slaves are employed to protect—a people who for pouring out their heart ' s best blood , not for their country , but their country ' s oppressors , are rewarded in return by being flogged like Cuban slaveB or Russian serfs , the " cat" rivaling in blood and horror the southern whip and the northern knout—a people whose lives and liberties are at the mercy of jurora selected from any elasa hut the people ' s class—whose voice , even when
assembli'd'to petition their rulers fur justice , may be stifled by a truncheon and sabre-backed riot act—a lie . pie who , lastly , are denied even that , poor privilcdyc accorded to the many in the most despotic countries , direct appeal to the chief magistratesuch a people , though you may call them " free-born Britons" are slaves ! ( Immense applause . ) It makes little difference whether the people are crushed by one tyrant as in Russia , where the merciless miscreant Nicholas is sole lord , or whether the people are ground to the dust by a horde of despots like the two hundred thousand electors of France , or by a privileged order like the electoral one million of England ;— ' disguise thyself how then wilt , slavery , tliou are still a bitter draught . " ( Cheers ^) If this be true , and if it be true that"One day , one'hour of virtuous liberty ,
> Is worth a whole et-rnity of bondage . " Shame to us , that we six millions bear the slave brand on our brow-. ( Great cheering . ) I trust , however , that the people are about to make an effort for themselves , which will compel their rulers to at least modestly listen to their chiras . This splendid meeting following the great gathering at the Crown and Ancho- proves that the national mind is waking . London , too , does not afford the only evidence of this . Norwich , Gloucester and Devonshire have " pronounced" for the Charter . In the n' . rth , too , our Scottish brethren are stirring , our friend Doyle is rousing the countrymen of Wallace , and Muirand Hardy , ahd permit me to add that the fiery cross could not be intrusted to worthier or more efficient
hands . ( Cheers . | This is well , but we are net a moment too soon in the field , indeed we shall have to work hard to keep pace with the crisis , daily proving more tremendous . Not only in Ireland ; but in Franco , Belgium , Germany , and throughout Europe , misery is goading the people to revolt , ; and the chances are a hundred to one that a faminecreated revolution will this winter shake Europe from centre to circumference —( Cheers)—and if . that earthquake dV-es come , 1 pray that it may saake down Europe's blood cemented thrones . ( Tremendous liheering . ) Already we may see in the ; distance the realization of Thomas Carlyle ' s dread picture , — " Fancy Europe ' s full-grown millions starting up , and demanding as in forest roarings , of their w . t > hed upper classes . after loag unrerieweil centuries ,
virtually thisquestion : How have you treated us ; how have ye taught us , fed us , and led us , while we toiled for you ? ThU is the feeding and teachiug we have had of you : emptiness—of pocket , of stomach , of head , and of heart . Behold there is nothing in us ; nothing but what nature gives her wild children of the desert ferocity and appetite ; strength grounded on hunger . Did you mark that among the rights of man , man was not to die of starvation while there is bread raised by him ? It is among the wights of man ! " ( Cheers . ) A people in this state of mind may be omnipotent to punish and destroy , but alas for them—if they know not the principles the establishment of which alone can save them- To the millions at home and the millions abioad , we offer our banner inscribed in sunbeam characters which all may read— "The Charter arid the Land " (
Applause . ) Let the millions rally round that banner , which will be to them a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night leading them—I trust without passing through a Red -Sea—from the mannalcss wiIderncss and the house of bondage , to the paradfce of plenty nnd the temple of liberty . ( Enthusiasticcheering . ) A word as to the famine . We are told the present scarcity is a divine visitation , 'if so it should fall on all alike —( hear , hear)—but I ask is there any scarcity at Victoria ' s table . ( Hear , hear . ) VYhen a ship at sea runs short of provisions ,-I understand that the whole crew are put upon short allowance , and that tlie captain has no more than the foremast-man ( Hear , hear . ) Well , let Victoria , Lord John Russell , the Duke of Wellington , the Archbishop of Canterbury , the Governor of the Bank of England , and Marshal ! of Leeds consent to half an allowance ant
we will consent too . ( Hear , hear . ) If not , then ay let the people remember the Yorkshire philosopher ' s doctrine that " all the stuff in the world is made for all the folk in the world , " and that they who produce the f * od have a right to ba first gupplied . ( Cheers . ) Perhaps you don't know the ciusc of the potato blight , that cause is discovered . But I'll bet any man in this meeting a leg of mutton and trimmings—( lau » hter)—that unless he has seen the-Morning Post he will * not guwthat cause between now and next Christmas . 1 will tell it to you . An anonymous correspondent ot the Post , who is evidentl y one of the parson tribe , in rummaging through his Bible—we are told even the devil can quote scripture—has read that God sent a pestilence upon the Jews because David numbered the
people ; now says this worthy , in 1841 the census was taken , the people of the United Kingdom were numbered , and , therefore , the potato-blight and the famine has come . ( Roars of laughter . ) But this is not all , he finds out that David's chief offence was not so much the numbering of the people , as neglecting the carrying out of a command which ordained that when the people were numbered every male of twenty years of age and upwards should pay half-a-sbekel to the sanctuary of the Lord . This half-shekel is about thirteen-pencc-halfpcnny English money—the price of a box of Old rarr ' s pills —( laughter)—and there is no question with me which is tiie greatest quackery of the two , pillmongering or par ^ on-mongering —( cheers)—if , therefore , every male above twenty years of ago had paid
histliirieen-pence-half ' peHny to tlie established church when the census was taken , there would have been no potato blight . ( Ironical cheering . ) Of courso you cau guess this worthy ' s suggested remedy , namely to tip up the thitteeti-pisnce-halfpennica now —better lato tnen never—these contributions to be employed in building more churches , aud providing for more par .-ons . My remedy is a simpler one , I suggest more pigs and less parsons , a vast deal more beef and no oishops . ( Shouta of laughter and cheering . ) So much for one set of priests , I must now have a word with another set . At the Crown and Anchor meeting Mr . O'Connor well and deservedly lashed the gentry who now wished to distract your attention from the Charter , by getting up an Anti-State Church agitation . I yesterday saw
in one ot the newspapers , a copy of a circular from this party , in which they say now that the Freetrade agitation ia at an end , and as Englishmen can attend to onu thing only at a time , they now hope that the next one thing to be demanded by the people will be the separation of Church and State . 1 say that these dissenting gentry are humbugs , and design to humbug you unless you are on your guard . Was not the same language used by the Free-traders , did they not say " ono thing at a time , Corn-Law Repeal Brat , and then the Charter , but how many of them will now help you to get the Charter ? ( Hear , hear . ) You have had a seven years agitation for Fiee Trade , on the onetlung at a time principle . You might have another seven years agitation for a separation of Church and
State , and at the end of which time if that separation was effected , some other schemers would atari up with some new dodge , beggiag you to look for " 0110 thing at a time , " but it would never be the time for the Charter . ( Cheers . ) lam for separatum ol Church and State , and for many other much more important and necessary reforms , but I am for the Charter as the great means of accomplishing those reforms . ( Cheers . ) A book has been recently published which I wish was in the hands of every one in the meeting , entitled The-Arislocraty oj Enylnml , written b » a neraon who calls himself , John !! w d ' li , junior , whose pun by the by , is likely to do
more mischief to the Aristocracy , tlmn even thu swonl of John Uampdcn , senior . That writer is a Freetrader , aud an Anti-State . Churchman , but heconc ' udeshis book with these words , addressed to the people of England "Till you obtain the Franchise you obtain nothing , when you obtain that , you obtain everything . Every petition , every demand that asks for less than the Universal \ Franchise is tho perpetration of an absurdity , and the greatest of all aliSJi-dities . " ( LoUd cheers . ) Rc-schoing Ms WQl'OS , I a- iy , therefore , we must agitate ' far mid demnnd the Charter , the whole Charter , ami nothing 1 as than the Charter . ( Enthusiastic aud prolonged cheering . )
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Mr . Philip M'Grath rose amidst the most euthu siafttie applause to move the second resolution , as follows : — That this meeting , considering the bill colled tlic People ' s Charter to contain the principles and details essential to the creation of a true representation of the whole people , do resolve to present to the Heuse of Commons a National Petition , praying that body to render the bill aforesaid , a statute of this realm . Mr . M'Grath had scarce read the resolution , when Mr . Feargus O'Connor entered the Hall , and his appearance was greeted with tho moat vociferous and prolonged cheering , which having subsided , Mr . M'Grath proceedej , and said the resolution he had I the honour to move , related to that much reviled document , the People ' s Charter . ( Loud cheers . )
The rottenness of the thing called our Constitution , was now pretty generally admitted ; although there were « ome who thought it " The very perfection of human wisdom . " Edmund Burke had said , that the HoiiBe of Commons should be a representative of the people ; but was it so ? No ; for a small minority of the tegistered electors chose the members of that house ; and satisfied he was , that in the whole kingdom , there was not more than 200 , 000 electors that exercised the elective franchiso conscientiously : and he farther believed that in this borough of the Tower Hamluts , out of the 12 , 000 electors , that not 2 , 000 could be found , who recorded their votes conscientiously , such was the effect ef intimidation , interest , < 5 se . In fine , the people of England were as much
Blare ' s , as-were'the poor'P oles who were under the iron heel of the Russian despot . ( Cheers . ) And he believed it never would be otherwise , until the Charter . was the law of the land . ( Great cheering . ) The Charter contained six points or principles , one great one and five subordinate ones . lie believed that all the miseries of the people could be traced to c ) as 3 misrule . The state of Ireland at the present time , was a black and damning spot on the escutcheon o class domination . ( Loud cheers . ) Go to Austria , South America , nnd in those despotic and arid rcgwns , ' you will not hear of the people dying > i starvation . Yet Ireland , that Christian country , rxhibited the frightful anomaly of great wealth on the one hand , and one fourth of her people dying of squint
famine on the < ather , and we ave told that this is a dispensation af divine providence ; and tho Archbishop of Canterbury had been instructed to draw up a form of prayer in consequence . But he could not believe such a state of things was in accordance with the dispensation of divine will .- No , he traced it to the door of Ireland's oppressors , her legislators—( loud cheers)—and hu believed it never would be otherwise , until such times as- Ireland had a Parliament of her own , hedged round with the Poplu ' s Charter . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Tlie last time he was in this hall , R . R . Moore and others , were telling tho , audience they wanted but one thing , Free Trade , to make them happy ; they had obtainel comparative Free Trade , but where was the promised result . ( Great cheering . ) There were several political parties in existence , it was for the people
to say which they were prepared to go with . There were the Whigs , and finality , were they prepared to go with them ? ( Loud shouts of'No , no . ) They had the stand still conservatives , were they prepared to go with them ? ( No , no . ) There were the Young Englanders , were they prepared crab-like to go backwards with them ? ( Loud shouts of No , no . ) Well , to sum up , they had the humane , but retrograding ¦ Young Englanders ; Toryism , which meant murder and spoliation ; Whiggery , wliicb meant cant , fraud , and hypoowey ; an . I , Chartism , which meant liberty , fraternity , equality ; could they for a moment hesitate to join the great Chartist party ? ( Tremendous and long continued cheering . ) Then , let them adopt the resolution , and attach their signatures to the National Petition . ¦
Mr . M'Grath resumed his seat amid the mos ' rapturous applause , Upon Mn O'Connor presenting himself to second the resolution , he was received with the most enthusiaRtie applause , which lasted for a considerable time . When silence was restored , he said : — Mr . Chairman and my friemls , — The eloquent upeeches which you have heard to-night , delivered by those talented and enthusiastic young men upon the platform , should go far to ' convince our enemies of the utter hopelessness of longer resistance to our principles ; and what I have heard , and the scenes that arc passing now in my own country—the desolation , Jfamine , and woe , of those amongst whom I was bora , and reared , and have lived—all convince me of the imprudence of confining my observations to a political harangue . I , for one , cannot reflect upon the state of Ireland ; I cannot quell my feelings of horror , or that sacred shudder which
paralyses those feelings , at the reflection , that the innocent blood of starving men has been shed in the streets of Dungarvan , for no higher offence than that of asking for'the paltry pittance of sixpence a dav \ vh ? reon to preserve a wretched existence for another season of misery —( greatsensation and cheering )—misery to avert which the Queen has impiously dircctcil her Archbishop to pray to Almighty God—to that God who created man and gave him the land for his sustenance—to that God who , if in his wisdom proclaimed his wrath through so heavy a dispensation as famine , would have stricken a dish fiom the Royal table before he would have swept the poor man ' s board . ( Tremendouscheering . ) We are tnught to believe , and I do believe , ' that tho poer are the especial objects ot God ' s solicitude and tenderness ; and we are told , that it is as difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven as lor a cami'l to pass through the eye of a needle ; and , knowing these things and believing them , we find it difficult—nay , impious , to charge
OUR GOD WITH MAN'S TRANSGRESSIONS . ( Loud cheers . ) They have proclaimed national pence and prosperity through several nostrums , but all have failed . Reform has failed , and Free Trade has failed ; and wiBdom and her concentrated power now tells us , that we must try some form of government which will not have for its "result the mere triumph of party , and the substitution of one section of politicians for another . * You must no longer denonnce Peel and Toryism , Russell and Whisgery , Free Trade nnd the League , bankers , merchants , manufacturers , monopolists and landlords ; you must no longer waste your ammunition in firing at the sentry-boxes of faction : you must gather up the national mind in one volition , so strong that
the pigmy resistance of faction will be futile , and thrown so round at the centre of tlvs citadel of system , that all must fall , and leave not a vestige whereby its ruins may be traced . ( Tremendous cheering . ) That triumph is worse thai useless which destroys svn individual , or even a 8 ec . tion . The landlords , who would preserve their own monopoly , destroyed Peel , and they have got Russell in his ptace ; and if Russell daved to make such alterations as would trench upon the rightful trade of speculation , the free traders would consign him to a similar fate . ( Cheers . ) The professed object of all governments , whether Whig or Tory , is to increase the national productions , but the Charter alone is the instrument by which not only this object
can be achieved , but by which- their equitable distribution can be effected . ( Cheers . ) Neither Peel or Russell would dare however to increase the national productions of this country beyond the grasp of capital . Production is ever limited , ' not-by the capabilities of the soil , the industry of the people , or the multiplicity of resource , but by the necessities of speculation , and hence I aver that those who controul and govern both Perl and Russell , would prefer the limitation of our national wealth to . four hundred millions a year , with throe hundred millions for their !< hare , than to see the national produce realising u thousand millions per annum , with their share limited to'two hundred millions . ( Loud cUeerc . ) And yet they tell us , notwithstanding ulie ' se cramps
and fetters upon industry , that the country is overpopulated , and that population presses hardly upon the means of subsistence , while they propound tho damnable doctrine of emigration , in order that our own population at home , may constitute a colony ot foreign consumcra for their produce . Here then ia a conundrum , those who cannot live in the richest country upon earth , are told that they can , not only live in foreign climes , but that after living they can have a surplus to barter with the domestic speculatot . ( Cheers . ) Mv I would ask ons of tho popukitors of foreign regions which is the best customer , the domestic consumer who takes the goods from the counter without the cost of risk , freight , and insurance , or the foreign slave who h » 3 to pay those taxed .
( Cheers . ) My frionda , it is not you who press hardly upon the meaus of subsistence—it is the unnatural conditions annexed to leases , it is the trammels by which the land is held in the wholesale market , and the fetters by which labour is bound in the artificial market . ( Loud cheers . ) No man who constitutes one of a gang of slaves working for his represented master , recognizes his own industry , or his own value in tho medium of traffic that he creates—it is not the labour stamp that the foreign merchant finds upon his produce , but the nation ' s greatness is represented by the fictitious brand of the merchant ' s speculation . And yet we are told that the aristocracy of land , the aristocracy of money , the aristocracy of Intellect , and the church , are the barriers to democratic progression . I tell you that I heed them not , that " thay aw so many flea bites if simultaneously assailed bv
the . aristocracy ot common seuse and genius , and that it is the aristocracy of labour , that ' labour has most to dread . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Ave , the elavc who receives his £ 2 a-week , is satisfied with comparative justice , and measures Iub comfort by the positive degradation of his fellow labourer , who can earn but fa . a-week —( loud cheeis )—whereas if both were equally represented , the positive value of each would bo £ -1 a-weel <; but it is thus that cunning fiiction over accomplishes its interested purposes . Scribblers write about tho land , and babblers talk about the laud , anil mock pliilautrophists sympathise with those who are pining for want " of tllG land ' s produce . Hence some hired scribe who \ vrite 3 for the Times , would ascribe all tlie sufferings of tho Irish people to Catholicism , idleness , and . halved of tlw law ? , but I have
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been in Catholio countries where the peop ' e are industrious and Iotb the laws , because no reiWmed religion has forced them into reluctant ; support of an adverse religion , and because the laws are equally protective of the rights of the rich and the poor . But 1 tell you that the Times knows no more ot Irelaud , the Irish , their religion , their habits and their customs , than an Irish pig * knows ' of ( reometry . ( Loud cheers and laughter . ) Aeain , the Irishman rises from his loathsome bcd . of straw , able and willing to work , with his wife nnd children that are dear to him crying lor want , while his native soil iscryin " for the application of his labour to insure him sustenance , government has undertaken to administer his affairs , and government has a ri ght to protect him from famine , but the or ^ 'an of the government , and
the organ of the free-trade philanthropists , ( the Morning Chronicle ) steps in and would limit government relief b y the harshand stringent rules of political economy . That scribe tells us that it is unjust in government to offer cheap food to the starving Irish in competition with the speculators store pur chased upon the humanity principle of turning famine into mercantile speculation . ( Great cheering . ) You have been told what you are assembled here tonight for , that it is to aid in swelling another national demnnd for national rights , and topledgeyourselves to accompany thnt demand with quickstep , swelling voice , and cheerful heart to the rtoorof the 8- > nnte house , signed as it will be by five millions , ( tremendous cheering , ) knocking lustily and demanding stoutly , a participation in the making of
those laws by which your lives , your liberties ' and your properties are to be protected . ( Cheers . ) That petition will carry consolation to the hearts of the starving Irish , and in passsng let me draw a picture ofa 8 cene that recently occurred in that distracted couitry . The howl of famine was racing through , he ^ and , relief was promised and anticipation was 1 if h , when behold , a sail was seen to near the coast , he 'ungry mouth was open to receive the anticipat d supply , it was proclaimed to be a carjio of food for 'he furnishing , when lo ! the right wing of the b * lt \ regiment disembarked from the Duke of Cumbri go steamer to quiet the hungry howl with a meal of oayonets and bullets . ( Greatsensation and , cries Qf jhamt 1 . ) Think you if we had twelre men in the House of Commons aiding our Duncombe , 0 <> ud
eheer 3 , ) our leader and our chief , while I was collecting the honey of progression from the mountain h-jathur and [ the hill side , that any government would be allowed to starve a people with impunity , or that any monarch would have the presumption to order a starving prayer to be composed to satisfy a famishing people , while the order was followed by the announcement that a rojal banquet of surpassing splendour , was to be given in honour of foreign princes and foreign nobles . ( Cheers . ) Here ' s a picture for you my friends . Baptist Noel baa told us that there are 500 , 000 wretched beings , living within the very ib > cints of royalty , living without God . and with ^ ¦> . hope , while the smoking banquet upon thernyal tablV ami the noble'a board , isfurnii-hed by dissipation , th > provoked and reokless dissipation of those 500 , 000
outcasts whom their Charter would soon restore to their God and hope . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Is it hot a mockery of religion , of morality , ; and decency , to see the sleek ana fatted , well-caparisoned , and even cloihed dray-horse , drawing the deadly and debasing drugs of prostitution through streams of famishing paupers , and to think that the grandeur of royalty is sustained by the debasement of intellect , the destruction of constitution , nnd the annihilation of thought ? ( Great cheering . ) " Ah £ if I vena monarch for twenty-four hours , I'd level every gin palace with the dust —( tremendous applause ) — and in less than a month I'd produce a wise representation of a sober , nnd thoughtful national mind . ( Great cheerinp . ) Howcvev , Ireknd must not des » air ; the English people
will not stand tamely by while their famishing brethren ave being butchered ; and if our troops are required for that honourable service , I , at least , will not forget my allegiance to the land of my birth i but I will light the torch once more on the mountain top , as the silent monitor : to carry reflection to faction ' s eye . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Mr . O'Connor then entered into an analysis of the cor . » stitution of the present constitutional body , showing that 10 S . 000 tenants-at-will , the mere slaves of their landlords , constitute the balance of pnwer of county representation , while the deluded and ij :-nurant shopkeepers constituted the majority of the borough representation ; and that , by their clamour for free trade , and their assistance of faction , they had driven many a customer from their own
till , and reduced the power of all to " sprnd at their counter . If they were wise , they would have a lull share of the increased produce of the national resources , which the Charter alone could secure ; but if they persevere In their obstinacy , they will produce an artificial famine of industry crying for want while the storehouses of spcul . itors are bending beneath its produce , retained for the highesc price that necessity will compel the purchaser to yield . He then entered into a most interesting description of the state of Ireland ; showing how Irish poverty itres-ed upon English industry , and contending that a house of domestic piundei ers , sitting in ColleMegreen , as representatives of the present franchise , would be an additional tax upon Irish industry , while a representation of the Irish people themselves .
upon ths principles of the People ' s Charter , would make their land a paradise , and would be heard as a joyful summons , calling all who had been banished by the tyranny of the law church , and the grinding tppression of landlords , from their foreign habitations , where they were unwelcome guests and unwilling strangers . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Yts ; before famine can be stopped , or the danger of periodical starvation stayed , the Imh must have Ireland every Irishman must have the key ef his own larder—must be his own producer and his own consumer ; and if he has the dreaded surplus of a fat calf , with his whole family ' s smiles of fullness , contentment and joy ; and if he cannot find a market , let him bury it in the dunghill , it will be a better omen of national ' greatness than a sufhlus
of poverty being the lot of the industrious , and a surplus of food being the lot of the idle . ( Great cheering . ) The landlords will not bring the land into the retail market , although it would enhance its value from the wholesale to the retail price , because they dread its effects upon the retail vote , and they knowthat by wholesale political power they are enabled to square the deficient rent by an augmentation of political patronage . ( Loud cheers . ) The ' free-traders will not albw them to bring it into the retail market , because it would constitute the field for free labour , in which the standard of its real value would ho ascertained in the artificial market and below which man would not work for a master . ( Cheers . ) Thisshall be the object of my life—this is an undertaking that I never will relax in , until I see the
greatness of the _ nation proclaimed through individual happiness , instead of mercantile speculation , —( great chcarin ») - ~ aud every day ' s experience con . firms me in the hope of success . I have taken stock for you to day I have made an estimate of what 35 . •• plendid mansions , a splendid schoolhouse , one hundred and three acres of first quality land , with timber , crops , tenant rights , fixtures , wells and road * , have cost up to this date , and I find all is u > der £ 0 000 . ( Tremendous cheering . ) About £ 5 , 800—and now to prove the value of hind in the retail market above what it will futch iu the wholesale market . Estimating that property in its present state , and it is all but finished , at the low estimate of 20 years' purchase , at the society ' s rent it would realize £ 7 , 600 , and at 30 years' purchase , the usual price of land , and at which it would seil in less than two years when the effect of an abundance of labour is d 6 Vel 6 J > ed , it would fetch about £ 11 , 400 , and 1 have no hesitation in pledging my existence , that if Jet
upon tender to strangers , ~ instead of to members , at the society ' s rent , that it would realize the sum of £ 16 , 100 , that is , at the rental at which . stran » ers wouhJ take the smull allotments , and at 3 Q years ' purchase , that a capitalist could realize by the first experiment a profit of over £ 0 , 000 upon an expeuuir ture of £ 0 , 000 —( great cheerin?)—but then it has the damning brand upon it of throwing labour upon its own resources , and of taking the hand of the plunderer out of the pocket of industry . ( Che . rs . ) Now ihen , my friends , I have taught you the way to be roe I . have told you that slavery was an actofvoitKui , I have given you something to love , and something to be loyal to ; the Lana is your inheritance , I seek to restore it to you , the Charter is your birthright , and I struggle to put you in possession of it , not caring what sits upon its throne or what you call it , provided the power behind tiie throne is greater than the throne itself . Mr . O'Connor sat down amid continued cheering and mr ing of hatg .
The resolution was carried unanimousl y . Mr . T . M . Wiikeler then moved the adoption of the National Petition , which was seconded in aa able and argnaentative address by Mr . S . K dd and carried unanimously . ' " ' Mr . O'Cosnor , in a speech complimentary to the eenius , ability , energy , and eloquence of Mr . Ernest Jones , moved a vote of thanks to that « entleman for his conduct in thoehaii-, and on his stance to the cause in general , * it was seconded bv Mr . tlavK , and adopted by acclamation . The chairman acknowledged the compliment , and declared tho meeting dissolved . Three cheers were then given for T . S . Duncombe , M . 1 * . ; three for the Charter ; three fur Frost , Williams , ai-. d Jones ; three tor the Northern Stnr and three i ' or Mr . O Connor , The assembly , which was composed of not less ¦ i iui two thousand persons , then hroko up .
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theus steamer from Cork , laden with a large cargo vt provisions , and a great nnmbc of passengers was carried by the tide against London Bridge , and the funnel and m asts of the steamer were carried away with a tremendous crash , by coming in contact with the top of tlie arch . The masts and tunnel went over the vessel ' s snlo , anil several box 6 s and packages belonging to the passengers were carried overboard . The greatest consternation prevailed , but none of the pag " sengers were injured .
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RECEIi'TS OS THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY . ^^ nnmifllffO AD * Hn-19 rt ¥ T A tllRTBin / in nnnn ¦ mw **_
PER MR . O'CONNOR . SECTION No . 1 . ¦ HABES . £ t . d . Norwich , per J . Hurry .. ., „ 2 0 0 Tlacup , per J . If awson .. .. .. 500 Birmingham , per "W . Thorn .. ., „ 1 11 6 Hadcliffe , per N . Critchley , 200 Sutherland , per H . Haines .. .. .. 070 Wigton , per T . Bell O 17 6 Carlisle , per J . Gilbertson .. .. .. 217 3 Oldham , per W . Hamer 10 8 Nottingham , per J . Sweet _ „ .. 036 Bradford , per J . Aldersou .. .. .. 500 Teovill , per J . G . Abbott 2 16 0 Stockport , per T . Woodhuuse .. .. 200 Huddersfield , per J . Stead 2 15 4 Ashton-trnder-Lj-ae , per E . Ilobson .. .. 0 16 6 Manchester , per J . Murray .. „ .. 180 Liverpool , per J . Arnold .. .. .. 104 Rochdale , per E . Mitchell 18 8 Hamilton , per J . Branagan . 200 Artichoke Inn , Brighton , per W . Flower .. O 17 O Leigh , per Sickenson 116 Alva , per Robertson .. .. .. ., 422 H ^ bd eti Bridge , per J . Smith .. .. ~ 0 13 6 llouinwood , per Rayner 0 8 6
£ 11 17 S SECTI 01 C Uo . 2 . ¦ - SHAIES . Stockport , per T . Potter . .. ?» .. 185 Birmingham , per W . Thorn .. « .. 384 Corbridge , per R . Hawlcy •» .. O 15 O Sundorland , per II . Ilaines .. „ 3 18 S Carlisle , per J . Gilbertson .. .. .. 17 $ Oldham , per "W . Hamer .. .. .. 100 Nottingham , per J . Sweet ... .. .. 0 19 9 Yeovil , per J . G . Abbott „ .. ,. 0 * O Kantrary , per J . Hone „ .. .. 1 10 4 Swindon , per D . MorriBon „ ., ., 580 Lepton , per L . lodge .. „ .. .. 298 Staley Bridge , per J . Lawton 2 7 7 Ayr . perS . IiTine .. 19 4 Asbton-under-Lyne , per E . Ilobson .. .. 8 9 6 Manchester , per J . Murray .. „ » . S 2 6 Broylsden , per do . „ 3 9 6 Liverpool , per J . Arnold .. .. „ 3 8 10 Rochdale , per E . Mitchell .. .. „ 3 16 t Artichoke Inn , Brighton , per W . Flower „ 0 8 6 Leigh , per Vickenson .. .. .. ,. 176 Alva , per Robertson .. .. .. - .. 2 18 ncbdenErulge , per J . Smith m .. 0 1 G 0 Stockton , pcrT . Potter .. .. „ Jll ) 9 Southampton .. » .. ... .. 1 17 S
PER GENERAL SEC JlEf'ARY . SECTION No . i . SHAKES .. £ s . d . £ s . d . Westminster- - 0 9 0 Cjxteri - - - OWJO J . Smith . . 006 Glasgow , per Came-Aberdeen - - 0 7 0 tou - - - 1 4 6 Kilmnrnoek - - 0 13 0 Holl - - 010 0 Boulogne - - 3 4 0 Leeds - - -200 Cockermouth - 4 11 $ ATdesby- - -201 " Proscott- - - 1 5 « Seiners Town - 1 16 6 Warwick . . O 8 o Kidderminster - 013 ' I Uarylebone . . Olft « _ £ 20 __ 6 _ 8 5 £ CTI © K No . 2 . Kensington - - •/ 6 A Preseott- . -. 019 6 JJew Mills - - O 5 0 Warwick - -040 Southampton - 1 15 fl Tunbridge Wells , Robert Stones Bur- H . Neal - - 2 12 0 gar - . - 0 1 4 George Gordon . 014 . las . Chaddoch - 1 12 i Edinburgh - . 388 Broseley . Shrojj- Derby - - -030 shire - - " . 0 5 30 Hammersmith , jier J . < 5 . Harney- . ( 120 Stallwoed - . 150 J . -Page , Yar- Cupar , Fife - . 15 8 tnoath- . . 914 Oxford - - . 071 AVeSraiinster- . 13 6 Loughborough - 1 16 <• & . Brooks -. . 050 Aberdeen - - O * 11 Sqtsare Buskley . 010 Leicester , per Chipping Norton . 976 Astill - - 0 4 ~ 6 Matthew Thomas Lvnn , perBunton- 19 0 iWestminEter ) - « 2 0 Hull - - - 0 3 6 Kilmarnock- - O It 4 Falkirk- - - 1 15 G Charles Howe . 212 4 Sbiney » ow - . 18 0 Lambeth - . - a . 10 o Iveston - - -331 Leamington - -206 Rrtn . . 015 6 "Newport , Isle of Walsall- - -10 0 I WiKht- - - -8 10 0 Kidderminster , per j Boulogne - - 0 16 0 Holteway - . 615 6 Colne , Xo . 1 - . 030 Northwick - - 2 0 o Mertliyr TiSriL Teignniouth - - 2 19 6 Xo . 1 - . .-020 Thomas Mann , Clitheroe - - 5 15 0 Green Holme Bradford , per Jack- Works - -10 0 son - . . 1 18 0 Somers Town- - 0 7 6 £ 59 1 7 TOTAL LAND FtTNP , - Mr . O'Connor , Section No . 1 ^ . 41 17 3 Mr . Wheeler ., „ ... 20 6 S £ 62 3 11 Mr . O ' Coaner Section No . 2 ^ . ol 13 5 Mr . Wheeler , „ „ ... 59 1 7 £ 11015 -0 NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . FEB UK . t / WKNOB . EXECUTIVE . Yeovil - .. 0 . 4 -6 V . ECEIFTS OF NATIONAL CHAKTEB ASSOCIATION . FEK GENERAL SEC&ETAKT . whittingtoa and Earle , 6 d . ; Locke , Cat - - - O 6 0 6 d .. ; Fitzgerald , Westminster- . 060 Gd . ; Russea 6 d ; Bo . Cards- 0 3 8 Goslin , 6 d . ; Over , Ruffey Ridley -003 6 d . ; Almond O'Connomlle , Moody . 6 d . ' . - - -0 12 ls .- ; R 06 s , ls . - , R-j- Lille , France- - 0 11 1 bertson . Is . ; Mr . Steel , War-Dauiels , ls . ; SleatJ wick - - -010 Is . ; Kins , Is . ; Mr . Elliot , Clapa Democrat , is . ; ham - - -040 Bernard , Is . ; A Friend , SIUe-cnd , Stone , 6 d . ; perHarney -010 Stranger , 6 d . ; FOE WHttAMS AMD JO . VES . Southampton - 0 0 9 Henry Wilks , per Stallwood - - O 1 3 BrGISTBATION TVXD . Priscella Toy , Hull - - - 0 1 0 YETEBAKS , WIDOWS ' , AND CEPHAS ' S FONDB . Mr . L . Rrown , "L Salmon - - fl 0 6 Kensing .- -040 Browet - - . 010 Sheffield - -050 Leicester , per Astill 0 4 6 Allan Devokpobt . Stevenson - - o 0 6 * Tboius HabtinWukeleb , Secretary .
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The Land . —Mr . James Moore , one ot the very small firm of the malcontents in the Bradford district , favours us with an exceedingly long dissertation upon the extreme impropriety of appending a Chartist school to the first location , and grounds his objection to the Land plan upon the fact that 2000 daily are added to the population , and , therefore , there can be no hope of locating tltem . As to the school impropriety , we shall only observe that , there not being one within three miles , as a matter of fair speculation , apart from the value of education being recognised as part and parcel of our principles , the undertaking w ; is prudent . Perhaps he would perpetuate the charge of Chartist iguorance . And , as to the daily increase of population , we ascribe to that fact the great necessity of establishing tbe rights oi those yet unborn to their inheritance , at least we shall not be chargeable with the sin oi allowing their claim to be lost by not keeping it alive . We also learn that a Bevr match is being put to the old pile at Keighlev , where ono gentlemen abused Mr . O'Connor for sanc " tionlng 8 o ] arge ; amonopolyasfouvacres ; while anotlur has abused him most mercilessly upon the score that two acres is worse than starvation , and he has undertaken to prove that there must be a loss of £ 8 a year upon the best cultivation of two > cres , that is . according to HIS PLAN ; of course then , there would be a loss of £ 1 on one acre , and of £ 1 on a quarter of an acre , ~ and of £ 16 oh four acres ; so what , in the name of common sense , are we to do with such philosophers . Why , answer them thus . What constitutes the sole and only property of farmers who never handle spade or plough ? Answer , profit <> n labour . Whether does well or badly cultivated land pay best ? Answer—well , of course . Cau any man living cultivate two acres of land to the highest state of perfection ? Answer—no , nor to one fourth part . Question—what do the growlera mean then ? Answer—they don't know themselves , and it is hard fur us to know . If we were to heed the folly of such j men , we should naturally agree with Joseph llutne , j that the sooner England was covered with an incrus tation of lava , the better .
Death of a Gebhas Deuocrat . —Last Thursday morning at 8 o ' clock , died in the German Hospital , j DalstunTi ; . Denning , bootmaker , native of Hanover , ased 27 . The deceased -wa 3 a member of the " German Society for the Instruction of Working Men ;" aud died as he had lived , a true democrat , remaining faithful to his principles up to his last moment , in swite of the German clergyman , who ineffectually attemtned to convert him to his religion . The funeral of the departed brother wiil tike place next Sunday week , the 11 th of October . Those who may wish to assist , must assemble at one o'clock precisely , at the room of the German Society ( the Fraternal Democrats place of meeting ) , 191 , Drury Lane , three doors from Uolborn . Every arrival from Rome brings an account of some new measure for the benefit of the country . We now learn ihai the PorE has appointed a Com . mission for the improvement of the forests and rivers . The condition « f the latter , in tlie States of the Church , is deplorable ; nothing has been douc for fifteen years to clear their beds or strengthen their embankments to prevent their flooding the country . As to the forests , they have been totally neglected , and those of E . ijohi and Terracina , on the confines of the kingdom of Naples , arc literally abandoned to pillage , whereby one of the greatest sources of wealth is rendered unpr oductive . —Ualignani . ElECVOS OF Loud -Mayor . —At the close of the poll on Friday evening , Alderman Wood was still , iieaa a . ' us opponents , the numbers being—Wood . 1 , 116 ; Cairi ? U TOO ; Hooper , 21 S ; Farncombe , 1 J Moou , 1 .
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at present under investigation by the magistrates of Belgium . The following are said to be the circumstances : —A young person of Pommcroeul , named "Virginie Cre ^ z , between nineteen and twenty years of age . Jformed an attachment with the young housepainter from Dkst , named Van Mol , and tliey contemplated a marriage . fjThe par ^ ts of the young woman , however , not only refused their consent , but compelled her to raarrj an old man aged seventytwo , named Bureau , who was comparatively very rich . At the end of five months , on August loth , tbe old husband died suddenly , and as his young wife was knowu to haTe kept up a constant intimacy with her former lover , suspicions of foul play were at once eateriained and communicated to theProcoreur da Hoi at Tournay , who immediately ordered the bsdy to be exhumed , and an autopsy performed . This led to a chemical analysis of the stomach and its contents , which has been extended to the earth round the coffin . As several chemists have been employed in this process , and the results of it have not been made known , and as the widow and Van Mol have beeu arrested , it may be pre-umed that evidence of poison has been discovered , although , from the character of the accused parties , those who know them doubt their guilt . Extesstte Fike at Waddbt . —We regretexremely to have to record this week one of the most extensive conflagrations of farm pruperty which has taken place in the ^ East Riding of ; Yorkshire for very macv rears . The sufferer is Air . James Waotson , of "Waudby , about ten miles to the weBUf Hull , and four east from Sonth Cave . There appears not to be the slightest doubt that this great destruction ot property is the work of an incendiary . Fourteen stalks , containing the whole of the wheat and hav , and marly the entire crops of an extensive farm , were euTclopeo * and surrounded by roaring flames . The large oat stack had been removed , and the further progress of the fire in that direction arrested . It was between three and iour o ' clock when the fire might bi said to be thoroughly mastered , and the fear of its further extension at an end , but twelve hours afterwards , thick columns of smoke were still ascending , and the remainder of the hay stack occasionally burst oat into games , and that of the wheat was a dense mass of intense red hot ( ire , from which in places incessant Jlaaies arose . The loss in money value is , we believe . « baut . £ 2000 , hut this is far from being the total mischief . —Leeds Intdligincer . State of Tkjuje is ^ uTtjsgham . —1 h answer to a paragraph which found its vay iuto the Star of Saturday last without the knowledge of the Editor , Mr . Sweet writes as follows : —Trade never was worse iii N ttinghsm , thau it is at the present time , and wLoeFer seutyoutbe statement wiii .-h appeared in the last . Star , or . v&atev . r newEj > ai * eris wasUJw . from , told an infamousiliis-h >«> - Jituwrtua oi' tU" Framework Knitters , men , women , and children , have iiovbii e to do .
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Mr . Henry "Vincent lectured for-ihe space of one iour and a failf to an audience of -some three lsun » dred persons , Tnaleanflfemale , at the Ha . ll of Conimerce , Tiireadneedlc-street . oh Friday , October the 2 ud , at the "very aristocratic hour of one o ' clock , when labour is earning its daily bread , or eating the hard crust allowed by the aristocracy of land and mill . He severely -denounced ths landed aristocracy and the corruptions in Chnrclx-and State ; tie said * ' the par ^ y with whom he had the honour to act , did not "wish to oppose * uy party at present in existence , whether nursd , politicalor social ; their dt-sire was to finite all ia a peaceful . " Christian , and lesstX struggle . Previous to the holding of this meeting , a committee had sat In an adjoining room , with W Ashurst , Esq .. common cotiucilman , in the chair , at which they unanimously resolved tn ^ forni a ' . National Alliance , ' for the purpo ^ of effecting u toorous Q reform hitne Commons House of Parliameat . To carry out thk , and raise a fund in its support , was their object , and for ¦ which he invoked the aid of the friends -of the TeiKDerantej Acti-State Chureh , Uj ::-Tersal Peac * , " and the working classes generally ; they had already secured 5 the support of in 3 uential persons , Lsciuding Joseph Sturgc , Colonel Thompson , &s . Tiieir proposed mode of operation was , ; o send out peaceful missionaries to every city , town , -rinaEe , ^ nd hamlet in the kingdom , arnird wiiu tracfe , < Ee ., 3 f £ er the mannarof the late Anti-Corn-Lan League ; and > f such a course » as puisuedfor seven years , he would pledge Mb honour the great-- s "boor" in the must ducal corner of the enipireslioui ;; have his mind illuminated with political and moral truths . Sir . Vincent was "frequently applauded , his l n > ck 3 at the landed aristoir icy appeared mucn relLh d hv the representatives of tbe comaieicial classes of this " Great Wen . " At " . he conclusion Mr . Bontems proposed a - ? ote of ibanks io Henry Vincent , Esq ., icr tisatl lecture , which was seconded by a person in the body of the meeting and carried unanimously . Air . -Vincent responded and proposed a vote of thanks to Air . Ebenezer Clark , of Snaresbrook , who occupied the chair . Aa appeal was made at the close for persons to come forward and enter their names and subscribe their cash in the cause of the " Xatinnal Alliance , " but not one responded to the call . ( From a Correspondent . ' ) A "Xrw . Ntw . KBW Move . "—Mr . Henry Vincent this afternoon addressed a meeting in a room in the Hall of Commerce—subject , " The present state of Political parties . " Me Vincent held forth in a very eloquent ami humorous manner—his steck in trade consisted in an attack on the " landed aristocracy " aud " mother church . " In the course of the address , an announcement of a new party , to be named "The National Alliance of all Reformers" came out . Mr . Ebeniaer Clark was in the chair , and Gee . Thomson , Esq ., Joseph Sturge , Esq ., Colonel Thompson , John Humphrey Parry , and others , were expected to have been present , but were " previously engaged . " The lateness of the hoar prevents me writing all I think ; bat as fur the Gipsey compafiitor 4 Ileniy Vincent , 1 think the fellow to be a political coach dog , who barks for these who pay him best , and will be found at the gig wheel of « very new move . I recommend the mendieant to the notice of the Exeter-hall humbugs , his mimicry quite fit him for a nigger melodist . Friday , October 2 nd , 1846 .
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OwsooW- — «• A constant reader" wishes to know the address of X . Gordon , Secretary to the Glasgow branch of the Chartist Co-oprivtire Land Society . "W . U . Dion , 24 , Xorth King-street , Dublin , is re-publishing the letters of Patrick O'Higgins , Esq ., and not Shaving the copses ol all , will feel much obliged to those ttIio wish to dtsr-eminate political truth in Ireland if they will forward copies uf the tntire series ; alto the paper containing ilic letter to Lord Elliot on the Irish Arms" Bill . The rsorsiETT of a Ch&btist Dmlt Papeb . —To the Editor © f the Xorthim Star . —Sir , —If your epacewiil p .-rmit the insertion of this letter , I would ask Mr . O'Connor what prospect there is for a daily paper advocating democracy gaining support , aud especially during the Parliamentary rtccss % Does he imagine that Uie norkiug classe * can afford to purchase » papxr etety day ! Or , rather , must not the keepers of places of public entertainment be looked to as the most likely to furnish orders for a daily paper ! And ioTV many of them does he consider will patronise such a paper ? He has made the experiment already ; and if it answered , wD 5 was it abandoned ? I can assure him that the JTortWn SUirU quite expensive enoug h for the poor . For if worlriDg men tain find isonejto speud every night of their Uv « s in taverns or coSes-houses , from what source are we to glean evidence of their social deterioration ! A solution of this problem will oblige . Ygut obediehtservant , E . KeaE&Tsox . Plymouth , Octot « r , 5 th 18 * 6 . Jg T ^ e are Jcomp rfied to defer answers = to several correspondents .
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The Sew -Bolt Alliance."
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 10, 1846, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1387/page/5/
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