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      DISTRESSED CONDITION OF THE BRADFORD WOOLCOMBEUS . Last week a public meeting of the distressf d ami destitute noolcombtrsof this town was held in the Temptrauce Hall , 15 . njair . in Abbott , a woolcomber , in the chair . Mr . Geobge Whitk moved the first iv « olu ; ion , in a ep ^ ech t > fconsidtr * We length , in which he strongly anin : artv .-rte < l on tlse promises of the Free-traders as compared with tiu-ir p . rfotmanees . He said thot the n-sult of bujing in the cheapest and scllini ; in the de : ir . st irruket , a favourite principle of the Free-irsd « s , hail brought the wook-ombers to tlnir present position < -f wretchrdnes s and misery . He sat down by moving Tliat the condition < if the wooicomhers of tlii 9 town i * tiu ' . j lamentable , and it is absolutely necessary that an app . al should be made to the wealthier classes ou their behalf , a large iiumher ot them being completely destitute . " The resolution was Feconded by George Ridley , a wool comber , and carried unanimously .

      J"SErn Hodgson , a woiiloomber . stated that he had np . plk-d to the parish f » r relief , brine entirely without work at bis own trade , and the relievisic utfii-cr h . id sent him to l . re . ik stones on the road , for which he rtcewed Is . 3 d . per d : iy for two ilnys . He had bren to the relieving officer oiuli : it ( iay ( Tuesday ) , when the officer had civen him Is . <>•! ., . iiid told him he should want him no mure . He sri- : fir stoiic-breaking , but now he had notHng . Rudest Smith , another woolcorah- r , stated that h « b-td had no-liing to eat in his house for two days , his wife cmfiiid and one child in a fertr . There were six in the family altogether . He bad applied for reli . f last Saturday , and received 2 s . Cd . for the whole of them .

      Jons Jekrt stated that he had not had any work for the last three weeks , that his wife was confined on Monday Jast . and all that he had to give her was a little saj ; o pru-1 , which a neighbouring woman had brought in for her , just before he cime to that meeting . H « said he had not tasted six ounces of food aince Sunday last . Oeocge Fletcher , a woolcomber , said that he had four children besides himself and wife , which , made six altogether . He had been relieved with 2 =. 6 J ., and went before the Board of Guardians on Friday last , and was orden d to go to work at what is called a test hill , at Idle , whfre he was relieved with 4 s . 6 d . for his whole famil y , and \ v ! ien he told the relieving officer that he had no shoes t o walk a distance of eight miles every day to and from bis work , the officer told him that he might huy shoes out of the-Is . 64 . relief he had giveu him . However , at last ,

      henaa furnishedjwithapairofdogs . Hethenwenttowork at the test hill , at Idle , but his feet began to swell so , in wearing his clogs in frosty weather and out of door cmp ' ovment , always being used to irorking by the side of a warm comb pot , that lie was obliged to bathe Ms feet in a Tiioriiins before lie started to his work . Having to hobble along in the best manner he could , he sometimes got there rather late , when the sttperintf ndent ot the test hill begun to curse and swear at him , and threatened to send him to Wnkefield . At last he was thrown into a fever , anil he believed he had got a complaint on him , through Tror ! un £ at the test hill , that would carry him to his grave . Ha s .-ii « l he knew parties worktag at that hill w o hid to walk 60 or 70 miles each week , to and from the fl ice , and that some of the men were working there for 24 houra together , without tastin ; food of any description .

      Wji . Mclles moved the recor . d resolution , which was , " That five persons be appointed a committee , to receive evidence of the existing distress einoujst the woolcombers . " Seconded by a woolcomber of the name of Gill—carried unanimously . The meeting then adjourned to a future day , to give time to the woolcombers to send in to the committee thi ir statements ot the distress and destitution they are now labouring under . WHITE SLAVERY .

      LABODll IN NEW YORK . ITS ClE . CO 5 l-, TltiCES . CONDITIONS , IND KEWJkKBS . ( Frointhfe New York Tiilm . e . ) SO . HI . —THE BOOK-FOLDERS . The girls employed in Bo-. ik-binderies work indiscriminately at f' >! d : n » aud stitching—sometimes being empkyeioi . e week infolding and the next in stitching . T :: i-y * ar : i about the some wages at either occupation , end wwk always by the piece . Not more than half of them \ v ! : u ha .-e regular situations are steady , sober workersthe wan ; of ' .-duration and tie out-dcor temptations which b-iotig to the fortunes of so many ofthimextrtis * -: p . "Terml influence to destroy their ambition and frlf-r .-v .: ect , and to beget habits of levity aud idleness . T'cr .: sr « from 2 , 500 to 3 , 010 girls engaged in the rctpf . ti ! p ' . i' iiiuderit's in the city , and their wages are very various—d- pei . dius en . sir .-iy on the > kill . experience an < i

      industry of the girls , as well as , sometimes , on the fa-Vfuri-Utn < rf foremen and those who give out the work . M -i ; v tin not earn cior < than 1 dollar 50 cunts or 2 dollars i w week ; others make o dollars and 3 dollars 5 ( J C « -uts ; while there is a few whose bille , week after week , run a * high as 5 dollars and GrioUars . These are ol-i a : i-i highly valued isands , and some of them Uave held t ' Jtirsiruitious fur years . Th- prices pai-l is t * ie large establishments for folding are , fir single Sru . sheets , 2 cents per hundred ; f « . r duutrfudo . ( 1 G pages ) , 3 J ceuts per hundred . Double V 2 no . is piid 5 j cents . An average hand working 10 ifii'usa day t \ in {¦• Id 10 or 1200 of the double 12-nos Fe . v do . 15 inui-ii as that , however . The cuttiugof the signatures is iiu-iuiJei ; n t ! : ; si- prices . ¦

      !« ¦ - slhehiTS rtc- ivc agreat variety of prices according to the . size of the sheet , the number of pages in a Biniiature , etc . An average price of o-tmnoii work may bi f * uiii ;; t 24 cent * , per hundred sheets . At these rates tatij in . ike about the same as at folding . In both folding an i sii : ci : ing tin re U so Hid- - - a range of work that the «> :: ly jirncticsM- way of tstimating the earnings of ti ; est J'ifis . a- a da ?* , i ; to take acc-tuutof their wi-i-kly wages . In ih ; : h-.-t (' . < tal > i ! Khi : ieiits tlie > -e rauire iium 1 ' dollars 50 f .-nts to : ; rioiiar < 5 U cents—leaving < . ut of the quvstini : tU- 'se w ! u ! : re « : xtra « . r >! iiiar !! y exjic-rt or indu » tiious . 1 » many otu . r csta ' jSishments , bowevt-r , the work is ' dribblert out by pi-feme : ;! , f o thai the , prls oi : the average do not won ; lii . ir- than half the time . Some concerus , too , we trec > : ; i ; i £ ilcd 11 ? ay . are in the regular h : ibitof paying ( . 55 eve :: than t ' . c uhttw prices , j nnl employ girls at tin-. cry l . mx-st rates tliey can compel tlutu to accept .

      i ! . ! : «; . stein . -f apprenticeship « l-o exi * t * in this trade . cn > i 1 •* skilful v . uikvrjustthrough her upprenticehood it toioften sent : s < lri : tto m&keroomforrawhands . Inihe lsTg-r c > -Mbl : cIimcuts the girls are generally separated 'rom t ! ie men who work at Bo-jk-biuding , and are kept la tvlewUe or-ler . In Sumu huuse ? they are nut permitted i- « n to rpeak tu er . di other «! uring working hour * . In c : h-. r «( ir . it ! , a : it . ; o . where ne should look for the ut-« 3 'j > t str . ctnets ) the girls Jaugh aud talk and carry on hs ! f tlw time . The ittld « rs and ftilcbers commence to work -. t 7 in

      tbt morning and work till 6 in the evening—taking an hear fur diniitr . They almost universally tiriug dinner w : th ih ~ tn and cat it anyway th . it they can get at it . I n « t .-. rc , -a * you in ly well suppose , is p » or enough ; and y-t , »•> perhaps ninf-tenthsoi' these ciils board with their mothers . troThers , aiarricd sifters , Or other relatives or friends , Uie hand of ifll-c : ion often I ' . rops some trifling dfli : acy in t " if lirtl- tin j , iil that holds the poor worker ' s fanner— ::: which , whtu Ehe spreads her humble board , lter tyes gliateu with a tear of love and she utters n siltut bltS'ing .

      Tf : c ; e a-rlE pay frnm I dollar 7-5 cents to 2 dollar per v . e-k f . jr th . jir b : iardt and rxtra fjr washing . A great m -jjrity of th » in boa-d witk their relatives or friends , an : thus arc better fd , lodged aud cured for than those f ; : is who bare , to liveat t ' .-e cheiji public boarding hou < es . Tn . y : ue most oi them fiitber . e >« , and many have neither J := ;? :-: r r . or mother . U « uj of ih « m belQUg to the church . n :. ; s . oirly all , we believe , .-. re of u < -od diameter . In some <> " ! i » l-c <; resj « ctable ISmdnies . huwever , so much drc ; i " 7 :-p ctiou is not employ * d . Tht-y are from all grades ¦ *¦ : ; lMiiU * in life , aad tbe his or * of themselvcx and lainl-Ji . ? itnuiii , in many instances , be mcit iniercttin ^ than ti'f Tii' : si : irtb-tie romnnue . We rtmembira sprigiitly aud ci ii-Mii-. iouking pirl cluife stury was told us by tlie joUtu yr ¦ : > : •'¦ v . r of the large IJ . m ' ery "here sha was employed , u ' tt ' ' - ' 'c .- ' i nut ona of her companions knows anything of

      litr s . ! : ai ; .-e fortunes . She i * the daughter of a omedistir . ^ . i- ed and opuknt E . i > t Ind : i merchant , who lived iu -. ;•« n : o « t sumptu"US and aristocistic style , bestowing upon hit daughters every accomplish mint which coul i po- £ iii ! e be oUtained by wealth and taste . II died and was discovered tu be a hopeless bankrupt . His widow aud one grown-up daughter—two ( f the most liiil ' iinui women of fashion in thecity—and the subject ot our story , where reduced to sudden and abject poverty . TJi (; young aonan married a respectable hard woiking nicciiaiuc , with whom the now lirts in ucintcrrupted happists ; and tbe little girl—the pet o ! thefu .-nily—went to folding books . She boards with her firttr dud is a seat and prosperous worker . After hearing this little romance w . ; turned to gaxe with a deeper intt-rti-t upon th ' - gay , g r ; ith face and slight but graceful form Urnduv : so <] Jiety over her toil . We hn-. c presented this important branch of tbe great }!>( ik-ii :: ; l ; i : ig business by no means in its darkest coior ? . Toe tXLvp : ions ( which are many and distrcssiiiu ) to the coinparativ- comfort which prevails among them we haw left Ut : tnUj : ; cd . ADDUEESS OF THE CARPET WEAVERS OP GREAT JiUITAIX TO THE WORKMEX ESGA . GE 1 ) JX THE VARIOUS TRADES IX AXD AROUND ABERDEEN . Follotv-Workmen , —We , the Carpet Weavers of Great Britain , be ;; most respectfully to lay before you a brief summary of the causes which have led to the unhappy oiffereiices at present exitting between the Messrs . Haddeos , in Aberdeen , and their workmen , viz . — At the r « . que ? t of the workmen in their employ , tbe manufacturers of En ^ laud at their annual meeting , held July 2 nd 1846 , agreed to advance their wages ten per cent ., this advance to continue until 1 st February , 1817 ; aud if the manufacturers in Scotland would agree to give a corresponding advance on or before that time , said advance to continue permanent . " In consequence of this agreement the workmen in the several 6 rms in Scotland , agreed to memorialize their employer * for a corresponding ad . vance , which they at first refused , principally on account Of the Jlesirs . Haddens , ia Aberdeen , having * beeu in the practice of paying ten per cent , below all others in the trade for a considerable length cf time ! but , on a secout-¦ Plication , they agreed to give their men a correspond-

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      TT ^^^^^^ T ^^^ l advance , provided that all the manufacturers iu Scotland pay a uniform rate . Tlii * all the manufacturer ! in Scotland honourably agretd to do , with the exception of theMe * srs . Haddens , in Aberdeen , who decidedl y refused to pay the same rate as tbe other manufacturers , as they considered themselves placed in a more ( ' ^ advantageous position than the other manufacturers in lUe trade . The workmen considering it unjust that they should suffer a reduction on their wages on account of the supposed disadvantages of any manufacturer , agreed to send a deputation of their number to Aberdeen , in order to impress upon the Messrs . Haddens tha propriety of acceding t

      a settlement of the qu-. stiou by arbitration . This tlie workmen , for the sake of p ? aeo generally , assented to , althou gh opposed to the application of the principle in this case . The Jlsisrs . Uaddeus having communicated this to the other manufacturers , they refused to refer tiie case , hut offered to meet them in conference . This the Messrs . iladdens positively refused , still holding by arbitration , tu which some of the manufacturers latterly agreed ; but on account of other manufacturers being opposed to this m < i' ! e of settlement , the Tort E b'linton Spinning Company issued circulars to all the manufacturers in Scotland , iuviting the-m to a meeting—which meeting took plucc in Glasgow , on 25 th September . To this meeting the Messrs . Haddens were invited , but declined to attend . At said meeting the question of

      arbitration was discusse-1 in all its bearings , and rejuctcd as inadnv . ssable . But it was agreed thf . t the wages be maintained until 10 tU October , and a deputation was appointed to coufer with any manufacturer not present at this mei tiiisc . A special notice Wits vent to the Messrs . Iladdcno , to meet them either in Edinburgh or Bund » e , to endeavour to remove their objections to pay a uniform rate of wa ^ es . The Messrs . Hardens never having stated what their disadvantages were , and the meeting considering them not the least favoured manufacturers in the trade^—to which notice the Mbssts . Haddens paid no attention—although they bring forward their supposed disadvantages as h reason why they cannot meet the other manufacturers in thr market , and state that they are obliged to pay their workmen a lower rate of wages to

      enable them to do so . Now , brethren , we are well aware that they are not only able to meet them in the market , but to a comiJerablc extent , to undersell them . The resolution agreed to at the above meeting having been sent to Aberdeen , the Deputation appointed by the trade requested an interview with tbe Messrs . HjdJens , which was peremptorily refused ; and after several ineffectual attempts by the workmen in their employ , to obtain a peaceful settlement of the question , and feeling that the whole responsibility of maintaining the advanc d rate of wages lay upon them—they having no gunr . intee that their employers would not offer even a lower rate of wages than that paid by them for the last eighteen year *; « nd although all tbe other Manufacturers were willing to maintain the Advanced rate of wage ? , yet declaring if any

      Firm in , Scotland was found to pay ft lower rute after the 10 th October , they would feel themselves compelled to conform to that rate whatever it might be . This bring the position of the workmen in the employ of the Messrs . Haddens , they considered it their duty to withdraw their labour , havin ; . * no other alternative left them , they having ased every prudent and reasonable means in their power to obtain a settlement . And although decidedly opposed to Strikes in general , considering them to be pernicious in their effects both to Employer and Employed , yet , in this peculiar case , we feel ourselves bound to support tbe Aberdeen Workmen in their resolution , having no othet course left us but do this , or submit to repeated reductions , as the Messrs . Haddens appear determined to pay below the othir Manufacturers let them pay what thi-j

      may ; which reductions we could ill afford , owing to the laborious nature of our calling , and the great variety of style which is continually being introduced , which increases our labour , and consequently reduces our wages ; and considering our inability to educate our faoiilies , or supply them with the necessary comforts of life . For the above reasons , aud otktrs that tnigt' . t be adduced , ( a recital of which would tax your patience , ) we do assure you , Brethren , that it is a hard struggle for us to provide for our families with our present wages , and were we to be reduced to the rates lately paid by the Messrs . Maddens , it would entail upon us and our children a great a-nount of misery and distress—at the thought of which oar hearts sicken , and the better feelings of cur nature recoils .

      Now , Brethren , when we consider the reasonableness andjusticeof therequest of the CARPET WEAVERS OF ABEUDEEJf , that they should receive the same remuneration for their labour as the other Workmen engaged iu the trade ; and , likewise , when we reflect that the dearest interests of several thousands of your Fellow Labourers depends upon the issue of this contest , we earn stly impiore that you will not ouly refrain yourselves , but that you will use every lawful endeavour to keep others from supplanting the men in th-ir work , and thus be the mean * of averting a vast amount of suffering and privation from thousands of your fellow creatures ; ior although you may in the meantime be flittered and fanned upon by the petty Tyrant , and deceived by false promises and misrepresentations , which iu tbe end will : urn out bitter disappointment to those who are so foolish as to be duped by them .

      Brethren , we have laid before you a plain unvarnished < tateinent of our cape , trusting and believing that your feeling-: are on the ride of Hmuaniry and Justice , and not upv » n th ; fide of Obstinacy and Oppression , we humbly request that you will give our case your candid considers tion , and iiblige , yours respectfully , in name and on behalf of the CARPET WEAVERS OF GREAT BRITAIN , David M'Cciluch , Ciubies Thomson , RtiBEiiT R * M < ir David Thomson , James Hannah , J » ijs Hilhocse , James TnoMsoy , Geobge M'Kissock , JAHE 8 II 4 LIDA 7 , JAMES MooDIE , Acting Committee . Kilmareock , 9 th December , lS-ifi .

      STEAM . EXGIXE AN'D MACHINE MAKERS . At a meeting of the Journeyman S ; eam Engine , Machine Makers , and Millwrights' Friendly Society , held at our Club House , the Old Gray Mare Inn , Bury , on Thursaay evening , the " . ' 4 th of December , it was , unanimously « i ; re-ed , that each member subscribe the sum of Is . per we- k for the defence of the men who are being prosecuted by Me-ssrB . Jones and Vott * , of Xewton , on the charge of conspiracy . After which , it was proposed and seconded , and enrried by acclamation , " That a vote of thanks be given to the Proprietor mid Editors of the Kortltcrn Star , for their straight-forward conduct , as exhibited in their journal in the advocacy of the rights of industry , "

      FRAME-WORK KNITTERS . Xottisgham . —Csited Tiiabes . —A three counties Ilelegate Meeting will be held on Monday morning , the 4 th of January , 1847 , at the hour of ten o ' clock precisely , at the Black Horse Tavern , Stoney-strcet , to consider the propriety of causing a Bill to be introduced into the House of Commons for the amendment of the Ticket Act- also to transact other important hutinrss Mabk Wollet ,. Secretary .

      THE WARRIXGTOX COXSPIRACV CASE . TO THE EDITOR OF TOE KOHTHEBN STAR . Sir , —In reading the report of the meetiag of the Operatire Engineers of London , contained in your paper of Saturday last , I find that Mr . Lancaster , the delegate from Manchester , in the course of his speech , in alluding to my arrest by the Warrington authorities , is reported to have said— " That I was dragged off to Wartiugton , my locks broken , my place ransacked , and my papers taken , without any legal authority whatever ; " evidently in-erring that the above acts had beeu committed by the arresting parties . I feel myself bound to correct a part of the abote statements ; it is correct in part , but not us

      a whole . It is true that I was taken to AVurrington , - without either time to arrange my official business , or to take leave of iny family ; it is also true that a notice paper was torn down from my office , and taken away : ' lit with regard tn the breaking of the locks , and the ransacking of the place , such did not take place . I cannot account for Mr . Lancaster ' s statements , further , than he ' imut have been misinformed , or it is a mis-report . But be that as it may , I have felt in iluty bound to "ake this i-orr . e-tion , for I would not have it said that 1 had kuuivlii ^' y allowed even my enemies to suffer an injustice . I have not as yet seen Mr . Lancaster , but I have no doubt but that he will be as anxious as myself to have any misstatements corrected .

      By inserting the above in your paper of Saturday next you will greatly oblige , Yours truly , Henri Sklsbt . CI , Dale-street , Manchester , btc .-23 . mii . The Joi . vEr . s op Rochdale arc on strike , being forced out of employment through the masters at tempting" to impose }; upon them a set of new rules which were never known in Rocl «! ale before .

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      THE SHORT TIME QUESTION . RENEWED AGITATION FOR THE ADOPTION OF TIIE TEN HOURS' BILL IN FACTORIES . MEETING AT DUNDEE . ( From the Dundee Advertiser ) A public meeting was held in Dundee on Friday to receive Mr . Ferrand , M P ., and Mr . Oastler , the eloquent and energetic advocates of the Ten Hours' Bill . From some cause or other , not explained , Mr . Ferrand did not arrive iu time to nttimd the meeting , hut Mr . Onstlerdid , and received a most enthusiastic reception . He was accompanied by Messrs . Lewis , Miller , Johnston , and other pr . aclievs of the Gospel belonging to the town . Mr . James Saunders was called to the chnir .

      Mr . Maerae said , he had for some time been a factory slave himself , and , therefore , had some slight knowledge of the working of the system . To the long hours ol labour a dual of the evils which now pervaded society might be truccd . It has been proved by statists that the lives of those employed in the factories wore much shorter than the lives of those employed in agricultural pursuits ; that tbe greatest ignorance and the greatest misery , abounded in the towns where the factory tjstem was in its greatest vigour . It had been found likewise , that as our tr . < de had increased , the misery and degradation of the working people had increased in the equal ratio . They had all seen the squalid looks and the zig z » g gait of tho factory operatives , which bad bee-n

      brought upon them by excessive labour . The manner in which tbe factory system had hitherto been conducted , had tended to debase the working people , to destroy their physical enirgy , corrupt their morals , and be detrementiil to their intellectual capabilities , ( sooner than that should take place , he would say , let commerce perish ; and any man who could calmly contemplate such things , he would suy , had not tbe love of God or man emplanted in his breast . Mr . Macrae concluded byproposing bis resolution to the effect , that the meeting were of opinion that the long houts of labour in factories were detrimental to the health , the morals and the intellcctofthe people—that machinery should be put under regulations so a * not to prove a curse instead of a bless ing to the working people .

      Mr . Thomas Smart seconded the resolution , which wae put and carried unanimously . The Rev . Mr . Lewis proposed a resolution , the purport of which was , that in the opinion of the meeting the present hours of factory labour are incapable with tbe moral and intellectual improvement of the body of the people engaged in i t , and that were these not shortened , the most disastrous effects would arise to the whole community . The Rev . Mr . Lesley Miller seconded the motion . Mr . Oislee , oncoming forward , was received with the most rapturous aud enthusiastic cheering . After the noise had subsided , he said , when he appeared at the first meeting he had been at in Scotland , a f « sw night * ago , a person high in station , took him by the hand ,

      saying , " Oa 3 tler , you are a bold man to eomo to Scotlaud upon such a question . " He ( Mr . Oastler ) thought so too . He had h » ard that the people of Scotland were a practical , calculating sort of people ; and he was afraid that if they should find any thing wrong , they would be Uiepeople to detect and expose it . Trusting , however , to their characteristic benevolence , and having a tnitsion in the cause of humanity , he had come down among them . He had been assured before he crossed the Border that he need not come among them , as they were against a Ten Hours' Bill ; hut so far from that being the case , he had b « ld three meetings since he came to Scotlsnd , and he could say that he never had attended three better meetings in his life . If the working people of Scotland thought that he came among them for the

      purpose of stirring up strife between muster and man they would lind themselves greatly mistaken . His object ivas tu bring the olive branch of peace , and to heal the dissensions which bad unhappily too lopg existed between these classes . What he wished to see was the good feeling existing between master and servant which existed in the time of Boaz , when the latter saluted tlie former in these words , " The Lord bless thee , " and the former answered , " The Lord be with you . " That was a sjstem then existing between employers and employed , which he wished to witness established in England aud Scotland . The system which he wished to see was one established injustice . The principles he advocated were supported by one of the richest manufacturers in the world—Mr , Juhn Pielden . It had bsen proposed thirty years ago by

      the late Sir Robert Peel , and had all along been kupported by the best-Wormed factory masters . Last uight , at his address in Paisley , the chair was taken by one of the most opuleut manufacturers there—Mr . Carr ; aud the chewing of the great number assembled when he took the chair , told , in language not to be rmsundersto . d , how heartil y they were rejoiced at his influential eo-operatiou in the cause , Mr . Oastler then proceeded to describe some of the cruelties which pi evailed under the present system . The state to which the children were often reduced by exhaustion might be learned when he mentioned that he had once or twice observed the children of a poor widow in his neighbourhood so ex . iiaustcJ , that they fell asleep with part of their Bupptr in their uiuuths , and while she was dressing their ulcerated

      teet . Many of these evils had been remedied , but still a deal remained to be done . It was said when the preient system was proposed that trade would be ruined , but instead oi' that i : had gone ou increasing . He wus williim to argue the question with any one upon the pounds , shillings , and pence of the question . ) llear , hear . ) Let tliuin look atthesutns now requirtd for gaols . biiJeivells , and police , and deduct those before they count ; he ( irofit . In his own place they were erecting ugaol and bridewell , which would cost £ C 5 . 000 . Iu Wb jounger years , tbe same place which , contaiucd one third of its present inhabitants , i , ad a gaol with six cells , tho doors of which were open six months in the year . They had only one policeman then , now they had one buudred and seventy . He had once been denounced in the House .

      of Lords by the Premier as au incendiary , and iu the House ot Commons by the Home Stcretary , as a character of the same si > rt ; but he would say that since the present agitation commenced , tho greatest change had ( uken place iu the minds of the workpeople regarding the preservation ot" property , I £ y reifemUere 4 several years : ; gu of going into several public-li » uscs in the neighbourhood of Manchester in disguise , in order to uscertuin the opinions of the woiking people on the subject , when he found that they then breathed nothing but reveiijje agaiust the property and persons of their masters . N-iw so great a change had taken place in their opinion ? , that were any oi . e to speak of such a thing , he would be immediately handed over to the police . He ha- , at one time been charged with bringing forward tliis questiou to impede the cause of Negro emancipation , at another to hinder the Reform Bill , and at another to oppose the progress of Free Trade . All these questioua had now been settled , and the ground was therefore clear .

      He would advise them agaiust strikes , aud if any one from England advised them to pursue such a course , avoid him . Mr . Fielden had desitcd him to nsk every meeting if there Were any among thtm in fat our of an Eleven Hours' Bill . At all the meetings he had attended lie had only found three individuals who holdup their hands for it . Were they in favour of ii ! ( "No , no . " ) Well , from that he would say that they were in lavour of a Ten Hours' BUI . ( " Yes , yes I" ) Mr . Oastler , after thanking them for the attention with whiehthey had listened to him , sat down amidst enthusiastic and prolonged cheering . The resolution was put , and unanimously agreed to . Mr . GtuiiiM moved a petition to both Houses of Parliament in favour of the Ten Hours' Bill—which wai adopted . In the course of his remarks in moving , he dealt several severe hits at tbe Burgh Member , for refusing to preside at the meeting ; , and intimated that they would call in question the views in his letter upon the Hutiject , should he again present himself at the

      hustings . Dr . Grat , aftvr Borne remarks , proposed a vote of thanks to Messrs . Oastler , Lewis , aud Miller , for their attendance , and for their admirable speeches . The propi'sitiou was cwiied by acclamation , A vote of thiniks having been given to the Chairman , the meeiing broke up .

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      « »• MEETING AT EDINBURGH . A public meeting of the inhabitants of Edinburgh whs lii-lil on Thursday evening in the large Waterloo-room , for the purpose of considering the propriety of petitioning Parliament in favour ot a Ten Hours Factory Bill . Sir James Forrest , Baronet , of Comiston , presided , and o : i the platform rear , Mr . Oastler , Mr . Ferrand , M . P ., the Rev . Messrs . Hogg aud Lewis ( Free-Church clergymen ) , Mr . Maitland , ( one of the directors of the Edinburgh aud Glasgow Railway ) , ic . Letters of apology were read from various individuals . One was read from Mr . Fieldc . n , M . P ., expressive of his regret at not being abie to be present . Another was read from Mr , -Macauby , M . P ., stating that , to a certain extent he agreed with the views of Mr . Fielden ' s Bill , but that it woul-. i bo impossible for him to be in Edinburgh to at

      tend thu meeting . ( Cheers ami hisses . ) A letter was also n . ad from Mr . Rashlrigh , M . P ., for East Cornwall , expressive' of his n-gtvt that private business detained him from coming to advocate the views of Mr . Fiulden , A letter from the Rev . Dr . CondlHi ( Free Church ) , said , that while he could not be present , from other engagements , l : e begged to express his cunded concurrence with tile' general ol jeets of the meeting , and bU high esteem l ' wr those who wuv bo fliilantl . rupically employed , iu endeavouring to remedy the evil of excessive toil to which tiiu woiking cliisses were subjected . He did not , of course , commit liimselfto the . details of any particular niMsuic ; but he h .-ul no hesitation ia saying , that , in his opinion , the present excessive- amount of labour imposed u ; m : i the ; ir : iz ; ms and mechanics of their country , and

      upoiivhiliiieii , formed a mjot serious barrier in the . way ot ' all their dibits to promote religious and social instruction amoiif , ' the m : if * es , aud to raise their moral , Mici ; il ainl intcllcuuiul Kiiindnig . The next letter read , Has o : ic from Mr . Gii . Kon Crai ^ , the other member for the city , nlio siir . pl / st-ited , that his engagement at the Treasury put it out (>! ' hi > power to be in Edinburgh , A lutt .-r of :: pi ]! i >; : \ lijn ) iilso I'l-cii received from t ! uj R . ; v . Andrew Ttii ; mp-. in ( of tho United Secession Church ) , i-. tpri-rsiiii ; his regret at n-. > t lu-iiij ; able to bi- present . A ltU ' .-r wa ^ nlsu l-i-ad u \> : u Mr . Shamian Crawford , elating ib : i ! his cnga ^ viii ( nt « in In-lami prcvi-iiU'd his being able to be in E .-. inuii-gb , but thr . t he hoped to inako up fur it b y his volts aud speeches iu Parliament upon tl . e sul-jjor . .. . Tin- CiJAiitMA . v said that tliis meeting coat ' eu-jiv gica-.

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      honour upon the working classes of Edinburgh . They had undertak « n the whole charge and management of it , j and they bad been the means of bringing Mr . Oastler and Mr . Ferrand to Edinburgh . After some other remarks to show the importance of the working classes having leisure moments , in order that they might acquaint themselves with those branches of knowledge which " . 'ere ecf ential to their well-being and to their usefulness as mem . bers of society ; he concluded by stating that he did not come here to . gpeak but to hear the statements that would be made by Mr . Oastler and Mr . Ferrand on the evils of the factory system

      Mr . Oastler then came forward , and wan greeted with lend applause . H « said that he had come to Edinburgh at the bidding of the working men of the town ; he hnd been invited from his country by the working men of the different towns of Scotland , and he had been delighted to find tlmt hitherto his misoion in behalf of tho most industrious and the most oppressed inhabitants of Great Britain , had received the favour of the inhabitants of Scotland . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Oastler thm referred * o the Rreat pleasure which he felt in the fact , that in Scotland and in England , the higher and ths middle cIhfsvs were following together in sympathy for the benefit of tbe producers of the wealth of their country . Mr . Oastler then proceeded at some length to detail tho evils of the

      factory system before any legislative enactment « O 3 intioduc d , remarking that it was worse than negro slavery . He then dwelt upon what he considered to be the objectionable features of the present system , and said tlmt notwithstanding the grievances which they had already been the means of redressing , this work of those who were in favour of a limitation of hours was not yet done There were still children above thirteen yearsi of apt , nnd women were subjected to twelve hours' daily labour ; two hours more than was required from able-bouifd mechanics . After adverting to the pernicious influence which these long hours must have upon both the bodi-R nnd minds of the rising generation , Mr . Oasller said that all they asked for was to reduce these hours to ten

      hours . Mb . Ferbamd , M . P ., next addressed the meeting , amid great applause , at some length , and asked the evidence of manufacturers , a » d others in proof of the injurious effects of the factory system , and referred to the numerous cases of accidents which occurred from children falling in among the machinery from over exhaustion . II ? called upon the workmen of Edinburgh to co-operate in this movement with their brethren in England , nnd iiuid that he was sure that a seed had been sown here wbich would produce good fruit . The resolutions were deterred to another meeting intended to be holden on Monday , in tho largest hall in Edinburgh . Thanks to Mr . Oaatltr , Mr . Ferrand , and the Chairman , concluded * he proceedings at the above meeting .

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      GREAT MEETING OF TIIE SHORT TIME DELEGATES . Manchester , Monday , Dec . 28— Wsterday ( Sunday ) a numerous meeting o ( delegates from the manufacturing districts of Lancashire , Yorkshire , Cheshire , ani ! Derbyshire , was held in a EChool-room , Great Ancoatsstreet , in this town , and by adjournment at the Woodman ' sjHut Inn , for the purpose of considering what steps were to be taken to promote tbe measure this session . There were delegates present trotn the following places , in the whole fifty-six in number : —Lancashire , C . S . T . C ., Bolton Spinners Central , Manchester , No . 1 ; Ditto

      No . 2 ; Bolton , S . T . C , Bolton Spinners , Rochdale S . T . C , Oldham S . T . C , Ditto Spinners , Ashton spinners , Preston S . T . C , &c . ; Chorley S . T . C , Bury , S . T . C , He ; wood S . T . C , Todmorden S . T . C ., Lee ' s Spinners ! Waterhead M'll Spinners , Macclesfield S . T . C , Littleborough S . T . C , Hindley Spinners , Padihatn , Lowerhou 6 e , Openshaw , Newton Mosr , Shaw Chapel , Stockport Spinners , Dukinfleld , Oldham P . L . Weavers , Manchester S . and G ., Hooley Bridge , Stalybridge , Burnley , Bradford , Huddersfield , Leeds , Lindley , Paddock , Golker , Raistrick , Fixby , Halifax , South Crossland , &c ., Holmfirth , Dawf . bury » nd Keigbley by letter .

      The proceedings commenced at ten o ' cloek , and the meeting so numerous , it was deemed desirable that there should bo a clinirnriitn and deputy . chairman . It w&s unanimously rrsolvcd , that the chairman of the Lancashird Central Short Time Committee thould preside , and that the vice-chair should be filled by the chairman of the Yorkshire Central Short Time Committee . The Chairman , in opening the proceeding * , said they had once more met on the important question of the Ten Hours' Bill . He hoped that tha delegates would he cool in their deliberation , but resolved in tbeir actions . The time had come when the people of the manufacturing districts should bestir themselves , nnd make a final and Ruccessful effort to carry their cause . He regretted that they we-e compelled to meet on the Sunday , but such wa » the nature of their occupation that it was quite out of their power to assemble on any other day . He then read a letter from Charles Hindley , Esq ., M . P .

      The Delesate from the Lancashire Central Short . Time Committee moved the first resolution , He said tlmt the resolution wbich he had to propose was one which was usually adopted at such meetings , and as far us he was concerned , he would never relax in his exertions until the o' ject was obtained . He then moved the following resolution : — "That this meeting of delegates from the manufacturing distiicis of Lancaster , York , Chester , aud Derby , assembled for the purpose of promoting tbe ' Ten Hours ' , Bill , again express our determination never to relax in our exertion ; until a bill to limit the hours of factory labour to ten hours a day for five days in the week , and eight on tl ;« Saturday , be ob . tnined frem the legislature , believing that we are justly entitled to protection to those limits . " Mr . John ieech , of Huddersfield , brh fly seconded the resolution , which was unanimouslv carried .

      The Delegate from Littleborougli , moved the secor . d resolution : — " The experience of the last tbirtv-nve years , in promoting this measure , warrant * this tutting of delegates from the manufacturing districts o > Lancaster , York , Chester , and Derby , in believing ; i : uttbe rejection of the measure last session , and the means adopted by tho government , by which our friends in Parliament were defeated , has stimulated the operatives throughout the country to still further exertions thau they have ever before made , and this meeting are convinced that the cause which has assembled them together is in accordance willi every prir . ciplefof juetice , humanity and religion . The Delesate , from Oldham seconded the resolution . Tho Delegate from the fine spinners of Manchester , was pleased with the terms of the resolutions . He could not see that any objection could be made to them . If ever there wa * n time when the Ten Hours 'Bill was m - cessary it was now . He could well recollect that when he first worked in a mill , in the room in which he worked there were four men and sixteen pieccrs , and he lived to work the whole of the machinery in the same room himself by the assistance of eight pitcers ; and he further added that he , by the increased speed of the machinery , and consequently increased labour , turn d off as much work now as the whole of tho four men and sixteen piecers . Such was the tear and near of the human constitution under this oppretsing toil that when a man Arrived at the age of forty hu could never again obtain work iu a cotton mill ou account of bis age . The resolution was then put and carried unanimously . The same Delegate , after having explained the princi . pies of the bill of which Mr , Fielden had given notice , moved the third resolution , which was as follows :

      " That this meeting , having heard the principles of Mr . John Fielden ' t Bill explained , which directs that on and after the passing of the Act all mills shall at once commence working eleven hours , and fixes the time of labour at ten hours in 1849 , are willing to accept it in the terms proposed . This meeting will , therefore , on behnlf of their constituents , use every means in their power to promote its pasting during the next session of Parliament . " The Delegate from Ileywood seconded the resolution , and said he believed the Bill would gire general satisfaction . To such an extent had the feeling in favour of tbe Bill increased , that he had no doubt but in that small town and the neighbourhood no few . r than 40 , 000 signatures would be attached to their petitions . The Delegate from Littleborough supported the reso . lution , and denied , tn accept the Bill as it was framed , as any departure , from the Ten Hours' Bill ; if it were , he would be the last man iu tho world to sanction it .

      The Delegate from Bradford , was instiucted to sup . port ten hours , hut wilh w view of avoiding opposition , his constituents consented to accept the Bill in its prescBt shape . This concession was merely to suit the pre . judiceH of thofe opponents who did not understand the factory question . The resolution was carried unanimousl y , as were also the following : — "That it being the constitutional rigU of Englishmen to be heard in the councils of their country by petition ; this meeting resolve to urge the factory workers in every mill , in every town , nud in every district , to prepai ' o petitions without delay , and forward them to Parliament , prajing for the passing of the Ten . Hours' Bill as pro ! posed by Mr . Fiel . len . "

      " That with a view of supporting Mr . Fclding to carry his Bill , and of laying btforo the members of Parliament the real wants nnd wishes of the factory workers , thii meeting think it desirable that each county should appoint and semi to London delegates , whose duties shall be to advocate the passing of his bill , as the only measure nothing short of which will satisf y the frctorv workers . " After adoptinK votes of thawks to their parliamentary and other friends , the meeting separated ,

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      ABERDEEN . TO THE EDITOR O ? TttK MO&T 1 IEUH STAR , Dear Sir , —I blmll feel greatly obli ged if you can give insertion to the following statement and observations on the subject of-Mr . OustUv ' s tour tln-ough Scotland in support of the principle of fhortetiing tliu hours ofh bourin factories . The more immediate caute of this letter is , that although a preat desire existed in this citv toheai'Mr . O . ontlio SUort-tuiie question , aim although ho visited us , and was anxious to niiilress the people of Aberdeen on this j . favourite measure , yet that to the great rcgrctof all the parties concerned , no meetiu ,-took place , I am not nware whether Mr . ( , ' asller put himself in comiimnic .-ttinn with parties iu the tvthcr towns of Scotland , in Miffu-it'tii time to » et : il ! the . 'Jiran ^ emcnts for a U ' . m ! nii-fting tul ! y carried ou ' , but u'hatever may have lit-c : i tin ; t'itsp witli rjynr . l In t . lu > other . ' owns , t ! ie oinissiou oi this previous uuilerstamling wit ' . i i 'v ^ aiJ to Aber-

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      deen has been productive of painful consequencesoa the i prosent occasion . Although aware from what was said in the Star , that Mr . Oastler intended to visit Scotland , yet from the fact of no communications being received by any one here on the subject , we supposed either that the visit of Mr . Oastler had beon put offfor some time , or that Aberdeen had been loft out of his route . Judge then of our surprise , when On Friday the 18 th , we received a letter from Glasgow , written by Mr . Pet . kerthly on the I 3 th , that Mr , Oastler would visit Aberdeen to hold a public meeting , on Monday , the 2 lst .

      Mr O . in tho mean time had passed on from Glasgow to Dundee , and we were requested by Mr . Pctkcrthly , to communicate with him there . We immediately wrote oft ' to Mr . Oastler , stating to him tlmt in consequence of the roads haviBg been partially blocked up by the snon-» t . irm , we had not received the notice from Glasgow in time to allow us to get up the public meeting on the Monday , but stating to him that we would make all the preliminary arrangements for the meeting , but that owing to the state of the roads , we could not even depend on him being able to reach Aberde . n on the Monday , and that under these circumstances , we wo . ild not fix the night of meeting until wo heard from him again .

      Mr . Oastler did not receive this letter , although it had ample time to reach him , being posted on Friday forenoon , and Mr . O . did not leave Dundee for Aberdeen until Sunday night . Mr . Oastler wrote UBon the Saturday , that he did not think he could reach Aberdeen in consequcnci- of the roads being impassable with tho snow —but he did , however , innnage to come , and arrived in Aberdeen about 8 Vclock on Monday morning . If we had known this , we would have strained every nerve to bavfi got up the meeting even with that short notice , but we did not learn that he had arrived until three o ' clock , when it was beyond our power to have got up « meeting for that night . We regretted all these disappointments

      the more , as we expected to have got such an expression of public sympathy in favour of the measure , as has not been seen since tbe visit of Messrs . Buncombe and O'Connor . Mr . Oastler ' s visit was not , however , altogether lost , as he was introduced to tbe Rev , Sir William Dunbar—who was to have filled the chair , nnd also to Professor Blackie . with whom he pprnt the evening , and innoculnted them with a portion of his on n fervour and enthusiasm in favour of the cause , ~ go that if we c uld pet a visit from Mr . Ferrand , or some other Lion in the cause , there could be no deubt of an overwhelming expression of public opinion in its fa Tour . I am , dear Sir , Tour ' s respectfully , James JIacpiibbson . O —

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      TO TnE ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY OF IRELAND . Right Rev . and Rev . Sirs , In my first letter addnsned to you I stated that nothing short of policical power for the whole male population , or the principles of the Charter would ever be successful as a " weans to nn end" to remove the burthen ol grievances off tho shnlders of Ireland . The analogy betwixt ciuse and effect is to » clear and convincing for even the most sceptical or bigotted to deny tbe Jtruth of this assertion , and thus I will rest upon ray position as 1 well know there is no power of reasoning or of logic which can defeat it . Sophistry may de its worst j tlander

      may apit its envenomed malice j expediency may twaddlo and simper ; and " self-interest may" whine and grumble ; it may even snarl and try to bite , but like the " House built upon a Rock ; the rain descended and the floods came and beat upon that house ; IT FELL NOT . " Truth is invulnerable and invincible ! According to Moses , when the great Author of our existence placed man upon the earth he gave him unlimited power orer everything it contained , and the Roman Catholic Catecbism states that , " The world was created for man ' s use and benefit . " When man transgressed and was cast out of Paradise , the world was set before him to choose where he wished to fix bis aVode , nnd although the curse pronounced upon him for his disobedience amounted to the hard condition of being henceforth

      subjected to a life of toil , it did not amount to a prohibition to reap the fruits of his labour if he chose to cultivate the earth for his subsistawre . If we take a rapid view of the history of mankind we will find , as I stated In my last letter , that society , from the earliest ages , had its willing idlers , aud was subject to their ravages and encroachments ; whenever artifice was likely to ensure their possession of the " needful" they used it , but where force was necessary , theyjscrupled not to wade to their object through the blood of their fellow creatures ; from individual murders fprinn wholesale butcheries , and man familiarised with blood went forth in wantonness to exterminate his spcciis . Villainy became heroism , and

      rapine , spoliation , and bloodshed became appendages of Christinnity !!! Wars of aggression were wars in which individuals or parties coveting the possessions of others and wishing to reap their advantages , endeavoured to wrest them irom thtfr possessors ; in these warj , tiie parties on the defersve were justified in opposing the invaders , provided t ' . ey , themselves , had honestly ac quired what they possessed . The great powers of the world , from the earliest days , seldom fought on either stop for honour ( as it is called ) or far more love of fighting ; all fought more or less to obtain an extension of territory or to preserve their possessions . Alexander wept for other worlds to conquer . Napoleon wished to bring the world in subjection to hispo « er .

      Russia covets the Caucasus ; the French Algeira . England covets ! -She coveted Ireland , and each and every one tbeJ blood to obtain their object !! If God , in tncoldlaw , ganctiontd \ vi . rs of defence and restitution , and if , at the present day , both are deemed just by mod-. rn Christians , and they must be so if tho new law is a type of the old , as is preached ; there cannot be any barm in a people rising up and demanding , in voicei of thunder , restitution of the possessions which were wrung from them by force am ! fraud ; bloodshed end inurciet ! Might will , of course , say No ; but RIGHT and neeessity , by wh : eh I mean poverty and starvation , ar ,- compnisory arguments , and will occasionally force degraded humanity to assume its proper character , and move men to seek happi'iess from that source from " which nature intended thei :- wants should be supplied . The object ot

      suehmen as "Tell" and " Washington" was only toob . tain possession for their people of tha earth , the land they live In . They sought not for wealth or influence or power ; all they required was the " right to labour on God ' s < arth , " the only " right divine" which man has a right to acknowledge ! Ireland ou ^ ht not to be an exception to tbe general rule , for so long as she has the power of producing food her people ought not to be hungry or indebted to vharity for subsistence . But Inland is an exception , but not in theory , for she has land and that land ought to be the people ' s ; but she i » an exception iu practice , for she overlooked the main question of re-pessefision and restitution , and expends her energies o i an ignus fatmts which the more it glimmers of hope the moro deeply it decoys her from the proper path , and leads her into political wretchedness and domestic misery .

      A true pa riot would labour to repossess himself of the land for his people : it should be his first and his only object to which all others should be secondary . A true patriot would tell his people that labour is tho first principlo , nnd that land is the basis of all capital throughout the world ; that without it , MEN ARE EITHER BEGGARS OR SLAVES , and that without cultivatiou land would be valueless ! "Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth , &c . " It is quite certain lhat the Repeal ieader knows the truth of this statement ; but so far from attempting to wrest the laud out of the hands of its prtsent pr <» - prietoiB , to restore it to its lawful owners , he conspires with tbe landlords , anil , both b y precept and example aids them to retain their monopoly Bgainst the people ! 1

      This is a . sweeping charge , you may say , to prefer against a man who professes to seek " Ireland for the Irish , " and to be satisfied with nothing Lbs : but sweep , ing th . ugh it is , it is nevertheless true , and I challeng e any nan in Ireland , who understands the question to honestly differ with it ! •• Ireland for the Irish" in ' , deed ! " Collcgo Green" in notlrelaud ; nor a Parliameiit sitting there would not be Ireland for the Irish ; it is all moonshine ami uonseriBo ! There is as much dif . fcience betwixt a Parliament in College Green and Ireland for the Irish , as there is betwixt daylight and darkness . Of course I mean n O'Counell parliament , aud a parliament elected by universal suffrage . Daniel O'Con nell knows this well . He is a " MIDDLE MAN " and u

      'RACK RENTER" !! - and if he had a purUaim-nt o class interests in Dublin , he would bo able to provide f « r tho safety of his o « n class ; but if the people had a parliament , he knows that his possession m Inerugh ' or Derrynane Abbey , and hU trade at Conciliation ( what a per « r « o :. ) lIall > uW be both profitless , « Ild ikc u * Rent ot , he present day , become-- Small by degrees and beautifull y less . " The people would take his profi vents to thomidv - M , and could affi . rd to do wUhoul polllical quacks , n-bo pretend to mend holes in th , constitution of the state , but who would condescend to mend the roof of an old hut , stuffed in U , c window places of the umei-ablehuu of his wretched tenants , which admit « ... J bu exclude th . daylight . He is a bad glazier in l \ lTt ! Uhe " ™ P ^ fcian for hi country

      ..: f = - . ton , ; tt e . - Sirs ' cany <>«> Wlmewhy a man who has to paj tor the support of his country , and who is liable to be called out to lo . se his life h , Mmm of u sllould not also have a voice in making ihe law which co . npeU him t'M outlier one or the other ? If you make him pay without this privilege , you rob him , ami if you make him fijht tu protect class interests , and lie is killed , > ou murder him . It he Were to pay for self-government , ' thy wise would be different , he would reap his proper share of the benefit , ami if he wero killed in defmce of u uu . ion ' s rights , instc . nl of monopolists , he would die an honourable death , his hist moments would bo ( jlurious

      knowing he had died for the guiu-ral good and in I is own defeticn . If f-. o have a v-iice ; is a free man , ho will have an interest in thu stato ; if hu have none , he will be u > lave ; and I deny thu right of a slave to uo eompelKd to tight for the mere privilege of be-ins " slave as his reward . I d .-ny hisr-ght hi equity to be taxed to support numa's-. . ariiy expiwtve iiutituiii . iis , from which be derives no benefit , and if I ni : iy point U > mi example , I wnuhl name tuc uxiftunco of : i lai-jtu uiilitnt-y foivoin Ireland , assisting to e : it up the little provisions wl . ich are iu tho " country , swall . - iwing si vast ( onion cl its acuity ri'sourct'S , and pro im-ing lit . thing hire-turn . But we ttml Mr . O ' Coiin-l ' ;> i ill ' . ' i . ei / lit of his ugiMtiwi , expressing ; i with thai

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      ! S ^ g—^—— —— - ' the Government would lend or « r a large . warm of th . " 7 « locusts" to ' « eat h ereryjgreen thing , " on the L . " We plea that they would eipend their . hiUings - ^ < shillings ! How can men who produce nothimr h shillings , unless they take them by force or fraud fr those who earn them ! Those soldiers eat good beef 11 ! " ' bread , whilst the poor Irish , who are dying of . u ,, ' T be tion , are kept at bayonet ' s len gth from tbe common n cessaries of life , ami if they ask for bread they » ^' threatened with bullets , and yet , O shame ! the m ' * who marshal those forces apainst liii famishing count ^ 1 ^ men are O'Connell ' s best friends , and to their " p 7 ' l ° ^ TRONAGE " . he has sacrificed their hopes of po litical ' demption . re Rol ^^^ ^*^ ,

      Mr . O'Connell seems , however , to have had foren to I ings of what must como at last . He know tliat T ^ " ' or later the people would perceive that want of noliri ! Dai power was the cause of their debasement , and t " 7 «> 11 how a semblance of doing . omothit . * towards rend , J THi Repeal national benefit , he propounded with his 2 p consistency , his numerous but ridiculous ami unu J . al i ingplnnsforanextension of the Suffrage . Ashamed p . " ^ e , hars ( t ) of his treatment of the forty shilling freolioldL ' I m » and in compensation for the failure of the houihoM I foil Suffrage of the Reform Bill , he would give Ire ° d J I 8 ^ advantage ! of a host of Suffrages , from the St « fI inc ' Manhood" down to the la . t new samplc of compute I « m . He would give them a ' fixity of tenure , " L E nc leaven know , what else bB . tdo ; -an , thing but th . I £ thing needful and invincible , the SUFFRAGE OF tit . 1 ! CHARTER ! If he would „„ « ManW ^ Jj I {? thn natmn whv <\\ A l , » „« , „ t . ^ »_ .. . * ° 10 H "J the nationwhy did he t grantitto t I £

      , no ^ Ass es the Repeal Association t Wh y did he establish ha I Z cursed system of class privileges in Conciliation Ha J ^ 1 ff shut the mouths of tho MES who paid their , wS * 1 *' and al ow others who possess little trace of hum ni ' I % save their shape , to vote upon questions , merely £ I Ih cause they were bis own tools-or because they ma , hi I fni paid a littl .. . more money ! Surely he will admit there w 1 fut men amongit the Associates in Dublin and in Banian ? 1 « and why excommunicate them from his pale for exerci . ln ' - In n privilege to which they were intWed , that of exprS ] l £ thtir sentiments in a manly manner ! Why all tkt I f « i barefaced " lurking" of man ' most nobl . of priviC , I ofi He is as great a tyrant as Nicholas .-and all his Snf l tio frages , his fi g ures , nnil bi « nostrums , are not worth th » > « t i paper it would take to notice them . So instead ! [ « n troubling you with a recital of them , I will proceed to ' ' »» i "how you how you may with certaint y benefit jour coun- '' ' \ try , and place her in such a position , that she will cire ver , I -un

      iime wno rules , so long « s she is happy . And why should i . fre she t It is happiness she now wants , aud which jou ffl . exi must aid her in truly obtaining . When the Chartershsll 11 pu have become law , and the Land the property of thepeo . S lat pie , then will be an end of tyranny on the one hand , an . J Hwh treachery on the other . The Mare market will closs 1 pr < forever in Ireland , and there will be a guarantee that S-tbi every man will partake of a just share of Ihe products of 1 Pu his labour , and that those who now live upon public S ini plunder , will oitlur have to D 16 or BEG forsutjsij . i wl tence !!! God grant it were to be so before to . morro > r 1 up That such will be the result ETERNAL JUSTICE hw Kin decreed . Ha I am , Right Rev . and Rev . Sire , 1 « i Your most obedient Servant , |§ th W . H . Clifton . r § Nf ^ w , ich - Wdr

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      MR . O'HIGGINS AND THE YOUNG IRELANDERS | to « fth T 9 THE EDITOR OF THE KOBTItEBtf BTAK . | cli Sir . —For some time back I had entertained the f ,, nd I-ai hope that Irishmen had learned suffle ' ent iu the school I cl of experience , under the tuition of Mr . O'Connell , that 1 they would shortly bo enabled to set up in a respectable § fa » nd honourable way for themselves , but , I must confes « , '* ^ V that the origin of the correspondence nlative to Mr ! |»' O'Hijrgins in last week ' s Star leaves an impression on ' ' S-si mj mind verv different from any thing that I should be 1 *' inclined to term either respectable or honourable . § 8 ' I should not have expected that a gentleman who but the g-ie other day advocated a " clear stage and no favour , " IP ' could so suddenly metamorphose himself into a new -, i P character , or , to use a law term , " step from the dock f into the witness bn * " ; * ti

      No one expected Mr : M'Gec to advocate Chartism ; but f i ' why he should have stepped out of his way to insult it is M c another question altogether . I look upon it as an un- § *¦ warrantable intrusion to insult a great principle by S a charging a gentleman with being a physical force Char . : » i ' tist , because he happens not to be a favoured guest , pecu . wi T Marly invited to a public platform , and who , perhaps , Iiad | I ^ no inclination to place himself in such a pillory , to ab . « « jure"before Ged and the world" thedoctrineof physical M force ! and by one , too , whose own veracity had jus ; ffit come forth from such an awful ordeal ! If gentlemen in S " committee" have been for the last four years sapping 11 the rotten foundation of a profligate system , they should H

      not consider the miners outside , who have worked openly § 8 and manfully in a more dangerous shaft as only deserving 11 of insult , —for my own part , I believe that if the fruits M * of the late victi ry at the Rotunda were thrown into a m * sieve , and well sifted , it would be found that the more M 1 uteful and substantial grains were contributed by t ! : s B | indefatigable exenions of Mr . O'Higgins . I have emiea . HP vourcd to aid the Young IrelnndpartyiorthePamcrejiseii wp thai I offer this meed of merit to Mr . O'Higgins , because Si I knew they were misrepresented and belled ; but it E " would be inconsistent , nay , more treacherous adulation || ] to approve of that conduct in Mr . M'Gee , which Ins K ' hurled fiom » high pluce in a people ' s affections the uace B of O'Connell ! II

      Chartism is an heir-loom in tho human family . The B title-deed of our unjustly withheld rights , and must n&t ra BiitTtir , at least , uncalled for insult while in the possession B of its votaries . O'Connell has sot priest against prioft , B and bishop against bishop ; but will Mr . M-Gec complete K this work by setting layman against layman ? On getting H rid of the" sph-ndid phantom " we want < j national sub- ¦ stance , and woe be to tho 6 e who will bla 6 t a second time I a people ' s hope . H Is thr loug insulted flaji of Ireland ' s nationality apaiu ¦ to become the emblem of a party « Is the Vt'lrg devuf , H 'divide and conquer , ' to be substitut , d for the hallowed M watch cry , "Liberty to all . " Is the new R-peal liri . ipo Hf to be- built merely for the passage of the select few , if so , B ' mayhap it is as well to remind the architects of ' . lie Hj " comeatable materials , " besides those who may « be ex . « eluded may not always be imbued with sufficient pa- jl Jiencc to » " Wait like the rustic till the rivers dried . " §§ I am , Sir , your ' s truly , ffi L . T . Clancy . f § London , December 30 : b , 1846 . 8 £

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      THE " WEEKLY DISPATCH . " j TO THE EDITOR OF TOE NORTHERN ST . Ul . So that emasculated liberal newspaper , the Dlty . u ' . fl , has made an attack on democratic principles " for nil nations , " by stepping aside nnd raking upyouthful spreelrt > , warm , ardent , sincere , and im ( ias 6 ioned , when remarking on the horrible tyranny of the oligarchy to a patitnt , in- ' dustrious , and plundered people . i When reflecting on the increasing poverty ef the people , and their slow murder or imprisonment in a union baf- r tile—a people williug and anxious to labour—recei \ iog j the worst of i \> od nnd clothing in return for their htaltb and sinews ; whose blood does not boil ? and , in youth , who has such a frigid soul as not to pant for the ironic ;

      diate extinction of such injustice and cruelty f Did not [ Tell , Miissaniello , Washington , xnd othtrs so act OugMi t then , no excuse to b ? madefor the ardour of youth , nu-ro ! especiall y when in ri pened manhood that Individual is | foremost and most incessant to accomplish the fulfilment of the aspirations of all rght-minded men—liberty nil ' over the world . ? Docs not he labour to produce tho ' same results » s the Dispach pretends to ? Yes , but he > U sincere—tho Wspntch hypocritical . Had the MsjwlA : mshed to befriend tin- exiles of liberty ; had it bun as di-sirous to att . nd the meefinps where truth was sm ken , it would havo sought with equal avidity the splendid and largely attended soirees of the Democratic Society , sj it does where a title presides , and wealth spouts forth i : » doubtful sympathy for the banished and brave Pol"s .

      The Dbspntih declares it never advocated VniverssA Suffrage , Annual Purliameuts . Ac . As tlio m ^ Uth is r . t political economist , it would stand by and allow twothirds of the diuncr of every industrious labourer tote taken from him , and not permit a remonstrance untl the- p . iorman , whose every moment is occupied WcotflU -educated ! Out upon such trifling , such pattering . « uch destruction , su . h tyranny . I only desire owe ii »»« to happen that I might enjoy the fan . I f houh ! likr ^ erudite e-Utor of the Dispr . tch to enter the meeting of » Uentfit Society of working tne-. i , many of whom wuM i . either read nor write , and k-t the Uarned editor te . l them the } p . ro too i gnorant to roto who shall be oif . cers of their society , or bow their money should be spent . I' - persund . ' him to thi * experiment " . What is , or u % \' to be , a nation r ut a Hem tit Society , wher <> all contribute , nnd where ali should have a voice ?

      lJut the Ditpiteli is writhing with disappointment as its oraclum is treated « iiU cuntempt . Tha niiffor-. nviC of its former editor and the deaths of its original / VWeoUt and Cewrius have place *! it as an imbecile amiibt the army of thepr ^ ss . The emmlay Times lias supplantul its s porting notoriety ; Hi-yd supplies its anecdote readers at half its jirii-o ; ami the Northern Star has enlis ' td the due patriots who once bi-lievcd the JHtpaU'h » faithlul pioneer of liturty . Thus , it now Hies » it !> dipped wings , with tuintfd character , with befouled /< - thers , the latter being its suin <; nd venom of filth , whenever patriotism nnd truth ave not contracted to the nan ott compass of the JHspatch mail ' s intellects . One woo knows the Dispatchers . m

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      Hair and F ! kard . — The AnnalisU S ; ixo , n » I ann . l \ 30 , says tlrnt ' . ill abont the year 1180 llif Uormiins ot ' tlistiiictiiin wore lor . j : luiir , but those wto weru ti . en in camp witii Kin- L-nhar hi-. l their ) ' «''' pinged by liglitiii : i < :, .-. n-l it became the t . v > i : i >! i sifrei-wjirils 10 woar short lu-. i ,- . Tho ( . rent man «" i : o iiersiiatlcf ! liisli' ! l ( -w-i- ; iiz ,-: is : o shave their k . ir . ia li .-isiU't been liasuleil lio-. vn to posterity . 1 c i * sniJ tliiitttw \ wo \ -h s . 'tN . e ! a ! ly > : ; evoil that Manic h "' ncen m Hell , as his i .. > ai \ l luul at . tlie apjiearsnu-c cf l . ayiMtf been sm :. ed . Cut l ) . U ! t . . . tlj . | not lead to t . < o hHnoii of shaviiiL-, tot-be . tnls ( l-uris-hwl Im-i Jitter his timo . These is yoiiio iiie mvouiciice in the : »> ¦ * enco ot a bead . ; he biacks of X « : \ v Small Walv * , whiMi lite first ivnvV . s .- ; i > :. ir . iv . i nm on ^ t ! u-in . * - '> v . s . iueh j . uwA ' . l fur vjs-e timo ,- . ! r , ut the .-ex ol ' ' ¦ ' ¦¦ - strathjcvstroiu i ! u it - uv ; : n ; i . u .. cards .

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      Mhi . akcholt Termination of a Convivial Party . — Oil Tuesday an inquest wastahen before Mr . Baker , : it t !> . e George , Ni .-inscll-street , Whitecbapei , on view of the batiy of Mary Fitzlienry , live months old , ^ hose parents were on ^ Monday under an examinat on , before Mr . Yardley , at the Thames Police Court , accused of being accessary to its death , when the charge was dismissed . It appeared that the dea-aseil lived at Xo . K , Greg ' s-cour ! , with its mother ainl father , who is a gun-maker . Last Snturdiiy nijfh * - they bad a few friends , among whom was the grandmother . Between nine and ten o'ei'x-k the

      mother we tto bed ; and shortly niter the child was taken hi her by its father . About one o ' clock tin : following morning the mother got- up , when shortly after , ujion roin < r tor the deceased , sOie found ii with ' uf any si ^ ns of lite . Her screams hroupht her husb .-in-l to her , who held the body fa-fore the fire , to restore the vital functions , in doing which the skin wasM't . rcbciJoff its bach . The jirandmotliflr then placed it in a warm bath . Mr . ' Liddle , surgeon , who icaiiC a jiott-imirtem examination , found tlie liim ; s highly congested , which wa * caused by suffocation . ' he burns , however , w *> n ; . » iillicii-nt tu ( iestniy life . Verdict . " l » eat ! i bv s :: l " ocati ; in . "

      Jack at Fault . —A siilm- in he pit of the theatre , on ! . i !! -iii !< r f . ver his jl . ybi . l , / isu . vered tlmt an interval ., t thirty jvavs iii-euneii k-iween the first and see i :.. ii a-.: ts . T . ; kit ; u this has a matU : iMi > -ia " . r , and n «> t . : i . s : i ( IraftoK hisimn ^ iiiRtinn , ho put < iu his t : ivi'U'iiiii at the eiid oi ihe jii > t ye :, at > il left tic ; . if , .-ayiiu , " Very few of theaudieuco Viillnrobab ' y live to bcl- the tnd of the play . " " '

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 2, 1847, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1399/page/6/