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THE REBEL GOVERNMENT . Last week we commented upon some of the doings of the FELON GOVERNMENT , which have [ since concluded in the . Transportation for Life of Five of their English victims , and this week we are called upon to chronicle their Rebel acts in Ireland . We say their Rebel acts , because—but for their mis-government of the country—there would not be a rebel in the laud . We have published the trials of O'Brien and others , as far as they have reached us ; and as in England so in Ireland , we find the case for the Crown mainly , if not wholly , depending on the evidence of spies and
informers . But as custom reconciles man to depravity of the worst description , and as , under some circumstances , the evidence of such parties may be indispensable to establish the guilt of the accused , we yield to the morbid fashion of the day , and eschew further consideration of such wretches ; but we cannot as lightly pass over the conduct of the Court , which , if not impartial , should assume the appearance of impartiality , or , indeed , if
leaning could be evinced to either side it should be to that of the accused . The Judge should be above suspicion . If the law ia to be strong it must be impartially administered , and if it is to be avenged , its vengeance sheuld serve as an example to wariTothers of its power ; but when we find the Chief Justice presiding in a case ef the greatest magnitude , not only evincing palpable partiality , but disregarding even the eommon * courtesies of life , then we can come to no other conclusion than that the Judge is the tool ot Administration , and not the administrator of the Law .
There is no crime more revolting than that of premeditated assassination ; there is none more foolish than that of an unarmed , undisciplined , disorganised part y , making war against an armed , disciplined , organised army : and the people of this country , and of Ireland , have yet to learn what constitutes the difference between a French and English , or Irish revolution . The French constitute a great national array . There are a greater number belonging to the operative classes who have been drilled and trained in the use of arms and who possess arms , than the French
army numbers , and from time immemorial that nation has considered the musket as a substitute for speech . The emeute of a sing le club , or a single school , or a single association , has been a sufficient standard to insure , if not a general , at least an extensive and alarming outbreak . And in France those outbreaks are looked upon as the representative of the will of a large portion—if not of the entire community . But even there , while such wild frenzy is on the eve of an outbreak , there has been little , if any , preconcert . The grievance is felt—the alarm vis given—the standard is raised—the
revolt takes place while authority is not as well prepared to resist ; but , in this countryalthough the Bill of Ri ghts proclaims the right of every man to have arm ? , neverthe . less , not one in a thousand possess them , while their very possession may establish the guilt of the owner . They are not soldiers ; they lack discipline , and are deficient in organisation . Hence , when they resolve upon an emeute they have to pass through those several dangerous ordeals—the procurement of
arms , discipline , and organisation , and in every stage of which they stand in danger of being ensnared , betrayed and destroyed . The reader may , therefore , conclude that all agitation for the amelioration of the condition of the working classes must be vain andhopeless ; while , on the contrary , weass Jt that the straining of the law , in those cases ^ oes to establish the weakness . of the existing system , and to prove that its weakness consists in its injustice : and when the Chancellor of the
Exchequer produces his next budget , in which the suppression of Whig treason will constitute no unimportant item—then those parties who would now halloo the government on their victims , will have cooled in their enthusiasm , and will ask themselves whether a large saving might not have been effected if timely justice had been substituted for unseasonable rigour ? Surely those who pay for such fanciful pranks must expect that the recent and progressive acts of terror will have the effect of wholly suppressing that disloyalty , disaffection , and discontent now so generally manifest jd both countries . And with such proof will the Prime Minister dare to repeat his assertion , " Tbat . tbe people of this country are loyal tea
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man , are perfectly , sat isfied with things as they are , and require no reform i" Or will theGrand Jury or the Petty Jury of Ti pperary , be more reconciled to the confiscation of their property by Whig injustice aid misrule , after they shall have sacrificed O'Brien and his associates to Whig misgovernment ? We have always told the people that men were best in that situation for which nature designed them ; and if nature had any hand in the establishment of British Parliaments , " she designed the Whigs for the opposition benches .
There , though artful , cunning , and hypocritical , they make a show of resistance , and are loud in professions of liberality ; but when housed in Oowning-street , and placed on the Ministerial benches , they are tyrannical , cruel , and vindictive ; weak in principle , they exhaust the Exchequer to secure support , and even then their chief reliance is upon an appeal to the hereditary loyalty of their opponents . At present , therefore , we recognise but one paramount duty as devolving upon the whole people , and that is the restoration of the Whigs to that
side of the House for which nature designed them . This was to have been the first work of that Assembly which was to have succeeded the triumph of the 10 th of April . It was marred , however , by the foll y—nay , by the insanity—of the would-be representatives of the people ; but as it is never too late to retrace error , it now becomes the bounden duty of all to join in this necessary , this useful work . We presume that even the reall y brave of the Chartist body have now got a surfeit of
trusting their lives and their liberties to the tender mercies of the blustering , the enthusiastic , and false ; but that , like men truly wedded to their principles , they will become more confirmed in their faith , and firmly contend for their adoption by every legal and con * stitutional means ; and those means , let us assure our readers , if energetically used , Will be more speedy—more efficient and conclusive —than the folly which has been so often tried , and which has so often failed .
The example of France ought not to be lost upon the people of England , while , as we contended in the outset , the example set by Prussia ought to convey a serious lesson to the people of the world . Politics , governments , and systems were never so perplexed or confused as at the present moment- It is some years since we prophesied that one day there would be established a league of people against the league of kings ; and we predicted that the artful and desi gning would so possess themselves of democratic confidence as to constitute
the leagae of capital as a substitute for the league of kings , thus establishing the tyranny of millions in lieu of individual tyranny , and in every instance in Europe where the league of people has been successful against the league of kings , our prediction has been verified . And hence we gather experience from the past , and say : " Preserve us under thejule of individual tyranny , galling and oppressive as it may be , until the industrious classes of the country have affixed their stamp of approbation upon a system which is to make labour the source of government . ' ' ~ <
Have the working classes ever considered what the condition of this country would have been if a physical revolution had changed the system of Government , if they had been unprepared with a substitute ? Have they learned wisdom from the hesitation and treason of the Provisional Government of France , and the treachery ^ of Lamartine and the majority of his associates , until the enemies of Labour had
prepared themselves with the h ydra-headed jnonster as a substitute for the old woman they had deposed ? Whereas , had the French people been as well instructed upon the principles of representation as the English people are , there would have been ne interval between the destruction of the old , and the establishment of the new system ; the united will of the millions , instead of the moonshine of traitors , would have been the basis of the Constitution—much blood would have been spared—the treasure of the country would have been confidindv
brought into the market , instead of being transported or buried—and Labour , instead of being a beggar at the door for a portion of its own creation , would have been relied Upon as the source of justice , and treated upon true terms of equality . "Liberty , Equality , ' Fraternity , " is a Trinity of humbug . "Justice , Self-reliance , Co-operation , and Representation / ' must constitute the true basis of a Constitution which is . to do impartial justice to all classes ; and
however the trickery of language may invent a whimsical and wordy Constitution for the excitable French people , we tell those who rely upon the judge , the spy , and a jury box , that the league of people will be too strong for the league of tyrants , or the law ' s perversion , and that the reviled Chartists of England , unscathed , undaunted , and undiminished in vigour , enthusiasm and strength , will yet establish a Constitution which will not require force or fraud for its protection ^ because it will be based upon
"JUSTICE , SELF-RELIANCE , CO-OPERATION , AND REPRESENTATION . " We cannot conclude without calling attention to the Whig Attorney General ' s side blow at the Land Plan . Daniel Burn , an honest Chartist and member of the Land Company , appeared as an evidence against the informer Powell , and exultingly concluded his crossexamination by the Attorney General : — " I know nothing about class leaders , but I have heard there are such- persons . I belong to the Laud Society also . lt Attorney General . —When do you expect to get your share of the Land )
" Witness . —Oh ! lam quite satisfied with the Land Scheme . It has been much misrepresented by the Press . I entered for a four acre share , and have paid 32 s . " Now , irrelevant as the matter was to the question at issue , we hesitate not to assert that the Whig Attorney General would have preferred the ridicule and denunciation of the Land Plan , even to the conviction of the victims of his guilty colleagues , as in our soul
we believe all the force of the Government both legal and administrative , have been most treacherously enlisted against a plan whose chief recommendation must be their hostility aud our only astonishment is , that the official ' in his sagacity did not secure the evidence of some of his confederates—some of the vermin r-to throw contempt upon theLandPlan ; . But the little gentleman burned his fingers wKen he attempted to play the Anti-Land tool with honest Daniel Burn . " .
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FAILURE OF FREE TRADE . The Free Trade agitation is too recent for any one to have forgotten its leading incidents . By means of the issue of hundreds of tons of tracts—of large packed meetings in Covent Garden Theatre—of a coBtly and widely-ramified organisation—a highly-paid staff of lecturers and agents—and a succession of bazaars Conferences , &c .,. &c—the leaders of that movement succeeded , for the time being , in filling the eye and the ear of the " thinking and [ most respectable British public . " The shopkeeping and electoral classes generally , were quite captivated by the fascinating promises of Messrs Cobden , Bright , and Co .
According to these gentry , all that was needed , in order to let in a flood of prosperity on the country , was to throw open our ports for the free importation of foreign produce of all descriptions . That was the specific which was to restore health and prosperity to the body politic . "High Wages , Cheap Bread , and Plenty to do , " was to follow in the wake of the Repeal of the Corn Laws . New mills and manufactories were to be erected by the hundred to supply the ever-growing demand for British manufactures from abroad ; and , in return , a stream of agricultural wealth was to flow steadily into our ports , and thence into the cottage and dwelling of every working
man . We were among the few journals advocating Radical politics , not deceived by these specious and alluring promises . We saw through the fallacious reasoning and clap-trap declamation by which the . movement was supported , and steadily and consistently warned the working classes against putting any faith in the representations of the leaders of that party . For this we were , of course , assailed with all that coarse vituperation and scurrility which the organs of the " respectable" middle-class Free Traders know so well how . to indulge in .
Accusations of bribery by the Tory party were the gentlest of the charges made againot us . We were denounced as the greatest shemies of the working classes , and the Leaguers were held up as their friends , par excellence . Well , we have been content to give the League measures the " fair trial" they asked for them . It might , with truth and justice , have been objected to an earlier criticism , that these measures should , at least , have a year or two to develope their probable tendencies , as well as actual operation , before any judgment was pronounced upon them . We are now getting towards the close of the transitional three
years allowed by bir R . Peel for this purpose , and we think it is but reasonable , after this delay , to look round and a 8 k "How far the new policy has fulfilled the expectations held out by its promoters i" : vi , ; The fjftUure . qfJIihe Potato crop of latejsters , so far from being an argument in favour ' of the Free Trade party , as it is generally used by their advocates , in reality tells , against them . A relative scarcity of home-grown food may have had some effect in preventing the price of Agricultural produce from falling to the . low point predicted b y the Protectionists , and thus averted—for a time—the evils which were anticipated b y that class of the
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population . But , on the other hand , this very scarcity of provisions should have co-operated with what were alleged to be the natural ten dencies of the Free Trade system , in producing a very much larger demand for our manufactures , on the part of these countries who brought their "bread stuffs " . to supply our deficiency . Has this been the case ? By no means . The foreign importer has preferred our gold to our manufactures ; for this good reason , that eyery country is . encouraging , as far as possible , its native manufacturing industry , They have not the slightest objection to be allowed to participate in . all the advantages of our high-priced market , by selling their Corn and Cattle in it , without paying either taxes or customs ; but they have a very great objection indeed to let our textile fabrics
compete on the same terms with their own , in their markets , and hence they have shut us out of them by hostile tariffs . The result is , that ever since the Free Trade policy received its final legislative sanction , our manufacturing industry has been declining , and may safely be said to have been , during the whole of that time to the present , in a worse condition than at any former period of the histoiy of our manufacturing system . We do not mean to assert that at particular
periods , and for a short period , there may not have been a larger number of hands out of work at one time—but what we do mean is , that the trade was never before so long and so generally depressed , and that instead of meudvag it is gradually and steadily growing worse . In Manchester , the heart of our manufacturing system and the cradle of the League , instead of improving things are growing worse , as the following extract from the " Manchester Examiner" will show : —
Short Tihe . —Until a decided improvement In demand takes place , a recourse t- » short time working seems t « betheBafest and best policy for producers . In the pre . sent state ot the market anything like an accumulation of stock would only make matters wotsb ; and the condi tlon « f the cotton market Is not such as to cause any an . prehension regarding a plentiful and cheap supply of raw materitti ; for the ensuing jear . A pretty general report to shorter hours , on the expiry of contracts now running , would tend to arrest the prssent downward tendency of prices , and prevent many producers from closing their mills altogether a few months hence .
This is the present state of the Manchester trade , be it remembered , after a continuous and unprecedented state , of depression . One significant fact in common with the subject may be noted : it has been the custom to publish in the" Manchester Guardian" a weekly table , showing the ' number of hands at work on full time , short time , and totally unemployed ; these tables were made up by the official authorities , and furnished an unfailing barometer as to the state of the mills and manufactories in that town . In the last return for the month of June the number . of the unemployed was
stated to be 7793 . From some cause or other this column was omitted , and for three months subsequently the unemployed have been kept wholly out of sight . Whether it was considered to be an awkward contradiction of the predictions of the Free Trade millowners , to see that not less than nine , thousand mill hands were idle in the very capital of the League that caused the suppression of this column , we cannot say . This week , however , the statement re-appears for the last time , the " Guardian" appends the following notice to the table : —
Of the total hands included in the table , there is an increase of 359 working short time , and a decrease of 616 working full time . The return is , therefore , rather of an unfavourable character . ' These re'urns are tobediicon ' tinued after the present week , it being considered unnecessary to take them regularly every week at present ns they have lately varied so little , and as objections have been mnde in some quarters to the trouble given to millowners in famishing the information . Taking this in connexion with the advice of the " Examiner ' to work short time , a pretty shrewd guess may be given as to the actual effects of the Free Trade nostrums of the
Manchester trade , and the determination on the millowners to prevent us from accurately estimating its results this winter . But our recent policy in commercial matters has turned out still more disastrousl y for Glasgow . The " North British Mail , " a Free Trade paper , has a lengthened article on the subject , in which it discloses a lamentable tale of decling trade , diminishing imposts , and suffering industry . A short document—a return of the vessels cleared out of Glasgow in two different but consecutive periods , is a short but remarkably instructive document . Here it is : —
VeiBels cleared out of the port of Glasgow for foreign parts , from 6 th'January , 1847 , to 29 th Sept . .. 602 Ditto from Sih January , 1848 , to 29 th September .. 382 Decrease .. .. .. ; . 220 "This decrease , " adds the "Mail , " "is without any parallel in previous years ; " and in a subsequent part of the article it thus describes the state of Glasgow under Free Trade : — ¦ Our streets swarm with unemployed men . Immorality , ignorance , and demoralisation are increased by' idleness Defective homes ate falling gradually into wretchedness . Our poor-rates and police , rates improve , and they are the onlj improving interests in this city . Some time ago the pawnbrokers complained that matters had gone too far
for them ; and even the spirit dealers , we believe , feel the pressure of the times . The potato disease at home , and rerolution on the Continent , are charged with the origin of this misery . The potato disease of 18 , 6 was followed by a splendid harvest of 1817 , and apparently now by an average return of food in 1648 . The revolutionary proceedings on the Continent were not altogether injurious to our manufacturing and commercial interests . They reduced the demand for some fabrics on the Continent ; but they alse cast back industrial pursuits in the troubled states . Men cannot work and fight at the same time . These facts are , therefore , utterly inadequate to explain the great decrease in our exports , accompanied by a still greater reduction in the home consumption of goods , and a very extraordinary increase of imports . * * *
Matters cannot long exist in their present state . We cannot go on from bad to worse in order to try an experiment which has not a reasonab ' e chance of success . At this moment we know that measures are in course of adoption to reduce wages largely in some staple departments , for the purpose of meeting the competition created by recent changes . Such reductions as that to which we refer in the Glasgow trade render necessary and practicable great reductions of wages ; but they were not the consquances promised after . th « legislation of 1815 and 1846 . We believe that a British commercial union will require to be formed , after the fashion of the
German union , on the basis of perfectl y free trade between all the dependencies and possessions of this empire . It will start with a population of 200 , 000 , 000 , on a field embracing one-fourth of the globe , and within that range mischievous class monopolies are utterl y and absolutely impossible . We can then wait the conversion of the world in calmness and security in an unassailable position . That movement may be more' rapid than some parties anticipate ' , and it would be accelerated a genera , tion or two in consequence of our resolution , Some step 4 f the kind must be taken speedily , in order to save our docks and rivers from desertion , aud our people from ttarvation .
Here then we have one Free Trade organ compelled by the facts under its own cognisance , to retreat from its former position , and to take up the advocacy of that colonial and reciprocity system of commerce , which the Protectionists were but a short time since assailed with ridicule and obloquy for main . taining . The returns as to our East Indian trade are nearly as unpromising ; and as to our West Indian colonies , there come from all quarters a chorus of groans and execration on the policy and the party by whom they have been plunged into irretrievable ruin . In short , in whatever direction we look , our Free Trade legislators have " made a pretty mess of it ; " and the worst of the matter is , that they are as impudent , as confident , and as boastful as ever .
But , as the "'Mail 6 ays : " we cannot go on from bad to worse in order to try an experiment , which has not a reasonable chance o f success . " The great interests of . the country imperatively demand that our present downward career be arrested , and that speedily . Messrs ^ Cobden , Bright , and other luminaries of that school , had better seek out some more congenial vocation than that of politicians and statesmen , in which they have evidently made some monstrous } blunders , and proved themselves decidedly false prophets . They staked their reputation on the success of the policy advocated by the'Anti-Corn Law League . It has turned out an utter failure—They have lost , and had better give up ,
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" Moral power is the deliberative quality in each man ' s mind , which teaches him how to reason , how to endure , and when forbearance becomes a crime ; and should its exercise fail to secure for man all those rights to which he is entitled
and should physical force be required ( which God forbid !) it will come to his aid like an electric shock ; but the man who marshals it destroys it , and the man who recommends it is a fool or a traitor , and will be the first to desert it . " Feargus O'Connojr .
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THE « POWELL PLOT " ~ AND THE PRESS-GANG . Ihe truculent « Ttmes " -true to its horrible s the s ? rte seized up ? n the w »? 3 £ at the Old Bailey as a pretext for renewed abuse and misrepresentation of Char tism Imnn whch . it would f f ten the odium of KS villany , and the folly of that miscreant ? Tvic tarns . In the first place it reprX t 8 the "dozen or two tailors , shoemakers and t L ?? tried at the Old Bai eyias the « » ,, i J e ' ^ sSr ^^ SBsrasa
more man iney bargained for Right well the « Thief writers know that hey lie when they represent the ChartTsts a leagued ^ wit h "thieves , " or calculating upon the support of " rogues . " We wUl not here ! 1 ke some craven wretches , . decry . what is railed and always ^ iU ^ ert t « fe right of W&MI everywhere and in all times U > defeh ! themselves from oppression and violence even by am * . We wiU not preach " peace at any price . ' We «^ 1 notbl heme P thememori / of our fathers who obtained for themselves and their descendants , the few liberties we do possess , not by passive obedience , but by the outpouring of their blood on many a battle-
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field . , W ^ wiU not do otherwise than honour Simon " dtf Montfort , Wat Tyler , and Hampden . We will throw ho slur upW Wallace and Washington , because they fought tyrants with their own weapons . The battle-fields where freedom was the prize contended for , lie regard as "holy . ground ; " and , let the lying took of tyranny , and the canting trucklers to a usurping minority say what they i L . im ( . fill airiam mnihloin flia Annnnf ]! _!» l . A vtvi uiaiuiruu
plcaSU , wc " * " * oai ; it : u | JlgUI ; of resistance to oppression , that last resource of the ^ wronged against J ; he wrong-doer . ' jut we have ever deprecated the employment of physical force when other means of obtaining justice have been open to the oppressed ; and we have as ardently deprecated the very idea of any section of the people appealing to force , under any circumstances . We have done so , not because we are insensible to
the rig hts of minorities , but because we are convinced that even a just cause and pure intentions are hot sufficient to justif y armed revolt . For any cause to be successful it must have the sanction ; of public opinion . Even temporary victory will not ensure the establishment ef principles which the mass of society are ignorant of , or hostile to . A " conspiracy " must of necessity be confined to a few , a sufficient reason , though by no means the only one , for us to oppose everything like the "Powell Plot . " The views we have expressed , and the course we have invariably pursued , are the views , and has been the course followed by the Chartist party .
Excepting Cuffay , the names of Powell ' s victims werg totall y unknown to us before the arrests took place ; and though some > of them may be Chartists , they no more represented the Chartist party than they did the Whig or Tory party . It is true , the Whigs were represented in the " Conspiracy "—represented b y Powell , Davis , Barrett , Tindel , and Baldwinson . If an insurrection of 50 , 000 thieves was calculated upon , the- calculators were the Whigs ... .. Atthe time the Cochranites induced a turn-out of the blackguards of the Metropolis , the Chartists abandoned their out-door
meetings rather than give any pretext for the assembling of the ignorant and brutal window smashers . Chartism is comparatively weak in the Metropolis—we mean as compared with Manchester—precisely , because "thieves "legitimate and illegitimate , law-sanctioned , and law-hunted rogues—here most abound . Public plunderers and private pickpockets may havesome sympathy in common ; but scoundrels—from those in ermine and lawn , to those in rags and tatters—have an instinctive horror of Chartism . The Chartists [ reciprocate that feeline .
Once for all we declare that the "Powell Plot" wasjeencocted without the . knowledge of the Chartists , and in opposition to the whole course of Chartist policy . The "Times'' in asserting the contrary , lies , and it knows it lies . During the progress of the trials the "Times " did | its best to ensure the conviction of the victims , and when convicted it savagely exulted irv the brutal sentence , passed upon them . The "Times" says the sentence "is a severe , but a most just one . ' * The . ' ! Chronicle" " approves " of the sentence , and denounces by anticipation any outcry that may be raised against it as hilanthropic and constitutional cant
" p , ' Undoubtedly these ruffians of the Press-gang would have rejoiced had Powell ' s dupes been condemned to swing on the gallows . That vile thing , "Punch , " not contented with having done its best to make Cuffay both ridiculous and offensive in the . eyes of the jury-class , is this week guilty of the pitiful scoundrelism of heaping insult upon the fallen victim of its lies andscoffings . In the course of the dirty article alluded to , the mis-shapen buffoon says : — " If we have the misfortune to pass ^ for dangerous levellers with some people , we are
considered aristocratic sneaks by others . " This is at any rate an admission that tells of a perished popularity and a failing circulation ; for people are not in the habit of expending even threepence upon a thing they despise as a sneak . But the superannuated hunchback , though well known to be a " sneak , " is not an aristocratic sneak ; " its baseness is beloVr « ven that . ' " Punch'' is the sneaking toady of the bourgeoisie—the buffoon of the
Plutocracy , from the " League" to the " specials . " Once it affected sympathy for the poor and op pressed , and knaves and tyrants winced under the scourge of its wit ; but , sold t « the Plutocrats , its humour has been replaced b y drivel , and its wit has degenerated to slander . Of course its popularty is gone , and its doom is fixed . The laborious advertising puffery which , week bv week , is to sustain the wornout imp of ugliness , is all in vain—the end is not far off when over the rotten remains of " Punch , " will be inscribed : — " Here lies a sneak ! ' '
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DRonsDBN—The Land members are requested to » tteod a meeting at . the TemperanceIroom , ;< m Sunday morning , October 8 h , kt nine o ' olook , for the purpoee ol appointing a eeoretary and other officers . ^ Htdr . —The Lund members of this branch are deaired to meet in their room , on Sunday afternoon , at two o clock , to diacuaa the best means of locating the members of the Company , and to nominate a delegate to the forthcoming Conference .
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RECEIPTS OF THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . , v FOB THJJ WEEK ENDING THURSDAY , i OOTOBER 5 , 1818 . . ^ PER MR O'CONNOR , ' ; OABEf . , £ B . d , : Wiocbcombe .. ISO Bury , JBury , ,. 480 Cardiff .. 19 8 Manchester ,. 3 0 0 tfatket Latington I 6 6 Cirencester .. 2 0 0 Lincoln .. 2 4 0 Htiwell „ 0 4 0 Herthyr , Powell 0 2 0 Aihburton '„ l 6 li I Sawtck ,, 120 LeamingtOH .. 806 Chester .. 113 Aberdeen , „ 1 ll 0 Dayton West .. 0 6 0 Nottingham , . i Iugh Mason „ 3 0 Swett « 119 ( V £ 33 19 4 SXPBN 8 E FUND , Jerthyr / Fowell 0 4 0 Aberdeea „ 0 2 4 lawick .. 0 7 0 John Rm jell , K 0 0 6 Chester ¦ ¦ .. 0 4 0 Nottingham , , Jury , J Bury ., 012 0 Sweet „ 0 9 4 " 19 2 AID FUND . ' 1 ¦ lerth yr , Powell 0 } ( 9 4 8 Rosslter H 9 0 4 ) osport „ 9 2 4 JnoAddiiOH :.. 0 10 ' £ 018 ° Land Fund 33 19 4 Expense Fund ... ... ... 1 19 2 UdFund 0 13 0 jinr ^
Wm . Dreo * . Gubutomub Dom , Tfloi . Cuik , ( Correi . Sao . ) Pfliur M'G « iTH , ( Fin . See . ) «^— . ' THE LIBERTY FUND . SECBIVJD HJ . M'CBAK . ¦ ) erby , per Wm . Sheffield , J Cavill 0 6 0 Short * .. 0 18 0 Winchester , -6 iiimehouse , Mr Sturgess „ 0 3 0 ' Ford m 8 10 0 Somers Town , I Friend .. 0 0 6 J Araott „ 0 5 & [ rtine , John ' lower Warley , Touall .. 0 10 0 J Greenwood 0 5 0 Paisley , FWatson 0 . 6 3 ' £ i H 9 , N . B . All correspondence , and monies intended for the propagatien of Chartitt principles , to be addressed to Mr S . Eydd , National Land Office , High Holborn , RECEIVED XI LAND OFFICE . - Leamington .. .. M „ n 0 6 6 FOR FAM 1 LIES ~ OF VICTIMS . XEOEIVED BT W . BIDS * . Portsmouth Sheffield , per R ( Southsea ) per Otley .. o 11 6 ENobbs .. 9 13 6 Huddersiield , per Bradford ( Wilts ) , . W Murphy .. 0 10 2 per C Kendall 0 , 0 6 Carlisle , Cham . Mr Wilson , bert Warpers , London .. 0 I ! , per J Gilbertson o 10 0 £ 2 6 2 EBOEITEB AT LAND OFFICE . mm ~" mmmm Jos Arrington : e 0 6 A Pev Friends . WmButchart .. 9 0 6 Westminster .. 0 18 Ditto , Chelsea 0 16 £ 8 4 2 TOR DR M'DOUALL'S DEFENCE . RECEIVED BI W . R 1 DBR . Sheffield , per R Otley .. „ „ .. 0 0 & TO EXEMPT MR ? O'BE 1 L FH 6 JC OAKDK PICIHfO . RECEIVED BY W . HIDES . Birmingham , Ship Inn , per JNewhouse '„ i 0 0-DEFENCE FUND . atCEIYED AT LAND OFFICE . Mr Elliott .. 0 3 0 Richard Hayes , Dudley M 010 O
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NATIONAL LAND AND LABOUft BANK . The following letter bas been received by the Manager of the' National Land and Labour Bank , ' in reply to the circular which hat been recently ig . sued to the ' depositors in the Bank : — Hull , 2 nd Oct ., 1848 . Dear Sir , —I received your circular , which I laid before , our memberi in due order , and I am happy to inform you that they are perfectly satisfied with the security of the Bank , and do not intend to withdraw any more money than is necessary for thnir use ; you must understand that the money is for our local expenses , so that our shareholders who are paid up may be entitled to the Ballot for the whole year in advance ; the money is , therefore , placed in the Bank to be drawn as needed . Several other circulars were produced by members of our Banking Company , and they are every one of them satisfied with the security , as they have every confidence in Mr O'Connor and the Manager under him . I asked for a resolution to withdraw , and was answered with a universal' No ! ' I then asked for a vote of confidence in the Bank , which was unanimously given . Thus let opposition rage and use its influence as it may , we a * e determined the thing shall succeed as far as our small means can carry it . Yours respectfully ,. G . B ., Secretary . To Thomas Price , Esq ., Manager .
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THE M'DOUALL DEFENCE FUND . tO THB BDITOt OI TBS KOKTHI 1 N ITAI . Ashton-under-Lyne , 3 rd Oct ., 1848 . Dear Sir , —Insert the following for the expense of M'Douall , and to assist his wife : — £ ,. * . . W . Rider , Stab Office ... ... ... 0 116 Thomas Howard- , Harefaolme' ' .., ... 9 4 | FOR M'DCUALL'S WIFE .. A few friendu , Nanttriob , per'T bes . DorAopy 0 2 6 Ditto , perTarpariey . , 4 , ... ... 0 2 « It ib now a fortnight sines I wrote requesting the Chartists of Britain to subscribe something towards commencing Mrs M'Douall in a small way of business , to assist her family during her husband ' s confinement , and five shillings from Nantwich u all I have received . The money she hat had from me is nearly exhausted , and I hope the women ( if the men will not ) will step in to the rescue , and save this woman and her family from want . The prosecutioa of the government it bad enough ,, but the ingratitude and cold neglect of our own bady is a thousand times worse , and more annoj ing . Will you not suhscribe one pilnny each > If not , what faith can be put in the Chartists , as a body ? I hope this short appeal will be sufficient to stir the friends of the Doctor throughout the country to assist his unfortunate family . \ yr . Aitken .
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DEFENCE AND VICTIM FUND . n jj a w 8 *" !?* * Wm-Rimh- £ s . d Bradford , Wilts , per C . Kendall 0 10 Baty StEimnnd ' sperJ . Leggett . „ 0 6 # C . Smhh , Bir »? agh » m , per H . Roberts ... 0 10 Mr Wilson , L » ndon ... 9 0 6 ShtflMd . perR . OU . y ... 0 x 0 MrPftuUon . $ h » ffleld " ; jj 1 0 Birmingham , $ Mp Inn , p « J . Newhouie ... 110 6 VDdmoerat . Chepstow ... ... , „ 0 2 0 tBlrmlngharo . pOrW . H . Rudhall ... o fi 0 Hamilton , Scotland , per A . Walker ... r 0 0 ^ , P « y . Ba « ld .... 0 5 0 Kidderminster , T . Smith ... i § o 1 0 - Siourrbidjte . 8 treet , S . LjtiiaU ' . " . 0 0 6 ,, G B » tker 0 0 6 Rlpponaen , perJ . Wtlgley „ 6 g £ 4 0 6 „ HECE 1 VED BY W . P . ROBERW , see . ' Mr John Ooult , Bury ... J 0 10 *
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foDHOBDBR . —Persons corresponding with the Chartijti of Todmorden must direct to Mr Isaac Hartley Pell Hanging-ditch , Todmorden . ' tiKsa Dawrcn . —Rtcfelw * . John Beddow . No room . . Mr J . Swekt acknowledges the receipt of the following , sums for the Victim Fund-viz .:- sTf Mr Taylor .. „ „ M .. o o j g | — Bfrgin ., ., „ ¦ 0 0 R 1 — Knott .. „ ...... o o a 1 — Shepherd .. N „ - ... 0 0 | I . — Caunt M H „ w . t ,, 00 a 9 -Gram .. .. - _ . - > e o 8 1 — Cnippindale „ „ « h 0 o s 1 — MrSlaney .. « « » o 1 ft 1 From the * Colonel Hntchinson - „ « o a ft fl To ConBE 8 » osDBRT 8 .-We cannot publish letters until ' 1 the state trials are concluded . . ' 1 D . GLENN .-The spirit ef the lines is very good , but thi * ¦ 1 work is too imperfect for publication . ' a David Edwards , Marthyr , should consult an attorney % Weoannot answer legal questions . J RsviBWS .-The reports of the Irish and Old Bailey trials 1 have left us no room for our usual reviews . The La . I boobeb for this month , the Thai , or D » M'Dodall % and other publications received for renew , shall have 5 our attention next week . '
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• The sum oi 6 i 61 . for tht VioHias , from Bury St Edmuai ' s per Mr Leggett was received , and ought to have appeared in previous iiit , t MrRoDHAU .. —The Is , stntto Land Offioe , esme to bend too fete for acknowled gment lait week ,
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4 THE NORTHERN STAR ^ October 1 , 1848 . I ^
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 7, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1491/page/4/
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