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THE LANOASHHIE AND TORKiTV SHIRE ANNUAL CHARTIST CAMP MEETING will be held near the White House , Blackstose-Edge , on Sunaay ( to-morrow ) , July 14 th . The following distinguished advocates of the popular cause will attend :-Feargas O'Connor , Esq ., M . P ., W . r . Hoberts Esq ., Mr . G . Julian Harney . Mr . I ' . M . a BouaU , Mr James Leach , Sir . Christopue Shacelton , Mr . George White . The chair to be taken at one o'clock in the afternoon . - _ <« I $ 6 ate meeting of the Chartists of Lancashire and Yorkshire < yfli be held at the White House , Blackstone . BOge , the same day ; to commence at one o ' clock in the
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Db . M'Douail Andrew M'Fce , Liverpool , has received a Post-office order for 2 s 9 d , from John Kussell , Southampton , for Dr , M'DOUall . , : . For Ernest Jones , —Ss . fromE . S . This party complains that her former donations have not been acknowledged in the Star , as requested . [ The Os above mentioned , was immediately handed over to Mrs . Jones . We know nothing of formor donations . Ed . N . S . yi Subscriptions to the Lacey Fond . —Mr . Stuart , Is ; Mr . Forbes , fid j Mr . Gregory , Cd ; Mr . Booth ' s Book , 2 s . ; Mr . Hunt ' s Book , 12 s lUd ; West End
Shoemakers—Hoby ' s Meeting , £ 1 5 s fid ; Goatby ' s Meeting , lGs C £ d ; Mr . Dicken ' Book , 8 s 8 d . —H . Wiikbs , Secretary . Mr . W ! Norman , Wingate . —The notice would be charged as an advertisement . The portraits are not yet ready . Polish ; Befugee Fdnd . —Mr . O'Brien's lecture at Jehnstreet , £ 8 5 s 9 d ; l ' art Proceeds of Concert at the Crown . and Anchor , ' £ 1 13 s 7 d ; H . Fletcher , per ' Truelove , fid ; C . Jones , Is ; Mr . Moies , Is j Mr . Button , Gd ; Mr . Badger , 6 d ; Crown and Anchor , 8 s 7 d ; Whittington and Cat , per Mr . Westcrby , Is 9 d ; C . Tallboy ( to be continued while in , ( employ ) , Is j Bricklayer ' s Anns , Soraers Town , per Mr . Brown , 2 s ; Two Workers , 2 s ; Given on the night of the Concert at the Crown asd Anchor by a Friend to the Cause , 10 s Mr . B ., ' Mile-end . 6 s ; Mr . Lennoii , Man . Chester , Is . —W . Davis , Secretary . .
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• '¦"' -- THE FRANCHISE . Upon several recent occaBionB when the propriety of extending thefranchise has been discussed in the House of Commons , the Premier has repudiated the notion of the'finality of the Reform Act . Believing- ^ and very naturally—as its Parliamentary sponsor , in the value and importance of that act , he yet declared himself by no means averse to any well-considered and practical extension of the suffrage , rio . t inconsistent with the principle of the measure / which ho himself introduced 1
some twenty years ago . As aproof of that even he—cold , ; impassible , and Conservative as he is-could appreciate the reasons for an alteration of the franchise , when they were of an urgent character ; he introduced this session the Irish . Parliamentary Votera Bill b \ which ^ e pr opped to incrmo the el oS bodyin Ireland from 36 , 000 to 380 000 or more than tenfold . Inorder to do this he moved that the qualification 8 hou ? d be the &&St&li £ fe t » &
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political progress and practical ¦ liberalismi-itf of suet Lil ] ip ^ tian ; dimeMibn ^ l 8 ; iteps are ; so feebV . timidiV ari ^ c ^ days of small men and small measures ,, it was some consolation to see even this indication thatwe were not retrogressing to Chinese immobility ' . Thoug h ' the actual progress was of the most limited description ,- it was valuable , because it indicated we were still moving .. Well one would have thought , that after
these manifestations onthe part of the Premier , Mr . Locke King might have fairly expected the support of the First Minister of the Crown to so very moderate a motion as that he made on Tuesday night . He did not propose to reduce the" franchise in this country to £ Q a year rental ; he simply asked that Lord John should consent to ^ do for the county voters of Great Britain what he had proposed to do f or the county voters of Ireland—namely , to give them a qualification similar in amount to the borough' voters . :
It will be ' remembered , that by the so called Chandos clause of the . Reform Act , the minimum rental entitling to a county vote is £ 50 . Mr . L .: King moved that it > should in future be £ 10 ; and he supported this exceedingl y moderate proposal with arguments so cogent , that in , any other assembly of English men than the House of Commons would have secured instant and- unanimous assent . A farmer paying £ 250 a year rent pays no income tax , blithe has a vote ; while a country surgeon , whose income is assessed at £ 300 , has to pay an exceptionaland special impost of £ 9 a year to the Government , while if his house is rented at £ 49 10 s . a year he has no vote . As Mr . King forcibly said : " A £ 10 householder at Halifax was entitled to vote
for the Chancelior of the Exchequer , why should not a £ 40 householder at Dewsbury not be entitled to vote for the Member for the . West Riding ? ,: Why should a £ 10 householder at Andover have a vote , when a person ;• renting a house of £ 40 a year at Basirigatoke was not entitled to a vote ? " Why , " simply because the oligarchy under the mingled influence of selfishness and caprice have decreed that . it shall be so . But if ever there was a motion which
tested . the rear character and animus of the opposition of ^ that oligarchy , on both sides of House , to any extension , of the , suffrage , it waa Mr . Locke King's . Upon : other occasions , when , more extreme measures are broached , we are treated to solemn plausibilities about the necessity for those who are intrusted with the franchise ¦ being persons of intelligence , respectability , and some little property and standing . These qualifications we are gravely assured are absolutely indispensable as a guarantee that the suffrage will be exercised discreetly ,. and in such a manner as to
maintain those institutions under which G reat Britain has attained her present position among nations . They are required , ' as a guarantee , that hasty , ill-considered , intemperate , and violent changes , shall not be made in the framework of society . We do not intend , on the present occasion , to show the hollow and untenable nature of these pretences for excluding the wealth producers of the kingdom from all participation in political
power . What we mean to show is , that the conduct of the opponents of representative reform on Tuesday , proved that they are not in earnest , when they urge such arguments aganst any addition totheElectoralLrw . They are mere paltry excuses invented to cover the real intention of those who use them—namely , their determination to monopolise legislative and administrative power , and to use them for the advantage of a privileged order , at the cost of the unenfranchised classes .
How is the truth of this assertion to be sustained ? We find the proof ready made to our hands in the leading columns of the Times , that inveterate enemy of the political enfranchisement of the masses , with a vigour and raciness , which is peculiarly its own , and which few of the parrots who repeat its promptings in Parliament can imitate it , has , over and over again ; repeated the commonplace objections to which we have referred . Yet , dn the following passage , it , completely gives up the question as regards the £ 10 county householdors . It openly and-fully admits that exclusion in their case is / no longer tenable in such grounds : —
In the very wide interval between £ 10 a year and £ 38 a year , are included some of the msst important members of the social state . The surgeon , the solicitor , the curate tne crocer , ttie stfttioner , the innkeeper , the schoolmaster ana fifty different sorts of shopkeepers , tho captain on holt pay , the retired army surgeon , the tradesman living on his savings , are all , as a . general rule , comprehended between , thfise two limits .- If it is a mere village or a market townbut no borough
, it contributes perhaps to the county constituency a dozen tenant-farmers , as many small . freeholders ; and two or three persons occupying mansions ; but all the rest are disfranchised . The man of science , the man of law the man who has received a university education , the shrewed old tradesman , the village Busby , the man who has sailed two or three times round tho world , the captain wnohns seen forty years service and characters enough to stock a novel or make a parliament of themselves , are all
cnnt ^ Tt 6 pal ? thc francluse - T" « y aro no more represented than they would be in Turkey or Siberia . Rent , razes , and taxes may amount altogether to 601 . or W ., hut so long as the rent . alone falls below 50 / . they are excluded rCLt ? ' - ? P ° ssessed by almost any labourer who tZttl t ( j / e , ter ln a - borough . In most parts of the Jfj these classes are increasing in number , strength , « p 1 v «» & ?? enCBl llley a , learnin 8 t 0 «»»*« them ! Snro f" thl "Prcsented Masses , especially with tho ™ nJ ! lTrf m' ho « scl'o' ^ i's in parliamentary boroughs Such persons feel themselves wi-on Bed . That sense of injustice is itself an argument . B Bating the fiction about " almost any labourer who chooses to register in a borough » the whole of this is excellent as an exposition ol the monstrous anomalies , and the crying injust . ee and inequalities of our illiteral svstem . it i
s more , it is a conclusive reply : to all the sham pretencesi by whicih the opponents of Parliamentary Reform resist alteration , as tar as education , competency , aud so forth , in tne case of these classes are concerned . ¦ But the' concluding sentences are worth grave consideration'in connexion with other pans of the same article , by the Chartists and tho Parliamentary Reform Association . * The sense of injustice is of itself an argument , " which , - . indeed ,- , ought not to be lost sight of in this- 'great controversy ; and the Times warily rejninds'tlie parties , of which it is the organ , that the time is coming when tne old style of pooh-poohing the claims of the unrepresented will not meet the emergency .
parliamentary Reform ( says our contemporary ) . is a S 5 t \ ° " , & htl" >< lnlso a question of fact . When we say WefnW ^^ w ^ W * «» word in a legal sense fe »» » S * ^ -ftflcSSSSWjHit > f one class has the s » f . « S . » 5 i iercl 3 ! &l ? W ' 4 ubl ! tantial ' i-espectablei and | ^| fe « HS m rtiJ « ° bably be led ' both by habi' a"d by neccssUv glPltl K ^ S-SSSS
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burdens of taxation , which ! . weighs upon us . The upper classes , to a large extent , are compensated by thei lio / i ' s ' share of the spoil / which iheir monopoly of ^ oiitical ' power enables them to appropriate . ' It is ^ npon the producing classes that the burden p / heayytaxatibn falls , crushingly , grradingly , and withoutany alleviation . Yet itis precisely these classes who are excluded even from the " aorfc ofrightto be directly represented , " which the Times so orrudinriv and ungraciously admits . ' in the
words of the oracle of Printing House-sqnare we say , " Such persons ieel themselves wronged * that sense of injustice is of itself an argument" of a practical character , which entitles them to " much consideration , " as well as the class whose cause it advocates . We trust that Lord Johk in his cogitations respecting "thenumbers , strength , animus , and chance of ultimate success of those who now clamour for
admission within the pale of the Constitution , will not forget these suggestions , deduced as they are from the organ of his own Cabinet . Whether he does so or not , we venture to tell him , that the controversy hastens to its consummation , and that every debate similar to that of Tuesday night , accelerates its final settlement in favour-of the people . The outrageous Toryism of Mr . Disraeli and his party , will speedily come into open and direct collision with the policy which demands for the Commons of Great Britain , a real , a full , and unfettered representation in their own House of the Legislature . When that time comes ' , Lord John must ' make up his mind whether to be on one side or the other . If
he declines to be on either , he must stand aside , and let the battle be fairly fought between those who wish to maintain privileges for an exclusive order , and those who take their stand on the great principles of the British constitution , namely ;—that Taxation and Representation are coequal — that whoever contributes to the support of the State , has a right to a voice in the management of its affairs , and that any artificial ratings or pecuniary powers which stand between a man of sound mind and the exercise of this right , is a gross injustice and tyranny -which , the people are bound to resist , and to put down by any and by every means in their power . .
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~ «^ . THE BITTER OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH . The reign of Cant and Humbug is , it seems , to continue for some weeks longer , because Lord John Russell quails before the conventicle and Exeter Hall . After having arranged with an independent Member of Parliament to bring forward a motion , who was willing to face the howl of obloquy , which such a course was certain to elicit from the bigots who wish
to force their crotchets down the throats of others—after taking all the usual methods to secure a good attendance on the Ministerial benches , in order virtually to reserve the late decision with respect to Sunday mails , Lord John's little timid heart failed him at the pinch , and he cut ef the only straightforward ^ manly , and useful part of the motion ; to the drawing up of which he himself .-had been * a party . Mr . Locke ' s motion was a very reasonable one . He asked that inquiry should
be made into the best means of reducing Sunday labour without quite stopping the post , and that , pending the inquiry , matters should be put on the same footing as they stood in previous to the passing of Lord Ashley ' s motion . That proposal would undoubtedly have been carried , had not the PREMIER at the last moment caught at a suggestion from the opposition , and proposed as an amendment , that the latter part of the motion should be omitted , and a motion , merely for inquiry , be
substituted . Of course that sealed the fate of Mr . Lock ' s motion , and , grumbling audibly , many of the Ministerial followers who had come prepared tp Tote for that , motion were dragged througphe mire at the tail of the Minister , whO ' seStna equall y read y to oblige and give way to his'Spponehts , and to insult and degrade his supporters .
We presume , however that the result will be a return to the old system , keeping in view always the very desirable object of reducing labour to the utmost possible extent on the Sunday . Without professing to attach any special value to the reli gious sanction to the setting apart of one day out of seven for rest and relaxation , we look upon the institution itself as one of ike most valuable and important ever established by mankind . To all
who are compelled to labour , either by head or hand , such periodical abstinence from toil is absolutel y indispensable for the renovation of the worn-out mental and phyaical energies . In a moral point of view it is equally necessary m order to give time for the exercise of those domestic affections , and those finer sympathies of our nature which give sunshine to existence , and strew the path of life with its sweetest flowers .
But in order that these important advantages may be secured , it does not follow that the machinery of society is to be thrown out ot gear , and a sudden and violent stoppage of all the ordinary business of life take place every seven days . On the contrary , such interterence would necessarily interfere with the lull enjoyment of that relaxation and change which constitutes genuine rest to the majority of minds . No one sect or individual has any
ngntto prescribe to the whole communit y the precise manner in which the day of rest shall be spent . The attempt , on the part of a small sect of bigots , to force first the suspension of all means of communication on Sunday whe ther literary or personal , in order thereafter " force the whole population into their sloo - v conventicles , ought to be resisted with the utmost vigour and indignation . If they please they may hang tbo skies in black for themselves on that day , and shut out theligUof God s cheerful sun from their dwellings-as if is already from their hearts-but S hlvt no right to insist upon others iwLS
ZS T ' - T misei > able ' If thVS think that tho right road to heaven is to make themse ves ^ upremely unhappy , then by ^ l means lettheniJiavG their o ^ way ; but we nsist that the French proverb shall be X interpreted , and acted upon- * ' Chaomlon p * 3 ttftzs-: g = STAttBBaftES ?
, preaoteof a . dLSg ' z ^ V . ? ft z c ast Jr s& - i ^ HiisI Housflnf ' p ^ tltlOns are Pourelinto the S of tL ? T , by hin UV ° y tens of thousands of persons who have been
; ESW'ss-seaws : and bitter ag , tator 8 were sure to punish a re-X 2 « . ave heard in 8 ome of these meetings the most astounding lies and oalumnies reiterated long after their effectual refutation , oy persons in raven black coatv . and snow wmte neckcloths , with an unblushing auday y » Perfectly unapproachable by any . other ciasa of men . Great as is the . poW of iyW j and of countenance required bft lawyer in [ Mlprajtice , iUV ^ mwe ^ fie ^ mpared with . that which » neewswy fop * &t o * ator at
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THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND THE CHARTER . Mr . O'Connor rose , shortly after eight o ' clock this evening ( Thursday ) to bring forward his motion for the adoption of the People ' s Charter . It was evident from the appearance of the House that it was the intention to burk the question , and Mr . O'Connor , therefore , made the best of his time ; In the course of the short period he addressed the House , be tersely , but powerfullytouched upon
, the leading topics suggested by his motion , and administered some hard hits to the various parties "in tho House . The speech was what he himself would call " a rouser . " He had scarcely spoken ten minutes when . ' the son of " plain John Campbell" rose and moved that the House be counted , and having done so immediatel y ran behind the Speakers chair , in order that he , might not be included in the list . , The result was , that . the House having been desi
gnedly » whipt out , " only tveniymne members were present , and tho Houso stood adjourned at halfpast eight o'clock . A considerable number of the members connected with the National Parliamentary Association were present , including the President of . that Association , but there were others whose absence may form a suitable theme for comment some other time . In the meantime the people have this one item more to put down in the long account against an alien legislature .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 13, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1582/page/4/
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