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Our Correspondents will oblira us greatly by attending to the foll ° ™ gKencral instructions : — The earlier we can receive their communicationB in the week , tie mnre certain they are of being inserted . This is the me especially With letters upon general subjects intended for the columns aet apart for'Free Correspondence . ' Keports of proceedings of Chmist Bodies , Trades , and Co-operative sowetif s . Ac , should be forwarded immediately after their occurrence . By this me » n 9 a glut of matter u avoided at the latter end of the week , and consequent curtailment or non insertion . Reports should consist of a plain statement of facts . All communications intended fur publication should be written on one side of the piper onlv . and addressed to the Editor .
Joseph Rouse , Heckmondwike . —they would be of no tmmecKoU use . Assistance , to be effectual , must be speedy . W . B ., Buckhaven . _ The 14 th of February . W- P .. Lambrigg . —Received . We haye rectifed letters from Messrs . Shaw and Bezer , statmj ; , that in consequence of sentiments expressed bv Mr . Holyoake at the recent Reform Conference , they are induced to tender their resignation as members of the Executive Council . In the event of hi * resigning , they will retain their seats until the debt is paid . A . Jose =, Bath . —Your communication is inadmissable in the pages of a public journal .
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NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS AND THE TRADE . Star Office , 16 , Great Windmill Street , March 6 th , 1852 . The Proprietors of THE Star beg to intimate to Subscribers and the Trade , that in future it will be Published by Mr . James Bezer , 183 , Fleet Street , instead of Mr . Pavet , Holywell Street . Country Newsvcndors who receive their supply through Town Agents and not direct from this Office , will pleaso to remember this change in sending their orders in future .
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THE DEREY MINISTRY AND ITS OPPONENTS . 'A plague on both jour houses . * ' It seems that the ministry of the Earl of Derby is not to be allowed breathing time—not the sli ghtest law is to be given them . Forced into office , not so much by their own desire as by the incompetency of their predecessors , and the incapability of any other party to form a cabinet , the moment they appear officially upon the Treasury benches they are to be set upon and hunted down , That ia the policy of the party opposed to them , and it is to be ruthlessly carried out . Howerer peaceably inclined they may bo , they are to be driven to fight ; however well disposed they
may really foel to let their old policy be forgotten for a time—perhaps for ever—they are not to have the chance . The privilege of silence , even , is to be denied them . They are to be refused the opportunity of not carrying their opinions into practice . Will they , nill they—tied they must be to Protection . Their adversaries will not hare it otherwise . If they are not inclined to do wrong they must be compelled to do it . For them there is to be no opportunity of repentance ; no political absolution ; no interval of thought can be vouchsafed to them . They must throw off at the moment their own party , without gaining another ; office is to be tabooed to them , if they confess their political faith , and deaied to them if they abjure it .
To this end the old Anti-Corn Law League is to have a resurrection , we would say rather is resucitated . The meeting at Manchester the other day , ig a proof both , of the readine 3 a and the powtr of the monied classes , of whom it is mainly composed . The £ 27 , 500 subcribers in twenty-five minutes , is the evidence of their wealth and promptness , and the speeches show their anxiety to raise again their old war cry . But those speeches show something more than that—they shew a little inconsistency , which leads us to suspect that at the bottom there is a motive for all this stir and bustle , not to be avowed . Take the speech of Mr . Cobden for example . The great apostle of free trade in corn , when we come to
compare one sentence with another . -contradicts himaelf marvellously . He says that Free Trade is in danger , and that Protection is dead ; that the Cabinet are anxious to reimpose a duty on corn , and exceedingly desirous to get rid of their former pledges altogether . How those different moods of mind—th ? so diverging phases of thought , can co-exist in the minds of the same men , is a puzzle which we are unable to comprehend—a riddle only to be solved b y the clever politician who asserts it to be so . The truth , we suspectjliessomewhatdeeper than this . If the Free Traders have any faith in their own oft reiterated professions
and assertions , they must he assured that there is not the slightest danger of a reversal of their policy . If , as they have told us over and over again , the pauper- ' ism of the country has been permanentl y ' decreased , the pressure of the national burdens lightened , the commerce of the country increased , the gains of the people augmented , and the price of the necessaries of life lowered , is there any danger that the people will consent to apostatise from the doctrines which have heaped upon them so many blessings ? Is there any need of thousands
subscribing to defend it ? Is there any obligation upon them to slay the slain over again ? Is there any necessity to refight a long ago won battle ? Is it incumbent in them to pour forth a deluge of pamphlets , to maintain what everybody maintains ; and to equi p an army of lecturers to con-Yince those who are already convinced ? Surely not . The best and strongest fortification behind which Free Trade can entrench itself , is the golden opinions it has won from all classes of men ; and so long aa Lord Derby says what he does sav , and what we
suppose he must continue to say , that in this matter he will be guided by the opinion of the people , and abide by its expression , those who believe Free Trade to be what they assert it to be—the greatest of all political and social benefits—may assure themselves of its safety . "Wh y , then , all this meeting , and subscribing , and agitating ? Why this taking of possible , but improbable , evils by the forelock ? Why this meeting of trouble more than half way ? Several causes may be assigned ; one , for instance , is a rooted personal dislike to the members of the present Cabinet ; another the diverting the attention of the lower orders from
troublesome notionsofa Franchise too extended to suit the views of the plutocracy . There may be some truth ini both ihesereasons ; but we imagine that the people will be slow to endoree them . There have been some significant signs of this at the Conference of the Parliamentary Reform Association . Theabsenceof Cobden and his more immediate allies , has excited no little remark . No less noteworth y is the declaration by George Dawson that he should be sorry to see the woolsack turned into a cotton-bag . The cheers too which greeted a delegate from Westminster we think , when he said that Mr . CoBDENon the mere
question of Cora Law Reform would not meet the same support in London as he did before , meant Bomethine . If the principles of Free Tr ade are in danger , and the people are to come to the rescue , they must have greater political liberty than the Whigs and the Manchester men appear to be willing to give them . Snov ^? «»* gto enlafge the consul tuency the ' revmfied' League ought and will commandbuta small shareof public sympathy . Let us suppose that this onslaught upon the Derby Ministry 8 hould succeed , what would be its result ? ili ^ i ™* ™*™* >¦ «¦«*
™ : : r ' , must have a Government of some kind ; and if the Tones were to go out , who would come in ? We do jf ^ ssKSSx-jaa S ^^ AttS&SS a ^ ra ^ sstgre « . The Manchester School arein no better plight , $ ht Sit ! W 6 r f' Wfl are raach dis P 0 Sed t o think SSL ? * iP rese , » " »¦* they would be more
j ta , great ta j tatrial ,. ei ™ rtog £ * X SS ^ s ^ -kms against combination , and enactments to Diit Lahm , r more completel y under the foot of CapTJ thanUh now . Firml y as we believe that Free Trade cannot he revewed-c onfidentl y as we look to its extension certam as * e are that ' an attempt to destr ? yTw Ouid inaugurate a fearful strife , we yetare impressedS thecouviction , that a Cabinet Ihich 2 E £££
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Protection would not drive the masses of the country so near to the verge of insurrection , as the Commercialists seated in Downing-street , carrying out their cold-blooded political economy , treating men as the creatures of the laws of supply and demand , and subordinating all great moral requirements to mere considerations of profit and loss . For these reasons , little as wo like the principles of the old Tory party , widely as we diverge from them in our ideas of popular rights , yet viewing our position as one presenting only a choice of evils , we are inclined to deprecate mere factious opposition , and to advocate the policy of giving the Earl of Debby and his party a fair trial . Come what will , we shall not , this Session , have political Reform . Neither
Whigs nor Manchester men can ensure us that . So far as that ia concerned , this year may be added to the many which have been lost . Even if Lord John had remained in power he never meant his supplementary Reform Bill to become law . As it is , we stand a far better chance of getting a measure of Social Reform . The fetid atmosphere of the Court of Chancery is more likely to be cleared , and we hear a promise is already given to take up the question of partnership , and to deal with it in such a way as to give fair play to the commercial efforts of working men . If we gain that , we shall have made a great advance , and meanwhile there would be more time and opportunity for political organisation . The Whigs , in opposition , will be , as they always have been , far more useful than in office . The middle
classes may be forced into a closer and fairer alliance with the workers . Moderate Reformers will ba pushed a step or two forward , and with a party in power who have some defined and recognised principles of government , who , unlike the shifty , vacillating , expediency-mongering Whigs , will say what they mean ; great questions will be placed in a stronger light—efforts will not be delayed upon the faith of deceptive promises , and the people , once roused , the great problems of the age will be nearer a satisfactory solution .
Let us not , then , countenance any opposition for the mere sake of opposition . Let us not waste our strength to bring back the Whigs . Let us beware of being made the tools of interested factionaries and class legislators . Let us prepare and husband our strength until we see what the Derby Ministry really mean to do . If they seek to enslave the people , we shall be able to deal with them ; if taught by past experience , we are inclined to act fairly . We may as well be ruled by them till the people are ready to claim their own . as by any other section of either the aristocracy or the plutocracy .
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REVIVAL OF THE LEAGUE . ' The folly of to-day is the wisdom of to-morrow . ' When the Chartists in the early stages of the Anti-Corn Law League agitation , attended meetings and proposed amendments to the effect that the first and most important reform was a reform in Parliament , they were denounced as hired agents of the Tories , as common pests and nuisances , and as ignorant fanatical disturbers of Constitutional Meetings , held by peaceable , orderly , and enlightened people , who knew far better what they were about than 'the rubble rout' who advocated « the People ' s Charter . ' ' The whirligig of Time brings round strange revenges . ' The League triumphed and reposed under its laurels . Protection has vanquished once and for ever . It might occasionally make a convulsive
struggle to regain its lost position , but that was simply impossible . Manchester had infused fresh blood into the county constituencies by the creation of a new batch of 40 s . freeholders ; < the Manciie » ter School' counted securely on the £ 10 voters in the large towns , to perpetuate its predominance . What necessity was there for any reform ? To Household Suffragists—Universal Suffragests , their answer was intellect the same— 'We are very well off , thank you . We don't see any reason for organic changes in the constitution of Parliament , or if you will insist upon it , be moderate in your demands . Form Freehold Land Societies , subscribe your monies , and purchase county votes , —that is the true way to achieve your political independence , without troubling Parliament about it . '
Latterly , indeed , the dream of Manchester has been troubled and changed somewhat . It has been made uneasy by visions of Tory landlords on the Treasury benches , where they thought such spectres never would arise to push Free Traders from their seats again . Under the influence of these visions , they tardily began to mutter about residential and rating suffrages , and sundry other matters connected with representative reform ; but still it was like men talking iu their sleep . They were , in fact , dreaming . The Derby Cabinet hasthoroughly awakened them ;
and now their recognised organ , the Daily News , ' admits , in fact , that the Chartists were right ten years ago . The Leaguers were then warned that there was no security or guarantee for the permanence of any change in favour of the masses , unless it was preceded by such a large and substantial extension of political power as would give the people the power of managing their own affairs , The warning was notheeded , and they who offered it were contemned and abused . Let us hear the sequel from the mouthpiece of the Free Traders : —
Ten years ago the country [ i . e ., League ] aRreea tacitly to adjourn all question * of political progress until tlic food question should hare been nettled . It 1846 the law was changed , and we nere told that the right oi the working man to cheap bread was xecured irreversibly . Little more than five years have sinca elapsed , and what have we now ? The government in the hands of men pledged heyond doubt to impose a tax on the working man in order to take taxes off the idle man—to fleece the poor for the avowed benefit of the rich . And when we look round for arms wherewith to defend ourselves against this assault of rampant landlordism , we find that in Great Britain not one man in five has a Tote to make use of , and in Ireland not one man in ten . Yet we are gravely warned against demanding constitutional arm * , or what is equally essential to our safety the constitutional shield of the ballot . J >
Once for all we say , let us never again make the mistake of doinir things by halves . Had the country been aware of its daneer three * f ? , rs ag 2 . rt wou ' 4 t ave in ' isted onthe ballot and a large extension of the suffrage , which would have rendered the hope of reviving the system of food monopoly vain . ° »> i «! j me Henceforward we are told that Reform and Free Trade are inseparable . The Manchester School ' has become aware of the fact , and admits , however reluctantly , that the one is indispensable to the maintenance of the other . The ' Daily News ' says the real question tho nation has now to ask is : — How long are we to hold on sufferance the right to uaveenourii of find to eat at an untied price . And if the VntinuS of S a State of things is felt to be intolerable , then it behoves everv m in
cnereaun , wuo tames peace , orto , and progress , to consider how we can be madesafe gainst an attempt to takefrom the artisans and labourer one-balf his children ' s bread , bo long as thre .-fourthg of one House of Parliaments nearly the entire of the o her consists ofmen who have a direct interest in the succe s of suchan at ™ ft ' ? here 1 S but , . ce' - ta j ^ y of making free trade safe Stt&M ^ the eIective franchi 8 e iind the - '• The mercantile and manufacturing classes are exhorted to look this new state of affairs in the face in time . They have hitherto reposed in a sort of Fool ' s Paradise , and imagined they could keep what they had got without the aid of the people . They now and they are mistaken , and are told b y their own
and ISeedUv trh , m . lndustrious mas 6 es they ffi 11 be irresistible afraid toiLtiTM mt . a SDpiirate and - isoUM 'ntewsfrmake common p » tne ?? elves with the enn side , and ashamed to mev wiU in Z « Se Tth «« other-they will find to their c * st that and 1 pVwe ™ ° W haVe cheated thcmsel ™ «< popularity We must admit , however , that there is a discrepancy between the policy of tho Free Traders , as expounded m their daily journals , and that pur . ued by their leaders in practice . Instead of uniting with the bunrage Reformers , for the earnest and vigorous prosecution of an agitation for the political enfranchisementof the people , and the destruction of the political supremacy of a territorial oligarchy , the latter revir « tne League , and subscribe tens of thousands for th « S wl ^ ? war between landlord «""* » nu lord . Why ig this ? Is it because both of . them fear the consequences of a real Parliamentary nk ™ and
wish , whatever may be their EquabWes ' among themselves , to exclude the nwsies from all participation in political power ? The foll y of such conduct , as well as iti ahortaight . euneas , so 10 well exposed by the 'Daily Nwi ' that it is needless for u 8 to add anything on that point . But when we see the League leader , electing the very day for resuscitating that bod y which had been long fixed beforehand for the holding of a Conference m London to consider the best means of promoting Parliamentary Reform , the matter assumes an extremel y suspicious .
appearance There was certainl y nothiuginthe ^ ro / ewedopinionB of Messrs . Cobden , Bhight , and Gibson , which should hate prevented them from appearing on the ' same platform with MesEi ? . Hume , Fox , Thompson , and ;;* J LMSLEY « atSi - Martin ' 8 Hall > «»» week end next Mond ay , or Tuesday , or Wednesday , or Thurs-» y , would hate done quite as well for re organising
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the League . By dividing the middle class Parliamentar y Reformers ia this manner , they of course not only weaken their influence , but deprive them of reiources t and they play over again the same game which has placed them in their present predicament . They do not strike at the root of the evil . They are either afraid or unwilling to take the bull by the horns . Instead of that , the old machinery of monster subscrip . tions , an army of lecturers and professional agitators , and t ons of tracts , are once more to be resorted to for the purpose of raising an outcry to frighten the Tories . ... _ .,. , » _
But what if the Tories will not be frightened ? What if they say , for six years you Free Traders have been content with the composition of Parliament , and assumed , because you were a majority , that you represented the people ? We . have appealed to the country , and got a majority in favour of Protection , and it won't do for you now to repudiate the decision of the electoral constituencies , as not fairly representing the voice of the nation on this question . Would not Lord Derbt and his friends be justified , by the legal fictions of the far-famed ' English Constitution' in giving such an answer to the League ? Far better will it be for Mr . Cobde . Y and his friends
to grapple with the whole question at this crisis in a manful and straightforward spirit . They may depend upon it they will never bo able to rouse tbo nation on a mere question between the landlords on the one side , and the commercial classes on the other . Cheap bread is a very excellent thing , but it is not 10 precious or important as a . free , full , and fair representation of the people iu Parliament . The people are , as the' Daily News' says , sick of doing things by halves . The next national movement will be for » radical , not a surface Reform ; the very continuance of which is constantly threatened by theinsecure foundations on which all popular liberties rest , so long as the representative system continues in its present corrupt , anomalous , and unjust condition . • •
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THE H 0 LMFIRTH DEVASTATION . 1 Supply and demand . ' 'Buy iu the cheapest and sell in the dearest market , ' comprise the law and the gospel of modern society . ' Evevy man for himsslf , and the Devil take the hindmost , ' is the command which has superseded 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself . ' Have not Adam Smith and his disciples made a new revelation to mankind , which displaces both the commands enunciated by MosES , and the law of social life—the brotherhood of men
promulgated by Christ ? The great principle of soeietarian progress and welfare is compendiously summed up in the dogma , that when each individual is doing the best he can for himself , he is necessarily doing the best that can he done at the same time for the community at large . This is the doctrine which in a thousand ways . meets us at every turn . It constitutes the staple of speeches in Parliament ; it is the foundation , argument , illustration , and peroration of countless leaders in newspapers , diurnal and weekly . It is the philosophy and the declamation which has possession of hustings and platforms . The worship of the golden calf has its formulary in two cabalistic words , ' let alone . '
We are accustomed to wonder at the stupidity with which savages or heathens prostrate themselves before hideous idols ; or , in obedience to brutal and degrading superstitions , submit to robbery , torture , and even voluntary destruction . To an English mind it is almost incomprehensible how the devotees of Juggernaut cun lay themselves coolly down in order to be crushed by the chariot wheels of the idol . Yet we have our Juggernaut at home , and in Bpite of the destruction of health , property , life , and morality , which its worship entails upon the nation , wo blindly and bigotedly cling to it .
Can there be a better illustration of this fact , than the devastation which has recently laid Holmfirth valley waste 1 The mere destruction of property is estimated at the very lowest at £ 250 , 000 . According to the evidence of the engineer , it conld have been prevented by the expenditure of £ 12 10 s ., or two . hundred and fifty shillings ? Why was it not ? Because the reservoir did not pay a dividend ! Tho proprietors , sifter having obtained power to embank the opening in the hills at the top of the dale—which , if left in its natural state , would have allowed the water to flow off gradually—did not realise the
expected profits , and therefore neglected to take any precaution to avert the inevitable consequences of the giving way of that embankment . They first dammed up the waters , and then let them loose with all the fury of a cataract upon the doomed district . Mills , and dying houses , and steam engines , were swept away like straws by the terrible element—houses , barna , farm-yards , horses , and cattle disappeared before the destructive inundation . One hundred lives —in some instances including whole families—were saorificed j and scarcely a cottage left standing in the dale thatis not at this moment the scene of sorrow and
lamentation , inconsequence of the bereavement of relations . While , by the total destruction , or serious injury , and consequent stoppages , of twenty-one mills , operations are suspended , and ten thousand persons are at present idle , without work and wages , at a time when they are surrounded b y a combination of calamities , almost without a parallel in this country . And all this might have been prevented by an outlay of two hundred and fifty shillings ! That sum would have given timo to get to the real cause of
themischief , and stop it thero . That cause was the radical unsoundness of the embankment itself . It had been made by contract—of coarse aB ' cheap' as possible . A spring was allowed to well through the ground , ' the ' puddling' was inefficient , and the foundation was gradually , but surely and steadily , undermined ; the pipe or funnel b y which the superabundant waters were to flow off was made too weak for the work it had to do , and got twisted and useless . Palliatives for this radical defect ' were proposed , but never executed . The thing did not vav . The
directovB went to loggerheads , the man left as ? drawer , ' got no wages , nobody came to see him or the reservoir either , so he let the lake accumulate behind the rotten embankment at the head of the doomed valley . The clerks could not get their salaries , the managers could not get any profits . The affair did not succeed in a pecuniary sensethere was no dividend—no lucre to be got out of the concern . Why , then , should anybod y care about \ t 1 At last came the deluge , the destruction of life , the devastation of a whole district , even to the sweeping of human bodies aud property out to the distaut Humber and the sea ; and for all this there is no help , no redress , no punishment . It is all according to
Cockbb and M'Culloch . The managers acted on the supreme and ackiaowled ged principle of « supplv and demand . ' They let the works to the cheapest contractors ; the contractors having shaved their estimates aB close as they could to get the job , shared the works too closely also in order to get their profit out of it ; the works , thus ori ginally defective , wore allowed to go to rack and ruin by all connected with them , because they were unprofitable . 'Nothing was done to prevent , ' what is called by a hideous perversion of words ,- 'the accident' which everybod y foresaw , until at last the waters burst their bounds in a body , and spread death , ruin , and desolation all before them .
But for this great crime against the first principles of society , for these murders , this who lesale destruc turn of property the law offers no redress , can ufli t no punishment . The poor starving wretch ,, n taught , uncared for , dJ ^ B ^^ iiSS ^ vicious companions and contaminating influences J ^^ a ^^ vskS f S ^ sJa ^ n ^ v . *« - * i 3 ££
™ .. ua i c . a eyei"B tne coroner ' s jury were § S ££ 55 ffi « r " JL ^/ 7 . rdlctof man 8 lauehter . a * we ar .
iTcWTlMJ g ™« and culpable negligence of < uoh ^! S ° nr have subjected them to •^ SS ^ M ?* *• p— ° " caSof Z ?! ' I ? be acce P fcytoeadro .
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over the anarchical socialistic doctrines , which iucul . cate the duty of society to apply the science , skill " capital , labour , and intelligence , at its dispo sal , to the protection , security , welfare , and progress of the community at large . - "Well , perhaps we are very stupid—perhaps wo may be' anarchical' and ' red republican , " in thinking so ; but we must confess that we should rather prefep the' anarchy' of socialism to the ' order' of' sunnlv
and demand , and the trospel according to St . Fjy e Per Cent . We think that such ' order , ' and the doctrine which produces it , are quite on a par with , the superstitions which make men worship images of clay , and cast themselves underneath idol cars to be crushed to pieces . The sooner legislators and rulers discover ' there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in the philosophy of f the Manchester School , ' the better for both rulers and ruled
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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNITED TRADES . " FIAT JUSTITIA . " "If it were possible for the working classes , b y comblnine among themselves , to raise , or keep up the general rnto of wages , it need hardly be said that this would be a thing not to be punished , but to be welcomed and rejoiced at . "—Stuabt Mill
We bad been in hopes that we should this week have been enabled to have congratulated our members and friendg upon the liberation of Messrs . Green , and Peel from their uomorited imprisonment ; because , as we anuounced , the prosecutors , having obtained thoir order for an attachment against the five defendants , we , good naturedly , coaxed ourselves into the belief that it was just possible that the
prosecutors' thirst for revenge would have been satisfied with tho imprisonment their victims had already suffered , and that they would not have carried out the order they had thus obtained to the extremity . And rather so , from the fact , that they have the security of eighteen individuals for all costs which they are legally entitled to ; so that this further imprisonment of the defendants is a wauton act of unmitigated , vengeance , pure and simple . It is the Jew exacting his pound of flesh .
On Monday , the 23 rd ult ., the five ' convicted conspirators' were duly discharged by the Keeper of the Queen ' s Bench Prison , and at its threshold politely invited into the custody of the Sheriff of Surrey , and as politely shown into cabs , which were drawn up in readiness , in the presence of about a thousand of their friends and sympathisers , who had assembled in the vain hopn of welcoming and participating with them in the firBt enjoyment of their recovered liberty . These generous anticipations were doomed to disappointment . They were driven across to Horsemonger Lane Gaol—the very name of which , from its sad and melancholy notoriety , must , we are sure , sound harsh and grating upon the ears of our friends , though , perhaps , upon those of the remorseless prosecutors , like the ' music of sweet waters . '
For the space of three days , the five ' convioted conspirators' had the high privilege of becoming duly initiated into the pure and moral mysteries of this receptacle for vice and misfortune . And for those professing a morbid , but a common , animosity , were tho chapel , where the condemned are made a public show of the Sunday before execution , and the grave stones , marking the spot where many a wretched victim to ill-regulated passions and a vicious state of society lies rotting . Among those the murdering Mannings were the moat recent , and , we suppose , the most interesting relic 3 .
These soul-enobling recreations were happily terminated on Wednesday , by their removal to the ( at least ) purer atmosphere of the Queen ' s Bench , where they now are awaiting their liberation , from either the fidelity and spirit of their fellow workmen , or the humanity of their prosecutors . Of the former , they have little doubt ; of the latter , they remember a sentiment ascribed to one of them— ' I would keep them therefor life : ' Yes , sir , we will give you credit for even more than that—say , ' for ever , and a day ; ' and then the maliguing of your desires would be unsatisfied .
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MR . DUNCOMBE'S RESIGNATION OF THE PRESIDENCY OF THE ASSOCIATION . It ia with feelings of deep regret that we have this week to announce the resignation , byMr . Duncombe , of the presidentship of the National Association of United Trades . His motives for this step he has himself fully explained in his communication to the committee . It would ill become us to complain of his having taken this step , or of the time and manner of doing it
. £ or more than three years his state of health rendered it impossible that he could give that practical supervision to the business of the Association which his high sense of honour would prompt as an essential requisite of his office . During that period things may have been done which he might not have approved , and important measures omitted , either trom ignorance or inadvertence , which his superior judgment and foresight would have prompted . At the time
same the Central Committee conscientiously aver , that upon all occaaions , in all their public proceedings , they never lost sight of the fact , that the public character of Thomas Slinesbv Duiw combe was to a certain extent mixed and bound up with their proceedings ; and it will be to them at all times a source of pride and satisfaction , that by no act of theirs has that gentleman ' s high public character at any time been compromised . We feel strongl y assured that the members of the Association will unanimously and cordiallv » nn m ™
the sentiments of gratitude and respect which tbe SlTn ' ^ - e fe ! S il their du * y t 0 uffer that gen . tleman , in their reply to his communication . Palace Chambers , St . James ' -street , S ¦ ? hV « i £ * l 8 . ? dthat " During the firBt four SthuermiUP ^^ T n e of the Association , and when my ueaiwi permitted , I took a constant and an ioH ™ unreal = » e = r ^ EaSE £ SS ? ^ * SS TS 2 SZ S&Sffffitffiftfttftt
fallv Z n T i 8 ° ^ BUbsisted between us , buUfter 2 h , l « I con 8 lde » n 2 ^ e subject , I feel that tho £ , iit r , ahoul ( 1 tender my resignation « ? Eft * It 6 Association ; " but I further said : » As thJ . ™ h m * resignation should in any way impede Pffi , i « nni 1 opwjtwms of the ABsocintion , orim » irit 8 «!« « fti L i ld-should such be yo « r plensure-con-*;" . f je of the Session of Parliament to ba onnortnni f' ^ ^ flff ° t 0 J 011 and the Tl » d <» the tft ^ S ° ^ lntIn S "uoceseor . who « ould be able » . !!? * t Md t 0 L Prom <> te the important objects of the SSt ettW ^ hiUl 1 r ldthw *»• " ^ d 1 adhered 222 ? 5 5 Hwojution I then announced , I should have tendered my formal resignation last Aucua : but . in tha
m ^ uume . c . rcumstanoes had occurred which might pro-Silent to !! ed h ' etiremeilt from the Position o ! Preho real rS ^ fVh ?^ . Otiv 68 tOfcally * v » rian <* ™* iwfn 1 " » at induced «> e to take that atop . taSSH f . P eriod tba * health prevented me from you fentl-m tmf * Jl '" the busine 3 s of the A 83 ooiation , oTaunXr " ' / * , ? e mvolved ( without my co " sent JLled for L * tradl disput 0 at Wolverhampton , which dieted « K mOnth 3 ( 8 nd whicb ' 1 believ « . coa ' SandJmnPr % ° - - ereconcerned - in t ^ most modekeep Sfnt hBi e ? F ' * with the utmost anxiety to iSMIgi Central tommttee , who had , with others , taken an ootiw rr ? uriedoutm ^ n P , T ding 8 at WoherhumpSu . To imve carried out my intentions niffht . t . h « r » fnr « h ^ a b % ' io
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hSteZXt * that the queS at issueshtuld * $ that trLlSJJ ! T ^ the Defenc » fi ""* - Tbe resu \ ° ! that trial deprived the Central Committee for throt months iStL ' emce 8 of tw <> of its membn *; and this formed another reason for still further delaying my intended resi ? - ? ffn \ . P lrcum 8 tances appew to me now to justify & ' taking this step ; and I haw therefore to intimate , that worn ttm date I resign t&fcefflco of President of your Association , and request tb . st . you will communicate the Ban * to the members tUereof ia' wen manner us you may tbiuB P » p » r .
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4 THE NORTHERN STAR . Marc hJV ] S 52
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 6, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1668/page/4/
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