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THE JSOSTHERN STAE.. SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1841.
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AND WILL BE READY VERT SHORTLY , PRICE ONE SHILLING , BYMNS FOR PUBLIC W 0 R 8 BB SUITABLE FOR CHARTIST CONGREGATIONS . . mHIS is a desideratum which is seriously felt , and 1 it is hoped that the present effort will be though ! efficient t » supply it . In order that some idea may be had of how many Bhould be printed , it iB urgently requested that all the several localities , throughoal the Kingdom , will consider of the Number likely , to be required , and send , through their Sub-Secretaries , to the Editor of the Chartist Hymn Boole , 5 , Marketstreet , Leeds ; pre-paying their letters , of course .
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CONVENTION . THE PROTISIONAL EXECUTIVE TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND , SCOTLAND , AND WALES . Bbothebs is the Ca » sb of DiMOtiucr , —Tq consequence of the conflict of opinion regarding the selection of ten persons ( from those nominated ) to form th « forthcoming Convention , we do not consider it right to have anything it all to do with such selection ; but we would recommend th « following oourse to the country : —Let there Be a public meeting called immediately in every town , and all the persons nominated submitted to each public meeting , which meeting shall chooso ten from th » whole lint ; Editors of
let ill returns be forthwith sent to the ihe Northern Star , Scottish Patriot ] and Dundee Chronicle newspapers , who shall pmbhsh a correct account of the whole proceedings . By this means , whichever ten would hare the sanction of the greatest number of public meetings would be the ¦ veritable representatives of the people . This method , in oar opinion , wonld be the best that coald be adopted ; and we confess we see no other plan by which satisfaction can bo given to all parties . The public meetings could all take place next week , and the result published in the above-named newspapers on Saturday , the 17 th instant , and the Convention meet in London as soon as necessary afterwards . We do not decline taking the affair into our own hands from any dlrespect to any individnal , bnt because it might form a dangerous precedent in an Executive body , by too much power being placed at their disposal , and , in the end , bring t&em into collision with the people ; a circumstance which must carefully be guarded against . We remain , your fellow-labourers in the cause of genuiBc Chartism , Jambs Leech , President . James XTartledge . Richard Littles . John Camfixll . Secretary .
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THE PROVISIONAL EXECUTITB TO THE CHARTISTS OF ENGLAND ANIT WALES . Fellow-Democrats , —We call upon yon to send in the names of the persons you will nominate as candidates for the permanent Executive , by Saturday , the Z 4 ta instant , at the farthest ; in order that correct lists may Ibe made out , and sent to e * th sub-Secretary . We would wish you to bear in mind that we "will not ( because we cannet ) be accountable for any nomination of any person , unless an account be s « nt to th « General Secretary , of the individuals-nominated , by letter . We do this to ensure punctuality , and to prevent mistakes ; and then "we "will get the ¦ wlxole list printed on circulars , and send one to each sub-Secretary , widi instructions concerning the elections . James Leech , President . James Castled ge .
Richard Littler , John Campbell , Secretary . AH communications must be made to ilr . Johm Campbell , 18 , Adderky-street , Shaw ' s Brow , S&lford , Manchester .
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TR 014 OUR LO >~ DO > - CORRESPONDED . Wednesday Evening , April " lh . [ A statement in my last week ' s conjnrur . ication ( relative to the Corn L&w League ) having been declared erroneous , by a letter from " one of the reporters" to the Weekly D'tpaich , inserted in that paper of Sunday last , 1 beg to say , that mj informant is in every way entitled to implicit belief ; and that , if there be any error in my statement , it is about equal to thi * : —instead of ha-slug used the term " bothar , " I onght to have said " fuss . " As to the facts stated by me , relating to " our contemporary , " I have only to add , that they were related to me shortly after the application , and before \ h > ¦ Iliim . i 1 ilHi » UJ » h 1 j * the " error " is not of op t making . ] ^ ' ' ¦ - ^
Chaehsm is LorGHBoaoEGHj Leicester , an ~ d Jfoni-VGHASi . —I have been favoured with the sight of a private letter from Mr . Vincent , dated " Nottingham , April 3 rd , " in which the following interesting passages occur : — " Those who hope to crush Chartism know but little of the spirit which noiv animates the people . Daring the past fortnight , 1 tare Tisited the towns gf irticeslzT , LoughbOTQUgh , and Nottingham ; and the people in all these towns are speedily advancing in morality and Intelligence , and in a desire to obtain their political an J social rights . Persecution has not abated thezea : of the Chariist party . All is activity , and everything bears evidence to the onward progress of our cause . - - - - In LoBghborough , I delivered three
lectures to crowded audiences . The people are miserably poor . The men engaged in the stocking trade are in a shocking Btato of destitution . Miny of them work from six o'clock in the morning till twelve o ' clock at night , and do not earn ( after deducting rent for frames , and other expences ) moee has fbom 53 . to 6 s . a week ! Liule childrerj , of both » exes , are put to work as early , as from five to six years of age . These children work from six in the aorning till nine at night . They can earn from one gfrW'Tig jo 0 Be and ninepence a week . No time for education or moral culture . All is toil , -destitution , disease , and ignorance . The people geaeraliy are Chartists ; many of them teetoiailers . There is a Cbartist Teetotal Society , and a society composed of those who are not teetotallers .
In Leicester , I delivered four lectures in the New Bali ; about 600 attended at each lecture ; ufany of the middle classes , including numbers of ladies , were present . At the close of my 1 ast lecture , I administered the Chartist teetotal piedge to Blxty-three persons . ---...-.---In Nottingham , I have delivered three lectures in the large theatre . Tnis is a famous Radical town . Reading-rooms and libraries abefund ; though some of them are unfortnnaiely held at public houses . - - - - - - I am delighted with the people of
Nottingham ; and I may safely assert , that never did the Chartist cause look so flourishing . " A subsequent letter says : — " I have had the devil-to-pay at Derby . Three rooms trere engaged , and ' ta ' Kcn from us . Last night ( 3 ionday ) , the town was all excitement ; the market filled with people vowing execrations upon the authorities . I went down in a fly 'the fly-man was threatened—I sent the people out of the to ; m , and there dispersed them , insisting that they most not allow their feelings to £ et the better of their judgments . The authorities are beaten—the teetotallers hove come to the rescue—and have
invited me to lecture on tectotalism , in the Wesieyan Chapel , en Wednesday night . The chapel wdi hold 2 , 000 ; and we shall have it full . - - - - 1 lecture again in Nottingham next 3 Ionday and Tu » =-d » y ; entirely at the request of some of the working lasses—men who hay e hitherto bten our bluer opponents . " The Petitiox Commitixe held it 3 weekly meeting at the Di-patea Cotfee House , Bride Lane , last evening , Mr . Simpson in the chair . The Secretary , Mr . Balls , read a letter from Mr . Havres , M . F ., Rating that he would present to the House of Commons the petitions on bthaif of O'ConnorFrost ,
, and the Charter , which had been forwarded to him for that purposa by the Committee . A letter from Mr . JDoncombe , M . ., was also read , stating that tbe individual petitions he had presented to the House were not inserted in the votes of the Hous * , in consequence of * n informality , the p * xUioners loi hiring signed their names at the e » d of the petition , at well as at the top . The Committee , therefore , request that their brethren will , for the future , sign thfeir names at the end as well as at the beginning of individual petitions . A great number of petitions were recaived by ths Committee , previous to adjournment .
BESinrrnos . —Vast numbers of poor persons are wandering about the streets of London , m a wholly destitute condition ; and such ia their horror oi the New Poor Law , and their dread of the workhouse , that some of them comsais petty depredations for the avowed purpose of geiung sent vo Bridewell ; they eldom go far enough to get hard labour attached to their sentence—and no blame to them' We saw to-day , quite a new rig with an individual who was few weeks sinoe sentenced to gaol for begging He would not beg ; but armed himself with a m £ sons trowel , a mortar-board , a » d & whitewash brash ; these were tied together , aud en the board was jaunted , * a de * r characiera—** I want employ—« y children want breaa . " M Ah , " said he , to a peeler , who told him to move on , " you can ' t ouad B » for that , anyhow ] " " ^
SrassT Accidkhts . —This ereniag , about six ' clock , a little girl , about seven yexrs old , was rotting Farringdon-street , near Waithman ' s Obelisk , vrhm a gentleman , in & low pbseton , was driving at % rapid r&te ^ from the direction of Bridge-street , Bla * kfriar 8 . Tht horse knocked the per child dtws , and one of the wheels of the vehicle passed rrejf the child ' s head , crushing it in a most frightful Banner . A crowd sooa collected ; and , as some f the spectator * attributed great negligence to the
featiaman who was cnrinf , be was for some tine u danger of raxunarj vengeance , bat was , at length , takes under th « protection of the police , and the bili wa * ooBTeyed to a surgeon ' s , sear Faningdon-Market , who pronounced her lift to be in great danger . —About tbeame time as the above , as one of the London rftpti Delivery Company ' s « on-T * yanc * cart * wa || g % iKiing Hoiborn . Mi , it came in eam * et with « f wnnibua , which was descending ** ug ) it was isM to the unskilfoJness of the carter . The-resoU wa 8 , lEat the wheel of the conveyance mnmaa knocked from the axlej the personis in the
S ?^ ! " * ' ! l A ^^ ff jolting , but no material £ fw to tWfjp ^ Company ' s driver was thrown «»¦«» «§ £ « $ aeriou&Iy boused- It was some 2 J § J 5 jbfiJ «/ W *** * trkw » rd and dADgeroas
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Walworth and Cambkbweli . Chartists . —A meeting was held on Monday evening , at the Rose and Crown , Walworth Road , for the transaction of general business , and aiding in the getting np of the public meeting to be held at White Coadoit House on Easter Monday , for which purpose a sum of money waB voted by way of Joan . The following resolution was also unanimously adopted : —*• That it be an instruction to the Committee calling the meeting at White Conduit House , that a petition be sent to the House of Lord ' s for Frost , Williams , and Jones , in reference to the points of law in the case of Lord Cardigan . " The cause of Chartism looks well in this locality . Several new members have been enrolled , and the weekly meetings are well attaaded .
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Chbistophes Dsan , of Manchester , the Chartist chairman , was tried at the Liverpool Assizes on Monday last , before Mr . Justice Maule . He was charged upon two indictments , with seditious conspiracy , unlawfa 2 & 3 sembly , &c , with the Her . W . V . Jackson and others , at Manchester , to both of which he pleaded guilty ; and was called upon to find two sureties in £ 50 each , or four in £ 25 each , to keep the peace , aud appear when called upon . Acquittal of the Men Chabqkd with thb Ashton Murder . On Tuesday morning , Mr . Wilkins addressed the Jury on behalf « f the prisoners , in his usual able manner , at some length . Justice Maule followed , and concluded a very lengthy and full address , by stating shortly the two views of
the case , the one that of the prosecution that the prisoners were the murderers , and against that view there were m&ay difficulties ; and the view taken for the defence that Davies , who , according to his own admission , was participating in the murder , with the two Hardwicks , who were mixed up with the transaction , were they , or some of them , the actual murderers , and that they , having opporUnities in prison , had together conspired to make the charge against the present prisoners . If , considering the character of the accomplices and the position in which they stood , the Jury thought the confirmations were sufficient to support the truth- of their state ments , they would nnd tHe prisoners guilty . If , on the contrary , they entertained any reasonable doubt ,
they would give the prisoners the benefit of the doubt . If they entertained a doubt as to one prisoner , and not as to the other , they would make that distinction in their verdict . The Learned Judge concluded his address at twenty-five minutes before four o ' clock , having continued it to a length of foar hours save five minutes . The Jury retired , and returned in ten minntes , finding both thft prisoners " I \' ot Guilty . " They were then arraignod on two other indictments , one charging them with having discharged the contents of a pipe at Benjamin and James Cooper , on the 20 th of November and 5 th oi December , wi : h intern to murder them . No evidence was offered , and verdicts of acquittal were taken ; and , there being no other charge against Holme , he was discharged .
The Jsosthern Stae.. Saturday, April 10, 1841.
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A NATION OUT-LAWED BY A FACTION . STARVATION . * A new contract has been executed between the landlords and the steamlords , whereby the people of this country have been handed over as so much surplus lumber , to be dealt with according to the cupreme will and pleasure of the three Somerset-House lords of the creation . In the » ew contract , we find full and ample justification for the most violent resistance which has b « en hitherto offered to the " damnabU law . " We also find full and ample reasons and just grounds for the people ' s growing aversion to all classes placed in authority over them .
After seven years of national discontent , and , after having a fair trial of the measure , and after the strongest censure that popular indignation could cast upon it has been pointedly and incessantly expressed by the whole people , we find that the very evil most complained of , the irrespomible power of the Commissioners , baa been magnified from the mere interference with local Guardians , and the capricious maintenance of the pauper , into entire and supreme controul over all local bodies , making
those bodies , either mere creatures or cyphers , and a power over tne religion , education , trade , calling , and even country , of every Briton , who is fir » t reduced to the level of degradation by the infernal machine . Thu 3 have the people been handed over , body and soul , life and limb , trade and calling , to three journeymen paupers . Taste destroyed , preference set at naught , nature turned topsy turvy , and social order shaken to ita very centre , by the very parties who are paid , and well paid , for perserving its harmony .
But , we are told , that it is yet the Briton ' s right to use all onstituti « nal means for the repeal of this odious , unchristian , ungodly , un-Englishj unprincipled law . Let us now , for one moment , consider what this " constitutional resistance" means , and the odds at which constitutional popular resistance has to contend against the positive power of the maker * of the law .
The people have met and petitioned , many have died , many more have been driven from tk « home of their fathers to the Whig charnel-house , thousands have fled their father-land , in the hope of being able t » preserve a miserable existence , for another-short period of misery in a foreign land . The sea-bound dungeon has ruug with the piercing cry of the victim of ambitious lust , and with execrations against the unholy law , which unbinds society—dissolves those ties whic God has formed , and compels the pauper to exhibit the galliBg qualification of utter despandency and destitution , before he is thought worthy of relief . What other constitutional means of resistance does this nation of helpless paupers possess ! None .
W hat , now , are the powers by which even such constitutional resistance is met by the advocates cf the law ? It is made in their House ; it is eupponed ,. defended , and upheld by their nominees ; opposition to it is tried by llieir judges ; its constitutionality judged of by their law officers , paid by their rote with the people ' s money ; decided upon by jurors of their creatures , to whom , in return for confidence , they render them supreme power of being judges of the constitution ; judgment is given against the constitutional opponent of the law by
their judges ; the strictest rules of prison discipline are enforced against the virtuous hater of the law , by their inquisitors , in their bastileg ; the enemies of the measure are denounced by ih » ir pr « ss !!! In what , then , we would ask , consists the Briton ' s right of constitutional resistance 1 Is it in the right of spending nine months in solitary confinement , in a felon ' s cell , as O'CoraoR is now doing , for the following six lines , called unconstitutional , libellous , and illegal opposition ! In the Star of Dec . 2 ° 2 nd , 18 S 8 , the following six lines appeared : —
" Warminsteb . Bastile . —A little boy , last week , for some small offence , was confined in one of the cells belonging to the above workhouse , and was literally starved to death . Tha poor fellow , during his confinement , actually ate , in consequence of hunger , two of his fingers , and the fleth from his arm , " Now , for these six lines , taken from another paper , and upon which O'Cohnob was convicted by a Jury of money-mongers , Mr . Jeshco Littledalb told him that , taken in conjunction with the other verdict , he should divide the judgment of the Court * that is , nine months for each offence .
Again , will any man in his senses believ « that Thokshill ' s incarceration of bis old and f aithful steward , just at the time when his presence might hare been fatal to the re-enactment of the Bill , was other than a Whig contrivance , a * a substitute for a Terdict of Guilty , which they knew they could never get against Oastuek , in . Yorkshire , without too palpabl y packing a Whig Jury , to the exclusion of every particle of Tory feeling . Yes , yes , thug it is that the friends of the poor—the constitutional opponents of the measure , art viotimi *« , equally with the paupers themselves .
We hare been sincere in onr denunciation of this measure , and also sincere in onr expression of belief that nothing short of Universal Suffrage can for ever oruah that monster . In this belief we hare been folly confirmed by the "artful dodgers / 'fod on by the redonbtable Mr . Chronicle Easthopje . This dodger boasted , as we have before ahown , that the Whigs outbid the Tories in humbug ; but what was the upshot ? Why , that while we fini ihV « id " artful dodger" Easihop * , proposing a clap-trap
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amendment , as to the time of the monster ' s duration , and which he would never have proposed had success been at all calcnlat « d upon ; we find him voting , in Committee , in every majority to confer additional power upon the triumvirate , and additional poignancy to the measure , and increased suffering and degradation to those whom necessity shall compel to look for relief . If , by the late eham fight , the Tories have been unmasked , as a party , the Whigs have been discovered as a set of unprincipled " dodgers . "
Of the Hibernian tail , we have only to say that , throughout , they have shewn their consistency , love of the English poor , and regard for civil and religious liberty , by handing over Catholics , Dissenters and all , to the tender mercieB of a Law Church How will th « Bight Honourable RlCHABD SHIEL , the Bight Honourable Mobk O'Ferrall , the Right Honourable David Pioerr , and the Right Honourable Thomas Wtsb , all honourable men , justify their votes upon the question !
Fieldkn deserves the full and unqualified thanks of the nation at large , for his uniform and consistent opposition to the hell-born monster ; while those to which Dpncombb , Waklet , and a few others are entitled , are much diminished by their miserable support of the originators of the Bill upon all touoband-go measures . They , together with a number of our half-and-half outside friends , remind us strongly of that party in Athena which w » b
considered the most infamous , namely , those " who endeavoured to keep well with all parties , and ventured with none ; " or , as we have described them m » re than once , those " who run with th « hare , and hold with the hound . " Our position is this : that if the measure merits all that severe censure which Duncokbb and Wailet have so unmercifully heaped upon it , they , as supporters of its supporters , deserve all the odium attachable to accessories before and after the fact .
We do not expeot a repeal , or any relaxation of the law from a Tory House . As far as regards the inside passengers , it has become a mere perch for stragglers to perch upon , on the dull eve of a general election . None but Fieldkn have shown themBelves haters of the law for the Jove of the people . Many , very many , it is true , have opposed it strenuously , but none have devoted the soul to the opposition , but that one single solitary individual . What chance , then , have we from the House , and " constitutional resistance ?" None , none whatever . In what , then , consists the nation ' s hope , and the chance of- the monster ' s death ? In the nation ' s
self—in making it a spur to the Charter—in vowing eternal , everlasting , indomitable vengeance against it . How ? Why , we have lately had Sunday meetings ; Mr . O'Conneli , has boasted that he held one within gun-shot of the Horse Guards , and he held another upon the plains of Kildare . Let us profit ; by good example . Dare the Whigs allow constitutional meetings , for repealing a Legislative Union , and obstruct and declare those meetings illegal , which are held for the purpose of cementing God's union ? No : we dare them .
Then , as the poor are too hard worked upon six days of the week , and as we look upon the law as an ungodly law , we must confer together for the maturing and adopting such means as will allow the whole people to turn the Sabbath to the Christian and holy work of uprooting and constitutionally overcoming the machinations of hell . We shall not offer any undigested or illegal plan for thus devoting four or five Sundays to an exhibition of English feeling upon this subject , bat we shall take council to mature a plan which shall be legal and constitutional , because , the infernal act must be constitutionally resisted , and , " the better day the better d # ed . " The whole Act should be burned bv the common hangman .
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EMIGRATION . Emigration and starvation are twin devils ; "Siamese youths" of the infernal regions : and hence we find a new struggle for emigration made extemporaneously with the re-enactment of the starvation laws . Let us take a retrospective glance of the parties by whom the Poor Law Ame ^ djUgnt Act was conoocted , with a view to discover whether or not any of those parties had a strong interest in the measure , in so fax as it could be rendered a powerful auxiliary to assist in raising the value of their foreign possessions , at the expence of a oompulsory abandonment of their father-land by the English people .
The law was concocted and introduced by the GaEY cabinet ; Edward Ellice , M . P . for Coventry is the brother-in-law and mouth-piece of Lord Geet ; he has little er no land in this country , but is possessed of immense Canadian property . Ellice is uncle to the Countess of Durham , aud the late Earl would not accept ef any office save that of uncontrouled , but undefined , King of Canada ; ho also was in Ellice ' s leading strings . Lord Howick ia
son of Lord Grey , and nephew to Elmce , and gives to Government a very crooked support upon all questions save those of starvation and emigration ; but upon these points he goes " the whole hog " with them . Chables Wood , M . P . for Halifax , is son-in-law to Lori Grey and nephew to Ellice , and he also runs in couples with Howick , and is a staunch supporter both of starvation and emigration . In fact , Ellice is a kind of house steward mouse of the cupboard of the Grey family .
Now , in brief terms , what was their object in passing the starvation Act ? Was it not to insure the transportation of the wealth of this country , rendered surplus by machinery , and desperate by insults and degradation , in order to confer an in creased valne upon their foreign possessions , rendered valueless for want of population ? Is not every acre of Edward Ellice ' s land in Canada increased fifty per cent , in value by each ship load of white slaves , who are banished , by starvation , from their native land t
If any man doubts the interest which some powerful parties have in emigration , let him read the following audacious and mendacious article , which we give from the " artful dodger ' s" paper , the Chrmicle , of Saturday last . He says : — " Now that Canada is tranquil , and that the differences with the United States no longer wear a menacing aspect , the stream of emigration will , from various obvious causes , set in more strongly than ever for that interesting portion of our colonial empire .
" We have perused with the greatest satisfaction a most able and interesting publication , drawn np under the direction of the Cuiada Company , by their Secretary , as we are informed , which is sold by Smith and Elder at the very moderate price of one shilling . The title of the publication , to which we would direct the attention of all who wish for correct information as to the real state of thing * in Canada , is ' A statement of tbe satisfactory results which have attended emigration
to Upper Canada , from tho establishment of -the Canada Company until the present period ; comprising statistical tables , and other important information , eommunicated by respectable residents in the various townships of Upper Canada , with a general map of the Province , compiled for the guidance of emigrants . ' Emigration to Canada ought to be set about as Boon as the St . Lawrence is open , for if the emigrant ia not on his land * in the early put of tbe munmer , he cannot » ncoee * fully contend with tbe long winter .
" In America generally , and Upper Canada if a highly favoured province ; every industrious labourer roiy soon obtain a competence . The man who in this country can never hope to ia more than keep himaelf out * f tbe workhouse , may , by removing to Canada , by the sera exertion of bia thewa and sinew , become in a abort time a substantial yeoman . The tsje which this publication tells is calculated to carry joy into the cottages ot these islands , where at present many strong-armed mem carry on a obeerleai nraggie , day after day , with privations amounting almost to famine constantly staring them in the lace . Benevolent individuals should circulate the publication extensively throughout the rural district * , that well-disposed , industrious men may be enabled to : profit by the body of evidence presented by the Camada Company . ' In the introduction we are told , that
• In order to obtain Vie intelligence—thal iis fidel ity and accuracy might be tstafilisked beyoiidfhe reach of ixmi or suspitfoH—thfy prookred the instrumentality of tome of ike most influential , longest ttftled , and mpectabte ^ ih
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habitants , residing in Devious parts , o / the province , to colled the necessary information . They were directed to spare neither trouble nor expence to procure the mtst minute and faithful returns : " The accounts ^ are truly gratifying . " Aye , the accounts are truly flattering , but not flatteringly true . Then follows a manufactured tale of profit made , and property amatsed , by settlers , in a period of little more than ten years , and with which a common shop-keeper in England would not be half satisfied , and yet they are manufactured for the mere purpose of decoying tbe young birds . But we give the whole pudding for this one plum which it contains : " The man who , in this country , can
NEVER HOPE TO DO MORE THAN KEEP HIMSELF O 0 T OF THE W 0 KKH 0 U 6 B , MAY , BY REMOVING TO CANADA , BY THB MEBE . EXERTION OF HIS THEWS AND SINEWS , BECOME , IN A . SHOBT TIME , ^ A . SUBSTANTIAL YEOMAN . Tbe tale which this publication tblls is calculated TO CARRY JOY INTO THE COTTAGES OF THESB Islands , where , at present , many strong-armed men carry on a cheerless struggle , dat after day , with privations , amounting almost to faminb , constantly staring them in the face . "
There , then , is the working , the hard working man ' s share of the first ten years working of the " Great measure , " and , from it , let him guess what his share of the next ten years will be . This is honest of the w artful dodger "—this is roally putting the Poor Law Amendment Act to its intended purpose . A few more such articles as the above , and we fear a return of " the torch and dagger-men" will be the result , and then Howick will cry " Fire , fire , fire—now you must hold . "
Good God f was there ever insolence equal to this , that says , struggle as a hard working Englishman may , the most he can exptc ^ is io be kept just out of the " workhouse . " This is ^ nbral force ^ emigration ; and , let it be further observed , that the whole Byetemof emigration is to undergo purification . Loud and constant complaints have been made , by the white-slave-merchants , that the scheme has partially failed , in consequence of those entrusted with its management , prevailing upon bad instead of good characters to emigrate , and we have the assurance that , henceforth , more ciroumspecfcioii will he used , and that none hut " ticketed" men will be allowed to fly their homes . In other words , every honest man is to be forced out of his country .
In the distanoe , and not far off either , we see the following events rapidly preparing for us . We see the Jews about to take possession of the mortgaged lands of the landlords ; we see the landlords robbing the Treasury and the Savings'Banks , to put their foreign houses in Australia and Canada in order , and sending tho best men they can procure , before them ; we see the refuse made slaves by tjranny , and villains by slavery , matched in chaingangs to the mill and from the mill , under the protection ef the" civil pouter" with musketand bayonet ; we see the land , not wholly uncultivated , but not a
tenth-part cultivated under our noses , ecausethe money-monger , who will own £ 5 , 000 a year of landed property , will own from £ 20 , 000 to £ 100 , 000 a year of slave property , and therefore , it will bo their interest , if they cannot aiccompliah their end by any other means , to throw £ 5 , 000 a year away for £ 20 , 000 a year , by making the food of their slaves as cheap as possible , and selling the produce of their labour as high as possible , thus destroying all native agricultural industry . To this conclusion we must come , in a very short period , if the progress of starvation and emigration is not stopped by equalization .
Pending the struggle , however , it is our duty to take care that those who may be banished , be not lost for want of advice . We , therefore , recommend those who have money , and who wish to emigrate , to go to America , and those who hare not money we recommend also to go to America . If they go to Canada , or Australia , they meet with branches from tho blasting , blighting , destroying Upas tree , which has driven them from house and home , and , if they go to America they at once become their own masters .
With regard to , the accounts of the success which attends emigration to Canada , nothing can bo more false or vile . The fact is , much more nearly , that one half of tho poor who have gone there have died of oold , and that many OT the other half have begged thtir way into some American State which suited them as to climate .. We have not the slightest pity for the landlords ; their days arc numbered , and they themselves cast their own lot . No power oa earth but the Charter can save them .
Au audacious attempt has been made by the press to separate thu new powers given to ex . officio Guardians and other irresponsible bodies , from the spirit of the bill , aud to persuade the people to swallow the pill , because some of tho powers given to the Commissioners , under ths old law , have been considerably abridged ; while the fact is , that where they had power formerly , which , in some cases may be disputed now , in those cases their word is law ; and where responsible bodies had the power in other cases , now that power is vested in irresponsible agents . The Bill , as a whole , cannot bo otherwise
considered than as a sale of white flesh , by landlords to steamlords , let economists call it what they pkase . The power of certain parties may be less under tho old than under the new * law , but the power of the law is a thousand times more oppressive . Such a law as this , fifty years ago , the Boroughmongersdare not have passed , and the people would not have obeyed . What has cowed them ? Machinery , distrust of each other , and competition for a mere livelihood , which has created class distinction , even in the very poorest ranks of the contending operatives and weavers . Wait till all are equally destitute , and then all will bo equally valiant .
The further consideration of the Bill , it will be seen , has been postponed to the 3 rd of May , and Lord John Russell , finding that some of his clauses have been damaged , proposes to produce several Tithe Sills as riders to the monster .
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SCHOOL HAS BROKE UP . THE BOYS ARE GONE HOME . " Joy be with them and a bottle of moss ; if they never como back they'll be no great loss . " To attempt any review of the works of the lads for the past ten weeks , would be but adding insult to expenco . Suffice it , therefore , to say that , in that thorc period the " Reformerb" have turned John and Judy Bull ' s hard cash , by some harlequin . andi 8 m , " into " taper kites ; " the moral force , re .
trenching , peace-making Commons have voted about one-half of the rental of the land England to soldiers and Bailore , and the economists have sold the people , dead and alive , to Poor LawCommissiouets , ex rfficxo Gufttdiana , and emigration ' -Com * miueeB , and all this , while our leading journals have been fighting a Pusey battle for England , a non-intrusion battle for Scotland , and a non-enfranchisement battle for Ireland . So much far the first act of the ninth Reform Session , and now for our
share .. ¦ '' ,., . ., ' . ' .. . ; : '¦ . ¦; : The prisons are still foil . Danikl is preparing to deal a heavy blow at the Whigs and"VVhiggery ; he has got all that he is to get , even to his share of legal appointments iu Jamaica , for which young John contended , M the right of the Irish patriots . Da * sees Pbbl ' s move , and knows wfeat he ia to expect from it , and he has gone *» put " hp house ia order . " And well tho Whigt have helped him ; and if their return it not wh » t every one h « S received who has coafided in tha , H <« wtrai /« GeOLtl * - matt , why , as he says , ' ^ Nahookli 8 h ? l— -nevet mind it . Now , then , let us put our " house in order / ' « r that house may be ready to meet house when the struggle
comes . ¦ . . ¦ ¦ . - , ¦ ¦ .. ¦ . .- ¦ ¦¦' . '¦ ¦ .., ¦ - ^ - ¦¦ . ' , ^ : It will be eeen that Glasgow ,, always fpremofflio the good fight , and always prnitent , hMeteete *' * delegate to the Conventionj a ^^^^ riic | eTi ^ i ^ < jaution » ba 8 ^ also vmdertakenjjoth th «^ ayw ^ efjhu expenoes and salary . Themen of Glasgow mw the coming Convention as we view ' -ft ^ Bagrand ' fiirVfef ,
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which should not be badly aimed * or feebly dealt . They say we are not prepared—neither is the country prepared—let us , therefore , delay the project till the 3 rd of May , ia order to insure its full value . This is not ¦ " despotism , " but good , sound , rational Scotch sense . In . this transaction , onr duty is to obey , the peopW to command . Let the people , then , speak out , and at once , and say whether or not they approve this change ; and , if so , let us have the names of all delegates elected , transmitted to us at once , that we may lay th « n in order before the country .
Sunderland , it will be seen , is preparing , but is not ready , so are many Other places j therefore , claiming pur full share of citizenship , we unhesitatingly deolaragfin favour of the view taken of the subject by the men of Glasgow . However united the general feeling may fao , one thing is quite certain , that the arrangements are not completed . We find that Hull , and Leicester , and other places , have , much more despotically than O'Connor , elected the whole Convention . This , in the first instance , i £ generally adopted , would have been a very fair and satisfactory mode , but it was not according
to the proposed plan . Each place is to elect one delegate , and to send that ' delegate to London , and to bear his expences back from London , Bhould ho be chosen by ballot as one of the ten , and , while In London , he is to receive , £ 3 a week as his wages . Let every place which has elected a Delegate send us at once the name of the Delegate and the date of the public meeting at which he was eleoted for publication in our nest . In the mean time , we have the pleasure to announce that the petition promises to be much more numerously signed than the National Petition .
Now one word as to the value of our plan being well matured . , Firstly , the several delegates can arrange to take with them the several sheets from their respective districts . Secondly , those sheets will have time to be fully signed . Thirdly , the London Committee should instruct Mr . Duncombe , or some other Member , to move , firstly , for a return of the names of the several persons ' vonvicted of political offonces in the year 1839 , together with the offences charged , and the sentences , with the name of the Judge before whom the
parties were tried ; and , also , a return of the several persons sentenced throughout England and Wales daring the same period , to be confined in auy of her Majesty ' s prisons , aud the period of their confinement , with the crimes charged . Secondly , a return should be moved for of the legal expences paid for political prosecutions , for that period , and also for a return of the legal expences paid in criminal cases , during the san % period . Thirdly , a return of all persons held to bail , with the amountfof recognizances , distinguishing each offence with which the offenders stood charged v whether J for political , or crime by common or statute law .
Now , these returns will speak to the House in the language which the country will understand , and they are absolutely necessary for Mr . Dvkcombe ' s guidance , and for the people ' s satisfaction . When we name Mr . Duncombe , we merely do so for brevity , as , of course , our London friends will make their own arrangements in that respect . From these return ! we will , we promise our readers , make the sins of Judge Jeffries , though red as Bcarlet , white as snow , by comparison with one , only one of our modem Daniels , ( not O'Con-NELL . )
Suppose , then , the Convention meet on the 3 rd of May , they give the country , and their active Member more time for returns and arrangements . The delegates have a better opportunity of assisting the general object in their several localities , and in collecting knowledge and opinion to bear upon the questions nfrich th « y will be called upon to discuss , We know that some parties feel sore to the qnick and wouaded to the core by this new move ; because
it will terminate iu the utter extinction of all " lights" but the true light , in the metropolis . Tho old pilots and river-pilots , see no chance either of a job or profit from the people's job , and they are literally paralysed . This Convention will unite tho veritable country party with the veritable metropolitan party , and must create a union for action never before known to exist in this country . We hope , next week , to publish the names of sound country delegates , no" cock-tails , " we' say again .
Go on , then , with the petitions , about which there appears to be some misconception , many parties having applied to us for printed headings , While printed petitions are not received by the Honourable House , and only one heading is necessary , or rather two , one for the men , and one for the women ; we implore the ladies , one and all * to assist with their fair hands . .. ... ^ ~ - ~~~ .
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THE CONVICT MITCHELL . The life of this unfortunate youth has been spared , and , we think wisely and justly spared , for although his life , young as he is , surpasses in atrocity that of any man , of any age , of whom we have heard , yet we were bound only to consider his part in the act with which he stood convicted . In our last we announced that we were in possession of his narrative , which , however , we forbore publishing during the life of the convict then about
to die . Wo shall , however , now present it , as a wholesome lesson of advice , in about two columns at a time , to our numerous readers ; and when we tell them that this youth confesses to have been guilty of more than a tiiousand robberies , some accompanied with the greatest violence , and many with ext ^ aordinay results , before he had attained his seveutecnth year , we may at once declare him to ' have left Robin Hood , Tuiipin , Jack SHEPi > ARD , and all the tribe of vulgar villains far in the ! shade . # xr >> . --,-i .- _ ,, r , A- , ^ "
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THE "GOLDEN SUN" AND HIS ANGLOSAXON FRIEND , UPON THE LIBERTY OF THE SUBJECT . The Strand luminary , determined not to be outdone by the " Artful Dodger " in rendering good service to his masters , has this week published a letter from a very freeman , whe writes himself down as " an Anglo-Saxon , " upon the law of public meetings . The Saxon friend recommends that in all towns the Mayor ( as he is a County Magistrate ) shall preside , exoffioio , and that he shall commence by having the police in
attendance and the military in readiness to deal suumarily with the mover ? , seconders , and backers of all amendments proposed to aati-Corn-Law or other original resolutions , for which the same meeting shall be called ; merely leaving to the opponents of any proposed measure the right of negativing or affirming the Mayor ' s propositions , but no right , by resolution or amendment , eyen to declare their own . The Mayor , our " Anglo-Saxon " declares , shall be sole judge of what is l « gal and diBcreet . This beastly thing in this beastly Whig rag , requires ao comment : not another paper in England would have published it , but our friend ' *
columns ^ are , we fear ; become a refuse for the . destitute . Such , then , is henceforth to be the golden rale of the golden Sun * * new acquaintance for taking stock of public opinion . The man must be a fool t * write , and the ftrn ' muet be mad to publish such jargon . Does not every child of twelve years of age know , that npon * motion made in the House of Commons , that tbe debatei « poa the civil list b « resumed , an HODonraole Member may . move as an amendment that the Chimney Sweepers * BUI be proceeded , with ; But what amendment bo pet : tinent to * proposition to repeal any bad law , as one to get the means of repealing all bad laws ?
. When the " Swj ' a" a ! titudlnal height - : Had illumintd the "bum "of the Mayor , The Chartists beginning to aweat ,-Cried , j ? Bang 1 $ , what amoke from the chair IV ' : ' Oh , Mnngo Young , Mingci Yotjng , * , u " ' Where '©!* artthoii ; Mniigo ' Ybing ' T ' ' '
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FIRST TICKET SHOW MEETIN © AT THE CROWN AND ANCHOR . We last week reported the First Ticket Show for the season , at which one single Chartist , Mr . Watkins , attended , and where he conduefced himself in every respect , as a gentleman ; and we would point that gentleman ' s attention to the manner in which he has been treated by the press and tbe Unionists ; while the Greenacre Chronicle dowuq | condescend even to mention his name . They waif supremacy , not union ; power , not equality . —Th » humbugs !
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Mb . Watkins trusts that those who sent for cmfa of "John Frost" have reecived them ; and he requests others who may wish for copies , t $ appl y in time , as the printer must soon disperse hit types . ' , '¦ George William Machin Ellis , Bhighton , urishet his name appended to the Chartist Total AbtA * nence Address . "
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The Money from Bradford , per J . Stavely , should have been from "Daisy Hill , per J , Stavely . " Wa . Umplebx and J . Janson . —We do not sell them . . Thb sum 10 j . for Convention , noticed from Dewjbiiry , should have been , " 6 s . from DawGretr ^ andis . fromDewsbury . " To Agents . —The price of the paper with plate this week will be 6 d . to agents . The papers of all those whose accounts are not settled will b » stopped after this week . POLITICAL PRISONERS' AND CHARTER COSVENTIOM FUND . £ s . d . From Castle Bonnington , Leicestershire ... 0 7 0 _ twenty Working Men of Temple
Cloud , Somerset 0 14 6 ^ Pratt-street , Kirkaldy , per R . Taylor 3 o o .. a few Friends at Hunslet ... ... 0 2 9 _ J . Sunderland , Harescroffc 0 2 ij _ a Friend ... ... ... 0 0 a „ Bradshaw , near Bolton 0 1 5 „ four persons at Wakefield ... ... 0 3 0 _ the National Charter Association , Mansfield , per D . Farquharson ... , 0 8 1 .. the Friends at Brompton , near North- . » , allerton ... ... ... ... % 1 4 „ thirteen Caartista , Little Horton , per J . Alderson ... 0 3 8 „ Cankerwell-lane , Leeds I 0 7 „ J . Dowson , Reading 0 1 0 * . the National Charter Association , Kiddeiuiinster ... 0 6 0 „ B . Irelaud , Bunfermline o 10 o ^ the Randiff Arms ,
Nottingham 0 3 0 „ the Newton ' s Head ... 0 2 l £ „ New Baaford , by Mr . Wright 0 2 0 ^ New Radford , by Mr . Mason ... ... 0 2 0 „ Bingham , by Mr . Huafcisson 0 10 $ „ Btapleford ... ... ... 0 2 9 1 1 10 $ Post-order , &c ... 0 0 4 J 1 I V _ Hebden Bridge Chartist Association 0 7 8 „ Wearers at Baiaber Bridge and at - „ Bindle , per G . Halton , Preston ... 0 it „ the Female Chartists of Daw
Green 0 0 9 „ Sam ) . Radgeley , Daw Green 0 2 6 _ Frederick Hunt , ditto ... 0 * 6 . 0 3 9 ^ Bradford , Wilts ... 0 i 0 „ the Political Union , Letham ... ... 0 2 i „ twenty persons at AborgaYennv , per Thomas Ingram ... 0 15 9 \ „ Kettle Radical Association , per J . i Moyea . r . ... 0 5 0 FOR THB WIVES AND FAMILIES OF THB INCARCBBATfll CHABT 1 SIS . From Booth Town , near Halifax , per R . Wilkinson ... . „ 0 5 0 - Wands worth , per CWesterton ... 0 I 0
FOR MRS . CLAYTON . From Hanley , per J . Yates ... ... ... 0 13 0 J „ Wandaworth , per C . Westerton ... 0 4 0 FOR THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEB . From Leicester , pet T . Cooper 0 4 FOR PRESS FOR J . B . O ' BRIEN . From Castle Donnington , Leicestershire ... 0 2 0
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HAWICK .-A meeting of the stocking-makers —the most numerous body of workmen m the town was called on Tuesday , to consider aad devise a remedy for a Humber of grievances . It aPl **** that a number of the manufacturers havo teen intne habit of frittering away the wages of tneir waxmenin the most mean and paltry jnanner , more especially when any dullness of trade gave them more power over the men ; and all Uns if" * and robbery enacted by men who are loudest intae outcry for the repeal Of the Corn Laws , wJ& tending all the while it i 8 » U-for . the « ood . rf JJ working classes ! The meeting resolved . * oj *» e » fund immediately for the protection oftheir laboar their only property-from the grasp of these HIP critioal Whig corn-craiks .
ROCHDAIiE . —The election of Poor Law Guardians has terminated here without a contest , the list proposed by the C hartists havingr &een adopted . There are eighte « n in number , sa ™* of whom are Chartists , ancl two Toms-all *« termmei opponents of the blessed " boon , wjucu is detested by all parties . TODMOBDEW .-The master manufacturers of Todmorden have had two or three "wetjfi 1 ** take into consideration whether it wouldI be W"er t «™ rfni , A thn wages of the ooeratives , or to run louz
days per week . Sone ™ f # ' i"ff * 2 £ iZ wages , and some for short time ; but they agreMiw adjourn for a fortnight , so that they ^ "g ^ g fuil time yet . The very man who was put artj . gj chair at a meeting of the Com Law I * ^^ X $ f first to speak for a reduction of wages { J ^ ftgJJ clearly that it is all humbug ^ V «^*' M , the interest of the working men at heart , r WT same worthy made use of the foHowHtf «« ° g at a meeting held at the Spring Gardens Im ^ » meant ' nothing how tommy . w , oA ? eop ^ f ^ t S to deatfc , for there will be plenty more to pui « i their places . "
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Thb W Poor Uw .-Hoo UKioK ^ The ^ sitions vf the witnesses examined * £ » ™ JJjK trates at Rochester , ^ m si Miles , the wjjg Hoo union workhouse , who , »*^^ 3 ttio * i war charged with various * ote . of « ueKJ « J ^ . children under the ¦•»• ¦ * •*¦ « Jj £ g » » £ as required , duly forwarded to the W ^ uMw manby . Th « receipt of ^ y » fgZZ £ L * %% }» edsed by » letter from the Noble Seoretaryi W » hwTuffired the asshes to ^ JJKmH ' directions to Mr . Vimd , *^« W ? £ Sm
solicitor to the Home-othce , or any V ""^ 2 ufllunent in the cage . Miles stm reowiitfjo ^ f" ^^ at Hoo u before . U was reported that h £ "J ^ dismissed by the f ^ l ^ SS ^ SSAh * ¦ tainly as far as papers , ¦ « f ^ ??^ ^ £ jenpj > « tf ' wasio , but no further . Thus u F ^ fiff , & £ «! . « 3 ed , and public justice ¦ wgMJ . ff ifij ^" ' Soie of thopaupers who appeared ^ Wg tSy & Rochester , have since bew fiEfftiflSd * guessed by whom ) with imprisonment tor sw * # —¦ ajsely against him .
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— - * aq NATIONAL CHARTER 5 ASSOCI AT ION . Ws now publish the list * f nominations for tb « General Council , so far as we have recerred them . The people hwe certainly taken time enough to deliberate upon the choice of their men ; as we only received several of the nominations thJl week . If all have been done in accordance with the cautions given in a former cam * ber of the Star * the election , to be now
taken is merely formal , and each sub-S * sret « wilt hand in the affiraatory decision of the mem bers resident in his locality at once . Notime anel be lost . The declarations of election from every place must appear in next week ' s Star . After which , the next duty of the Association will be th « nomination and election of the ffcecutive Comnittes who must be chosen from amongst the meabws « f tht General Council . ' '
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 10, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct374/page/4/
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