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fO THE INDEPENDENT NON-ELECTORS OF THE EMPIRE . " ICow * b the day , and bow ' s the hour , See the front of battle loar , See approach proud Chartist power—DeatM to slavery . " pCSTlAK jACKXTg , BLISTJRBD HxKDS , AND T 7 n-SBOi > ' CHI 5 S , —While the dealers in human flesh are jgudinj forth their appeals to the corrupt and dependent voters , I address you u the physical , the moral , £ & TsluaWe staff of British liberty . ¦ jfi thso much to say , how o * -where shall I comjjgnee ? I h » Te it I -will begin by reminding you gat , for six years , I hare been telling you that the exigence of threepolitical parties in a State is incompatible -jib the existence of peace , order , and prosperity in
gjji State , and that our whole force should be mustered , jgjnliiU ed , and directed to the one angle purpose of , fcst ly , beating one of the parties and then the other , j iiTe told you that in the pursuit of any great political ffopeeu the national will must go through three distinct opera tions ; firstly , the creation of opinions to be acted « xja ; secondly , the organization of those opinions ; jua , thirdly , the direction of the united power of pru dently-created , ** £ thoroughly-organised opinions . y ? e are now in the latter stage ; and , if hitherto I hate te e * 2 s mSa apologist for many errors which we h » ve been compelled to commit in vox imperfect and 0 D . de state , while undergoing the two first processes , I now tell jou that all future failures must be charge-Me np : > n us as crimes ; because tee are sou the balance
4 f paver . Lei me now see if , taking the last h *^ century as a iurtest of action , I shall be warranted in drawing from it good and sufficient reason for the course I am about -fcorecoT nmencL Far forty-one years of that period , the people , unfler jhe name of Reformers , suffered death , igneminious . and pr emature detth , insult , torture , starvation , and degr adation of eTery sort and kind , for tht mere purpose of crowning their friends with the measure which yss to crown the wishes of a very moderate , a very ¦ fctdustaiou * , and a very peaceable people . They foughtthey bled—they conquered .
Well , foi nine yean haTe the Whigs been in possession of the measure—the very measur e asked for bythemggm ; and obserre , so well satisfied were they with it , asd so complete did they think it , that their leader , after six years' trial , called it a FISal ukasthk . Now , observe , Lord John Russell called it a final meajure , while the democratic Brougham said , in the third year , thai Ihey had gone too far and should retrace their steps . In 1 SS 2 , the people joined their " natural protectors , " as the Whigs hare been called ; and they , the people , beliefing that the existence « f even two rival parties in a State was incompatible with good government , plseed their '' natural protector * " in the very situation to which , fer man * than forty years , they had aspired yhey armed them with their own weapons for the destruction of Toryism . Thus , the people hare given the Whip nine years of a fair trial ; and who will Tentare upon their behalf , from their first act , the Irish
Coercion Bill , down to the dying grasp at the poor man ' s pocket for a fuarto of a million , on Thursday last , to put a dtssert upon the table of those who can now ait down to three eozraeS ) at the expence of those who must be satisfied with tie parings from the rich man ' s table ? On "Iharsday , the Whigs , without the confidence of the country or even of the gang , voted £ 250 , too to some English merchants , who were cautioned again&t venturing their goods upon the high seas pending a war . This was robbery ! downright barefaced robbery ! Beforai commenced in Wood , progressed in war , desolation , tyranny , starvation of the poor , weeping , wailing , gnashing of teeth , and has now terminated in plunder . ' and well may the Noble Lord Palnserston exclaim • we will die game ! " Expiring in -the » ct of plunder was a most characteristic death for Wh ^ gery . ' I wish H . B . would sketch a dying Whig MiiMry with their hands in a poor hand-loom wearer ' s pocket !
Thus I show that the people nobly stood by the Whip ; and now , pray observe . The Tories , who eeuld not successfully resist Reform nine years -ago , could now , after so long a trial of it , actually repeal the measure io-nomvI To what purpose then , have ire sided Whiggery , if , at the end ¦ o f nine years the power which it was to have annihilated , has acquired strength sufficient to do in 1841 , what it could sot effect in fbe palmy days of rotten borough supremacy ? The Tories are stronger now than % hey were when hundreds carried their title deeds to their seats in their pockets .
Why are the Whigs now in their melancholy , mean , sad prostrate condition , sad way are the Tories in their full plenitude of polities ! power ? Simply , because the Whip invited the Tories to join them iq destroying their own measure of Keform , for the purpose of making merchandise of yoirr l&boux . The House , as regarded the Whigs , was a House of Hasten , and as regarded tee Tories was a House of Tyrants ; and the Tyrants bare actually surfeited the Hasten hy the pliancy with which they have acceded to their every application for the legal means of torturing and plundering the working Classes . I will not insult yoar understanding by recapitulating ihe sad catalogue of " Whig-reformed and refiDed cruelty and oppression ; " but I shall start with a iiniaher—if I may be allowed the expression . Let a then for a moment pass otst every Eingle act vl iniquity , and judge them by their " new birth unto ¦ ri ghteousness . "
Sear me , then , you starving millions ! hear me . When the Whigs had plundered tall they left nothing in a tangible shape to be plundered , they required a new license to prowl in quest of treasures yet unknown ; and , in the nineteenth century , the financiers of the great nation are compelled to play hide and seek , and a game at speculation , for the means of supporting their OWs tyranEy . Well , Trhat do they do . ' Jost listen : They , who in 1834 threw you upon your " own resources , " in 1841 have bowels of compassion for you ; and Lord John Bussell actually has the matchless audacity to speak of the sufferings of the Sol ton operatives , whose Equalid and wretched appearance in 1539 was made matter of dericon and ridicule , by his northern supporters , the " M . azditsi £ T Guardian and Leeds Mercury . Will they now torn to their columns and reprint what they said of the Bjlton operataTss on Kersai Moor ? Well , but we nmst not stray .
la ths beginning of May , Lord John Bussell proposes eeraia measures for the relief of the starving people , and he says , that they , the people , must be afforded tini « aad opportunity to speak out upon the subject . Now iha » is all right and fair , and bespeaks a repentance for the past , and also gives us to understand thai She people are to decide . Well and good . But now mark : upon the 25 th of the same month , and up to thai time , aboTe 2 , 00 t , » t 0 of the fame people petition for a very slight measure compared to the one proposed by Lord John Kusaell ; and -what is the result ? Why just this . There are sixty members in one scale , and sixty members in the other scale ; thus balanced , the - 2 , 0 ft » , 000 are threwn into the scale of justice , and in peps the Speaker into the scale of oppression—asd ie vreichs down the urhole fort * of popular tcili thus Jnc ' aimed ! 11
Kow , i ask you , what respect has the House evinced for the people , when one man , who ought to be neuter , has * more power than 2 , 000 , 000 ! Let me tell you why I use this argument : I use it , firstly , to proTe that I was right when 1 told you , over and over again , that our whole force could not ¦ effect any , the slightest , administrative change ; that "fre could not insure the discharge of a palace menial , Dor of one policeman ; that we eould not cut the tail of a single royal horse or dog ; in short , that for all , save the acquirement of a great organic change , our force is Wholly inoperative . I use it , firstly , with that view ; * od , secondly , to express my utter conten . pt , and the contempt of many brave comrades who honour me with their confidence , for those who profess Chartism and go about aiding Whiggery , by catechising the very men as individuals , who , as a body , have committed all these airoeiti&s .
This is the practice . The wretched , miserable , groping , groveling eavesdroppers of working men , go about to Ward meeting * and election meetings , putting the following queries to the very devils who have been doing all the mischief . 11 Will you vote for the restoration of Frost ?" " Will you vote for the liberation of the Chartist prisoners ?" " Wiil you present petitions for Universal Suffrage fcod support their prayer ?" Bab ; Go te , you wretches . ' ask them , if you want information , " Were you one of the five who did
• oie f » r the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones v " Are you not one of the 658 who did incarcerate the Chartists , and allow tbem to pine , like felons , in their dungeons ?"" " Have you not declared you determination to resist Universal Suffrage to the death ?" Hy men , my fu > tains , hear my brief catechism . Are you a Whig ? Answer— " Yes . " Then go to the devil ! AreyouaToTj ? Answer— " Yes . " WeQ , yon wait awhile till it * uit » my purpose to send you af > ex the other ratml
Let that be your catechism . That ' s orthodox ; ttafs scriptural ; that ' s fiat An they net the very pMties who , for nine years , as a body , have done all the mischief , who now came before yoa trying to Jvidle , individually , out of the mud by spattering ¦ heir neighbours . They tell yon that " the Tories would not allow them t ° carry good measures . " Ask them when their majority w&s two hundred what measures they carried ; and fcey most answer , " coercion , starvation , and taxation , » rural police and arm ' s bill , and pTi ^ hm sJanghter ;" wane they have left the poor little children white ftlsves just where they found them , and hare sunk fi » power-loom weavers in still deeper poveny !
Ahl if you want to get a lessen in practical politics , a * the Tweed and show me one single victory that S * brave Scotch have allowed the enemy to gain . ««* one . Good God » I love tiio « e fellows who de-* ° ttnee all t&ik about fighting , and yet would face dwUHn any faoape for the darter ,
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Again : when the fools , or rogues , go about thus catechising the enemy , one would realiy suppose that Englishmen owed no higher sense of duty to themselves and the ir country , than the mere return of a parliament pledged , individually , to undo what , collectively , they have done . Mind that , common-sense Chartists . Those fellows who have for nine years done all the mischief as a body , now come before you in their individual capacity and actually have the matchless effrontery to lay claim to yenr confidence , upon two grounds ; firstly , that they will undo everything that they have done , { for that is what we want , ) and , secondly , that the Tories , wouldn't allow them to give you good measures . Was there ever such puling nonsense ? My friends , let me just tell you a short story . One day last week , a Mr . Yorke , a firm Whig , was addressing the people of York as a candidate for their " sweet
voices ; " and finding it necessary to say a word upon religion and politics , he commenced with religion , when a veteran fustian cried out , " thou fooil , ( fool , ) what has religion to do wi' it V This made the pious side ot his jaw cease to wag ; and he then turned to the Poor l ^ and charged the Tories with having aided the Whigs in the support of the measure , when a jolly tar roared out , " Thou b—g—r . ' who launched it ?" Again : as to my liberation , my friends , allow me to judge for myself . Very many newspapers have seized one passare in a long letter of mine , in which I protest against » coxpeohise with the Tories for the purpose of insuring my release . Now from the number of papefs that have picked this ( t « them / plum
out of a long , letter , it appears that the enemies , every one of them , read all my neglected addresses . It gives me great pleasure that I have never written one which they could turn to their own service . But as regards that passage ; what I said was , tkat no COMPROMISE bhould be made wiih the Tories for the purpose of insuring my liberty ; and the Whigs , with characteristic ignorance , assume , or would make it appear , that I am consequently friendly to a junction with the Whigs . ' The use made of this passage by the press , and the turn attempted to be given by Mr . McFarlane , ft a meeting lately held at Glasgow , to my former declarations against the principles of Toryism , in favour of Whigg * sry , have induced me to mention the suVject here .
The difference , then , is just this . I will not be a party to any compromise ; neither will I allow my liberty to be made a question of compromise ; because such a course would naturally degrade us in the eyes of Eorope and in our own estimation . But , though I object to be a party to a compromise with either faction , yet am 1 willing to Io 3 e my liberty for the purpose of creating a proper understanding of my own party , to join among themselves without compromise ; to use the Tories for the purpose of beating the "Whigs . Every blistered hand held up for a Whig is a nail in the coffin of liberty ! every fustian jacket that votes for a Whig , is a willing slave and bondsman , and should work in irons in a slave-gang for the remainder of his existence i Every unshorn chin that does not wag in defiance and denunciation of smooth-faced-Whiggery , is a hairy-faced enemy to its country ! .
Let me place before you the system now pursued , and of which I complain . A set of rascally Whigs declare themselves to be Chartists , and in their assumed character , they throw themselves . acejdentally-on-purpose , in the way of Whig prowlers in quest of prey ; when the catechists , with an apparent surliness of aspect and desire to confound , proceed as follows : — " Mr . Stiek-in-the-Mud , if elected , will you vote for the resteration of Frost , Williams , and Jones ?" Answer— " . Thai h a subject upon which I have not made up my mind , and is entirely a question of detail . " ( Hear , hear . ) " Wiil yon present a petition upon the subject , if reqnired by your constituents to do so ?" Answer— ¦ " Most certainly , I shall consider it my duty to do so . " ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) " Will you vote for the liberation of all political prisoners ?*
Answer—" Why , I think that a wide distinction exists between those whose crimes amounted to open violence , and those who were merely the dnpes of others —( hear , hear )—and I should certainly vote for the liberation of the latter class . " ( Cheers . ) " Will you v » te for Universal Suffrage ?" Answer— " I do not know what tke term meins . I would vote tot extending the right of voting to all those who txoTo . character , education , and state in the country , could be safely entrusted with the franchise . " ( Disap probation . ) " Would you present a petition upon the subject , and support its prayer ?" Answer— " I would undoubtedly present the petition , fent I must be allowed to exercise my own judgment as to supporting th » prsyer . " ( Cheers , and "Bight" ) " Win you vote for a repeal of the New Poor Law Amendment Act ?"
" Why—why—why—why—that is a subject upon which the best informed appear to differ most widely ; but I certainly would vote for any modification in its details where the working pressed unequally upon the destitute poor . ( Loud cheers . ) I have always thought that the measure might , with great safety , have been divided into- two branches or heads ; the one for the willing-, and the other for the unwilling idler ;—( long continued cheering )—and to this branch of the subject I shall devote my best attention , and shall at all times be most happy to confer with my constituent * upon the subject" ( Cheers . )
Now , suppose this examination to have taken place at Leeds , or at the Isle of Wight , where Gisborne , a notorious hack , has been catechised by Whigs in the character of Chartists . Let us suppose Leeds . At the clase up starts poor little Smiles , [ to whom I gave the professional name of Doctor , and which , by Jove , he has kept ever since : ] np starts this liberal member of the Fex and Goose Club , and congratulates the people of Leeds * upon the earnest of liberality given in the foregoing , answers ' . 7 iow , p # or little Smiles knows just as much about politics as he does about physic , and that ' s nothing at all ; but he imagines that the sufferers from Whig treachery are all as ignorant as himself ; and therefore he , for one , adopts in June , as nearly perfection , what , in January , he denounced as worse than heretical , a Tory-Whig , or rather a Whig-Tory .
Then comes Marshall , in whose mill scores of murders , cold-blooded murders , have been committed ! a man whose every shilling has been coined out of the heart's blo * d of prematurely slaughtered infints ; tip gets this graceless monster , in the presence of the parents of those little ones who are either no more , or living monuments of his lust ; and after congratulating the meeting , he moves that Mr . Aldam ' g answers are quite satisfactory ; and the travelled tourist , Hamer Stansfeld , who " loves his neighbour as himself , " seconds the proposition ; and thus the opinions of this clique go abroad as the opinions of the men of Leeds ; whereas , if the men of Leeds had pride or spirit , they would kick every one of the bltXKi-suckers who dared to mock their poverty by appealing for their support , from their presence . Now ; as Joe Hume is a unique specimen of Whig and Liberal , let us subject him to examination : — " Did you Eupport the Poor Law Amendment Act ' : "
"Yes ; i supported the Bill , as proposed by the Whigs , for the benefit of the indastai # us classes , but not the workings of the measure as carried on by the Tatiries . " ( Hear , hear , and load cheers . ) " Hare you not supported the Whigs in all thetr struggles for confidence , -while you profes 3 yourself opposed to their entire policy ?" " Yts ; because I knew that if the Tattries came in , that they would commence a reign of terror , and especially in Ireland . " ( Hear , hear . ) " Did you not , on Thursday , the 10 th of June ,
vote £ 250 . 000 of English money to pay what is c&Uvd the claims of some English merchants trading with Denmark , and who had such notice of the risk they run , ( the underwriters refusing to insure their cargoes , ) that tiey were mere smngglers . '" Did you not do this at a time when six in every ten of the operatives of England were actnoaUy starving , and when teat amount wenld h 3 ve given £ 2 lOi to one hundred thousand heads of families , which , at the rate of five to a family , would aave partially relieved half a million of destitute hand-loom weavsrs ?"
Answer— " I did ; ~ but the honour of England , and the faith of Parliament was pledged—( loud and long continued cheers . )—and two other classes of c l aimants had their demands previously discharged by a vote of the House , and by the Taurus ;—ivehement coe .-ring)—and is there an Englishman with a drop of English blood in his Veins , who wonld rob the hontst speculator of the just reward of his enterprise ?"—( Renewed cheers . ) Now , I put it to the good sense of working men , whether or not they must not naturally expect to remain for ever a laughing-stock or bye-word of reproach and emblem of scorn , so long as their enemies have nothin . to do but to insult them , plunder them , shoot them , hang them , entomb them for nine years , as n party , and then , as individuals , receive their forgiveness when they ask fer a new lease of the period to be tyrants ? . X ) nce let the working men renew their lease of Wbiggery for seven years longer , and farewell Charter withont bloodshed !
Hume was too liberal for the second stage of reform , and . ' jconsequently , he had to go to Ireland ; but now Hume has softened down to electoral heat , and he comes as the new champion of retrogression . Perhaps , it is not generally knows that for many yean Hume was an ultra-Tory , more violent than either Peel or Stanley ; and now be fights his old associates with "all the fervency of a renegade . " This conversion we might pardon , if he bad not been one of the most reckless supporters of Whiggery , and one of tbe moat constant and determined upholders of the Starvation Act in afi its hideousness .
Now , brother Chartists , hear me for my cause : for nine years have we been persecuted by the Whigs ; and with their bands reeking with the blood of those whom they have starved , they appear as supplicants for a renewal of power . For four years you have panted for tbe vtry crisis which has now arrived . Tbe eyes ot the Republicans of . France are now upon you ; the eyes of infant Spain , gorged with her long meal of blood , are upon you ; the eyes of Ireland are nponyou ; and by your performance you will assuredly be judged Some humbugs , I understand , say that the Whigs only transported Fro * t in 1 S 40 , while the Tories hung Emmett in 1813 , Was there ever gacb nonsense ? Are
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we to make no account of thirty-seven yean of Improvement , and nine of these of reform ? And are we to make no distinction between a riot in open day , and the admission of tbe murdered patriot , Emmett , that he had contemplated an entire change of Government ? Are we to lose sight of tbe fact that th « gallows were made , and the hangman psid , to butcher Frost ; and thai even after a decision of all the talent on the Bench in his favour . ' The Whigs would have slaughtered not only him , but also Williams and Jones , bnt for a few hints about the torch and dagger men ; and it was only in the eleventh hour that they gave way , in fact , to what six able judges proclaimed an acfuittaL
For fifty years the old have been straggling ; for nine the young have been sighing ; aid new hold out but one month , and , as sure as God rules over us , tbe day is our own ! Bear in mind that until we annihilate the Whigs , as a party , they will never join us in annihilating Toryism . We have tried them . In fact , call any ruling party what you please , und « r the present system , they must rule upon Tory principles . As the Whigs will not then join to beat the Tories , let as use the Tories to beat the Whigs ; and that done , let us turn to with the Whigs behind , instead of before us , and beat tbe national enemy .
Mr . M'Farlane has very truly said that I called tbe Whigs deTils , and the Tories devils in hell . Well , does any man who tarns his bread by the sweat of hia brow doubt my hatred of the devils in hell ? If any such tnere be , let them also suppose me a monster , a brute , a savage , inasmuch , as I have accounts to settle with the Tories that no other man alive has to settle with that party . I believe even the Whigs will adnrit that I have had one man ' s share in bringing them to tbe scratch ; and now attend to me . No mortal mau has ever begged , drudged , worked , and toiled in any struggle as I have in the national struggle , against the enemy immediately in power and in front ; and yet have I done comparatively nothing . You must defer
judgment upon one mans performance , perseverance , and zeal , until you see me at werk with the Tories in front I toll you now , and have ev « r told you , tk&t I hate the Tories even more than the Whigs ; and I tell you more , that if the power were vested in my hands to-morrow of bestowing the Government of this country for twenty years upon Lords John Russell , Normanby , and Palmerston , or upon Wellington , Peel , and Stanley , I would not hesitate for one single Instant . I would , without a moment ' s delay , if I had but the alternative , confer the power upon the men who sent me here . But , if I bad the power to give one year s lease , I would give it to Wellington , Peel , and Stanley , for the purpose of annihilating them for all time to come !
Comrades ! hear me ; Ohear me . Think of the last moans of the murdered Clayton!—think of the devotion of the slaughtered patriot Shell . '—think « f the groana of our brother weltering in his blood in the streets of Monmoutb , when no hand wonld stretch the dying Cliartist a drop of water 1 think of the expatriated Frest , Williams , and Jones 1 think of the entombed Holberry , Peddle , Carrier , Ashton , Crabtree , O'Brien , and O'Connor I think of the many troken hearts pining in the cold hostile , and looking to you , as their trustees , for release ! think
of the veteran Wheeler , who has fought for fifty years in tbe good fight , bow lingering betwixt life and death ! think of the pallid face of the prematurely aged , and of the twisted limb of the factory infant ! think that you cannot stir withont beholding a spy , paid by yourselves , to goad you into resistance , and then to torture you if you do resist ! think that the whole course of nature , both at home and abroad , has been opposed by the very devils who would now call you angels , till they had once more used you to your own destruction ! think of these things , and give power to the monsters again it you dare !!
Why does not Sheffield , that has suffered more than any town in England , take that position which , from its importance , it ought to take ? Why stand dilly dally , shilly shally , with the knowledge-monger and Bcullion-man-of-all-work to the Whigs , George Henry Ward ? Ah ! fie ! shame upon you , to listen to the hypocrite ! Fustian jaekets , stand up for yourselves and scout him and Parker , and the Russian Urquhart—all , all , one and all—from your presence . ' I have now only to add my request , that some plain blunt man , who has worked all day in fustian , -will , in each town , read my whole letter to the noble fustian Chartists , and I ask them to deoide fob . themselves ; and when they decide , to put a stop to all humbug of cross-questioning a lot of devils who would swear the moon was made of green cheese to get one rote . Remember , my friends , they are now in the retail market trying to pick you up in ones so as to Bell you wholesale .
In a little mere than four months I shall meet you in a full suit » f fustian at my prison gates . I hope to meet the petition carriers in fastian upon that day . Let ua then , in one dress , and in one mind , be able to embrace , and return thanks to God that Chartism has survived that first campaign , and is now ready to tak « the field to conclude the battle ! G « t a House of Whigs , and never again will you see the benign countenance of our beloved Frost ; get a House of Tories , and THEN indeed speak to the Whigs , when they are at the same side of the hedge with you , about the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones , and their restoration to office being one and fhe same fuestion . Get a House of Tories ; and if Frost , Williams , and Jones are not back , or on their way , in twelve months , I will suffer my right hand to be cut off .
Comrades , you once spoke of a sacred month ; let this be oar sacred month for work . Be true to one another for one month , and the Charter is the law of the land . Comrades , in our weakness we defied the oppressor ; shall we court him in our strength ? That my days are numbered by faction no man doubts ; but Bhow how one willing victim can wipe the branii of slavery from the brow of free bora man—and weJcome torture . ' Yes , I Bhail be sacrificed before tyranny wiil yield to juatice , but yet will I not abate one jot of my demand , nay not a jot's point even to tbe addition of one day to the age of the voter . It would be more prudent and expedient for me to begin now to woo the raging power ; it is another flno opportunity for commencing a retreat ; but , I pass it by as the rest , and repeat , " no surrender ; death or liberty . "
Men of Sheffield , and men of all places , you have told me that you will stick to me like wax and follow whithersoever I lead . I ask nosuch devotion . 1 merely ask you to follow principle , and stick to the holy Charter . Now , comrades , I thus sum up ; for forty-one years the Whigsused yoa for obtaining political power ; for nine years they have had that power ; and conti ast England , during that period , with any other nine years of her history , and say has not the yower been most blasting ! They have insulted you , betrayed yeu , despised and loathed you ! They have courted your
enemies , and divided with them the honour of oppression ! For nine years you have had no opposition to their lust and wilL A Tory minority never will oppose tyranny ; a Whig minority must ao so to acquire pupular support , as the means of plundering . Therefore , if you get a House of Tories , yoageta Rood working Whig Chartist opposition . If you get a House of Whigs you get a Tory minority so strong that the Whigs will justify another reign of tyranny by their weakness ami Tory strength . What is this but » base admission that they -will cling to oHice , and be forced to do mischief rather than abandon it and prevent others from doing it .
Now hear my advice ; leave all your unmanly , childish , and nonsensical pledges aboat the Poor Law , and release of us poor devils , ( who would rather rot in prison , than gain out liberty at the expencu of our parties' honour and tfoeir causa . ) The Tories have no notion any more than the Whigs of repealing tbe Poor Law Amendment Bill . Put no question , ask no pledges , hold no intercourse ; keep your numerical strength apart from theirs , and after work on each day , parade your physical power through the street ¦ with your working men cauuidates for your hands ( mind , only for your hands , tliis time / at jour head . Ksturn your men by a show of those hands , and then all who have votes , vote buldly against the devils , by voting for the devils in hell . ' By that means you will , in less than bix , aye , less than three months , see aa pretty a piece of fun between tbe rival factions , ia the St . Stephen ' s cockpit , as ever was witnessed at bull bait ot dog fight I
Just get the WhigB once off the perch , the golden perch , and little Jack and the Big Beggerman will froth at the mouth like mad bleod-hounds , and we shall be taunted with oar moderation . 1 conclude , in the brief but eloquent language of the Ganeral to his troops upon the eve of battle : — " Comrades , there ' s the enemy ; if you don't kill them by G—d they'll kill you . " Let this letter be read at the head of every regiment in the service , and let tboBe who work , think speak and act fer themselves . If you support the Whigs , may you live in slavery and die in want . Amen . Ever , your faithful friend , Feargus O Connor .
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THE "LEAGUERS" AND THE TRADES . The ladies' shoemakers of Manchester having received an invitation to send a deputation of their body to tbe anti-Corn Law League , accompanied by a large bundle of tracts for their enlightenment , the trade held a meeting to consider it , and then returned , the spoiled rags in a lump , together with the following letter : — Gbntlemkn , —Having receivrjd a circular , purporting to emanate from the Corn Ijsm League , inviting us to sent } a deputation , in conjunction with other trader , to confer with a deputation from the said body , and considering , as we do , that * & $ object of the meeting is to enlist the Trades' Uni ons in the agitation for a repeal of the Corn Law ? , yre , the Society of Ladies ' Shoemakers , beg leave to state that we decline engaging m any agitation whicJi does not guarantee to the mecfaarr . c ard artisiD that protection for hi 3 labour wuich his usefulness in society so justly demands .
In examining the voluminous documents with which you hare We-n pie 2 Sed to favour us , we find a multiplicity ot unw drrantable assertions , which to the superficial obse ' . Ttr would lead to the conclusion that a repeal of tie Corn Laws would make our eomaion COJ ' jitr y ^ a perfect Elysium ; for instance ,
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in the tract headed "What would a repeal of the Corn Laws do ? " The third paragraph asserts " that it would consequently increase the employment of our aitizanaand preveut their wages coming down . " We would ask , has the increase of trade hitherto produced snob results ? Reason aad sad experiencecompete as to answer no . From 1793 until 1815 , daring which period there were no Corn Laws , and when we had a supremacy of commerce ortr the whole world , and that our trade had increased ( as shewn by the consumption of cotton ) from thirty millions of pounds weight , to ninety-two millions pounds weight , or
three-ford . During the sell same period , wage * in the weaving department had been reduced from thirty-three shillings and threepence per cut , twenty yards In length , to Ms . per cat , twenty-four yards in length , same fabric of work ; and from 1815 until 1832 it had increased from 92 , o » o , 0 « 0 ib . to 256 , 0 « 0 , 00 « lb ., or nearly threefold , while in the same period wagea had been reduced two shillings ont of three ; and front 1832 until 1840 it liad increasedfrom 256 , 000 , « 001 bto nearly 5 ao , OO 0 , O&Olb , or double , yet even daring these eight years the reduction in the power-loom weaving department alone would be sufficient to purchase bread for all tbe weavers in Manchester .
But farther , if a repeal of tke Com Laws increase trade and wages , how , in the name of common sense , will tbe manufacturer be enabled , under the disadvantage of high wages , to compete with the foreigner , when at the low scale of wages paid at present they complain of the evils of foreign competition t With respect to the idea that the foreigner would cease manufacturing and resume agriculture is absurd , inasmuch as the former is tbe most profitable speculation . We beg to be distinctly understood that we do not wish to uphold the infernal tax , but we certainly do tbiok that the proposal of the league , smacks too much of political dishonesty to be entertained by working men , being convinced that their design is to reduce the wages of the highly-taxed operative of this country , to the same rateaa the low-taxed operative of the continent .
We now ask where is the guarantee for the protection of labour ? an echo answers , Where ? Let us remind you that the same parties who now raise the cry of cheap bread and high wages are the parties who transported our brethren of Dorchester and Glasgow ; and who endeavoured , by every means , legal and illegal , to bring the charge of conspiracy , intimidation , incendiarism , and even murder , home to the door of Trades' Unions , for the crime of uniting to protect our labour—a protection which ought to be guaranteed to us by the Legislature of the country . With these facts before us , we decline agitating for any thing less than full and effective justice to all , based upon the immutable principle of a pure and unsullied democracy . We remain your ' s , In the cause of truth and justice , The Society of Ladies ' Shoemakers , And-w . Bread , Sec .
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national tribute to o'brien . Bbotheb Chartists and Fellow Countryhen , —We , ia common with you , feel tbe degradation of being slaves ; we feel , amidst the abundance raised by our own hands the pains of grinding poverty , we suffer the pains of disappointed hopes , and grieve for the generous friends who are suffering persecution , because they sought to rescue their country from ruin and their brethren from oppression and living death . But we are still full of hope , still determined ; our cause is sacred , and rendered more so by the virtue of those who have suffered ia its behalf , and we aTe still resolved , and that quickly , to emancipa ' te ourselves and
our children from Blavery , and to be no longer oppressed by a vile and useless aristocracy ; but to this end something must be don * to serve as & rallying point , and to gather all into a mighty and irresistible band of patriots . With this view we again beg to call the attention of . our countrymen to Bronterre O'Brien ; it will give as sincere pleasure to see tbe country rousing to a sense of duty towards this genuine patriot ; our country would be eternally disgraced if , even amidst the multifarious calls that are now made apon its resourses , such a man as O'Brien should be permitted , unhelped and unheeded , to be a victim to the ire which his virtues had provoked .
Brother Chartists , if you wish for that freedom for wbicb . O'Brien has fallen struggling , answer , and let the tyrant factions see you are able to work out your own political salvation . If yon expect other men to risk their personal and domestic happiness in working out your deliverance , arouse , and lend us your aid . If you would expect other leaders to emerge from obscurity and lead yon en in your agitation for the Charter , or if you hope that your tried friend , now suffering the bitterness of political persecution , will again take you by the hand when his terra of suffering has expired , do what you can to lend as your aid in placing him in a position which will enable him to commence his crusade with redoubled vigour against tyranny , oppression , and
misrule ; individually , it may not be much , bat cornbin t » d in your masses , the assurance of being supported by your moral influence will sweeten the bitter fate he has endured in your cause ; and the slight pecuniary aid which narrow circumstances may allow you to make will enable him to assail , with ertain success , the strong holds of corruption , and , finally , to be instrumental , in conjunction with our brave and beloved O'Connor , in leading us to honour and victory . We rfjeice te see the same holy zeal which influenced the Barons in demanding the Hagua Charts , sword in band , which impelled the sons of liberty to extort the petition of rights from Charles the first , and to dethrone him as a traitor to his country , which urged Englishmen to obtain the Bill of Rights from William
and Mary ; that holy zeal still lives in some of their posterity , and still points for the admiration of the age , to men who are determined to live and die unflinching patriots . We certainly conclude , from the knowledge which the people possess of Mr . O Brian , and from the effects produced by his mental labour , that a lengthened appeal to the Chartists on his behalf is altogether unnecessary ; wo need only propound our objects to our brethren , to ensure their adoption . We stats , then , that we are anxious to show the enemies of our weal that we forget not our friends , and we are desirous of showing our suffering friends , that we net only know our duty to them , but that we are resolved to perform it ; therefore , we call upon our fellow men to aid us in raising the funds sufficient to enable our now incarcerated advocate to
commence his fire upon the enemy , immediately after hia liberation ; our object is to furnish him , as a national tribute , with press , types , and other materials , that he may not only preserve himself and family from the jaws of starvation , but that he may promote the general good of tbe community , by being enabled to give a full , free , and uncontrolled expression to his opinions ; such men ought not to be silenced by the power of despots , nor by the weight of poverty , —they must not ; therefore be up and doing ; let us vie with each , other in the accomplishing thia necessary and important object ; lose no time ; and what We do , let us do well , and quickly . We need add no more , being conscious the nation will respond to the tall . John Ogden , Secretary . Commitse Room , Leeds , June 14 th , 1841 .
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HETHERINGTON FESTIVAL . TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Sir , —I am desired by the Committee to request the insertion of the enclosed balance sheet , in the next Star . By so doing yon will confer a favour on Yours , &c . W . A . Main . 4 , Margaret-street , Wellington-square , Juno 13 tb , 1841 . RECEIPTS . £ b , d . For 39 doable tea tickets , at 2 a . 6 d . 4 17 6 _ 71 single ditto , at is 6 d _ 5 17 0 _ 37 double ball ditto , at Is . 6 d 2 15 6 „ 69 single ditto , at Is 3 0 0 Total Receipt * 16 10 0 Ditto Expenditure 12 11 8 Balance £ i 18 4 The balance of £ 3 18 s . 4 d . is appropriated to the benefit of Mrs . Frost . EXPENDITURE . To use of the Social Hall 10 0 _ furnishing tables for tea 1 0 „ attendance in dressing rooms 0 4 0 „ 157 teas , at 9 d . each 5 4 8 „ band 1 16 0 .. printing 15 0 „ rent of committee room 110 ^ advertisements > ... 0 14 6 « . stationery , postage , &c .. 066 £ 12 11 8 Wii-liam Balls , ) AnMlnrm W . H . WEST 0 N . j Au < htor 8 - W . A . Main , Hon . Secretary . Committee Room , June 10 th , 1841 . -, — ?
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OFFICIAL DESPATCHES FROM CHINA . Despatches were received on Friday at the Admiralty from Commodore Sir J . J . G . Bremer , C . B ., relative to the late successes of British arms in China . The whole of the defences , one after another , have been destroyed , and the second chy of tbe Chinese empire , is now under British domination . We subjoin an abstract of Captain Herbert ' s letter to Conunodere Sir J . J . G . Bremer , detailing the destruction of the last defences of the city : — British Factory , Canton , March 18 , 1841 . Sir , —Thi 3 day the force under my orders carried and destroyed in succession all the forts in the advance and before Canton , taking , sinking , burning , or dispersing the enemy's flotilla , and hoisting the uniou on the walls of the British factory , the guna of the squadron commanding all the approaches to the city from the western and south era branches of the riverthus placing in oar power the great provincial capital , containing upwards of one million of inhabitants . I
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found myself forced to make this attack without your instructions , for the reasons so strongly expressed inner Majesty's plenipotentiary's note herein enclosed , ( 17 th March , 1841 , ) considering it n » r duty to resent , with all the promptitude in my power , the insult offered the day before to the flag of iruce sent with a chop to tbe Imperial Commissioner , at the desire of his Exsellency . I forward the accompanying sketch , placing you in more immediate possession of the line of concentration wbicb led to such an Immediate result In detailing the operations of the day , I feel myself inadequate to do justice to the gallant officers and men employed en this occasion . The flotilla of boats , formed into four divisions , under the immediate charge of Commanders Barlow and . Clarke , and Lieut Coulson , of the Blonde .
Her MajestyM ship Hyacinth ( to whom too much praise cannot fee given far the exertion displayed by Commander Warren , hia officers and crew , in getting her tbrongb . the intricate and difficult passes of the river , piloted by Commander Belcher , to be in readiness for operation , and a division of boats , under the command of these officers , was placed at the southern entrance of the river recoaunanlcating with the main stream of Fatee . to meet any retrograde movement of the numerous flotilla that had taken part in the agressions on the 16 th instant Every arrangement having been completed and understood , tbe whole force moved in advance about noon , the vessels , marines , and three divisions of boats from the northward of the Macao fort , and within gunshot of the enemy's advance batteries , encaging
them for about two hours and a half , when all opposition ceased , and the factory within the defences was taken possession of . The Modesto was placed within three hundred yards , in front « f the principal battery , and shortly gave proofs of her well directed fire , flanked by the powerful guns of the Madagascar , Capt Dicey , with artillerymen under the direction of Lieut Fonlis , Madras artillery , and Nemesis , Mr . W . H . Hall , R . N ., commanding with artillerymen under the direction of Captain Moor , and Lieutenant Gabbetfc , Madras artillery , who handsomely volunteered their services upon the occasion . The Algetine ( Lieutenant Mason , ) and Starling ( Lieutenant Kell « tt , | passsing a head , cut ting through the rafts on the right bank , and engaging a part of the war-junkB , the Hebe and Louisa tenders , taking
part , at the same time , under cover of the Bhips * guns , the flotilla with the marines was brought op in admirable order by Captain Bourchier , and , upon the signal being given , stormed and completed the capture of this part of the enemy ' s works , notwithstanding a most determined resistance on the part of the Tartar troops . — From this battery the vessels and flotilla moved forward , and carried the other defences in succession , amounting in the whole to 123 guns . By the great care of Captain Niaa , his officers , and the ship ' s company , the Herald was brought over the flats , and entered the reach during the engagement , which must have had considerable effect upon tbe enemy , by dividing their attention , not knowing what other force might be in reserve . Of Captain Bourchier , whose high character
ia so well-known to you , sir , and the service , I cannot speak sufficiently strong , for the manner in which he conducted the forces under his immediate command , not only leading tkem into action in admirable order , but keeping them together in readiness for any outbreak of the immense population of such a crowded city ; and I cannot refrain mentioning bis conspicuous and energetic exertions in towing off the burning junks , which were drifting upon the suburbs of Canton , and soon would have evidently set fire to that part of the city , and involved the destruction of the whole , * in which , he reports , he was ably assisted by the officers under his directions . —I have the honour to be , 4 c . ( signed ) T . Herbert , Captain . —Commodore Sir J . J . Gordon Bremer , Kt ,, C . B . K . C . H ., Commander-in-chief , &c . dec . fee
Lists of the Ships , Steamers , Boats , fee ., employed at the Capture of Canton on the 16 th instant . —Her Majesty ' s ship Herald , Captain Nias ; her Majesty ' s sloop ModeBte , Commander Eyres ; her Majesty ' s sloop Hyacinth , Commander Warren ; her Majesty ' s brig Algerine , Lieutenant Mason . Tenders—Her Majesty ' s schooner Starling , Lieutenant Kellett ; her Majesty ' s schooner , Hebe , Air . Quin , mate ; her Majesty ' s cutter Louisa , Mr . Carmichael , mate . Steamers—Hon . Company's steamer Madagascar , Captain Dicey ; Hon . Company ' s steamer Nemesis , Captain Hall . Boats—First division : Commander Barlow ; Lieutenants Williams , Stewart , and Drury ; Lieutenant Dewes , acting ; Messrs . Walter , Kendoll , Purver , Woolcombe , Baker , and Kator , mates ; Mr . Comber , midshipman ; Mr . Scott , volunteer first class . Second division : Commander Clark ; Lieutenants Hamilton , Beadon , and
Saute ; Mr . King , master acting ; Messrs . Miller , Fitzgerald , Pearse ^ Read , and Tumour , mates ; Mr . Crofton , midshipman . Third division : Lieutenants Coulson and Ingram ; Messrs . Christopher , Walker , and Anderson , mates ; Messrs . Purvis , Coke , and Lyons , volunteers first class : Mr . Stanley , assistant-surgeon . Western division : Commanders Warren and Belcher ; Lieutenants Haskoll , Watson , Hay , Morshead , B'Eyncourt , Wood , and Hayes ; Mr . Airey , master ; Messrs . Daly , Rivers , Jeffries , Le Vesconte , Egerton , Drake , St . Leger , and Bryan , mates ; Mr . Brown , master-assistant ; Mr ., Butler , M . D ., and Mr . Tweeddale , assistantsurgeons . Volunteers—Lieutenant Mackenzie , of her Majesty ' s 90 th regiment , acting military secretary to the naval commander-in-chief ; Mr . Johnson , master , her Majesty ' s Bhip Conway ; Mr . G . Ramsden , clerk , her Majesty ' s ahtp Calliope ; Lieutenant Giflurd , Hon Company ' s 12 th regiment .
Return of ordnance destroyed in the defences near Canton : Lower battery , left bank , Macao passage—22 guns ; upper battery—9 guns ; Sand-bag-battery on wharf—9 guns ; western fort , Canton suburbs , ( Shaween )—10 guns ; red fort , opposite Canton factories— 20 guns ; Dutch F *> lly— 25 guns ; Sand-bag battery , above arsenal—13 guns ; two junks moored off admiral ' s house—15 guns ; total—123 . Besides those destroyed in Lin's and the mandarin ' s war boats . ( Signed ) Th » s Herbert , Captain . A list of casualties in the force employed in the attack and occupation of the defences of the city of Canton , on tbe 18 th day of March , 1841 : Lieutenant Stransham , royal marines , severely . Calliope—2 wounded slightly . Hyacinth—2 wounded ; I slightly , 1 severely . Modeste—2 wounded slightly . ( Signed ) Thos . Herbert , Captain .
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HOUSE OF LORDS . —Friday , June II . The Sugar Duties Bill was read a third time and passed , on the motion of Lord Duncannon . The Tithe Composition ( Ireland ) Bill went through committee . The Earl of Clarendon laid on the table his bill for regulating the law relating to principal and factor , which was read a first time . In answer to a question from the Marquis of Londonderry , Viscouut Melbourne said , measures had been taken preparatory to informing the Spanish claimants when the instalment should be paid . But no claimants had been paid at present . The Marquis of Londonderry said he Bhould not let this matter drop in the present Parliament On the motion of the Marquis of Bute for the third reading of tbe Jews' Declaration Bill ,
The Bishop of Llandaff opposed the motion , and moved as an amendment , that the bill be read a third time that day three months . Lord Lyttleton seconded the amendment . The Earl of Winchilsea opposed the bill . The Bishop of St . Davids supported the measure , and denied that it would alter the Christian character of the institutions of the country . The Bishop of London opposed the bill , contending there was no analogy between the admission of
Christian Dissenters to the councils of the nation and the admission of Jews to the same privileges . He believed that a very few Jews only were interested in the measure , and that the mass of the people cared nothing about it . After a few words from Lord Galloway . The Marquis of Bute replied , and said he considered it his duty aa a . Christian to vote for the bill . Their , Lordships then divided , and the numbers were —For" the third reading , 64 ; against it , 98 ; majority , 34 . The bill was consequently lost .
Lovd Buougham moved the second reading of the Punishment of Ds . ith Bill . The Marquis of Norm an by gave his hearty support to the motion of his Noble and Learned Friend , and intimated that it had been , his own intention to move the second reading . Lord Brougham was not aware of that , and cheerfully resigned the charge of the measure to his Noble Friend . The Marquis of Westmeath said that , if he stood alone , he would divide their Lordships , when in committee , against any clause which would take away the protection of helpless women against the ruthless violence of man . ''
The bill was then read a second time , and the committee fixed for Monday . The Tithe Bill then passed through committee . The Administration of Juatice Amendment Act was read a second time . Their Lordships adjourned till Monday .
Monday , Jung 14 . The Militia Pay Bill , and several other Bills , were brought up from the House of Commons , and read a first time . On the motion of the Earl of Clarbndon , the Bills of Exchange Continuance Bill ( for one year ) was passed through all its stages , the standing rders having been suspended for that purpose . A great number of Bills were forwarded a stage , without any opposition . Earl Fitzwilliam , in reply to a question from Lord Wharnclifftj , eaid that it would , he understood , be very inconvenient if he brought forward his motion respecting the Cora Laws « n Tuesday . Every other day except Friday was occupied , but upon that day hia Noble Friend ( the Duke of Wellington ) could not attend ; and under thes 8 circumstances he feared he could not , in its present substantive shops , bring his motion forward uuring tbe presunt Besiion .
Lord Hatherton presented the report of the committee upon . Sur . O . uy trading on canals , and said it was the unanivuous opinion of the committee that the strongest possible case was made out for legislative interference ; but that it should be of a permissive rattier ttoa of a prohibitory character .
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¦ - ¦ ' ¦ ' ' » Their Lordships then went into committee on the Punishment of Death Bill , and a lengthened discussion took place apon the third clause , which was opposed by the Marquis of Westmeath , on the ground that the punishment of death should be retained in cases of violation . . On a division , the clause was carried by a majority of 42 to 38 . The' other clauses were agreed to , and tho House reaujued . * Some petitions were , presented for and against the Corn Laws , and their Lordships adjourned .
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HOUSE OF COMMONS , Fbidat , Junk 11 . Sir B . Pbbl obtained leave to bring in a Bill to embody an enactment adopting the amendment of the Chairman of the Contested Elections BUI . The Right Hon . Baronet stated the reason he brought forward this motion was merely to get tbe Bill printed , in order to give an opportunity to Hon . Members to consider tho subject before tbe next session . Mr , Ward moved , that instructions be given to the Attorney-General to prosecute the Hon . Manners Sutton , and his ageuta Long and Swan , for bribery , alleged to have been committed at the last Cambridge election .
Sir Charles Lemon , as Chairman of the Cambridge Committee , said , that although he felt convinced that bribery had taken , place , yet from the evidence it could not be brought home to Mr . Satton . As to Mr . Long , one of the agents , he had no doubt that if a prosecution had . been instituted be would have been coavicted . ¦ The Earl of Darlington also defended Mr . Manners Sutton from tbe charge of bribery , and , therefore , should vote against the mstion as far as regarded that gentleman , bat would vote far prosecuting tha agents . Mr . Ward then withdrew that part of his motion regarding Mr . Manners Sutton , and , after considerable discussion , it was decided , by a majority pf 7 S against 46 , that proceedings should be instituted against one of the agents . _ : Mr . Hume , ia the absence of Mr , Easthope , withdrew the Bill for the abolition of Church Rates .
The other orders of the day were then disposed of , and the House adjourned .
Saturday , June 12 . The Gainsborough Small Debts' Bill was read a third time and passed . The Hawk bora t Junction Road ( No . 2 ) Bill -was read a third time and passed . The Canterbury Pavemement ( No . 2 ) Bill was read a third time and passed . On the motion of Lord John Russell , the Bribery at Elections Bill was read a third time and passed , after an amendment had been proposed and instrted by the Solicitor-General , to the effect that candidates , as well as others , should be liable to be called before committee to answer for their conduct . The Appropriation Bill passed through committee , and was ordered to be reported on Monday . The Election Petitions Trial Bill was then read a second time , and ordered to be committed .
The County Bridges ( No . 2 ) Bill was read a third time and passed . The Wicklow H 2 rbour Bill was read a third time , and passed . Warriner ' s Estate Bill was read a third time and passed . CoL Sibthorpe moved for a return of the numbers of Commissions issued , by order of the Crown , in the years 1836 , 1837 , and 1838 . —Ordered . The House then adjourned till Monday .
Monday , June 14 . Sir R . Pkel presented several petitiens , some of which prayed for a total repeal of the Corn Laws . On the report of the Appropriation Bill being brought up , , Mr . Hume contended that the landed interest in this country was too highly favoured , and that the proposed tax of 8 s . a quarter on wheat would be an onerous [ and grievous tax . Mr . G . Palmer said that the land tax , the tithes , and the poor rate were taxes pressing on the land . The Elections Petitions Bill went through committee . The House went into committee on the Registration Voters Bill but Mr . Walter moved that the House should be counted , and there being only 30 members present , the House adjourned .
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From the London Gazeitt of Friday , Jum 11 . John Porter , Wiggenhall , Norfolk , builder , to surrender June 24 , July 23 , at eleven , at the office of Mr . Pitcher , King's Lynn . Attorneys , Mr . Piteber , King ' s Lynn ; and Messrs . Clowes and Wcdlake , King ' s Benchwalk , Temple . William Hensball , Newcastle-under-Lyme , Staffordshire , silk-throwster , June 25 , July 23 , at twelve , a * the Castle Hotel , NewcaBtle-under-Lyme . Attorneys , Messrs . Price and Bolton , Lincoln's Inn ; and Mr . Bishop , Shelton Hall / Staffordshire Potteries . Henry Sidebotham , Manchester , cotton-manufacturjr , June 21 , July 23 , at twelve , at the Commissioners * Rooms , Manchester . Attorneys , Messrs . Walmsley , Keightley , and Parkin , Chancery-lane ; and Messrs . Humphreys , Cunliffes , Charlewood , and Bury , Manchester .
William Hutchinsen , Dronfleld , Derbyshire , winemerchant , Jane 21 , July 23 , at one , at the Town Hall , Sheffield . Attorneys , Messrs . Hutchinson , Chesterfield ; and Messrs . Smithson and Mitton , Southampton-buildings , Chancery-lane . DISSOLUTIONS OF PARTNERSHIP . J . Atkinson and G . Atkinson , Halifax , Yorkshire , grocers—H . Seudamore and J . Bail , Manchester , oil * cloth-manufacturers—J . Pye and J . Pye , Preston , Lancashire , slaters—J . Boothroyd , J . Kilburn , D . Milnes , J . Hudson , B . Seargill , T . Spedding , S . Mitchell , J . Lister , T . Blakeley , B . Bailey , J . Greaves , S . Newsome , jua , J . Ward , jun ., P . Hirst , B . Rothery , J . Ward , sen ., J . Greenwood , D . Ramsden , T . Fozard , Or- Ward , T . Clegg , T . Ward , Batley Caw , Yorkshire , scribbling millers ; so far as regards J . Boothroyd , T . Ward , and J . Kilburn . —J . Field and T . H . Syers , Liverpool , grocers— C- Brook , J . Brook , and W . Townend , Yorkshire , fancy manufacturers ; bo far as regards J . Leech .
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~ - ——<•» From t h * Gmzette of Tuesday , June 15 . BANKRUPTS . James Brook , victualler , FritU-street , Soho , to surrender June 23 , at twelve , and July 27 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy :. Official Assignee , Mr . Johnson , Basinghall-street ; Attorney , Mr . Field , Finchley . John M'Intyre , , ojl cloth manufacturer , Manchester , June 28 , and July 27 , at the Commissioners ' -rooms , Manchester . AttomeyB , Mr . Appleby , Aldermanbury , London ; Mr . Grundy , Bury , Lancashire . James Leary , coffee-housekeeper , Quadrant , Regentstret t , June 20 , at twelve , and July 27 , at the Court of Bankruptcy . Official Assignee , Mr . Gibson , Baslnghallstrtet ; Attorney , Mr . Lewis , Arundel-fltreet , Strand . Charles Hopkins , miller , Stapleton , Gloucestershire , June 29 and July 27 , at the Commercial-rooms , Bristol . Attorneys , Messrs . Jones and Blaxland , Crosby-square , London ; Mr . Peters , BristoL
John Dames , joiner , Stafford , June 26 and July 27 , at twelve , at the Star Inn , Stafford . Attorneys , Messrs . Clowes and Wedlake , King ' s-bench-walt , Inner Temple , Lonrton ; Mr . Bell , Stafford . Adam TUwaites , brewer , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , July 1 , at eleven , and July 27 , at two , at the Bankrupt Commission-room , Newcastle-upon-Tyne . Attorneys , Messrs . Bell , Broderick , and Bell , Bow Church-yard , Cheapsirte , London ; Mr . Seymour , Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Mr . Kenmir , Gateshead . John Sugden , machine-maker , Leeds , June 22 , at three , ami July 27 , at nine , at the Commissioners ' - rooms , Leeds . Attorneys , Messrs . Dunning and Stawman , Leeds ; Messrs . Smithson and . Mitton , Southampton-buildings , Chancery-lane , London .
Thomas Pitt Stokes , builder , Dudley , Worcester . June 26 and July 27 , at eleven , at the Swan , Wolverbamptom . Attorneys , Mr . Biggs , Southampton-buildings , Londsn ; Messrs . Hay ward and Webb , Birmingham ; Mr . Fellowes , Dudley . Thomas Dixon , grocer , Kirkgate , Leeds , Jane 22 , at two , and July 27 , at one , at the Commissioners' Rooms , Commercial-buildings , Leeds . Attorneys , Messrs . Wiglesworth , Ridsdale , and . Cradock , Gray ' s Inn-square , London ; Mr . W . T . Smith , Bank-Btreet , Leeds . Cuthbert Taylor and Thomas Hawkey , ship-builders , Weannouthshore , Durham , July 5 and 27 , at eleven , at the Thompson ' s Arms Hotel , Snnderland . Attorneys , Messrs . Swain , Stevens , and Co ., 6 , Frederick'splace . Old Jewry , London ; Mr . Wilson , and Messrs . Wright , Sunderland .
Joseph Barker Abbott and Dents M'Cheane , wine merchants , Jane 3 « and July 27 , at one , ut the Clarendon-rooms , Liverpool . Attorneys , Messrs . Lowndes , Robinson , and Bateson , Liverpool ; Messrs . Taylor , Sharpe , Field , and Jackson , Middlesex . James Lunn , ship broker , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , July 9 , at eleven , and July 27 , at two , at the Bankrupt Commisaion-room , Newcastle-upon-Tyne . " Attorneys , Mr . Hewison , Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Messrs . Carrie and Woodgate , New-square , Lincoln ' s Inn , London . Samuel Rayner , engraver , Friar-gate , Derby , June 28 , at two , and Ju y 27 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy . Official Assignee , Mr . Graham , Basinghall Btreet ; Attorney , Mr . Vallance , Ilssex-street , Strand . William Burton , upholsterer , Soho , Middlesex , Jane 22 , at one , and July 27 , at eleven , at theCoort of Bankruptcy . Official Assignee , Mr . Whltemore , Bawinghallstreet ; Attorney , Mr . Oliver , Qld Jewry .
Antonio Joaquim FreireMarreco , merchant , Newcas tle-upon-Tyne , July . 8 , at one , and July 27 , at eleven , at the Bankrupt Commission-room , Royal-arcade , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , Attorneys , Messrs . Watson and Wix , King's Arms-yard , Coleman-street , London ; Messrs . Brockett and Philipson , Newcaatle-upon-Tyhe . Thomas Lamplugh , grocer , Great Driffleld , 'Yorkshire , July 5 , at the Beverley Arms , Bev 6 rley , and July 27 , at the George InD , Kiugston-upon-Hull , at eleven . Attorneys , Messrs , Walmsley , Keightley , and Parkin , Chancery-lane , London ; . Messrs . Shepherd andTonge , Driffield : Mr . Thorney , Hull . ' .
John Morrish , liquor-merchant , Bristol , June 25 and July 27 , at one , at the , Commercial-rooms , BrtetoL Attorneys , Messrs . Hicks and Braifcenridge , Bwtlett '* - buildiflfis , Holbora , London j Messrs . Hintfc , Bristol .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 19, 1841, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct384/page/7/
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