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BETERLET MINSTRELSY . Remarkable aeeaes from ArihnrS teat Watching the ratting sun "! last ray , On the tan of tbe gated -window play , Hat secures my living tomb ; Mnring npon my straw I toy , 3 £ « i 5 ng the dose of mother d 5 y Of misery an * gloom . Thinking how oft Td seen thatsun , jiise o'er proud Arthur ' s summit dear , And gild his WTerend head ; Opening to view , rampart and wall , Lofty ipire aad lordly hall , Palace and peasant ' s shed ;
• RTifle at his feet the broad Forth roH'd , A sOrer picture framed in g » ld » Stndded with living jena ; . On whose white breast the snow-white sail , geem'd a flock of eaglets on the gale , As they her waters stem ; "rYhilehill and dale in the bright son ' s beam , Seem'd creatures of some fairy dream , So beautiful they be . The Oehila bursting into day , The beauteous Forth , "winding away Majestic to the sea ;
While , eastward , Berwick ' s appears , Hi * misty erown from his brow he rears , Displaying eraig and tree , Like some iron-mail'd giant knight , Doffing bis helm to lady bright , In gallant courtesy . Rising with opening day , Gxaig-HUlsri turrets , old and gray , Upon the sight appear , Alas ! now changed from that array , When , in thy hafis , the minstrel ' s lay , Wu heard by beauty ' s ear .
0 ! beanteons Stnart , thy fate might teach "Wisdom to kings , could it but reach The precincts of the throne . Thy fiiier head the scaffold graced , lass ere a courtly prelate placed An fo * g crown npon . See yonder camp ' s entrenched ring , Where Roman eagles spread their wing , O ' er conquest ' s slavery ! There now the mountain's daisy springs , . And Scottish milkmaid gaily sings , . On fields of chivalry .
On yonder heights , by Canon ' s flood , The hardy SeottUh warriors stood , Surreym * the host below ; Odb nearULnspiring cry they gave , Then rush'd , like their own mountain wave Resistless en the foe . la tain proud Borne her arts did try , Tain here , her far-famed chivalry , 'Gainst Scottish liberty ! In -vain her hardy warriors die ; Their dying groans assaD the siy , For Scotland durst be free ! Where now the Boman ' g Taunted name ? A legend only tells her fame , But , Scotsmen , where are ye ? ' Ye bear your brave forefather ' s name;— - Are ye in spirit still the same ,
Stern sobs of war and glee ? Is the same spirit in yon mused , Thai on the Roman legion burst , Preferring death to slavery ? Say , were a tyrant ' s flag unfurl'd , Would freedom's Bpear ' gainst him be hurled , With all your forbears' energy ? Ssy , are ye freemen ? are ye alares , Descendants of the great and brave , Who bade the invaders flee ? Or are ye serfs of the tyrant ' s soil , Who reap the produce of your toil , Then throw the husks to ye 1
Say , haTe your gloomy dungeon ' s grown , Yocal , with suffering patriots' moan , And must tbey moan fox years ? His nature , all exhausted , sinking , Beneath a tyrant ' s torture , fainting , Groans , music for his ears . Is it yonr public -weal and wish The labourer's interest and his Toice , In all yoar Ift-ws to see ? 0 ? is he & poor t&ss&I born , Doom'd ill-reqtrited toil to mourn , A slaTe by heaven ' s decree . '
Ssr , what has made your country great ? Wu it your worthless lordling " * state , His pride and pedigree ? Or was it those braTe hardy men , Whose labour fertOizs each plain , A Tirtaons peasantry ? See yotwier fcsid of ripening grain , AboTa wttose had a flowery train Of beaaty sheds a shower ; Bnt yen stern hind a lesson shews , He plucks , sod to Ms dunghill throws Each gaudy worthless flower .
They Tainly to his eyes disclose , Their splendid tints—tbeir Ysried huesp , taking ihsy 'dam t = h « plain . ' Tain all yonr pleading , be repHes , Tour uselen glories I despise , Ye only spoil my grain-Set stop , my wQd rebellious muse , How dare a slaye write truths like these , Compare a lordling to a weed . ' WMk you ' re at best of wood a hewer , And far their good a "water-drawer , By God himself decreed ?
for learn , ye snarling slaTe , from the Satan issien due to the powers that be , Bat tkey are straight from God ; For cant you see , or cant you learn , To enrb thy love of freedom , stern , You ' ve surely felt ih& rod ? See yon industrious , tiny nation , Lalonring their winter ' s preparation , With well-contented hum ; In wtll-stock'd hire , lord-liie reclining , Sipping the sweets of others toiling , The aristocratic drone .
So leam from them , you grumbling knave , Tiat working b : es were born to slave , And fructify the soil ; Th&i princes are the lord's anointed , And other two-legged drones appointed , To reap yonr arduous toil . Thy Bible ' s bright example scan , See Daniel in the lion ' s den , By righteous king ' s decree ; Wno dared , forsoiUi , presajEptaons man ¦ — To worship God on Ms own plan , Against the powers that be . ' BOBEET PEDDIE . 15 th June , 15 * 1 .
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^ m LINES TO F . O'CONNOR .
The following lines were sent to Mr . O'Connor , by * orking man who had tried to procure a piping bull £ bcq for the purpose of presenting to the '' caged lion , bat has not succeeded in getting oae : — Honoured Sir , —I " re tried in Tain To half dissolTe the tyrant's chain ; I cannot find a tuneful friend , That could to ling * ring moments lend A magic power , and make them Sy The patriot cell unheeded by ! Were I a fiach , I'd xring my way , And carol all the live-long day , ^ Before the massy tars , that tell O'Connor lingers in his cell ; ily throat should pour the sweetest strain ; I'd sing—ye tyrants , striTe in Tain , To quench a Same that burns so bright , And darts thro' grates its radiant light ,
Diffusing hope tiiro' Britain ' s Isle ; That mates the care-worn peasant smile , And half forget his present woes To feel them c&ariy at a close ; When all stall haTe , in eTery hour , A fair equality of power . Thus should my notes in concert join , " With thai courageous heart of t&ine , Which pants for freedom to the glare , And dares with freedom ' s foes to bare ; Demanding justice for the poor , Respite of bolts and prison door . Tor those may bone and sinew bind , Bat thy brave soul mares ttncenSB'd , I > nKuing in its eagle flight , The cout&fc that leads te truth and right , Till uiumpb shall reward thy toil , And ferry face with transport amile !
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p EEHAGE FOB THE PEOPLE , by William CiiPE 5 T £ B . London : Strange , Patexnosier-*>» . 1811 . This is & -work which means should be devised for ^ ° & « speedily as possible , in the hands of the lad n !!!! ? ' a ? d ^ lQ 0 Se places where news-rooms T ^ nea exist , it certainly ought to be at one * reM npon tie tables of those establishments . The a / jj ^ age for tie People" is a good , closely printed £ j « £ * nD . o volume , of more , than 800 pages , and conexDer * ma ? 5 of ^ oraiarioii as to the emoluments , onTfc' ¦ II 0-3 j si- ^ 2- acd personal char acter of atteeiiinj ,- L : ; l ; la : ursEi > : ; o be met with any-
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where else within so small a compass , and at bo moderate a eoet . The work should be found in every noble drawing-room ; aad if not found so fl&tterbg to the pride of she aristocratic " caste" as some other histories of the peerage , it would be of infinitely more use , as it would dire silently , but sternly , to tell the truth—* thin « not always considered of mncb . importance bj their aerrile writers , who seek to gain the favour of the great by flattering their foibles , and gilding or concealing their rices . The introduction presents us with an abstract of the doings of the Peers in actuality and the Peers in expectancy , from which most important conclusions cannot fail to be deduced by all who will give themselves the trouble to think . The public will ,
also , by consulting Mr . Carpenter ' s pages , Jearn something of the costliness of the noble idol which so many among them are but too prone to worship , and of the influence , direct and indirect , which they continue to exercise in what certain facetious gentlemen , in their merry moods , please to designate "the Reformed House of Commons . " We are pleased with that spirit of impartisility and candour whioh pervades the volumes ; while the incense of flattery is not offered at the shrine of nobility , neither has the author dipped his pen in gall , or sought by detraction to injure that estimation in which those of whom he writes may be fairly held by those amongst whom they live and move . Where virtue exists he has not been slow to acknowledge it , and he has ,
while fearlessly exposing acts of public delinquency , carefully abstained from mixing ap with , when it could be avoided , the matters and things connected with private character . Some of the noble supporters of tfie inhuman Poor Law might consult these pages witk advanrage ; we fancy thist while the Duke of Bedford holds estates plundered from the Church tone fourth of which , at least , ought to belong to the poor ) of the value , in our present money , of £ 48 , 889 13 s . 2 d ., no great surprise can be felt at the anxiety evinced by that noble house to increase the workhouse comforts of the ** independent labourers . " As a fair specimen of Mr . Carpenter s manner , aad of the kind of information to be found in ihework ,. we extract the following : —
DU . \ DAS , BABO X . liame . —Lx'WiiEycB Dr . NDAS . Motto . —Essay er : — Try . Relations . —Hon . T . Dundas , M . P . ( son )—Hon . J . C . Dandas , M . P . ( soni—Earl Fitzwilliam ( cousin)—Lady C . Bun das ( sister , and aunt of the Duke of St . Albsns )—A . Spiers , E 3 q . ( brother-in-law )—J . C . Rimsden , M . P . ( brother-in-law . )—[ See further below . ] Places and Emoluments . —Lord-Lieutenant ol Orkney and Shetland . —Amongst his relations are , —H . Lane ison-in-law ) Lieuteaant-Colonel . —W . Wharton ( brolher in-law , ) in the Church—Hon . 6 . H . L . Dandas ( brother , ) Bear-Admiral of the Blue , and lately a Lord of the Admiralty—Sir R . L . Dandas ( brother , ) Major-Gtneral in the Army—Hon . T . L . - Ducdaa ( brother , ? in the Church—Lady E . Dundas ( mother ? , ) pension £ 276 . Church Patro 7 tage . —One living .
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THE DISCIPLINE OF BEVERLEY . " My bead iagrey , but not with years . Nor grew it white In a single night , As men ' s have grown from sudden feara ; My limbs are bew'd , with barbarous toil , And rusted with a vile repose . For they have been a dungeon ' s spoil , And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are banu'd , and barr'd , forbidden fare . " Prisoner of Chilian TO THE EDITOBOF THE NORTHEBN STAB . Edinburgh , 3 rd July , 1841
SIR , —From the ready and expeditious manner in which your admirable paper conveys public news from the Thames to the foot of the Grampians , and as the only vehicle which now appears open to me for the subject , I will feel obliged by your laying the following extracts , from a letter just received by 2 / lra . Peddle from bet husband before your readers , amongst whom I am happy to think he has many sympathising friends , who will take an interest in the intelligence . And as the pages of Holy Writ are most to be prizad , when they come to us without note or comment , I shall avoid occupying your time with any indignant reflections , leaving the writer ' s own utterance , " in thoughts that breathe , and words that burn , '' to speak for themselves . W . R . A .
" My health ( observes Mr . Peddle ) is certainly improved since I last wrote to you , notwithstanding my food , and all the other circumstances with which I am surrounded , are so very different from my former habits ; a plain proof , were any required , of the murderous effect of that English Juggernaut , at whose shrine there are more ( and I will shortly furnish the world with reasons strong and good for thinking so ) victims sacrificed every year , than beneath the wheels of Its brother in Hindostan , bloody as he is Baid to be . But I cannot help stating , that the effects that the mill has left upon ray constitution , are both painful and alarming . It has to a certainty cut off ten years at least from my period of existence . 1 am constantly tormented with a pain in my head—especially the front—my eyes are much weakened : so much so , that . 1 really
entertain feara of losing them . My hair is now grey , not like Ephraim ' s , a grey hair here and there ; but of truth &f o most respectable pepper and salt colour . My beard , which I see once a week , when shaved on Saturday , has become actually white . In addition to which I have lost two more front teetb , so that get roe when you may , you will have a Tespectable old man of 65 at least , in place of 49 ; but in spirit and heart as young and fond as ever . Indeed my spirit seoms to be of that kind and cast which no circumstances can control or curb ; which seems to'bave been formed by its Maker for resisting uninjured every species of persecution , even the most cruel , hellish , and inhuman one to which it has been subjected ; and yet retains all its former elasticity—all its former love of freedom—and neverdyinff hatred of oppression .
" It is astonishing what an enormous weight of suffering the human spirit can support , when it humbles itself before the mighty hand of its Maker , and is strengthened by a firm reliance upon the protection of its God . Indeed could tyrants but perceive the fact ; could they but see the mind of the patriot strong in the integrity of his purpose , and still made stronger in his well-grounded hopes of a glorious immortality—despising them even when his body is sinking under their hellish , their barbarous torture ; pitying them in the gloom of the dungeon ; pitying them as men , madly laying up for themselves eternal destruction , fierce wrath , and fiery indignation , to devour against that day wh- "n evenfftey will cease from troubling , and their victims will find a rest to Which they will be eternally strangers . For the present state of my mind in its religious feelings , you will find a description in the lost chapter of the first epistle of Peter , from the sixth verse .
" I was trcly pleased with the news of your lost , both with the evidence it contained , that liberty was not dead , in the 1 , 600 , 000 persons who had petitioned Parliament for our release ; but with the reception of that Petition in the House of Commons , evincing the fact that we are not entirely forgot by tbe people . ¦ It has also roused my expectation , that if the people continue to bestir themselves , they will ultimately be the means of restoring me and my fellow-sufferers to our afflicted families . But not without bestirring themselves . Fur the Whigs ( heaven in due time reward them ) are like curds in a cheese-press , they will not
give out tbe whey withont severe preasura Meantime I trust that my friends in England and Scotland will not cease to exert themselves to obtain ray freedom from this galling and truly worse than Egyptian bondage ; should they drop their exertions , you may rest assured , that I will , if spared , remain here every hour of the three years . As for either mercy or humanity to be expected from these men , who have refused me justice , is a thing not to be looked for . The public will obtain nothing either for me , or for themselves , but through the medium of constant agitation and petition , and the adoption of every other energetic means justified by the laws of the country .
Yon will see by Mr . Hume ' s note , that Lord Nortnanby has removed me from the English Juggernautthe British Moloch—the life destroying favourite machine of English squirearchy—the English priesthood ' s instrument of punishment * * Now , as the Whigs will most likely take much credit to themselves , and , if possible , persuade the people that they are entitled to it , let me put you in possession of the fact—that this remission will make little or no alteration otherwise for the better in my situation . The fact is , that nine weeks ago , it was found , that a very few days more continuance of the torture , must have ended in my murder , had not the surgeon done his duty in throwing the shield of his official protection between me and death . This remission still leaves me in the condition of a degraded and miserable slave , subject to very severe labour , for the truth of which statement take one instance : —
" For Bix weeks , in January and February . I was employed in working with my hands all day wet with quick lime , till almost every finger was burnt to a cinder—till the very flesh came out of them as large as sixpences—leaving holes , in many of which a sixpence could have been buried—the marks of the wounds of which I will carry to the grave with me ; and it is well that it is so ; for should I ever be disposed to forget my sufferings , and to forgive their authors , I have only to look at my bands to be awakened to a painful recollection of what I have endured , and raised to those duties that these sufferings have inflicted npon me . There is another circumstance to which I wish you particularly
to call the attention of the public , that ia , that it has been the never-failing practice of the British Government towards persons convicted of crime , should any thing occur after convietion to throw discredit upon the evidence by which a conviction was obtained , to give the prisoner the full advantage of such a circamstance . Has this been so in my case ? It has not . For to have done me this justice would be to admit my noble persecutor and his friends , ( the blood-thirsty scoundrels of Bradford ) guilty of a conspiracy—a most wicked conspiracy against my life and freedom . " ROBEBT PKDDIE . " Beverley House of Correction , 18 th June , 1841 . "
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MEETING OF THE SOUTH LANCASHIRE LECTURERS . In accordance with the resolution noticed in our last , the above meeting took place ca Sunday last , in the Brown-stPeet Chartist Room , East Manchester . Though many had com © a distauoe of twelve or fourteen miles , they were preseok to commence business by half-past nine o ' clock . Lecturers assembled : —Doyle , Scaithburst , Lewis , Bailey , Uoughtou , Rankin , Littler , Leech , Campbell , Bell , Linney , Clarke , Bootb , Storer , Sheerer , Roberts , and BuUerworth . ^ Mr . Whitaker , a member of Brown-street , was chosen Chairman . Mr . Dov . l » inquired the objeei for which they had been called together . .... . .
Mr . Caitledge stated that they had been called together for the express purpose of coming to an underataBdiiig with each other on various important qnestioas ; lor those who possessed the greatest amount of information to impart it to their fallowlecturers who required it , and to prevent one man giving oae answer to a question atone town one day , and another lecturer , at the same place , giving a different answer another day to the tame question . It was thought that , by bringing the lecturers together , and through the means of discussion , their opinions might oe brought to harmonise with each other . Such a step would tend to improve the lecturers , prevent contradictory statements , being made / and uromote the cause they had at heart , all ii £ hti » g together in the same cause , haying the KaTne ' cijectiu view , uuiil iheir e ' xt . rtioBS would be t-rowoeii with success .
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SeveTalleeturerB expressed their opinions , and all agreed in the propriety of the step which had been taken not only ia the meeting being held , bat also in having a regular series of meetings ; one or two , however , were anxious , before proceeding further , that a code of rules for their government should be drawn up . This , after some discussion , was nofc pressed to a division , and Mr . Leech , at the request of the meeting , delivered a short address on the last of the following questions , with a copy of which each lecturer had been furnished . - •" 1 st . Are you aware of the amount of wealth
produced annually in Great Britain and Ireland ? of the number of producers , and hotv the presenS system of legislation affects its distribution ! 2 nd . If the distribution of wealth is uvjastly interfered with , what remedy would you apply to insure a just distribution of the produce of labour 1 3 rd . D <> you consider permanent liberty , and its accompaniment , prosperity , can be secured to the whole people under a system of competition ? 4 th . What definition do you give concerning real liberty ! 5 th . What are the effects produced in society by the law of primogeniture ?
6 th . What effect has the monetary system of this country on its social and political arrangements t 7 th . When the Charter becomes the law of the land , do you think that the present arrangements regarding private property cau be maintained consistently with the liberty and happiness of the wholo people ? . A discussion ensued , and afterwards the remaining questions were alluded to seriatim ; and on the first question the resolution come to was— " That when any of tbe lecturers are questioned upon that point , they shall quote the statements of Porter , M'Queen , M'Culloch , and Bray , leaving the public to judge foi themselves . " The following are the calculations given by Porter , M'Queen , and Bray : those of M'Culloch are not furnished taus : —
Porter says—There is every year £ 7 , 009 , 000 of wealth produced by 6 , MO , & 00 of working people ; that every man who works , earns £ 116 13 s . 4 < 1 . a year , which is £ 2 2 s . 6 jd . per week . According to Porter , it took twelve millions a year to support the clergy of the Established Church .. » Local taxation £ H 8 , eoo , ooo . 'V According to M'Queen ;—Total capital of agri- Produce , culturo , £ 3 , 258 , 910 , 810 539 , 036 , 201 Da . do . Manufactures , 217 , 773 , 872 271 , 412 , 709
£ 3 , 476 , 684 , 682 810 , 448 , 910 Families . Total number of persons employed in agriculture , ... 1 , 845 463 Do . do . trade and manufactures , 1 , 684 . 232 Do . all other families , ... — 1 , 269 , 536 4 , 799 , 231 Bray states , in his work , that the annual produce is ... ... £ 500 , 000 , 00 # And that it was calculated , in 1815 , to be 43 « , oeO , 000 Of which the working class received 99 , 742 , 547 : And the rent , pension , and profit class ... ... 330 , 778 , 825 The total capital , at that time , was calculated at ... - ... ... 3 , 000 , coo , ooo The meeting , after a very long and interesting sitting , was adjourned till that day month .
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Sib , —Since ministers took up tbe Corn Bill , I have frequently observed in the Whig Radical journals , an anxiety for a repeal of the Corn Laws , and cheap bread for the poor . But although they pretend to be so solicitous for the poor man , I never hear them " break breath" about giving him the only power which can enable him to stand boldly in his own defence—the franchise . I say since the Corn Bill became a ministerial measure , I have often seen a paragraph headed "dear bread means low wages . " There Is one in the Leeds Times of last week , headed " another convincing proof that dear bread means low wages . " It goes on to state that master manufacturers about Huddersfield have reduced the price of labour betwetn 20 and 30 percent , and asks if it is not a convincer ?
Sir , I should never have noticed these , with any intention of commenting on them , had I not known for what purpose they were got up , and being well acquainted with most of the writers of them , I can assure you , that what I am going . to say is fact . The articles above alluded to are the original correspondence of the millocrats themselves . ' They first meet and reduce wages , then go to their office and write tke articles about "dear- bread and low wages . " Thus- they blow the trumpet that wages lower when bread ia dear , and say . that they could da no more if bread were cheap ! They tell their workmen it ia ia consequence of want of markets , and preach up Whig humbug until their men are lost in mistiHcation , and thus push forward their own ruin .
They have practised this " lowering system " so long and so often , that they dare not in a direct way any longer , for fear of exposure ; but they have recourse to an indirect way of lowering wages . They call the " foreman" of every branch ( who by-the-bye are all of coarse high Whigs ) into the counting house , having previously made tbem electors . They say to them , we are desirous of keeping up tbe respectability of our men , therefore we will let you your work , and then you wili have a good opportunity of making more wages ; we wish you to do so , only push on the work ; the
more you do the more you receive . The foremen agree to this , and set to , well knowing that the masters are giving less for the work than they did before the letting . I say they set-to , and pinch the poor men who are under them to excess ; they turn away a portion of them , and make the remainder do twice as much , or nearly so , as they did before . Work goes rapidly on . They do in four days what ought to be a week's work ; and the consequence is , they are short of employment two days per week , and have to go and skulk in the streets for that tirae , whilst they have done more work and received less wages for . it 1
And thus we are permitting these mercenary speculative individuals , who wlab for more markets to hav « more scope of competition to ruiu this country . They are like the irog in the fable , they want to swell themselves to the station of . old experienced and honest tradesmen who have been an honour to this country for centnries . The bell is ringing , therefore , I must be off , or I would say something more on the subject . But perhaps I may resort to it again . In the mean time , I susbcribe myself one who would wish to be represented , - Yours truly , A WobKing Maw . Huddersfleld , July 14 , 1841 .
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Tykannt op the Factory Lords . —The millocraoy and prontocracy , when courting popularity to subserve their owh purposes , not unfrtquently tell the workics that the interests of the employer and those of the employed , are identified , and that both must rise or fall together ( yet we invariably find that the profitmonger ' s conduct runs counter to such doctrine , an instance of which is furnished by a correspondent , who writes as follows : — " The masters of a certain mill , not twenty miles from Hey wood , have of late acted in the following manner towards their workpeople . A few days after the 12 th of August , 1839 , they called on every one who had been in the habit of attending Chartist meetings , to sign their names to a paper , pledging themselves not to attend
any more , and if they refused , they would be discharged from their employment . They also made a rule that no more collections should be made amongst the weavers towards supporting the sick , or burying tb © dead . They were requested to grant the weavers leave to make a subscription towards the Stockport turn-out , on every alternate Friday afternoon , that day being th « weavers pay day ; thisvvaa not granted . A few weeks ago , men were appointed to go round to every spinner , weaver , &c , in order to see what each would give towards an organ for St . James's Church * Hey wood ; and though the poor white slaves had BOthing to spare * yet , throuah fear , ssme gave as high as 10 s ., 7 s ., 5 s .,
2 s . 6 d . t and some as low as Is ., and others 6 d . When the anti-Corn Law petition was laying lor signatures at various shops in Hey wood , petition sheets were brought to the factory , and the men called upon to sign .- At the recent election at Rochdale , the mill stopped on the day of nomination , and the men were told to go in procession , with banners , bands of music , &c , to Rochdale , in order to hold up their hands , in favour of James Fenton , Esq ., the Tory candidate . On Wednesday , the 14 th instant , the spinners were sent for , and informed that their wages would , be reduced to an amount which they , the spinaers , calculate at 63 . per week . Some objected to the rabbery , while others oringingly submitted to the avarice of their employers . "—So
much for identity of interests . TnE Census . —Amongst the many curious entries made on the enumeration schedules which have been returned in the town district of the Kensington division , are therfollowiBg : — "W . Whitehorn , 57 , tailor , no ; Martha Whitehorn , 37 , wife , no ; John . Fred . Whitehorn , 8 , yea ; William Henry Whitehorn , 4 , yes ; Arthur O'Connor Frost jfchUehorn . sine months , yes . All Earnestly pray / grntr | ttarifrN . return of Frost , Williams , and J ° WrJ pkmggl £ mJ& ' ^ all political prisoners , and that the Ch&f $ ftBSff ^ ti&S-, 2 t come the law of the land" £ s !/ 'fcii ^^ ' /^ jJs V A Rival to the "New Inper ^ I u ^ soik ^ - ^ , * % .. £ The " gals" in our printing-office ^ h p ^ utdmi ^^ W ^ C ! offer to * back Miss Jemima Bloom ^ gbeft q ^ ed ^ tf S&jK do more " blowin' up" in one dawMw ^ lfu ^ tfnV /^' aa powder in the "States . " They wfPS ^^ & ^ r ^ "S Colonel Pasley have her for a moder ^ e ^^ SHa ^ f JH ^ W and if she don't give Royal Georg < r !» & £ afci »^ mfe ^ jBr Colonel may depend ou ' c he ' s proof &gfl 0 stg ( ma&P £ &
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DANIEL O'CONNELL , THE FRIEND OF THE POOR . DANIEL O'CONNELL , THE REVILER OF THE WIVES AND DAUGHTERS OF THE
ENGLISH PEOPLE . [ Many have been the calls npon us to reprint that speech of Mr . Daniel O'Connell' s , in which he uttered his monstrous calumny against the wives and daughters of the English people , which has so justly called down upon him that virtuous indignation his revflings merited . In responding to that call , we are glad to be able to present it in a form which will make it doubl y valuable to the reader We find that the speech in question excited the surprise and indignation of that firm and unwavering friend of the labouring poor , Cobbett ; and that he , at the instant , gave Mr . Calumniating O'Connell such a whacking as would bare annihilated any one bat this man , whose hide is of brass , whose feelings are of stone , and whose purpose was to preserve intact the poverty and prostration of the Irish people , so that he might bring their miseries
to the best market , and make merchandise of their wrongs and sufferings . We give the entire letter from the inimitable and glorious Cobbett to Mr . O'Connell , embodying , as it doee , the atrocious speech of the arch-traitor , knowing that it will be read with deep interest by every working man . In it he will see but too evidently how anxious O'Connell was that his " trade should not be spoiled , " by the enactment of an honest and truthful system of Poor Laws for Ireland ; in it he will find that the lying cbeatery was instantly exposed , and the utterer of the calumnies against the English literally impaled ; and in it also find many reasons to be anxious for the restoration of " Old Betsy ' s law , " which was shortly afterwards abrogated by the enactment of the Malthusian " Amendment ;' for the paving of the way for the introduction of which the infamous tpeech here referred to was made and uttered ]
TO MB . O ' COSNELt , OK HIS SPEECH AGAINST THE
PROPOSITION F » R ESTABLISHING POOH LAWS IX IRELAND . At Mr . Jehnson' 8 , Lime Place , Manchester , 14 th January , 1832 . SiB , —With very great surprise ( to give the mildest term to znj feeling on tbe occasion ) I have read , in the Morning Chronicle of the 7 th instant , a publication purporting to be the report of o speech made by you &t a meeting of the National Political Union , held in Dublin , on the 4 th of this same month . The speech is stated to have been made in consequence of a motion by Mr . John Reynolds , for the appointment of a Committee to deliberate on the subject of Poor Liwa for Ireland . Having long been convinced that the withholding from Ireland of these laws , at the time when
they were given to England , was the riginal sin in the misrule of Ireland , and that it has been the greatest of all the causes of tbe immeasurable distance between the manners , the habits , aud the condition of the working classes of the two countries ; having seen that Catholic Emancipation , which was , according to your expectations , 30 frequently , so eloquently , and so confidently expressed , to restore harmony and happiness to Ireland , baa been far indeed from producing any such effects ; being more fully than ever convinced that there never can be peace in Ireland , and that there never can be any security , or chance of security , against those periodical returns of starvation in Ireland , the bare thought of which ought to make an English , and more especially on Irish legislator ashamed to shew his
face amongst mortals of common humanity ; remembering that Mt . Grattan , that Dr . Doyle , and that you voukself , have been the advocates of this remedy for the sufferings of your unhappy country , you , I am sure , will not wonder that , in reading the report of the speech to which I have alluded , my feeling was such as to be very inadequately described by the word surprise ; but you would wonder , I trust , and I am sure that my readers would wonder , if I were not to give an ansvxr to thai speech . This I shall now do , with all that respect towards \ ou which is due to you on account of year laudable and able exertions during the two last sessions of Parliament ; and , in order that the public may have tbe arguments and facts ol both sides of tbe question fairly before tbem , I will first insert the above-mentioned report of your speech : —
" Mr . O'Cosnell rose amid loud cheers . I rise , ce said , to second the motion for a Committee . With many of the principles laid down by Mr . Reynolds I entirely concur . I believe he has exaggerated the wealth of the Established Church ; but then it is enormously great , and almost defies exaggeration . The claim which the poor have apon that wealth ia obvioas . One-third of it originally belonged to the poor , and they hare been filching from the poor by having kept from them that one-third . ( Hear . ) I concur al&o with Mr . Reynolds in what he has said of the generosity of the English people . ( Hear . ) Their generosity towards this country in money gifts has been most laudable , and I only wish that they bad equally distinguished themselves for their political charity . ' ( Heor . i
We have -got from them three or four hundred thousand pounds fur our beggars , and they have been three or four centuries making beggars of us . Jaek-tne-GLant-Killer was distinguished for making giants first and then shying them ; it ia thus the English have acted towards the Irish—they have made beggars of them first , and then relieved them . ( Hear , hear . ) Though I concur in tbe expression of my gratitude to those who have subscribed to the relief of the Irish poor , bo must I also give expression to my abhorrence of those who have made a rich country poor , and have placed a starving population in the midst of abundance . ( Hear , and cheers ) Though I am most ready to second the motion for a Committee upon this subject , I cannot but start back with horror at the proposal of Poor Laws
being introduced into Ireland . I know that a great case is made for them in the misery of the people , and I was myself even ready to plunge iato the CuiUan gulf , where eventually we might be swallowed up , in the hope that we could for the time be able to relieve the distresses of tbe poor . I have thought upon this subject by day—I have mused upon it by night—it has been the last thought that visited my pillow before I closed my eyes to sleep—and it has had the benefit of my morning meditations ; and tbe result to which I have come is this , that it would be impossible to introduce the Poor Laws here withtut enslaving and degrading tbe poor . The poor themselves , I think , would suffer most from a Poor Law . When people talk of an amelioration of the English system , I ask of them to
point it out , for I never yet met c man who was able to discover it- ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) I abhor any interference with the rate of wages , especially in an agricultural country , and this is one of those things which frighten me about the introduction cf the Poor Laws here . What kind of Poor Law is it that is iran ting ? It it be one for tbe support of the sick and the maimed , I go to the full extent with those who support such a Poor Law . I say that the state is bound to make provision for those who are afflicted with sickness or disease ; but there it is our duty to stop . There is no danger of encouraging sickness to enable a man to get into an infirmary , nor will any man break hia leg in order that he may have a claim upon the charity wf his neighbour . Let me be understood—all
claims arising from disease , sickness , or casualty , should be provided for by the state , and to that extent I go "with those who are advocates for Poor Laws . One-third of that which is now in the hands of the clergy , being given to its legal destination , would be fully sufficient to defray all such demands upon charity . ( Hear . ) Even at present there is scarcely a village in Ireland that has not a dispensary , nor any county town withont its hospital , and if th * e be not sufficient , the Legislature is bound to make provision for them . ( Hear . ) Go beyond that , and what do you do ? Are you to take care of the aged ? Dj you not , by doing so , remove from the individual the necessity of providing for old age ?—do you not encourage him to go to the dram-shop , and lay out his sixpence upon bis
animal gratification , rather than ol hoarding for the day of want ? Do yon not take from industry its incentive , and from providence its best guard ? ( Hear . ) If I were , as my enemies represent me to be , one who was looking solely to popularity , and not to serve my country , -what more fitting theme could I select than that of the Poor Laws ? What more popular topic could I possibly adopt ? ( Hear . ) I fee ] , however , that it is the duty of a humane and a conscientious man to express candidly his opinion npon a topic so deeply interesting and important to his fellow-countrymen . ( Hear . ) I say , that if you make a provision for old age , you take away the great stimulant to industry and economy in youth . You do another thing : what is to become of the aged father and mother ? they lose
the solace and the affectionate care of the son , and tbe tender attentions of the daughter , the moment you say to them that a legal provision for their support is procured . You turn the father and the mother out to the parish , or you thrust them into tbe solitary , the cold , and the wretched poor-house—there , in the naked ceil , sufficient to chill the human breast , yon leave the expiring victims of your mistaken humanity . ( Hear , hear . ) Bat think not that you have a compulsory provision for the aged alone ; if you go thus far , you are bound also to provide for the hardy workman , who cannot procure labour , and who must not be left to starve . The man with a good appetite and willing hands , but who has no work , you must include him also . ( Hear , hear . ) It was not at first intended , I believe , to include this class amongst those to be provided for by the Poor Laws ; but it was found that they could not be
included , and the moment that principle is adopted , rich parish would be obliged to provide for all the poor j who might claim relief from it , and in a short time that parish would be swamped with tbe number of claimants upon it You cannot say to the City of D » Win that it should have a mendicity one-feurth the aizss of the metropolis—that every man wb » sought relief there should obtain it , and the citizens be obliged to p * y th » expence of supporting them . And yet , hew ar » ywi to discriminate , unless you make a law of settlement , one great instrument of oppression again *'; th » English poor . One of the means of settlement ra England is by birth ; there ia none less likely to be srabject to imposition , and yet none is made a greater i nstrumtnt of oppression . The moment that it appear $ a poor woman is in a state of pregnancy , she is im mediately made an object for persecution , and a notice to quit is served by the landlord on the wretched ho / ,- el that tLe prolific
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mother inhabits . Tbe landlord , in fact , Is compelled by the Testry to be guilty of this persecution . Another means of settlement in a parish is by living there for one year ; and the consequence is , that engagements are made with labourers for only eleven months , and they are obliged to be one month idle befcra they can expect a renewal of work in the same parieli . Another bad consequence of that law ia , that it prevents the' circulation ef free labour , and obliges every man to stick to his parish . The Poor Laws , too , take from a man a direct interest in being industrious . The motives to labour are present subsistence and future support . Take these two away , and you deprive a man of two great stimulants to labour . { Hear , hear ) Besides , the Poor Laws compel those dependent upon them for
support to work—bnt in what manner ? The labourers are let out by the parish at half wages , and then these half-workmen come in competition with the regular labourers . The farmer will tell the regular labourer , who demands three shillings a day , that he will give him but two shillings ; for if be does not choose to take that , he will get those who he is ready to admit are inferior workmen for one shilling , and thus the good labourer is necessarily made poor . ( Hear , hear . ) Have I not seen in Shrewsbury , for instance , placards on which , were inscribed , 'Vagrants and Irish labourers whipped out of the town } ' Mr . Sturges Bourne made an improvement in the law in this respect , for he provided that after the Irish labourer was whipped , be
should be sent home . ( Hear . ) These laws are necessarily called cruel laws , for they make charity itself the subject ef taxation . They create in a man ' s mind something of the sensation that is felt upon paying the wide street or grand-jury cew . ( Laughter . ) They make , too , one man abundantly charitable , by putting his hands into the pockets of another—and to do what ? to keep the poor at the lowest rate of maintenance . It is well known that in many parishes in England the poor are farmed out to be provided for at the lowest possible expence . The man who takes tbe care of them underfeeds them , in order that he may make a profit on them . Not only is the providing of food for them hired out , but apothecaries to supply them with medicine are hired also—men whose interest it is that the
sick poor should die as soon as possible , in order that they may be at the less expence for medicines for them . ( Hear . ) For an obvious reason I do not enter iota the horrors of this demoralising system respecting females ; it is sufficient for me to say , that the more vicious a female is , the more objects has she to make her selection from , either to payibrty pounds , or to marry her . ( Hear , hear . ) It is sufficient to say of tbe system , that clergymen of the Established Church of England have sworn , that , amongst the poorer classes , out of every twenty women they married , nineteen were in a state of pregnancy . ( Hear , hear . ) What do we see as the consequence of the Poor Laws in England ? The country is in a blaze from north to south ; the agricultural labourers there are destroying the
property of their employers . ( Hear . ) I have now sat in three Parliaments , and I have heard In each of these Members state that these laws have created a great deal of misery and distress . But then it may be said that these laws can be ameliorated . How will you ameliorate them ? What part of the English Poor Laws will you shut out ? How will Mr . Reynolds improve theBQ laws F All tbe ingenuity of Committee after Committee that has sat respecting these laws baa been exercised in vain , and has been unable to discover any effective amelioration . ( Hear , hear . ) One feature of tbe Poor Laws Is , that it makes slaves of the poorer classes ; it makes tkem the Blavss of the overseers , and destroys completely their character for independence . I prefer the wild merriment of the Irishman to the half-sulky , half-miserable tones of the English slave to Poor Laws .
The Irishman certainly has his distresses , but then he has bis hopes ; be endures much misery , but then be entertains expectations of redress . ( Hear , hear , an * cheers . ) Let the question of Poor Laws stand ever , till we see if justice will be done to us by England upon the question of Reform . 1 have often said that if a just Reform Bill were given to Ireland , I wauld try the experiment with it ; but if they do not give a just Reform Bill , then 1 shall want to introduce a Poor Law for Ireland by repealing the Union . ( Hear , and loud cheers ) Mr . OConnell concluded by requesting that their exertions should not be interfered with by the Poor Law question , in looking for a substantial plan of Reform , and if that were refused , in seeking for a resource , and a remedy fora bad Reform Bill . The Hon . Gentleman sat down amid loud cheers . "
Sir , I do not overlook the great cheering which this speech appears to have called forth from your Dublin audience ; but when 1 recollect the still more noisy cheering drawn forth in another place by the Dawsons and others , when they so unjustly , and in a manner so senseless , assailed you , I am by no means disheartened by this vast quantity of cheering ; which I am disposed to ascribe , not to any folly , aud still less to any perverseness , but rather to that " wild merriment" which , towards the close of your speech , you are pleased to describe as characteristic of your countrymen , and on which you appear to set so high a value .
Upon a careful perusal of this speech , I have no hesitation in saying , that the far greater part of your facts , as they stand here , are founded in error ; and that the whole of your arguments are fallacious ; and these assertions I think myself bsund to prove ; not by any general statement or reasoning ; but , in the first place , point by point , as your facts and arguments lie before me . I might , if I chose to pursue that course , insist , that with regard to your opinions , they ought to be viewed in conjunction with , and estimated according to , tbe tried value of many of your former opinions . I might , if I chose that course , meet the imposing assurance , that you " have thought of this subject by day , have mused upon it by night , and have given it the benefit of your morning meditations ; " I might , if I chose , and with perfect fairness , Hvtet this formidable preamble by asking you , whether you had not thought by day , mused by night , and medidated in the
morning , on the measure for disfranchising the fortyshilling freeholders , before you became the very firs man to suggest that measure to the two Houses of Parliament , as being a measure necessary to the fair representation of Ireland ; and whether , in less than twentyfour months from the date of the suggestion , you did not , before the face of these forty-shilling freeholders , beg their pardon , and the pardon of Almighty God , for having entertained a thought of their disfranchisement ? Passing over the " golden chain , " by which you proposed to bind the Catholic priests to the Protestant Government and hierarchy ; passing over this and many other such errors , and confining myself within the forty-shilling freeholders * error , might I not , if I chose , express a confident hope ; nay , presume and almost conclude , that you are not less in enor now , when you so boldly call Englishmen , in direct terms , and , by inference , the Americans , the slaves of the Poor laws ?
I might , with perfect fairness , do this , and perhaps to the entire satisfaction of tbe greater part of my readers ; but I will evade nothing ; will consider nothing coming from you as unworthy of serious notice ; and will , therefore , agreeably tojpy promise , answer your speeoh point by point ™ ¦ Deferring , till by-and-by , my notice of your charge against tbe Protestant hierarchy , of having "filched " from the poor of Ireland the amount of the third of their tithes , I begin with your charge against the "English people" of having " made the Irish people poor . " We will cast aside your gratitude towards the fOTmer , as a fit companion for the mutual good-will between the two countries , which this charge of yours is so manifestly intended to inspire and Keep alive ; we will
cast these aside ; but , since you so positively assert that we , the many-headed Jack-the-Giant-Killer , have made your countrymen poor , we may surely be allowed the liberty to ask you to name the time when thej were rich When Aisaccused of haviDgstolen the propeity oiB , it is fncumbent on B to prove that he ever had the property . Yours being , as to this matter , bare allegation without proof of previous possession , we need not remind you , how you , being in such a case counsel for the accused , would scoff the accuser out of court We will not scoff you out of court ; we will give you further time for " thought , musing , and meditation ; " and will even aid these cool and candid operations of your mind by suggestions of our own . You say that the " English people" have been three or four centuries engaged in the
work of making the Irish people beggars . You doubtless use the words English people instead of English Government , not only from a love ef justice , but from an amiable desire to promote the good-will and harmony between the English and the Irish . But , granted that it is the English people , what have they done to make the Irish people poor ? Three or four centuri ps ! " An inch is a trine in a man ' s nose ; " and with you orators a century , more or less , is not worth stopping about ; it is a mere splitting of straws . These " centuries" could , however , hardly have fairly begun above thirty-two years ago ; for then you had a " -domestic Legislature , " and a right good one it was wihout doubt , for you want it back again I What , however , even going back to tbe Conquest , have the English people
done to make the Irish poor ? Conquered the country , and parcelled out Its lands amongst Englishmen . There ! Take it in its fullest extent ; and what have they done to the Irish , to a . tenth part of the amount of what the Normans did to them ? Yeb they haw survived it ; they have overcome conqpest by thear industry and love of country : they soon made the conquerors proud to be considered part of themselves ; and they never sat brooding in sloth anii filth over the fabulous dignities , and splendour , and possessions , of their forefathers . It is , therefore , not jerverseness , but sheer nonsense , to talk of wrongs which the Irish experienced from that caase . The English imposed the Protestant hierarchy upon the Irish . Very unjust , bat hairing no tendency to make them poor , any more than the same imposition upen themselves , and it has
been heavier upon tbanselves ; fo * they haw always had to yield greater tithes than the Irish . They forbade the open profession of thefa religion , on pain of exdwion from civil and political power . Unjust as well as foolish ; but the same la done to the Quakers veiywhere , and that does not make them poor mud ragged ; and now , when the Irish have civil and political power , they are poorer than ever ! Have the English people ever taxed the Irish ? We win see about that by-and-by , when you come to talk of tbe reform that you are seeking . How then have the " English psople" made the Irish people poor ? They have , indeed , suffered them to be made poor , by " not compelling the owner 3 of the laud iu Ireland to pay poor-rates . " This is their great sin towards the Irish people ; and now , wten they seem resolved to r-o right in this respect , and to make repaiation for tbo
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wrong , at far as they can , you step in with erroneous facts and fallacious arguments to induce the Irish to Iwlieve that that long-withheld good is an evil ! The fact is , however , that the English people have sever had any band in causing the wrongs and misery endured by the Irish people . The wrongs and this misery , as far as they have been caused by misrule , have been inflicted by that " band of oligarchs , " to whom you have so often , so recently , and so justly ascribed them , and amongst whom your native oligarchs have been the very , very worst . The English people have always
comtuisserated the sufferings of the Irish ; and this feeling has always been most conspicuous , too , amongst the Church of England people . The people of England have been wronged by the injustice of the oligarchs as much as , or more than , the Irish have ; for they have had to pay for keeping the Irish people in submission to those who refused to give them Poor Laws , and who thereby reduced tbem to starvation . If this be not the true state of the matter , you have the means of proving the contrary ; and if this be the true state of the matter , let the reader characterise your charge against tbe English people of having made the Irish people poor . ( To he continued in our next )
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Deplorable Cask of DzsTixtnojf . —On Saturday afternoon an inquest was held before Mr . Baker , at tbe Throwsters' Arms , Essex-street , Whitechapel , on the body of Sarah Salter , aged 46 , whose death was alleged to have been caused by the want of the common necessaries of life . Sarah Salter , tbe deceased's daughter , said that she lived with her mother , in Greek-conrt , Essex-street . She had been in a veiy bad state of health lately , and in want of tbe common necessaries of life . On Wednesday , the only food they had all that day was a halfpenny-¦ worth of bread and half a pint of beer between then ) . They obtained their living by shirt-making , for Mr . Silver , of Cornhill and the Commercial-road , and the
price they received for making a shirt was 4 d . To finish two of these shirts , her mother and herself sat up till one o ' clock on Thursday morning . Soon after that hour they retired to bed , her mother compiainiDg of a pain in the head . She awoke about seven o ' clock , and found her mother lying by her side lifeless . Bj tbe Coroner— " We have been in the habit for the last two years of receiving relief in bread from Whitechapel parish , until about four months back , when the parochial authorities stopped that relief , and refused to pas 3 us to our parish ( Islington ) . " The Coroner here requested Hughes , the Relieving-officer of the parish , who was present , to give him an explanation , as the inquiry had
assumed a different aspect to what he expected . Mr . Hughes said he recollected the case very well . For the last two winters ihey had received between three and four loaves a -week , until four months back , when an inquiry was ordered to be instituted by the authorities , the result of which -was , that they came to the decision that the deceased was not in want of relief , and do application had been made since . The foreman of the Jury said , that this was a case of inanition produced by the want of tht common nourishments of life , and he , for one , would not be satisfied to give his verdict until the whole circumstances of tbe case had been fully entered into . After some remarks from the Coroner and the Jury , the inquiry was adjourned for further evidence .
Feightful Accidetc at as Ice-house . —A Ma . n Bcbied Alite . — On Saturday morniag , between eight and nine o ' clock , an accident of a frightful nature , and by which a man , named Giles , lost his life , occurred , in the ice-well of Messrs . Rhodes , the extensive ice-merchants , of Hackney-road . At the time above stated , the deceased , with other men in the same employ , were down the well at work digging oat the ice for the purpose of loading some cans which were waiting . Ihe well i 3 entered by a door at the bottom , the ice bein £ above it , and the men , when any ice is wanted , are obliged to cut it from the bottom , working their way farther in as the stock decreases ; by this a great excavation is made into the middle of the ice , and in several parts they are able to proceed a great distance . The deceased and of
three men were at work under one these places 1 when the Whole ; of it fell in . The deceased's com-I pinions escaped in the most miraculous manner , bat I he , being further in the place than they were , was ; buried under the fallen mass , which weighed several tons . The fall was so sudden that another of the men nearly shared the same fate . As soon as their fright was over they set to work in digging the deceased ont , but twenty minutes elapsed before they came to him . On taking him out he was alive , but in a most , dreadful state of suffering , his arms aud legs appearing to be crashed . He was removed on a stretcher to the London Hospital ( where he was attended to by Messrs . Page and Butler , the surgeons ) , and died in an hour afcer his admissioE The deceased was a married man , and resided at >" o . 5 , Cottage-place , Goswell-street-ioad .
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THE ENGLISH CHARTIST CIRCULAR A > D TEMPERANCE RECORD FOR ENGLAND AND WALES . Part I . and II . London Cleave , 1 , Shoe-lane , 184 L We have looked through these two parts of the English Chartist Circular with much pleasure , and are g ! ad to find that the commendations we have once or twice bestowed upon single numbers mafbe with tbe strictest justice extended to the whole . The work is real and genuine Chartism , and every Chartist ought to possess it ; we are sure he cannot i ' r any other publication find so much sound political knowledge at so cheap a rate . And here 13 food fur every kind of taste . We have original essays for the stndious , tales for the pathetic , biography for the
patriot , measures of Government for the siatesman , statistics for the calculator , and important facts culled from the history of the past to serve as examples , or as warnings for the conduct of the future . To the friends of Temperance also thi 3 interesting publication especially commends itself . Here they may learn tbe important bearing of the cause they advocate upon the -well-being and the political regeneration of this country ; and we trust that soon this important view of the matter will become so prevalent that it will force itself upon what is now , through the bigotted and factious arrangements of Temperance Society CommHtees , forbidden ground ,
the teetofal platform of every town and village in the empire . We are glad to perceive that some of the firmest friends of democracy are contributing to the pages of the Circular , and we hope that others ¦ will aid in the same "work . Nor must the circulation be forgotten . Nothing but a large sale can keep this publication on its legs ; and we would , therefore , urge h upon the serious attention of all who now take it , to use their utmost endeavours each to ge ; a new subscriber . It is high time that all began to work ; we cannot long remain as we are ; the snake of corruption is scotched , but it is not dead . Forward , then , and let us complete the work -pre hare 30 gloriously begun .
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" This iB « sAd to be a branch of tbe Melville family , but we do not know its exact affinity . The founder of the Peerage was a Laurence Dundas , of Merse , who was a Commissary-General and contractor to tbe Army , from JTiS to 1759 , and was created a Baronet in 1762 . His only son , Sir Thomas , who succeeded him in 1781 , was elevated te the Peerage in 1794 , as Baron Dundas , of Agke , in the county of York . In 1764 , he married the second daughter of the third Earl Fitzwiliiatn , by whom he had ten children . He died in June , 1820 , sad was succeeded by his eldest son , the present Baron .
" Lord Itaieas was born in April , 1766 , and in 1794 , married Harriet , dsngbtar of General John Hall , by whom he has five children living , three daughters and two sons , both the latter of whom are in Parliament He finished his education at Trinity College , Cambridge , and entered the House of Commons at an early age . He is a Whig in poliiics , and has generally maintained a consistent character . In 1796 , be voted with Mr . Fox fora censure on Ministers , who had advanced money to the Emperor , without the consent of Parliament . In 1797 , he was one of a minority of ninety-three , "who voted "with Mr . Grey , for a Reform of Parliament ; and subsequently , he supported Mr . Whit bread ' s motion for tbe impeachment of his relative , Lord ilelville . In the Upper Honse , be has followed in the same eonrse , although lie is not so constant in his attendance upon Parliamentary duties as the activity of the adverse faction renders it desirable that he should be . "
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THE NORTHERN STAH ; 3
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 24, 1841, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct389/page/3/
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