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    • THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1842.
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      TO THE WORKING PEOPLE . { From the EngRsh Chartist Circular . ) Ht Dbak Friekds , —While legislators , politician ^ philosophers , sod political economists , are severally enpged is searching out the cause cf your distress , and in fancifully recommending a means for its correction , allow me to suggest to your plain common sense the nature of your complaint , and the only remedy by which a core can possibly be effected . Your complaint is hachisext , and the remedy is the charteb . steam , the Poor Law Amendment Act , ana a Knial Police , TOnstitate a trinity oivfllany , complete and jndrrMble . Steam lookis for free trade , Trhile those who attend npon it at home are rendered Incapable of possessing any of its advantages . The same persona who advocate free trade as a party , were

      the originators both of the Poor Law Amendment Act and of the Rural Police . Brongham , Hume , Roebnck , erote , Moieswortti , Ward , and Warburwn , are amongst the foremost of free-traders , and are wedded to the Poor Law Amendment Act , and most of them—if not all—are supporters of the Rural Police . Thus we find the measures closely allied , while we discover in their leading supporters a recognition of their unjty . If 1 can lay more plainly before you what has been hinted at in speeches , you will not quarrel with the repetition . The great art of writing—to my mind—consist * in its clearness . In tiaa letter I sbal ] take up the question of the in&irtd operation cf machinery . I am , induced to do so inconsequence of a " ? ery foolish attempt by the Sun newspaper and the Perth Chronicle , to misrepresent Xny notions with regard to machinery .

      The Sun , in commenting upon my position , declares that machinery cannot be the cause of the present dis--iress , inasmuch , as machinery has not been applied to making elothes , shoes , and hats ,- sad yefc tailors , and Shoemakers , and batteM , it says , are fully participating in the general suffering . I answer , that machinery doesnot mate beef ; yet are butchers suffering from the effects of machinery . No new machinery has been applied to jnaJring bread or grinding cornjyet have bakers , millers , and flour-factors been damaged by machinery . Machinery does not build houses , or produce timber , slate , or

      • tone ; yet hare masons , carpenters , slaters , tilers , timber-merchants , and all persons engaged in building , feeea injured by machinery . Suppose your foreign trade to be worth fifty-two millions a-year ; of what fceaefil is that to the shopkeepers , or to those who are displaced by its operation from their natural position , £ > y being made unwilling idlers f Just take one million Of idlers , who , befere the great increase of machinery , earned each ^ fl" only one pound per week each , and you hare snexact set-off of nfcy-two millioas per annom lost to the million unwilling idlers , and to the community at hams .

      Let me be Tery explicit upon this subject © f the Indirect influence of machinery . I will in « t . tnr » Bolton . SVithin the last few years , in Bolton , the number f cotton Tntiiii has been doubled , while the number cf hands employed have been reduced to nearly one fealf ; and the consequence is , that those who have been { tisplaoe £ from "work by the improved machinery eat neither butcher ' s meat hoi bread , drink neither tea noi coffee , use no sugar , wear no clothes , hats , or shoes , While they have been thrust out of houses built for the spirit of trade . New , all those persens who supplied the above articles to operatives in employment bare no demand , and , const qaently , make or provide no supplj . Hence does machinery operate indirectly Upon trade , commerce , and business of all sorts . in a

      nannsT almost inconceivable . Let us take , for example , the grossest anl apparently most unassailable branch of trade . In Boiton , there are now about thirteen hundred uninhabited cottages . This -want of occupancy in cottages -will very Bpeedfly lead to the ontenanting of shops ; and the surrender of shops wil ] be followed by the removal of the landlord , who lived upon rents derived from those sheps , to the cottages -which have been abandoned by the ejected epera-tives ; consequently , these three classes of houses , those occupied by the little landlord , the shopkeeper , End the working man , will stand as a competitive power against the importer of timber , the timberinerchaat , the quirrymen , the brickmakers , the Stone-masons , bricklayers , tilers , iron-masters , Bailors ,

      Slaters , plasterers , painters , and glaziers , and all other Hades and parties engaged in building h&U 38 S , Nay , more -, every trade in Sheffield and Birmingham will auffti from the empty houses . Empty houses are not furnished . No stDves , grates , fenders , fire-irons , locking glssse 3 ,. razors , jugs , kettles , pots , gridirons , beds or bedsteads , chairs or tables , are found in empty iiouses ; while the overloaded patra-shops supply , of good , bid , and indifferent materials from the general wreck , moae than is required / or the present wants of a debased , enslaved , and pauperised eonunnaity- Watch-makers , jewellers , cofcfccUoners , dress-makers , haberdashers , coach-proprietors , railway companies , play-hoiis *

      managers , booksellers , and till the liberal professions , even persons who live upon voluntary contributions , are , one and all , materially , very vitally , affected by machinery ; for , my friend 3 , be it remembered , that if you eannot Bpenst with the shopkeepers , the shopkeepers cannot spend , on luxuries , nor yet on the necessaries of life ; and 1 assure you , however the landed aristocracy may desire to cut the conaeetion between themselves and the Great Vnvxtsfed , yat are THEY also beginning to discover that an empty house pays no rent ; and an empty house pays no mortgages ; and the Jew and moDey-jubbera are beginning to think that 20 s . in the pound was too much to advance npon ia-nri « raised to an unnatural and artificial pjiee by c 3 ass legislation .

      Let us now see how a surplus of workmen in each trade , created by the peopled inability to spend , operates directly upon thai trade in places remote , from the scene of smoke devastation . Take Birmingham as an instance By the census of 1531 , there were about five hundred uninhabited houses in yfrmiTi ^ v ^ TTij Tsrhile by the census of 1 S 41 , there were about HULRE TB . or . SiXD houses unoccupied ; the oonseq-jtnea is , that Peto and Grissell have no difficulty in tyrannising over good mm in their employment . The Birmingham masons and others connected with house building , very naturally make their way to where yh <> demand is ; ind they constitute a reserve for the masters to fall back npon . The starving thousands in Lancashire cannot wear hats , coats , or shoes ; and as a matter of course , the unemployed hatters , tailors , and shoemakers find out where trade is most brisk , and make their way to the labour market The metropolis presenting the most flattering prospect ,

      thither they go by steam in nine hours , and they constitute in their several trades a reserve for their employers to fall back upon , and thus enable them without resistance , or evea a struggle , to reCuce the wages of their workman . Thus , then , I think that I have established the fact beyond any power of refutation , that machinery is your complaint , and the Charier youi only remedy and cure ; and era long the foolish shspkeepers will begin to find out , that all the money made in a foreign market by artificial production is applied by the smokeocracy either to the purchase of land or laid out on mortgage on LAND , AT HOM . EJ h while the result is , that the shopkeepers are beggared , starved , unhoused , and unclad , in consequence of the inability of tbeturwilling idlers to replenish tbeirtills ; and ultimately t >»« diabolical system of -wholesale and unchecktd gambling iu flesh and blood will lead to the entire raharmonising and disarrangement of society ; for , as T fcave more than ones said , AN EMPTY TILL ON

      SATURDAY NIGHT MAKES AN UGLY WIFE ON SUNDAY MORNING . Machinery , then , not Only affects its immediate victims , bat indirectly affects BTeiy class of the community . It has at length compelled royalty itself to relinquish a portion of its pay , and if not checked will drive it from the throne , and the aristocracy from house and home . I am , your faithful friend and servant , Feabgcs O"Co >\ xor . March Slat , 1842-

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      pnt down the " Bheels" in the Deecan , who were a very troublesome set of robbers , totally ignorant ; in short , little lees than B&vages , dwelling amid cares and mountains , with their wives and families scarcely clothed , and armed with bows and arrows . He captured a vast number by his detachments , and put them invariably to death This man , or rather devil , was in the habit of recounting to his acquaintances and guests ( for he lived in style and Eplendour ) his tr < atment of-three hundred Bheels , taken prisoners by his men . They consisted of men , women , and children . All ovet the Deecan you will find large , empty , and dry tanks and wells , Bometimes very deep and capacious . "Under the pretence of safety , the Chs istian Major stuffed all the Bheels into one of those abodes , and kept them there by means of large pieces of timber , bamboo , &c piled one upon another .

      To make sure work of it , he set fire to the whele , bo that all that were not burnt , were smothered , thus giving to the world a novel and modern sattse , unequalled in atrocity , and which casts into shade the car of Juggernaut or the dsctrines of Brama ! "We have heard this scoundrel repeat this tale in a ludicrous and commiBserating strain ; in fact he was the lion of the day when wa were at Aurungabad , and you would not dream of missing him and diniBg with him more than you would dream of leaving without a visit to the Tag-Mahal , the tomb of Aurengzebe , or the gardens of Nourmahal . For the honenr of Britain , this vagabond boasted Portuguese blood in his veins , and was a halfcaste , and could only speak broken English . How be got into the service we know not , but he was in good pay and good repute in the Deccau . All the Madras service can testify to the truth of the above .

      These things shonld be known , and then the people of England will know what they are about We pride onrselres on being the true Conservatives ; we wonld conserve all that is good and throw overboard all that is bad . We are not like the WeeW . y Dispatch , who would destroy without restoring ; we are capable of rebuilding on the ruins . This very consistent and Republican Journal (?) gives an amusing and manufactured account of Russian diplomacy and the Chartist Convention , in last week ' s paper . It quite " out-Herod ' s Herod . " We wish it was truewe want money , and whether it comes from young Nick or old Nick , or the " devil ' s dust men , " it matters little , provided we do get it . The end sanctifies the

      means ] You knew my worthy friends , the middle classes , you are completely done for—irremediably , irreparably , and without hope , unless you give up spouting yonr weekly fallacies , and came to us , your haven of rest . But you must play Becond fiddle—you may come as ushers , not masters . We do not expect great burly fellows like Muntz and Cobden to come as scholars , they must come as parlour boardtre ; but if they behave we would rather welcome them as friends ! Let teem get up a loan of five millions sterling for the Convention , the Executive to be trustees , and O'Connor and O'Brien standing counsel ; give them a fair interest and bonus , and then good luck to Bishop Bumet and paper money ! We may return to this .

      Did Captain Harvey Tuckett ever hear of the 16 tb Lancers in Bengcl , or Martin Honey , erstwhile private in them , afterwards a Ganeral and Chief in Runjeet Singh ' s service ? Honey was an Irishman , and a finefellow and good soldier . He deserted from his regiment and got across the Sutledge River , was received with open arms , and node himself useful . We believe him to be now dead , but the opinion greatly prevailed in that regiment that he was in the vicinity of Lahore , when Lord Win . Beatinck had an interview With Runjeet Singh ! Suspicions were afloat that more might join him , and be made " Princes , " so they were kept in the background , and had little opportunity if bo intended . The " Sixteenth" were very popular , and wore " mustachios , " which was rather an eye Bore to the eleventh , Capt . Tuckett ' s regiment , "trho -were none . Even in trifles our rulers display a meddling imbecility unworthy of men , and

      although it was well known that the natives in India would deem loss of mustachio a loss of caste , and be degraded like a Feringhee Padre , yet orders were constantly sent to CoL Arnold , the commanding officer , to insist on a universal shaving . At length Lord Wm . Bentinek , Colonel-in-chief of tie Eleventh , and Governor-General in India , issued a peremptory order , and the Nappys were ordered to be in readiness . Officers and men—men who had never suffered a raaor to pass their Iip 3 for more than twenty years , were shorn as remorselessly as Samson , and the raoral strength of the Regiment , was los * in the eyes of the natives ! Thsy never could be persuaded but that it was done for disgrace and punishment When Colonel Arnold came on parade after the shaving , he did not know his men , and though deeply grieved , the -whole regiment burst ont . laughing . Poor fellow 1 he ia dead , and much regretted by all .

      We must leave Bhurtpore , Gold Mohurs , and Brandy , with a few ei-eeieras , till next week . The Government seems in " a fix , " as Jonathan would say , and there we will leave it A "Woolwich Cabet . Chichester , April 11 th , 1842 .

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      THE NEW "NEW MOYE . " - Last week we had little opportunity of commenting upon the grand demonstration of the power , and overt manifestation of the purpose , of the wily ones assembled in consultation upon the best means of putting down Chartism in Birmingham . Their sittings , thongh ended before our paper reached the hands of our readers , were not ended when it went to press ; and thongh we hadno difficulty in auguring , from the complexion of the whole previous proceedings of the parties then and there assembled , the almost inevitable charaster of their proceedings

      upon that occasion , It might reasonably hare been ieemed ont of course to pronounce judgment by anticipation . We have waited therefore , for the perfecting of the sittings , the investigations , and inquiries of these new " new move" gentlemen . Desirous to afford perfect justice > and to consider everything in the most favourable light , that we might approve , if possible , we determined not to trust ourselves to comment on the proceedings of this Stcegitb Conference on the representations of our own reporter , lest the trick might he again resorted to of covering defection by a

      denunciation of the official , who , in the discharge of his duty , transmits to his employers a detail of facts . We have waited for their own report , given by their official organ , the Nonconformist , whose conductor wa 3 not merely present , but prominent , throughout the whole proceedings , and who takes public credit to himself for having dulj " nursed and got up , " if not begotten , the whole bantliug , such as it i * . "We trust , therefore , that the conclusions we may come to from the reading of this report will not be liable to the objection of beinj : founded upon fake premises , maliciously furnished by those who

      had a purpose to misrepresent the Conference . Here , then , we have the official detail of the conference movements of . the Stnrgites , given by themselves . And what is the conclusion to which those details inevitably lead the thinking mind ? Every good man mast regard the proceedingsof this conference as valuable £ 0 far , and only so far , as they may furnish evidence of sincerity on bfthalf ofth © parties composing it , and the classes represented by them , in the prosecut ' on of the great werk , the establishment and

      furtherance of which was said to be its object . We need scarcely say that the Storgeites have taken almost infinite pains to make people believe , that that object was the establishment of such an understanding , such a cordial recognition of interests and feelings between the middle and the working classes , as should perfectly unite the whole energies of the whole people for the destruction of class monopoly in legislation and the assertion of the principle of Universal Suffrage .

      This was the wholo gist and burden of their song . ^ 'TJnioa " was their watch-word . The necessity for bringing the energies of the whole people into one focus was the daily text from which they preached sermons of forbearance , of enquiry , of magnanimity , of looking beyond " details" to principles—beyosd men to measures , so plausibly and with such apparent earnestness that some of the more simple among their Chartist auditors ( only a few certainly and those of the more short-sighted ) began to think that men whose mouths were so mealy , and whose manners were so mild , must mean well ! It was our misfortune to have seen too much of the

      external complaisance of cunning faction , when its * ' ciib" is threatened , to be very easily satisfied that the new-born zjal for truth and righteousness cf these late converts was not more nearly allied to some sinister intention than they might choose to make apparent . We warned the people , therefore ; we gave them the benefit of our experience and observation ; we put them on their guard against what we feared to be a delusiTe lure , though , we strove to hope better things of it . And the result serves to satisfy U 3 that our vigilaBce was not Ies 3 necessary than we hope it to hare been eStetnal .

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      The Conferanee has been held ; and though Mr . O'Bbjen is" represented as having expressed himself highly delighted with its proceedings , and as having said that " when he entered that Conference he expected to meet with men who would admit their principle in wholesale , and fritter it away in detail ; but his . suspicions had proved groundless—( cheers ) . He had never been in any society—composed even exclusively of working men—in which he had found the democratic . «¦ irit more thoroughly developed , "a careful reaaing of the whole report compels us ,

      notwithstanding our deferenoe to Mr . O'BHiJSN ' sjudgment , to adhere still to that which we had previously formed of this whole movement ; and to rogard the rery circumstances to which we have no doubt Mr-O'B . referred , as the ground of bis satisfaction , as so much additional evidence that the whole thing is a device of the enemy , and that insincerity is stamped upon its every feature . We repeat that we are able to discover in the whole movement , of which this Conference is the most prominent aad distinguishing feature , and is the conclusions and resolutions come to by the Conference itself , so purpose save one , —

      which is the exact converse of the one avowed ; no evidenoe but that of deeply-concealed hostility and well-covered treachery , to the great cause of democratic rule , for the success of which so much appearance of anxiety is manifested . We of course intend not that these strictures shall apply personally to each , or any , member of the conference . That there were there those to whom they are most strictly applicable , and who will feel their truth , we verily beliove ; and that there were there those who , like O'Bbien and others recognised aa Chartist leaders , " hoped all things" out of fervent charity , and were therefore indisposed

      " To pry too nioely ' neath a specious seeming , " we can have no doubt j while we know that there were at least five good men and true from Bradford , who represented , not the Stnrgites , but the people of that town—the only town , so far as we know , which sent delegates , not from a class , but from the people ; which delegates , we believe would have been prevented sitting had not the Sturgites feared that such a step would destroy their whole prospect of obtaining credit with the people for their projected " National" Association ; and the presence of which delegates

      we have no doubt contributed very largely to give the cue to the proceedings of the whole Conference We speak , then , not of men , but of measures ; we speak of this Conference collectively as a deliberative body , and of its acts , in reference merely to the tendency and character of those act ? , and to their obvious likelihood to subserve or retard the attainment of the end towards which they were professedly directed . That end is the concentration of the whole powers of thepeople to one point—the establishment of Universal Suffrage . TheConference was held avowedly to devise the best means of carrying out this principle .

      The people had been feelingly exhorted to "lay aside every weight , " to detach themselves from all consideration of detail ? , not to encumber the principle with any unnecessary clog , but to take it in all its beautiful and naked simplicity , as a common bond of union—as a point around which all could rally ; so that our whole force might be brought to bear against faction . We told them , when the project was first mooted , that this , if meant honestly , must mean the Charter or nothing ; that the whole subject was not now to be considered as new matter : that it had been

      thought about by men as wise , as honest , as practical , as cool-headed , and as well-disposed as those who had now made the discovery of the necessity of Universal Suffrage ; and that their great object of "full , fair , and free representation , " must of necessity include all the great principles { ox the " details" as these mushroom patriots were pleased to call them ) of the Charter The Conference have acknowledged this . —thanks to the watchfnlness of the people , who , at the several previous meetings which had been held upon this subject all through the country , at the

      meetings for electing several of the delegates , and by the voice and vote of some of the delegates themselves , have shown their new-born friends that they were neither asleep nor drunk ; that they knew the meaning of plain word ? , and that representation could neither be " full , fair , nor free , " if robbed ofany one of these principles of legislative fullness , fairnes ? , and freedom . With the tact which long experience gives to men who have deep-laid designs to mature and perfect , the Sturge men did battle successively on these details with the blandest

      semblance of forbearance and of courtesy ; and finding it impossible to evade the Btrong reasons to which the people ' s eyes had become clearly opened , they adopted every one of these details ; that is to say , in plain terms , they declared themselves Chartists . This was precisely the position into which the Chartists always told them they must come if they were honest ; and thia is the reason why we , and tke consistent of the Chartists , who , tha . uk heaven , -were almost the whole body , have decried the new movement as a gratuitous

      diversion . Having , then , come to the conclusion that all the six great principles of liberty , —the very principles on account of which , under the name of the " points " or "details" of the Charter , they had heretofore refused coalition with the Chartibt movement , —were necessary , did they , as consistent and as honourable men , at once say " We have been vfiong in opposing our good friends , the Chartists . It is clear that they were right upon tho matter ; that , they understood the business better than we did ; that , as the Morning Chronicle acknowledged , " the

      Chartists have b ^ cn better calculators than the middle classes ; " it is reason able to suppose that if they had formed nv-re distinct conceptions of principle , they will also , having had the benefit , of experience and observation , be likely to have a better knowledge of details properly bo called , and of the necessary organization for carrying out principle , than any we can have ; we have now , therefore , only to dissolve our Conference , to vote thanks to , and confidence in , our schoolmasters , and to enrol ourselves at . once amongst tho people who have taught us the true principles of liberty , as soldiers in the national army of patriots fighting the moral and

      peaceful battle of the Constitution , and of " full , fair , and free representation" 1 This would have been the conduct of hoaest men under such circumstances Was it the conduct of the Conference 1—that Conference whom Mr . O'Brien delights to honour and amongst wlom he declares that he found the democratic principle developed to as full an extent as iu any assembly in which he had ever sat \ Did the Conference , then , having adopted the Charter in reality , adopt it also in name , and testify the sincerity of their desire for union by enrolling themselves at once under its banners ? Let the querulous anxiety of its members to escape the brand-mark testify : —

      "Mr . Palliser was sure that if they carried ^ " nua . 1 Parliaments it would be said that they hud adopted the Charter , and the next point contended for would be Us name—( hear , hear ) . " an anxiety which seemed to be so fully felt by all , or at least a great majority of those present , that no one ventured to perpetrate sueh a : n atrocity as that Of submitting for the adoption of the conference , the People ' s Charter , every principle of which they had just affirmed : a submission , which if it had been made , tho Conference were told by Mr . Miall , the conductor of the Nonconformist , the Sturge oracle , to whom they afterwards voted : —

      That this Conference cannot separate without recording their heartfelt gratitude to Mr . Miall , editor of the Nonconformist for his powerful advocacy of our principles ;" that it should have had his firmest and most determined opposition . Let the people think only of the fact that these bold assertors of the democratic principle —these mild and conciliatory middle-class men —these earnest advocates of union between the

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      middle and the working classes—these men who were so deauroua to co-operate with the Chartists , and so anxious that the Chartists should send delegates to the Conference , that they might be fairly represented there ,- —that these men had , as a collective body , just affirmed every Bin « le principle contained in the People ' s Charter—that they had declared every one of- these principles to be absolutely necessary to .-their notions of a"full , fair , and free repreaentatioH of the people : " let the people think npon that fact , and then let them read the following resolution moved by Mr . Wiluax LorBTEi— : ' . ¦ ¦ - : ' : ' ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ' ' : ¦' .- ¦¦ :. "¦ ¦ '¦ ¦ '¦ ¦¦"

      " That this Conference having adopted such just principles of representation as are Receusary for giving to all classes of society their equal share of political power , and as the People ' s Charter contains such details as have been deemed necessary for the working out of such principles , and has , moreover , been adopted by '' - ' millions of our brethren as an embodyment of their political rights , this Conference , in order to effect a cordial union of the middle and working classes , resolve , in a future Conference ( in which the whole people may be fully represented ) , to enter into a calm consideration of that document , among other plans of political reform , and if approved of , to use every , just ; and peaceable means for creating a public opinion in its favour . "

      Here is a resolution then , not such an one , certainly , aa might have been expected to follow the affirmation of all the principles of the Charter ; but such an one as might , at least , have been expected to disarm objection . It was surely the least thing the Conference could do , to testify the sinceri ty of their anxiety for union , after having admitted every principle of the great measure to which they knew

      millions of their fellow Bubjects , the working menthe very men with whom they were professing a desire to unite—to be wedded ; it was surely , we say , the least thing they could do , after having admitted its principles , to look at its details , to examine them , and see whether they were necessary , and whether they were good . Did they manifest any disposition , then , to do this ! Let the manner of their meeting Mr . Lotbtt ' s resolution answer .

      "Mr . Adams thought they would be better Without the resolution at all ; but if it were persisted in , other plans besides the People ' s Charter ought to be included in it . " : w The Rev . T . Spencer agreed With the last speaker that the conference had not acted wisely in entering upon this subject . Had he wished to become a Chartist , he could have done so at Bath . He had shown his respect for the Chartists ; and had all of them conducted themselves like those present , many of the middle classes would have

      become Chartists ere now—( hear , hear . ) Some persons were determined to have the Charter , and nothing but the Charter . The same thing was said with regard to the Reform Bill . They were called together for one object , arid they were now considering another . They were met not to consider the Charter , but the plan of Complete Suffrage , as suggested by Mr . Sturge . If this resolution were carried , it would be said ' tnat they had given the subject the ' goby . '"

      Mr . Spencir therefore proposed as an amendment , that the arrangement of details should be left to the Birmingham Committee * " Mr . Tines seconded the amendment . He was quite sure that if they adopted the name' Chartist , ' it would impede their operations . " Mr . O'Brien had ho objection to an alteration being made in the resolution to the effect suggested by Mr . Miall . " Mr . Lovett altered the resolution with a view to meetthe wishes of Mr . Miall and Mr . Adams . "Mr . Dewhurst was proceeding to defend the Charter , and to argue for the retention of the name " Chartist , " when he was called to order by Mr . Lovett , and resumed his seat . "

      " Mr . O'Brien said it was not enough to lay down the plan of an edifice , it must be constructed . He agreed with Mr . Lovett ' s amended resolution , though he could Hot have agreed to the original motion . He was anxious to merge the Chartist body into a National one—( hear , hear } . He was not satisfied with the position which the Chartist body now occupied ; nor was he satisfied with the present position of the Conference . He was abundantly satisfied with

      what TUK CoNFERKNpa had done ; but ibere -was one thing still wanting , viz ., that it should partake of a National character . What were the ' obvious means of carrying that out I There should be a body of delegates chosen from all the people of this country who were favourable to these proceedings . He was therefore anxious that there should be another Conference in which all parties should be equally represented . "

      After abundance of talk , during that and a portion of the next sitting , the matter ended in the una . nimons adoption , on the motion of Mr . William Lovett , of a resolution to form a new National Association , to be entitled " The National Complete Suffrage Union" having for its objects the establishment and furtherance of precisely the same principles as the National Charter Association . This was followed by resolutions to appoint missionaries and lecturers , to

      print tracts and pamphlets , to establish a national weekly newspaper , and to raise funds by the issuing of cards of membership , varying in price from sixpence to fiv « pounds each , ( as a method , we suppose , of evincing the perfect developement of the democratic principle !) and those resolutions are again followed by the adoption of a general plan of organization , affecting to differ a little from that of the National Charter Association ; but being practically in r opflrative , or perfeotly illegal in its operation , by just so much as it does differ .

      What , then , is the conclusion forced upon the mind by all these proceedings taken as a whole . The avowed object of these men is the uniting of the whole energies of the whole people , and particularly the uniting of the middle and working classes ; and they prosecute this object by a means which can have no other effect than that of breaking up , as far as it may be successful , the union of the working classes already established . This may be -sufficient to prove to Mr . O'Brien that his suspicions of the Sturgeite'a were groundless ; we acknowledge ; however much wo may regret to dissent from his opinion , that upon our mind it

      has worked a conclusion exactly the reverse of this . None know better : than some of the old stagers , in agitation who composed this Conference ; none know better than the whole party who assume the lead in this movement , that it ia impossible for it to goon without seriously injuring the prospect of attaining that full , fair , and free representation , for which they affect to be so anxious . The co-existence of two " National " Associations , having the same objects , andrecognifciBg the same principles , is alike needless , absurd , and impossible . They must fritter away each other ' s strength ; they cannot either of them become "National" without annihilating the other .

      These Conference men have proved to a demonstration one . of two things : either that they are perfectly insincere , and that their object 'is net that which they profess , or that they are more devoid of the common principles of reason than tho utmost stretch of our charity will allow us to suppose them to be . The very fact of their rejecting , without enquiry or examination , the details of the Charter and the organization of the already established National Society—established for the attainment of their owa principles—proves that they desire to effect not union but division among

      tho people ; and w&novr again ask the people plainly , whether , with this palpable evidence of fraud and insincerity upon its front , they will permit themselves to be bamboozled by the pretended assertion of their principles , into an alliance with , and a support of , parties whose plain object is io re-enact , upon a bolder scale , the bye-gone juggles of their " liberal" brethren i we have no fears for them . The people have too much sense to be thus trapped I Had the evidence of their sincerity appeared upon the face of the middle-class movement , none would have

      hailed it with greater cordiality than we would ; nor would the whole . people have been wanting in readiness to forget past ihjimed , and to forgive bye-gone wrongs . They would have extended the hand of fellowship to their late persecutors , now made rational and sensible , with right free good will . But under such circumstances we feel quite sure that they will have but one answer for them : they will say plainly , " Messrs . Middle-class , Full , Fair , and Free" men ; pray excuse us ; we are no longer to be hoodwinked ' j if your object be the establishment of the principles you have esi - . .

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      poused , we shall receive you heartily as brethren and fallow workers ; . we shall congratulate you on the improvement in your moral and intellectual character , and we Bball glidly give you the benefit of our experienb 8 and better acquaintance with the principles of rightj for youjr further instruction in the mode of their developement and furtherance . But you must not expeot that we , from whom you acknowledge to have learned your principles , shall

      submit ourselves to your guidance and tutelage . This would be indeed for the olear-sighted to choose blind leaders , and to deprive themselves of all reasonable ground of complaint , however disastrous might be their way / ' In jt word , they will point the Complete Suffrage Association men to the " ranks" of the National Charter Association as their due place and best opportunity ofExhibiting their patriotic energy , and their no less patriotio love of union .

      We hold it to be clear aa day-light that this is the precise position which the people must take , and the only position which they could take in referenoe to the new ¦ *• New Move" Charter AssociatioH , supposing its claims to a national character and its exhibition of the democratio principle to have been much better and more forcible than they ate . But what shall we eay to this body , — -this Conference , partially elected by narrow constituencies , —presuming to constitute a portion of themselves a national society at all ? Our idea of democratic principle seems to differ strangely from that of Mr . O'Brien ; for we

      had thought that under the influence of this principle no Society could be at all deemed ' * National , " whose constitution and laws did not emanate from a deliberative body representing the power and intellect of the nation , whioh power and intellect our democratio principle teaches us to recognise only in the people themselves or in their representatives fully , fairly , and freely chosen-Here on the contrary ia » body of men , the major part of them representing merely the handfuls of persona who signed Mr . Stobge ' s Declaration ; and those men presume to lay down not only the

      principles but the rules , constitution , and laws of a society for the whole nation ; and not only so but to elect the officers by whom this " Notional" society is to be controlled and governed and its fonda applied , for twelve months ; without the liberty , to any member of this " National'' Soeieityy to alter , or amendr or propose the alteration or amendment , of any one of its rules , however objectionable , for the like space of time ; nay more , so perfect is the exhibition in the new ' * national" move of the democratic principle , that even at the end of twelve months no member of this . ' ? '

      National" Society haa the power to amend « r alter , or to propose the amendment or alteration of any rule , however objectionable , except he be one of the "National " officers now appointed by this Conference , representing , at the most , a few handfuls of men , and many of whose members represented no one but themselves . This is as fine an exhibition of the democratic principle as we have seen for some time ! but it is fully equalled by other parts of the constitution of this new " National" society

      for the suppression of Chartism , upon which we have not at present either room or time for comment . We have already exceeded the space we purposed to devote to this subject in our present number , but we cannot leave it without giving one more evidence from the report of the Nonconformist of the perfect sincerity of these middle olasa Sturge men , in their ardent professions of a . desire to conciliate and unite together the middle and working olaBSes . " Mr . Dewhirst rose and moved , and Mr . Brook seconded ,

      " That we , the delegates , assembled in conference at Birmingham , having after due and mature consideration recognised and adopted the principles of Annual Parliaments , Universal Suffrage , Yote by Ballot , Equal Representation , No Property Qualification for Members of Parliament , and Payment of Representatives , cannot under such oiroumstanoes consistently separate without giving a cordial and hearty vote of thanks to the working classes for the indomitable courage , hearty perseverance , and Christian forbearance manifested by them as a body in times of trying

      want and sarpasssmg emergency brought about by the misrule of class legislation and the monopoly of interested speculators ; and we further pledge ourselves toco-operate in every constitutional agitation for the purpose of creating , organising , and directing such union of all classes as may tend to the attainment of the principles which we have reoognised . ' " Several delegates , among whom was Mr . O'Brien , urged the withdrawal or modification of the resolution , but the mover and seconder declared that they would not accede to it ; the Conference might either Reject or adopt it . "

      Now mind , this is no statement of a M lying reporter for the Northern Star ; " it is the report , without alteration or curtailment , of the Stubge oracle , the Nonconformist . And we learn , from the sequel of that report , that as the two brave Bradford men refused to Withdraw this resolution , and left it to the Conference to adopt or reject it , the Conference obliged them by rejecting it . The votes are given in , the report ; fpr the amendment , ( that is for the rejection of the Bradford men ' s resolution ) 41 ; against the amendment , i . Names are not specified , but we pledge our lives that the five were theTUve Bradford

      men . To conolude—at least for this time . We shall probably be looked to for some opinion upon what course the people should pursue as to the future movements of this new self-constituted- " National " Complete Suffrage Association . Here then is our opinion at once . The people should have nothing to do with them . They should leave them alone in their littleness , and laugh at them . The people must hot oppose them , for they prefess to be seeking the advancement of our principles ; let them , therefore , go on their own way ; aud if they are determined to go alone ¦

      —if they are determined to make a foot-road for themselves alongside the people ' s turnpike , in God ' s name , let them walk on it it until their ancles ache and they begin to feel their loneliness . But support them against the factions ia all their assertions of the great principles of liber ty . If they shonld be weak enough , t © take the open field in defence of our principles relying on their own strength , rush to the rescue , lest the enemy should overcome them ; let them hot , by any means , be beaten by the open and avowed advocates of class legislation : on every public occasion when the Complete Suffragites muster for the assertion of

      our common principles , there let the Chartists muster with them to a man ; let there be no such division in our ranks aa the enemy can take advantage of ; let them be well protectad , and by our assistance made triumphant , in every public assertion of our principles which they may attempt ; but never leave them without letting them know to whom they are indebted ; never leave a meeting without a resolution pledging the people to their old

      kaders so long as these remain faithful , to their tried friends who have braved the battle and the breeze to their own national organisation , which they know to fee legal and efficient , and to the evidence of sincerity to the cause by enrolment in the National Charter Association . This is the advice we give the people ; we give it in all sincerity and earnestness ; and we tell them , that if it be not heededr they are likely to have bitter and abundant reason for repentance ;

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      The adjourned debate on the income tax was resumed by Mr . Aldam , of Leeds , who grounded his objections to an income tax on account of its inquisitorial character . Some parts , however , of the Ministerial measure had his approbation . v ^ ? V * taIk" thereupon ensued , in which Mr . Lscott , Mr . Parker , Lord Sandon , Sir C . Napier , Mr . Trotter , Lord Eliot , Mr : Hawes , Sir James trraham , Mr . Ferrand , Lord Worsley , and Colonel bibthorp had their soy , when the House divided . For bringing upthe Report ... ... 308 For Lord John ' s Amendment ... ... 202 Peel ' s majority ... ... 106 . After some further conversation , the Report was then agreed to , and leave given t ) bring in the Income Tax Bill .

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      BIBMnTGHAMi . GBiSAT CHARTIST J 4 EETING ON MONDAY . The workies have dona their duty , and they have done it well ! They have brought the mountain to Mahomet , instead of Mahomet going to the mountain ! -. ' .. ¦ - . ' : . ' . '¦ ¦>; - •• '¦ . : ••¦ ¦¦ ' ¦' ; ¦ ' . '¦'• ¦¦ : ¦ - ' . ¦ ¦ ' . ¦ . ' ^ - " :- ¦ ' The brave men of Bilston began to be on the move about four o ' clock ; by five , the band was serenading O'Connor ; by six , theWolyerhamptoo worthies were in the fieldv and they started for Birmingham in good order , with banners floating in -. : : ,

      defiance of their enemies , not more gloTioaa than the cause they had been unfurled to maintain . On the road , the Walsall workies joined ; and Wedensbi ? ry , Dudley , Stoarbridgef , Kidderminster , Brierly ¦ Hills , and other localities sent forth their tributary streams , forming as fine a /' sight as _ can be well imagined . The morning was beautiful , but very windy ; and when the Birmingham men met them at the Trees , in Hampton Road ,-O'Connor , who had headed and marshalled the procession on foot , looked more like a miller than any thing else .

      An immense number of stalwart and enthusiastic miners , dressed in their flannel jackets , marched first in the procession ; they entered the town in great regulstrity like a -well-drilled regiment , and loudly cheered O'Connor throughout the march of ten miles . The Birmingham men halted , and fell into the rear of the immense procession . There werf several excellent bands of music and banners . ; Having arrived at Duddeston Row , and taken up their position , the chair was taken exactly at eleven o ' clock by Mr . Porter , who briefly introduced the business of the meeting . : The first resolution was moved by Mr . M'Cartney , one of the delegates from Liverpool , and seconded by Mr . E . P . Mead , of Birmingham , both of whom

      delivered very eloquent speeches . Mr . O'Connor supported the resolution in a speech , not a very long one , but one full of kind feeling towards the working men , and jokes upon his own unwashed appearance . He was now fairly identified with the great unwashed , though he was hot the great unknown . " He hailed with satisfaction the acknowledgment of our principles , deprecated any opposition to any party contending for them , and recommended vigilance and watchfulness . It was said and thought by many that the object . Of these " new movers" was "to get rid of Feargaa . " But they might as well attempt to remove Olympus ; he braved their vain and futile attempts . They said he was in the pay of the Tories . Good God ! in league with the faction that

      had deluged the green sod of his beloved Ireland with martyrs' blood ! He was not a Whig . The Whigs had proved that , by their persecution of him and his brave associates . How could he , then , belong to , or have anything to do , with such a set of scoundrels as either the Whigs or the Tories . But he must be brief ; he had to address another meeting ia London at « ight o ' clock , and the Convention would meet to-morrrow morning . He must wash and eat ; for he was a very unfit and very unseemly guest at a soiree , or in a ball-room , unless it were a masquerade ball ; and therefore he must now . take his leave , and leave other talented and eloquent men to address them . Mr . O'Connor then departed amid the deafening cheers of the assembled thousands .

      Meesrs . Lowery , G . White , Thomasson , from the Yale of Leven ; Richards , from the Potteries ; A . B . Cook , from Stroudwater , Gloucestershire ; T . Soar , and T . P . Green , of Birmingham , subsequently addressed the meeting , which lasted nearly four hours , in soul-stirring speeches , amidst breathless Bilence , when not interrupted by rapturous plaudits . A vote of thanks was then given to the ohairman , and thus ended our great Midland Demonstration . The following resolutions were passed without a dissentient hand being held up against them : — : " That this meeting view with great satisfaction the result of the late Complete Suffrage Conference , as far as their adoption of the entire principles of the People ' s Charter is concerned ; and we hope the consiliatory spirit exhibited in that assembly will be the means of producing a very strong impression upon the national mind , in favour of the rights of

      man , and that a general sense of the justice of the people's claims will induce many to join in the struggle of right against might , and ultimately obtain for tke masses , that full and perfect liberty which alone can secure the greatest amount of pros * perity and happiness to the empire at large . " "That this meeting do declare their perfect satisfaction : with the present organisation of the body called 'The National Charter Association , ' and their firm resolution of adhering to the present mode of agitation , relying upon their own exertions , but holding out the right-hand of friendship to all who agitate for the same righteous principles as themselves . And we do earnestly call upon the working classes to stand firmly by their own order , aad rally , round their own victorious standard , by enrolling themselves as members of the National Charter Association . "

      •* That we , the members of the National Charter Association , do use our utmost exertions to increase our numbers and augment pur funds by every rational and peaceable meads , Buch as the distribution of Char tist tracts and other Liberal works , by local collectors , by friendly visits , and mutual instruction societies , and discussion with adverse parties , in order to convince others of the fatal effects of class legislation , which has been the cause of the moral , social , and political evils , which have reduced the people to their present state of suffering and

      destitution , and we pledge ourselves , never to cease OUT exertions until the People's Charter , unmutilated , become the law of the British Empire . " : "Thatthis meeting deeply sympathise with the sufferings of our patriot brethren , the victims of Whig treachery and injustice , especially with the three Welch martyrs , Frost , Williams , andJonea ; and Hovvel , Jones , and Roberts , of Birmingham , and that we pledge ourselves never to cease oar exertions in their behalf , until every victim is restored to librrty , the bosom of his family circle , and to the land of his birth . " . > : /•

      "That the best thanks of this meeting be given , because most due , to the Chartist delegates , who last week so nobly advocated and defended the six grand principles of the People's Charter , in the Complete Suffrage Convention /' f The departure of our reporter from Birmingham ti > attend the Convention now sitting , has prevented us giving a full report of this large , important , and enthusiastic meeting . This we are sorry for , as public attention has been most anxiously directed towards "it . . '" . ' Under the circumstances , no other courne was left us but to insert such a report as we conld procure ; which we have done , with this explanation . ] ' ..-. '•

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      Mr . ^ Griffin , of Manchester , acknowledges iht receipt of 10 s , per post-office order t from the Chartists of Halifax , for the victims at the Hall of Science , and on their behalf returns them his . sincere thanks . C : ?¦¦ . '¦"" . ¦' : : ¦'"¦' - . Halifax . —It is most urgently requested that all our Chartist friends direct their communications io Joseph Thornton , Barum Top , Halifax , until further notice . Mr James Sweet begs to acknowledge the receipt of the Petitinn Jrom Boston , Lincolnshire . Aix Letters for Mr . Taylor during the next three weeks to be addressed to him , care of Mr . Sweety news-agent , Goose Gate , Nottingham . The IIeport of the Frome district meeting was received after the last week ' s Paper was at ¦ ¦¦ ¦

      press . .. -. ¦ - --. - .. •¦ ..- Chartist Tithes . —A Chartist ( f rom Us infancy tells us that fiemeetris as soon as his arrangements are completed , which will be in ; a few weeks , to supply his brother Chartists with i « Ar , to be called "Chartist'In k" and to forward to us weekly , for the use of the Executive , one penny oict of every shilling of the proceeds of the sale thereof . Mr , Thomas Short . has receivedfrom , the Chartists . of Winchcomb 5 $ . for the masons on strike , T . J . Smith . —There is no law in the matter ; but the usage : of . dU well ordered assemblies is

      ded-: dedly against the ez-M'P . to whem he refers . MosstEY : —Mr . Thomas Large , Baguley-hi / t , MosIey t hus been appointed sub-Secretary , t » place of George Hoyie , resigned . Birmingham Young Man ' s CHARTEa Association . . . —We have no ' room fortheir / address . J . J ., Legrasis-lane , Bradford-We thank out friend most heartily for' his kindly rebuke . We have m douht that it ; is written in perfect sincerity and meant in perfect kindness . He must excuse our publishing it , a * we cannot perceive any good end it would answer by publication , more especially as he has assigned no reasons for the opinion he has expressed , Daniel . MA&sDEKsifrbno / w recommends to all

      Forresters , Odd Fellows , and other secret orders , to connect with each Jodge a cooperative store . In support ofh > s proposition , he says;—" Suupoae . for instance , that : each Luclxe has £ 100 at command , and that they agree to lay out such sum in stores ; and snppose that each society has fifty members , oad that each member expends 15 a . pet week ; making the aggregate £ 37 10 0 ; then suppose , further , that Is . 6 d ; per pound sterling be allowed fot profits , making £ 2 1 & 8 . 6 d . per week , or £ 11 2 s . « d . per month , and £ U 4 6 s . Od . a yiear—a snm which , if properly laU out , would furnish or build , in the course of ten or twel « . years , a comfortable house for eaeh member , which would confer

      _ on them the elective franehisa " bHi £ ej > iElv . —MT . G . J . Harney has received from W X Y 2 s for the Executive . Mr . H . has forwarded the raoney to Mr . Campbell , who has .. acknowledged the receipt of it . PBSsom wi / lina to become lecturers for the East ' and North Biding district of Yorkshire must send their names to the Secretary , EdwardBurley , 19 , Bilton street , Layerthorpe , York . Every candid date must forivard credentials from the District _ Secretary , testifying to talent and sobriety . J . 0 the Chartists oy the East and Nobth RipiNGS . —Those places who have not already forwarded their share of Convention Fund art requested to do so immediately to the Secretary .

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      CSABTI 3 M , JOHN COMPANY , AND CAEOUL . ' ( Continued from our last . ) Afghan " Guerillas" and Spanish " Guerillas "Major rreeman , and the " Bheeis" ! " Prints Honey" and Shaving Day . ' ! Bhurtpore Gold Mohurs , and Brandy ! . ' . ' We are no advocates for indiscriminate and relentless massacre , or aa the " Times' calls it , butchery , and least of all 'when the enemy lies prostrate and at our fee * helpless ; hut there are some cases in -srhich censure must he laiQ on lightly , or the aciions themselves held justifiable , and a ca » 8 in point is that oi the "Affghans . " ¦ Withont entering into the " politics" of the affair , * here ia the difference between the patriotism ( and all the virtues therenoto appertaining } cf the Afigban and Spanish GneriUa ? Both had their countries invaded iy men hostile to their creed , and foreign ta their

      language—the invaders in beth cases irishing to possess tne eonnt / y and all its resources , in preference t-o a rivalthe British in India thinking to oust the Russians , the French in Spain moving heaven and earth to destroy the power and influence cf England . . The French in Spain did not succeed , and the British in Affghaniitan have met "with a reverse unparalleled either in ancient or modern history . The jsame sarties hera -srho Lmded so triumphantly the prowess of the Spanish Guerilla— the *• priesia" who preached doctrines from their puipits little short of assassination , and that to destroy a republican and infidel Frenchman in thiB world , was a sure passport to a good berth in th 8 next—all these gentry mth their imbeeile train , are now ihonting at the full pitch of their voices for revenge on the poor Mahometan Affg ** " Guerillas , and demanding a bloody satisfaction for acting lifce men , and freeing their " Homes and altan , " from the presence of a , rnthless

      invaaer . We are not rejoicing over thi 3 unfbrtuuate mishap ; Ire have left many dear friends whose bones are bleaching hi Afghanistan i early associations would make us ferego the slightest symptom of pleasure in our defeat , but ¦ we ought to be consistent and call things by tneii right names . What is black in " Snaiu" cannot be ¦ white in Afghanistan , and " Jlahommedan Btuhdees * Bhonlcl be equally sacred as " Christian martyrs , " or , at 4 he least , the rel ' . fious world might deem them so , and not preach a crusade in England and HindcsUn , for their acting there La the same manner -we would do at tome .

      . ... ... We are not seaiblesa when " butchery" spoken of , « nd onr enormities have been great in India : Jfejoi Freeman of the Nizam ' s service , and commanding at Anrangaisd , had some considerable force to

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 16, 1842, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct426/page/4/