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THE 1 VESTA PATENT STOVE, 70a. PLAIN.
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rn HAT a Madeira climate in England may be JL produced by the VESTA STOVE , plants of the most tender kind , requiring warmth , have proved . In sick room it has been found invaluable , producing one even degree of temperature throughout the day and night . The Veita Stove has no doors , and as there is not any fire in contact with the outer case , warmth is obtained without any of the unpleasant effects complained of ia the use of others . "The fire can be kept alight the whole season , and the part containing the fire is not open during the time it is replenished with fuel . The fuel passes from the hod into the stove without being seen , preventing entirely any escape of the noxious vapours , and that annoyance from dust which , in feeding other stoves , arises from the fuel being removed from the hod into the stove , or what is worse , into a funnel to
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TO THE READING CHARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN , Whose attention is requested to the following List of Cheap Tracts now publishing , Price Oue Shilling and Sixpence per 100 , or Five for a Penny , The Question : —WHAT IS A CHART 1 ST 1-ANSWERED as to Paiwciflks and as to Practice . % * The friends of the Charter are earnestly requested to aid iu giving this admirable Tract an extensive circulation . A Liberal Allowance to tho ? e purchasing to give away .
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' JJOT $ CE . \ PUBLIC TEA MEETING arid BALL , in aid A of the Funds for the ReKef of the Wives and Children of the Imprisoned Chartist Victims , will be held at the Social Institution , Hornsey ' s Buildinc ' s . opposite the Asylum , Westminster Road , on Monday , February 22 nd , 1841 . Tea on the Table at Six o'clock , and Ball to commence at Eight , S » ngle Ticket , to Tea and Ball , la . 6 d . ; Double Ticket , to admit a Lady and Gentleman , 2 s . < 5 d . ; Single Ticket , to Ball only , Is . May be obtained at the following Places :-Mr . Rose , 13 , Milbank Place , Russell-street , Boraondsey ; Mr . James , hair-dreaser ,
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POPULAR BLACK BOOS A » Jv ALMANAC , FQ » 1841 ^** MR . RICHARDSON begs to state that tluiV mand-for his popular Book continues unX ^ T and has now reached higher in circulation ^^ tKs ? S other Almanac in the Kingdom , — -proving t&r ^ People are anxious to see how the Taxes" ttjSnS dered away upon Placemen , splendid Pauper ? & Government hangers-on ; and , also , how tha-K . are treated by those who plunder them of thdrkS « Mnfc «« . ..:,.. ' ^
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CAUTION TO MEDICINE VENDORS isn OTHERS . ? T N OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , That fcvj . recent Verdict obtained by Messrs . Mctf ^ a ^ atVurt certain Impostors for counterfeiting £% medicines , all persons selling medicines as . aad it Morison's Pills , which are , in fact , mere sparing imitations , are liable to have actions brought aflat them for every box sold under that name , which t £ tions Messrs . Mobison will deem it their duty t « j £ force in every case that comes'to their knowfedjpj , British Collego of Health , Hamilton-place , New-road , London , Deo . 29 th , 1840 .
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SECOND EDITION !! Three Thousand Copies of this little Poem tat already been sold in the County of Durham . ¦¦ fi HARTISTS ! H Purchase THE DOOM OF V TOIL ; a POEM , Just Published , Price Tim pence , Postage Free to all parts of the Kingdom ^ "An Ambassador is . Bones , " now lying in— .... . Gaol , for political truth telling . By enclosing Sixpence iu a letter , through fte post , pre-paid , two copies of the Poem vnl fo delivered , free of charge , to the place directed . S « nd your orders and money to Williams » j Binns , Bridge-street , Sunderland . "' .- ¦ ¦
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FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH . Pric 6 Is . lid . per box . HPHIS excellent Family PILL is a Medicine d X long-tried efficacy for correcting all Disoidqi of the . Stomach and Bowels , the common symptanj of whjen are costiveness , flatulency , spasms , foarf appetite , sick head-ache , giddiness , sense of faint * after meals , dizziness of the eyes , drowsiness id pains in the stomach and bowels . Indigestion p » . ducing a torpid state of the liver , and a congtui inactivity of the bowels , causing a disorganizayjjt of every function of the frame , will , in this mart excellent preparation , by a little perseverance ^ If effectually removed . Two or three doses willwa ; vince the afflicted of its salutary effects . Tb
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OLD PARR'S SECRET OF LONG LIFE DISCOVERED . A MOST singular document has recently been brought to Tight , and is now in the possession of the Rev . Wm . Arther , of East Peckham : it appears to have been written by the celebrated OLD PARR , who attained the almost incredible age of one hundred and fifty-two years , and who left this document to a relation : it is written on parchment , and although upwards of two hundred years old is in an excellent state of preservation . The following is an extract : —
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ADVICE . MR . WILKINSON , SURGEON , HAVING devoted his Studies for many Yesrs to the successful Treatment of the VENEREAL DISEASE , in all its various Forms ; also , to the frightful consequences resulting from that destine * tive practice , "Self Abuse , " may be p ersonally consulted from Nine in the Morning till Ten at NigW y and on Sundays till Two , at 13 , TRAFALQAB STREET , NORTH STREET , Leeds , and ererr Thursday , at No . 4 , GEORGE STREET , Bradford , from Ten till Five . .
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AWRXftypRIA . YaJ 3 of Lete-V , Dcmbartoxsm&V—At a meeting of the Universal Suffrage Aeso-CiaVion , held on the 6 th February , in the Democratic Seminary , it was resolved , first , " That the Association take three shares in the joint-stock printing nd publishing company , as advertited in the Scottish Patriot ;" second , " Tb&t . we remit £ 1 to the Birmingham Restoration Committee , in order to assist them in their endeavonrs to memorialise the Queen , to restore Frost , Williams , and Jones , to their families f third , The address of H . Vincent and others , upon the evils of intemperance , being read to the meeting , it was resolved -that we form a democratic teetotal society , in onnection with the "Universal Smffrage Association . " A great numl « r signed the pledge before the meeting separated . Lastly , a committee was appointed to receive donations of books , &c , for the forming of a library in connection with the association . To others we would say , " go and do likewise . "
BIRMINGHAM . —Total Absti . ve . vck Charter Association—A meeting was held . at No . 17 , Little Charles-street , when Mr . John White t&ok the chair , and a discussion took place concerning the cpndnct of the police lately . The following resolution was arrived at by the meeting , " That this meeting -new with extreme regret the disgraceful conduct thas passed nnnoticed by tie police force on Wednesday evening , the 5 th of February . " The affair to which the resolution alluded , was a fight that occurred on Snow Hill , to the great annoyance of the
inhabitants . No policemen came near , aUhough 200 persons or more were assembled together . We cannot but regard this conduct a 3 grossly unjust , and disgraceful on the part of the police , who can be sent as spies to peaceable meetings of operative Chartists , but who are nowhere to be found when the pablic peace is disturbed by brutal exhibitions like the oae referred to , patronised as thev are , by many of the " respectables . " It was resolved that the foregoing resolution be forwarded to the Star and Birmingham Journal .
HALIFAX . —John Crossl ^ nd has been elected Biding Councillor . DUBLIN . —The cause progresses steadilv . At ihe quarterly meeting of the Association recently holden , new officers were elected , and excellent speeches made by Messrs . O'Malley , Brophy , and others . WOODHOTJSE . —A little genuine seed of Chartism was scattered here , a short time ago , by Mr . Leech . We hope that it may produce an abundant crop . NEWPORT . —Mo'hocthshibe , —At a recent meeting the Chartists of Newport , thanked , by acclAmation , the brave men who attended at Leeds , to welcome the big-beggarman , from poor starvin » Ireland .
WEST-SOMERSET . —Poverty , immorality , and crime , on all sides , seem to increase , the jails bearing sorrowful testimony thereto , nowhhstanding the increase of Christian churches , chapels , and missionaries . WOIVSRHAMPTON . —At a recent meeting of ihe Wolverhampton members of the National Charier Associatien , to which the public were by handbills invited , held at Mr . Magg ' s Temperance Coffee House , Snow Hill , Mr . BrougaaH in the chair ; the following individuals were , with the unanimous consent of the meeting , sever *;] / nominated for the Coancil . Messrs . John Wilcox , J . S . Farmer , John Dr iver , Thomas Dobson , Wm . Hawkes , Wm . Mag 2 , John Dunn , Thomas Broughall , and John Maxfield . Mr . William Mogg was nominated as sub-treasurer , and J . S . Farmer , as sub-secretary . *
XOANCHESTHK . —On Sunday evening , the members of the National Charter Association met in the Tib-street Room , for the purpose of hearing Mr . C . Connor , of Manchester . Mr . Wheeler , Chairman , opened the business of the evening by remarks upon the death of Clayton , who died in the-Nonh ailerton prison . The audience heard them amid symptoms of execration , and cries of . " Shame , shame . " The following re £ olution was moved , seconded , and carried without a dissentient : — *• That the censure of this meeting be passed upon the base , bloody , and brutal—tne infamous and cowardly Whigs , for their unfeeling and cruel treatment of political prisoners , and in not acquainting the friends of Clayton of his decease "in time , so
that they might have had an opportunity of seeing him before he departed this world . " Mr . C . Connor then rose , amid the cheers of the audience . He commenced by reading a prayer from Mr . Bronverre O'Brien's Poor Man ' s Guardian , which called forth great applause . He was not come there to spout out thai dogmatical nonsense which was being pu : forth in the various cathedrals in thi 3 kingdom , namely , " As it was in the beginning , is now , and ever shall bs , world without end ; " for certain he was that things were not now as they were at the beginning . At thai time there were not 1 , 000 prostitutes patrolling the streets of London : there were not at that time 10 , 000 pickpockets , 10 , 000 servant ; out of emiiloyment , 3 , 000 bouBes for receiving stolen
goo-is , eighteen prisons in London and us vicinity , 52 , 000 beer-shops and public-houses , and 80 , 000 committed for crime annually . ( Hear , hear . ) The speaker went on to compare ths different institutions of the country with what they , should be under a well-regulated _ Government . H ? ( the speaker ) would always raise his voice agains : a system which consigned youth to prison , manhood to earthly hells , audoldage to bloody basjiiles . He , for his part , wanted to eee a system established , whrre childhood would have mirth , manhsod independence , and old age honour and comfort . He then-remarked , that when ihe late Mr . Wm . Cobbett went to Ireland , he wrote a letter to the people of England , in which he declared that he had sesn his own steward ' s
pigs the day before he left England , and he affirmed , in the face of England and Ireland , that those pigs were better fed , better lodged , and kept far more cleaner , than many thousands of the peasantry oi Ireland . ( Hear , atjd cries of = oame . ) He then ' denouneed the factory system , as carried OH in this OO'dUirj , and said it was such as thai human n&taie shuddered to hear a recital of the many twisted limbs , broken down constitutions , the pale , ghastly , ooantenancei , and deformed creatures , which it haa made ; and also the foul and filthy expression ; vrhich were frequently made use of in them . He referred also to the tendency it had to" inereatt crime , vice , immorality , and prostitution ; and ih % contaminating influence it had on the phvsical
constitution , and the frustration , to a great extent ,. of mental improvement . He then drew a picture of a man who could have his acre of land to fall back ; upon , to keep himself and family comfortable , in- i Etead of being at the msrej of the money grubbers , and master manufacturers . ( Hear , hear . ) , Thespeaker enteredintoan able and eloquent defence of his order ( the working classes ) from the calumnies and aspersions of th « nmldle and higher classes a . 3 to their ignorance , criminality , and vice ; and traced ; the causes of these with an unsparing hand , to ; those classes themselves who uttered the calumnies .: He , then , in a very fetling manner referred to the death of Clayton , which was received with marks of . Eympathy , and urged his hearers to step out of the
routine of their former energies for the obtainment , of the Charter . Frost , Williams , and Jones were looking to them to obtain the Charter . Thousands ' ¦ of poor perishing people were looking for it as their ! only hope , and that patriot , that iearned , abJe , ' true-htarted Irishman , Feargo 3 O'Connor , whose j private life had been a 3 aimabie and as spotless as [ his public exertions , had been long , arduous , and ; valuable , —he wa 3 watching every movement , ; thongh in the dreary solitary dungeon . The wife ? of Clayton and others were looking to them ; the i widow and the orphan , and the starving peasantry ; of Ireland , all , all , were looking to the Chartists , ' ¦ to free them from their Blavish condition . The speaker made a powerful appeal to his audience , on ! the necessity of perseverance , and sat down amid ; acclamations . Permission was given to any one present to object ta anything the lecturer had ad-. T » nced , or of asking any questions , and no one
coming forward , the following resolution was car- ! ried unanimously : — "Thai a committee be formed : ' to receive subscriptions , towards defraying thejex- ) pences of removing the body of our departed friend , - John Clayton , from the Whig dungeon , and convey him where he may be decently interred in his own ; native town . " A vote of thanks was given to the lecturer , after which the Chairman announced that : the proceeds of Mr . Heywood ' s exhibition , in phan- [ tasmagoria , were £ 1 4 s . and that he had engaged to ! give two more ; the first to be on Tnesday , the 16 th , and theother the following Tuesday . Mr . Buchanan , Social missionary , had , likewise , volunteered to give one . after , upon the same terms . The Carpenter ' s ' Hall is taken for the 20 th , with the anticipation of i holding * meeting for the delegates to address the j people . A great many Chartist Circulars , both of ! English" sad Scotch , were called for , and all is going oc well .
Lectubs . —On Sunday evening , Mr . James Leech delivered a rery interesting and instructive lecture on the present position of the Chartists , and their fiture prospects ; shewing the utter uselessness , foolishness , and impossibility of a onion of the Working and middle classes , unless the latter would come boldly aad fairly out for Universal Suffrage . The speaker was listened to with marked attention , Kid produced a great impression . He concluded by recommending sdl to become teetotallers , as he himself had , which sentence was received with deafening cheers . A committee was formed to carry -out the recommendation of the editor of the Star , relative to TtmovBg ihe remains of poor Clayton from i file prison to bis own native town , and for this purpose 6 a . were oollected immediately . FbosCj "Wnaiuis , as © Jokes . —The Manchester Committee ^ ag ^^ g ^ tae restoration of Frost , ™ jfiMas ,. cad Jo&aa , have received from a few wire-2 J **?™ 16 b . Idv aad from a few friends at Ren-™ r » « £ 4 « we 1 « . 9 & ; and for which the com-2 n ? ¥ i £ 2 "i their sincere thanks , and hope ofa « rs Witt « Bo » tt £ sample .
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¦ LONDON . —We are informed that a Social Concert will take place on Thursday evening next , at eight o'clock , at Casting ' s Temperance Coffee House , Borough" Road , near the Duke of York public-house , for the benefit of a poor tanner ,- who is a sincere Chartist , and who has been out of work for many weeks ; he has a wife and five starving children to support . CAB LISLE . —Lectubes of Dr . M'Douall . —On Sitarday evening , February the 6 th , the abo . ve-named gentleman delivered bis first lecture , in the large lecture room of the Athenamm , on the " Rights ol Labour . " As we entered the hall , the Doctor was proceeding with his address , which was characterijed throughout by sound and rational views of what society ought to be under a just and paternal government ; he
proceeded at great length to shew how the labouring classes lived in what are now c&Ued the dark ages , enjoying all the corr » fort » of lire , and those secured and held Bacred by the Government and magistracy of thi ( country ,- bat now the people -were robbed of all those comforts they formerly enjoyed , by the Tery men whe ought to be their protectors . The 3 > octor is a rapid and energetic speaker , and at times approaches to the highest nights of eloquence , more especially in bis similies , which are -well carried out . His happy and wittj illustrations have a striking effect upoa his audience On the whole we look back upon him ai a person well calculated to impress upon the people a strong conviction of what ought to be tbeii real position in society . Like the Rev . J . R . Stephens , he enters into all the ramifications of society , and shows , that except the
Charter secures to the people , good food , good clothing , and every other comfort , it is not worth having ; at the same time he contends , that the Charter will be the best security to those blessings . He exposes with a masterly hand the villany of those who have plundered the people , and is not over scrupulous as to the namei be give 3 them . The following is a brief Bketch of the lecture . I demand for the people of this country good w&ges for their labour , and plenty of leisure time to spend those wages , in food and recreation . I demand a provision for them , such as they had in former times , and which must and soall be secured , before tflere shall be peace in toe palace 1 have examined the ancient records of this country and find that the people were protected—they then had a back stay and it is only when this is the case that
there can 1 « security for the throne—but if that protection be ¦ wholly removed , I would not give two year ' s purchase for the institutions of this country—nor the stability of the crown , -which ought to be founded on the affections of the peopl& I demand good wages for the people , and short hours , so that their leisure time may be usefully and pleasantly spent in improving their minds and making them what God intended them to be , but tbesa things can only bi secured by placing in their hands political p » wer . I have discovered , that there was once a priesthood , wno voluntarily gave up the benefits of the Cnurch lands , for tee benefit of the poor . In Scotland , in the abbey of Arbroath , they received at one time what was equivalent to £ 12 , 006 at present , in the shape of "wbeirt , meal , meat , &c There irere only twenty five old men to eat up all this
supply , which was given to the poor and necesaitious The biack Earl of Douglas , with 10 C 0 of his follewers , remained there twelve months and could Dot consume the supply of bread , beef , mutton , fisb , &c In 1530 , the abbots turned out their money and purchased food for the poor ; twenty score of oxen and fisb , and other things in proportion , as much as would now satisfy the wants of the necessitous in twenty parishes in Scotland . The tbea king visited tbi 3 place , but could not with all his suit , diminish the supplies . Turn your atteDtion to that great reprobate George the Fourth , the money expended by that royal beast in his mission to Scotland surpassed all that has been given to the entire poor of that country , and half the poer of England . Should an Archbishop visit you now , he would scarcely leave a pig in the stye , nor as much
meal as -would enable you to sing " Britons never snail be slaves . " No man can make me believe , that the priests are all inclined to assist the poor , with all their proftssioas of charity , yet they would die through their vexation if they were compelled to assist them ; nuW the property of the Church i 3 as if it had all flown away from this country . If a working man should take the road , he will observe the priest ' s sign board as he enters every town and village— " Vagrants and beggars are not to be relieved !"—yet they have the best houses an ^ gardens in the place . It never entered into the hsads of the ancient priests , that there was a division of parishes in heaven . If tbey saw a poor man suffering from want , they instantly gave him food . God himstlf has proclaimed the rights of the poor . The tithes were brought in baskets , and placed on the
altar , and the pritst had to declare before Almighty G : d , that he would reserve a portion for the Levite , the -ff j jow , thi fatherless , and necessitous poor of the land . 1 know of co book , except the Bible , which so clearly and distinctly points out the rights of the poor . Lands were given to t-e people , and the priests were not to have gold , nor any other property , but what belonged to the Lord . The ancient abbots did divide th * fruit 3 of the land amongst the necessitous poor , who had a right to this property . In those days , the working man had not to "want , but proceed to the Church , and get sufficient food for his support . Having proved that the Church lands belong to the working men , and were given to the Church for the benefit of them , he atked , but what has now become of those lands ? I will tell you . Littla Lord John
Russellalias Jack Kitch—has a gt-od portion . I would &sk the Bedford family , what they have made of the lands which they have robbed the poor of ? Lord Egiinton , too , had got three ! arge estates belonging to Ktlwillen Abbey , which furnished him with the lueass of carryin ? on the broom-stick affair . What right had Fox Maule ' s father to the lands belonging to the abbey of Arbroath ? Indeed , nearly all the aristocracy have robbed the people to a greater er lesser extent In reganl to religion , I wish to see perfect liberty of conscience . I speak not for the purpose ef curtailing the belief of any ont—tut to show you who have bst-n the robb ^ ri . Whe n you pul l down idols , yuu should not rob the people . lu thus advocating the rights of the poor man , I cannot help glancinz at the effects of the present system , which has
entaileii misery and \ 9 retcheiines 3 on the poor of this land . If the people had the church lands alone , they wuulJ prevent a vast deal of thb IHiStlJ -Which S-t present feiists- In contending for the principles of the Charier , I consider it my duty , first to make you acquainted with your rights—so that wheu you get the power , you may be enabled to secure them , when the power is put into your hands— -withjut this power . it would ba vain to talk—aol it mnrt be had by the combined energy acd force uf the peopif . You have lately had a courting match at Leeds , which I could scarcely uaderst-ind . The resolution passed there might have been a very different one—if the Ch&rtist leaders had known their own strength , they could have carried a resolution containing the whole principles contained in toe Charter . I know the design of those Household Suffrage humbugs , and I am
determined at all times to expose them . The sole object of Hume , O Council , and others , is to give what they are pleased to call Household Suffrage , and to throw the Charter overboard . Of -what use would a vote be , if the people could not choose the men they thought best qualified to serve them ; and , without they have that power , the thing would be of no use . Hume has given notice of a motion to give lojgers a vote . If I had stopped in Chester Cattle , I wuuld have had the benefit of it ; but it will be all a humbug . Joe Hume is a "Whig-Radical—one half -white and the other blackknavery on the one side of his head , and folly on the other . Xothing , I trust , will satisfy the people short of the Charter . The more you want of a Government , the more you should ask for . "We have been standing like the man in the moonlight—the people are the man , and the Government the shadow—if the substance
Hioves on , so will the shadow—but if it stands still , so will the shadow . If the Government still continue to refuse us the Charter—I vrill go further and unfold the banntr of republicanism . ( Immense cheering which lasted for some minutes . ) If they won't give us it now , they will Tery soon find it expedient to do 30 . We will , vrith the Charter , secure the rights of the poor , and be able to protect their wages . In the records of the county of Berks ., I find & table , by which the wages of the working man were regulated . The quartern loaf was taken as the standard , the number of the family was also taken , and what they could e&rn by their labour , and the number of shillings they could produce in a week . If a man had & wife and one child he was not to receive less than ten shillings ; if two , fourteen shillings smd sixpence ; if three ,
seventeen shillings and sixpence ; if four , twenty shillings ; and so on in proportion . This was offering a premium for young men to get married , and to increase the population . In those dsyB the -wages of the -working man were alw&ya steady and secure ; he was to have , at least , seven pounds of butcher's meat in the week , ¦ with vegetables and other necessaries ; good clothing , and a gotd supply of chamber linen . Where is the chamber linen now ? Why , if there is any at all amongst the working people , you will find it > t the sign of the three balls , slumbering in some snug corner with an elegant ticket at the end of it What has become of the beef ? There is still plenty , but you get precious little of it ; it goes into the hands of your masters , and all the tit bit * are seized by the overgrown parsons . It would be a curious census to take an account of the flitches of bacon and hams which are in the country ; Tery few would be found in the dwellings of the workin ; men . What joiner ever thinks now of putting crooks into the ceiling of a working man's cottage ;
but thst of the parson is studded all over with them , as if he were . going to hang up the itna of the -whole nation . Now , we have Marcus ' s plan of painless txtinetion , for tie poor man's children . If the scoundrel who wrote that book had shown his face among the magistrates of Berks ., he would have been put in the pillory or the stocks ; but it is not a bad recommendation , if properly applied . The bees , after they have laboured a whole summer , and perceive that the drones increase—they assemble , march them out and destroy them , because , if they did not do that , they would soon eat up all So it should be with the idlers , or donothings of society . I should like to see Marcus's plan adopted in this respect , for it would only be retributive justice . Th « Doctor then went on to urge the people to unite as ane man , and be determined to obtain the Charter . A . Tote of thanks was then given to the Doctor . The hall was well £ lled soon after the commencement of the lecture , and it will hold , at least , a thousand persons .
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SAST LONDON . —Chartist Total AasTiNfiiicK and Mutual Instbvction Assgciation . —On Wednesday week , the monthly meeting of its members was held at the Association Room , 166 , Brick-lane , Spitalflelds , when the following resolutions were unanimously agreed to : —1 . "That this * meeting is of opinion that it is the duty and interest of the Chartists of England and Wales to imitate the Chartists of Scotland , by adopting the teetotal pledge for one year at least , aad ao further earnestly
reeommend its adoption without delay . " 2 . ' * That the thanks of this Association are eminently due , and hereby given , to Mr . J . CleaTe , for the great assistance he has given since he beeame a member of the same to the present time . " 3 . " That this Association do immediately establish a benefit society , on the Birmingham plan , and that all abstainers from intoxicating drinks be eligible to become members of the same . " 4 . " That it is the duty and intention of this Association to use its best efforts to support the Northern Star , on account of its advocacy of the people ' s rights , and the cause of temperance . " 5 . " That the foregoing resolutions be sent to the Star for insertion . "
BRISTOIu—Things are looking well here . Public meetings have been holden in several wards of the city , at which it has been resolved that a lecturer shall be retained to agitate the city add suburbs . TRURO ( Cornwall . ) —The cause is getting nicely on here . At a meeting of the members of the Truro Working Men's Association , on Monday last , it was unanimously resolved that £ 1 be sent to the committee for the management of the funds for the support of the wives and families of the imprisonsd Chartists . Likewise 19 a . wa 3 voted from the funds to be sent to the National Executive Council : and
it was also resolved that the members do become enrolled in the National Charter Association . Our numbers at present are but small , but we are is hopes of our labours proving successful , in drawing others into our ranks . We have also voted 10 s . to be sent to the "Frost , Williams , and Jones Restoration Committee , " and we have petitions in coarse of signature , which , when filled ^ will be Bent to the above committee , to be presented to the Queen by three working men , being in our opinion the best representatives of our cause , our feelings , wishes , wants , and grievances .
GAJNSBRO ' . —The standard of Chartism has been uplifted here . At a recent meeting , a subscription was entered into for the incarcerated victims , and three rattling cheers were given for O'Connor . HUGBY . —Mr . Henry Candy , who was requested to agitate the three counties of Warwick , Stafford , and Worcester , arrived at Rugby on Saturday , from Nuneaton . On Monday night , we got up a meeting , which was > well attended , and he gave us * ri excellent lecture ; when , in a most able manner , he fully explained the principles and object of the People ' s Charter , to the satisfaction of his hearers . Ho
concluded by an affecting appeal to them , exhorting them from that night forward to be up and doing , and join in the holy struggle of right against might . He sat down amidst the most enthusiastic applause . Several gave their names in to become members . A vote of thanks was given to the lecturer ; the health of Mr . O'Connor was drank with the greatest enthusiasm ; and also , " Frost , Williams , and Jones , and their speedy return , and the liberation of all the incarcerated victims . " The whole of the evening ' s proceedings were conducted with the greatest propriety . The seed sown will be productive of gnat good in this Tory and priest-ridden place .
WAN 3 PIS « t > . —Since tho inhabitants of this town have been favoured with a batch of the " New Police , " it has become matter of doubt with the " unwashed ' whether , in the event of their walking up the street , they shall bo allowed to return again the samo way , as the town crier , among others , has been prosecuted for the atrocious crime of standing in the streets of his native town . Howover the prosecution broke down , and the blue coat was found not altogether " fly . " The Chartists hav ^ esta blished , in Mansfield , a kind of debating society , and opened a reading room , both of which are well attended .
SCOTCH CHARTISM . —Movements of Ma , Harnet . —On Monday evening , Feb . 1 st , I addressed a most magnificent meeting in * the Thistle Hall , Dundee ; I pretend not te give any particulars , as , in the Dundee Chronicle , will be fannd a report of the meeting , which you will probably transfer to your columns . " Bonnie Dundee" is now at the head ot the movement in Scotland . Chartism is there all-powerful and all-triumphant ; theDemocraticCouncil , representingand supported by the several Trades' Political Assoeiations , virtually commands the town ; the Chronicle , in the hands of the Cbartists , has already ruado their
influence to be felt ; aud that organ of popular rights , once firmly established , ( which it may be , if tfca men of Dundee are true to themselves , ) will be an all-potent engine for good in the national cause . I may add , that thrice on the Sabbath-day , each week , do hundreds of the toiling classes listen to the eloquent strains of our leal-hearted friend , John Duncan , poured forth in viudication of the eternal rights of man . For the fiist time in Dundee , the pool and the oppressed have " the gospel preached unto them" in reality , hj one whose character may be summed up in these few words : —he is bold enough to be honest , and honest eneuga to he hold . "
The day may be distant , which it probably is , -when I shall again visit Dundee ; but wherever my destiny may bid my pilgrimage , it will be with feelings of pleasure I shall summon up the recollections of the past , and with pride bethink me , that I enjay the confluence , and have the wann wishes , of its " honest men and boanie lasses . " Wednesday , Feb . 3 d—Crossed the Tay to Newport , and ipasiing through Gupar-of-Fife ; after a walk of eighteen miles , reached Kettle , where , at eight o ' clock that evening , I addressed a very good meeting in the school-house , Kettle-bridge ; that veteran in the cause . Mr . Alexander Henderson , presiding as cnairman , T ^ 6 inimitable manner in which he scourged tne " black slugs" justly entitled him to the applause bis townsmen werft not slow to aware ! . ThuTBday the 4 th—Left Kettle , passing through Falkland and Strathmiglo ; after a "walk of sixteen miles , reacherl KinrnS 3 .
The Chartists here are not a large body , but though few are true , I addressed si very good meeting ; at the close of my address , it was intimated by the chairman , that a proposition was under the consideration of the Council ( in the event of an election ] to introduce to the counties of Clackmanan and Kinross , William Devonshire Saull , Esq ., of London , as Radical caudidate , in opposition to the Whig taol &nii placeman , Admiral Adam . A resolution was passed at the meeting , inviting Mr . Saull to explain his viows and principles upon public su ' -jects , particularly as to the People ' s Cilart-er . I may here mention that the Kinross Chartists have commenced the necessity steps tosards the erecting of a public hall , which , onco accomplished , will enable them to laugh at the petty tyranny of the idiotic , knavish " respectables , " whose attempt to " put down" Chartism only exhibits their own impotency , and the strength of the principles they vainly contend against .
Friday the 5 th—Left Kinross , passing through Dollar , and Tillicoultry ; after a walk of eighteen miles reached Alva in the eveniDg . Saturday the 6 th—Addressed the Alva democrats . Here , as at Kinross , the working men have had fliany difficulties to contend with , consequent upon ths w ; wit of a place of meeting ; bat " first of the brave , fortmost of the free , " has long been the character of the men of Alva , and not disgracing their name , manfully have they gone to work . Shares have been taken , the cash gotten , and , within a week or two , will commence the erection of their own hall . This is good . This is the right way of Bghting the battle ; would to heaven that the Chartists of erery other town would " go and do likewise . "
Alva , with Kinross , is misrepresented by thit Whig hack the " gallant Admiral , " of cat o' nine tails notoriety ; rumours are afloat here , that upon a bone being flung to the drivelling eld quarteT-deck tyrant , ho will make way for that very personification of all rascality , Fox Maule ; but let me wara the Fox that 'twill be no child ' s play at Dollar , the day he exhibits himself upon the hustings—if be shall dare—the Alva lads are preparing , and by all their hopes of " happy homes and altars free , " by all their hatred of tyranny , and heartfelt detestation of tyrant's reptile tools , nave they sworn to " maule his nese !"
pErmo . vixs for the Chautee . —The annual farce has been gone through by her Majesty ; and the rival factions have again met , not to redress grievances , but to fight for power . During the recess it was agreed by the delegates , who met at Manchester and Glasgow , that peiitions should be presented to the representatives of the middle classes , in St . Stephen ' s assembled . There are some who have been disgusted with the treatment the people ' s petitions have received from Honourable Members ; and have , therefore , determined to petition no more . We cannot think thiswise or politic . Thil form of expressing our epiniona ia a right which , as Britons , we ought to prise . It legalizes our meetings , and gives assurance of safety in our attempts to spread our prineiples . It is a means of keeping the agitation before the public mind ; and if it should not alarm or convince our Bapient
legislators , it is , at least , an excellent instrument by which to annoy them ; and , above all , it ia a plan ao cheap and simple that it interferes not with any scheme that may be proposed or carried into effect by our more obdurate friends , who hare determined never to petition . Throughout thi p session let us petition Petition in thousands , and in tons of thousands , as communities , associations , and individuals , till the walla of the House shall re-echo the worda—Universal Suffrage , the People ' s Charter , Justice to O'Connor , Frost , and his companions . Let the Central Committee of England and Scotland take up the subject ; let the districts prepare petitions for their Members ; and let erery Chartist petition by himself , and thereby prove that we are the majority—that we are determined , and that it will be dangerous much longer to resist the righteous demands of a united people .
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MOTTBAJO . —Mr . Charlea Connor , of Manchester delivered two very interesting lectures here , the first on the 28 th of January . In Wb second lecture , Qn the ith- of February , he took a rapid View of the money that had been expended in supporting the strikes that have taken plaoe in England and Scotland , since the year 1825 , and shewed in glowing terms the result that would have been produced had it been , spent in buying the waste land , aad building houses thereon , and placing the poor , industrious classes in them , to till tne land . After a vote of thanks to Mr . Connor for his able lecture , he urged on the people to come forward and join the National Charter Association , aa the only means of gaining their rights . The Association have great pleasure in , announcing that they ar # progressing in their numbers rapidly .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 13, 1841, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct536/page/2/
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