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THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1841.
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- - ¦¦ - ' " ' ¦ " ^ PREPARING FOB . PUBLICATION , AND WILL BE READY VERT SHORTLY , PRICE ONE SHILLING , _^ HYMNS FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP SUITABLE FOR CHARTIST CONGREGATIONS . - rp HIS is a desidaratum which is seriously felt , and JL it is hoped that the present effort will be tnongn * efficient to supply it . In order that some idea may be had of how many should be printed , it is urgeDtlT requested that all the several localities , tbrougnoui the'Kingdom , will consider of the Number likely to be required , and send , through their Sab-Secretaries , to the Editor of the Chartist Hym Book , B , Marketstreet , Leeds ; pre-paying their letters , of course .
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£ CONTENTION . igS PROVISIONAL EXECUTIVE TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND ,, SCOTLAND , AND WALES . Brothers is the Ca * sb op DxxoesAcr , —In consequence of the conflict of opinion regarding the selection of tea persons ( . from those nominated ) to form the forthcoming Convention , we do not con-Bider it right to have anything at all to do with such selection ; but we would recommeDd tbefollowing conrse to the country : —Let there be a public meeting called inmediately in every town , and ail the persons nominated submitted to each public meeting , -which mseiins shall choose ten from the whole
hatlet all returns be forthwith sent to the Editors of the Northern Star , Scottish Patriot , and Dundee ChroKxck newspapers , who shall pmblish a correct aeconnt of the whole proceedings . By this means , whichever ten would have the sanction of the greatest number of public meetings would be the veritable represmtatives of the people . This method , is © or opinion , vronld be the best that conld be Adopted ; and we confe-33 we see no ©; hsr plan by which satisfaction can be given to all parties . The public meetin £ 3 could all take place next week , and the result published in the above-named newspapers , on Saturday , the l " th instant , and the Convention meet in London as soon as necessary
afterwards . We do not decline takijg the affair into our own h&ndsfrom any direspect toanyindividual , butbecause it mi ^ ht form a dangerous precedent in an Executive bodv , by too much power being placed ai their disposal , aad , in ths eud , bring tnem into collision with the people ; a circumstance which must carefully be gcardtd against . "We remain , your fellow-labourers in the cause of genuine Chartism , James Leech , President . James Castledge . Richard Littles . John Cahpmll , Secretary .
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THE PROVISIONAL EXECUTIVE TO THE CHARTISTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES . TKLZOvr-VEiWCRA . TS , — "We call npon yon to send 5 n the names of the persons you will nominate as candidates for the permanent Executive , by-Saturday , the 24 th instant , at the farthest ; in order that correct lists may be made out , and sent to each snb-Seeret&rv . We -woulvl -wish you to bear in mind that we will not - ( because we cannet ) he accountable for aiiy nomination of any person , unless an account fee sent to the General Secretary ,- of the individuals nominated , by letter . We do this to ensure punctuality , and to prevent mistakes ; and then we-vrill get the-whole list printed on circulars , and send one to each sub-Secretary , "with ir >« trueti « iiB concerning the elections .
James Leech , President JaMJES CiBTlIDGE . RICHABD LITTLES , Johs Campbell , Secretary . Ail communications must be made to Mr . Johm Campbell , IS , Adderley-stroet , ShaWs Brow , Salfoni , luanciifcstex .
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FSOM OCR LOXDOX CORRESPONDENT . Wednesday Evening , April lih . [ A statement in my last week's communication ( relative to the Corn Law Ltague ) having been declared erroneous , by a letter from " cue of the reporters " to the Weekly Dispatch , inserted in that paper of Sunday last , 1 teg to say , ihat my informant is in every Tray entitled to implici : belief j and that , if there bo any error in my statement , it is about equal to this : —instead of having used the ; term "bother , " I ought to have said ' •" fuss . " As to the / acts stated by me , relating to " our conwm- < porary , " I have oniy to add , that they were related i to me ' sfcorily after the application , and before the ! meetiog . So that , cltarly , the error " is not of our nuking . ] ' J
CHAHT 3 SM IS LorGHBOSOCGH , Le 2 CEST ££ , AXD Nottisghaji . —I have been favoured with the si ^ ht I of a priva-ie litter from Mr . Vincent , dated " Nat- j tingbaa , April 3 rd , " in which the following inter- i estmg passages occur ;—** These who hope io crush ; Chartism know but little of the spiri ; which now i animates the people . During the past fortnight ,-I j have visited the tovms cf Leicester , Loughbor ^ ugh , > and Nottingham ; and the people is all these towns j are speedily advancing in morality and intelligence , i and in a desire to obtain their political and social rights . Pereecunon has not abated the ztai of tlie j Chartist parsy . All is activity , and everything \ bears evicence to the " onward progress of our cause , j - - - - la LoughboroUiih , I delivered three lee- i
tures io crowded audiences . Ine people are miserably ; poor . Ths men engaged in the stocking trade are j in a shocking state of destitution . Siauy of them I work from six o'cio . k in the morning till twelve I o ' clock a ' . night , and co not earn ( after dedncting rent for frsme ? , and other expences ) mok-e than fboh 5 s . to 6 s . i . week ! Little children , of both sexes , are pai to work as early as from five to six i years of age . These children work frcm six in the morning till nine at night . They can earn from one shiliing to one and ninepenee a week . 2 ^ o time for j educaiion or moral culture . All is toil , destitution , disease , and ignorance . The people gcHeraliy are > Chartists ; ntaiiy of them teetotallers . There is a j Chartist Teeiotai Society , and a society compos-. d ' of those who are not teetoiallera . - - - - -
in Leicester , I delivered four lectures ia ihe New Hall ; about 600 attended at each lecture ; ntany of the middle classes , including num- I bees of ladies , were present . At the close of my 1 ast lecture , I administered the Chartist teetotal pledge to sixty-three parsons . ------ - - - . In Nottingham , I have delivered three lectures in I the large theatre . This is a famous Radical tovia . Reading-rooms and libraries abound ; though some o £ them are unfortunately held at public houses . - - - - - - I am . delighted with the people of Nottingham ; and I may sai ' eiy assert , that never did the Ctiajtist cause look so nourishing . ' A subsequent letter says ;— I have had the devil- j x > -pay at Perby . Three rooms were engaged , and taktn ; rom
us . Last night ( Monday ) , the town was all excitement ; the marke ; filled " with people vowing execrations upon the authorities . I wens * ionn in a' fly 'the fly-man was threatened—I Eent the people out of ths torn , and there dispersed-Jhem , insisting thai they must not allow their feelings io ge ; the bet . er of their judgments . The authorities are btattn—the teetotallers Au » e come to the retcue—and have invited me to lecture on teelotalismyin the Wesleyan Chapel , on Wednesday night . The chapel vnli hold 2 , UWJ ; and we s-h&ii have it full . - - - * 1 lecture again in Njttin £ hain next Monday ajid Tu-sd * y ; entirely a : the rtquest of some of thy working trasses—men « i > o hare hitherto been our bitter opponents . "
The Petition Commitiee held its weekly meeting at the L /^ patca Coiiee House , Bride Lin ..-, last tveuiES , Mr . Simpitn in the chair . Tne i .-crciary , Mr . _ Bills , ieiJ a letter from Mr . Hawts , ; u . ± \ , Btating tiiat he vroald present to the House of Cvmmoas x ' at pclitiona OU behaif of U'Cohuot , Frost , and the Charter , which had been forwarded to him for that p ^ irposo by tho Committee . A letter from Mr . Dancombe , Ai . P ., was ako read , stating that the individual petitions he had presented to the Bouse were not inserted in the votes of the House , in consequence cf an informality , the petiuv-ners cot havinx signed their names at the ^ d of the petition , as well as at the top . The Committee , therefore , request that their brethren will , ior the future , sgn their names at the end as well as at the beginning of individual petitions . A great number of petitions -were rec * ived by the Committee , prsvious to adjournment .
PtaciTL iios . —TaEt numbers of poor persons are wandering about the streets of London , in a wholly destuuie condition ; and snch is their horror of the JNew Poor Law , anu iheir cread of the workhouse that some of them commit petty depredations for the rowed purpose of getting &ent to Bridewell ; they seldom go far enoaga to get hard labour attached to their sentence—aid no blame to them ! ' We Ea « - » o-day , quite a new rig with an individual who Trai ft few weeks since Eentenced to gaol for btgsmn He would not beg but armed himself with » mason s trowel , a mortar-board , a « d a whitewash brosh ; tnesewere tied together " , and n the board was painted , in dear characters—** I want emtJlovay children want bread . " « Ah , " Eaid he , to a peeler , who told him to move on , " you can ' t ouod Be for thaL any how I" y
Street Accidehts . —This ereniaf , about six dock , a httLe girl , about seven years old , was rossing Farringdon-streetjoeax Wsitbman's OfreUsk when a genileaiiD , in a low pbseton , xr * driring at rapid rate from the iirectign of Bridie-street BUtkfiiars . Tn » horse knocked the po-jr child Own , and one of the wheels of the vehicle passed orer the child' s head , crashing it in a awst frighv fal Banner . A crowd booh collected ; * nd , as soae f the « p # ct * to » utribated great negiigence to the jentleaan who w »« iiiringf he was for some tine ih danger of raxuury rtngeance , but was , at length , l * ken under th « protection of the police , and the
diiJd vrai conreyed to a surgeon ' s , near Farmgdoii-Biarket , who pronounced her Ufa to be ia great danger . —About the suie time as ( he above , as one of the London Parcel * Delivery Company ' s con-Ttyanee carts was ascending Holbora-hill , it came m o » n » ct with an omaibus which was descending , » ro « is was » jd , to the nnskilfaJness of the carter . The result was , that the wheel of the conveyance Mrt was knocked from the axle ; the persons m the wnmbas /? ot » clnmsy jolting , bnt no jnattrial injury ; oct th « Paicel Compan ^ driver was thrown from his seat and seriooBly bruised . It was some time before the "spill ; was cleared away , to eaable i vehicles to pae thia awkward and " dangerous toorongbAxe . j
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WALWORTH JLXD CiMBiSaWBLL CUABTTSTS . ~ A meetiug was held on Monday eveuiug > at tha Rose and CrowD , Walworth Rjad , for tho transaction of general business , and aidiug in the getting op of the publio meeting to be held at White Coaduit House on Easter Monday , for which purpose » tarn of money -was voted by tray of loan .. The following resolution was also unanimously adopted : — That it be an instruction to the Committee calling the meeting at White Conduit House , that a petition be sent to the House of Lords for Frost , Williams , and Jones , ia reference to the points of law . ta the case of Lord Cardigan . " The cause of Chartism looks well in this locality . Several new memtari have been enrolled , and the weekly meetings are well attended .
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Chbistopher Dean , of Manchester , the Chartist chairman , wa 3 tried at the Liverpool Assizes on Monday last , before Mr . Justice Maule . He was charged npon two indictments , with seditious conspiracy , unlawful assembly , &c , with the Rev . W . V . Jackson and others , at Manchester , to both of which he pleaded guilty ; and -was called upon to find two sureties in £ 50 each , or four in £ 25 each , to keep the peace , and appear when called upon . ACQCITTAl OF THE MeN CHARGED WITH THE Ashton Murder . On Tuesday morning , Mr . Wiikins addressed the Jury on behalf of the prisoners , in his usual able manner , at some length . Juitice Maule followed , and concluded a very lengthy and full address , by stating shortly the two views of
the case , the one that ol the prosecution that the prisoners were the murderers , and against that view there were nuny difficulties ; * ud ibe view taken Tot the defence that Da vies , who , according to his own admission , was participating in the murder , with the two Hardwick ? , who were mixed up with tho transaction , were they 3 or some of them , the actual murderers , and that they , having opportunities in prison , had together conspired to make the charge against the present prisoners . If , eonsideriug the character of the accomplices and the position in which they stood , the Jury thought the confirmations were sufficient to support the truth of their statement ? , they would find the prisoners guilty .. If , on the coutrarj , they entertained , any reasonable doubt ,
they would give the prisoners the benefit of the doubt . If they entertained a doubt as to one prisoner , and not as to the other , they would make that distinction in their verdict . The Learned Judge concluded hi 3 address at twenty-five minutes before four o ' clock , having continued it to a length of four hears save five minutes . The Jury retired , and returned in ten minutes , finding both the . prisoners " is'ot Guilty . "' They were then arraigned on two other indictments , oue charging them with having discharged the contents of a pipe at Benjamin aud James Cooper , on the 20 th of November and 5 th of December , with intent to murder them . No evidence was offered , and _ verdicts of acquittal were taken ; and ,, there being no other charge against Hulme , he was discharged .
The Northern Star Saturday, April 10, 1841.
THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , APRIL 10 , 1841 .
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A NATION OUT-LAWED BY A FACTION . STARVATION . A new contract has been executed between the landlords and the steamlords ,. whereby the people of this country have been handed over as so much surplus lumber , to be dealt -with according to the supreme will and pleasure of the three Somerset-House lorda of the creation . In the * ew contract , we find full and ample justification for tho most violent resistance which has been hitherto offered to the " damnablo law . " We also find full and ample reasons and just grounds for the people ' s growing aversion to all classes placed in authority over them .
After eeven years of national discontent , and , after having a fair trial of the measure , and after the strongest censure that popular indignation could cast upon it ba 3 been pointedly and incessantly expressed by the whole pecp ' e , we find that the very evil most complained of , the irresponsible power of the Commissioners , has been magnified from the mere interference with local Guardians , and the capricious maintenance of the pauper , into entire aud supreme controul over all local bodies , making
those bodies , either mere creatures or cyphers , and a power over the' religion , education , trade , calling , and even country , of every Briton , who is £ r » t rsdueed to the level of degradation by the infernal machine . Thu 3 have the people been handed OTer , body and soul , life and limb , trade and calling , to three journeymen paupers . T&ste de&trojed , preference set at Haught , nature turned'top 3 y turvr , and social order shaken to its very centre , by ther very parties who are paid , and well paid , for perserving its harmony .
But , we are told , that it is yet the Briton ' s right to use all « onstituti » nal means for the repeal of this odiocs , unchristian , ungodly , uu-English , unprincipled law . Let us now , for one moment , consider what this " constitutional resistance" means , and the odds at which constitutional popular resistance has to contend a ^ sinst the positive power of the makers of the law .
The people have met and petitioned , many have died , many more have been driven from tk » home of their fathers to the Whig charnel-house , thousands have fled their father-land , in the _ hope of being able t » preserve a miserable existemc * , for another short period of misery in a foreign land . The £ fa-hound dungeon has rung wifh the piercing cry of the vittim of ambitious lust , and with execrations against the unholy law , which unbinds society—dissolves those ties whio God has formed , and compels the pauper to exhibit the galling qualification of utter despja-Jeacy and desiitution before he is thought worthy of relief . What other constitutional means of resistance does this nation of helpless paupers possess ? None .
What , now , are the powers by which even such constitutional resistance is met by the advocates of the law ? It is made ia their House ; it is eupporced , defended , aud upheld by their nominees ; opposition to it is tried by Iheir judges ; its constitutionality judged of by their law officers , paid by thiirTutQ with the people ' s money ; decided upon by jurors of their creatures , * to whom , in return for confidence , they render them supreme power of being judges of the constitution ; judgment is given against ihe constitutional opponent of th # law , by
their judges ; the strictest rules of prison discipline are enforced against the virtnons hater of the law , by their inquisitors , in- their bastiles ; the enemies of the measure are denounced by their press !!! In what , then , we would ask , consists the Briton ' s right of constitutional resistance ? Is it in the right of spending nine months in solitary confinement , in a felon ' s cell , as O'Cojwob is now doing , for the following six lines , called uncoBititutional , libellous , and illegal opposition ? In the Star of Dec . 22 nd , 1858 , the following six lines appeared : —
•' Wakminsteb BiSriLE . —A little boy , last week , for some small offence , -was confined In one of the cells belonging to the above workhouse , and was literally starved to death . Ths poor fellow , during his confinement , actn&Hy ate , in constqaeace of hunger , two of his fingers , and the flesh from his arm . " Now , for these six lines , taken from another paper , and upon which 0 'Coxson . was convicted by a Jury of money-moDgers , Mr . Justice Littledaui told him that , taken in conjunction with the other verdict , he should divide the judgment of the Court ' that is , nine months for each offence .
Again , will any man in his Benses believe that Thobkhili ' s in « arceration of his old and f fiithfal steward , just ai the time when his presence might have been fatal to the re-enactment of the Bill , was other than a Whig contrivance , as a substitute for a verdict of Guilty , which they knew they could never get against Oastlsb , in Yorkshire , without too palpably packing » Whig Jury , to the exclusion of every particle of Tory feeling . Yes , yes , thus it i * that the friends of the poor—the constitutional opponents of the measure , ar » victimised , equally with the paupers themselves .
We hare bran sincere in our denunciation of this measure , and &-Jao sincere is our expression of belief that nothing efcioit of Universal Suffrage can for ever crush that monst er . In this belief we hare been fuljy confirmed bj the " artful dodgers , " led on by the redoubtable Mr . Chronicle Easihop * . This dodger boasted , as we hsre before shows , thkt the Whigs ontbid the Tories in humbug ; but what was the upshot ? Why , Ihat while we find the said " artful dodger" Eastsop * . proposing a clap-trap
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amendment , as to the tinveef tHe lAonfier's ^ aura * - tion , and which he would nfcverjiave proposed tad success been at all calculated npon ; wo find Him voting , in Committee , in every majority to confer additional power upon tho triumvirate , and additional poignancy to the measure , and increased suffering and degradation to those whom necessity shall compel to look for relief . If , by the late sham fight , the Tories have been unmasked , as a party , the Whigs have be « n discovered as a set of unprincipled dodgers . "
Of the Hibernian tail , we have only to say that , throughout , they have shewn their consistency , lore of the English poor , and regard for civil and religious liberty , by handing over Catholics , Dissenters and all , to the tender mercies of a Law Church . How will , the Right Honourable Richaeb Shiel , the Right Honourable More 0 'Ferbai . l , the Right Honourable David PiGerr , and the Right Honourable Thomas Wtsk , all honourable men , juitify their votes upon the question !
Fjelden deserves the full and unqualified thanks of the nation at large , for his uniform and consistent opposition to the hell-born monster ; while those to which Dukcombe , Wakley , and a few others aro entitled , are much dimiaishod by their miserable support of the originators of the Bill upon all touchand-go measures . They , together with a number of our half-and-half outside friends , remind us strongly of that party in Athens which , was
considered the most infamous , namely , those " who endeavoured to keep well with all parties , and ventured with none ; " or , as we have described them m » re than once , those " who run with th * hare , and hold with the hound . " Our position is this : that if-the measure merits all that severe censure which Duxcombe and Wa * ley have so unmercifully heaped upon it , they , a ' 3 supporters of its supporters , deserve all the odium attachable to accessories before and after the fact .
Wo do not expect a repeal , or any relaxation of the law from a Tory House . As far as regards the inside passengers , it has become a mere perch for stragglers to perch upon , on tho dull eve of a general election . None but Fielden have . shown themselves haters of the law for the love of the people . Many , very many , it is true , havo opposed it strenuously , but none have devoted the soul to tho opposition , but that one single solitary individual . What chance , then , have we from the House , and " constitutional resistance ?" None , nono whatever .
In what , then , consists the nation ' s hope , and -the chance of the monster ' s death ? In the nation ' s self—in making it a spur to the Charter—in vowing eternal , everlasting , iudomitablo vengeance against it . How ? Why , we have lately had Sunday meetings ; Mr . O'Connkll has boasted that he held one within gun-shot of the Horso Guards , and he held another upon the plains of Kildave . Let us profit by good example . Dare the Whigs allow constitutional meetings , for repealing a Legislative Union , and obstruct and declare those meetings illegal , which are held for the purpose of cementing God ' s union ! No ; we dare them .
Then , a 3 the poor aro too hard worked upon six days of the week , and as we look upon the law as an ungodly law , we must confer together for the maturing and adopting such means as will allow the whole people to turn tho Sabbath to the Christian and holy work of uprooting and constitutionally overcoming the machinations of hell . We EUall not offer any undigested or illegal plan for thua devoting four or five Sundays to an exhibition of English feeling upon this subject , but wo shall take council to mature a plan which shall be legal and constitutional , because , the infernal tajb must be constitutionally resisted , and , " tho better day tho better deed . " The whole Act should be burned by the common hangman .
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EMIGRATION . Emigbatio * and starvation aro twin devils ; " Siamese youths" of the infernal regions : and hence we find a new struggle for emigration made cotemporaneously with the re-enactment of the starvation laws . Let us take a retrospective glance of the parties by whom the Poor Law Amendment Act was concocted , with a view to discover whether or not any of those parties had a strong interest in the measure , in so far as it could be rendered & powerful auxiliary to assist in raising the value of their foreign possessions , at the expence of a compulsory abandonment of their father-land by the English people .
The law was conceded and introduced by the Gret cabinet ; Edward Ellice , M . P . for Coventry , is the brother-in-law and mouth-piece of Lord Ghet ; he has littla or no laud in this country , but is possessed of immense Canadian property . Ellice is uncle to the Countess of Durham , and the late Earl would not accept ef any office save that of uncontrouled , but undefined , King of Canada ; ho also was in Eluce ' s leading strings . Lord Hcwick is
son of Lord Grey , and nephew to Ellice , and gives to Government a very crooked support upon all questions save those of starvation and emigration ; but upon these points he goes * the whole hog " with them . Cii . uu . es Wood , M . P . for Halifax , is son-in-law to Lord Grey and nephew to Eliice , and he also runs in couples with Howick , and is a staunch supporter both of starvationand emigration . In fact , Ellice is a . kind of house steward mouse of the cupboard of the Grey family .
Notp , in brief terms , what wag their object in passing the starvation Act ? Was it not to insure the transportation of the wealth of this country , rendered surpjus by machinery , and desperate by insults aud degradation , in order to confer an in creased value upon their foreign potsessions , rendcrod valueless for want of population ? Is not every acre of Edward Eluce ' s land in Canada increased fifty per cent , in value by . each ship load of white slaves , who are banished , by starvation , from thoir native land !
If any man doubts the interest which some powerful parties have in emigration , let him read the following audacious aud mendacious article , which we give from the " artful dodger ' s" paper , the Chronicle , of Saturday last . He Bays : — 11 Now that Canada ia tranquil , and that the differences with the United States no longer wear a menacing aspect , the stream of emigration will , from various obvious causes , set in more strongly than ever for that interesting portion of our colonial empire . ^ " We have perused with the greatest satisfaction a most able and interesting publication , drawn up under the direction ot the Canada Company , by their Secretary , as we are informed , which Ifcsold by Smith and
Elder at the rery moderate price drone shilling . The title of the publication , to which we would direct tbe attention of all who wish for correct inform&tionas to the real state of things in Canada , ia < A statement of tbe satisfactory results which have attended emigration to Upper Canada , from the establishment of the Canada Company until the piesent period ; comprising statistical tables , and other important information , commnnicated by respectable residents in tho various townshipB of Upper Canada , with a general map of the Province , compiled for the guidance of emigrants . ' Emigration to Canada ongbt to be set about as soon as the St . Lawrence is open , for if tbe emigrant i * not on hi * land * in the eirly put of the summer , he cannot successfully contend with ihe Ions winter .
" In America generally , and Upper Canada U a highly favoured province ; every industrious labourer may soon obtain a competence . The man who in thia country can never hope to do more than keep himself out » f tbe workhoa » e , may , by removing to Canada , by the mere exertion of hia thews and tinewi , become io a Bbort time a sobatantial yeoman . The tale which this publication tells is fcalculated to carry joy into the cottages of theie islands , where at present many stroag-anned men carry on a cheerless struggle , day aftei < iay , ' with privations amonnting ahnoet to famine constantly fctaring them in the face . Benevolent individuals should circ&late tbe publication extensively throughout tbe rural districts , that well-disposed , industrious men may be enabled to profit by the body of evidence presented by the Cauda Company . " In the introduction we $ re told , that
' In order to obtain ihe intelligence—Hud it % fidelity and accuracy might be established beyond the reach of cutil or stupirim—they procured the inslrumentality tf tome of the most influential , longest settled , and respectable [ tn-
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Jtabhmtii rtiiding in vart 6 u $ parts of the province , to colled the necessary information . They were directed to spare neither trouble nor expence to procure the tytst minute and faithful returns . ' - .- ' ¦ «* The accounts are truly gratifying . ' * Aye , the accounts ate truly flattering , but not flatteringly true . Then follows a manufactured tale of profit made , and property amassed , by settlers , in a period of little more than tea years , and with which a common shop-keeper in England would not be half satisfied ; and yet they are manufactured for the mere purpose of decoying the young birds . But we give tbe whole pudding for this one plum which it contains : " The man who , in this country , can
never hope to do "more than keep himself out of the wobkhoubb , may , by removing to canada , by thk mere exertion op his thews and sinews , become , in a shout time , a substantial yeoman . The tale which this publication tells is calculated TO CARRY JOY INTO THE COTTAGES OF THESE Islands , where , at present , many strong-armed men carb . y on a cheerless struggle , dat after day , with privations , amounting almost to famine , constantly staring th £ h in the face . "
There , then ,. is the working , the hard working man's share of the first ten years working of the M Great measure , " and , from it , let him gueas what his share of the next ten years will be . This is honest of the " artful dodger "—this is rtally putting ths Poor Law Amendment Act to its intended purpose . A few more such articles as the above , and we fear a return of " the torch and dagger-men" will be the result , and then Howick will cry " Fire , fire , fire—now you must hold . "
Good God ! was there ever insolence equal to this , that says , struggle as a hard working Englishman may , the most he can expect is to be kept just out of tho " workhouse . " . This is moral force emigration ; and , let it be further observed , that the whole system of emigration is to undergo purification . Loud and constant complaints have been made , by the white-slave-merchants , that the scheme has partially failed , in consequence of those entrusted with its management , prevailing upon bad instead of good characters to emigrate , and we have the assurance that , henceforth , more circumspection will be used , and that none but " ticketed" men will be allowed to fly their homes . In other words , every honest man is to be forced out of his country .
In , the distance , and not far off either , we see the following events rapidly preparing for us . We see the Jews about to take possession of the mortgaged lauds of the landlords ; wo see the landlords robbing the Treasury and the Savings'Banks , to put their foreign houses ia Australia and Canada , in order , and sending tho best men they can procure , bofore them ; we see the refuse made slaves by tyranny , and villains by slavery , marched in chaingangs to the mill and from the mill , under the protection ef the" civil pojaer" with musket and bayonet ; we see the land , not wholly uncultivated , but not a
tenth-part cultivated under our noses , ecause the money-monger , who will own £ 5 , 000 a year of landed property , will own from £ 20 , 000 to £ 100 , 000 a year of slave property , and thorefore , it will be their interest , if they cannot accomplish their end by any other means , to throw £ 5 , 000 a year away for £ 20 , 000 & year , by making tho food of their slaves as cheap a < 3 possible , and soiling the produce of their labour as high as possible , thus destroying all native agricultural industry . To this conclusion we must como , in a very short period , if the progress of starvation and emigration is not stopped by equalization .
Pending the struggle , however , it is our duty to take oare that those who may be banished , be not lost for want of advice . We , therefore , recommend those who have money , and who wish to emigrate , to go to America , and those who have not money wo recommend also to go to America . If they go to Canada , or Australia , they meet with branches from the blasting , blighting , destroying Upas tree , which kas driven them from house and home , and , if they go to America they at once become their own masters .
With regard to tho accounts of the success which attends emigration to Canada , nothing can be more false or vile . The fact is , muoh more nearly , that one half of the poor who have gono there have died of cold , and that many ot the other half havo begged their way into Borne American State which suited them as to climate . We havo not the slightest pity for the landlords ; their days are numbered , and they themselves cast their own lot . No power on earth but the Charter can save them .
Au audacious attempt has been made by the presa to separate the new powers given to ex officio Guardians and other irresponsible bodies , from the spirit of the bill , and to persuade the people to swallow the pill , beoause some of the powers given to the Commissioners , under ths old law , have been considerably abridged ; whilo tho fact is , that where they had power formerly , which , in some cases may be disputed now , in those cases their word is law ; and where responsible bodies had the power in other cases , now that power is vested ia irresponsible agents . The Bill , as a whole , cannot be otherwise
considered than as a sale of white flesh , by landlords to steamlords , let economists call it what they please . The power of certain parties may be less under tho old than under the new law , but the power of the law is a thousand timea more oppressive . 5 uch a law as this , fifty years ago , the Boroughmongersdaro not have passed , and the people would not have obeyed . What has cowed them ? Machinery , distrust of each other , and competition for a mere livelihood , which has created class distinction , even iu tho very poorest ranks of the contending operatives . and weavers . Wait till all are equally destitute , find then all will be equally valiant .
Tho further consideration of the Bill , it will be seen , has been postponed to the 3 rd of May , and Lord John Russell , finding that Bome of his clauses have been damaged , proposes to produce soveral Tithe Bills as riders to the monster . . . 1 ¦ !! ¦¦ ¦ J . IH ^^^^ - ^ l "' . *! ' I t t ***** ' *
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SCHOOL HAS BROKE UP . THE BOYS ARE GONE HOME . " Joy be with them and a bottle of mos 9 ; If they never come back they'll be no great lose . " To attempt any review of the works of the lads for the past ten weeks , would be but adding insult to expence . Suffice it , therefore , to say that , in that short period the " Reformers * " havo turned John and Judy Doit ' s bard cash , by some " harlequin , andism , " into " paper kites ; " the moral force , re .
trenching , peace-making Commons hare Toted"about one-half of the rental of the land ot England to soldiers and Bailors , and the economists have sold the people , dead and alive , to Poor Law Commissioners , ex ( ifficio Guardians , and emigration Committees , and all this , while our leading journals have been fighting a Pusey battle for England , a con-intrusion battle for Scotland , and a non-enfranohisement battle fur Ireland . So much for the first act of the ninth Reform Session , and now for our
gbave . The prisons are still full . Daniel is preparing to deal a heavy blow at the Whigs and . Whiggery ; hehas got all that he is to get , eren to his share of legal a ppointments in Jamaica , for which young Johm contended , as the right of the "Irish patriots . Dan sees Peel ' s move , and knows what he ia to expect from it , and he has gone t » put "his house in order . " And well the Whigs have helped him ; and if their return is not what eVery one haa received who has coifided in the Honourable Gentleman , why , as he says , " Nabockliah" - 'never mind it . Now , then , let ns put our ** bouse in order , " so that house may be ready to meet house when the struggle
comes . It will be seen that Glasgow , always foremost in the good fight , and always prudent , has elected » delegate to the Convention j aad , with characteristic caution , has also undertaken both the payment of his expences and salary . The men of Glasgow view the coming Convention as we view it—as a grand stroke ,
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which should not be badly aimed , or feebly dealt . They say we are not prepared—neither is the country prepared-let ug , thereftre , delay the project till the 3 rd of May , in order . to insure its full value . Thisia not " despotism , " but Rood , sound , rational Scotch sense . In this transaction , our duty is to obey , ihe peoples' to command . Let the people , then , speak out , and at « ncey and say whether or not they approve this change ; and , if so , let us have the names of all delegates elected , transmUta * to us at once , that we may lay th « m in order before the country .
Sunderland , it will be seen , is preparing , but is not ready , so are many other places j therefore , claiming our full share of citizenship , we unhesitatingly declare , in favour of the view taken of the subject by the men of Glasgow . However united tho general feeling may be , one thing is quite certain , that the arrangements ara not completed . We find that Hull , and Leicester , and other places , have , much more despotically than O'Connor , elected the whole Convention . This , in the first instance , if generally adopted , would have been a very fair and satisfactory mode , but it was not according
to the proposed plan . Each place is to elect ono delegate , and to send that delegate to London , and to bear his expences back from London , should he be chosen by ballot as one of the ten , and , while ia London , he is to receive £ 3 a week as" his wages . Let every place which has elected a Delegate Bend us at once the name of the Delegate aud the date of the public meeting a . t whioh he was elected for publication in our next . In the mean time , we have the pleasure toannounce that the petition promises to be much , more numerously signed than the National Petition .
Now one word as to the value of our plan being well matured . Firstly , the several delegates can arrange to take with them the several sheets from their respective districts . ¦ Secondly , those sheets will have time to be fully signed . Thirdly , the London Committee should instruct Mr . Duscombe , or some other Member , to move , firstly , for a return of the names of the several persons convicted of political offences in the year 1839 , together with the offences charged , and the sentences , with the name of the Judge before whom the
parties were tried ; and , also , a return of the several persons sentenced throughout England and Wale 3 during the same period , to be confined in any of her Majesty ' s prisons , and the period of their confinement , with the orim 63 charged . Secondly , a return should be moved for of tho legal expellees paid for political prosecutions , for that period , and also for a return of the legal expenees paid-in criminal oases , during the same period . Thirdly , » return of all persons hold to bail , With the amountjof recognizanoes , distinguishing each offence with which the offenders stood charged * whether j for political , or crime by common or statute law .
Now , these returns will speak to the House in the language which tho country will understand , and they are absolutely necessary for Mr . Dtjxcombe's guidance , and for the people ' * satisfaction . When v * e name Mr . Duncombe , we merely do so for brevity , as , of course , our London friends will make their own arrangements in that respect . From these returns we will , we promise our readers , make the sins of Judge Jeffries , though red as scarlet , white as snow , by comparison with one , only one of our modem Daniels , ( not O'Con-NELL . )
Suppose , then , the Convention meet on the 3 rd of May , they give the country , and their active Member more time for returns and arrangements . The delegates have a better opportunity of assisting the general Object in their several localities , and in collecting knowledge and opinion to bear upon the questions which th « y will be called upon to discuss . Wo know that some parties feel sere to the quick and wounded to the core by this new move ; because
it will terminate in the utter extinction of' all " lights" but the / true light , in the metropolis . The old pilots and river-pilots , see no chance either of a job or profit from the people's job , and they are literally paralysed . This Convention will unite fhe veritable country party with the veritable metropolitan party , and must create a union for action never before known to exist in this country . We hope , next week , to publish the names of sound country delegates , no" cock-tails , " we say again . Go on , then , with the petitions , about which there appears to be some misconception , many parties having applied to us for printed headings , while printed petitions are not received by the Honourable House , and only one heading is necessary , or rather two , one for the men , and one for the women ; we implore the ladies , ono and all , to assist with their fair hands . *
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THE CONVICT MITCHELL . The life of thia unfortunate youth has been spared , and , we think wisely and justly spared , for although his life , young as he is , surpasses in atrocity thai of any man , of any age , of whom we have heard , yefc we were bound only to consider his part in the act with which he stood convicted . In our last we announced that we were in possession of his narrative , which , however , we forbore publishing during the life of the convict then about
to die . We Ehall , however , now present it , » s a wholesome lesson of advice , in about two columns at a time , to our numerous readers ; and when wo tell them that this youth confesses to have been guilty of MonE than a thousand robberies , some accompanied with the greatest violence , and many with extraordinay results , before he had attained his seventeenth year , we may at onoe declare him to Have left Robin Hood , Tukpin , Jack Sheppard , and all the tribe of vulgar villains far in the shade .
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THE ' " GOLDEN SUN" AND HIS ANGLOSAXON FRIEND , UPON THE LIBERTY OF THE SUBJECT . The Strand luminary , determined not to be outdone by the " Artful Dodger ' ^ in rendering good service to his masters , has this week published a letter from a very freeman , whe writes himself down as " an Anglo-Saxon , " upon the law of publi * meetings . The Saxon friend recommends that in all towns the Mayor ( as he is a County Magistrate ) shall preside , exofficio , and that he shall commence by having the police in
attendance and the military in readiness to deal summarily with the movers , seconders , and backers of all amendments proposed to aiti-Corn-Law or other original resolutions , for which the same meeting shall be called ; merely leaving to the opponents of any proposed measure the right of negativing or affirming tho Mayor ' s propositions , but no right , by resolution or amendment , even to declare their own . The Mayor * our Anglo-Stacon " declares , shall be sole judge of what is l « gal and discreet . This beaetly thing in this beaBtly Whig rag , requires bo comment : not another paper in England would have published it , bat our friend ' s
columns are , we fear , become a refuge for the destitute . Such , then , is henceforth to be the golden rule of the golden Sun ' t new acquaintance for taking stock of public opinion . The man must be a fool t * write , and the Sim must be mad to publish such jargon . Dees not every child of twelve years of * g » know , that upon a motion made in the House of Commons , that the debate upon the enflMpt b « reeumed , an Honourable Member may nlve as an amendment that the Chimney Sweepers' Bill be proceeded with . But what amendment to pertinent to a proposition to repeal any bad law , as one to get the means of repealing all bad laws !
When the •• Sm ' s " altitndinal height Had illumined the " bom " of the Mayor , The Chartists beginning to sweat , Ciied , " Dang it , what ranoke , from the chair !" Oh , Mungo Young , Mango Young , Wherefore art thou , Mango Young 1
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FIRST TICKET SHOW MEETING AT THg CROWN AND ANCHOR . . We last week reported the First Tioket Show foi the season , at whioh one single Chartist , Mr Watkins , attended , and where he conducted himself in every respect , as a gentleman . ; and we would point that gentleman ' s attention to the manner in which he has been treated by the press and tbe Unionists ; while the Greenacre Chronicl e does not condescend even to mention his name . They tras ) supremacy , not-union ; power , not equality . —53 ^ humbugs !
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Ma . Watkins trusts that those who sent for copiet of "John Frost" have reecived them ; and hg requests others who may wish for copies , i » apply in time , as the printer must soon disperse ht $ types . George William Machin Ellis , Brighton , teitha his name appended to the Chartist Total Abtg . nence Address .
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The Money from Bradford , per J . Stavely , shoui& have been from "Daisy Hill , per J . Stavcly . " Wm . Umplebv and J . Janson .-t-W > do not seU them . Thb suh 10 s . for Convention , noticed pom Deterbury , should have been , " 6 s . from Daw Green and is from Detesbury . To Agents . *— The price of the paper with plate this week will be 6 d . to agents . The papers of all those whose accounts are not settled will b $ stopped after this week , POLITICAL PRISONERS' AND CHABTEE COSVESTIOH FUND . £ S . d . From CastleDonnfngton , Leicestershire ... 0 7 0 .. twenty Working Men of Temple Cloud , Somerset ... 0 14 $ ^ , Pratt-street , Kirkaldy , per R . Taylor 3 0 0 ,. a few Friends at Huoslet 0 2 9 „ J . Sunderland , Harescroft 0 l < £ „ a Friend ... ... ... ... .... 0 0 8 .. Bradshaw , near Bolton ... ... 0 1 0 „ four persons at Wakefield ... ... 0 3 9 „ the National Charter Association , Mansfield , per D . Farquharsen ... 0 8 1 « tbe Friends at Brompton , near Northallerton ... 9 l 4 « . thirteen Chartists , Little Horton , per J . Alderson OS * „ CanfeerwelMane , Leeds ... ... 0 » y _ J . Powson , Reading ... 0 1 0 „ the National Charter Association , Kidderminster ... ... 0 6 0 _ D . Ireland , Dunfermline 0 ' 10 -0 .. the Rancliff Arms , Nottingham ... 0 3 0 „ the Ne-wton ' s Head 4 .. 0 S 1 ) „ New Basfoifl , by Mr . Wright 0 2 0 „ New Kadford , by Mr . Mason . ... 0 2 0 ^ Bingham , by Mr . Huskisson 0 10 0 * . Stapleford 0 2 9 * 1 10 J Poat-order , &c ... < f 0 i \ 1 1 6 .. Hebden Bridge Chiuctiat Association 0 7 8 _ Weavers at Bamber Bridge and at .. Bindle , per G . Halton , Preston ... 0 8 I _ the Female Chartist * of Daw
Green ... 0 0 0 .. Sarnl . Radgeley , Daw Green 0 2 « _ Frederick Hunt , ditto ... 0 » 0 0 3 9 „• Bradford , Wilts ... 0 5 0 „ the Political Uuion , Letham ... ... 0 2 * „ twenty persons at Abergavenny , per Thomas Ingram 0 15 9 j _ Kettle Radical Association , per J . Moves ... ... 0 5 0 FOB THE WIVES AND FAMILIES OP THE INCARCBRMKB CHARTISTS . From Booth Town , near Halifax , per B . Wilkinson 0 5 0 „ Wands worth , per C . Wwterton ... 0 i 0 FOR MRS . CLATTOK . From Hanley , par J . Yates ... ... ... 0 13 OJ „ Wandsworth , per C . Westerton ... 0 4 0
FOR THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COHHITTEB . From Leicester , per T . Cooper * ° FOR PRESS FOR J . B . O'BRIEN . ' . From Castle Donnington , Leicestershire .... 0 2 0
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EAWICK .-A meeirnff of the stocks-makers —the most numerous body of workmen m the townwas called on TuesJay , io consider and devise * remedy for a number of grievances . It appearea that a number of the manufacturers have been inana habit of frittering away the wages of their workmen in the most mean and paltry J" *^ .. ^ especially when any dullness of trade gave tje » . more power over the men ; and all ^ . "fMJ and robbery enacted by men who ne loudest ia « M outcry for the repeal of the Corn Laws , and p « etending all tho while it ia all for the good ef tto working classes ! The - meeting resolved . to r ^ se ^ fund immediately for the protection « % , £ * £ * their only property-frpm the grasp of these njpo critical Whig coru-craiks .
ROCHDALE . —The election of Poor L > w Guardianfl has terminated here without » «» gJj - the list proposed by the Chartists h »™« * J adopted . There are eighteen m ^ Jf' ^ ff of whom are Chartists , and two ¦ Tmim-jU « termined opponents of the blessed " boon , wmcu is detested by all parties . TODMORDEN .-The master . nttrfwjf e JJ of Todmorden have had two or three ™* J { MJ take into consideration whether it would be doiw * . tn « ilii « A the wa ^ es of-the o perative ! , or to runrour _
days per week . - Soae were for a "f """^^ wageBi and some for short time ; but thej ^ P « £ ~ adjourn for a fortnight , so that ^ "fgfS full time yet . The very man who wasput into tnt chair at a meeting of th » Corn Law ^ gf ^ fSSJ first to speak for a reduction of W " Vl ^ Sl dearly that it is all humbug tallune aboat M ™« the interest of the workk * « % ** **^ -SSiS , same worthy made use of the Mown * expres ^ g at a meeting held at the Spring Gardens Inn - ^ means nothing how £ oon my workpeople «« *«« £ todestb , for there will be plenty more to pw their places , "
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Thi » Nkw Poo * Law .-Hoo JJ ^ -J ^ sitidnsof the witnesses examined before tnem «* ( ratesat Brttotaagain * MWe *; * J £ gBK « i Hoo union workhouse , who , rt w » Ju" •™ 3 g \ the was charged with vanow tetBot « rgBJ ^ children under the care of £ ? -jggg « ^ raa required , duly forwaried to the Marqms ow manVy . The receip t * <^ ? £ iKg ^ Sl » ledged by a letter from the' NoW ^ Sewel * ry , ¦ has suffered thrassizes to Mp * X + V $ a& Ai . ^ n tn Mr . Vizard . MJ& newiy arK "
s ^ iicitorlo the Home ^ ffice , any g ^ SSbSi in the case . Miles 9 till remains in the «» l gbeeB at Hoo as before . It was wpo rtedlhart&e b ^ dismissed by the Poor ^¦ ¦ ™ £ ™ %$ S& & ° tainly u far as papers , tagit& $ d ^ nc % twas so , but no further ^ . lfl « s "rj ™ , . j drfedY raged , and public justice ^{ Jt ^ wZ ^ game of the paupers * ho * 1 « iffid ( [ , * £ y b « Rochester , have " ^ ¦ ^ JJJS ^ i'Viwirii * guessed by whom ) with impnaownwu w falsely against him .
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NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . We now publish the list tf nominations for tha General Council , so far as we have recei ved ^ hem . The people have certainly taken time enough to deliberate upon the choice of their men ; j | ^ only received several of the nominati ons th * week . If ail have been dona in a ' ccordauM wfth the cautions given in a . former num . ber of the Star , the election to be n < nr
taken is merely formal , and each sub-Secretwy will hand in the affirmatory decision of the n . t > m . bers resident in his locality at once . No time mod be lost . The declarations of election from every place must appear in next week ' s Star . After which , the next duty of tne Association will be tbt nomination and election of the JCxecutive Committed who must be chosen from amongst the menbtrs of th « General Council .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 10, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct544/page/4/
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