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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1843.
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SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED BY MR . CLEAVE . TOirncn Ticma' dkfescb ahd support yush £ b d Prerion ^ T acknowledged ... «• " ? , ^ i $ Greenwich 0 10 0 SUkWeavere , London ... ... — *• " " lattMtffli » ? S
Mr . Kdesbnry J J Mr . Judge ~ n n K Mr . Wills - -SJS Hi . Bell and Friends - 0 4 0 Mr . T . Llewellan " n n r H-D . CBattersea ) ™ . » - 2 2 . 2 Mra . Windlis and Female Friends ... 0 5 3 Shoulder of Mutton , Barker Gate , I * ottinjrhun J I 2 Mellon Mowbray ~ « | ° Barnsley J } 2 I Ackworth « f « Ca-srthora •*• V 4 . V
Southampton ( for Circulars ) ... ... 1 0 10 R Barns and Friends , Newport ... ... 0 8 3 J . Uewellin and Friends , do 0 3 0 J . Williams and Friends , do 0 2 3 £ 421 4 m TOS . h ' dOVJLLL . Previously acknowledged ~ 26 12 10 J Proceeds of & Concert , City , London ... 13 0
JOB MRS . ELUS . Previously acknowledged 25 0 0 Friend ^ per Mr . Hames , Onndle 0 8 6 £ 25 8 6 Coxbsciioxs . —A misprint occurred in the list inserted in last week ' s Star . It was there represented that Mr . Cleave had received from £ s d Bounds and Ringstead 0 0 0 A few Bra 35 fouadei 8 tsnopmates ) Northampton ... 0 7 6 Edinburgh - 0 8 0 Now , these three ( seeming ) items should have been printed as two only . Thus—Eonnds and Ringstead , Northampton ... 0 7 6 A few Brassfounders ( Bhopmates ) Edinburgh . ... ... ~ * . 0 8 0 The mistake occurred from the word Northampton" having been written under " Kingstead , " there not haTing been sufficient space to write it on the same line .
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TO THE COAX MINEBU OF SKGLA 2 TD , SCOT-1 A 3 TD , AND WAISS . Pbixow Slates . —No hmnin being can any longer doubt that we are groaning under one of tine most slavish systems That ever existed under the ran ; let us , there-Are , firmly TesolTB to unite ociselTes into one grand sodety 1 st the purpose of relieving ourselves' from the dire oppression of the Coal Pit Kings . Experience teaches us that we can only accomplish this by one general union throughout the whole United Kingdom . We have seen that all previous -unions have failed in aecemplisking inefficient amelioration of oar condition , limply because tre never carried out the principle to the extent ve should have done . We are determined not
to fcs goaded on in the manner we have been , to strangle our society in its infancy by a premature strike . Sudi a measureat this time would be only satisfying the soul ' s desire of our oppressors without accomplishing anything beneficial to us , but , on the contrary , awamp the wholesome embryo of a union that , by Judicious management , will ere long make the tyrant tremble at their own imbecility . They are not content with robbing the pooi pit slaves of the Tyne and Wear cf , £ 50 , 000 ; but tbey are finin g them for-the most trivial alleged offences , so that sometimes a collier when lie feas performed a hard day ' s work , finds him * sell in debt at night
In some of the bonds there are seventeen clauses subjecting the miner to a fine of 2 s . 6 d _ It is impossible for any man to steer clear of them alL When his com comes to bank if it does not please , they can fine the itewex 2 s . SO . or 7 & as they may think proper . They can compel the men to work ; but they , in return , are jiot compelled to pay any wages . Ho , ao , they can keep it all from them if they thick proper . Are those robberies to be continued with impunity ? We advise you to become determined that they shall not ; but be Sin , be patient , or else you will rivet the chains to your phftcfrlfffr
It is better to rener patiently for a seasen , and then have liberty , than be gulled as we have been before . They are all united to & man to . oppress ihe poor . Why «> " « wt * DOt -we fake a leaf oat of their book ? If-umon be banefiaal to them , union canm . t be ftttnrffiri to ns , and passing events daily teach that we sever «> t » n have justice done us , until we are firmly -suited in one _ soiid bond throughout ths -whole Empire . United ve stand , divided -we fall . On account of the rapid and extensive increase of the "MVnpn ? PhHanthropical Society in the principal TnfnWg districts throughout England and Scotland , it is resolved to hold a general delegate meeting of all grades of miners , -whether iron , lead , or ccal . at Mr . Hamlet Booth ' s , Rosa and Grown , Shields New Bead , Newcastle-npoD-Tyre , on Monday , May 1 st , 1 S 43 ; and , as business of vast importance -Bill come before that meeting , the brethren already joined earnestly request that every colliery aad mine in * fr a United Kingdom , who are weary and heavy laden , will send a delegate to
that meeting . Fellow-men , be deteraintd!—do not be apathetic any longer ; and , spaniel-lite , licit the hand that smites yon . If you wilt join -us , no power on earth can pre-Tenfc tis from getting our rights . We have only to agree , amongst ourselves upon a plan to pursue . If we do not hel > ourselves , we cannot expect other people fa > help us . Miners from Wales , Lancashire , and Staffordshire can come to Newcastle by the packets from Xiverpool at very little expence . Colliers , arouse!—be up and be doing ; the' harvest is really ready . Men 1 as you value your lives , yon are bound to cose ; for your tyrannical drivers are determined to have wealth , »• " <* that yon must work for it . Yes , if it be at the expence ol your lives , or of the virtue of your , wives and daughters . If there baany colliery that cannot send a delegate , they can call a meeting , write a letter to me , at James Sinclair ' s , newsagent , 25 , High Bridge , Ke wcastle-upon-Tyne ; and it » illbe thankfnlly recerred .
We wHl appoint missionaries to attend any put of the country , if those places which have not yet joined the society wish us to send thtm . We sincerely hope and truit that this call will sot be in vain to the districts in the South . I « et there not be one district without a delegate at that meeting ; and yon will greatly oblige ,
y cart truly , In the cause of freedom , D-&TJ 3 ) Swallow , General Secretary ffiifoft in ^ near T > nrhain , April 17 th , 184 S .
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tation , or raise funds for any Vurpose tbe society might think fit , each man should ^ y ^ gg for nut per year , * and the first year's farms - » naal < l bring in as rent the sum of £ 2 , 520- B 7 ^ Ja means an education would be secured to the peo ^ fe , their circumstances bettered , labour made more plentiful , a borne trade ' created , and the people in a . short time made independent of the white slave ^ iJTer who has driven thonsanda to a premature gr . dve . Sis , if you think this worthy of insertion , yon will oblige me by inserting it . I have taken the kint you ga-re last week : I have in some things beenl > rief : I am afraid , been too much so . I will write again in a short time , and show that five acres of land , if properly cultivated , will produce £ 140 worth « f provisions upoa an average . Tour's , W . Bbeslbt . Newcastle , April 12 . 1843 ,
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India . —We have received by extraordinary express Calcutta papers to the 5 th ult , inclusive , brought to Alaxandria by the extra steamer Tenasserim , to Malta by the Cyclops , and thenee to Marseilles b j the Acheron . Col . Frauer was a passenger , the bearer , it was surmised , of important despatches , the precise nature of which had not transpired . The papers thta received are almost destitute of political intelligence , The successor of the late Maharajah of Gualior was to be installed on the 20 th alt ., and no opposition to his accession was to be apprehended . Lord Ellenborough | was still at Agra , whither he had proceeded from Delhi on receipt of the intelligence of the late Maharajah's decease . No news of a later date than that received by the ordinary mail had been received in Calcutta either from Soinde or CabuL
Falmouth , Apbh 19 . —The Royal mail steamer Medway , Commander Smith , arrived this afternoon with the » Ha ? annah , Jamaica , and other West India mails . Her dates are , from St . Thomas ' s , the 26 th of March , Bermuda , the 3 rd , and Fayal , the 13 th instant . She brings thirty-five passengers , and on freight 35 273 dollars ; £ 2 , 677 in doubloons , £ 640 in jewels , 1 . 637 ezs . 17 dwts . gold dnst , 929 oz . silver , and £ 7 , 000 in British gold and silver . The Royal mail steamer , Trent , brought the Jamaica mails to St . Thomas's ; her date of leaving was the 20 th March . Three severe shocks of an earthquake were felt on the morning of the 22 nd of that month off the east end of St . Domingo , Her Majesty ' s ships Illustrious , Warepite , Pique , Scylla and Imanm , were at
Jamaica . Her Majesty ' s ship Spartan had Bailed for Santa Martha . Her Majesty ' s steamer Gorgon wa 3 at Barbadoes . The Royal mail steamer Clyde , with mails from England of the 1 st of March , had arrived at St . Thomas's . The Royal mail steamer Dee left St . Thomas ' s with mailB for Demerara , &e . The Royal mail steamer Avon brought the Havannah mails to Bermuda . Just as the Medway was quitting Jamaica , Her Majesty ' s brig Scylla arrived there , having on board General Boyer , President of HaytL There was no time for the particulars relative to his visit to transpire , but it was inferred that the insurgents , or patriots , as they called themselves , had carried their point , taien possession ofPort-au-Prinee ( which was anticipated ) , and had compelled his deportation .
The British and North American Royal mail Eteamer , the Hibemia ( a new veseel ) sailed on Wednesday afternoon from Liverpool for Halifax and Boston . She carried out the largest number of passengers ever taken by any of the line to which she belongs . Several gentlemen could not be accommodated with berths , and were refused a passage .
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THE GOVERNMENT FACTORY BILL . In ths early part of the discussion on this most important measure , a daily contemporary , by so means remarkable for his delicacy of opposition to to the measures generally of the present Government , or for his hesitancy in denouncing every thing of Tory origin as compared with Whig produc tions , because so satisfied of the importance of this measure to the real interests of the country , that ,
after reviewing the opposition it was likely to encounter from the fanaticism of High Church , on the one hand , and of dissent on the other , he concluded by expressing his hope that , if these two mischievoBs parties could not be induced to lay add © in some degree their folly , all moderate and rational men would at once come to the aid of Government and take the Bill in ita present shape rather than not have it at all . We are most happy to see thia excellent advice to some extent acted acted on ; though not , we think , so largely
as it onght to be . Hitherto whenever the people en maste have been appealed ito , and have spoken on the matter , thev have held the language of rationality and sense . They have pointed out to the Government the objectionable parts of the Bill and have suggested the means of it being madelfair and equi able ; but they aave net , like Mr . E . Baihes , Jan ., come to the conclusion , that the one thing TO BE AIMED AT IS NOT TO AMEND THE BILL , BUT TO get bid OF it . TIub is the style of oratory of a few of ft eddy ' s patrons among the tub-thumpers . They
have doubtless had their commands from the green-curtained pews ; and Nzddt takes his cue in all readiness and reverence . His lectures are dealt out with an impartialness that does him credit . First , Lord Whabmcliffb is honoured by his Braying , next The Parents of Sunday Sohool Children , and now the Rev . Dr . Rked is condescendingly admitted to & share of his benign notice . Neddy is absolutely in fits and agonies about Lord John Russell ' s resolutions . Sir Jakes Graham and the Times might have been excused for their
impertinence in presuming to thrust edncation on the people . But for Lord Johnthe very breath of Whig nostrils—to play this shabby game ! to give notice of resolutions which must expose , in * 11 ita nakedness , the filthy character of the dissenting Mercurial opposition ! For Lord Johk to do this ! To take the Tory serpent by the tail , and exhibit it—a very rod of Aaron 1 And to do so without leave asked , either of Neddy or the tub-thumpers ! Oh 1 horrible ! naughty , naughty , Lord John ! O . £ e !
Do but hear how virtuously Nkddt does rebuke the peccant Lord ; Bee how he flourishes the birch as it descends upon his noble breech : — M The danger is extreme . And where , in these circumstances , lies our only hope f It lies in tjhion the most perfeet , and in tvpoar the most unceasing , among all the friends of religious liberty . ** Now , nothing can be conceived more calculated to destroy that union , and to put an end to that effort , than Lord John Russell ' s resolutions Aye , and par&coxical as it may sound , their danger is just in proportion to iheir merit . "
Faith ! Nsddt , there ' s nothing paradoxical at all in it . The rotten cause of Mammon to which you and your crew are all devoted can never suffer from anything bnt merit ; save so far as the suicidal consequenoesofyour own acts visit you . There is merit in Lord Johs ' s resolutions . They go , if honestly adopted , to make the Bill everything which an honest x&an could wish ; hence your hostility .
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" The discussion of Lord John Russell ' s Resolutions would DivEET the friends of Religions Liberty from the urgent and indispensible duty of opposing with all their might the dangerous attack on their liberties involved in Sir James Graham ' s Bill . If this were a light matter , I would make a comparison which our Country Gentlemen would understand better than they understand the principles of Religious Liberty : I would say that these Resolutions will have the same effect as the trailing of a herring across the fox ' s track , which baffles the scent of the dogs , and perhaps sends them after that which , if they come up with it , proves only to be a worthless herring , whilst the real game has made his escape . "
How provoking of Lord John I Thus to foil the scent of the pious " pack" ! and with a herring too ! the wasteful one ; not to think of the soup which might have come from it ! Mark too , how well Neddy knows the character of his associates and patrons . The " pack" ! what an admirable idea ! The hungry ours—howling after their piey , the helpless poor , with whom they Bee another u big dog" preparing to make off . O ! that herring ! ( H ) erring John what can you think of !! Bui Neddy won't take the herring bait . He knows iho smell of it , and is not to be caught ; it must be boiled not frizzled for him : —
" To Buspend our opposition to a plan so incurably had as Sir James Graham ' s , in order to discuss another so unintelligible as Lord John Russell ' s wou'd be an absolute waste ef time , as well as the sacrifice of an opportunity never to be recalled . " Thus speaks Neddf through his shrewd mediums to the " pack "; while he thus oontinues his objurgation of Lord John : — " Lord John Russell has not on this occasion entitled himself to the confidence of the friends of Religious Liberty—first , becanst he began by au illconsidered and most unfortunate defence of the Government measure ; and next , because he seems to intend to graft his own shoot upon their radically vioious stock . *
Thus , in fact , through two mortal columns of his prison sheet does this unprincipled animal labour to induce the pack" to refuse to have anything at all to do with Lord John Russell ' s resolution , and to persevere in their vociferous rejection of the entire Bill . The consequence of this will be that the resolutions of Lord John , not being backed by the parties whose objections they aro supposed to represent , will lose much of that imposing attitude which they might otherwise have taken and will command nothing of the respectful attention from
Government which they must otherwise have had . They will , in all probability be rejected . The Bill will be passed nearly in its present form , and the really honest and conscientious of the Dissenters , together with the mass of the rate-payers generally , will have to thank Neddy and the tub-thumpers for any inconveniences to which , in its operation , they may be subjected . Lord John ' s resolutions , as we have already said —if honestly conceived and adopted—are sufficient to render the Bill—in this department of it—all that an honest man could wish for . True the first
of Lord John ' s resolutions is a little misty . He provides for an adequate representation of the rate-payers at the Board of Trustees ; but he does not say exactly what he would consider an adequate representation . We should interpret this to mean the election of the whole Board . But in any way let the ratepayers be adequately—fairly —represented , and , on that score , wo are satisfied . He provides also that the Trustees shall elect their own Chairman ; thus doing away with the invidiousness of the respect paid to the clergyman , by making him perpetual chairman : indeed it does not necessarily follow from Lord John ' s resolutions that the clergyman shall be a trustee at all .
"The third , fourth and fifth of Lord John Ressel ' s resolutions provide for the religious education of children of Churchmen , Dissenters and Roman Catholics , on principles which would secure to all a large amount of religious instruction without interfering with the peculiar opinions of any . According to this plan , the Holy ScriptureB in the authorised version are to be read by and taught in these schools to all Protestant children , whother belonging to the Church or Dissenters , whilst a special provision is to be made for the instruction of
Roman Catholic children whose parents object to the reading of the authorised version . Nothing can be fairer than thia . These resolutions likewise provide that children educated in the schoola during the week , shall be allowed on the Sunday to attend any sohool and any place of worship their parents may think fit . And in order that Dissenters , when qualified , may not be excluded from teaching in these schools , they further provide that the religious instruction , except so far as the reading of the Sacred Scriptures is concerned , shall be given by the clergyman of the parish , or by some person appointed by him , to ths children belonging to the Established Church , and that it shall be given apart from the ordinary leasona of the school . "
The eighth of Lord John ' s resolutions provides against that really objectionable clause which would draw a line of distinction between the British and Foreign , and other efficiently conducted Dissenting schools . There can certainly be no reason why a certificate should not be received as readily from a Wesleyan , or an Unitarian , or an Independent or a New Jerusalem school efficiently conducted , as from a British and Foreign , or a Roman Catholio school ; and Lord John's resolutions provide that this Bhall be so . "There is every reason to think that a measure of education , founded
on the principles asserted in the above resolution , would give general , if not universal satisfaction . We regret much , therefore , to see the honest-minded and well-meaning Dissenters , of whom there are thousands—knowing nothing of the Bill but that which they are told by Neddv , and the tub-thumpers , induced by these utterly unprincipled and dishonest leaders to run a-muck" at the whole Bill , instead of strengthening the hands of Lord John Russell for the carrying of these reasonable and proper
rdaotions . One good effect of this mad-dog-ism on the part of Dissenters is , that it has considerably qualified the harrassment of Government by High Church bigots . They have regained sense and coolness , as the others seem to lose ; and just for this reason ybecause they see , as we do , in the bnll-headedness of Dissenters the safety ot the Chorea dominaney which they desire . Hence , their opposition is diverted from the Bill , and turned to Lord John ' s resolutions , which they declare will render the Bill an unbearable curse .
So that poor Lord John and his resolutions stand now between the two fires , while the Government Bill , in its original form , gets rid of one formidable source of opposition entirely , and is enabled to laugh at the other , from its divided weakness . Neddy is not far wrong , therefore , when be says : — f " Let bo one be so thongbtlesB as to suppose that there is the remotest chance of those resolutions being carried . Lord John Russell can no more carry his resolutions next month , than he can next month enter the Queen ' s Cabinet as Prime Minister . "
There can be no doubt that if Lord John Rubsell ' s resolutions bad been well backed up by the Dissenters he would have carried them . The tone with which Sir J . Geahak received them amounted almost to » pledge to that effect . But with the ravings against them of Ned » y and the tubthumpers ; while the Government can point Lord John to the fact that the parties on whose behalf he purpots to act repudiate hiB resolutions is never likely to carry them .
The Bill will , we have no doubt , be carried very much in its present form ; somewhat modified and amended it may be . We hope , certainly , that Lord John Russell ' s eighth resolution will be embodied in it ; but it certainly is in email danger from the idle raving for its entire rejeotion of Is ' edbt and the tab-thumpers . If it were so , we should be inclined , with our contemporary , to say , " Let all rational and moderate men come to the aid of the Government" j . « i ub have
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Education—without clerical ascendancy , if possible—but , in any case , let us have Education . And after all—supposing it should pass even in its present form—what is the mighty bugbear—so far as Education is concerned , of which we have heard so much braying and thumping from Neddy and his sleek-haired patrons t The Spectator has a few words on the matter well put . We borrow them : —
" In order to estimate the value of the objections to the details of Sir James Graham's educational clauses , let us briefly enumerate their provisions . They go to establish schools under the management of a Looal Board of Trustees , subjected to the inspection of four lay Inspectors , with a Btaff of assistant Sub-Inspectors , and to the control of the Educational Committee of the Council . The Local Board is to consist of the Clergyman and the Churchwardens of the district , ex-officio Trustees ; and four other Trustees , two of whom muBt be
occupiers of Factories employing ohildren , chosen by the district Justices of the Peace out of persons assessed at a certain sum to the poor , or out of those who have contributed a certain proportional sum to the entire cost of the sohool . Every person giving a Bite to a sohool shall be one of the Trustees during his wnole life . This Board is tied down to certain ( regulations for insuring due respect to the religious persuasions of the parents of ohildren attending the schools . The Bible , and ne other book of religion whatever , " is to be taught to all the pupils :
instruction in the peculiar doctrines of the Church of England , " one hour in each day , " is to be given ; but scholars whose parents desire that they shall not be present at such instruction shall not be compelled to attend . The scholars are to attend the service of the Church once a-dayon Sundays , unless the parents desire them not to do so , on the ground of religious objections . And the Educational Committee of the Privy Counoil are , through their Inspectors appointed by the Queen , that iB by her Minister , to watch over the observance of these regulations and enforce them .
" These arrangements put the entire controul of this partial system of National Education in the hands of the Civil Government . A majority of the Looal Trustees are appointed by the Justices of the Peace , who are appointed and removable at pleasure by Government . The Inspectors are appointed by Government . The Educational Committee of of the Priry Council have the power of checking every contravention of the regulations made to in-Bure liberty of conscience . Sir Robert Peel ' s Government are endeavouring to put into the hands
6 f the Ministers of Education created by Lord Melbourne ' s Government the means of educating the people . The system of schools contemplated by the present Government Bill must be worked in the sense of the Ministers of the day ; and the Ministers Of the day must conform to the sense of the House of Commons aad its constituents . This , in the present advanced stage of public opinion , is no bad guarantee that the administration of the schools will not be tainted with a proselytizing or an intolerant spirit .
" Bat this approbation of the broad outline of the measurseis quite consistent with a desire that every thing in Ub details to which well-founded objections can be urged should be amended . All the objections of any plausibility or weight that have been urged against the Bill are in reality objections to details . They all resolve into apprehensions entertained by the Dissenters and liberal Churohmen that the measure may be perverted into a system of proselytism .
" Regarding this measure , as it ought to be regarded with a total absence of all partisan feeling , and solely with a view to the effects it is calculated to produce upon society at large , we see no reason why the most zealous Churchman should object to Sir J . Graham ' s Bill , modified to meet the amendments suggested in Lord Joen Russell ' s resolutions ; or why , on ihe other hand the staunohest friend of civil and religious liberty should hesitate to support it . Nay , with regard to the objections urged against the constitution of the Local Boards
contemplated by the original bill , it does appear , tbat with Ministers so completely in the power of the House of Commons as the Minister of this country are—with sonstltuenoies in which the Dissenters are probably more powerful than they would be under a more extended franchise—with the growing feeling in favour of secular education , and an unfettered press—the control vested in the Committee of the Privy Council for Education would be found sufficient to counteract any danger from that source . "
With these sentiments of the Spectator we entirely concur , and entreat that the people will see to it , that the honest and well-meaning of the dissenters through the whole country be not hood-winked by Nsddt and his (> pack ; " that they hare Lord John Russell ' s resolutions duly explained to them , and that they be entreated to direct their petitions in favour of those resolutions , and not against the Bill . We may in that case hope to see a sufficient strength in the shape of Parliamentary support
to enable Lord John to carry these resolutions if he be disposed to do so ; while , on the other hand , if they are determined to keep up the yelping of the " pack , " and to go against the Bill entirely , it is then we think clearly the duty of all rational and moderate men to come at once to the aid of Government , and show the tub-thumpers that National Education and universal Welfare are not matters to bo tamely sacrificed , or lightly thrown into the froth tub of polemical discussion .
Amidst all the hubbub on the Education question , the " pack" contrive always to throw their wee negative on the entire Bill . This we have before asserted , and are still satisfied , arises from their objeotion . not to its educational , but to its protective oiauBes , which they lack the courage to attack openly . We hear not a word from them in reprobation lof the really iniquitous portion of the BUI , the lugging into the hell-holes of infants eight years of age . This ought not for an instant to be tolerated ; the people ought with one voice to reject this as eagerly
as they receive the real boon of education . The re opening of the subject , too ^ should be taken advantage of to remind Government that nearly the entise medical talent of Great Britain , and a great majority of the moat estimable among the clergy , gentlemen , and magistrates , have long since laid before Parliament their solemn asseveration and conviction that the permitting of young personsaye , or even of adult persons , but especially of young persons , and more especially young femalesto labour in those moral and physical pest-houses fo
so long a period , as the law now compels from them , is destructive of their health , morals , and comforts , and tends to a constant depreciation aud ultimate abrogation of all tbat is great and valuable in society . These are the real matters to which pubio attention should be pointed ; these are the thingB in which the Bill needs amendment ; but these suit not Neddy and the "Pack . " They have no hope to get rid of the protective clauses contained in the Bill ; no hope to shuffle out of the pains and penalties threatened to the " Pack" for violation of its necessary and humane provisions . This is the real secret of the " cry" which they
have opened * and of their anger at Lord John Rus sell for throwing the " herring" of bis resolutions across the " trail . " Nothing could prove more conclusively than does the manner in which the " pack " treat this seemingly fair and honest attempt of Lord John Russell to meetall their objections ; that those objections are , as we first pronounced them , perfectly insincere and knavish , and form the index only to a disposition which , were it not placed within wholesome trammels , would revel heartlessly and joyously in toil and misery , making indifferent merchandise of groans and tears , and blood and bones , and bodies and souls , so that " profit" might bat result , and ihe " filthy lucre" be hauled in .
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Aberdeen Chartists . —Mr . Hill will have g- eat pleasure \ in visiting them at the time he visits Scotland . ] Will they send the exact address of their Secretary ^ that he may communicate with him hereafter ? J . P ., Kelso ;— The Chartists of England arid Scotland may \ be all united in one organisation and by one rule ; but we have never yet seen a plan which would effect it . We shall , if no one else does , in all probability yet propose such a plan to them . We have always held it to be a most important matter for accomplishment . Let us , if possible , have but one union for the entire king ' dom . ; Thb South j Shields Canting TuB-THirMPEBS . — There can be no doubt that Beesley and Kidd have a good action for false imprisonment and also for assault . They should prosecute by all
means . ; A Democrat , Hindley —We are quite aware « f the grammatical inconsistency referred to by his first question ; but have a reason for persisting in it , sufficiently strong for our own satisfaction , though it \ is neither necessary nor convenient to assign it here . His second question is not stated with sufficient clearness to enable us perfectly to answer it ; as he does not tell us what proficiency he has made in algebra , or whether he knows anything at all of it or not . If he be , as we suspect , a uiorking man , with little time for study and little [ money to spend on books or teachers , and no knowledge at all of the principles of the science , we recommend to him Fenning ' s Algebra , price 2 s . 6 d .
In answer to various requests , Mr . Ruffey Ridley respectfully declines lecturing till the re Organization of the Chartist body . Letters for Mrs . Ellis may be addressed as follows : Mrs . Ellis , ca * e of Fletcher Mandley , Commercial-street ' , Burslem , Staffordshire Potteries . Will some of the secretaries of the associations formed for the purpose of erecting halls for the , working classes have the kindness to forward copies of their articles to Robert M' Whinnie , No . 2 , James ' s \ place , Edinburgh 1 All communications for the Hull Chartists must in future be [ addressed Mr . Wm . Smith , sub-secretary , 8 , Vinar-lane ^ Hull . Holmfibth . —We know nothing of Mr . Marsden er his tour , i
Trades' Unions . —Cost op Stbikks . — Will some correspondent who is familiar with the fact send us an estimate of the amount expended in the vaiious strikes that have occurred tr * recent years , specifying dates and sums , and all other particulars of circumstance . We wish especially for information as to the great Fent Strike at ' Bamsley among the linen weavers in 1821-2 , and the previous one , a year or two before that , for an advance of wages : also the
Bradford Strike of somewhere about that date : and the Leeds Strike of a mere recent period : and the Mason ' s Strike . We wish for full statistical information respecting all these , and any other exhibitions of the power and determination ef the people . T . T ., BoltonI—Received : thanks . H ., Kna&esbo&ovqb—Received too late . Ebbata . —In our last , in an article on the " Repeal of the Union ? ' the word London tons printed instead of Dublin ; and in the same paragraph
appeared the word barons instead of barristers . Grimshaw and Co . —The alteration in thei' advertisement received at this office on Friday morning , was too late to be attended to , that portion of our paper ] in which it appears having been printed off .
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LEEDS . —Sheriff ' s Court . —On Monday last , J . H . Hill , Esq ., sheriff ' s assessor , held a court at the Court House , Leeds . There were only four causes entered for trial , and none of them were of any public importance , and only one of them was defended . In Proctor v . Appleyard , a verdict was taken for the plaintiff by consent , for £ 2 . 8 s . 7 dL , the sum claimed . la Cutler v . Read and another , an action for wages from Clcokheaton , a verdict was returned for the defendant . In Dtxon and another v . Elam , whioh was undefended , a verdict was taken for the sum claimed , £ 2 , 16 s . The fourth case , that of Hprsfield aud another v . Garnett and another , was withdrawn .
Obstructing the Police . —On Monday last , a man named Johlu Matteer was fined 203 . and costs , for interfering jwith the police , whilst taking into custody a disorderly character named Edwin Holliday ; the latter was fined 5 s . and costs , for being druuk . : Stealing Shoes . —On Monday last a man named George Sykes was charged at the Court House , before . Messrs Baines and Musgrave , with having stolen a pair of men ' s shoes from a stall in Briggate , occupied by Mr . W . Brown , of New Wortley . The prisoner was seen to take thesboes , on Saturday night , during the temporary absence of the prosecutor from the stall , and when apprehended they were found in his pocket . He pleaded intoxication , which he said had deprived him of all recollection of the affair . The bench committed him for trial at the next
sessions . A Disorderly Pauper . —On Monday , a woman named Charlotte Scarf was brought before the magistrates at the Court-House , charged with being drunk and disorderly , and with begging on Sunday afternoon . The prisoner , it appears , is an out-pauper belonging the township of Hunslet , from whence she has received an allowance of 23 . 6 d . per week ; this besides her earnings , was sufficient to have kept her from begging , but her habits being shown to be very intemperate , and her conduct altogether very bad , she was committed to Wakefield House of Correction for one month . ]
A Drunken Spree . —On Monday last , Thomas Fearnley , a horse breaker , from Ossett , was brought before ' the Leeds Magistrates , at the Court House , on a charge of disorderly conduct in the streets , and furious driving , on Saturday evening last . Fearnley had eome to Leeds on a young horse , which be was ' engaged to break in , and whilst here had indulged rather too freely in the juice of John Barleycorn . He so mismanaged his horse in riding through the streets that he was thrown off , and great fears were entertained by the market people from his coaduct ; some , indeed , bad very narrow escapes . [ The police ultimately Jecked him op . He was fined 20 s . and costs .
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TO THB XDITOB OF TBS K 0 BTHEB 3 STAR . Deas Sib ., —There is sow some hope tbat the agita ^ ion for the People ' s Charter will , erelong , bebrongfat to a successful elose . A cry is now raised throngh the laud "by the workiea for some practical measure to be connected wi > n our movement—something that will , Whilst they are strangling for tha Charter , benefit their condition , and prove to the Government and those Who are opposed to our principles , that the people have at last arrived to that state of political kao-wled ^ e that they have found out the highway that leads to tbe city of freedom , and which it is impassible for the Government to block up . The cry is f © i the Lajtd , the Laud , the Iasd ; and , bo eager are they to get it , that it is sow the only topic of conversation .
Tbe letters and lectures of Mi . O'Connor have had a magie effect in producing this mighty change in the public mind , together with the articles and letters Which has ol late appeared in that valuable organ ef i the ; people * a , the iforaern Star . The question now iaj Jk >» are -we to get it ? Tiiis question may be answered ' , in many wsys ; and bow should it be allotted out ? j Mr . Editor , I would beg leave to jnfgest one plan . \ and leave it in the bands of tbe people to be improved \ irpon . Snpposinf we had 100 , 000 Chartists that ! "Would subscribe threepence per -week . ' Tbat , I be- < Here , would amount to . £ 1 , 250 weekly , or s £ 65 , ooo <
annually , for the purpose either of purchasing theland , or taking it npon a long lease . We will sup- \ pose the latter , that we take 1000 acres of land upon & i lease of ninety years . I would divide 780 acres into i small i&rma of five acres each , that would make 140 fsxms . 1 would build 140 cottages , so that each family might inhabit its own dwelling . I would build a public kitchen and dining-room , so that all the cooking might be performed at once , and by tbat means save & great amonntof tronHe ; and in order that a brotherly feeling might "be cultivated amongst them , they should all dine together in one room .
A school and library should be established , and a fiat-rate teacher or teachers engaged to educate the ¦ yonng , sad , at stated times , instruct the adults . A lecture room should also be erected , in which lectnres should be delivered at certain periods upon different subjects . The cottages and dining-room should be so built , that the families should in wet weather be enabled to go to the dining-room under cover . Now . to pay the salaries of the Bchoolmasten , lecturers , fcc ., the 300 acres that ii left from 700 , sltonld bs cultivated by the 140 farmers upon the estate for nothing , and the produce ol the 200 acres should be-sold to clear the expenses above stated , The society to be enrolled under
Act of Parliament , ana tbe c £ cers to be elected i > y the whole body of subscribers . — Tbe expenses for establishing the farms we will suppose to be as follows : —Building 140 collages , £ 60 each , £ 8 , * 00 ; £ 50 for stocking each farm , ** ., £ 7 , 000 j j £ * 0 fax eadi tamlly to live upon until tbe Ststcrop beprodnced , £ 5 , 6 * 8 j building dining-room , kitchen , school , andlecture-reom £ 1 . 500 ; library £ 100 yw « fronld amount to £ 22 , 600 . Thus yon see Dearly 3 , t 8 e acres of IanS eonld be taken and itocked every year , snd 430 families could be amply provided lor , and a large numbe ? of Chartists employed in " the building of cottages , and also the muting of furniture , fcc : aad in order to take more farms , or V > spread the pgi-
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TO MY jGOOD FRIENDS MEETING IN GARDEN-STREET , BURY . My Friends—I fear there is eome misunderstanding : and lest there should be , I trouble you with this explanation ; given here because U would be impossible to write to each , and I am desirous to prevent disappointment or misapprehension by any . Some weeks ago I received a letter from a gentleman in Bury inviting me , on your behalf , to come over at my earliest convenience , and preach two sermons for the anniversary Of your Sunday school . This letter , and many others of a like kind , I answered in the Star , fixing ! Sunday next as the time for my
visiting you for that purpose . On Sunday last , while at service in Carpenter ' s Hall , a letter from the same gentleman was put into my hands , apprising me that you were not prepared for so early a visit , and that it would oblige greatly if I could delay for a fortnight . I wrote him from Manchester on Monday , ! in reply , agreeing to do so—asking if the 7 th of May would suit better—and requesting that I might I hear from you , fixing a definite tim « , which I would try to suit . I have received ho direct answer ; but I have received a note from Mr . D / xon ot Manchester , stating that a person from Bury had been at his house , and tbat the whole
neighbourhood bad been posted with announcements for my two sermons on Sunday- next , the 23 rd inst . Now , all I can say is , tbat if this statement be correct , I regret it ; because , on receipt of the former letter , requesting me to delay my visit for another fortnight , I made arrangements for being elsewhere on that day , whioh arrangements I cannot now break through . If your Committee will fix on a precise day when they wish to have me , and will let me know exactly , I will try to suit their time and to give you sacb notice as may prevent any further disappointment or annoyance to either you or me . . I am your faithful friend , W . Hut . Northern Star , Leeds , Friday , April 2 lst , 1843 .
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FOR THB NATIONAL DEFENCE FUND . ' : £ . 8 . < L From the Landlord of Bear-lane Chapel , per F . W . Simeon , Bristol 0 5 0 ,. a few friends at Whit wick , per J . Skevington , Loughborough ... 0 4 6 „ a few friends at Haworth , per John Townend 0 5 0 „ Hunslet , per J . Longbottom 0 3 0 yoa MR . COCltBCEM , OF NEWCASTLE . From ft Chartist , Alfreton 0 16
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DieousTiNG Conduct . —On Monday J * ** itaxen * named Peter Scruton , residing va wpewQ street , and Harriet , his wife , were hroa f f ^ , ^ r ^> the Leeds magistrates , at the Court HW . ^ . former for an assault , with a felonious wjg ^ two little girls , of the respective ages of sej ^ d twelve years of age ; and the latter wi tbaidfflg ^ abetting him in his beastly conduct . Aa ° * ' ¦ $ & are unfit for publication . The woman flTi / M charged , the magistrates seeing that stte , 2 L , fined under tbe influence of her husband , tie ww » ^ £ 5 , including costs , and , in default of payment to Wakefield for two mouths .
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Thb Qtjzeh . —The interesting situation" of the Queen is made tbe subject of daily reports in the London prints . She appears , from all that we can gather , to have passed the time prescribed for her by the gossips when she onght to have brought forth another proof of her affection for her subjects . The Queen , it is said , has behaved rather ill in this ; she has actually deprived her ministers of their Easter holidays , as they have had to dance attendance at her bedside , instead of kicking their heels in the country during the Easter recess .
The Does of Sussex . —This iRoyal Duke , who has been for some time suffering nnder severe illness , seems to be fast sinking under disease and old age . Several physicians and surgeons are in hourly attendance upon him , but their services seem , from the tenor of the London papers , to be of little avail . Of course , daily bulletins are issued , and the " greatest interest" is said to be manifested on his behalf , all the hangers on upon Royalty paying their devoted respects at hia residence . Lojtdot Stock Exchange , Thtjbsdat Evening . — Bnsiness was rather brisker in the English funds
to-day , an increase being occasioned by the commencement of public transfers in the reduced securities . As this particular class of stock was in good demand at advanced prices , the feeling is that in all probability the Government will forego the long anticipated decrease of interest , and seek by some more popular financial operation to economise the expenditure on the debt of the country . There were no transactions of particular interest negotiated in the course of the business of the day , but nevertheless on the whole the market in every respect was better and more firmly supported than previously .
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ELECTION OF CHURCHWARDENS . The election of ohnrohwardens for the Leeds Parish Church took place at a vestry meeting , held for the purpose on Thursday last , at noon . The Rev . the Vicar took the chair precisely ^ twelve o ' clock , and read the notice by which tha meeting had been convened . Before any further business was proceeded with , Mr . Wh . Brook , tobacconist , Kirkgate , said fie believed there were numbers of workmen who could not gain admittance to tho vestry , and others who had gone to the Court House in the expectation that the meeting would be adjourned to that place . He begged to propose , therefore , that the meeting be adjourned to the Court House . This having been seconded ,
Mr . Thomas Morgan moved , as an amen dment that the adjournment be to the Cloth Hall Yard ! ( Cries of " No , no . ") The Yicar— I will pat the question of adjournment first , and determine on the place afterwards . On a show of hands being called for , tbe ad > journment was carried , and the Vicar then ad * iourned the meeting to the Court House .
ADJOURNED MEETING . The Vicar having taken the chair at the Court House , again read tbe notice by whioh the meeting had beea called . The Vicar then said , —The Archdeacon having determined to swear in such Churchwardens as in the chapelries shall be elected by the ministers and inhabitants of those chapelries , irrespective of thia meeting , we are assembled this day merely to ap » point the wardens the Parish Church . The ofiice of warden in a church , is compared to that of a constable in civil affairs ; and each warden will havfl to appear before the Venerable Archdeacon , and swear that he will faithfully and diligently dischargi
the duties of bis office . Among other things ha has to swear that he will keep the church is good repair , preserve ita property , and make pro < vision for tho services . Moreover , he solemnly swears to be present at the services of the Parish Church on all Sundays and holidays ; to takg care that no disorder be committed in the church during tbe time of service ; bat that all things are kept orderly and quiet . In the law books it is stated that if in the regular attendance at church , or in any other particular , the Churchwardens wiifullj fail , they are guilty ot a breach of their oath , &c 4 load their souls with the sin of perjury . As it is clear from this that no conscientious Dissenter from
the Churoh of England can hold the office of Church warden , if a Dissenter from the Church of England be elected , he hath liberty by the Act of Toleration U offer to the Archdeacon a deputy to be sworn into the said office in bis stead , and to discharge it for him . This clause was obtained by conscientionj Dissenters in the Toleration Act , because , without » violation ofconscience . theydeclaredit to beimpossiblj to become a Churchwarden . Archdeacon Musgmt desires the Churchwardens , old and new , to waft upon him , at tho Royal Hotel , in Leeds , on the 31 st of May , at the hour of nine in the forenoon , —tie old to give in their presentments , and to bring it their terriers ; the new to make their declare tion of conformity to the Church and due obedience to its laws , and also to receive from him , their rejj . gious superior , his instructions and commands , as
the sworn servants of tho Church . I would recoai mend the Churchwardens for this year to pay $ expenses by subscription among their friends , atj not by a church-rate , as on the subject of churchrates there is an action now pending . I now so minate W . Milthorpo Maude , Esq ., of Knostrop , WT& my Churchwarden for the year ensuing . Mr . Thos . Morsan said , he had a list to proposs of gentlemen competent to fill the offioo ofcnurelwardens . He proposed the following list—Mr . Thos . Whitehead , 81 , Darley-street . Mr . Geo . Read , tobacconist , Briggate . < Mr . John Jackson , corn miller , Meadow-lane . Mr . John Barr , printer , Cheapside . Mr . Jos . Saville , Ryder ' s Buildings , Chatham-si , M ; . Wm . Baron , tailor , Plum-street . Mr . Mark Richardson , Beckett-street , Burm&&& tofts . ^ —
Mr . Richard Bramley said , that in duty to Ht church at whioh he worshipped , he came forward k propose as churchwardens a list of gentlemen cob ? necled therewith . He did so because he thoagltf that in all reason the duties of the Parish Chord ought to be carried oat by those Who conformed tt her doctrines , and who believed in their validity . El therefore begged to propose Mr . F . Pickering , St . Peter ' s-square , gentleman , Mr . George Buimer , Assembly Court , surgeon . Mr . John Nelson , Jan ., Briggate , ironmonger . Mr . Thomas Garland , North-street , druggist . Mr . Enoch Hardwick , Buslingthorpe , gentlemu . Mr . Mark Walker , Byron-street , flax-spinner .
Mr . Robert Taylor , Merrion-streefc , butcher . Mr . Wm . Brook , said he bad a list to propose fa the office of Churchwarden , and in the first p lace la had to complain of the conduct of the Whigs ® this occasion ; they had been trying to sift the Chutist body as to what names they were go ing to propose for the office of Churchwarden , and had gm about their business in the-most unworthy , maa and sneaking manner , both amongst what thej called their own friends aud also amongst the Chutist ranka . He was about to propose a list , aid from that list the meeting would see ( the Whip ) bad endeavoured to get one oat of it—Mr . Job Jackson ; lor he dare be bound to say that if they
had been led by their own choice , and hid no unworthy motive to stimulate them , thj would not have chosen him , ( Hear . ) But they wanted to divide tbe Chartist ranks by professing to put forward one whom they knew was too libeal by half for them . He hoped , however , the working men of Leeds would stick true to the list which fi was about to propose , and show to the Whig ? tint this time they were not to be led into any collision " We , " said the speaker , despise Whigs —( oheen ) There is not a body in existence by whom we tan been half so much deceived as by them ; but I hope on this occasion you will show that you baw proper estimate of their true character , and
wnvince them thai ; you are no louger to be decem by them—( cheers . ) I have Mr . James Dafton ia my list , and I have been told that they had hia in theirs also . I am not surprised that they have not , because in the Town Counoil both Whigs and RmJj cals have combined against him to kee {> him out of all committees , the reason being that he is too honea for them . " Mr . Brook then proposed the follow ^ list : — Mr . John Jackson , oorn-miller , Meadow Lanft Mr . John Sanderson , cloth dresser , Chatham-si Mr . Thomas Clarkson , shoemaker , Central Utf * ket . . Mr . John Stubbs , press-setter , Marlboron gB
Street . . Mr . George Hobson , shopkeeper . Brewery Fie * Mr . George Brambam , flour dealer , West-stre »> Mr . James Dufton , broker , Sfc . Peter ' s Square . There being no other propositions , the VicASflw that before proceeding to put the names to u » meeting , he would just state that last year ®' working classes came to that Hall on a simutf occasion to the present , and there they deternuD * upon electing Churchwardens from their ewn Mdj j and this he must Bay , they were the only b ™ Jf * Churchwardens he had had , since he came to Lewi who had conducted themselves in , an honourw « i straightforward , and gentlemanly manner . { Vf ^ in «? oheeraA Thev told him at once , on entering OP ?
their office , that on many points they disagreed * J » him , but said that , having taken the offl « J , M 9 were determined conscientiously to discharge ' » duties . They had done so , and therefore he tow not wish for better churchwardens than tho » flj had had during the laBt year , except , indeea . wj would favour him with those who belonged wm Parish Church ; and perhaps of these they £ » give him a few—( Cries from some of the > W » * Never" ) . He might state that he should not F the names to the meeting in lists ; but ea « n " •"" separately , as he had been advised it would ba m » regular . . « , » The names were then taken , one from ea « n " « J and announced by the Chairman , after whicn ww were put separately to the vote . The ** && *> ' * . prised in Mr . Morgan ' s list , with the except Mr . Jackson , who was also proposed by Mr . * " * £ were minnortfid bvafew Btr&firfiTlinS VOteSi n 0 :: ' .
ceeding , we think , half a dozen for any oneofjw" *! those in Mr . Bramley's list received the-W " £ probably fifty ; while for every name Vt 0 Vjj L { Mr . Brook a whole forest of hands appearea , they were carried amidst tremendous cheering . ^ Rev . Chairman declaring them duly elected , n » u once dissolving the meeting . , t . tin The decision of the Vicar seemed to t *" ^ Whigs by surprise ; they had come to tne pe ^ g " big with speech , " aad were sadly disa ppomtea having to waste their rhetoric in murmuring •« pavement , as they retired to their homes ia ^ dudgeon . The Vicar , however , gained f « H " " the praise of all good men . - XfAtfi Mr . Wm . Bbook then proposed , and *«• . £ ?{« Jones seconded , a vote of thanks to the T 1 ^ t ' ti ( , n his gentlemanly conduct in the ohair . Tne nww wag carried by acclamation- v . t . whea ' The Vicab returned thanks , and said tbat w ^ ever he was called to a similar post he bop ** ^ should always conduct himself with strict W »* and impartiality . , , nMAeed * The meeting then dissolved , the whole pf °% inga having only occupied half an hour an » » minutes .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 22, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct647/page/4/
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