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THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1841.
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PRICE ONE SHILLING , HYMNS FOB PUBLIC WOESHIP SUITABLE FOR CHARTIST CONGREGATIONS , rp HIS is a desidsratum which is seriously felt , and X it is hoped that the present effort will be thought efficient t « supply it . In order that some idea may be had of how many should be printed , it is urgently requested that all the sereral localities , AnwAout the Kingdom , will consider of the Number likely to be required , and scud , through their Sub-secretaries , to the Editor of the Chartist Hymn Booh , h , M&Tketstreet , Leeds ; pre-payiug their letters , of course .
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CONVENTION . ' THE PROVISIONAL EXECUTIVE TO THE PEOPLE OF EJfQL . VXD , SCOTLAND . AJTD WALES . Brothkbs js thb Cavss of Dehocbact , —In eoBBequence of the conflict of opinien regarding the selection if ten persona ( from those nominated ) to form tiie forthcoming Convention , we do wrt consider it right to bare anything at all to do with such selectionjbo t we would reooamend thefpHowmg « on » e to the cc . untry :-Let thew be * public meeting called immediately in every town , and aU tbft tvaraons isorain » ted submitted to « ach pnbKo nwettng , which meetin z shall cbooee te » from th « wbote tet ; ot
let all returns be forthwith sent to the Jsauors the Northern Star , ScoUtA Patriot , and DunA * Chronicle "newspapers , who ^ Siall publish * correct account of the whole proceedings . By this meaas , whichever ten wonld have the sanction of the —reatest number of public meetings woaia be toe ^ erit » fcl 6 TepresentatiTes « f the people . This method , in oar opinion , wonld be the best that eoala be « depted ; and we confess ire see no other plaw by wok * -satisfaction can be . given to all parties . The - peblkwieetinirs could afi take place next week , and the lesnlt published in the above-named newspspen on Saturday , tbe 17 th insUnt , and the Con-Tentien meet in London as Boon as necessary
after-• wards . We do not decline tskiag the affair into oar own iandsfrom any direspcct toany individnal , butbec&use it might form a dangerous precedent in an Executive body , by too much power being placed at their dispose ! , and , in the end , bring them into collision with the people ; a circumstance which must carefully be guarded against . We remain , your fellow-labourers in the cause of genuine Chartism , James Leech , President . James Cartledge , Richabd Littles . John Campbell , Secretary .
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THE PROVISIONAL EXECUTIVE TO THE CHARTISTS OP BSGLAND AT * D WALES . Fellow-Democrats , —We call upon you to send J « the names of the persons you will nominate as candidates for the permanent Execntive , bj Saturday , the 24 th instant , at the farthest ; in order that correct lists my be made out , sad sent to each sub-Secretary "We \ rould wish you to bear in mind that we Hrill not ( because we cannet ) be accountable for any nomination of any person , -unless an account ee sent to the General Secretary , of tbe individuals nominated , by letter . We do this to ensure punctuality , and to prevent mistakes ; and then we will get the -whole list printed . © a circulars , and send one to each sub-Secretary , with injtructiens concerning the elections . James Leech , President . Jajies Cakiledge .
Kicsaed Littles , Johs Campbell , Secretary . All communications must be made to Mr . John Campbell , 18 , Adderley-street , Shaw ' s Brow , Salford , Man caester .
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TBDH QXT& LONDON COERESPOXDEXT . Wednesday Evening , April 7 lh . [ k statement in my last week ' s comnmcicaticra ( relative to the Corn Law League ) HaTing beeu declared erroneous , by a letter from " one of the reporters " to the Weekly Dispiich , inserted in that paper of Sunday last , I beg to &ay , that my informant is in every way entitled to nuplicu belief ; and that , if there * be any error in my statement , it is About equal to this : —instead of haviEg used the term " bother , " I ought to have said " fuss . " As to the facts stated by me , relating to " our contemporary , " I have only to add , that they were related to me shortly after ths application , and before the meeting . So that , claaily , the " error " is noi of our making . ]
ChaKTISJI LV LOCGHBOBOCGH , LeICESTEB , AND JfontXGHAM . —I have been favoured with the snjht of a private letter from Mr . Vincent , dated " 2 S ottingr . &ni , April 3 rd , " in -which the following interesting passages occur : — " Tnose who hope to cruah Chartism know but little of the spirit which bow animates ihe people . Daring the pasi fortnight , I have visited the towns of Leicester , Loughborough , and Nottingham ; and ihe people in . ail thtsa towns are speedily advancing in morality and intelligence , Kid in a desire to obtain their political and social Tights . Persecution has not abated the zeal of the Charast party . All is activity , and everything bears evidence to the onward pi ogress of our cause . - - - - In Loughborouib , I delivered tnree
lectures to crowded aadieaces . The people are mUerably poor . The men engaged in the stocking tra . de are in . & shocVvng Btate of destitution , iiiny ol them work froa six o ' clock in the morning till twelve o ' clock as night , and do not earn ( after deducting rent foi fr ? nies , and other expences ) moke thas T 2 X ) M 53 . to 6 s . a week 1 Little -children , of both 8 exes , are put to work as early as from fife to six years of age . These children work from si * in the morning till nine at night . They c&d earn from one shilling to one and nmepence a week , ^ o time for education or moral culture . All is toil , destitution , disease , and ignorance . The people generally are Onrusis ; many of them teetotalim . There i 3 a Chartist Teetotal Society , and a society composed of those who are not teetotallers .
In Leicester , I delivered four lectures in the New Bail ; » bon » 600 attended at each lecture ; many of the middle classes , including numbers of ladies , were present . At the close of my 1 ast lecture , I administered the Chartist , teetotal pledge to sixty-three persons . ---In Nottingham , I have delivered three lectures in the Jarge theatre . This is a famous Radicai town . Reading-rooms and libraries abound ; though some of them are unfortunately held at pubiic houses . - ¦ f - - - - I am delighted urita the people of Kotting-ham ; and I may safely assert , that Lever did the Chartist cause look so flourisaiiig . " A subse Inen t letter says : — " I have had the devil-to-pay at > erby . Three rooms were engaged , and taken trom
ns . Last night ( Monday ) , the towu was all excitement ; the market fiilea with people vowing execrations upon the authorities . 1 weiit ao * n in a'fly 'the fly-man was threatened—I sent the people out of the torn , and there dispersed them , insisting tba : they mast not allow their feelings to gel the be ;; er of iheir judgments . The authorities are beaten—the teetotallers have come to the re : cue—and Lave incited me to lecture on teeloiaiktru , in ihe Wesleyan Chapel , on Wednesday niyht . The chapel will hold 2 , 000 ; and we shall have it full . - - - - 1 lecture again in Nottingham ntx ; iiouday arid Tuesday ; entirely at the request of some of ihe working ela&ees—men who hare hitherto bv-tn our b ::: er opponents . "
The PfrriTio * - CouiiiTrEE held its weekly meeiing ai the Di .-patcu Coffee House , Briae Lane , last eveuing , Mr . Simpsou in the chair . Tee S-. crttury , Mr . Bills , read a letter from iir . tiaw ^ s , ii . p " ., stating that he would present to the Hoaie of Cummons the petitions on behalf of U ' Ouunor , i ' ro = t , * ad the Charter , which had beea forwarded to him for that purpose by the Committee . A lstier from Mr . Dancombe , M . P ,, wa 3 alio r ^ ad , staling t ;; at the iudividual petitions he had presented to the House were not inserted in the votes of the House , in consequence of an informality , the petkionero not having signed their names at ras end of the petition , cw xeeii as at the top . The Comiait ' . ee , ihcTe-/ ore , request that their brethren will , ior the future , sigo . their names at the ena as well as at the begmning of individual petitions . A grtai number of petitioiis were rcc * iv «* d by ths Cumatu . es , previous to adjournment .
Destitution . —Yast numbers of poor persons are wandering atxtut the streets of London , m a wboiiv 4 «* titute condition ; and such is their horror of the Hew Poor Law , s . nd their oread of ibe workhouse , that some of them commit petty depredations ior the arowed purpose of geuinx sent to Bridewell ; they seldom go far emm ^ a to get hard iabunr attacned u > their sentence—and no blame to them 1 We sa . T , to-day , quit * a new ri with , an individual who was a few weeks since sentenced to gjol for btgijiii s - . He would not beg ; but armed himself with J ' maeon ' s trowel , a mortar-ooard , and & -whitewash brush ; these were tied tc-geiher , and on the board was painted , in clear characters— " 1 want employ—» jr children want breaa . " " Ah , " Eaid he , to a peeler , who told him to more on , you caa ' t quod mt for that * any how 1 "
Street AcxirDgsrs . —This evening , about six o ' clock , a little girl , about seven years oil , was crossing Farricgdon-sireei , near Waittunan ' s Ooelisk , when a gentleaan , in a low phseton , was oriviDg »; a rapid race from the direction of Bridge-street , Blackfriars . Toe horse knocked the pv . r child down , and one of the wheels of the v ^ mcie passed orer the child ' s head , crushing it in a most Irightful manner . A crowd soon collected ; and , as gome of the spectators attributed great negligence to the featleman who was driring , he was lor some time in danger of eummxry vengeance , but was , at length , taken under the protection of the police , and the
CBild m conveyed to a surgeon s , near Farricgdonauu-ket , who pronounced her life to be in great danger . —About the same time as the above , as one Of the London Parcel Delivery Company ' s conrej&nce carts was ascending Holborn-hill , it came in . contact with an . omnibns -which was descending , wing , it was said , to the on&kilinlne ^ s cf the carter . Tbe result was , that ihe wheel of the conveyance art ^ as kno cked from the axk ; the persons in the omnibus got a clumsy jolting , but no material injury ; bat the Parcel Company ' s driver was thrown from ids seat-and serionsly bruised . It was seme time before the ** spill" was cleared away , to enable vehicles to pass this awkward and dangerous ftoreuaJifart
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WiXWOBTH AXD CjMBB&WELL CHARTISTS . —A meeting was hold on Monday evening , at the Rose and Crown , ' vVaiworth Road , for tbe transaction of general business , and aiding in the getting up of the public meeting to be held at White Coaduit House on Easter Monday , for which purpose a Bum of money wr ^ s voted by way 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 4 ones , ia reference to the points of law in the case of Lord Cardigan . " The caose of Chartism looks well in this locality . Several new members have been enrolled , tod the weekly meetings are well attended .
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Christopher Dkan , of Manchester , the Chartist chairman , was tried at the Liverpool Assizes on Monday last , before Mr . Justice Maule . Ho was charged upon two indictments , with seditions conspiracy , unlawful assembly , &c , with the Rev . W . V . Jackson and others , &t 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 , aud appear when called upon . ACQUI 2 TAI OF THB MkN CHABOED WITH THE Asbtoh Murdkr . On Tuesday morning , Mr . Wilkins addressed ths Jury on behalf of the prisoners , in bis usual able manner , at some length . Justice Maule followed , sod concluded a rery lengthy and full addresB , 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 many difficulties ; and the view taken for the defence that Davies , who , according to his own admission , was participating in the murder , with the two Hardwicks " , who were mixed up with the transaction , were they , or some of them , the actual murderers , and that they , having opporUnities in prison , had together conspired to make the charge against the present prisoners . If , considering 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 statements , they would find the prisoners guilty . If , on the contrarji they entertained any reasonaole doubf , they would Rive -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 his address at twenty-five minutes before four o ' clock , having continued it to a length of four hours save five minutes . The Jury retired , and returned in ten minutes , finding both thn prisoners " Not Guilty . " They were then arraigned on two other indictments , one charging them with having discharged the contents of a pipe at Benjamin and 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 .
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THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , APRIL 10 , 1841 .
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A NATION OUT-LA WED BY A FACTION . STARVATION . A new contract has been executed between the iaiidlords and the sie&mlords , 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 lords of the creation . In the new contract , we find full a-nd ample justification for the mosi riolent resistance which has been hitherto offered to the " damnable 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 seven 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 has been pointedly and incessantly expressed by the whole people , 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 , aud the capricions maintenance of the pauper , into entire and snpreme controal 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 Britoa who is first reduced to the level of degradation by the infernal machine . Thus Ixjive the people been handed over , body and soul , life and limb , trade and calling , to three journeymen paupers . Taste destroyed , preference set at naught , nature turned topsy turvy , and social order shaken to its very centre , by the very parties who are paid , and well paid , for perserring its harmony .
But , we « e told , that it is yet the Briton ' s right to use all constitutional means for the repeal of this odious , unchristian , ungodly , un-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 against the positive power of the makers of tha law .
The people have mot and petitioned , many have died , many more have been driven from the home of their fathers to the Whig charnel-house , thousands ha ^ -e fled their father-land , in the hope of being able to preserve a miserable existence , for another short period of misery in a foreign land . The sea-bound durigeon has rung with the piercing cry of the victim of ambitious lust , and with execrations against the unholy law , which unbinds so : iety—dissolves those ties whic God has formed , and compels the pauper to exhibit the galling qualification of utter despsndency and destitution , before he is thought vrenby of relief . What o' . her constitutional mean 3 of resistance doeB this nation of helpless paupers possess ! None .
What , now , are the powers by which even such consdtutional resistance is met by the advocates of the law ? It is made in their House ; it is supported , defended , and upheld by their nominees ; opposition to it is tried by their judges ; its constitutionality judged of by their law officers , paid by their vote with the people ' s money ; decided upon by jurors of their creature , to whom , in return for confidence , they render them supreme power of being judges of the constitution- ; judgment is given against the constitutional opponent of the larr , by
their judges ; the strictest rules of prison discipline are enforced against the virtuous hater of the law , by their inquisitors , in their bastiles ; the enemies of the measure are denounced by their press !! I In what , then , we would ask , comitii the Briton ' s right of constitutional resistance ! Is it in the right of spending nine month 3 in solitary confinement , ia a felon ' s cell , as O'Coxnob is now doing , for the following six lines , called unconstitutional , libellous , and illegal opposition ? In the Star of Dec . 22 ad , 1838 , the following six lines appeared : —
" Wasmikstes Bastilk . —A little boy , last week , for tome small offeace , was confined in one of the cells belonging to the above workhouse , and was literally starved to death . Tba poor fellow , during his confinement , actually ate , in consequence of hunger , two of his fingers , and the flesh from his arm . " Now , for these six lines , taken from another paper , aud upou which O'Cosnob was convicted by a Jury of money-mongers , Mr . Justice Littledalk 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 senses believe that Thobkhill ' s incarceration of his o'd and fkithfal steward , jnst at 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 & verdict of Guilty , which they knew they could never get against Oastlkr , in Yorkshire without too palpably packing a Whig Jury , to the * exclusion of every particle of Tory feeling . Ye ? , yes , thus it is that the friends of the poor—the constitutional opponents of the measure , are victimised ,
equally with the paupers themselves . We bare been sincere in our denunciation of this measure , and also sincere in our expression of belief that nothing short of Universal Suffrage can for ever crush that monster . In this belief we have been fully confirmed by the " artful dodgers , " led on by the redoubtable Mr . Chronicle Easihofs . This dodger boasted , as we have before shown , that the Whigs outbid the Tories in humbug ; bat what was the upshot ? Why , that while we find the said " artful dodger" Easihopj , proposing a clap-trap
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amendment , as td the time of the monster ' s duration , and which he would never have proposed had success been at all calculated npon ; we find him voting , ia Committee , in every majority to confer additional power upon the triumvirate , and additional poignancy to tbe measure , and increased suffering and degradation to those whom necessity Bhall compel to look for relief . If , by the late sham fight , tbe Tories have been unmasked , as a party , the Whigs hare been discovered as a set of unprincipled " dodgers . "
Of the Hibernian tail , we have only to s » y that , throughout , they hare shewn their consistency , lore of the English poor , and Tegard 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 Richard Shibi , the Right Honourable Mobk O'Febraix , the Right Honourable David Pigott , and the Right Honourable Thomas Wtse , all honourable meu , justify their rotes upon the question !
Fjkld&n 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 , Waklkt , and a few others are entitled , are much diminished 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 wad
considered the most infamous , namely , those " who endeavoured to keep well with all parties , and ventured with none ; " or , as we hare described them more than once , those " who run with the hare , and hold with the hound . " Our position U this : that if the measure merits all that severe censure which Dukcombk and Waklet have bo unmercifully heaped upon it , they , as supporters of Us supporters , deserve all the odium attachable to accessories before and after tho fact .
We 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 the 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 , have opposed it strenuously , but none have devoted the soul to the opposition , but that one single solitary individual . What chance , then , have we from the House , and " constitutional resistance !" None , none 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 tho Charter—in vowing eternal , everlasting , indomitable vengeance against it . How f Why , we have lately had Sunday meetings ; Mr . O'Connell has boasted that he held one within gun-shot of the Horse Guards , and he held another upon the plains of Kildare . 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 , as the poor are too hard worked upon six days of the week , and as we look upon tho law as an ungodly law , we must confer together for the maturing and adopting such means as will allow the whole people to turn the Sabbath to the Christian and holy work of uprooting and constitutionally overcoming the machinations of hell . We shall not offer any undigested or illegal plan for thus devoting four or five Sundays to an exhibition of English feeling upon this 6 UbJ 6 ct , but wo shall take council to mature a plan which shall be legal and constitutional , because , the infernal act must be " constitutionally" resisted .
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EMIGRATION . Emigration and starvation are twin devils ; "Siamese youths" of the infernal regions : and hence we fiud a new struggle for emigraticn 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 a powerful auxiliary to assist in raising the value of their foreign possessions , at the expence of a compulsory abandonment of their father-land by tbe English people .
The law was concocted arid introduced by the Grey cabinet ; Edwabd Ellice , M . P . for Coventry , is the brother-in-law and mouth-piece of Lord Grly ; he has little or no land in this country , but is possessed of immense Canadian property . Ellice is uncle to tho Countess of Durham , aud the late Earl would not accept ef any office save that of uucontrouled , but undefined , King of Canada ; ho also was in Ellice ' s leading strings . Lord Howick is
son of Lord Ghjsy , and nephew to Ellice , and gives to Government a very crooked support upou all questions save those of starvation and emigration ; but upon these points he goca " the whole hog " with them . Chables Wood , M . P . for Halifax , is son-in-law to Lord Guey aud nephew to Ellick , and he also runs in couples with Howick , and is a staunch supporter both of starvation and emigration . In fact , Ellice is a kind of house steward mouse ot the cupboard of the GitKY family .
Now , in brief terms , wbat was their object in passing the starvation Act ? Was it not to insure the transportation of the wealth of this country , rendered surplus by machinery , and desperate by insults and degradation , in order to coniur an iu creased valnc upon their foreign possession ; -, rendered valueless for want of population I Is Lot every acre of Edwabd £ u . icE s land in Canada increased fifty per o ? nt . in value by each ship load of whi'e slaves , who are banished , by starvation , from their native laud ? If any man doubts the interest which some powerful parties have in emigration , let , him read the following audacious and mendacious article , which we give from the " artful dodger ' s" paper , the Chronicle , of Saturday laat .
He says : — " Now that Canada is tranquil , and that . the differences with tba United States no longer wear a menacing aspect , the stream of emigration will , frosn 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 of the Canada Company , by their Secretary , as we are informed , which is sold by Smith and Elder at the very moderate price of one shilling . Tho title of the publication , to which -we -would direct the
attention of all who wish for correct information as to there 3 l state of things in Canada , is A statement of the satisfactory results which have attended emigration to Upper Canada , from the establishment of thv Canada Company until the pitssent period ; comprising » tati 8 tical tables , and other important information , communicated by respectable residents in the Tarioua townships ot Upper Canada , with a general map of the Province , compiled for the guidance of eraigrnnts . ' Emigration to Canada ongLt to be set about aa s . > on as the St . Lawrence is open , for if the emigrant is not onhi « lands in the early part of tha rammer , he cannot successfully contend with the lone winter .
" In America generally , and Upper Canada ii a highly favoured province ; every industrious labourer may aooa obtain a . competence . The man wJb « in this country cau never hope to io more than keep bimae ' if out of the workhouse , may , by remoriug to Canada , by the were exertion of bia Uwvre and sinew * , become in a short time a substantial yeoman . The tale which this publication tolls ia calculated to carry joy into tbe cottages of these iilanda , where at prtuent many strong-armed men carry on a cheerless strugg ; e , day after day , with yriv&tions amounting almost to famine constantly staring them in the face . Benevolent individuals should circulate the publication extensively throughout the rural districts , that well-duposed , industrious men may be enabled to profit by the body of evidence presented by the Canada Compauy . " In the introduction we are told , that
• In order to obtain Uie intelligence—thai iUJidelity arid accuracy mioht be established beyond the reach of cuvil or SHspitien—titty procured the instrumentality of tome of the most influential , longest settled , and respectable # n-
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habitants , residing in various parts of ihe province , to collect ihe necessary in / ormation . They were directed to spare neither trouble nor expence to procure ihe mtst winufe and faithful returns . ' " Theaccounts are truly grattfjring . " Aye , the accounts ar © 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 ten years , and with which a common shop-keeper in England weald not be half satisfied , and yet they are manufactured for the mere purpose of decoying tbe yonng birds . Bat we giro the whole pudding for this one plum which it contains : " Thb man who , is this countut , can
SEVER HOPS TO DO MOHE THAN KEEP HIMSELF OUT OF THE WORKHOUSE , MAY , BY REMOVING TO Canada , by the mebk exertion op his thbws and sinews , become , in a short time , a substantial y eoman , The tale which this publication tells is calculated TO CARRY JOY INTO THE COTTAGES OF THESE Islands , where , at present , many strono-abmed men carry on a cheerless struggle , dat after day , with pbiyations , amounting almost to famine , constantly staring them in the face . "
There , then , is the working , the hard working man ' s share of the first ten years working of the " Great measure , " and , from it , let him guess what his share of the next ten years will bo . This is honest of the " artful dodger "—this is really putting the 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 foe the result , and then Howick will cry ** Fire , fire , fire—now you must hold . "
Good God ! was there erer insolence equal to this , that s » ys , struggle as a hard working Englishman may , the most he can expeot is to be kept just out of the 4 < 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 hare been made , by the white-sl&vo-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 lands of the landlords ; we see the landlords robbing the Treasury and the Savings'Banks , to put their foreign houses iu Australia and Canada in order , and sending tho best men they can procure , before 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 of the" civil potter" 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 slare property , and therefore , 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 a year , by making tho food of their slaves as oheap as possible , and selling tho produce of their labour as high as possible , thus destroying all native agricultural industry . To this conclusion we must come , in a very short period , if the progress of starvation and emigration is not stopped by equalization .
Ponding tho struggle , however , it is our duty to take care that those who may be banished , be not lost for want of advice . We , therefore , recommend taose who have money , and who wish to emigrate , to go to America , and those who hare not money we 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 has driren them from house and homo , and , if they go to America , they at once become their own masters .
With regard to the accounts of the success which attends emigration to Canada , nothing can be more fake or rile . The fact is , much more nearly , that one half of the poor who have gone there have died of cold , and that many of tho other half hare begged their way into somo American State which suited them as to climate . We hare not the slightest pity for the landlords ; their days are numbered , and they themselves east their own lot . No power on earth but the Charter can save them .
An audacious attempt has been made by the press to separate the new powers given to ex officio Guardians and other irresponsible bodies , from the spirit of tho bill , and to persuade the people to swallow the pill , because soma of tha powers given to tho Commissioners , under ths old law , have been considerably abridged ; while the 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 fa 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 . Tbe power of certain parties may be less under the old than under the new law , but tho power of the law is a thousand times more oppressive . Such a law as this , fifty years ago , the BoToughmongerBdate not hare passed , andthepeople would not have obeyed . What has cowed them ? Machinery , distrust of each other , and competition for a mere livelihood , which has createdclaBS distinction , even in the very poorest ranks of the contending operatives aud weavers . Wait till all are equally destitute , and then all will be equally valiant .
The further consideration of the Bill , it will bo sean , has been postponed to the 3 rd of May , and Lord John Russell , finding that some of his clauses have been damaged , proposes to produce several Tithe Bills as riders to the monster .
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SCHOOL HAS BROKE UP . THE BOYS ARE GONE HOME . " Joy be -with thesa and a bottle of moss ; If they never come back they'll be no great loss . " To attempt any review of the works of the lads tor the-past tin weeks , would be but adding insult to expence . Suffice it , therefore , to say that , in that ttliort period iiie " Reformers" have turned John and Judy Bull's hard cash , by some "harlequin , audism , " into " taper kites ; " the moral force ,
retrenching , peace-making Commons hare roted about one half of the rental of the land of England to boldiers and sailors , and the economists have sold the people , dead and alive , to Poor LawCommissioners , ex officio Guardians , and emigration Commuiees , and all this , while our leading journals have been fighting a PuBey battle for England , a npn intrusion battle for Scotland , aud a non-enfrauchiBement battle for Ireland . So much for the first » ct of the ninth Reform Session , and now for our
thare . Tho prisons are still full . Daniel is preparing to deal a heavy blow at the Whigs and Whiggery ; lio has got all that he is to get , eren to his Bhare of legal appointments ia Jamaica , for which young John contended , as the right of the Irish patriots . Dan sees Peel's move , and knows what he is to txpect from it , and he has gone t » put " his house in order . ' And well the Whiga hare helped him ; and if their return is not what erery one has received who has confided in the Honourable Gentleman , why , as he cays , " NabockliBh "—never mind it . Now , then , let us put our " house 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 a delegate to the Con vention ; and , with characteristic caution , has also und ertaken both the payment of his expenccs and salary . The men of Glasgow riew the ooming Conrention as > ** view it—as a grand Btroke ,
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whioh » hould not be badly aimed , or feebly dealt . They say we are not prepared—neither is the country prepared—let us , therefore , delay the project till the 3 rd of May , in order to insure its full raloe . This is not " despotism , " but good , sound , rational Scotch sense . Ia this transaction , our duty is to obey , the peoples' to command . Let the people , then , Bpeak © at , * nd «* »»»» . * nd say whether or not they approve ibis change ; ' and * if so , let us hare the name 3 of all delegates elected , transmitted to us at once , that we may lay them in order before the country .
Sunderland , it will be seen , is preparing , but is not ready , so are many other places ; therefore , claiming our full Bhare of oitizenship , we unhesitatingly declare , in farour of the riew taken of the subject by the men of Glasgow . Howerer united the general feeling may be , one thing is quite certain , that the arrangements are not completed . We find that Hull , and Leicester , and other places , hare , much more despotically than O'Connor , elected the whole Conrention . This , in the first instance , if generally adopted , would hare been a rery fair and satisfactory mode , but it was not according
to the proposed plan . Each place is to elect one 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 in London , he is toreceire £ 3 a week as his wages . Let erery place which has elected a Delegate send us at once the name of the Delegate and the date of the public meeting at which he was elected for publication in our next . In the mean time , we hare the pleasure to announce that the petition promises to be much more numerously signed than the National Petition .
Now one word as to the value of oar plan being well matured . Firstly , the sereral delegates can arrange to take with them the sereral sheets from their respective districts . Secondly , those sheets will have time to be fully signed . Thirdly , the London Committee should instruct Mr . Duncombe , or some other Member , to more , firstly , for a return of the names of the sereral 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 wore tried ; and , also , a return of the sereral persons sentenced throughout England and Wales during the same period , to be confined iu any of her Majesty ' s prisons , and the period of their confinement , with the crimes charged . Secondly , a return should be moved for of the legal expences paid for political prosecutions , for that period , and also for a return of the legal expences paid in criminal cases during the same period . Thirdly , a return of . all persons held to bail , with the amouut ^ of recognizances , distinguishing each offence with which the offenders stood charged , whether } for political , or crime by common or statute law .
Now , these returns will speak to the House in the language which the country will understand , and thoy are absolutely necessary for Mr . Duncombe ' s guidance , and for the peopled satisfaction . When we name Mr . Duncombe , we merely do so for brerity , 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 modern Daniels , ( not O'Connell . )
Suppose , then , tho Convention meet on the 3 rd df May , they give the country , and their active Member more time for returns and arrangements . The delegates hare a better opportunity of assisting the general object in their sereral localities , and in collecting knowledge and opinion to bear upon the questions which they will be called upon to discuss . We know that some parties feel sore to the quick and wounded to tbe core by this new more : 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 Conrention will unite ihe veritable country party with the rentable 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 , one and all , to assist with their fair hands .
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THE CONVICT MITCHELL . The life of this unfortunate youth has been spared , and , we think wisely and justly spared , for although big life , young 'as he is , surpasses in atrocity that of any man , of any age , of whom we have heard , yet 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 , howerer , we forbore publishing during the life of the convict then about
to die . We Bhall , however , now present it , as a wholesome lesson of advice , in about two columns at a time , to our numerous readers ; and when we tell them that this youth confesses to hare been guilty of more "Ihan a thousand robberies , some accompanied with the greatest violence , and many with extraordinay results , before he had attained his seventeenth year , wo may at once declare him to have left Kobin Hood , Turpin , 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 rery freeman , who writes himself down as " an Anglo-Saxon , " upon the law of public meetings . The Saxon friend recommends that in all towns the Mayor ( as he ia a County Magistrate ) shall preside , exoffioio , and that he shall commence by baring the police in
attendance and the military in readiness to deal summarily with the mover ? , seconders , and backers of all amendments proposed to anti-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 the Mayor ' s propositions , but no right , by resolution or amendment , eren to declare their own . The Mayor , our •* Anglo-Saxon " declares , shall be sole judge of What is legal and discreet . This beastly thing in this beastly Whig rag , requires bo comment : not another paper in England would hare published it , but 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 vSfcnV new acquaintance for taking stook of public opinion . The man must be a fool to write , and the Sun must be mad to publish such jargon . Does not erery child of twelve years of age know , that upon a motion made in the House of Commons , that the debate upou the civil list be resumed , an Honourable Member may move as an amendment that the Chimney Sweepers' Bill be proceeded with . But what amendment so pertinent to a proposition to repeal any bad law , as one to get the means-of repealing all bad laws ?
When the - " Sun's " altitudinal height Had illumined the " . bam" of tbe Mayor , The Chartists beginning to sweat , Cried , " Dang it , what smoke from the chair !" Oh , Mungo Young , Mango Young , Wherefore art thou , Mungo Young 7
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NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIAT ION . Ws now publish the list © f nominations for the General Council , so far as we hare received them . The people hare certainly taken time enough to deliberate upon the choice of their men ; as we only received sereral of the nominations thij week . If all bare been done in accordance with the cautions given in & former nan oer of the Star , the election to be now
taken is merely formal , and each < mb-Secretarj will hand in the afilrmatory decision of the m em * bers resident in his locality at once . No time must be lost . The declarations of election from every place must appear in next week ' s Star . After which , the next duty of the A » sociatioa will be ths nomination and election of the Executive Committee who must be chosen from amongst the members of tho General Council ;
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FIRST TICKET SHOW MEETING AT THE CROWN AND ANCHOR . We last week reported the First Ticket Show foi the season , at which 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 ia which he has been treated by the press and the Unionists ; while the Greenacre Chronicle does not condescend eren to mention his name . They want supremacy , not union ; power , not equality . —lju humbugs 1
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Mb . Watkins trusts that those who sent for copie $ of "John Frost" have reecived them ; and he requests others who may wish for copies , (« apply in time , as the printer must soon disperse hit types . George William Machin Ellis , Brighton , unshet his name appended to the Chartist Total Absti nence Address . _— ? The Money from Bradford , per J . Stately , should have been from "Daisy Hill , per J . Stavely . " Wm . Umpleby and J . Janson . —We do not sell them . The sum 10 s . for Convention , noticed from Dew * - bury , should have been , " Gs . from Daw Green . and 4 s from Detcsbury . " To Agents . —The price of the paper with plate this week will be Gd . to agents . The papers of all those whose accounts are not settled will bs stopped after this week .
POLITICAL PRISONERS' AND CHARTER CONVENTIOn FUND . £ S . d . From Castle Bonnington , Leicestershire ... 0 7 Q „ twenty Working Men of Temple Cloud , SomeTstt ... ... ... o 14 fl „ Pratt-street , Kirkaldy , per R . Taylor 3 0 q „ a few Friends at Huuslet ... ... 0 2 9 „ J . Sunderland , Harescroft 0 i 4 j .. a Friend ... ... ... ¦ 0 0 6 „ Bradshaw , near Bolton 0 15 * , four persons at Wakefield 034 ., the National Charter Association , Mansfield , per D . Farqnharson ... 0 8 I „ the Friends at Brompton , near Northallerton 6 14 .. thirteen Chartists , Little Horton , per
J . Alderson 0 3 0 Canker well-lane , Leeds ... ... 0 0 7 J . Dowson , Reading 0 1 Q the National Charter Association , Kidderminster ... 0 6 0 D . Ireland , Danfermline ... ... 0 10 0 the Rancliff Arms , Nottingham ,. 0 3 0 the Newton's Head ... 0 2 i £ New Basford , by Mr . Wright ... ... ... 0 2 0 New Radford , by Mr . Mason ... O 2 0 Bingham , by Mr . Husktsson mo e Staplefortl ... 0 2 9
1 1 10 * Post-order , &c ... 0 0 4 £ —1 l 6 -,. Hebden Bridge Chartist Association 0 7 8 v . Weavers at Bamber Bridge and at „ Bindle , per G . Halton , Preston .., 0 9 f „ tbe Female Chartists of Daw Green ... ... ... 0 0 9 „ Saml . Radgeley , Daw Green 0 2 6 * . Frederick Hunt , ditto ... 0 0 6 0 3 9 ^ Bradford , Wilts o 5 o ^ the Political Union , Letham ... ... 0 2 * „ twenty persons ' at Abergarenny , per Thomas Ingram ... ^ ... ... 0 15 9 | _ Kettle Radical Association , per J . Moyes ... ... 0 5 0 FOR THE WirES AND FAMILIES OF THE INCARCERATED
CHARTISTS . From Booth Town , near Halifax , per R . Wilkinson ... ... ... ... 0 5 0 _ Wandsworth , per C . Westerton ... 0 4 0 FOR MES . CLAYTON . From Hanley , per J . Yates 0 13 0 J „ Wandsworth , per C . Westerton ... 0 4 0 FOR THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE . From Leicester , per T . Cooper 0 40 FOR PRESS FOR J . B . O ' BRIEN . From Castle Donnington , Leicestershire ... 0 2 0
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B&W 1 CK .-A meeting of the ; stocking-makers -. the most numerous body of workmen in tho townwas called on Tuesday , to consider mU . ^ remedy for a number of grievances . It a PP . ™ j that a number of themanufaoturers have been in tne habit of frittering away the wages of their wwkmonin the most mean and paltry . numa , more eaneciaUy when any dullness of trade ga > o M ™ Se power over the men ; and all thisi nwj and robbery enacted by men who are loudest jn tfte outcry for the repeal of the Corn Laws , and pretending all the while it is all for . tiu . good of . the w 6 rkins classes ! Tho meeting . resol . ™ ii iaw .-fund immediately for the protection of their labour their only property-from the grasp of these hypocritical Whig cora-craiks .
ROCHDALE .-The election , of *»']** Guardians has terminated here without a »«« £ the list proposed by the Chartists hf ' « 'gj adopted . There are eighteen in number , sixteen of wftom are Chartists , and two Totw * -f * «* termined opponents of the blessed "boon , wnjco is detested by all parties . TODMOBDEN—The master ¦"""{¦ Jf ™ of Todmorden have had two or & *" " » & £ & £ take into consideration whether it W » W *> *>«« , to reduce the wages of the operative * , or » »» * g days per week . Some were for a redocOon m the wages , and some for short time ; but tiW « " * j ! j aojourn for a fortnight , so that thejr are rnnn « g iuil ** «« f TK * woi-ir man who WftS PU * " > ""
, chair at a meeting of the Corn Law IwbW ^ first to Bpeak for a reduction of wages ; ™™ £ *? clearly that it is all humbug t ^ W * pfif 35 the interest of the working men at heart ¦| WJ » same worthy made use of the following OT * SmS at a meeting held at the Spring ^ def ^ worked means nothing how eoon my iwr )^» « j ; to death , for there will be plenty more to put i » their places . " -
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Th * Nkw Poob ^^ KSS sitionsof the witnesses examined of ° »* Tf 07 tho trates at Rochester , against Miles , the nartgj ^ , Hoo union workhuuse , who , it will ^ "memwreu ^ was charged with various acts of craetty w ^ children under the care of ^ J' ^ VfSS as required , duly forwarded to the WW "^ £ . manby . Th « receipt of themwas §*^/ &e ledjjed by a letter tW the' Nobl ^ Secretary . m ^ h « r « nffSr « d the assizea to go by without ¦ g ?> u <*
dictions to Mr . Vizard , the wj £ TOw solicitor to the Home ^ ffioe , or »?? ™ 'glKent ia the case . Miles still remains W jtjf «*• K bU at Hob as before . It was "ported that he naa «^ dismissed by the Poor Law ^ r ^ ioner * ana tainly as far as papers , «>« nM ? w \ " » £ * £ il outwas io , but no further . lW is public ^ Sftd . raged , and public justice "f ^^ ftiies at S ^ e of the paupers who appeared agains |^ ^ Rochester , have since ^ been . threat * inedO l ^ J ^ g guessed bywhom ) with imprisonment tor swe « falsely against him .
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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-ncseproduct701/page/4/
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