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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, MARCH 20. 1841.
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IO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS.
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" ^ ANSWER TO ENIGMA . « ra ^ -Ple * se to insert aa answer to an Enigma of ts the Star from the North , friend W . C , \ - r * u esugiD * afforded Mnraement to me ; LdeeTl P «« "d it with infinite pteuure , 7 ^ g jTe tie solution now Iiu at leisure . Tn temples bigb is heard the tound , tn cells and caverns under ground , where eaptf ™ groan—the boarae Echo
o « ponds onto the wail of woe . T > om rock * and fl ^ ( *» ^ e noon of night icgd Bebo t ** * ' **** fii * ' . ¦ nT jen aortal tongue * with gladneM sing Tor joy . » make *** forest **** n ljLgtalrom Cbaiiists thousands rise , ^ n iMtte bl « t- « ad Edio diet \ Vitk fitted nymphs oaoe Echo Tied , fm fctftt * plaint with heathen pride ; ^ jb ptexs"d would sing , and gaily smile Lite naideos of our native isle .
Bat made ber fate , ye BrlttA fair , And yoor compassion let her share ; Yield not jour hearts to lore a prey , ^ nd like poor Ecbe die away . Barfard , March 5 th , 1 S 4 L
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j _ ' — ( Je ceiux Hawosos wm sixty-eight Tears of age -thefciii * ** " - < ta JebewjlH Dicksos , K . C . B ., is appointed to ^ eomMiuid of the troops in Is ova Scoua Thk KA 5 TEBS entrance of the Tower is now kept J ^ iMi ij ( Sunday excepted ) , until seven p . m . Thrbi ' is * rumour of the unnedi » te resignation of ^ Chief Jartioe of the Irish Queen ' s Bench . Johs SiBGKi . fr , of Pennsylvania , is to be Minister toEnrand .
A gmai nephew of the rentable Alexander ^ Ajtjrt is at present residing at C&aonraills , near J gisburgB , in rather straitened circumstances . ^ Z . 1 S riu , that the Russian Government is about K wfltracJ * ne » to * Q of 100 , 00 ^ , 000 of florins in ^ D attfc sw ** - Tax CiHiBA * - " ^ union of the Canadas had tilflfrj-jTiiT —** on tbe 10 th nit . yrjih . great pomp ^ Pugilism is discooiaged in the army ; ' mi u sj icUifts engaged in such reucenires are ggfertij punished . Iiis o&ebstood that the Great North of England ftihra ? will be opened foi \ he conveyance of passenggi umi i » ds a * the beginning of April . -&s fiaac * Aether will remain at Toronto until fte BKidle of March , exercising the same powers as tafcrethe cmon , under a commission from the
Gorer-^ r- € cneraL fssii . —The whole of Persia is in amost unsettled jtee . Us the coast of Arabia , except a few miaor « c £ of piracy , which continuaDy occur to keep their ¦ Jgffi In , all u pretty quiet . ' fss , Chamber of Peess hare condemned M . Delaitdw , editor tf the yationol , t-o one month's impriaaaji , aid a &ie of 1 * , 000 francs , for his libel on Hubwij . Isish Tocperasck SoaEiT . —The members of the ftcpenccc societies generally throughout Ireland ; n&ed iu procession on the 17 th inst . ( Si . Patrick s Jbj ) , but without banners or badges . The AR £ ASGEM ! XTS for the introduction of the J&lgh . on Railway into the line now occupied by fee Greenwich Company hare at length been
enfcrwi into . The Co » n ? sio ;> " £ BS of Woods and Forests have ¦ emdaded aii arrangement with Evtm ColUge , by fiich Primrose Hill will be preserved from being fa 2 l upon . Tnis has cos ; the country £ 15 , 000 . Her ILuestt ' s ships Monarch and Vernon hare Jttored orders to expedite their fitment , aad then BKeeeato Spithc&d for orders . It is reported that iaoifa i 3 thea destination . —Standard . A PCTino * for throwing open Waterloo , Southwui , » nd Taoxhall Bridges , loll-free , has been prejecttd uom ihe " Coach and omnibus proprietors of La ? ton and its suburbs . ' '
Ai a aECE > t numerous meeting of the magistrates tf BiiroprvbTre , it was agreed that thrashing-ma--ehines were implements of husbandry , and as such exeap : from tails . Tee iJsmsH Missm . —The greatest number of Tisiiaais lo . be British Museum was in 1836 , and the smallest number in 16 iO , the nuaibtrs being respectiTely 383 . 147 , and 247 , r 2 C . Ajt jTTsitKr has been xaade at Home on the life -of ihe Qaeen Dowager of Spain . Tne Q , ueen was bos hart , and the aan , who had no weapon , is premaoed 19 be a Iccaiic ,
Tns CaioLEEcur Bate al Albany has declared A ^ jideEd of fifty cena on th « capital stock , p 3 y-« ro ^ tiw * & ef Idaniu This ^ i the first diridead fflejiffer the list fire years . s ' . " . / Tee loss of that column of - -the Egyptian anny wLica crosed the desert froai £ 1 Mei ? rieb was dreadful—all the women and children periahed . They were fear days without water . Sacs twz opening of the Manchester and Leeds nSyay passengers have been conreyed by that note toe whole distance from Manehe&ter to * X ^ ttanw to MoTH 8 Bs . —On Tuesday a poor lnaavwife of a labourer in the employ of Mr . Bj |« t , of Rye Hill , now Stamford , was safely trered of povs children . The mother is doing fifcably well , but all the children are dead .
0 s Mqsd . it week a public thanksgiving was offered mx tie Synagogue of the Spanish and Portuguese «^ for the success which has attended the mission « isr SI . Montefiore in aid of the persecuted Jews Dwaaseus . BCBSKST AT A COFFEB HOCSK— WlL Peacock , ijsasg man of respectable appearance , was cobj-«^ m Tor trial on Saturday at Worship-stre * t f «« - * gce , for stealing four parts-of Ains worth ' s Xo * er rf London , froa a Coffee-honse . * Ihx P ^ pe , " says Ae Augsburg Gazette , "h » ^ ttoaved a letter signed * The Secretary or «* Urist , ' -announcing that the next successor * mtioly Sea would be divested of all temporal
Jiaioi Teetotallebs . —During the present as-«^> tr . Jost : ca Cjlendge remarked " that no ¦ ge case had erer been brought before him of Fj »» 3 charged with the commission « f offences " »» tat the love of liquor had to do with it in one * f or the otheT . " -0 * ford Paper . * xktcrs has been made to the House of Com-«^ o , the amount of salaries paid to the Judges , £ « &i 3 Kmers , * ad officers of th » Bankruptcy « *' . ' * ^ d also the amount of compensations to "sescperseded by tae New Bankruptcy Act . The »* aaotmt of salaries ig £ 20 , 570 , 138 . The © omiasiaons aaoant to £ 12 ^ 93 10 s . lid .
& » s jHXEs or fatip months ago » " learned horse " y . » bar prising fox" were exhibited to her " v !; Both these wonderful animals were last r * »« by aoc ; ion , under a writ of execution g * 4 b . Sheriff * f Berkshire , at Abingdon . The «* refused only fifty guineas , and the fox not ¦*» »* n £ Z 10 * . ^« Editoks o ? the journal La France , charged ! S ** Tln « furjr od and pubU « had three letters purg ~ f t ° . hare been written by Louis Philippe , are ( C 5 * : ^ TJrto « of a decision of the Council " ¦ "W , declaring that there were no grounds to ' ^ the accusation . Jjj ^ a H'Leod is a natite of Forf % rshire , * nd . « lormrrl j sergeant and regimental teacher in a tisi ? l eglmeDt ' from wllicfl he retired and B * tg * » toe Canadas , where he joined the militia of } Z £ * ri *'<* t and by hia exceUent condnct aad 52 *™» J oearing raised himself to his present ^ lad condiaon .
tN ^ J ^ T ^ is the first of the fourteen frigates , " ^ ai dimeBsions now in progress of construction ft 7 b ji Jal 5 Ua S : eun P « iet Company . They * a oeagned to perform , in time of peace , the j ^ « f maii-packets to and among the West India £ J ™ » ! and , folly armed with the heaviest ordnance , ^ fiat * , * " ^ ates wien re quired by Government te *?****? Mehdeb or a Child—Emma Harl-« l ^ T a tie em P y * llwiy named Lamoyne , 6 ^ Sto »> ^"» s committed for trial at Hattonr ~ a pohce-office . on S » tni >/ l « f «» Uv !^ - ? . des ber me
^ lt ^ P Ki *« a » t « caUd , She hai * S ! t ^ , ot the chOd , aad then thrown it fc ttia * - " * ' h " ** " » oTcred , and restored " ^^ on , although it died in a few day 8 . ^ Cwkb oj PovKRTr .-The naoea of two StL - ^ f ^ ? - th « »«« of thirty-two and fouriiSe'S ? m the A ^^ ury calendar of priaooer ^ rompany of felons , " oonmitted for wan * of » S * ias JL ° ^ * Fpeaxaace to give evidenee " fttj ° *» of the other prisoners . Beeaaae « f * ttto ^ j f 7 > from Poverty , to give « urettesto » pftet "• 7 " * conafgned to the company
p w ^* rcaas .-The CoaaisiioaeTi of J ^ W ^^ P ^ " taken into emstody . The total C ^ lSa 70 ^ 17 , nwIy * jmbomth * n ^^ w yea r , tn 3 ing froni ^^ ^^^ rf . 5 WJS 1 ?*" 4 «« a « J , 1 M 0 . Of these , more *> te » « tot : i ' » . «« discharged by the mafiB-^^ i ? , ^ ? * 3 : foavietedorneldteilaV S . ^ of thTSf ^ nnmber ^ rainto enstody in * y ^ E 3 ^ i Un J 6 " » " ia 1836 , anrounting
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Petitions to Pasuaxskt . —A mistake h * S arisen with regard to petitions to Parliament , that , under the sew postage law , they are subject to payment of postage , as well as lettew to Members of Parliament . The late act has mad * no alteration with respect to petitions . They remain , as hitherto , exempt froa payment , if the cover is leftopen at the two ends , and marked oa the outside , "Peiitioato Parliament . " Ax thb last meeting of the Printers' Pension So « iety , the secretary acknowledged the bequest of £ 200 , made by the late Charles Whiuingham , Esq , of Chiswick , which enables the creation of an additional pension of £ 7 per annum , to be entitled the Whittingbam Pension , sad given on- each occasion to the candidate who polls the highest number of votes without gaining hia election . . ^^ _ _ ^ P % _ . - . ** .. _« -.
Losgkyitt . —Died , at Baamber , near Hbrncastle , John Goddard , age ninety-th ^ ee , leaving six children ,- sixty-foor grandchildren , and upwards of one hundred and tixiy great-grandchildren . He worked as a labourer npwards of thirty years on the Wragby turnpike road , but was blind for the last ten years . Died , at Jlilford , in her 103 rd year , Mary Duvils , better knows as " Old Aunt Mary . " She was a native of Aberdeen , aud at seventeen was married to a soldier , with whom Bhe went to America , and
by whom she had fourteen children , thirteen sons and a daughter . She followed the camp in the American war , and her husband and two of her sons took part in the fierce encounter on Banker ' s Hill ; subsequently her hnsband deserted her , when she became an itinerant pedlar . She retained th ^ use of her faculties to the day of her death . —Bristol Mercury . A female , named Mahine , died lately at Puy ( Haute Loire , ) having attained the age of 1 ) 5 . She had never suffered from illness , aud , it is asserted , preserved all her te « th till the last '
Legalised Phtsical Force -New Muskets and BAYO . YETS- ^ -lt id probable that a now bayonet wid be introduced into the army . It appears a formidable weapon , about two and a haif feet in length , and one and a half inch broad , and of a proportionate thickness . One edge is formed to cut as a sword , and the back is serrated like a saw . The serrated part wonld make an ugly wound difficult to be healed , but it is intended as an assistant to cut palisades , and the < reat length given to the bayonet is intended as a protection against the attacks of the cavalry . The court of Directors have , we understand , resolved on the introduction of percussion locks ia ihe-fire arms of the Indian army . 10 , 000 mu > -kets on this principle -were shipped for Calcutta ia August kst , and 100 , 000 in all had been ordered for the Bengal armv alone .
The Disadvantage of being a Gentleman . —A very fashionably dressed midale-aged , bui slimly formed person , who gave his name Charles Kendall , was placed at the bar at Maryborough-street policeoffice , on Saturday las ; , charged with being drunk and disorderly . Tne offence haviDg been proved , the magistrate asked the prisoner in what station of life he was . He replied a gentleman . Mr . liawiinson—<) h , indeed , a gentleman , thtU I musi inflict the highest peaalty of 40 j . for this offence . Delends . nt—Taat i 3 extremely inconvenient to me . I hope
you will alter your decision . Mr . Rawlinson—Indeed 1 shall not ; if you are , aa you say , a gentleman , you must pay scot for it . Defendant—Tee truth is , I hare no money abput , me . Hi . "Rawlinson—1 cannot alter my decisk-a . I must treat you the same as a poor man . Why shoald I make the distinction ? Defendant—Because I am without money . Mr . Rawlinson—No gentleman is ever without money . You must pay the fine , or be locked up . The defendant , begging for a further remonstrace to his worship , was then consigned to the lock-up cell .
A Rumpus , ls a Toji and Jjehrt Shop . —A longleg >; ed lautern-jiwed beer-shop keeper , named Smith , summoned a jolly laugh-and-grow-f&t little cobbler , at the Borough Court of Rt quests , for the 5-am of 5 s » , the amount of a score , and half-a-crown more for sundry glasses , which the latter , it was said , had broken , while under the influence of heavy wet . "Ikerps the Velington , Ay lord , '' said the long-shanked swipe merchant , " and this here wagabone owes me seven an' a tanner for hcker and brokea gla ? se * , and he von ' t pay a fardeD , so I ' palled him up afore yer vorsbips jist to git satisfaction on ! of the ¦ sva rmin :. '' Commissions )— " / don ' t
know how i ; is , but you beer-t-hop keepers aro always en ^ ag ^ in some disturbance or other ; beershops appear to be the very hot-beds ot" brawling . Pny , how did all these glasses get broken 1 " Plaintiff— " He got fighting with a couple of dustmen and capsized'em . When a cobbler gits lusby , my lord , he ' s werry quarrelsome . '' Commissioner— " I suppose the dustmen helped to break the glasses . '" Plaintiff— " Ko ; he did it all himself , my lord ; t ' others did do mischief votsumever . ' Commissioner ( addressing the defendant)— " Weil , what have you got to say against paying this 7 =. 6 d . !" D-feudaut— " Please yer vership , arter finishing vcrk at night , I used to valk into the Velington to
henjoy a pipe and a pint , aad conwerse a little about polyticks an' sich like . " Commissioner— " Da you admit the debt V Defendant— " I owe * the five boh , yer rership , but as lor the glasses I knowB nuffin aboui ' em , s'help me bob ; the dustmen vos the coveys , yer vertiiip . Here Sammy , old feller , etep forrard , and conwiace hi ? vership . " "Sammy , " a pot companign of the defendant , was itcoord ' vagfr iutroduced to the noticed tnd . eouft ; Coifitttwsiouer" What do you know abont the agkirf' Sammy" Ty , my lord , Bob never brok * - th $ glasses * t all I'll take ny bible hail&davit . '' Toe Cow mission ers , after hearing the defendant ' s witness , adjudged him to pay the 5 i . only .
The Falis op thb Niagara . —Gullibility . — Some of the papers this morning contain what is called an extra from the " office of the Advertiser , Buffalo , Feb . 1 * , four o ' clock , " citing an account of the destruction of the Faus of Niagara . A slight glance at it will convince aay one that it is & boax , and by no means a good one , got cp by some witling who probably never saw the falls . We wiJl point out a few of the indicia leading to this conclusion . 1 . The article was not written , although purporting to have been , by the editor of the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser . We know his style too welL He never deals in Such inflated , windy language as the account presents . 2 . The extra purports to be dated at Bofiaio on Sunday evening at four o ' clock , and it was received in this eity last eveniDg . This could not be done . 3 .
" Biddle Tower and the adjoining gronnd work had disappeared . " Mr . Biddle never Duilt a tower at the Falls . Some yean ago he caused ( # be built a staircase on Go * t Island , leading do * vn to the Falls , which goes by his name . 4 . " The water made a subterraneous passage , and burst through the wall of Goat Island . " Absurd . 5 . " The hotel is gone . It is believed no lives have been lost . " -The last clause is correct ; and there can ~ have been no lives lost , because there was no hotel to be carried away . The nearest hotel is the Clifton House , far below the falls . P . S . —Sin ? e the above was in type the northern mail , only due this afternoon , has arrived , aad brought us the Buff alo Commercial Advertiser of Saturday evening , the latest which could be expected . The Albany papers of yesterday- are silent on the subject . The hoax was probably got np in this city . —AVw York Commercial Advertiser .
Cecekty in a Uiw Workhouse . — Thomas Quaubj , a master sho ^ Kfcer in the Limebouse Poorhouse , " one of the wonthonses or bastilos of the Stspney Union , was brought before Mr . Ballantine , at the Thames office , on Saturday , charged with committing a most brutal and unprovoked assault on Charles Watts , a boy aged thirteen years . The boy , who appeared in bad health , was stripped , and his shoulders and arms presented a mass of black braises . It appeared from his statement , that at the earnest desire of a sick child in the house , who retained an affection for him , be was allowed to nurse and attend the invalid , and while performing some kind offices for his charge , he was asked by the nur&e of the sick-ward what he was doing ! He
replied , somewhat perilj , that he was attending to his business . This answer displeased the nurse , and she lodged a complaint to the prisoner , who chastised the boy by inflicting some blows on his hand . The boy went away muttering , and he was immediately called back by the prisoner , who took up a strap and gave him a dreadful beating across the shoulder * and inflicted the braises visible on his person . The lad came to the office for a warrant on Friday afternoon , and then exhibited his back and shoulders to the ushers , and it was apparent that he had been punished in a most savage manner . The warrant was granted , and yesterday morning Douglas , a police constable , attached to the Court , went to the Union-house to execute it . when he ascertained that
the poor boy was in confinement , and had been locked up by the prisoner ' s aider , Douglas caused him to be set at liberty , and was an eve-witness of the priscner ' s brutality , for he struck several boys ¦ while he was present . Douglas said the master of the house had requested him to state that no eorporeal punishment was permitted by the Guardian * , on any pretence whatever , and that the prisoner would not be permitted to strike any of the boys with » strap . A heavy shoemaker ' s strap , formed of stout leather , with which the punishment was inflicted , was produced . Douglas added there was no doubt the prisoner would be discharged for committing each - * tnatoWoutrage on the boy . The prisoner , in defence , said a woman , the nurse of the sick ward , complained that the boy was saucy , and
he gave him two or three - " flips" on the hand with a strap , which hr did not seem to » ind , and began to mutter » 6 methtng , and he then , " in the heat of Bastion , took up the strap produced , and flogged bun with it . He « ra » t confess he had laid on Voohwilj ; he did not mean to be ao unduly seTew , * nd wa « very sorry for it . Mr . Ballantyne said theboybad not received ih * t wholesome corretfion which ,, in the event of his having ajiseondneted toiweir » fttber wonld inflict on his own child , bat lie na 4 been illnsed in a wanton and taTage mannw , wluefc couW not be tolerated . The priwmer waa an m-temper *! intemperate man to nse the boy so eraeUT , » nd tie sentenced him to pay a fine o ? fortT ^ W . ^ J costs , sod ordered tha * the eoavfchoa ^ d ^ reported to the Board of GuanUwB , » nd the f » J looked after .
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Platk RoBBHttY . —At Marylebone polioe-offlce , on Saturday , a Yery : re « pect » bly-dres 3 ed young man , named Joan Tomlyn Jenkins , was placed at the bar before Mr . Hardwick , charged with having stolen four silver table-spoons , value abont £ 5 , the property oj French , Esq , 8 , Great Cumberland-street , Hyde-park , and to whom the prisoner was butler . It appeared the prisoner had pledged the spoons at a pawnbroker ' s . He was committed to take his trial at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Cour t . *^ ^ P ^ . _
The Pbisok better thaw thb Woexhodsb . —A young man , named George Sutton , was brought before bir James Duke , at Guildhall , charged with breaking a tradesman ' s window , in order to get the , prison diet and accommodations , in preference to seeking those of the workhouse , and asking relief , f he Alderman determined to commit him to Bridewell for seven days , and assured him lie ehoold be set to work there . The prisoner seemed to be contented with this adjudication .
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POVERTY AND ROYALTY . Look on ihit Picture . And alto look on this . On examining the room Her Majesty has been I found nothing in it but gracionsly pleased to pre-& broken bedstead , a few old sent £ 5 to the person who rags , and a troken cup and sent her a very handsaaccr , for the whole of somely carved spoon , for tchich I irovld not give lim the nse of the Infant Prinshillingi . * * * * cms RoyaL Since Michaelmas he had It is the intention of not , on an average , * had her Majesty the Queen more than two pair of Dowager to give a series shoes n-woetc to moire , of dinners at Marlberoaghwhich produotd him only house . 2 s . Sd . Mr . John Coward , It has now been finally surgeon , deposed to mak- decided by the
CommLsIng a post mortem exami- Bioners of Woods and nation of the body , which Forests to erect & new and was in * n exceedingly crtensfve suite of stables emaciated condition . He aud coach-house at Ascotfound not a particle of fat heath , for ihe accommoda in the body , and only a Uon of her Majesty ' s horses little pruel in the stomach , and carriages , when the The Jury found a verdict Royal party honour the that " the deceased died races at that pl ace with from exhaustion , gradually their presence . The area produced by scantiness of of the building vcili cover a nourishment . "—Inquest on space of 1 , 600 square feet IFVliam Eaton , from the The tvorkmanship , tritl be Weekly Dispatch of March of a superior character . — ~ - Dispatch , March 7 .
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OUR PROSPECTS . So we head this article , borrowing the title from onr talented and generally well-received contemporary the Dublin World , of Ftb . 13 . h , 1841 , in which appeared a leader , under the above designation , containing 6 ome sentimentB which require a few remarks from us . We have , at all times , stated it as our deliberate conviction , that the World was by far the best of the Irish press ; and even in thia article we have evidence that our
estimation of it has not been without reason ; though we have also evidence of the condition of unhappy Ireland , in which even a honest patriot , writing for his country , find ? it hazirdous to let loos © tho full tide of principle , and is fain to embank himself behind such ramparts of expediency as may be dictated by the great master tradesman , who makes merchandize out of misery , and lives and thrives upon corruption , by the constant turniDg of it over and altering of its name .
In his pleasing and joyous anticipations for the future , and to realise which , wo may observe by the way , requires something much more efficient than merely talking or writing about them , the Editor has gone somewhat out of his way to abuse the Northern Star , and to advocate that mischievous and nondescript thing , * H-o-u-s-e-hold Suffrage ; and all this , too , under the fairest and mo&t unmistakeable professions of sincere attachment to the principles and objects of the People ' s Charter .
No doubt all this may be perfectly reconcileable to the enlightened vision of our contemporary , with strict consistency , * nd an unflinching adherence to principle ; but , to our ordinary comprehension , it looks marvellously like inconsistency and "blarney . " Our friend , however , shall speak for himself , as we would not , for the world , misrepresent " The World " on such a subject . " The principle * ot Chartism , ia out opinion , and we would be glad to find any good authority which could dispute 'it , « r » -Mcogoiswi by- er «« y eoaaUUftionaj writer . The individual who iaggvernad by laws of whic h be exercise * no iottoeudft 4 » the making can be viewed
1 a so other light thai a slave . He may be fed , clothed , and permitted to walk about , bat he i s as much the creature of the tyrant who rules over him as hi * horse or dog . We , therefore , are the advocates of Universal suffrage , because we feel that it is based upon truth and justice , and moreover , that it has been highly beneficial to those countries which have made it the bulwark of popular privilege * Far be it , howrrer , from ns not to receive with delight anch an instalment as Household Suffrage , not partially u suffered to exist in borougbmongering days when it was productive of bribery a&d corruption , but upon an extensive scale , which would afford both friends and foes a
foretaste of what might be expected from the people if a more universal enfranchisement took place . The Northern Star blostaxs away at a sad rate against Household Suffrage , and has a comfortable way of its own of condemning every person who recommends it , without era devising a plan , at least that we can comprehend , for th * procuring of its Universal Suffrage scheme . Storming towns at night ; getting shot , transported , and ioesroerated ; swarming upon moors ; and drawing money almost honriv from the wretched working-men , is not tfa * way to carry the charter . Indeed , could Universal Strftagfi have been carried when the Convention sat in Bolt-court , which would have trans
ferred the members of that august body to the House of Commons , we rather think that the Vtrtken Stpr , in its present mind , would b « inclined to regard the boon as a very equivocal bleating . " Let onr readers mark every part of this quotation well . " The principles of Chartism , in our opinion , are recognised byerery constitutional writer . " Very well 2 Then we are not anarchists , revolutionists , or any other iets , that may cause alarm to any numan heart . We are only contending for what every constitutional writer declares to be oar rights . Bat we have not merely constitutional law in our fawe have that also which is of infinitely more
importance , —the law of natural rigut and equity . Thus proceeds oar friend across the water : — " The indiv idual who is governed by laws of whioh be exercises no In . nuence in the making , can be viewed in no other light than as a slave . " Now we do not think any argument can be more 6 ound than this , or demonstrate , in fewer words , the abstract and undeniable justice of the principles for which we are contending . If for an individual to have no voice in the enactment of those laws by which his life and property are protected , constitute him a slave , then it appears to us to be as dear as day , that ia order to remove the slave mark it is absolutely necessary to
give to all the franchise , and thus enable them to exercise their proper influence in the making of the , laws . This , we should have thought , must be the . conclusion to which all must hvre come , who were at all capabla of drawing conclusions from admitted premises . But , alas , for our weak judgment , th « World is against ns . "It , " says onr friend , meaning Universal Suffrage , is based upon f . nth and justice ; and , moreover , has been highly' beneficial in those countries whioh have made it tr . e bulwark of popular privileges . " This , we snppv se , must be taken as an Hibernian prophecy ; for , up to this
hour , no such , country has existed in t * ne memojj flif recorded history . To the next wordv . we beg especial attention . ** Far beit , however , from , * us , not to receive with delight such an instalment a / . Household Suffrage , upon an extensive scale , try , jch would afford both friends and foes a foretaste of what might be expected from * the people , if a more universal enfranchisement took place . " It would be impossible , we think , for any man in the world to ersAiata the same space a greater quantit y of false reasoning and blundering logic , then is a' ^ hibi ted by the forty-fire words we have just quotef ,. First eosMf the ftjlaej thai Household Suffrage , is to be eouidored MSB
instalment . This hmnb > j g won't do now ; it gained the Reform Bill ; baft eight yean of Reform nusgovemment have tar ^ ht ns a lesson , which , the WWd may rely upon- it , the people will not forget . We were told , Vaen , by ihe patriots of the day , thai the Reform - ' Bill was aa instalment ; and we , good sools , too * , H , because Our , Bsobgbam , and Co ., aWjed us , upon their " hwwur , " tsa ^ vu ail they , bj pe » oeable means , were able
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to get , then , but that , having got » p » rt , it would lead to theaeenring of thewhole . Now , this was fair spoken , and the people confided . We aro not disposed to blame them for their confidence , but we do tell them not to be caught in another trap ; and one , too , that ia not baited half m plausibly as the last one . We have got , as yet , Ho offer of Household Suffrage fromr the middle classes , thongh it in plain that , were they so diaposed . they could give us that , or any other measure , to-morrow . i i
But , suppose we had the offer , would they offer it as an instalment ! The World knows , as well as we do , that if conceded at all , it would not be even offered as a right , but aa a boon , for which every one of the " Establishment" would tell us we ought to be most humbly thankful . But this said doctrine of instalments is itself based upon a false and miBchievons view of the subject . At the utmost , it only considers the political and social rights of the masses as a dobt due to them from the privileged orders . Now , we contend that the deprivation of those rights was a bold and shameless robbery , perpetrated according to "The good old plan
_ . ... . When he shall taka who hatU the power , And he shall keep who can ;" And , we ask , who erer heard of stolen property being repaid by instalments ! The only favour the robber can expect , even from mercy and forbearance itself , is to be allowed to go away seathless upon the restoration of his plunder to the rightful owner . But wo offer more than thia ; we offer a full participation in all the good we seek to obtain , even to
those who have reviled and maltreated us ; and yet , so much are some of our friends of " this world , " attracted by the fine appearance aad plausible manners of the rascals who have reduoed us almost to ruin , that they wish to make them the judges in their own cixuse , and talk of receiving what of our ri ghts they _ pleaae to offer us as an instalment ; and this , too , before their middle class peta have condescended even to intimate an intention of offering anything at allf
"Then , again , the World shrinks with horror at the idea of refusing such an instalment as Household Suffrage . We should shrink with loathing and abhorrence from any such rascally schomo as Household Suffrage involves . We claim the right of the Suffrage for man , because he is man , and not because he lives in a houso of a certain value . If the value of the house , or the property , is the test of fitnesp , then , to be consistent , if £ 10 qualifies for a vote , £ 11 should qualify for a vote and one-tenth ; that is , every ten £ 11 houses should have eleven votes , inasmuch as they have got an extra qualification among them . And so for all houses of greater value—the £ 20 man having a double vote . To us , however , it appears that the- honseless wanderer has quite as good , or even a better , title to a vote , than the most opulont householder ; because it is plain that some morbid arrangement of eocioty , ( except in cases of personal criminality , ) has deprived him of the shelter to which , by virtue of his being a man , he had an undoubtabie claim ; and , consequently , he has a right to the elective franchise , to euable hiop , by his representative , to change an order of things so unnatural and destructive .
But tho crowning absurdity of this strange sentence is , that this instalment is a tale put forth as a feeler , as to how the people might be expected to act if they should recover the whole of their just rights . This ia just like saying to a thief , when the hue aid cry is out against him , " get away , and send the better portion of the stolen money back , to see if it will be employed in feeing aa attorney to drag you to the gallows . " Suppose this boasted "instalment" offered and accepted , what
might be "reasonably expected" to be the conduct of all those who jiad no choice in it , but who were told , " wait patiently till we see how the meaaitto worker , and if it works well , you will have no cne to grumble ; and if it docs not , you can then demand further concessions * " Yes , and have all the additional influence of the newly enfranchised to contend ' ffcainst 11 . Taaak you , good World * forjiuj s <^^ jo ^ i «« ieft ; iwt it-wfift ^ d A ^ Q ^ sfeae ^ to wcA ^^^ aa ! this in 1831 , and we are now reaping the fruits of our folly .
Believe ns , those fruits are too bitter to tempt us to sow another time , with the certain prospect of > similar and equally inefficient crop . Ottr right good friend goes on to rate tho Northern Star tot what he calls our M sad rate of blustering away against Household Suffrage , " and says that We never propose a plan that he can comprehend for the attainment of our Universal Suffrage scheme ! We beg to tell him that Universal Suffrage is no scheme ot ours ; it emanated long before before wo came , either naturally or politically , into existence , and it would survive and nourish if we should
become defunct to-morrow ; being based upon the rock of , universal truth and justice . But , heaven help us ! if we ar « V tobe held accountable for the dullness of comprehension of onr worthy contemporary . We do our best to be plain aad intelligent , bat we never pretended to supply brains as well aa newspapers . Wo agree with the World , that " storming towns at night ; getting shot , transported , and incarcerated ; swarming upon moors , and drawing monsy almost hourly from the wretched working men , irfaot the way to carry the Charter ; " but , we askjWten did we ever gay they were ; or when did
we adtise " storming towns at night , " or any other plsjujtf-phyaical or forcible outbreak ! We always saw ^ Ktd proclaimed the madness and folly of Bnoh ^ things ; but we did not , therefore , feel justified in deserting those who had allowed their simple honesty to be gverreacbed by spies and traitors ; and we did , therefore , call , and the tyranny of the Qoverament , and of middle-class magistrates , Juries , and money-mongers , has compelled us to do so much more frequently than we would have desired , upon the working men to collect their pence together , to oppose those who , from their hard earnings , were constantly extracting pounds ^ .
To the remark about the Conve&iion we have only one observation to make . We should , indeed , deem any suffrage not only a very equivocal blessing , but a positive curse , which should transfer either the manbers rf the Convention , or any other parties , t £ tb » Ijenobes of toe House of Commons , unless choMf * by > majority of tho unbiassed votes of the ; p «« iflfc < ' ' - ¦ ¦ ' / ¦; Bat-we ha ^ s not yet done . -Let our readers read , and mark the following tit-hit of blarney and
bothcrakio » :-r-ii -. ¦ «« The djiartista would not hiss down Mr . O'Connell , or offwrMfl personal indignity , because on some occasions fi « , # poke rather severely of them , neither will they , WB'iire sure , distrust Joseph . Hume , the unplaced , uspensito Md champion of the working claeses—indeed , af tbeisjued of every class and clime—because , in doing •*» " $ &ef areaware that they would not be serving Mr . I ' ss ^ jpur ^ 'Connor , while they would be laying &emseJv ~ £ B Jftin to the charges which are , preferred against , « h « p ^ y their enemies ot being brutal and unthfrtfrHt- " ? rJ 2 ; , ¦ ' - ' ' : ' TheClbawwtB would not hiss Mr . O'CoNWEixat the Leeds Acting ; Mr . O'Cow . nell was so well convinced of this that he took especial care not to furnish them with the opportunity . He was not there ; fat he dare not meet the honest hearts and blistered
handaof the working men of Yorkshire . He knew that the blood-money for whioh he Bold the children < at Mineheeter , and the slanders which his foul tongue bad uttered against the women of England , would neither be forgiven nor forgotten , and , like a baUjisg ooward , a dnnghil ) cock ashois , he sneaked into annug seai ' T » flbe 7 s . 6 d . dinner , at which he was not likely to meet with any of those , at the wry thoughts of whom hi » heart trembled and quaked with fear .
So much for the Chartists not hissing Dan . Let « s now have a word or tw » about "fctoirn-bread Joseph . " " Neither will they , ( the Chartists , ) we are sure , distrust Jcssph HcMB , the aaplaeed , nnpenaioned champion ol the working
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classes . " We admit that ** t is unplaced * and unpensioned , but we shouM . Kke to know whatfer eitbef place or pension wa » ever placed withinl ta ' s reach , or offered to hisacoeptaasee . We think littto-sf that virtue which stands , bav-itig never been enforosd by temptation to a fall . Hi » championship of the working classes is to our miads , of a very questionable character . He thought such a luxury as white bread quite unnecessary for the kand-loom weavers- ; he has been an out-and-out sopporter , —champion , if the Wor / rf likes it better , —of the the Devil-king : bastile law ; and we have bow in our office a well and respectfully written petition , from > Scbtoh working » an , in favour oT the Charter , which was sent to him fe * presentation , and which he refused to present , because it was the petition of an individual .
Mr . FEiBoos O'Cosnob does not Want his friends , the Chartists , to serve him ; he has laboured for them ia a manner which has enshrined him in their hearts , and we know that the only return he looks for is their steady adherence to principle , and their ceaseless perseverance till the glorious cause for which he and hundreds are Buffering , be achieved and perfected . " It is a nice point , " Bays the World , how far advisable it might be for them to abandon the advancement of their own cause for a season to procure privileges for others . " Wo believe so ; yea , a point so nice that ; the World will never be able to settle it between this and its doomsday ; though there is not a
poor operative Chartistin all EnglandorScotland who would hot settle it in three seconds . " If an administration make Household Suffrage a Cabinet question , there would be no alternative left for all classes of Reformers , but to support the measure in theeame way as the Bill of Earl Grey was sustained by the country . " Not so fast . We are wide awake now ; we have seen the reault of Earl Grey ' s Bill , in accumulated misery and wretchedness , and we shall not allow that farce to be acted over again . We promise the IKor / d th * i while -we live , Household Suffrage shall never pass into a law because of the support ministered to it , by " all classes of Reformers . "
So much for the World ' s principle . N * w turu we to the pot and kettle , under the cover of which we find the following bit upon our fiscal arrangements . The World says , after speaking of shooting , transporting , and meeting on moors , always forgetting Rathcormac , Walstown , &c , " and drawing money utmost hourly from the wretched working men . " Now as there is nothing like fair-play , we beg te give the quid pro quo of Irish agitation—here then is the quid : —
"Dublin , March 10 . —The Repeal movement , under the direction of Tom Reynolds , the Inspector-General of Repeal Wardens , progresses apace in the provinces . On Sunday next there ia to be a great gathering of toe Anti-Unionists on the Curragh of Kildare , at which Mr . O'Connell—who will roach town on Friday next , on his way to Galway , where he is specially retained in dn important record case—will attend . In Waterford , Kilkenny , Carlow , and Kildare , the organization for the collection of the Repeal rent ia almost completed . Tom Reynolds has appointed collectors IN every PAKISH , TOWN , VILLAGE . AND HAMLET IN THOSE COUNTIES , AND WHEN THK MACHINERY IS PUT TO fVLL WORK , IT IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE FROM £ 300 TO £ 1 , 000 PER WKEK .. "
" From the World , 13 tb March . "The Secretary having read a letter receired from Mr . T . Reynolds , announced tbe amount of the Repeal Rent for the we « k to be £ 07 18 s . 3 d . " Now for the pro quo from the columns of the World . — - " Every ano must be as tired as we are ourselves of tha mert ) party fi ^ ht about the Registration Bill . The great difference between the Tories and the Whigs is that the former are most anxious for the success of Lord Stanley ' s Bill , while the latter would do anything but abandon Ddwning-street sooner than see their own project carried . Let any impartial person peruse the debate and then say if he can give the Ministers
credit for sincerity in introducing the measure . Tbe fact of the case is that some clap-trap was required to enable the Whigs to cling for a season to office , and nothing better could be hit upon than this hastily concocted Registration scheme . Here was a decoy-duck to answer the purposes of those who were destitute of principle , and at the « une time pracure for them a -tenqwary sopply ot popular mipport Had Ministers V ) Wy .. ri ^ Bjjnenjied Household Suffrage they could not have ! surrendered £ Ke " m ' e * asifra' " at theirconvenhsnee-, but in this instance no such difficulty stands in their way , and they will be able to propitiate the Conserratlvea , if requisite , by abandoning their £ 5 clause , the only popular feature In the bill . We may be disposed
to view matters with too much serenty , but we should be willing to make a tolerable wager that , after all tbe fuss raised , something yery like the Bill of Lord Stinky will be accepted . Why , it would be preposterous to think other wiss ; for did not Lord Ho wick , now a candidate for place , prove that the Ministry bad not long ago proposed a measure for the registration ot Irish voters , in no material point of a dissimilar description ? The discussion , if in no other way useful , haahadthe effect of bringing clearly before tbe public the true causa of contention between the rival parties , and showing how far those at the helm of affairs c : in be induced to go when they feel that the p . ople can no longer be cajoled by idle professions .
The unpopularity of the Melbourne Cabinet has been long increasing , but it recently arrived at that pitch when it was discovered no exertion would ba made longer to sustain it . Now it was that the Conservative party pressed upon the drooping phalanx of Whiggery , and , gaining one election after another , carried the war into the bosom of St . Stephen ' s . Terror , like lightning , flashed through every public office , and there was trembling among the tribe of well-paid placemen , who saw that if a tub of some sort were not thrown out to the whale , they must prepare to perish . This led to the bringing forward of the Registration Bill of Lord Morptth , and if a more decided tone wore adopted , and a determination to look
for measures of generel good , instead of being satisfied with beholding tbe promotion of a few intriguing individuals , we might Boon bope to see them carried . The country , however , has not acted upon this wise plan , buMeemed quite overjoyed as one political charlatan after another took his seat upon the Treasury benches ; and it i » , therefore , not wonderful that those in "high places" abould at Jength begin to consider that this was all which was necessary for the wellbeing of the community . To give a ci-devant demagogue an office worth some couple of thousands a-year , or tfc ^ confer s « me mark of distinction upon & Whig Peer , who allowed himself to be described as a Liberal , waa deemed more than sufficient to recompence for
the actual raisgovernment of millions . The . Bill , we have before stated , will not at present pass , nor indeed for a length of time , if its fraiuera can help it ; but it will be instrumental in giving salary and patronage to thoae in effico for another stssion . The Intetest of this debate has been rendered palatable by tbe strong spice of personality and recrimination introduced into it . Sir James Graham , himself ia wry degraded specimen of a political renegade , brought the inconsistencies of Lord John Russell into bold relief , and received well-merited punishment from Richard Lalor Sbiel , who , in his turn , was
dreadfully peppered by Sir Robert PeeL The desertion of principle has of late yean bee * so extensive and glaring , that it required no great Ingenuity to convict haniirabte gentlemen upon either » Wo ot the House of this delinquency . You were the advocates of the Ballot , ' says the Treasury retainer to the apostate oppositionist . 'Aye , but , " quoth another , by way ef rejoinder , you who are now ksIous for the extension of the franchise when it can maintain Ministers in place , formerly exerted yourself to diminish It , by depriving the Irish forty-shilling freeholders of their rights . ' This ia bitter repartee , but Btill it gives us not a very exalted notion of the political integrity of either Whig
or Tory . " " From the World , 13 th March . "We would be far indeed from insinuating , that Mr . O ' Coonell , in agitating th « question of Repeal , aims at nothing more than keeping the present » nii-Repeal administration in power ; but it ia impossible to peruse the address which he has just transmitted to the Loyal Association at the Cera Exchange , to be circulated through Ireland , without arriving at some such conclusion . " : " From the ' fToridVl . 3 tb . Much .
" We . regret that we have lately been compelled to speak ao discouragingly concerning the prospects of Repeal—bat onr duty wa » obvioBS—and we bad no alternative b « t to deal withfaeUjwwe foand them . In ftlmosMrmy part of the kingdom the people are ready to make ijumensa sacrifices to achieve a measure which they are conscious can alone beaifit their eoutry , and raise it fromtts present abject state . Bttt » dombt pit-Tails that the agitation is no * carried o « with slmjerity—which is highly injurious to the progress of the cause . "
Let Ihe World dispassionately look oa both pictures . In the one , we find that from £ 500 to £ 1 , 000 weekly in now Bought for , » nd expected to put the fool ' s cap upon the head of the » Tor « V Irish folly . We find a sid ^ I © week ' s " rent " estimated » t more by £ 1 than is required by the English Chartiste for » neat national work .
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Since 183 % , we have , had nine sessions of Parliament , the fareeent delightful and promising on « inclusive , dnrng which time Ireland has had from , forty to fifty ** liberal members , " whose elections , together with beggar ' s rent , Association rent , and humbHg rent , has cost the " wretched workiog men" . getting sixpence a day , above three hundred thousand pounds ; to which , add the millions voted recklessly by the said "liberal" Irish members , and paid by the " wretched , working men' of England , and the swarms of lice placed for life upon the back of the Irish beetle , and then Bee the World ' s oirn acknowledgment of services . rendered , and 83 V
whether or not the Irish quo is equivalent to the Irish quid . While , in the same period , England has had a Convention of between forty and fifty men sitting in London for six months , a Specia Commission that cost above £ 1 , 200 ; four hundred priEonerB defended by able counsel , their families supported " for twelve months , and all at an expence short of five thousand pounds , or four months' interest , at five per cent ; , of the enormous sum swallowed up by Irish patriots ? while Ireland is still in the position complained of by th « World , indeed by the whole world , while England id able to beat her united factions /
N . B . Of the £ 300 , 008 the Liberator baa h » d , nearly one half to his own cheek ; enough to give any one but aa Irish • patriot , a lock-jaw , and it only makes tlie Liberator gape the wider . Let it be always borue in mind , that the £ 300 , 000 was to keep the Whigs , ( of whom the World is tired , ) in Downiag-street .
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__ m ^^ , .. * -. . < . THE PETITION AND CHARTER CONVENTION . Universal approbation seems to wait upon the plan propounded by O'Connor in bur last . We are inundated with letters * the publishing of which ia quite impossible ; and , therefore , that we may rna no hazird of making invidubus distinctions , we shall publish hone , but acknowledge thus en masse the general approval . Monies are coming to us from many quarters , which are duly acknowledged elsewhere . We learn also that several sums have been lodged in the bank , according to the instructions of O'Connor ' s letter .
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The following notices should have appeared in our last , but were omitted for want of room : — Communications eeceivkd too late for notiob Last week . —John Heath ' * notice of Mr . Candt / 's lecture , and the intended sf vwns of Mr . Taylor , at Bromsyrove . —Thomas Rotfers ' 8 aocount of the O'Connell . meeting at Glasgow . — Mr . Leech ' s lour of agitation for the present week . —W . Y . Sowtfer's report of the Westminster Chartist Association . —The notice of Mr . Taylor s lecture at Rugby . —Y . Mirk ' s letter to the Executive . —Thomas Haber . sntld ' 8 letter , for the insertion of which we have not room . — U . W . Turner , who desires to know whether there will be funeral sermons preached in London on \ the lAlh o } March , for poor Clayton . We cannot tell him , not having heaid of any such engagements . —G . N . Newell ' n RcddUch report . — iiavid Hopliin ' * notice of Mr . Black ' s lecture at Cardiff .
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Tebtotal Chartists . —The following persons desira their names to Ihe . Temperance Address .- —Joseph Alderaon , Minister of the Christion Chartist Church , and l ' rexident of the Teetotal Chartist Society ; John \ Vh ' nehuTsi , 2 ' reasurer lotlie Tee * total Chartist Society ; G ( orjje Ellis =, Secretary to the same , and a teetotaller of seven peats stand * ing ; and David Whitehead and jam . es Croft , Members of the Committee of the same Society all of Munniniiham , near Bradford . —^ . h ^ tAx Broudbent , a teetotaller of fifteen months standing ; and Alfred Barber , o teetotaller of twelve mouth y standing , boh of Ashton-undcr-Lyne . — Mr . Kitchifi ^ i Councilman ; Mr . Staveiey , i ' ccr # -
tary ; and Men > rs . 1 r . omao . a 7 id . Joseph Mercer , Committee-men , of Daisy-hill , near Bradford . — Mr . Richard Maslam , reed-maker ; und Mr . Leonard Heslop , hatter , qfOldham . Tricks of the Tbade . — We thank the friends who last week sent us a local paper i n which the Star is denounced as an enemy to Universal ^ uffrace , directing our attention lo the silly calumny . Our friends don ' t know these creatures so well as wt do . To notice the effusion of the wretched scrawler would be ju * t what he wants—an advertisement for his stinking rag . We shall disappoint him . - ¦ ¦ ... . ..-.. ¦ W . Y . S .-A ' o .
Mb . Fbat-cis Meixon . — There appeared in lite Slar of December 5 , 1840 , a letter from One of flit most ardent and persevering of our political pioneers in Ireland , datedfrom Antrim , November , 25 , 1840 . In this letter the writer , Francit Mellon , ajier stating the progress which the principles of the Charter were making in Antrim , alludes to the opposition and persecution which he hud met from ( he opponents of political equality , and states , thai these mean and contemptible shadows of men , not heing able to suppress his ardency and enthusiasm for the cau * e , had basely and cowardly turned their schemes on his mother , a widow of near seventy years of age . They succeeded . His father , in the year 1828 , lost his life at Antrim Castle ^ by an accident , and since that time , Lord Ferrard , the owner oftha castle , allowed her two shillings ppr week as a
compensation for her loss . These mean scoundrels applied to Lord Ferrard , and succeeded in causing her weekly trifle lo be taken from her . A correspondent would suggest lo the Committee of the Victim Fund , the propriety of placing Mrs . Mellon on tfie list of receivers from the Victim Fund , adding that , respecting the justice and the absolute necessity for this act there can be no doubt , for , by the praiseworthy exertions of a young but untiring advocate of . Chartism , an aged ' and widowed mother has been deprived of the little pittance doled out to her to asssist her in her short pilgrimage through life . Our correspondent stales lhai -he has known Mr . Mellon about eighteen months , and ever found him , in public or private , as the first and warmest advocate of equality ; that the cause is indebted to his unceasing labours for much of the progress it has made in Liverpool .
We have received a somewhat lengthy article from Carlisle , on the working of the Municipal Corporation Act , for which we have not room . Our correspondent may be assured that the Reforms projected by our Liberal Government are all of the like nature ; and disappointment is sure ( opt the lot of those of the working class who imagine any real good is intended for them . Joseph Rycboft . —We can ' t make anything out of his communication . He has left out the name of the order , otherwise it would have been inserted .
J . Clay , Swike-upon-Tbeni . — We gave thtsubstanee of the matter sent : w * cannot insert , verbatim , all th * matter sent us . We wist do justice to au . as far as our space will allow . A Constant Reader , Bradford —Hit communication would be chargeable with the adoeitisement duty . , A Constant Reader , Bradford Moor , —His letter is an advertisement . Legal Questioks . —We have again and again stated that we don't answer legal questions . O'Connor it a lawyer , but he is locked up . We dmi ' t pre tend to understand the law ; and were tee to advise we might mislead . A Mjpdlk-class Rbfobmeb ; xv Advocate of thb Charter ; Jahes Moobfield ; and a Chahtist are declined .
The Poetrt of J . R ., Casheix ; a Chartist Shoemaker , Banburt ; Joseph Ohm Scott is declined . . < Gracchus must have mistaken us ; we certamly did not intend to charge him tcith drunkenness , nor do we know that any body else hat done so . Lbvi Lion . —We suspect he has mis spelt the latter name : it doubtless should have been h \* r . Sonnet on the Chabteh ,.. and Dbatb op mt Mother , are received . , T _ i A . M ., Edinburgh , and O'B * ie * ' « Lettish , nwrf week .
Thb Charter Hthk shall appear . ... Chables BkOK « b— Wm have not room for A « f letter from the Brig hton Herald . ' . ¦ A YooMo Chabtjs * need not b $ alarmed for Mr . Stfdney Smith : he has no power of doing harm where thert art any Chartists . ..... Richard Mabsdbn . — Wt rtgrel being obhged to r ? sent his communication for want of space . J . B . raoWSON . —Tht oroxded state of our coltmu shuts out his communication on to * l mtnes at present . Jtmmy appear hsrwftsr . ^ Th » Exilb ' 6 FarbW * u . shall apptar when we tow
toon . The Bank Scb&w shall appear tthtn tee havt room . Hurt Griffiths . —W $ have Jfilely bten so orm * powered with communications , that tee ham really not known what to do . We would gladlp have inserted several of nis / o » or « , but could not find room . ¦ Robert Gkay . —The extract from L'BneuihaU ap ~ fear qa soon as possible .
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