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THE JTORTHERH STAE. SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1841.
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CONVENTION . THE PROVISIONAL EXECUTIVE TO THE PEOPLE OF BA'SLAifD , SCOTIJJfD , ASH WALES . BaotHxaa ih thb Catsb op DmoeaACY , —In consequence of the conflict of optaien regarding the election of ten persons ( from those nominated ) to form the fortheominK Convention , ire do not consider it right to h » Te anything at all to do with gaeh selection ; bnt we would reeommeDd tbefollowing tonne to the country : —Let there be a public meetin * called immediately in every town , aad all the persons nominated submitted to each public meeting , which meeting shall choose tea from the whole list ; let all returns be forthwith sent to the Editors of the Northern Star , Scottish Patriot , and Dundee Chronicle newspapers , who shall publish a correct account of the whole prooeediags . By this means , whichever ten would hare the sanction of the greatest -number of public meetings would be the veritable representatives of the people . This method , in o ar opinion , would be the best that could be adopted ; . and we confess we see no other plan by which satisfaction can be given to all parties . The public meetings could all take place next week , and the result published in the above-named newspapers on Satnrday , the 17 th instant , and the Conrention meet in London as soon as necessary afterwards .
We do not decline taking the affair into our own handsfrom any direspect to any individual . but because it might form a dangerous precedent in an Executive body , by too much power being placed at their disposal , and , in the end , bring them into collision with the people ; a circumstance which must carefully be guarded against . We remain , yoar fellow-labourers in the cause of genuine Chartism , Jahbs Leech , President . Jakes Cartledgk . Hjcbjlso Lirrr . KB . Johh Campbell , Secretary .
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THB PB 07 ISI 0 NAL EXECUTIVE TO THE CHARTISTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES . Fellow-Democrats , —We- eall upon you to send In the names of tie persons you trill nominate ai candidates for tbe permanent Executive , by Saturday , the 24 th instant , at the farthest ; in order th&t correct lists miy be made out , and sent to each sub-Secretary We would wish you to bear in mind that we will not ( because we cannot ) be accountable for any nomination of any person , unlew an account be sent to the General Secretary , of the individiula nominated , by letter . We do Qua to ensure punctuality , and to prevent mictakei -, aad then we will get the whole list printed on circulars , and Bend one to each sub-Secretary , witb iastmctiaas concerning the elections . James Leech , President James Cartledge . RlCHABJ ) XlTTT . KR . JOHM Campbell , Secretary . All communications must be made to Mr . John Campbell , 18 , Adderley-street , Shaw ' s Brow , Salford , Manchester .
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FROM OCa LOKDOS CORRESPOXDKIfT . Wednesday Evening , April 1 th . [ A statement in my last week ' s communication ( relative to the Corn Law League ) haying been declared erroneous , by a letter from *• one of the reporters " to the Weekly Dispatch , inserted is that paper of Sunday last , li fg to Bay , that my informant is in every way endHa to implicit belief ,- and that , if there be any error in my statement , it is about equal to this : —instead of having , used the term * bother , " I ought to haTe said " fuss . " As to the facts stated by me , relating to " oar contemporary , " I haTe only to , add , that they were related to me shortly after the application , and before the meeting . So that , clearly , the " error " is not of our making . ]
ChaBTKH 15 IrOTGHBOfcOBGH , LEICESTER , A ? TP Noitlsgham . —I have been favoured with the sight of a private letter from Mr . Vincent , dated " Nottingham , April 3 rd , " in which the following interesting passages occur : — Those who hope to crush Chartism know but little of the spirit which now animates the people . During the pas ; fortnight , 1 have visited tie towns of Leicester , Loughborough , and Nottingham ; and the people in ail these towns are speedily advancing in morality and intelligence , and in a desire to obtain their political and social rights . Persecution has not abated the real of the Chartist party . All is actmty , and eyerything bean evidence to the onward progress of our cause . - - - - In Loughboroueh , I delivered three
lectures to crowded audiences . The people are miserably poor . The men engaged in the stocking trade are in a shocking state of destitution . Many of them work from sir o ' clock in the' morning till twelve o ' clock as night , and do not earn ( after deducting rent for frames , and other expences ) HOES THaK raoM 5 s . to 6 s . a week S Little cnildren , of both sexes , are put to work as early as from five to six years of age . These children work from six in the morning till nine at night . They can earn from one shillinf to one and ninepenee a week . No time for education or moral cnlnire . All is toil , destitution , disease , and ignorance . The people generally are Ch&rusts ; many of them teetotallers . There is a Chartist Teetotal Society , and a society composed of those who are not teetotallers .
- In Leicester , I delivered four lectures in the New Hall ; about 600 attended at each lecture ; many of the middle classes , including numbers of ladies , were present . At the close of my 1 asi lecture , I administered the Chartist teetotal pledge to sixty-three persons . - - 1 b No : tingham , I have delivered three lectures in the large theatre . This is a famous Radical town . Reading-rooms and libraries abound ; though some of them are unfortunately held , at public houses . - - - - - - I am delighted with the people of Nottingham ; and I may sa . fely assert , that never did the Chartist cause look so flourishing . " A subsequent letter says : — " I have had the devil-to-pay at Derhj . Three rooms were engaged , and taken irom
us . La 3 t night ( Monday ) , the town was all excitement ; the market filled with people vowing execrations upon the authorities . I went down in a' fly 'the fly-man was threatened—I sent the people out of the to . m , and there dispersed them , insisting that they must not allow their feelings to get the better Of their judgments . The authorities are beaten—the teetotallers hate come to the re .-cue—and have invited me U lecture on Uetotaium , in the Wesleyan Chapel , on Wednesday night . The chapel will hold 2 , 000 ; and we shall have it full . - - - - I lecture again in 2 soitingham next Monday and Tuesday ; entirely at the request of some of the working classes—mm who bare Mtuerto been our bitter opponents , "
The Petition Committee held its weekly meeting at the Dispatcn Coffee House , Bride Line , Jast evening , Mr . Simpson in the chair . The S = eretary , Mr . Balls , read a letter from Mr . Hawts , M . P-, stating th&t he would present to the House of Commons the petitions on behaif of O'Connor , Frost , and the Charter , which had been forwarded to him for that purpose by the Committee . A letier from Mr . pfincombe , M . P ., was also read , slating that the indiridnal petitions he had presented to the House were not inserted in the votes of the House , in consequence of an informality , the petitioners not having signed their names at the esd of the petition , as well as at the top . The Committee , therefore , request that their brethren will , lor the future , sign their names at the end . as vrsll as at the beginning of individual petitions . A gr * at number of petitions were received by the Committee , previous to adjournment .
Destitution . —Vast numbers of poor persons are wandering about the streets of London , in a wbollj destitute condition ; and such r& their horror ot the New Poor Law , and their oread of the workhouse , that BOfQQ of them commit patty depredations tor the rowed purpose of getiing sent to Bridewell ; they seldom go far enougii to get hard labour attached to their sentence—and no blame to them ! We aaw , to-day , quite a new rig with an individual who was a few weeks since sentenced to gaol for begging . He would not - beg ; bnt armed himself with a ma ~ Eon ' s trowel , & mortar-board , and a whitewash brush ; these were tied together , and on the board was painted , in clear characters— " I want employjay children want bread . " " Ah , " said he , to a peeler , who told him to , move on , " you can ' t gued Be for that , uy how I "
. Stan * Accidekts . —This evening , about six O ' clock , a little girl , about seven years old , was erasing Farringdon-street , near Waithman ' s Obelisk , when a gentleman , in a low phseton , was driving at a rapid rate from the direction of Bridge-street , Blackfriars . The horse knocked the po ^ r child 4 own , and one * of the wheels of the vehicle passed over the child ' s head , crushing it in a most fright ' fid manner . A crowd boob collectejj and , as some « f the spectators attributed grs&t JBigenee to the ftttlemiawho was driving , he was Tor some time in danger of summary vengeance , bnt was , at length , taken under tea protection of the police , and the child was conveyed to a surgeon ' s , near
F&mngdonmarket , who pronounced her lift to be in great danger . —About the suns time u the above , as one of the London Parcel Delivery Company ' s con-Teyanoe carts was ascending Holborn-hili , it came in contact with an omnibus which was descending , owing , it was ssid , to the unskilf ulness of the carter . The result was , that the wheel of the conveyance cart was knocked from the axle ; the persons in the fgaibus got a clumsy jolting , but no material B ^ ory ; bnt the Parcel Company ' s driver was thrown from his seat and seriously bruised . It was some fitte before the •' spill" was clearedaway , to enable TgM ^' ' to pass Uiis j awkward and dangerous ttwwghfaie
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WalwoVTH axd Cahbbbwell Chabtisxs . —A meeting wiifheld on Monday evening , at the Rose and Crown , Walworth Road , for the transaction of general business , and aiding in the getting up of the public meeting to be held at White Conduit House on Easter Monday , for whish purpose a sum of money was voted by way of loan . The following resolution was also unanimously adopted t— That it be an instruction to the Committee calling the meeting at White Conduit House , that a petition be sent to the House of Lords for Frost , Williams , and Jones , in reference to the points of law ia . the case of Lord Cardigan . ' ? The cause of Chartism looks well in thiB locality . Several aew members hare been enrolled , and the weekly meetings are well attended .
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Christopher Dean , of Manchester , the Chartist chairman , was tried at the Liverpool Assizes on Monday last , before Mr . Justice Maule . Be was charged upon two indictments , with seditious conspiracy , unlawful assembly , Ac , with the Rev . W . V . Jackson and others , at Manchester , to both of which he pleaded guilty ; and was called upon to find two sureties in £ 50 each , or four is £ 25 each , to keep the peace , and appear when called upon . ACQJTCTTAL OP THE MeI » ChaKGKD WITH THE Ashtos MuBDEB . Ob Tuesday morning , Mr . Wilkius addressed the Jury on behalf of the Sr isonera . in Mb usual able manner , at some length , ustice Maule followed , and concluded a very lengthy and full address , by stating shortly the two views of
the case , the one that of the prosecution that the prisoners were the murderers , and against thst 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 th » two Hardwicks , who were mixed up with the transaction , were they , or some ot them , the actual murderers , and that they , having opportunities 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 contrary , they entertained any reasonable doubt ,
they would give the prisoners tbe 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 the prisoners " Not Guilty . " They were then arraigned on two other indictments , one charging them with having discharged the coatefits of a pipe &t 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 rlnlme , he was discharged .
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A NATION OUT-LAWED BY A FACTION . STARVATION . A new contract has been executed between the landlords and the steamlords , whereby the people of this country have been handed over as so much surplus lumber , to be dealt with according to the supreme will and pleasure of the three Somerset-House lords of the creation . Is the new contract , we find full and ample justification for the most violent resistance which has been hitherto offered to the " damnablo law . " We also find full and ample reasons and just grounds for the people ' s growing aversion to all classes placed in authority over them .
After 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 , and the capricious maintenance of the pauper , into entire and supreme controul over all local bodies , making
those bodies , either mere creatures or cyphers , and a power over the religion , education , trade , calling , aud even country , of every Briton , who ia first rtduced to the level of degradation by the infernal machine . Thus have 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 perserving its harmony .
Bat , we are told , that it is yet the Briton ' s right to use all constitutional means for the repeal of this odious , unehriEtian , 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 the law .
The people have met and petitioned , many have died , many more have been driven from the home of their fathers to the Whig charnel-house , thousands have fled their father-land , in the hope of being able to preserve & miserable existence , for another short period of misery in a foreign land . The sea-bound dungeon has rung with the piercing cry of the victim of ambitious lust , and with execrations against the unholy law , which unbinds society—dissolves those ties whie God has formed , and compels the pauper to exhibit the galling qualification of utter despondency and destitution , before he is thought worthy of relief . What other constitutional means of resistance doeB this nation of helpless paupers possess ? None .
What , now , are the powers by which even such constitutional resistance is met by the advocates of the law ! It is made in their House ; it is supported , defended , and upheld by their nominees ; opposition to it ia tried by their judges ; its constitutionality judged of by their Jaw officers , paid by their vote with the people ' s money ; decided upon by joror 3 of their creatures , 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 law , 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 , comitts the Briton ' s right of constitutional resistance ? Is it in the right of spending nine months in solitary confinement , in a felon ' s cell , as O'Cokicob is now doing , for tbe following six lines , called unconstitutional , libellous , and illegal opposition ! In the Star of Dm 22 nd , 1838 , the following six lines appeared : —^ H
•• Wabucnster Bastilb . —A litUe boy , last weefj for some Biuall offence , was confined in one of the cells belonging to the above workhooae , and wai literally starved to death . Tha poor feliow , during hia confinement , actually ate , in consequence of hunger , two of his finger * , and the flesh from Ma arm . " Now , for these Bix lines , taken from another paper , and lpon which O'Cohhc * was convicted by a Jury of money-mongers , Mr . Justice Littledalb 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 Thoshhill ' s incarceration of hig old and f aithful steward , just at the time when his presence might have been fatal to the re-enactment of the Bill , was other than a Whig eontriyaact , as a substiuite for a verdict « f Guilty , which they knew they could never get against Oabtlm , in Yorkshire , without too palpably packing a Whig Jarj , to the exclusion of every particle of Tory feeling . Yes , yes , thu it ia tbat the friend * of the poor—the constitutional opponents ot the measure , an yietimised , equally with the paupers thematlvea .
We have been sincere in our denunciation of this mesjnre , and also sincere in oar expression ot 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 Easzhope . Tha dodger boasted , as we have before shown , that the WhigB outbid the Tories in humbug ; but what was the upshot ? Why , that while we find the said u artful dodger" Easthops , proposing a clap-trap
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amendment , as to the time of the monster ' e duration , and which he would never have proposed had success been at all calculated npon ; we'find hint voting , in Committee , in every majority to confer additional power upon the triumvirate , and additional poignancy to the measure , and increased Buffering and degradation to those whom necessity shall compel to look for relief . If , by the late sham fight , the Tories have been unmasked , as & patty , the Whigs hare been disoovered as a set of unprincipled " dodgers . "
Ot the Hibernian tail , we hare only to say that , throughout , they have shewn their consistency , love of the English poor , and regard for civil and religious liberty , by handing over Catholics , Dissenters and all , to the tender mercies of a Law Church ! How will the Right Honourable Richard Shiel , tbe Right Honourable Moss O'Fkrbaix , the Right Honourable David PiGerr , and the Right Honourable Thomas Wybe , all honourable men , justify their votes upon ( he question !
Fjeldrh 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 Dcncombb , Waklkt , and a few others are entitled , are maeh diminished by their miserable support of the originators of the Bill upon ail touchand-go measures . They , together with a number of our half-and-half outside friends , remind us strongly of that party in Athena which was
considered the most infamous , namely , those " who endeavoured to keep well with all parties , and ventured with none ; " or , as we have described them more than once , those " who run with the hare , and hold with the hound . " Our position is this : that if the measure merits all that severe censure which Duncombk and Waklet have so unmercifully , heaped upon it , they , as supporters of its eupporters , deserve all the odium attachable to accessories before and alter the fact .
We do not expect a repeal , or any relaxation of the law from a Tory House . As far &s 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 Fiklden 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 1 " None , none whatever .
In what , then , consists the nation ' s hope , and the chance of the monster ' s death ! Ia the nation ' s self—in making it a spur to the Charter—in vowing eternal , everlasting , indomitable vengeance against it . How 1 Why , we have lately bad Sunday meetings ; Mr . O'Connell has boasted that he held one within gnn-shot of the Horse Guards , and beheld another upon the plains of Kildare . Let us profit by good example . D&te the Whigs allow constitutional meetings , for repealing % Legislative Union , and obstruct and declare those meetings illegal , which are held for the purpose of cementing God ' s union I No : we dare them .
Then , as the poor are too hard worked npon bix days of the week , and as we look upon the law as an ungodly law , we mast confer together for the maturing and adopting such means as mil allow the whole people to turn the Sabbath to tbe 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 subject , but we 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 find a new straggle for emigration made cotemporaneously with the re-enactment of the starvation laws . Let us take a retrospective glance of the parties by whom the Poor Law Amendment Act was concocted , with , a yiew 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 the English people .
The law was concocted and introduced by the Grey cabinet ; Edwabd Eluce , M . P . for Coventry ; is the brother-in-law and mouth-piece of Lord GatY ; he has little er no land in this country , but ia possessed of immense Canadian property . Eluce is uncle to the Countess of Durham , and the late Earl would not accept ef any office save that of uacontrouled , but undefined , King of Canada ; he also was in Ellice ' s leading strings . Lord Howick is
son of Lord Gkey , and nephew to Ellice , and gives to Government a very crooked support upon all questions save these of starvation and emigration ; but upon these pointB he goes " the whole hog " with them . Chables Wood , M . P . for Halifax , is son-in-law to Lord Geey aud nephew to Ellice , 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 of the cupboard of the Gkey family .
Now , in brief terms , what was their object in passing the starvation Act ? Was it not to iuture the transportation of the wealth of this country , rendered surplus by machinery , and desperate by insults and degradation , in order to confer an in creased value upon their foreigu possessions , rendered valueless for want of population ? Is not every acre of Edwahd Ellice ' s land in Canada increased fifty per cent , in value by each ship load of white slaves , who are banished , by starvation , from their native land ?
If any man doubts the interest which some powerful parties have in emigration , let him read the / dtow ing audacious and mendacious article , which we give from the " artful dodger's" paper , the Chronicle , of Saturday last . He 6 ays : — " Now that Canada is tranquil , and that the differences with the United States no longer wear a jpenaeuig aspect , the stream ot emigration will , from ptarioufl obvious causes , set in mure strongly tlian "ever fox that interesting pottiou of our colonial empire .
" We have perused with the greatest satisfaction a most able and interesting publication , drawn up under the direction of tbe Canada Company , by their Secretary , as -we are informed , -which ia Bold by Smith and Elder at the very moderate price of one shilling . Tbe title of the publication , to which we would direct the attention of all who wish for correct information as to the real state of thingn in Canada , ia ' A statement of the satisfactory results which have attended emigration
to Upper Canada , from the establishment of the Canada Company until the present period ; comprising statistical tables , and other important information , communicated by respectable residents in the various towzuhips of Diper Canada , with a general map of tbe Province , JKpiled for this guidance of emigrants . ' Emigration to " Canada ought to be eet about as soon as the St . Lawrence is open , lor if the emigrant is not osnia land * in the early part of the summer , . he cannot recceesfully contend with the long -winter ,
" In America generally , and Upper Canada U a highly favoured province ; every industrious labourer may soon obtain s competence . The man-who in this country can never hope to do more than kei < p bimaeif oat of the workbooae , nwy , by wmoviag to > Canada , by the store exertion of Ms tbewa and sisewtv become in * abort time a mbttantial yteoman . The tt ^ ie which this publication tells is calculated to carry joy into the cottages of these islands , where at present many strong-armed men carry on a cheerless struggle , d ay after day , with privations amounting almost to famLie constantly starin ; them in the face . Benevolent individuals should circulate the publication extensively throughout , the rural districts , that well-disposed , industrious men may be enabled to profit by the body of evidence presented by the Canada Company . " In the introduction we are told , that
« In order to obtain the intelli gence—that its fidelity and accuracy might be established beyond the » each of cavil or tuspieion—they procured the instrumentality of some of the most influential , Iwjtst settled , and vespectable { in-
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habitants , residing in various parts of the province , to collect the necessar y information . They were directed to spare neither trouble nor expence to procure the most Minute and faititful returns , * " The accounts are truly gratifying . " Aye , the accounts are truly flattering , but not flatteringly true . Then follows a manufactured tale of profit made , and property amaseed , by settlers , in a period of little mote than tea years , and with which a common shop-keeper in England would not be half satisfied , and yek they are manufactured for the mere purpose of decoying the young birds . Bat we give the whole pudding for this one plum which it contains : " Thb ham who . in this coumtkt , can
H&VBK HOPE TO DO MORE THAN KEEP HWSK 1 P OUT Ot * HB W 0 BKH 0 B 8 B , MAT , BY BEHOVING TO CaNABA , bt thb mebb exemioh 07 his thfws and sinbws , become , in a short timb , a substantial tbohan . Thb tale which this publication tells ib calculated TO CAREY JOT INTO THE COTTAGES OP THESE Islands , whebS , a * pbeskmt , many strong-ajmcbs mkn cabby on a cheerless struggle , dat aftbb dat , with pbiyations , amounting almost to famine , constantly staking 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 be , ThiBis 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 be the- result , and then Howick will cry •* Fire , fire , fire—now you must hold . "
Good God { was there ever insolence equal to this , that says , struggle as a hard working Englishman may , the most he can expect is to be kept just out of the " workhouse . " Thjs is moral force emigration ; and , let it be further observed , that the whole system of emigration is to undergo purification . Loud and constant complaints have been made , by the white-alave-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 Savinga'Banka , to put their foreign houses in Australia , and Canada in order , and sending the 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 ef the" civil power" mth musketand bayonet ; we see the land , not wholly uncultivated , but not a
tenth-part cultivated under our noses , ecause the money-monger , who will own £ 5 , 000 a year of landed property , will own from £ -20 , 000 to £ 100 , 000 a year of slave property , and 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 the food of their slaves as cheap as possible , and selling the 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 .
Pending the 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 those who have money , and who wish to emigrate , to go to-America , and those who have 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 driven them from house and home , 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 false or vile . The fact is , much more nearly , that one half of the poor who have gone there have died of cold , and that many of the other half have begged their way into some American State which suited them as to climate . We have not the slightest pity for ¦ the landlords ; their days are numbered , and they themselves cast their own lot . No power on earth but the Charter can save them .
Au audacious attempt has been made by the press to separate the new powers given to ex qfficio Guardians and other irresponsible bodies , from the spirit of the bill , and to persuade the people to swallow the pill , because some of the powers given to the Commissioners , under the 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 ia irresponsible agents . The Bill , as a whole , cannot be otherwise
considered than as a sale of -white flesh , by landlords to steamlords , let economists call it what they please . The power of certain parties maybe less under the old than under the new law , but the power of the law is a thousand times more oppressive . Such a law as this , fifty years ago , the BoroughTnouj { erada . t 6 not hav * paLft 8 fed , a . \ idtVvftpco {>\ e would not have obeyed . What has cowed themi Machinery , distrust of each other , and competition for a mere livelihood , which has createdclass distinction , even in the very poorest ranks of the contending operatives and weavers . Wait till all are equally destitute , and then all will be equally valiant .
The further consideration of the Bill , it will be seen , 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 . TUE BOYS ARE GONE HOME . " Joy be with them and a bottle of nioas ; If they never come back they'll be no great lots . " To attempt any review of the works of the lads for the past ten weeks , would be but adding insult to expence . Suffice it , therefore , to say that , in that fchort period the " Reioimerb" have turned John and Judy Bull ' s hard cash , by 6 ome "harlequin , audism , " into " taper kites ; " ihe moral iorce , re
trenching , peace-making Commons have voted about one-half of the rental oi the land of England to soldiers and sailors , and the economists have sold the people , dead and alive , to . Poor Law Commissioners , ex qfficio Guardians , and emigration Committees , and all this , while our leading journals have been fitting a Pusey battle for England , a nonintrusion bai ' . le . for Scotland , and a non-enfranchisement battle for Ireland . So much for the first act of the ninth Reform Session , and now for Our
share . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' .. . . •;¦ . .. , . , ' , ; .: _ > . , ; .. .. ; ; The prisons are still fulL DanielJs preparing to deal a heavy blow at ttie Whigs awF ^ biggerj ; he has got all thai he ia to get , even to his share of legal appointments in Jamaica , for which young John contended , as the right of the Irish patriote . Dan sees Pbbi / b more , and knows what he , is to expect from it , and he has goHe to pat "hishouse in order . " And well the Whigs have helped him ; and if their return is not what every one has received who has confided in the Honourable Gentleman , why , as he « ays , " Nabockliah "—never mind it . Now , then , let us put our "house in order , " BO that house may be ready to meet house when the straggle
conies . It will be seen that Glasgow , always foremost in the good fight , and always prudent , has elected a delegdto to tLe Convention ; and , with characteristic caution , has also undertaken both the payment of his expences and salary . The men of Glasgow view the coming Convention as we view it—as a grand stroke ,
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which should not be badly timed , or Feebly dealt . They say w « are , not prepawid-r-neither is the country prepared—let as , therefore , delay the project till the 3 rd of May , in order to insure its full value . This is not despotism , " bnt good , sound , rational Scotch sense . In this transaction , oar duty is to obey , the peoples' to command . Lei the people , inen , speak out , and » t once , and nay whether or not they approve this change ; and , if so , let us have the names of all delegates elected , transmitted to us » t once , thai we may lay them in order before the country * ¦
Sanderland , it will Jbe seen , ia preparinjf 4 bnt is not ready , so are manj other places ; therefore , claiming oar full share' of citizenship , we nnhesitatingly declare , in favour of the View taken of the subject by the men of Glasgow . However 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 , have , much more despotically than O'Cownob , elected the whole Convention . This , in the first instance , if generally adopted , would have been * very 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 to receive £ 3 a week as his wages . Let every place which has elected a Delegate eend us at once the name of the Delegate arid the date of the public meeting at which he was elected for publication in our next . In the mean time , we have 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 our plan being Well matured . Firstly , the several delegates can arrange to take with them the several sheets from their respective districts . . Secondly , those sheets will have time to be fully signed . Thirdly , the London Committee should instruct Mr . Dcncombb , or some other Member , to move , firstly , for a return of the names of the several persons convicted of political offences in the year 1839 , together with the offences charged , and tbe sentences , with the name of the Judge before whom the
parties were tried ; and , also , a return of the several persons sentenced throughout England and Wales during the same period , to be confined in 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 expenoee 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 amount ' of recognizances , distinguishing each offence with which the offenders stood charged , whether j for political , or crime by common or statute law .
Now , these returns will apeak to the House in the language which the country will understand , and they are absolutely necessary for Mr . Dcncqhbe ' s guidance , and for the people ' s satisfaction . When we name Mr . Duncohbe , we merely do so for brevity , as , of course , our London friends will make their own arrangements in that respeot . 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 , the Convention meet on the 3 rd . of May , they give the country , and their active Member , more time for returns and arrangements . The delegates have a better opportunity of assisting * the general object in their Beveral 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 the core by this new move ; because
it will terminate in the utter extinction of all " lights" but the true light , in the metropolis . The old pilots and river-pilots , see no chance either of a job or profit from the people ' s job , and they are literally paralysed . This Convention will unite the veritable country party with the veritable metropolitan party , and must create a union for action never before known to exist in this country . We hope , next week , to publish the names of sound country delegates , no" cock-tails , " we say again .
Go on , then , with the petitions , about which thero appears to be-some misconception , " many patties 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 his 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 cou&ider his part in the act with which he stood convicted . In our last we announced that we were in possession of his narrative , which , however , we forbore publishing during the life of the convict then about
to die . We shall , however , now present tit , 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 have been guilty of more than a thousand robberies , some accompanied with the greatest violenoe , and many with extraordinay results , before be had attained bis seventeenth year , we may at once declare him to have left Robin Hood , Turpin , Jack SHEPPARD , anc all the tribe of vulgar villains far in the shade .
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THE "GOLDEN SUN" AND HIS ANGLOSAXON FRIEND , UPON THE LIBERTY OF THE SUBJECT . The Strand luminary , determined not to be outdone by the ' Artful Dodger" in rendering good service to his masters , has this week published a letter from a very freeman , 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 is a County Magistrate ) shall preside , exomcio , and that he ' shall commence by having the police in
attendance and the military in readiness to deal summarily with the movers , seconders , and backers of all amendments proposed to 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 negaeivmg or affirming the Mayor ' s propositions ,: but no right ,, by resolution or amendment , even 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 haye published it , but our friend ' s
columns are , we fear , become refige for the destU tute . Such , then , is henceforth to be the golden rule of thegolden Sun ' t " hew acquaintance for taking stock of public opinion , the man must be a fool to write , and the Sim most b > mad to publish such jargon . Does not every child of twelve years of age know , that' apon , a motion made in the House of Common * , that the debate upon the civil list be resumed , an Honourable Member may move aa an amendment that the Chimney Sweepers * Bill be proceeded with . But what amendment to pertinent to a . proposition to repeal any bad law , as one to get the means of repealing all bad laws ? When the " Sm ' $ " altitudinal height Had illumined the " bum " of the Mayor , The chartists beginning to iweat , Cried , " Dang it , what smoke from the chair i " Oh , Mungo Young , Mango Young , Wherefore art thou , Mungo Young ?
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FIRST TICKET SHOW MEETING AT THE CR 0 WN 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 biased in every respeet , as a gentleman ; and we would point that gentleman ' s attention to the manner ia which , he has been treated by the press and &t Unionists ; while the Greenacre Chronicle does sot condescend even to mention his name . They wwi supremacy , not onion ; power , not equality . -Th » humbngs !
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The Monet / row Bradford , per J . Statel y ^ shovli have been from DaisyHill , per J . Stavely . " Wh . Umplbby and J . Jansok . —We do not ttl them . Thb sum "Kta . for Convention , noticed from De » bury , should have been , Ss . from Daw Gtul and As from Dewsbury " To AoEST 8 . —The price of the paper with plate tin week will be 6 d . to < agents . The papers of d those whose accounts are not settled will it stopped after this week .
POLITICAL PRISONERS' AND CHARTER COHVENTIOJ FUND . .- ' ¦ ¦ ¦ •¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ . ¦ : £ t . l From Castle Sonnington , Leicestershire . „ 0 7 > * . twenty Working Men of Temple Cloud , Somerset ... ... ... 0 li ( „ Pratt-street , Kirkaldy , per R . Taylor 3 o » _ a few Friends at Hunslet ... ... 0 2 } * . J . Sunderland , Hareacroft ... ... 0 l < j a Friend ... ... ... ... ... 0 0 < .. Bradshaw , near Bolton 0 1 { _ four person * at Wakefleld . ; . ... 0 3 t * . the National Charter Association , Mansfield , per D . Farquaarson ... 0 8 1 „ the Friends at Brompton , near North-, allerton ... ... ... ... 0 1 { „ thirteen Chartists , Little Horton , per J . Aldefson ... ... ... ... oat „ CankerweU-Jane , Leeds out „ J . DowBon , Reading ... 0 l t .. the National Charter Association , Kidderminster ... ... ... ... 0 6 i „ D . Ireland , Dunfermline ... ... 0 10 t .. the Rancliff Anns , Nottingham ... ... ... 0 3 0 ^ the Newton's Head ... » 2 lj „ New Basford , by Mr . Wright ... ... ... 0 2 0 ^ New Radford , by Mr . Mason ... ... ... 0 2 * , Bingham , by Mr . Huskiason 0 10 0 ...... Stapleford ... ... ... 0 2 9 l l io * Post-order , tec . ... 0 4 j 1 1 «
., Hebden Bridge Chartist Association 0 7 8 _ Weavers at Bamber Bridge and at _ Bindle , per O . Halton , Preston ... 0 9 8 .. the Female Chartists of Daw Gteen ... ... ... 0 0 s „ Saml . Radgeley , Daw Green 0 2 ( 5 .. Frederick Hunt , ditto ... 0 0 6 ••¦ ¦ ¦• ¦ — o 3 i „ Bradford , Wilts ... ... ... 0 5 0 . . the Political Union , Letham 0 2 6 „ ¦ twenty persons at A bergavenny , per Thomas Ingram ... ° H „ Kettle Radical Association , per J . Moyes ... ... ... ... 0 5 0 FOB THE WIVES AND FAMILIES OF THB INCABCEBAHD CHABTISTS .
From Booth Town , near Halifax , pet R . Wilkinson ... ... ... <> 5 0 .. Wandswortb , per 0 . Westerton ... 0 4 0 FOB MRS . CLAYTON . From Hanley , per J . Vates ... ... ... 0 } ¦ ¦ . „ Wandswortb , perC . Westerton ... 0 4 9 FOR THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE . From Leicester , per T . Cooper 0 . 4 « FOR PRESS FOE J . B . O ' BEIEH . From Castle Donniwrton , Leicestershire ... 0 2 0
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PREPARING / FOB P 0 BLICATZOK , AND WILL BE READY VER ? SHORTLY , PRICE ONE SHILLING , HYMNS FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP SUITABLE FOB CHARTIST CONGREGATIONS . m HIS is adesidsratatn which is serionslf fcjMJ 1 it ia hoped that the present effort will be thou ^ efficient to supply It . In order that some ldeaaUJ be had of how many should be printed , it w owg ] requested that all the several localities throng the Kingdom , will consider of the -Namber lJSS * be requiredTind Bend . through to Su ^ bwwanj «> tfaV Editor of the Cftar list jffymn BooM , Mart * street , Leeds ; pre-payii . « their letters ^ orcoaw
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tEEDS .-BRONTiEBRB O'Bbi E « . -The C » miuee , formed for wism « subscnpUons aDMo chasing a press for Mr . O'Brien , have w « w j merouTletters , inquiring how they are , lo be * g priated . As that will entirely depend on the , sm ® which may be raised , the C ^^ Jgj SS to leave « solely to Mr . O'Brien , feeling « = * . thatif Bnfficient meanb be o *^» JjLffiffi them effectually in the advocacy of * "f *^ J 8 for whioh he is now suffering . All **> ™ ior wmou u « w « " •» »™«'" b ' . - —! HavaB and have »
„„ , * ceived letters from the Committee , , favoured them with an anawer , are deared to ^ early as possible . AU commun ications mug " o John Ogden , 3 $ , Marlbroug h-street , Leeds . Lekds Borough SESSioNS-Thew » ff& mence on Monday next , at ^* "" Ji . rt . mornin * . The . calendar is more J ^ fg * heavy ; containwg . the nM « £ S . brought % prisoners . A motion was to"ve ** « ^ J&wi forward at the council meeting las * *«« t «* J -Z ing the learned Recorder to Pr ^ fJSB * occasion , bnt theCounoil having 6 r at « J ^ proposed Atom of expenditure , J ^ ™ £ f Iropped- This is what we shoddalooBj ^ as « penny wise and PO " .. f ^^ iSno . * witnesses for the extra tune will counwrw"
assomect saving . ; . ^ SiTDDKKTteATH .-On Satni ^ evemnj ^^ was heldatihe (^ urt Wuse ^ re JoluKW « ^^ &q ., on theWly of ^^ X ^ S ^ m 15 years of age , irho died wddenly g . gjg ^ j The deoeatodwdrked at ¦¦ ftrtorf , JJ WJJ ,, ^ % previous to her death . had ^ OT ^ ned ^^^ i extremities and had' W + n *»> & ^ oecuiona . Shehadoneof & ™^ £ w * wejitto workafterwtt ^ « nd -fn&EJ took her tea M nsuaL , ^^ S ^ KSS nonse , to « o on a short errand , and JfU ^ j . , < m " treet : difdled in a few »^ nteiafterwar ^ iS ^ ftei ^ inveBtigatiBg ^ ' g *** ttZSm Vwdiot of Suddea death ftom ""^ SI last , the nflnal monthly meeting - j&' « J ' 5 ^ 1 nm , Vm « t Commteionen was held # » ^ H
fiousel Mr . Ou ^ CommiiM ^^^ n « i > s . ^^ gssffei hW , by letter . teen jwuUed out a » ' % ffid&m meat , ' it . the « e genUemen Mrtej ££$ J % the borottglL where ^^ ^^ f&ne ^ they willha ^ no * ^ emptoym ent ; w » ^ tooome . •" //" ¦ ¦ . " - : - . : ¦ .: ¦• • ¦ . nthoriflrf ' S Boaw > o » 8 oRVBTORSw--We * j ? Srrowa ^ l statetnat the Board of Sarreyors g ^ J ? n fM of Leeds , will be happy to " ~» ve «>»« J ^^ j any rate-pajer , reBpegting ^ ^ any J »« & »> J ^ vr ^ hT ^^ lffifi ^^ l JoJpb Brwnley , at the ^^ fA ^ i M » rket , between thehour » of ten « J « J ^
The Jtortherh Stae. Saturday, April 10, 1841.
THE JTORTHERH STAE . SATURDAY , APRIL 10 , 1841 .
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NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . We now publish the list of nominations for tin General Council , w faraa we have received thenu The people hare certainly taken time enouga to deliberate npon the choice of their men ; u w » only received several of the nominations tfcfe week . If all have been done in accordano with the oautiona pven ia ft former nu *
ber of fte Star , the election to be no » taken a merely formal , and each snh'Stcntarf will hand in the affiraatory decision of the me « bera resident in his locality at once . No time ansi be losi . The declarations of election from evert place must appear in next week ' s Star . AfUi which , the next duty of the Association will be tha nomination and election of the Executive Commute who must be chosen from amongst the members of the General Council .
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Mr . W atkins trustt that those who sent for aypitt of John Frost" have reecived them ; and he requests others who may wish for copies , to appiy in time , at the printer must soon disperse tot types . George William Machin Ellis , Brighton , twJia his name appended to the Chartist Total Absti nence Address . *
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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-ncseproduct850/page/4/
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