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Hatiojtal Charter; League. V^Hsg At Tbs^...
HATIOJTAL CHARTER ; LEAGUE . v ^ HSG AT TBS ^ MOXAL HALL , ON ^ TH 5 MESDAY , HAT 1 st . « Ihe 5 ation » l B ^^ ffl ^^ J * firal mt ^ e at the National Hall , High Holborn , on ^ bS day evening . May the 1 st , for the exposi ^ T of its principles , & c ., 4 c . The Hall was iZr & ea . At a quarter past eight o ' clock , Messrs . Su rfc M ' Gratb , Dixon , & c ., came upon the platf c « o anndst hisses and cheers . toDBON then moved , gecondcaby ^ Mr . Clabk _« That Dr . Bowkett take the chaw . _ wr Fczzos moved , as an amendment , — " ibat Vri ) W Huffy take the chair ; " which was Eroded bv Mr , Blackmobb , aud carried , Mr ROTFT , on taking the chair , said he was always opposed to packed meetings , and he was anally onnosed to packed platforms , and as the
door of the platform had hitherto been ciosea , ie would ask the meeting whether it was its trish that such members of tbe Provisional Committee of the ^ National Charter Association who mi ght be present , should have free access to the platform . [ Thismetwitb an affirmative response , Ind several members of the Committee came upon the platform . ] The Chairman proceeded , and said rfljey had been called together by a party , apparently to solve the question whether the Chartists should be split up into sections . - ( Hear , hear . If ( be actions of the men convening this meeting woald bear probing to the quick , and they should he found worthy of the public support , then he trusted they would keep order , and hear all who presented themselves . He then called on the secretary to read the correspondence of the
jJTt . Clabk came forward for that purpose , and was received with hisses , and slight cheering . He read letters from the Rev . Mr . Linwood , and williamLovett , apologising for non-attendance on the ground of indisposition , and the address ' To the admirers of the People's Charter . ? . Mr . Ambrose Hikst then came forward to move * the following resolution : — " That the Commons ' ¦ House of Parliament is an institution belonging inalienably to the nation at large ,. but as at present constituted , it represents only one-sixth part of the male adult community ; it-cahnoi ; therefore legitimately impose taxes , or otherwise justly legislate for the people ; that its decrees are
consequently not the acts of the nation , but simply mandates of an enfranchised section . This meeting therefore records its deliberate protest against such partial and oppressive authority , and appeals to the intelligence , the equity , and the patriotism ¦ of all classes of the United Kingdom , to assist in promoting , by all peaceable and moral means , a <> hanse inthe representative system , based upon the plan " cf Universal Suffrage , Annual Elections , Toting by Ballot , Equal Electoral Districts , the abolition of Property Qualifications for [ Members of Parliament , and Remuneration from the N ational Exchequer , for their services ;
believing such plan to be most harmonious and consistent with the true theory of representation , and with the rights and interests of the whole people . " Mr . Hirstsaid , if the people were desirous of obtaining their rights , they must evince their fitness for them by their liberality , and although there might be a difference of opinion as to how those rights might be obtained , there was none as to those rights . He regretted that men should come there imbued with prejudices , and allow their passions to get the better of their judgments . ( Hisses . ) Mr Hirst declared that he was not to be dictated to , and the man who hissed was not worthy the
franchise . Mr . Hirst proceeded to refute the objections usually urged against Universal Suffrage , and declared thatTif the money spent by the aristocracy in wars duringthe last century , had been expended in Iraying land , every acre in the country would have been , ere this , bought up . [ A person in the gallery moved that every speaker should be confined to one quarter of an hour , which was seconded , and carried Bnanimonsly . ] Xo one party could carry the Charter , it must be done by a function of Reform parties , the middle classes had been aforetime numbered amonsst the initiators of good measures . ( Hear . )
MrriHOius Clabk came forward to second the resolution , amidst groans and hisses from the body of tiie meeting , and lend cheers from his friends . He said , the Chairman had told them there were men on that platform capable of refuting anything that the Leasue might advance ; surely , then , in such a large ~ meeting as that before him , it never would he said they were afraid to hear a humble individual like himself . ( Hear , hear . ) The resolution he was seconding was declaratory of the six points of the People's Charter ; and he presumed that there wonld be no difference of opinion as regards these , although there might be as to the mode of their obtainment . He bad differed with some on this point , and in all probability should again . He
believed ihatnosingle class could carry the Charter , and hence he was for seeking an alliance with others . [ A Voice : Why not try to unite the working classes firmly ?} Mr . Clark said , he did not think the gentleman who had submitted that query was a fait specimen of the working classes . ( Hisses . ) He was opposed to all kinds of despotism , and Relieved the people were in favour of free inquiry . ( Cheers . ) Tbe principles contained in the resolution were just , and there did not appear to be any difference on the matter . He agreed with Mr . Hirst , that there was a difference of opinion as to how -those principles were to be obtained ,, which difference never could be settled but by fair discussion between them ; and he further agreed , that the
Charter never could be obtained but by an amalgamation of parties . ( Hisses . ) JEsses never conld answer the principles of ihe "League . " ( Cries ot "We don ' t know such a body . " ) He thanked those who had patiently listened to him , for their candid , fair , and unbiassed hearing ; and he was content to leave the issue of the meeting in their hands , but he told those who had demeaned themselves towards him as they had—that they had done him no injury ; he despised the despotism that had sought to put him down . ( Cheers and hisses . ) Mr . S . M . Stbd moved the following as an amendment : — "That in the opinion of this meeting the People ' s Charter is sound in principle , and fitted to the wants of the age in which we live ; and this
meeting recommends the adoption of the same by the People and Parliament of this country . " Mr . Kydd in a powerful speech enforced his amendment , and ably refuted "the historic reminiscences" of Mr . Hirst , as regards the middle classes , and concluded by declaring that they wanted the Charter not for a section or class , but for the whole people . Bboxterbe O'Bries seconded the amendment , but said it required an addendum , which he would move as follows : — " That whilst this meeting cordially agrees with the principles contained in the People ' s Charter , it records its solemn protest against any and every attempt , by any section or party , to divide the Chartists of this country , or to draw them from " The National Charter Association , " sincerely believing as it does , that it is the
interest of the working classes to agitate fer their political and social rights in one compact body , striving to amend in the future what time and experience may have proved to be wrong in the past ; and this meeting further believes it to be the duty of the people to gain a knowledge of their social rights whilst agitating for political freedom , so that having gained political rights it may know how to -win , maintain , and properly apply her twin sistersocial rights . " He thought it , of all things , desirable that they should resolve not to be divided . ( Cheers . ) But before be proceeded further he would propose three cheers for the electors of Paris , -who had chosen Eugene Sue as their representative . He proposed those three cheers to the men of Paris ,
not only because they had elected Eugene Sue , but because they bad set an example to the working men of England . They bad illustrated the fact that rights were to be obtained without the aid of the middle classes . ( Loud cheers . ) Ifot that the aid of any honest middle-class man would be refusedon the contrary , they would receive such a convert with open arms ; but he would tell them precisely ihe time the middle classes would join them—it was tbe moment they discovered the working classes could do without them . ( Cheers . ) He did not wonder at Mr . Clark ' s smarting under what he ( Mr . Clark ) called their intolerance , but , at the same time , Mr . Clark sbxrdd remember that be had recently joined a party that would give no honest
man a hearing ; for be it known totbem , that deputations from the National Charter Association and the National Reform League , had been deputed to ¦ wait on the National Parliamentary and Financial Reform Conference , in which M ' essrs . M'Gratb , Clark , Dixon and others on that platform , had seats , for the honestand straightforward purpose of Showing , that any hatred or distrust the working classeskad to the middle classes arose entirely from the middle class objecting to Universal Suffrage , and to ask the Conference to give them some tangible proof that the middle classes were sincere in their professed desire to serve the working classes , —( hear , )—and the pledge to be asked was : 'That at the next general election they should cause to be returned some twenty-five or thirty of Hie working classes , or their friends , to Parliament . " ( Cheers . ) And as the Parliamentarians
asserted they had the middle classes with them , it yras only feir to assume that they must exercise control over some 300 seats , —( cheers , )—and of course bad it in their power to do what was asked of them . ( Hear . ) And if they had not or could not get the middle classes with them , bow was it to be expected that they would unite with the Chartists ? ( Cheers . ) Bnt Sir Joshua Walmsley , Cobden , and their party had influence , and , if they willed , could grant all that was asked , and tins give the working classes the opportunity of pwwing that they weie not mere slaves . Bnt this Parliamentary Reform Conference had contumeliously rejected this over-, tore of the working classes by refusing to hear their deputies , —( hear , aad cheers , )—and under these circumstances he thought they would agree with him that be was justified in proposing bis grtfendum , ( Leud cheer * . )
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Mr . T . J . Sbbl * said he attended that meeting in accordance with his promise imade to its conveners toco so . He stood there as a man , and had but one voice , whilst the meeting appeared to bun to possess more than a thousand voices , and could at any time put bun down if they pleased . They no doubt desired the Charter , and that as soon as possible ; but what were they attempting to do ? ; They had to effect a great social revolution , —( hear , Wand they all appeared to agree that it was to be done by peaceful means . ( Hear . | He rejoiced as much as any man in the return of Eugene Sue for Paris , not because of his adherence to the principles of Communism or Socialism , But as a test of the French people's , loyalty to the Republic . ( Cheers . ) He
could go with the Chartists for their objects , but they had a different game to play to that of their Continental neighbours ; and his belief , was , that if they put their names to a petition , or document , reiterating their demands year after year , a very few years would expire before they obtained all they asked . His conviction was , that after granting an £ 8 franchise to Ireland this . year , that the minister would , of himself , offer something for England next year . A previous speaker had told them that the middle classes could return twentyfire working men ; his own honest conviction was that they had not the power to return three . ( Laughter . ) 'Why look at their divisions iu the House ; on their own pet questions their minorities
were only some eighty-nine or so ; bnt what the middle classes could do was to extend their measures , and then get the working classes to unite with them in striking a heavy blow . ( Cheers . ) Do not run away with the idea that the middle classes are enemies of the working classes . He thought that any man who attempted to set class against class at the present . day was their enemy . He thanked them most cordially for . their patient and attentive hearing , and hoped to meet them again on some future occasion . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Richabd Hart said , that the last gentleman , who was a member of the late Parliamentary Reform Conference , said he was there to justify himself for the share be bad taken in that Conference ' s
refusal to hear the deputation ; but had -he done so ? He had told them that he believed tbe Parliamentary Reformers had not the power to-return three members to parliament . In past ages , they had been governed by lords of the " soil , but now , it appeared , they were just about being governed by the money-mongers —( cheers)—and he must confess he would sooner be governed by lords of high- birth than by them . He believed that the People ' s Charter would be got at the hands of a weak party , wanting power , and that that weak party would be the Tories ; but , should such an offer be made , the people must only accept it on condition that their manhood was recognised , which could only be done by giving to every man a vote . And what good
would a barren vote be ? No ; it must be used as a means to obtain social privileges ; and the points of those social privileges were—that the earth belonged to the whole people ,-and . that the circulating medium should represent labour . ( Applause . ) Mr . Peter Barley ( from the gallery ) said he had handed down the addendum moved by Mr . O'Brien , and he wished it to be put as a distinct amendment , entirely apart from the one . moved by . Mr . Kydd . Mr . Kydd bad given them a deal of useful information , but he thought his amendment not suitable for the present occasion . ( Hear . ) He entreated Messrs . M'Grath , Clark , and Dixon , not to attempt to cause division . Mr . Serle had told them , in a few years they might obtain their rights ; but -he
( Mr .-Hanley ) believed if they followed the advice of their League friends—the youngest of them now present would not live to see the year of the ad ve nt of their rights and liberties ; and from the middle classes they might expect to get just such aid as they always had received from tho WeeklyDispatch ( Cheers . ) Mr . Ktm ) said , to prevent subdivision he would withdraw his amendment , although be wished it to be distinctly understood that he only stood pledged to the People's Charter . Mr . M'Grath came forward and said , a gentleman had asked what they intended to do with Chartism ? His answer was , by a tangible and distinct course to make the Charter the law of theland . Did they think that such an old agitator as he was , would be put
down by any contemptible and despicable means ? ( Groans . ) He knew the faces of the old Democrats , and did not see one of them either hissing or shouting . ( Hisses . ) He thought the question for that night was , as to the means of obtaining the Charter . He bad hoped , when the " Provisional Committee of the National Charter Association " had come on the platform , they would have pointed out the means . He had listened to Messrs . Kydd and O'Brien , but he contended they had done nothing . He was one of those who thought the Charter should be law in a few years , but if the policy recommended by some of the previous speakers , was followed , they ^ would spend another twenty years without it . ( Hisses , and cheering . )
Mr . W . Davies said , had it not been for the allusion of Mr . M'Grath to the body to which he had the honour of belonging , he should not have intrude J himself upon their notice , as the Provisional Committee had resolved'to take no part in this meeting ; he therefore appeared on his own personal responsibility . ( Hear . ) But he must confess that , during the whole time he had been connected with that committee , he had not heard one word as regards physical or moral force , nor had he witnessed any but the most cordial union , to advance the cause by every just and legal means . ( Cheers . ) But , supposing that two or three of its members should happen to differ with him , was that any reason -wh y he should desert from the ranks , and set Up Shop on his own account ? Mr . M'Grath had made a trifling mistake : it was not the Provisional Committee who had convened this meeting ; hence , it was not the duty of its members to submit a
Programme of Ways and Means . ( Hear . ) But it was the Council of a body , that in his opinion , had not , or ever would , possess an existence , that called it . ( Cheers . ) Consequently , it was Mr . M'Grath ' s business , as one of that Council , to submit the programme ; and his ( Mr . Davies ) , as an humble auditor , together with the meeting , to' approve or disapprove . But at the numerous and crowded meetings the Provisional Committee had convened , they had not failed to develope their plans , much to the satisfaction of their very numerous audiences . ( Cheers . ) The amendment , as moved by Mr . O'Bries , and seconded by Mr . Habt ; and the original motion , as submitted by 3 Ir . A . Hirst , and seconded by Mr . T . Clare , were then put . The former being carried by an overwhelming majority . Mr . J . J . Bezer moved a vote to the Chairman , which was seconded by Mr . Haslet , supported by Mr . W . Drake , and Mr . Lee , and adopted by acclamation , and the meeting quietly dispersed .
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We , the undersigned , having taken pari in convening , and being present at , the meeting which took place at the National Hall , Holborn , on Wednesday evening last , feel it to be our duty to state the facts connected with tbe disgraceful frustration of that meeting , in order that they may be v fairly estimated by an impartial public . The projectors of the National Charter League dissenting , as they do in toto , from the propriety of connecting Socialism , or Communism , with the agitation for the People ' s Charter—and regarding as thoroughly worthless , inefficient , and mischievous , the policy pursued by the Provisional Committee of the National Charter Association—felt it to be their duty , and their right , to inaugurate a movement , the policy of which
would be in unison with their own notions of propr iety . In conformity with this conviction , they published and circulated apian of national organisation , together with a prospectus of the policy which they proposed to pursue , in order to ensure the realisation of the Charter . They also announced , by advertisement and placard , that the first meeting in furtherance of the League would be held oh Wednesday , the 1 st of May . From the moment that their intention to bold a " meeting became public , till eight o ' clock on Wednesday evening , the most strenuous exertions were made by our opponents to secure the presence of a sufficient number of persons to stifle discussion , and thereby frustrate the purposes of the meeting . In
thisunprogressive , and anti-democratic , and disgraceful aim , its votaries were infamously successful . As tbe hour for commencing business arrived , no sooner did those who were to take part in it—including Dr . Bowkett , Messrs . Searl , Garbonelli , Ward , and tbe members of the Provisional Council —maketheir appearance on the platform , than a storm of hissing , yelling , hooting , whistling , and imitation of cock-crowingcommenced , of which no descriptive power of pen or tongue could convey an adequate notion . m the midst of this glorious exemplification of the' principles of liberty , equality , and fraternity , Mr . Dixon—after a quarter of an hour ' s exertionproposed that Dr . Bowkett should take the chair . This was the signal for a renewal of the savage sport , in which the most disgusting and opprobrious epithets were applied to us ; and among those active ia the latter honourable vocation , wo observed
more than one who—if they stood to an individual in the same relation as they do to the Land Company—would now , in all probability , be expiating their delinquencies in her Majesty's penal colonies . Some person in the body of the hall moved "That Huffy Ridley do take the chair , " which being put , was carried . This person , whose real name we believe is Daniel Huffy , and who has not been heard of in the Chartist movement for a long time past , and whose membership with it at the present time we very much doubt , commenced a -vulgar and abusive tirade against tbe promoters of the League , charging them with every vile motive that can make man ' s conduct odious , much to the amusement of the troth-loving friends of fair phy , who , unfortunately for the honour of a sacred cause , formed the majority of the audience . The meeting was then addressed by Mr . Hirst , who moved a resolution couched in dignified and eloquent language iu favour of the six points of the Chatter , and
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which was seconded by Mr . Clark , both of whom were treated by the majority in . a manner that would have disgraced au assembly of savages . Mr . Kydd moved a proposition' in favour of the Charter , which he was pleased to ' call an amendment . ' He , however , - afterwards withdrew in .. favour ' of . 'the vague and and indefinite motion of Mr . O'Brien , which will be found elsewhere in the Star . Mr . Hart ; a Communist , who'had always hitherto opposed Universal Suftrage—accept in" the abstract , seconded Mr . O'Brien ' s motion , which , of course , on being put , was carried . . We wish the Chartists throughout the country distinctly to , understand that ' neither Messrs . Kydd , O'Brien , nor Hart , are members of the Chartist Association , nor will they be ; so that if the rule they teach by example is followed , England will never witness an
organisation for the enactment of the Charter . Several other speakers addressed the meeting , the storm all the while raging with unabated fury until eleven o ' clock , when the patriotic band , having fulfilled their mission , left the scene of their glorious triumph . Thus ended the first meeting called by the League . : ' The projectors of that body are nevertheless full of hope . They are hot composed of the maurial which would cower beneath brute force . They feel - strong in the consciousness that their canseis right , and in the assurance that , erelong , the policy which they recommend will , notwithstanding the conduct of a few of the misled men of London , be the adopted of the enlightened Democracy of Great Britain Signed on behalf of the Council ,
William Allsoit , William Dixon , Thomas Clark , Pmin ? M'Gratit . .. -P ; S . —Thefollowing is the resolution to which the amendments of Messrs . Kydd and O'Brien were moved : —" That the Commons' House of Parliament is an institution belonging inalienably to the nation at large , but as , at present constituted , it represents only one-sixth , part of the male adult community ; ii cannot therefore legitimately impose iss . es , or otherwise justly legislate for the people , that its decrees are consequently not the acts of the nation , but simply the mandates of ah enfranchised section . This meeting therefore records its
deliberate protest against such partial and oppressive authority , and appeals to the intelligence , the equity , and the patriotism of all classes of the United Kingdom , to assist in promoting , by all peaceable and moral means ; a change in tbe Representative System ; based upon the plan of Universal Suffrage , Annual Elections , Voting by Ballot , Equaf Electoral Districts , the abolition of Property Qualifications for Members of Parliament , and Remuneration from the National Exchequer for their services ; believing such plans to be most harmonious , and consistent with the true theory of Rfr ; presentation , and with the rights and interests pi the whole people . " ¦ _ , ¦ '¦ ¦ v "
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IRISHDEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT . The Irishman of Saturday last contains reports of meetings of the Irish Democrats in Dublin , Cork , Kilkenny , Oarrick-on-Suir , Sligo , Liverpool , Manchester , Glasgow , & c . & c . New members seem to be gathering to the standard , in all those places . We copy from the Irishman the following admirable
ADDRESS TO THE IRISH DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND . Fellow Countryme \ . — We have been taught by bitter experience , that if ever the Democracy ol Ireland is to be raised from the depth of degradation and unparalleled misery in which they are plunged , it must be . by their own exertion . We must become ardent , unremitting , and united in our labours ere we can accomplish the task—the highest of human objects , self-regeneration and nationality . It is now high time the work was set about , by spreading those principles in their true and proper guise , simple and Unadorned , without the generously-bestowed trappings of good-natured enemies and charitable detractors , and p lacing before the people our objects , which are simply "land and life . "
Is there one among the labouring classes whose life and the lives of his wife and little ones are not at the mercy of rampant capital ? Have you not seen how the capitalists created a famine in the midst of plenty , and blasphemously entitled a judgment of Providence ; . and is it not rather strange , that none of their class perished from want ? No , it was amongst the Democracy—those who toil early and late—that black famine found its victims ^ the fruits of whose incessant labour went through the instrumentality of one-sided master-made laws from , themselves to augment tbe already large stores of ill-got gain . >< . We who remain may , at their pleasure , be
subjected to the same suffering . The farmer who holds land that may have been in possession of the family for generations through a choice collection of bad laws , oppressive taxes , and rack-rents , can-be vc ^ duced to beggary , evicted from his holding , forbidden to tread the very fields where his forefathers toiled to support their families , and maintain an honest name , and from whence he fondly hoped should proceed , by virtue of his labour , the means of upholding his self-respect and honesty , and which he should be able to bequeath with his latest blessing to his children as their'future support , ar id cast upon tho wide world ' s flinty way with none to succour or assist the child of sorrow and of misery .
Nor is the artizan , whose skill and industry mininster to the comforts and ornaments of society , in a better plight . He too , is trodden down-and enslaved—his body and mind worn out—Ids spirit broken—and his genius fettered by long hours of labour and petty tyranny . The pittance received lfor the twelve or fourteen hours of daily toil is scarcely sufficient to procure the comforts of bis family ; so that , when capitalists think proper to lessen the demand for labour , his homo must be stripped of its furniture ,-and his family of their clothing , to obtain the means of subsistence . His ears are pained , and his heart is riven , as night after night he returns to his cheerless home , after
weary and fatiguing days of fruitless endeavour to gain employment , he beholds his starving children huddling together to procure warmth , and hears their piteous cries for food , denied them by the selfishness and injustice of a few fellow-worms , although the strength and skill of the grief-stricken father is offered in exchange . And should he , exasperated by the weight of his suffering , associate with fellow-toilers to oppose the infernal power which wrought such misery , he is immediately accused of " combinationand conspiracy , " tried , found guilty , and sentenced to imprisonment in ' a dungeon , with burglars and pickpockets for companions .
Such is the position of the Irish Democracy They sow , they reap , they labour hard with body and brain , to make the earth and its productions useful to society , and receive as reward insult , injury , wretchedness , and death ,-while a few idlers carry off the benefits . . ¦ . We ask you , then , should such things Le ? Your feelings , reason , judgment , and justice answer no . Then , for your own sakes , advance another stepand boldly , emphatically , and openly , in the face of the worse than Egyptian taskmaster , say , " it shall be so no longer . " Tell them you know that labour has a dignity it is in vain for them to attempt to destroy—that it is entitled to its due reward , and must be no longer burdened with the support of
idleness—that you will not be content to receive a scanty allowance , scarcely suffie ' ent to keep together body and soul , but that , as a toiler , you are entitled to tbe comforts and happiness of life—you demand them as a right—that you not only proclaim the knowledge of your privileges , but also your determination to have them . Is there any wrong in informing them that their oppressive rule must cease ? Is there any wrong in telling the world that the labourer is a more honourable , and by far a more useful person than the idler , and is therefore more deserving support ? Is it a crime to instruct yourself in the knowledge of the liberties so long unjustly withheld from you ? And having become thoroughly acquainted with them , is
it infidelity to stand by them until death has put an end to , or victory shed its brilliant light on , your exertions to possess them ? Who would expect the javenous wolf to yield its prey unless driven off by force ? And why should we be foolish enough to expect an insatiable wolfish despotism will ever accede , to us the power which prevented them from plundering , until fear has made his home in their guilty bosoms ? When we are in a position to make ourselves feared , then , and not till then , will we be free . We call upon you , then , to put yourselves in that position , by becoming united—by responding to the call of your brother Democrats in Dublin , who have formed themselves into ah Association for the furtherance of those desirable objects , who are firmly resolved that notwithstanding any or all opposition , in snite of threats and ridicule , in the teeth of
avowed enemies and pretended friends , and not having the fear of open force before their eyes , and having in their hearts an utter detestation for the unmanlv , unprincipled , and contemptible artifices of packed cliques and self-interested agitators , tfiey will go on in a steady , straightforward manner , to the goal of their wishes and their hopes . _ - t The Association is ho private . ' speculation affair , got up to advance the interests of individuals , therefore expect not the sublime balderdash of spoutera by trade . ' Oar motto is ; " Works , not Wonns . Bui when we do venture to address you , our thoughts , rough * and unpolished as they may be , shall always possess the redeeming qualities of truth and sincerity . Expect not , then , tbe frothy orations of paid speech-makers , nor the company of certain drawing-room respectables , who look on labour ' s touch as contamination , and would shrink vf ith pais
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from the fraternal grasp of too hard-fisted men who gather . round our council tables , . and asflemble ,-at our public meetings . It was not to win the languid smile of effeminacy , bui . tbe valuable support of our fellow-men—i t wasjnot to obtain popularity , ' but justice—it was riot to meanly filch t he character of others , but to remove every . calumny , resist .- © very ; insinuation , and repel every attackon our own .: It ; was for the purpose of vindicating the character of the Democracy , and establishing their claims ; to justice , that we banded ourselves together to battle wrnght against might . . .. ;¦ . * .. ¦ ¦ ; .-. . ¦ » ; , / , ; . Standing upon the dignity of labour ,: Wo demand our privileges , and ask you to give lis your support , and the demand becomes irresistible' With a united
. Democracy a . power is . created , established , .-and maintained , "' which would make tyranny ,., in any form , "fear and tremble "—a power which gold cannot purchase , threats intimidate , - nor ! force j destroy , and would place you in the enjoyments of the privileges , of human : beings . ,: , ;; ;; ... . ; . ;' , What cause can there be then for . hesitation ? . You are made in the image of . God as „ well as ; your : oppressors . ; Why ( will you . allow ,. His ' image , in your person to bo' trampled' on ; by those who . have no other title than theu * heaftlessh ' ess—and remember , that He helps those who help-themselves . / . Shake off the apathy and indifference which is fast sinking you deeper in degradation and . suffering . i Be men
wait not for the power ; of a few individuals to extricate you . Ifi you do ,. you may wait , until , the " crack of dawn , /" , and . not ; be ; a . whit better off . Listen not to their . 'balmyNonsense , of " petitioning , " and so forth ?'" Tell siich hypocrites to , . leave the way—that you will doyour own work—and that freedom must be won by stronger stuff than ! sheets of foolscap . Cast aside all petty differences , . and trifling jealousies . Be ho longer careless to your own interests , but unite and show the bold front of determined men , whom not all the power that : may bo directed against them , sbalUum from ! the cbmpletion of their work ^ -LABouR ' . s emancipation . ¦ . ¦ ' ,... ' ... ' [ , Thomas Mofpet , Chairman of Committee .
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. REPRESENTATIVE NATIONS . . . ' "Whenever , liberty , having passed her minority , arrived atfnll age , and sat down to reign over man in a goodly maturity ; shall send her inspired penman to write her biography and to trace the gradual progress by which civilisation in one , stage chained , in another liberated , and in the last crowned her as the dominant idea which is at once , the political aim and the permanent basis of ' society , the historian will find himself everlastingly reverting to ' France and seeking there for the great well , head , and fountain of those resolutions , which ; spreading over Europe , first excited attention ' , then-shook'
monarchy , and ultimately established freedom . . . We have run throug h the two first stages , the last approaches . The great , fugleman of ' Christendom , the electric telegraph of nations points sternly to coming storms . Eucaladus prepares . once more to turn his weary side and heave and toss anew the highest mountain tops of society . ¦ '' ' We may , guess from the former two convulsions what the coming one prepares for ' sEurope . What notes of joyous exultation will ri 9 e b $ ttie Danube and the Spree , by the Thames and the Neva , when tbe red cap of liberty is once more tossed heavenward to the shrill battle song of martial Gaul . -
The Revolution of 1848 , and . its satelite outbreaks in neighbouring countries , were but the premonitory symptoms of monarchic . consumption . Democracy up to that time was a conspiracy skulking in holes and by-corners , and midnight meeting places . It exists now as a recognised idea , governing the greatest and most military peoplb ,. for the last three hundred years extant . : . ' . ;' . ' '"' In the election of Louis Napoleon the Trench committed a great and double blunder . . They chose a man without stabiliiy ' of character , engaged now in the most rash and romantic , again in : the most fiivolous pursuits . Their new President : had none of those antecedents which ' indicate the stern honesty of the Republican chief . 'Do was , in face ,
only daring in his ambition , in all other respects he wasa punny . ind a vacillating mediocrity . .. . But there was a still , more fatal , and dangerous error in the choice of his shadow of a by-gone name . Louis Napoleon was the direct lineal heir ofthe Emperor , according to a ' deed of settlement executed by the elder Napoleon ., In this respect his election by the Republicans of" France was easily construed into a protest against the -. Republic itself , and a recognition of imperial legitimacy . Hence the partisans of Napoleonists generally , and the' despotic faction through . Europe looked upon the elevation ofthe heir , of the old Emperor to the presidential chair as but a decent mask , for the restoration of monarchy in some one of its phases .
The President Prince was equally deceived , ho thought the seven millions of votes wliich called him to the first magistracy would equally hail , by acclaim , his seizure of the purple and the sceptre . So far - did this delusion prevail that tho President's prime confidant for the time , General Changarnior , as publicly as insolently . exclaimed , shortly after the election , that . " he . could establish tho empire as easily as he could buy a pound of sugar plums " The present state of insecurity in Franco does not arise from republican institutions , or from the practical regime of tiie sovereign people , ¦ but from the underhand attempts to overthrow the one and subvert the other . The free men of Franco have bad to contend
against the moral hostility of the -world . Established monarchy , realised- property , and realised capital , were all concentrated into one heavy battery to play upon and breach the republican institutions ' of France . They hated it for its own existence , and they feared it . for its example . We can very well understand the rancour of the London Times , and the minor- vassals of the press that go with it . Their manufactured correspondence and falsified reports are fully appreciated . But , derpite ofall , France lives—lives in her republic , aud loves it . She stands as the great exemplar of groaning Europe .. In her fearful death-grapple
with foreign hostility and domestic treason , she bechoDS to the groaning myriads of Europe , and , with the voice of necessity , nature , and hope , she cries— " Come On , brethren ; on to the victory of freedom ; on to the triumph of justice , the downfall of oppression , and the crowning of the sovereign people . " . And on they will come . Already the dust rises in dusky clouds beneath tho foot of enthusiastic myrindsi marching to the capital and temple of Democracy . Old things are passed away ; former svstcms have become an impossibility .- We cannot , if we would , tolerate them ; either they must perish themselves , or they must extirpate the race .
So far we havo dealt only with that which . may be called sentimental republicanism ; but in the current history of France there is a still deeper topic wliich claims attention , and we certainly havo no intention of slurring it over . The men whose blood bought the glories of France , and whoso bodies built up the barricades of the revolution , were not soldiers of a name . They sought something-more than the fanciful privilege of recording a vote at . stated / periods . They demanded , and they fought for , and bled for republicanism reduced to practice , worked out to tho results of a healthier tone of society , less public profligacy , lightened burdens , more equable laws , and , as a consequence , increased comfort and
increasing prosperity . They believed that misery was not the natural or the divinely-destined portion of man , and they saw that it was his existing condition . They , therefore , concluded that society was the victim of systematic crime , and they sought the republic not as an end , but as an engine to rectify that crime . - ' They'believed , ' and believed wisely , that for , communal evils the proper remedy lies in communal laws . Having made a government for themselves , thev expected it would legislate for their benefit . Hence the struggle between the executive and the people—between those who would maintain the old social cancer and those who would justify nature by proving that the elevation of man was possible .
Out-door combinations have been formed to influence , and , if necessary ,. 'to coerce the administration and the legislature to the discharge of their respective duties . These combinations ; havo obtained the name of " Socialism , " and arc painted in all the lucid colours of an earthly pandemonium , The Socialists aro described as anarchists , because they denounce a svstem that crushes the many for the benefit ofthe few . Europe is adopting the broad principles introduced and advocated by tho Socialist school . They are just , and will make way . Interested patriots
may oppose , and prejudiced politicians may denounce , but the day has come for tho people ' s cause , and , ere long , the beacon fires from the battlements of Paris shall , as in 1848 , again call the masses of Christendom to gird themselves for the fight . Ere long the magic word " arise" will be rung out by the Gallic tocsin ; it will fall here on ready and welcome ears . " Ready , aye , ready , " is now tho motto of tho Irish " mob . " We , too , bear wrongs , and feel their wants . We , too , have been oppressed in the name of Constitutions , and have been ground into gross servility , under tho form of liberty ; and we , too , will right ourselves . .
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; ; : ¦ . / :.. ; monday , ^ 6 . ¦' . ; :, " _ HOU SE OP Lp . RDS .-TnB Cantebburt Bind coBB .-rThe . Archbishop of . CAsmmmY . alluded to the imputations that had been thrown out neainst him . " else where , " for having nominated his son to the reversion of / the Rogistrarship of the Canterbury ; Prerogative Court . His grace explained that the , oflBce . to which his sou stood , in succession-was by no means a sinecure , and that in 1847 an act had passed' placing- that ,, among a mass of similar dfflces , , utider the control of parliament ; and therefore in ' floraiDating his relation to the reversionary ' ebjoy ' menfc of that appointment , he simply provided for him an pffice regarding which the Legislature had ' undertaken to apportion its emoluments to the d ' uties . performed .. Hedjd not think , therefore , thathis conduct was open to . the censure it had suffered uhder ^ .
The Bishop of Lonoon corroborated the statement of the Archbishop ,. and called the attention of the' house to the manner in which his Grace had filled up the oflice ' of registrar in the diocese of Chester as conclusive against , any charge of nepotism . . . ' ; . . ' . " . ' New Ecclesiastical TninuNAL , —The Bishop of Lonoon brought hi a Bill to Amend the Administration of Justice ' in her Majesty's . Privy Council in iair . cases of appeal on questions of false doctrine , heresy , ;> nd schism . . Tha bill did not propose to do away with the Judicial Committee of the Privy . Council as a tribunal .-ofappeal ; but only directed certain references to be made in questions of appeal in Cases of false doctrine .
Colliery Accidents . —Lord . WnAUNOLtFtE presented a petition from a large number of miners in the north of England , . praying their lordships to give them further legislative assistance and relief in their , dangerous occupations . He might say that no class of men in her Majesty's dominions were better entitled to the consideration of the Lefi 1 Mf . ur * ' ? he petitioners commenced by describing the Various , dangers to which . , they were exposed , and he was afraid that , do . what he would , their avocation must always remain full of danger . Tho very nature of their occupations Jed : to most disastrous occurrences ; but if . any ? causes for-those occurrences were allowed to exist which could be removed by better ventilation and reeulation of the
mines , and if injuries were occasioned either by the parsimony or neglect of the . proprietor of the mines , it was not unfitting for the Legislature to interfere , on . behalf oi ,. the parties . whose : liability to danger was thus fearfully . increased . In looking to tho amount of accidents within -the last few-years , he was sorry to find that ; they had been very much on the increase . In 1838 the number oi lives lost was 349 ; , in 1840 , 499 ; in 1845 ,. 562 : in 18 , 47 , ; 462 ; in ! 848 , ; 470 and in 1849 , 704 . The petitioners referred in their petition to the various inquiries which had been made by parliament , : ani \ certain public bodies in thenortb , into tho grievances under which they suffered ; and it appeared to him hot ^ a little remarkable that from all these various inquiries Was elicited one universal declaration that the evils were such that redress ought to be instantly applied to them . He pointed , to the
experience of Belgium in adopting precautions against loss of . life as deserving attention ; and having adverted to the large proportion of accidents in this country attributable to , defective ventilation , he referred to the prayer of the petition , that , parliament should take steps to increase the amount of security against accidents in mines . He differed , in some degree , however ,. from the petitioners with respectto the mbde"bf affording that security ; and , having expressed his objections to the imposition of regulations by-compulsion , as tending to lay the responsibility on tho persons exercising the compulsion , he intimated his preference for a system which should increase rather than diminish the direct responsibility of those who were concerned in the management of the mines . In conclusion , he inquired , whether the report of the commission was not ready ? .
Earl Granville was understood to reply that the report was iu preparation .. The Parish Constables Bill was read a second time . ; The Process and Practice ( Ireland ) Bill was committed pro forma for the insertion of amendments . : HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Australian . Colonies . —On the order of the day for the consideration of the Australian Colonies Bill as amended in committee , . Sir W . MoLESwpnnr moved that the bill be recoinmitted , for the . purpose of omitting all clauses which empower the Colonial Office to disallow colonial laws , to cause colonial bills to be . reserved , and to instruct colonial governors as to their
conduct in the local affairs of the colonies , and for the purpose of adding clauses defining Imperial and colonial powers . . The bill , he observed , raised two questions—first , as ; to what ' was the best form of government for the Australian colonies ; secondlya point not yet discussed—what amount of self-government these colonies ought to possess , 'and what extent of control should be retained by the Colonial Office . Lord John Russell had declared that tho colonies should enjoy the greatest amount of selfgovernment consistent with the unify and integrity ofthe empire ; but this bill did not give them that amount of self-government , and he proceeded to show that under this bill the Colonial Office would exercise a mischievous right of interference with the management of the colonies . The colonial parliamflnts , ho maintained , ought to be invested with all legislative'powers , except those which tve .-e
Imperial , and the question was , how to define these several powers so as to prevent the colonial from trenching upon the "Imperial ; and he proposed to do this by enumerating those powers and prerogatives which were Imperial , as being most easily defined , and by declaring all others colonial , under certain restrictions and limitations . Mr . Laboucueiie admitted that it was for the true interests of the colonics that the management of their local concerns should be left to them , and that Imperial control should bo retained only for the protection of Imperial interests . His objection to the motion was not , therefore , to the object of Sir W . Molesworth , but because he was convinced that his machinery , so far from effecting that object , would introduce nothing but confusion and discontent into the colonics . After a discussion the motion was negatived .
Mr . Gladstone then moved the insertion of a clause empowering the bishop , clergy , and laity , of the Church of England in any colonial diocese to meet , and by mutual consent make regulations for the conduct of their ecclesiastical affairs , guarding the enactment with various provisos . Premising that the Established Church , as it existed in these colonies , did not rest upon any intelligible or rational principle , but was rather calculated to create impe diments to law and order , and to disturb men ' s minds , he explained the nature of the enactments ho proposed , and the anomalies and evils they were
intended to remedy , the state of the large religious community belonging to the Church of England in New South Wales and Yan Piemen's Land , being , as far as ecclesiastical law was concerned , one of complete and total anarchy . If the objection to his proposition was the difficulty of its working in practice , all he could say was , let Parliament remove those impediments which lay in tho way of members of tho Church of England in tho colonics which other religious communities did not meet with , — impediments which arose out of colonial , not Imperial law .
• Mr . Labouciiere strongly objected to the very principle of the proposition , which was to engraft upon this bill an ccclcahstical system involving points of great importance ., Mr . Gladstone would establish a synod for certain purposes , independent of the Imperial Parliament and of the local Leeishtures , empowered to make regulations which should have theforce of laws obligatory upon members of the Church of England in the colonies . ¦ This proposition was also negatived on a division by 187- to 102 . . ¦ Clauses moved by Mr . Anstev and Mr . TVyld , the motions not being seconded , fell to the ground ; others wero deferred until tho third rending and the bill as amended was agreed to . The '
Distressed Unions Advancesand Repayment of Advances ( Ireland ) Bill , the Defects iu Leases R « iiff " rfi » dment mi l J t ,, ° Tenants »* Hack-rent So S-T f- each ^ , ' " rd 4 fenoand P ^ ed . thSSmS . ° D 0 ea 8 ( Irel ' > Bifi ** , T Ti ? ° teS ' - Prh ? "; "nd the Public Health ( Ireland ) Bill wero both read a second time . Sir . W . SpMERviLLK obtained leave to bring in a bill to consolidate the acts regulating the proceedings in potty sessions and the duties of justices out Of quarter sessions in Ireland . The other business having been disposed of , the House adjourned at a quarter past twelve o ' clock TUESDAY , Mat 7 th . HOUSE OF LORDS . —This House sat for a short time and adjourned at an early hour , after disposing of some ' routine business ,
HOUSE OP COMMONS . —Advertisement Duiv —Mr . Ewaut , after presenting a mass of petitions , praying for a repeal of the advertisement dutj , proposed a resolution to that effect . He characterised the tax as peculiarly and universally injurious in its operation . It formed a burden upon the interchange of ideas , of information , and of commodities ; interfering with tho business transactions of every class , whether agricultural , commercial , litterary , or artistic . It was , moreover ,
unjust in its incidence , mulcting the poorest advertiser in exactly the same amount as the richest , and falling exclusively upon tho newspaper press , leaving the announoementsj in books , reviews ; or upon travelling ' placard carts wholly untouched . The embarrassment caused by -these fetters upon publicity ,. the honourable member illustrated b y tbe largo increase in newspapers and advertisements consequent upon the reductions conceded in 1833 and 1837 , in duty and stamps ; as well as by the enormous superiority in multitude atiU manifested
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by the untaxed press of America . As it was impossible to make this tax just , by the introduction of tho ad valoruni principle ; and as its amount wag comparatively trifling , realizing only £ 157 , 600 a year , he contended that the . best course was to abrogate it entirely . ..- . ; . Mr . Milker Gibson seconded the motion . Mr . Tuelawnt opposed the motion , partly on the ground that he had ; himself a motion oh the paper for devoting surplus ; revenue to pay off tho national debt , and partly : because the advertisement tax was paid by the consumers . . The Ciuncbli . ob of tbe . Excheqotsb briefly referred to the reasons he '; had already repeatedly
urged against any further remission of taxes thiB session . He agreed that the duty waabbjectionable , and might be sometimes unjust , ' but he preferred to alleviate the burdens that pressed upon industry and consumption , or interfered with the health of the lower classes . He appealed to the house not to fritter away the resources ofthe nation . Mr . Hume classed the advertisement duty among the severest burdens upon industry . He thought the Legislature ought to override the dictum of the Chancellor of . tho Exchequer . To relievo industry was far better than to pay off debts , and retrenchment was the . certain means of securing that object . Mr . Ewart replied , and the house divided .
Fer the motion 39 Against 208—169 JoubneymesBakeks . —Petitions praying that measures might be taken for improvingVthe sanitary condition of journeymen bakers were presented by Lord Grosvbsob , by Mr . Osborne , and by Lord D . Stuaiit , from various districts of the metropolls , and by Mr . Cow as and Mr . Dvscax , from Leith and other places . , Lbrd B . Gbosvknob said , the motion he was about to admit to tho houso was one . which appealed to the best' feelings of the , heart . He had on a former occasion explained the grievances 01 which the journeymen bakers complained , and ho could not believe that any serious objection would
be made'to his proposal . When lie first brought forward the subject he moved for a committee to inquire into the sanitary condition of the journeymen bakers . To that motion the ' Home' Secretary replied , that as papers on the subject had been laid upon the table , there was no necessity for inquiring into matters which would bo clearly developed in those , papers . ' . Tho right hop . member for the University of Oxford then said ho would prefer seeing a remedy applied by a bill , rather than that the subject should be referred to a committee . Last year he ( Lord K . Grosvenorj moved for leave to bring in a bill to prohibit labour in bakehouses during certain hours of the night . The evils under which the men laboured
were admitted / and it was not attempted to bo proved that the remedy proposed would not bo efficient , but a certain , set ot phrases were-strung together , and all sorts of evil prophesied from the working of such a bill , and leave . was refused . The petitioners whose petitions he had presented stated that they ' had considered the ' arguments used against the proposed bill , and believed the majority of the house were under a complete mis conception . as to the effects it would produci ' , and they prayed , for a committee of inquiry . The Home Secretary had admitted that there might be a case upon the sanitary ground , and he ( Lord It . Grosvenor ) proposed how to delegate to a committee of inquiry whether the state of tho bake houses was not extremely prejudical to health , — those houses in which the food of the people -was
nrepared . ( Hear , hear . ) It was complained that they were in such a state as t < f injure not only the persons working , but the bread made there , —an article liable , to be effected by the air that was nrossnd it ; and every one who had seen the horrid , dens , in which the greatest part of the bread was prepared in this town ; and the dirty state of those who had to prepare it , would concur in thinking that some sanitary regulations were necessary . ( Hear , hear . ) If there were no other reason for a committee , it would satisfy the men themselves , who must know whether they were suffering , and must be host acquainted with their own trade ( Dear . ) He hoped he should not make this appeal in vain . He begged to move for a select committee to inquire whether any measures could be taken to improve fhe sanitary condition of the journeymen bakers .
Sir G-. Grey would have been glad if he could have felt it consistent with his duty to agree to the motion , but the objections he had had to urge on former occasions remained unremoved . He felt the force ofthe argument urged on those occasions by several gentlemen , that it was inexpedient to grant committees of inquiry founded upon such petitions , unless the house had some clear and definitive conception of legislative measures , that : might be founded upon the ' report-cf such a committee . ( Hear . ) When the noble lord moved for a committee of inquiry two years ago , he was met by the argument that the evidence upon the subject of the condition ofthe persons in this trade was taken before the Sanitary Commission . Statements wry painful
to read , were made , and it was impossible to deny that those persons wero subject to very serious evils in the prosecution of the business in which they wero employed ; but tho remedy proposed by the noble lord was rejected by a very , large majority , because it was felt that it would not only be violating the princi p les of political economy , but that it would be impossible to enforceit , and that if we proceeded to legislate for tliis trade , there ivas no re .-ison Why WC Should not bo asked to legislate with regard to others . He ( Sir G . Grey ) believed , as he had said hefore , that arrangements might be made between employers and men , by mutual consent , which would tend to remedy many of the evils complained ef ; and that by looking to Parliament the parties were diverting their attention from the means by which they might attain a remedy . ( Hear . ) The petitioners asked for an opportunity of proving
before a committee that the house was wrong in rejecting the motion of last year ; but that was matter for the house , not for a committee . ( Hear . ) The noble lord hail pointed to sanitary measures ; . if any peculiar sanitary measures were necessary as applicable to this trade , they might be taken under powers already subsisting , or new power ' s might be asked for ' from Parliament ; but Parliament had all the information which would enable it to legislate , if legislation was desirable . He ( Sir " 6 . Grey ) had always avowed his opinion , " that legislation would not accomplish the object the parties had in view , and that the bill asked forwould be inoperative and have no practical effect . To agree to the motion would be' acting contrary to princi p le , only to insure ultimate disappointment . Participating in tho benevolent desire of the noble lord , he must , with great regret , object to the appointment of the committee .
Mr . Stafford thought the parties would consider that their case had not been fairly , met . If the petitions of the working classes were to' encounter a refusal even to inquire into the grievances of which they complained , or to allow them to state before a committee that there could be \ a remedy , the right hon . gentleman need not apprehend that other trades would come with their claims , \ - but experience , whether hero or elsewhere ,, should not lead tbe House to turn a deaf ear to such complaints , ( Hear , hear . ) It would not be likely to attach the working classes to tho legislation of this
country if they supposed that , under the guise of philosophy and certain dogmatic rules , the House of Commons desired to conceal their inability to deal with the evils of a social ' , complex system ; and , if Parliament made them feel that it would do nothing for them , in the long run they would think it extremely desirable to do a great deal more for themselves tham Parliament would wish . If other trades came forward , let each case be considered on its own merits ; no other trade had come forward in such numbers . The question was one of the health and tha lives of ode-fellow-subjects , and he should support the motion . will he
Mi \ Bright then followed , whose speech found in Mr . O'Coa-nor ' s letter . Lord D . Stvaut had not heard a single reason why the committee moved for should be refused . It had been said that no good could possibly result from giving themselves the trouble of going through a fresh investigation by tha means of a committee . Was it any reason that justice should not be done to these poor men that they had friends who supported their cause , thrsugh tho agency of the public press . ' ? Was it a reason when poor people were oppressed that they should be further oppressed because somo persons were found to take up their cause ? Surely , when people had a right to demand a redress of grievances , tho best way
was to solicit , and if possible obtain , the support of tho public press . Tho peaceful agitation which the press created was evidently the most advantageous mode of gaining any legitimate object in public affairs . There might he hundreds , pet haps thousands , employed as bakers . Of this there could be no doubt , thai petitions on the subject eame from all parts of th » kingdom . He would ask , then , when thousands were dependent for their health and morals on the legislation of that house respecting , the present subject , when tbe lives of those men were in danger of being shortened by the preseiit defective stato of thelaw , would the houso deliberately refuse to grant an inquiry ? The right
non . baronet tho Home Secretary had told them that all the information winch could possibly be obtained on tho subject was alreardy before them ; but how could he or anyone assert that a grert deal of information might not yet be obtained He should not detain the House longer than to say that he had resolved to give his noble friend all the support in his power on this subject .- ¦ . Mr . G . Thompson said lie felt himself ' called upon to . take some notice of what had fallen fr ° njJtlJ 2 . hon . member for Manchester . ' Ho hadjiimgr ^ jg accused of being . somewhat too mud jWWBPjtg ^ economist , but if he could imagine t Wi 7 ^^ 2 P of political economy necessarily ieogjf ^ aga & anit wons as those expressed by tbo bo ff | i 1 K ^^^ n Manchester , it Would greatly alter WW & wMm
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