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_ecurs his return whenever a vacancy shall occur ; as rom his deep study , _greatreseareh , high aad commanding talents , _unearpassablo an * « _unadorned elea . u-. nce we _conoto bim w bo a » _o . t fit , and _KCCedingly proper person to represent the many and _vaned _InUrest * oi this borough in the Commoni _Heu _. _e of Parliament . Mr Morgan said : He rose with ve ry great pleasure femora the _adaption of _ttatresolation . and from the load and _well-deserved plaudits with which the meet in _hsd greeted Mr Kydd ' s very able and eloquent _addres _* sure he was that they would carry it _nnammonslv there , and back it up by providing the means for ensuring that gentleman s return at the next elec _tion , come when it may . ( Loud cheers . ) When Mr kvdd issued his address on becoming a candi . date it wa 3 asked , why address the _non-eleetois ? simoiv _because if they had not votes they had
influence , ' ( loud cheer , ) and he called on them to use that influence on behalf oi Mr Kydd , who , in return , would use his best exertions to procure that for them of which they never ought to have been deprivedthe elective franchise . ( Loud cheers . ) To his brother electors , he would say , if you desire the anstocracy to be represented return a lordhng ; if you wi = h tbe army to be reoresented return a geaeral ; if you _wiih the government and navy to have a mo nopoly of your representation , why continue to return Admiral Dundas ; if you wish tho __ church to be _presented find a Sir Robert _Inghs ; nyou _j" _™ the law to be _presented return a lawyer ; but if you ¦ wish the people " to be represented you must do what be ( Mr Morgan ) had _resor 7 ed to dO-US _6 every _Cflnrt _, strain every nerve , to secure tho return of our excellentfriend and advocate , Mr Kydd . ( Tremendous
cheering . ) . _MrFsvES seconded the _resolution . Mr IIowES . a tradesman of Deptford , and an elector ofthe borough , said he had great pleasure in supporting the resolution . He believed their greatest enemies were the parsons , who told them at their baptism that they were the . ' children of God , and in beritors efthe kingdom of heaven , ' and yet did ah in their power to prevent the working people from possessing the elective franchise here en earth , lie was no enemy to monarchy ; or aristocracy , _ but he was a foe to the sham kings , and sham aristocrats , dailv arising around them , and he was delighted to find thatMrKydd was not of that _| class . ( Lond
cheers . ) He possessed the franchise , and he thought it a lasting disgrace to this country that men of far greater calibre than himself should be denied that privilege . ( Great applause . ) To his latest breath he would advocate the right of all to be placed within the pale of the constitution . ( Renewed cheering . ) We live in momentous time 3 , and sure he was that governments must put down the liberty ofthe press and freedom of speech , ( which was impossible , ) or it would soon pnt down corrupt governments . ( Great _Cheering . ) He had the mere pleasure in supporting that resolution , because Mr Kydd had avowed himself the advocate of that great and just measure , the People ' s Charter . ( Loud cheers . )
The resolution was then put , and carried , amidst the loudest acclamation . Mr Ktdd responded , and moved a vote of thanks te the chairman , for his courteous 3 nd impartial conduct in presiding ever that meeting ; which wan seconded by Mr _Robihsosi and carried by acclamation . Mr _Ersbst Jones having acknowledged , in suitable and eloquent terms , the honour done him , the meeting was dissolved . We are delighted to find that steps are in progress for the organisation of election committees in the three townships of Deptford , Greenwich , and Woolwieh ; and that an election fund is also to be immediately established .
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Great Meeting At Halifax On Monday, Jan....
GREAT MEETING AT HALIFAX On Monday , Jan . 24 tb , a public meeting wa 3 held in the Odd Fellows' Hall , for the purpose of hearing an address from Eme 3 t Jones . Long before the appointed hour the hall was filled ; and so great was the crowd that many hundreds were unable to obtain admission , numbers having come a distance of ten miles and more to attend the gathering . Mr _Jonathan Gatjkkodgeb was unanimously called
to the chair , and opened the proceedings in a speech replete with eloquence and argument , alluding to the monstrous sums ingulfed by placemen , and ethers , like theDuke of Wellington , the necessity for high'taxation to meet these calls , and the heavy burden of the National Debt . These , he contended , the people would not have to suffer were they represented in Parliament , and he hoped they would yet see Mr Jones their member , as he certainly was now their representative . ( Loud . cheers . ) He now introduced
Mr _Ektzst _Joxes , who was greeted with deafening eheer 3 , and said I hava the honour of doing tbat to-night which your membera ought to have done—appesring before the constituency after the dose of last session . They should be here to render an account of their stewardship , but , seeing that the one has done nothing , and the other done misthief , they would have found that an irksome matter . ( Hear , hear . ) Some may have come here imbued with prejudice . Oh ! prejudice is a very childish thing ! It is hearing with the ears of _ano " - _ther , seeing with the eyes of " another , and speaking with the tongue of another . I want them to use their own . What do they know against Chartism ? Oh ! but they have heard that nobody told somebody ,
who told anybody , _ who told everybody , who told fchem , that a Chartist was a destructive , and an infidel . Well , I , for one , will , in one sense , admit the charge . I wish to destroy the bayonet and the sword , bj making all men brethren . I wish to destroy the bastile , by developing the resources of our country . I wish to destroy the gaol , by teaching youth the path of virtue , instead ot sending it to the castle of crime . ( Immense applause . ) I am . somewhat of an infidel , too . I have no faith in the proraises of Lord John _Rossell . I have no faith in class legislation legislating for the general good . I have no faith in tea thousand per annum making a bishop holy . I have no faith in tithes paying the fare to heaven . I have no faith in the Chancellor
of the _Exchequer . ( Cheers and laughter . ) Now , gentlemen , if you are still prejudiced , you are prejudiced against that which yon are yourselves . Arc you against war ? Then you must be against Blaughter . Are you opposed to the easy death by the cannon ball ? Then , surely ,. you must be onposed to the torturing death by the " hastila . Are you opposed to the quick pang ofthe scaffold ? Surely , you must be opposed to the long _, racking of starvation . There are mors ways of murdering than by the ball and the bayonet . Is there a man here who will say he has a r _^ ght deliberately ta murder his brother hy foul air ,. over-work , and hunger ? Who _say 3 he has a right _tftwastejwhile his brother wants , or to' sleep in a-ipalace while his brother lies
_withastonefora . piflow , and the snow for a coverlid ? Oh ! if you are respectera of vested rights , respect the oldest of them all—the right to live ' . If you respect that , you are Chartists ; for a man cannot live without the means , and experience proves the only means to be—representation for the people . That is the Charter . ( Continued cheers . ) I defy you to trace the misery , the ruin of the rich , and the wreck among the poor , to any other cause than , class legislation . Show us another causewe ' re opeir . to conviction . Let ns hear how your _Eunjster . _fflember , Sir Charles Wood , accounts for It : deficiency of capital . ' How so ?—when he said , almost in the same breath : 'He could meet the drain for foreign food with thirty millions . '
If he finds deficiency there , how he must keep Ms accounts ! Bpt he has another excuse—the railways sunk capital . Why , they just spread it . The tram-rails are not madej of sovereigns , but iron ; and that must be paid for—the labourer must be paid—the land must be bought—the officials must be salaried ; they distribute capital instead of sinking it . I'll grant you that the labourer don ' t get the lion's ' share , but stilt- the money circulate ? . Why , Sir Charles don't know the difference between a fixed aud floating capital . If I build a house for £ 1 , 000 , the capital is not fixed—it is the labour that is realised , and the capital goes on _reproducing Well , they say , like to like ; and Wood I you have run your head against a post . ( Cheers and _laughter " Another however
. ) excuse , ! Tae COttOD . cfop has failed—therefore , cotton is short . Cotton is short ; but not because the crop has failed—because ether countries are using it that never used it -before . Other countries are manufacturing , and want some o f that cotton . America now uses onefonrth of her growth . Sir I you will _fiad the cotton shorter' every year . ( Hear , hear . ) Then there was tha potato blight—the visitation frea God ! If every misfortune is a visitation from God , what a visitation church and aristocracy are ! But the secret of the visitation is this : Lord John , like most other men , ha 3 two legs ; but with this difference , that one leg is a Tory leg , and the other a Whig leg . Now , the Tory leg is tbe shorter of tbe
two , and he just _shovad a rottc-n potato under the _fihort leg , to make himself stand _straight in his policy . ( Cheers , and laughter . ) Ah , sir ! Jones Lloyd , _ the banker , has summed up our financial policy in a few words , when he said : ' Periodical panics were necessary to keep cur commercial system going . ' ¦ What- z * system that must " be that requires periodical ruin to make it live . What a clock , of which you must break the _mainspring every time you wind it up . ( Cheer :- . ) 'ihat is the _sy-tem of your _tui _.-. _iiter-nienikr ! Arc there any of Sir Charles Weed ' s supporters here , What '
_Kone ! Oh ! you are abhr . raed to or . n if . Now then , thnler r . _iorcJian ' s ! how do you like your Wood ? ( Pro : racted applause ar . d laughter . ) Sir , the real causes of the evil are that the secondary e : _i _* ,. iial , money nnd manufacture , has been placed abovo the primary capital , labour and land . Our _manufacturer has locked up capital in raw raster !? , ! , end that ca pital has not been repr _.-duetd at home , _because foreign competition is undermining _bt-. me _eirpicj-W * _( J fe _fi hear . ) Gold has left the _coumrv for <;«» ri _^ to' _^ _"se you have n egl ec ted heme ren _£ l _£ _\\ X ? eal _^ h as been absorbed by a few , and li * _VS _^^^ Pted the returning _channel' ? i wages and local trade . The pressure has
Great Meeting At Halifax On Monday, Jan....
been , because the greatest and most wholesome distributive organ , the working . _clas ? es , have had no wealth to distribute , ( llear , hear . ) The remedies are ebvious . Unlock the land monopoly . With a land-holding people there will always ba a steady circulation , safe from panics . Sweep away Customs and Excise . Establish a _property-tax upon a sliding scale , making the rich pay so much more in the pound _thaa the poor , —and , above all , give Universal Suffrage . Jones Lloyd say « , under the present system , panics are necessary in the monied world . Well—who govern the country ? The monied world—which is inhabited by very few men . Then , they are not fit to govern , if they are subject to panic ?! A frightened general is not the man to lead le
an armr . ( Hear , hear . ) Then place the peop beyond she reach of panics , by giving them the land . You will find it difficult to frighten a man with his corn on his fields , his flitch in his cupboard , and his musket over his fireplace . * The dignity of England requires ne panic-stricken men should govern her , — let the people govern , and you need not fear Nicholas throwing hi 3 paper on the English market , and seeing the British lion tremble at tho fluttering of a bank note . ( Loud cheers . ) With reference to our foreign liabitics , to which I have just alluded , a word as to the National Debt . I don ' t say repudiate it—but I say : let those pay who contracted . ( Hear , hear . ) The working classes were no contracting parties—so they are not legally liable . We got no
benefit from it—so we are not morally responsible . Thej" may say , ' we are defended against invasion . ' Invasion , say they ? Why , since then , have we not been invaded by the tax collector and poor rate ? Talk of invasion—the French soldiers would be a trifle compared to the tax collector ! But they prevented slaughter at home . Ay 1 in Ireland—where _' s tho slaughter now ? Ay ' . in the Highlands—ask the cotters . Ay ! in England—look at your own doors . Then , I Bay , let those who get value for it pay the bill ; wo will not be tax _« d to meet' your liabilities . ( Loud cheers . ) Now , my friends , why do not your representatives say something of this ? Your representatives ! . Sir Charles Wood represents you not . He represents the fundholders ; he
represents the poor rate ; he represents the window tax ; he represents the pension list ; he _^ presents the National Debt—but never let him say he represents the men of Halifax . ( Enthusiastic cheers . ) One point of the Charter is , however , the law in Halifaxpaying members : you pay Sir Charles your share of £ 5 , 000 per annnm * . And , then , thero is the gallant Captain , whom his proposer cal _' ed your generous young merchant prince , and advised you to reject me and elect him , because he was so intimately acquainted with our commercial interests . What has the generous young prince been about ? He has not opened his mouth once . Why did he not give his advice , and get the blundering Chancellor right ! Why , sir , I shall almost think I know as much of
our financial system , even as the generous , young prince himself . ( Continued _applauso . ) I have now alluded to the causes erroneously assigned as productive of the national misery . I have endeavoured to trace these miseries to their real source , and to propound the remedy , and I now call on you to 'prepare yourselves for action . Rely on none , but on yourselves ; welcome every friend , but listen to no compromise . You are either right or you are wrong ; if you are right , you become accomplices iH your own oppression , if you swerve one hair ' s breadth from the path of duty and consistency . ( Hear , hear . ) Do not either mistake your enemies—they are aristocracy and middle-class . Aristocracy was your greatest enemy , and would be now had it the power ; the
middle-classes arc your greatest enemies having the power . By middle-class , I do not mean the small retail shopkeeper ; _'his enemy is our enemy—the great moneyocracy . That middle class I designate as the author of all recent oppression . Who shut the people up in rattle boxes ? Who murdered the little children ? Who established the human fleshshops ? Who contracted with the parishes at so much per hundred and one idiot in nineteen ? Who enacted the new Poor Law ? Who built the bastiles ? Who parted man from wife ? Who propounded the hellish doctrine of competition ? Who pulled wages down ? Who opposed the Ten Hours Bill ? Who are trying to subvert it ? Who passed Coercion ? Who deluged India . China , Africa , and the Pacific
with blood , to get markets for the sweat and marrow of their English slaves ? Who—but the middle class—the scourge of the people and the curse of humanity ? ( Immense applause . ) Rally against it , working men . Rally against it , shopkeepers of Halifax ! But in doing so do not re-establish aristocracy . To the dust with aristocracy , since it has troddeH the people to the dust . Perish the privilege of title ! Gad never gave a title , save the noblestman ! Deck his heart with honour , his face with honesty _. and hi 3 tongue with truth , and there you have God ' s nobleman at once . ( Enthusiastic cheers . ) To the work , then , men of Halifax . Be true to your cause . Stand by the Charter—name and all . The name is the password , by which you know , a friend
from a foe ! ( L < md cheers . ) Those who advocate the six points under a different name , are forming a party within a party , to split your ranks asunder . ( Hear , hear . ) It is a pirated edition of the Chaster ( Great applause ) . Organise your ranks , then—you have the moral right—do not neglect the physical power . If you wish to preserve peace at home , be so strong that none can break it . ( Hear , hear . ) The government are increasing the army and artillery , Is it from fear of French invasion ? Not they . There is no danger of that . The first French bayonet that bristled on the coast of Hants or Sussex , the first gun fired in the English Channel , would be the signal for revolution in Paris—and the _discomfited army returning home , would find a republic where it had left
a kingdom . ( Tremendous cheers . ) No ; those guns are pointed inwards—monopoly is arming against English liberty . Prepare , then , men of peace there are two ways of using physical force : the one is to be strong enough , to strike—that is but a poor way and a wrong one . The other is : to be so strong , that none dare strike you ! Become so ! ( Protracted cheering . ) And remember ! we will transgress no law—it is we who will prevent bloodshed ! Be true to your words , * No vote , no musket ! ' and they cannot make foreign war . Be united among yourselves , and they cannot make home dissension . ( Clear , hear . ) Itis we who _spread the glorious principles of Christian love , ' An , sies are bkethebn ! ' And , sir , the peoples of the earth are beginning to learn this
truth ! From Germany , Belgium , France , and Switzeland , the delegates of freedom bave been sen ; hither—and an echo cornea over the western waves , from the mighty shores and inlands of a vast republio , —crying : ' Peace on earth , and unto men goodwill !' Thes 9 delegates have been sent to ascertain whether English Chartists are for themselves alone , or for the great cause of humanity . In September next a congress of nations is to be held at Brussels , " at the same time as the conspiracy of cotton-lords—the free trade congress . They ask us to join the fraternity of nations , and to have the Chartist body represented by Chartist delegates . Men of Halifax ! the Chartists are responding nobly to the call—and I aBk
you now , are you willing to he so represented , and to send your ambassadors ? If so—hold np your hands . ( Every hand in the meeting was raised amid deafening cheers . ) There rings the knell of tyrants ! When the people unite , the despots sink ! Yes ; the cycles of change are running out . The grub , royalty , was transformed into the feudal oligarch ; then the middle class spun its cotton web around the torpid noble ; and now the people are breaking their flimsy chains , and from tho perishing frames of decaying systems , bright-winged Liberty shall soar above the garden of its own creation ! Rally , then , for civil and religions liberty—no compromise—the Charter and no surrender ! [ Mr Ernest Jone 3 resumed his seat amid rapturous cheering , long and often renewed . ]
The Wipe And The Man-Servant.—Last Week,...
The Wipe and the Man-servant . —Last week , an inquest was held on the exhumed remains of William _Howells , a farmer , residing in the parish of Llanellen , terminating in a verdiet of ' Wilful murder against Mary Howells , widow of the deceased , and James Price , his servant-. ' Jane Morgan said that she was a servant to the __ deceased . His family consisted of himself , his wife , a male-servant named Jame 3 Price , and witness . The deceased , who was very deaf , enjoyed gcod health up to tho 9 th of November last . A little after nine that night he had some apple dumplings for his supper , which wero made by witness . The deceased helped himself to the first dumpling he ato , but her mistress gave him the last one , which she split through the middle ,
and pui _surar and milk npon It . About ten o ' clock the deceased was seized with violent purging and voniitisg , aud he died at twelve o ' clock the following night . Before he died the man servant used to sleep in an adjoining room , but afterwards her mistress and witness slept in one bed in Price ' s room , and Prico occupied a bed in the same apartmeHt . That arrangement was made , because none of them liked to sleep in the room where the master died . - She had several _^ times got up beforo ber mistress and Price , leaving them in their separate beds . She had heard hen mistress en 11 to Price on more than one occasion , ' Come here , Jem , and warm my back . ' They had remained together in their room frequently
. 1 coople of hours after she had left . About a fortnight alter deceased ' s death , Price and witness' _mistrepswent oit together , and * were away sometime . After the _bc-dy was taken up she heard her mistress say , ' It _ffiil be belter for me to stand my ground , and then I shall not be suspected so much ' She further added , ' If they _i-hali find anything in him it is you that- shall be hanged , as you made the _dumplings . ' Mr Richard Steele , who had made the post mortem examination of the body , deposed that deceased had died from arsenic . Edward Evans , _druggist , of Abergavenny , stated that he know Maw Howells , the widow of deceased , lie remembered jelling her a pennyworth of white arsenic , which is ahout halt ' an ounce .
A committee has baen appointed to _deliberate on the Lest method of « storing and preserving Rubens ' famous Antwerp pictures . Cowry _shelly the currency of West Africa , are such awkward money that it requires one man to carry two pounds' worth .
The Fraternal Democrats. On Monday Eveni...
THE FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS . On Monday evening last the monthly meeting of this society took place , a week earlier than usual , to accommodate the members of the German Society , who hold their anniversary festival on Monday next . John Hutchinson was called to the chair . The following new members were elected , and subscriptions received : — Daniel Paul . Glasgow , 5 s . ; a Friend , Auchterarder , 5 s . ; T . M . Wheeler , O'Connorville , Is . ; Rowland Lacey , Wm . Burnett , and John White , _Wooton-under-Edge , Is . each ; Louis Rodanet _. _/ _fc _, _Rochefortsur-Mer , France , Is . 6 d . ; Mark Murray , Henry Baitramp . aud — Heinberg . The following surscrir . tions were also received from old members -. —John Shaw , la . ; H . Bauer , Is . * , and H . Merrick . Woroester , 2 s . ; Rogers , "Bristol , Is . The chairman then introduced
Ehnkst Johks , who said : In the union of Fraternal Democrats 1 see the germ of better times , and 1 consider this sooiety as a great and powerful adjunct to the cause of democracy in England . There was , at its-formation , a slight mistrust on tho part of my Chartist brethren against the Fraternal Democrats —they feared it was an attempt to supersede the movement—to create a party within a party—they have new learned that every member of this society is a thorough Chartist , and that Chartism is a test of admission for its members . ( Cheers . ) TheCharter ia the firat stage « i a long journey—be it ihe
province of this society to point to the second . Its immediate duty is to gather the scattered elements of democracy throughout the world , and raise the union of peoples against the conspiracy of _kingfe—to bridge the channel with the arch of fraternity , and to gather the human race in one temple of true Christianity , on whose entablature is written , ' All Men are Brethren . ' ( Applause . ) In this sense we are indeed a peace society , and of peace the resolution I hold speaks . But , sir , because we are the advocates of peace , we are not those of slavish submission . I tell the Societies for the
Preservation of Peace , let them give us peace to preserve , and we'll preserve it ; but where is peace in England now ? There is no such thing . Peace 1 while industry its robbed by idleness ? Peace ! while the palaces thrive and the cottages decay ? Peace ' , while unwilling idlers starve in the heart of plenty ? I believe peace to be a state in which the laws of God , nature , and humanity , harmonise with our social condition , whence this horror at invading the temple of life , and opening a pathway for its redrobed essence ? for you have broken the peace in that magnificent fane , when you first chained , its indignant spirit , wounded its noble heart , or tamed its manly strength ; and the thrust ofthe bayonet is but the last act of tha long tragedy penned by our
rulers , and acted hy our poor ! ( Loud cheers . ) Preserve peace indeed ! See your peace in your bastiles—see it in your gaols—see it in your streetsand consecrate it in your churchyards ! Go to the starving father , as he buries his _lastborn in a shroudless grave—go to the Irish mother , who , with a fond weakness of love gave the breast to hev dead baby , and thus died—go—and if you can , then call it peace ! No ! men ! you are . treading through a battle-field , strewed with the dead corses of labourploughed by the crushing chariot-wheels of capitalround which the sullen phalanxes of the oppressed still gather , and the war-cry of immortal liberty still swells against tho march of tho conqueror . ( Immense applause . ) Ah ! sir ! whenever a monopoly
is in danger , then hoary-headed treason preaches Deace . When the rogues in grain fear the claim of the famishing-, be sure they play the Christian , and cry , peace 1 When the _fuudholder fears that those who got no value will refuse to recognise the national debt—he cries peace I When the placeman dreads for pension and sinecure , and the churchman for his tithe pier , and the landlord for his game , and the lawyer for hia fee—be sure they all cry , peace ! —which means—we , the rich , will make war on you , the poor ; but you , the poor , shall keep peace to us , the rich . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) Yes ! when humanity is roused at last , then the vile trucklers who trade in God , come with their pennyworth of Christianity , for which you pay ten mil'
lions a year , and cry , ' peace ! ' The ' peacethat we want is , a ' piece' of bread—for rest assured , if you want peace , give men food—since peace and hunger are unruly neighbours . If you want peace , make men free—for peace and slavery go not hand in hand . ( Rapturouscheers , ) Government are driving the people fast , to bloodshed and insurrection ; for , _hunger is the father of murder ; and in the same degree in which a people grow hungry , they become turbulent . Let two devout Christians be wrecked at sea , and escape upon a _foodless raft ; let them have Christianity in their souls , faint at the sight of blood , and start in horror at the bare idea of hurting a fellow being . But let them , too , float on with the waste ocean , like
monopoly , around them , and the burning skies , _like ' golden oppression , above—and mark bow they will look less warmly on each other , and as the sun sinks , each will creep to the opposite end of his raft , and watch the _othersmotions—and their friendship will subside into mere acquaintance , and their converse into silence , and their silence change to a curse—and ere a third sun sets , the lean one will look longingly on the fat one—and ere a few short hours have passed , the cannibal will glare in tbeir eyes—they will close in their death struggle—and the devout Christian will be eating the heart of hishrother . _XSensation . ) . Thus it is with peoples—misgovern them , you have starvation —starve them , and you have insurrection . ( Loud cheers . ) Then , I say , ii you want peace , be prepared
for war . Notagainst foreign kings—their people will find work enough for them—but war against the aggressor at home ; so , that if he break through the barriers of the constitution , you can drive him back from the barrier he has broken . Peace we shall have , as far as the wars of kings are concerned ; we will not fight for them—and without soldiers , they can make no war . We will not pay war taxes for themand without money there can be no soldiers . We will notlet them _hold . ' our purse-strings—aud without freedom there shall be no money . ( Continued cheers . ) Remember , that never have so many recruits offered for the army as in this year of starvation ; and _Skibbereen has produced more than any other place in proportion . Therefore monopoly gets strong on the
evil it creates , and here again hunger proves itself the father of murder ; Remember that the symptoms of coercion are spreading to England , - they are talking of a mounted and armed police here , and our artillery , line and militia , are to be placed on a war footing . Let them not get too strong , before you get strong yourselves . Remember , too , that we are gaining something worth defending—our cottages and the Land . Ours is no longer the position of despair , but the stand of hope . Do not let government nip the Land movement in the bud by restrictive laws , by poor rates and . taxes , by lowering wages , non-employment and emigration , as they will do ; oh ! mark my words , they will do it , if you do not organise your millions—your militia of freedom in its defence . Take
an example from * , governments that say they cannot put their forces on a peace establishment ; while other countries have theirs on a war footing . So be it ; by the game rule , an oppressed people cannot neglect their strength , fvhile a class government are increasing their army . ( Hear , hear . ) Let all England become a National Guard , every man a soldier , and every cottage a fortress , not to make war , but lo save peace . ( Loud cheers . ) And before you swell the phalanx of the _peacemongers _, look abroad and see what peace has done for Europe . ( Hear . ) Peace ? Peace did not win America her freedom . Peace did not drive tho Dutchman from tho Netherlands . Peace did not plant tho standard of reformation on the plains ot _Gcrmanv . Peace did not lift the
cross of the Puritan on the hill-tops of Auvergne . Peace did not keep the French for eighteen years from the heritage of Islam and Abd-el-Kader . Pence did not hurl the despot Bourbons from their rotten throne . Peace did not drive tho Inquisition from the vineyards of Spain . Peace did not scourge the foul Jesuit from the _vallies of Switzerland . Peace will not beat back the Austrian hound from Italy . Italy , that has lain forages like a Parian , statue , as beautiful , but , alas ! as cold ! Peace will not drive the counting-house tyrant from the throncof France . Peace will not write the name of Poland on the scroll of nations , Peace will dot lift Freedom , the unpedestalled G _« d , to its place in tho great temple of the earth . ( Enthusiastic cheering . ) Thenwho
, joins the sickly cry of the peacemongers ? I , too , am fa-peace I am for the . nations of the earth using every peaceable endeavour to obtain their rights—but when these all fail—be men . ( Renewed cheers . ) Even nature sanctions it . What clears the air of its close fever , and purifies the surcharged atmosphere of summer ? The thunder , with its war ol elements ! __ ( Cheers . ) Go , ask your churchmen . Why God himself , the Lord God of hosts , has set you the example . When the Israelites were oppressed by the Assyrian , did he bid them run awaydid he bid them become slaves-did he preach peace ? _E _2 _. _V _™ e inv \ ; d th _9 cam P of the spoiler , nnd slew 190 , 000 m ono night with his own angel ! There is a
peace doctrine for you ! ( Immense cheers . ) Why , sir , when Joshua was fighting his enemies , _Gwl actually made the sun stand still on Gideon , and the moon m the valley of Ajalon , that they might have one hour ' s more daylight to cut each others throats . Why , sir , Christ himself did not stop to preach peace in tho temple , but actually took a _scourge to drive the money changers out ! There is a peace precept ! ( Tremendous app ' anse . ) Tho money changers have got into the temple of liberty . _Uau thv scourge , great Gi : d of humanity , and expel them ! " ( Renewed clucrs . ) There may yet bo Waterloos—not the Waterloos of kings—but thoBo of peoples . Pence ! Thou art too great a blcssinc for cowards ! Penco ia
in henvcu eternal , but on earth we must _piva thrsilih " the storms and showers to reach the sweet hiatus " of the calm and sunshine , And shall we , sir cry ' Slav ' to tha great fiat of God ' s eternal law ? ' No ! Let the wave break on life ' s tumultuous ocean ! Do ye nut hear the distant hurricane ? 1 hoav it a * " a whisper—a scarce-heard whisper—iu tho snowy _Appenines . I mark its low sigh , yet soft as a maiden's breath , in tbe vineyard * of Fiance . I note it-a taint echo , on the hilla of _Germauv-andlstart ai its
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low _rusflingrray , even in the oaks of Britain—denoting that the hour of change is drawing near ! It m ay yet he but as a morning _breeue in Englandherald of a bright day . But be the oak uprooted , or untouched , I see the calm beyond .. Peace there will be when the last throne tumbles in the gulf o t j me when the last coronet falls from a degenerate brow _ when the last bayonet corrodes in the rust of years . Peace there will be , when equality has taught man justice , and the _inheritoru of heaven have won their heritage of earth . ( Ernest Jones concluded by
moving the resolution , as follows , and resumed his _seatamidst a perfect storm of applause ) That in tho opinion of this meeting the outcry _respecting the * National Defences , ' is got np by those who havo an Interest in _perpotuatlng the present unjust , plunder- _, ing , nnd murdering system { and that the object of the parties who bave created the said outcry is—lat . To prolong the slavery of the British paople , by increasing the p hysical forca of their rulers ; and 2 nd . To prolong the roi _« n of tjranny generally , by revWlng those national antipathies ivhich were tho disgrace of our fathers , and which this meeting aolemnly repudiate '
The resolution was seconded by Charles Keen , supported in an able speech by Cam . _Schappeb , and carried unanimously . Julian _Haunkt then came forward , and after a few observations ridiculing the pietended alarm of a French invasion , moved the adoption of an address to the Proletarians of France . The Address ( which will be found belojy ) was reoeived with loud applause ; and having been seconded by Joseph _Moli ., and supported by _Uenbikgh _Biuuft and Carl _ScuivPiiRV'iA adopted by acclamation . The meeting then adjourned till the first Monday in March .
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THE FliATEBNAL DEMOCRATS Assembling in London ,
TO THE PROLETARIANS OF FRANCE . 'All Hen are Brethren , ' Men of France , — The signs of the times proclaim coming changes of vast magnitude and importance to your order . We have watched with profound emotion those _manifeatationaof progress and harbingers ot popular triumph—the Reform Banquets—which have
recently engaged the energies and talents of some of your most patriotic citizens . The' system' which at p resent presses like a vampire on the heart ef France , will in vain attempt by calumny and force to stay the progress of these manifestations . Any such attempts will but accelerate that crisis , in which the om ' nipotence of the popular sovereignty will prove the nothingness of renegades and traitors : It requires not the power of prophecy to foretell your speedy liberation from the degrading and disastrous yoke under which France haa groaned for the last seventeen
years . . Political progress has won a great triumph in 15 witzerland . It has been well said by an enemy , the oracle of Jesuitism in your (?) ChamberofPeers , _that'the flag which is now victorious on the other side of the Jura , ' is the symbol of those principles for which the French Democrats ef 1832-34 were proscribed and immolated . Triumphant in Switzerland , the Democratic banner will progress , ' conquering and to conquer , ' through Europe . The oppressed people of
Germany have already significantly attested their accord with the patriots of _Swilzerland ; and throughout Italy the struggle—morally or physically—is at this moment successfully progressing . In this country ( Great Britain ) the working millions , completely divided from the classes above them , are steadily . advancing in political intelligence and political power ; and while _perseveringly labouring ior their own emancipation , they are not _indifferent spectators of the grand struggle of which continental Europe is the theatre .
For centuries the people of this country have been oppressed by a territorial aristocracy , which though now somewhat shorn of its political power still retains the lordship of the soil , and the monopoly of moneydraining places in the government—domestic and colonial . A Church establishment the wonder of the world for its enormous weahh plundered from the people ; a system of taxation of boundless rapacity ; with other abuses inseparable from an unreformed political system derived from feudalism , hava tended to reduce the working millions to a state of social as well as political slavery . We have yet to name a more petent canse ef the slavery ofthe Proletarians . The manufacturing and commercial enterprise of the British people has been unexampled in the world ' s history , but the reward of that enterprise has been reaped wholly by the masterclass . The utter prostration of Labour beneath the Juggernaut wheels of Capital , dates from the time when England commenced to take the lead of other
nations in manufactures and commerce . Tho patient and untiring labour of this people , with all the wonderful inventions and improvements in machinery and chemistry , which have produced for tho master-classes their enormous masses of wealth , have brought for the working men only desolate homos , rags , hunger , and all the horrors of pauperism . As tho _manufacturers and merchants , and their allies , the usurers have amassed wealth , in tho same proportion the millions have become more and more impoverished , until the spectacle is presented of thisricheatof nations-containing millions of its most _indusrious classes totally destitute of those social possessions which ] give men an interest in the institutions of the country they inhabit . Is it to be wondered at that a wide gulf exists between those who possess all and those who possess nothing ?
That gulf exists between the working millions oi Great Britain and ail the classes above them . Political events have rendered that gulf impassable . As you , Proletarians of France , were deceived and sacrificed by the Bourgeoisie in 1830 , so were the working men of this country cheated and betrayed by the middlo class in the agitation for the ' Reform Bill . ' The late success of the Free Traders completed the iniquitous frauds of that olns- * , and has already opened the eyes of that minority of the working men who were previously unconvinced of the treachery of their ' _respeetablo' and'Liberal'deluders . The Democratic movement in this country is emphatically a Proletarian movement . The result will be a social reformation which will render political equality no longer an illusion .
This movement , therefore , menaces all classes of the _enemies of Labour . The privileged orders , consequently , are alarmed . Their alarm is increased by the extraordinary attitude of late assumed by the working millions of this country towarda the nations of the continent . Isolated from their continental brethren , tho working classes of Great Britain have , until within a few yearB past , been indifferent or hostile to other nations . But now , from the Seine to the Danube , from the _Tagus to the Tiber , every movement for veritable liberty excites the attention and calls forth the goed wishes of this people . The barbarous sentiment of nationality now hardly exists amongst the _Pecpk of this country . it ha 9 given place to the sublime principle of fraternity .
At this moment there is suddenly raised an outcry for the increase of what aro called the ' National Defences , ' under the specious pretext of guarding England from a' French invasion ! ' Brethren , if you were to judge ofthe peopleof this country by tho majority of the English journals , you would suppose that a blind passion of fear and hatred combined , directed against you . had taken possession of this people . Be not deceived . The people of Great BritaiB are perfect ' y calm ; they have no share in this pretended frer zy .
The outcry against France has been got up , and ia wholly confined to persons interested in the perpetuation ot the existing system . The journalists are generally very far from representing ' publicopinion ;' on the contrary , they represent those who find them the wages of corruption . In Russia and Germany the press is fettered by the censorship—in your country by the laws of September—and in England the money bag achieves by corruption the effects produced in other countries by coercion . With very few exceptions , the English journalists aro tho enemie 9 of the English Proletarians .
The object of those who raise an outcry for increasing tho army , navy , and other 'defences ' of this country is two fold : — lst .- _^ -T ' o increase tho physical force of the ruling classes—and , thereby , establish better guarantees than at present exist for keeping the working classes in subjection . Combined with thiB , it is intended to create places for the surplus scions of the _aristocracy and gentry , who Bt present have no means of sucking the blood of the people . 2 nd . —To revive those national antipathies which formerly separated this people from every othor , and caused the most unnatural hatted between them and you , tho people of Franee . By reviving thoso national follies , tho enemies of liberty hope to keep the nations dividod , and thereby perpetuate the oppression of the many , and the tyranny of the few , in this and every other land .
Tho working men of England are well aware of thoso schemes of their enemies . The conspirators will fail . The national" prejudices which were once so fruitful of disasters to the causo of freedom , now everywhere _disappearing before tho light ot * . political knowledge and the interchange of fraternal _scntimeiUs , arc nearly extinct in the ranks of the working mon of England . Wc can assure you , brethren , that there is nothing in the shape of _hostile feuling existing amongst the veritable people of Great Britain towards Franco oy Frenchmen . The contrary is the fact . 'French _princinles , ' that ia the principles of Equality , Liberty , and Fraternity , aro now the adopted principles oi' the enlightened masses of this country .
Not assuming to directly represent the Proletarians of Great Britain , we are , nevcrthuluss , in a position todechre that their _sentiments are those oi sincere fraternity towards you , the people of Franco _, and the people oi all other _afttiona ,
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Men of France , the time has arrivedI when the Proletarians of every nation should frankly declare themselves to each other , and cordially unite as brethren . ,. . , _¥ _n In all countries the working men are subjected to political proscription and social suffering ; their enemies are the same , and their interests are 'identical . Let , then , the Proletarians of all lands forget and mutually forgive the wicked and bloody feuds oi the past , and work together for that happy future which shall witness their deliverance . ' ' National glory' is no compensation to the millions for the loss of their rights , and their subjection to social misery ; on the contrary , international wars but _aggravate their calamities . What matters it to the working classes if tho arms of England are victorious in Asia , or the armB of France triumphant in Africa ? '
• Ye men who shed your blood for kings , like water , What have they given your children In _roturn !' —the kings of gold as well as the kings of courtsthey have rewarded you and yours with oppression and hunger , degradation and chains ! The ruling classes of England sometimes attempt to throw dust in the eyes of the British people by telling them that they are the possessors of an empire ' on which the sun never seta . ' They , the plundered people , who have not one foot of soil in their native land they can call their own ! This delusion is perfectly understood by the working men of Great Britain . ,, . „ _XOU . men of France , are Bometimea told by the advocates of ' national glory' that the _fronliorsof France should be extended to the Rhine . Again , the Germans are told by pretended patriots and venal balladmongers to fight for the Rhine' The free , the silver Rhine , '
on the shores of which the people are slavet I What matters it to you if France haa the Rhine , or what matters it to the German people if Germany has not the Rhine ? What concerns you and the German people is to protect your labour and your rights from the plunder , and tyranny of domestic spoilers and ' national ' oppressors . While denouncing international wars , we do net share the sentiments of th se who consider all war unjustifiable . We , on the contrary , assert that as long as tyranny reignB there neither can nor should be peace between the oppressed and the oppressors .
But wars for the mere Bake of victory' or conquest we denounce as gigantic crimes against humanity , . Ne nation has suffered so much as France from the folly and crime of war . Tho truly groat men of your first revolution foresaw the evil consequences of the nation abandoning itself to the lust of military conquest . Those incorruptible patriots warned your fathers , but they warned tbem in vain . History has recorded the result \~ the . Republic was lost , the brigands triumphed , and the Revolution resulted in a military despotism .
A few year * ago your cunning rulers laboured to excite a war-feeling , not for the purpose of engaging you in a war with other nations , fer that was not their then policy , bnt that they themselves might covertly carry en a war against you . Unhappily they were aided by men who , if not traitors to the cause of _progress , were deplorably infatuated . Rawing the war-whoop against' perfidious Albion , ' they demanded the fortifying of Paris , just as the aristocrats and * perfidious' liberals of England are
now shouting for ' national dr fences . ' Paris was fortified , that is _emhastilled . Your fathers levelled one Bastille , —men of Paris look around and behold the number of Bastilles now surrounding you , not for your defence , but for your subjugation . Believe us , men of Paris , all Europe can see that the modern Bastilles are intended not to protect you from ' perfidious Albion , 'but to protect the traitors who oppress and degrade you . The enemy against which your rulers guard is not the forces of the' foreigner , ' but the masses of St Autoine .
But history is ' philosophy teaching by example . The errors of the past will be a warning to you for the future . There have been congresses of Kings , let this year witness a congress of Peoples . At that congress let the union of nations be solemnized ; and let the ridiculous antipathies and barbarous enmities ofthe past be buried iu oblivion . Frenchmen , Englishmen , Germans , Scandinavians , Poles , Russians , Italians , and men of all other lands , we appeal to you to embrace as brethren , and march forward , shoulder to shoulder , in the pursuit of _Equalitt , _LrnEBTT , and Fraternity . In the inspired language of glorious Beranger : —
' Rise ! ferni _yourselves the holiest alliance l Nations join heart and hand !' Signed by the secretaries and members of the committee , in behalf of , and in the name of , the Association , — G . Julian _Harnet , _! Charles Keek , . C Great Brlfaxn ' Thomas Clark , J H _' _-VSr ' \*™« - J . Schabelitz , > _o •»_„ . , H . Krell , } Switzerland . Peter Holji ) c ' ,. _GusTAvusLrannBRa , f 5 candina _* na _« Louis Oborski , Poland . Carl Pohsb , Russia . London , January 31 st , 1843 .
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FORTHCOMING MEETINGS . _Stourbbidqe . —The friends of liberty and the People's Charter aro requested to meet in the Christian Brethren ' s Room , High-street , on Wednesday evening , Feb . 9 th , forthe purpose of forming a branchof the National Charter Association , in conjunction with the Land membera of this town , at eight o ' clock precisely . The members of tne Land Coapany of this branoh ara informed that the general quarterly meeting will take place at the above room , on the same evening at seven o ' clock . Somers Town . —Mr John FusseU will lecture on Sunday _evening next , at the _Brieklayera' Arms , _Tonbridge-street _, New-road . Mr Sewell will lecture on Sunday evening , at the Sir Walter Scott , opposite Northampton-street , near Mile End-gate . Thb National Victim Committee will meet at the Assembly Rooms , 83 , Dean-street , Soho , on Tuesday evening next , February S : h , at eight o ' clock .
iMr E . Gill will delivers lecture in th 9 Chartist Assembly-rooms , 83 , Dean-street , Soho , on Sunday evening , February Oth , at half-past seven o ' clock - . Subject : ' Justifiable and unjustifiable war . ' Thb Late General Fast . —The committee that got up the _tea-party and public meeting , on the occasion of the late General Fast , at the White Conduit Ilouse will meet at IU , High Holborn , on Thursday evening , for a final settlement of accounts . Manchester . —Mr John Robinson of Manchester , will lecture in the People's Institute , Heyrod-street , on Sunday , Feb . Gth , at six o ' clock in the _evening A members meeting of the National Charter _Aaao . ciation will be held at two o ' clock in the afternoon _DUMOKSTRATIOH TO _O'CoNSORV'LLTS ON _WniT-MOJ _* _- dat kext . —The committee for getting up the above continue to meet at the above house , every Sunday and Wednesday evening , to receive payment on ac " count . Conveyance S 3 . —J . Guest , secretary .
Mr J . Skelton , will deliver a lecture on Sunday evening next , Feb . Gth . at the Red Lion , Little Portland-itreet , Soho , to commence at seven o ' clock precisely . Subject : _— ' The best means of employing the surplus l _: \ bour . ' A discussion will take place af ter the leoture . _- _Martlebose . —A meeting of the members of this locality , will be held at the Coach Painters' Arras , _Circus-Bireet , on Wednesday evening next , February 9 th , at half-past seven o ' clock for the purpose of electing a new council . Potteries . —Tho delegates of this district will not neglect to attend the monthly meeting , on Sunday ( to-morrow ) , at threo o ' clock , at Mr Yates ' , Miles Bank , Sheltori . South Lo . _ndm Chartist Hall—Mr O'Brien will lecture iu the above hall , on Sunday _evenin < * next Feb , Gth , at eight o ' clock . Subject : — ' . Land , Cur * rency , Credit , and Exchange . '
S outhampton . —Mr Saunders will lecture at the Burton Ale-house , Orchard-lane , on Tuesday , Feb . 8 th , at eight o ' clock . Mb Kxdd ' s T * ur . — Sheffield , Monday , 7 th ; Rotherham , Tuesday , Sth ; Barnsley , _Wednesday and Wakefield , Thursday . Mr Donovan ' s Route . —Birkenhead . Sunday , Feb . Cfch ; Manchester . Monday 7 th Liverpool , Tuesday Sth ; Chorlcy , Wednesday Oth ; Preston , Thursday 10 th Burnley , Friday Uth ; Clitheroe , Saturday 12 th ; Colne , Sunday 13 th ; Todmorden , Monday Uth ; Uebden Bridge , Tuesday 15 th ; _Ilaslinuden , Wednesday 10 th ; Bury , Thursday 17 th ; _Heyivood _, Friday 18 ih ; Rochdale , _Saturday 19 th ,
Tub Inhabitants of _BiiKRv-nDGE _, Lead Gate , Black Hill , Iveston , and Shutley _Bridge , and vicinity , are earnestly invited to meet at the house oi Mr James Reid , Painter , Berry Edge , ou Sunday afternoon , Feb . Gth , at two o ' clock , to take int _© consideration tho necessity of raising a People ' s Hall .
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Windy Nook . — The Land members of this branch are requested to attend at their _usual place of meeting , on Tuesday evening , atseveu o ' clock-. CiiELTKNiiAM . —The monitors of this branch are requested to attend a general _meeting , at tho Ternperance-kotel , on Monday evening , at eight o ' clock . Hanle y and _Shelt-ox Branch—The halt-yearly meeting will bo held , on Monday , tho 21 st inst ., in the Christian "Brethren ' s _llooia _, Market-street , Hanley , at seven o ' clock in the evenitn , ' , wh « n all the members nre particularly requested to attend . Birmingham . —The members and friends ol No . 3 branch wdl hold a tea festival on Tuesday , Feb , 22 nd , at Mr Smith ' s Coffee-house , 4 < i , Littlehamp ' ton-street . Tea on tho table at ' six o'clock . A pub lie meeting will ba held in tho above place on Thursday evening , the 10 th mat ., for the purpose ol _ostab-Usbing Ho , i _l-rauch of ( to New _lituui Compaiiv
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Chair lo be taken at eieht o ' clock . A public meef ing will be held at Mrs Thompson ' s , Royal Oak _gi Charlotte-street , on Monday evening , the Htli _' _inut for the purpose of establishing No . 2 branch of _tC New Land Company . Chair taken at eight o ' clock _LiVEsroon . —Mr Jones will lecture on _MondaV evening Feb . 7 th , in the Association Room 5 / _Rose-place . Subject : 'Manners and Custom _^ _« f the Ancient _Britens . ' At eight o ' clock , Mr Donova n will lecture at the above place . On Tuesday even in" . Feb . 8 th . Subject : ' Annual Parliame nt Chair to be taken at half-past seven o ' clock . , ; _Newcastle-iton-Tine . —The members of this branch are re spectfully informed , that by a resolution passedthey will have to pay their monies 0 n _ ,. . . i ] .- » at fii » hk o ' clock . A n « ki : „ __ " _^
, Sunday evenings between the hours of six and _ojuhf after which hour no monies will be acknowled _^ d for that week . This branch , of the National Iind * Company beg to apprise the working _classe _* and also the friends of Mr O Connor , that a public subscription will be entered into _immediately /! oena ble that gentleman to defend his seat in the ' Corr _^ _mons' House of Parliament , and the following per ' boss have taken collecting books to solicit subscrin _" tions fmm their fellow labourers : —Mr John Broivn Mr James Pigdon , Mr Peter Murray , Mr II . Stokoe ' Mr J . M'Dougal , Mr H . Johnstone , Mr James Wat ' and John Robertson
son Mr , —The members are also requested to attend a full meeting on Sundav _nexN Feb . 6 th , to elect a corresponding secretary J . Mr John West will lecture at Berry-edge , Durham on Mondav , Tuesday , Wednesday , and Thursday ' February 7 th , 8 th , 8 th , and lOtii ; Nertk Shields Monday , Fi ' bruary , ' 14 th ; and Sunderland , Tuesdav ' Feb . 15 th . —The persons who have given in tlieir names to the secretary to become members ofthe National Co-operative Benefit Society , are requested to attend at the house of M , Jude _, Cock Inn h _^ j of the Side , Newcastle , on Wednesday evening , Feb . 16 th , at eight o ' clock .
"" Nottingham . —The members of No . 2 branch of this place will _Jmeet at the Rose and Trumpet , top ol Goese-gate , on Sunday evening at six o ' clock . Derby , —As it ia in contemplation to hold a de » legate meetings to take into consideration the best means of procuring signatures to the National Pe . tition in the district , ail the smaller branches around Derby are requested to communicate with the cor . responding secretary , Mr E . Kirkland , No . 4 , Full , street , Derby . Preston . —The _msnthly meeting of this branch will take place on Sunday evening next , Feb . 6 th , in the _^ large room at Mr Frakland ' e , _Lune-street , when the committee for _drawing up rules for an auxiliary to the National Land Bank , and for as _« _sisting members when located , will give in their report .
Nottingham . —The next meeting of the Land members will be held at the Stragglers , Tollhouse _ilil ) , on Sunday evening at seven o ' clock . Stockport . —A meeting of this branch will take place on Sunday next , at two o ' clock in the after .
noon . New Radfohd . —The shareholders of this branch are requested to attend a meeting in tho room ofthe Hope and Anchor , _Cfcapel-street , Radford , on Mon . day evening next , at seven o ' clock . Little Town , near Leeds . —The Land members are requested to attend a general meeting at Charles Brooks ' s , on' Sunday , . February Cth , at ten in the forenoon . Doncaster . —A public meeting ofthe members of this branch will be held in Mr Moon ' s Assembly Room , Manchester House , St Sepulchre Gate , oa Tuesday , Feb . 8 ch , to make necessary arrangements for raising subscriptions to defend the seat of F . O'Connor , Esq ., in the Commons' House oi Par . _iiament , Kidderminster . — The members of this branca are requested to meet atthe Falcon Inn , on Monday evening , at seven o ' clock .
Lincoln . —This branch of the Land Company will in future meet at Mr Joseph Simpson ' s , City Arm 3 . Liverpool . —A quarterly meeting of this branch will be held at 52 , Ro 3 e-place , on Thursday evening , February 10 th . Falkirk ;—Tbe next quarterly meeting of this branch will be held in Fleet ' s Coffee-house , on the evening of Monday , the 7 th inst ., at eight o ' clock . Arbroath . —The members of this branch are requested to attend a general meeting in Mr Simp _, son ' s School-room , North Grimsby , on Saturday , Feb . 12 th , at eight o ' clock , p . m .
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CORN EXCHANGE . Mark-lane , Jan 31 . —The market was tolerably well supplied with English wheat , by land carriage samples , from the near counties ; and although the trade cannot bG called brisk , a good clearance of the stands was made , at prices ftdiy equal to those of _ilonday last . Foreign wheat was a more free sale lhan of late , at previous rates . Selected samples of barley realised rather more money , but cannot be . quoted higher . The arrivals of oats during the week have been but moderate . The slight _improrement in value _estabUshed towards the end of last week wss not maintained . _Boans asd white _paas without alteration in value . 3 £ aple and grey peas Is . dearer . Abbivals into London fr _« m 24 th Jan . to 29 th Jaw . Wheat : English , 3 , 922 . Barley : English , 5 _. S 8 S . Oats : English , 851 ; Scotch , 511 ; Irish , 70 ; Foreign , 2 , 420 . Flour , 3 , 956 sacks . Malt , 3 , 934 _qrs . London Averages . — "Wheat , 51 s 8 d ; barley , 3 ls 2 d ; oats , 24 s lOd ; beans , 35 s 7 d ; peas , 45 s 7 d .
CATTLE . Smithfielp , Jan . 31 . —There was a considerable in . crease in the supply of beasts , which caused a dull trade , and last Monday ' s quotations were not supported . The average quality of the supply was improved , and most likely everything tvould be disposed of , or nearly so , at about 2 d per 8 lb 8 . reduction . The number of sheep was also larger , but still the market was not over supplied with the choicest descriptions ; notwithstanding , owing to the state ot the dead _inarkat and damp weather , tradti was dull , at rather lower prices ; _although there were very few _calves ' on offer , tho demand fell off very much , aud , except for the choicest , a considerable reduction was submitted to . Trade for pigs was heavy . _Fi-om Holland there were 174 beasts and 40 sheep ; from Ire . land , 200 beasts ; aud about 1 , 800 from _\ ortuiK and Suf . folk . Perstonoof 81 bs . s . d . Per stone of Slbs . s . d . Best Scots , Herefords 4 8 Best _Dns . and Half-Best Short-horns .. 4 6 breds Sb 0 0 Second quality beasts S -6 Best Long-wools .. 4 6 Calves 4 41 Do . do . Shorn _ 0 C
Pigs 3 8 Ewes is second quy _... 3 8 Best Dns . and Half- Do do . Shorn .. .. 0 8 breds 5 0 Lambs .- .. .. 0 0 Beasts at market , 3 , 053 ; sheop aud lambs , 19 , 390 ; calves , _6 S ; pigs , 280 . Liverpool , Feb . 1 . —We have had small supplies from Ireland and coastwise sines Friday , but considerable of foreign , Indian com , and flour . At this day ' s market : there was only a slow- trade in wheat , but rather more firmness than atthe eud of last week , and Friday ' s prices wore well supported for both old and new . Oats were in very slow request , and might have been bought on rather easier terms . In beans and grinding barley the transactions were quite trifling , but for neither was the _currency altered . The demand for Indian corn and meal was languid , and , with more _'» f each offered than of late , the previous priees were not fully supported .
_Newcastle-upon-Ttne , Saturday , January 29 . —Tho weather still continues extremely seasonable ; intense frosts have prevailed , with a l ' all of snow . So severe indeed , was the frost last night , that the river is covered with masses of floating- ice ; and should a change not occur between this and Monday , the water communication between here and Shields will , in all probability , be stopped . Our arrivals of wheat and flour this week " hare been upon a moderate scale , but a considerable proportion of the previous week ' s receipts being left over unsold , the trade lias ruled excessively quiet , hud the sales effected iu either article since this day _se ' unight , have been upon rather easier terms .
Hull , Tuesday , February 1 . —Business is very inanimate , and in tlio absence of _speculation , to _enl-our ; _.- _^ which no grouuds are at present apparent . At _prtstnt our own farmers amply supply the little local demand , and , in our opinion , they will continue to do so . U : its continue much neglected . Beans have recovered their late depression , and new _fureig-n nre Is . dearer , Peas of duo quality iully maintain their price .
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( From the . Gazette of Tuesday , Feb , I . ) BANKRUPTCY _ANNULLED . George Holland , of Portway , _licensed victualler—Ji > hn Stringer , of _Ringston-upon-llull , draper—John Hail , vf Cor & itry , ribbon manufacturer .
_BANKRUPTS . William Wyatt , of Banbury , coachmakcr—John Clavton , of _Crown-court , Cheapside , Manchester , warehouse . man—William Pike Barrett , of S , Paiace-row _, * Sew-iv ; ul , iron-monger—John O'Donnell , now or late ot" _Svilneyatreet _, Chulseu , _brickluysr-John Shuppard , of _Sluvlev , common brewer—John Bezxoll , of Deptford , btiilii- ' ¦ — Thomas Luker , late of _Farringdon _, but now of area * LVswell , innkeeper-Alfred Kim ; , of Oxford , timber merchant—John _lieuclett , of East Peukiiatn , groiw-Johu George Moore and Henry _BatUss , of Norwich , warehousemen—William Star , of _Lxnn , currier—J ason IV- " - ' . of Fulbourn , _grocor-Kobert Howell Fretwell , late ot
_htaple-mn and l ivcrpool , but uow of St Martin , Jersey , and of _Greenwich , shipowner— Henry Cross , of Kirton , farmer— Charles _Middleton Keruot , of West Cuive .-, chemist—Joan Thompson , orshuftlelil _, _lieeuwd victualler —Joseph Parker , of Blackburn-John _Buuibv , of > li' _*' - chester , cattle doaler—Jaaaes Kami , of Fmtou , provision dealer—Thomas Fox , George Kippon , Christopher AkeHhead Wawn , and _Willinsa Lishnm , ' oi West Cornfortli _ao-1 Thrisliugton , Durham , _limeburuerg—George CradoeU . j £ Darlington , _roj »» maker—John Turner ,, of Tavistock -iad Plymouth , _attornoy—HoVeit Spencas , of St _SulweU , Exeter , printer-Samuel liemiy Sevjoant , of _Callin-c _' _-. m _, attovney-at l ; . w—WiUiam Baguall _, » f Burslem , grover .
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . Thomas Burns , of Edinburgh , writer to the _sk-ncr—Pavid Hall , of _Howmams , merchant—William _Moilatt _, of Glasgow , merchant—John Blair , of Paisley , manufacturer—John Gibson Peebles , of Glasgow , _c-ommUsiuti agent-Albert Cay , of Edinburgh , stockbroker-JameS Koss , htfoot Edinburgh , - commission _agenl—Alesa-uU-r CoupcY _. sen _., of tit Andrews , _shoemaker—Juliu _luu-lU , o _Edinburgh , leather factor . ~ . . -j
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 5, 1848, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_05021848/page/8/
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