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- "" ~ ~ 7 V FKiNCEi ; ' lfherefra coipflcte dearth of political news ; in the ^^ iff * h icIiwemaysU * etiuit fteFrench Governate Ta cngagea in ferreting out the hordes of O ^ L a ^ fmindereiB , and thieves with which Paris "" ^• a SfoSlv overrun . On Saturday last a cbn-S , "S& mifitaiy force , placed und& ; the direction *? iS « aanniissaiies ofpolice , anndnndedtvo public ISnents on the Bonlefatd du Temple-r-the ^ daiPuf-de-D 3 me and the Caveau—the haunts -Sn jjjjifidusla were arrested-and marchea to the j ^ BtoBrfJ ^ ^ in tends of twentyand thirty at , ^ ft PORTUGAL :
r « box , JmroAinr 1—Doctor Kalley , the per JSjn * tf ^ e made sa ^ a stir in the island of Xfana , ' as a Bible Society ^ lisaionary , arrived -here w « sk fl « m FunchaL The object of his Haiti I ^ eostani " ** "aie P ^< w » l application to Lord S ^ id on the subject of iusckim foroompensation ^ t he imprisonment he suffered . That dann , there --fray reason to believe , has fallen to the ground f-tcc lav-officers of the Portuguese Grown , and the Litnw Ttflwnal of Justice , have decided that the Ljri sonmcnt was perfectly , legal , several overt acts Jjastthe established religion of the country , such « tuniin gife Palpal doctrines publicly into dcri-% r taring been fully , proved against him . Setting
, d jcljpoiB considerations apart , it is a fact muchto jo dep lored—and I have it on the authority of perar-sbo have lately come from Madeira—that Dr ; r ¦ ; interference there has gonefaf to destroy all the g - ^ d ! y feeUngs which the people of that Maud Cheryl towards England . Baron SuarcC ; a French < £# ,- who had served in Don Pedro ' s army , daring &e Mignelite contest , was last week arrested by oilier of the Government , and veryunceremouiously jjipned off for England on board the Royal Tar . M . jKe&SUva Cawalho , a peer of the realm , and fjgjBO-lj Minister of Finance , died last night , after , short illness caused by indigestion .
WEST INDIES . SooHiMPiqs , Moxdat- —The Dee , Royal mail sJeam-ship , Capt . Henisler , arrived this day , at one o ' ckct ,-fi » in toe Wegt Indies , with the usual ansifa ; v ~ & the exception of those from the interior of Mexico . These , from some cause or other , had not jijivedwhen the Dee left Vera Cruz ' on the 2 nd of Jaa ' -arr . There is no news of importance from the ffest Indies . The reason of the delay in the arrival ofite Dee i * that on the 22 nd nlt . she encountered zhcarjS ^ e &omthe W . N . W ., which continued for Case days- A cross sea struck her and carried away fcer paddle-floats .
UNITED STATES . JjTEEPOOt , S « oEnAT Etesko . —The packet ship Ymfaliirc , under the command o £ Captain Bailey , has arrived here this evening from NewYork , whence she sailed on the 16 th ultimo , and by her arrival we have been put in possession of papers from that city two dajs later than those . received on Saturday last by the Stephen Whitney , but the news they contain umeagrc and unimportant , in a political point of view , bat not . so with commercial matters . Tee Qcestion of ties Axxexatios of Texas continued the subject engaging the almost exclusive attention of Congress , with about just as much prosnect of the matter being settled as oa the day it was
mst mooted . The question appears to have resolved itself info the simple proposition whether Texas shall be admitted as one of the United States for the purpose of perpetuating slavery . , or whether she shall be admitted , and after admission her territories be equally divided between slave-holdersand freemen ! Previous to the 13 th , many attempts had been made , to bring the debate to a conclusion , but without effect , " and ou that day Mr . Brown , of Tennessee ,. oSered a joint resolution , declaring the terms on which Texas may be annexed as a state , and it was read twice and soznmitted . The house then went into committee cfthe whole on thcjointreaolutiou reported from the committee of foreign afiaire for the annexation of Texas .
We learn with regret the death of W . F . Harnden , of the firm of Harnden and Co ., who died at Boston . He was the founder of the popular system of expressing , and was much esteemed . Commercial matters in the States were drawing rapidly to a crisis . The New Tork Herald gives the following as the condition of the commercial world : — " The recent movements in the commercial world , MhinEuropeand America—the fall in the price of cotton , the vacillations in the position of the banks , and the currents and counter-currents in operation , present every indication to the philosopher and the statesman , that a storm is approaching in the commercial world , partial , perhaps it may be , but springing from the same causes , and producing similar results as the great revulsions of 1837 , 1839 , and
1 S 11 . There is no use in mincing the matter ' . when danger is ahead , and the only way to get through the difficulty . i 3 to meet it fully in the face . Let us conic to particulars . Our money market reports , for some time past , nave given evidence , by their daily record of events in Wafl-staeet , that there were at work , in the commercial world , some great and primary elements of disturbance . These symptoms have sow developed themselves in , such a degree that ceaie able to trace them to their origin , and to show the tauses of anticipated danger . From the great revulsion of ! 837 , up to the year 1842 , efforts were made to revive the trade of this , country , rbut commercial affairs were so mixed up with political matters , and the conduct of public bodies in the
repudiating states was much as to prevent any real or foaiive convalescence from taking place . In 1843 , oaring a certain condition of the English market , a large number of the speculators and merchants of London , Liverpool , ana Havre entered very largely into the amort of specie from those countries into tlte United States . By ibljih large export they were enabled to come into the American markets , and , in a great measure , to monopolise them , to increase the Current prices of the day , and thus realise immense profits . During this movement they availed themselves of the riseof prices produced by the very specie Tfliich they exported to this country to get rid of the stocks which they possessed in the old world . This extraordinary rise in the cotton market , produced by the application of immense masses of specie exported to tills country , created life and activity throughout the whole southern , western , and northern
countrygave an impulse to the banking institutions , and seemed at length to convince persons in commercial life that " good fames" had again returned . Under this Impulse the merchant of this country , of all classes , entered into the same movements ; and believing that the country was bare of goods , they commenced a vast import of foreign merchandise , even in the face of an increased tarifij which laid the foundation of many of the subseaent effects that are nov beginning to be felt by many of our commercial taen . The extraordinary increase of our foreign imports daring the whole of 1813 , together with the increased product of cotton , occasioned by the high prices of ' 42-4 he immense amount of specie still re dlining in the country , and thereby enabling the hanks to extend their circulation—* U concurring together , produced a slight over-action In trade and commercial afiaire generally , which haa bten the foundation of the present re-action . "
8 riTE OF TOE HKPEBUC—IHK AH 8 RICAS BKFOBHKI 8—tT . ipytyg PB 0 QRES 3 OF TBS AHTI-BK 5 T WAR . State of the Republic—We have been requested topnblish the following tetter ( extracted from the ifao York National Reformer ) , addressed by a citizen ofNeff Yorktoa friend in Newcasfle-upon-Tyne , England ; Yen hare no notion of the sprit of rivalry—I will not •* J enw—that exists among oht politicians . Almost rcrj oiie of them enters the field with , a view to establish *« own individual greatness , ratherthan the prosperity of fliaEtjiublic The reason'is " obriou * . Place and perqmateare within the reach of all ; hence their incessant ' fccg-le for them- In England the bones * Reformer Is Sheeted to the ordeal of no such temptation .
there is , as yon have doubtless seen b y the late numbers tf&e . Vonaern Star , much wrong and " ont o ' joinCin *» Ctfaanj . Tte two political parlies are amnimg we People witb issues of the most&ivolons nature . The main ^ OfisSoatfow tnrurt under the public nose is , whether we *»» % our indirect taxation with a view to rew »«« , or to- pr ^ ection . " Bothparfiesagreetaatindirect taxation tall be our svstem of g rinding , as it is Hie sjstem of ennOiug toroushout old despotisms . The only question of difference I have stated above . Five millions of dollars a vear wouldsupport a Government such as would become us ; but , what between extravagance in our depar tments—hnmense practical bounties to our cotton and iron manufacturers , sugarplanters , &c . —and a . bite ont of *« * y the smnssler whenever he can get in his mouth
round our Uni and water frontier of fifteen thousand ™< s-I sa y that with all these appliances the people of « us Ke ^ nbfic pay away every annual swing of the earth rn « e ort > it one hundred millions of dollars , instead of five naffi 9 iis ! For the balance—1 iie nmer / -nve miUions—they B « t swindling , smuggling , corrnpHcn , p lpeJaying—row-Ojismfi oni tne lowest to liiB Ingliest ' in degree—flogging 8 ea men , andhansinr them at the yard-arm without judge 'f J « J . Jfot to say a word about lynching by wholesale M 4 man , rioting , and rebellion . t * f 5 on , ar , we are going down , down , to social and P ^ tttal perfJHoaj ani liteotber dwcendlngr bodies , our g ^« aon is geome trical . A young fem ^ e cannot m te ^ eamfwithher needle , what would pay for her boarfing „ , ^ g ^^ j j ^ SgB . Suicides from ito ^ fehavetakenplaccandsednctionsinnnmerable . The C !* are crowded together—not ftHy employed at tne l ^ tf ?** s- * ia « t& winter a full hatf of ibsm _ «« l ^ ekssljdeggt ^ iJ « "" J « i TheDauperestabnsh
ltt ^ , 5 fiw ToA d ^ SSTdoabUess - Urge as was l ^^ epaaperestafiWieatoftheUiiitedStatesaiir ^ E ^? « So ! The boss manufacturers ( the machinery ¦ bSS ? aremaldnsa ^^ rideiiaBof 39 to 40 per cent ., nW ? ^ fi osentftnagofcleMpiofitg , whilst the opera ^ pfe ^ S th * waa of t oaeutaU from pne end ¦ coMS ^ nt to the othe r , ftisoners are mnrderea in ¦ f tA- ^? * e back wwd- !» nds . JAverie * are making KN niTpenWin our cities . Sodrtjr " ^ Sr ?? f »» « duri TS ^ inkH » i wpnlswe arii ^ -ooiling psl ^^ fcj ^ ' ^^ y fieety convewetogeflier . I ^ f ** ? B * e ' * & } { ** " * w « are '' gwor down into perditwn , and p ^ " ^ wmterposetna ^ yonraTalanctecttreer l ^^ ' ^ amOTen ^ tiaKewYorkciwwhicWrf >!^ Wonld stay onrdownward . career , andestaWish
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Oie Repubhcjon a foundation that could never bo shaken . cut tneprogress of thatmpyement is slow . wmle the career towards mm is rapid and Overwhelming . However , we may succeed ; and , if we do , it wiU be the greatest success taat : ever , was achieved since the world began . It vAU close the account of slavery andthepast . It will open the account offreedom and the future . : tY " ? . ° P enlne Whai the Americas Rbfobmbbs Wasi . — -Iveep n befohe the Pdbijc . —TTe extract the following rom the New Tork Working Man ' s Advocate •—1 ° The pnbUc lands ought to be made free , and all further traffic in them prohibited , as proposed bv the national Reform Association . This would provide or all who might be . thrown out of emplovment bv the other measures necessary to be carried . " 2 Th e expenses of government ought to be reduced in +. <> n Jlc llPntlnlt / t *\ n *» ^ -i [«*« x « Y «^^ a ^* k m . ^ _* . ^_ l * * _ -
miUions a year , by abolishing or greatl y reducb- ' the navy ( keeping np , however , the fortifications ); by entirely abolishing the army ; by reducing about three our fhsthe 9 , 000 dollava outfits , and 9 , 000 dollars salaries to ioragn ministm ; by abolishing the Tt ' est-Point Nursery ; by reducing the _ salaries of members of Gdngress , and all other officers to what the same talents would acquire in ordinary business , and fey a general economical regulation of all the departments that would tend , in connection with the first-named measure , to put an end to office-seeking . 3 . A mode of keeping the public money in the hands of-public officers shotdd . be devised , and all use of it for other than government purposes should be prohibited . If the public money is loaned It is Insecure , aad , what ?
is worse , it gives theborrower 'a privilege ' at the , expense " of the public ; 4 . As the reduction of the army and navy should be gradual , as temporary measures , the cruel and anti-republiean practice of flogging should be abolished : the pay of privates and officers should be more equalised ; the pay of officers as well as privates should be stopped when off daty ; and officers should in all cases be promoted from the ranks , or elected by the men . The tariff should be abolished , or a gradual abolition of it should be commenced , but not unless the land provision is made for the workmen engaged in trades fostered by it , and who might be thrown ojit of employment in consequence . If the land was free , a tariff between one nation and another would be just as absurd as a tariff between one family and another ; but free land must precede free trade . If the tariff should be reduced below the expenses of Government , the deficiency should be made up ( as
* hfi whole amount should be when the tariff is enureJy abolished ) by a direct tax ; every man paying in proportion to what he is worth , clear of the world . If forty millions are raised by the tariff tax , and if domestic products are' raised in price for eighty millions more by the - " protection" afforded , that is eighty millions , or about twenty dollars for every family in the union , and as * the tariff taxes the poor man ' s gooda higher than tile rich , the probability is that the poor man now pays about twenty-five dollars a-year by the tariff tax ; whereas if the tax was direct on property , the poor man would contribute his mite , and the millionaire possibly his hundred thousand dollars . Government is ] for the protection of property , and why should not property pay the tax ? Mr . Rhett , of South Carolina , is the only member of Congress who has made a common sense speech on the subject ; though , doubtless , others besides him / have advocated directt" axatioh .
Direct taxes , too , might be collected by the same officers as now collect the State taxes , and thus a most expensive and troublesome class of tax-eaters , the Custom House Officers , might be entirely dispensed with . 7 . Last , though not least among the measures that I think ought to be carried by the coming Congress , is the adoption of such means as may be in the power of Congress to abolish slavery . I am fully aware that it is just as inconsistent for the northern land monopolist to ask the southern slaveholder to give up his slaves , as it is for the slaveholder to : ask the monopolist to give up his land ; for land
monopoly is the root of all slavery ; but the spirit of the age requires that something should be done towards the suppression both of land-selling and body selling . If abolationists have been imprudent ; if they have shut their eyes to the white shivery around them ; ij they have actually upheld white slavery by monopolizing and trafficking in the soil , that Is no reason why their sins should be visited upon the blacks Congress has power to arrest the land traffic , which was the parent of shivery ; and if ithas any power to prevent the traffic in human flesh , between States or otherwise , it ought no longer to lay dormant .
THE ANTI-RENTERS . Some weeks ago we gave a brief account of the doings of the Anti-Renters in the state of New York . We . hayenbwto " report progress ; " and our readers will see that this question of the People versus the Land Robbers , is assuming a serious , aspect . On the 5 th of December a large Anti-Rent Meeting was held in the county of Oteego ( N . Y . ) . ' The meeting was aikhtssedby Major B . 'D . North , J . W . Reynolds , Es < iM and B . M . Kemp , Esq .. This last gentleman delivered a trul y eloquent speech in vindication of man ' s natural right to the soil ; and the meeting , having chosen a committee of nine , adjourned to mett again on the 21 st of December , at the village of Lodi . The correspondent of the Working Man ' s
Advocate prefaces his report or tne meeting with the tollowing remarks : — " There now appears to be a general upheaval of the toil-worn producers of Otsego and the adjoining counties ; and they are now casting about ibr arguments and measures to down with the remi There are many lease-lands in these counties , and of the worst kind , too ; three life leases , which in many instances are expiring . George Clark , a young man , lately of age , and a descendant of Iaeutenant-Governor Clark in this state in 1 ? 42 > claims to be the owner of a great portion of these lands ; and as he claims his title from a grant from George II ., King of England , Ac ., he is not unfrequeatly called Kin ° - George II . The people here say , ' That , as the patriots of 1 W 6 , having gained their . independence ,
inadvertently left land monopoly , as a thorn in the flesh , to bear down and oppress then : children , the same spirit and love of liberty which impelled our forefathers to action , now calls upon their descendants to expel this blighting relic of feudal despotism from our common country . ''' . . The Albany Argus of the 17 th of December gives the following from a correspondent , announcing that resistance to " the rent" had commenced in Colum bia county : — "On the 1 st of October the first rent became due , and about that time several emissaries came from Rensseher to preach rebellion among the people of this county . This alarmed ^ no one , as it was supposed that the condition of things here was too satisfactory on all hands to be disturbed . About
thirty days passed on , and no rents being , paid , distress warrants were issued by the guardian , and put in the hands of the Bheriff . The sheriff made the distress without any opposition , and subsequently the appraisal , but he was then informed that the rents uould not be paid , and that the sale would be prevented . The sheriff probably did not believe these threats , aa he made no provision to repel auy opposition , but went with a single attendant to make the sale . He was met by a body of Indians before he reached the place , escorted to the place of sale , and t ^ ere , under a threat of personal violence , gave up all his papers , and they were burned , in his presence , The aheriff reports ^ that there were on the ground over 200 men in Indian dress , and 1 , 500 citizen spectators , called there by the novelty of the occasion . When the papers were burned the whole assemblage gave three cheere , and the sheriff left the ground
without any adjournment ol sale , ana laere enus me distress . " * Another correspondent of the same paper writes as follows : — "Delhi , Dec . 10 , 1 S 44 . —Dear Sir , —The anti-rent excitement has been on the increase since the election . Under various pretexts it has been started in more than half the towns in this county , and in many of the adjoining towns in Scoharie , Greene , and Olster . The organization is most effective for mischief of all kinds . It is highly important that our new executive should be correctly informed as to the real nature and extent of the evil . . If he should shrink from the daty of acting energetically in ihis matter , it will be impossible to foretell the end of the armed and organized rebellion that is now committing outrages and setting the laws at defiance in many parts of the State . " Aebkbtof "Ihduhb . "—On the 18 th of December , two of the "Indiana , " " Big Thunder" and " Little Thunder " were arrested and lodged in gaoL
TheTtfrv Budget of December 20 th , has the following : _» A party of thirty of the . « Anti-Renters , ' dressed in Indian disguise , yesterday assaulted ifr . Eiiiab . Smith , of the town of Grafton , in this county , not for from See-place , tookhimfiombis waggon , and wantonly shot him . We have learned no particulars beyond these , except that Smith and the ' Indians have had difficulties for some tune past . .. . The New Tork News confirms the above , :-j Inrefp «; nnB to the murdefof Mr . Eujah Smith , of Grafton ,
, hvthe ' Indians' of Rensselacr county , t ° e Albany Arw learns , that Richard Knpwlson , of Sandfcke , uad bweoased some wood-land in Grafton of Air . r . V « nkns » laer ; that timber had been cut thereon bytreepasfeni and some carried off ; that Knowlson employ « fSmith to remove the timber so cut andHthen STihe grounds , tohis mills ; and that Smith , in attempting to do this , came into collision with tt « enemy to the Anti-Renters , says- : « Last evening
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a ^ messenger uimed { fromiAlbatiy ,. informing us that X ^ f ™ V araof : t H ? , vthe Burgess . CorW with 300 stand of arms , ui addition to their own . would Irtyernor . elect , as he will probablv at once declare tsn ^^ A ^^ sr ^ ^ have been arrested in Columbia couT ^ The piS IZ ^ Ti ™ ° ms ^ fea ts ' Perfowned at the a !*^ of these men . Feats which ; . if true , show that the authorities are destroying every vestige of aw-shootmg at men who are runnig a ^ . v for their loes-pinmng then- hands to the wainscot with , a
bayonet in order to secure them . In one case a cousin of Mr . Reynolds ,, against whom no charge even was made , m running a \ vay , was fired upoiL by the troops , and would have been murdered only he chanced to stumble over a log , and fell just as the buUets passed over him . . In several other cases the sound of hoi-ses ' . feet was the signal for'discharging voUies at the , ridera . We ask the Executive , are Uiesa tlungsirue ? Are they sanctioned by authority . ? Are tiie drilled companies to exercise / the functions otjudge . jury ,, ana executioner ? Are they to ' take no trouble ; m . , arre 8 tb ' grmen , but shoot them down hke .: wJd . . beastsf , . Women , , too ,. m arreatednung . into prison—treated with indignity that . would disgrace a Turkoman . For what ? ^ nothing m . mm Bttn ,. aaive , 'aat tney > ere foundliithe neigh ^ bourhood where some Indians had deposited their disguises . " • ;
iiie following comments of the editor of ' "the New York , Working Man ' s Advocate , appear in that paper ofJanuary 4 th . "Has there been a revolution , or have we been dreaming , and are we yet under the government of Great Britain ? Verily , I could hardly believe my senses , when I read in the papers that troops had gone % > m Albany and from this city ; companies of foreigners , too , to take part in a civil war in defence of feudalism ; but so it is . Ah Irish company , the' Emmctt Guards , ' has been sent from Albany , and a German company from this city , to arrest and convey to gaol American citizens , whose crime is opposition to the European system of Land
Monopoly , which has driven millions of foreigners from their native homes . Any foreigner born who will not throw up his commission rather than engage in such unholy warfare , deserves to be pointed at and execrated by every one of his countrymen , and . by every honest man . The case , however , is not so bad as it has been , represented to be by the papers . I learn that of the two companies , Krack ' s and Heath ' s , ordered to Hudson , but one could muster enough men to go . Of Heath ' s company only twenty appeared , and therefore they did nut go when called for , though some of them will probably beoff belore this paper , goes to press , as another attempt was to be made to muster the men . " " ' ' ' . , "' . '" .
The writer adds : — "If men cannot combine and consult together to get rid of an intolerable relic of monarchy , clearly at variance with the Dwslaration of Independence and the spirit of pur Government , without beingrhunted and shot atj it is ' evident that the right of suffrage heretofore ; has been , exercised to little purpose , and that the . time has ndW i Cometo set all . other questions aside at , the pollsi till the question of Land Monopoly is finally settled . " The following are extracts from a letter from the "disturbed districts" which appears in ; the same paper . " Clayerack , Col . co ., Dec . 24 , 1844 . ifr . Editor—Your paper of Saturday kst has just been put into my hand by a friend from New York . You deserve . the support of every Anti-Renter for the
stand you have taken in defence of their cause , more especially as nearly all the papers [ of the cities have enlisted against us , with a ferocity hard to -be accounted rar . However , we shall return the fire . Whole packages of papers that have taken : a stand against us and totally misrepresented our motives and actions , have been returned with the word " stop . " We are determined , as the war has commenced , no longer to support our enemies . And we have determined on one thing more :. and that is , - to carry the war into the enemy ' s camp , and cut off their supplies . We will not trade , even for sixpence worth of calico , with any city that sends troops to collect rents , and there is no need for troops for any other purpose .. * * ¦•*' . * We will defend the
homes of our fathers , where ( if anywhere ) we and our children . have a rite to 'life , liberty , and the pursuit of happiness , ' - ' peaceably ., if . we can—forcibly if we must . ' i Ourmotto is '"SfiHIdns'fcr : defence ,- not' a cent for tribute . ' We have paid tribute long enough for the use of the earth on which we'were born , to which , as you well say , no man has a just title to more than enough for his use . The idea of one man sticking a flag up in a country , and by . virtue of that act assuming the power to parcel out the land of that country to Ma favourites and their heirs to all eternity , ; isanabsurditybeHindtheage .
Andaatbpretended purchases of the Indians , the Indians here say that' their fathers never claimed anvthing more than the use of the land for their day and generation , and thewe of it , they say , was the equal right of all . ' Every man among them had an equal right to land for his use , and no one ever thought of assuming the power to sell or rent it . . * - * Rest assured , that the sending of troops . from your cities is a folly that will recoil on the cities themselves ,, in the shape of increased taxes . Are your taxes not high enough already ? . It is dangerous too . If your young Hotspurs should shed one drop of Anti-Rent blood , our allies , the Indians , threaten to have scalps to pay for it . Downwith the Sent . " "' ¦
' ' Some people may think , " says the New Yorl Working ifan's Advocpte ' , " it will be a nice frolic to go to the Heidelberg war . " The following letter . published in the Herald , may tend to undeceive them : — "JVEddletown , Orange County , Jan . 1 , 1845 . —In the first place , we doubt , m this region , whether Governor Bouck has the authority to call out a single regiment to act against these men ; and nothing will be done , on an extensive scale , until Governor Wright assumes the chair , when a special act will be passed for the raising troops , if necessary ^—providing' of arms , provisions , &c ., &c . _ Secondly , there are not organised troops enough in the State to conquer the Anti-Renters , and for this reason . These men know every nook and corner and crevice—ever y by-place—every
cover and place of ambush within their boundaries , and to meet them in open fight , upon a fair field , will be impossible . If we nave war it will be after the manner of the Seminoles . Whoever is acquainted with the localities which they inhabit , must see at once the truth and force of these arguments . Again , they are much stronger , have greater resources , and are under better discipline than has been ever thought of by those residing at a great distance . For the last three years they have been steadily at work pre : paring for the storm with which they are now threatened ; and it is said by those who . know , that they have a fund of more than 80 , 000 dollars on hand , which they will know how to use when the moment comes for action . This money has been ' raised by a voluntary contribution of one and a half cents on every acre of land on the domain . In -the counties of Greene , Columbia , Delaware , Schobarie , parts of
Ulster and Sullivan , they can , at the shortest notice , call out an army of more than fifteen thousand ofable bodied and determined men , who , fighting after the mode at which I have hinted , would make disastrous work amongst the strongest force which can be sent against them . What then is to be done * supposing that the worst should come to the worst ? AlUhat can be doneeffectually , is to proceed , in open day , to their cleared lands , take away their wives and ^ children to a place of security , dilreaway their cattle , destroy the implements of husbandry and take other like steps , and depend upon it thejr will shortly , sue for peace , and come to terms . It is useless , in my poor opinion , to expect that these men will ever be put down by the force of shot and cannon-baUsi ^ t it is attempted many a poor fellow will find davl ^ M shining through his earthly tabernacle before he dreams of it " ' - " is : " : '
. ,.. To this letter the Editor of the Advocate adds : — "Drive away their cattle , ana destroy their imple-: ments of husbandry , eh ? Wouldn't that be earning out the principles of liberty ? But what would-the Anti-Renters be doingmeanwhile ? . The writer , probably , didn't think of that . " . The Advocate of the 11 th of January , gives extracts from several papers announcing the capture of several of the Anti-Renters . The same paper contains a renortofamoBt
IMPORTANT MEETING IN NEW TOHK . — STMPATBT- WITH
THE ASII-RENTBK 8 . ' A great meeting was held in Croton HattY New York , on the 3 rd of January , to take into consideration the best means to abolish feudaUsm in the State . Long before the time announced for the commencement of business , the roomwas well filled , and noisy symptoms were given of the anxiety of the auaienee to proceed with the matter announced ; to such an extent was this the case , that some ten or , fifteen minutes previous to the hour named , half-past ; seven o ' clock , on motion of Mr . Manning' ; -Mr . Alvan i * . Bovaywaa unanimously called to the cbalr ; Messrs J . W . Beebe , Ira B . Davies , Aaron Kline , and Jesse Ferguson , were named as Vice-Presidents ; and Mr . John Windt , Secretary of the National Reform Association ; was appointed-Secretary of ' the meeting . . . ; ' /' Mr : Wdtot thenread the Pledge : o £ the National Reform Association ; as usuil- at meetings of that body , and / then [ theplacardcallins the meeting , whicn
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thc ^ hidnaanputW ' tSmi ^ Dg' ^ their ap ^ and wisith pis carried wi . tlv afew 'dissentients . - ¦ .: Ascriesof rQgolutious ' we ' r ^ first-propobedbyaperson-named Hill in ' oppogtio ' n ; ' to ' tlie Ariti-Rentere ; The fwtogdf tue ; meetuvg w £ s ; however , so decidedly opposed to this , that if was with diflBculty the mover could obtain a hearing . '" Mr , THoa . 'A ; Dktkr next addressed the meeting . Tie said they had met there as rational men , not to put down the motion of the gentleman that had preceded nim , 'or . of any one else , by clamour , but to discuss the matter to the very dregs . We have met to discuss the question as rational men and republicans . ( Cheera ;) . We have no interest in the matter , but as rat } onal , being 3 ; . andwewi 8 h to take no part in the resistance
foftke . law . ; but as true republicans , we wish to . see that every freeholder is : not an abject slave to . the landowners . The speaker then proceeded ; to take a : review of the history of ; Greece , " and argued Lthatiitiwas by a system of feudal tenure , such as Van Rensselaer had adopted in his leases , * that ruin was brought upon that country ^ and the . people of it became , ensiavedi The same feudal system was introduced into Engkndbythe Norman conquerors , which remained until theipresent time , and we had only to look to the starved population of Europe . for the result . ; Itis ^ our object to caution the people of this country . a ^ ainst this syste ' mV so as to ' avoid the rooks uponiwhioh ' ithey are ; Hkely to strike , and be ¦ destroyeq .: i 1 "It is' not necessavy for us to offer physical resistanoei ^ nublic opinion is alert to this feeline . and
wUl'seoithattjustice is done . As an . instance of the landowners of Europe , I will only mentionthe Duke of Buocleuch ; he receives £ 400 , 000 per . annum , and he has 40 , 000 tenants to support him in his splendour , who are hot able to obtain a third meal of the coarsest fooda day . Is not this repugnant both to the laws of God and common sense ? Can any man here need proof that England is covered with the curse of land monopoly ? , Not an inch of the soil but is cursed with such men as the Duke of Buccleuch . Such your Van Rensselaers wish ' to become ; but it' was for the people to see to it . The speaker then went into the history of . Rome , from the time of Romulus , and showed that - - "the people , in the first instance ^ acted wisely in choosing to be governed by themselves , but that afterwards the natriniana stenm > d in and
nosaessed all the lands , and oppressed the cultivators of the soil , who principally aided in obtaining it : and that in resisting such , Tiberius Gracchus andhis brother were destroyed . The speaker then said that , the Revolution of France , and its most direful consequences , was produced by : thehorrible oppressions of ihose wEo . had monopolized the soil . We want , no revolution . ( Hear , hear . ) It is to prevent such , if possible , that we . are-met . here together to discuss tnis question . We want no such evils . \' . Siich ' power as this always begemyranny ,. andjif it is allowed will oppress the people ^—to prevent which , it must be , nipped in the bud . ; Itwa 3 contraryt £ aU ; true Christian principle , and it ; was timeit was prevented by the people" in " this country . The speaker then went onto show how the
aristocracy ot Lngland , even the female portion of it , despised the mass of the people—while the former were wallowing in luxury the latter were perishing from jwant—and then proceeded to observe that a younger brother of the patroon , Van Rensselaer , had come out in defence of the claims of the family , with a doenment containing nineteen positions , seventeen of which we ' re false , and the other two a disgrace to man . He said that if the settlers on the disputed temtory eould onl y get a modicum of justice , thoy would offer no resistance , but this having been refused them they had no alternative left :- He proceeded to read ; a number of extracts to support this position , ' and went into a long detail of the evils belonging to « the tenure of the Van Rensselaer leases , showing they were founded on those of the old English barons , with even some , worse features ; and showed
that the original tenants , in consequence of their ignorance , were vilely imposed upon . He said that the . farmers , or holders pf the land , were ready and willing to give a fair remuneration for what they held , but that they refused to perform villein service , ' or to comply with feudal customs , being contrary to the repuolicah constitution of this country . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) By the same law that authorised Van Rensselaer to receive these services ; he was authorised to appoint magistrates throughout that part of the State , and what would be said if he insisted on the appointment , of the mayor of Albany , or the sheriff of-Re ' nsselaer county . Yet the power that gave him one gave him the other . ( Hear , hean ) The speaker then contended that with the revolution these rights ceased , and'that originally neither the
Dutch nor the English Governments had the power to grant such privileges . He then contended that the legislature ought to interfere in the matter , and to araitrate between the parties . He then cited some opinions on land monopoly and aristocracy from the writings of Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Carlyle , in support of what he had previously adduced , and then said it was through such proceedings as the Indians had now adopted , ' that the glorious freedom of this country was ' accomplished , it was the Indians that came down to Boston harbour and destroyed the tea in the British vessels , while the preachers of law and order were discussing the matter , afraid to take one step for the accomplishing of the object they so long talked about . ( Great cheering . ) He then recommended that Mr . Van Rensselaer should be equitably
paid for his lands , so that lie might be enabled to buy ah estate in Dorsetshire , England , where he might enjoy his partridge shooting and his feudal system to the full extent , which would be a release to him from the trouble and . care by which he was at . present assailed . No evil could possibly arise from this procedure , but it would do much good to all , and give your children something to look forward to . Mr . D . was loudly applauded in many parts of his discourse , and sat down amid a round of applause . Mr . Evans next arose to propose some resolutions , byr way of amendment to the resolutions already offered ; and would avail himself of the occasion to offer a few remarks on what had been said of land monopoly . - It might be new to many there , that an extensive movement -waVnow going oh all over . thu
country to abolish tnat grievance , in part , by making the public lands free to actual settlers , and for the last three or four weeks not a mail arrived , but brought intelligence of efforts in the cause , and a motion was already made in Congress to apportion the public lands among new settlers in tracts of about 180 acres each . No less than seven papers in Ohio advocated that measure , and there were papers in five state capitals supporting it , from one of which \ v begged to read an extract .: [ The . article read by the speaker was from a Boston paper , in whioh inequality of rank and property , and monopolies of every kind , were deprecated , and an appeal to mankind made to redress them . ] These were no party views , for the papers alluded to were of opposite politics to each other . As to the resolutions , tlie last speaker
had laid before them the evils of the feudal tenure in regard to the Van Rensselaer property ; but there were in various other parts of the State largo tracts of land under three-life leases and various other feudal tenures , under which the same evils would accrue , and it was best to meet the whole difficulty at once . ( Cheers ^) If the Van Rensselaer dispute were settled to-day , there were forty other counties which , would in time he smhject to similar difficulties , so that the remedy must be general . I have drawn up a series of resolutions by which I propose to meet the whole subject .... ( Here the chairman made a communication tor , the Speaker in alow voice , which was not . heard by anysavethemBelyes , ) The chairman thought , it would not , be . , in \ order to propose those resolutions as an amendment to the previous set . He would therefore wait , till ^ those were , disposed of . Mr . . -HuaTthjshi-wad ' hw resolutions ; which atrongly
jofipvecateatne conduct bf ; the Anti-Rent men ; denjouncedrthetfjprinciples , and pledged to" co-operate with all who yere . wilUng ^ to put a speedy end to all such jesisfehce to right , hvw , and authority . During their readirig ,, an iriterminable shotting , hissing , and confusion , preyented their contents from being beard at the s % rtest ; di 8 tanoefrdta'the platform ; ¦ ' ! 1 ^ fr . DKVxB .-r-Gentlemen , I beg to offer , for your cbhsiderafaon the" foUbwinganiendinent : ; ^" . ^ Thattnw ' nieet ! n | : is of opinion that injusfcice . is done J 6 \ our fellqw-citizenH , ' the farmers residing upon the . estafes andmano ' r of Rerisselaerwick We , therefore , believe that the authorities ought to be very slow in enforcing that' injustice ,, although called law ; but that speedy mnana be taken to bring the whole matter before the Legislature , now about to assemble , for its equitable arbitration . . Ms . Devyr ' s amendment was carried .
Mr . EvANfltheri came forward , amid considerable applause , and offered' his . resolutions , tvhioh were received , during the reading , with strong marks of approbation ,. and some of a contrary character . The resolutions were seconded , and carried , as follows : : ^ ereas , the various Feudal Tenures , such aa threelife and perpetual leases , under which largo tracts of land are , held in thi ? , State , luivecaHsd , and are like ^ i to cause , aiaconteht and disorder , much to the detriment and discredit of our free institutions and whereas , these Feudal Tenures are now the oauseof civil waV iri this States which occasions the landless inen of our cities tobe taxed and called upon in person to support'said tenure » i" while themselves are suffering from hind ^ monopoljr by ttieircrowded , dependent , and unnatural conp-egation in cities ; therefore , | T ^ f . m ; tte ' op ^ OT ' oif ' thfi meiting , " tho principles upon which Our'fdreiEktherfl fcuiitUa » n hxdefan&ent government , demand that an end should he put to all Feudal - 1 | enuresin 5 ttii 8 8 tate . \; :: . ' ¦ . .,, -. .-, < ,- . .,. . ., .,- ...-, .
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That if man hasa right to life , as' declared by the'tie . claratidn of Independence , "he naa arightf to "' tub use ' of land 6 u which'to sustain life . " " - ¦ ¦ ; . •^¦ .-, '' That no foreign power had ever a right to grant away to favourites and their'hcu's'for ever , large tracts of land on this continent , because thoy had no right : to it themselves . . ... ;; ¦ . ' ' .. ; ¦;¦ : : _ : •' . ¦ •¦• • -, , ! That , in our opinion , the best method of putting an end to Feudalism and Laud Monopoly in this State , would be for the Legislature to pass a general law , limiting the quantity of land to be heired , purchased , or held , by any one man or woman ,, after the . passage of said law , . to a suESciency for a reasonable sized farm , excepting the persons in , possession of larger tracts on the passage of , said law , and limiting said persons to the possessions then held by them . , . ., , ., . ¦
Mi-. Ei said that if a law was enacted in the spirit of these rosolutions , eveiy man now holding land might continue to hold it , but at his death his heirs would be restricted to enough for their use—( A voice—That ' s' right !); the surplus would besold for their benefit ; . ill further monopoly would be' prevented ; Van Rensselaer would not get many more quarter sales ; iland would become cheaper every day ; and the monopolists would probably be willing to compromise on reasonable ternis with their tenants . . He had drawn up a short" memorial iii accordance with the last resolution , to , be signed by the officers of the meeting if adopted , ' wluch he would now offer , ' imd which he read , as follows : —
. , i . TO THE LEaiSLATCRE OF KBW TOKK . . Themeniorialbf theuhdersignei | j [ , citizens of New York , respectfully represent—Thjit ; intiieir ' opinion , theeHgericies ' of the times , the spirit ofthc age , and the consistency of our' Republican theory demand that an end be put to land monopoly in this State at the earliest practicalperiod , and we suggest , for that purpose , the passage of a general law , limiting the quantity of land to be heired , purchased or held , by any oie man or woman , after the passage of said law , to a sufficiency for a reasonable sized farm ;
excepting the persons m possession of larger tracts on the passage of said law , and limiting said persons to the possessions then held by them . The memorial wasadopted . ¦ ' -. ¦ ¦¦¦ \ ' , MtJEvans then proceeded to offer a few additional remarks to the meeting ; in which he announced a convention , which is to come off at Berne , of the farmers , to which he would propose to send delegates from their body , to be appointed by ' -that meeting . On the motion being put for the appointment of six delegates , the chairman declared it earned . Messrs . T . A . Devyr , G ^ H . EyaM , Miv Sinning , ' . Mr ., Pearson , Mr ., Foster , and the chairman , were then appointed as the delegates . ' The meeting then adjourned . 7 ,
, , , INWA AND CHINA-OYERLAND MAIL , The overland dispatch in anticipation , of the Indian . Mail of the 1 st of January has arrived ''_ . ¦ ' .: ' India , is tranquil , with the exception of some trifling disturbances in the jungles of the small state of Sawunt War cee , on the Malabar coast . ; The Disturbancbs which existed in the districts of Kolapore ,- at the time of the departure of the last mail , appear to have subsided . The celebrated fortresses of Punalla and Pownaghur , which lie to the northiof the town of Kolapore , at a distance of about fifteen miles , were captured on the 1 st of December by the force under the command of General De la Motte ., The only remarkable casualty was the death of Golonel Hicks of the Bombay army , who had one ofhisjlegs shattered by a cannon-ball , which passed
through his horse and injured the other leg . He died within a few hours . This "' occurred at the taking possession of the little town at the foot of the rock fortress , Robin Hood in the East . —In the small state of Sawunt "Warree , which lies between the Kolapdre mouniainsand the sea , a sort of "Robin Hood "insurrcction . had . been got up by . an old freebooter , called Phond Sawunt , who , after some years of tranquil enjoyment of a pension , thought fit to try his luck in the jungles , and has induced his own sons , and even the son and heir of the . Rajah of Warree , to join in the excursion . They are now living in the jungle under the mountains , and they keep that part of the Concan in great confusion . In thk NoaiaoB Isdi * . ttveve Yf as great ¦ watcb&ilness displayed by the civil and military authorities . The continued HuUak-htHoyr , of the eternal Slnghs in RUnjeet Singh ' s kingdom , rendering these precautions necessary . ¦ . :
The PnAflUE in Affohanistah ;^—This country has been visited by the plague , wluch . came from the environs of Bokhara , and ravaged the town of Caubul , and had , in the beginning of December , reached Peahawiir . Fortunately it assumed a milder appearance as it approached to the banks of the Indus ; yet its progress was feared down that river , ' and also into the ^ un jaub . la SDinde all was quiet and order . The / 78 th Highlanders continued to suffer severely fromlsickneas . The Govkbnor-Generai . ( Sir Henry Hardinge ) re maincd at . Calcutta , where he was' regulating the means of educating the natives for public employment . He had received several addresses from tne natives , to which he gave highly ; satisfactory answers , and promised his aid for the improvement of the country and its people . ' '
BlKS 8 IHG 8 OF BHITI 8 HGrOTBBM 3 IB » r . ~ TAXAriOjriV Hono Kong . —The "Natives" not to be Done . — The news from China comes down to the 19 th of November . The principal pointof interest was the dispute ! between the Governor of . Hong-Kong and the inhabitants relative to the registration of , the population and a poll-tax , which , was ordered by an ordU nande published on the 19 th ; of , October . The merchants wrote a boldaddress , in which the measures of the Government were declared to be " iniquitous . '' This addreaa . was returned to the signerSii An angry correspondence ensued . The , Chinese j population struck work ,:-and prepared to quit the colony . Thje Governor then withdrew the obnoxious ordinance to have it amended ; -V ; . ¦¦ ' ¦¦ .- '¦ , ' ,
Thk Rev . Dr . Worn ? . —Captain Grover haa received intelligenoe of Dr . Wolff tofhe 10 th January , at whioh date Tie wasat-EMeroom ™ endeavouring to recruit his strength for the journey-over the mountains to Trebizonde . At Tehran the Doctor was received in the kindest manner by . Golonel .. SheiI , her Majesty's envoy , who sent a . Boyeriimeiat , gblam to meet him . He left Tehran in a , tuckrawan : ( a sort of a' litter ) , and by easy stagea reachea Tabris / Here the judicious treatment of Dr . . Casplaiii enabled him , after some days' repose ,,, to proceed by a similar conveyance . . towards Erzeroom . On reaching the
Turkish frontier , owing to the immense , accumulation of snowi he . wj » obliged to , procepd on ^^ . horsebajik , and after great : bodily suffering hp reached Erzeroomon the 4 th January , ; ooraple ^ . efhauBted . As ' soon ai her Majesty ' s Commissjioner , the ; kind-hearted Colonel ; vfilliams , 11 , A ., l&art f the Doptop ' s approach , he . rodo as far ; as the , list paae to , meat ' . him , and escorted him into thefto *»» . j' Dr . ^ iffis to o'jfl to write to any one , and sa ^ W ^ mo ve ' from thesofa ; it is , however ,: hoped that , tn 6 .. kin ^ , | atten , tions ' ; ip Colonel vyilliam 8 ,. iWhich . have ;!^' n . ; reaUypl > e ^' p ' | ad " all praise , will enable him toproee&jiih abputa fbrytnight to Trebizonde . " . ' . '
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NATIONAL TEADES COMPBBENCB AT EASTER ¦ . . NEXT . .. - The adjourned meeting of the preliminary Conference was resumed at the Bell Inn , Old Bailey , on Wednesday evening , February 12 th . ' There was a very numerous attendance'oi delegates . Several additional representatives' handed in their credentials . ' Mr . J . Berry , the representative of the Lancashire Miners ) ' was unanimously called to the chair . The Secretary read letters from the Joiners of Hall and other provincial Trades , announcing their determination to send delegates to the proposed Conference , ; Hei also stated that he had seen Mr . Duncombe that day , and had asked him , if the Trades
wished it , would he attend their Conference , and would he do them the' honour of presiding over their humble deliberations ? To which Mr . Duncombe replied , that as far as visiting the Conference was concerned , he should be happy .- to attend as a listener ; but he knew , very little regarding the practical workings of the several Trades . £ e added that as far as his humble abilities would permit , they might . command his services ; and if the Trades thought it would serve their cause ( although he was of opinion that many mechanics , from their practical ex ^ perience , were much better qualified for theoffice ) , and the Conference at its assembling made the request , '
he twnM preside over their deliberations . The'announcement was received with marked applause . The meeting then prooeeded to the election of a subcommittee of seven persons , to make the ; necesshry arrangementi for holding the Conference . The following individuals were unanimously chosen : ~ Messrsy Dunning and 'Robertson = ( Bookbmders ) , MesBra . Bush and Wartnabr ^ C arpentere ) , Mr . Wilson ( Boot and Shoemaker ); Mr . Allen ( Tin-plate Worker ) , ( ahd Mr .. Cox ( Silk Batter ) . ! ne"& * & £ ' $ ' Secretary . - ^ . T . Barratt { Corkcutter . an ^ iecretary to the Central , Associataon ^ of London ' fh&h ' i , wi » prop ^ , but < le * W 6 n the ground ^ ^ ofiil ^' eathand a ' pressure of pubhc biiBmess ; Messrs . ' Bush and Dunning were then placed in aomi-
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()(/ # (?^ W / . ^ Oi >^ n ^ nation , but from the great feeling of respect in which ^ Mr . Kv Banatt"ia * heia-by ^ the ^ Tifde ^ placed in « jipnunation < and unanimously « fected ; in , spite of himself . 'WeU ^ saidMr ^ Barr ettl ffasyou ' have forced the honour on me I ' will not back out , but will' do my best to carry out your intentions . " . : ( Loud cheers ) . . Mr . Wakehain , Shoemaker , moved , " , — "That the best thanks of this Preliminary-Con- - ~ ference of Trades arc due and are hereby given to the Proprietor , Editor , and Reporter of the Northern Star newspaper , for the able services rendered to the cause of-Labour , not on this occasion only , but or every occasion . " He observed that when he found
the parties engaged-in the Star taking such a . warzn interest in'f rabies afEiiirs he thought it the duty of himself Andhis brother tradesmen to notice the matter , andlefc them see ¦ that' their labours ' > are appreciated . "Mr . J . Berry ,- 'Miner , who had previously left the chair , and' was succeeded in that office- > by ; Mr , Robertaon , 'Bookbinder , hoped that they < would i aUow him the " ¦ privilege of cerdially seconding that motion , ^ Mr . Stewart , Shoemaker , said that as-regaixled the Proprietor and Editor , for the service tucy had rendered the cause , the best return-that could be-made them waa , to circulate their "! very useful journal as widely as poasiWe . ( toud cheers . ) As regarded the Reporter , and' he could bear witness to the great service he
had rendered tlveir trade ( hear , hear ) , he was of opinion that their thanks to him should assume A more substantial ' shape . ' ( Hear , liear . ) Mr . Bai-rutt said he most cordially concurred with the motion , and as for the' reporter , Mr . Stallwood , lie had opportunities of knowing that he had rendered the Trades a service , not only as reporter , but as ait indiviuual . ( Cheers . ) The motion was nut and carried unanimously . Mr . Stallwood , in the name of the proprietoiy editor , amlrepoi'ter , said , thathe was _ Happy that their humble efforts in the cause of labour were appreciated . They would continue in the same course , zealously and fearlessly advocatingright . and exposing and denouncing '¦ wrongj without other fee or reward than the' good opinion of their fellow-men , Loud cheers ) . A resolution to the effect- —? ' ^ ha £ .
; he Conference be held on Easter Monday next , ' in London , at ten o ' clock in the forenoon ; and that' the delegates on their arrival , be requested to proceed direct to the , well-known Trades' house , the Bell Inn , Old Bailey , from whence they will be conducted to the place of meeting ; " was unanimously adopted . A voteof thanks was passed by acclamation to the Lancashire Miners , for their promptitude in taking tip the matter , ! and sending up Mr . ; Berry ,- to'aid and assist in arranging the necessary preliminaries . It was also resolved— " That those Trades who intend sending delegates to tlie iortlicoming Conference be requested to communicate withthe Secretary , 'Mr . T . Barratt , 20 , Greenfield-street , Comniercial-road ,, East , at their earliest convenience . " A vote ; of thanks was given to the Chairman , and the meeting lispersed .
Frasiework-Knkters' Delegate Meeting . —At a general three counties meeting of delegates , held at ihe sign of the King George on Horseback , Nottingham , February 8 th , 1845 , for the purpose of taking , into consideration the Frame-Rent Trial—the Governmental inquiry—and the furtherance ; of the organization ; the following , among other . resolutions , were passed . -Proposed by . William West , and seeondGtt by Thomas Emmevson— -That a committee be appoiivted to amalgamate the Nottingham and Leicester suggestions , and- that the following compose a committee for that purpose—Humphries and . Winter , for Nottingham , and NotJin | havnahireV , ; r Thomas Winters and John Wilford , for Leicester and Leicesterebire ; Samuel Corden , for Derby and
Derbyshire . Proposed by B . Humphries , and seconded by Samuel Corden —• That when the suggestions have been properly arranged and approved , they shall be printed for distribution . Proposedby , John Key . wood , and seconded by Samuel Booker—That' the number printed be two thousand copies . Proposed by Joseph Moor , and seconded by William West —That the delegates present inform their constituents that local-lecturers have been appointed , and that any locality , wishing for their services mviBt give' one week ' s notice to the general secretary . The following persons were then re-appointed lecturers : — William West , Joseph Laxton , and William Felkin . Proposed b y Michael Leveris , Framesmith , > arid seconded by B . Humphries —That the Framesmiths , Setters up , Sinker and Needle Makers , do join the Framework-Knitters in putting a stop to the spuriou 3 productions at present manufactured , and that they
he solicited to join in union with the Knitters .: Proposed by Samuel Booker , and seconded by Samuel Winter — That in the opinion of this meeting , the stoppage of Frame-Rent under any circumstances ia oppressive and unjust , but more especially so , when one employer has the effrontery to . charge from sixpence to ninepence per week more than another ; and we , the delegates assembled , pledge ourselves to' . assist the Framework-Knitters of Mansfield and Mansfield Woodhouse in their struggle to put down so infamous a system . The accounts were then brought before the meeting and . passed , and the delegates separated at half-past eight o ' clock . YoRKsmRE . —The next genoral delegate meeting of Miners will be held at the King ' s Arms Inn , Gildersome-street , near Leeds , on Monday , February 24 th , to commence at eleven o ' clock in the forenoon .
LA-NCAsniRE Mirers . —The next general "delegate meeting of Lancashire Miners will be held at the house of Mr . Matthew Worthington , Gibraltar Tavern , Scholes Wigan , on Monday , February 24 th ; . ' . chair to be taken at eleven o'clock . W . P . Roberts , Esq ., will address the Miners of Wigan and neighbcrnvhodd on the same day . The levy for the fortnight is Is . Oil . per member . Derbyshire Misbrs . —On Monday Jast , 'the 10 th inst ., a delegate meeting of the Coal Miners was held at the White Bull Inn , Newthorpe , Derbyshire ; a working Miner , named John Morley , was appointed chairman , and William Duro secretary . A discussion took place respecting , the fines levied on the men at Babington collier / , when it was unanimously agreed that the men should return to work until the fines " were repaid . , ,
RocnDALB . —A public meeting of the Coal Miners ot the Rochdale district will take place on Monday next , February . 17 th , in the large room of the Amen Corner Inn , when a lecture will be delivered by Mr , William Dixon . r ; -. ¦ - ... .- ¦ Great Rejoicing of the Staffordshire Miners . - —The return of the four Miners , in the custody of the gaoler , threw a sad gloom over the spirits of the Miners of Staffordshire , and had it not beendissU . pated by ¦ . the glorious news of their release , which speedily followed then : re-commitment to the dungeon , the Union would have received " a heavy . blow and jgreat discouragement . " When it was known that tho poor fellows were recommitted , the stipendiary , and his ereat " unpaid ' coadjutor , were seen
trotting from place to place , chuckling and proclaiming their triumph over the ' ? demagogue" Roberts . Sunday , intervening" between the first and second , hearing of the case , enabled the monsters to make theinostof their triumph : but lo ! what a change came o ' er the spirit of their dream , when Monday ' s post brought the sad intelligence of the triumph of the law ; O . Sir ! it was ' glorious news , and right gloriously was'it deruonstifited . The glad tidings flew UkeUghtning through the country . Every pick was thrown aside ; every old man appeared to have cast off his age ; the ' cripple threw away his crutch ; and every man was proud to be a Miner on that day . Never did eyes behold such aspectadc . The earth seemed to stir ;" the-bannera were hoisted in the breeze ; the bands played merry tunes , and appropriate one * too ; sir ' : ' They played " O dear what can
the matter be ? " as the tnousftnds ot iignt-heai'tea - victors entered Longton ; and when'they arrived ' opposite' the "bank of" Justice-Harvey ; the comnn'tting magistrate ; 'for ; 'he is a banker , sir ; they . struck up ¦ " See'the ' c 6 nq . uering hero comes , " and - cheered , ' and cheered , and' cheered again ; thus ' erincing tZicir triumph orert&oirasaiiants . ' I must - now conclude , air , " by ' assuring you that this circumstance ! has' 'gone" far to corifirm- all classes of labour of the necessity of unioni ; 'There was a glorious meeting in the evening ) over which another victim of the "hell-hounds "' presided ; but it would be impossible to describe the enthusiasm and Unanimity that prevailed . It must not be unnoticed that tne working classes generally ; throughout the Potteries , joined in the demonstration , and participated in the rejoicing ' of the Miners . ;! " ' ' "'' '"" /' ¦ - ' ¦
The Miners of . Durham and Northumbebland . —The reorganisation of this body . } of Labour ' s sons i 3 progressing with a degree of alacrity , its most sanguine supporters must rejoice at . * The doubts and distrust occasioned by the-failure of the late strike are fast dispersing , and the most-sceptical mustbe convinced that the day is not far distant when this body of men will show their task-masters' that their retreat from the late unequal struggle was not * ' defeat , but a cessation of hostilities , to enable them , the better , on a future occasion , to maintain th - fight , and win the victory . ¦¦ - ¦ Many meeting * o branches of the Miners' Association have been held lately ; many of them , especially amongst the large collieries , hayo been neciliarly marked . by that . stem determination "to maintain their rights , and oppose their wrongs , ' which " abides , long after , the enthusiastic shout lias passed away . Among these meetin
maybe particularly noticed those of New Durham , Haswell , ' 'Thornley , ' Kelloe /' Het&n / Ac . ; ; These meetings'haye been" eJceedihglTBplrited ; many a pointed ^ ekjj ' ression . from the men showed the feelings ' ¦ wbrking ui 'their breasts ; 'and the ' outcry for the ' rcstoratibh ' ' ' of ; 'tho Union , 'in ^ its pristine vigour , waa unanimous . ' Messrs . Daniela , Cloueh , arid fiouiday ; the lecturers , have been reiSeived with & warmth of feeling difficult to be describbd effectually their - addresses were listened to with marked attention , aafi ¦ >'' ¦ responded to with , enthusiasmr- Meetings have als » bceri'holden ' at CaBtle Eden and Wreokington . with very good effect . The men of W ! i « 6 Tfcn $ o&rwere : ¦ > not one jot behind their brethrejrof the : 'J 7 ear ? iii / e 3 ? - "' . Z pressing their attachment to ^ H gl *^ '<»«<» of ^ d Union . We fearlessl y express ow « f 9 yiotiptij that J * ' 5 ffl example will here soon be held ^ St [ - TOrtBjitBi' ^ 3 gp ! i « 3 S tion of Labour ' s aona in every « WrT « f ^ e > i m ) n 5 l-- » CS Correspondent . : ¦ ' c ? .-M •^' ) r ^ 2 ; : ''' " ' * * " ' Miiiii / *¦¦¦ . ?' - ' ' £ ¦' iftM ' fi fjH ¦¦ ¦¦ ¦¦ r , W 3 . / f ji ' iyvvM ..:...: «
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 15, 1845, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1302/page/1/
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