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THE NOliTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1848.
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THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES . A Prison Khvme . In Ten Books . ( OneVoL , 7 s . 6 d . ) " The most wonderful effort of intellectual power pro fluced within thelastcentury . "— The Britannia . "We must cordially eonfess that we have read the ^ hole with a feeling of unfeignedas to nishment . " —Edectv *^ ft . boot poss ^ Kinma-imnu * W «^ - *^^ feltandundeXd , and which ,. *«<*>" , toum « toi « . ^^ Kai&ne . ' Itwillmaketheheartof the Bopefnl glow with a holy fire when he who penned it has uassufl from among men . "— GeneralAfoerttser . _ "A work which will gain for its author a reputation as lasting , if not as great , as that of Byron , Spenser , and IBlton . " —Kcntishto&ependent . „ ,. „ .. « He nieias an intellect of mightypower . We shallnot kail in asserting that in the catalogue of England ' s greatest bards must hereafter be inscribes the name of Thosas Cooper . "— -SheffieUIris . ,. * : >• ** " One of those rare works which appear at but distant Intervals of time . It proclaims the author to be gifted With theapiritofpoetryinthehighest degree . "— Leicester ghlre Mercury . . " The whole work is one which must impress the reader with the conviction that Cooper , the Chartist , is a man of lofty genius , and must and will be remembered lritn his land ' s language . "— -Boston Serald .
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"Many of the stories exhibit considerable vigour of pencil , shrewd sense , and clear-sighted observation , accompanied with a kindly , genial feeling and toleration , we were not prepared for from so determined a politician . "—Glasgow Citizen . ...
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fTIWELVE REASONS why every one should read the 1 LOSDOX PIONEER : 1 . Because it aims at the greatest happiness of the greatest number , by augmenting social good and diminishing Social evil . 2 . Because it both amuses and instructs all who read , and tends to make all readers the wiser , the better , and the happier for what they read . 3 . Because it gives good advice to all classes , teaches the ladies how to getgood husbands , the gentlemen how to get good wives , and makes all
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Also , just published , THE BARON'S YULE FEAST . A Christmas Rhyme . In Four Cantos . ( One Vol ., 6 s . ) " The most charming andfantastic feature In this little volume , with its right dainty tifle-page , is the exuberance , and , soolh to say , the appositeness of the different songs ehaunted round the ingle in Torksey Hall . Thomas Coopei ' sheartseemsbrimming over with this spontaneous poetry . The book altogether is an original : it is just Ittited for the . winter ' s fireside , over a posset and cures . " ^ -&ut ) . «• The Baron ' s Tule Teast" has a genial spirit , various subjects , ana a popular animated style . The poem is jhe best of Mr . Cooper's productions . "— Spectator , "We have not for a long time met with a volume of poetry that we couW Tead through -with half as much pleasure . " — Churfm't Literary Jtegister . " The poem before us proves how much the earlier effor ts of the author wereimbued with true poetic feeling . ^ -Kentish Independent . " The man who can write such exquisite gems as this ittle Tolume abounds with , m 3 y , and he will , carve out Jior himself a name as enduring as the language in which Ae pens the 'thoughts that breathe , and words that burn . ' Jfltogether , this is tbe best Christmas book we have jet seen . "— Leicester Journal , Published by Jeremiah How , 209 , Piccadilly .
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WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE . WAKEFIELD ADJOURNED SESSIONS . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , that the Spring General Qdartee Sessions of the Peace , for the WfeBt Biding of the County of York , will be held by adjournment , in the Committee-Room , at the House of Correction , at Wskeiield , on Thursday , the Eleventh day of June , at Twelve o ' clock at noon , for the purpose of inspecting the Hiding Prison , ( the said House of Correction ) and for examining the Accounts of the Keeper of the said House of Correction , making Enquiry into the conduct of the Officers and Servants belonging to the same ; and also into the behaviour of th « Prisoners , " and their Earnings . C . U . ELSLEY , Clerk of the Peace . Mark of the Peace ' s Office , Wakefield . 28 tii May , 1846
The Nolithern Star. Saturday, June 6, 1848.
THE NOliTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , JUNE 6 , 1848 .
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THE REVOLUTION . While legislators and working men arc enjoying a short respite from their respective labours during the Whitsuntide holidays , it will not be amiss to consider the future work which the new commercial policy of Sir Robert Peel is likely to cut out for the respective classes . The Corn Law question has tended more than any , or all others , to create not only political feuds but angry feelings amongst , the working classes , while it has also furnished materials for the respective parties straggling for political power whereon to rest their claim for popular support . The candidate who not long since relied upon his advocacy of the ballot , or some mjBterious profession of liberalism or abstract notions of progression , as an ample bid for popular favour , would now find himself a mere
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laughing stock ifbebasedhh claim for support upon no better pretensions . ' ., So long as the question of protection was supposed settled , so long were the respective partieB compelled to seek some captivating ELECTION CRY as a means of preserving their ascendancy . Not only because : the knocking of this cratch from under landed ToiyJsm and exhausted Whigger . yhflS ' com * pelled the Wo parties to assume some defined and intelligible position , but because it will test the
wisdom and foresight of politicians do we admire it . Should it fail of giving the anticipated satisfaction , which it assuredly will , its promoters and supporters mil be compelled to resort to something more definite , something more intelligible ; and something more democratic , as the means of acquiring political power , while those .. who have opposed it from no other consideration than :. the damage that it threatens to their order , will gain neither character nor honor , as their prophecies of failure were based upon selfishness , not upon foresight .
It would have been impossible , wholly and entirely impossible , to have combined the industrious of all classes into a league against the MACHINE MONOPOLISTS so long as the gaping mouths and watery teeth of the ignorant shopkeepers and aristocratic trades were strained to receive the ripening fruit . " High wages , cheap bread , and plenty to do , " inferred more money to be expended with shopkeepers after the support of the working man ' s family , —it promised something more equable to the labour market than partial seasons of activity and long periods of idleness . The " plenty to do" implied never ceasing toil . '' Cheap bread and high wages" meant the ability to spend a large surplus , after living , with the middle classes .
We have laboured assiduously to convince the working classes and the shopkeepers that cheap and dear are relative terms ; and that before the Jnbouring man can purchase , at any . price , he must first sell his labour to procure the m « ins . ; We have kept th « real object of the league incessantly before the eyes of the middle classes ; we have shewn that . the primary advantage to be derived from free trade was , that by the reduction in the price of bread the master manufacturers may so reduce the rate of wages , as to be enabled to sell the produce of
English labour at a lower price in the foreign markets than the speculators in slave labour could afford to sell it in their respective markets . And we have proved that of all the hostile interests existing in this class-divided country , that there were no two interests so really opposed to each other as that of the shopkeepers who thrive by high wages , and that of the manufacturers who have brought competition to so disastrous a pitch , that their profits are wholly made up of wages' parings , without any other reference to the value of the marketable commodity .
By this time it has struck some shopkeepers in many parts of the North ol England , that ^ 50 , 000 a year divided more equitably than it is at present , between the Two Thousand and ONE , who by their combined capital and labour make so much annual profit , would be better for their order than tbe present system , which allows THKONF to devour the lion ' s share , while the , T o Thousand , subject to strikes , strujmks against reduction , casualties , and
uncertainties , subject the shopkeepers to increased poor-rates , increased police - rates , increased litigation , increased poverty and increased danger . However , the party was rallied by a cry and supposed to be united by a principle , and it mattered but little to the wild expectants whether putlio opinion had compelled their interested leaders to abandon one or more of their positions ; the promise was made , and its fulfilment depended upon their blind devotion .
Did they ever turn their attention to the fact , that the whole commercial policy of Sir Robert Peel aims at fixing some ascertainable standard of value between foreign corn and the produce of English labour . And did it never strike them , that this surplus money , to be so profusely expended at their counters , would become more and more valuable in proportion to the reduction of the price of those two articles ; and did it never strike them , that the parties who command the wealth , the capital , THE MACHINERY , and the government of the country , were not struggling for a measure the effect of which would be to leave them THE CHAFF FOR THEIR SHARE , and
to confer the CORN UPON THE UNREPRESENTED , which would be the result of the realization of free trade promise . And we . are now about to show , that the very shopkeepers who have so assiduously struggled for the emancipation of rich customers from the restrictions imposed upon trade , will be among the first sufferers from the new policy . Perhaps , apart from the consideration of the whole question , the present period is the most favourable for the ministerial experiment . Had the measure passed in spring or autumn , the disastrous effect upon the labour market , and consequently upon the
shopkeepers , would have been immediate , nay , we go so far as to assert that , but for the propitious season , the-agricultural labourers would yet combine with the farmers and protectionists to overthrow the measure . The elements are doing more for the minuter than the belief of converts in his wisdom . A very wet spring has led , not only to an early , but to an unusually abundant bay time . Last year , the Irish flocked to this country at the usual period o the year for commencing hay and harvest operations , while the inclement state of the weather consigned thousands of them to starvation , in consequence of
the lateness to which those operations were deferred , to Irish emigration , the hay harvest has TUMBLED in , as if by magic—the market is confined to native This year , upon the contrary , has acted as an estoppel industry alone—the crop is in together and must be made at- once—a circumstance which gives the agricultural labourers the command of the market , and not only weans thepj from the after thought of free trade , but will actually convey the impression that the increase of wages is a consequence of the measure , an argument which we have no , doubt will be fruitfully used by freetraders in their future
skirmishes . When the hay time is over , then commences the harvest and hop-picking , and with their close will set the sun of the agricultural labourer's hope . Then will commence the discharge of hands , who must now be employed at the value that the scarcity in the market gives to them , as , no matter what the price of hay , hops , and corn , may be , they are always worth the last and most expensive process of saving . This millenium may last till the middle of Augustthis spurt will give activity to brewers , shopkeepers . MANUFACTURERS FOR THE HOME TRADE , and to almost every branch of native industry , and will , no doubt , be artfully set down by the supporters of the measure , not to the real cause but to the blessiags of the principle .
The agricultural labourers not having the same hope of becoming capitalists , shopkeepers , or traffickers , and not having any market open beyond that of labour , are the least thrifty in the season of prosperity , but become the most suddenly destitute by adversity . They have been always taught to look to parish relief , as a last , though a dishonourable resource . The season invites them to dissipation , whilst the increase of wages enables them to 'become better customers in the market of manufactures . Here then is dangerous ground for a minister , who must look beyond the day . Here is a dangerous rule by which the Chancellor of theExchequer has not measured his anticipated revenue . The effect of free trade will be
a panic in the corn market . The effect of the panic will be a reduction in the price of bread , which cannot , under existing circumstances , be accompanied by a cotemporaneous reduction in the wages of the agricultural labourer ; but , nevertheless , those very fascinations which will not onlythrowprotection round , but will add a false lustre to the projector of the measure for the time being , will weave the veil of his future obscurity ; while the failure of the experiment will hold Cobden , Bright , and the League , up to the derision of those whose fortunes were supposed to hang upon the success of the measure , and the disappointed of all classes will look round once more for some resting place from party delusion , and will find
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but < me , a FULL ; 'FREE . AND FAIR : REPRE SENTATION OF TEEWHOLE- PEOPLE IN p ARLIAMEKX-the onlymeans ^ bywbich the fnormously increasing national property , can be so distributed , as to purge the land of an excess of disgusting luxury on the one hand , and 'heart-breaking penury upon the other . '
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strilcing for a share 61 " the masters' ' profits , and tells usjhat 30 s . is six times as muoh as 12 s . ; and , after lamenting the loss of female work , curiously enough again repines at the increase in this branch , The Weaver boy was tried on the True Sitii , and wrote it down ; he experimentalised upon the Chronicle , und . damaged it . Lord Melbourne asked Easihopk why he did not get an editor that could write English , all events t He began with and finished the how departed Daily News ' , he has now got the Dispatch into his destroying clutches , and lrom the ungrammatical style of the experimentalist , we can now see why he was ' ¦ ' ' ; :
NOBODY'S CHILD . Tlte Weaver boy , like the masters , has no objection to local clubs , because the masters can deal with them ; and goes on to tell us that there is a
"UNIVERSAL CONCURRENCE IN HIS OPINION . ' By the Pops , Weaver Boy , but Mrs . Malaprop was a fool to you for jawcraekers . A UNIVERSAL CONCURRENCE running through a weaver ' s , head it something new . However , he has it there , it is a UNIVERSAL CONCURRENCE in his opinions that the present strike was ILL-TIMED . Now , then , what becomes of all the logician ' s general reasoning against the principle of clubs , when he is compelled to reduce his wrath to a mere objection to time only . Is not this what we have shown to labour , that these serpents will always coll themselves around some limb of the slave . The WIND-BAG goes on blowing about the GUILDS of olden time : would that we had them back ? And thus concludes
the most insolent , beastly , ignorant , and cowardly attack ever made upon the working classes , lie quotes the letter of his comrogue , Mr . Holme , whose name he cannot even spell ; and thus winds up with a panegyric upon Holme , and a blow at Mr . Buncombe and Mr . Roberts ;—This is the language of justice and common sense . " The primeval curse sentenced man to a . life of labour and hard labour too-Teaming his bread only , by the sweat of hi ^ brpw .-and every Rclieme for . getting large -wages for little work , and all royal roads to leisureeaseand
com-, , fort , and all industrial lubberlands of nothing to do and plently to eat , are the visions of quacks , and the delusions of imposters . They may find £ 1 , 000 a year for Mr . Roberts , a landed estate for Itr , Duncombe , and 30 s . a-weck for a score ' or ' two of Chartist peripatetic bags of wind , to help to blow the bellows of their disinterested and indignant patriotism ; but their only effect upon the fortunes of the working man must be to help him out of his money , and into a union of a very different kind from what which he hus been asked to joinwe mean the Union Workhouse .
There , working , men , the language of Holme , the midnight briber , is the language of JUSTICE and COMMON SENSE . As to the £ 1 , 000 a year for Mr . Roberts , and an estate of Mr . Doncombe , we ask the tramping League bellows , the clerical knobstick , the penny-ra-liner , the National Hall £ 4 a-week Sunday teacher , the free trader , the complete suffragist , the candidate for Oldham and assassin of the Dispatch , whether it is more fit that labour shonW rcr , aru its real advocates with konourab ' c u ' istinction , or that it slimifd fcc-fooled v / iia the purchasing of estates for Mr . Thief-catcher Attorney Ex-Alderman Habmebf
Proprietor of the Dispatch , who has purchased many estates by a fraudulent and TIMELY support of the rights of labour ; and now hires a renegade pauper to disprove his title to those ' estates . Our only con - solation is , that , with few exceptions , we have received assurances from our several agents , with the glad tidings that many readers have given orders to discontinue the BEASTLY DISPATCH . Cowards will repeat their boastings until they believe in their own courage , but are humbled at last upon the first appearance , nay by the mere shadow of resistance ; so with politicians , they assume a position which they vainly hope to maintain , upon no better title than general ignorance upon the one hand , or a disinclination to controvert their arguments upon the
other . HIRED PATRIOTS have a strong inducement TO LIE , and are strengthened in their evil propensity , not only by the interest that those who are benefited by their fabrications have in calculating them , but by the fact they are the most profitable FREE TRADE COMMODITY . We commend the Weaver Boy ' s last web to the Liberal Electors of Oldham ; we will meet him there , and we request that it , and our reply , may be read from every Chartist platform in the kingdom .- The Times is a privileged ruffian , the Fox is a deserter from labour ' s ranks . The Dispauh is a professing friend of labour ' s rights , and yet never was a more deadly blow aimed even at the UNIVERSAL CONCURRENCE in general opinion , than that of
THE NORWICH WEAVER BOY . The length to which we found it necessary to cut this rampant Fox ' s tail , has precluded the possibility i > f commenting upon the Trades Conference until next week , when we shall have the whole proceedings before us .
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mate . productions of man ' s ' skill ' ana ? industry ; but for the freedom" of man" himself . ' Let Ta foim" ^ mighty confederation / of " the good afcid '• true of all ' Cslagaes and seetiens to wage war against an unjust and unequal distribution of the products of labour and skill , to put'down the abuses springing from the unrestrained power of individual capitalists ; , to emancipate labour from thraldom by makings it its own employer , and to destroy inequality jn laws and institutions , by destroying that on which it restsclass legislation and exclusive political powers vested in sections of the community . '
lhe Whigs have leng been defunct , the Tories by their own confession , are destroyed as a party—the League has proclaimed its intention of dissolving as soon as the Corn Laws are repealed . Now then isthe time for The People ' s Party to take the field , and prepare for that contest which must end in a victory over the evil influences which have hithertoplaced honest industry at the bottom of the scale of society . ¦
We shall revert to this subject more at length , and in the meantime congratulate the Trades and the Conference on the proud position they have assumed . Never was there a better or fitter time for a bold ,, determined , and forward movement , and led by sucha general as Thomas Smngsby Duncoube , the cause of labour and of political freedom will assuredly triumph ,
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J , S . asks why we did not purchase the Northampton Estate when it was so cheap . A butler once , who had just entered upon bis place , attended table in boots , hi& master said , John you must wear , shoes at dinner , why do you wear bouts ? Why , sir , I could give you twenty reasons . In the first place I have no shoes . There , there , that will do , that ' s as good as twenty . Then we could give twenty reasons for not purchasing the estate . In the first place we had not the money . There , there , that will do , we hope , for our friend .
VlTEBAN PATBTOT 8 A . ND . EXILES' WIDOWS' AMD . CHILsben ' s Fond . —Received , per . Julian Harney , aeon , tribution , from Ruffy Ridley , of 10 s . — -Thomas Coopeb , Secretary , 134 , Blaekfriars ' road . . ' . " MiUciiiiKE . —On Thurnday last we received a Post Office order from Mauchline , without any note stating either the name of the sender or the purpose for which it was sent . Will the person who has forwarded it ex-. plpin . Me . JcMAir Haknet returns his thanks to a numbirof < friends from whom copies of the Star of May 20 rd havebeen received . ' "
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T 1 IE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY . Meetings for the purpose of enrolling members , and transacting other business connected therewith are held every week on the following days and places : — SUSDAT EVENING . South London Chartist Hall , U 5 , Blackfriars-road at hall-past six o ' clock . —City Chartht Hall , 1 , Turnagain-lane : at six o ' clock . — Westminster : at the Parthenium Club Rooms , 72 , St . Martin ' s-lane- at half-past swen . —Somers Town : at Mr . Duddreo-e ' s , Bricklayers' Anns , Tonbridgfr-street , New-road , at half-past seven . —Tower Hamlets : at the Whittington and Cat , Church-row , Bethnal-green , at six o'clock precisely . —Emmetfs Brigade : at the Rock Tavern , Lisson-grove , at eight o'clock precisely . —Jfarylebone ; at the Coach Painters' Amis , Circus-street , at halfpast seven .
MOXDAT EVENING . Rochester . —At the Victory Inn , at half-past seven . Camknvell : at the Montpelier Tavern , Walworth , at eight o ' clock precisely . Kensington . —At eight o ' clock , at the Duke of Sussex . Limchovse : at the Brunswick Hall , Ropemaker ' s Fields , at eight o ' clock . JUfiSBAY ES ' ENINd . Greenwich : at Mr . Paris ' s , Cold Bath , at eight o ' clock .
Ncwcastle-upon . Tync : This branch of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society meet in the house of Martin Jude , Sun Inn , Side , every Sunday evening , lrom seven until nine o ' clock , for the purpose of receiving subscriptions and enrolling members . Leicester : The members and committee of the Cooperative Land Society meet at 87 , Church-gate , every Sunday night , at six o ' clock , Armley : The members of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society meet at the house of Mr . William Oates , boot and shoemaker , Armley Town-gate , every Monday evening , at eight o'clock .
WEDNESDAY EVENING , Hammersmith , at the Temperance Hall , Bridge Road , at eight o'clock precisely . PROVINCIAL MEETINGS OF THE CHAHTIST CO-OPERATIVE
LAND SOClETr . Leicester , cyery Monday evening , at No . 17 , Archdeden Lane , at seven o ' clock , Chepstow , every Monday evening , at the Temperance , Hotel , Bank Avenue , at eight o ' clock . Aberdeen . The office-bearers mett every Wednesday evening at hall-past seven , at No . 1 , Flour Mill Laue flail .
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Halifax . —The Chartist members ate requested to meet m their room , Bullclose-lane , on Sunday ( tomorrow ) evening , at six o ' clock , on business of importance . . ¦? West RiIixg Delegate Mektixg . —The next n est Ridii % udegatu meeting will be holden on Sunday , Juno ty in the Working Man ' s Hall , Bullclo ? e-lanc , Halsrax , to commence at twelve o ' clock at noon . Nottingham . —The Land Society in this district wiH meet on Sunday evening next , at six o ' clock , at Smith ' s Temperance House , Low Pavement . Hull . —A meeting of the members ef the council of the National Charter Association will be held
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THE DISPATCH . It is a fact that few know the value of a thing possessed until it is lost . We were Boraetimes refreshed , and not unfrequently charmed , by the rollicking effusions of the DEPARTED Publicola , whose weekly letter gave a zest to the Dispatch , and whose keen eyes kept such watchfulness over the editorial department , as to reconcile even rank and rabid nonflensu to those who are doomed to its weekly
perusal . In those days the Dispatch was . a national dial , by which public opinion was extensively regulated under poor PublicolaV management . It not only indulged in wholesale denunciation of the present system , but he selected the several offshoots for weekly exposure and reprobation . Class legislation was tlie master evil selected for assault , while the only charge brought against Chartism was , that its professors did not go far enough . .. '' .. ' .. :
Republicanism was then the avowed principles of the Dispauh ; but Publicola IS DEAD . The Norwich weaver boy ( Fox ) supplies his place , and has substituted the most damnable principle of
NONINTERFERENCE WITH THE RIGHTS OF CAPITAL , for the broad principles of Republicanism . Before we analyse Fox ' s article of last week ( which we hare printed entire ) more critically , we shall first devote a word of comment to a consideration of the consistency of the writer , ( a candidate for the supporfof the liberal constituency of Oldham . ) Fox was editor of the Daily News , ( Hudson ' s narrow gauge Champion , ) and which ; from his " maudlin and trashy ! articles Rewrote down from Sd . to 2 Jd . He
was a member and spouter of the Complete Suffrage principle , advocating Chartism , and only boggling at the NA ME . He was the hired lecturer of the League , and even condescended to fill the « ffice of teacher at the Sunday School of the National Hall Association , FOR A CONSIDERATION ; so . that , mayhap , the denunciation of this well paid knob-stick clerical mountebank , of the 30 s . a week paid to the Chartist BELLOWS BLOWERS arises from the injurious influence that their underpaid labour is likely to have
upon his trade as an agitator . Having so far glanced at the consistency of the pious bladder of wind , we now turn to a more critical examination of the most unscrupulous , false , and cowardly attack ever made upon the rights of labour : an attack , however , blunted by the blundering igno : ranee of the writer . After telling us that " apple sauce" is ate AFTER " reaat goose" ( we always thought they went together ) , the WEAVRR , EOT tells us that a Trades . Uiiiun uoes ' not fairly express tliei iiiig '" which the words imply , inasmuch as "it entirely excludes from the LIMITS of its definition
the capitalists and masters . " We do not understand the meaning of the word LIMITS in the sens which it is intended to convey ; however , we cannot help smiling at the folly of the writer , who had not brains to see that Trades Unions were rendered ne * cessary by the tyranny of the very master * and capitalists whose exclusion from the order The Fox so pathetically laments : Did he not understand that the very admission of those masters to an anomalous power already possessed and abused by them was the very thing that led to the necessity of a restrictive body ? The writer tells us that the combination is uniformly confined to "THE ONE SOLE BODY
OF WORKING OPERATIVES . " A pretty large class we ima gine ; much more extensive than we were heretofore led to believe , and the very class for whose protection the writer advocated the charter as the means of counterbalancing the unjust power o the pitied masters and capitalists . Though a little out of order , we may here consider the numbers constituting THE SOLE BODY OF WORKING ' OPERATIVES . Fox tells us that there are FOUR MILLIONS OF THE
POPULATION PERMANENTLY WITHOUT EMPLOYMENT , AND THAT THEREFORE THERE NEVER CAN BE EITHER OCCASION FOR A PROTECTIVE UNION OF ARTIZANS OR FOR A STRIKE TO REGULATE WAGES . If the word " either" had come after instead of before the word " occasion , " it would have been English , but as it is we can understand the writer ' s meaning . We are told that there are "four millions permanently unemployed , " and if we estimate the number employed so low as two millions , we have six millions , and if we estimate
those six million families at three instead of five to a family , as infants are included in the census , we have a population of eighteen millions , a pretty considerable SOLE BOD 3 T seeking representation ; a number exceeding the whole population of the kingdom by five millions , leaving a small margin less than nothing for the landed aristocracy , merchants , bankers , manufacturers , masters , capitalists , shopkeepers , taxeaters , pensioners , army and navy , police , publicans , sinners , and idle editors ; and sufficiently large to exclude capitalists and masters from the limits of its definition .
To go back . The Weaver Boy supposes that labour should give up its PROTECTION , because the Peers have been compelled to abandon theirs . A very fascinating argument from a rabid hired fre e trader , who assured the people of the necessity o leaguing themselves against the monopoly of those very Peers . The ignorant wholesale manner in which the Norwich Weaver Boy now assails the denouncer of class legislation will be met , even by his former friends , with anything but cordiality . It is the shadow of the new policy of which Fox is the hived champion . It verifies our very worst predictions of . the designs of the masters and capitalists , but we will , nevertheless , overcome , and finally overthrow , the enemy in their new character .
We cannot resist giving the following passage in full , and we feel convinced that , however the struggle may end , every artisan operative and slave , of all creeds and colour , will cherish it as
THE NORWICH WEAVERS' LEGACY . This union is a class combination , for class objects , to enforce class legislation by class organization . It is to create a class monopoly in favour of an exclusive class , by that order which was the most vehement in its denunciation of class privileges ; and contrary to the advancing spirit of the age , to the impartial and Catholic tendency of modern government and of public opinion , it is not more naoessiU'j' foi < the churuutor of the working classos them , selves than for the safety of the State , and the security of the public against dictation and exaction , that the conspiracy should be Exploded and the bubble exposed . It is an Association for practically carrying out an impossible
object , and which , were it possible , would be pernicious . Wg are , indeed , surprised that the intelligent nrtizansof this country should , in the face of every principle of political cconoiny . and every dictate of experience and common sense yet suffer themselves to be magnetised by the gesticulations of quacks into the day dreams in which they now indulge . They have tried to put down machinery by Aetof l ' arfiament , to prevent women and children from earning their own subsistence , a . nd masters from the liberty of mailing contracts with them ; they have struggled to prohibit the wording of factories for a longer period than ten hours per duy , thus confiscating a sixth of
the whole income , Interest on capital and property of the owner , without remorse or compensation—tluy have limited the number of apprentices whom masters are to iustruct , in order to preserve a monopoly of their trade , and now , at last , they have organised a grand universal National Unipn , into the joining of which every working man is to be coaxed , persecuted , threatened , and bribed , m order to lay the nation prostrate at their feet—to place the consumers , masters , and capitalists , at the mercy of the working classes , and to dictate to every other order of society whatever conditions they please of remuneration for labour , irrespective of the legitimate demand , and the value of the commodity .
Was libel equal to that ever penned by the most bitter and . professing enemy of labour ? A libel which proves our assertion , that , until the whole sysr tern la altered , the weeds that spring from the labour bed are the foulest enemies of the order . We have not one single instance upon record of a working man cheating himself , or mouthing himself , into riches , and above his class , that such fellow is not far away the m ost insolent , overbearing , proud , and intolerant . Indeed , it is by such pranks that the mushrooms seek to recommend themselves to their new associates . This scum of clerical dung revileB the tailors for
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THE TRADES' CONFERENCE . We refer , with pride and pleasure , to the proceedings of this body . The Trades are evidently awakening , to the true perception of their interests , and rapidly advancing in the path which will lead to . a triumphant issue of the struggle , to place labour in its rightful position . The period at which we write precludes anything like lengthened cemnient upon the policy of the measures they have adopted , which can be more amply done on a future opportunity , but in the meantime we cannot help adverting to one si-eat movement made at this
Conference , the admission of women and children to participate in the struggle , and to share the triumph we anticipate as its consequence . By means of ( his measure the swarming millions in the great hives of industry ; the young tenders of that maohinery which ought to be man ' s blessing and has been perverted into his curse , will be enfolded in the mantle of the young association , whose gigantic capacities are rapidly developing themselves . The renewed struggle for the Ten Hours' Bill will be accompanied by an addition of strength , and an organized direction of that strength which must render its advo .
catcs irresistible , and its victory secure . It will no longer be in the power of timid friends or open enemies to delay its passing into a law . The enthusiastic reception experienced by the intrepid and noble-minded man who presides over the Association of confederated trades at public meetings , both in Leeds and Manchester , and the bold uncompromising manner in which these meetings declared their determination to have this long-sought measure , are proofs , not only of the sincerity of the working peopie in demanding it , but also of the powerful support they will give an honest leader and advocate in Parliament .
The large number of trades represented at the Conference , and the intelligence exhibited by their representatives in the discussion of the important questions to which their attention has been directed , is another unmistakeable sign of the growing influence of the association and the certainty of its ultimate triumph . One peculiarity in the constitution of the Conference distinguiahes it from all its predecessors , For the first time in the history of the working classes , the aristocratic and the poorer sections of the array ef industry , have cordially held out the hand of mutual help and friendship to each
other . The starved , oppressed and suffering handloom weavers , and the still more miserable slave of competition , the frame-work knitter , has sat down side by side with the joiner , the mechanic , and the engraver . England , Scotland , and Ireland , have si-nt their representatives to this holiest of Parliaments , and in the temper with which the claims of all classes of trades have been considered , the justice and prudence of the adjudication , and the unanimity with which the decision was arrived at , we seethe most cheering prospects of a Union among the working classes themselves , such as never before existed in this country .
The ground is almost cleared for the operation of a new great national party . The work of the NATIONAL Anti-Corn Law League is nearly done . The commercial classes have had their reform now for the turn ot LABOUR . Let ua replace the League by a grander one j a League that shall frtmggle not for freedom of exchange in theinani-
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SECTION No . 1 . PER SIR . O'CONNOR . phabes . £ t . d . Blackburn , per W . Sutcliff .. .. .. . 13 4 C Alva , per John Robertson .. .. .. 1 19 lo Leigh , per John i owarth .. .. .. 4 0 2 ' Huddersfield , per J . Stead .. .. .. 1 18 6 Borrowash , per W . West .. .. .. 110 ODorkinjr , pei * W . Wavveu .. .. .. 12 9 Bury , per W . Ireland .. .. .. 2 7 6 Artichoke Inn Locality , Brighton , per TV * . Flower 4 12 Stockton , per Thos . ]' atter .. .. . ... 115 6-Birmingham , per W . Thorn .. .. .. 2 0 0 Newcastle-upon-Tyne , per M . Jude .. .. 2 5 6 Nottingham , por J . Sweet .. .. .. 7 0 0 Hey wood , per R . Wrigley .. .. .. 4 17 2 J . Oldham , per \ V . Hamer .. ... .. 8 0 O- : Dodswortb , near Burnley , per T . Croft .. 5 0 0 . \ ¦ City of London Locality , per J . Sunn .. 2 6 0 Leicester , per Z . Astell .. .. .. 10 5 Ashton-under-Lyne , per E . Hobson .. ., 2 8 6 Dundee , per R . Kidd .. .. .. 216 4 Tonbridge Wells , per II . Launce .. .. 2 . 3 9 Hamilton , per W . Weir 2 0 0 Stockport , per Thos . Woodhouse .. .. 4 0 0 Bradford , per J , Aldersou .. „ „ " 5 0 0 S'lllH SECTION No . 2 . —m—^ Ely , per II . M . Aungier .. .. .. 2 0 0 Alva , per John Robertson .. .. .. 0 10 Leigh , per John Howarth .. .. .. 0 3 0 Borrowasb , per W . West ., „ „ 0 10 Dorking , per " W . Warren .. .. .. 0 10 Bury , per W . Ireland .. .. .. 0 C 18 Artichoke Inn Locality , Brighton , per W . Flower 1 2 4 Stoke-sub-Hamdon , per C . Kundle „ ¦ ¦ .. 0 9 0 Leicester , per 11 . Barrow .. .. .. 16 0 Cheltenham , per T . Ulett .. .. 0 18 6 Nottingham , per J . Sweet « .. .. 3 0 0 Oldliain , per W . Hamer .. .. ,. 2 0 0 Leicester , per Z . Astill .. .. 2 2 7 Stockport , per J . Woodhouse .. .. 10 0 Bradford , per J . Aldersou .. .. .. 5 0 0 . £ 19 10 8
OJBDS 1 !)> BOLES . PER MB . O ' CONNOB . Blackburn .. .. .. .. .. 0 0 8 Alva .. .. .. .. .. .. 004 Dorking .. .. ,. .. .. 0 0 2 Stockton ... .. .. ... ; . 0 14 Stoke-sub-Hamdon .. ..... .. 0 14 Leicester .. .. .. .. .. 0 10 City of London Locality .. .. „ 0 0 4 Plymouth .. .: .. .. .. 0 3 i LEVX FOB DIBECTOBS . Alva .. .. .. 0 1 7 * Carrington , per J . Ley .. .. .. 0 6 1 Stoke-sub-Hiimdon .. .. .. .. o Oil Burnley , per J . Thornber .. .. .. 0 11 0 Basford , per J . Sweet 0 i 1 J ; Heywood 0 2 9 J Oldham .. 0 6 2 City of London Locality .. .. .. 0 0 8 Bacup .. .. 0 6 8 LEVY FOK CONFEBENCE . Basford , per J . Siveet .. .. . 0 0 0 City of London .. .. .. .. 0 0 © Bacup .. .. » 0 0 S NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . PER MB . O ' CONNOB . ¦ EXECOriVE . Plymouth , per J . Rodgers ... . .. .. 0 10 0 NATIONAL ANTI-MILITIA ASSOCIATION . Nottingham , per J . Sweet ... „ „ 0 3 0-The sum announced from Nottingham last week should have been £ 5 0 s . 6 d ., not £ 5 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 6, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1369/page/4/
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