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OTOKISONS PILLS . TTPWARDS of Three Hundred Thousand Cases U of well-authenticated Cures , by Morison ' s Pills of the British College of Health , having , through tho medium of the press , been laid before the Public , is surely sufficient proof for Hygeianism . Sold by W . Stubbs , General Agent for Yorkshire , Queen ' Terrace , Roundhay Road , Leeds ; and Mr . Walker , Briggate , and Mr . Heaton , Briggate ; Mr . Badger , Sheffield ; Mr . Nichols , Wakefield ; Mr .
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EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY . T ) ERSONS having a little time to spare are JL apprised that AGENTS continue to be appointed in London and Country Towns by the East India Tea Company , for the sale of their celebrated Teas—( Office No . 9 , Great S :. Helen ' s Church-yard , Bishopgaie-street ) . They are packed in leaden CanisterB , from an Ou . ooe to a Pound ; and new alterations have been » made whereby Agents will be enabled to compete with all rival ? . The Licence is only 11 s . t * d . per annum , and many during the last sixteen years have realised consider-, able Sums by the Agency , without one Shillii < £ let or loss . Applications to be made , if by letter , post paid , to Charles Hancocks , Secretary .
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SALE Of WOOLLEN CLOTHS , ( WHOLESALE AND RETAIL ^ 78 , BRIGaATE , TM THE TOP . HHI GGINSbegB leave to inform the Public that he is Weekly receiving large quantities of Cloths from Manufacturers whose circumstances compelthem to oflfer their Goods at the following aatomsliing depressed Prices : — Broad , Wool-Dyed Black Cloths , .................. at 6 s . 6 di . and 7 s . 6 d . per Yard . ¦ "_ Superfine .-Ditto , Ditto . Ditto , Ditto . at 8 s . 6 d ., 9 ? . 6 d ., andlO 8 . 6 d . „ Olives , Browns , and Green , Ditto ,...... at 5 s and 6 s . 6 d . « . - Superfine ^ Ditto , Ditto , Ditto , Ditto ...... at 8 s . ? s ., 10 ? . 6 d ., and 11 s . 6 d . * . Superfine Invisible Green ' . 'Ditto .......... at 8 s . 6 d ., 93 . 6 d M 10 s . 6 d ., and lls . 6 d . ~ Blue Ditto ,...,.. ; ............... .......... at 6 s . 6 d ., 7 s . 6 d . 03 . 6 d ., 9 s ., 10 a . 6 d ., and I 2 g . Doeskins ............................... .. at Is . 6 d . and Upwards . Drabi Cassimerea .............................. at 3 a . Gd .-ami Upwards . Wool-dyed Black Cassimeres , .... at 4 s , 6 d . and upwards . Waterproof Tweeds ,. ; ...... ............ at 2 s . 3 d . 1 6 4 chs Druggets , ..... at Is . 2 d .. All Goods warranted Perfect . Wholesale Buyers served upon the same Terms as at theprincipal Warehouses . 78 , BRIGGATE , TEN DOORS FROM THE TOP .
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BOROUGH OF ( LEEDS , IN THE COUNTY OF YORK . m * . 4 figV v ¦ : "M'OTICE is hereby given , | Ej £ k 4 / l& | uUjfi 55 b ¦¦' ** that Thomas Flower eJ ^^^^^^^^ M \^ Recorder , and one of the ' ®^ o ^ 0 PW * vtf ©** K 3 » iBIJustices of the Peace of the said Borough of Leeds , by a Certificate in Writing , under his Hand , dated the Ninth Day of April instant , lias duly certified that it is expedient and necessary to erect and provide a New and more convenient GAOL for the Said Borough of Leeds , the present Gaol of and for the said Borough being wholly insufficient , inconvenient , and inadequate for the proper and legitimate Purposes of a Gaol for th'j ' said Borough of Leeds .
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CHARTIST PILLS . IMPORTANT TO THE AFFLICTED . ATR . J- HOBSON , Northern Star Office , Leeds , iYL having accepted the Wholesale and Retail Agency of those Pills , is authorised to giro Twopence but of each Is . l ^ d Box , to be divided between the Executive and the Families of the Imprisoned Chartists . The many Medicines lately offered to the public would have prevented the proprietorfrom advertising thesa Pills ( although convinced of their efficacy ) , did he not feel it Ms duty to give his suffering fellow Chartists an opportunity ( by their affliction ) to forward the cause of Democracy , and assist the families of their incarcerated brethren .
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BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS . CASE FROM LUTON , BEDFORDSHIRE , COMMUNICATED BY MR . PHILLIPS , CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST , TO MR T . PRO UT , 229 , STRAND , LONDON . Luton , Bedfordshire , Oct . 19 , 1841 . SIR , —I feel desirous of expressing to you the great benefit which I have received from the use of Blair's Gout and Rheum tie Pills ; I have for several years been afflicted with Rheumatism and Gout , the attacks of which were excessively severe . During one of these painful visitations a kind friend presented me with a box of Blair ' s Pills , from the use of which I found immediate relief , and very saon entirely recovered . At a subsequent period I was it would be
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MEDICAL ALWICE . TO THE AFFLICTED WITH SCURVY , VENEREAL , OR SYPHILITIC DISEASE 8 , RHEUMATISM , AMD NERVOUS OB SEXUAL DEBILITY . MR . M . WILKINSON , SURGEON , &e , 13 , Trafalgar Street , Leeds . And every Thursday , at No . 4 , George Street , Opposite East Brook Chapel , Bradford , HAVING devoted his studies for many years exclusively to the various diseases of the generative and nervous system ; in the removal of those distressing debilities arising from a secretindulgence in a delu 8 iTe and destructive habit , and to the successful treatment of
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: APRIL ITEA CIRCULAR . rp HE AGENTS of the East India Tea Company X may have TEAS at all pr ices , from 2000 Chests down to 61 b . bags , and three sorts as low as 3 s ; 10 d . per lb ., the minimum price , that can safely be warranted . And upon the passing of the New Tariff , Roasted Ceylon or Jamaica COFFEES at One Shilling per lb . nett cash . No . 9 y Great St . Helen ' s Ghnroh-yard , Bishopsgate'fitreet . 6 © - All ordera from the Country to be accompanied with Post-office Order for payment to C . Hancock ,: Secretary . >
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CAUTipN TO LADIES . THE PROPRIETORS OF KEARSLEY'S ORIGINAL WIDOW WELCH ' S FEMALE PILLS , find it incumbent on them to caution the purchasers of these Pills against an imitation , by a person of the name of Smithers , arid calling herself the Grand-daughter of the late Widow Welch , but who has no . right to the preparing of them , the Original Recipe having been sold to the late < i . Keaksley , of Fleet- street , whose widoiv found it necessary to make the following affidavit , for tha protection of her property , in the year 1798 ;—
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MOTHERS . DN MOTHERS have depended in all ages the strength and well-being of Empires . Every well regulated state has possessed laws directly subversive of all that might injure the development of mind , retard the improvement of morals , or been destructive to the physical beauty of the female form . This feature in good government was not peculiar merely to the indspendant States of anoieht Greece , but stands out in bold relief upon the pages of Roman history ; their statute books being filled with provisions for ennobling the female character f stamping the hardy race of Romans as the most philosophical among the learned , the greatest among
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WATXINS'S LEGACY TO THE CHARTISTS . LECTURE I . ( CoRdvded from our lasLJ ** It is good to be sealonsly affected in a good e&nse . " Wbo are they that have been zsalonsly affected in a good cause ? Sea how zealously affected Moses waa He might have lived lite a prince , in a palace , the Javourite of Pharo&h , but he was zsslons even unto slaying ! * nd when lie saw an Egyptian smite an Hebrew he « lew the Egyptian , tfeough he had to fly for is and beooroe a sbepberd in a strange land- While be kept fcis f&iber-iis-la-sy ' s ab « ep bis soul yearned to deliver tis countrymen from bondage , and be returned to them ¦ vrkh that purpose . He was more concerned at witness ing their slavery than they at feeling it . In vain he s&sTe to rou * e them . He saw that the on ' y chance ¦ was to strike the hard heart of Pharoah "with fear . He succeeded in freeing them sad in keeping them free , thonch in a wilderness .
See how zealously affected the ancient judges and prophets -were ¦ who endured all manner of evil for the sake of good . Mark in particular Judas Maccabeus , who rescued the Jews from tbe slavery of the Syrians ; and the Apostles and iiartyrs -wlio ecded lives of pri-Tstion , hardship , and pa-n in the most horrible and-terrifying deaths—who psrished gloriously ! But see ! 0 , see ! how 2 salouslv Effected Jesas Christ was . Though forsaken by all , he forsook not the cause , and died for "what he had lived . . Leaving sacred history , and reverting to profane , look at Marathon , Salwais , and Thennopytffi , where MU fongbt for liberty , to conquer or die . This was in ancient Greece , which was afterwards subdued by Borne—Borne which sfibrda so many examples cf patriotism . Take for instance the example of the first Brutus , who would have brooked " The eternal devil to reign in Rome As eas'ly as a king ;*'
and of the last , who made " The d&zgtt ' s edge surpass The ccxq'ror ' s sword in bearing fame away . " Then there is Tirgkiius , -who Blew his dangete ? to preserve her from pollution , and pat - an end to the tyranny of the Decemvirs ; Cato , ¦ who would not survive liberty , but whose spirit animating Bratus revtneed bis fate by the death of Osesar . To come to the middle ages—tat these were chufiy under the debasing dominion of superstition -which pref ented heroism , or at least perverted it . Bat we have Hiecsi , " last of Romans , ledeemer of dark centuries of shame ; " ilassaniello , the fisherman of Naples ; Gvlstavus Ycsa , of S « eden ; Joan cf Arc whom vre may almost claim a * a man ; PediJa , *» t Spain ; Tell , of
Swrtzarlanu ; Robert Brace , who like I ^ eonidas , of Greece , and Alfred ibe -Great , tfeougn aU wsre kinp , fought for liberty ; "R ' alhce too , and the unconquerable Scots ; "Wat the Tyler , and John Cade , Esq . who gained England for the people , but lost it and their lives b % treachery the moment after . We now arrive at modern times , the most memorable , for in them-we see Enclanci a commonwealth—the people not nominally free ,-nor jromin&Hy toveragn , bat with reign , alas , too brief . Hsmpdtn , RssseLl , Sidney , are names no time nor tyranny can blight ; bnt greatest of all , and tha last I tfcall mention is not Wellington , bat Washington ! All thaie may ba styed Chaitist heroes—all airova for liberty—all iwere zealously afectsd in a srood cause , and
great as those names are , we could parallel them from oar own movement—for wa h&ve men who have toiled as much and suffered as much . 0 . let them not toil and stifiar in Viin ! the thought of that " would be more grievous to them than alL Shall we not sacrifice a JitUe when they have sacrificed so much for us and for our cause . We ha-re bat to sacrifice onr vices , our follies , and the indolence and apathy -which they occasion will fall with them , and' the man will arise . Some affect the cause , but not zealously and some a&some it as & disguise , bat they who carry it ; they alone will prove tLiemselves worthy of it , worthy to rank with the Cartwrighfs , the Cobbetfs , the Mnir's , the Emmetfs . the Paine ' a , Rousseau ' s , < fcc .
I come now to consider lastly -what constitutes a good erase , and here the very name Beeins eneueh , but names do not always agree with natures , nor can we prove a cause good by our zeal in its behalf ; for we may be eqnaDy zsalons in a bad one , as is proved by our opponents . Good trees bring forth good fruit , aad the good conduct of its advocates goes far to prove the goodness of the cause . It were but a 'waste if words to attempt to prove the Ghartist oose a good one , because that is generally admitted ; our worst enemies do not deny that—even while employed in villifying us , they give credit to the cause—all that they allege against it is , that it is impracticablp . It may seem so to them , bat -we do not find it bo , nor woulS tfeey , were they like-minded with ni Surely good is alway
practicable , though we are mote prone to evil , and find it better rewarded in this wicked world . 6 od made nB good , and meant us to be good , and to do good ; he did cot make th at impracticable which he meant us to do . Be dses not require an impossibility of US . Our cause ia hia cause ; we that ate engaged in it are serving Mm , We se ? k the recovery of those richts which God gave us , and which man deprived us of . We lost them foolishly , wickedly , and do not deserve God's help to find them again , but if we help ourselves , he trill help us- Oar cause is -the cause of humanity , it ia the cause of the oppressed , aye and of the oppressor too , for it ia not good neither -to suffer nor to inflict eviL It is the cause of British infant that die in the vain sttemDt to draw aomishnjeiit from
thetr mothers * famine-dried breasts—it is the cause of British mothers thai die in the vain effort to bring forth in sorrow what was cenceived in sin , or bring forth ¦ wfeile driven about the streets , from workbonia to -workhouse , whose doors are ghnt against nature itself ; it is the cause of British parents who mutt look on Qjeir crying children as a curse rather than a blessing ; of \ he husband that must stand idly by and see his wife work man's work for childhood ' s wages ; and- of the wife that must rarse the hunr irhen she tpss -wed ; it is the cause of the lover -whose very love forbids the toons of marriage , of the son that must see his aged parents taken to the bsstile to be entombtd alive till they are made ready for a pauper ' s grave ; of the daughter t&at to escape starvation must beg or steal , or
sell her very sonl and body ; cf little boys and girls that slave in mines , in . mills , in factories ; it is the eacse cf slaves and wretshes of ail kinds , of ail who hunger and thirst and are naked lomeless and in misery—it is the cause of the millions who have not where to lay their heads—of those who lie in the streets with the nrota and unheeded appeal" I am starving ! —written on the stones that is their only bed or resting-piaca—who are fnll of sores—the effects of cold and hunger—who are devoured while yet alive—wio die piecemeal , living 8 tele ; ons , the spectres cf the system ! It was the cause cf ths poor blind girl , wfco died in darkness , destitute , desolateher fathtr could procure no work , no food . He wonld net compliia—perhaps he fe ; t the uselessness of it
—perhaps he was too pron-3 . O 2 these are most pitiable cast-s . ' and tuey occnr in this Christian country daily . She di&d , and her body was fouad rotting in the helpless arms of those who had given her '; ife , but could not save her from the most miserable of all deaths—who themselves were dying in despair . The mother bad lost her wits , and three children were sitting in a corner , stnpioiy staring at the decaying " oorpse of their slsttr . The spectacle of their own fate •• as before tbeir eyes-all must soon have died , and then the dead alone would have been left to bury tbeir ¦ de ad I O , friends and feliow-men , shall we not swear that thesa things tbail be seen and . heard of no more ? 1 call on ye , in the names of the sufferers , on behalf of jourselTes—on my own behalf , for I suffer
¦ with sympathy . God calls on -as—answer him ye people—tow ! swtar ! Shall those nearer to us than our own flash and blood—dearer than our ewn heartsshall they , too . suffer ?—suffer that our heartless oppressors may rejoice ? Saall we leave our wives and our little on&s to the tender mercies of a selfish age—cf a system that now reigns in terror—of a Government that has made a Whi ^ world of it—hardening the Jitarts of the rfjoic ' mg rich—breaking those of the suffering poor . What ! would we not save life ?—Bhall notbuHrtu beings be zealously affected in the cause of human na-. ure ?—the cause of our country—cf mankind ? We have do natural affection in ns if we do not strive altrays , The very birds and bessta will rifck their lives sa dt-feucs of their young—the savage bear will die for ita
- cubs—the timid hen will attack the kite . O nature ! O instinct 2 are ye to be found in bears a-nd ¦ wolves alone aad dares man slill call himself man call himssif a father ? Slavas arise !—be np and doing Italk no more—join us—we arc -working for drswmhg crtatares ant tnall we be told not to stretch forth out hands—not to open our month *—bnt to wait and see wbetherprovidence will save ^ ein—whether they will be able to save them selves—whether those who threw them in will pnll them oat Shall we be to ! 4 to stand iaiy by and Bee them perish , because should we attempt to rescue them the tjrarts may throw us in too ? or shall it be said to as , ** Wait tmsil you are properly educated before yon . interfere with these things" ? Shall we aot rather peril life , and limb , and liberty in this cause ? We shall , if we have a heart to feel—a heart
to love , and in that heart courage to make oar lore known . O ! should it not fire oar blood to witness these things—should not oar blood rise and swell our -reins—should we not resolve to die in blood rather than live tame , silent spectators of the barbarity of tyrants and the sufferings of slaves ? Let us shew that when humanity and justice a -e outraged , our feelings are outrzgei ; let us be determined that the violence of the rich and powerful shall net be spent upon the psor and "Weat , bat shall recoil upon their own heads . We have permitted them to proceed ; they have gone on bo far unchecked that now they regard not man , and defy God himself . Goi has said , " " Ths poor shail not
ceasa from off the land" ; bnt they say they snail cease , we will starve them < . £ They would stop the great fount of nature itself ; they forbid the water of life to flow . Bat God will come and miseraoly dSBtroy these wicked m- _ n , and give thti .- heritage to the rightful owners—the people . The disease of the state has been so long neglected , thutit has grown to be almest past cure ; but while there is Ufa there is hxspe . The people are now giving tkna of life ; the dry bones will live—they will arise and become the army of the living God . The heavy mass cf sluiuberisg ¦ waters is being agitated ; a breezj from ice north Wok * on . it ; a storm ia coming , tbea wse t ? Use Jiwie cock
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boats that de 2 e ; l the sea ; then sail oa ~ -the might of the milliona -will arise ; I hear it now—the preluding murmur of the elements—the sound of many waters;—and God is in the wind—he rtcfcs on the tohirlvrind—HE DIB . ECTS THE STORM ! JOHN WilKIKS . Battersea , near London .
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TO THE WORKING PEOPLE . { From the English Char list Circular . J Mi dear Fbjksds , —In my last letter I placed before you , in familiar and easily comprehended language , the indirect effect which machinery has npon every classandtradein the community , from the monarch , who is not beyond its blighting influence , to the beggar , who is not below its reach . I am very happy to inform you that my letters in the lUUe Chartist Circular have received the approbation of avast number of persons heretofore opposed to us ; at least , so I am extensively informed by many approving correspondents , some of whom express a strong desire that as many as possible should be sent to Ireland , lly appeal to the readers of the Circular then is , that they will—that is , those ¦ who can spare them—send ossk their papers , wheu done with , to Mr . John Cleave , i , Saoe Lsne , Fleet-street , that he may transmit them to iny countrymen , your Irish brethren .
2 * ew , my friends , allow me to show you the evil tendency and bad effect which machinery has upon the character of man . Man is born with propensities which may either be nurtured into virtues or thwarted into vices , according to the training . Generally speaking , the Gsvernmeut of a country should be chargeable with , and -answerable for , any vice which had assumed the alarming nature of a national characteristic Tfcm , if a nation is full of thieves , a » England was from the period that the p ' underin ? adulterons Harry the Eighth rObbed the people , till Elizabeth , from necessity , was compelled to dole out a poor substitute for their owntheir rightful , bnt their lost property , the national vice was chargeable npon the plundering King and bis royal panders , and not npon the plundered and impoverished
people . Sj if a needy Chancellor of a needy faction Eha 1 reduce the tax on gin , er any other intoxicating spirit , to the minimum standard of the people ' s capability to procure it , and should filthy gin palaces , pouring forth their Government-made maniacs , fret the eye and sore the heart at every comer of every street , the crime is the Ministers' and not the nation ' 8 . It is quite ' within the range of ministerial irflueHce to destroy the crime of theft , immorality , and drunkenness , in a single session of Parliament ; and therefore I am jostiSed in attributing their existence to misrule rather than to character , propensity , habit , or even desire . TLns I trace to misrule all the evil propensities which shall render the national character disgraceful , odious , insignificant , or contemptible . This I have
dona in detail , by exhibiting tbe effect Which a particular law or a particular tax may have upon any one of the passions . But alas , how much more destructive and injurious must be the result of misrule when we come ta take a wholesale view of its influence npon ths general character of man ? A . goTemment may starve a man , whose strong mind may bu proof against the temptations of the gin palace . A government may , by the operation of the income or any other inquisitorial tax , render the truth-loving portion of the community less ^ crapulous about ve raci ty ; but while it thus toncb . es but in one point , a general and wholesale debasing sj stem , assails tha whole character of man , leaving no point proof against the continuous and undermining assaults . Such , then , I contend is the effect which tha
system of machinery has upon the whole character of man . Now I will tike one of the system-made destroyers of his country ' s fame and name , and in pity let us see whtther or not his influence , his disregard of human life , his power over the life , the liberty , and property of his operative skve , is in any wise less , or less tyrannically used , than the power and the use made cf it by the black slave owners , as a class . When negro slavery did exist , there was firstly , a strong controlling power in public opinion ; and secondly , in the interest which the o ^ ner had in his property being kept in the most valuable state . If he killed his slave , he lost so much property . If ha overworked his slave , he felt the same injury as if a po « t-ma 3 ter overworked his
horse ; and thus public opinion and . Belf interest , two most powerful correctives of bad passions and evil propensities , were ties upon his lust and controllers of his actions . Now has not the manufacturer by steam a power of life and limb , of liberty and property ? and is his use of that power less erne ) , tyrannical , sad oppressive , than was the use made of it by the black slave owner ? and does publie opinion operate as a corrective upon . the exercise of that power equally as upon the black slave owner ? and has he as great an interest , or any interest at all , in the condition of a wom-oat slave , whose place is easily supplied , and without the cost of purchase , by some other competing syttem-made pauper ? What says the Jew , when threatened with the loss of property ? He
says" Nay , tike my life and all , pardon not that : Teu take my house , when yen do take the prop Tbzt doth sustain rey houge ; you take my life , When you do take the mtans whereby I live . " I now ask you to contrast your condition with that of the negro slave ; and 1 ask you , have your masters as great an interest ia your health , your lives , your comforts , and yocr entire condition , as the black slave owner hid in the well-being of bis stock of human flssh ? Has he an interest in your sobriety , your morality , your freedem , or your independence ? No ; he has a clear and direct interest in the destruction of your every eomfort , and in the annihilation of every
: trace of character and nationality . He lives npon your j beggared honour , while your degradation is hia richest j merchandise . To him vice is a general agent , drunken * i ness a labour auctioneer , and poverty a recruiting ser-¦ geant Yon are mere attendants upon your steam-pro-, during master , and while at duty you must be sober ; ¦ there yon cannot be immoral , and beyond that period he looks cot . Well now , what position do I take up ? : This : —that if the rising generation of system-made ; tyrants en the one hand , and sy&tem--nade slaves upon the other , shall be bora and nurtured in the belief and i conviction that their respective offices , duties , and I dependencies , are part and parcel of the institutions of the country ; that they have been borne and submitted ¦ to by fathers , and are consequently no new imposition i npon their sons , we leave to future generations the tisk ! ot contending against common law , sanctioned by cusj torn , instead of contending onrsel / e » , on behalf of the i Tir' ^ fiPTlt Ot . fi CrtjnoratlArvo rof f /\ J * nmn aminnf m Drofom present andgenerations yet to comeagainBt a system
. , ; struggling for recognition , and which may be destroyed by our united exertions . A manufacturer of twenty-flve j yean of age , who never knew what the , independence « of labour meant , who was born and reared in the lap j of the present system , feels deep astonishment at the : presumption of Ms slaves when they question his unicontrolled right of masterdom . And only let us slumber aatil time shall have nurtured and matured for us ; a whole generation of steam vipers , and then arrest i their progress and destroy their influence who can ? I : regret that the smallness of the space allotted to me in j this valuable , little paper precludes the possibility of ! entering more tit large upon my subject . I have ! shown you the indirect effect of machinery upon all ¦ classes of the community , both in point of physical i comfort and formation of general character ; and now j I will briefly lay before you the direct effect which ' the unrestricted use of machinery has upon the work-¦ ing classes .
Shortly , then , it opens a fictitious , unsettled , and unwholesome market f ot labour , leaving to the employer complete and entire controul over wages and employment . As machinery becomes improved , manual labour is dispensed with , and the dismissed constitute & surplus population of unemployed system-made paupers , wnich makes a reserve for the masters ta fall back upon , as a means of reducing the price of labour . It makes character valueless . By the application cf fictitious money , it overruns the world with produce , and makes labour a drug . It entices the agricultural labmrer , under false pretences , from the natural and wholesome market , and locates him in an unhealthy atmosphere , where human beings herd together like swine . It destroys the value of real capital in the
market , and is capable of afivcting every trade , busines and interest , though apparently wholly unconnected with its ramifications . It creates a class of tyrants and a class . of slaves . Its vast connection with banks , and all the monied interests of the ccButry , gives to it an unjust , injurious , anomalous , and direct influence over the govrmment of the country . The advantage it has over tbe landed interest ia this : its forces are on the spot , and easily congregated together by placard or ring of bell , to be marshalled and presented as public opinion to overawe the House of Commons , while the agricultural force is thinly dispersed over the face of the
country , and cannot be collected for the expression of public opinioD . The forces of the masters have hitherto been under their controul and at their disposal , but now , thank GjJ , we have taken the soldiers from the officers , and have marshalled all under the glorious ban-Btrs of Chartism , and under -which I hope and trust -we Khali a ht the good fight of justice against injustice , ct righfagainst might , of knowledge against bigotry and intolerance . Let no surrender be our motto , and virtue our goal , and then we will accomplish what all governments have hitherto failed to effect , namely , to develope the virtues and suppress the vices of our ftllow men . Ever your faithful Friend , Peabgus O'Coknok .
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Delph Hole , Little Hobton . —Mr , Brook lectured" on Sunday evening last , in the Association Room . During the course of his lecture he gave a detailed account of the proceedings of the Sturge Conference at Birmingham ,- and recommended the members to stand firm to the National Charter Association ; not to throw any impediments in the way of the Complete Suffrage movement , so long as they advocated the principles of the Charter ; but Ehould they fctep out of the way to advocate Corn Law Repeal , or any other crotchets , then it will be the duty of the Ciiartista to meet them and put them into the right road again . Mr . Brook concluded by an able appeal to unite heart and hand in the glorious work of extirpating tyranny and oppression from the world . A resolution , pledging the members to adhere to their original organization , was adopted . The Trc asurer resigned bis cfBce and "was re-elected ; and tho meeting separated , highly delighted with the harmony that exiitsd . i
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Bradford . — Butter-worth ' s Buildings . — On Sunday last , Mr . Edwards lectured in the Council Room . Council Meeting . —On Monday evening last , the Council met as usual , when the sum of £ 1 23 . 8 d . was voted to the Executive , for 100 plain cards and 12 enamelled ones . A discussion then commenced about employing a local lecturer , but nothing definitive was come to . Idlb . —Messrs . Arran and Feather lectured at this place on Monday evening last , in the Chartist room .
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FORTHCOMING CHARTIST MEETINGS . Leeds .. —Mr . Fraser will lecture in tha Association room , Cheapside , to-morrow night , at half-past six o'clock . Holblck . —Messrs . Wilson and Hobson will lecture here to-morow night at half-past sis o ' clock . Hu . nslet . —Mr . Longstaff will lecture here tomorrow night , at half-past six o'clock . Wortlky . —Messrs . Chambers and Stead will lecture here to-morrow night , at half-past six o ' clock . Aumlet . —MeEsrs . Fraser and Longstaff will leo ture in the Association Room on Monday night , at eight o ' clock .
Woodhouss . —Messrs . Chambers and Hobson will lecture in the Association Room on Tuesday night , at eight o ' clock . Leeds District . —A Delegate Meeting of this District will be held to-morrow morning in the Association Room , Hunslet , at ten o ' clock , when Delegates from all the Associations are requested to attend , as business of great importance will be brought forward . . Simtwinglby . —Mr . T . B . Smith will lecture on Wednesday , at half-past seven in the evening . Hunslet . —Mr . T . B . Smith will lecture on various mattftrs of local importance and general interest , at Stock' 8 Hill , on Tuesday evening . Bibstal and LiTTLETOWN . —Mr . T . B . Smith lectures at Birstall this evening ; and preaches at Littletown to-morrow morning and evening .
Bradford . —Mr . J . Dewhurst will lecture here on Saturday ( this day ) , at the Masons' Arms , at seven o ' clock in the evening . Bradford—George Flinne will lecture at the Robin Hood , Dunkirk-street , at six o'clock on Sunday evening . Council Room . —Messrs . Smyth , Kell , and Detehion will lecture on Snnday ( to-morrow ) at eix o ' clock in the evening , at the Council room . Bradford . —Mr . Smyth will lecture at the Golden Cock Inn , Wapping , on the Corn and Provision Laws , on Sunday evening , ( to-morrow , ) at six o'clock Stanningley . —Messrs . Brook and Dewhirst will lecture at this place , on Sunday evening ( to-morrow ) at six o ' clock .
Holme Lake-end . —Messre . Alderson and Rawnsley will lecture on Monday evening next , at eight o ' clock . Little Horton , Del ? h Hole . —Mr . pewhirstis requested to attend this locality at five o ' clock in the afternoon . Stanningley . —Mr . J . Dewhurst will address the females of Stanningley on Tuesday next . A memorial to her Majesty will be adopted , for the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones .
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Valuable 'Works.
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 23, 1842, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct427/page/2/
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