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TO THE CHARTISTS OF GRFAT BRITAIN AND - IRELAND . Fuisnds , —Haying -watched -with some attention the progress ol the cauBe of truth , justice , and numanlty , in opposition to falsehood , injustice , and cruelty , I have been impressed "with the necessity of some further steps being taken for the diffusion of sound political information among all classes , particularly among a great portion of the ^ forking classes not as being necessary to qualify the latter for electors , but as a means of enabling them to obtain their political rights . Yon are 6-ware that those -who axe desirous of maintaining that system through ¦ which they are enabled to live in afnaenca by depriving a great portion of the working classes of the common necessaries of life , do all they can to
preveBt the people from haying convenient places to meet in , hoping , thereby , to prevent tntix obtaining their otject . That these beings may reap disappointment , and that the cause of truth may speedily prevail , I ¦ would recommend the Cbartista all oyer the kingdom to open at conyenient places their houses , and invite by printed circular , their neighbours to meet them , for the purpose of considering the propriety of forming a class far obtaining and diffusing sound political information . I subjoin the form of a circalar to saye those "who may be disposed to act on this suggestion the trouble of ¦ writing one . Should this plan be generally adopted , I sm disposed to think that tens of thousands would j * in such classes , and afterwards the association ; who , with their present small amount of information ¦ would othervise not join it for a considerable time . At these meet
ings , ¦ which should be held -weekly , at least , let the National Chartist newspaper be rtad , and let ene or two of the members make it their business to look ovar the ether Chartist publications , bo as to bring any thing which they may think desirable should be made known before other members . As the success of those -who may be disposed to adopt the plan here recommended -wiU depend much upon its being understood that the plan is to be acted •• apon extensively , I -would -suggest that , at the nert meetings of the members of the association , resolutions be passed expressive of a determination to act on the recommendation here given , and that notice be sent te the Star of such resolutions having been passed . J . S . FXBHEE . Wolverhampton , May 2 SVh , 1842 .
: 'Circular . J Sib , —It is 1 b -contemplation to have established throughout the kingdom small classes for obtaining and diffusing , at a cheap rate ; sound political inforaiation , in order that by extending the iifluence and strength ening the power of the working cksses , they may ere long cease to be , ae they now are , the slaves of landowners , usurers , and money-mongers . Tour company is-xequested at the house of ( here insert the place and tkae of meeting ) , when and where a a few of your neighbours have been invited to attend , for the purpose of considering the propriety of forming a das 3 to meet weefcly at his house . The subscription , if any , need not be sbove one penny per month .
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THE NECESSITY OF A TOTAL CHANGE IX OUR EAST-INDIAN POLICY ! When the lives &nd fortunes of thousands of our brave countrymen are at stake , and when many of them with their wives and-families are prisoners and hostage * in a bitterly hoetile country , we msy be forgiven for esliisg some slight attention to the everts which have lately taken place , and which have caused such heartbreakings and heartburnings botk abroad and at home , and to all connected in any way whatever with the affairs of the East-India Company . Thoagh the greater portion of our energies and sympathies should be directed to the exterminatica of the barbarian
cruelties , pracVted hi arrogant and ignorant wantonness , on the suffering masses of the population of Great Britain and Ireland , jet , we will uplift oar voices , feeble though they be , and fearlessly and hontetly declaim agaiiat , and deArance with heart and soul , the murderers of our social hearths and happiness . We have sons , brothers , friends , and relatives of all de-¦ erriptions , male and female , in Hindostan , aixl in the midst of our unparalleled distresses , though we can render but little aid for their safety or salvation , yet we can record our feelings and show in after and happier
times , we were not totally insensible to their dangers and privations brought cpon their heads ( like ours * by -the crimes of the legislature . Our affairs in the last are extremely difficult to deliberate on at least satisfactorily , as we have placed ourselves in a very fake position . It 13 madness to advance , our moral power is shaken if we retreat , and if we come to a stindfctill we become the laughing-stock of the European and Oriental worlds . This is the real picture of our position ia Afghanistan , and a mighty pleasant one ii "bids fcir to be ! How are we ro extricat 3
ourselves " with anything like honour , a :: d retain out moral superiority ? We have good reason to know that the war is not palatable to the army in India , whether European or native ; we can also vouch for the unwilling feelings with which many of our fresh levies embarked on ihe transports which have lately Eailed from our shores s we will mention particularly the 9 th Lancers , and we heard serjeant-majors , se ^ eants , noncommissioned officers of all grades , and scores of privates declare , " that they would rattier join the ranks of the Afghans , than fight against them "—that it was an unjust vrar—that they were obliged to go because they conldn't help themselves , not from any deration to the interests of the country , but from sheer necessity The European officers are grumbling now in all their
private letters about their numerous hardships , the deprivations of tieir usual luxuries , ard the restrictions on their enorraoai quantities of baggage , that they can't Ejoy their wines and ales , and are condemned to drink brsndy and water ! These restrictions are absolutely necessary , or they wonld hare to protect a baggage train of some miles in length , and wear the troops out by unceasing and harEEsmg duty . We should like to see soma of the " eld school" deprived of tbeir " mess " luxuries , their tents with outer " Kanauts , " their " Row ^ -s , " their " Beehobers , " their " fcafgage , " aud " necessary" tents , and we should see a portion of their enthusiasm evaporate after every day ' s march . Excuse these remarks , but we know what we « e speaking about , and the Duke of
Wellington is well aware that they are but j " feather bed Eoldiera" i We impugn not j their courage or their physical energies , it ia tke , climate , aad the climate alone , that encircles them in . * . 6 iroBd of lassitude and makes them the slaves of J eostom . "When they are in such a clime as that of j Afghanistan , the extremes of heat and cold , of wet and i dry , they must suffer considerably , and the luxuries of ' , Hindostan , would b « doubly regretted , and to make ; the march at all palatable to Christian , Mahometan , or ' Hindoo gulletts , success must be their constant compa- j awn , and plunder and promotion their necessary i attendants ! Such then is the undoubted state and ; efficiency of the advancing army ! , ¦ j We Blast now look behind and take a glimpse over j fee surface of Hindostan . The unquiet epirit of thej
Binioos and Mahometans must be propitiated ; it has hitherto been laid , or rather smothered , by constant em- j pJojmeai and petty wars . From tie fall of Seringapa- \ tarn , and the death of Tippoo Saib , we have bad a struggle ; for Britua ropremecy , and it has only been attained by- ; iadttriug one tribe er caste of natives , to wage war ] against auotkti . Like jackalls , we haye partaken of i ikeprey . Prom the battle of Assaye , in 1503 . { where j the Duke of Wellington reaped bis first blood-stained j laurels ) to that of Mahidpoor , in 1817 , we were con-j ^ tantly employed in the ncble and ehristian-like occupa- j tioa ef setting natives by the ears , and the w ? rs and ' Quarrels of Holkar and Scindiah , amply testify to what extent we had succeeded . Poor Bajce Row , the Peishwa , j came in fer a share of ou * attention . He was subju-1 gated , aad alter some hard finking the gallant ( r ^ fclar ' was slr ' n , nsd . fill at AsLtea . TLwiks to tte di :
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22 nd Dragoons , we remained masters of that hard fought field ! In 1824 , came the Burmese 'war , to occupy men's minds and prevent them from thioking , theugh we forget to mention that the Bombay troops in 1820 made a few excursions to the Persian Gulf , which did not stamp them as invincibles , or their leader . Sir Lionel Smith iflike my Lord Cardigan ) as the chevalier sans pear tt sans reproche ! » In 1827 , a few thousands knocked their heads against the-walls of Bhurtpore , and the ball was pretty well kept op , till the Affghans hinted to the Feringhees that they were determined to have a wil . of their own .
Here , then , we are in Afghanistan , panting for revenge , goaded by military renown , and partaking , in dreams , " of plunder and promotion ! Behind you , in Hindostan , nations and tribes bowing unwillingly to your yoke ; before you , a hardy , brave , and patriotic enemy ; and around you , and for the time being , and marching under your banner , a dispirited , and treacherous native soldiery ! We must negociate with arms In our hands . Positive orders must proceed from the Government here to the Indian authorities , to stop these wanton butcheries , and by taking a high moral ground , with considerable physical force to back it , we may be able , by the
assistance of skilful negotiators , to cause the blessings of peace to beam upon the land . We have little doubt bnt the Affghans will meet us half-way , and would assist by peaceable means in ridding themselves of our presence . They cannot wishfor such a war to ravage their homes and habitations . The army , we are well assured , would ' gladly see once more the flowery " topes" and " paddy" Belds of Hiodostan , and the Gsvernment in trauquUity , by a more enlightened policy , might look to the construction of roads—aye , even the laying down of railroads , the beautifying the cities , towns , and villages , and framing more t quitable and acceptable laws , equally embracing European and native , than bare ever been issued forth in the East by man .
The ministers here must not hesitate ; they must be prompt and bold ; it Is our only chance as regards Afghanistan and India . And snch a result would tend more to their own or the national honour than thousands of bloodstained victories . Afghanistan cannot be conquered by us , and never could be tenable at any rate . Hindostan is not irredeemable , and by showering around it the blessings of civilization we may become in future years friends and benefactors to the natives . Under the present system we would boldly ay never . A Woolwich Cadet . Cbichester , 23 d May , 1842 .
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THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TO THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Brethren , —The duties which devolved upon ub , as members of the National Convention , are terminated . The period is now approaching when it becomes us , in accordance with the principles of the People's Charter , to resign into your bauds that trust which you have reposed in us , and which we have striven to the beat of our ability to exercise to the satisfaction of our constituents and the benefit of the common canse . We therefore direct your attention to the proper measures to be adopted for the election of a new Executive Committee . THE BALLOT . Which shall take place throughout the nation in the week beginning with Tuesday , the 7 th day of June , and ending on Tuesday , the 14 th day of June . Lei it be particularly observed , thai each Ucality will choose for itself one day only for the ballot , out of tlic seven , so as to m * iT * niPTin& aJ ) Jnr / ililifji .
- MODE OP BALLOTING . The fifth rule of our Association states , " That any person shall be admitted a member of this Association on taking a card of membership . " Therefore no person will be eligible to vote for the officers of the Association unless they can produce a card of membership . The sub-secretary shall grant to each person , producing a card of membership ef the locality to which he belongs , a voting card , on which is written or printed the names ef all the candidates . The elector shall then , at his
own convenience , draw a pen through all the names except the five for whom he votes , and the five names left standing on the card shall be considered as the persona whom he thinks eligible to serve on the Executive The sub-secretaries shall also be empowered to grant to absent , sick , or distant members their voting cards , and receive their votes in return , sealed "up , through the post effiee , or by other meanB , which sealed votes are to be opened by the'General Council , snd deposited in a box provided for the purpose , aad to be called the ballot-box .
On the day of ballot each sub-Secretary shall act as registrar , and the General Council as scrufmisers of the votes . The sub-Secretaries , attended by the General Council , shall , on the day or evening appointed for the ballot by the laajoriry , stand around the ballot-feox , and proceed to call over the roll , eack voter advancing when his name is called , and dropping his ballotting card into the ballot-box . On the conclusion of the ballot , the General Council will proceed to the scrutiny . They shaH first count the cards to see that the number co * - responds with that on the rolL They shall , secondly , cast up each . card in succession , ¦ and the sub-Secretary shall put a mark opposite the name of each of the candidates reported as having been voted for . Finally they shall declare the result to tae Ganeral Secretary , reserving a copy for themselves .
On TuesdBy , the 2 lEt of June , or earlier , if possible , the names of the new Executive will be announced ; &n& on- Friday , the 1 st of July , the new Executive will supersede the old . Brethren , we trust these directions will be strictly adhered to , and that all of yoc will vie with each other in exhibiting the proper spirit of Chartism during such an important practical application of our principle . All those places ia arrears for cards are particularly requested to discharge the same , and thereby enable the present Executive to leave office without entailing any debts on the books of their successors .
Having full reliance in you , out constituents , supporting us in the course we have advised , regarding the election , We remain , your faithful And devoted Representatives , James Leach , P . M . M'Douall . Morgan William * . R . K Philp . John Campbell .
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BRISTOL AND THE STURGE PARTY . - TO THE EDITOK OF THE KOETHEBN STAB . SIR , —Having read a report in your last paper of a meeting of the Complete Suffrage Union , "without members , ! wish through your pages to call the attention of my brother Chartists to the fket that unihoui Tnembers it could not be z , meeting of any union , and further to inform them , that this said meeting was held at the house of one who hitherto has passed for a Chartist , and I believe was convened by Chartiet professors , for the purpose of seducing others of the Chartists to desert the glorious cause to which they have often publicly pledged themselves , and become lowered in the estimation of every party . The argument , if such their language may be termed , for this backsliding , is , that forty members of Parliament will support Starge , that none will support Fearcug O'Connor , thus resolving the question cf right into individual influence . Secondly , that a rose would be just as sweet with any other name . But what Englishman would think of changing
the name of this emblem of bis country ? and what Chartist would for a moment entertain the idea of charging that name which has been handed down to us by . those great goals , the immortal Hunt , Cartwright ,- Cobbett ? As well may yon a * k the Irishman to change the name of bis shamrock , or the Scotsman his thistle , the Welshman his leek , the democrats of France to strike ene of their tricolours , or the Americans to throw aside one of their stripes and stars . The answer in every case would be , No ! These names and emblems are national , and are endeared to us by ike breatb , and toil , and blood of noble sires and brothers , who have gone hence , bequeathing to us the fulfilment of the labours they commenced ; and we have administered to their testament , and sworn for our own sJtes and that cf cur children to devote our whole energies to the accomplishment of their glorious oi jecte . Change the came Universal Suffrage > Never . ' It has beceme a sacred name , sanctified by the sacred nameB of nobles of nature who have died in its advocacy .
We were onee united in local associations under the title of Universal Suffrage , Democratic , and Working Men ' s Associations ; after the acceptance by these of the Gharter , we advanced from this position to that of Loeal Chartist Associations and District Unions of Chartists ; after the barbarous crusade of 1839-40 , we emerged from the conflict with flying colours , and took a still more advanced position , under the title of the National Charter Association . We have since then , nnder good generals , parried every feint of our many enemies , and at length destroyed their army ; and should we , after having achieved this victory , in a war ef trickery waged by pretended friends and open foes , now bend to their new-modelled yoke , and disgrace ourselves in the eyes of the country and the world ? In the name of consistency , no . '—in the name of union , no !—in the names of Hunt , Cobbett , and Carttrrijht , no 1
The Charter , we were contlna&lly told ( aye , and by one who has backslidden ) was framed , that all that was necessary for a just representation may be embodied —that we may have ene thing to point to , and be of one mind , not divided by our several crotchets , but bj unity of purpose , and unity of action , achieve our own emancipation from the thraldom of class legislation-And shall we now descend from this unity of purpose and action , to our several crotchets again , changing one name after another , to suit the whim of this man or that party , until the whole face is changed , and the working class divided into powerless sections ? Universal Suffrage is our sacred principle of political rights . The Charttr is become a talisman to the people , wherein is their hope of frc-edom ; and to ask them to change—to turnfjoai it— ta o b ^ ck frc . ro their present
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position to even the five points without details , much less to alter one of those point ! for a more limited , and therefore inferior name , is to ask them to be unstable as water , and lay them bare , to be blown about , as they hitherto have been , by the breath of faction—ia , indeed , to favour the tyrant' s maxim , " Divide and govern . " ¦ Bnt if the question is to be between Feargus O'Connor and Joseph Simge , the decision must be years of toil in favour of Feargus O'Connor , for he has been tried by the people and found perfect even to the present moment ; but of Joseph Sturge we may ask what do we know of him ?—answer , that he was a free trader only , till he found he could not carry free trade without the Chartists ; at least , all parlies must own he is
untr ied , and therefore only thought to be a friend of the people . When be has had years of trial in the people ' s cause of political emancipation , it will be time enough to dnb him a friend ot the toiling millions ; bat to desert our tried friend , O'Connor , and join Sturge , because a few more of the dishonourablea would vote for the latter , would be truly absurd , and Joseph Sturge himself would not respect or place any confidence in men who could be guilty of such gross ingratitude to one who has served them so long and nobly . If Joseph Stnrge can by his influence gain over the middle class to his Suffrage , he may do us service , because at a future time we may get them to advance
into the Chartist ranks ; but that Chartists should retrograde to his plan , is too ridiculous y inconsistent . No , brothers , onward for the Charter , that has become sacredly endeared by the breath , and toil , and sufferings iu dungeons and in exile of its virtuous advocates , and by ita necessity to free our order from the cruel bondage , misery , and death entailed upon as by continual drudgery . Let as stand by our tried friends as becomes men—let ua stand by oar Charter as becometh freemen ; and set an example of consistency and firmness to the mere wordy democrat—eur country and the world . J . . Bristol .
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TO THB EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAB . Sib —Ab another proof of what Englishmen are reduced to , the following may be relied on as a fact : — " A man of the name of Ralph Kersbaw , of Oldham , who has been some time out ef employment , went to his former employer to get a job but without success ; but having to send a parcel to Halifax the man begged he would let him have the job , which he did , and the man got a wheelbarrow and brought the parcel ( weighing nine stone four pounds , ) from Oldham to Halifax , a distance of twenty-one miles , and took another parcel back that weighed sis stone six pounds . What he got for it I know not , but this is another proof among many others , that Englishmen bad rather toil for a livelihood , than live either on charity or parochial relief . " Robert Sutcliffe . Boothtown , May 31 , 1842 .
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THE STONE MASONS ON STRIKE , FROM THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT , AND KELSON'S MONUMENT , LONDON , AND THE WOOLWICH DOCKYARD , To the Public and the Trades of Great Britain and Ireland . " If every just man , that now pines with want , H \ d but a moderate and beseeming share Of that which lewdly-pampered luxury Now heaps ueon some few with vast exesss , Nature's full blessings would be well dispensed In unauperfluouB even proportion . " Milton .
"An immense majority of every civilized people are verging towards a mutual agreement to give , in order that to each may be given , full measure , pressed down , and shaken together , and running over . Such is the plenty ia which God showers his gifts among us ; and such is the manner in which he would have us yield each to the other . " A Political Economist . Brethren , —We have at length arrived at that period so long and se devoutly wished for by all that have been engsged in prosecuting our strike to an honourable termination , and more especially by ourselveB—that of issuing our final address .
In doing so . it ia our pleasing duty to inform you , that excepting sixteen individuals located at Dartmoor , all of the late turnouts have relieved us of the cast of supporting them—some of them by the obtainment of other employment , in the immediate localities in which tbey resiiie , some of them by going in quest of it to distant parts ot the ¦ country , and others ot them by being promised a small bonus eich so soon aa means are furnished to ua to scf > ply it to them . It may , perhaps , be fit here to state , that tho arrears ¦ of pay due to those sixteen , including a bonus of £ 1 eech , which they have agreed to accept , and then to relinquish all farther claims in respect of the strike , amount to upwards of sixty pounds ; and which ( having had " a pretty considerable sum" arrears of strike
allowance to pay to those who have gone to the country in quest of employment , and having yet a considerable sum to pay to those remaining in their respective localities deficient of the promised bonus , and unemployed ) , we are incapable of ourselves yet'to pay , and which is operating most materially against ua . We are , however , Banguine enough to hope , that this to the many insignificant , yet to us at this moment important 11 trifle , " will not be allowed long to operate as a drag chain on the wheels of our onward movement ; but , being freed from immediate embarrassment , we may be enabled , like industrious and persevering artisans , to set ourselves cheerfully and energetically at work ,
" placing our house again in order , " in repairing those portions of our citadel which , during the long siege unto which it has been subjected , have been susceptible of injury . , Not , however , in propping with lame expedients , or decaying substances , the unstable and affected parts , but , taking the experience of the past as a beacon for the future , conserving that only which , in its practice , has proved effective and useful , and levelling to the ground all that has been proved ineffective and useless , and upon the most approved principle rearing up a new fabric , mure adapted to the improvement of our condition , and the defence of the rights of labour .
We shall not , we hope , offend any of <» ur friends if in this , our last address to them , we digreBS a little from the subject of our strike , to say a word or two respecting the origin of that wealth through the agency of which we have been so persecuted , aa also respecting the inefficient protection afforded to , and the disproportionate distribution of , the produce of labour . It has been written , and , as assumed , by divine inspiration , that " He who will not labour neither shall he eat "—that " The labourer ia worthy of his biro . " Indeed , labour was the firct price—the original purchase-money— that was paid for all things . It was neither by gold nor by silver , but by labour , that all the wealth of the world was originall / purchased . Labour , therefore , has a right to the first and most perfect kind of protection .
We see not , however , how this " per feet kind of protection" can be afforded it without a subversion of the existing arrangements with regard to the distribution of labour * produce . " Under the present social system , the capitalists and employers are not only distinct from , but they are in a manner independent of , the labouring classes . They have the whole control of all the operations of trade—at their flat production goea forward or languishes—the labouring man is made comfort ible or starves by inches . In all trades or professions the capitalists or employers receive double or quadruple remuneration for single work , or for no work whatever ; " and this unequal distribution of labour ' s produce is the great source from whence originates the misery and extreme poverty of the labouring clesses . This system must , therefore , be subverted ere labour can receive " a perfect kind of protection . " The great
principle of equal txchanges , now too much unheeded by the labouring man , and which exposes him to every wrong and every injustice the rapacity of the capitalist and the employer see it to be their interest to inflict upon him , should engage his serious and undivided attention . He must take into his own handBhis legitimate officethat of distributing the produce of his own labour—a course of all others the best calculated to ensure it a " perfect kind of protection . " And until he does this —until he interposes his natural authority to the annihilation of the baneful system of unequal exchanges , with its destructive tendencies— "there will be evasion of labour by some classes at the expence ot otMez classes , the more especially of his class—there will be undeservedly rich , and unmeritedly poor—there will be tyrants and there will be slaves—and his labour will be without even a semblance of a " perfect kind of protection . "
Be it , however , fully understood , tnat we have no reason or intention to speak lightly of what we at once admit is but an imperfect "kind of protection" afforded to labour by trade societies as at present existing ; but that , on the contrary , by somewhat more judiciously directing their resources , and thus more extensively developing their capabilities , we hope for more through their agency than they have yet achieved . Neither let it be supposeed that we contemplate the existence of trade societies would be rendered unnecessary by any political change in the constitution or government of
the country that may be effected , however extensive that change may be . The necessity for their existence , in our opinion , can only be removed by sweeping away universally that system which makes one man the property , indeed the slave , of another man—which divides society into classes of competitive and clashing interests—compelling one class to tail while others are idle—to produce that others may consume . " And no mere governmental change , if engrafted upon the present social system , " can effect the removal of these things ; and their removal must be " a consummation devoutly to be wished . "
To obtain , then , " a perfect kind of protection to labour , " and an uiisuperflaous evenly proportioned distribution of its produce , the various trade societies znnat tarn their attention , and direct their means to the institution of joiut-stock and co-operative compn .-aies . " They must take their own affairs into their own hands "—put their own money into their own co-operative bank ; and thus , by withdrawing it from the unprofitable channels which now abaorb it , make its interest and profits accrue to their own immediate advantage . What we see accomplished almost everywhere around us by joint-stosk companies must clear away every doubt , <; ven from the most sceptical , as to
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the practicability of snch a coarse ; and there are ample means , when combined , at the disposal of the trades for sucha pujpoae . In their existing funds which are bow , tbrougn tne hands of bankers and other conventional mediums , lent on hire under the cunningly devised delusion of receiving interest for the same , but which , in a majority of cases , are made in some one way or another . to operate against them are the means to be foand which , applied to such a purpose , nnder the judicious direction of properly constituted boards of trade , aided by the united exertions of those concerned , «• all having a common interest , working for a common end , arid deriving > common beneflt , " most incalculably conduce to both individual and collective prosperity .
By the general adoption of the principles of co-operation , a great majority of the unenfranchised may also obtain for themselves their inalienable rights , the ,-suffrage , and the means submitted are simple , peaceable , andsafe . . ¦¦ - . ¦; . . ; . ; ., : . / - - ' . -- ¦; : , ¦ ¦ ¦ - . ¦ . . •;¦ -. We recommend , -with all the seriousness of which we are capable , the early attention of the trades to the subject of co-operation , and upon which we have passed the foregoing , although brief we hope , intelligible remaiks . - . ¦¦ - , ; - . - ¦ - . . ¦ ¦ ¦ , : ; ; . , w - ... / ° And as the meeting of delegates convened for the especial purpose of aiding us through our strike , is virtually dissolved , we most respectfully aubmit that each trade its earliest convenience , determine on the propriety of organizing another delegate meeting , having for it 3 object the deliberate consideration of this important question in all its bearings . With a view to inspire confidence we Bhall conclude with the following lines from a poet of immortal fame : —
" © ft expectation falls , and inost oft there Where most it promises ; and oft it hits Where hope is coldest ; and despair most sits : " and with deeply engrafted feelings of gratitude for the counsel and pecuniary aid which have been afforded ua , - ¦ ¦ ¦ : ¦ . . . ¦ ¦ ; ¦ . ¦ - .. ¦ ; . ¦ ¦ . - .. . - ¦ . - . - ¦ / . -- ¦ - ¦ ¦ . We subscribe ourselves , Yours grat' . f ally , The Committee of the Masons on Strike , Thomas Shortt , Sec . May 25 th , 1842 . N . B . All money contributed on behalf of the masons , in the provinces , should be made payable to Thomas Shortt . at No . 180 , Strand , London .
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( From our own Correspondent . ) Ever since the announcement of the compromise into which the parties contendingfor the honour of representing this pure Borough in our reformed Parliament , are said to have entered , public opinion has been upon the stretch . But perhaps it may not be amisB , as the working classes generally appear to attach more than usual importance to the result of the present struggle—to state the nature of the compromise . It is known to all that the return of Sir John Hobhouse and Sir John Larpent , was petitioned against by Walter and hia Tory coadjutor on the score of bribwry . That is , Hobhouse and Larpent had committed the crime of over-bidding their virtuous Tory opponents ia
the flesh market However , so great was the importance attached to the neat of the ex-Whig Minister , Hobhouse , that the Wbigo , or a section of the influential of that body , entered into an agreement with the petitioner , the terms of which were that Hobhpuse should retain hie seat , that Larpent should accept tho Chlltern Hundreds , as well as the Baronetcy which corruption entitled him to , and that : the leading Whigs should give no opposition to the return of Walter as the successor of the Whig Baronet ! . In this state of affairs the Tories had a fair right to presume that the neutrality of the leading Whigs , and the ' effect of Tory gold would insure a walk over tor their man . But , alas ! ' man proposes , but God disposes ! " and the
wicked spoil-sport Chartist non-electora , fired with indignation at the presumptuous barter thus made of their rights , put their "ignorant heads together / and came to the conclusion to flght compromise , gold and all , with solid principle and virtue ; and accordingly invited Mr . Joseph Sturge to offer himself as the representative of their virtuous design . Feargus OVohaor : waa immediately written to , and at once pledged his aid in support ot the people ' s views . The Tories being sceptical of Cbaiiiat integrity , laughed at the motion of the Chartists and the honest and uncommitted portion of the middle classes daring to raise their presumptuous beads against things as rule had settled them . They have learned a lesson , however * which they will not hastily forget !
O'Connor arrived on Thursday week , and addressed the people in the Market-place . He then pledged himself to coma and remain with us , when the struggle commenced , until the victory was won . He retnrned on Thursday last , and , at eight , o ' clock , addressed a meeting of several thousands of the people in the Market-place . The veteran Harrison , delegate to the Convention was in the chair , and opened the meeting in his usual straightforward manner . He then introduced Mr . O'Connor to their notice , who was received ^ ith repeated cheers . He commenced by saying " what a blessing , what a pleasure , what a pride , that in the midst of accusation and recrimination , of taunts of Tory gold and Whig gold , that I can thus stand in the Market-place , and say to the Whigs , tchosespyltoas till I strangled them , who paid me ? and turning to the Tories , whose spy I then became , but as whose
destroyer I now am , to them also I txf , WHO paid HE ? Now is your time to come forward and for ever damn the hireling "—( tremendous cheering and waving of hats . ) Mr . O'Connor then continued in his usual strain of rapid and thrilling eloquence . After inspiring the Chartists with hope and confidence , in a glorious democratic speech , the meeting at its close fell into procession , and marched through the town ,, singing Chartist eongs , with O'Connor at their head . Walter had heard of Mr . Sturge ' a absence ; and , hsping to steal a march upon the undefended garrison , he also arrived on Thursday ; but O'Connor was before hand ¦ with him . Walter addressed a few Of tho leading Tories in the Assembly Rooms , and affected great surprise at the altered Btata of public opinion since he w » s made a tool of by the Chartists for the annihilation of Wbiggery . O'Connor informed bis hearer * tltat Walter
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was then addressing his Tory friends ; but assured them that on the morrow a train would take him back to the place from whence he came ; and , curious enough , on Friday morning , Walter was missing I leaving to his mourning friends the sad . task of communicating hiB retreat The people marched by the George the Fourth ; ( Walter ' sHotel , ) and from which he waaaccustomed t « hear the joyous cheer ; but , alas ! the melody was changed into three groans for the Tories . 0 , a » - gratefiil Chartist * , why are ye not still in love with Toryism ! that promises such fair things for you ?
FRIDAY EVENING . On Friday evening , Feargus O'Ctonnor again addressed an immense concourse of all classes in the Market-place > Mr . James Sweet ¦ was unanimously called to the chair by his townsmen , and was received with hearty cheering . He explained the course which he thought it his duty to pursue at Mr . Walter ' s first and second election , and showed the triumph which Nottingham had gained over Wniggery fey its adoption , and the hope which the Chartists now had of reaching the baneflt of that triumph by the annihilation of Toryism . It was very gratifying to witness the unanimity of sentiment which prevailed in approval ef Mr . Sweet ' s conduct He concluded amid cheers by introducing O'Connor to the assembled thousands . Mr . O'Connor spoke till dark , and coBcluded a soul-sUrring appeal thus : — ' If the middle classes are sincere , and desirous of
a union , what an opportunity now presents itself I but should our principles be beat by Whig neutrality , who again will venture , nay , who will dare to recommend , a union ? I for one never will ; " This sentence had a powerful effectv and set many who were , before lukewarm , to work . But he hit them still harder . — " What , " said he , " are the Whigs of Nottingham parties to a compromise by which this town is to be represented by an ex Whig Minister , and no less a Tory than the proprietor of the Times ! If they beat us now , or if we are beaten by their neutrality , they shall have two thumping Tories at the very first gflneral election . " This was followed by loud cheers . After the meeting broke up , the multitude , more numerous if possible than on the preceding night , fell into procession , and paraded the town , singing and cheering for Sturge .
SATURDAY . Saturday feeing market day , the Market-place was not available for electioneering purposes , so O'Connor addressed the Chartists in their large ^ room at the King George on Horseback . He entered fully into the question of trade , machinery , and the Corn Laws ; and plainly explained to his hearers that from a wholesome state of the labour market alone could machinery continue to be profitable to its owners . He laughed at the idea of remunerating markets abroad , while domestic taxation was swallowing up more than the proceeds of our entire exportation ; while he eon > tended that the home market , if rendered sound by the representation of industry , . would set every hand in every trade to work , and leave not a machine in the country idle . '
After his speech , which was loudly cheered , Mr . O'Connor ' s Address to the Irish Universal Suffrage Association was read by a working man , and was loudly applauded .
SUNDAY . Mr . Harrison , the veteran who exposed the tricks of the traders in the late Convention , and who is much beloved by all whe know him , preached a sermou on the Forest at noon , to an © verflowing audience ; and Dean Taylor preached his farewell sermon in the evening , from the same grass-carpeted natural pulpit .
MONDAY . On Monday evening Mr . O'Connor addressed the largest assemblage thai ; has been gathered together for a long time , from a platform erected at Mr . Bean ' s Buildings , on Bunker ' s Hill . Mr . James Sweet was in the chair , and opened the business in an admirable speech of considerable length . Mr . O'Connor on being introduced , entered upon the subject of the election , and the poor prospects of the Tories . He then turned to the Queen ' s begging letter , and scouted the notion of the bishops and parsons bleeding the flock through the year , and then when terror presented itself through famine , insulting the people with the tender of hot a tithe of a tithe of what they had shorn from the backs of the poor ; and in order
to show the benefits which the people derived , he entered upon the evidenca taken before the commission upon the treatment ef children in mines and collieries . Ono cWld , said he , of thirteen years of age , when questioned about Christ , and asked who he was , answered that « be believed he was born in Wales and went into England ( shame , shame . ) Another was asked who God was ; and she answered that she did not know him at all , but heard that he was the first man ; Now , said Mr . O'Connor , had not these poor creatures the full shara of ten millions sterling pet atmum spent iu the circulation and the dispensation of gospel truth through Chursh State lips ? Yes , " he continued , " but Bee the effect which the neglect might have upon justice and the Iavea . It is one of our ni&ralmaximB . that the
evidence of a witness cannot be received in a court of justice who does not believ 6 in future rewards and punishments ; and suppose a murder to have been com- , nutted in the presence of one hundred of those neglected creatures , all of whom witnessed it ; yet would the murderer go free , in consequence of the infamous neglect of our admirable , humane , and religious pastors and masters , who tolerate such hellish deeds under ground , lest their exposure should subject ttem to the rich man ' s scorn . " He made a dreadful exposure of some Nottingham Tories , who took thirteen men to per-Bonate living voters at the South Derbyshire election . He stated that ho knew them all , and those who suborned them to commit perjury and promised them £ 2 a head for their services . They were to hive
polled bufore the real Simon Pures presented themselves ,, and when the real man came , he would appear to have voted before . Those whom they were to have represented were Whigs ; thus would the thirteen have made a difference of twenty-six in favour of the Tory candidates ; and the very man who procured them , fed them , paid them au ^ l suborned them , is now the leading man in Nottingham in Mr . Walter ' s interest . Mr . O'Connor , after a powerful appeal on behalf t > f Sturge , read the address of the non-electors to the electors of Nottingham ; ( inserted below , ) and which it will be found was carried unanimously by the vast assemblage . Mr . O'CoDnor spoke for an heur and a half , and shewed the folly of the middle classes hoping to gain a triumph without the people ' s aid , and the insolence of the Tories boplpsr to resist the demand which the whole working classes of Nottingham , nay of Eagland , were making for the common rights of all . He said the
Whigs say they would rather do the work without me-I know they would , but I know how they would do it ( Cheers . ) But they shan't . ( Cheers . ) I marshal n / y force ; let them marshal their force ; and as I am a pJain speaker , and as they attach much importance to municipal offices here , I now tell them that if we . suftor the disgrace of a Tory triumph through their neglect , they shall have it to their heart ' s content in November next ; for we will fill the Council with Tories—tchfeerat JPiiey call your advocates " demagogues , " in tieiisvw , and in ignorance of the term they use it as nv ^ jtonch , whereas it was esteemed as a title the most Louour . ible by those who loved liberty , because thoy knew its value . Among both Greeks and Romans in their palmiest days , demagogue-was the term by which the people < li » tiuffuished their leaders , the word ia derived from the Greek words ' . 'demos ' the people , and ¦• ' ago" to lead , and signified , as I have told you , a lemUr of the people . ; ¦¦
Mr . Vincent has endeavoured to paint a dMrniKduue in his true colours for you ; but I fear he ALSO lias misunderstood the name which the ^ picuwe lie . « . ve * deserved . Political pedlar should have been . labstHurtfi for the word " demagogue ; " and now I will draw for you the character of
APOLITICAL PEDLAR , to tho life . It is a living thing of clay , so p . iant that the political mechanic may mould it into a . y shape best suited to his views It is as clay in She potter's hands , ready for any shape . " -A 14 things to all men . " It quotea ttom Vrflney , V'ltajre , ana Paine , Mi ! ton , Shakspeare , and Byron , Loc ' k , Pope , Swift , and Bentham , without more krwwfcflge of their contents , than the' Innocent calf skin in which they are bonni . If Socialism is . popular , it bec- 'intB a Socialist ; ' but should the : pure doctrines of Christianity present higher prospects and a richer harvest , the cloak of Socialism Is doffed ,-and the triple maiite of the Trinity is modestly assumed . Its chaugts are not conversions' they are ^ but omens of the moniud value .
which the change in other ' s minda hold out for chani > t . ' in his . Before the people , he is loud in his support of labour ^ rights , and would uphold its every privily ; but shpnld chance make him an employer , he for ^ ts even the rules and regulations of hia craft , and w , > ui < i do the work of journeymen with apprentices . On the platform he pleads for the rights of fuatian ; in should some anxious expectants follow him to bis resting-place , he applies to the landlord for a private apartment , where he and bis more respectable , associates may seek shelter from the filthy g * ae . He will gam popularity under the wing of a good aad vituums man , but should his patron be brought to trouble , and become hound in the lion ' s pet on bis acceunt , then , unlike the grateful mouse , he will forget to gnaw bis trammels , or to assist in hia release . Should the fury of party
threaten danger to him , he will have recourse to all devises to ensure his personal safety . Should he step into error , and be reminded of bis false position by some of the bold sons of labour , he will sigh a quick rep « ntance , but still remain with open mouth ,, ready to inhale the putrid air when he thinks the epidemic has become strong enough to justify a relapse . Ee is generally too proud to work , and too poor to live without labour . He lives but for a short time in each locality , his Stock of recommendations being quickly used up . he can weep with the lachrimose , laugh with the gay , and mourn ; with the sorrowful ; he is part of every man ' s nature , and no part of hia profeaaing aetf . He will denounce in private , and seek shelter under the coat laps of hia victim in public ; in short in the words of the poet :-
—"It is a Blender thing of wood Which up and down its awkward arms doth sway , And f-pout and spout and spout away In one weak washy everiastiog flood . "
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He will be the Vindicator of your rights so long aa hla vindication is profitable ; but when he has dried up the pap of pauperism , he will look round for the dm ? of some new milch cow . In fact , he has wares in his basket for all parties , and is ready to praise them to effect a sale . He is a pompous noisy blockhead , taught like a parrot , and eternally jabbering the same stuff . Such , my friends , is the character which Mr . Vincent oitght to have drawn ; and over it he should have written " a Political Podlar , " with * ' Wares for all shades of . politidoni'l : - ' -:. . V ¦ - .. . :: ¦ ' : . ; . .. ; - . . . . " Very fine toys for girls and boys , A cock and a hen for a halfpenny . "— - ( Boars of laughter , and " aye that ' s it" )
The address of the non-electors to the electors of Nottingham was then read and proposed by that excellent veteran , 'Harrison , of the late Convention , and seconded by the meeting , and unanimously adopted ; after which , a member of the Chartist Association presented an address from that body to Mr . O'Connor , to which he britfly replied , and departed , after a hearty vote of thanks to the Chairman ; and an assurance that he would come on the day of election , and niarcli them all , electors and non-electors , to support Sturge and liberty . Several of the electors shook hands with Mr . O'Connor , and pledged themselves to be forthcoming to vote for the man of the people ' s choice . He stated that he had to address the men of Beestbn , four miles at the other side of Nottingham , at half-past six , and the people of Nottingham at ha f-past eight ; » nd took his leave shortly after two o ' clock , the procession attending him to the confines of the tovrn , and giving a round of hearty cheers at parting .
"ADDRESS TO THE ELECTORS . The following address of the non-electors , to the electors of N-. ttingham , was moved by Mr . J . Barber , seconded by N . Long mire , and supported by FeaTgus O'Connor , at one of the largest public meetings ever held in Nottingham , and carried unanimously amidst thunders of applause on Monday > the 30 th May , 1842 . " Brothers , —We address you at a critical junc ' ure , when , aa trustees , you are about to be called upon to exercise a sacred right—the right of voting ^ deposited in your hands , not to be used for your own especial benefit ; but for the general advantage of mankind . The
misuse' made of the franchise by the present electoral body has given to wealth and might an / unjust ; and pernicious influence over industry and right It feas given tyranny and misrule a confidence in its strength which could only arise from the corraption of that confined source from whence its ; power spriDcs . To the application of power thus unjustly acquired , may be traced the dominant sway of faction , the disji-iv . tod state of society , the inquietude of the public mind , the disparity which exists between the represented and the unrepresented classes , and the universal demand becoming daily more urgent for the restoration of that trust to the hands of the people , which has bten used for their destruction and not for their advantage .
.. " Brothers , —We will not withhold the truth from you , though it may sting you to hear it ; that , as a body , the Electors of Nottingham have been distinguished above all others for their corruption and venality ; but , while we thus charge you with past delinquencies , we are ready to record our approval of your noble conduct while struggling for Reform , which promised us a share in those rights which you have hitherto exclusively held . " Brothers , —Your demeanour upon that occasion much lessens our censure of your conduct at repeated elections ; and , we are charitable enough to think that in your : former struggles you recognised no difference in the value of those who conrted your support , and therefore reconciled to youi consciences the expediency . 6 £ . helping yourselves between the two rotten crutches . ¦ ¦ ¦¦ - .. ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ " ¦ ' - . ' - . - - - ¦ ' . '¦ ' ' . - ¦ '
. ' ' Brothers , —Let as hope that each has been your motive ^ whUe your present position places before you a great and glorious opportunity of proving to the world that the Electors of Nottingham know how to distinguish between right and wrong , between pr inciple and expediency , between virtue and vice . " Yes , Brethren , now for the first time in the history of our-town ' s representation do we call upon you to use that tiuBt with which you are invested , to aid in returning the man of OUR choice ,
^ MBv JOSEPH STURGE , to represent both you and us in the House of Commons , where the friends of order are but few . . > Brothers , add one to the Bmall number . You , the Burgesses ; have been taunted with your disregard of principle when the tempter ' s . gold ia ! offered as the purchase money of your own disgrace and your country ' s ruin . But it isto yon , the poorest of the poor , that we make this our appeal , being well convinced that a mind aa pure and a heart as warmly attached to liberty is to be found under the rags of the pauper aa under the fine covering of the wealthy . > > ¦ ¦ , ' :
" Brothers , the eyes of England—nay * the world's glance is upon you ! and shall England frown , land the world stand paralysed at the astounding : news , that Nottingham haa added one wore to the . number of our oppressors ? No , brothers ! your starving wives , deait to you , though in rags j your sobbing offspring ; you * bleeding country ; yout famishing brothers ; your tettering homes ; your God who loves justice , ! all , all , one and all call upon you ,: * to awaked arise or be for ever fallen i' Let virtuous poverty teach vice in rich apparel that within your famished homes there Is a jewel too dear to be purchased , too pure to be sullied 1 Tell the great ones who chajge you vrfth delinquencies , that you are above entering into a base compact for the sale Of your cenntry ' s and your fellow labourer ' s rights .
" Brothers : of what avail will be the purckase money of our liberties ? Does not that which comes from evil perish in dissipation ? Commune thus with the virtuous wives of your bosom and the little ones given you as pledges of love , and charged upon your guardianship . ' My wife and children , behold , I am this day called upon to dispose of a sacred right which I hold in trust for ray fellow men , —how shall I use it ? it has been customary to sell it and from the purchase money to supply your ^ wants for a time . I knew not the dishonour and disgrace until roused to a se » 8 e of rtflection ; by the sound judgmeat of my order . Public opinion now calls upon me for the first time to throw my voice into the scale of right , to weigh down the load of my country ' s wrongs ; but will you , my
wife , stiU continue to bear your sufferings ? and shall our little ones still want ? or shall I feed you for yet a little upon the purchase money of my own and my country ' s dishonour ?* And the virtuous wife wife will answer . 'My husband , all . the money that you have hitherto got for your country ' s sale has come over the devil ' s back and gone under the devil's bellyI You receive it in a moment of excitement ; yon are ashamed to confess its possession ; and you spend it in dissipation , injuring your health , and unfitting you for business ; eo cast it from you on that account : but as a mother , a wife , and an EagUah woman , I take higher ground , and say , i £ we are to perish , let ua not perish
by our . own hand ; and if wo must still wear pur chains , let ua not forgo them for ourselves . Husband , then , vote for' Sturge , who promises you peace , through fellowship , abundance through industry , and the blessing of religion through an unpaid church . Vote not for Walter , who would become another link in that chain which has so long bound industry and labour to the oppressor ' s wilt If we are poor , my husband , let us at least be honest , and resisting the tempter ' s gold , shout for Sturge and liberty I for peace threugh fellowship ; for religion through conscience i for your country , your or < Jer , and your G « d . Go ? Go I Go . ' and may heaven smile upon your nndertaking . ' " Signed dn behalf of the meeting , .: ¦ >' James Sweet , Chairman . "
TUESDAY . On Tuesday , Mr . O'Connor visited Arnold , a large village , " distant about four miles from ^ Nottingham , and was . accoaipauied by Mr . Swee t * Upon arriving within a mile of the viilage , which hna a population of about 5 . , and among whom are about forty electors , he was met by the whole pepulation , and large numbers from mivny miles distant , marching in procession , headed by the females and a band- It was intended that he should address them in the Chartist Chapel ; hut the numbers being too great to be accommodated in a building . teo times the size , they were compelled to adjourn to a large grass walled-in yard , which -was kindly afforded for the purpose . Mr . Mellor a voter for the .. borough was unanimously called to the chair ,
and , after opening the business of the meeting , introduced Mr . O'Connor , " who was received with rapturous applause . - . He spoke for more than an hour and a half upon the monopoly of machinery , the iniquities of the law church , and the blessings of a rural life . He said : " Now suppose your population to consist of 5 , 009 , and 1 , 060 of those to be heads of families j—you are now all starving , while your idleness is bringing ruin upon all above you . Now just hear my plan : 10 , 000 acres of that land around your peaceful village , if lefe at its full value in holdings of ten acres each to the 1 , 008 htads of families , would leave a profit to each holder of £ i 2 per annum , after consumption of tbe very beat of food , ; and suppose the family to co : sisfc of a man , bis wife , and three children ; the man should labour from six to twelve , and from four to Six In tke evenhig : the msther should never leave her bouse except bnt for business or pleasure—( loud cheers )—and if manufactures and agriculture are to go hand in hand , the
one must-make a market a 2 Aome for the Other . Thus the father ' s profit of er consumption would Increase the value of bis child's Labour in the manufacturing aiarket And suppose he had two children , and say one of them above fifteen years of age ; that child might work at that age at machinery from eight in the morning till twelve , and from four in the evening till six ; and for those six hours' labour , raised in value by the community ' s ability to support its produce , I only ask , for argument ' s sake , 10 s . per week : now add that £ 26 per annum to the father ' s £ 42 , and you have a gross sum of £ 68 , over and above consumption , for eabh poor man ' s family to spend in the manufacturing market—( loud cBeers)—and ; believe me , the irefiourees of the country are fully equal to be extended to threefold that amount if they were ( Bttltivatod to tke highest . That would give you i . odo soldiers and 1 , 000 policeman to defend . your rights and preserve the peace of Arnold , in which each man as a soldier and a policeman would have ah equal interest —( loud cheers ) . ( Continued in our eighth poge . )
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TO THB EDITOR OF THB NORTHERN STAR . Sib , —I am a poor man borne down by oppression for my steadfastly adhering to the noble cause of Okartism ; I have been entirely mined by the clergy and juiddle classes of Shorebam for my firm determination to uphold titte cause -M this Tory-ridden borongh , which I a ™ sorry to -say that out of a population of 19 * 2 by the census , cannot number but myself and two sore Chartists , in the strict meaning cf the word My case is as follows : —
In December , 1838 , a party of respectable Chartists came to Shereham to enlighten the people here on the principles of the Charter . I being a working man was requested to take the chair , I did so ; being a Green-• wich out-pensioner , I was immediately , reported to the Board of Admirality , who directly Btoppcd my pension . I memorialized them , telling them that I had dose nothing wrong ; when I was answered by the Secretary that their Lordships did not think fit to restore it back to me . I answered them back that my country had given it tome for wounds received in its defence , and it ought not to be withheld from me unless I hxd brose the laws I had fought for ; but they were determined to stop it I then drew up a petition at the suggestion of that noble-minded patriot , Mr . Jobs Froit , and got Mr . T . Duncombe to present it to the Bouse of Commons , when it was ordered to be laid on tfce table , where it remains .
I ttCl stood by the cause , and will as long as I live . I was immediately beset by the Shoreham parsons , who completely ruined me and my large family , of a ¦ srife and nine children . I iave dragged on a miserable existence , until every thing that the rascals left me is bow gone . Therefore , I hope , through your valuable paper , the Star , the only consolation I have got , that you will be « o good as through its columns to state my case to my brother Democrat * throughout the Kingdom to raise a small subscription for me , to buy me a boat and nets that I may gain a livelihood by fishing , as I can get one for Ef teen or sixteen peunds , to support my family with , and keep us out of the Bastile , as that pl * c * I hope I shall never face . If this should meet your approbation , you will pMce me n ^ 3 er the greatest obligations to you ,- and , if yon would act as Treasurer for me , if such a thing should take place , it will much oblige a poor but honest man . With the greatest respect , I am your ' s , i n the cause , John Hindes , Shoreham , May 29 , 1842 .
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NORTHERN CIRCUIT . SUMMER ASSIZES 1842 . The days appointed for holding the Assizes for the Northern Circuit , before the Right Hon . Thomas Lord Denman , Chief Justice of Her Majesty's Court of Queen ' s Bench at Westminster , and th © Hon . Mr . Justice Maule , one of Her Majesty's Justices of Common Pleas at Westminster , the Justices assigned to take the Assizes , pursuant to the statute , &C .: — ¦ - . ¦ ¦ ¦ - . ¦ ¦ - . ' -. - . - .. - ¦ ¦ - ' - : ' . ; :.. ¦ . - - . ¦ ¦ ¦ . ' ¦ ' . Durham —Saturday , July , 8 , at Durham . Northumberland . —Thursday , July 14 , at the Castle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne . Town of Newcastle upon-Tyne . —Thursday , July 14 , at the Guildhall of NevvoasHe-upon-Tyne . CuMBEnLAND . —Tuesday , July 19 , at Carlisle . Westmoreland . —Saturday , July 23 , at Appleby . Lancashirb ( Northern Division ) . —Tuesday , July 26 . at Lancaster .
Lancashire ( Southern Division ) . —Saturday , July 30 . at Liverpool . Yorkshire . —Saturday , August 13 , at the Castle of York . City of York . —Saturday , August 13 , at the Guildhall of the City of York .
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Sugar in j the Olden Time . —In the reign of Henry the Fourth of France , sugar was so rare in that country , that it was sold by the ounce by apothecaries , nearly as Peruvian bark is now sold . — Echo du Monde Savant .
The Story op two Children in the Wood . — { From the Nova-Scotian i of April 21 . J—Two children went astray in the ^ woods , about four miles from Halifax , at the Dartmouth side , on Monday week . Their names were Jane Elizibeth arid Margaret Meagher ; the elder six years and ten months old , the younger four years and b ' ix months . Some hundreds of people , many of thorn from Halifax , and comprising some military and Indians , went in search for several successive days . On Friday * a snowstorm occurred , and added painfully to the difficulties and depression on the subject . On Sunday , the remains of the children were found about six miles from the home of their parents . They were found locked in each other ' s arms—the younger with its face on the cheek of the elder . " The elder had rolled her apron about the more helpless babs . She had the looks of care and sorrow in death , as if , which is not uncommon in similar cases , premature
responsibility was felt , and that to secure arid shield the Httle innocent by her side was felt a duty . The younger seemed as if it met death in sleep . Their tender feet were much injured by travelliug—in vain endeayonring to reach home . What pangs must despair hare introduced into the children's minds , amid their loneliness and hunger , day after day , and night after night , iu the wilderness ! And yet there was a melancholy sublimity connected with their death— the ripening of the . spirit under keen distress , and the mutual eymputhy and Jove which is too often wanted at the death-bed of the unfortunate mature . The parents of the children have been subjects of deep oommisseration . The remains of the little wanderers were interred between Ellenvale aud Allan ' s . _ They were laid in the one coffin , and in the position in which they had been discovered . They had a largely attended funeral , notwithstanding the wet weather .
Death of Sir R . K . Porter . —Accounts have been received of the death of Sir Robert Kerr Porter , at St . Petersburgh . Sir Robert was an artist , and was in 1804 appointed historical painter to the Emperor of Russia ; a soldier , and ehared the perils of Sir John Moore ' B campaigu in tho Peninsula , which ended at Corunna ; and a diplomatist , being last employed by his own Government as Consul-General at Venezuela . His sisters , Anna Maria and Jane , are well known for their works of fiction . He died on the 3 rd instant , in his sixty-third year . He is survived by the Princess Mary , the daughter of Prtuco Theodore deSherbatoff of Russia , whom he married in 1811 . : .
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