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THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19,1842.
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f Continued from our Seventh page . ) HOUSE OF LOBDS . —Tuesday , Fjlb . 15 . Oa the presentation of a petition from Hull f ' the repeal of the Corn Law * , by the M- - - ^ NonnaTby , .,, - ,,. ^ ° Lord Bboughxh declared his o- * -. the only legitimate object of ' ,- < SK % tbM while the yery worst mode of » ^ tion ws revenue , Ux on food . He was ' -f £ a rewaue was by a S 3 ? on corn , but v ^ rtl Irom approving a fixed SX He-a ' lr * * wd pot therefore like a sliding vviTtnw-ns - ¦¦ - *? . ^ ord i « pon a ^ ussiion respecting wws ^ S ^ were proposed to be added to those WJ ^ - flCtraake Ae returns . \ i . m x , srl of Kipos replied , that the objeci of Caches those town -was sot from any disposition to les ^ rti the averages , aad thereby exclade foreign corn , but to obtain the averages in a fairer
manner . The Earl of Hadkor considered that the proposed new sliding scale would be moto strident and oppressive than the present lavr . Why , therefore , the measure h * 4 been introduced he could no » understand . Preserved turtle had been admitted by the Government 4 loiyfree . That trasa step 3 a the right direction . ; « . nd xhey might extend the application , oC the priaeipJe to corn . After same conversation as . the topics-stated by the Earl-of Ripon , and one r two othertubjects ,
Lr ? rd Monteagle postponed his nation respecting tb& Exchequer Bill Fraud until the 28 th . * Tfee ' House adjourned till Thursday .
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SOUSE OF COMMONS , Tbssdat , Feb . 15 . TFhe adjourned debate on the Corn Laws was \ igzn . by Sir W , Cl * y . After arguing in a low and inedible voice npon the arithmetical parts of the caie , he told the Government , that it v ? ould net be is their pow « r to make the arrangement they -ssusht . for that the people had now taken the subject into their own hands . Captain Hak 3 £ tos said , that the farmers in the district -which he represented did not think the Government measure adequate for their protection . Thev approved the sliding scale , but they thought
tbat at the price of 55 s . the duty Ehonla have been 20 s . The protection proposed by Government was in bis otto opinion sufficient for the li ^ 'ht , bat no : for the heavy soils , and te preferred the scale of ¦ which Mr . Christopher had given notice . Bnt he felt that the ^ Governmcnt measure ought to be taken ' as a whole ; aad though he believed thai bia own constituents and those of most members mar ' him wosld have beep better pleased with » higher duty , He was persuaded that the loyalty of th . 3 agriculturists would induce them to considerable sacrifices for the public good . He intended , therefore , to support the resolutions of Sir R . steel .
Mr . Cbejjehs congratulated the country that the Minister had already been able to dispel" prejudices ¦ which had so long resisted the tfforts of their opponents . He himself wished to see a fixed duty , which he thought would make the supply more regular , and therefore the pric&more equable ; but he wished to see it-chiefly because it wcu : d be-a step to a total repeal of dttynpon corn . That duty had this ^ ill effect ; among others , that it slackened the endeavours cf the agriculturists to bring the land to its uimost rjodnetrvenes ? . He hoped the time was coming when £ ngland , instead of trusting to Navigation Laws or * Corn Laws , would trust only to her own resources and energies .
Captatn'Rotrs reminded his hearer 3 of Lord Melbourne ^ declaration , that a man must be insane ¦ who Bought to repeal the duty on corn . If the seasons were- £ xed , he should think it reasonable to fix the dEtyi but not otherwise . He believed that Sir IL Peel in this measure had considered the interests of all classes eqoal ? y . When gentlemen opposite expatiated on the advantage of cheapening a loaf bv 2 d ., he-wished to ask them , was the 2 d . to go into the poor man ' s pocket or into theirs ? Was the
object to lower wages ? He had observed thai in all ola -countries the people ' 3 wages were proportioned to ibe price of the food they lired on . Oa the continent , wnere food -was cheap , wages were low : in England , where faod was dear * wages were high Gentlemen liked to draw parallels between this country -and Ameriea ; bat did America pay her debts- ? Was not her defalcation the primary cause of our present dislres 3 ? Sir Robert Peel had only to pursue his present impartial course , and he might retain r . Sce as long as he plesssd .
Mr . Williams was of opinion that the people had better pay a direct bounty of-20 s . per quarter to the landlords than continue the sliding scale . It increased the price of bread to the working classes ; but it produced still "worse consequences by its derangement of the currency . He did nos grudge the aristocracy their property ; bus they had no right to increase their property by taxing the people . The people would not bear it ; and the aristocracy had better take warning by the fate of the same order in France .
Mr . OfiMsnT Gore gave a calculation , to show how small a burden per head was imposed on the labouring classes by the existing Corn . Law . He read extracts from a letter addressed to him by an operative cotton printer , purporting that the Corn Lawa had nothing to do with the distress of the working people , which was caused solely ^ by machinery . The Dropa 3 al of Mr . Yilii ^ rs for a inta . 1 repeal was a many" one , but the fixed duty was a deceitful suggestion . Mr . Ward argued , that according to Mr . 0 * Gore ' s own ca lculations , the rax levied by the slidisg scale amounted to £ 5 , O 00 , 0 D 0 sterling per annum . He complained of what he designated as the scandalous levity exhibited on the preceding night in Mr .
Ferr&nd ' s speech , and of the misccieveus cheera with which that speech was received . He denied that . Lord John Russell had on this occasion proposed S ? . 8 B the amount of fixed duty ,- and , indeed , the time was passing away when 83 . wouid . be an acceptable amount . Is always happened , that when the moderate concessions asked at first were met by a refusal , much larger concessions were ultimately demanded and obra-. ned . The new proposal " of Government went is reality upon the principle ef prohibition , and relinquished no protection bnt what experience showed to be inoperative , and therefore useless . It merely avoided a wa ? te of power and an nuaecessary odium . He must confess , however , that , he liked the reduction of duty from 83 . to nothing , as proposed by Sir R . Peel , better than the redaction from the same point as proposed by Lord John ,
• who certainly had hare fallen into a trap , and must ge ; out of i ; as he coald . He then entered upon the subject of general distress , and urged the impossibility that the people could continue to endure the incubus of this corn duty , illustrating his view more particularly from the suiFermgs of Sheffield . Sheffield , indted , had obtained somo relief from its trade with Canada ; but ev n this relief would be withdrawn if < j > vemmen » persisted in the plan of a 3 s . dutv en the importation of corn into Canada from the " Uaii < d States , •—and , by the way , why a fixed dutv in tanaca ; and a sliding scale in England 1 He " did not ascribe the distress to overproduction , nor to joint-stock bank issues , but to the want of power of consumption . Moderate men would gladly have aecepi-ed any real concession ; but this proposal disappointed everybody , and the flimsy pretext of disinterestedness on the part of its supporters was
seen through . Sir E . KsATCHBtrLL observed that the tax on the pfople , which Dr . Bowring had the night before estimated at . £ 50 , 000 , 000 , was now put by Mr . Ward at only ^ 3 , 00 X ) , < KK ) . Ke contended that Lord John ' s epeecb . iu introducing his ,-imendnient , had given the Ho ^ se to understand that 3 » . was the fixed duty he meant to recommend . Sir E . Knatchbnll declared bis ctrn concurrence in the doctrine of a fixed duty , provided it were possible to maintain such a duty in time 3 of Ecarcity ; but i * could not be then maintained ; and if once removed , it would fee gone for ever . He certainly would not himself bave concurred in Sir R ~ Peel ' s plan if he had not believed it to furnish just aud full protection to the la-uded interests , and security to them for their
station in the comnronity . The agriculturists , a few years ago , had been distressed ; but they had not therefore asked relief at the expense of other classes of society . If now the relief sought by the repeal party were granted , the poorer lands must sc once be throws cut of cultivation . He had tdt it his d « ty , however , to consider this subject with refer ence to the interests , not of the agriculturists alone , but of all classes ; and ho was happy to find tha ; his const : taents concurred with him , and were prepared to support the plan now proposed . After correcting an important error in ope of the statements of Dr . Bowring , and holding it up as a warning againrt careless assertios , he cited the authority of Mr . Huskisson and other competent judges in favour of a protection npon agriculture .
Dr . Bojfrijjg explained , and said that he had himself taken the earliest opportunity of correcting bis own mistake . Mr . Labqgchbre said , that Sir E . Knaichbull had always been an advocate of high protection , and now , &s a Minister of the Crown , bad fully maintuned hi 3 old opinions . Sir E . Knatchbnll bad stated the object « f the proposed measure to b « the maintenance of its laadlerds in their station ; but the object ought to bare been ihe interest 6 t the people at lar ^ e . The question now to be considered ¦ was , whether , on aa average , Esgland grew corn enough for her own consumption . He showed , in
figures , taat tni 3 was not her position , and that she was annually importing larger and larger quantities of foreign coin for her still increasing poaulation . Ireland was no longer able to supply the deficiency ; she consumed mare whea * herself ' than heretofore , and applied more of her land , wkh . larger profit , to grazing . He would admit that the proposed plan bad some merits : it diminished wbas Trera called tne j'imp-j and i ; would probably yield some increase of revenue ; but Ivriid not give to great interests any benefit which irade it worth while to alter the law at all . The proposed addition of -155 . towns , chiefly in agricultural districts , must haTe some efec ia lowering the advertised
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in thTsame direct -- « «*«* ™ * , . P « dace < * officers appoi * ' - ** by the chaD « m J& e ^? tion in tb- - * d * ° take the returns . The dimmuwoul '* - » averages from all the new arrangements ir- -. probably be not less than 5 s . Fluctuations - . the price of food might be great in other countries , bat the extensive trade and geaeral circumstances of England ought to protect her from such vicissitudes . In general , a duty should bearsoir ^ proportion to the value of the article charged t ^ it ; but the sliding Bcale produced an inverse , ^^ o between price and duty . Under a different system , he believed that London would becoro ^ a great denot in the corn trade , to the great advantage of
British shipping . Be did not mean , b y noting against the Government measure , to go th r j length of declaring himself in favour of a total Vepeal of duty . He knew that many "objections , -were tirged against a fixed duty ; bnt * t leatit we htd not , as m the case of the Blidinj ; scale , an actual'experience of its incfiicacy . Mr , HuskiBson's authority was adverse to the principle of the present and proposed Corn Law ; and Lord Stanley some years Bince had expre ?^ ed Mb Taxonrable opinion of the fixed duty , provided it "Were practicable . It had been said that a >> high "prices the fixed doty could not be maintained-: ¥ ut if it were remitted , the remission would
benefit only the speculator and corn-holder ; and as soon as this should be understood , all clamour for such remission would cease . He did not know whether the policy of Government in other matters was to be more liberal than in this . If it were not , ail would be alike deksive ; but if it were more liberal , there would be a suspicion that the want of liberality on the Corn Law was owing to the superior power of the parties interested . Sir E . Kmatchbcel explained , that he had not Epoken of preserving the station of the landlords as a particular clas 3 , but of maintaining the whole agricultural interest ; and this only in consistency with the welfare of other classes .
Sir James Graham said , that the agitation of this question lad been be gun by the late Government and it then became impossible for their successors to avoid dealing with it . This measure was produced by Mitisters as the lowest duty which could be taken consistently with the due protection of the agriculturalists . The fixed duty would not have conciliated the parties opposite ; to have adopted it would have been , in Lord John Russell's language , to disturb without settling . After his own experience , he had no faith in finality , he would never again recommend a concession larger than be thought jast , in the hope tbat it would be conclusive . What he now tendered was , in his opinion , equitable for the consumer on the one hand , and the producer
on the other . He qnoted from Lord J . Russell ' s historical work , a passage showing that the principles of free trade must be controlled by certain exceptions in the case of certain interests . Lord John had himself , in Lord Grey ' s Government , supported the sliding scale . The scale had been -called slippery ; but there seamed to be some lubricity even in the fixed cuty ; for the Noble Lord himself had proposed on the preceding night to relax it . It had been pnt by him last summer at 83 . ; but to night the House was told that 8 j . was no longer the amonnt patronised by him . In answer to the citation of Mr . Huskis-Eoa ' s opinion upon the existing Corn Law , Sir Jas . Graham read a pas ? age from a speech of that
statesman in 1828 , absolutely rejecting the Bcheme of a fixed dniy . He next entered into calculations to show at what prices foreign corn would come into competition with British , and to evince the advantage conferred upon the consumer under the proposed scale ; after which lie recurred to the inconvenience of the opposite plan , when high prices should call for remission of duties . The parties interested directly or indirectly in the cultnre of the land wer « , he observed , a majority of the whole people . He then quoted official reports , setting lonn the operation of machinery in producing goods , and displacing labour , and concluded by a shoit recapitulation . The debate was then adjourned .
Wednesday , Feb . mh . The debate was again resumed , and , after a loDg talk , the House divided , when there appeared—For the original motion 349 For the amendment 226 Majority against the motion of Lord John " Russell 123
The Northern Star Saturday, February 19,1842.
THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 19 , 1842 .
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WAGES OF LABOUR AND ' EXTENSIONS * OF COMMERCE . " In the Northern Slar of Saturday , January IStb , we gave , in an article under the above head , the statements of a gentleman respecting the condition of the manufacturers and work-people forty years ago , in the districts around Nottingham . Sutton-in-Asbficld , and Mansfield , the great seats of our lace and hosiery manufactures . The gentleman who furnished as with the statements in question , had been extensively engaged as a manufacturer in the town of Mansfield . He knew the business
fivm " ik * otwa -to neeftift " : h&" *" fyea open tn the Eystem of trade wo have been pursuing ; saw the causes which have operated to produce a state of things tbe most horrible and unparalleled ; and he enabled us to show , clearly , the progress of our whole commercial syatem , from that healthful state when all connected with it were well-to-do , down to the trashy productions , the race run by thi manufacturers in ruinous competition , and the end as evidenced in the present prostrate condition of both employer and employed .
The main portion of this article was recently extracted into the Nottingham Review , after the Editor tad gravely rebuked us for what be designates the " fierce onslaughts we have lately made upon machinery , attributing to it the distresses of the country . " The charge thu 3 parroted forth , as to our attacking machinery , needg no farther notice from us here , than juEt to refer the reader and the Review to the article in the Star of Saturday week . There it is sufficiently met , and set at rest . After the Editor ha , given the whole of the statements of the gentleman referred to above , and the observations with which they were accompanied , he thus discourees : ¦ —
" We admit there is a great deal of truth in this extract [ the article from the Northern Star ] ; . bui we hold that it is mixed with no inconsiderable portion of error . An extension of trade must be a good . It is a ? ked , who has bencfitted by the system 1 We acknowledge it is not the master , or the workman , or the consumer , or the wf arer ; nor can we see any ' great < -a ?' uali&t' that has gained by it . It is not so in the hosiery trade , for many of the grea ' est houses enframed in it 30 or 40 years ** o were ruined . Those who are calling cut for an extension of trade in the hosiery branch , are not great capitalists , or little
capitalists , but the workmen , because many of them feel and know to their sorrow , tbat trade i 3 so narrowed down / that there is none left for them ; their frames , in which they worked , are Btanding still ; they are idiefor want of tnis extension of trade ; because the trade has failed , and there is no demand for the produce of their industry in the market , many of the hands are , this inclement day , at work on Nottingham Forest , with a spade or a pick axe , digging a-holft , 01 exterminating the loots of agorsebush . These want a-revival , an extension of trade , for they know that this would make them more comfortable than they are now . "
Let the reader ponder well over the above luminosity I It is one of the most ' splendtciotts " u pieces of writing" it'has ever been our fate to meet with ! And this is one of your be > t possible public instructors , " ye advocates of "free trade" and " extensions of commerce'' ! Hear the sage . " An extension of trade must be a good . " So says the Nottingham Free Trade Review 1 The italics are his own . too . " Extension of trade must be a good . " Why " m < Mr . Wisdom ! Where does the M muir" come from 1 Harkee , poor numskull ! "Must" an extension of
a bad trade be " a good" \ What a fool it is t Hear him further— * Who has btnefitted by the [ preseni ] system ! Not the master , or the workman , or the consumer , or the teearer ; " and yet an extension of trade , which benefits none of these parties , " must be a good ! " So sets forth the Nottingham Review , the . ** beBt possible public instructor" on free trade and u extension" doctrines He goes on : "Nor can we see any * great < spitaliBt' that has gained by it . " Then it is " good " for nobody , nor nothing ! Bat did Mr .
Dolbeb-H £ ix > erer bear of ft London capitalist , " who once was a shoe-black , and is now raised to be a M . P from the immense sums he has scraped together by his " slaughter-house" practices ! Has thiB man not benefited by the trade which has reduced all others concerned in it to beggary ? Bas he had nothing to do with the lace and hosiery business of Nottingham and its neighbourhoou t When the poor maker was compelled to sell , was he not k a'iy to buy , at his men price ? Has not he " chopped" ? And have mot these means raised him to be one of our is-
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lators ; one w , tio is ready to vote for an " extension " of that system which has already been of such " good' ^ ohim ! ^ The , conclusion of the Review , that the woukmkn "^ Vwvt a revival , an extension of trade ; for they xnow that this would make them more comfortable than they are now , " is a worthy match for his sequiter , that " an extension of trade must be a good , " the trade they have been engaged in having benefitted neither the workmen nor their employers , nor the wearers of the goods they have produced . And yet an " extension" of it " would make them more comfortable than they are now" ! ! !
The " writer" then proceeds to say : — " We must enter our protest against teaching the people that machinery is the pause of the evils of the community , for it ia notoiiona , that there has been very little new machiuery for the making of stockings . The stocking frame is Ecarcely altered since its first invention . Thirty or forty years ago , when good prices were given for the making of hose , there was a brisk demand for them ; new frames were made , the number of hands employed in the manufacture was increased * , almost every framework-knitter brought up his children to tho trade , and even their daughters and their wives wrought in
the frame . During the war the price of food was high ; the passing of the Corn Law , in 1815 , made it higher still ; and the framework knitter , in order that he might live as comfortably as before , worked more hours , by which means the hosiery market became overstocked , and reduction after reduction followed , so that wages became lower and lower , the masters being willing to make , so long as they could sell , and in order to sell , they reduced the wages . Had they not done so , the alternative would have been , that the frames must have stood years ago . and the distress would have come at an earlier period . "
Was there ever seen , upon the face of the earth before , so strange a jumble of words and muddincss&a this ! And these are the teachings of " an Editor" These are the lessons of one of England ' s " best possible public instructors" I one of the freetraders ; one of the school who alone know the philosophy of Trade , Commerce , and Economy ! Let us pit a working man against this Editor ; a real working man ; not one of the Morning Chronicle sort—who does not know what he is taking about : and let us Bee what this working man has to say about " no new machinery for the making of stockings "; and about " the high price of food during tbe war , and after 1815 , making it necessary for the framework-knitter to work longer hour /? , that he might live as comfortably as before . " Let us see what a man who has toiled in " the
frame" ; who has experience to guide him in what he says ; let us hear what this man , although not " a writer " , has to say to Nottingham ' s " best possible public instructor" ;—Sib , —In the Nottingham Review of Iatt weefe I perceived a sort of an attack on an article which appeared in the Northern Star the week preceding , on the sub . ject of machinery . Some of the remarks of the Editor concern the framework-knitting trade , and from them I have quoted the following : — " Tnirty or forty years ago prices were high , and there was a briak demand for hosiery goods ; new frames
were made ; the number of hands employed ia the manufacture was increased . During tba War the price of goods ran high ; the passing of the Cora Sill , In 1815 , made it still higher ; and the framework-knitter , ia order to live as comfortably as before , werked more hours , by which means the hosiery market became overstocked , and redaction after reduction followed , bo that waf ea became lower and lower , the master being willing to make so long as they could sell , and in order to sell they reduced wage ? . Had they not done so the alternative would have been that the frames would have stood still yean ago , and the distress come on at an earlier period . " ;
" Now , Sir , this la not the trotb . I am of opinion that ' cheap production' bas rained the stockingmaker , as well as the handlootu-weaver , and the cotton-Bpinner . I believe it was not in consequence of ' the high price of food' that framework-knitters were obliged to work more hours ; but in consequence , of 4 improvement' (?) in the manufacture of hosiery goods , and competition amongst the manufacturers . " Soon siter the time alluded to by the Editor , the jack-ticklar machine was introduced into the manufacture of stockings ; previous to this , " shammies" yvete made by tha hand . The invention superseded the former m » de of making " shammies . " The race of
competitien then began . Hosiery goods were produced in greater quantitier . ' Shammies' were made faster and cheaper ; and the * plain bands' were obliged to work more hours , because they could not earn near so much money as they formerly could on fancy work . Still there was a market ; and , as ¦ * cheap production ' was now the ordti of the day , to supply that market , new and voider frames were made , to make two stockings at once ; then three at once ! and now we have frames making four and five stockings at once ! 1 Cotion aundk . iuxB axe muting at ine present time in Nottingham , at the low price of fourteen pence per dozen pairs ! and silk stockings at six shillings per dozen pairs ?
" Will any reasonable man say that it is no injury to tho trade to make twenty dozen of cotton stockings for the same money aa was paid for one dczsn thirty years ago ? " Silk gloves at tbat time were twelve shillings per dozen at the warehouse ; but at the present time they are only five shillings and threepence per dejwo . 1 This is in consequence of ' improvements ' (?) in the making Silk gloves were made one at once thirty years ago , and fingered fr < m the same frame . Now they are made two hands at once ! and figured ou the backs with a machine ; and fingered from another frame , sixatonce ~~ & machine laying all the threads at once , which threads were formerly laid by the hand ! When this *
improvement' was made , there was a market found for the extra quantity produced , for a time ; perhaps on account of the cheapness of the article : but when the manufacturers found that silk gleves had become tha fashion , they began to endeavour to outstrip each other in the race of competition , The warp frame was set to work in the making of gloves ; and now they are made for little more than the price of tbe silk ! The markets are glutted ; and the plain silk glove hands forced to subsist on less than half work eight mouths of the year . "You are , perhaps , already aware , that the bobbinnetmachine , or what is called the twist-machine , has
nearly superseded the making of cushion-lace . When this machine was first invented the workmen got enormous wages , six or seven pounds per week .. Some , 1 believe , got as much as ten pounds from narrow machines- Now , tbe narrow machines are all done away with ! machines four times their width being worked by steam ; and I believe I am speaking the truth when I say , that the same quantity of lace which was paid £ 5 fur twenty years ago , is not paid one shilling for at the present time ! 11 At that time females could earn from twelve to fifteen shillings per week at embroider . ing the lace ; but now the machine dees the greatest portion of this work 1
« ' The invention of embroidering the lace in the frame has reduced to poverty and wretchedness thousands of industrious females who formerly ; ived comfoxUbly and respectab y by their trade . Will any sane man say that a repeal of the Corn L&wa would remedy this ? I am of opinion that a repeal of the Corn Laws would not remedy the evils attendant on our present system of trade . They are attributable to class legislation , and the all grasping avarice of the manufacturers , who have deprived tbe poor of tbe means of subsistence ; and they now foolishly talk to us workmen of an ' extension of commerce , ' as the means of getting us out of the situation they have brought us to I If they had the markets of the whole world , they would , on their present system , soon overstock them ; and then have to open a communication with the moon , in order to find out a fresh market , to relieve us from our farther difiicultieB .
" Sir , you may be already in possession of the statementa herein contained j if not , you may do as you like with this ; I shall not be offended if you do not notice them . Jonathan Barbeb , Framework-knitter . Now , what can "the Editor" of the Review ^ say to this ! What can he urge in support of his muddy reasoning , and in controvertion of the facts
adduced by hit Reviewer ! Is not the tale told by the "framework-knitter , " something more like truth , than the hodge-podge of" the Editor" ! At all events , the working man is consistent with himself . He does . not say and unsay in a breath . He does not contradict the first seatence by the second ; and the eeoond by the next . His tale is straightforward , and hangs together . How far M the Editor ' s" does so , the reader has Been from what has been given , and will see from what follows . The Review thus
continuetb : — . ~ " We contend , that could the workman have obtained his food at a less price , he would have worked fewer hours , the over-production would not have been so great , and the supply being not more than equal to the demand , the trade would have been in a healthy state . We contend that the cause of distress is not in machinery , but in tb « high price of provisions , and principally in those absurd laws which prevent the English merchant and manufacturer from bartering the produce of the machine and the frame for corn and beef from any country or climate in the World . - And even were it not so ; could it now be demonstrated teat machinery had been the cause of the evils , under which the nation labours , the destruction of that machinery would not help ub ;
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were the earth to open this morning and swallow every , frame ia Nottinghamshire , tho misery and distress would be vastly increased rather than diminished . The poor man knows , notwithstanding his education has been neglected , and his knowledge is contracted , yet this he knows , that his , only hope is in machinery—that this is the instrument with which the British mechanic oan , by ; his skill and industry , pope with the whole world . All ho asks is a clear stage and no favour : he seeks , justly for : the abrogation of those laws which prevent him from taking his skill and industry to the best market , and which compel him to buy his food at twice the price for which other countries would gladly supply him , "
We hayo noticed this senseless emanation of the Muddlb-Head of Nottingham , mainly because it s £ « rds us an opportunity of exposing one of the grossest of the faliaclef : of the Corn Law Repealers ; one which they have in constant use . -Complain , of the abuses'of machinery ; show the operations of ' * ne present system of commerce ; point to the f ;< tcl that as that commerce has increased , in exact ratio have tho heurs of labour increased , and Wages decreased ; poiut to the other fact that had we not been so
commerce-mad as we have been , but have rather declined it , letting it seek us , instead of us seeking it ; that had we kept oh as we once were , making good articles of clothing , instead of trash ; maintaining good wages by maintaining good prices , and maintaining both by giving the . ' workman , his share of the benefits of maohinery in decreased labour ; fostering and keeping up a good home trade , instead of running over the whole world to find anaked back on a shoeless foot , we should have been in a far different situation from that we find ourselves in :
point to these things , and you are instantly met with the cry , "it ' s all the effect of our dear food . '' "If we had our food cheap , we should be all right , " "The high price of food compels us to act as we do . " " The cause of distress is not in machinery , or in our commerce , but in the high price of provisions . " These are the parrot phrases that meet you at every turn . Let us examine what they are worth .
" Thirty or forty years ago , " quoth " the writer " of Nottingham ^ " when good prices were given for the making of hose , there was a brisk demand for them . " Exactly so ! When good prices were given 'for the making of hose , the workman could afford to hake them ! and he could also afford , with hi « good wages , to purohase some of the hose when made , and enough of flour , and meal , and beef , and bacon for himself and his family . Exactly so , Mr . Review ; ' thirty or forty year 3 ago , when good
prices were given for the making of hose , there was a brisk demand" for all these other articles of trade . Why is there not that brisk demand now ? Why is not the framework-knitter of the present day able to buy some of the stockings he has made , and the same plenty of flour and beef that he did thirty or forty . years ago \ Why is henotable to do so note , Mr . Review , or Mr . Free Trader ? "O ! the high prices of food prevents him . " Doe 3 it ? Then food is as high now * or higher , than it was thirty or forty yeais ago ! "To be sure , it is ; higher . "
Thus , then , We get fairly into the question . Now , what are the facts ? The average price of a quarter of wheat ; and wheat is the best standard of prices that can be taken ; it ' goverhs all the rest ; the average price , then , of a quarter of wheat forty years ago , when " good prices were given for the making of hose " and all other descriptions of manufactures ; the average price of a quarter of wheat then , was 83 s , That is to say , the average price of wheat for the ten yeara from 1799 to 1809 , was 833 . the qMarter ^ ' .-- ¦ '• v .: ' - ' ' ' ¦'• - " The average price of wheat , for tho seven years ending Christmas 1841 , as set forth in the returns just published in pursuance of the Act 6 and 7 Wm , IV ., is 583 . 6 d . per quarter !!! I !
The " high price" ot food in 1841 , with wheat at 58 s . 6 d . per quarter , causes the labouring man to have less of provisions , nay , even to starve for want of them ; when he could purchase in 1800 enough and to spare , though wheat was then 83 d . per quarter ! ! ! Ay , indeed ^ it is the "high price" of food , in one sense , that has occasioned this ! But not the relative nominal price . ' The nominal price shows a reduction of 24 s . 6 d . tha uarter : that is to say , wheat was 24 ? . 6 d . flie quarter cheaper in 1841 than in IftflflL But tub means of the labourer to
purchase it in 1841 had goue ! The " g ood prick given for the making of hose" was no longer given ! Wheat w » 9 dear , and high-priced , though 24 s . 6 d . per quarter cheaper , because the workman had not wherewithal to purchase it . It was dear ta the workman : it was cheap to the man of fixed income : for he could , in 1841 / make his money go nearly half as far again , in the purchase of provisions , as he could in I 860 ! The pensioner and the sinecurist , and the official with a fixed salary , and the anuitant , and the dividend-ondebt-receiver have not to complain of the " high
price" of food ; for the £ 100 they received in 1800 was worth nearly £ 150 to them in 1841 . That is to say , any of these parties of fixed incomes , received in 1841 nearly £ 150 worth of provisions for their £ 100 , as estimated by the price of wheat in 1800 j These parties have clearly benefitlcd by the fall in prices of produce ! Who else : has beneEtted Has the workman ? Has the master } Has the wearer of articles of manufacture I No , says the Nottingham Review . And yet , the Sappv proposes , as a remedy for the presont state of things , a measure which will reduce prices and wages still
lower ; and , by consequence , again add to the value of these fixed incomes ' . ! The men with fixed incomes out of the taxes , are no mean HUtnber . We ' raised £ 53 , 000 , 000 of money last year in taxes ; and , nearly the whole of this enormous amount ; an amount exceeding by £ 2 , 000 , 000 the whole of our foreign trade for that fame year ; nearly the whole of -this '' , monstrous sum is applied to the paying of pensioners , allowances , deadweight , sinecures , grants , salaries , dividends , and annuities . Reduce the price of food , and you add to the value of these incomes ! In . fact you add
to their amount—and to the amount of your taxation ! ! Taxes are fixed money amounts . They do not rise or fall with the prices of produce ; -but they have to be raised from ' . ' . pvoduee . 16 is unnecessary to say that We do nut in England grow the precious metals , " as they are termed ; nor 'do we find " money" springing up spontaneously from the soil . But we dp grow wheat and rye , and barley * aivd beans , and beef , and mutton , and wool ; and we produce woollens , and cottons , and stockings , and bats , and shoes : and ' it is out of the things we produce ; it is out of the things that our labour make to be ; it is out of these , that the taxes are taken ! or , to speak more
correctly , perhaps , it - ' is ' -so ' . ' much , of these afi answers to the amount of money in the current prices of the day , that 13 taken from the producers as taxes . The taking may be circuitous ; . it may . be and is indirect ; it may bo and is unseen ; but still it is a taking , and a taking from the producer . Let the producer cease to produce ; let the land cease to be cultivated by labour ; iet the mills cease to teem out their now endless streams of manufactured wealth ; let labour stand idle , and we should soon tee that the taxes and a great many other tbinga would cease to be paid 1 We should then soon diBCOver where they came from ! We ahbuld find out who paid them 1
Taxes , then , and indeed all other heaps of wealth , however accumulated together , come from labour . The labour of the country payB the taxes , pays the rente , pays the profits , pays the per centages , and we were going to say , pays the wages ; but these latter have mainly to go unpaid ; But the taxes are not a certain fixed amount or quantity of labour , any more thau rents % re . Both are fixed amounts of montyt orrather such amounts or quantities of '' 'labour as answer to fixed ameunts of money . Let us iliuBtrate . In 1800 , wheat sold for 833 ; the quarter . Iu 1841 , wheat sold for 58-. CJ . the quarter . It is clear tbat the £ 53 , 00 b , i . 00 ol taxes raised in 1641 would bave purchased less ot
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wheat in 1800 , whenthe price was 83 s . the quarter , I ihitt it wonld in 1841 , when the price was 583 . 61 ^ . 1 ^ other words , the farmer in 1841 would have ^ 0 ^ nearly half as much again produce as his ]^ . g ^ the taxes ^ as he had . to give in 1800 . - ^ ^^ ^ produoer of hats and stockings , a ^ ^ j ot ner M tioles . Prices of all theseJjave ^ . 4 ^ ; andV by consequence , more of each has t ^ ^ giyen to the taxgatherer than had former ^ ^ ba giyen ; j . - y ^ in the prices of artiol ^ ^ p ,. odu 08 ^ entail upon the producer more ^ Wr faT ^ tax-eater ' s use , as long as the sar ftmoun j . of taxeS i valued inlmoney are raised ! This must be plainly apparent ^ There canbeT Uofflansayingit . ¦ /
. aai then is it , in reality , that the advocates of Extension of Commerce" propose ! A reduction ^ u the prices of food ; and , by consequence , a reduction in the prices of all other articles of produce . This involves an increase <> f -xaxation in the exapt ratio that prices of produce ara reduced ! Whatever may be that reduction , whether one-fourth , one-third , or one-half ; just so much more labour will have to be given by the labourer to'the taxeater . And this will cause the labourer to have " cheap food" ! Out upon ye , ye varlets ! ye know better ! " " '' ; ' . ' " " . ' ¦ ¦;" . "' " :.. " ' - ' ' : ' " ¦'
Were the measure of " Extension" to pass , and were it to effect a reduction in prices of one-fonrth ^ that reduction would cause ns to have to give to ' the . taxeaterg , produce ( valued at our present prices , ) ta the amount of £ 66 , 000 , 000 annually , instead of £ 53 , 000 , 000 . '¦;¦ ;¦ ¦ - If the measure effected a reduction of onethird in prices , we should have t > give produce to the amonnt of £ 70 , 000 , 000 for taxes , instead of £ 53 , 000 ^ 000 !! Should the reduction amount to one-half upon-the present prices , we should be taxed to the tune of £ 79 ^ 000 , 000 annually instead of £ 53 , 000 , 000 ! ! !
O ! rare " cheap food" I Famous -aad . - . cheap for the tax-eater t famous and " cheap" for the nion with fixed incomes ! famons and " cheap" for the pensioner , the salaried drones , tho dead-weight men , the half-pay men , the annuitants , and the debtdividend recipients ! Famous and "cheap" for these parties ; but how " cheap" for the people ? How " cheap" will it be to the producer , already bowed down to the earth with taxation ; how w cheap " will it be to him , when he has more of his labour to give to the tax-eater than he gives now ? How " cheap" will it be to the workman , who has to produce more before he can touch for himself ? We should like to see Sappy , try to answer these questions .
No wonder that the means of the working people to purchase food and clothing are gone ! Every reduction in the price of produce has been accompanied by a more than corresponding reduction tn the wages of labour ; and every reduction in both of these has enhanced the real amount of taxation upon the producer !! He has , in every instance , had more to produce to pay the tax-eater , before he could put one mouthful of what he produced into his own stomach Thus have his wage ? decreased and his taxes increased . And yet our fopl 3 of mariufactafors are not content with what has already been done in this way I They want more of it . ' ! They seek for further reduction in pricea and wages , and for increased taxation 1 .
In 1841 , the nominal amount of taxation raised from the producers of wealth , was , as has been before Btated , £ 53 , 000 , 000 . But the heal amount of taxes 1 that is to say , the amount of produce taken to pay the taxes , when valued in the prices of 1800 , was £ 75 , 000 , 000 ! ! ! Isthere any wonder that the means of . purchasing food are gone ! Let the labourer and the shopkeeper and the manufacturer ponder over these facts . Let them : look into the question of high and low prices . Let them get seme little below the surface ; let them dive into it in all Its bearings ; and we fancy they will come to a far
different conclusion from that Which the " great" manufacturers have arrived at ; that another reduction of prices and wages , and an increase : of taxation will be a good ! They will see that common justice points out that before any steps be taken that will reduce the prices of produce and the wages of labour , an equitabIe adjustment must be come to with the tax-eater , and the fund-lord . Bare , naked , common justice points out this as the very first step ! If the Corn Law Repealers are prepared to entertain and grapple with this question , they shall have pirn : aid : if they do hot do it ; or
if they are not willing to dp BOi every obstacle that we can throw in their way , to prevent theDi from giving more of the labour of the workman to the taxeaters , ' shall be so thrown I These ; are the parties who are sucking the little marrow' left in the bones of the working people out of them ; and wo are not inolined to join those who are for giving them greater-hold ! 1 - EQUiTAnLE ajsjustmbnTj master miilownera ; and then for a Repeal of the Corn Laws . Here are the terms of union , if you please ; agree upon them ; ratify the bargain ; and then at it we go ^ to get power to do both the one and the other ! What say you . Messrs . the millowners !
Equitablb Adjustment : this is imperativel y needed . If the taxes in 1841 had been adjusted only to the prices of produce in 1841 , as compared with tho prices in 1800 , though the amount of these taxes is ten times morethan ought to be raised j bnfc if the taxes in 1841 had been adjusted to the prices of produce , we Bhould only have had raised from us the sum of £ 37 , 000 , 000 instead of £ 53 , 000 , 000 ! 1 ! Adjustment is needed !
We have not done with this subject ; We are in possession of some strange information as to the attempt of a Mr . Heard , of Nottingham ( one of a recent deputation to Sir Robert Peel , to press upon him an alteration in the Corn Lawa ) , ( to fur ^ ther reduce the . wages of labour paid to his framework knitters ! We are in . possession of the tables or scales of wages promulgated by the maaters themselves , for a considerable period passed , These tables we shall endeavour to use , in . proof of our positions upon this question of questions ; and we shall also have something to eay of and concerning Mr . heard , the anti-Corn Law deputy , who is trying to prepare himself to meet the " now ciroumstancea" of the labourers by redwing their wages /
Mr . Heakd baa begun too soon ! He has let the oat out ! He should have waited a weeII - rtf > f r ~ i 1 1 ¦ "! ¦ " I p 1 i ' i f 1 a ' i ¦ i ~ i r [ - ~ - ^— J — ~ - ^ . — ^ . _ ^ _ ^ ^^^^ h ^ b * ¦'
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THE NEW CORN BILL DEBATE . The reader will see that we have given at considerable leugth the "debate , " as it is called , tbat has been had in the " House" on the new Corn Bill . Whether a perusal of it will repay the trouble , is for every one who takes that trouble to say : but there the " wise sayings" are , for him to read and rtfleot upon . ' ; One thing is certain ; the new Gorn Bill will
pass into law . This is acknowledged by the Morn ing Chronicle , the organ of the Leaguers ; and all the bluster and vapouring of the anti-Corn Law gentry oat of doors will not prevent it . Thep ^ where is the use of it ! The fact is , Pbei , for the present is safe with his majority in the CommonB , and his whole House of Lords . He will carry his measure : and this will show the trading classes , that , if they want to grapple with the landed interest the must join the people for the CHABtea . Will
they do this now ? Or will they wait and [ see whether Pbei . has aaytbing . mofe insultingin store for them t In either case we shall be satisfied . We know they ean do no good either for themselves or the peopleviiMtheHouseWnotitoted W »< is ; and we have long beeu busied preparing the people generally with this belief , and for the course of action ;* Bsultiag from such beliefi If the trading classes choose to join the people ' s movement , well and good . If not , the people will go on , and do without them !
The Chronicle of Monday says : ^ - - "Sir Robert Peel ' s Corn Bill does not appear likely to lead immediately to any serious division in Jus party , or to break up his Government . The Duke of Buckingham s retirement turns out , as we always supposed it , a mere part of the Ministerial arrange-
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^ ont for carrying it ; the sjnceTjtY > of Colonei ^ Sibthorp ' s opposition will ba neutralised by his absurdity ; and Mr . Christopher ' s ameinlnient only suggests tons anotion that , fired by the Duke of Buckingham's example / he thinkB that he may get a garter , or something that ii is as valuable to him aa a garter , but of the crisis , by putting himself at the head of the squires , and delivering them into the hands of Peel . With some half dozen exceptions ^ the helpless squires will erowl and succumb ; and Sir Robert will carry his Bill / and retain office . We should grieve if we thought it would turn out otherwise' * :: ¦'¦ ' ' ¦'" : ¦ - ' ¦? - ' : ¦ v ' ¦ : ¦ "¦'" - ¦ ¦ ¦ t ¦ \ ' ¦ : ¦
There is comfort for the Corn Law Repeialera Maugre all their antics , "Sir Robert . wiU carry his Bill , and retain ofiS . ce ! " So says the Chronicle And he says also he should grieve if ho " thonght k would turn put otherwise . " , What will the "freetraders" think now of their pet organ ! Hasnothe driven themto a pretty market 1 ^ , s One speech in this debate we cannot but call especial attention to ; the speech of Mr . Bdsfield Ferrand . His style of oratory , for ' .. ** that House , " is new . There is a great ambunt of tbuth in it ; and it is plainly tpld .
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The O'Connor Triumphal Car , —— -Those friends who are . desirous of obtaining a chance Jbr this splendid car mustforwardiheir subscription fsixr pence ) immediately to W . Cordeiix , 26 , Micklegatei as but very few chances remain unsold . The ' ' ¦ lottery will be drawn on Tuesday , the first of ' March . : ¦ .: ' ' .,: ' : : -V V ' — ¦ ' : ' . - - ' ¦'¦ _ ¦¦ v : " T . M . Wheeler , London correspondent of the Nprthern Star , would feel obliged by parties wishing his attendance at any meetings to inform him . thereof , at his residence , 7 , Mills Buildings ^ Kiiighlsbndge . As this is too often neglected , and he is left to hear of them by chance * by so ¦ doing disappointment will be prevented . . Joan Williams , wife of Zephdniah Williams , re ~ '¦ ¦ - ' - turns her warmest thanks to the female Chartists of Selby for their kind favour . ;
J . B . Smith . —We think he and his friends take a very short sighted : view , of the matter ^ The charges of' " treason" to all honesty ? of public pnnciple urged by various parties against Mr . R . J . Richardson are by no means matters appertaining to * 'that gentleman ' s private movements and business , ' ' nor have they any reference to "indiscretion in the ' . advocacy [ of Chartist princi p les . ^ They are clear and distinct charges of as black treachery as any man can be guilty of . Mr . Richardson is a public man ; he is the editor of a professedly Chartist newspaper ; he has had some influence with the people ;—if the charges against him be trite he . is a villain , against whom it is necessary for the
people to be cautioned ; if they be fake they are wicked and malicious slanders , which it is right that an opportunity should be given him te meet and reply to . We have long offered him thai opportunity , and we offer it him jlow ihroughihe same medium which promulgated the charges He has hitherto declined to meet ihern ; and ice have little expectation tlvtihe will meet them now . There can be no mistake about this matter—Mr * Richardson is either a very ill used man , or a scoundrel : we earnestly wish to believe him the former ; but until he shall have met and replied fairly to the charges of Joseph TAnney , James Wood , Paul Fairclough , Samuel Chamberlain ^ Henry Nuttall , James Wheeler 1 James Harrison
James Leach , Thomas Davies , George MitcheU % , and Robert Gray , we must and shall believe him v the latter . ¦¦' ¦ . •¦ ' - ,. ¦ ''¦'¦ . ; '" ''' v ' ; V ' , V . V > ! . ' - \ , '" o ¦ ¦" ''¦ ¦ . - A Woolwich Cadet .- —TF « do noirecoVect receiving the letter a fortnight ago of which he speaks . We are sorry to be compelled to omit his present favour . The present Parliamentary Session is < nie of some importance to the people , and during its sitting we shall be compelled to omit all corres' - ¦ pondence . . ' - '¦ . ' :: ' ¦ : ¦ ¦ . '¦ : ' . ' . '¦'¦ ¦ " ' \ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' : ! What oxe Maw can do . —One solitary Chartist , a . working man , living at Sheerness , having obtained a few petition heads , and a sheet has , by his own exertions at evenings after his work was ' .. done , procured two hundred signatures in fioe
nights . Hehassent for more < sheetsandpetition headt . We commend his example to the attention of all Chartists . ¦' : W . B . — -Memorialise'the Postmaster-General . - Robert Walker , Staindrop . — -Send ' them as they are , by all means . Never mind how much sullied they are , they will be as clean as the hands they ... " are to go into . ' [¦ ¦ .. ¦ ¦ - ¦ - . "'"¦' '• • '¦ ' - ' ¦ - ¦ - " - ' . ' ¦[ . - '¦ ¦ . = "'• ¦''¦• Belfast Chartists . — We are sorry to refuse them ; but we cannot just now spare so much space as their long letter would occupy . Edward Clayton . —The point in his letter is one to ¦ which the St&r has been continually directing the attention of its readers , and of which we shall certaih / t / not permit them to lose sight . We have not room at present for his letter .
A Lover of Truth . — -Whenhe calls fornames and . addresses should give his own . We advise him to send his question to Mr . Edward Baines , ; of the Leeds Mercury , wAdunV / , ice have no doubt , have " . , great pleasure in answering him . Charles Mahndbr . —Ws A now of no remedy . He may memorialise the 'Postmaster-General ; but we fear he will be little better for that . George Julian Hk ^ Hky has received is . M . from the Chartistsof Ecclesfitldfor the Convention .. Several unpaid letters have been retw-iied to the PosiOffice . ¦' ¦' . ¦ : , - , ; .. v ] ' /¦ ' r ' .- . ¦ ¦ : ?' : / Irish ^ Universal Suffrage A ssocrATiON . — . E . i ^ Bempsey begs leave to inform Mr . Cameron that Air . Stevenson delivered the two bundles of
Northern years , and was paid three shillings for -the carriage : ' ¦ : , ; "¦ ¦'¦' .: . -. : ' ' . . . ¦ ¦' Some Friends at Mold , in Plintshire , desire ' - . to know if any Welch Chartist publications are to be bought . . ¦ ¦ ¦;• ¦ ¦ -. ' ' ; : J . B ., Belper , may communicate with Mr . O'Connor ~ at this office . ' . ' :. ¦ John Mabkhah . —JP » 7 & the liberty'allowed in his present note the address and reply shell appear . P . Anoebson --The correspondence he has sent would makej nearly siai columns in the Star . We cannot devote so much space to it . ' ' , John Grady ., —ifcf /' ori ? toe insert his notice , we must ' . ' .. knqw his reason for wishing it * Halifax — -Aiicommunieatiohs for the ensuing year
to be directed to Joseph Thornton , Barum-top . Mr . T . B . Smith returns his thanks to his frlendB at Holbeck for tbeir kind token of remembrance , and hopes in a little time to be again amongst them . J , CtEAVE has received a Subscription from Blooms buiy Charter- Association—For Mr . Holberry , 2 s . 6 d . ; for Mrs . FroBt , 2 s . ; and tot Mr ? . Roberts , of Birmingham , 2 s . For Mrs . Frost—Wm . Humpbrey , Iambeth , 2 s . 6 d . ; A . ' : ¦ Beck , « itto , 1 ? . ; — Veinon , ditto , Is . ; ( J . Saxking , Walworth , la . -. ' .
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HuLL .--The Shareholders in Hull are requested to call at Mr ; R . Lunuy ' s , 25 , Mytonaate , on Wednesday evening next , the . 27 th of Febrnary , at aevea o ' clock , and produce thel * Scrip . ; J . Stein , Alva— All will be enclosed . Macclesfield . —Thomas Cotterill , sub-Secretary to the National Charter Association , Middlewieb desires the sub-Secretary at Maccltsfleld to send hint bis address , in order that he may communicate ¦ - ' ; ' with him . ; '" V ' ; - ; . ' . ' ¦' . - .. ' ' - .- ^ : '¦ ¦ ' - : ¦ ¦ : ¦ : ' /¦ ¦¦ . - G ; Iarkin , Wallworth . —Na V if . Burns , Dundee . —The Plates were sent to Hall ... . three weeks ago . ' \ " "• . V : ¦ ; :. .. . .. '¦ ¦ ' ' - . ¦ ¦ ; '¦ ¦' . :
FOR THE EXECUTIVE . ¦¦ '¦ - ' " ' '¦ ¦; - ' . ' ' -X ; '¦ . - " . '¦ . ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦' . "' : ¦ £ . <•* A . From an old Radical , Hull ... ... 0 5 0 ^ WmStonfleW , Mill-bridge i ( Pinder'a BlacWng ) ... ... 0 0 8 ^ Fisher and Co ., rule-makers , . ¦ Hull ; . ...::. ; ¦ ' .- ., ; ' . ; ¦ . ¦; .., ¦' .- .. o- ' . ' 3 :-2 ¦ FOR THE CONYENTION . Frem anold Radical vHaH ... ... 0 5 0 ^ a hater of Whip &nA Tory TUDaniea at Osseit Contnion .,. 6 2 6 ' ¦ «•; four friends of Chartism , at Horbnry ,.. ... ... ... 0 & f >
FOR THE WIVES AND FAMILIES OP THE INCARCERATED CHAETISTS . From G . tarkin , Walwottb .,. ... 0 0 6 FOR MRS . FROST—THE MWhiG-KADE WIDOW . ^ From a hater of Whig and Tory VlllaniesatOasetfcCommoB ... a 2 6 ' - — four frianda of Chartiflm , at Hortmry .. ^ . - ¦ :.. ' . : ¦ . . ti ... 0 2 0 . ¦ * . . :. "» few friends at Bamber Bridge , per W ; Liddle .. ; , W . ; . t 9 0 ~ Stoke , per J . LIvesey ... 18 ¦' ¦• « ¦ ¦ : "¦ ^» T . StarkBjr ... 2 ' < - ' ¦ ' . •'¦ ' . ' ¦ ¦ - : ' :: . ; . , ' ¦ ¦ . ' - .-: ¦ ¦ . '' :,. ¦ ¦ : : ¦ " J — - , ¦ ' 4 .: :
¦; FOR P . K . lC'DpUALX . From a bate * of Whig and Tory Tillanien at Osaett Common ... 2 " . '¦• M four friends of ChartiHta , at Hor irary .. ; - ... ^ ... 2 1 :. « , W . B . Pedley , CambetweU , London ... i . » ; ; .. . „ 0 0 6 : '' ,. '¦ ' . : - ' : ¦ . . ¦ . ;• . ' r . - - ' : :: FOR MRS . ¦ JO » ES . ; ' ' ; . ' : / ' ' ' ' ; ' From tbe Femalea of Perth ..: ... 0 5 0
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sunday . Ihe usual mee ing was held on Mpuday . Tho people a re lpoki ng auxiously < br p ' Goanof . Many Corn Law repeaitr are decUirina ; for the Charter , Gieappoiated with Peel ' s banUihtf / Warrington . —At a great public meeting : held on Monday , to denounce ' 'Feel ' s Corn Law Measure , aiid demand a total repeal , the Chartists mustered aud carried the usual amemiment with a tremendous majority . : ' . ;¦ - . ' " v : :
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 19, 1842, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct742/page/4/
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