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    • THOMAS COOPER. THE CHARTIST'S WORKS.
    • THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 18*6.
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      The Northern Star. , April Jb, J846. 4 ¦...

      THE NORTHERN STAR . , April _JB , J 846 . 4 ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ : _¦ ¦ ——¦¦ I g _' _ ¦ ' . _, ¦

      Thomas Cooper. The Chartist's Works.

      THOMAS COOPER . THE CHARTIST'S WORKS .

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      The Northern Star Saturday, April 18, 18*6.

      THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , APRIL 18 , 18 * 6 .

      Chartist Repetition Day. Repetition Day ...

      CHARTIST REPETITION DAY . Repetition day at school is generally more profitable to the dunce than all the week besides . Our readers must understand that "repetition day " means the day , it is generally Friday , when the seve ral classes repeat the lessons of the week—thus fastening upon the memory much that would otherwise have escaped , or have made but slight impression ; impression sufficient to confound , but not enough to confirm . "We should have these Chartist repetition days more frequently ; they would enable the good boys who have attentively learned their lessons , to

      stamp a knowledge of their value npon the minds of the more idle . We believe that more is to be learned from conversation than from books , and we have frequently known a clever , playful idler , who baa not known one word of his lessons for the week , but yet , after repetition day , has been more perfect in the week ' s work than those who devoted their every hour to study . Indeed , having admitted the fact , it would be ungenerous upon our part to withhold from the reader a practical illustration of its truth in our own person . We were always amongst the most idle , the most mischievous , and the most playful of our schoolfellows . Wc preferred ball , pegtop , and

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      marbles , leapfrog , pitch . and toss , and three-hole span , Scotch hop , foot ball , and cricket , to geography , history , or arithmetic , Greek , Latin , or mathematics . We belonged , we thought , to the community of learning , and , according to the true principles of communism , we played while our class fellows learned ; and at the end of each week wc reluctantly devoted & day to make amends for the past ; aud notwithstanding a systematic perseverance in this wayward course of communism , when examination day came , without a single exception for eight years we ran away with every "half-yearly prize at examination , amounting to sixteen annually .

      Having then derived so much advantage in early fife from the attention and study of others , society has now a right to expect some return inourmaturer years . Let us then proceed with thc rcpitition of the last four years . In 1842 , Chartism had its Convention in London , and at that Convention it was decided that thc Chartists should take no part in any outbreak that thc League created . It was also

      decided , that every means should be resorted to to insure tl . e co-operation of the several trades , and especially of the trades of Manchester . In August ef that year , circumstances occurred which called thc Manchester trades into action , and at the Manchester Conference , held the same month , we assigned as our reason for mixing the [ Charter with the then strike , tho probable effect that it might have upon the trades .

      Now to those who merely thought ' upon the outbreak , and not upon the Chartist policy which lessened the evil that might otherwise hare occurred , this repetition is indispensable ; the policy of adopting thc strike was forced upon the Chartist body , by thc hope that it would ensure a co-operation of the trades . The trades , however , made their own terms , and deserted us ;—the Chartists remained faithful to their policy , and were persecuted . Hence the blow of 1842 was rendered moro poignant by the desertion of the trades than by thc law ' s oppression . After that Chartism , so often deceived and always valiant

      and uncompromising itself , always suffering for the faults of others , was called upon to make a distinct rally for itself , unconfiding , save in its own resour ces , and relying solely upon the value of its own principles and the energy of its own disciples . It was admitted that he was a bold man who would even undertake to rally and unite the scattered fragments of Chartism . In September , 1813 , the present Executive , with slight modification , was elected at Birmingham to perform the Herculean labour of regenerating . The policy proposed there filled every

      upbraiding virtuous heart with indignation ; pamphlet stricture and denunciation followed each other in quick succession , and every disappointed expectant poured his burning wrath upon his more fortunate rival . The new policy gave fruitful promiso of funds , and funds gave an abundant crop of expectants . Chartism was now killed , and no mistake . All bad deserted its banners : O'Connor had betrayed its principles , the Executive had violated their duty , a war of extermination was proclaimed . Peace and reflection , however , was thc result of the wise policy of the Executive .

      In 181-1 another Convention assembled at Manchester . The rules of the Association were re-modelled , the advocates of the Land plan wero paralysed and mute , lest the enthusiasm of the eloquent should present them as the enemies of the Chartist principle . The Land was not mentioned , a new enrolment was undertaken , in three months Mr . O'Connor succeeded in amassing £ 95 for the Chavti 6 t Executive at an expence of £ 120 out of his own pocket . From April , ISii , to April , 1845 , Chartism went on limping but living , hobbling but progressing . A new crop of malcontents sprung up , and as speedily vanished . Thc take-no-heed policy of the Executive , as in all

      all other cases , allowed this new crop to perish for want of opposition . In 1845 , the _Smallest Chartist Convention ever assembled , that appeared a mockery to our cause , met in London , and again the Land was introduced as a Chartist auxiliary , and from that period to the present , without any other favourable circumstances presenting themselves , Chartism has progressed more within the last twelve months than from 1835 to 1845 . And it is because its present promising position offers a luring bait for profitable employment , that we have now to deal with thc new bstacle that has arisen , one which , however , the good sense of the working clauses will nip in the bud .

      The policy of separating the offices of Executive and Directors is now partially spoken of as a harmless but necessary measure ; if it was harmless we would acknowledge its necessity , but it is in consequence of the mischief being great and certain , while the necessity is nnproven , that we see the danger . It strikes our mind that this side blow nowaimed at the Executive will recoil against their assailants . During a long period ofthe time to which wc have referred it was argued that there was no

      necessity for an Executive , while it is now contended that Chartist business alone would furnish ample labour for that body . Men who contend for a policy do not consider themselves bound to view the probable dangers that may result from it , they content themselves with presenting the mere possible advantages . It is because we see , not the possibility , not the probability , but the actual certainty of danger from the whispered policy , that we undertake the duty of laying the case clearly before those who have the greatest interest iu it .

      We will suppose two distinct bodies elected to govern the present movement . Directors to govern the Land , and an Executive to govern Chartism . The Directors are paid out of an ascertainable fund , the Executive depend upon the amount of temporary enthusiasm they can create for subsistence . Enthusiasm fails and subsistence is withheld . Now , not judging too harshly of human nature , is it too much to anticipate that men in that situation would enforce their title also to be quartered upon a certain fund , the certain result of which would be either that the fund would be speedily swallowed , or that inequality would lead to dissatisfaction , and dissatisfaction to dissension , contention , and strife . But ,

      say the advocates of the new policy , the Chartist Executive need not be paid , except the secretary ; then we answer , that thc Chartist Executive would not work , and if working men work without pay , their sincerity must be doubted . Upon the other hand , we may ask in passing , whether those who subscribe weekly towards practical Chartism are less to be relied upon than those who chatter and denounce , investigate and condemn , or sometimes condemn without investigating , and if not , we have the admitted fact that the number of enrolled paying practical Chartists more than _three-fold exceeds thc number of Chartists who voted for the last election ofthe Executive .

      It must naturally occur that the promulgation ol a completely new principle will , in the outset , require more attention than tho same principle when it is matured and understood ; in the same manner as the growing child daily dispenses with a portion of ite nurse ' s attention ; but each day lessens , instead of increasing , the duties of the Land Directors , and enables them to devote more of their timo to the principles of Chartism . The . existence of ten sections would entail no more trouble upon tho Directors than the existence of one single section . It is true , and the Directors have admitted the truth , and seen the necessity , that each should have its own secretary , not only because the accounts should be kept

      distinct and apart , but because tlie labour of performing the duty to two sections would bo precisely double the labour required for the performance ofthe business of one section . Thus it will be seen that where difficulties present themselves , and where additional aid is required , thc Directors are prepared to meet those difficulties , and to seek for , and apply , the proper aid . In our humble judgment it would repuirea very searching brain to discover any legitimate cause of complaint against thc present Executive , * while the fact of severing the two offices would not be a mere admission that tlie duties were too arduous , but would be an _assertion that some of the duties were left unperformed .

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      But beyond even this paltry consideration for the feelings of officials , stands the certain , the inevitable damage , that such a course must inevitably entail upon both sides ofthe Chartist body—upon the Land , and the principle . Again , we should have the flag of distinction raised with the enthusiastic and confiding upon the one side , and the deliberative , the persevering , and the brave upon the other side , an event wliich wc are not prepared to hasten or to encourage . Some may then ask , what then , are the Dircctorsnot to be removed because they aro of the Executive 1 or is thc Executive to be permanent because they are o '

      the Directors ? Our answer is plain and simple , and based upon the voto of thc Convention that adopted thc plan , and the Conference that further matured the plan . Those representative bodies—the one representing the Chartist principle , and the other the landed interest , decided that the Chartist Executive should be entrusted as the Land Directory . Thus having linked and incorporated the political principle and its social result , what we suggest is , that in all cases the Executive , when elected , shall also constitute the Land Directory ; and for oursclvcsand

      for our brethren we have np hesitation in saying , that the vote of thc Land Conference which conferred the office of Directors upon them till December next , will not stand in thc way of the next Chartist Convention , being free to act upon the principle we have laid down—that is , that if the power of electing the Executive be conferred upon the Convention , the present Directors will have no hesitation in surrendering the unexpired term of their trust , in order that their holding of oflice as Directors should not stand in thc way of the appointment ofa new Executive .

      In conclusion , wc would implore the Land members not to open their funds to a rival competition , while we would beseech the Chartist body not to allow themselves to be entrapped _iitto a scheme , the effect of which would be to deprive their principles of a support which ef themselves they say they are too poor to render . It is impossible , wholly , utterly , entirely impossible , to separate thc Land and the Charter , or the managing body , without inflicting irreparable injury upon both . If the advocates of this new division had contended for an increase in the managing body , we might have discovered less

      danger to the cause , but not the less necessity for resisting unnecessary encroachment upon the funds . When the next Convention is held , whicli the recent news from America , in connection with the present state of parties , is likely to accelerate , the Executive of the Chartist Association will be prepared to employ more lecturers at the salaries they receive themselves than have at any previous period been engaged in Chartist agitation , but they will not be prepared to advocate a policy which would disable them from supplying aid when it was most required . By fostering the Chartist funds the Executive will lie enabled to apply labour to thc Chartist Cause when it stands

      most in need of it by thc employment of lecturers , who , however , if elected at a permanent salary , will be left , as the present Executive frequently has been , withoutsustenance , salary or support , other than what has been furnished by an unjustifiable draw upon the purse of an individual—for it matters not whether Mr . O'Coxxor pay the salary out of his own pocket , or spend thc amount in collecting it from others . All that we desire is , that the country may weigh the subject , speak its mind , and , as wc speak unreservedly to all , that those who receive secret missives will transmit them to those who are bound to defend the Chartist cause against the assaults of open foes and secret enemies .

      No Vote-No Musket. The Little "Spec" In ...

      NO VOTE-NO MUSKET . The little " spec" in thc west , which Sir Robert Peel hoped to dispel by conferring patronage upon a section of the Catholic Church , has now grown into a dark and dingy clond , which will take a large amount of ministerial concession to disperse . His last year ' s message of peace to Ireland was received as a doubtful offering , his present unconstitutional missive has the merit however of being clear , plain , and unequivocal . No doubt the prime minister built upon the iniluencc of English gold , upon the effect of the

      proposed tariff , upoa the good feeling of France , as a means of insuring peace through intimidation , while tho English press laboured hard to convince us that the President ' s message was a mere nine days' wonder , and that Mr . Polk , like the protectionists and Thc Times , would " swallow the leok . " Mr . Polk , however , has sent a postscript to his message to the Senate , in which he briefly recapitulates the principal points urged in the " long yarn , " and not a word of which he declares does he see reason to retract .

      The straightiorwai-d American answers English subtlety , English cunning and duplicity , with straight _, forward American honesty . I admit , says the President , that England lisps peace while her every action proclaims war . She says that she is at r eace with the world , that her free-trade policy is likely to extend and perpetuate those peaceful relations , wliile at tho same time she breathes thunder through her increased naval armaments , her increasing enlistment , and her threatened militia bill .

      Oh . says The Times , how unfair , how ungenerous , how unpolite _, while England bows and scrapes , and professes tha tenderest regard for peace , the uncouth American has not the good manners or tho good taste so to " wrap up his feelings of English diplomaoy as to _preservo our Stock Exchange from so sudden a calamity as the disappearance of the Government broker . How ridiculous the moneygrubbing press of England must now appear , when

      Mr . President Polk , the American Congress and Senate , have virtually , if not actually , declared this never-to-come war . . Notice to quit is to be served upon the English minister , and the Thunderer tells us that this , perse , is a declaration of war ; a war in which the blood , the mind , the nerve , the feeling , and the pride of every Englishman will be enlisted ; a war , which , if forced upon us by American insolence and a submission to democratic howling , must ba one of ruin to America .

      We took the liberty of dissenting from our cotemporary very early in the discussion of the subject , and we have seen no reason to retract a single opinion that we have advanced . "We announced that all class and sectional interests in America would merge into an anti-English feeling , and that the several interests in the several states would be united until the struggle against monarchical intervention was finally decided . With regard to England , we ventured te assert that nineteen in twenty of the whole population would raise their voices against a war which had for its object resistance to democratic principles .

      Nay more , we further ventured to suggest the possibility of Sir Robert Peel ' s sonding a squadron of observation to prowl round the American coast , if pushed hard by the protectionists ; but we did not venture to anticipate the stronger alliance being formed between America and the Irish by the new and numerous ties of affections by wliich the coerced Irish convicts , doomed to imprisonment in their mud hovels would be bound by the thousands , thc tens of thousands of able-bodied Irishmen , who arc now flying from landlord tyranny to take refuge under tlie banner of democracy . While the English cabinet is meditating an > nlistmcnt Bill for the entrapment of VOLUNTEERS , her tyranny is furnishing willing soldiers to fight against their oppression in foreign

      lands . The Irish people are bound together by clanship , affection , consanguinity and connection ; and tho thousands > ho have left the shores of Limerick , Cork , and Waterford , and the hot ternperaturc of Tipperary and Clare , will have each left hundreds of relatives at home who would rather war _against England , and the oligarchy of Ireland , than against the government from which their exiled friends expect that comfort which thoir own * country has denied them . Nay more , tho Irish are not satisfied with a negative policy , they will not be reconciled to inaction whioh threatens injury to their friends , and it is not at all unlikely that a little domestic diversion may be got Hp at home , requir . 'ng tho presence of our standing army there . We may now presume , without drawing much uponv

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      the gullibility of ouv readers , that war with _Amerie * is inevitable , and that the embodiment of the militia will be an inevitable consequence of that war . The subtle policy which was intended to lure America into unsuspicious indifference had not its proposed effect upon us . We felt , from the moment that we read tha President ' s message to the present , that war was inevitable , and that the militia would be embodied . It appoars , however , that the Stock Exchange policy pursued by the English press had the effect of lulling the suspicions of the working classes , and of persuading them that the Anti-Militia Association was no longer needed . Now , this is precisely tne cause of quarrel which wc have with those who receive our admonition , kindly act upon it for a

      moment , and then , if the threatened effect does not instantly follow the cause , the agitation' is given up . We now write to assure the working classes that the Secretary-at-War merely asked them to suspend their anti-militia operations in order that he might be ready with his trap before the people were prepared to resist it . It is doubtfnl whether Mr . Polk ' s postscript may not have a greater effect upon the Irish Coercion Bill even than the marshalled resistance of the Irish members . However , of this fact wo arc sure , that there never was a time in the history of this country when a good understanding between American and English Chartists and Irish Repealers may be better turned to the account of Chartism , Landism , and Repealism .

      Last week we published tho manifesto of the American democrats , wherein they state that Land Democracy is thc only one principle worth contending for . Let us , then , prove by our petitions that we are opposed to Irish coercion ; let us prove by our anti-militia movement that we are opposed to unjust wars , and to fighting for the preservation of the rights and privileges of tyrants ; and let us prove , by undying perseverance in thc Land scheme , that we understand the value of Land _Demo' -racy as well as the Americans do . After a lapse of a few weeks , wc now revive the cry of NO VOTE ! NO MUSKET ! !

      Latest Foreign News

      LATEST FOREIGN NEWS

      Attempted Assassination Of Tiie King Of ...

      ATTEMPTED _ASSASSINATION OF TIIE KING OF THE FRENCH . Northern Star Office , Saturday Morning , At half-past five o ' clock on Thursday afternoon , at the moment when Louis Phlippe was returning from a drive , and was passing through the park of Fontainblcau _, a person mounted on a wall fired at thc King . The Queen , the Princess Adelaide , the Duchess of Nemours , and the Princess of Salerno , were in the carriage .

      No one was hurt ; three balls cut tho fringe which ornamented the _char-d-bane . The wadding , whicli fell between the King and the Queen , was found by tlie latter . The assassin was immediately arrested . His nam _» is Lecounte . He is an old wood-ranger ( ancien garde gencrale ) of the forest of Fontainbleau .

      Poland And Italy. The Universal German G...

      POLAND AND ITALY . The Universal German Gazette of the 12 th instant , publishes the following letter , dated Cracow , oth instant : — " The officer of the militia , M . _Ducillowic-5 _, who betrayed the conspirators to the authorities , and apprised them of thc hour fixed for the explosion ofthe insurrection , has been struck with apoplexy , and is at present in the hospital . A nervous fever prevails amongst the Austrian corps of occupation in this city . Letters from Warsaw state that the governor of that city has adopted strong measures to preserve order .

      The troops sleep in the streets _^ and at eight o'clock the houses are closed . We are ignorant of the state of Gallicia , as all communication has been interrupted . We merely know tbat the peasants had not yet returned to their duty . Tlie Austrian array had suffered some loss in the forest of Niepolomidec . The insurgents dug pits , which they covered with loose earth , and when the cavalry charged , several ivere dismounted and put to death without met w . When in want of provisions , the peasants advance to Bochnia _, and even to Wretitzka . At Bogasen , in the Duchy of Posen , an attempt at insurrection was made , and eight or ten persons were wounded . "

      Letters fiom Italy state , thatnot only 'in Lonibardv but in Sardinia , Modena , and the _Tapai States , grea _' t fears of an outbreak are entertained ; it is _asserted that the Italian refugees have been joined by the Poles residing in France and England .

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      Hr. Cooper' * Defence Of His " Orations ...

      Hr . Cooper ' * defence of his " Orations " ia in type , but is _excluded from this day ' s Star through want of room ; it shall appear next week . Allen Davenport . —Next Week , J . Sweet begs \ o acknowledge the receipt of the following sums for the forthcoming Convention : —From the Seven Stars Locality , 4 s . 3 d . ; Mr . Joseph Robinson , Is . ; Mr . Morris , Bd . ; Mr . Croft , fld . ; Mr . Smith , 3 d . ; Mr . Bown , 3 d . The Coming Cordwainer ' _s CoNrERExcE . —We have received the following from the Editor ofthe Cordicainer ' s _Companign : —As , in a very short period after another Contevence of our trade is to be held , 1 would fain say a word or two by way of advice to my brother

      craftsmen on the subject with a view of doing something to . wards the formation , at last , ofa re-ally " general" association . The two preceding attempts , I am well aware , have been but attempts—attempts , forced on it is true , through amultitude of obstacles , as they were always en . dangered in theirafter working , from theevilresultsoia most bitter spirit of moic _partisanship . Let all this , however , attliepresent moment , not deter , butratiier excite to renewed exertions , in every way , and by any condition and section of shoemakers alike , and thus that the ensuing Conference may lend to strength and harmony , and that these advantages may , also , long continue . Be it , then , the great aim of every shoemaker to help to thiB—Scotch as well as English—Welsh as well as Irish . Let all try their best ; and especiall y , let those of the " ancient regimen" do away for the time with

      some of their men ' s lurking misgivings , and come and " confer" at least , with their fellow workmen ofthe altered system , and thus the closer to examine what in reality it is , and to abide by the conviction , for or against , wlileli in this way , and in this way alone , is to be truthfully created . Let , for instance , the " old trade " of Glasgow send its delegate to such Conference , and of Edinburgh , and of Dublin , and of that _division of the London _West-end men ' s men which has not yet been brought to join the Association ; and the Borough men ' s and women ' s bodies , aud the City women ' s men the same ; and , then , if any real good can be accoml plished , be it so _accomplished ; or , if not , let the former sectional system revive again , as any system would be preferable to the almost no system now so prevalent , to the injury of all , and the advantage ot none !

      Veteran Patbiots' and Exilbd Widows' and Ciiil . diien ' s Ponds . —Receipts for the week : Collection after my Lecture at the South London Chartist Kail , last Sunday , 4 s . 8 _'d . A Lover of Justice , per Mr ! Overton , London , ls . Brighton Chartist , per Mr . Flower , 10 s . Total 15 s . 8 Jd . —bting considerably be . low half of our weekly expenditure of Two founds . Once again , I beg , most earnestly , that my brother chartists will remember their bounden duty towards the aged toilers in the struggle for freedom , and towards the widows aud orphans of those who are en . during bitter bondages across the ocean , fortheir devotion to the same high and hol y cause . How is it that neither from the _StaiVordshire Potteries , Nottingham , Leeds , Todmorden , Oldham , Sheffield , Neweastleen-Tync _, Glasgow , Edinburgh , Northampton , Kettering , Norwich , Ipswich , Bristol , Bath , and numerous !

      other districts , usually understood to be Chartist localities , not a single contribution has been sent for these two funds ? Burnley iu Lancashire , a town experiencing as deep poverty as any town in England , lias remitted thrice ; and Bradford , Birmingham , Maneliester , Rochester , Brighton , with Hamilton in Scotland , have remitted twice , while London has contributed more than _one-third of tlie entire sum raised for these tiro funds , since they were established in September last!—Is it right to lay so much of the burthen on the willing steeds in the Chartist team ? Let none take offence at this hint ; but let all and every one attii . butc my -. luiu . speukiug to its true cause , —a wish to _see _*|\ Yorking . inen prove to their oppressors that they possess intellects that can properly estimate the ellbrts made to win thoir rights , by evincing feeling hearts towards the sufferers b y those efforts . —Tnomas CoorEit _, Secretary , VH , Bla _.-kfriars _' _-road .

      Robert Findlav _, Abcrdeen . -Ought to have received Ins papers at the usual time . They were posted on Friday morning , Joshua Hobson , Bradford , Wilt 8 .-We do not supply the party he mentions . He is supplied by some of thc Loudon agents , J , W . —If your "aftairs are embarrassed , " we know of no one in the legal profession more likely to serve your interests than Mr . H . W . Weston , of Moira Chambers , Ironmonger-lane , Cheapside , who n umbers amongst his clients person , of all grades , from the peasant to the _pserof thc realm ,

      Receipts Of The Chartist Co-Operatiye La...

      RECEIPTS OF THE CHARTIST _CO-OPERATIYE LAND SOCIETY .

      SECTION No . 1 . TEH MR . O'CONNOR . SHARES . £ s __ No . 1 branch , Glasgow , per J . Smith .. ,. o it Pershurc _, per Vf . Conn ,, _« 3 0 Exeter , per F , Clark 0 j ]( . Halifax , per C . W . Smith .. .. .. 11 _]<> „ Shrewsbury , per J . Powell 0 5 _n W . KmdoU , Otlcy .. .. .. _.. n 5 " Manchester , per J . Murray , SI 3 ft Burnloy , por C . Webster _H 0 Stockport , per P . Walker 5 0 n Heywood , per W . Bingham _] 0 13 ? Warrington Loinnt

      , per R . ,. .. .. 0 10 0 1 _' er ditto , fov Itwij Anderson „ .. .. 1 0 0 _1 ' _cr ditto , for Edward Lawless ., ,. ,. 1 a 0 Radulitte Bridge , peril , llnmcr .. .. ,. I 10 0 Ashton , per J , Taylor for J . Latimer .. .. 3 jo 0 Macclesfield , per J . Warren .. K .. 000 Nottingham , No . 1 , per J . Sweet ,. .. „ 1 17 3 Hyde , per J . Hough 115 ij Scarborough , per R . Knceshall .. .. .. 1 13 (; Lciccstw _, per G . Noon .. .. .. ,. - 0 0 Hamilton , per W . Weir 1 18 1 Greenock , per 11 . Burroll .. .. .. 2 0 1 Arbroath , per J . Stephen „ „ ,, 2 } [ 0 0 £ 108 14 6 DIEECTORS FDKD . Exeter „ .. 012 UllCUp 0 6 8 Old _Itiisford 0 4 10 Scarborough .. ~ ,. .. ., 0 1 H Hamilton .. 0 0 11 CARDS AND MILES . No . I branch , Glasgow .. ., ,. ., 0 1 _i ) Nottingham , per J . Sweet „ ,. .. 0 2 9 CONFE 1 _VENCE Uivr . Heywood , per W _, Bingham ,. .. .. 020 I ' auup .. .. .. .. .. .. 049 Old _Uasford 0 19 Scarborough 0 0 9 SECTION No . 2 . Thomas Wintcrbottom , Cheshire > . „ 2 12 i James Anderson , sen ., Manchester ., .. 544 Total , Section No , 1 ... ... ... 10 S 14 6 Do . do . 2 7 16 8

      £ _llfi II 2 NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION , EXECUTIVE . KB MR . O'COBNOB . Manchwter , from Mr . O'Connor ' s lecture „ ] j ; q Females of Todmorden .. ,. ,. „ 0 12 0 Macclesfield , per II . Hnrgraves for Chartist Conference 110 Pilkington .. .. .. .. 050 The sum announced under this head from Blackburn , 7 s . 9 d ,, last week , was for the Directors of the Land Society , and not for the Chartist Executive . EXILES' WIDOWS' I DM ) . PEK MR , O ' CONNOR . . Scarborough , per R . Kneeshall ,. .. ., 0 2 7 J NATIONAL ANTI-MILITIA FUND . PER UR , O ' CONNOR . Leicester , per W . Green , 0 1 . 5 $ Nottingham , per J . Sweet ,. .. ,. 030 R . Town , Hulnie ,. .. .. .. ., 0 0 9 WIDOW SV . TMV .

      PER MR . O ' CONNOR . T . _Tln-edder ., „ 0 0 6 Oldham , from Mr . O'Connor ' s lecture .. .. - . _» « 0 Mr . Tobin .. .. u „ „ 0 2 C

      POLAND ' S REGENERATION FCND , PER MR . O ' CONNOR . George Newsom .. .. .. .. .. 0 0 ii J . Drownsfiehl .. .. „ „ „ 0 0 ti T . Tln-edder .. .. 0 0 S Kitchael , the Jowess .. 001 L'ilkii'gton 0 6 1 ) Sheffield , per G . Cavill ,. t - g The subscription of Mr . Paulhance , announced last week as ls . should have _baen £ 1 . 85 " Charles Brown , Halifax , No . 17 in the two acre allotments , having declined to accept his prize ( being anxious to possess a four acre allotment ) , ire _hei-t-liv announce that Charles Tawes _, of New Radford , Xo . 18 is tho winner of the last prize in the two acre ballot ' Philip M'Gbath , Fearcfs O'CONNOR , Thomas Clark , Christopher Dotle , TnoMAg Martin Wheeler , Secretarv .

      Mr. Joh.V Moss, Of Carrington , Is Infor...

      Mr . Joh . v Moss of Carrington , is informed that we have made _frequent applications to the London Joint . Sr tock bank for the sum of £ 12 , whicli has been _ucknow . Icdged in the Star as having been remitted bv him but the Bank has received no advice on the subject We request his immediate attention to this . Mr G . Cavill , of Sheffield , is also informed that the London and Vt estnunster Bank has received no advice to pay us the sum of £ 17 odd , which has also been acknowledged in tho Star as remitted by him ,

      Ireland

      IRELAND

      Famine, Eviction Of Tenantry, Popular Ou...

      FAMINE , EVICTION OF TENANTRY , POPULAR OUTBREAKS . From all parts of Ireland the most heart-rending accounts reach us of the progress of the famine . Numbers of miserable families are starving upon one meal of wretched food in the twenty-four hours . Unless prompt measures are taken by the Government to relieve the hunger ofthe people , the most awful results may be anticipated to take place immediately ,

      EVICTION OF TENANTRY . The Waterford Chronicle of Saturday contains an account extending to nearly four columns , of the eviction of 50 families , comprising 227 human _beings by the Marquis of Waterford , from his propertvlit Graigshoneen , Kilmacthomas , and several families numbering SO persons from Glenafoca _, also the property of tho Marquis . It appears from this statement , that the tenants held the land under- lease for the life of one John Love , who , it is said , died some time ago in America . The landlord , it is _all ' _ccd _, gave but £ 2 to such of the tenants as threw down their houses of their own free will , and it is added , that there was no complaint of non-payment of rent . Several stated that they owed no rent , and others said they were ready to pay what thev owed . In addition to the 357 persons thus thrown upon the world , there are seventeen families yet in jeopardy at Craigshoneen .

      POPULAR OUTBREAKS . The Limerick papers contain accounts of an extraordinary assemblage of 5 , 000 labourers at Toryhill , Croom _, en Thursday , in pursuance ofa notice posted in several places in that and the surroundm " parishes , calling on tho people to assemble , for the purpose of obtaining food and emplovment for themselves and their families . " At about ten o ' clock in the morning , " says the Examiner "the people began to assemble on the spot appointed , and the number continued to inrr < 4 p till about twelve o ' clock , when the R Mr Bnn Cat holic Curate , ascended the hill Wthere nee " ot the Catholic clergyman , for the purpose of at drcssiNg them , with a tic * to separate the mcet _' mg . At this time there were between 3 , 000 and 4 000 persons assembled , and every minute more arrived There was no music-all was silence-there IZ no show , with the exception of _emTaJ _^ T _^

      raised en the summit of thc hill . Th ° e rev " entle . man advised the people to lower the fla « - and" separate peaceably and orderly , and called their _attenthm to the measures that had been , and were be ng taken by government and thc local gent _^ _'v for their SfVu r ° . i ° ut _««« dreadful consequences that would ensue if they broke the peace and ren deredof no eifect the efforts thai ; were _nialdne to procure them food and employment . He was listened o with silence , but when he concluded the flag was lowered and he left the ullunder the impression that the meeting would speedily dissolve . This , however , was not the case ; numbers of _labourer continued to arrived lrom every part of the country . In a short time the flag was again raised , and bv _JiaJf-nnst one o clock there were atleast 5 000 persons on the hill . About this time the rev . Mi- O'Shea , Catholic _Cu-»& ro de _n t 0 thc P ! ace wl _» ere thc flag was elevated , and began to address the people " Ihe Chronicle gives the substance of the rev . gentleman ' s speech , as follows : —

      _Th _»™^ f ' fl _i'W-I ? tll , S - \* he bar ner "nder which „ 1 _^ _™ 5 h ( 1 ICa , ' _* l YouhaTC ' ata » times and 2 _' 11 entertain that respect for them and their ? _r _„ , _* t . CneS ° - & > The » Ical 1 "P _™ vou _SkR . * ' _' ? . _'T ; _S . this standard . ( The manmove l nIr _^* ° _^ _- ' the Wr remo « d . ) _^ ow _, then , as a friend , I have to protest against _yourassemb ing „ this manner-UViS or you to do so and at thc presenttime mostim JS dent . ( Cries o We want work . ' ) 1 know vou do and that man is not vine who feeU mm » V ' wretched and destitute _Jd £ & Tdo % _S ) j _dJrWR'ir _' chHTf' linketl _W _*& » K ciugj itjour church ,, for your and our interest is i _nAand th « _«¦ ¦¦* -, «* I _tri thereC v " J _ifn _?

      _neef , (? l a , iy W COnduct _«« - * ™» _ld Mm * ¦ ueet us from each other . ( Cries of Nn « n ' \ 1 I know you will not . We have dTne _cvemhinSour power to procure employment for you . Tore dent landed proprietors have done so . and I tr ? t the " < r- ¦ verament w , il , ton or twelve daw , set _S the _a works applied for in this district , and ghV vou en ? _tftTGod _ffla _^^ _% > ' _^^ _» iiien .- _iroti turbid . I implore of von to bear vour r mur _^ Si _^ ° r , , natl 011 ol Bovernncnt . '( Mur- - raws . ) 1 tcel that hunger prompts you , perhaps at t m ' r _? acfs * 1 ) 0 n ° t . I" bod ' . " name , , _, moke jour condition worse than it is . We have thc c Indian corn meal now distributing to the poor , lt t _» s excellent food , and I recommend it to you . ( Cries s ot It we eat that food it will poison us . ' ) I assure e

      you that is an absurd idea . I used it for my break- :-fast this morning , and I promise j _* ou I will continue e to do so , and if there is harm in it I will be the first it victim . ( Hear , hear , and cries of ' We will use it it so . ' ) The Rev . Mr . O'Shea then conjured them to jo leave the hill , and return peaceably and quietly to ; o their homes , obscrvine that if their meeting had , d been legally convened , he would himself preside , and _, d

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 18, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_18041846/page/4/