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    • A PUBLIC SOIREE
    • Ik-'S Moci,DE3s. -^-A general meeting of iron
    • THE NOKTHKKN STAR , SATURDAY, JANUARY 29. 1848.
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      - .• ¦ ¦ '¦ '*¦ R 4 The Northebn ' Star;...

      - . ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ' _*¦ r 4 THE _NORTHEBN ' STAR ; January 29 , 1848 _^

      A Public Soiree

      A PUBLIC SOIREE

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      TJSDETJ TUE _HiNAGEHEKT OS ? THE METROPOLITAN CHARTIST COUNCIL , WILL BE HELD \ T THE NATIONAL HALL , 2 4 2 , HIGH _HOLBOPxlN ; ON WEDNESDAY EYENIXG , FEBRUARY 2 nd , 1848 , / T S DU . _S _'COUBE , M . P ., T . WAKLEY M . P ., and P . O _' COXNOR M . P ., for their . - » blo and Is nonour oi i _o _« * patriotic services in the Muse of the people . Eknest Josh , _Birriitr-at-Law _, Anther of tho ' Wood Spirit , '' My Life , ' * _Rorasnco of a People , ' ic , ic , will preside .. Tea on the Table ot half-past F _& e o ' clock precisely , T * kets 1 « 3 d * «< sh rnav fee obtained at the office of the National Land Company , Ut , High . Holborn ; ot tho _oSceof tie KesrBEKK _Sr _« , 16 . Great _Ytindmill-Btreei , Hajmarket ; er at any df the _meeiiug rooms of the _tDt _^ b h of itro National _Charttr _Association , At _half-patt Seven o _' cWfette public will be admitted to the Hall at * charge of Twopence eBCh , when the _Keevine will De ad 4 rei * e 4 bv the above « . _tinguUh « 4 _Reformers , and other friends cf the _Ptople ' _l Charter ,

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      IKSTHCCTIOX , _COKSfCXICATION , AND DEFEKCE FOR TUE MILLION . Union is _Strengths Knoieledge is _'Power . —B _* eox . The Miserf _,- Ti *> es , and the _ImJastriens Classes _penerally _. _wiU find ft t » be their _inteMtSfcnd advantage to rend and support THE MIXERS' ADVOCATE , MANX _1 NT ! LLIGENCER , and TRADE- - . ' _FSt'E E PRESS :: which is Edited and 1 ' _cSished by Mr Wm . _Dakiells , In anew and improvedf « rnv _, in Duuslas , Isle -sf Man , imdis an organ of instruction , communication Rnd defence ' fdfjthe Miners and _Tradt & r'f Great Britain ; _? . t the -s _^ me * ime It will _alf" _advocate the rightB , and expose * the wrongs of Labour ; ar . d will likewise _inse . _t the _dlfferfcat Grievances Bnder _irftfeh the Miners and Trades -Stlfitfr , if sent and t'rop _i-rl y authenticated . One « f _^ he principal objects ~ 6 { the _MnSxs' ADVOCAOS avh Ts _» _3 ks * Fuee _Peksswill-be _to-endeavour _tobref . k _< 3 _own-aed expose the injurious tendency of the _prejudi-jes and ill _fceliiij ; which , unhapeily _, - . _too'mtich _prcviil amc-ng _workiiiu men , and which prejudice and _ill-feelinp the _* eh . _Sshjitd _uni-rircipled among the _master-clasi h » _Tseinvarisbjyufed as _meansturtillfurtherdtpress and enslave the W > _" _ilth _Producer * , S _« an j _^ that It most certainly isth * interest « f the Industrious Cl . wts - . to hold a good _« _uderstaniHiii ; with each other , and to cultivate a spirit at unity _aridf-.-iendship with each other , _forimutual _assistanue and deftiiCe , we shall labour incessantly to overthrow the _perrricious < Aristocracy of Trade * f and vre shall nlstvn-- '« 5 e « T < . ur to Instruct as _tvellasamcse . being convfeoed that the ' one thing needful " , among the working claB « s ie information and a knowledge -of their rights , and worth , _aiii _ussfuluess ; that knowledge once _obtainw _* , a rapid improvement in the moral find physical condition of tho _Ql-ved and oppressed toiling niillions would f _^ _eedilv fol--low . The Apvocati will belong to no _particuter political partyur rt-pgiuus sect , but will give a fair and impartial ep itome of the proceedinE _£ ia the Political and _Kelitiious World ; and besides eivin _. ' Papers on the Ventilation of _awIExp _' . _osiiniR and A ccidents in Mine * , and on Mines anti Mining _nperafionf , it will likewise five a condensed yet taithful report < rfthe News of the Day ; in fine , itis tbe intention of the Proprietor , should he meet with due _encourajreniert and sunpt-it , to make the Advucate . sot only an organ of communication for the Miners and Trades , and au exponent and defender of the Kights of labour , but : i USEFUL FAMILY VEvTSPAPER . Bein £ published in the Isl * of Man , it is allowed the privilei : e to j ; o _Postage Fkee . and can " _oe posted in any part o ! the United _Kingdom ,- thus giving it all the ad-Vantages of a regular Stamped Newspaper . _ADVERTISERS ¦ Who wish to give pxtvnsive publicity to their business , _^ vill fiua it advantageous to _advertise in the pages _e-f the _HrREBs' _aj _> vocate _' asd Trades' Kkee Pxess , tiie _average circulation of which , during the last twelve months , basbitt-u upwards of S _. n _. _io , in England , Scotland , and ¦ Wales ; besides , there being uu stamp duty in the Isle of Han , we tire enabled to iusert Advertisements much cheaper than the newspapers which are published in England , Scotland , and Wales , and which pay a duty of Is 6 d . for each advertisement to Government . The Advocate is now printed in the Quarto form ; it Contains twenty-four columns of clos-ly printed matter , price Two Pence , and as the Third Volume has _ju > t commenced , it forms a favourable opportuuiry for the _commeacenjentof Xew Readers . OFFICE . —No . 4 , Post Q > 5 « _Fteee , Douglas , Me of Man . Where Orders , Advertisement * , and Communications should be sent addressed to the Editor ; Orders and _Advert-isnients will be also _received by all respectable _Bookfellets and _SeKS-ageiits in Town and Cunutry . Douglas , Isle of . Man , January , 18 iS .

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      Now ready , in one thick 8 to . volume , price Hi , T HE POLITICAL WOKKS OF THOMAS PAISE , now fint cullecii'd together , and . to which are added _sevenl i > _iei-es _ntri-r before _publinhed in _England ; and an appendix , _containing the Trial of Thomas Paine , at ¦ Guildhall ; with a portrait of the author . Complete in two vols . _Svo . price 12 s ., VOLTAIRE'S PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY , With tno _well-hniBhed Portraits of the Author . Ia two vol * , price bi ., published at 9 s ., TUE DEVIL'S PULPIT , _BytheRiV . Robeet Tailob , B . A . Tn one handsome volume , price € s ., _CARLILE'S MANUAL OF FREEMASONRY , Originally published at 15 s . Complete in 1 vel ., price 5 s ., THE DIEGESIS , By the R _= v . Robert Taiiob . A complete aet of OBBETT'S POLITICAL REGISTER , For sale , SS voU ., _kaif-cilf . W . _Dugdale _, 16 , Holywell-street , Strand .

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      CHARTISM AND . ITS OPPONENTS . THE REPUBLICAN" fur _FtBECABT , now ready , price Twopence , contains a retutation of the . Slanderous _attacks _' and Wilful _Misnpresontations of the 'British Banner , ' on the Charter and Chartists ; aho articles _byKilverpen , W . J . Linton , and Edward Toul . London : James Watson , Queen ' s Head-passage , _Pat _^ rnoster-row , _,-. iid by order of all booksellers .

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      WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE . WAKEFIELD ADJ 0 UR 5 ED SESSIONS . " •\ T 0 TICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , that the Christmas ll General Quarter _Sessions of the _Pecco , for the West Ridin _: of the County of York , will be held by adjournment in _tlis Committee room , at the House of Correction , at Waklfield . on TncRSDAT , ths Tenth day of February next , at Twelve o ' clock at Noon , for the purpose of inspecting the Riding- Prison ( the said House of Correction ) , and fur _enminins the Accounts of the Keeper of t : ie said House of Correction , making Enquiry into the conduct ot the Officers and Servants _belonging the same ; and also into the behaviour of the Prisoners , . and their Earnings . „ C . II . Elsley , Clerk of the _Teace . Cletkof the _Peice's Office , Wakefield , - ' . ' _jth January , 1 _S 4 S .

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      _TIIEO'CONSOU TARTAN . Ms . _IOIIS GREGORY . Draper , Eccles , near _Manchuster , bsgs respectfully to inform his Democratic & iea s in . Manchester , Stockport , Ashton , Hyde , Oldham , Burv , _Ilevwoct-. l , Bolwn , av . d _Ltigh , that he has become _Aitentfor * the sale of THE O'CONNOR TARTAN , and intends to wait upon his friends , in the above-named places , in ths course of a fow days , with a select _stoc-k of Ladies' Shawls , Scarfs . Handkerchiefs , Siik and Wooilen _Dressef , _Guititin-n ' s _Yestivigs . < tc . & c , when he trusts lie shall receive the patronage and support of his numerous l ' _rien-ls .

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      TO FEMALE MEMBERS OF TIIE KATI 0 _* AL LAND COMPANY , AND OTHEK _.-3 . _-CTTASTED , by an Allottee , a _PARTN'ER . Age 40 . Any Vv ' one- wishing _ti accept the offer , upon sending a _Jitter ! _prr-p-. < i < l .: and statin :, ' their circumstanci s , to D . E ., S "« . 31 , Weston place , Weston-street , Bermondsey , _jv . ll _L-e answered hy return of Po > t .

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      THE LAND . A _TW-G-ACRE ALLOTTEE wishes to DISPOSE of Ilia ALLO _TM EST ( through an _eKRageineut in a _distant pnrt efthe t » . u _< itry ) , t . _get-itr with _tlio crop , _consisting" of 'Wneat , Yeichts , Fruit , and other Trees , Apply _t-. i Jlr John Wallace , Loivbauds , Redinarley , Ledbury , ¦ Wo rcester .

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      POUTRAIT CF FEARGUS O'CONNOR , Esq ., M . P ., T _MAUTJ-r _' . iufiinns his friends and the Ctnirtiftbody . generally , that lie has reduced the price of his _lithographic full-length portrait of their Illustrious Chief to the _fulluwiiu- price : —Prints . Is ; coloured ditto , 2 s . tid . PEOPLE'S EDITION . To be had atthe XoaTHEKr » - Stab office , 10 , Great _IVindmiil-street , Haymarket ; Sweet , Goose Gate , Nottilijj . ham ; Heywood , _Manchester , and all booksellers in the United Kingdom .

      Ik-'S Moci,De3s. -^-A General Meeting Of Iron

      _Ik- 'S Moci , DE 3 s . - _^ -A general meeting of iron

      Ra-'U!Ders Was Held Af. Tipton On Monday...

      _ra- 'U ! ders was held af . Tipton on Monday last . The meetins : was determined , to a man , not to submit to any reduction of wages . Several able speeches were delivered , and the fol ! cr _.-ing resolutions unanimously passed : —¦ - ' That a reduction of moulders * wages ia uncalled for , unreasonable , and unjust—as there is no fixed price on castings , like unto malleable iron ; secondly , ss the -fi *!! in the price of pig iron is _batieficial to _foundry masters , rather than inj srioin ; and , thirdly , because _inouldcrs' wages are j : erer raised with a rise on the price of _castings . ' It _» as al-o resolved : — 'That , as * _6 cre is no lack of orders , it is oppressive in tee _hiff ' _iest degree on the part of masters to attempt a reduction of wages , as the present rate of wages is not adequate to the very _J-jgh price of provisions . ' A vote of thanks was then _massed to the chairman , and the meeting was _adjofised .

      T-wKR Hamlets . —Mr John Shaw , of 24 Gloucester-street , Commercial road , will give every inf ' orluatina _respecting , and * enrol members ia the ' Natnnal-Cooperative BenefltSociety , ' for the southern _division of th- " * _llamlets . _Thh _NatiohaJ . _Registration and _Cbjttrai , Elec-Ti K _CnumrrBg ;? il ] meet at 83 , _Djan-street , S & iif , on rae * Uy evening next , Feb . 1 st , at eight o'clock _prcClBsly . The _Na-hvkm , _Victim _CoumrrEE will meet at the came _pla-. e and hour , "

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      JUST PUBLISHED , ( SfoKsroi _wltk't & e " Labodreb" Magazine , ) Price _Ci . A _FSACTICAIL TREATISE ON SPADE HUSBANDRY , . _'berag-tJie'zresutts of f _» ur rears' experience . B _* f J . SlLLETT . _Kj'ftoivifn _, and _< Co ., 16 , Great _Windarill-street , _London _siii mav be had _^ qfuli booksellers .

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      Just _Pablished , price _Ons _Pesny _, A _LETT-EB b y Feabods _O'Coknoe _, Bee . , M . P ., 'TO TIIE _lEi-CH AND THE POOR ; To those _uhe Live in Idlenc « s Without Labour , and to those who are Willing to Xabour bat Compelled to Starve . ' Trice 2 s . per 108 or 18 j . per 1009 . 6 _TTTHAT MAY BE DONE \ TITH THREE ACRES Vf OF LAND , ' Explained in a Letter , by _Feargui , _O'CrtHNOE , Eeo ., JI . P . To be bad at tbe Office of the National Land _Ctmpany 1 « _, High _Holbors .

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      Kow Ready , a New Edition of M « . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL-FARMS To bo kad at the Northern Star Office , 16 , Great Wind sail Street ; and of Abel Hey woei . Manchester .

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      Will be published on the 1 st of February , PRICE SIXPENCE , KO . XIV . OF " THE LABOURER , " CONTAINING A TREATISE OK TIIE SMALL FARM SYSTEM AND THE BANKING SYSTEM BY WHICH IT IS INTENDED TO BE DEVELOPED , BI FEARGUS O'CONNOR , ESQ , M . P . Letters ( pre-paid ) to be addressed t « the Editors , IS Great Windmill Street , Haymarket , London . Orders received by all agents for the "Northern Star " and all booksellers in town and country _.

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      THE PORTRAIT OF MR JONES . This portrait will be in the hands of our Scotch agents in time for issue on the 29 th instant . Our agents in ar near Edinburgh will have their parcels forwarded t _» tne care of Messrs W . and H . Robinson , 11 , Greenside-street . Parcels for other parts of Scotland to the care of Mr \ Y . Love , 10 , Nelsonstreet , Glasgow . Our Yorkshire , Lancashire , Lincolnshire , Nottinghamshire , Derbyshire , Cheshire , Leicestershire , Northamptonshire , Warwickshire , and Gloucestershire agents will receive the portrait in time for isgue on Saturday , February 19 th . Tke more southern counties , Wales , and Ireland , on the following week . Agents in the county of Durham must apply to Mr J . Turnbull , Side , Newcastle . Yorkshire , to Mr J . Cooke , G 7 , Meadow-lane , Leeds . Lancashire and Cheshire , to Mr A . Heywood , 58 , _Oldliam-street , Manchester . Those agents having weekly hook parcels from London will have the portrait sent in their own parcels .

      The Nokthkkn Star , Saturday, January 29. 1848.

      THE NOKTHKKN STAR , SATURDAY , JANUARY 29 . 1848 .

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      THE WORKING CLASSES VINDICATED FROM THE CALUMNIES OF THE " EDTJ _CATIOxNISTS . " " The pedant and the upstart , as upstart only can-Have dared deride , in lttter ' d pride , the plain and work _, ing man " Of all the people on the face of the earth tho working men of _England are surely the most foully calumniated . It is not many years since the concoctors of the infamous New Poor Law fabricated the most abominable falsehoods to excuse their daring assault upon

      the last vestige of the social privileges guaranteed by Old England to the industrious classes . According to Brougham , Chatlwick , and the rest of the Malthusian gang , " Idleness and her sister Guilt stalked through the land ;" and England had become a den of demoralised paupers and willing idlers ! The rhetorical rant and ribaldry of the Whig Chancellor were employed to propagate this atrocious lie , that so a pretext might be furnished for robbing the people of the last remnant of their ancient heritage . The poor were " thrown upon their own resources , " bv such men as

      Brougham and Wellington , whose living was derived from the sweat and toil of those very poor . Brougham , while urging that no relief should be given even to the sick and the aged , as it was the duty of all , in the days of health and youth , to put by a store for the futurethis same Brougham was at that very time scheming to increase the retiring salary of the Lord Chancellor from four to' five thousand pounds yearly . He succeeded , and on his retiring from office—the man whohad contended for throwing the poor upon their own resources _—Ehameleswly took from those resources to

      support himself in idleness . He is still enjoying his five thousand pounds yearly , taken from the taxes , for no better reason than because , at a former period , he filled an office which brought him nearl y three times that sum—an office , not merely useless , but positively injurious , and filled by him most mischievously . This Brougham was alwaysa great stickler for popular education . Indeed , the whole batch of Malthusian conspirators signalised , and still signalise , themselves bv an affected regard for the " mental culture" " of the people . The object of the New Poor Law was the utter

      prostration of the masses by starving and illtreating them into a state of internal competition for employment , and base submission to the classes above them , Fully comprehending this devilish scheme , no wonder that that great Englishman , Cobbett , held in the utmost abhorrence the wretches who , mouthing about " education , " at the same time exerted their energies to _brinsr the people to live upon a coarser sort of food , and make them the hopeless slaves of the _emjiloyocracj ' . In our day , the Educationists -ire still what they were in Cobbett ' s time—the pretended friends , but the real enemies , of the people .

      The last number of the Westminster Renew _^ contains an article on " Popular Colleges . " The article is based upon " Two Lectures on National Education ; " by the Rev . R . S . Bayley , of Sheffield . This reverend gentleman is not unknown to us . We remember him a few years ago as a notorious speechifier for the Anti-Corn Law League . We say ' * notorious , " for Mr _Bnyley ' s admirers may remember a certain speech delivered by their hero , whieh was construed by no inconsiderable portion of the public into an incitement of violence against the person of Sir R . Peel .

      Whether it was that the outcry raised b y the Tory press on that occasion , consequent upon the reverend gentleman ' s speech , somewhat frightened him , or that the League did not launch out liberally enough to sustain their advocate ' s zeal , we cannot say ; certain itis , that this " bright , particular star" of Free Trade went out like a farthing rushlight , and a considerable time before Sir Proteus Peel ' s "healing measure" was submitted to the legislature , the Rev . R . S . Bayley had ceased his mission as ? a " shininglight" to guide | . the denizens of the _*^ city of soot / ' in their pur-

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      suit of " cheap bread , high wages , and plenty to do . " By nature active and restless , possessed of peri haps something more than ordinary abilitieswith that love of rule which alike impels the fortunatedespot and the successful schoolmaster—Mr Bayley turned his attention from politics to pursuits certainl y better calculated for his powers .. It is recorded of Dionysius the younger , that , when expelled from Syracuse and compelled to take _refuse in Corinth , lie

      turned schoolmaster , and exercised a discipline over boys when he could no longer tyrannise over men . The Rev . R . S . Bayley , finding the Leaguers ungenerous , the Chartists unruly , and the Tories somethiug more than hostile , wisely renounced statesmanshi p , and betook himself to the more fitting avocation of schoolmaster . He founded the Sheffield People ' s College—a school forthe youths and adults of both sexes , open to the scholars before and after the hours of labour

      We have no fault to find with this institution . We have heard and can believe that Mr Bayley is doing a great deal of good , and we congratulate him on having turned his talents to such good account—certainly to a much better than that of misleading the multitude for the benefit of a few t yrannical manufacturers and plundering millocrats . Our present quarrel is not with Mr Bayley but with his admirer and commentator—the writer Jn the Westminster Review . The reviewer seems to have borrowed his ideas and almost his words

      from the _Wliijr ex-chancellor . He describes the working classes of this country as ignorant and immoral , and the foes of law and order"The laws , " says he , "are submitted to rather than approved ; the other institutions are tolerated instead of exciting admiration and gratitude , Capital is regarded as the robber of labour instead of its patron and brother . Parochial relief is no longer dreaded as a badge . The police are treafed as spies , instead of being supported as defenders . " There is a good deal more of this stuff , containing , of course , a fair share respecting the ; tavern and the

      pawnbroker ' s shop , the whole being rounded off as follows : — " It is not too much to sav , that the majority of the working classes of this country are in a more generally degraded state than the Flat-heads of the prairie , or the recently extinguished Mandans , the free-booters of Port Natal , or those stunted outcasts of the human race in New Zealand . * Honour , truth , justice , and gratitude would at all events be found among the latter , to a ratio fully as great as would he obtained from by no means the worst selections from the mine , the loom , or the wheel . "

      The working men of England may here see what their insolent friends (?) the "Educationists" think of them . The above pretended description , however , has no foundation in reality _. It does not even apply to the verv lowest section of the populace—the outcasts of our social system . If it did , could society iiave thus far escaped some dreadful explosion ? We admit that there is a sore amount of ignorance and poverty , and consequent degradation to be ' foundjin the lowest stratum of oursocialsystem , but to speak of the majority of the working classes as degraded below the state of savages and insensible to honour , truth , justice , and gratitude , we denounce as a vile and calumnious falsehood .

      The contrary is the fact . The only _sotmd portion , of society is the working class . The class uhove thum—the _eliopocraey—is notoriously the most ignorant and corrupt of all classes . The extent of their knowledge is limited to the art of buying cheap and selling dear—bullying those below them , and fawning to those above them . The very number of the Westminster Review containing the article we are commenting on , conta'ns ' also a frightful exposure of the corruption of the electoral class , as evidenced at the late general election . The villanous " truck system , " and the universal adulteration of articles of rood ,

      sufficientl y exhibit the morality of this class ! The haute bourgeoisie—the millocrats , the leviathan merchants , the great capitalists , and the _fund-mongcrsjbelieve neither in God nor manneither in religion nor philosophy—neither in public spirit nor private virtue—neither in their country nor the human race—neither in loyalty nor in cosmopolitism;—Mammon is their deity , profit-mongering their mission , and the pursuit of money , the one object of their existence . Their church and chapel going

      is hypocrisy ; " their morality a sham ; and their regard to the outward decencies of life , part of their nicely calculated system " Whited sepulchres ''—fair without , but foul within . They have all the vices of the Carthaginians without their virtues . Tho : _ir « h-profit _» mongers of the ancient world were at least grateful to the people from whom they sprang , and in the hour of tlieir country's dissolution , exhibited a spirit of self-sacrifice which half redeemed them from the odium of their enormous

      crimes ; but our Punic princes , who repay the people for all they take from them with insult and oppression , would see unmoved their country perish , if they might but preserve their darling wealth . The gates of Paris were opened to the allies , not by the proletarians of that city , but by the bourgeoisie—a class whose character in that country is sufficientl y evidenced by the infamous corruption and despotism of the government which they founded , and which exists but bv their sufferance .

      Our " nobles'' are spendthrifts and debauchees in their youth , and intellectual " incurables" in their maturity . The insolvent condition of many of their order , and the miserable state of the peasantry to whose toil they owe their greatness , sufficiently proclaim their character . The Church is certainly not renowned for its morality , and the notorious ai _\ d gigantic abuses of that establishment testif y to the character of its ministers . The Houses of Lords and Commons are the reflex of the aristocracy and the middle class , and no wise man expects to gather granes from thorns , or figs from thistles .

      Ihe Court is a gilded fraud—a chief magistrate without power , and to whom the peoplehave no access ; a set of creatures who have nothing to do but to spend other people's money , vet can only spend it meanly ; and a crew of noble lords and ladies , calling themselves " gold sticks" and " silver sticks , " and playing the part of he and she flunkies for the sake of a few thousand pounds yearly , wrung from the hard earnings of the poor , is a spectacle to excite the ridicule and contempt of the world .

      The working classes may safely defy comparison with the classes above them . Is it on the score of industry ? Thev do all the hard work , and not only support themselves , but all the . ' _other' classes of the community . Is it economy ? The millions of human _beinjf . who , on ; i few shillings weekly , _struggle to keep out of debt and the ' bastile " — the millions of pounds lod ged in _Savings ' Banks , Benefit Clubs , secret orders , and trades ' unions , all intended for self and mutual support , proclaim the economy of the majority of the

      working classes . Their morality will not suffer from a comparison with the respectable vices of the middle class , and the refined debaucheries of the * higher orders . " As regards intellect , then * common sense is more than a match for the book learning of the educated classes . We will , if required find tlu eewovking men who shall undertake to discuss any question in _political economy with Cobden , Bright / and Colonel Thompson . We will net pretend that the working classes , as a body , are immaculate ; there are some who aro idle—more who are

      profligate-many who are i gnorant , and a large number-who are indifferent to the political duties they owe to their country , themselves

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      and their . ' cli'i _' . dreu * _, but the majority are sound at the heart , and their class constitutes the germ of England ' s regeneration . The _< viktues of the working classes are all their wn ; their vices are the effects of the instituitJkms to whicii they are subjected , and the unjust rule and infamous example of those who govern them . Indeed , the writer in the West _snmster Review admits this , by charging upon a " jobbing Parliament , ' ' " a lucre-loving Church" and a " vicious Aristocracy , ' ' the

      , sin of having first , corrupted the . labouring poeple . Towards the , conclusion of his article , the reviewer exclaims , " We are reaping the dreadful harvest which a thousand years' misgoveriunent have produced , " Yet , with this admission , he nevertheless has the assurance to hold up his hands in horror , because ! our " glorious institutions" excite neither the " gratitude " nor the " admiration" of the millions .

      But the grand secret of the reviewer s hostility to the working class has yet to be told . The fact is , that it is not their ignorance , so much as tlieir knowledge , that alarms him . It is the march of political intelligence that strikes him with terror . Itis the progress of Chartism that he regards with horror , and would fain obstruct . Hear him ; " Q \> _W millions of the working classes , several of the lamp-p ost orators that we could _^ name , wield an influence far greater than that of the Throne and

      the Parliament . " This we accept , as not more true than complimentary . We are very far from being ashamed to be numbered with " the lamp-post orators . " We are rather proud than otherwise to avow that we have , in our time , " preached truth from a _woedfpile . ' ' But see how this clever reviewer has answered himself . Men . in the lowest depths of ignorance and degradation are not the raw material from which stern and virtuous Democrats are manufactured . Chartism has no hold upon those miserable outcasts atthe bottom of the

      social scale , who are really ignorant and degraded . Men must have at least some degree of intelligence to understand the " Six Points ; " and those who out of their miserable wages scrape together some pounds to purchase their shares in the Land Company , possess , at least , the virtue of economy—and , consequently , are free from drunkenness and other vices hostile to frugality . The reviewer says

      that " the lamp-post orators'' have a greater influence than is enjoyed by either the Throne or the Parliament over millions of the working class . We have shown the character of those millions , that they are both intelligent and virtuous ; how , then , will the reviewer make good his assertion that the majority of his muchwronged countrymen are , in' moral and in ; tellectual standing , below the savages of New Zealand ?

      But the Westminster reviewer further convicts himself . He admits , that not only are the people acquiring political intelligence , but p olitical power also . " This degraded population , " says he , " is acquiring , . at an immensely rapid rate , such a portion of the political power of the country , as , coupled with its previous command of the physical force , will , at no distant period , give the real mastery of England to the violent part of tbe working classes and their representatives . " In proof of this , he instances the Chartist triumphs atthe recent municipal elections , particularly at Sheffield ,

      where the working men " placed nine partisans of their own in the corporation . " He predicts that November , I 84 S , will witness a still groat number of popular victories ; and , looking " seventy years" forward , he asks , " What will be the condition of England , if the leading corporations , with their local influence , power of taxation , connexion with the courts of civil justice , the town charities , and the Parliamentary representation , be wielded by the uneducated classes ?" We must correct the reviewer . In the first

      place , the working classes will not require the term of seventy years to work out their political emancipation . "We have faith that it may not require a tenth of that time to see the people in possession of " their ain again . " Secondly , the Government of this country—local and general—never will be " wielded by the uneducated classes . " When men begin to think of acquiring political power , they are already partly educated . The very efforts to obtain that power improve their education . And the exercise of power , when obtained , must complete their education .

      But our Radical reviewer seeing nothing but evil in the masses acquiring- political power , proposes to hive them from the pursuit of their political rights hy the red-herring scent of ' education . '' Having asked what is to hinder the growth of the power of the working classes , he answers t - _¦** Nothing hut a change in the feelings and political views of the operative classes . All that is now in action tends to politicise the artisan minds and nothing can neutralise that state but the introduction of

      better tastes and higher aims . ' In the name of common sense , we ask , what " better tastes and higher aims ' ' can there be , than the exercise of the ri ghts of citizenship , for our country ' s and mankind ' s welfare ? And if there lie "better tastes and higher aims , " why do not the " educated classes ' pursue them , and renounce tlieir political privileges ? Ah J gentlemen , we see through y our craft . The cloven foot is but too visible . You would educate us , not , as you . sometimes pretend , to fit us for the exercise of political rights , but to

      make us indifferent to those rights . And you call yourselves " Philosophical Radicals . " We comprehend your philosophy . Girondists of England , you consider the working millions excellent " explosive _material to blow up bastiles with , " and frighten a degenerate ark tocracy into the concession oi Reform Bills : but when those millions aspire to share with you the advantages of society , then—liberal philosophers that you are!—you will give them " Education ! " Education that shall Jit them to be willing slaves

      Men of the working class , these " Educationists " are your enemies , and the worse enemies , that they come to you in the guise of V friends . ' ' The Serpent in Eden was an honest reptile , compared with these gentry , who propose—not to instruct you in the knowledge of good and evil—but to educate you to be unconscious of the evil you suffer from abominable institutions , and indifferent to the good which might be yours , if , thundering in the ears of your oppressors , " Man is man , and who is more ? " you were to insist upon the recognition of your just and inalienable rights as men and citizens .

      Yo millions of the unprivileged order , turn neither to the right hand nor to the left , but steadily march forward in the path of your political regeneration . When the Westminster Reviewer sees , as we trust he will see , the realisation of all his fears—when he shall see you in possession of your own—the Corporations , the Town Charities , the Courts of Justice , and the Parliamentary Representation , you will then be in a position to give your children an Education which neither Oxford nor Cambrid ge can afford the scions of your oppressors—an Education which shall . throw into the shade even the best that ancient Athens could afford her most favoured children .

      Proletarians of England , you need not wait seventy years , you need not , " wait even sewn , to establish this happy state of things . If you but will your freedom , you may at once be free . You see the end , you know the means . Up , then ! and with heart and soul struggle for your CHARTER !

      * Tho Westminsteu Reviewer Evidently Kno...

      * Tho Westminsteu reviewer evidently knows as much about tbe New Zcalunder * as he does about hK " ou ? trymcn-soinetliiiie _wursu than in , * l , in , i ir „ V _^ i know that the _NeAualaiidei , _T ,, t' 3 in council , and brave m combat . Had the Ken Z _« -Viand ers the advantage of European _dUclpliie , _imd _. _verfthev fully supplied with the material of warfare the Km I is ? . Sir * maEters * _« _»^ _s _^* s

      The Starving Poor. Nru *.? V. ** Last We...

      THE STARVING POOR . nru * . ? v . Last week we dwelt on the subject of the Increasing destitution . This subject still presses itself , with fearful force , on our attention . It is the all-important question—one of life and death—one that brooks not temporising or delay—but onethat demands prompt and imperative relief . Not alone Ireland , but England , too , presents , pictures got' soul-

      The Starving Poor. Nru *.? V. ** Last We...

      harrowing misery . In Ireland , the Archbishop of Tuam , in his letter to Lord Shrewsbury , describes , with fearful minuteness , the condition of his countrymen . He describes himself as surrounded by crowds of persons : — Old _andyoun-r . some faltering from hunger as they approached , others with such miserable shreds of tattered clothes , that I am convinced they would have died under the roof , if roof they had still , rather than issue with Biich a wretched garb to expo-e tlieimelveR to the public _gaze ; allcryingiuttomefor _f-iod forthat one _dav'asustenance , and _shriekingwith ayopy that , they _weic now thrown on the world to

      starve , banished lor ever from the shelter of their little _eottaues . This , my lerd , was no fanciful tragedy , represented in order to stimulate the palled votaries of thk world , and to substitute in the room of _reatsufferinga , to which they are so callous , tbe rcenic excitement of _fictitisus sorrows , _No , their dismantled c > _ttageu lay before me as monuments to attest the truth of their simple aad artie . « s ( story , and the _smouldering _scraws of the broken roof were their only bedts during the previous night , and the eye of one was so inflamed from the cold and from the smoke that isHued from the burning rubbish and faggots , that she is in danger of having bust its use for ever . _

      What , therefore , is to become of the hordes of miserable _cres _*» res , such as I hare described , who ara seen _traversing the country and besieging you in the public ways with tho clamorous importunities of hunger ? They are driven from their homes to look for an asylum in _thewoikhousn-s ; from the workhouse they are again driwn back to their homes ; but alas _I-thcy have none , and thus are exposed to certain death . But our sympath y is not enlisted for

      Ireland alone . As we stated last week , London itself stands in emulative misery . The destitute , absolutely houseless , fireless , foodless , and hopeless , in London alone . are computed at near upon fifty thousand ! From this let the reader judge of the state of the factory towns . In Manchester , those working short time are above 4 , 700—those wholly out of work 7 , 153 . And let the reader reflect on what being out of work means—it means utter

      destitutionit means , hunger , cold ,, rags , disease , and death . This week ' s reports from Ashton , _Stsilyhridge ,. ! Oldham , Rochdale , 13 ury , Bolton . Stockport , Middleton—from the towns of Yorkshire—from the entire country , reveal similar miser }* , and that the condition of the operatives is dail y becoming worse . And what remedies * are applied ? Such as aggravate the evil ; expensive remedies , that absorb the principal part of the benefit by the

      expenseof conferring it . Starvation in a bastile , that keeps the parochial officers fat . Money sunk in building unions , that , applied to reproductive purposes , as _thejpurchase of land for the poor , would graduall y , but surel y , render the bastile unnecessary . Puerilities , that would be ludicrous did they not inflict misery on the many . Take the following from Bradford as an instance . There being no suitable work ( in the opinions of the guardians ) to be found for the able-bodied

      poor—• One of the _giutrdi ins gravely su ? rested fha each pauper Dhonld be furnished-with a certain quantity . of wheat , and be required to count the number of corns every day ! Another guatdian suggested that , as the paupers might eat the wheat to satisfy their hunger , barley should be the grain . Ah ! each pauper should indeed be furnished with a " certain quantity of wheat , " and at the same time with a •' certain quantity" of land to sow it in , and he allowed to reap it , and to enjoy the fruits of his industry .

      The fallacy that Britain cannot support its population is easily refuted by a glance at its wealth . Where has there been a greater outcry against the weight of the Poor Law than i « n the Highlands ? One would suppose that the aristocracy and the vnillocracy , who have stolen their estates by usury , were on the brink of pauperism . Now , what are the re sources of those Highlands ? The annxal value of real property in the four counties of Sutherland , Ross , Inverness , and Argyle , is 597 , 49 _GJ . 18 s . Yet the whole sum expended annually in these four Highland counties on the relief of the poor , including expenses of

      _management and litigation , amounts onlv to 12 , 5341 . 7 s . 8 _'d . Thus the burden of the poor is but a small fraction more than fivepence in the pound ! Let our readers compare these figures , and see how property performs its duties . Nearl y six hundred thousand pounds per annum for a few rich men , and but 12 , 534 / . 7 s . 8 _^ d . for many thousands of paupers who have created or swelled those princely revenues while those who are not admitted to relief—those who are too proud to beg and too honest to steal—drag on a miserable existence to an early grave , or fly from this classcursed country to perish as miserabl y in an alien colony .

      Meanwhile , we boast of our charities . Let us boast of RESTITUTION . The constantly-increasing misery proves charity to be an idle mockery—poor rates to be a system that increases the evil it affects to remedy , making more paupers while it p retends to feed the few—bearing , lightly on the rich , and crushingly on the poor . No wonder that , seeing the unwieldy mass of misery around—seeing the indolent incubus of wealth—seeing the fivepence in the

      pound that reluctant usury gives to dying labour—seeing those murders misnamed simply "deaths by starvation "—no wonder , we say , the heart of every honest man should swell with indignation , and humanity protest against class government . Yet the miserable hire * . lings of faction wish us to parley in soft converse with the spoiler—not to use hard words for their hard deeds—and to woo middle class favour , like beaten spaniels fawning on the hand that struck them—to shrink from our

      name or to moderate our demands . No ! let us at least , call things l y their ri g ht names ; robbery is robbery , however they may { -loss it over ; murder is ' murder , and such we ' will call it And why should we swerve in our demands ? We demand but our right—and why should a man demand less ? To do so were cowardice ; and expediency equally points to constancy and determination . Let oppression see we are resolved to have our rights—our whole rightsand they will tremble before that unity of will ; on the other hand , let them think we know not what to demand , or how much to insist on , and we may plead in vain !

      Then , Chartists 1 to your tents . Every day we are growing more united and strong—the crisis is rapidly approaching , as chaos and ruin are beginning to creep into the money-palace of the monopolist . Prepare , then , for the National Petition—prepare for a NATIONAL CONVENTION—since such is now more than ever necessary , to bring its collective wisdom , and its democratic sanction , to bear upon the emergencies of the time .

      Co Urates; & Corresyontsei! Is.

      Co _Urates ; & _Corresyontsei ! is .

      Miscellaneous . 2s~ Parliament Will Re A...

      MISCELLANEOUS . _2 _S ~ Parliament will re assemble before our next nuralur appears . After this week we shall be unable to find room for ' Correspondence' unless _cl the greatest importance . Land and Chartist public meetings will , as usual , be fully reported when we are supplied with full and correctly written reports . Wo must request tbe local secrtta rics to make their reports . it' the ordinary brand ' and locality meetings at which only the usual busi nesa is transacted , ar . d the usual risdutions adon ted , _aabrief as possible . As all should be represented in _ourcolumns , each must be satisfied with small space , except on the occasion of important public meetings .

      Public Monies. We Request All Sub-Secret...

      PUBLIC MONIES . We request all Sub-secretaries , and other _persons who may have occasion to send public _moBu-s to tho Metropelis , to pay attention to the following directions : — Monies for tbe understated purposes must be addressed as follows : — Payments for the Northern Star , Mr William Rider , 10 Greut Windmill-street , _Haymarliet , London . National _I-and and Ziliour JSan * . _- . 'The Manager of the National Land aEd Labinr Bnulc _, No . 183 , Nuw Oxford Street , London . '

      National Land Company . ' Tho Directors of the National Laud Company No Ut , High Holborn , London . ' ' National Charter Association ; J _& r Ihou _> a _» Cl « k , So . _Ui _, High . _IMoom , Louden .

      Public Monies. We Request All Sub-Secret...

      Ccn _' ral Rcghlraion and Election Committee . Mr James Gnissby , _>' o . 8 , Njati ' s _Ark-t- _uart , St _^ _^ ate _, Lambeth , L-indnn . ' . National Victim , and Wid * ws and Orphans Fund . Mr John Simpson , Elm Cottage , W ' _aterloo-street , Camberwell , Loudon . ' * ' For Mrs W Jones . Mr John Simpson , Elm Cottage , _Waterloo-Street t Cdiuberwel ) , _London . ' ' Metropolitan Chartist HAl . < Mr — Tnpp . No 51 , _Fintburj Market , London . *' Dcfrnee of Mr . _O'Connor ' s Seat in Parliament . Mr Th ( mw » Clark , No . 14-4 , High _Holb-m , London . ' . ' _JVoMOution of Vic Manchester Examh . er . Mr _Thomai Clark , No . _1-U Hi gh Holboro , Loudon /' The Sleaford Case . Mr Thomas Clark , X * . 144 . High Ilolborn , London " The Fraternal Democrats . ' G , Julian U . _irn-y , No . 16 , Great _Windmllr- _Btresv * _flajmnrket , London . '

      United Trades' Association . 'Mr Bsrratt , No . 11 , Tottenham Court _Kom London . ' '' 3 > g- Monies sent con rary te the above directions } will not be acknowledged . * * Private letters intended for Mr O'Connor , arid I s > nt to this office , must be marked ' Private " Correspondents arc requested not to trouble Mr O'Connor with letters , reports , & a ., intended forthe Star _; nor with any letters that should ba ad- ¦ dressed as set forth above . <{ _$ = The report of th _^ pre _.-it _meeting at _UirmingHam hariii _R arrived at a late hour on Thursday _t-v . _-iiinn- ' compelled us to withdraw _feveriil articles , includingan editorial comment nn the Irish Special CoinmUsiuu which shall be s iren in our next . _' ' II « . u »* . k . —Vfery _reluctantly _wearecompeHedlotwt _pone the publication of tbe report of Mr Jones ' address to hit _cemtituents at Halifax .

      Unshorn _Chik . -Wo can make nothing of your letter You mint write plainer . The Woolcombebb . — S . P ., after drawinp a _frfjrhtfu ! ful picture of the condition of _tlit _woolcombc-rs , and vary properly _enndemnin _^ the apathy ofa _tooiar _^ e portion of the workinc classes , who though miserable to the last degree hare never yet made au earnest _effort to overthrow the _existinir ac _ursr-d system , _surests that the abovr-named clafs of operatives should m .-ike stren . _uiius exertions to brinu _t' _-eir ciav . inces before _Psrlla . ment . He proposes that tho combers of Bradford . Halifax , and Leicester should aotin concert . The combers of Bradford , _beinu tha most numerous , totukc the lead . The first lurRe _meeting at Bradford to choose _rexen talented patriots to draw up a list of grievances . The list to be sent to Halifax to chouse rive to draw un * list . Leicester to do the same . The list of _prit-vances

      to be followed up by a petition for the carninc out i , f the Land Plan by _* government . as _proposedjin Mr O'Con . nor _' s petition . Kach comber to contribute one jenny , to defray the expenses of the agitation . Our _correspond dent _strongly urges the combers , and working men - _(> . nerally . t- > _exart every energy in support of the Ch : ir . _ter , which if once obtained would be labsur ' s great safeguard . Thk New Land Company . — A , _Ratjshaw , 6 ub-treasurer of the _Nntiinul Land Comp .-mv ( Xorwich ) writes : — 'I think the directors arc _iroinp beyond their duty in esta . Wishing ; another Company without the consent of the present one , seein _;; that they aro the Company ' s ser . _vants . lam also of opinion that no New Corn i any _ouiht to be established , until tke present Company is duly _registered . Mr O'Connor and Mr _Mitchbc—WjiHam Jones er .

      presse _* his surprise atfhe " _semi-inritation ' _piven l \ v Mr O'Connor to Mr Mitchel , late of the Nation , in the former gentleman ' s letter , published in the Star of Jan . 15 th . * _*"> * . J . desirt s to know whether Mr Mitchel was the author of that infamously celebrated article in the Nation , in which the Charter was denounced as an ' a _b omination ;' . itid the writer , speaking < f the division between _Enu-li-hm * n and Irishmen ,. said , that he had no w _' sh to 'bridge over the gulf ; ' but , on the contrary , desired to make it' wider and deeper !' _rsQDiKT . —A rektircf mine , a young man , who took the unwise step nf joining the British party , who went to assist D _« n Pedro in his struggles in Portugal , riot having been heard of since by his friends , can yon . inform me how , and where we can obtain any informa . tion respecting him ? W . C . Beveivlet . Korbrt Ehmett . — Can any person inform me where I

      can procure the best copy of the life and trial of Robert Emmett , vrho was tried for hi gh treason in 1 S 03 . —T . _Hi-jhton , Stockport . Vr _Babi-ow , Ipswich . —It is sent to Mr Creasey . Why do you not _furnish us with ' the name ! There are many persons in _Manningtree . E . Robertson . —We must , as Dickens ' s barber says , « draw the line somewhere . ' You overwhelm us . We hare not room for your last communication . T . V . Merbii . i ., Oldham . —Write to P . L . Simmonds , Esq ., Colonui . Magazine Office , P _. arge yard , iiucklers . burr , London , who will _supply- any information _respecting the Colonial and American newspapers . J . Evan . —Your poetry is under consideration . Its length will prevent us doing _anything with it at present . \ RitoTHER Patriot . —Declined .

      J . _S-tephems , Mason , informs us that the Masons'Char _, tist Society has been re organised . The society meets nt the Waterman ' s Arms , Paris-street , Stangate . Lam . beth , every Saturday evening , at _half-past eight o ' clock , It _ap-ears that a proposition has been submitted to the General Society of Masons tolodite £ 2 , uoO in the Land and Labour Bank . Notices of _Mfkti . vgs holden _a-t Derby , Rochdale , and one or two other places , are unavoidably _postponed 'Foreign . '—P . B ., Paris ; CM ., Brussels ; and V . T _., T . ie . ge : expect letters on the 9 th or 10 th of February . R Lacv , _Wootten under-Edge . _—Received . Shall be attended to at next Mondiy ' s meeting . T . M . Wheeler , and J . Garnett . —Next week . Mr Linton . —Next week . B Droomioi . e . —Next we _; _-k . Mr Ktdd . — The meeting at Greenwich , with a full reporS

      of Mr Kydd s speech shall be given in our next . It was impossible to find room for itthis week . A ' Navvik . _'—Your excellent letter shall appear in ouj next . Johm _VAi'CHAtt , Chester . —No worn . ( i . Cavili .. —Received . R . FiNDt . EY . — -hall be inserted . S . _\ V ., Newton Moor , wishes to know if there is in ex . _istenc-ea _society for the purp- > s » of _assisting _working men to obtain patents for their discoveries . Our _correspondent had better write to the editor of the _Mecha _. nic ' s Magazine . J . Farnkll , Queen's-head . —No room . Manchester . —We havo no objection to publ ' sh the letter to _tlie' _-lournermen _Steam-enjjineMakers , & c ., 'but we

      must have the address of the writer . Mr _Tomunson .- Mr Editor , I have just received a letter from Chorley , in answer to one with my signature to it , which has been sent without my knowledge or consent , recommending Mr A . Tomlinson as a _le- _'urer . As other places may have received similar letters I beg to state that I never sent any letter as West Riding secretary , recommending Mr Tomlinson to any locality whatever , I did , in my private capacity , once recommend Mr T . to our friends at Wakefield , as a lecturer . In stating this much I have no wish to depreciate Mr T ' s . abilities as a lecturer , but it is the improper use oi my name that I deprecate . —Wm . _Lact , W . R . S . T . Howard . —Wagering is a senseless , and often ruinous custom , whicii we object to support by _auswering any questions founded thereon .

      To The Chartists Of Derby. My Fnii-Nns,—...

      TO THE CHARTISTS OF DERBY . My _Fnii-Nns , —I am heartily sorry that any procedure of mine should give rise to anything like acrimonious feelings between any of you an _^ the editor of the Northern Star . I beg of you to dismiss from your minds the remotest idea that access to the columns of the People ' s Paper is denied to me . And in reference to the matfer alluded to in last Saturday ' s Star , if blame attaches to any oii p , it is to myself , inasmuch as my friend , Mr Harney , asked me whether I would wish the insertion of the Report which appeared in the Derbypapay .- but as a

      paraeranh bad already appeared in the _Sstar , and there being several inaccuracies in the Report of the Derby paper , I objected to its publication . The address , a document which I _hiebly prize , should have accompanied the Report which appeared in the Star ; and now , with the permission of tbe editor , I shall make atonement for this dereliction by publishing : an address , of which I can say , in all sin . eerily , I feel a high degree of pride and satisfaction , I remain , yours faithfully , Philip _M'GK . vrH .

      ADDRESS TO MR PHILIP M'GRATH , LATE CAN _» _DIDATE FOR THE REPRESENTATION OF _TII-E BOROUGH OF DERBY . Honoured Sir , —In presenting yon -with tbis address , we humbly confess we are at a loss to find language sufficient to express our sincere and _beart" elt gratitude to you , forthe noble and gentlemanly conduct which was exhibited b y you in _advocating the truly sublime principle of civil and _religious liberty , at the late general . election . Sir , on the present occasion , we but wish to express our sincere admiration at the energy , judgment , and _moderation , which were displayed by yon at tr r time ; conduct , which not only gave general _satisb . tion to tbe numerous persons constituting our ov- _\ class , but to hundreds of others to whom the Kloric ¦ principles of tbe People ' s Charter , ' were but liti _'« known .

      We heg , Sir , to thanft you most cordially , as heir . * the first person to come forward and commeuce a . i attack upon this stronghold of ll ' liii _/ nery and expediency , and to proclaim to that party which has so long held tbe sway in the choosing of representatives for this important borough , tbat as political Reformers , they have been weighed in the balance , and found wanting . And , Sir , we , as Chartists , are determined never to cease exerting ourselves , until we have thoroughly sHcceeded in returning men to Parliament , who are prepared to carry out the great princi ples of social and political reform , which are based upon _univeisal justice .

      Sir , we cannot forget to return vou our thanks for the valuable service you bave rendered for a number of years to tbe cause ot political freedom . We are proud to say , that your labours in this glorious cause have been , unceasing , and , we believe , eminently successful in leading men to knowledge of those just rights which will sav * them from the evil effects of class-legislation . And we hope and trust that hr who watches over all things , will give you health and strength to ' go on in your _glorioiiB warfare against _misfiile and ' _iinusiice " ; and in pro

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 29, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_29011848/page/4/