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    • THE tfORTHERB" STAB-. SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1841.
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      CHlsA .- ¥ e learn , from the express recently recdvsJ , tk « in Cainu nothing decisive in the way of negotiation had yet taken place , though , after Bome oV . s . y , the preliminaries had been begun . The Iiuperi&i CoEunissiocer , Xcshan , arrived m Canton , © a Kovpiiiber 29 , arid i : was slated , when the ad-Tiees ltft , that he was about to establish himself at Macao , for the purpose of entering npan affairs . Previous to his arrival , a flag of truce had been fired on by ths Chinese in the Bogne fort , bat this wits subsequently explained away and apologised for . The moil roiteriai feature , however , in the" neW 3 from Canwis , is ^ he resignation of Admiral Elliot , on the i > lea of ilKaeaUh . He shifted his flag from ' . he

      Mel-Tille k > tie Yolage on tOB 29 ; n of . November , and ailed - mia&diateiy for Singapore , leaving thexominand of Lhe fleet to Commodore Sir J . G .. Bremer , and ihe negotiation of affairs in the hands of C&pw £ ! liot . Tae squadron at the moutu of the Cmwb river ^ mounted to eleven ships of war , besides Reamers and store-ships ; the remainder of the fleet , under Captain F . Bonrchier , were at Chusan , The troops ui-je were still Buffering from sickness , but not in = ¦> great a degree as had previously been the case , though tew of them could be looked upon as fi : for service . Mr . Slant on had been released . The AdmirsJ left Singapore for England on the 20 th of December .

      12 vZ » lA . —India was comparatively tracqnil , according to tie news received by tue xecent expresses . Jfasseer Khan and the contumacious Belooches were suii ; g for peace . In Afghanistan , however , the Dooranees , spon whom Saah Sonjah iad unruly locked ior support , and revolted . Une writer says , " the vrhole country has risen . " Tne widow of Kurrakh Sivgb . ( and not Nio Nehal Singh , as she was at first supposed to be ) had obtained undivided possession oftheibrone of Lahore , as Rag < " ~ t , and was in close league with the illegitimate ion of Runjeet Singh . Nepal is still censidered to be disaffected .

      UGYPT ^—Trie Eastern question i 3 once more onsen . ;' , i . The iirmans conveying to Mehemet Ali the hereditary -oTornmenfc of Egypt arrived a ; Alexandria on the 20 , h . Among the more stringent oonciuoii * , the Pasha is required to limit his array to 20 . 000 men , of wiiom 18 , 000 are id be in E ^ yp ' t and 2 , ytf 0 in Constantinople ; he is called upon to pay tbree years' tribute ; he is restricted from appointing any cScer ia Egypt above a certain rank , which is considered equivalent to the rank o ~ Adjataxit-Major ; and the Sultan is to choose the

      Pasha's successor from among his descendants , ths P&ahalie not being secured to the direct line .. To the two last conditions Mehemet Ali had peremptorily refused his a-saat ; appealing to Cosmodore . fiapier and the good faiih of England for j-upport . Napier is said to have concurred in disapproving of the conditions ; and he remained at Alexandria , when the latest accounts left , on the 24 th , t-6 attempt a settlement of thekliffercnce , —Ibrahim Pasha had proceeded to Damietta . Great complaint is made of the obstructions which General Jochmus had offered to the retreat of Ibrahim's armv .

      UNITED STATES . —A rumour prevails of preparations makasg by Lord Palmerston to enforce the liberation ol Mr . il'Leod , still in confinement in the Cnited States . Ten sail of the line are said to have been ordered to assemble at Gibraltar , and thence to proceed direct to the American coast , prepared to act in case of emergency . Lord Palmerstoa is said to have rent instructions to Mr . Fox , our Ainbassidor at Washington , to demand peremptorily the immediate releasa of Mr . M'Le&d Alonting Advertiser . to of

      Th £ exsolctic ^ s offered the House Repre-Bentauvti « f the State of iiaine , on the subjee ; ol repelling wjas is styled * British aggression / ' were taken up bj the Senate on the 13 : h uit ., and , after having ceen amended by inserting 1 , 000 , COO collars instead of 400 , 000 dollars for the defence of the Sta : e , w «_ re referred to the Boundary Committee . Hr . Bivis " " then offered the following rcs ^ ucion ,-¦ whicii was referred to the same Committee : — ** Resolve for repelling foreign iarasios , aud pro-Ticii . 2 fol tilfi protection of the State .

      ** Be it resolved , That the President of the United Slates be requested and urged to cause the immediate removal of ihe foreign armed force by which our Statt is invaded , stationed Uj > on the up ' per vaiiey ol the St . John ' s , and thai the Government * of the United States be earnestly invoked to reLere . this Sia . te freni the present heavy needless buiuen of its own defence . " The following resolutions were also offered and referred to the same Committee : — " Whereas the Slave of Maine is now j-ofering the cL-grace of unresis ; ed bntisn invasion , oegun in 183 & , repeated in 1840 , and continued up to tils hour , ia ¦ violation of the must solemn stipulations , and whereas we have no faith , in the efScacv oi

      negotiations wiih a p » wer Wii . cn has so repca : eciy disregordt ^ i its deliberate pledges , and believe that furtiier iorbear £ nce on our part to assert the rights and vindicate the honour of onz iiate will prove as unavailing as it will certainly prove humiliating—Therefore " Resolved ) That the Governor be authoriseil to take immediaie measures to remove the troop 3 cf ihe Qnaen of Greas Brit-ain , now quartered on the territory called disputed by lie Bnusa Guverumcnt , bat by the treaty of 1783 , by the reflations of both Houses of Congress passed in 1838 , and by repeated resolves of the Logiikv . nre of Maine , eiear-y and nneQiiivocaUy a par * of the right : aA soil o : tiis

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      "VTbecji » J THE HER ' -ISE I > DJAMA >* . —FaLMDITTHj Sunday . —The Leeds steamer , wiiien cama in from Gibraltar yssstrdaj , and takes this letter , at 2 p . m ., brings the disastrous news of a large Icciaman , ihe Heroine , having been wrecked off C-pe bpaxtel , with a considerable loss of life . The Gibraltar Chrcnicle of the 23 d says— i % On the nigh : oi SanoaT , the Utt in » t ^ the Briiiah Inuiaman Heroiue , from China bound t ^ Loncon , was totally lostn ^ ar Azyla , not far from Cape Spartei . Out of six : y persons on board , about tuiny-ivur are beiitveU to have perished , principally Lascars / ' ¦ At Gaildi

      The Devil ' s Law agais '— . au , on Saturday , two young woiuen , named Ann Weeks and Sarah Hart , were brought before Sir Cuap-^* -n Marshall , charged wjia commuting wiiiu ] damage at the West London U ^ ion-house . Mr . Miller , the Relieriug C'S .-er , s : ated that the prisoners had been received imo the refuge for casual poor belonging to distant parishes on iriday nightj &nd on ths following morning they had atucked the windows , and demolished e ' ix panes . Tie casualities were becoming so numerous and trouole-Bome , that u was difficai : to manage taem . They h * 4 demolished all the windows of the buildicg ttcy were vlae-.-d in . bmacsied the gas lamp , deitroved the stove , and CQiamiit-ed oiher mischief . Some of them admitted they coveted the briter diet of the gaols , and would say , " W ' ny do you ketp us here V Wav don ' t you give ns in charge , and send

      us to Bridewell . " The applicants for acinissien to the refuge cow amounted to fifty per night . Sir Chapman Marshall a ^ ked the prisoners where they came from , and why they broke the windows ! One said she eame from Kochford , in Es = ex , and the other from Cheshire . They broke the windows , because they couid get no other relief than a small quantity of dry bread , and on the day before had been denied even that . Mr . Miller admitted ihe allowance was only a certain weight of bread , bat he could answer for it that if they slept at the Kefage on Thursday nighi they were tff-rtd some bread on Friday morning . Sir C . Marshall said it was true that Bridewell was not a place of punishment , as compared with the Union ; but he nnut enforce the law as he found it , and he , therefore , committed the prisoners to BrideweU for two months .

      Cbueltt op a Motheb to his Child . —A woman , named Ann Moore , aboat forty years of age , aud ot Tery repulsive appearance , wsts charged with cruelty to her iUegitimaU child , a little girl , eight years of » ge . The face and head of the poor girl were dreadfully disfigured and wounded . Uae eye was quite Closed , and bruises and cuts were all abuat her head ; her mother had used both toogs and knife in prodnemg the injuries . The inhuman parent was committed to take her trial for cutting and wounding , With intent to do some grievous bodily harm . The LiBEEXtOB . —AJas ' . poor l ) an ! and has it eome to this pass , that he who threatened to invade OBT Chartist camp with 500 , 0 ^) 0 of ; he fine " pisantry , " h » s fled into an obscure corner to spout his blarney 1 Has the ritht arm of Whiggery become so weak

      as to be only stretched forth amid a small squad of his half- starved and benighted countrymen I So it * ppe * xs ; for Dan felt verj desirous to meet the Repealers oa Sunday ereaing , at the Assembly Room , Theobald ' s Road , London . The fears of the CConnellitea prompted them to be as quiet as possible in announcing the above , which was only aone bj sending notice to the various districts located bj irishmen , and very small handbills iii the holes and corners . On each side of the entrance to tbe room , a number of the " pisantry" were marshalled , ready , in their labouring suits , to eject say unfortnnaie wight who might happen to evince Bay disapprobation , while listening to the trash put forth by the trickster . After some time beyond that ADDointed for tbo commenesmenl of proceedings

      % ahoot at the door seemed to be the signal of the approach of the juggler . Not so ; Dan was too knowing ' for that . Anxious for his safety , he sent no of bis journeymen traffickers in mock liberty to try the ground , who , seeing things pretty fair among the few oountrymen assembled , the aide-de-camp , Tom Stoele , immediately communicated with his General , mo in about half an hoar after arrived in a hackney-coach , preceded by his messenger in a cab . Dan thea treated his little auditory with one of Ids thouBand-times-repeated speeches , with this addition : he' challenged the Chartists to appoint twenty ei their party , and allcw hia to cnoose twenty far himarif , to form a Jury to examine his conduct SB the charges brought against him 111 Bravo . ' Dan . Bat have you not registered a vow in heaven Yea know you would make yourself scarce .

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      The Legislature of Mains has vols-d a sum o money for tiio purpose of " removing the troops of the Qaeen of Great Britain from the territory called ' disputed' by the British Government . " The Peince op Moscowa , the son of Marshal r ^ ey , was admitted a member of the French Chamber of Peers cu Saturday . The Prince , before taking the oath , intended to enter into" a protest against the sentence of his father , bat was silenced by the President . GovEaxMENt intend immediately to do away with army agents , and the paymasters of regiments will in future communicate direct with the paymaster-genera } . A saving of £ 24 , 0 i ) 0 per annum will be made by this ; the Irish agents will first be got rid of , aud the English , ones will soon follow . — HampJdre Telegraph .

      A New Tbick i . n Trade . —As & clever contrivance ought not always to remain a secret , it may be well w publish the following mode of obtaining labour very cheaply indeed . The plan is , to engage a shop assistant , agree upon terms , &o . in a liberal way , but to stipulate for one month ' s services , without salary , as a trial ; then , at the end of the month , to find a little fault , or pick a quarrel and part . In this way twenty assistants may be had in as many months , wiihout paying any wages whatever , and if this is net cheap labour we know not what is . When we think of the rapacity which originates this robbery of the industrious , and the deferred hopes , and the heart-breaking disappointments to which it leads , the utmost indignation of the public seems too gentle a punishment for the unprincipled perpetrators of s * ch a system . Our brother editors should notice this , as a caution to applicants for situations . Employers ought to have characters &a well as servants . —Liverpool A ibioii .

      Psi . vters' Apprentices . —At Marylebone policeoffice , on Saturday , Mr . Isaac Chapman , a printer , empJoyJr ^ a great number of workmen , a ; his realcence , 103 , S : ar-street , Paddington , attended before Mr . Hardwick , on a summons obtained against him by Thomas Lockley , one of his apprentices , for refusing to continue to employ him . It appeared that the complainant was receiving from his master for his services 133 . per week . The task of drawing a track had been imposed upon the youth , and he had objected to do it , which caused his master to refuse to employ him . Tbe magistrate decided that it was no pait of the business of the apprentice , aa it was both an inconvenient and dangerous practice , as many accidents might arise tberefroni in tho public streets .

      Meshy , Fat , a > d " Dripping . "—A Tery laughable scene took place on Saturday evening last , at a place called Lane ' s Pool , in Chadderton , near Manchester . A party of Latter Day Saints , headed by their preachtr , went to the above place for the purpose of "' dipping" a woman , whose weight could not be much less rhan eleven score . The minister , wishing to be very cautious with such a weighty customer , tied a large shawl round her waist , so as to have a firmer hold of her . He then gave her a souce in the * rater , but she , being the heaviest of the two , puiled his worship in with her ; and had it sot been for the timely assistance of the crowd , both would most likely have been drowned , the pool being deeper than they expected .

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      FKOM OCa LO . \ DO . N CORRESPONDENT . Metropolitan Petition Committee . —It is not so generally known as it ou ^ ht to be , that there is in the metropolis , a " Petition Committee , " consisting of the following delegates : —Messrs . Robert Southcombs acd Armstrong Wilton , for the City anJ Liberty of Westminster ; Mr . John Rose , for Bcrmondsey and WanJswonh ; Mr . Samuel Ford , for Kensington ; Mr . John Simpson , for Walworth aud Camber well ; Mr . John Murray , for the Borough vi Marylebone ; Mr . John Moy , for the Borough of Lamoerh ; Mr . Johu Mills , for the Borough of the Tower H ^ znlets : and M \ r . J . W . Parker , ( who is ,

      pro tern ., secretary . ) for the City of London , This Comniiuee have , during the brief period of their labours , got up eighty-eight petitions for tbe Charter ; for" Frosi , Wiliisnis , and Jones ; for R'jthTt PaaJie , and for tbe poiuicai Yicums generally . They have also receWed one from Worsbrough Common , near Barnsley , in favour of Mr . Feargus O'Connor , and the political victims generally . The O .-mmittee meets every Tuesday evening , at the Dispatch Coffeo House , Bride-lane , Fleet-street ; where they are willing to receive charge of petitions in favour of the Charter and ihe political victims , from all parts of the -country , and undertake to see them effectively Dresented ,

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      MEANS TO AN END . TEE NEW AXD OLD PLANS OF ORGANIZATION OF THE NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . We stated , in our la = t , that the new plan of organization Tras necessarily less atrivgeatlj expressed , and , therefore , more open to abuse , by a laxity of discipline , than the uid one . The old plan was admirably well couceived , aud every way calculated to work well fur the concentrating of the cation ' s energies upon acy o ^ e point ; but ii was loo

      good to be capable ot sub ^ iiting safely under tho rascally forns of law -svaich class legislation fi ^ ds , and deems necessary , for ii 3 protection . Tne pointF , however , in which the new plau falls short of the full energy of the old one , in expression , are points to be noted by ihe people , whose good sense and determicaiicn will , we have no doubt , fully make up , by their own practical and individual exertion , for every discrepancy in active operation , which miglit otherwise have existed between the two plans .

      We desire to see the n ^ wp ' an universally adopted , . because of its consonance wi ; h the law ; while , at the same time , vre desire that , in active operation , r-ot one jot of the entire efficiency of the old one should be sacrificed ; wo thick that both thuse objects cay be secured , if the people be alive and earnest ; and hence , we purpose to compare the two , to exhibit the discrepancies between them , and to show the people how ihsj may , and must , as individuals , supply all the links of the grand national

      chain of fiimitude , -vshich the cunning of class legislation has prevented from being introduced into the actual arrangements of tbe society . We begin , then , with the General Council , the nomination and election of which should be proceeded with insianler . Tnis General Council appears to us to be merely the suDstitutiou of a general designation for the local Councils already in existence . The old plan says : —

      ' Each principal town , with its suburban villages , snail h&Te a Couacvl of nine persons , including as assistant Treasurer and Secretary . " The new plan says : — " ETerytown or village in which members of this Association shall be resident , nwy nominate one or more persons as members of the General Council ; the 7 ii-i m in a : inn to take place every twe . ve monttw—that is to say , on tae l ; t day of BecenibeT in each year ; the election of such Councillors by all the members of the Association to be taken on the 1 st day of January next following , "

      Now here is , in the first instance , an avoidance of what we have observed to be a source of dissatisfaction and dispute beforfctime , the linking together of each principal town , wi ; h its suburban villages ; by the new plan , every TiUcge may have its own eouncil , and its own treasurer and secretary , to do iis own business and look after its own pence , the officers being , by the mode of their election , officers not for that part only , bu : for the whole of the Association throughout the kicgdom ; while , at the Eame time , no place is bound to nominate officers , uulesb it be thought necessary to do so , bo that as many oi

      the suburban villages as choose to merge their right in the nomination of officers in that of any principal town , may still do so , as at present . The mode oi nomination , we take it , may be precisely that which is now adopted for the election of the several local councils , but with this difference only , that the members of the Association must bear in mind always , that no meetingB of any separate part or section of the Association , nor any meetings of the members of the Association resident in any particular place , as such , can be ( legally ) holden ; but they may also bear in mind , that in becoming members of

      the National Charter Association , they lose n » t one of their previously holden rights , as citizens and Chartists . They have a right to meet in their individual capacity as Chartists ; to interchange their opinions and sentiment * upon any subject of discussion ; and , if a difference of opinion arise , to take means for ascertaining how many of them adhere to the one or to the other side . They can , therefore , thus talk over amongst each other , at their weekly meeting ^ the respective merits of the several candidates for the General Council , and ascertain , by rote or otherwise , which of them may have the greatest number ot supporters in that locality , and these will , of course ,

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      ___——_»—_^~— ¦ - — . — — ' i' — — -j- — r ~ £ ~ be nominated . To RiaKo tWs plain , we will suppose the nomination of members for the next General Council to be now taking place , as indeed it ought to be ; the Chartists of Bradford meet in their usual place of resort , on Monday evening ; among other subjects of discussion , the relative merits of nine men who have started as candidates for the General Council , aud out of whom seven are to be elected , comes upon the carpet ; the people express their opinion upon the matter by vote ; they have a right to do so ; it is a matter for public opinion ; and though this expression of publio

      opinion forms no part of the actual operations of the National Charter Association , the sub-secretary , whose duty it is to nominate the Councillors , will , of course , nominate no other persons than those whom publio opinion has thus marked oat for Mm . Should he dare to act otherwise , he would in our opinion , prove himself to be utterly uufit for his situation , and we should advise the Association instantly to replace him by a more worthy man . Now , if this plan be carefully adhered to , the nomination of those members of the General

      Council , who may reside in any given locality will be precisely the same thing as the election of a local Council under the old plan of organization only the people must bear this in mind , that their weekly meetings , in their several localities , are not meetings of the National Charter Association ; they aremeetings of the Chartists thereabouts resident in their individual capacity . The business of the officers of the Association is , to watch tbe current of opinion in their several departments of the Chartist world , and to regulate their movements accord-Whenever , therefore , previous to the election of a General Council , the man , or men , to be put in nomination , have been thus marked for preference , by the xpressed opinions of the Chartists in the ntl . ubourhood , the Bub-Secretary will , - of co ; 89 , know Mb duty . He will , at once , nomi ata that person or those persons ; he will senii in that nomination to the General Secretary , ' ¦ b # s having received all the nominations , thus handea in to him from all the sub-Secretaries , will cause them to be printed , and the whole list to be handed in to every sub-Secretarythat the members of the

      , Association throughout the whole empire , seeing before them all the persons nominated to form the General Council , may be able , at once , to adopt , or reject , the list . As a matter oi course , the members resident in each place will then see that their own men—the men whom they had previously marked out , by the expression of their opinions , individually , have been nominated ; they will , of course , know that in every other place the same precautions have been taken as in their own , and will , therefore , proceed at once aud , as a thing of course , to the election of the whole list , their own men being right .

      We are 3 nxions to make ourselves distinctly understood on this point , becauso we think it the only one in which any difficulty can arise , or any abuse be perpetrated in the working of the new plan . Suppose , then , the list of nominated Councillors to have been sent by the General Secretary to Bradford , 'be members see on that list the names of th&i * own men , and they see also tho names of John Thohpson , Robert Jemciss , Timothy Weaver , John Dixo . v , James Rudge , and Richard Smith , nominated from Birmingham ; they know nothing

      about these men , and therefore they know nothing against them ; they take for grauted that the Birmingham members know them , or they would not have nominated them , and therefore they , of course , elect them along with their own . The same remark applies t © every other place . The ii .-ts are then returned by the sub-Secretaries to the General Secretary , who publishes forthwith the entire list of tho names and residences of all the General Council . Tbe sub-Treasurers and sub-Secretaries are , as provided by the ninth paragraph of the plan , to be elected at the same time , and in the same manner . The thing then to be most carefully noted is , that no sub-Secretary shall dare to

      nominate any man as member of the Genera ! Council , whom tbe people have not previously determined , by their voice , to be a fit and proper person to be nominated ; if this be carefully attended to , ' as it must be , or the plan can never be worked at all , the nomination of the Council will be , in point of fact , its election , and tho election afterwards will be a mere formal ^ process ; and we think our readers must now see that , if these suggestions be acted on , the nomination of members for the General Council , from any particular locality , under the new plan of organization , will , as we before said , amount , in practice , to exactly the same thing as the election of a local Council under tho old plan .

      But the people must not forget , that the cursed Corresponding Act , makes liable to transportation every member of any society whose members meet and art in separate detachments . They must remember , therefore , that when a number of Chartists resii ' ent in Bradford , meet together , it is not a meeting of the National Charter Aseociatios , nor is it a meeting of members of the National Charter Association , as such , though there may noi be any person present who is not a member of the National Charter Associrtion ; ( that matters not ; a number of persons might wet

      together , all of whom were Methodists , and yet nut meet as Methodists , but as members of a Money Ciub , or in any other character , jior wouM the fact of their being all Methodists at all constitute the meeting a Methodist meeting ;) they meet simply as Chartists , and whatever they do is their own act , as individual Chartist ? , and not the act of the National Charter Association . The National Charter Association appears only in the persons of its officers and members , acting in universal concert . This is the most important thing of al ] , for it is the very thing on which the vaunted illegality of the old plan hinged , and which , therefore , the people must note specially . We call to it in particular , tho

      attention of all the sub-Secretaries of the National Cnarter Association . We shall try to bear in mind the provisions of the Jaw upon the subject , whether others do or not ; our friends will observe , therefore , that it is to no use sending us reports , headed " National Charter Association , " at such a place , or telling US that the * ' CouiiciPof such a place , met at such a time aud did so and so ; the National Charter Asso ciation has no meetings ; its Council has no meetings , eave those of the Executive , and general meetings of the whole kingdom , called by the Executive ; ali local meetings arc , we again repeat , meetings ol Chartists , cut no * of the National Charter Association ; if this distinction be attended to the meshes of the law will be avoided ; if not , they will surely be run

      into . We have said that the nomination for the General Council Ehculd be now gokg ox ; it can , of course , take place immediately ; every place will nominate the persons who now constitute its local Council to be inmbers of ( he first General Council of { he National Charter Association of Great Britain ; every person who now acts as a local Secretary will , of course , act as a sub-Secretary for banging the new organisation into play ; the nominations will be determined on the very next time that the Chartists

      meet in their feeveral localities , and the sub-Secretaries will instantly make their returns to the General Seoretary , ihat the list of Councillors may be published in time for the election of the Executive Committee , on the first of April . Erery return must be ia the hands of the Provisional Secretary , at Manchester , at the latest , by the end of next week , so that he may have the whole arranged for publication , by Tuesday night , in which case they shall appear in the Star of next week , which will carry them to all the members , in every locality , and thus save the Association the expence of having them printed separately . In future Numbers we shall take up the remaining portions of the plau , and explain ^ bo far as we un-

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      derstand it , the simplest u « 9 of so working it as to combine , in operation , all the advantages of both the old plan and the new one . Let it , however , be brought at once into operation , as far as the people do understand it—let no time be lost in bringing the General Council into existence . Let us have , next week , tne list of nominations to lay before the members .

      We perceive that the plan doss not furnish a form for the nomination of members to the General Council . We would offer the following as a guide to the sub-Secretariea in general : — To the Secretary of the Provisional Executive Committee of the National Charier Association of Great Britain . I beg to nominate Messrs .

      John Greenwood , weaver , 6 , Hope-street , ] JJ Ely Traviss , shoemaker , 15 , Nelson-square , VS ; Robert Kitohing , woolcomber , Black Abbey , j % Members of the National Charter Association , as fit and proper persons to serve on the General Council , to be now elected ; and I also beg to nominate A . B . before-mentioned , for the office of sub-Secretary , and C . D . before-mentioned , for the office of sub-Treasurer to the National Charter Association . ( Signed ) John Jokes , ¦ 65 , Westgate , Bradford . Member of the General Council , and sub-Secretary of the National Charter Association of Great Britain .

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      GREAT BATTLE OF CROWN AND ANCHOR , AND TOTAL DEFEAT OF THE COMBINED ARMIES OF LEAGUE , BY THE ADVANCE OF THE ROYAL CHARTIST ARMY OF OBSERVATION . We gave a mere sketch of this great and decisive battle in our last , and , even now , we cannot devote to it as much space as its importance demands ; however , we shall endeavour , as briefly as . possible , to lay the full merits before our readers .

      The meeting is denominated , by tne Whig papers , the " annual meeting of the Metropolitan , Central , and District Anti-Corn Law Association ; " and its objects , to receive a report of the progress of the question during the past year , and to adopt such measures for advancing the interest of the cause as might appear most expedient . " We have put the objects into good English , as substantially stated in the Sun . Let us now consider how the combined forces were commanded ; and , we think , we shall show that every section of the League was present , and in full force . Mr . Villiees , M . P ., Commander-in-chief of the St . Stephen ' s brigade , and mover of the question , was there ; Mr . Wakbubton , M . P ., chiof of the staff , was in the chair ; Mr . EAsraors , M . P ., proprietor

      of the Morning Chronicle , the journal with one eye that leads the blind , was there ; Mr . Benjamin Hawws , M . P ., soap-boiler to tho League , was there ; Sir William Mojlesworth , Bart ., M . P ., " a large , a very large , landed proprietor , " was there , but g 6 t the mullygrubs , and retired upon the first discharge from the Chartists' artillery ; Mr , AlCOCK , late candidate for Surrey , was there ; Mr . i . B . Smith , president of the League , an-d late candidate for Walsail , was there ; Mr . Roebuck , of the Royal Household recruiting service , was there ; and Dr . Bmauio , of the Russian—Prussian—Austrian—Egyptian—Dutch—Hung a rian service , was there . Such was the staff upon the hustings , and Mr . Stdnet Smith , the Secretary , was selected to read the report , which we take from the Sun , and which

      runs thus : — runs tnus : — " The Report contained an account of the origin of the Association , and of the difficulties it had tooncouutsr—lat , from the general apathy of the middle class ; and , 2 nd , frum tho hostility of the more political portion ot' the working class . It congratulated the meeting upon the decline of apathy in the one class , aud open tbe cessation , to a considerable extent , of the hostility of the other . " The Committee had great pleasure in being able to report that the same spirit was spreading rapidly in every directiou , and would , ere long , animate tbe waole

      country-•• Energetic and wall qualified gentlemen , under the auspices uf the League , had been eminently » occessful in tliKir efforts to convey useful instruction to the people . They had been well received in every pavt oi the kingdom . Their lectures had been liumeruusiiy intended , and in no part of the country more satisfactorily thau in the south-western counties , in which the supporters o : tbe Corn Laws declared , buastingly , they tbired not show themselves . So broad , so strong , so genial was the light these gentlemen hid diffused , that the League Lad only to continue thtir exertions , in conjunction wiih this Association , nud other Ces ^ trai Associations , to causa the enrolment , in aid of the repeal of the Com Laws , of the whole at the thinking portion of the popu ) ; tion of this great empire .

      The Committee concluded their report in the -words ef a former address , thus;—' Filially , then , permit us , fellow-citizena , solemnly to appeal to you ? sympathy—to your imuili ^ encr—to invoke your aid and co-operation ; since , deeply assured as we are that our object , the total repeal of tho Curn Laws , ia for the welfare of all , to aid in its accomplishment" ( Cries of " No , no , " aad cheers . ) Now , we conceive that it does behove our friend , the Mercury , to find out , and ' publish tho name ol tho author ot this most audacious aud biggest lie ever told ; in order that he may , for ever , stand purged , and cease to be " the Great Liar of the iXorlh . "

      Wo have not patience to comment seriatim upon each lie ; let them , therefore , bo taken in tho lump , while wo admit that the combined foroes have had a glorious campaign , if there be glory in being most ing . oriously defeated by the very troops to whom they looked for succour and support . Their " glory " consists iu not bciug able to carry one Bingle resolution at ouo single meetiug ; their " success" in not daring to call ou 8 single out-door meeting , and their " improvement , " in being in doubt , iu the third mouth of the Session , whether or no , in their improved state , it would be prudent to venture their cock in the pit in the next main .

      Never did a set of Malthusian beggars gel such a thrashing , drubbing , hooting , hissing , and groaning as the self-satisfied League , their missionaries , and friends , have received duriug the period bo exultinyly referred to in their report ; they are easily pleased ! Now , whom had we to meet suoh an array of Field Marshals aud Major-Generals I Just three Captains , raised by merit from the ranks of the Chartist army 1 Captain Wall led on the centre in gallant style , while Captain Bogois , with the right wing ,

      turned the enemy ' s flank ; and Captain Peat , witj . i tho left , and a detachment of Light Dragoons , fell upon the rear , and routed and put the whole force of the enemy to the sword , the Chartists remaining in undisputed possession of the ground . And all this while the cowardly leaguers had anticipated a most decisive victory ; haviug brought their whole farce to bear upon our advance , the grand army being at tbe same moment reconnoitring at White Conduit House , ready , if any attack should be made on St . Vincent ' s , or an attempt to turn our flank by the enemy .

      Many Chartists who were engaged at the battle of the Crown aud Anohor , would have gladly been at the celebration of the release of the Oakhatn garri-Bon ; but having a duty to discharge , their motto was " Business first , pleasure after . " Such , then , were the odds at which the " impracticable" Chartists fought the " practical" Leaguers , and such the victory they gaiued . But it does not rest here . Oh ! no ; we hare had a lesson from Mr . Roebuck worth all those taught by the League during the campaign . Here we give it from the Week ' y Dispatch , the only London paper upon which we can depend for anything like accuracy in reports of public meeting ? ,, where the spirit of the people is manifested : — <

      " Mr . Roebuck rose to support the original motion . His appearance was a sign *> , for hisses and uproar . He acknowledged that all i ' ueir tfforta would be vain without the Charter , of which he was a eopporter , but the people , he said , would not go with him . ( Cries of 'No Poor Law , ' No Foxes , ' 8 it down . ' ) If the people stood by bra as he atood by them—( Cries of

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      'You were one of the first to desert us . ' ) They all admitted the injurious : effacts of the Corn Laws , and the only question between , them fwas , > how could they be got rid of ? .. ( pr ies . of . « you ran away from Batb , '; No , but the people of Bath ran away from him . ( laughter . ) He was willing to acknowledge , that if they inundated the House with petitions they would not obtain a repeal of the Com Laws , until the Charter wa » granted . \ Tha Learned Gentleman was proceeding to describe , by illustration , tbe insane and bigoted

      opposition evinced by the Chartists that night , but bis voice was drowned by criea of . ' . That ' s Whig illustration— that ' s a lawyer ' s illustration . ' ) Ia conclusion , he asked , why did they interrupt them ? Did tho middle classes ever disturb the Chartist meetings ? iCries of ' Yea , look to the Bull-ring , where the military and b—y police broke the people ' 3 skulls , and dispersed their meetings . ') A scene of confusion ensued , which , terminated by Mi : Roebuckra sitting doWn . " ¦ ¦ ¦' : ¦ ¦

      The people would ' nt hear Mr . Roebucu , and he told them that he had been turned out of the House of Commons fur being too Democratic , while the people thought he had deserted their cause , and he then used these remarkable words : — " Ho , it was the people who had runaway from him / ' Thiais just what O'CoNNEtL eaya , and juat what Home says , and just what every one says who considers himself " the people ; " but as wo do not wish to hear " the people" charged with ingratitude , discourtesy , or inconsistency , let us just review the acquaintanceship and the cause of its cessation .

      In February , 1833 , Mr . Roebuck was introduced to the people , tho constituency of Bath being the master of the ceremonies , aud the people from so respectable an introduction , were most happy to take Mr . Roebuck by the hand , but , in the following year , Mr . Roebuck threw the said people " upon their own resources , " and , iu return , the people threw Mr . Roebuck upon hts own resources Now , surely , if theirs was the cut direot , his was tho cut oblique , aud so the odds are even ; Mr . Roebuck having thrown the first stone ; but now it is the people who hare run away from Mr . Roebuck . O dear ! O dear ! O dear ! what a shame ! and how very , very cruel ! it reminds us of the sad plight of the stranded

      boat" The boat was still there , but the waters had gone . " Mr . Roebuck is there , but the people are gone . Now , we beg to re-assure Mr . Roebuck of that of which we assured all , some few weeks since , namely , that the people never do run away from any one till he runs away from them . But let us seo if we can furnish an apology for our naughty frieuda for having so uueourteously " run away" from Mr . Roebuck , from Mr . Roebuck ' s own lips . Here than we offer that apology , as we find it reported in the Sun , and so that ( from the whole context ) we think there can be no misreport , or perversion : —

      " They had all agreed that there if as an evil to be cured in the shape of the present representation of the people in Parliament ; but he said that there was another and a greater evil to be cured , and they were there assembled to inquire into and consider the best looy oj getting rid lhat evil . < Cheers and hisses . J It had been said , and truly said , that the operation of the present Corn Laics had filled many a cottage with sorrow , and brought death and denotation into many a happy home , and they were there assembled to inquire the be » t way of getting rid of those law * . ( Cheers . ) He was free to confess that the adoption of the Charter would get rid of a great part of the mischief consequent upon those laws . ( Cheers ami hisses , j "

      Now , we ask Mr . Roebuck , or any man , and we shall be glad to give him £ an opportunity of correcting himself , whether the Chartists can look upon any man as a friend , who sets up his own opinion of the associated body of the Chartists , and presumes to tell them that , the evil of the Corn Laws is a greater evil than the evil of the present representative system . He might just as well tell us tha 4 a man with hia throat cut should be punished for having the wound , instead of the man who inflicted it .

      But he takes the Chartist 3 to task for their mode of treating the supporters of the measure We fear that this savours of "the pot and the kettle . " Does Mr . Roebuck read " the papers , " and has he seen the rafliauly conduct of the leaguers , at Livespool , towards the Chartists ; has he seen the fact stated upon unquestionable authority that , no later than last week , the Gallant Svkwsy Smith , Secretary to the league , knocked on the hat of a Chartist , at Bermondsey , whose head he couldn't turn ! Has Mr . Roebuck heard of the insult offered by Mr . O'Con . nell , Mr . Easthope , Mr-Hui&e , and Mr . Wynn Ellis , to the Chartists of Leicester ; and of Messrs . Seal and Mabkham ' s spirited reply to- Messrs . Hume aad O'Connbll ,

      when every person , tven friendly to the Chartists , was refused a ticket to the Leicester meeting I Has Mr . Roebuck heard of Mr . ' Jambs Leech , an operative , fully capable of teaching ilr . Roebuck , and the whole league , upon the question of the Corn Laws , b ^ ing dismissed by his Corn-Law - repeal - tender - hearted - cheap - food - feed - thepoor master for exposin ^ the humbug ? aud has he learned that tho fickle , treacherous people ^ wbo ran away from Mr . Uoebuck , have given the said James L ^ ach three times as good a salary , for advocating their cause , as the tender-hearted master gave him for working , like a slave , tor sixteen hours a day ! Aye , ayo , poor Leach is still there * and the people wtwt't run .

      But the Sun also takos the Chartists to task for their conduct ; and our golden luminary we shall also convict out of his own mouth , presently . The people eee ' a well-fed , well-housed , and wellclad poltco , insulting , injuring , bullying , and destroying a starving , houseless , naked , unprotected people , and no sophistry cau blind them . They find the very maatars who have reduced them to beggary , starvation , aud a slavish dependancy , asking for their assistance , to do that vrhich the masters have never shown a ;; y disposition to do , to better tho condition of tho workmen .

      They roi ' use to join the psople in obtaining the lacaus of doing away with all evils , and now they are told that the Cora Laws ara the greatest of all evils , thai is , the ignorant , arrogant , purse-proud , tyrannical , choose to say , " O , yes , we'll join you , of course , but it shall be to use you for such purposes as we , not you , think proper ; " aad of which purposes the people have had frequent tastes , and they don ' t like the relish ; m now they have resolved upou seasoning a dish fur themselves . In short , the people know all about , it ; aud it would be an insult to recapitulate ) all the nr ^ umeutg upon the question for the weil-mforined classes for whom we write .

      The people are wiser than the vain-glorious knight-errant , who preferred losing his life in single combat with the ftiaut , to the disgrace of encountering the dwarf . They have learned that cheap and dear are relative ,: eruw , and that , although , there might be a Rus ^ au and an English loaf , varying in size , that they can have a slice of the dwarf , while they would only be' allowed to look upon the giant . They know that if tho Russian took their fabric he would have it at a lower price than the Russian serf , or auy other serf , can prod ace it . They know that it would be a cold consolation to stand grinning , at the outside of the window of a baker's shop , at the Russian loaf , while evtry warehouse in Manchester was full of their manufacture—aye , morfj

      than would stock the world } waiting upon a turn , of speculation , and then sold at manure or old rag price , to meet the bills ; and while * U the storehouses , meantime , were full of cheap Russiao . $ orn , also ' "waiting upon speculation , bat never opened except for a consideration . " They know also that those who now purohaae twelve-thirteentlw of their produce at home , and who wear shirt ? , stockings , orawers , flannel waistcoats , petticoats , knives , forks , &c , would then wear " ahookfing bad hats ; ' ? and shat , while they were breaking their neighbours and customers for the satiBfacti'on of a parcel of speculating slave-drivers , they would be cutting off their noses to vex their faces , w'oile the masters would laugh heartily at their folly . The people now laugh heartily at the greedyguts who suppose that a repeal of the Corn Laws would set all the worW producing corn for a little

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      island of operaiives r an"d ' allow . ^ aHlofeTgh inachiaerr to stand stiirtn ' e whitey " N o ^ Wjjt-Iias ^ gbne too far : the people know enough , an 3 too inuch . XheV know that ** An '; th' stuff i' th' world wor made f < a awth' fowfc i' ith / Vworidj" and-thai'they faaveut their share , and that they never will have it , nnta they get the Charter . TB ^ y Know tnat the presei * shoemakers have made shoes to pinch them , and they want to try fresh hands . They don ' t wa nt to enter into an analytical disputation with Mr . Nina . teen-Foreten-LanguagerBow » ii «> , who doesn't oa . derstand the plain English of justice : they don' 4

      want to enter into logarithms with Mr . Cobdei . or to go to loggerheads * ith Mr . Knock-off-H » te Stbnbt Smith ; or to enter upon the questioa of » choice of evils witb Mr . Roebuck . They j ^ know that all who have hitherto tried their haoj . at managing the mess have had the biggest shea , and they want , now to try a few cooks of theirow ^ to be removed at pleasure , if their cooking don not suit ; and we have pride in believing thataj the force of tke ^ Leagiie and their hackers will never shake their rational opinion , and that they nsnr may is our sincere and honest wish .

      Before we finish off the Sun , we must remiad our friends . that we informed them that the Leeds de monstration was to have been followed up , if g ^ ceaaful , by similar ones at Manchester , Birmingham , Sheffield , and in London . This , then , was the nem device of . the enemy , and , if successful at tht Crown and Anchor , the question of the Corn Lim was to hare been the first of a series of 'W ] jj » demonstrations ; and , therefore , do we the more <^ dially thank our indomitable friends for tkefr splendid triumph . It was in every way worthy of them , and they * re in every way worthy of the great cause in which they have taken so glorfoai a lead of late . ' . \

      Let those who heard Mr . Roebuck , at Leedt read the extract from hip Crown and Anchor speech . As for the League , it is very clear that discussion is not their object , and they are a paltry shabby , sneaking . set ; of poltroons , for attempting to take the Chartists by surprise , when their forces were otherwise engaged . Have they now got a sickener , a douce in the blubber chops , a home throat in the " cheap bread" basket ! Now , one word for thestrictures upon good manners of the Golden , Railway , Chinese , Royal Marriage , Sun ; and we leave the League to enjoy their triumph , and add it to the long list of victories boasted in their whole year ' s campaign .

      Here , then , from the Sun ' s report , we give , side by side , the bane and antidote , the rebuke and tbe proof that is unmerited , his own statement of faota and his own contradiction of the same facts : —

      LOOK ON THIS PICTURE , AND OM IHIS . " Mr . Wall ( a Chartist ) " It is but right " to menrose amidst cheers , hisses , tion that the Cnartistp&rty aud great uproar , to pro- behaved with the utaiosl pose an amendment . The unfairness , as the speakers Chairman endeavoured to on their aide of iheques . obtain for him an hearing , tion were heard with the and he addressed the meet-, utmost patience and atten . ingatsome length in favour tion ; but when theotkei of the principles embodied side came to claim tbe in the People ' s Charter , same indulgence , they wew

      but owing to tbe noise aud . greeted with most dlawrconfusion which prevailed , dantand offensive noiw , but few of his observations This is setting an exampte reached us . " ¦ $ , worthy only of tho meat intolerant Tories , and om which , if practiced towards the Chartists , they would be the first to denounce itt the bitterest language ot complaint "

      This has been the greatest battle that has been fought in London siace the battle of the Martyrs ia March , 1837 , when O'Connor , single-handed , met the whole cliqut , headed by thirty-3 even Members of Parliament , with Jog ; Hcmb in the chair , and after an actual fight of seven hours and a-hal ? , from twelve at noon , to half-past seven ^ -a time when it wag thought the blisters and fustians couldn't attendcarriedhis amendment for Universal Suffrage .

      Indepehdeatly of the pleasure we experience oa thus chronicling the triumph of our party , we hara also a duty to perform , aa we find that our troops vociferated " Read the Northern Star , " in reply to the lying reports of the league . We again , ia confirmation i beg to assure our friends , that the # « r has fairly and honestJy reported the thrashings rf the enemy , whenever they have dared to fight , and it will still continue to do so , until it record thebr total annihilation . Three thousand cheers for Captains Wall , Bogois , and Pjsat , and the army of observatioa ! i- *^» j - ^ jrj . iji ^ ,,- - , , r * , | M ^ j ^^ BJ * «'< . » . .. « o . .. j .. .. s ^ j- * . ' •¦^ j ^^— 'J'i . ¦ ' ¦¦ ¦ ¦» - ¦ . « . *» ¦ .- * SM "»

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      THE LIBERATION OF PRISONERS AND THE CHARTER CONVENTION . We respectfully invite attention to the letter of O'Connor . upon this subject ; it should be seen to at once . From a notice given elsewhere , and furnished by our London correspondent , we perceive that a Petition Committee is already in existenee in London , and haa already done valuable service . We think that the delegation recommended by O'Cosnob , from the country , in co-operating with the Loudon' Committee might greatly increase their capability of usefulness , and form , with them , a crew of Chartist mariners , whose tugging at the oars would not fail so to agitate the stagnant pool of St . Stephens , as greatly to advance tho Chartist bark on her voyage .

      We hope to be able next week to record the complete furnishing of the necessary funds . We have elsewhere notified our own mite , by way of * beginning , and have only to express our eoufideace that the beginning will be followed up effectively aud at once .

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      THE WORLD AGAINST THE STAR . We thank our friend of tho World for the renewal of his acquaintanceship . We bad for many weeks lost sight of him , and know not , therefore , what he was doing in the World ; but we have this week received his explanation . The lapse was owing to an accidental circumstance . Previous to our receipt of this friendly intimation , the World of the 14 th of February had been sent to us by

      a friend in Lancashiro , iu which we perceive that our contemporary has paid us some compliments which we certainly should not have permitted to remain so long unacknowledged , had we seen them sooner . The pTetsure of matter precludes us making those acknowledgments this week , although they are in type , but we shall next week try to bring up alongside our friend , and return hia couarteous civilities .

      The Tfortherb" Stab-. Saturday, March 13, 1841.

      THE tfORTHERB" STAB-. SATURDAY , MARCH 13 , 1841 .

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      POOR MR . STANSFELD . Mr ; Stansfeld may bless his stars , and thank our Star , that the Assizes fill up our columns this week and next , and so procure him a fortnight ' s respite from a slap on each tide of tbe head , the export aad the import side , which , please God , he shall yet have with interest . Mr . Stansfeid b » 3 bottled up his valuable knowledge for so many years , that we have ! no fear of the cream leaving it for a week or * wo ,- ^ -it will keep till it is wanted .

      A fig for all agitators ba'ithose of your middle class kidney ; they are the boys for unclosing the wound ! The . outcry , against the Chartist leaders , who have confined their denunciations to the but principles of the representative system , has beea that they mad © a contented people dissatisfied With their lot , whilst Stavfseud i aad Co . hare dragged , from beneath thetuaae ) , abuses in detail , and placed them in the coffee-cup , the soup-baeon , and the tea-pot , seasoning each meal with ' the piquant s » ooe of sharp oppression I ! ;;! ¦'' ¦;

      We have exposed the Household Suffrage humbug and the Corn La * humbug / and we promise the present humbug a * convenient a euffing , as we hare given its predecessors . -Meantime , let the troops be on the alert—let the several garrisons be on the look out for th . e n » sfeed battery , UU we takeoff A « disguise .

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      1 TTTTC NORTHERN STAR ..,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 13, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1100/page/4/