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      -j - jjjJJJJSJ - *' ' '" ' *''"^* ' * ' ^^ ' * '' *' '' ' ' * ' **** - SONG FOR THE MILLIONS . How long will the millions sweat and toll , To pamper the lordiings" bastard brats ; How long -will they till the fruitful soil , To be starred by tie base ariatocrata ? How long will they bear the galling yoke , Ere their bowls shall burst their chains be broke , And vengeance come doim like a thunder stroke ? The spirit of freedom yearns and bit eds , And liberty lies in patriots' graves ; Whilst the monster tyrant's ear unheeds The suSering wail of -weeping slaves ; Bat Bhall mankind for ever bear The ttlogs of woe , and griff , and care . And lire and die in dark despair ?

      Forbid it heaven , and all the powers Thai role the universal world ; 'Twere better that this globe ot oxns , "Mid lightning's flashes , swift were htal'd , And with it all the human race , Into the gulf of endless Bpaee , Farther than mortal ken can trace . Bondsmen and s 1 » tbs in eTery dime , Year voices raise in freedom ' s cause ; 3 > espoto , be-wise ; be-wise in time , Bemember it is Nature ' s laws That mske men equal ; and dare ye , In hellish conclave met , agree To alter Nature ' s wise decree ?

      Tain is your wish , your Btxong desire Can never ! never ! be obtained ; Xe cannot quench fair freedom ' s fire , Though ye of blood a deluge rain'd . Seek in the rolls of lasting fame ; . There shall ye find each honour ed name , Whsse memory feeds the sacred flame . Oh ! may that flame burn fierce and bright , Within the "breasts of all mankind ; May knowledge pour a flood of light From out the intellectual mind ; A light that shall illume the earth , "Whose genial rays shall Boon give birth To glorious liberty , that boon of worth , Besjamix Stott

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      TP ? tSHI ^ rg- —" EiSTER Dczs . —The Rector of this place , no way intimidated by the almost universal execration which bis conduct since he came to Keignley has caused , seem 3 determined to persevere in enforcing his demands for the payment of Easter daes at all hazards . It will be recollected that about four months ago the houses of Messrs . B&odes and Weaiherhead were entered and their goods seized for Easter dues . Mr . John Butterfield , another Chartist , ha 3 been the next victim destined to feel the Sector ' s chastening rod . On Tuesday in last week , two fellows of the names of Bean and Sngden , the latter better known b y the cognomen of " Sweet Tit" entered his house with a magistrate ' s

      , order , and seemed inclined for a time to seize a very good mahogany clock , but after much persuasion ( and probably recollecting the case of Mr . Rhodes , which was broken to pieces by an indignant crowd upon being offered for sale ) they consented to disirain a large oak tree , valued , we believe , at £ 5 . Of course , Mr . Butterfiold will Jose his tree for the palcry sum of lOJd , claimed for Easter Daes . One can scarcely tell whether to laugh or cry on witnessing such instances of injustice as the one we have just related . When we see a man so obstinately stupid as to fly in the very

      iaoe of public opinion , as the present iiector is now Soiis . we are tempted to laugh at , while we pity his folly . But wh « n we reflect on the degradation and injustice which Englishmen are forced daily and hourly to submit to , we are anything but in a laughing humour . Let us , howevrr , hope that the time is not far distant when the system which , fbstsre and perpetuates such enormities shall come to an end , and be succeeded by a better and purer state of society—when no State Church shall have the power to trample upon and oppress a free people—and when no State Parson shall be allowed to appropriate to himself the clocks , tables , and trees of honest and npright men . —Correspondent .

      BIAJTCHESTEB . —Hot's Mn ? mjEST . —Tie laying of the foundation stoceof the Monument to the memory of H . Hunt , Esq ., is to take place on Good Friday . The Youths of the National Charter Associa tion , at Manchester , haTe got np a flag for the above important occasion ; on the obverse is painted the Cksrkst Coat of Art , on the reverse is the full length portrait of Henrj Huct . They intend also to form in procession , and we earnestly request that the youths in the country districts will come forward on that day and join the youths of Manchester in doing honour « to the memory of the man who stood boldly

      forward in defence of the rights of labour ; and combated , single handed , against a lying press , a corrupt and imbecile government , and fee whole host of tyrants who sought the degradation and slavery of the working classts ; we therefore beg of the youths in the country districts to coxae forward and join the procession . Our sub-secretory will receive any communications from them respecting the order they intend to come in . Let each district send immediately to arrange with our council ; they must address all correspondenee to John Scholefield , care -of Gabriel Hargraves , No . 27 , Brown-street , Travia-Bireet , near St . Andrews Church , Manchester .

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      Stoppage of Wigsbt asd Co ' s Bake at Brightos . —Brighton , Friday , half-past ten o ' clock . —I have just time to inform you that the bank of Messrs . Wignej and Co . has not opened thi 3 morning . The greatest consternation prevails , as great confidence lad beenreposed in it . Mr . J . N . Wigney is one of the members for the borough . —The announcement tg the failure was made to the pnblic through a placard placed at the door of the bank , in the following terms : — Messrs . Wigney and Co . deeply regret to be under the painful necessity of suspending their psjments . Brighton Bank , March 4 th , 1842 . "—The news , of course , spread like wildfire , and a stranger to tie fact might have found ample evidence in the Street that some dreadful calamity had befallen the town . A crowd of persons surrounded the door of the banking-house during the whole day , every person being anxious for ocular demonstration of the

      unexpected announcement , and his place being immediately suppHed by others , as . having satisfied his enrioiity , he * passed away . The tradesmen and gentry of the town were to be seen congregated about the principal business streets in anxious gronp 3 ; and many a rueful countenance indicated that its possessor was a sufferer by the failure . Of course little is vet known of the cause of the failure , or of the prospects of the creditors j but we have reason to believe that the immediate cause was the Mure of a large speculation at Glasgow , in which the firm had extensively engaged , and , we regret to add , thai there appears too much rea-on to anticipate that the dividend will be very small . The members of the firm are Mr . Isaac Newton Wigcey , M P . for Brighton , and Mr . Clement Wigney , sons of Air . William Wigney . deceased ; who , by hia own industry , sided fcv wmie fortunate speculations , raised

      iimself from a travelling blanket dealer to be a man of considerable wealth , which enabled him . m conjunnien wiih two other gentlemen , to establish the bank , which has now carried on extecjve bus-mess for about forty years . Mr . Isaac Kemcn Wigney is also a magistrate of the county , and has for some years acted a 3 chairman of tbe Brighton bench . His failure will , as a matter of course , lead to the Section of a new member for Brighton . The Lnion bank , the cnlv bank in Brighton , with the exception of » recently established bTanch of the London aad County bank , lias not been affected by the failure . So completely has tins bank the confidence of the public , that it has been even less resorted to to day thaa usual , many persons who hold their checks refraining from presenting them , in order to avoid the inconvenience that a run might occasion . A meetme . for the t > nn > ose of expressing the confidence

      of tbe inhabitants of Brighton in the-two remaining baaks-ihe Union bank and the old established firm carried on by Messrs . Hall , West , and € o ., was held atfte Town-hail immediately after tbe failure became known . The first resolution was moved by the Rev . Mr . Scott , to tbe tffoct that prompt rtsps should be taken on the part of the inhabitants , under the painful circumstances of the suspension of payttent by Messrs . Wigney , to express their confidence in the two remainiug banks . The resolution was Beeended by Mr . S , Hannington . Mr . ^ E . W . Hall , one of the firm of aw Union bank , thanked the meeting for this kind expression of confidence , and begged to assure it that they were quite prepared to meet the demands , having notice of the expected failure for some days before . The Rev . Mr . Scott , on the part of Messrs . Ball and Co ., made a statement to the like effect . Mr . Leonard , the general manager

      of the London and County bank , eaid that , almongn he had no prior intimation of the unpleasant circumstance about to occur , he could assure them oi tne the safety of the Joint Stock Bank Company , and stated that , if required , they had a reserved fund or £ 200 , 000 to fall back upon . A resolution was then passed unanimously , expressive of tbe unlimitea confidence of the meeting in the before-mentioned banks , and its determination to support them at tne

      present crisis . Pom » -xss op Clerical Magistrates fok Floggisg . —A return has been presented to the House of Commons , dated Pebrnary 9 , 1842 , statmg tbe number of persons of the age of twtnty and upwards sentenced to be flagged by the snmmary corceuKi of one magistrate , from the 1 st of . January , 1840 , to the 1 st of January , 1841 . The returns are-from Norwich ., 1 ; Swaffbam , 1 ; and Warwick , o ; seven in all , six of whom were committed by clergymen !—fecit and Figures

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      Pobxvg * u—After on interregnum of seventeen days a neyf ministry has been appointed . The w crisis" has terminated in the complete triumph of Of Seaor Costa Cabral . who is the new Home Secretary . The Coke da Terceira is president of the council , but the leading power in the cabinet will be wielded by Costa Cabral . The sew minitti-r of justice is Antonio d'Agevedo Mello e Carvalho , brother to tbe second member of the Oporto * junta . This body , therefore , may be considered as having achieved

      a double triumph . Baron de Tojal is the new minister of finance . The portfolio of foreign affairs is held merely od interim by the Duke da Terceira . Senor Rodrigo da F . Magaihaes has been applied to to resume this office , but positively declined . The marine department is also filled merely ad interim or the chief clerk in that office . Tike policy of the new administration will not differ materially from that which was displaced by the Oporto reyolt . Its policy with regard to England and all foreign countries will be identical . The first act of the new

      government is somewhat remarkable . It is a demand of tbe administrator-general of Oporto to specify the sums which he received from the custom-house , and other sources of revenue , to aid the late revoltby whose order he received them , and bow they were expended . The object is to legalise these illegal transactions by an act of indemnity . The order to this effect is signed by the same Costa Cabral who who seized the money as head of the junta . M . Gappacini had heen presented at court . The king has declared against accepting the command in chief of the army . Thus one of the leading agents of the movement in favour of the charter is entirely defeated . Senor d'Aguilar returned on Sunday from Madrid , to resume his functions as Spanish ambassador at the Portuguese court . " No hostile movement on the part of Spain was apprehended .

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      THE SHEFFIELD POLITICAL INSTITUTE , AND HB . GEO . JULIAN HARNEY . TO THE EDITOB OF THE KOKTHEB . N SIAK . . Sib ., —In approaching the subject to which I am dedroui of inviting the attention of your readers , I do » o with great trepidation and reverence . The urbanity , erudition , and wide-spreading fame of the illustrious iadividual , a fame that has spread throughout the three kingdom * , and in all likelihood la now wafting across the . Atlantic ocean , or like that of many of his compeer * will soon do j so , all fill the mind with the greatnes of the object contemplated . Hia wit , humour , and profound humility stand unrivalled . Only tbink

      of one of hia companions , as if preconcerted , as ma ; iy such things have been by him , to his immortal honour , declaring in a public meeting and in his presence , " that George Julian Harney is another Julins Cesar , nay greater than Caesar himself , who conquered the whole world . " True . . ! Who can doubt it ? The ancient Julius Qesar only conquered the world by physical force . He vem , visi , vinci- 'He came , and saw , and conquered ; " but our modem Julius , without coming or seeing , subdues and conquers . Aitya i alas ; \ for any one vrho stands in his way .

      The « e preliminary observations , the kind reader will readily perceive , are demanded in approaching so august a man ; yet

      "To err is human j " far , however , "be it from me to altribnte any prepense malice to our Sheffield Ca ?« ar ; yet one would have thought after so many heresay tales have been refutedafter they have been admitted into the pagea of the Northern . Slar , that an oppcttunity might have been given to the party -whom ^ he has falsely accused from perverted report , and to whom he has been under some small obligations , to first hear the statements and answer for themselves . But , no , this would not answer Master . Julian ' s purpose , but like another Jupitsr , at the stamp of his foot , or the shake of hia venerable head , all inferior mortals must tremble . I do so when I rtad the following defence : — " I shalj be rerj brief with Mr . Otley—I defy him to prove his dirty calumny . "

      If it be , however , a dirty calumny , it is because it is spoken at , and by a dirty fellow , Mr . Ifcroey himst-lf ; and it is dirty , because it is utterly false , at least as far as I am concerned . When Mr . Jones and his two weak-headed friends , weak-headed , because they would praise a man in tbe morning" and icast dirt at him in the evening , came to me and the conversation took place , alluded to by Mr . Harney , "what was its purport ? Was it not what I have said before Mr . Haniey , and in the presence of . the Chartists" meeting in the Fig Tree-lane room ? It was in substance , and nearly verbatim as follows : — "That I never did , Dor never will approve of Mr . O'Connors pro-Tory policy . For if he is an honest patriot , and I give him my fnll confidence , until he

      proves himself the contrary , his pursuing this course , " said I , ' gives ample room for many to say , that there is a correspondency of design between the Tories and himself ; for example , when he recommends the people to get on to the land , and he Buppsses and calculates what rent they will have to pay , and the people on the land , and the land in the possession of the present amtocratical tyrants , would they not be merely , as formerly , serfs ? Now , this ( say the enemies of the Chartists } agrees with tbe doctrines of tbe Tories , who hold forth that if the ploughshare was to pass over Manchester , Birmingham , Sheffield , and other largo towns , England would be as great and prosperous as it is now . " I then stated that this corrtapondency of doctrines , led people , Itbo enemies of the Cttarter , )

      to assert that Mr O'Connor and the Tories are working togevher , and for the sams ends . And that Mr . O'Connor and the Northern Star always abusing the Whigs , and tittering very little against the greatest enemies to the liberties © fall men , the Tories , confirmed their suspicions . I have only to observe , what was sufficiently evident , that I did not speak my own opinions , but what are those of others , the enemies or the opponents of the Chartists ; and as long as any portion of society believe this , they never can be induced to come over to assist or support us . Such was the conversation which has been perverted by Mr . Jones and his two illustrious companions , and seized upon by Mr . Harney , for the

      purpose of crusning those -who will net be his political serfs . All this is in accordance ¦ with what be threatened , in my bearing , when be first came to Sheffield , that through the medium of the much-to-be-dreaded ( according to him ) Northern Slar , he could annihilate any individual or party who dared to offer the slightest opposition to him . For my own part , as an humble individual , I only answer , to such threats and attempts , bah I bah ! If I cannot differ from Mr . O'Connor and Mr . Julian Harney , on matters of policy , without being gibbeted in effigy in its pages , and Mr . Harney the gibbet-post , why 1 shall prefer that to being a mental serf to either one or the other .

      Mr . Jones during this conversation , which was private , —and as 1 think , to make it public without first confronting the party , to ascertain the truth of what has been reported , is a breach of all the rules of society , and I only spoke to caution , or as a cause of regret-Mr . Jones , I say , asked me what I thought of Mr . Harney ? I answered , " I say nothing , because I know nothing , or very little . " What 1 have kaid of Mr . Harney in his absence , I have said in his presence . What I have said of the pro-Tory policy to Mr . Jenes , I have said to Mr . Leach , to Mr . Campbell , Mr . O'Brien , Mr . Jackson , and should say to Mr . O'Connor , if I had the opportunity .

      There are , however , some other grave charges , to which some attention must be paid . One is , that I and Mr . GUI oppose the tioctrine of the sovereignty of the people . " Suppose , " says Mr . Harney , " that we had a House of Commons ( I wish we had ) elected by Universal Suffrage , who in their legislative capacity were guilty of some erroneous or tyrannical act , according to Messrs . Otley and Gill , the people are bouc < J to submit , because they have elected that House of Commons . I think different . My creed is , that the people can never be QivesXed , or divest themselves , of their natural and rightful sovereignty ; and when their representatives fail to do right , it is the prerogative of the people to override their decision . " This sage doctrine , addressed to the passions and prejudices , and employed to flatter

      his admirers , Mr . Harosy Illustrated by annulling the decision of the Council , and by supposing the Council and the Association to stand in tte same relation as the people and their Parliament . Let the people , however , on all occasions , learn this useful lesson , that those who "Hatter them either have or are about to deceive them . This is an old bnt true saying . Now let us try this absurd doctrine , as laid down above , by the test of its practical working ia any country . Let us suppose that a Parliament , elected by the people , levy an exorbitant tax upon their food ; a more tyrannical law than this could not exist Tae peope may , accordiog to the doctrine of Mr . Harney , annul this , or any other law , themselves . Now , permit us further to suppose , that the people in the exercise of their

      manufacturing districts do this by sovertign power . And the people , in the agricultural parts approve of it , and assert their sovereign power in supporting it ; then tbe two sovereignties -would have to meet in the field of battle and decide which in reality possessed this sovereign power . Such wouli be , and has been in the Roman empire , the effect of Mr . Harney ' s doctrine . The truth is , that when the people elect & Parliament by Universal Suffrage , they delegate their sovereignty to that boty , for the time bsing . And If they pass sn oppressive or mischlevoTis law , thff people must wait mntil ita dissolution by the cfiuxion of time , sayoae year , when their sovereignty falls back again into their banda , when they will take care to elect none but such men as will repeal any pernicious Jaw , and thns preserve the peace of this country .

      If the above is a specimen of Mr . Barney's legislative wisdom , surely at the next election the elector * of this B » ding will Bend this Solon to make laws and frame a constitution for them . A few other statements of facts shall end this reply : Mr Hsrney * ays , " That I did not consult our own members . " In annrer , I Bay , ai many were consulted as possible , for on the night this busiaess was being traMacW Tfrent down to the Institute , but the room was occupied by a meeting of the spring ttnfeteide , and we could not meet *! & * > , ** *» ' " J ^ - ™ wait upon thefriends of the YlgTtfX ^™ room . " Has be forgot that I was there one night , after the decision 3 ? £ ?¦ couacn , until ae » eleven o ' clock , when all I

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      desired of him and hia friends was , that the motion of the entire Charter , should be , as at Nottingham and other places , an original motion , and thns with credit rsscue me and themselvea from the dilemma in which we ware placed ? It was very convenient for Mr . Harney to omit this . But enough of this party fighting : if any of us have any time or talent , let it be employed against our enemies and ^ not is destroying our owa strength by dissension * . Hating dissensions and divisions , especially in our ownranka , and deaiiing above all things , ' that the oppressed people shcmld not vainly pursue a phantom , a Will-o ' -the-Wisp , but obtain , in the issue of their struggle , the substance , real political power , to rescue and guard themselves from oppression and wretchedness , and secure to themselTes taut prosperity and happiness which their Industry and skill merits ,

      I remain , TOM humble and obedient Servant , Richard Otlet Leeds , March 7 th , 1842 . [ We insert the above , because we thick it right that every party attacked should have the opportunity to explain . And we cordially respond to the sentiment of the writer , that whatever of time or talent may appertain to any Chartist should be employed otherwise than in destroying our own strength by diBsenaiona , We hope to hear no more of these personal biekerinss . —Ed . N . S . I

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      " W ^ STBIINSTER . _ A puttie « i « Btta | r was Jheld at the Large Room , Charter Coffee House . Stretton Ground , Westminster , on Friday evening . Th Q room was crowded to excess , as waa ^ likowiso the stairs and the upper floor , arid upwards of 200 persons were accommodated in the large yard , and that of the adjoining house , and hundreds were oMigsd to go away utterly unable to procure admission . Mr . Buck having been elected to the chair , briefly addressed the meeting , aud stated bis belief that the agitation for the Charter would soon supersede every other measure of reform , and would eftett > i speedy changa in the Constitution , which would permanently benefit of all classes of societv . " : ' : ¦ : '¦¦

      Jar . Ruffy RiDLEY—Fellow-workmen , the time has now come when the warking classes of thia country will think and judge for themselves , -when they will no longer De led by men high la power for their 6 Wh Belfisu purposes j too long have we assisted in agitations which have had for their end not the good of the working men ; they have put -this forth , but you have discovered it to be a fallacy . There have been agitatioBsjsarried on , with your asaistinCa , for the benefit ot a base oligarch ? . Nereewei-e the operatives of this kingdom plunged In such extreme * ant and degradation . Never were the ariatocratic classes wallowing in snch luxury , vica , and debauchery . The grand questloa is , will you any longtr submit to this state of thiDgs ? Will you not act upon the advice which the

      quack Doctor , Peel , gave you , some faw years ago—to take your affairs into your own hands ? You have tried the Tories and the Whiga , and the only difference is this : —the Tory is a well-known thief , while the Whig has , in the last ten years , proved himself to be equilly as big a thief . They have both , doho all that has liin iu their power to oppress you , who are the foundation of all the real property of the country . The Tories now offer you the sliding scale to remedy the distress of the country . What effect will this have upon those poor wretches who are no > starving in pur highways and our by-ways , when , if they had the will

      they could produce a remedy which would give almost an instantaneous benefit to you ; but can you expect these men 6 ver to de aught for your advantage , uuless they themselves can reap the greater share ?—( " never , never" ) . Ycu must resolve to unite hand in hand foi this grand object of obtij . lniiij { : your Charter—yeu must prove that the same blood flows in your veins which flowed in the vt-ins of your forefathers—you must no longer be content with / singing " Britons never will be slaves , " but you mutt make it true to the letter , so will you confer happiness on yourselves and prosperity on the . whola kingdom . I shall now propose the following resolution : — . '¦

      " That this meeting is of opinion that the Heuse of Commons ia not compatible with the spirit of the British Constitution , which supposes three equal estates , viz :, a power of the Throne—a ppwer of the LorJs—and a power of the People coequal , whereas * it is evident to observation , that the majority of the Commons : are r « - turcetj by the influence of tho Upper House . Limited constituencies , open voting , aud property qualifications being the causa and the means of bribery and corruption , by which two-thirds of the seats in the Commons'House of Parliament are filled by members of the aristocracy to the exclusion of the popular voica } it is , therefore , the opinion of this meeting , that these and all other evils arising out of tjhem , are only to oa remedied by the adoption of the People ' s Charter . "

      Mr ., Ridley then entered into the benefits to be derived" from the adoption of the People ' s Charter , and the manner in which they had been deprived of their ancient rights ; he then entered into an examinatibu of the Cora Laws , and showed clearly that the capitalist , by ths aid of machinery , would mphopblise every benefit to be obtained from tbeir repeal , unless the people were in possession of political power ; they would then not only be able to see a Lirge loaf through the wimlow , but would have tho bond in thsirhand ^ by which they could guarantee that the benefit woulil flow in the right channel—the stomachs of the poor . Mr . K . then expatiated on the accursed Poor Law ; arid concluded a speech which was much applauded , by exhortiii !; them to join in no agitation in which the Charter was not first and foremost nailed to tha . mast —( tremendous checrai . .

      Mr . Leigh rose to second the resolution . They had met on thi 8 > as oh many other occasions , for the purpose of following the advice cf Peel , and taking their affairs into their own hand ? . One of the most important queations . iu the great moral political struggle which ia now being carried throughout the land , ia , are the people justified in nssemiliug to disnss these subjects ? is it necessary that they should so assemble ? and is there any probability of effecting the great change which we have in view ? We will examine these points , in order to wrench front the hands of our enemies , every possible weapon they can bring against m ; that wear s justified in this object is admitted by both fictions when it Buits their party purposes . They then assert that it is an inalienable right of the people to assemble

      and demand of the Legislature , a speedy rbdress of their grievances . The greatest luminaries cf our country , a Locke , a Bacon , and others ; the ancient philosophers of Grdece and Ksme have all asserted this fundamental principle , that taxation without repreeentationis a tyranny and not a government . This ia said to be the base of the British constitution , and if this is its base let us see how the super structure is raised and of what materials it is composed ; the people , being the corner stone , the Government should rest on public opinion . It is not the building which constitutes the church , but the congregation which assemble in the building . Public opinion is nothing if it is not the free will expression of the whole people ; build on this , anil you will raise a glorious structure which all may Inhabit .

      A Government will then be formed emanating from the free voices of a mighty and an intelligent people . We will now consider if there is a probability of this change beirg speedily effected ; we ate taunted by our enemies that we meet to no purpose ; they say you are going to a meeting at the Charter Coffee House , or to this place and the other place ; you will hear what the orators have got to say , the gaping staring thousands will do the same . You will do this again aud again , and yet remain exactly in the same state ; but this is not the case ; the thinking faculties have been set to work , and if there is anything true in the old saying that a little leven will leven the whole lump , so will the pnblic opinion generated at this , and other other public mettings rise Into such a tremendous roar that pur

      tyrants shall shake in their own shoes . The infamous CiEtlereagb passed his six gagging act 1 * , fettering the right of public meetings , but if the present strong Government , as it la called , were only to attempt to breathe an inclination to re-enact them ; if they were only to whisper it in their dreams in the present effervescing state of society , it would be like a spark falling on a powder magazine , they would all be blown up together —( loud cheers ;) We have now brighter prospects than ever before us ; the press that hitherto occupied every vacant column with anathemas against us has now begun to discover that we have soma little influence , that Feargns O'Connor has some small modicum of talent , that there has been some thousands of pt-rsons present at his meetings , and that they have really

      conducted themselves better than they expected they could . The press is now endeavouring to see which way the wind blows ; they are convinced that some tremendous change is at hand , and they have Set their watchmen on the towers of self interest to watch which way the current will eventually set . This is a sign of the times , a sign that the Chartist schoolmaster has been abroad , that meetings like the present have been useful , that they have instructed the people to steer clear of those shoals and quicksands on which they have hitherto been wrecked ; our principles aw those which are destined to regenerate miiltons yet unborn ; they will confer on millions those blessings which past generations have in vain sighed for ; we owe thia to our increased knowledge ^ they could only sec the promised land , as in a glass darkly , but yre have now arrived near to this millenium . Public indignation will quickly sweep away the present House of Commons ; and we shall be enabled to eleet those who will indeed be the

      representatives of the people . Each wil ) theii sit under his own vine and his own fig-tree , enjoying the fair fruit of hia labour . Mr . Leigh then dissected , in * his usual talented manner , the Corn Law question , showing that we had arrived at such a high and prominent position , that we could come down upon the . League , and say , if you want assistance , you must join us , for in foul weather and fair weather , through persecution and prosecution , we have done without assistance . We have attained , with year opposition ; our presentproud pre-eminence ; and if you need ^ s , you niust come toi us , for we will not come to you—we will not yield a shadow of a point of the glorious fibric of the people ' s liberties —( cheering . ) Mr . Leigh then administered a severe castigation to the Marshalls , Cobdens , and other leaders of the League , during which Mr . O'Connor entered the rocni ; and was received with great applause from all quarters of the building . Mr . Leigh then wound his subject to a close .

      Feaugus OConnoe , amidst great cheering , then rose aud said—It is now nearly seven years Biuce 1 first addressed a Radical Association in WestmiBSter . Then a small cockloft would have held us all , and now we are full both in an 4 but I was much pleased with the portion of Mr . Leigh ' s speech which 1 heard , and will enter a little more into the details of the subject . These men call themselves great philanthropists ; they alone have bowels of compassion for the poor ; they yearn over your miseries , and are anxious to give you cheap food ; but you know , my friendB , that you cannot have more of a cat than the cat ; and her skin ; you cannot have the big cake , if they flist eat it for yon . Look at the fortunea of Arfcwright arid others acquired by this system of machinery . Da not mistake me . No one admires the man who is the maker

      of bis own fortune more than I *>• Ha is infinitely better than the fool who is bam with a silver Spoon in his month ; but look at Arkwright , taken from his lathering box when he conld ^ scarcely put ai wig in his window until he first borrowed the money , and now he is trorth , they say , thirteen mlHioiw of money . Bat , suppose this to be an exaggeration , say it is only £ 5 , 000 , 000 , and My ttot he employed one thousand hands in creating this wealth , would not £ 1 , 000 , 000 for himself be a large share ? would not this be a sufficiency for his outlayotcapital ? this i * onld » Uow £ 4 , 00 « to each ot his workmeiv , or £ 200 a year for ever to- those who had created thia mighty mass of wealth , and would allow to Arkwoght , vrho had only been a speculator in their labour ¦ gSO- . WO a year for ever . Would not this be a mor » . f qnitable distribution thaBi toat Arkwxight should . i !> . gwaent have U »

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      £ 200 , 000 a year , while his poor labourers are many of them enduring the pangs of starvation in cells of that cold-blooded system of tyranny , a Poor Law Bastile ? I do not eome here to : make a speech , I aa going to talk to yoa to show you to yourselves in the mirror of nature . I tell you that the Reform Bill was a BtruirgJe , with which you had no counectien , it was a battle between the lords of machinery and the landed aristocracy , to see to which of their battledors you ( the Bhuttlecock ) Bbeuld be handed over . The miUocrat told the aristocrat that he had got too much out of you , and he must 1 st him have a squeeze . You have seen these men derive benefits from that measure , but I aak

      you where is your . share ? Look at these men who now ask you to assist theui in the repeat of the Cora Laws , did they not make their money by the present Cora Laws , which tkey oow seek to destroy ? did not the majority once Inhibit the cellars ? were they not glad when they leached the cottage ? but now they have got into the mansion they overlook , they pretend Beyer to know aught of the cottage ; they now denounce the landed aristocracy , yet when they have accumalated £ 100 , 000 , what is the first thing they do with it ? why > invest it in land . There is Brown , % l Leeds , has just given £ 100 , 000 for an estate { Marshall has just given £ 50 , 000 with hia BiBter , to Lord Monteagle , and so on through the piece . We have at present three ocracies ; the sodocrncy , the smokeocracy , and the

      moBocracy . I have been a sporting man though never a gambler , and I would bat the mobocracy against the other two , one up and the other down ; or if they both unite I would bet the mobocracy against them ; both at once . These Repealers never thougUt of Chartism , until there was a majerity of 123 against them . They want to bed anti-ChartifctB on Wcdneaday night , and rose Chartists on Thursday morning ; , like the man at the time of the Chtbolic Emancipation Bill , who went to bed a sound ^ Protestailt , and rose In the morning a thorough Catholic ; but they siy they were always of Cliartisi ; principles . No thanks to them , they can't deny them , but they don't like the name . Is not Ckartism as good a name as Wbiggery ? Do they like Russell ' s Purge ? They put me in mind of Brotherton , ia the

      House : Cobden , he said , never had a mill in his life ; it was a print-wprk-rthoy did ' nt call it a mill . Like the constable who went to : apprehend an Irishman , arid asked him ; if his name was not Thomas Miran ? M No , faith , it was not ;; it was Tom Miran" —( loud laughter . ) These fellows will grins you all but the name . But , first , they want to get rid of Feargus ; but ' you never saw a leeck stick so to a wound as 1 . . will ' stick ta these fellows . When I was in Birmingham the other night I gave them Chartism to their heart ' s content I remember the story of an Irish maiden lady , who had a red cat . She was never married , and therefore was very fond of the cat ; but asking Molly one day Where the red jug was , "Oh , marm , the divil of a cat has broke it , bad luck to her . " Weil , a few days passed .

      and the blue jug was aske * for ; " Plase * yer Ladyship , and the divil of a cat has broken that ; too . " So the devil of a cat was given to a neighbour . Presently , the black tea-pot was broken , and again Molly swore "it was the ould divil come back again . " Sopups was condemned to be killed , the poor brute ; but , faith , this was not enough- ¦ Thecreani-ju { was brokeri , and Molly again swore that " cats had niuelivea , and the divil of the cat had come down the chimney , and broke the crame-ju 3 ^—( laughter . ) They want to get rid of Feargus . l ^ ow , I am the red cat If they givemeto a neighbour , I shall come back ; if they kill me , I shall come down the chimney ; and if I dpVnot , they will have another bull in the china ehop , for no power nnder heaven can ever drive the Charter from your mirids- ^ -

      Bo force can ever weaken your attachment to its principles- You have tho 658 Members making long speeches in the House of Commons , which scarce a working man thinks it worth while to read . Coming down to this house I saw many carcases of meat , and I said that is good ; but of what use is tkat when class legislation deprives you of the means of purchasing them ? Where will you look to for a remedy for this ? Will you look to the : Whigs ? They have as many principles as a camelioh has colours . Will you look to the " new move" men , with their complete and manhood suffrage ? they call it complete suffrage . They will give you all except the abolition of the Property Qualification clause , arid the Payment of Members . I ciill this no Suffrage at all ; it is like

      giving a child a clasp-knife , which you are sure it cannot open . Suppose all the people of Westminsttr were oollected oritsida this '\ wiedow to elect Members ' .-to Parliament J and supposo Ruffy Ridley or Leigh to be candidates , and four others , you might be desirous of electing BuOfy or Laigh , their conduct having entitled theriv to your confidence or respect , but this you could not do ; they are not men of property , so you must , per force , take one out of tho other four , or not vote at all ; and even if you could return the man of your choice , say Ruffy , if you did not pay hint he must starve , unless , like the Scotsman who would not pay his servant , but sent him to tho larder , to the banker , & « ., to pay hiiriself , until he soon got the upper hand of his master . This is the way with the

      present system . You do not pay them , \ but they pay themsfelvep . Look around at , your London shops , with their windows costing ^ i 5 or £ 16 each , and you would see that they have empty shops and warehouses , although they contrive to make a Splendid show in their windows , and yet they have been ao blind as to support those whose interest is the moat diametrically opposed to their own . Their interest arid that of the manufacturet ia of an oppqsits and cosnicting character . We all admit the benefits of improvements in machinery , yet we see that we ; have derived no benefit from theiri . We see that the millocracy have increased iri wealth , because all tho labour has been done by co d machinery . VVe , do not wish' to put a stop to machinery—we desire to turn it to man ' s benefit , and not to his

      deatructlon ; We know that if each man ' s share went into each , man ' s pocket we should soon be enabled to say to them , yoa may keep your ill-gotten plunder—we have the vote , and will Speedily render ourselves independent of you They remind me of th 6 story of the American Captain , who having taken a vessel , offered to divide with bis mate a cask of brimstone , telling him he meant to give him equal justice ; so breaking the brimstone into two very unequal shares ; asking him to take his choice , bnt he should have the one he held , which of course was the largest . Thus it is : they give us the blarney , but secure all the substantial comforts to themselves . These men say to » s , now we will give you the Charter ; bat they mean tbeir Charter , not our Charter . What " would bo the result of our Charter 1

      Why , in the morning , ' we would repeal the infernal Poor Law Bill ; at noon we would charter a ship to bring back Frcst , Williams , Jones , and others ; and at night , we would remove every restriction upon trade with the whole world , and would take care : that the benefits flowed into the proper channel . The poor pitiful devils who are talking of cheap bread dpnt pull the right cord —lika Paganini , they play only on one string . There had ought to be a commission of lunacy issued against them ; they talk of admitting about £ 4 . 000 000 worth of foreign corn , but say not a word of the £ 10 , 000 , 000 abstracted by the church . Let them take £ 4 , 600 , 000 off that , or if that is not enough , let them take all the £ 10 , 000 , 000 , and we should then have a truly good and independent clergy . During these few riiontns a large independent clergy . During these few riiontns a large

      house in Derby had reduced tho wages of their bobbin net weavers at the rate of £ 40 in the year ; they employ eighty men ; here is a Saving of £ 3 . 200 a year , enough surely to compensate them for cheap bread . Suppose the Corn Laws repealed to-morrow , and that we should be enabled to beat the slaves in their own niarket ; we could bring the raw material from America , manufacture it , pay cost of insurance , freight , and risk , and Bell it cheaper than they could manufacture the goods at home . Is not this givig as much British labour away as ia equal to the charge of the freight , insurance , and risk . Ayo , but say the manufacturers , our machinery w | U enable us to beat the whole world . I admit it , but at the same time it has enabled them to beat the labourer

      equally effects you as those it has displaced . If the shopkeepers have Io 3 t their consumers ; if they cant sell , they dont want you to make for them . Losk at Nelson ' s Monument and the Houses of Parliament ; if there was enough to do in the provinces , bould ( Jrissell and Peto get these rapscallions to supply the places of those honest men now on strike . The same principle applies to every trade . I lay it down as a principle of political economy , that if 10 , 000 men could do all the work in a ratio of five niHes , and 3009 men were forced into that market , that it wbiold be better to pay those 3000 men liberal wages to do nothing , than allow them to come into the market and constitute a , reserve for the masters to fail back upon . This caused the legislature to put down the TradeB * Unions at the time of the

      Dorchester laboiirew . They wish for competition , that they may glut the market , and bring you to their terms . At the taiJors' meeting on Monday riight , which was the most important ever held in London , although the press scarcely noticed it;—if it had been a Corn Law met ting they would have had six columns of it . If we beat them , we perhaps get a few lines , but if they b : at us , which , thank God , is seldom , they have two columns of it Well , at the tailors' meeting , the Chairriian Said that the Trades' Unions had not answered the purpose fo » which they were intended , arid why is it ? Why for want of the Charter ; but rather than give this of their free will , they wonld cause the country to tun with blood ; they know they have made millions from not having the Charter , arid that if

      wehaditthey could only have thoir fair Bhat * . I ^ evet was London so up to jttie mark . I have told them in the conritry that they may go to alt ep , and that London will carry the Charter . iNever were the shopkeeiiers so bad off ; they will soon be forced from necessity to join us ; they willno lODger be gulled by ^ ie Whig plea that we are too igriorant . If we are top ignorant to asaiat ourselves , we are too fgnorarit to assist them ; we should lead them astray ; sorely they would not unite with madmen . We want the Charter for them and pur-^ ve » , ^ -like the oW woman arid the hot plaUier . She had an oppression of the heart , and the doctor gave her

      a sheep skin plaister , and calling a few weeks after , he asked whether it had done her good . "Oh yes , Sir , it has done me good , and Tim good too . " " How , " says the doctor , "ttait it done Tim good . "" Why ; tte plaister cured me arid then raade a fine seat to Tim ' s breeehes--- ( great langhter . j—We want the Charter to cure the oppressions tf our hearts , and then when it has done that it may m&ke & seat to their breeches to the House of Commons . The very ait la now redolent with Chartism , The present House of Commoria » o more represents the feelings of this , count *? , than it does those of Russia . A question affecting the interests of Rus » ia , ox tbe great wall ia China , would b « more

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      calmly and justly disenssed than the interests of the British working class . You have been told we have no union ; that : the Irish people are net with us . Do not believe it : Paddy is a shrewd fellow ; and once put him on the right scent an * nothing will shake him oft You are more dependent , living from hand to mouth ; but PadiJy is the best agitator in the world . Wheri he digs np the praties in August , he is garrisoned for six months . . It they had not stopped him he would soon have abolished tithes . I was take to the bar of my country for the . part f took in that agitatioc . Is it to be endured that the Irbh people should pay a parson six days in the week to denounce taem on the sevehttr ? Bat how will they abolish thia , save by giyibgthe vote to the Catholic man instead of the Protestant land . | ttr . O'Connor then ably advocated a Repeal of the union with Ireland , and shewed rip the vices of oar

      church and local establishments . He thea proved to the satisfaction of hia audience that there waa no necessity for emigration or importation of foreign corn if our land was properly cultivated . Give us the Charter , and England wonld support a poi'ulatlon ef fifty millions with greater ease than She now supportde twentyrsix raillfons . He coald scarcely tell them the pride and pleasure with which he contemplated them . In the provinces , where he was personally more known ^ he designated them his children , and he eould assura them th ^ t he- had many grey-haired chlidrea too , some old enough to be his grandfathers but ueve * a father loved his children dearer thin he loved tfee working classes ; he had stetpped with them , after their meetings were over , fill two ' , or three o ' clock fn the morning , arid never did he ^ hear an immoral word come from their lips ; yet he had often been compelled to leave the

      company of the rich and powerful from disgust at the unmanl conversation . : And yet these were the men who were entrusted with power , to the exclusion of the moral and the'industrious . Mr . OConnor concluded by proinising the hundreds oh the outeide to attend an outdoor meeting on tho first convenient occasion , and Sat down loudly-cheered . ; The resolutien was then unanimously carried-. Mr . Brqwn moved and Mr . Whaley seconded the adoption ef the National Petition , which was carried without a dissentient . . ' ¦ ¦

      Mr . O'CONNen moved and Mr . Ridlet seconded a vote of thanks to the Chairman , and the meeting broke np with the usual ChaitUt honours . V

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      From the London Gazette of Friday , March 4 . ' ; ' ¦ " . - . ¦ . ¦ . ' - ' ¦ '¦ BANKaOPTS . ' ¦/ . ; : ¦¦ . ¦ - -A . Girdiner Boggs , William Taylor , and William Shaud , Great ¦ Winchesfcr-street , merchants , to surrender March 15 . April 15 , at eleven o ' clock , at the Bankrupts' Court : solicitors Messrs . Si » pson arid Cobb , Austiufriars ; official assignee , Mr . Pennell , Basingball-street . ' ¦ ' :.. - ; . - ¦ ¦ : . ¦ . - ' : / : ¦]¦ '" . ' : '" . ¦' ;¦ ¦ - ' - . ; ¦ ¦¦ . Samuel Fox Stephens , Old Broa ^ -street , bill-broker , March li , » at half-past eleven o ^ lcck , April 15 * at twelve , at the Bankrupts' Court : eolicitor , Mr . Cox , Pinner ' e-hall , OJd Broad-streety official assignee , Mr . Belcher . / ' ¦ . ¦ . - •• ¦ - ' . ¦ ' -. ¦¦ ¦ ¦ : " ¦ .: . / ¦ ¦'¦ . ¦ ¦

      WiHiam Nathan Hunt , Watling-street . stationer , March 14 , at two o ' clock , April 15 , at eleven , at the Binkrupts' Court : solicitor , Mr . Wooller ; Backlersbury ; official assignee , Mr . Graham , Basinghallstreet ' ¦ ,. ¦¦¦' : ¦>¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ .- ' '¦' :. : ¦ :: ;¦ ¦ . ¦ .., ; . " ¦ - . ¦¦ . : ¦ . ¦ - . ¦" Richard Walrand Forge , BillirigBgate . ' Lower Thamesstreet , fish salesman , March 11 , at one o ' clock ; April 15 , at eleven , at the Bankrupts' Court : Solicitor , Mr . Cox , Siza-lane ; official assignee , -MW Johnson , Basinshall-street .- : ' - ¦ ¦¦' : ?/ r . [ - . ;; > , : ¦ ¦ : ; - ¦ : . >¦ "¦ . Jamea JTfxan , Great Portland-street , Oxford-streefc , upholsterer , March 10 , at twelve o ' clock , April 15 , at eleven , at the Bankrupts' Court : Bolicitor , Mr . Tato , Basirighall-street ; official assignee , Mr . Edwards , Frederick ' s-place , Old Jewry . ; :

      John Wright , Birrainghaai , cabinet-maker , March 18 , at two o ' clock , April 15 , at twelvp , at the Waterloo-rooms , Birmingham : sblicitor , Mr . White ! ouse , Cbancery-lanp . ' ¦ ; ¦ ' ;¦¦ ¦ " '' ' ' . ' .- .. ' ' . ¦'' '' . .. ¦ ¦ . - ^ ' . ¦ ¦ - ¦ . • ¦ .-. ¦ . John Critchw'ley , Liverppol , bricklayer , March 17 , April 15 , at two o ' clock , at the Clarendon-rooms , Liverpool : solicitora ,: Messrp . Sfaarpe , Field , and Jackson , Bedford-row ; and Mr . Banner . Liverpool . Charles Henry Webb , For ^ bridge , StafiFordshire , corndeaitr , March 1 C , at one o ' clock , April 15 , at twelve , at the Swan Inn . Stafford : sblicttors , Messrs . Clowes and Wediafce , King * Bsnch Walk , Teuiple ; and Messrs . Hiern and Ward , Stafford .

      John Mptson Rigden , Winghara , Kent , maltster , March 32 , April 15 ; at twelve o ' clock , at the Guildhall , Canterbury : solicitors , Messrs , JBgari , Waterman , and Wright , Essex-strett , Strand- and Messrs . Curttia and Kingaford , Canterbury . ; .-. • . C ' Edward Davis , Bath , architect , March 15 , April IS , at tweivci o ' clock , at the White Hart inn , Bath : solicitors , > Mr . Frowd , Essex-street ^ Strand ; and Messrs . Crutwell arid Sons / Bath . James Birch Partridge , Birmingham , dealer in Birmingham ware , March 14 , at twelve o ' clock , April 15 , at eleven , at the Waterloo-room ? , Biraingham ; eolfcitora , Mr * Chaplin , Gray " s-inn-square ; and Mr . Hanison , Birmingham . ; : ' ; : "¦¦¦ - '¦ ' : ~[ : ; ' ¦ ' ¦ ' ^ :

      Thomas Baldwin , Worcester , inn-keeper , March 11 , April 15 , at eleven o ' clock , at the Packhorse Inn , Worc * siei- solicitors , Mr . Lett , Bartlett ' s-buildings , Hplbora ; and Mr . Finch , Worcester . '¦ .. Henry Harrison , Manchester , and Old Broad-street , London , commission-agent , March . Iff , ; Apim 5 , a { tea o ' clock , at the Commissioners ' -rooms , Manchester : solicitors , Mr . Scott , Lfacoln ' a-irin-Selds ; and Mft MprriH > Manchester . •/ . " :, ; " : ;; ' : ¦¦; . '• ' ;; ; . < ; . , v : ' i ; : ' : - : > ' ¦ " ¦ ¦ William SJater ^ Whitegate , Cheshire , banker , March 16 . April 15 , at two o ' cldck , at the Cf&rendonrroomB , Liverpool : solicitors , Mr . Cole , Adelphi-terrace , Strand ; andMr . Saxori , Northwich . : v > Dariiel Antrobua , Great Budworth , Cheshire , saltmerchant , March 16 , April 15 , at brie o'clpck , at the Clarendou-rooms , Liverpool : solicitors , Mr . Cole , Adelphi-terrace , Strand : and Mr . Saxon , Northwicb .

      PARTNERSHIPSDISSOLVED . M . Knowlea and Cp ., Higher Booths , Lancashire , calico-printew . T . Blackburnb and Cp ., Liverpool , ale and porter dealers . T . Thompson and J . Fanset , Liverpool , painters . J . Tipton and W . Jetsbn , Manchester , patterri-card-makers . C Jones , J . Gray , and R . J . Keen , Liverpool , opticians ; as far as regards ¦' ¦ p . Jone ? . J . Marsland and Co ., Manchester , cotton merchants . Taylor and Greenwood , Sheffield , joinere . Scateherd , Hirst , and Co ., Huddersfield , fancy cloth-manufacturers ; so far as regards J . Hirst , A . Sykea , and J . Hirar . ' ' . L - '¦ •¦ ... ¦ : ¦ ¦ " •¦ ., - ¦ . ' ¦ '; " v ¦ . - ¦ ¦ .

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      From the Gazette of Tuesday , March 8 . ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦•¦¦ . ' baNKB-PPIS ..- '¦ ¦ . .. /• ¦ ;• '¦ ' ¦¦ - ¦ ¦ : ¦ ' ' EFz * Hayes , picture-dealer , Pickett-strBet , Strand , to surrender March 22 , at half-past eleven , and April 19 , at two , at the Cdurt of Bankruptcy . Alsager , Birchin-lane , official assignee ; Temple and' Bonner , Fnrniyars'Inn . . ; v - -- ;' ; ¦• ¦ ¦ . ' ¦ "';¦ .. '¦ ¦; . . : ¦ ¦ . '• . i-. ¦ - '¦ .-GsorgeRobertEon , John GarloWj and John Alexander , ship-chandlers , Liverpool , March 19 , and April 19 , at one , at the Ciarendpn Rooms , LiverpooL Solicitors , Duncan and- Radciiffe ,. Liverpool ; Adlington , Gregory , Faulkner , and Follett , Bedfordrow . ; .: ' •;¦ ¦ ' ¦' - '¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ " .- . /¦ . ' ;• ¦ : ' \ ' \ ' y . ¦ ' , ' ; : ;¦ . ' . ¦ - " .-James Alexander , dealer and chapman , Newcastleupori-Tyne , April 4 , at eleven ,: and April 19 , at the Bankrupt Commission-room , Royal Arcade , Newcastla npon-Tyne . Solicitor , Harlc , Newcastle-upon-Tyne . \/ - - ' . ; . ; :- :: ;¦ ¦ '¦¦ . - . - . : . ' - ' ¦ '' - ¦; ; . ;¦¦ ¦ .,: • " ;¦ ' . ' ¦"' ; .

      Ann Leach , John Leach , and James Leach , builders . Brick-lane , Spitaiaelds ; March 18 , at one , and April 19 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy . Lackington , Official assignee , ; Coleman-street-buildiDgs ; solicitors , Dickson and Overbury , Frederick ' s-placo , Old Jewry . . Richard Lbxbarii , printer , Wigan , March 24 , and April 19 , at the Swan Inn , Bolton-le-Moors . Solicitors , Armstrong , Staple-inn , London ; Lord and Ackerley , Wigan . ' ¦' .. ; ¦ -. ' ' , ¦ ¦ ,. : : ¦ ¦ . : \ : -: : . \ . ¦ ¦ . ¦ . ' ¦ ¦ ¦ " ¦ - . ' ¦ . ' , '¦ ¦' ¦ . "' ¦ Samuel Lewis Xazims , coach proprietor , jermynstreet , St . James ' s , March 17 , at eleven , and April 19 , at balf-pasVonfl , at the Court ot RiaXinptcy . Solicitors , Whitmore , Bkairighall-street , official assignee , Gilbert , Craven-street , ' Strand . ¦ ¦ ' - ' . . . ' , ¦ ¦; . " ' ;' ' ^ '" : _ .. '¦ ' : . - . '¦ . " ! .. " , . ; . Thomas Stephenson , coach-maker , Manchester , March 24 , at ten , and April 19 , at two , at the Cpramissionera ' - roornis , Manchester . Solicitors , WilloMghby and Jaquet , Clifford ' s Inn , Lpndon Copper and Wray * Manchester .: ' : ' - ¦ - > ' ¦¦ : ¦ . ' -V ¦' /¦ ¦' . '' ¦ ¦ '¦ . ¦ ¦ : " " ¦ ' ' ¦ . ¦ ... ¦ ¦

      William Walker and Jarries Gray , clofcb manufacturers , Leeds , March 22 , at twelve , arid April 19 , at ten , at the Commissioners-rooms , Leeds . Solicitors , Wilson , Southampton-Btreet , Bloomsbury-aiuare , London ; Payne , Eddison , and Ford , Lseds . Thoinaa Gales , William John Gaest , ' Jphn Foreter Nalsby , and Matthew Kirtley , Bhip-buUdeni ; March 16 , at twelve , and April 19 , at elewn , at the Bridge Hotel , Bishop Wearmouth . -Solicitors , Bell , Brodriefc , and Bell , Bow Churchward , Cheapside , LoBdori ; Wilson , Sunderland . ¦ - '"¦¦ ; ¦ . : -- ' '

      Jd 8 « ph Carlisle , draper , Bury , Laricashire , March . 24 , and April 18 , at twelve , at the Cummlssidner '* - rponis , Swan Inn , Bolton-le-Moors , Lancachire . SoiicU tors , Clarke and Medcalf , Lincoln's Inn . fields , London ; Grandy , Buryi LaECasbire . William Hplmes . silk gauze manufacturer , Fridaystreet , Cheapside , London , March 18 , at one , and April 19 , at eleven , at the Cpurt pf Bankrnptcjr . Greeo , Aldermanbury , official assignee ; selicitors , Reed sad Shaw , Friday-street , Cheapside . ; . V Edward Mullinger , ironmong « r , Southampton , March 26 , at three , arid April 19 , at four , at the Star Hotel . Southampton . Solicitors , Edward Amis Chaplain , Gray ' s-inn-sqnare , Middlesex ; Stubbs and Rollings , Birmingham . : - -. -- .. : ¦ \ ; - . - ¦' .: ; . V \ -- ' ::: ¦ ¦ : ;; .. ' -. ¦ ¦ ¦' ¦ ¦ ' . " ' . '

      William Charnock , plumber , Albion terrace , Wandsworth-road , Surrey , March 22 and April 19 , at eleven , at the Court ef Bankruptcy . Grpom , Abchnrch-lane . offlrial assignee ; solicitor , Bebb , Argyll-street , Regent street . ¦ " " '" : ' - ' ; '¦ ' - ¦ ¦' - ¦ ¦ ¦ . . ' '" r r . ,. '¦ ' ' . -y . " ; ¦ - •" ;• ; / ' - Geerge Annesley Thompson and Benjamin James Thompson , itonfonnderi , Wylam , Nprthumberland , March 31 , and April 19 , at eleven , at the Bankrupt Commission-room , Newcaatte-upon-Tyne . Solicitors , Meggiaon , Pringle , and ManUty , King ' s-road . Baoford row , London ; Brokett and PbiUipson , Newcaatle upoa-Tyne .: "¦ ' ¦¦ : ¦'¦ ¦ . . ' . •¦' . : / :: [ , ¦ ¦ ' ; ' ^ . --.. " ¦¦ : I ' '¦¦ ' ' : :- '¦ ¦' ' . ¦ ' ¦¦' ¦ ¦ : - ¦ ¦ y' - ¦' ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦' ¦ - ¦ ' ' ¦ ''¦' . ' . ¦"¦ ¦''¦" . ¦ .. ' ' : " ¦

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      THE STONE MASONS ON SrRIKE , FROM THB HEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT , AND NELSON 3 MOMJMENT , LONDON , AND THE WOOLWICH DOCKYARD , To the Public and the Trades of Great Britain and Ireland . " Why should we not institute a system of action with regard to each other , based on those immutable principles of justice and equality which alone are capable of making man as happy as he is mighty ?"

      Brethren , —Since we hut addressed yoa another fortnight has been added to the previously long periPd pf pur straggle of " right a ? ainst might "—an effort of the oppressed to annihilate the cruelly exercised power of the oppressor—and during which your patriotic exertions and generous aid has enabled us to sustain our ranks unbroken ; still presenting a stea < ly and unflinching front to tha combined attacks of the commen enemies of " our order . " We cannot speak to any very manifest material alteration haviog taken place In our position in London and Woolwich since we last addressed yru , further than the proceedings of the " unholy alliance" of wealth and power combined against us , ao far as we can comprehend them , appear extremely pusillanimous and vacillating—circumstances which we can only understand as manifesjations of a lingering positior .

      Notwithstanding the fine open weather we have been favoured with , comparatively speaking , little , very little progress is perceivable at the Houses of Parliament , and a considerable number of those who took onr members' places , from inability or otherwise , have left both the works and the locality , and which many of those who gave them shelter and credit whilst they were endeavouring to perpetuate cruel inhumanity have much reason to know . We are sorry , however , here to state , that another individual , after having battled with us so many weeks , has turned traitor , commencing work at the Houses on Monday morning , thus making tbrae , out of the two hundred and thirty who turned out from that building , that have betrayed us , during the long period of twenty four weekp .

      At the monument no perceivable difference has taken place . Respecting these works , aparagraph , of which tbe following is a verbatim copy , has gone the round of the metropolitan press : — •« The projected Nelson column in Trafaljar-square is not expected to be completed during the present year , owing to the difficulty of procuring Haytor iDirtmcnth ) granite . " This is a sad contrast with the exulting promulgations of this same press only a short time since , nahiely , "That the contractors for these works have so far surmounted the obstacles the disafFccted rebel masons had thrown in their way , that by midHiuimer all evidences of its having been retarded would have disappeared . "

      At Woolvrich the change is very slight ; the ' knobsticks , " in greater or less numbers , continue te leave . The late managing foreman , incapable longer to submit himself the tool oi Griaseill and Peto , or procure from those they had placed under his superintendence either the qnantity or quality of work required from them , has also l « f c the employment We have just received intimation that at Penryn , in Cornwall , our members have completely succeededthat they have received notice to return to their usual employment ; G . and P . ' a orders being wholly abandoned .

      At Plymouth and Dnrtmoor the number of turnouts are considerably reduced by their obtaining other employment Little other change has transpired here , excepting that , for the want of tfficient bauds , stone has been shipped for London in tho same rude form in which nature had shaped it Mr . Johnson has also engaged a number pf agricnltural and other labourers , unto whom he is paying twelve shillings p « week , determined , as he asserts , to make them " something in the stone way , "—and some-thing no doubt it would be . The entire number now on . turnout i « about two hundred and thirty , all of whom are as btedfatt and determined as ever not to relinquish a single inch of the position they have taken , whatever further sacrifice or privations they may have to endure : — " Impelled by tyrant ' s goading deeds , To wage a patriot war for freedom ' s rights . "

      It having been whispered in some quarters , or at least , so we have been informed , that in some of our former addresses we have treated on matters foreign to tbe subject of our strike , and w > . ich have given offence , we havs this week been induced to place a question at the head of our report , and upon which , while we repudiate all desire to enter into a controversy , onr simple object being to remove any erroneous impressions , and conciliate any offence that might have occurred , we beg leave to eay a few word ? . All most be aware , that we have been and continue engaged ia a severe and arduous rttuggle—a struggle witbont a parallel in the history of strikes , and that in passing through this ordeal of tribulation in defence of the common rights of man , we have suffered and continue to suffer extreme privations .

      Poverty is said to be the parent of invention , and so is the force of circumstances the lever which compels men to adopt opinions aud practices previously held too paradoxical and impracticable . Our present position has forced upon us a consideration pf the circumstances which have so placed uswhich have inflicted upon us such an amount of privation for daring to raise our voices , and take onr stand against cruelties the most consummate and contumelies unbearable , and the only conclusion we can come to ia , that"inequality of labour and unequal exchanges produces inequality of wealth , which , through the medium of class legislation , has produced inequality of power , is the cause of our present poverty ; a system which , in the shape of profits and interests , robs , absolutely robs , the producing classes of the fruits oLthelr hard emaciating toil , and then taunts , derides , and scourges them with the golden weapons of their own manufacture .

      " A dire effect by one of nature ' s laws , Unchangeably connected with its cause . " It is the cause then which we seek to destroy—a cause which has hitherto made strikes more necessary than profitable , and which will more or less harrass and coerce us , while we continue to waste our resources in desultory conflicts with its effects . Cur object , then , is to prevent any more of the productive classes from wanting their means in such conte&ts with effects—to blend together their energies , their talent , and their means , in one confederated phalanx . As we have before stated , the nobility , the capitalist , and , in fact , the entire of the monied classes act and execute in a body , for the advancement of their own interest—the whole amount of their disagreement being which party should pocket the largest share of our produce . Nothing less than a complete union of all the working classes can destroy their mischievous doiDgs , and it is this necessity we have been endeavouring to awaken in their minds .

      " To cease tolick the foot that treads as down , Or heap the load of pride that buries us . " We conclude by a quotation from Dr . Channing—no very humble authority—in favour of the principles we have been advocating -.- — "The objection under consideration is very much a repetition of tbe old doctrine , that what has been must be ; that the fut « re is always to repeat the past , 3 nd society to tread for ever in the beaten path . But can anything be plainer , than that tbe present condition of tbe world is peculiar—unprecedented—that new powers and new principles are at work—that the application of science to art is accomplishing a stupendous revolution —that the condition of the labourer is in many places greatly improved , and his intellectual aids increasedthat abuses once thought essential to society , and which

      seemed entwined with all its fibres , have been removed ? Do the mass of men etind where they did a few centnries ago ? And do not new circumstances , if they make us fearful , at the same time keep us from despair ? The future , be it what it may , will sot resemble the past The present has new elements which mast work oat weal or woe . We have no right then , on the ground of the immutableness of human affairs , to quench as far as we have power , the hope of social progress . " He saya again , " That system of labour which asps the health , and shortens life , and famishes intellect , needs and must receive great modification , " and this can only be effected by cordial un ' on and co-operation , and which we hope at no distant period will be In full practice amongst the working classes of this and every other part of the world .

      With sincere gratitude for tbe generous manner in which we have been aided , and with a hope that we shall merit a continuance of your confidence daring the brief space of time we may longer need it , We subscribe ourselves , gratefully yours , The Masons' societt , Thomas Shortt , Secretary March 2 nd , 1842 .

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      . THE NORTHERN JTAR . \ - \ ' v ^ iS ^ S ^ '

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 12, 1842, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1152/page/3/