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    • « &)t Csiflritum *f <£ng;Ian& OsUtegtCott." •'"Lain grind the poor,, and rich man rule the law." — ' ' - _ — '
    • MEETINGS IN FAVOUR OF THE TEN HOURS BILL. AND AGAINST THE ATROCIOUS MASTERS AND SERVANTS' BILL.
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      « &)T Csiflritum *F ≪£Ng;Ian& Osutegtcott." •'"Lain Grind The Poor,, And Rich Man Rule The Law." — ' ' - _ — '

      « & ) t Csiflritum * f < £ ng ; Ian& OsUtegtCott . " •' "Lain grind the poor ,, and rich man rule the law . " — ' ' - _ — '

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      Scicide raox Des * it ciicm . —A protracted inquiry took P&ce on Satardsy , before Mr . Wakley , M . P ., sBd » most respectable Jury , at the Xcradon TJniverstj College Hospital , on the body of Charles Child , j £ Bd 42 . Bobert Jenkins , of Bsndolph-street , C&mden Town , old , that between one and two o ' clock in the afternoon cf Wednesday , th « Srd Instant , whilst -walking across the feM which leads to the Regent ' s Canal , at the end of Prebend-street , ha discovered the body of a man lying in a ditch . On approaching nearer he » aw that the man was lying on his face , and that the spot-where be lay was surrounded by blood . A large shoemaker ' * knife covered with blood was 3 jing-by bis aide . Witness turned binr . over and then found that he had cut tis throat , bat , although insensible , he was still alive . Witness ran for file police , who took deceased to the residence of Mr . Post , the surgeon , and thence he was removed immediately to the hospital .

      Thomas lister said , tbe deceased , together with bis wifa and two -. children , occupied a kitcbea in his bouse , Hi , Mortimer-market . Witness was a turner , tsd deceased bad for some moaths past been employed tjhim at turning the wheel . He had 20 * . a-week when in full work , bat his average wages for some wests had not been more than 63 or 7 s , out of -which be bad to rapport his famUy and pay Is 9 d per week rent He had never heard deceased complain of want , although his wife had frequently done so . Mr . Henry Lee , one of the surgeons to the hospital , yroved the admission of deceased on the 3 d inst ., with tvo seven cuts in the throat . He was sensible to the lut , and frequently declared that the state of poverty and starvation to ¦ which be tad been reduced , and the refusal of the parish to afbrd him out-door relief were ths casse of his destroj ing himself . -

      Eleanor Child , the wife of the deceased , with a child eighteen months old in b * r anxs , and whoss appearance betokened real privations , said , that when deceased left home on the naming he committed the act she had so knowledge where he was going . They bad been for some time in ths deepest distress , and , in consequence , deceased , about four months ago , made an attempt on his life , but-was prevented . She had since Christmas applied to the authorities of St . Pancras ' s workhouse for relkf , and all she could get was an occasooBsl loaf of bread . Mr . Stewart , one of the relieving officers of St Pancras , stated that an offer had been made to the famSy to come into the house , bat they had refused to accept it On the morning of the Srd instant the deceased came to the werkhonse and asked for a loaf of bread , eying that that was all he wanted , as he had jot a situation to go to in the morning , and witness accordingly gave him a bread ticket At that time there was an order at the . workhouse gate for their admission into the noose if they chose to go in .

      The Coroner remarked , that at that moment the poor wemsn and her child were suffering from starvation _; and it was extraordiaarv that people would soone * starve than go into a workkonse . ( Addressing the wife of fee deceased ]—What wat your objection to go into the workhouse ? Thepoor woman burst into into tears and said that she was afraid of going into the -workhouse , as ahe knew that If she did she would be separated from b « ebSdren . The order for their admission was given on tie 91 hof Jan . list , bnt they had tried to get en ever in "" without going to the workhouse .

      The Coroner { addressing Mr . Stewart ) Here is ano-j ther specimen of thefeeling of horror entertained by the ; poor of tost workhouse . They seem to have to great a horror of it , that they would sooner starve th « n become ¦ sn TnmatB there . . ] Mrs . Child , is answer to a question by the Coroner ,: said ahe had so means whatever of barring her has-, band .: All she had in the world was S 3 7 d , which was ! ost of 3 s . and two loaves ahe bad received from the ! vorkbooseaineB this occurrence . ! The Conner said , they could only come to one con-j dorian , and that -was that deceased had committed the j aci himself whilst in an unsound and distracted state : of mind , from destitution and want . He was glad ] that a jury of rate-payers in St . Pancras bad beard the j eridenee in this distressing ease . Here was a man who ! on his death-bed had declared that he was induced to <

      eomnnS aelf-destroetion solely from want and starvation , i and yet at ths same time the doors of bis parish w « rk- ; houserwere open to him . He had selected the dread- fnl alternative of committing suicide , nther th » n gee j Mi family and himself immured .-within the -walls of j tfrt workhouse . It certainly was a lamentable state of i society , and poverty had arrived at such a pitch in this ; sonntry that it was only necessary now to look at the \ faces of the poor in order to see what was the matter . with them . He { the Caronert maea feared that it mr I too fstqaa&Qy the ease that whilst the Rally deserving , though quiet and non-complaining poor , were suffering i all ths pangs which starvation and destitution could ; icfiiet on the hnman frame , the drunkard and thp pro- ! fiigate obtained relief . - < The Jnry , after somejdiscasrfon , returned a vardict ; " thai the deceased destroyed frirrnipif whilst in an nn- j sound and distracted state of mind , produced by destitution and want "

      The Coroner then headed a subscription with a -sovereign , and the sum of thirty-six « r » ning « was col-1 Jected and handed to the wretch *! widow , who with < tears streaming from her eyes received it She sub- j Kqaently consented , upon the promise of the overseer j Sat be would endeavour to prevent hex being separated j fromhsr children , after the interment of her hatband , to go into the workhouse . As a proof of the deep feeling of sympathy excited by ererj one present , it is worthy of remark that police constable Thomas Saarin , 98 S . who was entitled to two shillings and sixpence for bringing deceased to the hespital , added that sum to the amount already tubscribed for the pooi widow andlier children . WOKKHDtrSE TOMCBE . iMPmSOSHByi TOB Life . —We copy the following excellent letter from the Times : —

      Sib , —Of all the rigour * of the PootIaw , there i « none more poignant , none better concealed , none which hag m « t wifjt-iwBi fT > i 7 Tn ^ TPTs . ? fm tfwiT ) tftp fnrp ^"" """ " * for life which is systematically icflicted npon the disabled veterans of the plough and the loom in the union ¦ workhouses . These men , who ought in every humane commonwealth to be the objects of care and respect , are sntject to more restraint than the idon in our gaols ; for his term cannot exceed three years , -while the pauper ' s knows no limit but that of life . The grave tan alone emancipate him , silvered by age and bowed by seventy years of labour . His confinement is not indeed solitary , for it is shared-with a score or two oJ toil-worn captives , but who are as much chained to the workhouse bench as the ™*™«^ to his cell , or the galley-slave to his oar .

      Few spectacles are more sffagting than the ward of the old men . Let any one enter it , and mark amid " these wrecks of time" the BsUesBness , dejection , -and repining deep-furrowed on their brows ; their pensive uiseontent , their sad demeanour . Let him turn to the Governor of this oyastalam , and inquire how often they are allowed to go beyond the precincts , and the answer shall be , once in six -weeks , once in three aonthf , vandto some no leave— "it dtpends upon their behaviour . " This answer is ever given in a cheerful key hy the oScer , and an eulogium follows , or is ready to follow , upon the indulgences to the old men " in oui house . " W < 5 feed , shelter , and clothe our old

      peoplewe make them very comfortable . Dant you feel yourselves * o ? " turning to them ; and this appeal is s&swered by a very hypocritical assent , and a deepening of their gloom . To be sure , Sir , we is very comfortable and all that" , end a suppressed sigh tells the inquirer that these comfortable men are detained foi life—that the price of the prison nniform , and the ration of bread and gruel , is only perpetual bondage—tbatthey nsver shall again breathe Iree from Inspection and confront never see a friend without a witness , never speak their mina , never again git in the parish church , thongt they nay , in some ITnions , be laid in the churchyard , bul aotia-alL

      The reason for this unnecessary restraint is , that i t has once happened - that an old man has returned from ms leave rather " fresh , " rather less abject in hi * deportment to ther porter- or under-porter , that he has met with a Mend ,, and his friend has treated ftim to a cap of ale , perhaps a pipe , and this cup mounting to a hain long deprived ol any drink but-water , has first exhilarated , and then fuddled it The just consequence of such an enormity is his own incarceration for b * if a year , together with that of all bis brethren in affliction . l £ t -us pause and consider what an aggravation Buci

      SBentence is upon age , ache , vacuity ; what a depriva-1 tion this is to one who has always risen with the lark , laboured in the air , —who is now homeless , chadless , joyless . Let us ask what iojury could arise to the state - if the gates were thrown open by some other hand than that of death , and the eld people permitted , for & couple of bcura each day , to bask in the sun , tread the meadow , to shake off their despondency by the sight * and sounds of nature , as dear or dearer to them , from having been Enr tured in "th « country , thir th ? detaining chairman 01 inexorable guardian . " ' -

      If the parish urge the parish plea of the wear of their « ioee-and filoihing , let tb * m console / themselves with His fact that ' many of their inm » tf « ^ already detained ' pii soasrito their hard benches by the hand of disease » M ffie paljyof time , and thaiihe lives of those yrho ob ^ ja an ^ ^ jjj hbon ' . - ^ Ul " i >§; cheeied' bat not mafcga&Hy prolonged : that the-gippliahta are , of 70 , and ^ and even years of age ^ -none can be less than * reacore- —and -aV fhi »' - % xBe ef * Bfo « veo-tise iron ^ SsctmenVitaelf relente by directinfi it 4 o he treated ^ fadn ^ eocev- Bttt the Indalgence being-Ifift to the aieeaoa la word of fear ) ot Qia board , ^ i » i ^ efpreted -laeaain carccrc ^ Bb . Frcm Wi thrall , . "with your fooffjiaaua that of the member forfSBSsex . ' Trho has - P »« n nofice of a clause to this eBtctj I ahall hope the * Qpooimayi > tleogail » fceed . ; - ; : „ - - ^ - Your most obe dient savant , - ^ Tellea'Club , PaU Mall , April 11 . P .

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      SOClAi BEFORM . GKEAT ASD jiPOBIXHT MOVEXHIT IN THE tJKITED STATES . ( From the People ' s RjghtsJ WpBXiKG Meh ' s ilEETiKG . —At a meeting of the working men of the eity of New York , at Croton Hall , corner of Division-street and Bowery , on Friday evening , March 8 , to devise a remedy for the exUtinj ; oppression and distress of the working classes ; Mr . John Lawson , blacksmith , was appointed , to the chair , and Egbert S . Manning , blacksmith , secretary . The call of the meeting , as published in the first N 9 of this paper , - was read and approved . Mr . Thomas A . Davyr , printer , of Williamsbnrgh , dtlivered an interesting and eloquent address , in favour of abolishing all further traffic in the public lands , and of allowing free settlements on them by those now without land , which was received with thunders of applause .

      After which , a discussion took place as to the best means of promoting the remedial measure pointed out by Mr . Devyr , which resulted hi the adoption of a resolution offered by Mr . Manning : — That a Committee be appointed to draft an Address to the working classes , to be presented at a future meeting ; and that th « y feave pow&r to call a meeting when their labour ahall be accomplished . " The following-Committee was then appointed by the meeting : — Thomas A . Devyr , - Ellis Smally , James A . Pyne , Gnsxles E . Newman , Qaorge H . Evans , John Windt , John Bowie , Egbert Manning , WnuLiMackersie , Warden Howard , John Lawson , Daniel Foster , A . St John , Robert Beatty , jnn . On the motion of Mr . Devyr , seconded by Mr . Beatty , it was then

      resolved" That the aeveral trades of New York and vicinity be earnestly requested to send at least one delegate from each trade to assist at the deliberations of the Working Men ' s Committee appointed at this meeting . " An eloquent address was then delivered by Mr . WiHiam Lyons Mackenzie , in which , amid the enthusiastic plaudits of his audience , he followed up the views of Mr . Duvyr , recommending the freedom of the public lands as the true remedy for the increasing depression of labour ; and then the meeting adjourned . The following is the speech of Mr . Mackenzie : —

      Mr . Chairman and Gentlemen : —If those great and glorious spirits who achieved the independence of our republic , and fell asleep in death , soothed and ebeered in-the fond expectation , that the vast domain they had wrested from the iron grasp of European despotism , would remain for ever the home of a Iree , prosperous , united , ' and happy people , blessed with peace and plenty , a band x > t brothers , the benefactors of the world , affording a noble example to the older nations , and the enemies of sordid avarice and onchastened ambition ; if the men of the revolution could but behold this mammoth handbill , with an emblem of the wbeatsbeaf and implements of husbandry turned upside down , as it was displayed to-day on the walls in the streets and squares of the principal city of America ; if they could

      hear it read , -with its 242 attesting signatures , and as it has been unanimously adopted here , expressing the sense of this meeting , and te be copied into the London Tiroa and other Tory journals , and gloried in by the aristocracy ef England , as a proof of the incapacity of ™ fin for self-government , eves under the most favourable circumstances;—it seems to me , that if pain is permitted to visit even momentarily the abode of the just , the neglect of our highest duties bo apparent from its results—the nen-fulnlment of the easy conditions on which rational freedom , that Inestimable blessing , was conveyed to tie present generation , as a trust from their brave and patriotic forefathers bo fully prove * by your own too true declaration , might cause a tear to drop even in paradise . That in 1844 . sixty-eight years alter you fathers declared that independence they so' gloriously maintained , the

      mechanic and the labourer should be compelled to cry out , * ' Fellow Working-men , why is oppression confined to us ? 'Why , as our country is rising in wealth and greatness , are we sinking lower and lower In the depths of degradation and misery ? Why is our toil of no purpose to us , while it la an immutable truth that there is no way of creating wealth but by productive labor ?** is indeed to be lamented ; and if , as the call for this meeting tffirms , " -we have been robbed of the fruits of our toil by the rapacity of avarice , " let me entreat you to remember , that if you will combine with your brethren in like condition , and with the friends of American freedom throughout the Unlen , an effectual , peaceful remedy is within your reach , through the quiet operation of the ballot boxes , and the effectual check which is imposed on the wont of rulers fry our representative institutions .

      I fear lest the frankness with which I have blamed , where it appeared to be necessary , nuy offend- Such is not my wish . My Ufa has been humbly but sincerely devoted to the advocacy of free institutions ; and although , in many things , the apathy , the forgetfolness , of our people , in this the country of my choice , has been productive of great evils , and given a temporary success to trading p-lit » dans , yet 1 have a strong , an abiding trust that os the present or ar . y other great emergency , full reliance may be placed on the people . Beyond all doubt , the experiment of a ' Bepnblic has been , successful s » far as any experiment of hnman contrivance could be expected to

      be-When I think , however , on the htroism displayed by the people in war , on the privations they suffered , on the victories they achieved , I grieve to see the descendants ef the patriots who travelled barefooted after Washington through the Jeraiea to fight for a home in 1773 , in the mows of -winter , refused the alternative of a home in the wilderness in 18 * 4 , unless foi money they have no means of obtaining . If your public call truly describes the unhappy situation of many thousands of that invaluable class whose skill , perseverance , and unwearied industry ,. are proverbial , in a republic whose merchants are noted for their enterpize , -whose manufacturers are seldom excelled , and where the agricultural population are chitfly the proprietors of the land they cultivate ; if , with universal suffrage , annual elections , the ballot , paid representatives , a representation bated on population , and the absence of entails , primogeniture laws , chartered priesthood , tythes , and the pageantry of a

      monarch and feudal nobility , if , with one of the loveliest countries on tha face of the earth—the land goodly , the soil rich , the temperature -wholesome , regions sbunjdantiyfumished withthemBterialsofcommercean ' dtrada foreign and domestic , a coast seaward and inland , having nunraious harbours , sure and convenient for the mariner , and , in short , a country scarcely equalled in the world for facility of internal communication , and almost boundless hi extent , from the Pacific te tha Atlantic , capable of maintaining twenty times its present population in . comfort ; if , with these blessings , and three score years of national independence , the last thirty of which , nearly , have been passed in profound peace , the working classes of the United States are daily becoming more miserable , -wretched , and dependant , it is time that they were assembled In every city , town , and hamlet of the Union to inquire into the iauses of existing distress , and te devise meet End proper reaedisa .

      We live in an age when the inventors of machinery of various kinds have placed under the control of man , powers , which if wisely directed to serve the general welfares would add greatly to our comforts and enjoyments ; in an age In which useful knowledge , with the experience of the past , is widely diffused , and it is our happy lot that we are three thonsand miles distant from the tyrannical Governments of the old world , reform in which seems to « nany of us almost hopeless . If the Englishman is oppressed he blames the minority who have usurped the rights of his nee , but dare scarcely whisper intended revolt , for the bayonet ; " of the hireling is ever ready to defend the combined few who have their feet on the necks of the many . The EagliebHi&n anxiously desires the power- to elect

      ths lawgiver , in order that he might obtain good laws and equitable institutions . We have that power , but , like unfaithful stewards , make a most unworthy use of it ; and to our criminal apathy and neglect it is owing that thousands , aye , * tens ' of thousands in this flourishing city , which overflows with wealth , are suffering cold , hunger , poverty , and wretch- ' edntss : that vast numbers are unemployed ; that ' others are labouring for a pittance scarcely sufficient to ' keep soul and body together ; that multitudes of poor : and dependent creatures are seen marshalled in the . ranks of contending and rival factions at our civil , state , and federal eleetions ; and that oar jails , penitentiaries , i and state prisons or bastiles , are crowded with the ' victims , leas of their own crimes than our Inattention to ' the best interests of our country . " ' i

      Are not theae poor , abject , heart-broken , unfortunate ' : and miserable men , women , -and children , in our hos- > pitals " and prisons , « ur brethren and sisters , entitled to \ our -warmer affection and regard ? Are they not doubly 1 ao , if it can be shown that by the power of legislation and government , in us vested for the common good , we i are -withholding frem-them-Qieir birthright , a share of God's " earth , while ya . punish ttiem for offences , of ten the result of our usurpation of their inheritance ? ' Within thtlimlts-of the United Slates , it U not ever- ! stating the . truth to raythaV there | are twe ' thons&ndJ millions' of acres of unsettled , onculthrated land / oxr which xoany millions of our fellow men might form a 1 ha ^ px and ; fcdependejnt home , vrere it not for unjnrt laws which ^ keep these , wastes from the people -wh © arepoor ^ habmse ; . they ' are ' vomr ; or , if tfiiey iroto the

      f rentiers x » ciymzitjon and sit down with their famnies in-the ' . ans ^ eye 4 ; : wridero ' e «; . ^ consign them v >; ' the tender- meraej , of l ^ d- » pectilatorg , who , In many , if sot in moti &J * W "Sold them ' In abject dependence to the vU ^ t ^ sur ^/^ rlJapatoi a generation ^ X ; would repeal t } ie ^ aw |; fot theV * a / Ie of" the national donsainr Th ^ f ^ r | fa th ^^ f /^ nition bought it on e *—it / wajithe ' prJcept tiootL \ Tt w / noV that out pporhouses and jaila might' Re filled . with their : ehildren , that the gallant spirits bf ' the era of I 77 fi fought under the banner of " equal right * , " but to extend the empire , of Christian love and kindness to the humblest of the sons and aaoghter * of repSbUean VAmericfc "* ' Qur' ittorst evitU'Uie . monope ' . y qfJhe ' wRdrniist . ^ An ^ army of Boldlers and land-speculators , a navy at nine millions a year , a congress , and code of laws , all to prevent ths rtjmprfc » p ; people from Bitting down and improving

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      160 acres for each-family , becanse , in addition to the txpence of travelling to the frontiers , and of stocking and settling , clearing and fencing aferm , each family is not able to pay 200 sliver dollars to a collector of taxes from Washington the moment the laui is surveyed and advertised " for sale '' in a government newspaper , Is an evidence of national folly as palpable as the law monopoly , which creates a privileged priesthood of judges and lawyers , to expound 1150 , 000 folio pages of contradictory precedents borrowed from tha decisions of the minions of the Tyrannical Tudors , Stuarts , sad Guelphs , and adopted en masse as the only rules by which republicans in America are to know their most Important rights and the modes in which these rights are to be pre&erved and maintained . The questions'to nisht are plain and simple .

      1 . Wonld the entire abolition of the present monopoly of the publio lands , and allowing the people freely to enjoy them as their inheritance , effectually relieve the distress of the country t 3 . Under what pretext are these lands now withheld from the people I S . What are the most speedy and effectual means whereby the land monopoly say be put down , and the national domain thrown open exclusively to actual settlers f And , first—Will the ten millions of vacant farms of 160 acres each , if the whole of the public lands be now thrown open to free settlement , release the distress of the people T It will be the greatest step in the progress of reform .

      Because—1 st , it will give every man the chofee of labouring for another , and receiving wages , or of going upon bia own estate , or farm , and cultivate the soil as its owner ; or of going on a farm , when work is scarce , or when there is none ; or when a combination among rich capitalists , manufacturers , reduces prices almost to the starvation point ; or when Congress lowers the tariff and admits cargo upon carg * of the products of Queen Victoria's bondmen and bondwomen to destroy home manufactures , which the year before perhaps they may have warmed into a temporary prosperity .

      2 . A carpenter , schoolmaster , miller , shoemaker , tailor , bricklayer , weaver , saddler , blacksmith , hatter , cooper , millwright , waggon-maker , coppersmith , sailor , shipbuilder , cbairmaker , painter , cabinet-maker , or other mechanic , may go upon his one feundred and sixty acres , with his young wife , or with wife and family , or without a wife , trusting to get one in the west , and follow his trade and cultivate bis farm , part of the year at each occupation . As his neighbourhood gets settled he will become daily more comfortable . No rent to pay . All the land his own . 2 . Tens of thousands of persons now in poverty , or idle and embarrassed , and many of whom are driven by a sad necessity into a course of petty crime , wilt leave the cities , settle upon their lands , struggle on toward independance , educate their families , and become excellent members of community .

      4 . Colonies of friends , neighbours , and acquaint * ances , will go west , after sending one before them to select a tract suitable for them , on which they will ¦ it down , happy and prosperous . Now , the poor settler is pillaged of his last dollar , and obliged to mortgage his little clearing to the greedy usurer , while new settlers are fleeced ot their last dollar by the edicts of unsympathising congresses : by and by , his little savings will be his twn to begin the world with , and stock his farm , and thus we shall have an increased home market from the west for our domestic fabrics . The poor boys who , shoeless , and almost Bhirtiess , ' cry newspapers , or sweep crossings , will have each his farm as an inheritance . Idle labourers would emigrate and labour for themselves ,

      and enjoy the fruit of their toiL Mortgaged farmers would stll out and travel . Rents would fall in our cities . The enormous prices of land would abate in the country . Wages would rise for those who remained . Education -would be doubly useful , for it would not , as now , make poverty doubly bitter . Government would get revenue from wealthy millions who now compete one with another in reducing the price of servitude to the lowest notch . Merals would improve , and instead of legislating at Albany about State Prisons , and other petty annoyances to mechanics , you would not have one prisener for ten you now have . The very criminals would be turned lnt « easterners for our staple manufactures , and jails be to let : even the jailers wouW go to Canaan .

      i . jfougrants from other part * of the world now stop on the seaboard and often offer to work at half price , or less , that their families may live . Driven here by oppression , tfesy find the landjobbers and manufacturers , the bankers and stockjobbers , united here also . They injure others and are miserable . Abolish the sales of public lands , and thousands , hundreds of thousands of them will become citteans of the west . This is a real remedy . Native American Assoeiatlons can find no other . Whether they vote at one year or at twenty-one after they arrive , may { be of importance to the ofBee-hnntlng-party-back , but it will not affect the

      question of surplus labour and low prices . 6 . Abolish land Bales and land jobbing , and long sessions in Congress will be at an end , and the taxes lessened . Our home Manufactures , already -worth two bundr « d millions of dollars , will Increase in value and demand , and we shall be less dependent on a foreign market , to support which we pay nearly nine millions of taxes a year to uphold a Mammoth navy ; governed , as it would seem by the late Sv > mera' revelations , in the moat tyrannical and anti-democratic way that the haughty aristocracy can possibly imagine , by the help of a freedom-teaching whiplash , as you would serve a disobedient hound .

      7 . Our Government talks of war—to fight for the Oregon . Is it that we may pass thither through a golden gate , and pay 260 dollars per lot to our mnshroom aristocracy of money-lenders , to meet the war-loans , contracted to secure new and untrodden ' regions to the grasp of our native and foreign land-jobbers ? We want no war . Settle America with freemen , and as freemen , and no foreign foe will ever obtain a sure footing on these shores . I ask next , under what pretext have the public lands been told to their otoners , the people ? Why are the poof deprived of a share of the national domain ?

      It cannot be on Christian grounds , for " The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof . —1 Cor . x . 26 . " Moreover the profit of the earth is for all "—Eel . v . 9 "The earth hath be given to the children of men "—Pil . cxv . " The living God who giveth us richly all things to enjoy" —1 Tim . vL "The meek shall inherit the ' earth "—PsalmxxxviL "Give us this day our daily bread "—Mat vi . How any religious man can ask heaven ' s blessing , and keep 2 , 000 , 000 , 000 of acres of a hunting ground fer landjobbers , to the injury of his starving countrymen , through bad Congressmen and -wicked laws , passes my comprehension .

      Why give public farms free in Florida where slavery exists , and sell them at two hundred dollars each in Illinois where it is prohibited ? Why we ' re five millions given for Florida , as a slave country , and forty millions more expended in driving" a few miserable Indians from its swamps , lest a stray negro should find a hiding place from a task master , if we must work here for the wages of misery , although these forty-five millions , raised by taxation from our industry , would have paid for 925 , 000 forms In tht west to 225 , 000 families , of . five persons each—one hundred and sixty acres to each family ; or , in short , would have nettled 1 , 121 , 000 men , women , and ckildren , in a free state , who ate now burthensome to industry

      on the seaboard , while in the west they would be beneficial ? Why were fifteen millions more paid for Louisiana to cut up into slave states ; and other ten millions offered for Texas to Mexico , for ike same purpose , which , to her eternal henour , she nobly refused ; while nothing can be effected for liberty in the north ? If nine millions can be spared to keep up a gorgeous naval establishment in tha 30 th year of { peace , cannot one or two xxillious be spared In aid of " The Sons of Liberty" ? Free Trade is a fine thing , but we first ¦ want fru . labour . Thirdly , Let us inquire how the land monopoly may be effectually and speedily destroyed .

      Many propose to mortgage the public lands for ever , to pay the debts of Pennsylvania and the other borrowing and fquandering states , and to prevent such attempts nu man . should be supported fer any elective office who will not pledge himself to do his utmost to prevent the robbery of the public lands and their diversion from the purpose which God intended—Tuanely , the relief of the poor , and the equalising of human conditions . Combinations , affiliated Societies , Mr . Evans's excellent newspaper as an organ , an Association here upon an efficient scale , petitions to Congress and the State Legislature , correspondence , tracts , an adoption of the Temperance plan of optrations , lectuTes , and public meetings . But time -will not permit that I should now do more than recite a few verses from

      Campbell ' s verses on the departure of emigrants . May his happy conceptions booh be more than realised iu Illinois , Indiana , Iowa , Michigan , Wisconsin , and thefar west May we accomplish" The deep-drawn wisb , when children crown our . hearth , . ¦ ¦ ¦ To hear the cherub-chorus of their mirth . < ., Undamp ed by dread teat wtot may e ' er uahouse , Or servile misery knit those smiling brows : Thepride to rear an independent shed , And give the lips we love unborrow'd bread-To set a world from shadowy forests von , s In youthful beauty -wedded to the sun-To skirt our home with harvtats . widely sown , And call the blooming landscape all our own , Onr children ' s heritage . " >/

      Mr . Mackarzle retired amidst the most tremendous ebeering , which lasted for several minutes . " ^ jtjt ^ - ^ j- ai ^^^^ Pw m > I » -r-i-r-n-r . n /\ ruru

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      AGRARIANISM . Wheneveratheoryiisputiqrai ^ Vwbich tJjreatens > U carried into practice , toikbridge the fiowe * of the ri < $ —to lessen their means of preying . upon the poor , and to elevate ^ the unfortunate ; . "victims of their unrelenting avarice and oppression , it ia sure to be assailed with tba ' . most bitter and untiring malignity . Every man who baa the moral courage to advocate it , is abused in the most unsparing terms—every vile and { opprobious epithet in the language is lavishly b ^ stQwed 3 upo n him — -Ma inbtiYea are misrepresented ; and every act of his conduct is misoonstiued by the hireling menialfl of the press « ho know no higher duty than that of pandering

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      £ •* tL ^ LEE *" " wealtby ^ P 0 * feed KlJJmniSS ^ ¦ SF- * bIoh most honest » fornier » KSSSKS ? 4 ? ' *™ - "****»* attacked , has % LS £ ^? ™ * < lne 8 « 'o' abuse , and vainly rfXSSSFKS ^ ** ' oftn « ParitF and justice r ^ T ^ wES 8 *; » e * * 'y ™«> of tfce truth and J i 52 X ?»^®?^ fc ^ £ ^ **** ¦«• bis interest ? Nolhag . When have the rich and the powerful been k » ° Fn . - retafa tbelr -plundering and ^ oppressive KZL " a ? - ^ P °° ; Wd unfortunate , save when choked and forced into it ? Nete *

      The only way to deal with the impertinence of these fellows is to chastise ftem into abjeot submission first , and then _ they ^ l listen with respect to yeur argu ments . The word agrarian ! has long been held up to the execration of those who are ignorant of its true meaning , o * JnteM 8 te < nn human degradation . Now , what is agrarfanism but the equal right of every man to his share of the soil : and who will dare deny the right ? From whence does human misery proceed ; whence this total and degrading dependence of honest , willing industry , upon idle , plundering capitalists , if it is not produced by the insolent usurpation or soil from which human subsistence must be dug and gathered .

      If aman has a right to light , air , and water , which no one will attempt to question , be has a right also to the land , which is ju * t as necessary for the maintenance of his subsistence . If every person had an equal share of the soil , poverty would be unknown fa the world * and crime would disappear with want This can be * easily effected j without interfering with those who do possess land , if the labouring portion of our cittons will but make half the exertion to achieve the glorious and sublime result , which they yearly spend in carrying « ut high-sounding bubbles , and in advancing the selfish ends of worthless and interested demagogues . Let every man vrtid is depending upon his own exertions for a subsistence , without draining a per centagefrom the labour of others , come instantly to the

      determination not to vote for any man , under aay circumstances , for a legislative office , unless he solemnly pledges himself to oppose any further traflla in the public IaHd » . These lands belong to the people , and Congress ; by distributing them among the lawful owners ,- will be doing injustice to no one . There ia an .- abundance of spare land in the United States , even by leaving Oregon out of the , question , to give every family in the country more land , than they can cultivate ; and yet in the face of this we see eaoh and every party in Congress , notwithstanding their professions of love for the Working classes , monopolising and speculating in the public lands ; while thousands—aye , hundreds of thousands , groan away their lives in want and degradation , for the want of compensated labour . What are bank

      and tariff questions—or sub-treasuries , when compared with this ? What the ten thousand clap-trap humbugs and Jack-o'tbe-Lantern schemes , with which the labouring poor have for years been deluded and gulled t This measure once effected , the surplus 'population would be almost instantly drained off and the price of labour . would increase as , it became scarce . The most fortunate or . " best provided portion of the working classes would emigrate , and the poor who remained would / in consequence , eaon acquire sufficient means to follow their example . Countless thousands , who now consume the necessaries of life , would then produce them ,, and no human being on this continent would be driven to the degrading and humiliating necessity ef begging , as a favour , the privilege of becoming a slave to tho lazy drones who realize fortunes from tbe sweat and toil of those who starve

      and labour . This is ne visionary scheme , it is practical , and one , before the all grossing interest and stupendous magnitude of which , all others hitherto promulgated , fade Into forgetful insignificance . Working men , here is a measure of your own—one which will obviate tbe necessity of strikes and turnouts , which id nine cases out of ten , end disastrously to tbe moat honorable portion of those concerned in them—and it is one on which you can all unite . Too long have you tamely suffered yourselves to be used by political knaves and demagogues , as a bridge over which they can safely ride into wealth and power . Now is the time to strike I—capital is rapidly gaining power over industry , and ere long , unless there is a change of some sort , the poor man ' s necessities will be too immediate and pressing to admit of bis thinking about anything beyond a life of slavery , and a pour house death . MIKE Walsh . —New York SuVerranean .

      The Spirit of the GnAceni rekindled in iue Wb&t . —A most important movement baa been commenced in New York . Its object is to prohibit all sale of public lands to speculators—and to secure a reasonable farm to actual settlers , FREE OF COST . That's the doctrine . Establish it , and there will be a republic here twenty thousand years hence . — WiUiamsburg Democrat i

      Meetings In Favour Of The Ten Hours Bill. And Against The Atrocious Masters And Servants' Bill.

      MEETINGS IN FAVOUR OF THE TEN HOURS BILL . AND AGAINST THE ATROCIOUS MASTERS AND SERVANTS' BILL .

      Bethnal Green—PuBLtc Meeting of the Broad Silk FJandVloom Weavers . —Au intensely crowded meeting woa uolden ou Thursday April lltb , at the Crown and Anchor , Cheshire-street , Waterloo Town , at eight o ' clock , for the purpose of taking into consideration tbe amendment which baa been introduced in the Masters and Servants'Bill ; and likewise for the purpose of getting up a petition to tbe House of Commons , and having it numerously signed , against this truly , atrocious and villanoua piece of Legislation . Mr . IMafbrce was called to the chair . Aa answer was read from the Hon . J . S . Lefevre , secretary to the Board of Trade , acknowledging the receipt of a petition against the Master and Servants' BUI from the weavers . The following letter was also read relative thereto from Lard Ashley . —

      " Sir , —I ahull feel much pleasure in presenting th « petition of the broad silk band-loom weavers of Spitalfietds and its vicinity ; and I feel highly gratified with the approbation expressed by you on behalf of the Spitalfield weavers of my conduct in Parliament . ' Tour obedient servant , " Asiiley . ' * « Mr . J . Sherrard . * Mr . Burroughs then read the article on the " Dimnable Bill" ( rota tbe Northern Star , amid loud execrations for the Bill , and loud cheers for tbe article . Mr . Malpaa moved the first resolution , in an excellent , argumentative , and convincing speech . He asked where were their feeling men , the Brighta , Cobdens , and Co ., When

      such a Bill was , brought in ? If it was hot for that glorious Journal , the Northern S&r—tgreat cheering )—it might have been passed , and they would have known nothing of its contents until too late . He moved the following resolution : — " That this meeting views with the utmost abhorrence , and the most intense dissatisfaction , the fourth clause which has been introduced into the Masters and Servants' Bill ; and . they are at the same time sadly afraid that tho framera of that truly detestable and diabolical , clause must have had some ulterior designs in view when they framed a clause so Utterly destructive of every principle of liberty ; and which would prove to the operatives so completely subversive of even the remaining vestiges of the rights and privileges which , aa Englishmen , they ought to SDJoy :

      this meeting , therefore , pledge itmself to use every legal and constitutional means to prevent the , passing of this truly tyrannical and despotic measure . " Mr . Sberrord then delivered a telling and soul-stirring speech in favour of the resolution , and was received with great cheering . Mr . Siuce , Mr . Knowles , and several others , supported the } iresolution , which was then put and carried unanimously , amid loud cheering , clapping of hands , fee . A petition , in conformity with tbe foregoing resolution , was read , and its adoption moved by Mr . Braid , seconded . by Mr . Franks , and carried unanimously A vote of 'thanks was then awarded to the chairman and the meeting separated . In connection with the above meeting we have received the following communication .

      TO TUB-EDITOR OF THE NORTH BRN STAR . Sir—At a general meeting of the Broad Silk Haudloom Weavers of Spitalflelds and its vicinity , which was held on the 11 th inst ., at the Crown and Anchor , Cheshire-street . Waterloo Town , Bathnal Green , for tbe purpose of petitioning the House of Commons against tbe fourth olause in the Masters and Servants'BUI , it was unanimously resolved : — " That the thanks of this meeting are due , and are hereby given te the Editor of the Northern Star for his steady advocacy of the rights of industry . " I am , sir , yours very respectfully , W . E . Burroughs , Secretary . 13 , ; Charlotte-atreet , Hope Town , Bethnal Green , London , April 13 tu , 1844 .

      Meeting irt Berhonpset . —At an early hour on Sunday morning the selgbourhood of B ^ rmundsey , Dockhead , Rotherhithe , and the adjoining parishes , was placarded with billB of which the fohowing is a copy - — " Working men to the rescue , the freedom of labour is at state . A public meeting will be held at the Working Man's Chapel , Dockhead , on Monday , April 15 * , 1844 , ! , to take into consideration the principles of tha' 6 atrocious bill now before Parliament for tbe enlarging the powers of justices in determining complaints between masters and servants . } and to petition that Honourable House against any further encroachment npon the rights of labour . Chair to be taken at seven o'clock ; admission free . " . At . seven o ' clock the doers of- the Chapel was beseiged . by many aniiou » apd ' 4 oil' -Wdrn faoes , to gain admission . ¦¦ , Soon after Mn Fun » n was caHed to the chair , and . briefly opened the -meeting b * readipg the fe » H , and requesting

      a fair arid impartial hearing for all » tto' . speakers whethiT for or against the objects : of the meeting . Mr . Williams-then , in an able { speech , in which , he lashed the ; Honourable Gentlemen most unmercifully ,: calling forth repeated : bursts of applause and indignation aa be proceded , proposed the following reso-. ution * . — " That-this ' 1 meeting views withi indignation and abhorrence tfce further encroachment upon tho rights of labour ' and the attack upon the ancient right of trial by jury in the bllU now . befoiferi Parliament , entitled the Master ind Servants Bili ;?> ifeellng as we fio the responsibility'we aie under' to our wives and familea aa well as the country at large , do hereby pledge ourselves to resist that mast infamous measure to the fullest possible extremity ; and call upon all dao 3 es of society to assist in the same . " Mr . Gardiner seconded it in a long Bpecchreplete -with good argument and sound sense , and concluded amidst cheers and clat-

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      ping of hands . Mr . O'Brien then [ came forward and was received with a hearty welcome ; he spoke at great length , proving'from the history of France aa well as of England , that the middle class rule , under which We now groan , was , ia , and would always be , more tyrannical than even that of the land robbers . Mr . OB . complained of the general apathy of the . wotkins ? classes , but complimented them upon filling the Chapel , and assuring them that until they themselves felt a Hufnoient interest in matters which ; were of such vital interest to the working classes , to always be able , at the least warning , to cram a building even ten times that sias , they would be under the lash of slavery and degradation . As it was , it required the aid of a Ferrand , a Duncombe , an O'Connor , ( cheers ) or other stars to

      arouse them from the sleep of death inte which tyranny had thrown them . No , ( said Mr . OB . ) you must awafce , be up and doing ; they must unite , and when one was injured they must take the injury upon themselves and fly to the rescue ; and especially when a middle class man came boldly forward to assist them , they must endeavour to rally around him and see that he is not injared ; not turned into the streets a beggar , as many had been . But trust them not as a class ; watch them well , aud upon their least deviation frtm right conduct let them know that you do not coincide with them ; and if they dare then to ro again&t justice , why throw them to the dogs . Mr . j O'Brien continued in a very eloquent nnd witty strain to address tho meeting to their entire satisfaction for above an hoar , and sat down amidst cheers . Tbe resolution was then put and carried unanimously . Mr . MathiaB then came forward and proposed the petition ; Mr . Gathard seconded it . The chairman put it to the meeting , , and it was

      carried unanimously . The following resolution was then proposed by Mr , Gardener , and seconded by Mr . Stratton , " That this meeting , viewing with deep regret the condition of the operatives fa tbe manufacturing districts , and with heartfelt I sympathy for the extreme sufferings of tbe wives and families of those hard worked and badly paid people , return its most sincere thanks to Lord Ashley , T . Si Duncombe , Esq ., and all . otb . tr supporters of the Ten ! Hours' Bill ; and trustuthat they will continue theirfexertiona until it becomes the law of the land . " AJ petition , in accordance with the resolutien , was then unanimously agreed to . A subscription of seven ! shillings and sixpence was collected , which will be divided between Dr . M'Douall ami R . Wild . It was resolved that T . S . Duncombe , Esq ., be requested to present and support the prayer of the petition ; and Mr . Ferrand to support it . A vote of thanks was given to Mr . Henry for his kinduesa , aud to the chairman ; which ended this important , crowded , and enthusiastic meeting .

      St . Andrews , Holjsorn . —A numerous meeting was held at the Crown Coffee and Assembly Rooms , 14 , Leather-lane , on Monday evening , j April 15 th ; Mr . Smith was called to the chair . Mr . Salmon , jun . moved a resolution deprecatory of the Master and Servants ' Bill , now before Parliament . Mr . Salmon , sen . seconded U > e resolution , which was unanimously carried . A petition , embracing the resolution , was adopted , which it was agreed should lie at that house ! for signature , and then be forwarded to T . S . Duncombe , E-: q , M . P . for presentation , and that T . Wakley , Esq . the other Member for the borough , be requested to auppoit it .

      Meeting at Marylebone . —On ! Monday evening a numerous meeting , principally composed of working men , was held at the St . Pancras vestry-room , Gordon-street , Gordon-square , for the purpose of adopting measures respecting the above bills . Mr . Ruffy Ridley , a rate-payer , was called to the chair , and briefly opened the proceedings . A letter was read from Sir B . Hall , M . P ., dated from Portmanequare , stating that he most certainly would have attended but that his eon was on the point of death , and therefore he trusied that his desire to be present at the death bed of his eon , -would plead his excuse for non-attendance ; but should they adopt a petition , he should be happy to present it . ' Mr . Oavoo then moved the first resolution . Resolved , — " That this

      meeting hold the Masters and Servants Bill , recently introduced into the Commons House of Parliament , to be unjust in principle , tyrannical in practice , and a direct violation of England ' s boasttrial by jury . " Mr . Lawrey seconded the resolution , which was carried unanimously . Mr . Sherrard then came forward , and in a speech which roused tbe sympathies of all present forthe poor Factory slaves , moved the second resolution . "That this meeting deem ten hours' daily labour quite sufficient for adult males , and can but feel tbat any attempt to infliot more on weak women and little children , is subversive of the best principles of humanity , alike unprincipled and uDJust , —a sacrifice of domestic duty and domestic comfort at the shrine of Moloch .

      We therefore call upon the House of Commons to adopt the ten hours ' clause in any'Factory Bill they may pass . " . Mr . R . Gammage seconded the resolution . Tbe resolution was then put to the meeting , and unanimously adopted . Mr . Symonds camo forward and read a petition for adoption , embracing the Masters' and Servants' Bill , tbo ten hour olause , and sIbo praying that Lord Eliot ' s Irish Disfranchisement Bill may not be passed into a law . Mr . Symonds observed that the punishment awarded for misbehaviour to the servants should also bo awarded on the complaint of the ^ servant to the master and mistress ; surely that which was sauco'for the goose , was sauce for the gander—( loud { laughter and applause ) . Mr . Humphries seconded its adoption , it was carried unanimously . Mr . Arnott , in a speech of great eloquence , which was greatly applauded ,

      moved the fourth resolution . Mr . Cutf ' ay seconded the . resolution , which was as follows : — " That this meeting is of opinion that the introduction of the Masters' and Servants' Regulation Bill , the conduct of the House on the recent [ Factory Bill , and other harsh and oppressive measures , are attributable to class or party legislation , and have no hope of any permanent remedy save and except in the enactment of tho People ' s Charter . " Mr . Skelton rose amid applause to support the resolution . Mr . Hornby moved a vote of thanks to the Board of Directors for the use of the rooms ; Mr . Hodge seconded the motion , which was unanimously carried . A vote of thanks was awarded to the chairman ; three oheors given for the Charter , three for the Northern Star , three for Feargua O'Connor , and the meeting separated , }

      Meeting of the Dyers of Glasgow . —a meeting of this body was holden in the Dyevs' Hall , Charlotte-lane , on the 13 th of April , Mr . C . Connall , president , in tbe chair . Mr . William Fleming , the Secretary , said that the meeting had been called pursuant to a request of two of tbe largest shops in the trade , for th « purpose of shewing their disapprobation of a Bill introduced into the House of Commons purporting to amend the law between Masters and Servants , but in fact wholly denying labour any right It struck at the root of trades unions , and was Intended to prevent the working classes fr . m meeting : to protect themselves against the avarice nnd duplicity of tyrannical employers , j It would be their duty that eveniig to mark with detestation sucb an

      intended measure , and petition tbe Legislature against it . Mr . D . M'Millan then came forward and gave a lucid description of the New Bill and tbe beinousnees of its nature , reading { extracts from the Northern Star , the opinion of Mr . Roberts , Ice , and concluded a powerful address by moving the adoption ot the petition , recommended by the Norther ^ Star , to the House of Commons . Mr . Lewis Bruffy seconded the adoption of- tbe petition . Carried . Mr . M'Millan moved , « That it be sent to Tbomas S . Duncombe , Esq M . P . for Finsbury , for presentation , and signed by the Chairmaniu name of tho meeting and that & letter be sent requestirg onr City Member t » rapport its prayer ; " B « conded by Mr . P . M'Paeeley . Mr . D . Malloy moved that a petition in favour of a Ten Hours Factory Bill be forwarded to Parliament from the body . Mr . M'Millan in

      seconding the motion entered minutely into the advantages that would flow to the working classes , and the beuefit tbat would accrue to society by suoh a Bill becoming law . After describing feelingly the sufferings of the bleachers of the West of Scotland ( as tbe dyers are sensible of their laborious employment and the extreme heat of their stoves ) he sat downhopingthat&ir . Wallace would be successful in getting & clause in their favour embodied in tbat Bill . Moved and carried , " That the petition beenttusted to Mr . Walker , M . P . for Greenock , for presentation . " Mr . Wm . Fleming said ' tbat there waB another duty devolved on them , be therefore begged to move " a vote of thanks from this meeting to Lord Ashley for his indefatigable exertions in tbe cause of humanity , hoping he would still persevere until success would crown bis efforts . " Carried

      unanimously . A vote of thanks being given to the Chairman tbe meeting separated . Meeting ai Dundee . —On Saturday evening , the 6 tb inst ., a public meeting was held ; in Bell-street Hall to petition Parliament I 11 favour of'Lord Ashley ' s Ten Hours' Clause , and against tbe Master and Servants ' Bill . The larg « hall was well filled ; After resolutions bad been moved aad soeonded by several local speakers , Mr . Robert Peddle , of Edinburgh , rose and was received with several rounds of applause . After a very able introduction , In which . h » showed « p the working of the factory system in various quarters which he bad visited . He urged the people to stand firm by the Charter aa the only means pf redressing' . ^ elr ; grieinuices . A sprinkling of the millomts were to bo aeen in groups

      through the . peeting ^ ahd Mr . Peddio eeemed not a little t . o ' surprise and confound them when he entered intea ' detailof . the tyranny practlse 4 in the factories of Dundee . Mr , Peddle deaeryes raiuch credit for the mannerheaeems to have employed his time during hlB short stay in thk place in gafe ^ upon the factory , ^ a ^ ioiix . eo ^ i . of : > hi ? b . ; wpuld scarce be credited Vyttoae ^ whohaVe ^ t wiijii ^ isseft uEiem . A- very po ^ Mftt , L , a ] dd | ess : pf . pw ^^ sid ' aibjlr ' auration , was conclnded by , urgiDg ' th « , wprk 7 uff classes to stand firm tdtheir # ^ whihaJMribed -as f another

      ^ . ^ thti ' BuHanfeV 00 9 " scre ^ p ^^ iwU ^ p ^ the in ^ e i ^ g ^ Bparated x ^ ¦ 1 ^ ^ I ^ : I ' .. ; .. , iilBEltifaATJMERTHTB TjJ > yjferr-A meeting was hold :. here ; on ^ Monday ; Jwtiito section against the Masterijiahd Sarvante ' BUlwi-. The ^{ rrespluyon was as follows , < propBseB by Mry David Mp ? gao * -- " That this ( meetingis ^ fopinian ^ that theBUl now , bf > fo » e the , House of . Commons . is ! , intended to ? robr lf » &j > tt * . sgf the last remnatttof Hbertyi ; and to 6 ubje $ t ^ WotiWng . cJtoses ^ o £ this empire to the entire mewy ,: of their ; masters . " Seconded and supported by Mesjra . jym | am Gould and David jEllis . Proposed by Mr . Henry Thomas— " That

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      the petition now read be adopted . " Seconded by Mr , Wai . Taylor . Both resolution and petition Were carried unanimously . The petition was ordered to be sent , to Mr . Quncombe for presentation . A petition in favout ef the Ten Hours' Futory Bill wait also adopted , aad ordered to be sent to Sir J . J . Guest for presentation . NEWCASILK-UPdlC'TtNE . MEETING OP GORDwainebs . —A publio meeting of the boot and shoemakers of Newca 8 tle-upon-Tyne was held in the Ridley Court Long-room , Groat-market , on Monday evening , to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament against the adaption of the ( Master and Servants'BilL At eight o ' clock Mr . James Forrest was unanimously called to the chair , who brltfly opened the proceedings by stating the objects

      tot which they had mat . and as many present might not have had an opportunity of knowing the real nature of ths bill which they had met to consider the propriety of petitioning against , he would read a copy of it with the additions of the Committee of the House of Commons , which te held in his hand . The chairman then read the bill , as it appeared in the Northern Star . Mr . Martin moved the following resolution , which was seconded fey Mr . Stark ' ey , and agreed to unanlmoasly : — " That in the opinion of this meeting , the bill designated the Masters and Servants' Regulation BUI , now before th 9 House of Commons , from its oppressive enactments , is a direct violation of Trial by Jury , inasmuch , as it leaves every working man entirely at tbe mercy of any tyrannical employer ,-who with one

      I interested witness can ensure his conviction , with fine ' and imprisonment , upon the frivolous and vague charge * of misbehaviour , before any single magistrate . Thia meeting is also of opinion , that the said bill is alike dangerous and unconstitutional in its character , as it strikes at every principle of liberty and justice , and is kko an unjust . attempt to further enslave the working ' classes , by prostrating labour at the shrine of capital , and unprincipled competition , and that a petition be ' flrawn up in accordance with the foregoing resolution , ' and presented to the House of Commons against its ' being passed into law . The chairman then read tbe petition . Mr . Thos . Leeming then moved , " That the petition now read from the chair against the Masters ' and Servants' R-. gulation Bill be adopted by this

      meeting . " Mr . L . declared it to be his firm conviction that the object of this BUI was to annihilate all uniraa of working men for me protection of labour , and he considered it the imperative duty of every honest worki man to give it the most strenuous opposition .- He tsi ¦ it was trne that "little justice could be got by union , bu « if they were without union ( aa that BUI in its every feature shewed its intention ) they would be trampled underfoot altogether . Mr . Crawford seconded tha adoption of the petition ; in doing so he considered he was only doing bis duty . He saw the death-blow of TradeB' Societies in the Bill . Whatever differences might exist iu tbe minds of such legislators amongst themselves , they were all unanimous in the enslavement of the working mnn . He most cordially seconded the adoption of the petition . Mr . Starkey supported the petition . The chairman then read some remarks upon the Bill , by W . P . Roberts , Esq ., from the second $ 0 .

      of tho Miners llenlhly Magazine , after which it was put from the chair and agreed to unanimously . Mr , Starkey then proposed " That the petition now adopted be signed by the chairman on . behalf of tola meeting , and immediately forwarded to T . S . Duncombe , Esq ., M . P ., fur presentation to tbe House of Commons , and that our ' Secretory be instructed to correspond with Wm . Ord , Esq . M . P ., and John Hodgson Hind , Esq ., M . P ., both members for this borough , requesting them to support the prayer of tbe same , which was seconded by Mr . Leeming , and agreed to unanimously . There was a goodly meeting of the trade , comprising all the boot and ' shoemakers of tolh societies , and it really had a cheering effect to see the unanimity with which their every action waB stamped . The meeting then entered into some business strictly relating to the society , which being of a local nature we deem super * fluoua to add .

      Public meeting op the Associated Meecaktile Tbai > e £ of Manciiesteji . —A public meeting of the Associated Mercantile Trades of Manchester was holden in the'Manor Court Room , Nicholas-croft , Manchester , on Saturday evening , April 13 th . The meeting was convened by the following placard ,: — " Masters and Servants Sill . —A meeting of tha Associated Mercantile Trades of Manchester , namely , Makers-np , Packers , Hookers , and Pattern Card Makers , will be held on Saturday evening next , at half-past six o ' clock , in the Meal House , Nicholas-croft , High-street , Manchester , to take into consideration the best weans to be adopted to oppose the ' Masters and Sermnd Bill' now before Parliament Trades of Manchester ! now ia the time to bestir yourselves ; to exert the influence you possess

      to prevent your rights and tbe rights of the whole of the labouring classes being subverted by a Bill , which , if enacted , would place you , nofcon a level ivitti , but beneath the serfs of Russia . " The meeting was well attended by the members of the above mentioned trades . Tbe time for commencing having arrived , Mr . Jones moved , and Mr . Hibbert seconded , That > 5 r . T . Hackney do preside on this occasion . " Agreed to unanimously . The Chairman upon rising was received by rapturous applause . He said he considered it to be bis duty . to accquaint them with the circBmBtances which had Cilled them together , and also to inform thuui relative to the proceedings of the body upon this matter for the- last few weeks . The first notice that the delegates received of the Masters and Servants' BUI was from an article in the

      Northern Star . It was then too Jate to get up a petition , they therefore did the best they could under the circumstances ; and wrote forthwith to the members of Parliament for Manchester and S&lford , likewise to 'Mr . Dancombe and Mr . Ferrand , to oppose tbe BUI with' all their powers . And he must say , in justice to the gentleman to whom they bad written , that they promptly answered ; giving the information that tho Bill was laid aside until after Easter . That delay had enabled tbem to get up the present meeting . Ha then read ths correspondence with the Members of Parliament to the meeting , after which he observed that some parties hod said that this meeting was a > > mx ,-that no man , having pretensions to a common sb ^ re of intelligence , would introduce such a measure into

      Parliament . He would therefore read a copy of the Bill which had been sent to the delegates by one of the members to whom they bad written . Having read the Bill amid the execrations of all present , he concluded by saying tbat was the BUI , and it was for them to say whether it was one that ought to pasB . He sab down , after reading the placard calling the meeting . Mr . Gould ing moved the first resolution , which was to tbe following effect : — "That if the Masters and Servants' Bill cow before Pailiament should become law . it would affect every species of labour , whether by pieeu or job ; wo therefore pledge ourselves to resist its enactment in every legal way possible . " In moving tbiB resolution , he said the Bill which they had heard read was one that demanded from every man thai !

      determined opposition which would let the House of Commons see , even as it was at present constituted , that the working classea would coi tamely submit t « be trampled upon without speaking out . He was sorry to see the comparative apathy of the working classes upon this Bill : but this might be accounted for ; for the press had been all but' silent upen the matter . It wonld appear that the press of tbis country , and that of Manchester amongst tbe rest . ' had intended to band them neck and heels into the hands of their oppressors . Where was the Tory Courier , the Liberal Times , the Whig Gwrdifa , the Radical Advertiser ? Not one of them mentioned the Bill , save nnd except saying that it was postponed fer a wefefc- No ; it was left for the much-despised and calumniated Northern Star to warn

      tbe working classes of the trap that was laid for them . He bad never been a supporter or an admire * ot the Star , but he must say that if it had not been for that paper the working c ! asses would have . known nothing whatever of thia atrocious measure ; therefore the conductors of that paper had bis thanks , and deserved the thanks of the entire labouring people for the manner iu which they bad taken up this subject , andsounded the alarm , from the centre to the sea , that labour was in danger . Mr . Jones , in a neat speech , seconded the motion , which was ably supported by Mr . Wilson , and , upon its being pufcfrem the chair , ' was carried nem . con . Tha Secretary then read the petition , after which he 1 moved theofollowing resolution ; wbish was seconded by Mr . Carringtoa ;— "Thatthe petition now read be adopted , and that the same bs transmitted to T . S . Duccombe , Esq ., for presentation ; and thai it be Bigned by the delegates from the several brancheB on behalf of the meeting . "

      Mr . Lloyd moved , and Mr . Bowes seconded , "Thata vote of thanks be given fothsEe Members of Parliament who have been written to , for their promptitude in answering , oiid the attention given ' to our statements respecting this Bill . " Mr . Roberts moved , " That a vote of thanks'lje given to the Proprietor and Editor of the Northern Star for the manner in which it exposed and made known to the working cIbbscs the infamous Masters and Servants * Bill . " On it being pat frcra the chair , it waa ; carried amldrepeated rounds of applauso . It was then moved by Mr . ( Joulding , and seconded by Mr . M'Condy , " That the thanks of this meeting be given jto W . ]» . Roberta , Esq . '; Attorney-General to the Miners , for the able services , he has rendered to tha Working claasea of this country , by his " exertions on tehalf of the useful body of men with which he tfi connected . " Agreed to with rapturous applause .. Proposed by Mr . Wilson , and seconded by Mr . Frost , That a Vote pf thanko Tbe given to Mr . Hackney for his conduct ia the ' ehair . "— Carried unanimously .

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      Shakspeabe'Modebnized , — "VVhilBt Henry Befc was " starring" it ' Bome weeks since in Herefor shire , the following ludicrous scone took place . -Tfa - ) lay that wag being enacted was Hamletj and th - jentlemin ^ Vfho ; pers 6 aa | € d the king , when ; he cam 0 the passage in- tfa' ^| a ^ ad ^ 'N | pW'ifae'ki ' ng-dria w ^ HjupsV' ^ i ®^ mmortal bard , gave the - prince a familiar nod , * v •' ¦ - > ; hus expressed hiinielF , ~^ "Hamlet hete's yoHpyai . r jood health . ^ " 1 * isialmosfc * needless to add thatfc . t louse resounded with the Laughter o £ the assembled > auditors , andtheeffectof the tragedy waa cQmpletelj ) marred . ' •• - ? ' * s < r . - : y : tc . :.-.- - -. ¦ : '• ¦ . ¦ ¦ . „ i .- : s ; ' ; i j Longevity . —Died , on Wednesday , at Jhotttdzi yauced age of 100 yeara , _ atjCnarlestowu , Mathew JHurpby * steward to Captain Mark Xovjnge . He ianjoyed tforiagh JifS ^ iJaBtenrap ted goo ^ r ^^ iltb , and , wa ? enabled tO ^ rskffiBPteMJ avocations ; tilF » two ; : « J ^^^ N ^ S& ^ the service of CaiS % & » £ lii £ S » & * P"aRlr ? ? - '

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      A pbi x 20 , 1844 . _^^ THE NORTHERN STIR- 7 " ' —~—— ¦ - . . . . . _ — . _ . _ .-. _ -., . ^^— _ _ .. , ... — .,. . _ . _ , ^ . - ,,. ¦ --. . . , r t ^ ; . -.,--- ' ^ - «

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 20, 1844, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1260/page/7/