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    • TO THE IMPERIAL CHARTISTS.
    • —¦¦— ^N. - .;. ' . ;¦ • •: *"¦¦ ¦ " ." . r ¦ N <S , RECEIPTS OF THE CHARTIST CO-OPERVflTK \ > v LAND SOCIETY. X^v
    • Alakming Eiplosios or Fikkwohks.—On Monday
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      My dear Mentis , —I need bat direct your atten- j tion to the report of the proceedings at tie Crown j and Anchor meeting on Monday last , to convince ! you that the spirit of Chartism lives in the heart of ( the metropolis ; and that the cause—the chief , if noli the sole , cause of the treachery of our rulers , and the indifference of class to onr principles , may be traced to the venality , corruption , and baseness of the public press . Every newspaper in London was represented at that meeting ; every reporter took notes of the several speeches ; and yet the

      proceedings of the very largest meeting' of the forking I classes in the centre of the metropolis has been wholl y unnoticed by the daily jonraab , with the exception of the Morning Adcertizer—ihs journal of Che pothouse—vibich , gives afew lines of & ridicnloTis aad erroneous reporti and the I ) at / yJV « oj , which gives as few , merely noticing the occurrence and the Morning Post ditto . After the several well-merited castigafions that I have given the press , iujresttwetf ttsie-. presentatiresjcannot expect much favour at itshands but I do declare , that there never were six more splendid ^ speeches delivered at any publicmeeting , or in any stoatehou ^ &uitu ^

      ffirney , Kydd , Dr . M'Donall , MO'Cayagriah , at the xaeeting atthe Crown and Anchor ; and yet , but . for the JVprt'fern Star , they would be lost to yon and onr cause , save . * the impression—the deep impression , they made upon the andience , and upon me , as one of that audience . They were aUsotrnlygoodthe six besj that I erer heard upon one night—that 2 know not to which to give the . preference ; while I feel convinced as I do of my existence , that their publication would have established the principles in Ibe minds of many who are now ignorant of them ; and that , yon . will say , is the reason for the press of the factions withholding them .

      Now , we have always understood that a newspaper was a kind of national mirror , faithfully reflecting the several characters performing npon the public stage . However , this opinion , which now appears to he an error , has been most nnhlnshingly controverted by the Daily Newt , in its recent advertisement annonndng its evening appearance under the title of T h * Express . In that advertisement we find the following word' s : — "BUT THE FULL AND CAREFULLY PREPARED REPORTS OF THE MONEY , RAILWAY , PRODUCE , CORN , CATTLE , AND OTHER MARKETS WILL BE THE MARKING FEATURE . "

      "AS , HOWEVER , THE INTEREST IN SUCH A PAPER MUST NECESSARILY BE LIMITED TO A CLASS "Now , this candid announcement , coming from a journal established to supply the demand for a popular organ , iwfll at once convince you of what you have to expect from ' the most liberal portion . of flie ' press , which must be written for class and confinedto a review of the monetary , eattle and . grain transactions . _ I have spent many years in pointing out to the people the manner in which , and the mode by which , they may destroy any single grievance , and I am practically earning out the plan by

      which I hope to destroy the land monopoly and labour competition grievance . Believe me , then , flat , as it is the pence of the poor , and not the pounds of the rich , that constitute the shopman ' s wealth , so it is the industrious classes who read newspapers at news-rooms , coffee-rooms , clubrooms , beer shops , and public houses , that constitute the circulation and the wealth of the press , and yet , strange to say , although you know this fact as well as I do , yet yoa { . refer those journals which misrepresent you and your cause and cater to your morbid taste for murders and the horrible , to those in which you see your strength , your power , your cause , and jonr interests , advocated and defended .

      In order to effect any one sectional change it is necessary to bring the whole popular weight to bear npon it . If , then , you would meet and form clubs , denominated NEWSPAPER CLUBS , and resolve upon ejecting from your places of Tesort , all that misrepresented yon or refused to represent you faithfully , you would very soon have the press under as wholesome a contronl as yon have publicans , beersellers , and coffee-house keepers . In my several comments upon the general baseness of the press , I never failed to recommend a partition of your

      support -milx those journals which , like the Star , advocate your principles . I have counselled the men of Nottingham to divide the exclusive patronage now extended to the Star with the Nottingham Review for the purpose of supporting that journal in the advovacy of your rights , and I now tell the Chartists of Norfolk and Norwich , that it is as much their doty to support the Norfolk Neiet and Norwieh Gazette as it is to support the Northern Star . I think I may aver , without any fear of contradiction , that I might have made the Northern Star the source of an immense revenue if I had made it less of a

      rational organ and more of a class journal . It will also be korne in mind that I was the first person to aim a blow at the circulation of the Star by the establishment of public news rooms , and by recommending the reading of the most important portions of its news at the several Chartist assemblies . I did this upon the principle that I would rather have a circulation of one thousand read by and to two millions than a circulation of two millions read , by and confined to one

      thousand . If pelf and individual power had ever been , or were | now , my object , I would undertake to start in the raoney-mongering market on Monday morning next , toIIi a certainty of realizing £ 10 , 000 a-year , and upwards , for every year of my existence . And it is a proud consolation to me to know , that although the Northern Star no longer possesses its circulation of 43 , 700 weekly , that , nevertheless , the reduced number is read by three times , aye , ten times , as many as it was in the days of its larger drculaiioD .

      During the existence of the Evening Star , which I edited free of charge , and discharging many of the costs at ray own expence , as well as sometimes supplying it with the necessary stamps , I had worked the Chartist cause into the minds of parties who had sever before sanctioned it . It was taken at manv dab-rooms , news-rooms , and coffee-houses ; and there was this distinguishing feature of attention and industry about it , that it presented daily from ihree to four columns of original matter , commenting upon the leading articles of the Morning Journals of the day . And , strange as it may appear , I hare frequently written four columns of original

      matter , besides perusing the Morning Papers from seven o ' clock in the morning till one at noon . Now , I ttriife , that wehavein our ranks men who are quite capable of conducting a Chartist Evening Newspaperand , although the existence of the Evening Star materially injured the circulation of the Northern Star , yet I , for one , have no objection to contribute juy mite in support of the more active advocate of cur principles . In the days of that Journal it was a usual complaint against me , that I furnished it witli much original news which would have materially served the Northern Star ; however , I persevered , hecavise I hava always atlacheJ the greatest importance ( O a Daily Newspaper .

      I r emind you now of these circumstances lest you might suppose , according to the usual custom of journalists , that what I aimed at was to substitute the Northern Star for papers now taken b y the working classes ; whereas , ray object is t 0 induce oiber papers , by your patronage , to compete with the Northern Star for your favour , - and I shall always be , as I have hitherto been , the first to reconimeud their substitution . I reall y aid not think that it was in the power of eloguefice to Lave tliTown ihe nen and refresting Maze around our

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      " ' . . i ¦ . principles , that those : six gentlemen succeeded in communicating to them on Monday last . I do assure you , that every standing-place and every hole and corner of the . large ; room in : the Crown and Anchor , even to the very stairs , was wedged , and that it was with much difficulty that I made my way through the dense mass , - and that I never heard speeches in . my life more loudly , nipre . rapturously more deservedly applaud ^ , while not a single newspaper has reported I sirigle sentence

      spoken-Now , observe every London Journal has its own special , reporter at Conciliation Hail , and-its own correspondent at '" every / foreign -Xsourti that the rigmarole of the Irish ^ ^ p&riote , and ; theiedial ^ of foreign courts , are all carefully chronicled , while tie « awe press does not consider a meeting of the working classes in the metropolis worth its notice . Can you doubt , then , that the proceedings in Conciliation Hall are considered , as the snpport of faction through popular delnsioB , while the meetings of the Chartists are looked npon as the . embodiment of

      national strength , threatening ; danger to misrule . But where is the use in my writing , if you do , not act upon my suggestions ? . - 'tet ;; ybuT .. fellows throughout the land learn by next Saturday that you have kicked some of the false mirrors from your places of resort , and , take my word for it , the popular action will very soon bring the press gang to its senses , and produce a more wholesome state of popular representation . : Yonr faithfal friend and servant , FxABGna O'Cojjxor .

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      TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CHARTIST COOPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY . . My dear Friends , —When famine now stares my countrymen in the face , and when it is on the march to your homes , I know yon will bear with me while I lead yon through the course by which I hoped to arrest the progress of the monster , or at all events to reconcile you to his ravages , if scarcity could be

      satisfactorily traced to the will of God . I so much bate and detest the tricks and the mystery of the press , that I have preferred treating this master grievance—this largest and most pressing questionin a familiar letter , to clothing it in the solemnity of a piece of heartless bombast . The reason I write to you upon the subject is , because I look upon you , every one of you , as my own children ; and the difference between me and a hired editor is this :

      that he will make extensive lunges at the property of others to show his sympathy and prove his humanity , while I would divide my last crust with any member of the Association—nay , with any poor man who really wanted it—giving him the largest share . Moreover , I am better qualified for the task by habits as well as by feelings , than the mere hired scr ibes , because I live frugally , I live humbly , and never spend an hour -in dissipation . I devote my whole time , my whole thoughts , my whole strength , and my whole fortune , to the cause of the poor and my heart sickens when I read the announcement , that a Privy Council has been held to agree upon a

      form of prayer to address to Almighty God to avert a famine created by man . And when I see this pious announcement followed by the intelligence that , upon the same day , OUR QUEEN , who is the head of God's English Church , is to entertain a distinguished party of foreigners and domestic leeches , who are to be regaled after their repast by the merry music of military bands , I ask you—whose bowels of compassion a fellow-feeling may have opened towards your starving Irish brethren—whether such conduct is not anti-Christian , hypocritical , irreligious , irreverent , damnable , and insulting to the Deity ?

      I don't think that I could seize a more opportune time for rivetting upon your minds the value of the plan that I have propounded as a means of securing you against famine , when it is the dispensation of man . God never created a famine since he created the world ; and I'll prove it to you thus : Although some may have died of hunger , yet there was more than enough of food to have sustained them if it was distributed according to God ' s injunction that he who produced it should be the first partaker of it . There need be no famine in Ireland now .

      There are oxen , and sheep , and pigs , and oats , and fish in the seas and the rivers , and birds of the air and venison in the deer parks , game in the preserves ] and rabbits in the warrens , and , therefore , what is meant by famine is the impossibility of the producers of the most of those things , and the rightful owners of them all , being unable to procure them at that price set upon them by those who have usurped them to their own kindly use , and have fenced them from the eye aad placed them out of the reach of the poor . Is it not deplorable—is it not horrible and sickening—to read of the forced marches of

      the military , aud the removal of stores of ammunition as a means of arresting the cry of hunger r Is this the grace to which the national prayer ordered b y OUR QUEEN will appeal , or would this be the response of our God , to tbecryofhishungeringchildren . Wereadof the wordy bounty of Irish landlords , who cheerfully tax themselves to ten times the amount they mean to pay . We read the sickening missives of the old vampire , who has sucked Ireland ' s best blood , aud prepared her people to die in humiliating thankfulness , lest

      the even course of patronage should be impeded . Ireland then is starving , and all that her patriots can do , after sacking every poor man ' s hovel , anddebasing every poor man ' s mind , is to fall back upon the frightenedjclemency of those to whose tyranny they had been wont to abseribe Ireland ' s woes-, and in the midst of this crying distress , every missive from the juggler concludes with an ardent appeal for a government composed of those very oppressors , against whose tyranny even the Saxon law in vain contends .

      The mouthing , punch-drinking , ranting patriots , who have drank the cream of every poor man ' s cow , and picked the bones of every poor man ' s hen , and gathered into their own trough every scrap that could be scraped from the poor man ' s platter , now constitute Parliamentary Committees , tofeed a starving people upon the airy and metaphysical nothings to be produced in the approaching session . We are told that the present famine is a dispensation of God , but is

      God unequal or unjust in his dispensations ? And does he visit them on the poor alone ? The poor who are his especial care ! The poor who produce all , while it will be as impossible for the rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven , as for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle . Has God stinted Queen Victoria , or the lords of parliament , or the cotton lords , or the parsons , or the bishops ? And IS tilC L . Oril * Q VOnrMan /> A *¦« i ii _ . ii . _ ' il _ is the Lord ' s that the idle

      vengeance so unequal , alone shall live luxuriousl y , while the poor who support them pine away and die from want ? 1 tell you , my friends , that famine is not the dispensation of God ; and the reason wh y I wibh to locate you on land of your own is , to enable you to contend agamst the dispensations of man . What a woefully miserable picture Ireland ' s present condition presents , as contrasted with the hi gh state of moral

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      dignity and political elevation , in which the Archbishop of Tuam , Dr . McHale , painted it . One root has failed , and a nation isreduced to beggary . Now mark , if you . had / your land , and if potatoes failed , wheat may not fail ; if wheat failed , oats may not fail ; if oats failed ? ieabbages , parsnips , carrots , cauliflowers , kidney bean | , and turnips may not fail ; and if they did , beef andrmntton , and pork and bacon , and milk and butter , '" and-honey and cheese , and poultry

      and eggi , and rabbits , * ould not Wely all be struck with blight together V ' and if it was even so , credit which wiUever follow possession of theland , would secure shelter for each during the should ^ then the will of God may be pleaded , his mercy niay be ^ appealed Wj and all , from , the prince tothejbeggar ; wjtmjduesippliants ' of equaV degree , would pray with , equal earnestness , and with equa l resignation bear their equal share of the Creator ' s malison . ' This is * theTreason that I wish to take your

      fate out of the hands of the profit-monger , and out of the Government of the unjust ruler , who restr ict your earnings by the stringent laws of political economy , and increase" the price of your food by the rules of commercial speculation . Bear in mind , that I do not seize the shocking phantom for the purpose of exciting your feelings , for to me it was a reality seen in the distance . While chemists and professors of starch were engaged in investigating the condition of the potato crop of last year , I told you that they were but looking into the surface ; I told you that ,

      although the crop was of the year , disaster would be of a longer duration , and while they were talking of the colour and complexion of the skin , and the extent to which the arteries and tubercles had been affected with disease , I told you that , however imperceptible through the telescope of the professor , that consumption had reached the heart . But as we newspaper scribes are in the habit of prpphecying after events occur , allow me to call your attention to the following passage in my first letter from Belgium , published in the Star of the 20 th of September '

      1845 : — I conclude this , my first address , by telling you that the potato © crop hag failed in this country . More than the year's crop has been lost . I must solve that riddle for you ,-not only is this year's crop gone but it will be impossible TO GET SEED FOR

      NEXT YEAR . Now , there is the passage with the last words , emphasised precisely as in the original , and the paragraph concludes thus : — OUR Parliament only has occasional sittings , to " suspend the Habeas Corpus Act , " or to shoot the Chartists . When shall WE have a Land

      Parliament . Again , on the 1 st of November , 1845 , you will find the following passage , in a leading article written by me — If , however , those , at present uncontaminated , are pitted with the smallest portion of the infected , ALL WILL GO . Again , when writing upon the subject in the spring of last year , I told you , that the farmers would not be able to discover the real extent of the calamity until their eyes were opened by the failure of the succeeding year's crop . Again , in my letters to the Irish landlords , written so long ago as 1841 , from York Castle , in my second letter you will find the following passages : —

      My Lords and Gentlemen , " political economy " has no " finality ; " and , believe me , that the political economists will never rest satisfied till they make you tenants in your own houses , stewards to your own estates ; and beggars from the Pole , the Turk ; the Russian , the Prussians and the Americans , upon your own Jand . They wish to place you upon the shop-board , making breeches and coats which the foreigner may or may not purchase , according to convenience ; while they wonld make you dependants upon the foreigner for that which you must have three times a day , or starve , or do that which I am quite sure you never could bring yourselves to , aa yoa have transported thousands upon thousands for the same—STEAL .

      Now , do not think the picture over painted . Do not reject the advice because it comes from a " Obstructive . " Do not despise it because it comes through the only paper in England which dares to support the labourer against bis every enemy , from the monarch on the throne who gives assent to laws for his ruin , down to the policeman who executes thoselaws—do not . And ever bear the alternative in mind , REFORM or TRANSFER . That you may come to a righteous , ajust , and a sound conclusion , is the devout prayer of Your obedient , And very humble servant , Feabgus O'Connor . York Castle , Condemned Cell , 14 th of fifteenth month of solitary confinement .

      Now , I think you recognise the fulfilment of that prophecy in the coercion to which free trade government is subjecting the mortgaged estates of the Irish landlords and making them tenants to their own land . You know that a settling day between us is alvraysprofitable , it tends to increase your confidence in my judgment and your belief in my foresight , while the facts that I am enabled to lay before you lead your minds away from the flimsy

      sophistry of prostitute hired writers , whose sole attention is directed to the dressing of passing events in mysterious phraseology , each miserable mental abortion presenting them to his own class of foolish readers according to his own foolish imagination , while I present them to your contemplation in a solid and substantial form , deducing what must be the inevitable result of existing causes . I will , then , proceed with a few more extracts . In my third letter to the Irish landlords you will find the . following

      passages , and although the free traders denied the announcement of Mr . Acland , made to me in June , 1842 , relative to the intention of the mill owners to turn out their hands , you will find from the following extract , that in July , 1841 , the year previously , I looked upon the step as a natural consequence of existing circumstances , and that I also predicted want and famine would be the only things that would open the eyes of the Irish landlords . The following is the extract to which I refer : —

      Mt Lords and Gentlemen , —As it is my intention to devote this letter exclusively to a consideration of the labourer ' s case ; I feel myself compelled to refer to the arguments now in use , and eliad upon by the . antagonist political parties . In order as much as possible to avoid the introduction of politics , I shall merely state the professed object of the parties , and the success which , by their ascendancy , they hold out as the political thing to be contended for by the people .

      You are both agreed then upon the principle , or rather upon the object , which is to better the condition of the working classes ; the manufacturing class declaring that you are the impediments in the way of social happiness ; while yf » u charge your opponents with false pretences , a desire to plunder you and to usurp political power , without offering to the people , as the manufactures do , even a pleasing fiction , such as " cheap food , " to feed the imagination of the starving , lour position being good , your cry is— " we are very well ; let well enough alone .

      Now , my Lords and Gentlemen , it is my intention as assessor , faithfully to discharge my duty between you as rivals for power . In the first place then , the manufactures hold out something to the people , although it is a delusion ; while you , 9 turdy and obstinate in your newly-acquired power , have not even yet in the eleventh hour , offered anything substantial as a set-off against the manufacturers ' shadow . You hope to ward off their encroachments by

      Parliamentary majorities , wink they expect to assail vour granaries with a legion of starving besiegers , whose passions , by the stoppage of their mills , they hope to inflame to an extent unassailable by the voice of reason , uncontronlable by the influence of their leaders , and invincible from their numerical strength and their masters' implied consent , to setall law set at nought to a certain point , that point being the exact one where their own object shall

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      ¦ ; ,, ¦¦ " iJ ^ v > ' >' -yV ~~ - ' ¦¦¦ ' ¦¦ ! . •!¦ ' - ¦' ; " ; . J ¦"¦ - . " - ¦ .: : ¦¦' . i . " . v . i ' ,: . L , - , ; have been achieved . To these inducements for revenge add the hope of impunity and the heavy stake of life or death ; and weigh them against your political majority , and your : scale will kick the beam ! . . .- ¦ . - - . ¦ ¦ •¦ : ,. ¦; ,. : . ¦• ¦ ¦ ¦ .. ¦ . -. ., . ¦ ¦ . . ¦¦ ¦ . .,, . ....... ¦ . My Lords and Gentlemen , thus I prepare you 'for a state of publio mind over which reason ,- argument and influence oan have . no control , even for a moment ; when judgment and common' sense shall bo overcome by necessity and want . ;~ > I-telL yomthat yeur social abuseshjweled to the anticipation of inch amofflBnt . - , Iloofc to , fiwt causes rather than to resulte . -iandfinasmuoh as I . would ialtoirather acauit a

      drunken man ofthe crime of wilful murder , who in the moment of intorication . had . deprWedyhiB'fellow man of life , ; while > 'tha- > act < would nevertUeteas in * crease my tversioato a vice the indulgence : in which had led to the result ; sq ' with you ;« while I sincerely deplore ¦ the . shocking regults to which the uncontrolled power of manufactures has led , nevertheless ; I oannot banish from my mind the foot , tbatyour monopoly has been the causa of those results . ¦ Had you piven to natural labour , wholesome ; labour , and healthful labour , the full reward of its real value , thd manufacturers never would'hare beon able to drug the markets of the world with the produce of cheap labour , made cheap by expulsion from the land .

      In my fifth letter I show that the application of a certain amount of money raised by government , for the purchase of Irish land , upon which the Irish people should be located for ever , at the then value , is the only means by which your extensive domains can be protected against the ravages of the hungry ; and I conclude my third letter thus — My Lords and Gentlemen , believe me that no human being has a mote thorough contempt for a mere politician than I have , whether he be Whig , Tory , Radical , orChartist , except , he has some gveat aoeial object in view . Lock uptho land to-morrow , and I would not give you twopence for the Charter

      the next day , because you would have deprived it of its jewel . The Charter oan never give the people any control over the land ef those countries to which their attention is directed ; neither should it ; but it can give them control over it at home , so far as to relieve them f rom a hand-to-month dependence upon all who make unjust profit by their labour . I have no doubt that in my progress I shall make many enemies ; but all-who know me are aware of the hopelessless of an attempt to turn me from any course that I once undertake . I may be before the public mind ; and if so , I shall wait till it comes up

      tome : but a single backward step I will not . take . I am moderate in my demand , because it lessens no man ' s store , while it gives plenty to all . I am sincere in my undertaking , and I am resolved to procure the greatest amount of happiness for all , or if needs be to perish nobly in the attempt . My Lerds and Gentlemen , I have now told you how to build a wall of hearts around your persons , and of bone around yeur estates . You must make the people part and parcel of the nation , or they ' will cease to have any interest in the well-being of the country .

      Now , I ask you , if prophecies could be more completely fulfilled ? Did not the cotton lords turn out their bands ? and tell their starving slaves to besiege the landlords' properties ? Has not the very first effect of free trade been to compel the mortgage of their estates , for the sustenance of the poor ? And do not those barriers , those straitened limits , to which they would now gladly bend , stand in danger of falling before the cry of want , and pressure of hunger ? And have I not shown you , that it has always been my opinion that the Charter would not be worth possessing , if the land was locked up from the uses of the poor , and fenced in by the capricious

      landmarks of the rich ? But , I made a more recent prophecy for you at Nottingham . In analysing the construction of the present Cabinet , I told you that free trade principles predominated—that it possessed within itself the elements of dissolution , as Grey , and his relations and tools , constituted a majority of that ca billet ; and which , from the disposition of its leader , would be kept in perpetual turmoil . Well , what do we now learn ? Why that Lord John Russell was anxious for the immediate assembling of Parliament , but was overruled by the Grey faction ; uo doubt tipon the principle of political economy , that hunger , like water , must find its level .

      I do not dissent from this maxim , while I beg to remind Lord Grey , that art can dam up water , and procure for it an artificial level , by opposing artificial barriers to its course ; while hunger , in its full title . creates an overwhelming torrent , which no artifice can arrest , subdue , or level . It is unequal in its progress , raging in the valley , roaring on the mountain top , and descending the hill side in an irresistible torrent of uncontrolled and uncontrollable fury ; take heed , you lord with a crooked mind and eco-. nomical heart , how you build upon the science of political economy as a means of resisting unnatural want , and " lay not the nattering unction io yom soul " . that your cabinet-breath can stem the torrent , or arrest the storm , created by the wild elements of popular indignation .

      It would serve but a poor purpose thus to place the ripe cherry before you , without pointing out the means by which you may pluck it . I think , then , that I have made one gap , and not a small one , in the hard wall by which , for ages , your native soil has been enclosed from your nse , or even from your view . As I told the Irish landlords more than five years ago , I was then before the public mind , and I was obliged to bear the torrent of public anger , until thought and reflection had soothed it into repentance and approval ; and I now tell you

      that , although I am practically keeping pace with the existing meagre mind of ' the day , yet , nevertheless I am as far before it in bold , in natural and manly conception , as I was then . I saw that field of happiness , the gates of which would be open to the poor without a [ single loud knock upon the mere ' approach of their united voice . I know of nothing easier of accomplishment than the achievement of a sufficient amount of land for every man who wishes to live upon his own honest industry , —thus thinning the artificial labour market of its idle reserve . I have

      pointed out many of those means , many of which have been neglected ; but one lias become sufficiently fascinating , even in its sectional progress , to give the world a taste of what national co-operation may effect . I can build a good house , fit for a prince to live in , for less than . £ 100 ; 1 can purchase four acres of land , capable of being turned into the richest garden , for another .- € 100 , and , divested of the law of primogeniture , it is wortfi to the industrious occupant JG 400 in the retail market . My landlord , Mr . Short , a mechanic of Uilston , in whose

      house I now live , upon his own three acres , has visited it , I am sorry to say in my absence , as he came for HIS RENT ; but I am told by those who saw him , that he was nearly frantic with joy when , for the first time in his life , he entered a castle of bis own , and saw it surrounded by his own little territory , and for his title to which he said he would not take £ 400 , and he was perfectly right . And although for the present I am the landlord , yet my tenant could eject me .

      1 would gladly give him a . £ 100 rattier than surrender the spot to which I am so much wedded . However , it delighted my heart to hear of the ecstacy of his , and I beg leave to tell him , that hv would not know it , if he saw it now as it is , in a perfectly finished state . In ray last , I told you that I was going to inspect a farm of between one and two hundred acres . I have seen it , and have bid for it , and hope to secure it . It is in the very centre of the mining districts , with a population of nearly a million of consumers within a circle of twelve miles , and I am now about to start to where you shall learn next week , to bid for another farm

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      larger amount , but for which 1 expect ' topay an enormous sum as the land is marrow in the most . healthful district , and near one of the best market ; towns in England . But I doritt care , what I pay for land , provided it is good ; for I have always told you that land really worth' £ 60 an acre is better ^ alue for £ 80 , than land worth £ 15 an acre is worth tneacceptance . Therefore you must look out forsqu ^ is next weei c ... I rnust now conclude with the most characteristic anecdote . At the meeting on Monday night last , there was a man -eternally

      ba ^ ihg ^ ut ^ ' ^ ejjandj Ttie ^ you . buy more land ? " and a person who knew him aaidj after the ' meeting ; -- ' ' ' Sir ! did youknow who it was ; th ' at was continually calling out about the land ?" Ireplied , "No . " " Well , " said he , "I stood near him , and he was one ; of the contractors who was disappointed in not being able to make his pickings out of the land . " Now , ray friends , you will invariably find that those who have been disappointed in their pickings are the greatest sticklers for ecouoicy and rapid action . However , you may rest assured that ' neither scribes nor brawlers will drive

      us a smgle hair ' s breadth from our course . By this time the weather-cock is on the spire of our national school , and our flag is proudly waving over the first Chartist seminary , and which , ' without comparison , is the handsomest public building within fifteen miles . I am , my friends , Your faithful friend and bailiff , Feahgus O'Connor .

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      PUBLIC PRAYERS TO AVERT FAMINE . : The following is * copy of the prayer composed by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury , by order of her most sacred majesty , Queen Victoria , and ordered to be read on three following Sundays at the several places of worship throughout the kingdom . O most merciful Father , the creator and giver of all things , and who bast been pleased to create this world for man ' s enjoyment , we beg humbly to approach thy throne in the hour of affliction , to lay before thee our manifold suffering ! , to the end that thou mayest be pleated to relieve us miserable sinners from want and scarcity and famine caused by man ' s disobedience of thy holy will and commandments . . , ¦ ¦

      O most merciful Father , we , thy unworthy servants , thank thee most heartily for thy manifold kindnesses , and we feel assured that thy bountiful gifts , if divided according to thy holy judgment , would be ample for the sustenance of thy whole people .. But , O Lord , the nobles and rich people have taken all the produce of thy people ' s land and their labour to their own kindly use > and have left the producers to pine and starve for want ' 0 Lord ! we bless thee , and save us , we beseech thee , from those who oppress and misgorern us . O Lord ! we thank thea and pray thit thou mayegt be pleased to defend thy people from famine caused by neglect of thy holy commandments and law , wherein itis written , that man shall lire by the iweat of his brow , and that the producer shall be the first partaker of the fruits of his own produce .

      O Lord ! we toil and sweat , but the great onea devour our produce , and impiously tell us that famine has been caused by thy holy dispensation , but we heed them not , O Lord , because -we put our trust in thee , and because thou hast opened our eyes to the evil works of our enemiei . —Amtn .

      To The Imperial Chartists.

      TO THE IMPERIAL CHARTISTS .

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      PER MR . O'CONNOR . SECTION No . 1 . , . iHAKi . ' ' ¦ ,- " £ ; B . ii Excter , per F . Clark v , .. » ' " "V ;! ^ ' ' avistock , per E . Holl .. « » }>¦ : 3 Dodworth , per B . Croft .. >• v £ ' ; I Artichoke Inn Locality , Brighton , . per W . i . . Flower .. .. » » } ™ ° Plymouth , ' per E . Bobertson .. ¦ ' !"''" ¦ " i ' , n o : Newcastl ( M ) n-Tyne , per J . Nesbett g .. " " : n n b ' Norwich , per J . Hurry ¦ '" .. •¦'• . •' ,., ? ; ' Cheltenham , per T . Ulett ; : .. : » "' ' i v « ' Nottingham , per J . Sweet , .. '¦ , . ¦ » : 1 * » Worcester , per M . Griffiths .. . ' . •"• ¦ . ¦' ¦•? . « ' » Birmingham , per Tf . Thorn .. ii ' •' - , 2 « - % . Todinorden , per J . Mitchell .. « : ? 1 J J A Kiimarnoclc , per J . Dick . .. .. .. * » City of London , per J . Dunn 0 7 0 Preston , per J . Brown •• . , ; ., ,. .. .. . 812 , 9 Manchester , per J . Murray .. . .. , ¦ . .. 2 If . ° . Oldiiam , per TV . Hamer .. .. .. 0 18 O ' Aehton-under-Lyne , per E . Hobson ; . 2 2 It Sheffield ; per G . Cavitl ., .. ,. 1 2 C Wigan . per . T . Pye .. .. » * 6 2 Leicester , per Z . Astill .. .. .. 10 6 Colne , per R . Hey 0 18 S Bolton , per £ . Hodgkinson .. .. .. 0 15 11 '¦ . ' £ 37 8 4 B SECTION No . »; . ¦' ' .- ' . .. ¦ ,-. ¦ 1 ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ' : ¦ ' ' ¦¦ ABM . ¦ ¦' . . : ¦ ., ¦ ¦ : ; - '¦¦¦ ¦ ¦ Halatead , per J . Hurry .. •« « 110 Exeter , per F . Clark .. .. .. ... 2 0 4 Winchester , per J . Gallagher .. .. .. 18 ft Tavistock , per It . Holl ... .. .. 289 Artichoke Inn" locality , Brighton , per W . Flower , " , ., „ .. „ 0 12 5 Devizes , per J . Stow .. .. .. .. 9 14 0 Congleton , per J . Gosling .. .. .. 0 12 9 Eastlletford .. .. 116 Chepstow , per C . Walter .. .. .. 1 " 11 6 Hawick , per J . A . Hogg .. .. ,. 150 Plymouth , per E . Robertson .. .. ... 0 2 6 Cripplegate , per 3 . E . Cartwright .. .. *•» * Newcastle-upon-Tyne , perJ . Nesbett - .. 9 0 10 Cheltenham , per T . Ulett .. .. 3 : * 6 Nottingham , per J . Sweet .. •• •• ° , ® :- , ™ Norwich , per A . Bagshaw .. « » * * * 1 Worcester , per M . Griffiths .. .. .. ° « 8 Birmingham , per W . Thorn .. .. .. } , 5 ? Atherstone , per C . Vero 1 X X 5 Newark-on-Trent , per W . Walton .. .. 1 J 0 Barnsley , periJ . > Vardn ¦• u " ? 2 Corbridge , per R . Hawley .. .. ' .. 130 City of London , per J . Dunn .. .. .. 168 Preston , per J . Brown .. .. .. 3 16 C Manchester , per J . Murray .. .. .. S 4 Droylsden , per do .... .. .. .. 3 11 2 Oldham , per W . Hamer 3 2 « . Paisley , per J . Lithgow .. .. 200 Torquay , per J . Storieman „ .. .. 3 14 I Lynn , ' per J . Scott .. .. .. .. 2 0 10 Newton"Abbott , per J . B . Crews .. 20 0 o Ashton-under-Lyne , per E , Hobson „ ,, 0 17 0 Sheffield , per G . CaTill „ .... 1 14 f Clapton West , per E . Evans . .. .. 4 2 10 , Leicester , per 2 . Astill .. .. .. 1 * 0 Darlington , per W . Custton .. .. .. 0 7 8 Wolverhampton , per J . Steward .. .. 1 18 0 ¦ SwSndon , per D . Morriion .. .. .. 600 Bolton , per E . Hodgkinson .. .. .. 8 19 C £ 116 19 >

      PER GENERAL SECRETARY , SECTION No . 1 . flUARES . £ » . d . £ •¦ d . Jas . Smith - - 0 0 0 Ely . - . 0 13 8 Mr . Barton . - 0 10 0 Hyde - . . 16 8 Whittington and Pershore - - 3 2 0 Cat - - . 246 Totness- ' - . 105 Croydon - . 880 Stalybridge - - 6 0 Warrington - - 0 13 0 Hull - - - 0 15 0 Hanley - . . 239 WelliDgborough - 0 18 6 £ 17 18 6 SECTION fTo . 2 . Jos . Bartlett , Lit- Derby . - . 0 13 » tleton Pannell . 3 10 » St , German ' s de G . Sainsbury , do . 0 10 0 Navarre - - 7 3 1 Edinburgh - . 1 10 0 Square Buckley - 0 9 4 J . G . Harney . 020 Northampton - 0 18 6 Dai-vel ( Scotland ) 14 8 Hanley > - . 216 Porisea - - . 069 Sleaford - 0 15 9 - Mr . Russell , Bittern 1 10 0 Mr . Chancellor Strood ( Rochester ); Yarmouth - - 0 4 t per Willis . . ' 882 Horsley , per Hard-Fred . Capern . 010 iug - - - 0 4 6 Fred . York - . 010 Joseph Miller . 048 Westminster . 0 10 4 Ely - - - 1 4 0 J . J . Hodborn - 0 4 0 Tbos . Moore . - 0 1 0 Whittington and Hyde - - - 0 4 0 Cat - - - 4 8 4 Pershore - - 1 0 0 Edward Sullaway 0 2 G Ayr - - - 0 5 4 Croydon . - 0 19 9 Totnes . . . 242 Market Lavington 4 13 8 Stafford - - 0 5 4 W . Cuin - - 0 3 0 Hull - - - 0 7 0 Chorley - - . 2 16 6 Shiney Row - . 1 14 8 Joseph Pattison . 026 Stevenson Cullen . 018 Joseph ; , Vowet . 030 Perth - - . 208 Warrinstton - - 0 15 0 Lambeth . - 5 5 0 Washpouhd J- . 1 12 0 £ 5 i 18 11 TOTAL LAND FUNK . Mr . O'Connor , Section No . 1 ... 37 8 4 Mr . lWheeler „ „ ... 17 12 6 £ 55 0 10 Mr . O'Connor , Section No . 3 ... 116 19 9 Mr . Wheeler , „ „ ... te 13 11 £ 181 _ J 13 _ 8-NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . PIB MB . O ' CONNOB . KEGOTIVK . Mr . J . H . Longmead , Cornwall .. „ 0 2 8 FO » WIILLAMS AND JONBS . Darlington .. .. .. .. .. 010 RECEIPTS OP NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . PEB GENEBAL BECBET-kRT , T . Salmon - . 0060 . Willis , do . - 0 0 W . Salmon - . 006 Hull - - 0 7 W . Lepper . RochesterO 1 4 FOB MR . FBOST . Newport , per J . H . Anderson -tit Williams - . 276 Brighton . per Flower - . 0 18 6 WIIXIAES AND JONES . W . Lepptt - . 010 Bradford , per Cole * S t ¦ BKQIBTBAT 1 ON JDND . Cockeraiouth' . 039 veterans ' , widows ' , and orphan ' s tuksi . Cheltenham - . 033 CBOW . t AND ASCUOB MEETING . Mr , Jenkius - . 10 0 Mr . Black . . 0 0 « Thomas MartikWhieleh , Secretary . Erratum . —The £ 2 ncknovrledgf d from Paisley on the 18 th of Sept ., should have been in the 2 nd Section .

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      ours ; for O Lord ! it is these grieTinc « 8 which we humbly be g you to redren , that cauie plague , - ? pestilence ,. and ., famine , battfei , - murders , and sudden deaths , mi othir disobedience of thy holy commandments , which the ! mir « of our rulers will not allow us to keep . We blew thee O i Lorfl , and put out whol * trust In the » . Amen . [ It is earnestly requested that a goodwfader ' may be selected to read the above pwyer at all « meregation « \ ofthe working clasaeB on Sunday nextV . tSe people \ joining in the responses with a soleinnity becoming the awful occasion . ] . ¦ ^ .

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      morning considerable alarm waa created in bulney Street , l oplar , in cousequeuce of a fearful explosion occurring upon the premises in the occupation of Mr . Edward Deal . He was preparing a quantity of combustible matter used in the manufacture of fareworks , and whilst so engaged , the whole of the composition exploded with fearful violence , set ting the shop on fire , aud demolishing between 40 and oV squares of glass . The force of the exp losion was so great that the unfortunate occupier ot the P' « S was knocked down , his clothes ^ W flesh in some parts was torn lioni IS ™ Sh ; 3 ! canines of the parish and School- House-Lane , ^ md sijia ^ 'ra'iffissSgi ^ „ Air Deal , it was then ascertained that he wasse-: ' ¦ . - < -5 vercly burnt all over the body , ¦ ' j . . ¦> y It : . ; : M * «« 5 | jj | ^¦¦^^^^^ H ^^^^^ H ^^^^ HI

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      Essuisq Laud Cosprueece . — The Directors , in ae cordance with the powers entrusted to them by the late Conference , have decided that the above body shall assemble in Birmingham , on the first Monday in December , as specified in the rules ; they have also decided that the country shall be divided into districts , containing as near us circumstances will allow , 400 members in each district , such district to return one menVbei to the Conferonce ; to carry out the above decision , it is necessary that "each sub-secretary" should immediately make a return of the exact number of members in his branch , including both sections , this return must be scut to me , prior to Thursday , October 8 th , the Dim ; tors will then divide tha country into the requisite districts , anil make a levy adequate to bearing the expenses to be incurved . Election of Hoard of Dihectors . — Each branch has the power of nominating candidates to fill the office of Directors of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , such nominations must be sent to the General Secretary , T . M . Wheeler , S 3 , Dean-strcct , Soho , prior to Thursday , Ott . Sth , ( after which no nomination can be received ) in order to their being published iu tins ^(( r of the ensuing datt ; lists of the emuUchttes will then he furnished to the TariouB branches , out of which live persons duly qualified must be elected , the mode of election must be by ballot , and the number of votes recorded J ' or on eh candidate , in order to the same being laid by their delegates before the Gonft-rent'c . 1 'rinted instructions will be duly forwarded to each sub-secretary upon the receipt of the Nominations . Tliojias JlAim . v Wiieelee , Secretary .

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      In answer to numerous correspondents relative to tb » amount and object of the Directors' Levy , I hare to refer them to Uule 21 , where they will find that it is one halfpenny per share per month ; that is—6 d . a-year for one share , Is . a-year for two shares ; aud unless a fresh arrangement is made by the ensuing Conference , it would t be advisable that , in future , it should be paid in adTance . T . M . Wheeler . Sec .

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      That it may please thee to indue the lordi of the council andall the nobility with grace , wisdom , and understanding . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please theo to reform the magistrates , giving them grace to execute justice and to maintain truth . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people . We besaech thee to hear us , good Lord . That It may please thee te give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth , so as in due time we may enjoy them . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please theo to protect and defend thy people from kingcraft and priestcraft .

      We beseech thee to bear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to Bare thy people from overtaxation , starvation , and misrepresentation . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to sava thy people from all National Debts , idle pensioners , and standing armies , We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to preserve us from all state churches , tithes , aud church rates . Wo beseech thee to heu us , good Lord . That it may please thee so save us from all Bishops Parsons and Chureh dignitaries . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to defend and protect the poor from all hereditary legislators and corrupt lawmakers .

      We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to defend thy people from all landlords , cetton-lords , and money-lords , We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to save and defend us from unjust judges , packed juries , and cruel magistrate * . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord , That it may please thee to defend thy people from cunning bavristerB , petty . fogging lawyers , and their eltrks . We beseech thee to hsar us , good Lord . That it may please thee to defend tby people from all false witnesses , hired spies , and informers . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to defend thy people from all soldiers , sailors , and policemen . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . Thatit may please thee to save us from all distillers , publicans , and brewers .

      We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please theo to sore us from all Jews , pawnbrokers , aud money jobbers . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord , That it may please thee to save us from all bankers , merchants , and brokers . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may pleaBe thee to iave us from all rattle boscB , poor lawbaatiles , and bone crushing . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please theo to save us from all newspapers , magazines , and pamphlets . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to aare thy people from land commissions and Parliamentary committees . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to save us from all poor law commissioners , their assistants , mid clerks .

      We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to save us from mob orators , demagogues , and all artful and designing men . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may please thee to save us from all Whigs , Tories , and free traders . We be * occn thee to hear us , pood Loid , That it may please theo to save us from all patriots , beggars , and jugglers . We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord . That it may plcaso thee to lave us fi' « m all plaoemeu , pensioners , and idlers . From tyranny , oppression , and misrule , Good Lord deliver us . From slavery , tribulation , and woe , Good Lord deliver us . From railway directors and political economist ! ,

      Good Lord deliver us . From the hulk , the dungeon , and the tread-mill , Good Lord deliver us . Vtata the loom , the factory , and the mine , Good Lord deliver us . From class legislation , monpoly , and all peculation , Good Lord deliver us . Oh Lord ! we beseech thea to restove the l * . nd to thy people ; to grant them strength of body to cultivate it , so as in due time they may enjoy its fruits , aud to gran t them strength of mind to resist all the eril machinations of their enemies , who would teach them that thou , O Lord . ' and not they themselves , had afflicted thy people with great 6 orrovr and sere affliction . We beseech thee 0 Lord Almighty ! to grant our prayer , and then , O Lord '! there will be no more famine in tliu land , and thy people will be happy—yea , joyfn ) , and will ing praises te thy holy name—for we love and adore thee , in spite of the machinations of your enemies and

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      I . AND NATIONAL IS ^^^^^^ z .:. .,

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      OL TIX NO IU " 1 MD 0 N , SATURDAY , tOG ^^^ m ^ - ^ m ^^ j , . ^ :., . ^ mhm ^ ^ I » V / JJ . 1 J \ ., Vi \ J . ^ rj / * ' -- ¦ ¦ ¦ - - - - ' ¦ .... „ - ' ¦ ¦ ¦ .. .. . ^ . . . ^ , y . ? j ; , , ...- -- . ¦ ¦ > . ; ¦ ¦ .:- ¦ ¦ . , . .-. ¦! - give Shining * afttraixpence per Qnariar .

      —¦¦— ^N. - .;. ' . ;¦ • •: *"¦¦ ¦ " ." . R ¦ N &Lt;S , Receipts Of The Chartist Co-Opervfltk \ &Gt; V Land Society. X^V

      —¦¦— ^ N . - . ; . ' . ;¦ • : *"¦¦ ¦ " . " . r ¦ N < S , RECEIPTS OF THE CHARTIST CO-OPERVflTK \ > v LAND SOCIETY . X ^ v

      Alakming Eiplosios Or Fikkwohks.—On Monday

      Alakming Eiplosios or Fikkwohks . —On Monday

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 3, 1846, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1386/page/1/