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    • THE lORTIEfil STAB. SATLKBIY, AJJGUST XI, 1849.
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      J . Sweet acknowledges tlie receipt of the following sums , sent herewith , viz .: —Pok Conference Expenses , from Mansfield , 4 s Cd . - — 'For Macvamaha ' s Actios , from Mansfield , 6 s 5 d ; from Mr . Kirk , Id . Foe Victim Fosd , from Mr . lees , Cd . Mr . Bdjiob . —Your implied suspicion of my unfitness to receive subscriptions , ( and to many , might appear my integrity also , )—has somewhat pained me—and would induce me to decline receiving them , but that those who have already contributed refuse to receive their money tack , and insist that I shall continue to do good if I can . Your objection , that you know not whether I am authorised to receive subscriptions , would stand good if there was a real organisation of the Chartist party in this district , but unfortunately such is not the case , as the paucity of attendance at Philpott-street andBrimsv \ icli-naUwiU abundantly- testify , and the constant difficulty ia getting men to attend meetings . Upon these "rounds , at the request of Chartists who have known

      me from boyhood , and the convenient position of my shop , being midway between ' thc two meeting places , I ¦ wrote , requesting you to answer the same . To ine , personally , it matters little whether the monies are paid back to Mr . O'Connor , hut as a conscientious Chartist I do not like the position of our party in relation to this matter . With every feeling of fraternity . I remain , Johs Matuias , Butcher-row , Uadclin-cross , August 7 th . —[ We thought ourselves justified in inserting the notice which we did last week , but if the Tower Hamlets men ara satisfied ire cannot possibly have the slightest objection-Ed . A . & ] W . Chasdleb , Derby . —The Reporter has not come to hand : we have therefore withheld the letter addressed to Jlr . Heywood . TllEKinxDAiEl ' iusonERS . —Mr . E . C . Cropper acknowledges 9 s . 2 d . per James Cooper from Oldh . im , for the Kirkdale prisoners , namely Messrs . Cropper , Itankin , West ,

      Donovan , leach and White . TV . Pembeetos . Gateshead . —The Gatesliiad Observer has not eoine to hand . 6 . Brow * . Wafcefield . —We have no room . JfoncE . —The reply of the trustees of the "Xational Cooperative Benefit Society , " in answer to the statement put forth and signed Thomas Clark , Christopher Doyle ^ and I'hilip M'Grath . which appeared in the Star of August 4 th , will appear next week . A FitiEXD , loudon . —From Eustou Square to "Watford , and from thence a walk of six miles . EiDBEEMissTEB . — 'Tis enough to sbite that Mr . Gisborneis a Whig-Radical , much more Whiggujh than Radical : so Whiggish that the Nottingham Radicals gave liim the dirty lack out For further particulars enquire of Mr . Sweet , Goose-gate , Nottingham , or Mr . Barker , Smith's Temperance Coffee-house , Low-1 ' avemcnt , iu that town . 31 . 1 L Glasgow . —It is intended to reprint No . 1 of the Democratic Return .

      The Lortiefil Stab. Satlkbiy, Ajjgust Xi, 1849.

      THE lORTIEfil STAB . SATLKBIY , AJJGUST XI , 1849 .

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      HOW CEIMINALS ARE MANUFACTURED . Empiricism is the distinguishing characteristic of the age . The family of . the Surfaces have obtained the upper hand of society , and quackery is the order of the day . From the Pbime Minister downwards , the rule is to avoid anything in the shape of real substantial work ; if the turn can be served by some easily vamped-up stop-gap for the moment , that is all that is aimed at . " Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof . " and as for the '

      aecumulateu and accumulating evils which necessarily result from such a course , why posterity must meet them in the best way it can . It is a question , however , whether we are not the posterity who will have to pay in our own proper persons the penalty of this most shortsi ghted and deeply-injurious policy . The social evils of society increase with alarming rapidity . The honest working man finds it dail y more difficult to procure employment , aud * when he docs , it is at wages which barely

      provide the necessaries of life while he is at work , and renders it impossible for him to provide for slackness or entire want of work . Whatever may be the ultimate result—the immediate eftect of each successive improvement iu machinery is to throw a very largo proportion of the men out of work who were formerly engaged in producing the article to which the new machiueis applied . The persons so driven fromtheir previous occupation find that there is no new field of labour open for them . In every direction they discover that there are four or five

      men competing for one job , and pulling down the wages until they will scarcely suffice to keep soul and body together . In these circumstances there arc but two immediately available alternatives open to them—resource to the relief provided by the Poor Law or begging—and , by the usual graduations from that point , thieving . Perhaps , indeed , we should bo correctif we said that the iirstisthe preliminary step in the great majority of instances to that graduation in the mysteries of demoralisation and crime which the hopeless and helpless labourer has to undergo , and which , in so many instances , ends in converting into enemies ant ! a source of expense those who , if

      wisely and hnmanely treated , would have been the strength and life-blood of the body politic . This process of deterioration and impoverishment accounts for the annually-increasing expenditure . under the head of poor rates ; and also the large amounts expended every year for police establishments , criminal prosecutions , prisons , houses of correction , &c . They are evils not only of urgent necessity , but also of increasing magnitude . "We are approaching with , rapid strides to a state of things in which the lnaiutenaneeof what is called public security and order will almost amount to an impossibility ; while the national resources will be ' inadequate to the supply of the means which this useless effort will absorb . Some

      efficient measures ought to be adopted for the prevention of those crimes and vices which we now vainly attempt to suppress by retaliating evils upon those who are guilty of them . Instead of iustitutions for apprehending , sen tencing , and punishing those criminals who are , after all , but the victims of the present svstem , establishments ought to bo formed " in which the children of the destitute , the vicious , and the criminal may be educated to a contrary course of life , and afterwards provided with the means and inducements for continuing a life of honest industrv .

      The funds at present expended upon measures of public vengeance , by which the evil is only increased and multiplied , would ; if applied by slow degrees to measures of public charity , preserve the rising generation from growing up in such deep misery , ignorance ,. andcoiTnpti 6 h as the present is involved in . Although such a course might require , iu the first instance , a greater outlay , it would so ampl y repay itself in the end , that , even on the ground of economy , such a course recommends itself to adoption . . It is a great delusion to . think that foaetv has Uie cllOlCO whether or cot it' will

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      provide for all its members . iS /^ ch individual that grows up in it raust fi / ad a livelihood somehow or other ; if ho bo ' aot put in the way to earn it in a lawful , manner , he will seek it by unlawful means ; if he be not taught to lead a sober life , he will lead a life of dissipati on—but still he ^ will live ; if society refuse to take notice of him as an object of its care and protection , he will force it to notice him as an . object of "' its self-defeuoo and its vengeance . "Would ft not , therefore , bo infinitely wiser , that s . ociety should bestow the requisite attention find expense willingly , at a in its 1

      time when it has it powoito make them available for ^ b . o proper education of the individual thrown on its care—to an honest and sober life , and to a useful participation in the labours which the maintenance of societ y requires , rather than in the vain hope of evading the sacrifice , to leave the individual in a condition in which he must inevitabl y become an enemy ? Would it not be wiser at an early period to attach him to society by the ties of gratitude , than to punish him , when it is too late , for an alienation which was but the natural consequence of the physical , mental , and moral destitution with which he was lef

      to struggle unassisted ? Such was in effect the question really raised by Lord Ashley , when lately bringing the case of the 30 , 000 juvenile outcasts , who prowl about the streets of the metropolis , * under the notice of Parliament . Anything more painful , or more deplorable , than the facts contained in that statement , it is impossible to imagine , and when it is remembered that it applies , mutatis mutandis , to the same class in every one of our large towns , ; it reads like an

      indictment of deliberate murder against the nation . Lord Ashley proved by statistical returns , that very few persons commit crime for the first time after twenty years of age . Crime is first committed , in the great mass of instances , just at that period of life when the mind is most open to the best influences and most favourably disposed for receiving the best impressions , and it is therefore evident , that the seeds of crime being sown in early life , if they were eradicated then , the parties would not grow up into adult criminals .

      But let us take a few examples of the manner in which they actually grow up . A short time ago , Lord Ashley being desirous of seeing some of these seed-plots of crime , and the places where these unfortunate creatures slept , visited them at night in company with some other persons who feel a similar humane interest on the subject . They found hundreds living under dry arches , under doorways , and in out-houses , but most of them uuder the arches of incomplete houses . These arches were quite inaccessible , being blocked up in front , with the exception of an aperture just

      large enough to allow a person to creep in , and the only way of knowing whether there was any person inside or not , was by thrusting in a lantern , when fire or six individuals ; wore generally found inside . Of the persons so discovered he examined thirty-three , whose ages varied from twelve to eighteen years . Out of the thirty-three twenty-four had no parentssix had one parent each , and three had stopmothers . They were so begrimed with filth and covered with vermin , that it was difficult to go near them . Twenty of them had no shirts , and nine no shoes ; twelve had been

      once in prison—three , twice—three had been four times—four , eight times—and one , a youth of fourteen years of age , had been twelve times in prison . Most of them could not recollect of ever having slept in a bed during the last three years , and when asked how they managed in winter during the cold weather , they replied , " We lie eight or ten together in these holes . " They fairly confessed that they had no means ' , of subsistence but begging or stealing , and that the only mode by which they could turn a penny legitimately was , by picking up old bones and selling them .

      Such is the incipient state of those pro-doomed criminals . Every avenue to honest industry is closed against them . Destitute of clothing —of education — character—and influencethere is not the remotest chance of their ever obtaining a situation m which , by their own labour , they may support themselves . Tbo curse of Ishmael of old is upon them . Their hand is against every man , and every man's hand is agaiust them . Let us follow their melancholy career a little farther , and , with the same authority , take a peep into an adult

      thieves' meeting . "Last year , " said his Lordship , " he received a paper signed by 150 of the most notorious thieves in London , asking him to meet them at a place in the Miuories , and to give them the best counsel he could , as to the mode in which they could extricate themselves from their wretched position . He wcut to their appointment , anil found 250 instead of 150 assembled . They made no secret of their mode of life . They said , 'We are tired to death of the life we lead—we aro beset by every misery—our lives are a burthen to us , for we never know from sunrise to sunset whether we shall hare a full

      meal , or any meal at all . How can we escape from such a wretched life ? ' " Is there not something profoundly touching in this cry from the castaway wrecks of our modern civilisation ? It sounds like the accusing voice of old , " Cain , where is thy brother Abel ? " and , as of old , the reply , "Am I my brother ' s keeper ? '' Avill not excuse our neglect of the means by "which these lost members of society might have been saved from ruin . What was Lord Ashley ' s reply to the questions put to him—what his counsel to these miserable men ? Did he hold out hope of restoration to

      society , and the chance of purification from the stains of vice and crime , by a life of probationary industry ? Xot at all . Society , which neglected them , and made a life of theft an inevitable necessity , cannot offer compensation for the ruin it has caused , or op en a door of escape to the victims it has made . Lord Ashley told them—and most truly—that at the present day competition was so great that no situation became vacant but there were at least three applicants for it ; and , more especially was the difficulty increased in their case , when men , whose characters were tainted , came in competition with others on whose character there was no stain . To that they replied—taught by bitter

      experience"What you say is most true ; we have tried to get honest employment , and we cannot ; our tainted character meets us everywhere . " Even when some of them are so fortunate as to secure places they are hunted out of them , and driven back upon their old miserable life . One young man gave his Lordship a case in point . He had contrived to get a good situation , and , after some time , his employer was as well pleased with him as he was with his employer , when a policeman came one day to his master , and asked him if he was aware he was employing a convicted felon ? The master , on ascertaining such was the case , discharged him immediately ; and he was once more driven back to live by plunder .

      The country is indebted to the benevolent nobleman we have so frequently named , for bringing such facts as these into notoriety . He himself shrinks from proposing a remedy commensurate with the evils of which he depicts the- g igantic outlines . But in the very nature of things and incited by the instinct of self-preservation alone , the middle classes and the Government must ere . long make an effort of an adequate and remedial character .

      The heartless and flimsy arguments by which the Home Secretary excused the Government for withdrawing even the paltry allowance for aiding the emigration ' of a few of these juvenile criminals which was made last year , was eminently characteristic of the quackery of modern statesmanship . It is true , no doubt that to take 100 or even 200 of these youn * outcasts away to a colony where a chance of an honest life is opened out to them , does to some extent Been ) like a premium to their class

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      Be it so , But ' iet it be remembered that the class does not create itself . It is the spawn of ow own system , and we havo no right to punish them for the vicious operations of our own bad institutions . If it be further argued , that so small a number would make little or no perceptible reduction in the ranks of the army o juvenile criminals , then remove the whole of them under arrangements favourable to their reclamation aiid their future industry . At 102 . a head that would cost only 300 , 0001 . for the whole of the roaming outcasts in London , and when we remember that we spend

      annually three times that sum in a useless blockade of the African Coast , and in the vain endeavour to suppress the Slave Trade , which nourishes the more tho more money we waste in this most Quixotic of enterprises—it is clear that there would bo ho difficulty in finding the means . Tho blockading squadron would be much more usefully employed as transport ships , and the money iu converting these poor pariahs into good members of society . That sum would allow the Government to extend its operations to this unfortunate class in all our large towns , and by means

      of well-devised arrangements , combining educati on with labour , our colonies might be supplied with a race of willing and _ efficient labourers the founders of new nations—who if retained here will prove a post in the bosom of society . Nor is this all . As they proceed from crime to crime in this country , the extent and expensiveness of our punishments will increase , and at last , after having cost some 200 ? . or 300 L in this sort of way without effect , they will have at last to be sent out as convicts steeped in crime , wedded to vicious courses , arid totally incapable of sustaining honest exertions , to these very colonies . Never was

      there a more insane or suicidal policy than this ! It . seems as if it was expressly devised for the purpose of demoralising the community and increasing the social and fiscal grievances under which tb . 8 nation is now groaning . We speak of it in its lowest and most obvious aspects . There are other and higher considerations which might be urged for the adoption of a more Christian course in this matter . But we must content ourselves in the mean time with this cursory glance at one of the most pressing and important topics of the day , promising , however , to return to it again and again in the spirit its importance demands .

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      - ' - — ' — - ^¦ — TEE TEN HOURS ACT . We observe with pleasure that Richard Oastler , the undaunted champion of the Factory Child , is prosecuting a vigorous agitation iiftho North against tho infamous and illegal conduct of the Mill-owners , who persist in breaking the law . This is , perhaps—under the circumstances—the only course open to the advocates of that measure . Public opinion , in the long run , rules all parties in this country , and , perhaps , Sir G . Grey , when he ascertains by this means the almost unanimous determination of Lancashire in favour of the law , will feel himself bound to insist upon its being obeved .

      At present the Russell Cabinet are afraid of alienating the powerful interest of the class who have openly conspired to evade the law . That such a conspiracy exists there can be no doubt . The clauses regulating the hours for commencing and closing labour are not new . They were framed by themselves , and when embodied in Sir J . Graham ' s Twelve Hours Act were correctly interpretated , and honestly acted upon . In fact , the new law only alters tho old by substituting ten for twelve hours work per diem .

      Against this alteration tho Lancashire millowners made a desperate struggle , but despite their predictions of ruin to our manufacturing system , if it was carried , public opinion prevailed , and the Legislature at length set its seal to tho labours of benevolent men , who had for so many years advocated tho claims of the factory labourer . Wherever tie law has been fairly tried , it has produced all the moral , financial , and domestic results that were predicted by those who supported it . Improved health and spirits on the part of the labourer , havo enabled him to produce more in a shorter time than he did formerly , and thus effectually disposed of one standing bugbear of the

      opponents of the bill—namely , that it would diminish the production one-sixth . In the next place , tho women employed in the factories having more time to devote to their domestic duties , find that the comfort of their homes is largely increased , and , at the same time , that the money goes further than it did under the old system . In spite of every attempt that has been made to seduce the factory workers into an expression of dislike to the law , or even in favour of an eleven hours compromise , so satisfied are they with its practical working , that they have declared , we may eilmosfc say unanimously , in its favour . The deduction of four from the hands

      employed in JJolton , for instance , can scarcely bo said to impair the unanimity of the operatives of that large and busy town . pnthe other hand , the millowners of Lancashire generally , reckoning , no doubt , without their host , have , apparently , resolved to set the law at defiance ; they have organised a relay system , which is directly in the teeth of the spirit and intent of the very words of the Act , and when the Government Inspectors havo

      charged those guilty of this violation of the . law , the Magistrates—Arcades ambo — have dismissed the charges ! "A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind ; " but the part of ' tho story which needs explanation most , is why the Homk Secretary has not at once dismissed the Magistrates who have thus tampered with justice , and prostituted the bench to subserve their individual or class interests ?

      There is the greater difficulty in replying to this question satisfactorily on the part oi the Government , because it has no doubt what the-law is , and what it meant it to be . The law officers of the Crown have decided in favour of the interpretation put upon it by the Government Inspectors , and we believe that Sir G . Grey and Lord J . Russell both concur as to what the law really is , and that the millowners are guilty of a shameful evasion and violation of its provisions . Why , then , do they not visit with , instant condign punishment those judges who refuse to enforce the

      law ? Why , instead of this , do they connive at its infraction , and even go the perilous length of advising a compromise with the lawbreakers ? Why , alas . ' the answer is not far to . seek . ' Gold and political power in this country are omnipotent . If the offenders had been poor men , there would have been " short shrift" made with them . Judges , magistrates , and lawyers have a wonderfully keen iiisi ght into matters when the ( accused is poor ; but gold exercises a blinding effect upon their optics , which , it is to he feared , in too many instances justifies the adage that , " There is one law for the rich , and another for the poor . "

      We hope , however , that the spirited movement now taking place in the manufacturing districts , will countervail this tendency on the part both of tho Magistrates and the ' Government , It is to be regretted that the law did ' not embody an appeal from the decisions of the Magistrates to the Court of Queen ' s Bench and though we would rather see the Act enforced as it is , without any further appeal to the Legislature upon the subject , yet we suggest that if such an appeal * bo requisite , the friends of the factory operatives will take" care that such a provision is introduced , and thereby take the power of abusing the law out of the hands of men who are surrounded b y too many direct and powerful incentives to waver in the impartial discharge of their duties . In the

      meantime , success to the gallant " Old King " and his brave Confederates , who arc now advocating tho cause of jujstjeo and humanity J

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      — wgi TO THE MEMBERS OP THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . In consequence of the imperative necessity of the Directors attending tho Conference at Snig's End , no List of Monies will be published in this day ' s Star . Samuel Booxham , For the Directors .

      EXECUTIVE FUND . Received by S . Kydd . —Kipponden , 7 s . ; Rochdale , 10 s . Received at Land Office . — -Bennondsey Chartist locality , us . FOR COST OF MACNAMARA ' S ACTION . Received by W . IIideii . —T . Kiit . Ashby-do-la-Zoucli , O'd . Dewsbury , per E . Newsome , 12 s . Cd . ; Mansfield , per J . Sweet , Nottingham , Us . 3 d . ; JTr . Kirk , per J . Sweet , Nottingham , 4 < 1 . Kewived at Land Office . —Cheltenham , oS . lid . ; JSermondscy Cliaitist Locality-, -5 s . VICTIM FUND . " Received at Land Office . —Cheltenham , 6 s . 4 d . ; JJcrniondsey , 5 s . ; South London Hall , per Collins , 4 s . 10 d . ; Golden-lane Locality , is . 14 ( 1 , ; proceeds of u Ikll and Concert , Tnig Folly , per J . Allen , 10 s . ; -Tower Hamlets Locality , 4 s . yd . FOR W . CUFFAY . Received by J , Gisassbv . —Stambridge , per J . Dalbv , Is . -Id . ; Allottees at ChiirtcrviUc , Ss . ; Mr . Catterall , Is "W . Small , 4 d . ; Henry "Wilks , 2 s ; George "Wilks , Is . ; James Barren . Ashford , Kent , Gil .

      CUFFAY AND OTHERS ' Received by J . GiMssisr . —ltising Sun , per Mr , Scuttcn , « s . ; Z ' enzancc , per J . Lewis , 10 s . ; \\\ Kider , as per Star , £ ' - ' Us . ad . ; George Wilks , is . ; Henry Wilks , Is . ; Failsworth , per James Taylor , -3 s . Sd . Received by W . Kidfji . —Mr . Wadleton , " Birmingham , per "W . H . Kudhall , Is . Received at Land Office . —Mi-, l ' earcey , » s , tidi FOR WIVES AND FAMILIES OF VICTIMS . Received by W . Rider . —A Friend to Liberty , Muvton Colliery , Gd . ; Nottingham , per J . Sweet , Gd . ; Jlr . Lewis , Crown-street , Soho , is . 3 d . FOR KIRKDALE PRISONERSReceived by S . Kydd . —Dalton , Three Friends , Is . ; llolly well , Brook , 10 s . fid . FOR THE HUNGARIANS . Received at Land Office . —Benjamin Hitches , Is . ; a few Tailors , Kivcr Head , per i . l ' earson , 2 s . M'DOUALL'S CASE—FOR WRIT OF ERROR , ( on othehwise ) . Received by Yi . Rider . —A . Simpson , Dundee , 3 s . 3 d . FOR MRS . JONES . Received by W . Rider . —A . Simpson , "Dundee , 2 s .

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      TO FEARGUS O'CONNOR , ESQ ., M . l \ Dear axd Uoxoured Sin , —We have heard with much pain , that you arc about to-retire from public life on account of tho ingfr . ititudc . of some of the members of tho body to which wo belon . fr . Wo assure you , that wo feel much interested in the continuance of your labours in . behalf of the people ; we think'thafit will be a great-pity-for you to . give up your labours at tho present time , when tho cause of Chartism'is-rapidly reviving mid the triumpli of our principles in a short ; time is almost certain .- We , therefore , do entreat you to remain . it your post , ho that you may have the honour ' of being a conqueror ovoi- tho enemies who have impodeaour progress ; and we also think that our cause would be rery fiiucliTetai-dcd by vour rotire-

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      Gosport . —At a meeting of members on Monday , July 30 th . the following resolutions were passed unanimously : — "Thatthis * bran < sh has the greatest confidence in Mr . O'Connor and his brother Directors . "' "That the Company have nothing to do with the government nor the law , and that the affairs of the Company be carried on under the name of the Chartist Co-operative Land Company , as formerly . " ' That the ballot be re-established , knowing that it would give general satisfaction to a large majority of the members , as it would stimulate them in essrtion , and increase the weekly payments . ' "Thateacb member pay the sum or' 6 d . per week until all the members are located , an- 'l those not complying tobe excluded from tlie ballot . The weekly payments of the paid-up members shall be placed to their account in the Redemption Fund . " " That eaek branch undertake to pay off , by instilments , all dissatisfied members belonging to their own branchthat is , those not complying with the rules that may pass at Conference . " TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTIIERX STAR . SiRi —The resolutions which appeared in the Star , passed at a late meeting of tin ' s branch , and whick I can assure you never would have passed had there been a good meeting , had the effect of causing a large meeting of members on the 3 rd inst ,, il report of which meeting I was instructed to send to the Star office for insertion . I trust , therefore ,, that you will have the goodness to insert in the first publication of the Star the following . Yours Ac ,

      Aberdeen . It . Robertson-. Aberdeen . —The monthly meeting of this branch of the National Land Company took place upon the evening of the 3 rd inst ., at Mrs . liain ' s , 63 , Castlo-street . After the usual business was transacted , Mr . John Thomson was unanimously voted to the chair , Avho requested the secretary to read tho minutes of tho last meeting . A most enthusiastic debate took place between the movers and seconders of the resolutions-passed at the last meeting , and some of the parties present . Some of the best and ablest reasoning , both pro and com , as to the practicability ' and impracticability of the Company , was brought forward , and gave great information to the meeting , which was the largest we have had here this last twelve months . All tho resolutionswere discussed , one by one , the opposors holding that they were not tho resolutions of this branch , there being but a thinly attended quarterly meeting ,

      the supporters showing plainly that excry means in their power had been employed to effect a meeting without having recourse to physical force , and that they had themselves to blame for the resolutions , by not attending . It was finally agreed upon— " Tha 6 this not being a general meeting , no resolutions be moved , but that we adjourn until the evening of Monday , the 27 th inst ., being the last Monday of this month ; and that there be a general meeting called by bill for that evening at eight o ' clock , at Mrs . Bain's , 03 , Castle-street , to read and comment upon tho proceedings of-the Conference , when motions made and carried at said meeting would undoubtedly be the real resolutions of this branch . A vote of thanks being conferred upon the chairman , and duly responded to , the meeting broke up at ft late hour and parted all . cood friends , only naturally indignant that we haft to obey anil support a , system of government that opposed every scheme calculated to benefit the condition of the working classes .

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      Bradford . —At a meeting of members held in tho Democratic School Room , Croft-street , on Sunday , August 5 th , the following persons , were duly elected to serve as counciimen : James Courman , John Sajver , Samuel Wood , Jeremiah Dewerst , George Croft , James Croft , John Parrot , president ; John Konninton , sub-treasurer ; Richard Gee , treasurer ; Edward Smith , financial secretary ; Thomas AVilcock , corresponding secretary . Auditors , Henry Wandel , Robert Pickles . AH correspondence for the Chartists of Bradford must be addressed to Thomas "VVilcock , care of Thomas Umpelby news agent , Mauchestcr-road , Bradford .

      AMEniOAS Mothkhs . —When my ivife first entered the ladies' cabin , slic found every one of the numerous rocking-chairs tilled with a * mother suckling an infant . As none of thorn had nurses or servants all their other t'hildrcii were at largs , and mirrht have been a great resource to passengers suffering from ennui , hud they been under tolerable control . As it was , they were so riotous and undisciplined , as to bo the torment of all who approached them . "How lortunato you are , " said one of tho mothers to my wife , " to he without children ; they are so ungovernable , and , if you switch thorn , tlieyiullr , oi > go into hysterics . " The threat of " I'll switch you , " is for over vociferated in an angry tone , Lufc never carried into execution . One genteel and pleasing young lady s . it down by my wife , and began conversation by saying , " You hate children , don't you s" intimating that such were her own feelings . —Lydl ' s Second visit to ;/( . ; ( failed Stales .

      ax Uni / Uckt Meaia — " What dogs nro t-heso , Jasper ? " inquired iv gentleman , the other day , of a , lad who was dragging a couple of waspish-looking terriers along Regent-street , London . " 1 dinna ken , Sir , " replied the -urchin ; " they cam' wi' ti ) Q railway , and they ate the direction , and dinna , ken whar to " gang . " John Kxox ' s IIocse . — "Wo understand that tho proprietors of this venerable tenement are resolved to reclaim to tho Court of Session against the decision of t ! io ¦ Dean ' of Guild Court , requiring its removal . In conjunction with the Society of Antiquaries , the proprietors have expressed their willingness to place the i ' nhria in a proper state Of

      repair , and they mainvain that the grounds upon which the Dean of OuiUl Court havo adopted their present resolution arc insufficient . —North British M < xiL The only British sovereigns that have visited Ireland , in peace or war , were ilenry II , John , Richard II ., James II ., William IN ., and George IV ., iu August , 1631 . Her Majesty is the first British Queen that hiss visits " " the country . The total cost of the riirolloil pensioners from l $ -ii to 1 S 4 S-0 was £ lo . 'V > 8 i ; the total number of pensioners - enrolled - < - > 3 , ' 37 £ ; namely , SOfiSl in Great Britain , and 51 , 3154 in Ireland . Mokb Gold 1 !/ . gio . ys . —The Jeffcrsonian Monkor , of Texas , asserfs that gold exiat 3 in the Wachita Mountains to an equal extent to . that in California ; and the Arkansas local journal states that gold has

      been discovered in that river . A z ' jsrsox ia-: ixB seated at a table between two tribesmen ' , and thinking to be witty upon them , suk ! , " How pretty lam , fixed between two tailors . " " Yes , ] ' was tho reply , " being only two beginners in business , we cannot afford to keep more than obo goose between us . " Wj ; omen hear ot ' tlio enlightenment of the middle classes . Is it a proof thereof that last Friday's Owute announced tho dissolution of partnership of the Norwood Green Corn and Flour Society ( having mills near Halifax , , te ., ) and that while fifteen members subscribed their names , twelve subscribed then marks ?

      Advanck oi- Wages at Lkicbsteb . —We are happy to hm that most of tho loading manufacturers havo agreed to give au advance of threepence per do 2 en upon all wrought hose sham knits ; the advance to be-paid for all taken in on Saturday ; August 4 . Itis e xpwtcd that this advance will bo sfiovtly eonceded by M .-lckcstcrmn Chronicle . « . rM ™ - ^? s aS ° ' - y - y svilm > engineer of tho Mhiopia steamer , canghfc a young shark while amusing himself with fishing in the Kelson Dock . It measures about fourteen inches in length , and is considered a great curiosity , ' as fish of this species arc rarely cau ght in Englanj , ^ ijWnwrf C ' wrffl .

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      THE ROyil ^ siT ^ al RELA 3 ST 3 . After the lapse oTw ^ f ^; y 8 " ^ Sovereign of the United Bn ^ taJJ * visit to Ireland . According ^ the "J ^ JJ accounts Her Majesty has been receivedhutt thGmost uproarious , unanimous , and entnu siastic loyalty . This we can believe tat it somewhat detracts from the value of s £ ch a reception , vheu ire rememher « " * ^ Jg IV . was , in like mawMff overwhelmed with « io lov « l manifestations of His admiring subjects oitt " ^^^ ^~^ . _„_ -,-,- i -utt-y

      It was , however , a bold stroke : » w to gild over the failure of their Irish pollcy ,, by a royal visit . It is in human nature to pme those things most highly of which it B deprived , or which it enjoys most r arely , l Jo Irish People aro . traditionally loyal . iae fee ing of clanship-of love for the " ould Chiefs , " and tho " ould families , " forms the basis of » character in which the sentiment of loyalty is likely to take root , and flourish in its ^ ff ^^ trf ^ r ^ « ffld , ff « t empire should impress on the heart and mind of Heu Majesty more strongly the necessity for commencing a new , vigorous , and practical policy in that country , it will be tho most useful of any she has yet paid to any part of her dominions . Now that the fa se shallow agitations which stood between the people and a

      clear perception of their wants and interests , have died a natural death-now that the empty declairaers and mercenary spouters of Conciliation Hall are scattered to the windstho landlords t o a great extent humbled , and the full measure of Ireland ' s woes been taken —we-may venture to indulge in the hope that ere long the foundation of a now order of things ' will be laid by some party—which will have the effect of developing the vast and varied resources of a country upon which Heaven has showered its choicest natural

      blessings . In connexion with this . subject we mentioned last week a discovery by Mr . Owen of the value of peat-bog , and the various articles of value which could be produced from it by a process of destructive distillation . The authority on which wo relied was so high and unexceptional , that we considered ourselves warranted in implicitly accepting the statements made by them in Parliament , on the faith of actual experiment and practice . Since that time , however , Ave find the accuracy of these statements have been impugned by several writers in the Times , and by a leading article in the Morning

      Chronicle . It is admitted , that peat bog will produce all the articles enumerated , but it is denied that they will produce them in such abundance , or at the cost set down . We have at present no means of deciding between these contradictory statements , but Ave understand that it is the intention of the patentee and discoverer , shortly , to form a public Company , for tho purpose of prosecuting his discovery upon a large scale , and we shall then probably be in a position to judge more satisfactorily of its capabilities as a practical measure for tho introduction of capital , and the extensive employment of labour in Ireland .

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      TO FEARGUS O'CONNOR , ESQ ., M . P . Worthy asd Dear Sin , —Great captain of our political and social regeneration : "We have heard , with extreme regret , that you aro about to retire from tho post you have long filled with so much credit and honour to yourself , and advantage to iis . Your incessant labour — your discreet management—your self-devotion—your disinterested and liberal conduct manifested in our behalf , have not passed by us without sincere feelings of gratitude and love . It is too true we havo shown much apathy towards you ami your iioble exertions , but that has been from want of ability to express , and not from want of hearts to feel . It is , also , too trill ' , when some of your degenerate children have acted with base ingratitude , we have stood l > v silent and

      apparently unconcerned , leaving them entirel y to your fatherly chastisement , when we should have strongly expressed our reprobation and disgust at such base conduct . ] 3 ut you , Sire , who are so well acquainted with tho faults and failings of human nature , we hope , will make every allowance fw such neglect , and not abandon ix whole confidinofamily to gloom and despair , for the black ana vipei ' -like conduct of some of its members . ? vo , wo cannot for a moment believe , that Itavinf so Jar succeeded in your benevolent undertaking you will now abandon it , but will , as you have often ' decjared , ini spite of allopposition , bring it to maturity . , 10 nope for one to fill your place is preposterous ; * if sufficient in every other qualification , he wonld hick our confidence , which you possess to tho fullest degree . Wo trust that the delegates , in Conerenco , may adopt such measures as will restore the Land

      project to health and vigour , by dvivi »» ii'om among us all the hornets and drones , vitfi those whose hateful selfishness can never bo satisfied , and , consequently , will be always tmmiblin " and mailing that which would otherwise be ha £ mony and peace , nothing but discord and confusion , leading to destruction . In conclusion , Ictus entreat you to go on and may He wko has given you aieh an iron arm and such mental and physical vigour , still support you in your herculean and righteous undertaking to ' sec the object of your utmost wishes accompTisliedt isit 01 beholding happy groups basking in the sunshine of every comfort , " under their own vine and ngtree , none daring to make them afraid . " We remain , dear father , captain , and benefactor , Your-jjr-Atoful children , and faithful soldiers . On bchalt of the Dorking branch of the Xation Land Association . ^ Wilmam Hooms , Secretarv . Dorking , August 1 st . v

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      ment . -We therefore gratefully thank you fov your past services in behalf of our order , and we beseech vou to continue your exertions , so that the Charter may bo speedily obtained , and that you ,, sir , may have tho consolation of not havinc toiled io vain , but live to see the principles which ( to useyour own words ) have absorbed your life ' s devotion become the law of the land . From tho Chartist Association , Berry Edge . : G . Stobart , Secretary , -.. ¦ _ .. -rtr- * hnvafni > a rrrntnfiiliv fhnnt vnii fnv

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      A VISIT TO O'CONNORVILLE . On Monday last a numerous party of friends from the Tower-Hamlets visited this estate and with others from Chesham , Chalfont , Dibdin Hill , &c , the assemblage presented a gay ar . ri animated appearance , Tea was provided in the School-room , to which a goodly company sat down , and those who could not he accommodated therein were amply supplied by the allottees . The view of the estate from the front of the School-house was most encouraging , and highly satisfactory . The beautiful and abundant crops of wheat " already ripe unto the harvest" and the fine and healthv appearance of the potaioes were

      mucbapplauflfd . Certainly here and there a few pieces of barley ( through the drought ) were not in that prosperous condition niiich could ba desired , yet on the whole the land under cultivation n fleets great credit on the allottees generally and bespeaks a vast amount of energy , perseverance , and industrv on their part . The visitors , on the contrary , expressed their opinions in rather severe terras on the slats in which the land belonging to the ScliooUhouse is situated ( nearly the whole being overrun with weeds ) , and also expressed their deep regret that instead of being a " Modkl , " it was a eisgrace to those whose , duty it was to cultivate it . After enjoying themselves for some hours , the company left this delightful spot , highly admiring ( with the exception above stated ) what they had seen .

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      ' A _ , ' August 11 , 1849 , , THE NORTHERN STAR ; — 4 ———~— m ~ _ .. ___^—«^——*— ' ^———i ——^^^^^^ " ^^" ^^^^^

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 11, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1534/page/4/