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      ( rcas yon rpo . v the question- of EXPEDIENCE—TRANSFER— COMPROMISE-POLITICAL TRAFFIC AXD COMPENSATION yOB ALL CLASSES AXD ALL SECTS OP ALL yiTIOXS , AND TO ilY OWN DEAR FUSTIAN JACKETS . BLISTERED HANDS , A 2 il > TJXSHOES' CHIXS , THE PROP OF ALL . vrpsiS Fbiesds , —I anxiously crave your best

      -gartion to a letter winaa . promisee to be Tery long , as the subjects on which it design * to treat are numerous ««! coaip kx . yet so minutely dependant one upon the flrtJ £ r as to sake them accessories to the facts vrhich I -esn to charge against misrule ; and if my good friend , Mr Hill , should see a necessity of " peaking" my story in $ a middle , you will keep botii ends w hot in your jaemtff- maie tiiem Btron 8 * ° ¦ weld , and -amDlfitfi as a whole .

      iiy fist » nd last tains , expediency and compensa . ? Jqj . a » tfee greii questions to -which . I « hall direct your ^ gjpoB ; the others , transfer , compromise , and politia 3 tnSe . * but filling staff , and shall be nsed nurely as inch-ErpedisBcy , as you haTe been often told , and of irtuch dear-bongat experience hag convinced yon , is $ 1 iyrasf * j > fea . Waiier , in his dictionary , gives ni ^ ren different meaning for the vord .- fitness , prorgHZj , suitableness to an end , expedition , adventure , taste ' dispatch . Xo-sr , suppose ve diride those

      meanjtgs into tyrants , and ss their share is generally the biggest jalf , -re may safely concede to them the four latter win-{ jay : " expedition , " " adventure , " "haste , " "dispatch , " \ rtSe to the vocabulary of just rulers , -we should say , && three former proyerly beltng . In fact , one -would icppose that , according t » the Engliahlanguage , fitness , wopristy , and suitableness to an end , wert the true Bostructiow of the vrord , while the four latter , Tarying , « fc& > af ^ , " ia meaning from the former , -were added in x , pp £ Edix , since the Reform Bill , as growing * ut of & £ ¦ & > made of the term by Reformers .

      ^ jie ttsse four -words , expedition , adventure , haste , fljuatea , ind I ask you , could the mind of all-ingenious nakhsTB tjfepona motto more typical of Whig-reformed DoBrr- '' HaTe they not provea themselves mere idTeatares , relying upon transfer , compromise , politiol taSc »<* compensation , for tne success of their Eidsrtatsp ? Hare not sxpedition , haste , and dispjjti , ia » ll things conducing to the adventure , marked tbarereryact ? -while , in all matters connected with ttB ireifire of the state , a creeping , cringing , moping , fsEagi gaping policy , has marked their every step , as If jrnrehensiTe &nd fearful of meeting an apparition of ? csSce ia wins part of their piratical course- Have fpwat , propriety , or suitablenaas to an end , once eniHBd in » their councils , or governed ' ^ their actions ?

      5 o , act once . If it is expedient to reliere the estates of the rich from a mortgage held in trust for the whole people , expedhiaa , hists , and dispatch , the three DjTil-kings tf adventure and unjust power , . step in ; necessity tSjs , asd expediency uncertmeniottsly says , " be it » . " II * damoraas mob of an exclusive class complain of &prl 2 cipl = upon the face of custom , necessity says , if no ; promptly removed , it may turn to a cancer , and expsdisaer forthwith removes the pimple .

      Bsi , tf the whole people , fitly , properly , and with a Tier to a suitable end , complain of chronic disease and rerw * gng disorder , expediency requires twenty-fire jars at tear , to perfectly understand the nature of the ¦ ps&mi ' i complaint , and as many more to decide upon ths remedy—witness the hand-loom wearer ' s complsint . If the iacilor £ 5 require ^ fictitious value to be put upon their estates , suitable to the end , that they may be expediaotsl ; Eaae good security for the fund-lords , pruflrw ssjs ii ii jfet , and expediency cries , expedition , c&sta , disparch , and , as if by magic , the thing is dese .

      so wri the psrsons . If an article is to be added to ike state creed , or if oae is to be lopp&d off ; if faith jfconLJ require a reform , equJTslent to all secular reforsa , s- » thai the state sword snd tke chuich sword atould in nozhizg dash ; or if new security thould be required for tha purpose of transferring the payment of tithes frca an enlightened to an ignorant partion of the community , expedition , haste , and dspaiei are always at the serric « of the adTenturers ; and no Whig iron e-rer cools for want of EuScient heat in the political furcoce .

      As far ss exp « dur ! iey goes , then , I claim , for the * Me people , a chance of fitly , propsriy , and suitably . iasjead 0 / expeditious ! y , hastily , and with dispatch ) ipplyirg the Reform Bill in the spirit in which the people riiked their live * for its accomplishment—that a , that it shall maie taxation and representation coaiesE-rg . If this is treason , I am a traitor sad glory is the 2 z ? a& . fieace , we cut eTen exp ^ dieEcy , the Tcp of tyrsais , feuia un-ler them , and claim its just Ed rightful application ; o the suitableness of the ends d hKi ; e .

      Let us row consider Traisf = r . The Ilefonn Bill pro Eised to be the annihilation of Toryism ; not for Whig tsx ^ z , bat for aaticmal improvement . The "Wlaijrs Bii , th » Tr-ries rule ccatrary to the maxims of the Con-KSKiKs , a "violation of compact , and in opposition to psilk wQL They -srsje des ^ Tictire , pjjrpstual , and op ^ ET * "ffars , far the purposs of keeping up tteir vn penrer , asd thereby axe compelled to levy grinding toss « pc-n the subject . We wart reft mi to preserve ? KK , tad , thereby , as war is the most fcxpe-nsiye item — tsi ' jaal txpeuditura , to llgbtsa the public burdea , * a 4 sate re ^ enchment in such departments as have ££ st 3 beta kepi ap as mere auxiliaries of po-iiitii Jt *« , vi ~ hr nt biiug 2 t j , ^ t > eac £ cial to the country . Ea rifcra deraagoguss otct aad otct again said , ' we ^ ^ - transfer , -we require equal justice for all "

      let Ei point oat a f * w delusions practised by tvo of Ss ncs : prominent reform demagogues . Hussel ! said £ ^ i tU object of the Keform BHi -n- ^ i , to make rtpre-* =: » -iii aad taxation co-exteasiTc—can words be more Tr&z , saa Co we , eT-a now , in our strength , ask for aor- ? s- ^ l = 7 , in a speeeli commenting upon the little " ^ fcr Reform Bill was said te hold out for Ireland , ^ V . * f ' - Iiowing words : — " Webave abolished tithes ^ Jim , aad for tTer ; call you that " nothing 1 " Et fnr-• ujh j ^^ . j ^ ^ jj ^ j v ^ pr : 2 C ? p i lne Reform Bill , * - ' ¦ to piaia all the izettutions of the country Uidcr P = 5 t ^ r rigiiact coutroL "

      jot , ia ocr mos > heated im ^ in&tion , we haTe asked k = 9 more ; and , let me ast , if 51 is righ : that the I * " » aieh carried the measure should besatis £ cd with * ? Has no * , the Rtf arm Bill , thfcn , m .-tw : ihstaadiTig ** oauj of transfer , beec the mere transfer oi power Kse gorged fiction , who governed by measure * &nlt ; - » hich , though galling , the nation b ^ gan to ""M asett ' ed wen ; , to another faction , so gestitate

      P * li » co ^ Sasncs—so warsting in . faith , without ru ' . c ai eaEnrs , as to be ounpelled to XEaaufecture new ***• for rew a-lhertcts , in order to f jrekh a substi-~* frr U nix -vrict of xaoral courage and common *^ 7 ? Eare you fe ^ er placemen , fewer pensioners , ** a sm « ariitB , or few = r Commissionera ? If the ^ >! c ^ -s toi aches , is cot the char-ce of a royal ^ "Jaioa of condolencs a God-send to our retrenching "fiaa ?

      oj tayj , j ^ more commi jDn 8 within fire yeans , j * ia 5 fty years before the Reform Bill ; and aU to * W * e how many may be most proStably applied for the y ft-T « f Whig power , and far tha presentation of a RCB > ' idraiEistration . /« secresv of Tory GoTernment ru a general com-J * 2 t Has tout secret Berries fund been diminished ¦** ths candid rule of the open and us disguised WMgs , *~* khrd to raimit all and eTerytbing to rigilant ? cPttI » coatroul . ' A * year trajj feverj m mQK distant from ^ g hearth ) Qecs ** i npon better pretensioni ? •^« your taxes lt * s oneroog , or more equally laid btt toL T * pJatiia > &CWJtdiBg t <> their ability to

      *»; Jon hire had the two mort unjust win eTei « T ^ » iUiin the memory of man proclaimed sines la * t ^* wi of PiriiameEt : — *» 4 w * giiluit Ule Chinese , the most peace-lo-ring *«*¦ ci-rilised nation in all the arts of modern J ^ o n . in the world . Toa haTe to pay for Anglo-^^ icttggiejjs * fccejjsg ^ tBerTate > fntoxicste , and fttgTT ^ ects of a monarch , careful of the health , icta Sf' ^^ ** coaditiQn <* U « objects ; and this « 4 iaort " 1 ^ free ^^^ »* J"onr capitalists look on ** ltS ' * m < i 3 < n' PsT ***** experiment , which Uip&te -win introduce yo * r produce into the ^^ empire .

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      The -war against Mehemet . Ali was unjust , dishonourable , unchriEtian , and . disgracefuL Ho won his crown by the sweat of his brow and the exercise of his talent , and woreit for the good of his people . He was more , much more tolerant to infidels , that is , to those christlins , whom other - Christians call heretics , than our state church is to a community professing tbirty-eigbt and nineteen-twentieth * of their thirty-nine articles of faith . He would not incarcerates cobbler twenty-two months for non-payment of 3 s . 6 d .

      Thus we fimd that , coward-like , the first and the last act of Whiggery are in perfect keeping . Their first experiment was to wage domestic war against the poor out-ofHhe-way Dorchester Labourers ; their last has been to insure the co-operation of three other powerful states ( the one England ' s deadly foe and jealous rival ) to mate war -cpon almost the only constitutional monarch upon eartii , in order that a tolteriDg GoTernn » ent may limp , and hop , and hobble for another bit , upon the prop which their deadly patronge confers upon

      them , while yon will find that—no matter wiat the result , whether , as you will be told , glorious , and as adding brilliancy to our arms—or whether your fathers , husbands , brothers , and friends return with woodenlegs , or their lifeless bodies shall ba mutilated under the walls of war , —you will pay the whole reckoning , not only for the immediate brush , bat for the distinction and emolument which must be permanently conferred upon the Tictors , that is , upon the officers , not upon the soldiers :

      Thus has the Beform Bill transferred tho treasury land if I epeke for erer , that ia what all contend for . ) from hands who ware well watched , and stoutly opposed , to hands , who are lured on to their own undoing , petted into extra-raganoe , and aided into expence , in order that their recklessness may first disgust the nation , a&d hereafter furnish a good precedent for the old oppressors , when their turn comes , and which it now , thank God , fast approaching—I say thank God—for the re » toration of the Tories to a short-lived ascendancy , will be the watch-word for the establishment of Democratic

      right-Tha yaJue of the transfer to you has been an amalgamation of the whole squad into a fraternity of unopposed plunderers . Where , now , is her Majesty ' s opposition ? When , now , do you hear of an objection , in order to reduce public expenditure ? Jferer ; and as we learn from the ruined state of the exchequer , a fresh appeal must be made , for give , give , give , and not a soul will say ;< . i . T . They will give , but who will pay ? that's the question . Have not the Corperations been a { complete transfer , with an increase of local taxation , of local tyrants , of election prefligacy , and party animosity ? Yes ; but wken I come to treat of compensation , ! shall have another word upon these said corporations .

      But , after all , what was the greatest of all transfers , that in which all parties most unceremoniously joineda transfer whose permasency depends , not like some upon which I have briefly treated , on the contingency of Whig tenure of ofiics ? No ; it is a good custom transformed into a bad , oppressive law , I mean the transfer of the parish , unwilling idler , from the tender c * re and guardianship of the old English gentleman , to whom he was known , with whvm he had laboured , and upon whoea estate be drew his first breath , partaker of his childish , pranks , of his boyish freaka , his manly sports , bis hospitable fare , and his judicial protection—the transfer ef his natural client to the iron sway , the economising grasp , the licentious controul of the well-paid economist of the rich man's trust This to " the nnkindeat cart of alL "

      But , besides its physical effects , mark its moral tendency . Few people have as yet weighed this hellish measure in all its bearings . They have not , poor i > ouIb , had time to turn from the physical enormity to a consideration of the moral consequence . The Slar , three years ago , told yim that henceforth that measure would be the basis of every law of magnitude formed nader the present system , while , even worse , it has had the desired effect , breaking up local

      s ^ citty , of setting master against man , party against party , family against family , and interest against interest It has polluted the streams of that neverceasing current—local justice . And herein consists its greatest hidecmsnesi , its potency for evil , and power of mischief ; and from this one of its featur i * we may trace every imprisoned Chartist to his weary abode , every local injustice to iis source , and every act of tyranny to its rise , and , I trust , to iu fall .

      Observe , then , my friends , that the greatest transfer of which history makes mention , is that transfer of magisterial appointments , consequent npon the Xew Po « r Law , and-the necessity of swamping the little of vigilant popular cuctroul -Rhich the BUI left , by an inucaation of ignorant , pur » e-proud , upsUrt , Belf-sufficient Justice Shallows . A set of nincompoops , who know as smeb- aiwa : la- * - » a the horse that carries them . ¦

      Beheld , then , . the jurisdiction giTen to tLese worthies , with reference , in Ite first instance , to iht eufaicemtnt 01 the mtjMure , which , in direct violation ¦ A the original intent , ha 3 left them masttr of ail ; he avenues of justice , in their capacity &f ejr e ^ rio gendarmes , thus stamping toe bench with starvation . Auil what followed ? Way , such bs ^ isily decisions as wouiti disgrace a beach of fovls ; and in nearly ali cotes where up peals b ^ ve besa made against those decisions

      r-. p-iir . ind has followed ; but tie exper . ccr of appeal ac-i .- ^ s : atjiist maghiraies , is aa effectual bar to jusrice , be the poor rum ' s claim never to good . Hence we find a thousaud pouud 3 bail for workiDg men , and eighty ind iixty fo ? high offences comiaitt ^ d by a higher order of beings And , observe , tliis very holding % o bill is strong prfci-cnipave evidence sssinst a workingman , thus suiiuped with the wrath ar » ii c- - -iiv-re of « -e set of masters , for the guidance of another set , who are to sit in judgment , as jurors , upon their oAibs .

      I womd i . at give you a turnip , nay , not a rotten one , for tLt ; oatiis of a middle cia * 3 j'ory , when empannuleu to try a working cio = s slave . These intu , observe , m icigiitratfcs , Lave the power of introducing the Uuial Police , of ordering out and paying the special constables and Joldiers , with your money , to shoot yon , and of compelling the Government to open the purse strings of the secret servic-j fund , to furnish their spies with the ¦ watts uf j-eductioD , treachery , and perjury .

      Tbii , th = a , whether considered morally or physically , i 3 tb 2 greatest , as it is the most destructive , tr . ins . Vr 01 all . A d ^ ih ma y a . nnihilite the power of a faction , but the law remains written ; and no ¦*• , before I Uke leave of this qnestioa , and as eoma sagacioua booby has given brrtb to the apothegm , that " the gr « at magic ru politics is to be right , " than which , a more ignorant sentence could not ba written ; let me council you to do rich :. Inueed , yon have always beeu right , and you have as yet fjund but little magic ia your rectitude . The trra . it magic in politics is to have the might , and " the ouiy true title to power ii that which right and misut cur . s ; . ire vo uphold . "

      Yt / n know that 1 have no faith in petitions , for any pr ^ cticu ! b ^ ntfit which they are likel y to produce . Yuu have , howcTer , -wisely petitioned for tlie restoration of Frust , Williams , and Jones , and upon other tubjects , tieTulvre y > -u still , in suma iiisv&nces , approve of the f ^ rce . Ltt sr . e , theD , advise yon to get up petitions in every locality , arainst tbe re-enactment of the measure . it wiii hive ditd a natural death this Session , Dr > not to to any exptncel Tlie plan which I propoea is

      this : —A sheet of long foolscap paper will contain 250 names , leaving rooui for a short petition at the heart ; each page will auaiit of two columns of signatures , and lefmillions of those be sent to Mr . Fieiden . Every 250 will cost only «' ne . penny , the price of the cover . Let the class leaders take them in their pockets ; let them be placed in barbers' shops , news-agents' shops , and in the ibopg and houses of all who ire opposed to the re-enactme nt of the law .

      Let your petition run tuns : — To the Commons of the United Kingdom , in Parliament assembled . The humble Petition of the Industrious classes of Baxnaley and its vicinity , SBEWETH ,, That yo « r petitioner * look upon the >* ew Poor Law Amendment- Act a * a robbery of the poor , by the allocation of their trust property , to purposes different from those for which it was originally granted and held . That they consider it as a violation of the laws of God , and destructive of the very best principles upon which the British Constitution baa been

      based-That they will give to it , in all its stages , every conriitutional opposition which remains in tbeir power ; and that they never will vote tor , or support , any candidate who lends himself to the re-eoactment of the

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      measure , but , on the contrary , will opppse , him to tha - utmost of tbeir power . That It Is a robbery of the poor for the benefit of the rich , which never can be upheld except by an expensive brute force , and i « , above all other measure * - , cat culated to widen that breach which former Parliaments , aided by a griping trading class , have widened , between the upper and lower classes of society . That in order to render null and void some 3 t the clauses in the Bill , tx-oficio Guardians have been appointed , who , in their magisterial capacity , have been oppressive , ignorant , and tyrannical , and have thereby brought the laws of England , administered by them , into contempt and disgust

      For these , and numerous other reasons , your petitioners pray that your . Honourable House - » r ! U ordei the original Bill to be burnt by the hands of the oom > mon hangman , and abstain from any further legislation npon the measure , leaving the old law ot the 43 rd at Elisabeth in full force , until the people , ia their united wisdom , shall make such alterations and improvements in all laws for the Bupport , comfort , and proper maintainance of the poor , as shall seem fit , when they we thoroughly represented in their House , which they never yet have been . And your petitioners , as in duty bound , will ever pray .

      Now , let this be done without any man devoting more time to the question than the mere signature of the petition . There need be no meetings ; there have ulready been an abundance , and public opinion has been fully expressed . This will not take an hour from the Charter agitation ; but let us test the House in its 3 eath throes , because , believe me , that many knaves , who will soon be thrown back upon the people , if not thus tested , will say , " Oh ! I never knew your mind . Youdid \ nt petition . "

      Let us see if the minority of seventeen has Increased anything in three years , and this , above all other means , will put to flight the incomparable folly of those who ask the unrepresented , why they don'i me their power for practical purposes . It will give us the m&gio of being right , while it will show tbe little value of the magic without the might A petition sbould be sent to every Town Council in England , and the names , with the political cognomen of tLose who sign it , shall be published , and , lest the petition for you should be too

      strong f « r them , mix the medicine to the palate of the patient , make it all honey , and simply pray that the Bill shall not be re-enacted . Dont put one hard word in their petitions . Ton will get one henest Councillor in every corporate town to undertake the charge of it , and , when signed , get it back and transmit it yourselves By these means , in ' three days , Saturday , Sunday , and Monday , you should be able to have from two to three millions of signatures . Here , then , is right with a vengeance , but it * magic consists in the sabstence of which it is merely the shadow , —the might .

      Let not the sophistry of thosa who proclaim themselves Chartists , and something more , which means fool , and something less , deter you from this act of expediency , suitable to a just and proper end . By the treatment which your petitions will certainly receive , 1 want to test a principle . I want to prove to you , and to put you in a position to prove to practical sponters , that devoting your energies to what is called practical questions , is all moonshine ; and by this uier . us we shall do more to rivet attention to the question of questions , the mental enfranchisement , than by all other appliances within our reach .

      I find that having already exhausted so ouch of my space upon tbe questions of minor importance , that I shall be myself compelled to cut ray story short in the middle . Kow , por . < Ier over what I have said , and always bear in mind that , under the present syuseni , you have not the power , although you pay all the taxes , to effect , by your petitions , any , the slightest change in state affairs ; nay , not even to the discharge of a palace menial , to the shortening of a royal horse ' s tail , or to the disbanding of a troop or company of soldiers . I am , my friends , Your true and faithful friend , Feargis O'Connor .

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      TO HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN . Madam , —We will now , if you please , resume our illustrations as to the classes into which crimina ? s are divided , snd the equal justice dealt « ut to each . Ai . d here I must beg youT attention to the third precept of the moral law . If a poor ignorant fellow swear a profane oath , / and I admit tbe practice ia both wicked and disgraceful , ) be may be fined by any justice of tho peace , before whtm the offence is proved ; and if he swear falsely , he is land very properly , too ; liable to

      an indictment for perjury . The law denounces these acts as crimes , which call for condign punishment ; but I pray your Majesty to note well , that there are no crimes in the great , noble , and t-ven clerical portion of the community . Those gentry may iasuit tho heavens ¦ with their profanity , and in 999 cases out of 1 , 000 they are never called to an account at all ; or , if perchance , rs in the case of a magistrate the other day , somebody is honest enough to call for tie ianiction of the penalty upon the respectable , as well as upon the poor , delinquent , the punishment , in the latt ° r case , is at the best but nominal , for tli-- Sve shillings may bo a serious

      fine to a peor mechanic , or agricultural labourer , whilst it is absolutely nothing to a rich " respwtable . " Again , while perjury is considered to bu most horrible in a case of p ^ tty theft , the wlio ' tsale perjury , - which is daily coniiuittfed by-the elite of the lan . i , is considered as utttrly beneath the notice or the controul of tbe law . I am withheld by the terrors of the law of libel from being moro explicit ; but this I will say—Lo ;) k at the < aths consuiuij t ^ ken by . Members of Parliament , hy Magistrates , by public ( . fficers , by tradesmen , and parties engaged in commerce , find by all orders of th «

      c ^ rgy , . izr : th' -n s : iy , if those solemn appeals to the D ^ ity are not co nstantly tainted in the nioit shasut-los aud uubluihing mumwr . Has not " O . ' it is oniy a Custom Housa oath . '" passed into a proverh ? And wh : it are we to think of the conscientiousness of the clergy in regard to oaths , when we see church livings conhtantly advertised for sale in the puWic prints , in the teetb of the solemn oath against . " -imooy , inscribed in the canons , and which , every person having cure of sonis must t-ike before induction to his benefice ? Yet all this frightful immorality is no crime , for the authors of it are rctpccUible .

      We find tbe -same broad distinction drawn in reference to the fourth comrain : m < nc . If a poor fella-vr be caught tryir . g to gaiu something fur lr . s half-itarved family ( or bup ^ lying the ( iettilute ia his neighbourhood wee did not receive their scanty earnings till too late for the market on the Saturday night ; by Sunday trading , he is liable to be poun < . e < 3 cpon by som-j pi 0 m advocate of Sibb&t 1 sanctity , and plac-.-d within the fangs of the law as a russt fhgrant transgressor ; but bo wonder , for his crime must be enormous , being inptcinductd , in come way or other by the still more atrocious crime of poverty . To sell a loaf to honest

      poverty , unless the salesman be a- baker , duly authorised to break the Sabbath by act of Parliament , is gross immorality , calling fur pains and penalties in , this world , and hell fire in the- ntxt ; but the parties of pleasure , the drives in the park and the Sunday evening parties , for gaming and abominations of every kind , of the nobility and gentry , are in perfect accordance with tbe nature of the day of rest ; und tbe saints ol lh » Agnew school , who are horrified at the bare idea of a pleasant tea meeting , or a country ride , by the working classes on a Sunday , never think that a Sabbath bill is called for to regulate the saloons of my Lord Duke , or to place under tSkient coatroul the hells in St . James ' s-ttreet .

      We find that , in accordance with the supposed requirements of God ' s precepts , the man who imbues bis hands ia tie blood of his fellow , is worthy of the paniaUment of death , for he is a murderer whom v . righteous vengeance sufftn not to live ; but when a Queen and Government resolve to commit murders by the thousand , —when , because a people refuse to let merchant * poison them , it is resolved that hir < id miscreants shall be sent to kill them , in the most approved fasbion-of improves military butchery , —Wen it is no crime at . all , but on the contrary , is most gloriou * &nd honourable ; an : l those who have most distinguished themselves in the work of blood , are sit up as idols , and the wreatb of what is called honour , with other things more substantial , must be bestowed a >> on them .

      A decline from tie paths of virtue is , in the female in humble life , deemed worthy of the severest privations , and must be branded with infamy , ai tie

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      New Poor Law affords ample evidence ; but let the same declension ba found in the privileged ranks , « ad behold tne < shange r Every palliative that cunning can devise is brought to ' cover , or to excuse the deed ; * the fair frail one is to be soothed with , the tenderest care , while ; the foundling luwpital opens its doors to receive the proofs of her shame , or some connection / useful to the minister of the day , secures for it 5 comfortable provision out of the labour of thoae who cannot find bread for their virtuous wives and legitimate of&pring . One © more , the thief who steals to satisfy Ms hunger , or to provide a morsel for those who are to him far

      more precious than his own life , fc doomed to stand at his country ' s b * r ;—( I leg pardon , Madam , at what should be hia country ' s bar , / « a < i is , as an execrable rascal , sent to expiate aia crime on tha bea 4 » wheel , or in the dreary exile of a penal settlement . But the respectable robber—he who by bla trading and commercial speculations goes beyond his pwn means , and by his failure involves numerous families in ruin ; escapes without punishment , and can como forth to the world as an honourable man . A still higher class of thieves , or rather swindlers , are they who receive large amounts of money out of the putyio purse , for work which they have never done nor intended to do . Such arepublio officers , who are 0 / no me j such are those , who , because they happen to be the husbands , wives ,

      children , or other relatives of kings , claim a right of taking extravagant salaries on the , score of their royal blood ; and such are all those who hold church preferment without cure , or who holding livings with cure , devolve the sacred duties they have sworn to perform upoa others , taking almost the whole fleece to themselves . All these parties are guilty of crimes of the deepest dye ; but then such men must noi be styled " criminals , " they must not be held amenable to the law , because they are ro * al , NOBLE , CLEBICAX ,, or , at least , - RESPECTABLE . Thus , Madam , hava I laid before you some portion of the evidence which goes to prove u »* t- ~« u ,,, * , M the result of our imperfect system of education , two classes of crimes ; the one being those of the poor which are deemed to deserve punishment : the other

      and moat flagrant , are not called crimes , but , at the utmost , venal errors , and very frequently , by the names of glory , honour , valour , public virtue j and a hundred other pretty epithets used to conceal the deformity of their real character , aud to which , of course , no punishment or disgrace is legally attacbod at all . Gaa it , then , be any cause of wooder that , with education so imperfect , those who claim to be the best informed , seem , in many cases , to be incapable of distinguishing right from wrong , and uader which the bulk of the people should be so ignorant of their own rights , duties , and capabilities , as to tamely tolerate a system which is grinding them to the earth , crime should be found to exist to * portentous and alarming extent ?

      It is , in tick , utterly impossible that crime should cease to exist , or even be , to any considerable extent , diminished , until it ia plainly demonstrated that offences are such in themselves , and not merely because they are perpetrated by a certain class of individuals ; but mmst be recognised as such even though not clothed in rags , aud vice must not be allowed to hide its deformity under the garb of respectability . We are learning a lesson which it would have been happy for the world if mankind had learnt long ago ,

      that is , to call things by their right names , and to tost their merit or demerit , not by * the appearance they assume , but by the truth or falsehood of the principle they involve . So far as the public are concerned , the more " respectable" tho criminal , the more heinous is the offence , and in public equity the more severe should be the punishment I nm , Madam , Your Majesty's faithful and obedient subject and servaut , London , January 27 th , 1811 . NUMA . -in .- ¦ » - ' * . i-i -ir r . ^^^^ 1 ¦ ¦¦ 11 t- » .- _ .- ¦_

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      ANALYSIS OF THE HAND-LOOM WEAVERS' REPORT . lETTEIt XI . To such a state have we been brought by our system of political economy , that it is difficult to see a clear way out of our embarrassments . If we were to prohibit entirely the exportation of machinery , and tho fciBi ^ rf'tiou of artisans , I fear we are so far so 2 d to foreigners , and oar commercial relations su miserably dependent upon their breath , that they would stiil suck eur vitals and laugh at us . Whilst we have ;; court filled with foreigners , nn Aristocracy patronizing tix-m , a government depending upon foreign loan mongers , a race of imbecile mtrcimnts and manufacturers courting thrm , and a whole nation aptting tbeSr Jollies and vices , how c » n we expect to be otherwise than pusillanimous dupes ? 1

      We bave a villanous system of PatentLaws , encauraginj ; iraiirovcinunts and innoTiitions , and au office wl . erc drawings aud specifications are deposited , describing such inventions and improvements most minutely . Foreigners , by this means , can steal tho brains of Englishmen as quittiy as possible , copy invwings ami gpecificationH , carry them over to the Continent , smd manufacture machinery as perfect as our own . We have also numbers of scientific works , full of plates , describing every invention , and a host of foolish scri ' es aud talkers boasting of our genius , and h < 'i < iintf up to thu admiration of foreigners our most profitable inventions . Poor footn ! The Ursa Major of the Manchester Guardian foolishly imagines

      that it Parliament does not allow tree trade in machinery " a : iu « t extensive and lucrative branch of : ra < H' ( machine makiugj will be monopolised by foreigners . " We cannot ; prevent foreigners becoming active rivals , we ought never to have bten exporting uwchircery or tools , until we hud radically reformed the representation of tbe people , which , uiul it Wen iion « fifty > t-ars ngo , M >< ju !< i have prevented Englnrui from fulling inio hur present tieqrntlt'il nuti buitthle < i position , and her pjopio from setting ft l ' : tir marlttt for thtir l : tb"iir in other countries , in consequence * f boing ilwiiod une in ih-Ar own . Foreigners lau ; jh at us . l ) r- B-. > wrinfj , in his Report on tiiu Prussian Commeicntl Union , vas « 55 , says : —

      "I have often IumtiI tho observation in Germany , You may try ti ;>;<) p tho expovtiit-. on of yonr machines , but how can you stop the exportation of the ht-nia ami bawlstlij . t make them ?" Tho Uoctor ' ^ fsivotiTii' ! umipraiion f-oheme isa capital plan to Rot th ' a " liwuls aud ivnios ; " the political eu'JUoiuUts have b ' .-en weighed in tho bulance , and the tfftct of their surplus population lior . ' crintms recorded in the above qi'itacion . Yts , yes , we riil ourselves of the " siirp . us population , " ami tho Germans get " heads ; ind hands" to mnke their machinery , and very shorty wo shall have more iieiuls tuui hands , " tospare . A surplus population of weavers , dyers , Rpinuer .- -, printers , &o . We ure already in a declining 8 ta : e . L ' oifp .- ' . re our condition with the Doctor's description of Ck-rwany .

      " In so )» u nspocts Germany may boast of superiority to Great Britain in her im-uns for manufacture ? . The arts of design , anil their application Id various fabrics , are better uiidsot .-iKt . Mt-. ia ' s me moro suuce ^ fully wrouyht and worked ; cben-. icul knowledge , in its various br . incbes Is farther advanced than witli us . Sle ^ iii engines arc farmed on all suits , an ; l mechanical iiuuruvtiuwits' iiave made radid strides , aud l . ave served to < . p-. u a wide ik 4 d for the characteristic devcl . pument of German intelligence . Our impolicy baa contributed much to make Germany our most formidable rival . Our ixti'uvagant syotein of

      Gjvtnmifciit , together wiih our debt , requires a Leavy ainoiiat of ti . smon , to be ieviud upo : almost all foreign produce ; the Germans , by the i ; uv of retaliation , impose heavy dutks upju our manufactures ; at the same time tiiey foster and encourage their own uiuiiufactureis ; aud from the influence tVy possess in the Euglish Court , they experience no difficulty in procuring aa order in Council for the exportation of any particular piece of machinery , so we havo bet-n s . vimiled out of our political rights , » ut o [ tbe profit of our labour , aud now , we are being s . viudlt-d out of t / ur tradealtogosljer , ¦ without any apparent r < . i < mrces to full back u ^ on , save the Poor Law Bmtiles ,

      In Snxony , oue of the German Union , wit ? i an area of 5 , 748 square miles , and a population of 1 , 595 . 008 ; there were , in the year 1830 , 22 a factories , ( 116 woolteu 113 cotton , ) 38 bleaching establishments , 3- » dying establishments , 1 , 559 manufacturing establishments , 2 "B hosiery establishments , 125 ribbon establishments , 45 printing establishments , HU 2 luce , blonde , &c establishments , 25 chemical works , 48 iron works , 18 macuine-DiaJciagestablishments , with many othtrs , making 2 , 899 in all . Much attention has been paid of late to the manufactures of machiuvry in S * xony , *? the Sachttsciien MaachinenbauCorupngme , ( Saxon Machine-making Company ) with a capital of oue million of dollars , is said to be iu a flourishing state . Other similar establishments have been lurmed ; machines and models bave been imported , both from England and other countries , * nd English artisans have bean engaged to give instructions to thd Germans , and to undertaku the * uperintendence of their werks . " - —( See page 57 , Bowring ' a report" )

      There needs no logical tact to convince the moat iguorant dullard that the trade of England is declining iu Germany . Now , th « Germans have got the heads , the hands , the machines , tbe . models , and tho instructors , they make their own machines , and manufacture their own goods . The report upon Leipsig fair statts , " British printed calicoes have been exceedingly reduced by native competition , " and " the Iqw German cotton manufacturers bave driven those of England out of the market . * ' More improved machinery -will very bortiy drive our finer cotton manufactures out of Getmany . AU this comes of the accursed system « f Eng-

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      lish Government coupled with free " trade ' humbug . Free trade , forsooth , with fifty million of taxation on our shoulders ! . Our trade to Germany is fioomed to perdition . Our export trade to that country in 1800 , amounted to £ 9 , 485 . 3 G 6 and now , after forty yaars of inventions aud trading speculations , we do notexport one half of that amount So much for' Germany . In Belgium , we are n » less opposed by native enterprise ; there is a joint stock machino maker ' s company , cslled , ^ ' Th e Societe du Phteriix , " at Ghent , employing about 750 men ( sixty of whom are English ) in the manufacture of cotton and flax mach&iery ; they not only make for themselYeB , but for exportatioii , as the following extract from a London paper will shew : —

      "A large ship , freighted with machinery , re ^ ntly ailed from Ghent for Vera , Cruz , on account of a Mexican merchant . This ia BaM to b « tho second similar cargo sent to t& « same party within the Ust three moiithsi The whole of the machinery was manufactured in Belgium . " In Hamburgh , says the report , "ther t is a very large establishment belonging . to Messrs . Ghrismsn and Bussee ; they have expended above £ 30 , 000 in the erection of the buildings , and the purchase of English tools , also patterns of the most approved English machinery . " Here is another blow at the '' greet workshop of the world . " Now , let us examine our own position f Our weavers complain that the exportation of machinery ia injurious to their trade . I fear that complaining is useless , for I find the following passage in the Nottingham Journml ;—

      ^ Hosiery Tbades . —A practice has commenced , within these few weeks , which , if not prevented , in time ,-will tend to depopulate the midland counties ; namely , an extensive exportation of Englishbuilt stocking-frames to Belgium and Holland , and some few to France . ? ? A considerable number hare been shipped from Liverpool to th « United States , which has been a sort of free port for such traffic , as the custom-house officers take little notice of such shipments . No less than twenty-seven plain frames were exported at one shipment about a month since [ June last ) to Antwerp , whether by Treasury license or otherwise , remains to be seen . Foreign agents 1 are extensively engaged in purchasing more frames , and engaging hands to work them . A sertof half fever prevails among the unemployed to get situations " r « "l and so numerous are the applications , that only the best wor * imm -. _ ... *„ ,, " j addition to which , considerable nurabars of frame simtu bsen seduced to leave this vicinity for Antwerp , Ostend , Ath , and Calais . "

      After reading such a paragraph , it appears almost useless to cry out ; our mechanics sell their ingenuity and their labour to foreigners , who openly seduce them from their father-land to minister to their designs against their country ; the Government officers , too , wink at this exportation of machines , in conssquence , no doubt , of the Treasury license . In a fit of desperation , our political economists cry out , let us have s , free trade in machinery , otherwise our machine makers will lose tho monopoly of machine-making for all the world' Free traders talking of monopoly ? This is really funny ! Now , the great question resolves itself into these details : —Can we prevent the exportation of machinery ? I say , emphatically , no ! Reason ; because we have gone too for in encouraging our political

      and commsrclal enemies . Ought we to prohibit the exportation as far as possible ? I say , yesi Reason ; because , by radically reforming the representative system , we might improve our country so as to turn tlit ; use of machinery into a moro profitable channel , to go to the good of tbe commonwealth ; besides , those operative , who depend up » n machine-making in England , are numerically small compared with those who depend on manufacturing by machinery ; consequently , therefore , the interests of the many ought not to be sacrificed to those of the few ; aud if we da not oppose the exportation of machinery , we should tacitly allow a band of speculators and dissatisfied manufacturers to enrich themselves at the expense of the downfall of the staple manufactures ot England , and the consequent ruin of the people .

      No doubt , a bill will ba brought into Parliament by Mark Phillips , to allow free exportation of machinery ; it will be supported by all the political philosophers ot the free-trade school ; of coutsb , the people have no say in the matter , but it will not pass j nevertheless , the people must keep a look out for tha debates , and they will sue the claaa of fellows who would sell the trade of England to foreigners ; it will also furnish more proofs of the necessity of a Radical Reform of that House which -wields the destinies of the people in so raukless a manner .

      1 now conclude these series of ten letters upon the Imnd-loom -weavers' case ; nine of them were written in Lancaster und Kirkdale gaols ; and I must say , in justice to the Governors of those gaols , that they are in no wis ? b ' i : in ; eable , though it was contrary to the prison ruks to write for the press ; for 1 found means to get tiwm out without inculpating the Governors , whose duties would have prompted them to prohibit their transmission , bad they passed into their hands . I do not know what were the facilities f « r prisoners in other gaols ; but Lancaster and Kirkdale are very lilwrai towards political prisoners .

      Mon of Cotne , so far have I discharged my duty to your unfortunate class . I shall now publish the whole < ir' ktct-is ia a cheap form , and take care that copies nre forw .-. rderf to every Member of Parliament , that they do not ' plead ignorance of your condition . I canot do otherwise than express my thanks to the Editor of the Northern Star , tor opening his columns to my Aualys s , whereby , at least , thirty thousand copies of each letter bave been ci > culated weokiy in the rewiokesfc parts of these kingdoms ; yes , even to the desk of Fox Maule , the whipper-in of the Government libellers aud seditionists . R . J . Richardson . February 8 th , 1841 .

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      THE EFFECTS OF CLASS-LEGISLATION , AS SEEN IN THE STREETS AND HOUSES OF THE VY 0 UK 1 XG CLASSES . [ Concluded from our lust . ~\ Let us now tnke a still closer view of the subject , and ponder upon the state of things ; let us also awake up to a sense of our real position , and , with our eyes open , commence an immediate struggle to escape . I hnvo already shewn how unfairly the upper classes apply the fuuds contributed , by all , for the equal use of all . Aud now let ua Bee how the working classes , with all tlwir " ignorance" and " imbecility , " act towards their richer brethren ; and if I do not prove that , in this at ( east , they fulfil wore than the golden rule rtqnues , namely , "to do as they would be done unt * , " 1 tfii .-til b « greatly mistaken . What a beautiiul stutple-kmisu they are just nnisbiui . ' , at the hut : um of Kiik « ate , for the upper acu middle ct&ntes :

      what capita ! houses they rear on evety handihey aro complete in every particular—not an outhouse ia wanting—a plentiful supply of water—not one without a 1 livy , ash-holes , extra water closets , grates , and sumphoks—good spouting—top and common sewerage , with other nvwvns to take off all bud smells and prevent nuisance—well-flagged causeways , and beautifully-paved streets—sweet plots of garden ground , and htre and there is txhibited a miniature country forming the centre of a square—trees in rich blossoms , gvass waving— yet , in the mirist of a populous and manufacturing town the luxurious odour und beauty of flowers may be perceived in all their infinitude of variety . And tho working classt-B glory to do all this for them-, although , should they desiro to go occasionally to suuff thu air iu uicb a neighbourhood —to catch a glance , they have to do it at the risk of being seut to prison for peeping over tha -waits < jr through the paliug .

      Lvt us see , then , what return is made—what the upper and middle classes do f » r the labourer in a similar way ? Th « y raiise coltngts to be built for his accommodation , -which , in sonje respects , aro littJe better than pigstiec ; in gtneral , two small rooms , wiiii cellarhole for coals , wln . n be c ; vn get any ; for which he pays trout five to . six pounds per annum , with , or sometimes without , the local rates attached . There is , remember , in the fiibt pi . 'ico , uo common sewer , and , in c «> nsb-^ utiuce , 110 BUJitpstone or hole , iuside , to take oft the dirty -water—ail is obliged to be thrown upon the surfiiCu of the street— the door must be thrown open at ah seasons if the hands only -want washing—no

      waterno E <; t-pot—and no many things . Rows of houses are crowded together—an inch to spare for nothing—th * y stand back to back , i ; y which streets are formed ; and when a want of buse is the grent difficulty with the money-waking speculator , down deeper he burrowsputs a family in the cellar , one in the middle , aud anotiier in the pile above : but the rarest thing iu the world , with such inhabitants , is a useable privy or ashplace . Tiie consequence of this is as I have before stated ; ai ! is thrown out upon the street , covered by ashes , or « trri ( d off by the isin us it is exhaled hi vapours ; and tho stench wafted back again into the houses , inducing fc \ -ers uad death .

      Whea ' buryej'lng ' tko ISd&t Ward , wo found , at least , five hundred inhabitants , ia one locality , entirely destitute of one usaable privy . There were three in an entry , but the toil hid not been removed of so long that they litt-rally ruu over—down the passage aud out at each end : the ash-holes were also tilled to oveiflowing . And here , iu summer time , the inhabitants , who are chiefly Irish , empty their beds , consisting of chaff , shavings , fcc ., to get rid of the filth which , certainly , makes the ash-place a rawing concern . The surface of these streets , as a . matter of courso , is covered and impassable j for , how can it be otherwise . I remember nnding , in another part of the town , ftsuiall batch of property where , at least , on « hundred people had but the use of one small privy . But there are scores of similar instances ; and when the people are all at home , which only happens on the Sabbath-day , half their time is employed in watching each other hi and out , or th * y slip down behind walls or corners ,- or else annoy gomo other pcrscn ' s property whew a better supply cf

      conveniences exists .-The working classes have fewer artificial and more real aud natural wants than the upper classes . Their kind of emplojiavut r « quire * more labour and mora expen&i in-wiwliius , whether in linen , person , or abode ; and , as if . hell hail bttn raked to flud means for ttimr degradation and misery , every thing with which they have to do , only contributes to their oppression . Wages are reduced to the starving point , food dear , and taxes accumulating ; and , with every local disadvantage that avarice cau inflict , is it to be wondered at if they dis-

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      cover an apathy and Indifference , even for themselves and their families * welfare-, by quietly submitting to things as they are , rather than make , as they say , a bother about it . Just lo » k at the mother of one o : these families ; if she be thrifty sun 4 as good a housewife ns one may expect now-a-days , should it be rainy -we ;» ther her young brood are kept withindoors ; if moderately fine , it is impossible to confine them , and out thty . go : in a few minutes little Dick is brought in by fwina of the elder branches , all covered over -with mud . Th « fact is , he pitched head foremost into tho gutter about a yard from the door , and was almost suffoc . ittu ' . Tom , who Ja bigger , comes in . a few minntes later , holding up bis sludgy hands ' , his brat besmeared with ti ; - same composition , bellowing like . ' a bear ; he , too , has tumbled , or been pushed down bj- BUiy sau « e ' em ; sod thus , the poor mother has her , bands fall ' , perhaps , no

      money , no water , -no soap ; what . is she te do 'i Oh , these dirty streets ! » ho cries \ God help poor people we shall all be lost : The father , too , who has hard to toil aU day , and tiien to tramp a mile , or so , » o hit homo ; is ill clad and ill shod , through such streets , such broken ami bad causeways , in worse than ' the dark , " past projecting steps , perhaps , isi triiyfci » P » tumbles down some-unprotected cellar steps , with which the town abounds , breaks an arm or « . teg , if not hia neck , ia picked tip by a saocy police or vatchman , who swears he was drunk , or he irotild nut haw been there ; be i $ taken to tho Ibcfc-up , thenr * to the infirmary or the charnel house , and his family , poor things , to the bastile , there to be separated tv . ; i .-i tueir mother ! and then , and then , and then—Gi .- ' know * what next . Some may soy that this is overdrawn—Tuere fiction ; but ^ had I space , I conld give fncta , and " facts are more rtrante than fiction . "

      Fearing to trespass too much at once uyon yoo » valuable » pace , I must close . But , Sir , wher . is tbe remedy for these crying evils ? Is there no wr . y out ? Thank God , yes . The power to make our own laws ; to spend our ownmoney ; to manage our own affair *—¦ whether general or local , will soon put all to right . Let the working men arouse from their slumbers , to " upset the world as it is . " Byron says in one pla . ee-. — " The river looks on Marathon , And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing thwe an hour alone , I dreamt that Greece might still be free "

      We do not dream , however , we know it ; aud I wish thRt workinc men would " muse an hour alone" ore * myself facts like these , which come home to twfS abodes may stir them up to look farther still ; s . n& , by a ceaseless agitation , and determination neve 2- to lend a helping hand to any farther scheme of class legislation , they will Bail their colours to ilit- xoasi head , and let the cry be , " Universal Suffix- ¦> ., and No Surrender . " Let them consider who are the owners of cottage property , and they -will find the v ^ -at majority to consist of those who are now saekiiit- u , brick and mortar franchise , for more effectually survmg their own endB . Is not * the ' sincerity' of their pn tasionB seen in the present condition of cottage propevtj » Let them wipe away this stain from their escutcheon before they ate entrusted with farther power . I am , dear Sir , ¦ Yours respectfully , William Hicii , Superintendent of the statistical survey lately made in Leeds . Leeds . Feb . 5 , 1841 .

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      UNION IS STRENGTH . TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Sib , —We read , that when the First Gmvt Cause , by His all-powerful-fiat , called all nature from tbe womb of nonentity , . and had given- each component part of the system its pince , office , or tunc : h > a , he pronounced all tkings " good , " yea , VERY GOOD ; but , somehow or other , things have become VERT BAD . This latter fact is too well known to require the trouble of much close investigation . The Theologians of every shade—the phiJ . sophei * of every ecbool—the politicians of every clss . s —and all the ita ol every creed aud kind—feel that soj / itming ia out of order .

      Well , what is it ? Why the canting barrel-bellied hypocrite who says he is " the Legate of ti ; n skies , " while enacting the tragedy of Kathcormac—und who declares his office ' « sacred , " while fleecing the fl > ck , devouring the fat , and " robbing the widows' houses , " would fain have us give credenc * to his tub-dropping * and become mute , seeing that our woes aro only the chastisements of the Lord , for our individual sina of ouiiksion and commission . Query . How is it that the black wolves in sheep's clothing , and their whelps , don't get a slice of the

      chastisement ? Is honest , industry more deserving uf the rod than those who have converted the teinpiv into a " den of thieves , " and who hav 6 carried desolation and misery to every cotter ' s hearth ? No , no , the blasphemy of these sanctimonious crutches of corruption is too glaring to arrest popular attention , further than to bo condemned . Were the poor , tho needy , the insulted and suffering millions to be taciturn at the co / nm ^ nd of this God-dishonouring gang o > sable-coated nwX blackhearted dissemblers , the stones beneath our feot would upbraid us for our infatuation , and cures us tor our guilty silence .

      Don't think , Sir , that I have stepped out to n " r » upon the whole crowd of parson * , en mouse , tor I sju certain there are some among them yet untouched by " the leaven of Knrighteousness , ' * though smch is the paucity of their numbers ttrat } lite comets , they &Vt ) rdjelj 6 een . and the blessings attendant on their visiis

      " Few , and' far between . " The philosophers of tlie Malthushm school , unable to disprove the existence of wide-spread misery , would have us subscribe to the doctrine of " redundant population , " and wouid , of course , have tlie jtvor , the ¦ working man , to disobey . the command of bin 'Jioator , aud counteract the dictates of nature . But this beastly parson , aud his brutal gang , have yet to demonstrate that God has made more mouths than ho hus ideated food to fill , and they als » forget to propound tueir doctrine to the wealthy idlers . Wouid it not be far better to carry their dogmas to the palace ratheir tUau t « the cot , and thunder them in the ears of tha prince ralker than in those of the . ' plebeian ? Certainly i : -would . Bus theu , the prince would whisper tj thini the bounty of geod John Bull—he would tell thy ; ii how well the old fellow provides for the breeding awl rearing of dogs , horses , monkeys , and brats , aud , therefore , their uiksiuu to the palace would he as f raiUc&a us it is , and ever will be , to the dwelling of tha sous of toil .

      There is another race of . philosophers in this country , ¦ whicii ougLt not to be passed by without notice—I mean the Owenites , who ar « the antipodes of the Malthusian sect . Although I differ , in Mo , fn-m these men on points of theology , jet their views of the present position of society , and the remedial nwa . hur . es , they propound for its reorganization , are such a . i demand the attention of every friend to his kind . Tho i . rder of society is tyajplttely inverted : the circumstances surrounding us , and with which we are brought into frequent cont ; iet , are such as , in ninety-nine ca ^ es out of every hundred , militate against our individual interest , or are inimical to the general weal . Society indubitably requires a remodelling : a different system of training must be adopted ; in short , " old things must pass away , and all tilings become new . " Socialists

      IS would be' well if the Chartists and , generally , would think upon the admirable sajing of Broaterro— " Every raUonarSocialiBt must be a Chartist , and evevy rutional Chartist must be a Socialist . " Allow me , Sir , to express my . surprise that both parties < io not act more iu coneert ; botU have one object in view , namely , the happiness of the human rae«—both ¦ war against existing evils , and both ought to work together , leaving religious matters at home for more private uae , as they are not -weapons meet for political warfare . The Socialists sir . d the Chartists have both to combat the same enemy ; the objects of both , are alike hostile to the views , objects , acd designs ot those , who , for well- known reasons , love things as they are . ' 1 lie annihilation of Charcism , aud the destruction ot Syualism , is the desire of " Ihe powers that be "—h ; : ik are marked out as victims ; therefore , let us a ; d each other , -which may be done without the iea ; it compi-oinise ou either hand .- Separate from points of

      theological disputation , tho two ayst ' -ws must be aunilgu . uiattjd to tfftetuate aud give peniiiinencj- to that state of human happiness sought by both to bo attained . I had intended to allude to some of tho plans , schemes , tricks , and subterfuges ef the itinerating crotchet-mongers and pioneers uf faction ; but I fear that my thread will be too long , and shall , therefore , conclude by exhortiug the Socialists to aid theii Chartist brethren in their efibrt to overthrow the present cannibal system , and establish'freedom , and , consequently , happiness , on a firm and durable foundation . Let the Chartists beware of crotehet-mongurs and unprincipled agitators ; and , should a fetr unstable individuals in our own . ranks , " from motives yet . nnkuown , assail our organ , the Star , and its conductor , heed them not—tares are yet among the wheat , and we must not be discomfited at the apostauy oi a few , evon though they have made » trade of Chartism , and live by it still .

      . . .. Something mysterious hangs orar us , but a little time will give a solution to tho paradoxical conduct of certain parties . But let the Charter , the whole Charter , ami- nothing less than the Charter , be our motto . Yours , truly , Wk . Riqeb . Leeds , Feb . 10 th , 1841 .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 13, 1841, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct366/page/7/