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    • THE !\TOKTHEK1NT STAE SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1841.
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      CHI 2 TA , —We > earn , from the express recently received , that in C&ina nothing decisive in the way of negotiation hy . d yet taken place , though , alter Boms delay , tbf > preliminaries had been begun . The Imperial Cor ^ rjissioner , Kesbea , arrived at ( Anton , on Norenit ^ r 29 , and it was stated , when the ad-Yicesleft , ( hat he wasaboefcto establish nimBelf at Macao , Vor the purpose of entering npon affairs . Preriorj to his arrival , a tag of trace had been fired on by the Chinese in the Bogae fort , bat this was subs ionently explained away and apologised for . The mo £ t material feature , howerer , in the news from Cantonis the resignation of Admiral Elliot , on the

      , 'plea of ill-health . He shifted his flag from the Melville totheYolage on the 29 ; h of November , and ¦ sailed immediately for Singapore , leaving the command of the fleet to Commodore Sir J . G . Bremer , and the negotiation of affairs in the hands of Cspt . ElioJ . The squadron at the month of the Canton river amounted to eleven ships of war , besides steamers and store-ships ; the remainder of the fleet , tinder Captain F . Bourchier , were at Chusan . The troops tiisre were Etill snaring from' sickness , Out not m so great a degree as bad previously been the ease , thongh few of them could be looked upon as fit for service . Mr . Stanton had been released . The Admiral left Singapore for England on the 120 ih of December .

      INDIA . —India was comparatively tranquil , according to the news received by tne recent expresses . Jsnsseer Khan and the contumacious Belooehes were suing for peace . In Afghanistan , however , the Dooranees , upon whom Shah Soojah bad mainly looked for support , and revolted . One writer savsj"the whole country has risen . " Tne widow of kurrnkh Sisgh ( and not Nao Nehal Singh , as she was at first supposed to be ) had obtained undivided possession of the throne of Lahore , as Regent , and was in close le&gne with the illegitimate son of Rnnjeet Singh . Nepal is still considered to be disaffected .

      ECrYPTi—The Eastern question is once more xmseWed . The firmana conveying to Hehemet Ali the hereditary government of Egypt arrived at Alexandria on the 20 ih . Among the more stringent conditions , the Pasha is required to limit his army to 20 , 000 men , of whom 18 , 000 are to be in Egypt and 2 , 000 in Constantinople ; he ' n called upon to pay three years' tribute ; he is restricted from appointing any officer in Egypt above a certain rank , which is considered equivalent to the rank o ' . Adjutant-Major ; and the Sultan is to choose the

      Pasha ' s successor from among his descendants , the Pashalic not being secured to the direct line . To the two last conditions Mehemet Ali had peremptorily refused his assent ; appealing to Commodore Napier and the good fahh of England for rapport . Napier is said to have concurred in disapproving of the conditions ; and he remained at Alexandria , when the latest accounts left , on the 24 ih , to attempt a settlement of the | difference . —Ibrahim Pasha had proceeded to DamieUa . Great complaint is made of the obstructions which General Jochmus had offered to the retreat of Ibrahim ' s army .

      TOUTED STATES . —A rumour prevails of prefajauons making by Lord Palnerston to enforce the liberation of Mr . M'Leod , still in confinement in the United States . Ten sail of the line are Eaid to have oeen ordered to assemble at Gibraltar , and thence to proceed direct to the American coast , prepared to act in case of emergency . _ Lord Palmersioa is Bald iv have sent instructions to Mr . Fox , our Ambassador ai "Washington , to demand peremptorily the immediate release of Mr . M'Leod . Adorning Advertiser .

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      iKPfiovEMESis Vf Steam Boats . —We have been informed that Captain Taylor , of her Majesty ' s eKd San Josef , hss lately been engaged in a course of experiments in Hamoaze , with a view to the prevention of collisions between steam vessels , and Bteam and sailing vessels , such as those which have of late been of so frequentoccurrence , aadwhichhave been attended with such deplorable lois of property and life . Our infaricai-t states that those experiment promise the most satisfactory results . He says that Captain Taj lor ** has discovered a plan by by which the steam boat will be placed completely under the coBtrol of the ptrsous on deck , as , immediately oanger is seen , the steamer can be stopped , or turned round upon her own centre , and within her own length , without stopping the engine or calling to the engineer . "—Tones .

      Wkeck o ? the Hebolve Ltdiahan . —Fathouth , Sunday . —The Leeds steamer , which came in from Gibraltar yesterday , and takes this letter , at 2 p . m ., brings ths disastrous news of a large lndiaman , the Heroine , having been wrecked off Cape Spartel , with a considerable loss of life . The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 23 i say = — " On the night of Sunday , the I 4 tti insi ., the British ludiaman Heroine , from China bound to London , was wtaiiy lost-near Azyia , not far from Cape Spartei . Out or sixty persons on board , about thirty-four * re believed to have perished , principally Lascars . "

      The Devil ' s Law Again !—At Guiidaall , on Saturday , two youtg women , named Ann" Weeks and Sarai Ha-ri , tl- « t « brought before Sir Ciispjnan Marshal ] , charged with committing , wiii'ul damage at the West London Union-house . Mr . Miller , the Relieving Officer , stated that the prisoners had been received into the refuge for casual poor belonging to ciscaut parishes on i ' riday night , and on the following morning they tad attacked the windows , and demolished six panes . The casualiiies were becoming so numerous and troublesome , that it was dinkuk 10 manage them . They had demolished all the windows of the building they were placed m . smashed the gas lamp , destroyed the stove , and commuted cher mischief . Some of them admitted ; hey coveted the better diet of the gaoL « , and would say , " Why do you keep us here ! '' Why don ' t you give us in charge , and stud

      H 3 to Bridewell . " The applicants for aomissien to the refnge now amounted to fifty per night . * Sir Chapman Marshall asked the . prisoners w ' aere ihey came from , and why they bro £ e the windows ? One said she came from Ttochford , in Eiiex , and the other from Cheshire . They broke the windows , ¦ because they could get no other relief than & . smali ¦ qaaatityof dry bread , and on the day before had been denied eTen thK . Sir . Miller adzutied the allowance was only a certain weight of bread , but he could answer for it that if they slept at the Refuge oa Thursday eight they were offered some bread on Friday morning . Sir C . Marshall said it was true that Bridewell was not a place of punishment , a = compared with the Union ; bnt he must enforce the law as lie found it , and he , therefore , commuted tha prisoners to Bridewell for two months .

      Extensive Robbebt . —George Arnold , a respectable looking young man , aged twenty-six , Jane Galloway , forty , and Caariotte Ihwis ( who surrendered ) a ^ ed twenty , were indicted at the Central Criminal Court , on Saturday , for stealing a bank . note , of the value of £ 2 Q \) , the property of Charles Prior ; and Wiiii&m Arnold , aged twenty-seven , wa ? charged with being an asccasory before ; the fact of -the said felony . Tue c&es ' occnp ' iea several hours , in consequence of the prisoners separating their

      -defences . The eviueuee , in effect , was , tnat the prosecutor bei&g in company with the prisoners , exhibited a , £ 200 note , ai a pubiic-houie , which it was aliened George Arnold go ; possession of , and substituted a £ 5 note for it , the other prisoners being parties to the robbery . The Jury found the two men guilty , and acquitied the female prisoners . George declared that kis brother was innocent , but he admitted Ma own guilt . The Court sentenced George to seven years' transportation , and Wiliam to a year ' s imprisonment .

      Cbceltt of a Motheh to hes Chilb . —A womaa , named Ann Moore , about forty years of age , and of very repulsive appearance , was charged with cruelty to her illegitimate child , a little girl , eight years of age . Tb * face and head of the poor girl were dreadfully disfigured and wounded . One eye was quite closed , and bruises and cuts were all abeut her head ; her mother had used both tongs and knife in producing the kljdries . The iaivumaji parent was committed . u > take her Trial for culling and wounding , with intent w do some grievous boaily harm .

      The Libesatok . —Alas ! poor Dan < aud has it come to this pts ? , tha ; he who threatened to invade our Chartist camp wuh bOQfiOtj of the fine " pisantry , " has fled into an obscure corner to spout his blarney 1 Has the right arm of Whiggery become so weak as to be only stretched forth amid a small squad of bis half-starved and benighted countrymen \ So it appears ; for Dan feit very desirous ' to meet the Repealers on Sunday evening , at the Assembly Room , Theobald ' s Koad , London . The fears of the CCnnneliites prompted them to be as qaiet as . possible in announcing the above , which was only done by sending nonce to the various districts located by Irishmen , and very small handbills in the holes and corners . On each side of the entrance to the room , a number of the " pisantry" were marshalled , ready , in their labouring suits , to . eject any unfortunate wight who might happen to evince * ny disapprobation , while listening to the trash put

      forth by the trickster . After some time beyond that appointed for the coaamencraent of proceedings , a shout at the door seemed to be the signal of the approach of the juggler . Not eo ; Dan was too knowing for that . Anxious for his safety , he Bent one of his journeymen traffickers is mock liberty to try the ground , who , Beeing things pretty fair among the few countrymen assembled , the aide-de-camp , Tom Steele , immediately communicated with his General , who in about half an hour after arrived in » hackney-coach , preceded by his messenger in a cab . Dan then treated his little auditory with one of his thousand-times-repeated speeches , with this addition : he chaHecged the Chartists to appoint twenty of their party , aud allow him to choose twenty for himself , to form a Jury to examine his conduct on the charges brought against him ! I ! Bravo . Dan . But have you not registered a vow in heaven ? You . know you would make yourself scarce .

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      1 ¦ — - —^ - - Thk Legislatcbe oy Mains has voted a sum o money for the purpose of " removing the troops of the Queen of Great Britain from the territory called 1 disputed' by the British Government . " Thk Pbikcs op Moscowa , the son of Marshal Ney , was admitted a member of the French Chamber of Peers on Saturday . The Prince , before taking the oath , intended to enter into a protest against the sentence of bis father , bnt was silenced by the President . Govebmhekt intend immediately to do away with army agents , and the paymasters of regiments will in future communicate direct with the paymaster-general . A saving of £ 24 , 000 per annum will be made by this ; the Irish agents will first be got rid of , and the English ones will soon follow . — Hampshire Telegraph .

      A New Tbick in Trade . —Ab a clever contrivance ought not always to remain a secret , it may be well to publish the following mode of obtaining labour very cheaply indeed . The plan is , to engage a shop assistant , agree upon terms , &c . in a liberal way , but to stipulate for one month ' s services , without salary , as » trial ; then , at the end of the month , to find a little fault , or pick a quarrel and part . In this way twenty assistants may be hod in as many months , wiihout paying any wages whatever , and if this is not cheap labour we know not what ib . When w « think of the rapacity which originates this robbery of the industrious , and the deferred hopes , and the heart-breaking disappointments to which it leads , the utmost indignation of the public seems too gentle a punishment for the unprincipled perpetrators of such a system . Our brother editors should notice this , as a caution to applicants for situations . Employers ought to have characters as well as servants . —Liverpool Albion .

      Printers' Apprentices . —At Marylebone policeoffice , on Saturday , Mr . Isaac Chapman , a printer , employing a great aumber of workmen , at his residence , 103 , Star-street , Paddington , attended before Mr . Hardwick , on a summons obtained against him by Thomas Lockley , one of hia apprentices , for refusing to continue to employ him . It appeared that the complainant was receiving from his master for his services 133 . J > er week . The task of drawing a truck had been imposed upon the youth , and he had objected to do it , which caused his master to refuse to employ him . The magistrate decided that it was no part of the business of the apprentice , as it was both an inconvenient and dangerous practice , as many accidents might arise therefrom in the public streets .

      Merry , Fat , and " Dripping . —A very laughable scene took place on Saturday evening last , at a place called Lane ' s Pool , in ChaddertoB , near Manchester . A party of Latter Day Saints , headed by their preacher , went to the above place for the purpose of" dipping " a woman , whose weight could not be much less than eleven score . The minister , wishing to be very cautious with such a weighty customer , tied a large shawl round her waist , so as to have a firmer hold of her . He then gave her a souce in the water , but she ^ being the heaviest of the two , pulled his worship in with her ; and had it not been for the timely assistance of the crowd , both would most ] ike 2 y hav& been drowned , the pool being deeper than they expected .

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      TEOM OVR LONDON C 0 RRESPO . VDE . VT . Metropolitan Petition Committee . —It is not so generally known as it ou »; ht to be , that there is in th ' e metropolis , a " Petition Committee , " consisting of the following delegates : —Messrs . Robert Southcombe arid AnEstrcjjg Walton , for the City and Liberty of Westminster ; Mr . John Rose , for Bermondsey and Wandsworth ; Mr . Samuel Ford , for Kensington ; Mr . John Simpson , for Walworth and Camberwell ; Mr . John Murray , for the Borough of Marylebone ; Mr . John Moy , for the Borough of Lambeth ; Mr . John Mills , for the Borough of the Tower Hamlets ; and Mr . J . W . Parker , ( who is ,

      pro tern ., secretary . ) for the City of London . This Committee- have , duriDjj the brief period of their labours , got up eighty-eight petitions for the Charter ; for Frost , Williams , and Jonej ; for Rob-rt Peddie , and for the politics *! victims generally . They have also received one from Worsbrough Common , near Barnsley , in favour of Mr . Feargua O'Connor , and the political victims generally . The Committee meets every Tuesday evening , at the Dispatch . Coffee House , Bride-lane , Fleet-street ; where they are willing to receive charge of petitions in favour of the Charter and the political victims , from all parts of the country , and undertake to see them effectively presented .

      The !\Tokthek1nt Stae Saturday, March 13, 1841.

      THE !\ TOKTHEK 1 NT STAE SATURDAY , MARCH 13 , 1841 .

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      M . EAS 3 TO AN END . THE NEW AND OLD PLANS OP ORGANIZATION OF THE NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . We stated , in our last , that the new plan of organization was necessarily less stringently expressed , and , therefore , mow opon io aba : o , hy a laxity of discipline , than the old one . The old plan was admirably well conceived , and every way calculated to work well fcr the concentrating of the ration's energies upon any oce point ; but it was too good to be capable of subsisting safely under the

      rascally forms ot lavr which class legislation finds , and deems necessary , for its protection . The point ? , however , in which the new plan falls short of the full energy of the old one , in expression , are points to be noted by the people , whose good sense and determination will , we have no doubt , fully make up , by their own practical and individual exertion , for every discrepancy in active operation , which might otherwise have existed between the two plau 3 . We desire to see the new plan universally adopted ,

      because of its consonance with the Jaw ; while , at the same time , we desire that , in active operation , not one jot of the entire efficiency of the old one should bo sacrificed ; we think that both these objects may be secwed , if the people be alive and earnest ; and hence , we purpose to compare the two , to exhibit the discrepancies between them , and to show the people how they may , and must , as individuals , supply all the links of the grand national chain of firmitude , T \ bieh the cunning of class legislation has prevented from being introduced into the actual arrangements of the societv .

      We begin , then , with the General Council , the nomination and election of which should be proceeded with instanter . This General Council appears to us to be merely the substitution of a general designation for the local Councils already ifl existence . The old plan sayr ;—" Each principal to-srn , with its suburban villages , shall have a Council of nine persona , including an assistant Treasurer and Secretary . " The new plan says : —

      " Erery town or village in vrhich members of this Association shall be resident , may nominate one or mure persons as members of the General Council ; the nominaiion to take place every twelve months—taat is to say , on the It day of December in each year ; the election of such Councillors by nil the members of the Association to be taken on the 1 st day of January next following . " Now here is , in the first instance , an avoidance of what we have observed to be a source of dissatisfa . c-

      tion and dispute beforfctime , the linking together of each principal town , with its suburban villages ; by the new plan , every village may have us own council , and . its 0 WU treasurer ana secretary , to do its own business and look after its own pence , the officers being , by the mode of their election , officers not for that part only , but for the -whole of the Association throughout the kingdom ; wvule , at the same time , no place is bound to nominate officers , unless it be thought necessary to do so , so ti \ it as many of the suburban villages as choose to mtvge their right in the nomination of officers in that of ' any principal

      town , may still do so , as at present . The mode of nomination , we take it , may be precisely that which is now adopted for the election of the se , eral local councils , but with this difference only , 4 kat the members of the Association must bear i , i mind always , that no meetings of any separate l' * &rt or section of the Association , nor any meetings t ^ the members of the Association resident in any partict 'iw place , a 3 such , can be ( legally ) holden ; but tt * y may also bear in mind , that in becoming members i ^ the National Charter Association , they lose net one

      of their previously holden rights , as citizens and Chartists . They have a right to meet in their individual capacity as ChartistB ; to interchange their opinions and sentiments npon any subject of discussion ; and , if a difference of opinion arise , to take means for ascertaining how many of them adhere to the one or to the other side . They can , therefore , thu 3 talk over amongst each other , at their weekly meetingS j the respective merits of tha several candidates for the General Council , and ascertain , by vote or otherwise , which of them may have the greatest number of supporters in that locality , and these will , of coarse ,

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      be nominated . To make this plain , we will suppose the nomination of members for the next General Council to be now taking place , as indeed it ought to be ; the ChartiBts of Bradford meet in their usual pla « e of reeort , on Monday evening ; among other subjects of discussion , the relative merits of nine men who nave started as candidates for the General Council , and out of whom seven we to be elected , comes upon the carpet ; the people express their opinion upon the matter by vote ; they have a right to do so ; it is a matter for public opinion ; and though this expression of public

      opinion forms no part of the actual operations of the National Charter Association , the sub-secretary whose duty it is to nominate the Councillors , will , of course , nominate so other persons than those whom public opinion has thus marked oat for him . Should he due to act . otherwise , he would ^ in our opinion , prove himself to be utterly unfit for his situation , and we should advise the Association instantly to replace him by a more worthy man . Now , if this plan be carefully adhered to , the nomination of those members of the General Council , who may reside in any given locality ,

      will be precisely the same thing as the election of a local Council under the old plan of organization : only the people must bear this in mind , that their weekly meetings , in their several localities , are not meetings of the National Charter Association . they are meetings of the Chartists thereabouts resident in their individual capacity . The business of the officers of the Association is , to watoh the current of opinion in their several departments of the Chartist world , and to regulate their movements accord * Whenever , therefore , previous to the election of a General Council , the man , or men , to be put in

      nomination , have been thus marked for preference , by the expressed opinions of the Chartists in the neighbourhood , the sub-Secretary will , of course , know his duty . He will , at once , nominate that person or those persons ; he will fiend in that nomination to the General Secretary , who , having received all the nominations , thus handed in to him from all the sub-Secretaries , will cause them to be printed , and the whole list to be handed in to every sub-Secretary , that the members of the Association throughout the whole empire , seeing

      before them all the persons nominated to form the General Council , may be able , at onoe , to adopt , or reject , the list . As a matter o course , the members resident in each place will then see that their own men ^ the men whom t ' aey had previously marked out , by the expression of their opinions , individually , have been nominated ; they will , of course , know that in every other place the same precautions have been taken as in their own , and will , therefore , proceed at once and , as a thing of course , to the election of the whole list , their own men being right .

      We are anxious to make ourselves distinctly understood on this point , because we think it the only one in which any difficulty can arise , ' or any abuse be perpetrated in the working of the new plan . Suppose , then , the list of nominated Councillors to have been sent by the General Secretary to Bradford , the members see on that list the names of their own men , and they see also the names of John Thompsox , Robert Jemuas , Tijioxhv Weaver , John Dixon , James Rudge , and Richard Smith , nominated from Birmingham ; they know nothing

      about these men , and therefore they know nothing against them ; they take for granted that the Birmingham members know them , or they would not have nominated them , and therefore they , of course , elect them along with their own . The same remark applicB ta every other place . The lists are then returned by the sub-Secretaries to the General Secretary , who publishes forthwith the entire list of the names and residences of all the General Council . The sub-Treasurers and sub-Secretaries are , as provided by the ninth paragraph of the plan , to be elected at the same time , and in the same manner . The thing then to be most carefully noted is , that no sub-Secretary shall daro to

      nominate any man as member of the General Council , whom the pooplo have not previously determined , by their voice , to be a fie and proper person to be nominated ; if this be carefully attended to , ' as it must be , or the p 3 an can never be worked at all , the nomination of the Council will be , in point of fact , its election , and the election afterwards will be a mere formal [ process ; and we think our readers must now see that , if these suggestions be acted on , the nomin \ tion of members for the General Council , from any particular locality , under the new plan of organization , will , as we before said , amount , in practice , to exactly the Bame thing as the election of a local Council under the old plan .

      But the people must not forget , that the cursed Corresponding Act , makes liable to transportation every member of any society whose members meet and act in separate detachments . They must remember , therefore , that when a number of Chartists resident in Bradford , meet together , it is not a meeting of the National Charter Associatioa , nor is it a meeting of members of the National Charter Association , as such , though there may not be any person present who is not a member of the National Charter Associrtion ; ( that matters not ; a number of persons might meet

      together , all of whom were Methodists , and yet not meet as Methodists , but as members of a Money Club , or in any other character , nor would the fact of their being all Methodists at all constituto the meeting a Methodist meeting ;) they meet simply as Chartists , and whatever they do is their own act , as individual Chartists , and not the act of the National Charter Association . The National Charter Association appears only in the persons of its officers and members , acting in universal concert . Thi 6 is the most important thing of all , for it is the very thing on which the vaunted illegality of the old plan hinged , and which , therefore , the people mud note specially . We call to it in particular , the

      attention of all the sub-Secretaries of the National Charter Association . We shall try to bear in mind the provisions of the law upon the subject , whether others do or not ; our friends will observe , therefore , that it is to no use sending us reports , headed " National Charter Association , " at such a place , or telling us that the " Council " of such a place , met at such a time and did so and so ; the National Charter Association has no meetings ; its Council has no meetings , save those of tae Executive , and general meetings of the whole kingdom , called by the Executive ; all local meetings are , we again repeat , meetings of Chartists , but notof the National Charter Association ; if this distinction be attended to the meshes of the law will be avoided ; if not , they will suroly be run

      . We have said that the nomination for the General Council should be now going oa ; it can , of course , take place immediately ; everyplace will nominate the persons who now constitute its local Council to be members of the first General Council of the National Charter Association of Great Britain ; every person who now acts as a local Secretary will , of course , act as a sub-Secretary for bringing the new organisation iuto play ; the nominations will be determined on the very next time that the ChartiBts

      meet in their several localities , and the sub-Secretaries will instantly make their returns to the General Secretary , that the list of Councillors may be published in time for the eleotion of the ^ xecutbe Committee , on the first of April . Every rt turn must be in the hands of the Provisional Sec tetary , at Manchester , at the latest , by the end of next week , bo that he may have the whole arranged for publication , by Tuesday night , in whii * •*! c * st they shall appear in the Star of next week , w . ^ ^ * ll carry them to all the members , in every loca ^ » &a ^ taua saTe tne Association the expence of ha vin 8 tnem printed separately . In future J \ umbers we shall take up the remaining portions of the ? l * > and explain , 60 far as we un >

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      derstand it , the simplest mode of so working it m to combine , in operation , all the advantages of both the old plan and the new one . Let it , however , be brought at once into operation , as far as the people do understand it—let no time be lost in bringing the General Council into existence . Let us have , next week , the list of nominations to lay before the members .

      We perceive that the plan does sot furnish a form for the nomination of members to the General Council . We would offer the following as a guide to the Bub-SecretarieB in general : — To the Secretary of the Provisional Executive Committee of the National Charter Association of Great Britain . I beg to nominate Messrs . W John Greenwood , weaver , 6 , Hope-street , "J 3 Ely Traviss , shoemaker , 15 , Nelson-square , V g ; Robert Kitohine , woolcomber , Black Abbey , J S

      Members of the National Charter Association , as fit and proper persons to serve on the General Council , to be now elected ; and I also beg to nominate A . B . before-mentioned , for the office of sub-Secretary , and C . D . before-mentioned , for the office of sub-Treasurer to the National Charter Association . ( Signed ) John Jones , 65 , West Gate . Member of the General Council , and sub-Secretary of the National Charter Association of Great Britain .

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      GREAT BATTLE OF CRO # N AND ANCHOR , AND TOTAL DEFEAT OF THE COMBINED ARMIES OF LEAGUE , BY THE ADVANCE OF THE ROYAL CHARTIST ARMY OF OBSERVATION . We gave a mere sketch of this great and deoisive battle in our last , and , even now , we cannot devote to it as much space as its importance demands ; however , we shall endeavour , as briefly as possible , to lay the full merits before our readers .

      The meeting is denominated , by the Whig papers , the " annual meeting of the Metropolitan , Central , and District Anti-Corn Law Association ; " and its objects , " to receive a report of the progress of the question during the past year , and to adopt such measures for advancing the interest of the cause as might appear most expedient . " We have put the objects into good English , as substantially stated in the Sun . Let us now consider how the combined forces were commanded ; and , we think , we shall bIioty that every section of the League was present , and in full force . Mr . Villieks , M . P ., commander-in-chief of the St . Stephen ' s brigade , and mover of the question , was there ; Mr . Warburton , M . P ., chief of the staff , was in the chair ; Mr . Easthope , M . P ., proprietor

      of the Morning Chronicle , tho journal with one eye that leads the blind , was there ; Mr . Benjamin Hawes , M . P ., soap-boiler to the League , was there ; Sir William Molesworth , Bart ., M . P ., " a large , a very large , landed proprietor , " was there , but got the mullygrubs , and retired upon the first disoharge from the Chartists' artillery ; Mr . Aixock , late candidate for Surrey , was there ; Mr . J . B . Smith , president of the League , and late candidate for Walsall , was there ; Mr . Roebuck , of the Royal Household recruiting service , waa there ; and Dr . Bowrinq , of the Russian—Prussian—Austrian —• Egyptian—Dutch—Hung a rian servico , was there . Such was the staff upon tho hustings , and Mr . Sidney Smith , the Secretary , was selected to read the report , whioh we take from the Sun , and which runs thus : —

      " The Report contained an account of tho origin of the Association , and of the difficulties it had to encounter—lat , from the general apatby of the middle class ; and , 2 nd , from the hostility of the more political portion of u . e working class . It congratulated the meeting upon the decline of apathy in the one class , and up « n the cessation , to a coasuleiable extent , of the hostility of the other . " Tha Committee had great pleasure in being able to report that the same spirit was spreading rapidly in every dlrectiou , and would , ere long , animate the whole country .

      Energetic and well qualified gentlemen , under tho auspices of the League , had been eminently successful in theii efforts to convey useful instruction to the people . They had been well received in every part of tho kingdom . Their lectures bad been numerously attended , and in no part of the country more satisfactorily than in the south-western counties , in which the supporters of the Corn Laws declared , boastingly , they dared not shew themselves . So broad , so strong , bo genial waa the light these gentlemen had uiffmad , that the League had only to continue their exertions , in conjunction with this Association , and other Central Associations , to cause the enrolment , iu aid of the repeal of the Corn Laws , of the whole ef tho thinking portion of the population of this great empire .

      Tue Committee concluded their report in the words of a former address , thus ;—" Finally , then , permit us , fellow-citizens , solemnly to appeal to your sympathy—to your intelligence—to invoke your aid and co-operation ; since , deeply assured aa we are that our object , the total repeal of the Corn Laws , is for the welfare of all , to aid in its accomplishment . " ( Cries oC " No , no , " and cheers . ) Now , wa conceive that it does behove our friend , the Mercury , to find out , and publish the name of the author of this most audacious- and biggest lie ever told ; in order that he may , for ever , stand purged , and cease to bo " the Great Liar of the North . "

      We have not patience to comment seriatim upon each lie ; let them , therefore , bo taken in the lump , while we admit that the combined foroes have iiad a glorious campaign , if there be glory in being most ingloriously defeated by the very troops to whom they looked for succour and support . Their " glory " consists in not being able to carry one single resolution at one siugla meeting ; their " success" in not daring to call one single out-door meeting , and their " improvement , " in being iu doubt , in the third month of tho Session , whether or no , in their improved state , it would be prudent to venturo their cock in the pit in tho next main .

      Never did a set of Malthuaian beggars get such a thrashing , drubbing , hooting , kissing , and groaning as the self-satisfied League , their missionaries , and friends , have received during the period so exultingly referred to in their report ; they are easily pleased 1 Now , whom had we to meet such an array of Field Marshals and Major-Generals \ Just three Captains , raised by merit from the ranks of the Chartist army I Captain Wall led on the centre in gallant style , while Captain Bogois , with the right wing ,

      turned the ' enemy ' sflauk ; aad Captain Peat , with the left , and a detachment of Light Dragoons , fell upon the rear , and routed and . put the whole force of the enemy to the sword , tho Chartists remaining in undisputed possession of the ground . And all this while the cowardly leaguers had anticipated a most decisive victory ; having brought their whole force to bear upon our advance , the grand army being at the same moment reconnoitring at White Conduit House , ready , if any attack should be made on St . Vincent ' s , or an attempt to turn our flank by the enemy .

      Many Chartists who were engaged at the battle of the Crown and Anchor , would have gladly been at the celebration of the release of the Oakham garrison ; but having a duty to discharge , their motto was M Business first , pleasure after . " Such , then , were the odds at which the " impracticable" Chartists fought th « " practical" Leaguers , and such the victory they gained . But it does not rest here . Oh J no ; we have had a lesson from Mr . Roebuck worth all those taught by the League during the campaign . Here we give it from the Weehly Dispatch , the only London paper upon which we can depend for anything like accuracy in reports of public meetings , where the spirit of the people is manifested : —

      " Mr . Roebuck rose to support the original motion . His appearance was a signal for hisses and uproar He acknowledged that all their efforts would be vain without the Charter , of which he was a supporter , but the people , he said , would not go -with him . ( Criea of ¦ No Poor j ^ aw ,- No Foxes , ' Sit down . ' ) If the people stood by him as be atood by them—( Cries of

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      • You were one of the first to desert us . ) They all admitted the injurious effects ot tne Com Iawb , and the only question between them was , how could they be got rid of ? ( Cries of' You ran away from Bath . ) No , but the people of Bath ran * way from him . ( Laughter . ) He was willing to ^ knowledge , that if they inundated the House with petitions they would not obtain arepeal of the Com Laws , until the Charter was granted . ( The Learned Gentleman was proceeding to describe , by Illustration , the ' . insane and bigoted

      opposition evinced by the Chartists that night , but his voice was drowned by cries of "That ' s Whig illustration—thafs a lawyer ' s illustration . *) In conclusion , he asked , why did they interrupt them ? Did the middle classes ever disturb the Chartist meetings ! ( Cries of * Yes , look to the Bull-ring , where the military and b—y police broke the people ' s skulls , and dispersed their meetings . ') A scene of confusion ensued , which terminated by Mr . Roebuck ' s sitting down . " ' * ¦ . UVniit t

      The people would ' nt hear TMr . Roebuck , and he told them that he had been turned out of the House of Commons for being too Democratic , while the people thought he had deserted their cause , and he then used these remarkable words : — " No , it -was the people who had run away from him . " This ia just what O'Connkll says , and just what Hume says , and just what every one says who considers himself " the people ; " but aa we do not wish to heat ** the people" charged with ingratitude , discourtesy , or inconsistency , let us just review the acquaintanceship and the cause of its cessation .

      In February , 1833 , Mr . Roebuck waa introduced to the people , the constituency of Bath being the master of the ceremonies , and the people from so respectable an introduction , were most happy to take Mr . Roebuck by the hand , but , ia the following year , Mr . Roebuck threw the said people " upon their own rasources , " and , in return , tho people threw Mr . Roebuck upon his own resources . Now , surely , if theirs was the cut direct , his was the cut oblique , and so the odds are even ; Mr . Roebuck having thrown the first stone ; but now it is the people who bare run away from Mr . Roebuck . O dear ! O dear ! O dear ! what a shamo ! and how very , very cruel ! it reminds us of the sad plight of the stranded

      boat" The boat was still there , but the waters had gone . '' Mr . Roebuck is there , but the people are gone . Now , we beg to re-assure Mr . Roebuck of that of which we assured all ^ omc few weeks since , namely , that the people never do run away from any one till he runs away from them . But let us see if we can furnish an apology for our naughty friends for having so uncourteously " run away" from Mr . Roebuck , from Mr . Roebock ' s own lips . Here then we offer that apology , as we find it reported in the San , and so that ( from the whole context ) we think there can be no misreport , or perversion : —

      ** They had all agreed that there teas an evil to be cured in the shape of the present representation of the people in Parliament ; but he said that there was another and a greater evil to be cured , and they were there assembled to inquire into and consider the best way of getting rid # / that evil . < Cheers and hisses . J It had been said , and truly said , that the operation of the present Corn Laws had filled many a cottage with sorrow , and brought death and desolation into many a happy home , and they were there assembled to inquire the best way of getting rid of those laws . ( Cheers . J He was free to confess that the adoption of the Charter would get rid of a great part of the mischief consequent upon those laws . ( Cheers and hisses . )"

      Now , we ask Mr . Roebuck , or any man , and we shall be glad to give him Jan opportunity of correcting himself , whether the Chartists can look upon any maa as a friend , who sets up his own opinion of the associated body of tho Chartists , and presumes to tell them that , the evil of the Corn Laws is a greater evil than the evil of the present representative system . He might just as well tell us that a man with his throat cut should be punished for having the wound , instead of the man who inflicted it .

      But he takes the Chartists to task . for their mode of treating the supporters of the measure . We fear that this savours of " the pot and the kettle . " Does Mr . Roebuck read " the papers , " and has he seen the ruffianly conduct of the leaguers , at Liverpool , towards the Chartists ; has he seen the fact stated upon unquestionable authority that , no later than last week , the Gallant Sy . djiey Smith , Secretary to the league , knocked off the hat of a Chartist , at Bermondsoy , whose head he couldn't turn ! Has Mr . Roebuck heard of the insult offered by Mr . O'Connell , Mr . Easthope , Mr . Hume , and Mr .- Wynn Ellis , to the Chartists of Leicester ; and of Messrs . Seal and Mahkham ' s spirited reply to Messrs . Hume and O'Connell ,

      when every person , even friendly to the Chartists , was refused a ticket to the Leicester meeting \ Has Mr . Roebuck heard of Mr . James Leech , an operative , fully capable of teaching Mr . Roebuck , and the whole league , npon the question of the Cora Laws , being dismissed by his Corn-Law - repeal - tender - hearted - cheap -food - feed - thepoormaster for exposing the humbug ? and has he learned that the fickle , treacherous people who ran away from Mr . Roebuck , have given the said James Leach three times as good a salary , for advocating their cause , as the tender-hearted master gave him for working , like a slave , for sixteen hours a day ? Aye , aye , poor Leach is still there ' and the people won ' t run .

      But the Sun also takes the Chartists to task for their conduct ; and our golden luminary we shall also convict out of his own mouth , presently . The people see a well-fed , well-housed , and wellclad police , insulting , injuring , bullying , and destroying a starving , houseless , naked , unprotected people , and no sophistry cau blind them . They find the very masters who have reduced them to beggary , starvation , aud a BlaviBh depeadancy , asking for their assistance , to do that which the masters have never shown auy disposition to do , to better the condition of the workmen .

      They refuse to join tho people in obtaining the means of doing away with all evils , and now they are told that the Corn Laws are the greatest of all evils , that ia , the iguorant , arrogant , purse-proud , tyrannical , chooso to say , " O , yes , we'll join you , of course , but it shall be to use you for such purposes as we , not you , think proper ; " and of which purposes the people have had frequent tastes , and they don't like the relish ; so now they have resolved upon seasoning a diBh for themselves . In short , the people know all about it ; and it would be an insult to recapitulate all the arguments upon the question for the well-informed classes for whom we write .

      The people are wiser than the vain-glorious knight-errant , who preferred losing his life in single combat with the giant , to the disgrace of encountering the dwarf . They have learned that cheap and dear are relative terms , and that although there might be a Russian and an English loaf , varying in size , that they can have a slice of the dwarf , while they would only be allowed to look upon the giant . They know that if the Russian took their fabric he would have it at a lower price than the Russian serf , or any other serf , can produce it . They know that it would be a cold consolation to stand grinning , at the outside of the window of a baker ' s shop , at the Russian loaf , while every warehouse in Manchester was full of their manufacture—aye , more

      than would stock the world , waiting upon a turn of speculation , and then sold at manure or old rag price , to meet the bills ; and while all the storehouses , meantime , were full of cheap Russian corn , also waiting upon speculation , but never opened except " for a consideration . " They know also that those who now purchase twelve-thirteenths of their produce at home , and who wear shirts , stockings , drawers , flannel waistcoats , petticoats , knives , forks , &c , would then wear " shocking bad hats ;" and that , while they were breaking their neighbours and customers for the satisfaction of a parcel of speculating slave-drivers , they would be cutting off their noses to vex their faces , while the masters would laugh heartily at their folly .

      The people now laugh heartily at the greedyguts who suppose that a repeal of the Corn Laws would eet all the world produciig corn for a little

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      island of operatives , and allow all foreign matW to stand still thi while . No , no ; it has goas ? far : the people know enough , and too much . " ^ know that " Au'th' stuff i' th' world wor made ? awth' fowk i' th' world , " and that they W their share , and that they never will have it , jm they get the Charter . They know that the pre » w shoemakers have made shoes to pinch them , i ^ they want to try fresh hands . They don't waaK enter into an analytical disputation with Mr . Niv teen-Foreign-Languages Bowamc , who doesn't b »

      derstand the plain English of justice : they d < w . want to enter into logarithms with Mr . Cobdb or to go to loggerheads with Mr . Knock-off gJ Sjtdnet Smith ; or to enter upon the questioa ^ t choice of evils with Mr . Roebuck . They } 1 know that all who have hitherto tried their htai , at managing the mess have had th « bi ggest gW and they want now to try a few cooks of their 0 *? to be removed at pleasure , if their cooking d ^ not suit ; and we have pride in believing th&tin the force of the League and their backers wil 1 n » — __ ,, — __ ___ _ .. « ww vaoiB Vflli DPVpi

      shake their rational opinion , and that they nm may is our sincere and honest wish . Before we finish off the Sun , we must remisd < n > friends that we informed them that the Leeds ( k monstration was to have been followed op , if gj . cessful , by Bimilar ones at Manchester , Birmineh »» Sheffield , and in London . rAt » , then , vrasihe nJ device of the enemy , and , if successful 8 f ftj Crown and Anchor , the question of the Corn Lm was to have been the first of a series of Whi . demonstrations ; and , therefore , do we the more cm dially thank our indomitable frieeds for tha » splendid triumph . It was in every way jy u of them , and they are in every way worthy of | Z great cause in which they have taken so glorieoj a lead of late .

      Let those who heard Mr , Roebuck , at Leedi read the extraot from his Crown aud Anck speech . As for the League , it is very clear t ^ discussion is not their object , and they are a paltn shabby , sneaking set of poltroons , for attempts to take the Chartists by surprise , when their hxt » were otherwise engaged . Have they now goi » sickener , a douce in the blubber ohops , a home thrust in the ° cheap bread" basket 1 Now , one word for thestrictures upon good mama of the Golden , Railway , Chinese , Royal llarii ^ Sun ; and we leave the League to enjoy their triumph , and add it to tho long list of victories bogttd in their whole year ' s campaign .

      Here , then , from the Sun's report , wa give , sideh side , the bane and antidote , tho rebuke and t !* proof that is unmerited , his own statement of tin and his own contradiction of the same facts : —

      LOOK ON THIS PICTURE , AND OS THIS . "¦ Mr . Wall ( a Chartist ) " It is but right to hq . rose amidst cheers , hisses , tion that the Chartist pk ; and great uproar , to pro- behaved with the utaat pose an amendment . The snfairness , as the speafen Chairman endeavoured to oa their side of the qt » obtain for him an hearing , tion were heard with b and he addressed the meet- utmost patience and ate ing at some length in favour tion ; but when theo&r of the principles embodied side came to claim > js

      la the People ' s Charter , same indulgence , they » a ! but owing to the noise and greeted with most din * confusion which prevailed , dant and offensive noisa . but few of his observations This is setting an example reached us . " worthy only of the mart intolerant Tories , andom which , if practiced towadj the Chartists , they wmM be the first te denounces the bitterest language tf complaint "

      This has been the greatest battle that baa be ® fought in London since the battle of the Martyrs ia March , 1837 , when O'Connor , single-handed , metfla whole clique , headed by thirty-seven Members of Parliament , with Joe Hdme in the chair , and i ! ts an actual fight of seven hours and a-half , from twdn at noon to half-past seven—a time when it irq thought the blisters and fustians couldn't attendcarriedhis amendment for Universal Suffrage .

      Independently of the pleasure wa experience < a thus chronicling the triumph of our party , we to also a duty to perform , as we h ' nd that our troopt vociferated "Read the Northern Star" in . reply U the lying reports of the league . We again , in confirmation , beg to assure our friends , that the Sin has fairly and honestly reported the thrashings of the enemy , whenever they have dared to fight , and it will still continue to do so , until it record thai total annihilation . Three thousand cheers for Captains Wall , Bogos , and Peat , and the army of observation !

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      THE LIBERATION OF PRISONERS AM ) THE CHARTER CONVENTION . We respectfully invite attention to the letter of O'CoNNoa upon this subject ; it should be seen toil once . From a notice given elsewhere , and furnish by our London correspondent , we perceive thati Petition Committee is already in existence in I » don , aud has already doue valuable service . Vi think that the delegation recommended by O'Ca * nob , from the country , in co-operating with ii London Committee might greatly increa their capability of usefulness , and form , « a them , a crew of Chartist mariners , whs tugging at the oars would not fail so to agitate a , stagnant pool of St . Stephens , as greatly to adwa : the Chartist bark on her voyage . We hope to be able next week to record the ect ; plete furnishing of the necessary funds . We h » n I elsewhere notified our own mite , by way rf * beginning , and have only to express out confito * j that the beginning will be fol . owed up effectirslr . and at once . :

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      THE WORLD AGAINST THE S 7 ^ & 1 We thank our friend of the World for the re newal of his acquaintanceship . We had for mail weeks lost sight of him , and knew not , therefon , what he was doing in the World ; but we have W week received his explanation . The lapse owing to an accidental circumstance . PrefioM our receipt of this friendly intimation , the World

      the Ufcfa of February had been sent to » J a friend in Lancashire , in which w « pe «« that our contemporary has paid nssomecomp l ^ which we certainly should not have penmtK ^ remain eo long nnaeknowledged , bad we - them sooner . The pressure of matter pt « K us making those acknowledgments this * . although they are in type , but wo shall nest *** try to bring up alongside our friend , and ret urn courteous civilities .

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      POOR MR . STAN SFELD . Mb . Stansfeld may bless his stars , and ti « J our Star , that the Assizes fill up our columns ^ week and next , and so procure him » foiW ^ respite from a slap on each Eide of the heaa \ export and the import side , which , pkase Goo , shall yet have with interest . Mr . StifSi ^ r bottled up his valuable knowledge for so v » years , that we have no fear of the cream leaTO * fora week or two ,-it will keep till it is wanted .

      A fig for , all agitators but those of your n " class kidney ; they are the boys for oncloan ^_ wound ! The outcry against the Chartist le »<^ who have confined their denunciations to toe principles of the representative system , has ihat they made a contented people dissatisfied Wj their lot , whilst Stanfseld and Co ., dra , ^ beneath the bushel of abases in detail , ana pi « J them in the coffee-cup , the soup-bason , and tea-pot , seasoning each meal with the piqu * " *^ of sharp oppression !

      We have exposed the Household Suffrage huffi ^ and the Corn Law humbug , and we Pronu ^ present humbug as convenient a oufiing , w y given its predecessors . Meantime , let thet ^ on the alert—let the several garrisons be o look out for the masked battery , till we take o » disguise .

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      TTTT 7 , NORTHERN STAR . : ¦ .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 13, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct370/page/4/