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    • THE IJOETHEEIT STAK SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1841.
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      CHINA . —We learn , from the express recently received , that in China nothing decisive in the way cf negotiation had yes taie-j place , though , after some delay , the preliminari <« had been begun . The Imperial Commissioner , FLeshen , arrived s . t Canton , on November 29 , and it was stated , when the ad-Tices left , that he was . uboat to establish himself at Macao , for the puvpose of entering upon affairs . Previous to his arrival , * flag of truce had been fired on by the Chinese in the Bogne fort , bat this was Subsequently explained away and apologised for . The most material feature , however , in the newB from Cantonis the resignation of Admiral Elliot , on th #

      , slea of iil-health . He shifted his flag from the Mel-Tflle totheYolags on the 29 ih of November , and sailed immediately for Singapore , leafing the command of the fleet to Commodore Sir J . G . Bremer , and the negotiation of affairs in the hands of Capt . Elliot . Tb « squadron at the mouth of the Canton river ameanted to eleven ships of war , besides steamers a ad store-ships ; the remainder of the fleet , under Captain F . Bourchfer , were at Chusan , The troops there were still suffering from sickness , but not Si 8 © great a degree as had previously been the case , though few of them could be looked upon as fit for service . Mr . St&nton bad been released . The Admiral lef ; Singapore for England on the 2 Och of December .

      UHDIA . —India was comparatively tranquil , according to the news received by the recent expresses . Nusseer Khan and the contumacious Belooches were suiDg for peace . In Afghanistan , however , the Booranees , apon whom Shah Soojah had mainly looked for support , and revolted . One writer says , " the whole country has risen . " Tfie widow of Kurrukh 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 league with * the illegitimate son of Run j set Singh . Nepal \ a still considered to be disaffected .

      £ w ? PTi—The Eastern question 13 once more unsettled . The firman 3 conveying to Mehemet Ali the hereditary government of Egypt arrived at Alexandria on the 20 ; h . Amorg-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 is called upon to pay three years' tribute ; he is restricted from appointing any cfBcer 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 faith of England for tupport . Hipier is said to have concurred in disapproving , of the conditions ; and he remained at Alexandria , when the latest accounts left , on the 24 cb , to attempt a Beitlement of thejdifference , —Ibrahim Pasha had proceeded to Damietta . Great complaint is made of the obstructions which General Jochmus had offered to the retreat of Ibrahim ' s army .

      UNITED STATES . —A rumour prevails of preparations making by Lord Palmerston to enforce the liberation of Mr . M'Leod , still in confinement in the United States . Ten sail of the liae are said to have been ordered to assemble at . Gibraltar , and thence to proceed direct to the American coast , prepared to act in case of emergency . Lord Palmerstoa is said to have sent instructions to Mr . Fox , our Ambassador at Washington , to . demand peremptorily the immediate release of Mr . M'Leod . Morning Advertiser .

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      IjtPBorofESis is Steam Boats . —We have been Informed that Captain Taylor , of her Majesty ' s ship San Josef , has lately been ecgaged in a course oi experiments in Hamoaze , with a view to the prevention of collisions between steam vessels , and steam and sailing vessels , such as those which have of late been of so freqcentoccurrence , aridwhichhave been attended with such deplorabie loss of property and life . Our infoncai-t states that those experiment promise the most satisfactory results- He says tiiai Captarn Taylor " has discovered , a plan by bf which the sfeara boat will be placed completely under the control of tae persons on deck , as , immediately danger is seen , the steamer can ba stopped , or turned round upon her own centre , and within her own length , without stopping the engine orcalling to the engineer . "—Times .

      WKECK Ol" IHE HEBCI . fE J 5 DIAHAS . —FaLMOCTH , Sunday , —The Leeds steamer , whieh came in from Gibraltar jesurday , and takes this letter , at 2 p . m ., brings the disastrous news of a large lndiamai , the Heroine , haviiig been wrecked eff Cape bpartel , with a considerable loss of life . The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 23 j says— " On the night of Sunday , the I 4 tn iust ., the British Indiaman Heroine , from China bound to Loncou , was totally lost near Azyla , not fat from Cape Spartel . Out ol sixty persons on board , about thirty-four are believed to haTe perished , principally Lascars . "

      The Devil ' s Law Agais !—At Guildhall , on Saturday , two yor . r . g o-omaa , nain&il A » a \ V «« ka and Sarah Hart , were brought before Ssir Cnapmau Marshall , charged with committing wilful damage at the West London Union-house .- Mr . Miller , the Relieving Gffij ^ r , stated that the prisoners had been received into the refuge for casual poor belonging to distant parishes on . Friday night , and on the fcliowiug morning they had attacked the windows , and demolished six panes . The casualities were becoming so numerous and trouble-Bome , that it was difELnlt to manage them . They had demolished all the winduws of the building they were placed in , smashed the gas iamp , destroyed the store , and cemxnii : ed o : her mischief . Some of them admitted they coveted the better diet of the gaob , and would say , " Why do you keep us here ? ' Why don ' t you give us in charge , and send

      xi 3 to Bridewell . " The applicants for admission to the refuge eow amounted to fifty per night . . Sir Chapman Marshall asked the iprisouers where they came from , and why they bro £ e the windows ! One said she came from Kochford , in Es ^ ex , and the other fsom Cheshire . They broke the windows , because they could get no other relief than a small Quantity of dry bread , and on the day before had been denied even thit . Mr . Miller admitted the allowance wa 3 only a certain weight of bread , but lie could answer for it that if they slept at the Refuge on Thursday night they were offered sosce bread on Friday morning . Sir C . Marshall said it was true that Bridewell was not a place" of punishment , as compared with the Union ; but he must enforce the law as he found it , and he , therefore , commi ; : © d the prisoners to Bridewell for two months .

      Extensive Robb : lbt . —George Arnold , a _ respectabie looking- joaug man , aged twenty-six , J ane Galloway , forty , aad Charlotte Davis '( who surrendered ) aged twenty , were indicted at the Central Criminal Court , on isaiurday , fur stealing a bank note , of the value of £ 200 , the property ot Charles Prior ; and William Arnold , aged tweniy-seven , wa ? charged with being an accessory betore the fact of the said felony . The case occupied several hours , in consequence of the prisoners separating their defences . The evidence , in effect , was , iJiat the prosecutor being in company with the prisoners , exhibited a £ 200 note , at a public-house , which it was alleged George Arnold got possession or , and substituted a £ 5 note for it , the other prisoners being pariiea to the robbery . The Jury found the two men guilty , aad acquitted the feinsie prisoners . George declared that Ms brother was innocent , but he admitted his own guilt . The Court sentenced George to seven years' transportation , and WUiam to a year ' s imprisonment .

      CZCSLTY OF A MOTHEK TO HEH CHILD . —A WOfflSD , named Ann Moore , about forty years of age , and of Tery repulsive appearance , was charged with cruelty to her illegitimate child , a little girl , ei ght years of age . The race and head of the poor girl were dreadfully disfigured and wonnded . One eye was quite closed , and bruises and cut 3 were all about her head ; her mother had used bo ; h tongs and knife in produciDg the injuries . The inhuman parent was committed to take her trial for cutting and wounding , ¦ wit h intent to do some grievous bodily harm . Tsz LiBKaiTOB .. —Alas ! poor Ban ! and has it eome to this pass , thai he who threatened to invade eur Chartist camp with oQOft ' OQ of the fine " pisantry , " his fled into an obscure corner to spont his blarney ? Has the right arm of Whiggery become so weak

      as to be only stretched forth amid a small squad of his half-Etarved and benighted countrymen 1 So it appears ; for Dan felt very desirous to meet the Repealers on Sunday evening , at the Assembly Room , Theobald's Raad , London . The fear 3 of the O'CnnaeUites prompted them to be as quiet as possible in announebg the above , which was only done by sending notice 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 " pisaiitry" were marshalled , ready , in their labouring trails , to eject any unfortunate wight who might happon to evince Any disapprobation , while listening to ther trash pet forth by the trickster , After some time beyond that appointed for the commencsment of proceedings ,

      a snout at the door seemed to be the signal of the approach of the juggler . Not so ; Ddu wa /« WO knowing for that . Anxious for bis ^ afety , he . ^ ent one of hiB journeymen traffickers in mock liberty to try the ground , who , seeing things pretty fair amorij" ? the few countrymen assembled , the aide-de-camp , Tom Sieele , immediately communicated with his j General , who in about half an hour after arrived inJ a hackney-ccach , preceded by his messenger in a cab . f I ) an then treated bis little auditory with one of j his thoasand-UEievrepeated speeches , with . his addition : he challenged the Chartists to appoint twentv of their party , and allow him to choose twenty ! for himself , to form a Jury to examine his conduct ; on the charges brought against him !!! Bravo !! Dan . But have you net registered a vow in heaven ? You know you would make yourself scarce .

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      The Legislatdb . b op Mai ?;* has voted a sum o money for the purpose of vemoving the troops of the Queen of Great Britain from the territory ealled 4 disputed' by the British Government . " The Pbincb of Moscow a , 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 hia father , but was silenced by the President . Goyehkmbst 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 . — Hampsfiire Tdegraph .

      A New Trick in Trade . —Ah 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 Bhop assistant , agree upon terms , &o . in a liberal way , but to stipulate for one month ' s Bervices , withont salary , as a 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 had in as many months , without paying any wages whatever , a nd if this is not cheap labour we know not what is . When we 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 number of workmen , at his residence , 103 , Star-street , Paddington , attended before Mr . Hardwick , on a summons obtained against him by Thomas Lockley , one of his apprentices , for refusing to continue to employ him . It appeared that the complaiDant was receiving from hi 3 master for his services 13 a . per 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 .

      Mkrrt , Fat , a * d " Dripping . "—A very laughable scene took place on Saturday evening last , at a place called Lane ' s Pool , in Chaddertoa , 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 Bcore . 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 & 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 , botS would most likely have been drowned , the pool being deeper than they expected .

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      FROM OVB LONDON CORRESPONDENT , Metropolitan Petition Committee . —It is not so generally known as it ought to be , that there is in the metropolis , a " Petition Committees" consisting of the following delegates : —Messrs . Robert Southcombe and Armstrong Walton , for the City and Liberty of Westminster ; Mr . John Rose , for Bermondsey and Wandsmmb ; Mr . Samuel Ford , for Kensington ; Mr . John Simpson , for Walworth and Camberwell ; Mr . JohD 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 , during the brief period of their labours , got up eighty-eight petitions for the Charter ; for Frost , Williuns , and Jones ; for Robert Peddie , and for the political victims generally . They have also received one from Worsbrough Common , near Barnsley , in favour of Mr . Feargus O'Connor , and the political victims generally . The Committee meets every Tuesday evening , at the Dispatch Coffee House , Bride-iane , 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 Ijoetheeit Stak Saturday, March 13, 1841.

      THE IJOETHEEIT STAK SATURDAY , MARCH 13 , 1841 .

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      MEANS TO AN END . THE NEW AND OLD PLANS OF ORGANIZATION OF THE NATIONAL CHAKTER ASSOCIATION . We stated , in our last , that the new plan of organization was necessarily less stringently expressed , » nd , ttereiore , more open to acuse , by a laxity of discipline , than the old one . The old plan was admirably well conceived , and every way calculated to work well for the concentrating of the cation ' s energies upon any one point ; but it was too good to be capable of subsisting safely uuder the

      rascally forms of law waich class legislation finds , and deems necessary , for its protection . The point ? , however , in which the new plan falls short of ths full energy of the old one , in expression , are points to be noted by the peop le , 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 ths two plan 3 . We desire to see the new plan universally adopted

      because of its consonance with the lawj while , at the same time , we desire that , in active operation , not one jot of the entire efficiency of the old one should be sacrificed ; we think that both those objects may be secured , if the people be alive and earnest ; and hence , vre purpose to compare the two , to exhibit the discrepancies between them , and to show the people how they may , and must , as individuals , supp ly all the links of the grand national chain of firmitude , fthicli the cunning of class legislation ha 3 prevented from being introduced into the actual arrangements of the society .

      We begin , the n , with the General Council , the nomination and election of which should be proceeded triih imianter . This General Council appears to us to be merely the substitution of a general designation for the local Councils already in existence . TLe old plan says : — "Each principal toTro , with its suburban villages , shall have a Conncil of nine persons , including an assistant Treasurer and Secretary . " The new plan says : —

      " Every town or village in which members of this Association shall be resident , may nominate one or more persons as members of the General Council ; the nomination to take place every twelve months—that is to say , on the X-t day of Dsicedbei in each year ; the election of such Councillors by all the members of the Association to be taken on the 1 st day of January next following . " Now here h , in the first instance , an avoidance of what we have observed to be a source of

      dissatisfaction and dispute beforetime , the linking together of each principal town , with its suburban villages ; by the new plan , every village may have its own council , and its own treamrer and secretary , to do ite own business &nd 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 ; while , at the same time , no place is bound to nominate officers , unless it be thought necessary to do so , bo that aa many of the suburban villages as choose to merge their right in the nomination of officers in that of any principal

      town , may Etill do so , as at present . The mode of nomination , we take it , may be precisely that whkh is now adopted for the election of the several local councils , but with this difference only , that the members of the Association must bear in mind always , that no meetings of any separate part or section of the Association , nor any meetings of the members of the Association resident in any particular place , a 3 such , can be ( legally ) holden ; but they may also bear in mind , that in becoming members of the National Charter Association , they lose n » t on ©

      of their previously holden rights , as citizens and Chartists . They have a right to meet in their individual capacity aa Chartists ; to interchange their opinions and sentiments upon any subject of discussion ; a nd , if a difference of opinion arise , to take means for ascertaining bow many of them adhere to the one or to ihe other side . They can , therefore , thus talk over . unongst each other , at their weekly meeting ? } the res l" > ective merits of th « several candidates for the Gene ral Council , and ascertain , by vote or otherwise , ivhie b of them may have the greatest number of supporters in that locality , and these will , of course ,

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      be nominated . To make this plain , we will suppose the nomination of members for the next General Council to bft now taking pkee , as indued it ought to be ; ihe Chartists of Bradford meet in their usual place of resort , on Monday evening ; among other Bubjecta of discussion , the relative merits of nine men who have Btarted 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 ia 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 no other persona than those whom publio opinion has thus marked out for him . Should he dare 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 capaoity . The business of the officers of the Association is , to watch the ourrent 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 send 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 once , to adopt , or reject , the list . As a matter ot course , the members resident in each place will then see that their own men—the men whom tfiey 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 , becaus « 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 6 eut 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 Thompson , Robert Jenkiks , Timothy Weaver , John Dixon , James Rubge , and Richard Smith , nominated from Birmingham ; they know nothius

      about these men , and therefor © 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 applies to 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 dara to

      nominate any man as member of the General Couiicil , rrliom the people ha » o not prcriouuly determined , by their voice , to be a fit and proper person to be nominated ; if this be carefully attended to , ' as it must be , or the plan can never be worked at all , the nomination of the Council will be , ia 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 nomination 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 same thing as tho 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 ia 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 Association , nor ia 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 aa Methodists , but as members of a Mouey Club , or in any other character , nor would the fact of their being all Methodists at all constitute the meeting a Methodist meeting ;) they meet simply as Chartists , and whatever they do is their own acf , a 3 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 iu uuiversal concert . This 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 must 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 ua reports , headed " National Charter Association , " at such a place , or telling us tbat the " Council " of such a place , met at such a time and did bo and eo ; the National Charter Asso ciation has no meetings ; its Council has no meetings , save those of the Executive , and general meetings of the whole kingdom , called by the Executive ; all local meetings are , we again repeat , meetings of Chartists , but nofof the National Charter Association ; if this distinction be attended to the meshes of the law will be avoided ; if not , they will surely be run

      into . 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 into plvy ; the nominations will be determined on the very next time that the Chartists

      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 election of the Executive Committee , on the first of April . Every return must be in the hands of the Provisional Secretary , at Manchester , at the latest , bj the end of next week , so that he may have the whole arranged for publication , by Tuesday night , in which case they shall appear in the iSVar of next week , which will carry them to all the members , in every locality , and thus save the Asso ciation the expence of having them printed separately . In future Numbers we shall take up the remaining portions of the plan , and explain , so far as we un-

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      derstand it , the simplest mode of so working it as to combine , in operation , all the advantages of both the old plan an « l the nevr ono . Let it , however , be brought »'„ 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 hare , otxt week , the Hat of nominations to lay before the members .

      We perceive that the plan does not furnish a form for the nomination of members to the General Council . We would offer the following as a guide to the sub-Secretaries ia general : — To the Secretary of the Provisional Executive Committee of the National Charier Association of Great Britain . I beg to nominate Messrs .

      John Greenwood , weaver , 6 , Hope-street , l 2 Ely Traviss , shoemaker , 15 , Nelson-square , > g ; Robart Kitching , woolcomber , Black Abbey , J |[ 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 , i ( 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 CROWN 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 decisive 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 aa 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 objeots , " to receive a report of tho progress of the question during tho past year , and to adopt such measures for advancing the interest of the cause as might appear most expedient . " We have put ; the objeots into good English , as substantially stated in the Sun . Let us now consider how the combined forces were commanded ; and , we think , we shall show that every section of the League was present , and in full force . Mr . Villiers , M . P ., commandor-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 . Easthopb , M . P ., proprietor

      of the Morning Chronicle , the journal with one eye that leads the blind , was there ; Mr . Benjamin Hawks , 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 discharge from the Chartists' artillery ; Mr . Alcock , 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 , was there ; and Dr . Bowring , of the Russian—Prussian—Austrian—Egyptian—Dutch—Hung a rian service , was there . Such was the staff upon the hustings , and Mr . Sidney Smith , the Secretary , was selected to read the report , which we take from the Sun , and which runs thus : —

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

      •• Bnergttic and well qualified gentlemen , under the auspices of the League , had been eminently successful ia their efforts to convey useful instruction to the people . They had been well received in every part ot the kingdom . Their lectures had beeu numerously attended , and in no part of the country more satisfactorily than in the south-western countieB , in which the supporters of the Corn Laws declared , boastingly , t hey dared not shew themselves . So broad , so strong , so genial was the light these gentlemen had diffiued , that the League had only to continue their exertions , in conjnnction with this Association , and other Central Associations , to causo the enrolment , in aid of the repeal of tho Corn Laws , of the whole ef the thinking portion of the population of this great empire .

      The 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 aud co-operation ; since , deeply assured as we are that our object , the total repeal of the Corn Laws , is for the welfare of all , to aid in its accomplishment . " ( Cries of " No , no , " and cheers . ) Now , we conceive that it doos behove our friend , tho 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 ceaso to be "( he Great Liar of the North "

      We have not patience to comment seriatim upon each lie ; let them , therefore , bo taken in the lump , while wo admit that tho combined forces have had 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 singlo meeting ; their " success" in not daring to call one single out-door meeting , and their "improvement , " in l > eiu # in doubt , in the third month of the Session , whether or no , in their improved state , it would be prudent to venture their cock in the pit in the next main .

      Never did a set of Malthusian beggars get such a thrashing , drubbing , hooting , hissing , and groaning as the self-satisfied League , their missionaries , and friends , bare received during the period so exultingly leferred to in their report ; they are easily pleased ! Now , whom had we to meet such an array of Field Marshals and Major-Generals 1 Just three Captains , raised by merit from the ranks of the Chartist army 1 Captain Wall led on the centre in gallant sty la , while Captain Boggjs , with the r i ght wing ,

      turned the enemy ' s flank ; and Captain Pkat , with the left , and a detachment of Light Dragoons , fell upon the rear , aud routed and put the whole force of the enemy to the sword , the Chartists remaining in undisputed possession of the ground . And all this while the cowardly leagueta 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 ' Business first , pleasure after . " Such , then , were the odds at which the " impracticable" Chartists fought ths " practical" Leaguers , and such , the victory they gained . But it does not rest here . Oh ! 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 Weekly Dispatch , the only London paper upon which we can depend for anything like accuracy in reports of publio meetings , where the spirit of the people is manifested : —

      « Mr . Boebuck 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 . ( Cries of ' No Poor Law , ' ' No Foxes , ' Sit down . ' ) If the people atood by him aa he stood by them—( Cries of

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      • YOU were ono of the first to desert us . ' ) They all JmHtTltt » e injurious effects of the Corn Laws and !? Sy question between them was , now could Uiey be got rid of ? iCries of Yon ran away from Bath . ' ) No but the people of Bath ran away from him . Sughter . ) He waa willing to acknowledge , that if ^ undated the »«» . ^ P «» M ^; jW ?« J 2 not obtain a repeal of the Com Laws , until the Charter was granted . ( The Learned Gentleman was procoed

      opporiUoTeVSced by tha Chartists that £ «* tat hi » voteTwaa - drowned by cries of ' That * WWrfflurt * . tion-thafB a lawyer * illustration . ' ) In concision , he asked , why did they intorrupV them ? D ^ the middle classes aver disturb the Chartkt meetings ( Cries of ' Yea , look to the Boll-ring , -where the military and b—y police broke the people * stalls , and dispersed their meetings . ') A scene of « onf \ wvon ensued , which terminated by Mr . Roebuck ' s flitting down . "

      The people would ' nthear Mr . Robbtjcr , 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 is just what O'Connku , 8 aya ^ and just what Hcmk says , and just what every one says who considers himself "the people ; " but as we do not wish to hear ** the people" charged with ingratitude , discourtesy , or inconsistency , let us just review the acquaintanceship and the cause of its cessation .

      In February , 1833 , Mr . Roebcck was 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 , in the following year , Mr . Roebuck threw the said people " upon their own resources , " and , ia return , the people threw Mr . Roebuck upon his own resources . Now , surely , if theirs was the cut direct , his was tho cut oblique , and so the odds are even ; Mr . Roebuck having thrown the first stone ; but now it is the people who have run away from Mr . Roebuck . O dear ! O dear ! O dear ! what a shame ! and how very , very cruel ! it reminds ns 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 , some 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 . Roebuck ' s own lips . Here then we offer that apology , as we find it reported in the Sun , and so that ( from the whole context ) we think there can be no

      misreport , or perversion : — " They had all agreed that there was 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 » f that evil . ( Cheers and hisses . ) 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 laics . ( Cheers . ) 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 , ( Clieers 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 man as a friend , who sets up his own opinion of the associated body of the Chartists , and presumes to tell them that , the evil of the Corn La , ws 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 measare . We fear that this savours of " the pot and the kettle . " Does Mr . Roebuck read " the papers , " has he seen the ruffianly conduct of the leaguers , at Liverpool , towards the Chartists ; has he Been the fact stated upon unquestionable authority that , no later than last week , the Gallant Sydney Smith , Secretary to the league , knocked off the hat of a Chartist , at Bennondsey , 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 Eixis , to the Chartists of Leicester ; and of Messrs . Seal and Mabkbam ' s sp irited reply to Messrs . Hume and O'Connkll ,

      when every person , even friendly to the Chartists , was refused a ticket to the Leicester meeting % Has Mr . Roebuck hoard of Mr . James Leech , an operative , f ull y capable of teaching Mr . Roebuck , and tho whole league , upon the question of the Corn Laws , being dismissed by his Corn-Law - repeal - tender - hearted - cheap - food - feed - thepoor master 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 1 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 W 6 Bhall also convict out of his own mouth , presently . The people see a well-fed , woll-housed , and wellclad police , insulting , injuring , bullying , and destroying a starving , houseless , naked , unprotected people , and no sophistry oan blind them . They find the very masters who have reduced them to beggary , starvation , and a slavish dependanoy , asking for their assistance , to do tbat vrhich the masters have never shown auy disposition to do , to better the condition of the workmen .

      They refuse to join the 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 is , the ignorant , arrogant , purse-proud , tyrannical , choose 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 dish 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 Bingle 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 , oan 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 p r ice , 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 set all the world producing corn for a little

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      wland of operatives , and allow all foreign machiT to . stand still tho while . No , no ; it has gon ? far : the people know enough , and too much . ¦} £ know that " Au' th' stuff i' th' world wor madj awth' fowk i' th' world , " and that they W their share , and that they never willhaTeit ^ they get the Charter . They know that the p ' le * . shoemakers have made shoes to pinch them ^ they want to try fresh hands . They don't waijt i enter into an analytical disputation with Mr Nh ! teen-Foreign-Languages Bowwwa , who doesn't deratand the plain English of jnstice : they < j ^

      want to enter into logarithms with Mr . Cobdh or to go to loggerheads with Mr . Knock-off-a , SrDNsr Smith ; or to enter upon the qoestioa of choice of evils with Mr . Roebdck . They L know that all who have hitherto tried their W at managing the mess have had th « biggest sW and they want now to try a tew cooks of theiro * to be removed at pleasure , if their cooking ^ not suit ; and we have-pride in believing thaul the force of the League and their backers will neJ shako their rational opinion , and that they ne * may is our sincere and honest wish .

      Before we finish off the Sun , we must remiad J friends that we informed them that the Leeds 4 monstratiou was to have been followed up , if ^ cessful , by similar ones at Manchester , BirmingW Sheffield , and in London . 27 k * , then , wa 3 the n * device of the enemy * aad , if successful at tin Crown and Anchor , the question of the Corn Lan was to have been the first of a series of Wk . demonstrations ; and , therefore , do we the more e ^ dially thank our indomitable friends for thi splendid triumph . It was in every way wori ^ of them , and they are in every way worthy of til great cause in which they have taken so gloried a lead of late .

      Let those who heard Mr . Roebuck , at Lee * read the extraot from his Crown and AncL speech . As for the League , it ia very clear tb discussion is not their object , and they are a palir shabby , sneaking set of poltroons , for attemptij to take the Chartists by surprise , when their fora were otherwise engaged . Have they now got , sickener , a douce in the blubber chops , a home tin in the " cheap bread" basket ! Now , one word for thestrictures upon good mam $ of the Golden , Railway , Chinese , Royal Marrii * Sun ; and we leave the League to enjoy their u umph , and add it to the long list of victories boatf in their whole year ' s campaign .

      Here , then , from the Sun ' s report , we gWe , sideW side , the bane and antidote , the rebuke aud ^ proof that is unmerited , his own statement of ton and his own contradiction of the same facts : —

      LOOK ON THIS PICTURE , AND OS THIS . " Mr . Wall ( a Chartist ) " It is bat right to n » rose amidst cheers , hisses , tion that the Chartist psq and great uproar , to pro- behaved with the utnm pose an amendment . The mnfaimess , as the speata Chairman endeavoured to on their side of the 959 obtain for him an hearing , tion were heard withta and he addressed the meet- utmost patienc ; and atts ingatsome length in favour tion ; bat when the oif of the principles embodied side came to c ' aim &

      in the People ' s Charter , same indulgence , they \ m but owing to the noiae and greeted with most du » confusion which prevailed , dantand offensive nebs but few of bis observations Tflis is setting &n exm-i reached us . " " ' worthy only of the cd intolerant Tories , andsa which , if practiced tomi Ihe Chartists , they mtii be the first to denounces the bitterest language i complaint "

      This has been the greatest battle that has lea fought in London since the battle of the Martynii March , 1837 , when O'Connob , siagle-handed , met to whole cligut , headed by thirty-seven Membera i Parliament , with Joe Hume in the chair , andtfa an actual fight of seven hours and a-half , fromtwiin at noon to half-past seven—a time when it us thought the blisters and fustians couldn't attend carried his amendment for Universal Suffrage .

      Independently of the pleasure we experiences thus chronicling the triumph of our party , we b ; j also a duty to perform , as we find that our troop vociferated " Read the Northern Star , " ia repljis the lying reports of the league . We again , in colformation , beg to assure our friends , tbat the Sit has fairly and honestly reported the thrashings ^ the enemy , whenever they have dared to fight , ul it will still continue to do so , until it record M total annihilation * Three thousand cheers for Captains Wall , Boggs , and Pkat , and the army of observation f

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      THE LIBERATION OF PRISONERS AM

      , THE CHARTER CONVENTION . , We respectfully invite attention to the letter / O'Connor upon this subject ; it should be seen tos once . From a notice given elsewhere , and famish * by our London correspondent , we perceive thah Petition Committee is already in existence in L » don , ' and has already done valuable service . ^ think that the delegation recommended by O'O nor , from the country , in co-operating with th London Committee ' might greatly increu their capability of usefulness , and fonn , wis them , a crew of Chartist mariners , wl » tugging at the oars would not fail bo to agitate tin stagnant pool of St . Stephens , as greatly to advanet the Chartist bark on her voyage .

      We hop * to be able next week to record the coirj plete furnishing of the necessary funds . We h » t » elsewhere notified our own mite , by way ofi beginning , and have only to express oar confidence ^ that the beginning will be followed up effectively and at once . I

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      THE WORLD AGAINST THE STAR . We thank our friend of the World for the ifrj newal of his acquaintanceship . We had for masj weeks lost sight of him , and knew not , therefore , what he was doing in the ' World ; but we have tin week received his explanation . The lapse m » owing to an accidental circumstance . PrevioniMj our receipt of this friendly intimation , the WorU * l 3

      the 14 th of February had been sent to U « r a friend m Lancashire , in which wd perefl " that our contemporary has paid ussome compfona * whieh we certainly should not have permitted » remain so long unacknowledged , bad we * f them sooner . The pressure of matter precWus making those acknowledgments this we « although they are in type , but we shall nextff « try to bring up alongside our friend , and return » courteous civilities .

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      POOR MR . STANSFELD . Mr . Stansfeld may bless his stars , * nd th ^ our Star , that the Assizes fill up oar columns tw week and next , and so procure him a f ° mft respite from a slap on each nde of the bead , w export and the import side , which , please tod , * shall yet have with interest . Mr . Stassfeld b » bottled up his valuable knowledge for so n « years , that we have no fear of the cream I » w « for a week or two ,-it will keep till it » " ****

      -A fig for all agitators but those of your mi class kidney ; they are the boyB for onelosing wound ! The outcry against the Chartist lew * who have confined their denunciations to we principles of the representative system , has ww that they made * contented people dissatisfied w their lot , whilst Stanpseld and Co ., drag&etf * beneath the bushel of abuses in detail , and pwj them in the coffee-cup , the soup-bason , tea-pot , seasoning " each meal with the piquant sa of sharp oppression I

      We have exposed the Household Stiffirage humM and the Corn Law humbug , and we Pro eb ar , present humbug as convenient a cuffingi &sw given its predecessors . Meantime , let the troop y on the alert-let the several garrisons w 0 look out for the masked battery , till we W » ^ . disguise . ,

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      A THE 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-ncseproduct540/page/4/