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      UNITED STATES . The Colombia steamer reached Liverpool on Tuesday morning ; bringing papers from New York to the 1 st instant , from Boston to the 3 d , and from Halifax to the 4 th . The aeoooate from the United States are upon the whole less alarming than they hare been . First , it is said that Mr . Clay will be specially deputed to the Court of St . James's , to attempt a settlement of the i ? Tiat in £ differences between the two coontries . Secondly , if the Congress displays increased activity in preparing for the national defence , it appears to be influenced perhaps more by a sense of the unprepared state of the country for any invasion , than by a wish for actual hostilities at the present time . Tbe regular army of the United Sta-. es amounts to 12 , 550 men , the militia to 1 , 503 , 592 : bat

      the latter is in posse rather than in esse . The navy comprises 68 ships of war , including those en the ftoeks ; 33 are in actual service—namely , 1 ship of the line , 5 frigates , 13 sloops , 4 biigs , 7 schooners , 2 eoast-steamera , and -1 store-ship . Two steamfrigates axe building at Brooklyn and Philadelphia . General Harrison ' s inaugural address is expected to be pacific It will discourage Abolitionism . An extra session of Congress is expected to be convened for May . There has been , we are sorry to observe , another ^ STT correspondence between Mr . Forsyth , the Foreign Secretary , and Mr . Fox , the British Minister , respecting Mr . M'Leod ' s arrest , and other matters in dispute . Mr . M'Leod ' s brother has written a letter to the New York Journal of Commerce , declaring that ihe accused was not present at the destruction of the Caroline steamer , and that , from Ms character , it is impossible that he could have boasted of having been there .

      The State Maine had ordered its civil posse to withdraw from the disputed territory , merely leaving an agent on the spot , to deal with trespassers . The maintenance of the civil body cost the State * 0 , 000 dollars during the past year . Commercial affairs were in a very bad state . There was a panic in the money-market . United States Bank Shares , which , at the date of the previous arrivals were quoted at 26 or 27 , had fallen as low as 16 , the last quotation at New York beinj : 17 . The nates of the Bank were selling at 14 to 18 per cent , discount . A bill was before the Legislature of Pennsylvania for suspending the penalties on the non-payment of ihe Back ' s notes . Exchange on England was S to 8 $ premium ; on France , 5 22 J .

      PA 2 US . —It was reported in Paris , on Monday , that the Peers would reject the provision for the wall of circumvallation , which stands in the Fortifications' Bill as it was sent up by the Deputies , it was also reported that Lord Ponsonby would be recalled from the embassy in Turkey , ' to succeed Lord Auckland is Governor of India .

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      FHOK OCB LONDON COBRESP 0 . M ) K > T . Wednesday Evening , March l ~ lh . Ho&b DrrKU . TWG . —This morning , a " meeting " took place between Mr . Dillon Browne and Captain Duff , the latter of whom is said to . have mortally wosaded his antagonist . The affair arose on : of a theatrical squabble last evening ; though , from the lateness of fcke hoar ( six o ' clock ) , at which the intelligence reached ma , I am unable to supply " chapter and Terse , " which will doubtless appear to-morrow .

      St . Patmck ' s Dat . —This being St . Patrick ' s Day , the metropolis has been kept " all alive" by the various teetotal processions , consisting for the most part of natives of the Emerald Isle , headed by their ipiritual directors , and other officers of the Catholic Auxiliary Total Abstinence Associations . The Lincoln ' s Inn Fields' branch walked m procession from Craven Yard to St . Patrick ' s Chapel , in the forenoon ; and the St . Marylebone branch held a coiree at Theobald ' s Road , this af ternoon ; while the East-enders congregated at Virginia-street Chapel ; and at five this afternoon , a verv numerous party partook of tea and other anti-alcoholic refreshmeats in the Standard Theatre , which was fitted up for the occasion .

      The Cors-Law LiisrsBS agaih . —On Thursday evening last , Mr . Sydney Smith was announced to lecture on Corn-Law Repeal at the Three Tuns , in the borough . On entering the room ; which was well attended , we could not recognise any members of Chartist Associations , except Messrs . Wall and Parker ; and , moreover , a Corn-Law repealer was in the chair . The lecture consisted of the usnal " chips and staving ? , " with a slight sprinkling ( by way of seasoning ^ of l-i-e-s , regarding ihe Chartist , opinions on the Corn-Law question . At the conclusion of the lecture , Mr . Wall ascended the table to contradict the fibbery which had bean indulged in ; upon which a skirmish took place . A "leaguer " proposed a resolution in favour of an unqualified

      repeal of the Corp Laws ; to which Mr . Wall moved an amendment , similar to that carried the same afternoon at the Poor Law meeting , . at the Crown and Anchor , Strand . Mr . Parker seconded this amendment ; which was opposed by several speakers on the Corn Law side , but , on being put to the meeting , ( which was very impartially done by the Cflairzuiin , ; it was declared " to be carried by a large majority . Now , wken it i 3 considered that only two or three Chartists , at the most , were present , the result of this meeting shows that the Universal Suffrage movement is gaining ground with the utmost rapidity

      in public estimation . The repealers did all they possibly could to carry their motion ; one and all of them declaring themselves for the Charter , in order to obtain the votes of the meeting in favour of the original resolution ; yet two wsrking men carried their unsophisticated declaration of rights , against the opposition of the congregated band of " " respectables . " A number of police were in attendance , frobably to intimidate the "amendment" party ; ut the latter were not to be canght that way , and the wailing 3 of the " leaguere" -were both "loud and deep" at the hard knocks they have lately had administered to them by the " whole-hog men . ' '

      Last kvesisg , ( Tuesday , ) a meeting wa 3 held in ; the Working Man ' s Chape ) , Dock Head , Ber- ; mondsey , to promote the objects of the London '< Journeyman ' s Trades' Hall Committee . The place i of meeting is some miles distant from the centre of the metropolis , and therefore was not so weii ¦ atsended as could have been wished ; the chapel ' it 3 elf , however , is one of the most eligible places for holding a public meeting that we have seen for ; a long time . At half-past eight Mr . Dicks was called to the chair ; and after briefly stating the objects of the meeting , Mr . Taperell , a delegate , from the F . S . 0 . C , moved , and Mr . Taomas ieconded , the first resolution : — i

      "That this meeting views with regret , the want of a , convenient and central buUding within the metropolis , ; accessible at all times to the -working clas 3 for public j meetings on national End local matters , ¦ without any ! political or sectarian exclusion ; and it is of opinion ! that so long as the trades of Londen cave not the means of holding the meetings of their respective societies In ¦ such a place , that a system of useless exprDdkure , ; Intemperance , and confusion must prevail , detrimental to , their usefulness , and calculated to retard the social ] and political advancement of the labouring popula- j tion . " ; Mr . Sherman , in an energetic speech moved , and ¦ Mi . Farren , Jan ., seconded , the next resolution : — !

      " Thai this meeting earnestly recommends to the ! mpport of all working men , a proje-eled Londjn Journeymen ' s Trades Wall , designed and managed by : mechanics and operatives of various trader ,- -wuich j promises the most txtensivB accommodation for the ' meetings of their respective trade and other societies ' at a cheap rent ; providing for their members the i advantages ef a Mechanics' Institution on an extensive ; scale , the means of assembling to the nuniher of 3 or j * 000 persons , on reasonable terms , -when and as often as ¦ desired by the labonriag class , witbent any molesta- < tion , and offering in the enrolment of tie undertaking , ' tinder certain Acts of Parliament , the security of the law of the i * " - * against fraud of any kind .

      In the course of his remarks , Mr . Farren said that t at present the bnsiness of Trades' Societies in j general , was left , through the culpable apathy or I drunkenness of the majority of member * , to the j direction of the aristocratic and interested few . A Trades' Hall was sought , to remove these Societies ' from places of meeting where the gilded barrels i tempt Vbe eye , and the jingling of glasses tempt theI palftve to an institution where the wives and fami-i lies of the operatives might participate in their treasures , and advance their moral and racial con- j aition . They did not want a Trades' Hall built by i % Parliamentary grant , because the key of the door would then be ia the hands of the money-grubbers : they Bought to have as institution o' their own , whieh ahonld be " open to ail , without inquiring what religion they were of , or for what it ww wanted . " The aristocnev kept th » working classes

      st their looms and their anvils daring the day , bo that they coald sot raeet in the sunshine , and under tb »« aaop 7 of heaven ; while the " law of the land ' voald not allow them to discuss their grievances ia tfee evening , with the aid of a few torches . Those whose business it was to preach one day in the week that they might live in idleness the other six , assoted that the " labourer was worthy of his hire : " thmi was what they preached , but their preoepta did j fiOt ftfrtt with their practice . He exhorted hisj hearers not to allow themselves to be any longer transf erred , as the publican ' s stock-in-trade , under I the name of " good-will , " among the mash-tuba and i painted gin-casks , from one Boniface ro another ;; but , by a timely and well-directed effort , establish a J monument to future ages of the progress of know- j ledge , and with it the foundation of enlighten ? d free- i dom . Mr . Farren was loudly cheered . A tolerable j kub wm collected in aid of the expenses of the

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      meeting , and several shares in the undertaking , ( t '; e deposit on each share of £ 1 being 2 =. ) , were subset ibed for , in the vestry adjoining the place of meeting . FlBJE AT THE SotTTHAMPTOW RaiLWAT . —A most destructive fire broke out on Tuesday nighty at the Railway Terminus , at the Nine Elms Station . The flames first broke out in the locomotive engine department . It is estimated that the property destroyed cannot exceed £ 50 , 006 . It is probably under than over that amount . Th « iron turning lathes alone are valued at £ 5 , 000 . The fire

      originated in the stores , where the store-keeper had taken a light to examine some casks of oil and turpentine , which were supposed to be leaking . A spark fell on the turpentine , which ignited m an instant ,, and defied all the efforts of the men to extinguish it . It is an old adage that " Misfortunes seldom come alone ; " this morning , ( Wednesday ) from some cause , not at present ascertained , the whole of the ten o ' clock train waa placed in imminent danger , by the tender and two of the carriages getting off she rails . A delay of twentyfive minutes took place , but no very serious damage was sustained .

      The Petition Committee . —Last evening , the committee , ( consisting of the really hard-working and honest men , who are ornamented with " fustian jackets and blistered hands , ") held their usual weekly public meeting , at the Dispatch Coffee House , Bride-lane , Fleet-street ; Mr . Mills in the chair . Mr . Balls ( who had been eleoted by the members of tbe Finsbury National Charter Association , on the Sunday previous ) was added to tbe Committee . A letter from Pontypool was read , stating that they had got a petition ready , signed by three thousand persons , on behalf of Frost , Williams , and Jones ; and the secretary was directed to forward instructions as to the best means of obtaining its presentation to < he House of Commons . A

      letter from poor Carrier , ( now in Devizes murderwap , ) was also read , relative to hia treatment in gaol ; and a petition , founded upon the letter , was ordered to be immediately got ready . Forty petitions were received from various individuals and bodies in the Metropolis , some for the Welsh martyrs , some for Mr . O'Connor , and all for the Charter , A . petition \ ras also received from . Tavbtock , (!!!) signed by six hundred and sixty six individuals , on behalf of Frost . Williams , and Joaes , which was forwarded to hlr . Duncombe for presentation to the " Commons . " A letter from Mr . Hume was read , expressing his "readiness to present any petitions that might be entrusted to him .

      Rfle Northern Star Saturday, March 20, 1841.

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      PATTING ON THE BELLY . LAST AND MOST GLORIOUS OF ALL THE GLORIOUS VICTORIES OF THE GLORIOUS CHARTISTS . Wk cannot give our glorious troops half glory enough . By our second edition of last week , and our first of the present , the out-posts will hava learned the total defeat of the combined Whig and Tjry forces , by a mere section of the grand army . Yes , the victory gained on Thursday last , n » middaT , ( aind , in mid-day , ) when time , was no object to the rich oppressor , bnt a great one to the poor

      oppressed , ) should satisfy all parties of the utter hopelessness of longer deferring . justice , except at a risk too hazardous to be ventured upon . The Whigs have had their fresh-water pipes laid in all directions , and their ventilators to give the smothering faction " inside" a little fresh air from without . They have had their M Corn Law " hustmg-humbugs recruiting for the pressure without , to aid and assist the pressure within ; but that has failed .

      The Chartists met the combined forces of that fa : tion , and annihilated them ; and the Times and our Great Grandmother ( for she has had another generation since she became a grand-mamma ) and all the Tories " patted poor Jon * upon the back , " and said , "go it Chartists ; O , you made admirable speeches , fraught with gaod sound common sense , on Monday night , the Is ; of March , when you smashed the Whig pressure from without ; but they were long , rsinbling , incoherent , and discursire , -when they fell on our backs . " How ignorant some teachers are ! The Tories Ea ! d , " now let us try our hands upon our humbug out-pressure , as the

      other humbng has failed , and let us " pat Johsst upon the belly . " So they get poor old Walies to pay for the grand room at the Crown and Anchor , the very spot still ringing with Bhouts of Chartist victory—and they get Tom Do-combe , almost the only one uncontaminated gentleman in Si . Slephens—and they have the Coroner ready on the spot , to hold an inquest upon the body of deceased Whiggery , and they hook in some letters from the noble Frost , whom " the bloody old Times , " belonging to Mr . Walter , tried to murder , having first blasted his character with the whole jury class ; and this same Mr . Walteb has the matchlefS

      I effrontery to use the virtues of the man whom he ' sought to destroy , for the serving of his own paltry : party purposes . j Aye , aye , now we find the predictions of the ba-! nishfcd Frost used by his most implacable enemies . ' to pro re his worth and their un worthiness . But the people are wide awake ; they know tha * . their

      Tory friends ure only jealous of not bein £ the coneocters of ko good a measure as they call thu New Poor Law ; and while their leading journal is beating up for the recruiting service , their general of brigade is begging that the dog ' s tail miy be taken off at two snigs instead of oae . Joseph Surface says , " Let us starve them only for five years , instead ot tea—let us do things gently , and by degrees . " But how did the gentlemen vote , ana how will they now vote !

      WeU , but what part did the Protean Coroner take ! Why , he says , " O , respect Mr . Waltes , for be gave me great assistance in getting the Dorchester Labourers back . " By a parity of reasoning , then , we are not to be astonished if we find Mr . Coroner introducing Sir Robekt Peel to a Chartist audience , announcing that the R ght Hon . Baronet declared the justice of the East India Company paying Lord Keaxe £ 2000 a year , instead of the English people ,

      and that he was for only cutting half the dog ' s tail off at a time ; or , perhaps , he may introduce Jew D'Iseaeli to us , as the patriot who made the best aitack upon the government factory spy system in support of Mr . Field en ' s motion for enquiry ; or who knows but we shall see the resuscitated body of t 'e deceased Daniel paraded ! This picking out of the best spots m the many-coloured zebra , wont do ; we want healthy patriotism ; not rank corruption with one unputrified spot upon the decaying body .

      Mr . Waklkt got a hint , on Thursday , that he will , ere long , require some one to speak to Mb own character . This running with the hare and holding with the hound wont do ; it ib out of fashion . Tbe fact is , that Waklet , Hume , and Wabbueton , and those who have been loudest in their outdoor denunciation of the Wnigs , have been the very crutch upon which Whiggery has been enabled to limp to Downiog-street for the last two or three years ; because O'Connell ' s support would have been nothing , if the English people , and English principle and English opinions , had found anything like representation in the House of Commons . Those are the camp followers , who abuse all and everything for a living , while they live upon abuse .

      Will the two factions now stop ! The Whigs have tried " patting on the back ; " and the Tories have tried "patting on the belly , " till , between them , they have made poor John ' s belly and back-bone meet ; and , at last , Jon * is " fiat" with then , he says , * No more of your humbug ; if YOU repealed oar Starvation Acts to-morrow , YOU could and would give us worse ones the day after , so we will now have no more of your cooking . "

      O'Coiraoa took a right course upon this subject . He said , " Petition , but no meetings to interfere with the flisv of Chartism . " He said , " Pray for no alteration ; tell them it ia a robbery ; tell them that you will oppose every man who supports it ; tell them to cease all legislation until the people are represented . " This was ' the proper and necessary course for the people to pursue ; but these poor gentlemen were not a . ware of the difference between petitioning against a measure , in order to exhibit

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      the full force of public indignation with regard to it , and the value of a public meeting converted into a . " whole hog" Chartist triumph . The poor old Times is furious , and -our Great Granny is in fits , and old Walter has exploded of Tory damp : he kicked the bucket , and the Coroner took him off to the " Hole in the Wall , " to hold aoiuquest . The poor Chartists , who were all Solons on Monday , the 1 st of March , were all fools on Thursday ,

      the 11 th ; and the Times threatens us with withdrawing all aristocratic countenance from us , and " throwing us upon our own resources , " and we are ia a shocking way , and don't know what can or will become of us , having lost the hunoh back of " Master Walteb , " and the countenance of the Times and our Great Grandmother . Alas ! alack- a-day ! that we should live to see it 1 Ah ! good Times and Herald ^ don ' t cut us now , after having so long and so nobly fought our every battle side by side .

      Again , we Bay , send in the petitions in thousands ; but whenever Whigs and Tories call a meeting for the repeal of the Poor Law , or for any other measure , or for the consideration of any question , no matter what , if it was to pave the streets with penny loaves , and thatch the houses with pancakes , upset one and all ; move your own your only hope everlastingly : give no quarter , you have never got any . There is nothing like the plain , blunt , honest , straightforward course . They one and all want to starve yon , but each has his own choice mode of doing it . Stick to them like leeches , as they have stuck to yon ; and never , never stop till-you have sucked back every drop of your own blood , which has been BUlen from your veins . If all desert you , we will stand by you to the last , while there ' s a beggar to make rags , and a mill to make paper .

      There is only one thing of which we beg to remind you . In your poverty , pray preserve your good manners and your good breeding ; and when a gentleman tells you , as Mr . Walter did , that he paid for the room , always thank him , and ask him for change of the Chartist note yon gave him . The meeting was quite right to put Captain Neesoh— ( we had almost given him a step , and said Major Neesoh )—in the chair ; and Captain Cleave deserves the thanks of the nation for not being wheedled by Mr . Wakxey and the shams into half measures . O that Leeds battle was to fight over again , now that Birmingham haa done such service , and that the London garrison has taught us the art of war .

      Go it , good Chartists ! We wish Mr . Waklet joy of his new allieB ! This has been the finisher of all Tory hope for Chartist sympathy : we are not going to erect despotism upon the ruins of tyranny . Hurrah for the cause , and no surrender , and down ¦ with both factions ! We always said that we never could succeed till the enemies united , and gave battle as they are sure to do . If they cannot make us beat ourselves , or if the u cocked tails " cannot beat us , they must then try the last resource—a onion of the factions against the nation . Let them come on ! Let them but dissolve , which they must do shortly , and then we come face to face—then we are all equals ! Then God help them and theii backers , and God help the cock-tails , and God will help the Chartists , for they will help themselves .

      Pressed as we are for room , we should deem it an act of high treason , to withold the two letters from our beloved Frost , and Mr . Walter ' s introduction and comment . Mr . Walter said : — " They all knew the history of the unfortunate , and , be must say , criminal , Mr . Frost—( cries of " No , nonot criminal , "from a knot of Chartists)—and hia companions in . Wales . Far waa he from approving of Mr . Frost's conduct —( "he ' s an honest man , " said a Charttist ) ;—far was b « from sanctioning the first attempt at bloodshed in this country against the constituted authorities . ( Hear , hear . ) Indeed , no one could condemn it more ; for he hoped , and still trusted , that the Constitution continued to supply the peaceful means of

      self-defence to those who were determined to resist aggression and cruelty . ( Cheers . ) But bo was further of opinUn , that great weight and importance ought to be attributed to the opinions of such a man as Mr . Frost—( loud cheers from the Chartistsi , —immersed , though he subsequently was , in the excesses of Chartism , u to the facts whence it sprung , how it was to be propagated , and what would be its results . From Mr . Frost's testimony he learnt , and so be hop-d would our rulers learn , that the ill-omened parent of Cnartism was the New Poor Law —( Cheers )—of Chartism , not tak « n in its simpler form , of a placid opinion

      on personal rights and privileges , but of Chartism in its most aggravated character of resisting authority and committing murder . ( Hear , hear . ) It so happened that during the efforts which ho was making to resist the New Poor Law , he received , without any previous knowledge of the writer , two letters from Mr . Frost—( hear , hear , )—then a magistrate of Lord John Russell ' s appointment —( hear , bear , )—and then also just constituted a i ? uardian of the poor under the frocious Poor Law . Those letters he would now read to tho meeting . It would be observed that they were written two years and three-quarters before the outrages in Wales : — " Newport , Monmouthshire , F « ju . 25 , 1 S 37 .

      " bit , —1 tm a guardian of the poor , and also mayor of the borough . Some time ago the Poor Law Commissioners sent to our union six dietaries , one of whirh we were to select to regulate tbe quantity of food to be allowed to the paupers in our workhouse . I iiinio a motion that tach guardian be sent a ctipy of tin . : ! i ; 't-. ry to give him an opportunity of examining whether the , quantity was sufficient , and at the same time I expressed my determination to add to the allowance , it being my opinion that it is too little to sustain lii « . ( Chartist cheers . ) Tbis morning Mr . Clive , the iissif ; - tant Pwr Law Commissioner , attenritd tur nutitinj ; : he asked me what alteration I intended to propose in thft dietary ? I slid , ' a greater quantity of fond ., ami that the paupers should have occasionally a littl ¦ ho ^ r . '

      ' 1 am" ( said he ) ' directed to inform you , that whatever determination the board may come to , thu Poor hire Commissioners will make n . ) altwation in the (!; otary . ( Loud cries of ' Shame , shame . ') They win r . n allow a greater quantity of food ; they will alio-. r no beer ; in short , the board must adopt one of tho tables , without any addition . " My answer was , ' I was ssnt here by the inhabitants of the borough , as a gu-iniian of the poor of the borough . I will endeavour to si e that the money of my constituents is not improperly applied —( hear , hear );—but I will also see that those who are forced by poverty to apply tu tho puiiah for relief shall not be put on a quantity of food too small to sustain life . ( Hear , hear . ) 1 have not yet , nor do 1 mean to consider the will of the Pour Law

      Commissioners as to the quantity of food to bu allowed to the paupers . I will exercise my own judgment , quite regardless -whether the Poor L « w Commissioners are offended or pleased . " ( Cbiirtist chtere . ) " If you think this letter of auy service , Mr . Walter is quite at liberty to make use vf it ; and if he ia ? f the opinion that a petition will serve the cause , 1 will send him one from tbe petitioners . " I remain , Sir , " Your very obedient Servant , " JOHN FROST . " —( Great cheering from the Chartists . ) The other lfotter was addressed to him ( Mr . Waiter ) about ten days afterwards , and was in the following terms : —

      " Newport , Monmouthshire , March 6 , 1837 . " Sir , —I have enclosed for your perusal a placard published by myself ami my colleague , the guardian for the borough . Although there are in this part of the country some in favour of the New Poor Law , yet no one attempts to refute the statements which thia placard contains . I believe that the average t > f allowance throughout England to oul-door paupers will not exceed two shillings a head , and I cannot « ee that it is possible te maintain a human being for less , unless it is tbe intention of the authorities to starve the paupers . ( Chartist cnetrs . ) I do not beiieve the statement * as to the saving of the new system ; I cannot see how they are to be made . We have not been long enough in

      this part of the country to tUoide accurately as to the saving under the now law ; of one thintt , however , I am ctrUin , that the hatred to it is continually increasing . It evidently tends to increase the hatred , already pawerful enongh , between the rich and the poorer classes of society . ( Chartist cheers . ) Public feeling is too strong in thia neighbourhood to suffer any gross cases of cruelty . The guardians did , on last Saturday , agree to the dietary , which in my opinion iwmuch too mall . If this should be found to be so , I will oertainly lax tbe matter by petition before tbe House . It is monnioas to think that three hired men should have so much power placed in their bauds . ( Cheers . ) The boards of guardians ar « complete ciphers ; all they have to do is

      to carry Into execution tha edicts of the Commissioners . Some time ago our doors were opened to the public ; the motion passed unanimously ; they- -were open for three week * without tbe least Inconvenience . When the Poor Law Commissioners heard of it , they sent down peremptory orders to the guardians to close them — ( hear , hear ;)—which order the board obeyed , without even remonstrating . I believe Mr . Hall , the member for the borough , will support any motion for an alteration in tbe law aa it now stands . He is , I have reason to kebevfi , sorry that ho supported it . It woulti be boiuo improvement if thu cm-qfficfa guardians were to cease to t-xl * t a . a euch . Most of the fanners are ccmpfete tools of the ex-cjirtot . It It were not for the

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      guardians of populous places , the poor would be treated much worse than they are at present "I am , Sir , ¦ '~ - *~ " Your qbeAlent servant , John S ^ rost . '' ^ Ooeers . ) 11 To J . Walter * Bs «[ ., M . P . " TTM placard to which Mr . Frost alluded was too long ito be read on the present occasion , but he could assure tbe meeting that it was human * in its principles and temperate ia its language , Hl » communication with Mr . Frost , whom he neve * saw , began and ended with these letters . Now , what wai the inlerince to be drawn from them ? Mr . Frost might . only know what would

      be the effect of the New Poor Law is his own Union —that tt inn ** lead to ootrafe . To outrage It did lead ; in that opinion , at least , he was not deceived . It might be said that Mr . Frost htmseif produced the ' evils wbiob he predicted in these letters . Treason , hawever , was rarely contemplated three years before it broke out into overt acts . Bat if , contrary to all probability , it were so contemplated , -what gave Mr . Frost tbe materials with wbiob be worked I What prepared ready inatrOmenta in hb hands ? "What brought thousands to hia standard more zeplona for mischief than himself ? He ( Mr . Walter ) answered , the New Poorlaw . "

      It must be borne in mind that we give this extract from the Times , which would make it appear that the meeting tolerated even reproof of Frost by Walter ; the fact being , according to all reports , that the old hypocrite was peppered like a target with Chartist biases and ChartiBt groans , whenever he dared to venture upon a word in condemnation of Frost . . Let every Chartist and Christian read the above , and then ask himself where the honest and humane Mayor of Newport now is , arid what he is there for , and who sent him there ! Echo answers " in a felon ' s dress , in a penal settlement , away from his own family , for looking for food and justice for ours . " Let the British lion arouse from his slumbers , up , and shake the dew drops from his mane , and ask for his restoration with a lion ' B voice .

      Walteb , says Frost , is a man whose opinions should have weight with the Government . Did the Times , which is WiLttft ' s , or did Walter , say this , when saying it might have saved Frost from persecution ! No , the rascals bought his indictment from his attorney , called him swindler , traitor , cheat , and murderer , and so on ; and no w , having made him the victim of their hellish vengeance to please an advertising oommunity , they come forward to pourtray his honour , his love of justice , his humanity and patriotism , -while , they are still vociferating against Whig lenilyV . ) to F « osr .

      Thus are the people ' s friends lopped off , one by one , by the faction who would make merchandise of their very misfortunes , having first created them ; We trust this exposition will give those who have a leaning to Toryism a siokener . Let us once help them to power , and they would help us to destruction ; but , let them steal power , the sooner the better ; then they must fight us with halters around their neuks .

      Mr . Walter asked " What gave Mr . Frost the materials with whiob . he worked t What prepared ready instruments in his hands ! What brought thousands to his standard , more zealous for mischief I" He ( Mr . Walter ) answered , "The New Poor Law ; " aud we ask who gave us the New Poor Law land we answer the Whigs and the Tories . So NO UNION WITH THE TORIES .

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      ORGANIZATION . We are obliged to defer our intended article on organization to another week . Meantime , we call emphatically on tbe Chartists throughout every district to be proceeding with the nomination of the General Council . Let the sub-Secretaries of every district send in immediately the names of the existing Council in each locality , or of such other persons as the people may determine on at their meetings tomorrow and Monday , as nominated to serve on the first General Council of the National Charter

      Association of Great Britain . This ib necessary to be done instantly , because the Executive Committee must bo chosen from the General Council , and cannot therefore be eleoted until that body shall have come into existence . We gavo in our last a general form of nomination , for the guidance of the several sub-Secretaries : we give elsewhere , in our present paper , the address of the Provisional Executive , from which they can take the address of Mr . Campbell , the Secretary to the Provisional Executive , who of course acts , pro tetnporc , as General Secretary .

      Two copies of every nomination should be written , one of which the sub-Secretary should file , and send the other to the General Secretary ; and it would al = o bo a » reat saving of trouble , both to the General Secretary and to ub , if each suVSeoretary would fike the additional trouble of sending to this office the name ? , occupations , and residences , of all tho persons nominated by him—distinguishing all thoso appointed as Sub-Treasurers and Sub-Secretaries ; thus : — " Persons nominated for General

      Coutiol at ' John Sharp , woolcomber , 16 , Nelson-8 treot , George Fish , joiner , 5 , Wood-streot , Eli B * tes , joiner , Biack Abbey , ;? James Jones , shoemaker , Market-place , 2 _ Joha TJiomaa , weaver , Little Horton , ? - A < Jam Wi * o , woolsorter , Bowling , 2 . Richard Fry , schoolmaster , Lougcroft-placei bub Secretary , Thoma * Wilson , tiulor , Market-street , Sub-Treuauier . " Signed , Thomas Smith .

      Copies of the Nominations being thus sent tons from every place , would enable us to compare the lists of the General Secretary , and it may be to prevent mistakes ; while it would materially forward the getting up of the whole list for publication . Observe , however , that they should not be later in our hands than Wednesday .

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      THE NATIONAL PETITION AND ELECTION OF DELEGATES . Elsewhere we furnish , as requested , the draft of a petition , such as we think suitable for the times and circumstances of the people- We ask the people in each locality to consider , and to adopt or r . j- ^ ct it as a whole . 16 must not 'be patched or aitarad , because then its universality vrill be destroyed .

      We find ourselves compelled , by want of space , to keep out the list of contributors to the Convention ' s Fund and to all the other funds till next week . However , "the work goes bravely on . " Let it Btill go on—let every one in every place , whose mite has not come , be seat in at once , and then . o may announce in our next the completion of the whole sum necessary . The Bankers com-[ ibin of the trouble of Post-office orders for small sums ; let the money be , therefore , sent here at once , and we will see to it . One thing in connection with the Convention let tho people notice , that as far as possible their movements m& 9 be legal . All delegates must be

      1 LECTBD AT PUBLIC MEETINGS , CALLED BY PLACARD for the purpose . This must be observed in reference to all delegates , for whatever purpose delegated . Delegates from private bodies , clubs , or societies , ef a political character , are illegal . Every man mu 6 t be delegated from a public meeting of the inhabitants of the town or place from whence he is sent . -

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      Numa is in type ; but is necessarily reserved till next week ; tre are also obliged to withhold a letter fiom Mr . O " Brien till n * xt week . Messb . 3 . CoitiKS wp O ' iNeil . — Their second "Address to the Middle Classes" has been received , but must stand vver till next week . The Kepout of the Lanarkshire Universal Suffrage Association is too late . It ought to have been seni for our last . Jamks iA . mi . QWU —We think he would be defeating his own purpose by conferring too much importance upon the person whose name he would publish . Cbllisgworth , near Bradford . —The Blue Milk Iipw close story should have been authenticated .

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      Payment for Seats at Ciiubch . —A eommunieation has reached usstating , thateompulsory paytnents are demanded for pews and sittings in St : John ' s and St . Mary ' s churches . Devises , which is illegal , as appears from the highest ecclesiastical authority in Ih * diouse , and from the testimony 6 f an eminent Proctor in Doctors' Commons . CiAYTow . —The news from Clay tmis omitted for want of room . John Johnson , Portbea . —We dontknow . Philo Amicus . —Next week . A Constant Reader , Manchester . —We know nothing about free-masonry . Joseph Xawton .- ~ TA « Poor Law Guardians have no pay , flu * there- are a sufficiency of assistants , clerks , $ 0 ., to account for the increase in the expenditure . Young Patriots . —Must stand over this week to

      make roovufor the old . ones . C . N ., Conglbton . — Yes . H . D-, Mansfield . —We have no agent at Lincoln ' . There are Chartists there , but we know not whether they belong to the National Charter Association . Mansfield . —The " rurals" paragraph next week . Birmingham . —Mrs . Clayton desires thankfully to adcnowledge the munificence of the Birmingham Chartists . " J . W . Parker . —In reference to the day ( Easter MondayX which is recommended by the national delegates to be set apart for a general penny subscription on behalf of the imprisoned victims , writesthus : — " Iwouldrecommend [ every Chartist meetina room , in England , Ireland , Scotland .

      and Wales , to be open all day on Easter Monday . Thesecretaries , or other persons appointed , to be in attendance to receive the subscriptions . It being a holiday , meetings ought to be called to aid the collections ; and every associated body to issue , immediately , advertisements and bills in every city , borough , town , hamlet , and village , in the kingdom , calling upon every friend to humanity to come forward that day on behalf of the suffering victims ; also , every honest and true Chartist to > become a collectorin his family , among his relations , his friends , his shopmalesi and with those with whom he deals ; in fact , let no stone be left unturned to consummate so glorious an object as this . Let the Chartists appoint

      treasurers , pro tem , —men in wliam they have confidence . Remember Messrs . Frost , Williams , and Jones are calling aloud , across the mighty deep , to you te do your duty . The big beggarman , Dan , has his tribute day , and draws from the famishing people of Ireland upwards of £ 20 , 000 a year . Let us have our tribute day , for a better purpose . Once more , brother Chartists , I exhort you to do your duty . Let the Northern Star , and the rest of the Chartist press , use their mighty influence , conjointly with the Provisional Executive of England and Wales , and the Central Committee of Scotland , There is no lime to be lost . Let it be a true exhibition of your moral power . A million of pence , and nothing less Make it succeed , and you can use it again to carry ihe People ' s Charter . Again , again , and again to your duty . " 11 Observer , " " Solitary Thoughts , " "Patriot ' s

      Hymn , " "A Poor Man ' s FritShd , " "Emigration , " ?' Lines on Death , " and " The Patriots ' a Farewell to his Country , " declined . A Working Man . — We know nothing of the circumstances to which he alludes . T . R . Smart . —The letter to which he refers was duly received and forwarded . J . H . —We do not agree with his opinions on the unscripUiralness of a paid ministry in the Christian Church . Wm . Lovett . —Thanks for the slavery document ; it shall have our best attention . Some Chartists of the right sort , at Newton Moor , by Kinguarrie , would be glad of a visit from Mr . G . M'Bean , on his lecturing tour through the North of Scotland . Wm . Tucker . —// he send us the pamphlet , we will read and then notice it . Waltbb Mason . —The horrible recital of Poor-Law atrocities , which he has forwarded , shall be

      published as soon as we can possibly find room . Peter Rigby . His eccentric communication on u stool boxes" is declined . Ri « hard Spurr . —His ' ¦ ' legal" plan of organisation is in the teeth of the law at almost every step of it , as applied to a political , though it would be perfectly legal in reference to ^ a religious , movement . J . W . B . —The issue would be illegal : the Stamp Act has provided against any such an evasion of its force . Wk . Martin . —One head will do for all : the petition

      will be a national one , and must , therefore , if adopted at all , be adopted in every place without alteration . John Campdeli ; . writes us , that u a meeting of the power loom weavers will be held in Mr . Wheeler ' s Room , 9 , Whittle-street , Manchester , to form a Chartist association among that body ; " but does not say when . Peter M" Braphy . —Thanks . Mr . Pitkethly has received for J . Broyan , of Sutton-in-Ashfield— £ . s . d . '

      From W . D . Saull , Esq . 0 10 0 From Thomas Prout , Esq . * 0 10 0 Trowbridgk Radicals may send their collection for Mrs . Clay ton , to Mrs . ClaytonyNo . 87 , Porterstrieti Sheffield . Sarah Clayton . —Next week . Dublin Chartists . —The communication to which they allude never came to hand . Their suspicions concerning the persons they name art totally incorrect . ' ? The Sons of Toil" shall appear when we have

      room . Malcom M'Nee . —Our space is full . Stockton . —The churchwarden ' s courtesy shall he chronicled next week . Barnard Castle . —We have no room for local news this week . . Banbury . — We are very sorry to be compelled to leave out ihe report of the splendid dinner to Mr . Vincent , out from an Oxford paper , but press of matter leaves us no alternative . It is , perhaps , the less to be regretted , as these are now becoming routine thhigs . A triumph is a thing of course wherever Vincent , or any such man , makes a public appearance . Will the besotted

      factions ever learn to " discern the signs of the times' ? C . and R . —Our space is chock full . C . H . Njeesom is in type , but is obliged to be reserved till next week . Rochdale . — We are compelled to reserve the report of the Poor Law meeting till next week . Birmingham . — We received the Birmingham news packet by the last post on Thursday , too late for any of it to appear . Communications were received by the same post from Kilbarchaii , Markiucu r B'jlton , Bardford ( Wilts ) , Austcrlands , Oldham , Merthy Tydvil , Preston , and South Shields—all too late .

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      Erratum in our last . —In the letter of NUMA , five lines from the bottom of first column , for " Issachar is a strong city reaching down between two windows "—read " a strong Ass couching down between two burdens . "

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      AIR . Editor , —I beg to address a few words to the men of England and Wales , but especially those of the Huddersfield district , who , I am sure , will be upon the alert . They are , or ought to be , well aware , that oil this 20 th ( lay of March , that they have , or ore entitle' . to have , a voting paper for the election of Guardians . Examine well the character of the candidates nominated , apprise one another of what you know of them , and by no means vote for thoBe who are advocates of the baatiles ; support men , be their politics what they way , who are favourable to the . just and merciful law of the 43 rd of Eiizibeth ; let the cry be— "No bostUera nor bastiles , down with the whole starvation system . "

      I would recommend that general and sub committees bo formed in every township , who ought to visit every house , and give directions how to fill up their voting papers , but ou no account to fill up a single paper for these who can write ; and for those who cannot , when you have placed the voter ' s name opposite the persou or person's uame , for whom he wishes to vote , at the bottom write his name thus—seeing that he himself makes the X : — his Adam X Anderson , mark . Joseph Dean , witness . And be Bure that some person is in the house on Tuesday , the 23 rd , who can deliver the voting paper to the collector when he calls for it ; you most have it ready or the vote will be lost .

      Where it can be done , let meetings be held to consult ; and where the people are strangers , they might be invited to such place as might be fixed upon for instruction how to fill tbe papers ; for , depend upon it , there is no justice norfairplay . The Three-Devil King * have made the clerks the returning officers , in order that they might have it in their power to rob yon of your franchiae , and send you to those wretched , appalling abodei of niiierr , despair / and woe—the bastiles . The anti-bastile candidate ! for Hnddersfleld are

      Messrs . Whitworth , Thornton , Poppleton , Brunton . and Liddall ; the Whig skilly men are , Messrs , J . Bottomley ( Cherry Tree ) , B . Robinson Lane , Tommy Ibbotson , Tommy Shepherd , and Tommy Kilnet : the people know to vote , and there will be 2 , 000 Of a majority . However , let them be suulloua in filling up the voting papers ; let them go to some friend and consult together , or form committees to see that they are filled up corrtctly , or they will be thrown out as bad ; and lot a Hat of those who vote be k « pt for every division and tiktin to the scrutiny .

      The opposition against myself is moat keen ; They have nominated , along with me , for Almondbury , Mr . Wm . Stocks , who is well respected and well knvwn . In opposition , they have nominated Sbr John lUmsden's

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      bailiff , Josh . Brooke , imagining , ' because ho bawls <• the Court , and calls up the tenants to pay their rent that he can bawl and get them ( the tenants ; to vofalS bastiles and skilly for themselves . They have noM nated Adam Anderson , too , whom the people of Hu dersfold wsnt last year as being entirely oppoied to t £ new scheme , bat who betrayed them and support the system ; bat he has never told hia constituent * whjj blessings he anticipated from it , nor how be gottml vinced of Ua superiority to the old law : they are abort to call upon him to explain why he became a turncoAk The men of Almcndbury declare that they willfcua nothing to do with the discarded of Huddenfield . with the bailiff , his intended colleague ; they an lii . the alert , and they wiU do their duty . ° " I am , dear Sir , Year constant reader and obeiient servant , J . PlTKBiHtT .

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      THE VICTIM CLAYTON . Funeral sermons for Clayton have been preachM to crowded and attentive audiences at Mamiin * Vi « 2 and Bradford , by Mr . Ibbeteon ; at Hathern , b *\ w ? Bent , when the sum of 5 s . 7 £ d . was collected 2 s . fid of which has been forwarded to Sheffield for th * widow—the other remains for the victim Edwards ., at 'Loughborough , b y Mr . Bairstow , when fo m ' was collected , 4 s . 3 d . of which has been sent * Sheffield for the . widow ^ the other will be forwarded to Edwards ; at Monntsorrel , by Mr . BairstoW when 6 a . waa collected , half of which was ft * the widow , and the other for Edwards ; at Coariiu ton , by the Rev . Joseph Capper , from TomSS " when 5 s . was collected for the widow ; at Maasfiflld ' h J ^ £ ^™ h o l ? tonhen a coUection wj

      ^ ^^ made for the widow and children ; at Kensington Common , at eleven in the forenoon of last Sundav by Mr . James Savage , and at Shepherdess Fields at one in the afternoon , by Mr . G . E . Bocjria' Newton Heath , by Mr . Cartlcdge , of Manchesterat Ouseburn , by Air . Lowery , when 12 s . M . « collected for the widow , expences amounting to 4 s . 3 d . ; at Dundee , by Mr . John Dincan ; at new port , by Mr . Black , of Nottingham ; at Sntton-in " Ashfield , in the Christian Chartist Chapel , by tha officiating minister for the day , when 4 s . 6 & *» , collected for the widow ; at Middlesboroutfk b » Mr . John Bormond , when £ 1 15 s . was collected fot the widow ; in Vale of Leven , Scotland , in tl » Christian Chartist Church , by Mr . Thomassoii jwhea £ \ 5 s . was collected for the widow ; at

      Huddersfield , in the Chartist Room , Upperhead-row by Messrs . Bray and Neesom , when £ 2 were collected * at Trowbridge . by Mr . J . Rawlings , when il was collected for the widow ; at Dodworth , by Mr Mirfield ; at Bermondsey , in the Working Ifan'j Chapel , Dock Head , by Mr . Rainsley , when 17 s . was collected for the widow and orphans —( the parties getting up the meeting take this opportunity of recording their thanks for the handsome manner in which the proprietors granted the gratuitous use of the chapel , and for the trouble they took to afford every accommodation);—at Keighley , in th « Working Man ' s Hall , by Mr . Rushton , of Halifax , when * £ l-08 . - Ofd . was collected ; at Dewsbury , by Mr . Arran , when collections were made for ths widow .

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      OLD CUMWOCK . —At the half-yearly meeting of the Cumnock Chatter Association , held on the eren ing of Saturday last , the secretary read an account of the income and expenditure for the past half yea ? which , proving ; satisfactory , was confirmed . Copies of an address from the Scottish Central Committee , recommending the formation of a National Printing Company , were laid on the table . After several pro positions were disposed of respecting lecturers , it mi finally agreed "That no party , engaging a lecture without the sanction of the committee , shall have uj claim on the association fund . " A letter from J . Collins , and A . O'Neil , of Birmingham , wag read , in which the writers state , amongst other things , tint they are anxious to obtain numbers and influence , tad for this end they ardently desire to obtain a unio » with the middle , classes , but they , at the same time , would council all to withstand any advances short of the full measure of the franchise contained in tha Charter .

      CHESTERFIELD AMD BBAMPTOR . —At the weekly meeting , on Monday evening , nim persons were pitched on as n ' t persons for nomina tion to the Council of the National Charter Associa tion . Resolutions were adopted , approving of tbe Charter and Petition Convention , aud calling npoi all friends of the people ' s cause , wherever located , to forward their mite without delay—directing thai 2 s . 6 d . be sent to the Northern Star Office , for Ma Clayton ; and . tendering the thanks of the meeting to Mr . George White and his co-patriots at Birmingham , for their noble conduct at the late meeting at Holloway Head , and to Fearpu 3 O'Connor , E * q , proprietor , and the Rev . Mr . Hill , editor of tha ) Northern Star , for their unflinching advocacy of the people's cause .

      . OTEY .-Dr . M'Douall lectured in the Gardenstreet room on Tuesday , on the Old and New Pool Laws . There was a good audience , and the Doctor was much applauded . The Spirit of Chartism ii hero being resuscitated ; the late visits of the Doctor , aud the address of Mr . Hill last Sunday afternoon , tended much to rouse and confirm the energies of the people , and we are glad to perceive the sturdy Radicals of Bury once more determined to throw away the crutches and stand on their own legs . TORE . —A committee has been appointed for iha

      purpose of making arrangements for a public Demonstration in this city , to do honour to that incorruptible patriot and friend of the people , F . O'Connor , Esq . op bis release from the dungeon , The following persona axe elected on the committee : Messrs . Burley , Croft , Stuart , E . Pulleyn , Rooke , Demaine , and Inglis . Mr . Halton , treasurer ; Mr . Cordeux , secretary , 26 , Micklegate . to whom au communications ( pre-paid ) must be addressed . GLASGOW . —Mr . Malcolm lectured here on Monday—subject , '" Class legislation . " Attendant good . Mr . M . did justice to his subject .

      ELKIGBLE ?; -The Chartists met in the Working Man's Hall , on Tuesday night , when various able speeches were delivered . The Charter Convention plan was discussed , acd the general opinion of the meeting was , that it was calculated to do an immensity of good to the Chartist cause , if carried oat with sufficient spirit . Part money was collected on the spot for its execution ; James Holmes , a poor blind man , giving the first penny , and wishing success to the plan , and its noble proposer . " WSST-BXDXNCr . —At the delegate meeting , held on Sunday last , at Dewsbury , Mr . Arran , orpraoford , was appointed lecturer for the West Kiome . A resolution was passed approving of O wranors plan , and recommending it to instant and genera adoption . -

      _ „ ... „ . BRIGHTON . —Public Meeting of ihe CBiBTiSTS . —On Monday evening last , the men of Bn « nwa assembled in a numerous body at the Cap of Libertjv Portland-street , publicly convened for the purpose « taking into consideration the question of " expedien cy . Tue Chartists of Brighton have done their duty : tfiej are determined to have twenty shillings in the pounaand nothing less . Not one eighteen-slalliBgs-Wfr dieucy humbug dared show his face among tnem v _ jr ' John Page in the chair . After a very animated a * cussion , in which Messrs . Reeve . Flowers , and w » ward took their parts , it was resolved unanimously » follows : —•• That the Chartists of Brighton , m paw * meeting assembled , being convinced that anything snon of Universal Suffrage can never raise the inaustnou rf 1 > A 41 MB ! t » s 4 fc UflL VwU K&v w J

      W * ^ ' V * A «* V V V ** ~ — ~ a . . classes of thia country to that position in a ocietyo which they are entitled , hereby pledge themselves w » they never will cease in their axertions until we rw pie ' s Charter , with every point therein cotitainea ^ a established as the law of the land ; and they , tne ™ ° "|' call upon their brethren throughout the c ° unl ^^ unite with them in suppressing every other ro ? r ™ that shall have for ita object the least deviation iro » the true meaning of our motto—Universal Sufir ?» riT , No Surrender . A vote of thanks was P 1 * 86 " 16 ^^ Chairman , and the meeting dissolved . But Pren °° f : T dispersing , an agricultural labourer , who was 9 " ** . related the following to the meeting—h « n «™ ' '

      reasons known only to ourselves , we must decline give : —Tbe poor fellow has suffere d a series of tern * . persecutions ; has been an inmate of a WbJg totile , a one of which , he said , one day , be complauiea < n shortness of allowance of food . It was wei ?* v « 0 ' ^ was proved to be short ljoz . Five men besuws . u £ self also complained . Board-day day came ; nw wplaint was laid before them ( the Guardians ) : ne » £ the ave others were called up to subata n"J " 'Jfjj complaints . He waa appointed spokesman . *"*"" £ his complaint j so did the man on his rignt . " **^ to the man on his left : he was satisfied ; anotner * fhanniQ . mi * « fio / vthova xporfl the 881116 . X » 0 W , **!

      be to the man on Ws left , Yon cowards , did yon dot * - m « that if I made my complaint good , you » back me ? They did , said his man on the rignfc /* £ here ' s at ' em ; and down I laid three 01 : foux ¦ « ^ cowards . Seize the rascal , seize him , « " » * *** % ?} tbe black-hole , rayB the Guardians . No , says w « bourer , the first man that dares lay hand on bm , " _^ he goes . TJp cornea the yeUotc boy , a « w « ncaU """ ^ fellow that keeps the Union Ifcuae gate , ¦ . ¦* £ "J 7 ) & Now , my boy , aajrs'I , look out - , and I P * " * * £ * bu * J him a-topof the others , and a lot more besW * « waa overpowered , and borne away ; brought Dffl ^^ magistrates the next day , and aentenced » «' 0 days' hard labour , only for complaining of a «»» ^ in my allowance of food . All I want , said he . » * d » , '» wOges . for a fair day's work , f ^^ S up my family , as an English ^ nHural l *^ ought to have . ( That is Chartism , said Mr . r w Then 1 am a Chartist , said the latonwaf V •»* "L ^ some of wiy brother labourers ( watea , as ne wj- 0 it , over on Wednetftay , , at . you , ¦ meedng ^^ i ¦«—

      ii wejannoi gei a lawuug yu *~ — . t , & The poor fellow has been out of work a long tw » ^ having a wife and family at home , and nota ra " ^ bread in the house , those Chartists who were v ^ entered into a subscription , and gave it W «• . r man . We are convineed that if a missionary oouio got for toe South , great good might -he a ° ne >

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 20, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct541/page/4/