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    • TO MY SCOTTISH FRIENDS IN LEITH, GLASGOW, GREENOCK, &c.
    • THE NORTHEftN STAR. SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1843. I
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      £ LB 5 C&I : TION ? IRFCEIYED BY MR . CLEaT £ . joI'Tical norms' defzscb ajtd svpfosx txtsd £ a . d . Prrn-uslv acknowledged ... . » S 7 * 1 ° 3 An t > ld Iladical , Hull * 2 2 Putney 0 6 6 Mr . Biehes and Fxiends , BrigbtliBSsea , Essex .- . » 2 ? £ Kr . 'J Webb 5 f > awley — ? 1 0 ilx . Khodes and Friends , Camberwell ... -1 7 0 First Division <> f City Cordwainer 3 ... 0 8 S Cordwalners , Star , Golden-lane ... 1 1 6 B ^ 3 L . e « of Gty Lottery --- - 0 3 fi Aft ^ iass-iles of the Worfchon 3 e * — ' » ' * -i Blackburn ••• 3 o 0

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      bMBiT ... ... -. ...- .- ILr . Barlle aid Frieada , Kicgswood ... 0 3 9 AW-rn V 2 0 0 p ^ t ? rs one R ? &iiirh 0 10 0 Hr . BiX * er and Friends 0 2 5 Mr . A'weke 0 10 Mr . B . jsB , Somei sTown ° i 1 Mr . Hodgfeinson — 0 10 2 dr . Rhodes and Friends , Camberweli ... 17 0 Mi . h- > wn 0 10 llr . Wm . Raadell , Bethnall Green .... 0 7 1 J . H 0 0 6 Ca ? of Liberty , Brighton 10 0 Utl ^ r , Derbyshire - - — 0 13 2 Sowcrbv , Cinvicrs " -i So-rlana Town 0 2 9 j l& ' am ~ - 0 2 0 Sale of Crow and TjrrelTs Powder , by

      Mr . Rhodes d 1 0 Bnry drevlars — 0 . JO 2 Bnrj St . Edmonds 0 10 0 Mu .-sley , near Manchester ¦* 0 0 Wo : Terh 2-E 2 pton ... .. ... — 0 d 6 Cealbr .-vfc Me 0 3 0 Plot * eds of meeting at Oty Hall ... 5 6 0 Fcmaifls , Toswj- Hamlets 0 7 0 llr . Walker , sad Friends , Watford ... 0 5 0 3 dr . Sieving ^ on 0 10 Scuba and Engineers , East District ,

      London , 14 th subscription 13 6 "Wa-i ? ¦ worth-row , near Halifax 1 19 0 Buuu-ley 0 5 0 Soirt r ' b " Towq „ 10 0 Bash 0 12 0 Sirai 3 &Tra ... 0 8 0 Bo ^ C 3 and Binjfrtead ... ... ... 0 0 0 J A few BrassfoQuders < sbopiaates ) Northampton 0 7 6 Edinburgh ... 0 8 0 Biiriilej ( 400 Chartist Circulars J ... 0 JO 4 Br «? adale , third Subscription ... .. . 0 19 5 ¦ Wo iiworih ... 0 10 7 Haccletfidd 6 5 2

      £ -417 5 3 } * The Bame of the place was in the list , as we if ired it ; bat vre emit is , that no opportuniiy m ** : sivcu to the' * authorities ' to make it a pre-Ui -or oppr-s-ion . —Ed . % The sum from ibis place is not stated in the mat nsc-ipt sent to us . —Ed . A . 5-1 isxol . —I have mislaid the letter which aecompa ^< rd a Post Office Order fo r a small Fum from this place . The parry sending , will , therefore , please re-state name and particulars . Coebsidse . —Enqoiiy shall be made . Irswica . —I hare received a set of bag-pipes from 3 Ar M * Pherson . They tr 31 be disposed of by ib London friends , and proceeds presented to this Fi »* d .

      Otie pound received from Stokesley was omitted in the p-ubiiahed list of previous weekjait&ough included in ; he " saia toteL "

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      £ 25 0 4 By Oldhaaij Post order , &c . ... ... 0 0 4 £ 25 0 0 tos k'docaii .. PjeTionsly acknowledged 26 5 41 Haryleboije 0 7 0 lir . Bowts and a Friend , Maecle = field ... 0 0 6 £ 25 1-2 103 POB PETEB ? 0 D £ 5 . St Pancras Harmoaio Meeting ... . ... 0 10 0

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      SHOCKI 5 G T&XiXXSST OP A COlilEH BoT . —At the Quarter S ^ sio ns foi lb . 8 West-Ridbg of thie County held last week , at Pontefract , a man named Joseph Whiteley , a collier , from Elland , near Halifax , was tried before Mr . C . Wood , M . P ,, chairman , and other magistrates , for having fll-n ? ed James Whiteley , > is apprentice 5 and the d rails of his crnelty excited the horror of ihe whole Conrt . The eTidenoe was deemed by the jury qnite conelnsiTe against Whiieley , and they accordingly found him guilty . The Chairman , in passing senteuce , said the prisoiier had been found £ uli . * y 0 / one of vbe most atrocious offences erer brought before a Conrt of jassice . He had ill-treated in a

      most cruel and barbarous manner an orphan relation _ of his own , who had nobody else in \ him to look np 10 for protection . There could be no doubt of the fact , ihat without any reason wiaierer he iad ill-treated Mm in a way that no person in court eonldhsye beaTd , and that- no ODB eould read of , without horror . H » ( the Chairman ) was sonj that the law did not allow the court to inflict a seTerer punishment than that which they had power to do ; but certainly to the extent of that power ikey would go . The sentence of the Court was that he be imprisoned in the Honse of Correction for two years . He was sorry that they eoald not sentence him 10 hard labour , DOT jEflict any secern punishment .

      At Detos Assizes , Wm . Kean , 20 , was found guilty ox a rape , at BuriiEcombe , on the 4 ih of January jast , on the person of a married woman * The proseeutrix stated tb&v she was the wife of a blaci Binii . fi who had been li-nng in Gloucraierjhire , when he dtserted her ; she TeceiTed information that her hoibaad wa 3 working on the railway at the White B 2 JI Tunnel , and by the kindness of a gentleman farmer was enabled to travel down to Wellington , in starch sf his ; at a public-house , where she enquired for her husband , the prisoner and another man volunteered to direct her 10 him , and tbos decoyed itr to an house -where the prisoner committed the Ssnce . The case was clearly proyed . The judge , in passing sentence on the prisoner , observed tnat he had been coffrieied most justly of one of the most daring cases of this description ; Le shonld , therefore , take meaures ihat he shonld be sent !• the worst de-Bcripnoas of tie penal Etttiements , there to work in Chains iat the rest of his life .

      Loss oy a Steimeb . —On Friday morning last , the following remarkable occurrence , in which a sttamer was stolen and afterwards wrecked , attended with loss of life , took place at Tynemouth , near North Shields . At daybreak , the pilots on the look-out , at the entrance of the riTei , discoTered a Tessel amongst the rocks called the Black Middens ,-underaeath Tynemomh lighthouse and the ruhaed abbey , Trhich prored to be a steamer . The alarm was ingtantly raised , and the life-boat was manned and put off w : hei assistance ; bat upon arming alongside &e Tassel , modi surprise was erLncsd at sending fsly m& man on hoaid , who was safely taken out of the wreek sad conveyed set ore . Immediately he pot his fool qu land , he sttampted to go away , without jpfing account u to the manner in which the

      Steamer was wrecked ; but ihe custom-house officer isteined him , aad after / being kept in custody for some time , he adiaitted ha-ring , with another man , stolen the steamer from her moorings in that river ( the Tyne ) , and added that , in making for sea , she drore on . the rocks . The other man , he said , jumped overboard npon ihe Tessel breaking up , to MWTSiio ihe rocka , but he suspected he met wifib a watery glare , for he had seen jiovhing more of Km ance . It has been aScertaiaed that the steamer rras ealled ihe Charles William , belonging to Mfcssrs Hjcbardson and Co ., and that tie man who is sup posed to be drowned was s discarded son of ihe owner . The -tessel was used for towing vessels in » nd out of the harbour . She has gene completely to pieces , am bii Tery little of her materials hare been saved .

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      TO THE EDITOR OF THE ZORTUSBX STAE . Sib ., —I doubt not it will be in the « membrstnce of your readers , that la Septerahir last I vras arrested and held to bail , myself in one hundred pounds and four MendB in twenty-five pounds each , for sedition , upon the isolated evidence of a rural Police Seijeant , No . 52 , of the ftlonces ' . er County , !? named Js » per Fawler ; this said man swearing that 1 said " it "was a great 8 O&me the Qoeen did » ot maintain her o-srn mother , " Now , S . r , if i % be a abame or no , I ahall not say , neither did I say : I have eight respectable witnesses to prove the

      words sworn to were never uttered by me . It took the wisdom of bis SoIoub , oi Dogberries , to commit me f ai the fiiid monstrous treason , or sedition . In my poor opinion the name * of these "wiseacres of the county of G !» nctst « would lective too great honour if banded dovro in you * psges to posterity—best to pass them by S 3 the idle ¦ wind , for which we care net . Suffice it to say , I attended the said a&iia . s with the accoutrements of war , namely , the armour of virtue , the shield of troth , and sword of justice . The dastardly foe , armed with tyranny and might , dare not enter the arena .

      This very day ( Tuesday ) , at four o ' clock , will tha men and women of the Forest of Dean assemble in their hundreds to hear , vnthcut the cloak of priestcraft , hy-Voerisy , or cant , the trnth and justice of our principles . Knowing the value of jcni space . 1 conclude , thanki : ig . Ji friends who have asaiated me in thin oontest ; to mieoty talkers , who have proved themuelTes full of wind ani froth , none are required . Tnil ) yours , Rufpt Ridlet . April 11 th , 1843-

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      I NATIONAL EDUCATION AND THE GOVERNMENT FACTORY BILL . ' The measure of Government for giving Educa' tion to the most helpless , and , not unfrequently , | moH 'guorant poruan of our labouring population i has brought the whole subject of National Education ' under review , and has formed a prominent topic of discussion among public prints and party gatherings i erer since its introduction . We have been watching j the " war of words" with considerable interest and

      1 anxiety ; and we have observed few things to exhibit more clearJy the utver recklessnes of public interests ) —the exclusive selfi .-bness of faction under every : form . The zealots cf all shades and grades have shown | off snch antics upon this measure , as we suppose few others could have drawn from them ; The fanaticism j cf " Church" on the one hand , and of " Dissent" on : the other , has boxed the lugs of Government on J both sides , nnril , were it not pretty confident of tho ' support of rational and moderate men of all parties ,

      it might be well enough anticipated that the Bill would be thrown aside in disgust , and that Government would swear never to attempt a good thing again . We trust , however , that thia will not be the case ; that this Bill , whioh , in its principle , is really good , vrLich , in detail , is easily capable of such improvement as shall make it unobjectionable to any but the merely factious , and which is certainly as much called for by the necessities of the people as any remedial measure that

      we can think of , w : ll be allowed to come unimpaired into active operation . And if it do bo , we shall hope to see much good resulting from it . We have not yet arrived at the transcendental pitch of Dissenting "liberalism" which would induce us , with the A oncmformisl to cry out that raiher than have our children tanght to read and write in the intervals of labour provided by Government for the purpose , and in schools which may be under clerical control as to the reli ^ itos portion of their exercises , we would

      eay" fto I Ra'her lat the people of this country , as they have done , scramble about in the midst of toil and privation , and labour , after such ideas as they can pick up in converse one with another—in dame " , and Sunday , and British schools , OR AT NO SCHOOL AT ALL . If w ? must have the one or the oiher , let s have thesavagdsm of ancient BritaiU . " This may be very congenial with the spirit of Dissent as embodied in the Nuncimformiit and his elder broiler" Young Neddyf but we opine that it will find little response amoag the people , whose eyes have ra ?; -E'ly become in some degree open , despite tbe infloenceof fanaticism , to their real interests .

      They know , if Mr . Noncon * does not , that the ignorance of the people is tbe tyrant ' s safeguard j and that general intelligence is incompatible with factious domination . The Noncon . affects to sneer at calling by the name of Edncation tbe amount of learning which the children are likely to acquire in these Schoob . He Bays : — " If education mean nothing more than ability to read and ¦ write , we niay pay too dtarly for the whistle ; if it mean more than ibis , we must inquire what that more is .

      •• Competency te res-1 and -write is unquestionably to be desired . A knowledge of letters constitutes the key to tbat immense depository of information stored cp in books . It by no means follows , however , that access to all this information is necessarily enjoyed by bun who has the key . A man may be able to open tke garden gate at Hampton ccmrt , and may be at liberty to recreate himself witMn the enclosure , to ¦ whom , on account of Ms residing ? n Northumberland , the privilege is practically of veryinconsiderable value . Factory hands may be taught by government to read and write—but ¦ whilst heavy taxes are imposed npoa all tbe means of knowledge , and the whole system of legislation tends by inevitable steps to throw upon oni maaufaotaring poor

      the necessity of devoting , yearly , more and more time , and eneriy , and health , honestly to acquire the bare pitta&ed required for a scanty subsistence , we cannot rely very confidently upon such instruction to moralise the masses . The alphabet will act irork miracles The aptest reader will profit but little of let'ers , except as lie is able by means of them to get at useful information—and whilst , on the one hand , bis energies are exhausted by toil , increased both in amount and in severity by all kinds of monopoly , wb hold it to be a mere delusion to imagine that the power to read and write -mil considerably mend the condition of the millions . To those vrbo have neither books , nor time , nor physical strength , of what great practical advantage will the mere knowledge of letters provet "

      Falsehood is ever foolish ; and vre have not often seen a piece of more foolish and paltry false reasoning than this . The key of Hampton Court may certainly be of less use to "brother Noncon" 's Northumbrian in the locality which he has chosen for him than in London ; but let him remove to London and have no key—of what use will Hampton Court be to Mm ? Is the Noncon , so great an ass as not to know that in that " scrambling about in the midst of toil and privation" which he seems lo long for , the labourer might at least have no disadvantage in the poFsession of that knowledge which he admits to be the key to science and inteUigeuoe on all general subjects 1

      How niteriy contemptible does this ahallow-pated Dissenter look when his views on this important subject are contrased with those of a writer of sense and observation . In tie Morning Chronicle , some years Bgo , appeared several letters under the signature " O . P . Q .. " in which we find thes « observations , which "we " pit" against the argument (?) of Noncon : — tt When Joseph Lancaster , Doctor Bell , William

      Allen , Henry Brougham , the Dnkeof Sustex , Lord Holland , and other enlightened benefactors of their species , took in hand , some years ago , the glorioas and heavenly task of onligktening the ignorantbringing up in virtue the children of poor parents—teaching little orphans and mendicants to read , to write , to cast accounts , and think , I donbt Tery much whether they felt all the force of their own work , and whether they themselves understood the results which must arise from their labours .

      w They forgot the animal portion of man in their attention to his intellectual destinies—and they continued to encourage the Poor Ij&wb—to "patronize workhouses—to rear almBhouBes—and to establish hospitals and dispenB&rieB , quite satisfied in their own minds that man eould be educated , -and yet remain as dependant on the charities of the rich for the supply of bis necessities and his wants , his luxuries and his comforts , aa if he remained wholly

      uniHstructed , This was & capital error . Before they made np thek minds to teach little boys to read and to write , they should have calculated—1 . That the little boys and girls would become young men and yonng women ; 2 . That in their turn they would become hosband 3 and wives , and fathers and mothers—and servants and ar-Jsansand that the reading and the writing would make ihfcm weli-hiforined men and well-iuionaed women

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      3 . Ta&t being well-informed men and women , they would know something more than merely to eat , drink , and sleep , dance , and get drank , as they would have done before they were instructedbeing satisfied with the smile of Lord A . or the condescending bow of Lady B . ; 4 . That being 60 well-informed , they would read something more than the Prayer Book and the Bible , religious tract ? , or Sunday magazines , which Bible , and Tract , ar . d Sabbsth Societies would put into their hands—and that they would read history , biography , newspapers , political pamphlets , and dissertations on the present and past conditions of human

      sooiety ; 5 . That these well-informed men ind women would find out that there was no absolute virtue in wealth—no necessity for abject povertyno necessary connection between slavery and the honest daily toil of a labouring man—that talent should always be recompensed—that money was no more capital than industry—that the workman is worthy 6 ! his hire—that his hire should be adequate for all hia wants—that Mies Martineau's system of keeping a man without a helpmate because he was rot rich , was immoral and favourable to licentiousness , fornication , and adulterythat the labourer has a right to marry—has a

      right to have children—has a right to expect to maintain them out of the gains of hia active industry and patient toil—and that the enormous fortunes of some and the utter beggary and destitution of others , is not a natural but an artificial , not a healthy and thriving but a sickly and deplorable state of Eociety ; and there is no moral and intellectual reason , none in the sight of God , and none in the sight of rational and educated men , why the mass of human sooiety should be so wretchedly poor , and the exceptions of human society bo preposterously and iniquitously wealthy ; and t . I think the great and the good men who set about teaching in all countries ( " British and

      Foreign School Society ") little boys and little girls to read , to write , and to cast accounts , should also have calculated that when those little boys and girls should become wall-informed men and women , and should have learnt from history , from observation , from journals , and newspapers , and tracts , all I have just described—that they would not rest satisfied with this knowledge ; tbat as they had congregated together in Lanoasterian and in Bell ' s schools to be taught to read and to write , so , in after life , they would congregate together to improve their physical condit '^ n as animals , as well as their moral and political condition as citisens , and as immortal beings . "

      " It was impossible that an educated workman , labouring hard , working early and late—a sober , honest , prudent , and worthy citizen , would long continue to eat bread and drink water in exchange for his sweat , his knowledge , his arms , and his head ; an ignorant man might go on at this rate , but an instrnoted man—never ! And if not one , then bow much more , millions of instructed workmen . " This is something rational in the political view of the Education question ; and to every man who thinks thus rationally , it must , therefore , be a matter of high moment to seize every opportunity of extending to the masses the possession of a key to that intellectual improvement which can scarcely fail to be the vestibule or hall of entrance to the

      fase of freedom ; while , in the moral view of the matter , we accord entirely with the excellent remarks of Mr . Sergeant Atcheblet , who , lately addressing the Grand Jury of Dorsetshire , id reported to have said : — " On looking to the calendar , it is impossible not to see that probably a great number of minor offences have arisen in some instances from d'stress , aud ia others from want of edncition . In addressing gentUmen of your station , I need nardly say it la undoubtedly our best policy to administer to the wants and comforts of our poorer neighbours . If we want to make the labourer honest , vre must afford him the means of being so ; if wa wish him to be peaceable , we must attract him to us , not by the terms of a hard contract , but by those

      means ¦ which find the -way to his heart , by convincing him that those who are above him are anxious for bis welfare . If we wish to fortify his moral principles , we must remember that the best way of doing so is by holding out opportunities of acquiring knowledge of every kind , but by all means of a religions character . I will only say , in conclusion , that it is by the force of good will and mutual service that we shall best maintain peace , protect property , and in particular cement society ia a state of tranquillity , which no subtlety of legal enactment will provide , no terror of the law secure ; that we shall best administer to our own gratification , tbatpure 8 t , most luting , that best of all gratifications , the gratification of seektag to do good , by advancing as far as we can the happiness of our fellow men . "

      These are sentiments which do honour to a man ; and which DisEenting bigots would do well to study and appropriate , instead of raising the howl of superstition and fanaticism against almost a solitary good measure issuing from the Government . The Dissenters are not alone , however , in their opposition . The fanatics of the Church are quite as furious ; fortunately fanaticism is not quite so rampant in the Church , notwithstanding its much greater numbers ; but what it can it does , even there , to thwart any matter from whioh the people might derive benefit . While the Dissenters howl about the " prostration of their interests , " the English Churchman and the Nottingham Journal thus gabble at the Minister for his subservience to dissent : —

      " We do not hesitate to Bay that this bill must be regarded by religion * men . both In and out of Parliament , as tbe first of a probable series of attempts to tower the Church of England to the rank of a State Establishment . Whether either the religious or irreligious of our countrymen are inclined to put up with any such thing , & very short time will prove . ( " Sir James Graham , first of all , in formio ? the new schools of the factory district * , offers to the clergyman of evtry parish the doubtful compliment of being em ojftcio , * one of the trustees : ' rather , he does not off it it at all ; he orders it so to be . If chnreh ward fans ' decline the honour , tbero is a provision in the bill to

      meet that case ; but the clergyman Is clearly regarded as already the ' state-officer ; ' and Sir James Graham already feels himself The Minister of the Religious Department of the Public Service . ' The clergyman ' s co-truBtees may by the act be anybody , * Jaw , Turk , or Infidel , ' who may have granted a site for a school . ' [ sect 53 , 3 or have bt ; en appointed by a neighbouring jnstice of the peace I The clergyman ia kindly informed tbat he may catechise and instruct bis young parishioners in these schools , provided the parents of the children do not object , in which case he is to desist I This is tbe extent to which our unmitred Ba . renet ha . B at present ' charged his Clergy . '

      " ftow , into all the minute details of a bill which thus , at tbe very outset , sets at defiance all the feelings of Churchmen , and all tbe existing provisions of the parochial system of our Church , we hold it to be superfluous to enter ; but , were it necessary , we should not shrink from saying , we recoil , as Churchmen | and as Christiana , believing truth to be one , and not manifold or various . )—recoil from its whole spirit—recoil from its every position . Why , we ask , are we to be barthened as a nation with this new aud unwieldy machinery ? Are there not in all our parishes schools

      both of ancient and modern endowment , without establishing in tbia invidious and revolting way factory schoob f Have we not yet enough of separation and alienation of class from class in thia country , but it must be carried farther , and made more painfully palpable yet ? And must the clergyman be made tke state tool for carrying out this most hateful measure ? If this be the Conservative way to educate and blees the people , and elevate the depressed Church , ' may God , in bis goodness , preserve us therefrom!—Englhh Churchman . —[ Amen —Nottingham Journal . ] "

      This is sufficiently farcical no doubt ; but not a whit more so than the ravings of " the Neddies , " the Noncon ., the Patriott &ui their pious *' ' brethren , " of the tub . " Every malicious ingenuity that could be practised for tbe distortion and misrepresentation of the Bill ha 3 been industriously brought into play by every ultra-pious scribbler and tab-thumper of them all . And not a little deliberate and atrocious falsehood ha 3 been lugged in to eke out the argument . " Young Neddy" has edified Lord Wharncuffs

      by a long objurgatory lecture on toe duties of his official situation in reference to this motion ; but finding the Noble Lord very unbending to his patron ' age he has turned in & huff to the parents of Siuid / . i , v School children , whom in his last number h « co ' ade-BcendB to * ' talk to" in a manner so affable and kindly , asmn 3 t—if thfy be not quite insensate—eyciia their gratitude for his attentions and make tbem exolaim to each other " La ^ kt what a nice rje . anthat youn ^ ' Mr . Baines is , Did you ever see } Why be talk *

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      "to us poor folks aa if wj was ever such gentle" folks ! " " Neddv * very politely informs these poor people thai a Bill has been brought into Parliament by one of the Queen ' s Ministers , to provide in a new way for educating the children of the working classes ; and he then proceeds to describe its provisions , in which he labours most disgracefully to produce the impression that the necossary effect of this Bill must be the utter ruin of all Dissenting Sunday Schools and Day Schools . Now we apprehend ihat these working people , " whom NfiDDY

      thus condescends to patronize , will be apt to think it a little strange that he should , while good enough to toll tbem what is in tho Bill , not lay the Bill itself before them that they might see what it actually does say . Neddy had a capital reason for not doing this ; be knows that the Bill has no one provision whioh oan , by any possiblity operate to the injury of any Sunday School now existing ; and he knew , therefore , that if be should let this fact appear , the parents of Sunday Scholars would Smoke his gammon . "

      The Leeds Dissenters have again mustered their forces—lay and clerical . Great were the efforts made to produce an effdot" last Tuesday . Every " tub" in the conventicles was beaten to the tune of " No Church , " on the previous Sunday ; Neddy puffed and blew at his penny trumpet ; the meeting was—as all manufacturing dissent meetings arecunningly contrived for Tuesday , at noon—just when all the " brethren" from Pudsey , Stanniugley , Yeadon , Horsforth . Bradford , Dewsbury , Bailey , Heokmoudwiko , MuddersGeld , and all the clothing districts , Bright be calculated on ; when , in fact , in name of a Leeds meeting , they might have a meeting of all the flower of Dissent and " Liberalism" in the West Riding . And yet , with all the puffing , all the " tub-thumping , " and all the maneuvering that could be used , the meeting was a failure !

      The people " Would not come when they did call . " Something like one thousand five hundred , or eighteen hundred , persons mustered at the sound of the Diss *» ti » g whistle ; most of them parties who had no concern whatever with the town , the very elite oi countrified dissent—the clothiers and small millowners of the various adjoining districts—and who gaped at thoir proceedings without understanding them—merely knowing that " ther wor a meetin' i ' t Cloath Hoi Yird summat abaht t' parsons and t'Skootfa ; and thor wor HaMh ' leton and BAiNESand some more on ' m theere , they did tawk feaful wheel !"

      At this meeting similar resolutions were adopted to those of the meeting hold some time since in the Commercial Buildings . No attempt was made to suggest any remedy for the alleged faults of the Bill ; but the ungracious and unmanly position was again assumed of praying simply that the Bill " may not pass "—that it may be withdrawn and society left in the state in which it now is , so far as Educational provision is concerned . We presume that not one of the parties influential iu getting up tbe disgraceful opposition to this Bill is unaware of the condition of the Factory Districts as to Education—if s * we will ask them to read the extracts we lately gave them from the Inspectors' Keporta—and if that be insufficient , as having reference only to one or two distriots ; lot them then read tho following : —

      EXTRACTS PROM THE CONCLUSIOKS OF THE SECOND REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR INQUIRING INTO THE EMPLOYMENT AND CONDITION OF CHILDREN IN JUNES AND MANUFACTORIES . " That in many of these trades and manufactures , and especially in pin-making , naiNmaking , Ince-making , the hosiery trades , calico-printing , the earthenware trades , and tobacco-making , tbe children have not good and sufficient foud , nor warm and decent clothing ; great numbers of them , whan questioned , Btating tbat they have seldom or never enough to eat , and many of them buiDg clothed in rags ; and it ia a general complaint that they are prevented , by want of proper clothing , from going to the Suuday-suhool , or to a place of public worship .

      " Tha-t there are few classes of these children and young persoDB ' working together in numbers , ' of whom a large portion are not In a lanieutably low moral condition " Tbat thia low moral Condition is evinced by a general ignorance of moral duties and sanctions , and by an absence of moral and religious restraint , shown among some classes chittfly by coarseness of manners , and the use of profane but indecent language ; but in oiner classes by the practice of gross immorality , whioh is prevalent to a great extent in both sexes at very early age * .

      " That this absence of restraint is the result of a general want of moral and religious training ; comparatively few of these classes having the advantage of moral and religious parents to instruct aod guide tbem i their low moral condition , on the contrary , often having Ita very origin ia the degradation of the parents , who , themselves , brought up without virtuous habits , can sot no good example to their children , nor have any beubflcial control owr their conduct . " That , in tbe majority of instances , the young people , while iu their places of work , are under the care and control snlely of tbe adult workmen , by whom they are generally i ired and paid , and whose servants they are ; and after their work is over , they are subjected to no kn . d of superintendence , but their time is entirely at their own disposal .

      " That although placed under such highly unfavourable and dangerous circumstances , some of these children and young parsons escipb any permanent moral deterioration , and become ia after-life as respectable and well-conducted as any persons in their station ; but this is not tbe common result , the more natural consequences of the possession of unrestrained liberty at an ago vraen few are e : ip » ble of . self-government being wi in eased in great numbers of these children and young persons , who acquire , iu childhood and youth , babits which utterly destroy their futu . e health , usefulness , and happiness .

      " Tbat tbe evils resulting from vicious courses , commenced thus early , and often pursued to the end ol life , do not always stop with tbe ruin of the individuals , their example being sometimes contagious ; and instances are recorded in which youths have leagued together for the commission of crimes and outrages of oo or- 'Inary description , " That the means of secular and religious instruction , on the ej / iciencp of which depends ihe counteraction of all thesfi evil tendencies , are so yiievoits ' y dejeclivc , that in all districts , g eat numbers of children and young persons are growing up without any religious . moral or inleUectun , training ; nothing being dune to form them to habits of order , sobriety , honesty , and forethought , or even to restrain them from vice and crime

      ' ¦ That there is not a single district in which the raeana of insttuctio s aro adi qua to to the wants of the people ; while in some districts the deficency is so great that clergymen and other witnesses , state that the schools actually ia existence aro insufficient for the education of one-third of tbe population . " That , in all districts , many children and yonng persons , whether employed in the mines of coal and iron , or ia trades and manufactures , never go to any school , and some never have been at any school" Tbat in general the children who never go to any school seldom goto any place of worship .

      " That groat numbers of those children Who had btf gn In regular attendance on Sunday-3 chools for a peiioc ' i of from fivo to nine years were found , on examinatip a , to be iucnpable of reading an easy boot or of 8 pellj- , the commonest words ; and they wsre not only altogether ignorant of Caristian principles , doctrines , 8 nd precepts , but they knew nothing whatever of Bny of the events of Scripture history , nor anything even of the names most commonly occurring in the S < r apturea . " That , in almost all the districto , r lJUCQ aDxiety is

      expressed by the best-informed wit ' aesae 8 > that any legislative enactment to shorten tbr , presont hours of worfe for children should bo acco '^ paniad by full and efficient means of educating the great numbers who would thus have time afforded V jem to attend school . "That from the Whole h&li * of evidence it appears , however , tbat there are n * , presaut in existence no means adequate to effect ar , y maierial and general improvement in the physical and moral condition of tfie children and young p « jr jns employed in labour . "

      Now with thia pi oture of our labouring population before out eyes—and knowing it to be too true—wo envy v . ot the minds of those who can say , " sooner than give us education in schools of which a clergyman shall be trustee , give no education at r tl ; if we must have one or the other , give * a savageism . " We gay with the Sun" Soop ' . r than not have tho Education Bill pass , we would infinitely prefer having ; it pass preci / . ely as ii atandfe , so persuaded are we of the pres' sing necessity for such a measure , and such little importance do we attach to the complaints of High-Church on the one hand , and of Dissent on the other , when weighed against tho great , comprehensive principle of national instruction . The first consideration with us IS , the instilling into the

      minds of tho working classes right notions of religion and morality ; and we c ^ re not whether these notions are implanted in them by Church-

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      men or Dissenters . We wishlto see them—and this as speedily as possible—put into each a course of moral training , as may qualify them to play the parts of good fathers—good friends—good citizens—and cause them to be jlored and respected ia the social relations of life . We wish to see them raised from the filthy stye of ignorance in which thousands of them are now contentedly wallowing ; to see fallen humanity uplifted in their natures ; and their minds taught to appreciate all that is good and great in

      character , instead of turning away from the contemplation of moral excellence as a thing which they cannot understand . We boast of being the richest nation in the world ; henceforth Let it be our endeavour to show tbat we are also the most intelligent Here , indeed , will be a legitimate theme for national exultation , and God forbid that the doctrinal disputes of { Churchmen and Dissenters should ever interfere to prevent our realising so creditable—so noble a vaunt ! We gay , therefore , by all means let tbe Education Bill pass . "

      " What are mere theological dogmas compared with the great , comprehensive , and beneficent principle involved in the Education Bill ! What matters it in what sect a child is educated , provided his education be a moral and a Christian one % Considering the pressing emergency of the casebearing in mind the alarming disclosures made by Lord Ashley as to the state of demoralization and ignorance in which thousands of the labouring classes are now plunged—we do think that a perilous responsibility Iwill attach to that party through whose means a scheme for remedying the evil Bhall be defeated ! What I is it a time to cavil on doctrinal points and matters of discipline—to fall to loggerheads on nice , subtle questions of orthodoxy and

      heterodoxywhen vast masses ' of the community are in Buch a brutal , benighted state , that tho national tranquillity cannot be calculated on from one year to another We do most earnestly entreat both Churchmen and Dissenters—on this momentous question at least —to lay aside their distrust of each other , to meet each other half way in a temperate and conciliating spirit , aud endeavour to come to something like a muluul good understanding . Surely the very grandeur and comprehensiveness of the subject which they are called on to consider , should of itself be sufficient to exert a benignant inluence on their minds , elevate their tone of sentimemt , and render them superior to all petty , sectarian , one-sidad considerations . "

      Doubtless there are points in which the Bill needs improvement ; ¦ and if those improvements can be effected , so much the better . Let us in God ' s name mend it if we dan , but not throw it away , even if we cannot . From ! the tone which has been taken on the matter in the House of Commoss there is every reason to believe that ; if improvements be proposed in a proper spirit they will be appropriately met . Lord JoH ' . v Russell jhas given notice of some resolutions in the House , calculated partially to effect what must be the object of all well-disposed and honest Dissenters . There ara other points to whioh attention might be well directed , and which we shall yet take occasion to notice , when the blaze of Dissenting fury and Church bigotry ahall give us opportunity . Meantime here are Lord John's resolutions—good as far as they go : ¦*

      -" 1 . Tbat in any bill for the promotion of education in Great Britain ; by which a board shall be authorised to levy , or causa ; to be levied , parochial rates for the election and maintenance of schools , provision ought to be made for an ! adequate representation ol the ratepayers of the parish in such board . " 2 . That the j chairman of such board should bt » elected by the board itself . " That tbe holy Scriptures , in the authorised version , shall ba taught in all schools established by any such board . " i . Tbat special provision should be made for . cases in which Roman Catholic parents may object to tbe instruction of their children in tbe holy Scriptnres in suet schools .

      " 5 . That bo other books of religions instruction should be used in such schools , unless with the sanction of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York , and the concurrence of the Committee of Privy Council on Education . i " 6 Tbat , in order to prevent the disqualification of competent schoolmasters on religious grounds , the books of religious instruction , other than the Holy Bible , introduced into the schools , should be tanght apart by the clergyman of the parish , or some person appointed by him , ' to the children of Protestants wh » belong to the Established Church , and who may be desirous that their children should be so instructed .

      " That all children taught in such schools should have free liberty to resort to any Sunday-school , or any place of religious' worship , which their parents may approve . j " 8 . That any ; school connected with tbe National Sohool Society , the British and Foreign School Society , any Protestant Dissenters' School , ot any Roman Catholic School , which shall be found on inspection to be efficiently conducted , shall be entitled by license from the Privy Council . to grant certificates of school attendance for the purpose of employment in factories of children and young persons .

      " 9 . Tbat , in the opinion of thia House , tbe Committee of Privy Council on education ought to be furnished with the means to enable tbem to establish and maintain a sufficient number of training and model scboolB in Great Britain . " 10 . Tbat the said Committee ought likewise to be enabled to grant gratuities to deserving schoolmasters , and to afford such aid to schools established by voluntary contributions ! as may tend to the more complete instruction of tbe people in religions and secular knowledge , while at the same time the rights vt conscience may be respeotedi " Sir James Ghxham in reply Baid that : —

      " Since the second reading of the Bill he had bad the opportunity of hearing the opinions of many deputations and of receiving various suggestions as XO its provisions , and Itj wonld be the duty , as it waa theinclination of himself and his colleagues , to give to those suggestions the most calm and dispassionate consideration . He was ] not prepared at that moment , nor would the Honse expect him , to enter into any statements as to what might be tbe modification which be should have to propose in the details of the BUI ; bat , from what had already taken place , and from the tone in which tbe subject bad been already discussed , he bad a confident expectation of being enabled to propose many material alterations in it . "

      Now we do think that this , so far as language oan be understood , indicates a spirit and purpose of fairplay sufficient to satisfy any reasonable man . Let those who feel that the measuw , in its present form , wonld press hardly on ; them , —shew how it would do so—and suggest their measures of amendment ; but let them not forget that Govern ment having th « whole community to look to , ought so to shape their measures as to secure tha good of all without consulting the prejudices of a section—and that a small section too . Again , we borrow the language of the Sun . and

      say" No preat public measure was ever yet carried , but some party ot other made a sacrifice to it ; and shall men , who call themselves religious , hesitate to do so , when the scheme in consideration is one for the education of the people t If . however , the zealots of High Church and Dissent will not be prevailed on to abandon their opposition , we do most earnestly hope and trust that all the moderate and intelligent men in the community will maks a point of comine to tbe assistance of Government on j this occasion , for they may raly on it , things have come to that pass with us , that if we have not national education , we must have national convulsion . "

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      THE TRIALS AT LANCASTER . A half number i of the above important trial was published last week , in consequence of the impossibility of one person writing out a full number in a week . This will not be wondered at when it is borne in mind that each ' number contains , of solid matter , about as much as sixty columns of' a newspaper , which would be ten columns a day for one man to write . i This week , however , a full iromber of sixty-fonr pages will appeari and whiflh we are informed will

      bring ( he proceedings down to the end of the fifth day , including the' speeches of Mr . Dundas , Q . C . ; Mr . Baikes , Q . CJ ; and Mr . Serjeant Mcbpht . The next number jwill contain , verbatim reports of the speeches of the \ woxkiag men , and will mate than supply their omission in that meagre Btate in which they must have necessarily appeared in a newspaper . When these trials are completed , the work will contain as much as could be got into six hundred columus of a newspaper , and , therefore , th >? absolate

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      impossibility [ of an ; journal giving anything like a full report will at once present itself . In answer to applications as te whether suboribera for the last number only will be entitled to the portrait of Baron Rolfe , we should say , certainly not . It ia requested that agents will give timely orders to Hetwood , of Manchester ; Hobson , of Leeds ; and Cleave , of London . The work is all stereotyped , and numbers I and 2 are now going through a second edition . Some few errors are observable , but they will be corrected in a list of " errata . "

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      SOMETHING FOR PRACTICE . HOW TO GET THE LAND . , Most earnestly do we call tho attention of every individual into whose hands this paper may fall , to the letter of Mr . O'Connor , outlining forth a plan for the concentration of the people ' s energies to obtain possession of a portion of LAND , wheron to commence a practical exposition of the principles

      now so universally received amongst all classes . Tbe public mind is fully ripe for the taking of such a step . Indeed , were the working people longer to delay the necessary steps requisite to give to tho world a practical development of what they mean by saying that "THE LAND is the only possible means of salvation , " they would very shortly fiud that they were far behind public opinion .

      The indications manifested throughout the popular ranks , that the time has arrived when some such step as tbat outlined by Mr . O'Connor must be taken , are both too numerous and too strong to be mietaken . There is a yearning desire on every hand for the elaboration , promulgation , and adoption of a plan having for its end and aim the uniting of practice with theory . At the time we write we have on the table a letter from another firm friend of the people , pointing out the imperative necessity of the step ; and also out * lining a plan mainly similar to Mr . O'Connor ' s , differing only in one or two particulars . Most likely we shall give publication to that letter next week .

      With the determination expressed at the end of Mr . O'Connor's letter not to presa tbe question of his Amended Organization for some time we cordially concur . The question he has now mooted of combining " social economy " with " political agitation" will call for much consideration on the part of the people ; and the means by which the ends sought are to be accomplished , will require mush attention , and much forethought . It is absolutely necessary that something of the kind should be prominent in any plan which the people now adopt . It was our conviction of this that dictated the allusion which in our

      few remarks on Mr . O'Connor ' s plan of organization , was made to the want of something which the plan in the shape it then bore did not provide . It coald not be expected that the necessary attention can be properly bestowed on so important an affair if there should be any undue and unnecessary hurrying on of the matter . The respective plans that may be propounded must be firstly canvassed over by the people in their several , localities , ' * and then , when judgments have been formed , a national delegation should be holden for the purpose of maturing and sanctioning a uniform and consistent plan oat of tttQ whole .

      We shall anxiously wait for and watch the development of the respective schemes that may be propounded . This is a question of mighty import , and of deep interest . As such we shall view it and treat it . The best attention we can bestow shall be willingly applied ; and we shall endeavour to guide pablicopinion to what we consider to be the legitimate courses of action in connection with it . A popular organization more powerful and more useful than any ever yet existing in this kingdom , nfay be formed on this basis , if only the proper means be taken to secure the protection of the law- That security may be had . It shall be a portion of our duty to point out the way .

      To My Scottish Friends In Leith, Glasgow, Greenock, &C.

      TO MY SCOTTISH FRIENDS IN LEITH , GLASGOW , GREENOCK , &c .

      Mt Friends , —If it may please God , I will endea « vour , when I visit Scotland , so to manage matters as to have the gratification of seeing all of you . But I must say , in answer to the parties who request that my visit may be hastened , that it cannot be . I would have been most happy to be in Glasgow on the 21 st of May , as my kind friends request ; but I dare not travel northward till the warm weather have set in . I must have a little time to come

      round . I am totally unfit for hard work now . About the middle of June is as soon as I dare reokon on . I shall then come to Edinburgh and stay two or three days , after which . I will try to visit other places to which I have been invited in such order of time and circumstance as may be most convenient ; not to prolong my stay beyond three weeks . I am in hopes thereby not only to derive much gratification from communion with my cool-headed , warm-hearted , friends , but also t * do something for the improvement , if not re-establiab * ment of my lost health . God save you all and speed the Charter , William Hill .

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      Con Murray , Glasgow . —The report he mentions in a private letter had not come to hand when the first edition of the Star was obliged to go H press . Scndkrland . —All persons wishing to correspond with the Council of the Whole-hog Chartist Brigade are requested to direct , for the Juturet to Mr . George Charllon , sail-maker . 2 , Fttter ' r

      row . Defence Fund . —The sovereign placed in Mr . O'Connor ' s hands at Lancaster was given him ty Mr . J . T . Lund , and included Ws ' . from Inversion , and \ 0 s . from the sale of Nicholson ' s Breakfast Beverage . In the Star of the 18 th ult . £ 1 is acknowledged from John PHtchard of RwS Hill , near- Chester : it should have been from John Priichard , of Rutey Hill , near Fdrruhmt Cheshire , T . B . Simnitt , Newark . —Certainly net : yon wt be in great danger if you do . A Constant Reader and Subscriber , Hctddebs * field . — We do not know a good printed book o % Short Hand : the best that we have yet seen u « S Sams , of Bath . There are also some capita thoughts in Pitman ' s Phonography .

      J . M ., LEiCESTBB .--7 % anA ;* . Oldham Chartists . — We fear that if the perm whom they style " John Norbury , alias Tayhu and respecting whom they speak of information whioh has been communicated to them from iM Chartists of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , RochdaiSi Hey wood , Wigan , Slockport , and Uossley , ceuUt get any pellyfogging attorney to take up Aw o *« he might have a good action against us for » w * if we should insert their . paragraph . Wm . Peplqw . —His letter to the subscribers to thS

      Defence Fund next week . John Cohichoun wishes ihe address of Mrs . Efih that he may remit to her £ \ from the GlasgV ' Chartist Association ; 3 s . from Mr . Smith , CO / M ' street ; and Is . from Mr . Niel Muir .

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      The following eum& from Wlngate Grange weref <> tta » a few weeks ago , as being from Wii ^ ata Grange for various funda , according to letter received . w » have received another letter , stating that the « " >» ; wer e intended to go to the Defence Fond . iii Thornley Colliery , per Q . B . ... 0 2 H Newgate Colliery ... ... • „ Do . by 0 6 7 Cradle by Cf . Brown 8 i » 5 Mr . Sinclair , Newcastlb . —The mistake could Wj be rectiaed When hia letter came to hand : we •»• not one paper in the offipa .

      The Northeftn Star. Saturday, April 15, 1843. I

      THE NORTHEftN STAR . SATURDAY , APRIL 15 , 1843 . I

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      FOR THE NATIONAL DEFENCB FUKB , ^ From A . B ,, and a few friends , B Hnburgh 0 9 « FOR MB . COCKDUEN , OF NEWCASTLE . From B . Jjnes , Bristol » ° * '

      2to 3ftea*Er£ Mm @Om$Pon&£Nt$.

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      4 THE NORTHERN STAB ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 15, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct646/page/4/