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      IT is a remarkable fact that SEED'S ALMANACK has been proved correct with regard r to weather up to the present period . It also states that Chartism will make great advancement during the coming spring , all Chartists should have one of Seed ' s Almanacks in his possession . . : ; Published by JVIbbetson , Bradford , and sold by all AgentB of this paper . Price 8 d .

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      a GRBISHAW AND CO ., 10 , GOREE , PIAZZAS , LIVERPOOL , DESPATCH fine first-class AMERICAN Ships every Week ,

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      UNEMPLOYED OPERATIVES COMMITTEE . fp HE Delegates and Subscribers to the Enumera-JL tion Fund are particularly requested to attend a Special General' Meeting to be held at the Old George Inri , Leeds , hex . t TUESDAY Evening , st Eight o'clock precisely ; business of importance will be brought before the meeting , John Speed , Chairman . Thomas Heywood , Secretary .

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      MORISONS PIJuLS . TTPWARDS of Three Hundred Thousand Cases U of well-authenticated Cures , by Morison ' t ; Pills of the British College of Health , having , through the medium of the press , been laid before the Public , ia surely sufficient proof for Hygeianism . W . Stubbs , Yorkshire , General Agent , Queen ' s Terrace , Rouudhay : Road , Leeds . Sold by Mr . Walker , Briggaie , jand Mr . Heaton , Briggate ; Mr . Badger , Sheffield . ; Mr . Nichols , Wakefield ; Mr . Harrison , Barnsloy ; Miss Wilson , Kotberham ;

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      still on sale at all the Publishers , Price Threepence 0 M . fi THE POOH MASTS qpESJ'AKId'M ' : A POLITICAL ALMANACK FOB 1842 > QETTIiyG forth , at one view , the enormous amounf of O Taxes wrung froiii-tie indnatry of a starving people , and their extravagant aud shameful expenditure . Also containing tables of useful reference on almost all subject's connected with general policy .

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      Mobb Thicks of thb Plagce . —A correspondent teriiesr"T here are men in Uiia country "who are Tery sympathysing , and -who evince great 23 * 1 in soothing the sazrowB of the afflicted . When they hear ' of tfce ihip Susan being completely Trrecked In the late heavy gales , and every sovl on board having periled , they uistazier endeaTonr to alleviate the Borrows of tbe vridora and fatherless ; they get books and a recommendation from some

      shipowner (?) and then traverse the country in quest ol the benevolent The books bare at the outset a list of donors ana donations , all fictitious , in order to induce people to giro . " Now the whole affair is got np by the disinterested parties irho solicit the subscriptions of the benevolent , and they alone Ticket the money . The same imposition is practised by individuals -who assume the garb of colliers , particularly after an explosion in seme of the mtees ; and , let me tell you , Sir , that the like species of deception , or rather swindling , is adopted

      by theLeague . . « A friend of mine , resident in the meiropdlu having Been an adve'tlsement for collectors , and desiring to become acquainted with the tricks of the League , embraced flat as a fit opportunity . He , conse ™ T ^» application to the ' Board . ' Tfce SMret » 7 in-wed him the collecting books , labelled "Vo . 1 "> s - and 4 , in each of which were a list of ^ ames -vriih various sums attached thereto . Now , ' says the honourable secretary , ' these are fictitious names , in order to induce peoplB to giva * 1 k \ s "wa 3 enough for my feifend : he took the books , but , instead of subserving the interests of the ? Bs&rdV he exposed the system of swindling adopted by the ' Bsard , " in order to indnce people

      to give . "" ADVEXTCKEBS IS SCPPOE . T OF THE EXECUTIVE . — We are literally crowded with communieations from parties seeking " to catch customers , " by imitation of the generous and patriotic establishment of ilr . Pindtr . Yery many of these aie setkin ? to establish tbemselves in the same trade , which exposes their " patriotism" to sorne suspicion . If the support of the good cause be their only object , they can attain it ranch better by becoming active agents on the principle of Sir . lundy , of Hull , and Mr . Wilkinson , of the Potteries , than fey manufacturing for themselves . If their object be to make this a xnofie of obtaining profit , it is qniUs a fair and legitimate proceeding ; but we cannot fill

      the Star with gratuitous advertisements for blacking makers and other tradesmen . We have already made to all parties desirous of thus getting custom by giving a portion of their profits to the cause , ihe offer of inserting their advtitisemcnts to the extent of one column weekly foi the duty , providing toat they afford some efficient mode of check to the public for knowing that thfeir promises are realised i and that the duty , Is . Cd ., be sent with each advertisement . We shall not hereafter notice any such communications which do not include an attention to these two particular * . It is particulabit requested that any Charlisl As sedation hating rules for their government icill be kind enough to forward a copy of the same to

      John Woodcock \ $ hoemaker , 28 , Cross-leech-street , Staiyhridge . . % J , Rothttflu—Any communication will reach either Mr . Williams or Mr . Binns , if addressed" Williams and Binns , booksellers , Bridge-street , Snnderland . ' C . J . —The Mr . Jones irho moved a vole of censure on tie Factory deputies , at the Leeds meeting was not the talented East Riding Chartist lecterer : he icas a member of the Leeds Fox and Goose club—a society formed and continued in cj ^ siencefor the purpose of swamping the Chartist agitation . ' Ths Sb £ ffii . u > Political Institute . —We hare received a missive , signed by thirteen gentlemen

      members of this new-born state of independent Chartism , contending furiousl y for its identification with the Natiojial Charter Associaton , and reflecting very bitterly upon our very excellent Sheffield correspondent . We beg these gentlemen to moderate their temper , while we tell them that our Sheffield correspondent had nothing at all to do with the Notice to Correspondents of which they complain . It is very passible that these thirteen gentlemen may be all members of the National Charter Ass > ciation—nay more , it is possible that all the members of the Sheffield Political Institute may be also members of the National Charter Association . Still that does no ! invalidate our slatemeid . We know an Odd

      Fellows' lodge of which nearly all the members are members of the National Charter Association ; tee knozc a Baptist Church of which the minister and all the members are members of the National Gfiarler Association ; siili both the Odd Fellows' lodge and the Baptist Church in question is a distinct and isolated body , governed by its oicn laics and officers , independent of the National Charter Association ; just as is the Sheffield Political Institute ; and though these gentlemen should rail and write of "falsehood ?'— " misrepresentation "—'' leadership "— " dictation" and * Jravd" more scurrillously than they have even yet done , it trill not alter the fact that the Sheffield Political Institute is , as a society , ail isolated

      body , altogether distinct from the National Charter Association . A Bakbek at Yo 2 K wishes us to " write a comment " on the fact that ifie authorities of that ciiy have put a stop to Sunday shaving . He says it has lessened his income ly four or Jive shillings weekly ; and , irith a family of sue children , he feels it to be tery serious . We do wish that our Sunday legisTctors would le consistent , at all ' events . If they must be sanctimonious , let it be in person , as well as by proxy . If Sunday sharing be sinful and scandalous when practised ly a poor fellow , for the maintenance of his children , in his own shop , it is surely not less so when a " respectable hair-dresser" wails upgn a

      gentleman at home , or wfum said gentleman em p ' oys hisservant upon that nccsssary occupation . Bui why do we find fault with inconsistency when , in fad , there is none " 2 The tchole system is consistent with the whole spirit of class legislation . Sunday shaving , like Sunday travelling and Sunday trading , are then only scandalous when practised by the poor . " Respectables' ' may do all these things without any violation oj class made etiquette or morality . Thohas Beow . ve . —His letter on the abuses of the Manchester and Leeds railway next week . The Salford Chabtists have appointed Mr . Rankin as agent for the sale of Mr . Pinder ' s blacking . The memhers of the Association residing in Salford are requested to encourage the sale

      t ' f this blacking . May be hadalMr . Rankin s , . Smith ' s Building , ' Ade ' phi ; Jfr . Sumner , shoemaker , Ford-street ; Mr . Garneit , shoemaker ; Rosamond street ; or Mr . Tales , shoemaker , corner of Sprincfidd-lane , Broughton-road . TaOJUs Daties . — We have had n > , thing from him for a long tine : his communications have been olu-sfs attended to . The last we received was inserted though considerably abridged . Todmobdct CHA 2 TI 5 I 3 should have written to Mr . Beesley : we cannot make the S * ar a general post „ t" 9 . - Hnx _ —Roper Pinder ' s address , after this date , is EJirartTs Sq > iare , Edwards Place , Pottery , IIuP .

      Caksieb ' s EE 5 CTIT . —We have letters from James ?• a : and R , W . Woodford in reference to tfte crjnmunicatien of Mr . Parker , in our last , which ve cannot insert . We do not see that theyin-. validate any of Mr . P . ' s statements , and cannot hir { h e Star made the vehicle of personal or pirty bickerings . i rf 55115 * REiDEK . —We hate no room . A Riul Democrat— Thanks for the hints in hh k ' . ier . The first of them is not new to us . We ' purpise acting en it ourselves if the Secretary

      do not . A Co . f sTi . vr Reader , CA > TERBrB . T , enquires if any one of our numerous readers can inform him of the mode of preparing the c-ement applied io the potiage stamps ***• il ' Cn-LOCH of Polmont by Falkirk , will clSge us bys ^ osting his news letter a day * earlier . We aid not receive his last week ' s letter - fi-J half pr , st three on Thursday afternoon ; and ike Scotch papers are obliged to be posted shortly ojler that hour .

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      * 0 £ M £ S . KBOST—IMS " "WHIG-MADE TFIDOW . " £ . s . < L 'remj . G ., Manchester 0 0 6 a , d . ftom three masons , perF . W . Simeon , Bristol . 1 6 "cmW . JoDts 0 6 0 2 0 Srosi Xi . J . Hogarth , IHansfield ... # 40 from the Leeds Chartist Association , per ilr . Storehouse 17 0 from a few Chartists of Poitsea , Hants .. .. ... 0 10 0

      TOR THE EXECUTIVE . From RoEti Pinder , Hull , ( two weeks ) » IB 9 Fiom a few Friends at Grantham , perD . Sanby 0 6 2 TOB . XBS . J 0 SES . Froa : John Tagg , London ... ... 0 1 0 TQB . MBS . TVILLrAMS . From Join Tagg , London ... ... 0 0 6 T 0 S THE O ' iSBIES'S PBESS XCM ) . From SIi . Spring , of Porteea ... 0 1 'CE 5 Millau has sent us a post-office order . Will he I * kind encrngh to say whit it is for , and the ^ unouut of the order ? *' £ U £ s , iio >\ AGBA>\— His letter wss not post-. Paid . i

      . £ f ,, _ " - ^ ti > "gtos , LorGHEOEorGH . —Same price as all tne fcrge Portraits . ar&D . —The 2 s . 6 d- rent for the " Chartist Cause " ^ " » as inserted in the Star ol the loib , " From J . It " **• Simps on , Shsltch . —The Plates -were sentjia de-

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      T . Shith . Plymouth . —Mr . Cleave was written to and desired to forward the Plates and Medals . Some PKksos has , this week , « ent a Ten Pound Note to this Office , in a blank sheet of paper . Will the par ties sending say what bank it was , what number , and giye a description of the note if possible so that they may be credited with the amount ? ' H .. T . B , Dalkeith . —Ftrtf-Do not know : we have not received any cash from him to the present time . Second—' Do not know the reason . Qeobgb Btdge , BOSS . —The publication is in existence . London publishers i Steill , Paternoaterrow ; Cleave , 1 , Shoe-lane , Fieet-street .

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      This gentleman , of whom some mention is made by Sir . "O'Connor , in his letter to the Chartists of bcotland , has forwarded to ua the following resolntion , which he says was passed by a public meeting of the lnnabitanta © f Bridgeton : — That the thanks of this meeting are due , and are hereby tendered , to Mr . John Rodgers , for the very prudent manner in which he has conducted himself as a member of the Convention "

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      MANCHESTER — Loyaltt at Discount . — There Las "been no illumination , do boDfires , do shootings , no emblems , no symptoms of rejoicing at the Babtism of the young sprig cf roval blood . The greatest specimen of manifestations o ' f loyalty even by the High Tory Church , and Whig party , was the mere exhibition of fiass on the steeples of the churches , and the ringing of the bells , the sight and sound of which appeared only additional mockery of the starring millions , to remind them of the pomposity and extravagance of one party , and the distress , misery , privation , and want of the other .

      2 . SEDS . —The Lost Child . —We ins ; rted a paragraph last week headed "Child Lost , " which appears to have been noticed by a friend at Dewsbury , who informs us that a child answering the description wss seen there , along with another boy . It . is to be regretted our informant did not get them takea into custody , as no doubt the other boy liad also been stoien , for the purpose of being employed as ^ a beggar , and would answer to the description of six sears of age , very curly bead , and altogether a very pretty boy , and answering to the name of Jame 3 Pulien , or Greaves , from the Bank , Leeds . James " Wallis , we repeat , is aged ten years , a fine chubby lad , light hair and grey eyes ;" has £ mark under his right eye , which he received by a fall when learning to walk , and by which he may be easily "known . The parents of these children are yery poor ,, snd in great distress at their loss . Any information sent to this office will be most gladly handed to the parents .

      Axpsrw Gardner , lats of Leeds . —On Monday , the 17 ; h instant , the following resolution was passed at the ^ Chartist meeting in Leeds : — " Thai the Chartists oi the kingdom are hereby warned against having any transactions with a person of the name oi Andrew Gardner ; he haviug defrauded the associatiod to a great amount , as well as other parties in town- He has left Leeds for elsewhere . " ST . PANCB . A . S . —On Thursday evening , Col . Thompson delivered one of his usual " Free Trade and Corn Law-Repeal" lectures , at the Standard , Frederick-street , Hampstejfcd-row . Mr . Farrar asked a question or two , to which no satisfactory answers were given ; challenged the Colonel to discuss the question , giving him his own choice of place and chairman , and exempting him from any expence . The Gallant Colonel declined the meeting .

      POIiRIOlfT , (> -eab Falkibk . )—Melancholy Occurbesce . —A man named William M'Farlane , residing at Newbiggings . in the vicinity of Polmont , being deranged in his mind since the month of April last , ha l ving eluded the vigilance of those who resided with him , has , to the great grief of his friends , disappeared . He left his home on the 19 : h ins ; ., and , although every endeavour has been made since to obtain intelligence of him , it has hitherto been without success . He vras dressed a « a sailor , ¦ which profession he followed ; is about sixty years of age , and bald headed .. Any person having heard of or seen such an individual , by leaving word at Polmons Hall School , will confer a lasting obligation on his distressed friends .

      ifEWTOif HEATH—Co-operative Stoke . —The above Bociety was established at Newcon Heath , oh Nov . 28 ch , 1840 . About from seventy to eighty shares of the value of five shillings each , being entered from Nov . 28 ia , 1840 , to Feb . " 23 J , 1841 , a : which latter date the first shop was opened a : Newton Heath ; and on Oct . 13 th , 1841 , a second shop was opered at Openshaw , which shops , together , are now selling from £ 80 to £ 90 . weekly of provisions . There are now 700 shares in , making a capital of upwards of £ 200 . The above shares are held by eighty-seven shareholders , who hold various numbers of shares each , fluctnating from one to forty , forty being the highest number any one person is allowed to hold . There was a dividend of Is . 8 d . per share paid over to the shareholders on Jan . 3 rd , 1 & 42 , biiug at the rate of 33 h per cent , for the tun months , from the time of opening the first shop , or at the rate of 40 per cent , per annum .

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      TO HAHER STANSFELD , ESQ . " Taxes are fixed monetary payments and do not lourer with the fall of prices of produce . "—James Penmj . " All classes will prey upon all other classes just as much as they can and dare "—Hamer Stamfeld . Sik , —I have -waited with considerable anxiety for the appearance of your organ , fully expecting that vre should . have your pompously announced lecture of " compensation and not emigration , " dressed and served ut > as a dish " fit for the gods" in its columns of

      tWs week . Why . has this change come o ' er the spirit of its actions ? Time was , -when we should have had it hsaded in large capitals , and decked out in leaders ' type , for the purpose of drawing especial attention to the importance of the article . But now , alas ! we are compelled to be content with the usual " stock" epithets of compliments , and take the editor ' s word , expressed in a short paragraph , for proof of its value . Perhaps its " valuable coiumns" were crowded with other , and more valuable matter . But , whatever has been the cause , we must bear our disappointment as best we may , and hope that at some other lime we shall reap our full reward .

      In the absence , then , of this valuable lecture on the " odd sort of compensation , " I shall be under the necessity of taking up some other subject upon which to address you . I will therefore tike the trouble in this letter to direct the attention of the working men to the affected sympathy of yon and your class , towards their unparalleled sufferings ; and on your so often expressed desire to better their condition by a repeal of the Corn L'itvs , and by giving them " education" as a necessary preparation to their having a voice in the nuking the laws by -which they are to be governed .

      Working men , when we see men begging and praying of another mm who is dcing tliem irjostiob , to cesse to do them injustice , and begin to treat them as fellow-creatures ; and when we see the man who is , and has been ,- in tne perpetration of wrong , or the withholding of some valuable right or property—when we see the man who is doing tbese things , instead of ceasing to do them , offer the injured party some other thing in lien thereof , what is the conclusion "which we naturally come to respecting the injuring party ? Siinpiy that he ib either fool or knave ; and such must be toe conclusion which you ought to come to rejecting those who offer you " repeal of the Corn Laws '* oi edncation in s " . Mechanics' Jnstitnte , " in consideration of your just share in the making of t&a laws by which yeu are to be governed .

      If the repeal of the Com Laws would give us " cheap bread "— "if it would enable ns te take our labour to t&e best market "—if it would " enable us to stop the plundering of the grasping aristocracy "—if it would "give us prosperity for ages "—if it would of itself ( as one sage oracle says ; " reduce the national expenditure one-half ;'' if , in short , it would mike the country such a paradise as they represent that it would ; and if , as they tell you , the Charter would do nothing for you—if it would cause none of these good things to eome , how is it , that their bowels are so moved with compassion ? how is jt that they are grown so full of the milk of human kindness all at once , as to offer to do yeu mlfre good even than you desire ? How is it that they offer you what they tell you is the greater consideration , when you atkfor what they tell you would 11 the less ?

      Working men , reasoning npon the acknowledged principles of human nature , and taking the maxim put forward ~ by Mr . StansfeM , who is a great gun of the party , that " all classes will prey upon all other clases jnst as much as they can and dare ; " takirig this as a truism , in what light are vre to view the conduct of those men who offer you the repeal of the Corn Laws as a something which will be of more value to you than that" Charter , which , they acknowledge , is your inalienable right ? Unless yeu suppose that a miracle has been wrought for the special purpose of changing the nature of these humanity-mongers , what can you think can be the end thess men can have in view , after their declaration that they " will prey upon you just as much as they caS and dahe ? " Have they ceased to wish to prey ? or does not the cowardly tiger wish to crouch behind the bush of the Repeal of the Coin l > aws to enable him with with greater security to spring npon his " prey" and riot in its blood at his leisure ?

      Working men , these parties ten you that the Charter would not do you any good ; they also acknowledge that it "will be impossible for them to carry out the measures they have in view without the working men can be brought to set with them , and they also tell us that wben we cannot obtain our ends in an immediate and direct manner , we must make use of our best policy and take such instalments as we can get towards our tads . 2 \ oxr if this dot trine be true , and if they have ceased to thirst for " prey , " and if the Charier "would do you no good , and c&isequenlly thevino harm , why do they

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      not come forward to aid you to obtain the Charters eves if for no other purpose but to obtain your confidence , that yon might assist them to realise those measures which they tell you would be so conduslvetoyour and their benefit ? If they refuse to do this , do they not tacitly acknowledge that they have a wiBh to decelTe you ? Do they not tacitly acknowledge that if yon had the suffrage you would not only have the power of repealing the Corn Laws , but also of destroying every kind of monopoly which cripples the energies of this most industrious bnt starving people ? Most assnredly they do : and completely jrove the truth of their own maxim , that " all classes will prey upon all other classes , just as much as they cam and DARE ; " and that they themselves , as Mr . Stansfeld said of the aristocracy , wish to be " the power working underneath , and which will reap even more than all the advantages resulting from any such measure . " - ¦ ¦ ¦' .. '

      Bnt , working men , they will tell you that you are " uneducated , " that you are too " ignorant" to be entrusted with the franchise , and that when you have acquired a sufficient fund of knowledge to enable you to clearly discriminate npon the bearings of great political questions , then , O ! then ! they will gladly give a voice in the making of those laws which are to dispose of your labour and lives . Kind souls ! but let us test them by their actions . . When men have an end in view , and are sincere in their desire to attain that end , do they not , if men of the most common prudence , take the means which are

      most likely for the attainment of such end . Therefore , if onr middle-class men ; if the " wealth and education" of the country were sincere in their desire that the " lower orders" should have that education which they tell you is . so necessary to the exercise of the franchise , what would be the course they would pursue to « nable you to obtain that knowledge ? Common sense says they would establish political libraries and reading rooms , and give , or cause to be given , lectures on all the great leading political subjects of the day , and court discussion in every way which was likely te elicit truth .

      But what is the course they take in this neighbourhood ? Why , in one or two instances , "Mechanics' Institutes" have been founded for the pnrpose , or at least , for the alleged purpose , of giving the " operative" that degree of knowledge which ia necessary to his being considered an unit in society . And what do you think , working men , is one of the leading principles upon which they are founded ? Why , that neither religion nor " politics" are , under any circumstances , to be introduced ! There , for you ; is there not here exhibited a desire to raise you in the scale of society ? Is there not here evidence , the most intense longings of the most exalted philanthropy , to give you that " education" which is to prepare you to exercise the franchise for your own benefit ? What ungrateful £ ogs you must be . if you do not go down on your kneas to th 3 nk them for offering to t 9 achyoua # things else but the only two which are immediately connected with your welfare—religion and politics !

      Working men , does this look as if they were in earnest to give you that " education" so often alluded to ? Instead of teaching you the nature of our system of government , of showing you that all our present institutions have their basis in feudalism , and tracing their influence in our forms of Parliament , in our courts of law , and in the tenures of our property ; instead of showing how that feudalism is continually throwing in obstacles to our improvement ; instead of these things , they will teach you that you cannot square the circle , or point out to yom " slender capacity" the beauties of some slip-slop fashionable novel !

      Instead of teaching yon that each g-neration of men is independent of the other ; and that previous generations , have no right to spend the produce of Hie generations which are to succeed them ; and , consequently , that no generation can have the right to contract a debt for its own defence which 1 b to be paid by the labour of a succeeding one ; instead of teachir / g you these thinars , they will point you to the . stars , tell you hovr loDg it will take for a ray of light to travel to this dinsy orb , and very probably before they have done , they will teach you to doubt even whether light be a positive body or not ! Or , probably , they will advise you to spend " amonth among the moons" to try to

      reconcile conflicting theories ; some having told you that our moon was a globe and inhabited by beings of " like frailties with eurselves , " and others of the " moderns " having degraded her to the form of a " water-diah" But what " useful information" you eetriy the research J What good is it to you to know that Saturn has a ring , or that Jupiter has moons , bo long as tbey who tell you those things are diverting your attention from that system which is taking or has taken the " meal-kist " from vonr pantry , and the bacon from your homes ? " What's Jupiter to you , or you to Jupiter , " that yon should talk about him , while " the thing" is reducing you to " eat your beds" !

      Instead of teaching you the manner m which our indirect taxation , combined with our infamous system of paper money , strips you of your earnings , and reduces you to want , they will talk to you about positive and negative electricity ; Instead of tracing to its source the cause which has been at work to bring " our merchants and manufacturers to the gulf of bankruptcy and caused our labourers to eat tbeir beds , " they will aniuss you with a tirade about the properties and powers of " caloric , " and then they will teach you to doubt whtther there besuch a thing as caloric , as a positive existence ? Instead of teaching how to ward off that state of things which Mr . Aldam has told you , will render it necessary to " starve down the labourers to the requisite quantity" before you can obtain for your labour a fair equivalent , they will most likely tell you a " cock and bull" story abont " chemical equivalents , " and spout as long and as glibly as if they understood what they were saying I

      Working men , are you to be amused by these kind of things any longer ? Will you sit still , and tacitly support a system which takes from you nearly the whole of your earnings ; and will you at the sama time " lick the hand" that returns you the crumbs in the shape of charity ? Obtain your just share in the making of the laws , and consequently your just controul over the spending of your earnings , and you -will have no occasion to be insulted by being told that you are too ignorant to be represented , and then your own earninss doled out to you in the insolent shape of

      instruction , in a "Mechanic ' s Institute" ! I am no enemy to your having knowledge . Get knowledge ; but with your knowledge get understanding ; and begin from this tim& to act upon this principle that you have a right . aM that your industry gives you the power , if that industry be rigbtly applied , to provide for your own education . Tell the party that yon do not want charity but justice ; and doubt the men who offer you charity in lieu thereof . Your ' g , truly , James Penh's . Millsbridge , Jan . 25 th , 1842 .

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      ANOTHER CHARTIST VICTORY ! THE ANTI-CORN LAW LEAGUERS DEFEATED BY THE CHARTISTS AT HULL . A public meeting , convened by the . Worshipful the Mayor , id compliance with a requisition from the partisans of the anti-Corn Law League , and the disciples of free trade , took place on Monday last , in the Tovrn Kail , Hull , which was crowded to excess on the occasion , snd the proceedings , which resulted as above stated , occupied the meeting from twelve o ' clock at noon until half-past five in the evening . The resolutions announced to be proposed were eleven in number ; but , as will be seen in the sequel , not more than five of the original documents were brought forward .

      On obtaining admission into the hall , we found the side galleries , and the space in front of the bench , completely filled with persons who evidently had been favoured , the principal entrance having been opened about jleven o ' clock for about five minutes , and closed till within about five minute 3 to twelve , which was nearly half an hour after the time the meeting had been called for , thetime Lein « half-past eleven . Considerable dissatisfaction was expressed at this behaviour , and crits of " Open the door , '' &c . 4 c , together with a little " punching , " caused the door to be opened , when a rush of Chartists and other parties eoinplete 2 y fiHed the other parts of the

      hall . The Tow . v Clerk , -having read the requisition "for taking into consideration the propriety of petitioning borh Houses of Parliament for the repeal of the Corn Laws , and other restrictions upon food , considered to be the chief causes of the calamitous depression of commerce , manufactures , and every branch of useful industry , " The Mator was requested to take the chair , wiih the unanimous approbation of the whole meeting , and doin < $ so , bespoke a fair and impartial hearing for every one who might offer to speak oh the important question .

      Sir W . Lo"wthbo ? gpnke at considerable length against the laws objected to by the requisitionists . He described them as a fundamental error in our commercial policy , which if persisted in must lead to » hat national ' decay invariably preceding the ruin of empires . Regarding tho . landholders , and their support of the present laws , he regretted that there should exist eo strong a delusion in the minus of apaTt of his fellow countrymen , but rent was the end , and , as had been said by some one , they would plough the very Heavens if they could get & rent for them . After some speculative remarks on the progress of manufactures on the continent , Sir William deprecated the probability of the- meeting being divided by political movements ; and , beseeching nnion in all to obtain what was right and reasonable , concluded by moving the following resolution : —

      " That in the opinion of this meeting , it is the duty of Government to protect the rights and the liberties and property of all , and it necessarily follows that all legal privileges , bounties , restrictions , or monopolies of whatever kind ordained for . the benefit of tome , are acts of injustice to air the rest of the community ; to other classes of producers as producers , and to all as consumers . " Dr . Gobdds seconded the resolution , which was agreed to nem . con . C . Pesroket Thompson , Esq ., Barrister-at-Law , and son of the late candidate for Hull ( Colonel Thompson ) , on offering himself to ihe meeting , said some might ask what he was doing at a meeting

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      of the inhabitants of Hall ? His answer ins , to speak the truth ou a subject which was of no particul&r country or county ; and if further reason were required , he might appeal to his family and its connexion with the town . The Learned Gentleman , with whose speech , in common with the others delivered on this occasion , we are compelled to be brief , then went over the usual grounds of opposition to ^ the Corn Laws , aud expressed his belief that their repeal would n , ot be injurious to the landholders : far from that , he felt that it would be a benefit to them , or he would not , himself a landholder , be standing there as its advocate . He also

      called upon Whigs and Tories , and those of ultra opinions , to join in endeavours to suppress this horrid tax ; and he appealed to those who cried out " Give education , " by desiring them to feed the people first , which they could not dp by filling their mouths with spelling-books and grammars . He then entered into some statements to show that the landholder would be ^ sufficiently protected by the distance of the foreigu corn-grower , and , as was understood , a duty of eight shillings . The word protection , however , he held to be but a nickname for injustice- —and concluded by moving the second resolution : —

      " That this meeting consider the legitimate purpose of taxation to be , not the protection of favoured classes , but state revenue alone , and the articles least suitable for taxation at all to be those first necessaries of life , which , if not taxed , would be consumed most . -largely'by the poorest classes ; we , thereforo , protest against all merely protective duties whatever , ag false in principle , and injurious in practice , while we yet more earnestly reprobate the corn arid provision taxes , as having the nature of a poll-tax , which exacts tVom poverty the same absolute amount as from wealth . " This resolution was seconded by G . Cookman , Esq ., in a very brief speech .

      Mr . Jasiks Grassby , the Chartist Secretary , next rose , and . contended that if the Corn Laws were repealed on the morrow , by the House of Commons , they would be replaeed b y others of .-a ,-still more stringent character . He then read copious extracts from Al'Culloch , as quoted in Mr . Campbell ' s pamphlet , to show the inefficiency of repeal under such circumstances . This excited the disapprobation ot the requisitionists , and commenced a career of disturbance which afterwards pervaded the meeting .

      [ We may just remark here , that during this little disturbance several iiiquinoa were made from the bench about Mr . Campbell's pamphlet , as to where it could be had , and what price , &c . and the Town Clerk ordered one to be procured for him . ] As the noise subsided for tho time , the speaker went on to deliver his sentiments , and concluded by asserting that if the Com Laws were repealed , the suffrage would not be obtained , but that with Universal Suffrage the repeal of the Corn Laws would be irresistible .

      Mr . Holdsworth was the next to address the meeting in support of the resolution , and which he did at great length , referring to the three elements of mau ' s expenditure , and illustrating his remarks by reference to a pamphlet on the condition of the town of Kendal . He next decriad the unholy alliance of church and state for a temporal purpose , aud urged the repeal of the Com Laws , and thereby the destruction of the monopoly of landowners as a means by which other repeals would be obtained .

      Mr . W . G . Burns nexfciose amid much disapprobation . He replied to the extracts which had been read , and made several remarks on the plans and prospects of obtaining the Charter and a repeal ef the Corn Laws . A chungo of some sort , he said , must soon pass over , or society would become a chaos , and in that case the landlords would be the first to look about them . He was glad to see bo full a meeting , and hoped they would adopt the sentiments of a previous speaker , that all monopolies might be broken down .

      Mr . Lundy roso and said , ho was glad to see the present position of the . working classes , for they were now three years a-head of the middle ola « ses ; and remarked that the working classes in lo \ ' } 8 were alone in seeking for political 1 power and a redress of their wrongs , and thd Whigs , who condemned the Chartists in 1839 , and imprisoned nearly five hundred of their best men , were now glad to seek to join them , for the purpose of carrying their darling measure—the repeal of the Corn Laws ; and the Whigs were right in doing so , for the Chartists were no ? v the real steam power of the country , and in two years' timo they would have the Whigs along

      with them . He believed the Chartists to be right in thinking that the repeal of the provision laws , under the present system of exclusive class , legislation , would not be of that benefit to the working classes which was anticipated , until they wore put into possession of political power . He was well aware that under the existing laws , the working classes would not be benefitted by a repeal of the Corn Laws ; without the Charter it would , be of no use to them , aud therefore the gentlemen " requisitionists must go along with them who earned their bread by the sweat of their brow . For his part , he thought every man who eat bread for which he did not 6 weat , was a thief and a robber . ,

      • Mr . Matthew Tate now attempted to address the meeting from the far side of the Hall , and read some excellent extracts from a pamphlet entitled , — " Labour ' s Wrongs and Labour ' s Remedy , " amidst rnuch noise and confusion for some time , when the Chairman sugggested that as few present could hear what was said , and as much business remained to be done , the speaker should compress his observations as much as possible This was received with renewed uproar , and a Chartist wa ? heard to ask , " Will Mr . Chairman put down one of his own party by such a request ?" Mr . HiGGiNSON rose to order , and on the impropriety of reading pamphlet after pamphlet . The Mayor said that was one reason why he had made the succession .

      Mr . Tate , however , kept on amidst much commotion , until he was pus down by clamouri—We beg to state , however , in justice to Mr . Tate , that his remarks were altogether just and proper ,. and straight to the question before the meeting . Mr . Perronet Thompson then replied , and after he had made a few observations , las res . qjution was carried . .,:. " . Mr . Flint , of Leeds , came forward to move the third resolution , which was as follows : — " That the Corn and Provision Laws of this kingdom have the further suicidal effect of limitiflg the commerce with other countries , aud distressing our manufactures , while the Corn Laws yet further exhibits the useless anomaly of an enormous tax paid by the people , of which only a very small portion is received by the state—this anomaly resulting from a sliding scale of duties , such as is applied to no other taxed articles whatever . "

      The speaker delivered a long oration on the condition of the West-Riding , and an exposure of the master manufacturers' balance-sheets . His speech had little connection with the direct interests oi Hull , and was a mere repetition of the stale sophisms of the League , of which our readers have from time to time had quite sufficient . Ho was heard patiently for a considerable time ; but before finishing ho received many intimations that the meeting nad heard " quite enoogh . " ' Mr . Foster br it fly seconded the resolution .

      Mr . Samuel Healey , in rising to reply to Mr . Plint , 8 aid that when he came into that meeting he came merely as a hearer , not intending to offer any remarks whatever ; but having heard from Mr , Plint Vfhat he thought to be very improper stutsments respectiug machinery—of its being the greatest boon ever conferred upon man , and of its beneficial results in the West-R . rding , he ( Mr . Healey ) considered that he should not be doing his duty if he did not offer a few remarks in roply , as ho thought it would be very unfair to hear counsel on one side of the question , only ^ and as he had been brought up in the neighbourhood of Dewsbury , the very heart and pith of the woollen district in the West ^ Ridirig , surely he would be able to know something of thd

      practical working and nature of machinery ; but before he replied to that point he should just glance at some of the remarks which had fallen from , the moverofthe second resolution . He ( Mr . H . ) agreed with him , that truth was of no country , town , or party , and whatever might bo thought , or said , by the gentlemen who then occupied that bench , he believed he should be able to show that the Chartists with whom he had the honour to be so numerously surrounded on that occasion , had founded their claims op the immutable principles of truth and justice . He would ask that gentleman if " no maa committed crime from innate weakness" why did the authorities in power then vindictively punish him for those crimes which the iniquitous

      laws of his country have eventually compelled him to commit I He differed from that gentleman , when he said " that if the people gotehtap bread and were well fed , they could then discussa their grievances better , " because he ( Mr . H ;) believed with the late venerable Mr . Cobbett that " the only way to find an : Englishman ' s brains was to go through his guts , " and falsa if the people were in good employment ! and still without political power , they would not be allowed by their tyrant masters to discuss their wrongs without the dread of losiug their employment . He differed also from that gentleman in his remark , '' that the Corn Laws if repealed would coBfera greater benefit on the people than all other measures put together , " as it minds that the

      must be evident to all re fleeting only measure oalculattd to bring the people into a state of prosperity and happiness was the people's Charter , because it would give them political power and prevent the legislature from enacting other evil laws , and would enable the people at once to deface all obnoxious laws from the statute book and prevent similar or worse being put in their places ^ which could not be done under the present corrupt system of legislation . He did not like the eyi tern of taking off the branches one by one from a treetbat brought forth corrupt fruit , but would rather act upon the words of Jesus Christ , " Cut it down and cast it into the fire . " He then remarked on the presence of certain gentlemen present , who pulled long faces and wore white neckcloths , who , could not gee cause

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      attend the Chartist demonstration . He was glad to see that the people were not now to be gulled by these faith preaching folks , as they would have the works of men at this day to judge them by . The speaker then proceeded to show the workings of the factory system , in reply to Mr . Flint ' s stateraentB about machinery . He gave one or two horrid instances of the unrestricted use of machinery . Ho wished to be understood , as a friend to machinery , yes , to the utmost extent , but instead of seeing machinery a curse as it now was to the British nation , he wished to see H made into man ' s blessing and holiday . He then went on to show the evil effects

      that would be practiced by a repeal of the Corn Laws without restricting the use of machinery , and said that if the Corn Laws were repealed without restriction on machinery , the foreign markets would soon be as much over-stocked with English goods as bur own were at prasent ; he codtimied to condemn the unrestricted use of machinery , is the manufactory districts ; after > which he sat down loudly cheered . ¦ ¦ ¦ . : ' \ ' - ., ¦ . ¦ . - . ¦ ¦ . . " -. < ¦ / . Mr . Flint being about to leave by the railway train , was allowed to reply to the last speaker , but not without interruption i and he retired , after complaining of the want of courtesy shewn by the meeting .

      Mr . Pinder , who next stood up for some time , was understood to condemn the use of machinery more than the Corn Laws * , and to ridicule the idea that the repeal of the Corn Laws would induce the continental manufacturers to shut up their establishments ; but the commotion in the meeting , and a seeming desire on the part of many at that period , to render the proceedings farcical , prevented more being heard . A North Briton , whose name was said to be Beeg , next gave the meeting some curious information of the manner in which colonial sugar imported duty free in the Channel Islands , is afterwards smuggled into England as confections , and equally free of duty as coming from those islands . This seemed to bring the meeting into a better order , and the third resolution was then passed .

      The Rev , Mr . Higginson said three resolutions having been passed , he would be brief , and after explaining why he , as one of the white neckcloth gentlemen , had not attended the Chartist ' - 'meeting , or signed their petition , moved the fourth resolution : — "That it . iaalarming to observe the progressive decline in the British export trade , as regards fulJy manufactured articles , and the substitution , of those that are only in part manufactured , while the rapid iacrcase of our population ( who continually flock to the manufacturing towns as their only chance of employment ) makes the opening of wider foreign markets for the produce of their industry a matter of regret and unceasing necessity . "

      The Rev . G . Lee , Jun . seconded the resolution , observing that all the points it embraced had been already fully discussed . The noise that prevailed prevented inore from being heard . This resolution was also agreed to . Mr . Healey then rose to propose a reso l ution , by observing that as many gentlemen had so much desired to have an union of the middle and working classes , thoughthese same gentlemen had often given to the people stones when they cried for bread , yet the working classes , he believed , were still ready to co operate with them , and offer them the right hand of fellowship , in order that they might go on unitedly together for the advancement of human liberty ; and as he was desirous to see whether these gentlemen were in real good earnest or not , he would move the following resolution oa behalf of the working classes : —

      "That this meeting is fully convinced that the united efforts of the middle and working classes are very essential to the successful Carrying of any great political measuroj and that a repeal of the Corn Laws will never be effected until the document called the 'People ' s Charter' become the law of the land . Therefore this meeting is desirous that the middle and working classes ( or Chartists ) should co-operate to cause that document to bo placed oft the statutebook of these realms , in order that , through its operation , a total repeal of the Corn Laws may be effected . " The resolution was seconded by Mr . Edwabd Webster . Mr . Burns endeavoured to say something on the subject , but was compelled to sit down , amid the deafening cries of " Traitor , " Renegade , " &o .

      Mr . Higginson rose to order , observing that the resolution could not be put consistent with the requisition , and referring the Chairman to the Town Clerk on the matter . The Mayor , after conferring with the Town Clerk , said he saw no cause for refusing to put the resolution . It was accordingly put to a show of hands , when the Mayor said there waa some difficulty ia deciding , but he Considered the resolution to be carried . ( Loud cheers . ) The Rev . Mr . Sibree expres 9 ing extreme regret at the course taken by the Chartists , moved the following resolution : —

      That in seeking the repeal of all taxes upon the food of the bulk of the community , we feel we are only using the natural rights of every man to enjoy , as the natural recompense of hia industry , his designed share of the bounties of that Heavenly Providence , who hath * made of one blood all nations of men , ' and whose ' tender mercies are over all hie works . "' Mr . RicHARDso . v seconded the resolution , which was then agreed to . Mr . Holdsworth , seconded by Mr . Larard , jun ., then moved the adoption of a petition founded on the requisition for a repeal of the Corn and Provisionlaws , on which Mr . Healey again rose to move an amendment as a rider to the petition , and , after a few remarks , proposed the following addition : —

      "That the benefits resulting from a repeal of the Corn aud Provision Laws may bo secured to the working classes , we earnestly pray that the measure called the People ' s Charter may immediately become the law of the land . " The amendment having been seconded—Mr . Higginson expressed his deep regret that gentlemen should attempt to sow discord ; and Mr . Holdsworth took an opportunity , while lights were being procured , of delivering a furious tirade , which Jed to such disorder , that the Mayor threatened to dissolve the meeting . The gas being at length lighted up , the question was put , and the Mayor declared the amendment ti > be carried , amidst tremen ' dons Cheering from the Chartists *

      The remainder of the resolutions prepared by the requisitiouists were then abandoued ; and the Mayor having declared the meeting dissolved , thanks wore voted to his Worship ^ on the motion of t ) r . Gordon , seconded by Mr . Healey , for his . worthy conduct in the chair . The Chartists then proclaimed their victory by many lusty cheers for tho Mayor , Frost , Williams , and Jones , Feargu 9 O'Connor , the Chartist cause , &c ^ &c , and tho meeting quietly separated .

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      THE "WIND UP" OF THE AFRICAN COLONIZATION SCHEME . The Niger Expedition is at an e » d . Sir Fowell Buxton has had his say ; his philanthropic scheme has been fairly tried ; Government has " led and felt the way , " as Lord Brougham recommended , into the interior of Africa by its great natural highway ; £ 100 , 000 more have been expended by ihe British nation on what is termed African civilization ; and the establishment of factories and the acquisition of land have been attempted : the resultis sad and mournful disappointment .

      On the 20 th of August last , the three fine steamers , the Soiidan , the Wilberforce , and tho Albert , built for the purpose , commenced the ascent of the Quorra ere six days had elapsed they received warning of the fate which impended over them ; death was already hovering about h' 8 victims . Before a month had closed , one vessel^—the Soudan— -was converted into an hospital for the "' sic k ' ,, and Compelled to descend from the regions of disease to the open sea . Two more days had not gone by until—the Wilberforco — -of the remaining ascending steaw ers had likewise to turn its head down the stream with a dying cargo ; thirteen days longer did the Albert persevere , bus in vain ; the V belt of malaria , " r-the bouUvart of death is perhaps the more appropriate description— Lord Urougham's ingenious sugges ion—was not t > be passed through ; and forty-six days of dreadful suffering from the commencement of the ascsnt , the

      Albert was also compelled to return , and the expedition was baffled by disease and death . The three steamers , with the surviving commanders , officers , and men—how small a minority of those who left England we do not stop to detail—are now gasping and inhaling the purer atmosphere of the Ascension Island and ClarenceCove . A model farm j some 300 miles from the coast , has been bought , stocked , and abandoned ; treaties have been made with the two negro Princes of Eboe and Iddah for the ^ abolition of the slave trade and of hunian sacrifice , and then they have been left to their own practices . Had it not been for the generous assistance afforded them voluntarily b y the vessel of a private merchant--an assistance which the planners of the expedition kad not provided , and on which they had no right to calculate—it is but too likely that we never should have seen again either the Albi . rt or any part of its enterprising crew ;

      Such would have been—rather such has been— -the end of this unhappy affair , projected and announced with so much Exeter-hall enthusiasrn , among speeches from Prince Albert , Sir Kofcsrt Peel , Lord Howick . and Sir Fowtll Buxton ; letters of sympathy from illustrious and Right Reverend personages i promises of civilization , and trade , and agriculture , and alliances with native chiefs , and missionary success , and pride , and indignation . It has : cnd 8 d in nothing strange or unexpected—nothing but what might have been and was foretold , if its projectora / would have listened to reasonnothing but the sacrifice of the lives of oar countrymen .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 29, 1842, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct739/page/5/