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    • TO TEE IMPERIAL CHAETISTS.
    • ¦ —. : Tg MR. FERRAND AND THE LEAGUE.
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      VERBATIM REPORT OF THE CHARTIST TRIALS AT LANCASTER . IN THE PRESS AND SHORTLY WILL BE PUBLISHED , A VERBATIM REPORT OF THE BECENT TRIALS OF FEARGUS O'CONNOR AND 58 OTHERS , AT LANCASTER , FOB RIOT , SEDITION , TUMULT , AND CONSPIRACY . rPHE above Work will be Published in Weekly Numbers of 64 Pages of Royal Octavo , Edited by JL FEARGUS O'CONNOR , E-q ., Barrister-at-Law , and to which will be added A SHORT ACCOUNT OP THE CAUSES OF THE DISTURBANCES OF AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER LAST , With Notes upon the Trial ; aUo a Dedication to Baron ROLFE . A SPLENDID PORTRAIT OF THE JUST JUDGE WHO PRESIDED , * WILL BE PRESENTED WITH THE LAST NUMBER ( GRATIS ) To those who have been SubBoribers to the Work . The Portrait will be Executed with a vi ? iv to its being placed as a Frontispiece , and when completed , which will be in about four Numbers ; the whole will make a valuable work . Prioe Gd . a Number . The Portrait gratis . Subscribers and Affents are requested to give their Order 3 to Cleave , 1 . Shoe Lane , FleeB Street , London 5 Hetwood , 60 , Oidham Street , Manchester ; and Hobson , Northern Star Office . Market Street , Leeds . The first Number will be Published on Monday , 27 th March , and the subsequent Numbers will be Published Weekly . .. . _

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      Vt d £ ab Fbiekis , —Those who have right and sice npou their side , "will ever , in the long run , LjjBph oTer those who rely upon might and their ^ Pgj to srresi or to pervert justice . The cause of l ^ ian lias liiuinph . &d over 4 he muted forces Of Xj ^ nti-CoTB Law League , the Whig Local Execute , and the Torj Government . Onr cause was * jnoniitoQS one . The League hunted us out of .- ^ the Whig authorities caught us , and the *^ GoTernment proposed making an example of ^ sjore for ike purpose of terrifying our tormentors ftha Lsa ^ ne ) of whom they are afraid , than of

      proTjs £ list we had violated the law . Our crime being » desire to make a new distribution of property . j ^ y felt tcemselTeB secure in the hands of men of rfoperty , and therefore gave us a special jury yitb uses shewed out of you they dragged the -jTy keanekf 01 evidence . They brought policemen , ^ gsjwsids , willing idlers mad men , hired spies , •« formers , and traitors , to support their case , while ^ bronght men of property , and the local autho-. j ^ gs from thB scene of devastation to ansryertliem . is the ianlL TJhs

      ^ an gams being started , Mr . Gregory was sent down io Lancashire to get up a -j-j . fne authorities are "Whigs , the turn-out was "jfjjig turn-out , and the concoctors bsing disappointed in the result , set Gregory upon the Charge "Well , he got up evidence against U 3 all , and jfodneed witnesses in support of his case , before the jBmimtuBS maigirtrates , yea , a vast amount of pjjgnce , whfle with the exception cf the traitor , Qjijfuh n 02 e ° ^ ^ ose witnesses were produced at

      gse trial . A fresh paci was got up . I blame those eaves-dropjBBfc petiJ logging * hedge attorneys , whogotnp the * s = £ and presented witnesses for eiammaticra to"whom fej Jennd it necessary io read their depositions js the Grand JuTy Room , while the trial was go ng gi to refresh their memories . I do not mean to © iei at any great length upon the merits of the bhJ just now , as I am engaged in publishing a cheap the

      ^ goii-ofihfrwhole proceedings , to ie accompanied jUh ~ ' i few i ^ tory ^ F strike , and the whole jju ^ pated withnotesC I "wflLpailish this in numfcers , of sixty-four pages each number , royal octavo -ya- As * TB © uld 1 m > impeosblo in lire space of any jrsrspaper to give a verbatim report , and as 3 have «> i a report of every word spoken throughout the pooeeciiiiSi and as I hold it to be ab ? olut « ly requisite zsi this all-important trial should be widely cireukjed and preserved , I have imposed this trouble upon

      itself . The first cumber will be ready for pnblieation on HoEdaj -weefc , iTrh March , and ¦ will contain a pn&se , s dedication to Baron Rolfe , and a por-Bon of \ he trial . With the last number , * will be presented an Engraving of the Judge , which may k prefixed to she work when complete and all tennd up iogeihtr . As I have decided upon this jenrse , you will not require any further comment ipon the trial just now , and therefore I leave that sbJE « , to come to what is of paramount importance , 3 mesa the coavietiens on the fourth count .

      I hold that no conviction can be had on the fifth srant , for more Teason 3 than one , which I need not me state , and which I regret being obliged ihns pnfoi'dy to mention , but you must be sriiStd . I now come to the fourth count , ¦ riaeh charges the parties found gctltt on it d iomg irnlawfolly thai -whicli those found TOOUSH rsder the i 3 th eount did lawfully . It is my intension to move an arrest of judgment upon the whole ¦ Rrdirt ; that is to show that , firstly , the trial has keen nregular ; secondly , the evidence has been sadmissible ; thirdly , the verdict ha 3 been illegal

      Ed , fourthly , that the parties convicted on the fourth soniit were not legally before the court . If those tbjectioES were irregularities which coold be yet sired , J shoold net state them , bnt they cannot , and iy reason for stating them is to arouse you to the jomplenon of thai work which yon have so » blj commenced- As Treasurer to the Geneil Defence Fond , it will be my duty to ij before yon , when the trials are completed , i balance-sheet accounting for the expenditure oi emj farthing . This I shall do , and in it yoa shall ind jo heh coxsi £ i £ S stcih arr depescs % -thai is

      sparate . But now , I ask yon , —if M'Dosall and so Executive , and so&e of oar best men , are to be aeiUced for want oi the best translation of the iezc ? v ™*! me , talent is wha ^ ire require to argue the sisal points of law , and talent must be paid -for . leai lake my own part ; I merely apply io you-on fcHlf « f others , and I know of no such triumph rj » B record as lhal which the liberation of the Risk £ f : j-nine conspirators would fumish . I have lisefore to implore of you to transmit to John Ekm , 1 , Shoe-lane , Fleet-street , for the depesce k ? d ; EUDd , for that fund alone , till the trials are iaibed , "vrbsx you can spare .

      Perhaps it nay not be amiss to state here that I sdge mxself th&t ice greatest economist -sriil be tS £ > £ i = lied ai the prndeni manner in which the funds - ijre been expended . Yoa will have seen that Jih Gsow Gibsos smarts rier the developement of the schemes of the lajners , but when he comes to read the whole as , ke Trill have reason to smart- Had we not used ; IE every energy , we could not have succeeded in ) ^ ivng Chartism , a 3 thi 3 prosecnJion has done j , ti , rely upon it , that the opportunity will not be j sL The Whig precs is furiou ? . The scribblers j

      ^ re anxious expectation remoTing the i saiMiBg blocks out of the way of the League , t 2 s unprincipled monstere had gone their full sgti in creating prejudice against us , and that < fee they began to play the part of " Goody , " to j gspaihize wiih us , and now to abuse ns . What ; iEk yen of " old obsenrity , " the Sunday Times , I P 2 £ a itnpplemsnt of the fonr Sxst day's proceed- ( i-Ss , wiih the GoTernment charge against us ; and j * iai think jon of the same beastly pot-boj jonrnal

      S gmrg a line of the last four day 3 . The -raoi- ; SS 2 i = ninie as the grave . The duties which 1 owe ' , ^ sir-Ote who have been found guilty on ihe fourth ! asm , and the desire to make the trial as complete j ci instructive a work a 3 possible will occupy my ;' ^ le time cstll the question of gcilit or sot . ^ air is disposed vi , j h speaking of the trials , it would be a monsrrons ;

      5 ssob to fa'get the great , the gigantic service of fc -Bcberis , of -jviom 3 ean ouly say that never did ^ "ffoik Tsixi more mind , more pleasure , and more ; Ses . Of the Jndge , 1 shall merely obserTe , that j 2 la ? given to the workiEg classes a practical uius- : •^ ion of what is meant 03- the due administration sfthe law , and that lie has done more ihan a hun « 1 ^ ditoT ^ £ Ed bsyonets conld tffect , by prescribing •^ se limits beyond whiehlan ^ nage cannot pass with : ^ pssitj . Of tke Defendants 1 shall say more here-Ca , but mar . aere obserse that tbeiT coaducl , t > ieir

      • 23 es xtdi z = al , and their talent won for them ^ golden opiniens of all , and elicited this ^ sxkabls tribaie from the Jrsr Jfdge : — ^ miiar . en , J j € c J cvnrinred that every EngCuh-^ srotisi Jet ! proud of his country , and rejoice in ¦ ^ rzpid g ? cw : h oj inteUigence so strikingly exhi-* h * in ihe speeches of those working men who have ~ & m ± d yen ? Contrast tbis with the language of 58 siodtrn JtSries : — "Yob vaSabomjs , toc ¦^ i&s , Tor scorNDsns , do yon imagine that ~ j > foxows as rot ? will be allowed Io upset the ***? ' BsJ a few more sneb C 3 ricsttrres of justice ^ * 25 exhibited in Chester and at Lmrpwl , wonld ?* < Wn all legal barriers , and ^ hrow tht starving 3 : 6 open trsr with the opulent .

      ^ J friada , I have on ; y further to observe , that ^« tanpts to stop Chartism or to impede its pro-^^ Smst now fail . MACHINERY is the com-^ aemy . it -Bill eventually carry the Charter , ^ "e letters from all quarters thanking me for Jtf e&i days' exertions . I reply , send the funds Qssre , to allow me to complete thB good work . / WTe jflst bad down my pen to read the rattling ** Brougham has giTen the , not What-thaB-bey ^ ka &e Who-ihaU-do-U men . How just read yj * 63 ay if it is not the langnage of the Star * S £ fla Leagne got mor © Free Trade than the gjj ® VEitiBred even to txoidsb themj and yet * re gnaabline tty

      ^ , ^^ words again , and let not Ibis excite-^* f the trials obliterate the fact from you minds , * autf leai the League or they tcill beat us . ^ kaiet the cat out of the bag . Let us have but ^^ es , said the League man , —the Leagne and ^ " one , Sow , so say I ; so I hare always said ,

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      — ° That tne existence of three political parties in a state is incompatible with the existence of peace law , and order . " Let hb then treat the League to a bit of their own policy , and have but two parties—the Chartists and the Tories , and then the stbcgglk won't be long . We will leave the rest " to thb God op justice iSD . OF BATTLE . " Your faithful friend , Feabgcs O'Cokhok .

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      The League clique in Knaresbro' have sent a memorial to Mr . Ferrand calling on him to vote with Mr . Vjlhers for a repeal of the Corn Laws . The Hon . Member , in acknowledging the receipt of the memorial , thus addresses the party throagh whom it was sent : — Sir , —I have to ackne-sriedge the receipt of yjjui letter , informing me that you haye forwarded t » my colleBgne , Mi Is-wson , a requisition from a majority of fee electcra of Knareaborough , requesting ns to suppor t and vote tor Mr . TUlier * ' motion for a Repe&l of tie Com ia-ws . if tee intimidation and corruption ¦ which ¦ weje adopted by the agents of the anti-Com Law Leagne in your Borough , at the last election , for the of

      purpose securing the return of tbeir candidateafter our Whig opponents had retired from the field , and had declare * that they -would not be justified in disturbing the peace of tae Borough—are still in operation , I am not at all surprised at vdut communication ; but if the signatures have been obtained by a real belief in the falsehoods -which are circulated by the anti-Corn law leagne , and their hired agitators on the question of the Com Laws , I shall have no difficulty -when I ¦ vUSt tHo BoroDgn , in convincing the electors of their error . I beg yon to inform the reqniaitionista that I have just joined "The society for the Protection of British Industry , " which holds its meetings en every Tuesday and Friday , at No . 59 , Pall Mall : —one of its objects is to obtain a Repeal of the present

      Corn law ,- because it does not sow afford sufficient protection to native industry , and to procure a law that will give more encouragement to the agricultural interest of Great Britain and Ireland , "Which alone provides a market for three-fourths of oui manuf&etnres : and I am the more folly co - vinced of the urgent necessity for this measure from the fact that Foreign Governments , instead of adopting our ruinous policy , have been warned by onr rapidly incrtasing distress , and are !» t this very time nursing aod protecting their own manufactures by seeming to capital and labour their just reward . If the Members of the Anti-Corn law league were sincerely anxious to relieve the present distress , they wou d turn their attention to the -wants and

      sufferings of their starving operatives , trom whose sint ws they have extracted -wealth , sufficient , as they boast , " to buy up all the land : " if they would contrast the enormous profits of their capital with the paltry requital they ' give for the labour of their artizans , they might then grapple with the chief cause of the present stagnation in trade : —but the same selfish spirit which induced them to " annihilate by death from hunger" the raw of Indian hand-loom weavers ¦ with that engine of misery the power-loom , " for the purpose of giving free scope to British capital , " British ingenuity , and British machinery , " now declares that " to give iheir capital ita due reward , " the prise of labour at home must be kepi doicn ;"and to enable them to effect this object , they hope to

      blind the -manufacturing operatives with the cry of " cheap bread . " In this they have signally idled .- the working classes knew too well that bad wages are the cause of their present sefferings , as is ably shewn by one of their order iRichard Crowther , of Manchester , a fustian cutter ) , who , i n a cle v er " essay on the cause of b ad t r ade , with a plan of legal protection for wages as a remedy , " observes , " that bad wages are a greater ob 3 tade to commerce than all the tariffs in the world . ' If Government would again restore adequate protection to agriculture and trade—if the " free trade" manufacturers would be content with producing a supply proportioned to the demand , instead of entering into reckless competition -with each other , until tatir profits can only be exacted from the wares of their

      operatives—if they would adopt the rolden rule 01 live and let live , " instead of indiscriminately destroying manual labour by unrestricted steam power machinery—if they would render unto their artizans " a fair day ' s wages fora fair day s work , " the life-blood of England ' s prosperity would again circulate in its former channel , her trade would revive , and her labouring population "Would once more become contented , prosperous and happy . Mr . Tilliera' moBon would , if successful , increase the present distress ten-fold , by sacrificing the property of twenty-Bevaa millions of oar fellow-countrymen for the nncertain and , at the best , transitory bei-efit of three millions ; and I know no town that would more Immediately and more severely teffer from its effects than tlie borough of Kuaresboroagc . ily constituents ar « .

      a-ware that befobje they elected me their Representative , I distinctly declared my inten tion to opp o se a repeal of the Corn Laws , and I beg explicitly to inform them thai I neither intend to forget the pledges I gave upon the huatings , nor to betray the intei * esU of those ¦ w ho then reposed their confidence in me ; if therefore this my firm determination to act in conf * tmity with the assurances I gave them meets with their disapprobation , they will , at the next election , have t > He oppertunity of placing their confidence in some persu * whose principles may be more congenial with their o- » 1 ; and if s o , it will cause me no regret to bid farewel 1 to a constituency who consider that deception and di 4 ionour ougui to be thB chief qualifications of their re _ 13 resentative .

      1 am , Sir , Tour obedient servant , W . B . Feb . rasd Mr . Richard Dawes , Junior , Solicitor , Knares bo rough . March 6 , 1843 .

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      HOUSE Of LORDS—Tcesdat , March 14 . Lord MOjjteag le , according to notice , moved That a select committee be appointed to consider tie operation of the act passed last session to amend le laws respecting the importation of com . " lord "Wharucliffe denied that the distress so exsnsively prevalent in the country would be in aoy egree mitigated by the repeal of the Corn a-ys , and attributed it principally to gambling sptcuitions in corn , which the present act had done mucb > discourage .

      Lord Clakesdon pressed for some immediate meaire of relief from a distress which he described as fast oing beyond the limits of human endurance , and ridialed the opinion that aD inqniry such as that proposed o n ld p r o v e a * ' waste of time" at a period of the seson when their Lordships had literally no business to 3 on with . The example of every foreign nation aowed that a movement was in progress in favunr of free trade ; And it -was time that we deBerted the round we had unwiBely assumed , and commenced a intual and profitable interchange of the commodities

      hich each conntry could best produce . He called for le committee , as the most satisfactory means of prov-> g , if proof " were possible , the beneficial working of le present law . He enlarged upon the danger of de-> ying necessary reforms until they could no longer be JuEed , and the evils of the existing uncertainty as to le . conunuanceof protection ; and after an exculpation r his personal motives , conclnded by complaining that iany of the pledges with which the present Governicnt bad entered upon office were yet unfulfilled , and isisted upon the necessity of setting free our commerce s a mfrans -of furnishing employment to cur redundant

      Dpuiatum . Lord . Ashbibton had drawn a very contrary conusion from the extensive details with which Lord lonteagle ' s -speech had been crowded , and was coninced that the principal cause of manufacturing tstreES iraa the almost entire failure of the American laitet No argument , he contended , had been ad-Qced to show that the distress , which all admitted , ad which all lamented , had been caused by the ate of the Corn Laws ; and he warned tbeir lordlips not to attempt an alteration 'which might jrtad wider the existing depression , until its conexion "with the alleged cause was clearly made out . orn laws in some shape or other were in force in rery part of Europe , and under their operation our lannfacturing prosperity had grown up , and the price 'food been maintained with fewer fluetuatiena than

      1 any other country . The Dake of Bichjtom ) , in answer ta a statement f Lord Monteagle , denied that lord Grey ' s Cabinet id ever been divided upon the subject of the Gom tin . H « » pproved the flrmneBS of Government in gjnt ^ ning the present hvw , and -was delighted to iU that there was no present intention of- a change , lord FuzwiillAM admitted that the present law as an improvement apon it * predecessors , inasmnch 1 it in j » me degree approximated to a fixed duty . : e supported the mouon for a committee , and from iB consta * variations to -which the Com L&wb had » n " subject from their first institutions , and the conant disappointment and distress they had occaoned drew tiie condnsion that it would be ever bo , aUl the true principles of commercial legislation ere acted npoBj and all artificial restrictions aboihed .

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      Lord Brougham contracted the ability and tbtabsence oi party feeling wlUi venlcti tne question bait been brought before their Lordships with the spirit of factious injustice in which the concessions of last session—great in themselves , though , as he thought , insufficient—had been received by the League , and denounced in indignant terms the blind partisan violence which had led them to savil at the carrying ow even of their own principles . He defended himself from the calumnious imputation , that he had offered his services to tae League , and explained the real character of the conversation which had been thus grossly misrepresented- Ho exculpated the more resp < ctabU members of the League from a connexion with thin

      falsehood , as well as with the speech of the Dissenting minister who had hinted at assassination , but complained that thby did not take pains to sever themselves from the pollution they must contract from such companionship . He supported the motion for tht appointment of a Committee ; and after sbowiDg by the example of the yens in which the continental sjuteiii was in full operation , and in spite of which there hait been an extensive importation , that the apprehension * of those who feared a dependence on the foreigner were unfounded , concluded by explaining , that although an advocate for free trade , he would not oppoae th « levying of a duty upon foreign prouuee for the purpose oi revenue ; he objected only to the principle of protection .

      After a few words from Lord St . Vincent and Lord MOVMCASUEL in opposition to thb motion . Lord AlOSTEAGLE replied , and their Lordshi ps , upon a division , declined to appoint the proposed Committee by a majority of 122 .

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      HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Tuesday , March 14 . Mr . T . Duncombe stated , that he would postpone until this day fortnight the motion of which he had given notice for Thursday next , relative to the manner in which jusuce was administered by a portion of th * - magistracy during the disturbances * which took place last year in the manufacturing districts , Lord Ashley gave notice of his intention to move on Tuesday , the 28-h of March , the following resolution : — " That it is the opinion of this House that the continuance of the trade in opium , and the monopoly of its growth in the territories of British India , are destructive of all relations of amity between England and China , injurious to the manufacturing interests of tblb conntry by the annihilation of legitimate commerce , and utterly inconsistent with the honour and duties of a Christian kingdom -, and that steps be taken us soun as possible , with due regard to the rights of Governments and individuals , to abolish the evil . "

      Mr Ward moved for a Special Committee to irquire what peculiar burdens are borne , and what peculiar exemptions enjoyed , by the landed interest . He considered stability to be the great esaeutial of auy Com Law ; and there conld be no stability without the ascertainment of the points to which this motion was directed . He did not believe that any peculiar burdens were really borne by the landed classes ; on the contrary , he was persuaded that the pecaliarity was all oij the side of exemption to them ; but he bad put his motion in its present shape that they might have a : opportunity of making out their case if they could He commented upon and disputed various general propositions in divers speeches of bis opponents , patticu larly denouncing an assertion of Lord Stanley , that the

      general policy of thiB conntry required protection u > : land . He would admit the necessity for that special ' protection , if special burdens could be shown ; but be j denied the existence of any such burdens ; for be cjuIiI I not consider as special burdens the cost of buildings and ! improvements , or the fluctuations of prices , there beinv ' in every trade outgoings analagous to these- Nor wa > ' the Income-tax a peculiar burden on the land . Bui there were the poor-rates , the county , highway , ami : church-rates , and the tithes . Now the value of boust property was less than that of land ; yet house property 1 paid more than half of the entire poor-rate . Land w « i > always gaining by every public improvement : thus ht knew of a parish where a railway , passing through , defrayed half of the rates far the poor . As to tbnrc % -rate 8 , the common argnment ustd agair . s . ^ \ e Dissenters , that they bought their laud with th * fc iDcumbrance , deserved to be remembered beru for it was an argument fairly applicable to all burdens to it not

      on 1 ; ° ^* With respect tithe was a burden but a co-proprii tary right . That charge was not beiiu borne ^" ^ e reDt » ^ Earing * xiatea fron > time immemorial Independently of and collaterally to it . He then ¦ we nt inU * tIle history of the land-tax . At the Revolution it hau been imposed at the rate of four shillings upon the value , aB the value would be from time to time but at * h e present day it was still ltvied upon thtlow valuation wtich land bore one hundred and sixty years ago and in manv P * " ot tbe c ° nntry * ] e * - > did not reach to anything like four shillings , even upon that low valuatit ^ If > however , the full four shillings were actually levh * i . and thia upon the real valuation , still the proportion borne by the land would not be larger than in most " > ' tne continental countries . In the imposition of ge . ^^ *****> ^ agriculturists ha constantly contrived to «»* P ecial exemptions , as npoi . probate and legacy dntfe ' . and eYen ^ mlnor ltems of farm servants , husband * 7 * " *«* , Bheep-dogs , ana

      so on . Mr . G . Basxes , though * boat to move an amendment on a subject more iote ** 8 t 0 tb f e landed clas " ses than the subject of this m « . ^ ' tu"i prepared to meet the motion iUelf by » dlrect Negative . To appoint a committee for the P l Tposa now ingsuted wonld be peculiarly dangerous at 1 bis period of anxiety among the agriculturalisto , by leafli « 8 to the » PP ** = bension that Parliament was about t . ^ derange them by still further inter / erenca The object professed by the mover was to abolish all protections ; and , that bein * the case , why was this motion level ! . ** against the agriculturists alone ? He defended hinis « J' { rom 8 om ? attacks which were made apon him on a 1 grmor ™ &t& by Mr- Cebden , and which , on that night , *« ^ eness Uj Jl ^ A * ^^ 4 / UVJ ^ J tAUU ¦¦ *^* W *^ £ w— ¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦ — ^ * « , « - » * -fc t ¦

      of the hour and the interposed speech of t " «¦«« had prevented him from answering . Mr . C « ^ a * then asserted that the Dorsetshire labourers wt P ? at the lowest rate of weekly wages , and weretb . . mobt ignorant , neglected , and miserable peasantry i au England . Mr . Bankes now read various lette . s show ™ 8 tbe wages of the labourers on his own estate to ^ ample , and their condition comfortable . Tbe writers be said , who "were bis tenants , had sent bim those letters in answer to inquiries which he hao made withont apprising them of the purpt . se for -which he wanted their answers . They expressed their fears , however , that if the price of corn should fall further , they eheuld not be able to continue the present remu neration . Some person , using Mt . Cobden ' a name as his authority , had lately visited every cottage in the quiet village in which he ( Mr . Bankes ) resided , telling the cottagers how miserable they were , and leaving with each a packet from the Anti-Corn Law League .

      That visitor , he said , appeared to have reported tbe mere money wages of the labourers , omitting to state the allowances and advantages given to them in rentfree cottages and lands , -wheat , fuel , and other articles . Mr . Bankes , after mentioning other particulars respecting the state of the poor 1 b his own neighbourhood , and the exertions which , as a landlord , he bad made for their benefit , and exposing the injustice of his assailant in having made these charges against aim without having ascertained them t © be true , desired riot to be understood , however , aa expreasisg himself wholly satisfied with the condition of tbe Dorsetshire poor ; on the contrary , he anxiously wished and not without hope , for some improvement in that condition It had sbruek him with some surprise that , subsequent to the forwer debate , when large bodies of persons thought fit or necessary to congratulate the Hon . Member for Stockport as to the figure which he had dis played in that House , and en the impression which be had made , that it was rather infelicitous that tbe first

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      ground of congratulation to am Ruu . M ° < i > bcr » ms uu his stern regard to justice—( laughter , and hear , hear . Was it , he would ask , from a stern regard to justice that the Honourable Member proceeded to censure before he collected even the evidence ?— - ( heaf , hear . ) Was such a proceeding consistent with any equitable or Christian feeling , or w aa it a w ay in which tbe debates « bould be carried on in that House , involving such serious charges against the' characters of individuals ?—ibear , bear- ) If auch were tbe Honourable Member ' s notions of a stern sense of justice , he ( Mr . Bankes ) hoped that it was a description of jttatice with which he should nut often be brought ia contact . He flattered hiins « lf that he had now sufficiently disposed of all thtae charges ; but there were still a few

      other points with respeot to which hi wished to make some observations . As for the line of conduct taken by the Hon . Member for Stockport , who had been elected by a large constituency , and who was distinguished for bis eminent talent , ho ( Mr . liiukeai would only say that he felt called upon to give an answer to all the questions which applied to the situation of hia property . There was one question which the Honourable Member , however , had put to him , vrbAch he did not think was altogether fair , he meant when the Honourable Member asked him what he 1 Mr . Bunks ) would say at the next agricultural dinner at Blandford . In reply , however , be would observe that he could not exactly tell , for the Honourable Member for Siockport might be there himself . The Honourable . Member bad said in his speech on the former

      octaa od , that at tbe ntxt dinner one black sheep would be iinr-, and he had told the House what he would say . Now he ( Mr . Bankes ) would just state what he would nay in answer , if the Honourable Gentleman did raaKe his promised observation . The Honourable Member had alluded to what he said about the sun gilding the spire of the church , and the dome of the palace , aud the thatch of tbe cottage ; and the Honourable Mem-Ver added , tba ' c thb black sheep he alluded to would ? et up and observe the chimney of the landlord . ( Hear , hear . ) Now , if he ( Mr . Bankes ) beard any such observation at that dinner from the Honourable Member , he would say yes , and tb . 6 factory chimney too , — daughter , )—that , toll , gawky , ugly chimney , which poured forth volumes of smoke—that chimney , to which might appropriately be applied the

      lines" Tbe ' tasteless' column pointing to the skies , Like a tall bully lifts ita head and lies . " ilanshter )—It might be his ( Mr . Banfee ' s ) duty oa chairman of that dinnur , to propose a health . He might have to say he ba < Al to propose a toast in houour of a distinguished individual who was present , and who was no personal friend o ' f his , but as he waa the son of a farmer , and was descended from a long line of Sussex yeomanry , he earoe among them in sheep ' s clothing —( laughter ) . The Hon . Member had also said that ho -would put the agriculturists on their defence , and should call upon them to show the benefit which protection had . conferred- on agriculture . His answer was , that protection had Tiruugbl thousands and thousands of acres into cultivation , which never could h ; ivn

      < . aken place but for protection , and the labourers who tilled it , therefore , never could have been employed . The culture aud enclosure of waste land had been going on rapidly for yeais , until the present check was put upon it , and until tneaus were found of inspiriting the agriculturists a stop would be put to ita progress—< hear , hear ) . He recollected travelling from bis father ' s house to London , which was about 100 miles , at a time when there was 40 miles of waste land to be seen , and now there was not 10 miles—( hear ) . No land could nave formerly looked more unpromising and more hopeless than this land' in Dorsetshire , Hampshire , and Surrey , but in travelling this road now , it would be seen that villages had sprung up , and thousands of husbandmen wero employed on it—( hear , hear ) .

      if the Honourable Member had been in Dorsetshire , he must have been much struck with surpisa at the < ie .-olate state of some of the land on the entrance of that county , but . it waa not worse than much of that now under profitable cultivation . In the union in which he lived he knew that a few weeks ago there was not a single able-bodied labourer on the rate ? , and this was the effect of the enclosure of waste lands , which it was the object of the Hon . Member ; or Shiffield ' s motion to put a atop to . To-morrow t > i « ht that dangerous body the anti-Corn Law Lnague wero to remove to a larger scale of agitation , and were to appear a . t the first theatre of the Jonn , On that occasion the Honourable Member for Stockport was to take his benefit , and was to be t ha lion of the show . He wished to call the

      attention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the money collected by this body . He should like to know where it was lodged —( laughter)—as it would enable the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; o appJy for the Income Tax—( laughter ) . — They were told that this year the fund collected was £ . 50 , 000 and next year it would be £ 100 , 000 , which , ia « ei » at the medium of the two yeara would give £ 75 , 000 to be rated to the tax . With respect to associations generally , he would not give any opinion of his own , but would refer to some expressions which he found on the subject in a debate which took place in 1825 . The first quotation was— " The House would bear in mind that this association , though a public body , differed from moat public meetings iu thi » point— that they were all of one mind . There

      was no comp' tition of opinion ; no opposing voice ¦ vas heard . Every speech was previously arranged , and every decision was unanimous . Indeed , if an y unhappy adversary had tbe hardihood to present himself , he would most probably get a reception which would prevent any repetition . Formed as such a body was , there was a danger in the indefinite duration . Lender different circumstances the fickleness of the multitude might operate as a check to ¦ he probable evil resul's © f such au association ; but ho w a , s compelled , with regret , to say , that a- most influential body , whose duty it waa to impart religious consolation , and to keep themselves apart from political contention , not only encouraged , but assumed a part of its power . Next , in upholding

      that association were to be found men of disappointed ambition and considerable talents , who exerted tbemstlves , do matter whether on real or imaginary grievances , in exciting the public feeling against the govcrMuont ; and in inflaming the population against tbe laws , and what they described a prodigal and corrupt administration of them . " And again , subsrqaently was the following passage : —" Now , he L \ ought that no man who understood the constitution of the country , could contemplate the levying jf n xocey upon his Majesty ' s subjects by an irrejpouj . ible body , to be applied to objects not previously * defined , but at the discretion of the selfconstitu * < i authority by which such money was called for ^ tn aDJ other feeling than tha t of unequivocal ' i / isapprobatioB . " This was the language of his Righ / 1 Honourable Friend the present Chancellor of the Exchequer , in introducing the bill

      igainst illegal associations in Ireland . The next opinion he Bhou . ^ quote was that of the Right Hon . Baronet now at i ^ ° head of the government . ' He ivould firat notice a'OflJfi 11111611 * tnat had been made iso of , in the cours , * of this discussion , by an Hon . member , the effect of ^ bioh , if it were well founded , would be to takeaway from government , or from Parliament rather , all / && . » of interference . m the jase of Associations that a » 8 ht be deemed illegal , rhe Honourable Gentleman h * d expressly 8 aid , * he wonld not vindicate tlie acts of tbe Catholic Association ; he thought them to be , ; a many respects * indefensible , and he could not sta ud forward as their advocate . ' But still the HonOv iraWe Gentleman conceived , that the hands of the House were tied np—that these people laboured uncter such a grievance , as took from the House all rigtft of interference with their proceedings ; those proceedings being admitted , by the Honourable Gentleman him-

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      self , to be indefensible . Why , if tbi 3 were so , there was an end of all their deliberations in that House on this or any other subject , if that : doctriud way , to prevail , it must follow that the subjects of thia country , if they should imagine themselves to be suffering under a grievance of this'ov a- > y other kind , might resort to anconstirutional measures for their redress ; which measures , however . Parliament could not iuterposa ta check , uu . il tho * e grievances should have been first r ^ m . / v- / . Now , he maintained , that from the mom , n' Parliament . recognised such a doctrine as ilm , they would abdicate their legislative functions altogether . It seemed necessary to approach this argument in the first place , before be proceeded to any uuier

      observations ; for if the principle were onco accepted where was its application to terminate ! Wti . rt were ; hese associations to end ? There were many pcrsoea who considered the representation of the peop le in Parliament to be so bad and imperfect , thai , a lar ^ u portion of the people were deprived of their ri K tUd . Now , that might be considered a grievance , and a grievance of a very heavy kind ; and , if thv ariuaiuut ho had alluded to was to be adaiitit < i , wtr . nrgtitnot the country expect an associa i < m for the purpose of obtaining Parliamentary R « form—( - ; n <^ of " hea r , hear ")? What would be the conse ^ ue . i « t of such a system he knew not ; but he called vtpoti t e Hon . Gentlemen , who expressed by thfir cheers tii' -ir willinguess to have such associations , chat if thej

      ad muted the principle in one case , thev must expect associations for the removal of every r « al or supposed grievance ; and if Parliament should afterwards think of putting an end to them , the answer would be , that the subjects of the countvy , and u « l its legislature , were the proper judges-oi those grievances , and of the propriety of the roo ;; sures to be taken to redress them . That , however , w&s not his * reading of the law . He conceived Pd . rl : am . at r . o be the sole constitutional judge of these rhntu r < , and if the Parliament thought a law ought to b « continued , those who fanoied themselves aggrieved by it , roust not resort to unconstitutional measures to pro-cure its abolition . They might petition , they might j' ^ pr ^ ent th .. ir grievances to Parliament , and their pe-mons u * .-J

      representations would be taken into cousiJeratioo ; but Parliament would abandon its duty , il it alljvved any body of men to act independently or' ir . s authority , and only according to their own fro' i > ic ; i-ur « . " These were the words of the Right H < nunrab ! d Member for Tamworth in 1825 , aud th . y . s ¦ cd y described the association now in question T ; i « Noble Member for Sunderland cheei ' ed , in reference , perhaps , to the circumstance that ni . « as .-octation thus censured by Parliament , in J 8-V 5 . iiid in the end succeed . ( Hear , hear . ) He w-. u ' . l bug , theD , to recall the recollection of the liunse to another association , which did not su .-: i ¦ •• ¦> in tho end , though it produced great exrirrrnent , and popular commotion in its progress . Th . v . a

      .-hootation was a Protestant Association , . ' "rnvu on principles intended to ba entirely in oout . n ' < u : y with the law , and by men of respectability , oil nwa ; &i »> uis , and of honest intentions . Of this association . Lord George Gordon was chosen to be the hea-1 , for the sake of tho weight which his excellent privar . echar * eter would give to auy association with . wiii < u he wa * connected , he being , to use the words ot I . oim ( at that time Mr . ) Kenyan , " a man ; of blaun'kas life aud conversation , nut mixing in tho vices of the age ; a mau irreproachable hi his moral and religious conduct . " It wtm not necessary for him ( Mr . Bankes ) to reJmo the transactions which followed , in connection with this Association , in the year 1780 ; he would i > ul y ob

      serve , that though its Members had meetings in all the large halls in tbe metropolis , it never occurred to them to hire Drury- ! ane Theatre for th ir purposes . On the day before their petition wad presented to the house , they assembled in : St . Georgp ' sfields , to consider of the moat prudent aud prope r manner in which to attend it * pre . ~» iitatioa ; an ! Honourable Gentlemen were aware , that oa th * day it was presented , hardly any Member who was present in the House thought he should Iea > o ilm House alive ; indeed , the only public man who f . h- » wod real courage on the occasion was the Sovereign , whera the anti-Corn Law League described in one of thi ^ r pape r s as " Scupid George the Third . " The anti Corn Law League was pursuing tho same course

      now , which had been pursued by the A * - > ciatiou of 1778 in its outset ; meeting iu large rooru . s , auu col-Icon iig petitions to be brought with gre < it effect before the House ; but tbe present Association was certainly going much beyond that of 177 U , in thus announcing a public meeting in a public itifuire—( hear , hear , hear ) . He ( Mr . Bankes ) would put it to the House and to the Government , whether this was not a 6 ubjtet fit ior the consideration of Parliament , seeing ,: an th < y did , that from day to day some new attempt wa < wade , some new experiment for getting up public interest and public excitement—( hear , hear ) Pnbnc t xcitement was what the League professedly a xj publicly desired ; their complaint was , ithai hitherto

      they had not been able to produ . se this exoi : emei ) D , and , accordingly , first one scheme and then another was resorted to , and now they were a ^ bum . to try a public theatre . One thing wa 6 quite certain , that until they had produced it , they wojild not , come before the House practically with a prqposiMoii as to the corn laws—( hear , hear . ) It was the absence of the required excitement that had occasioned the postponement of the Hon . Member for Dumfries ' noiice—( bear , hear , )—it was this that hid nautsed the postponement of the Hon . Member for Wolvcrhatuptoa ' s motion on the corn laws ; for ihe League wore conscious that at this moment there was no feeling in unison with theirs throughout the metropolis , and very little throughout the couutrv at large .

      He could not refrain from humbly submitting to his Right Honourable Friends that this was a matter not unworthy of their oousideration , and as far as regarded the subject publicly , he was quite content to leave it entirely to their opinion . A ^ i .- > waiters affecting those who , like himself , desir ' -d to live quietly and safely among their tenantry in h country , the ministry had not the power of know-ng , p he and other gentlemen in the conniry i : ad , the enormous extent of mischief which n ) ui ; t l v produced—which was attempted co be produ-- ¦ ' , a : Jiis present time , by the emissaries of ti . ; - L ^ -a ^ U' — ( hear , hear ) . He did not comp'ain tlm Mu-xinwsaries of this League , in his own neis : ii t urnood , had endeavoured to shake any influence lie might

      have there , or taken steps to : proT- \ iit , «' W possible , his future return . He . ( "are ' d not for that , and he would further tell the lloiitmrable Member for Stockport , that if he coiilJ . ii ^ iia ^ ncd public opinion against gentlemen whodi £ FT \ : d from hira , there was no scat so much in <> ai ' . g' r as hi . i ( Mr . Bankes' ) own 5 for his spat deptna-a entirely on public opinion , and he desired ' to . retain it o ' rly bo long as public opinion Went with him . >( 1 i ¦ ¦ : *? , i : t ar . ) He had no reason for " any ministerial s'i ' ipfor : in the county which he represented ; but he lo-nk-d to Ministers for the peace of his private ; life-tor the comfort , happiness , and welfare of the peasantry who lived around him . He looked to Uu-in U > drive away , by some means or other , this new in-de oi sending emissaries throughout the cumtry , paid emissaries : for such were avowed and bo ^ i d of

      by the Hon . Member for Stockport ( hear , I ; ar ; ft was of this he complained ; and it wi >> ir oi tliia he entreated the Government to protect 171 - - Animry ; i as one of theirfellow citizenp , aaafaithffi-ia . nl tiu" 1 ' ' subject of the Crown , he asked , he besout . 't , r . o dL- ; manded . this at the hands of her Majesty ' s Minir-te' -s . j The Hon . Gdutletnan concluded hy moviuij tie f"ll w . ng , amendment : " That it is expedient , as a ; Miic . iy for a state of anxiety embarrassing and unfair to the asr ' . cul- j tutists , and injurious to commerce , that the utt ^ tr . ion of : this House be directed to the continued « x . * : tsn-.: e of I associations , which , in matters affecting agriculture Mnii I commerce , pretend to ii fluence the deliberations ur tf , " Legislature , anl * hicU , by their combicaJiaa :-ml : ; their proceedings , are at once dangerous to the p ' . b . n . peace and Inconsistent with the . spirit' of the Constitution . " . !

      The original motion , as well aa the atnentf meet , hav- ; ing been put from the Chair , , Mr . Couden said , that when be stated the wages given on Mr . Bank's estate , be did not moan to tax that gentleman with paying to his labourers less than other people ; but he charged , as the vice of the system upheld by Mr . Bankes , and others , that it prevented the possibility of well providing ; for the poor . He wanted to know , not what " was paid ] to particular labourers In Dorsetshire , but what was the average of tbeir remuneration throughout the county . £ veo on Mr . Banke ' s own estate in the isle of Purbeck , there were cottages so miserable , that medical men had denounced them as actual causes of disease . Throughout that county one person in eyery seven of the whole population -waa & pauper .

      Mr . WxKEHAM Martin showed the large proportion of legacy aad probate duty borne by the laid . He corrected some statements of the mover respecting the history of tbe land-tax ; and Reminded the Howe , that when that tax -was Bettled by the act of William and Mary , the charge was made to affect not land alone , bat money , goods , debts , jaud stock of every kind , and was in truth very much like an inceme-tax . Iu out times , however , all t hese other kinds of property had ceased to contribute to the land-tax , and the assessment was now left wholly en vhe land . Gentlemen who insisted en the heavy charge borne by the whole community for the eake of the loaded class , should remember how large a

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      itself . Mr . Williams ( Coventry ) complained of the } advantages enjoyed by tbe rich under the present system , of taxation . The amount of the stamp duties was nob progressive in proportion to the value of the transactions on which those duties were imposed . A mortgage for £ 300 , 000 paid only on a duty of £ 25 ; whereas , if it were taxed in proportion to sma ler transactions , it would pay a dnty of £ 5 , 000 . Tithes were no burden on land . If the voluntary system were introduced tomorrow , the landlord wonld not get 6 d . of th > ir value into his rents . The great balk of the taxes w . w paid by the working and middle classes . The po > r were taxed for the articles of their consumption in a much greater proportion than the rich ; and the taxes so paid by poor men ¦ were spent in salaries to placemen , the connexions of the aristocracy .

      Mr . WoodhoOse quoted tabular returns , t > prove the much greater amount of taxation borne by the landed than by the commercial interest ; and t- > show that seven persons in every nine are dependent upon agriculture . Mr . Cochrane made an animated attack on the Lta ^ ue , whose organ zition he considered highly dangerous to the public peace . They professed t » seeK eqnallty ; bat it wonld be equality of wretct Iness The real cause of tae evils th « y complained uf were overproduction and the advance cf machinery He appealed to the House in favour of the classes who had always rallied round the Crown and constitution .

      Mr . Gibson hoped the House would not suffer aa amendment , attacking men ' s characters , to be withdrawn without a vote marking their general sense upon it . Much was said of the Anti-Corn Law League ; did no corn law leayms exist ? Had the country geuolemen never countenanced proposals for robbing tii > - public creditor ? Such projects were £ oing on even now . A Mr . Brown , the honorary secretary to a central society fur the protectiou of agriculture , had written to the Lyaijue so lately aa 1 B 39 , to propose that the L > agua should ce use to agitate against the corn law , anu join to procure un issue of bank paper , which would h . 'ivo bean rothmg less thsn a robbery of the public creditor . Tfl 8 landed intarest .-by voting for Sir K- Peel's measures of lust year , had admitted that up to that time tiwy bad bi en tn . j » ying what thty had no right to , which enjoyuit > ut was a fraud upon the public . Hu complained of the snearintr tone taken on the uther side against manufacturers , aud accused Sir R . Peel « f abett « inj » it .

      SirB . Peel agreed that Mr . Ward had a right to a separate vnto on hia mutton . He should flm negative though the forms of tbe Houso would make the negation au indirect » ae , the amendment of Mr . ! 5 » nkc 3 , because he thought it aa inapplicable amend . eat aa raised upon tbis motion , and because be though : it inexpedient to proceed on such a eubjact as the suppression of these societies by wuy of abstract resolution ; Wbere the existing law is sufficient , the Roubu may address tha Crown to execute it , though this may imply a censure on the Ministers ; if , oa the othc hand , the existing law is defective , the House may proceed by wj , y uf legislative remedy . To the original motion be should lilibwise offer his resistance . Mr . Gibson Jnd most unfairly taunted the landed classes with

      hiving admitted themselves , by their support > A the new Corn Law , to have been previously libtrau'iiug the public . What would Mr . Gibson have said if Vi ^ , same taunt bad been thrown upon the manufacturers ia constqut-nce of their declaration , just now made through Mr . Gibson himself , of their willingness to abolish their own protections ? Ho strongly de / m-d the charge of having ever sneered at tbe manufactnr ^ ng iatert-8 t . which wouid have ill become him , t-iUier in bin political or . in his personal capacity . Though he Bh-Hild object to a committee , he should riot , on any consideration whatever , object to returns on the subject for which such a Committee was propuaed . It hrA been alleged that the land was altogether exempt from probate and legacy duty : the law was not so

      the land bore a great portion of both thess duties : let a return of tbe amount of these duties , and of the duties oa conveyances , be called for , and thrn the House would see . whether the land enjoyed the exemptions alleged in these particulars . So with respect to other taxes , from which the land had been enO ' neously represented to be exempt The proflts of st > ck had lately been relieved from poor-rates , and the land bad been left to make up tbe difference ; let all this be seen from returns to be printed for the House . It had been said that the highways kept up by the hnd were necessary for tbe transport of its own produce ; tn' Wt re not tbe highways equally useful to those who ha't no land at all ? Then , as to tithe . Tithe fix ^ . l by the wny of commutation was less a Harden oa lint ] than variable tithe , but both were burdens . F < t his own port , " he had never rested the deffii . ee of qio ' - otioa on th > - rwye difference of burdens . He had gri Mi ied himself m great measure on the considerations

      vf i"i t-rrtl benefit , and of the dangers that ruu » b arise from a rish destruction of existing interests , so vast in amoi . ut as those of , and connected with , the landed classes . He had cover applied the genera ! principle of !¦ 'lying ch-iap and Belling ( ' ear , without this qualification of it Even if a committee were granted , the m over , whatever might be its result , would no doubt be prepared to vote the very next day for a repeal of the Corn Laws ; and if that were carried , tbe subsequent equalization of burdens would be left to take its chance . So complicated a subject might occupy a committee f > J * a twelvemonth . He would nut , after the arrangement of lust year , consent to bold out an idea that he was prepared to concur in a farther cbangu , the necessity of which he did not discern . Believing , as he did , that the arrangement was a pruden t one , he thenght it hia duty to stand by it , unless he could be convinced , which he was not , that the circumstances of the country required a departure from it .

      Lord Howick wanted to have the balance struck between tbe burdens on one aide and on the other ; 3 nd if after that the greater weight Bhould be found to press upon the laud , he would say equaliza it . bat still ia suine other way than by a corn law . If tha subject were so complicated that it would occupy a committee for a twelvemonth , how could Sir R . Peel thiuk of recommending it as a matter to be considered by the whole House upon printed returns ? Lord He wick theD entered into the effects of tithe as a burden on land before and since the Commutation Act , contending that since that act the tithe was a burden on the land no longer . He gave no credit to the argument about maintaining the present settlement ; it was clear that tbe existing law would not survive even another rotation of crops ; and it would be best for the agriculturists themselves that the intermediate uncertainty 8 huuM be determined . He admitted the evil of the anti-Corn Law League ; but it was an evil attributable to the present state of the law .

      . > ir . Blackstone , aa one of the committee of the Society for the Proteetion of Agriculture , positively stated that the Mr . Brown whose letter Mr . Gibson > « 1 quoted had uev r bflen , though he had attempted tu Intrude himself as the secretary to that society . Aftfcir some further conversation about the supposed Sicri'tary to the Agricultural Society , Mr . Broth erton Hi » vittl / ¦») adjournment , which , however , he did not piTse tit a division . M . \" illiers stated , that an agricultural society In theyuuntey had sent delegates some years since , wh 6 n « i > rh vaa . 'ow , to a general meeting of agricnlturisfcsf ia London , with instructions worded in strong terms , respecting the frmtiltty of mere petitioning , the expeeliqney of stopping the ' supplies , and . the necessityof a change in the currency . He would , therefore , ask tho proposer ' of the amendment to look at home .

      Mr . Ward siida few words in reply , and the House , after rijt-cting th < amendment without , a division , divided on the original motion . A gainst the original motion ... 232 For it ... ... 133 Majority against it 99

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      AND LEEDS GENERAL ADYEETISEE .

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      TOI- YL NO . 279 . SATURDAY , MARCH 18 , 1843 . " ~ PRIOE P ™^ f P ffZTr " ~

      To Tee Imperial Chaetists.

      TO TEE IMPERIAL CHAETISTS .

      ¦ —. : Tg Mr. Ferrand And The League.

      ¦ — . : Tg MR . FERRAND AND THE LEAGUE .

      £Mp*Rial ^0arliamrnt.

      £ mp * rial ^ 0 arliamrnt .

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      s - fr- 'fi . ^ .. - s < r £ ^ 1 proportion of that tax was borne by the landed class

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      MOSSLEY . T-Mr ! Thomas Ibbotson , of Bradford , del vrre-j a lecture in the Association Room , oa Tiesday evening last . BKADFORD , —Mr . Paddie lectured on Sunday ovrini-ng , iu the Council Hoom , to a crowded audieoce , on ( ho " Sta , te Church , and Policy of a State Rditfion . " Ho # are general satisfaction .

      On J ^ osdat kv ening , Mr . Hurley lectured in the Assoo'a , t ; on Home , White Abbey . Mr . JSutcliff occupied th > chair . The meeting was well attended ; this locality ia again on its legs , it being broke up by the Anjru-t league plot . The lecturer received the ihaijk ., 01 the meeting . ; , The Committee of * he Co-operative Store met in their ro .-m at ' . he shop , Chapel-lane , and fi :. ally arranged the rules to be laid before the body oa dat-irday Uo * night ; , at seven o ' clock . The shop is w . ' - 'll 6 upp ied with provisions of the best qaali'y , all being-purchased tor ready money .

      Tin : Bradford Council met in the large room . Buttervvorth' tintfdings , on Monday evening . Thos . Smith paid 6 d . for the Defence Fund ; Park-lane . 6 s . contribution . It was resolved , " That the question to be discussed on Monday next , to change the meeting of the Council to Sunday evening . " Th © members are all requested to attend on Monday , at eight o'clock , to take part , in the discussion . The Chartists op Little Hohton met in the bchool-room , Park-lane , on Sunday morning , when Is . 2 d was collected for Mr . Brook , lately liberated from Northallerton prison , after three years' conhnement . ; The Chartists of the Central Locality met in their room , Butttrwortb . Buildings , on Sunday morning , when it waa recommended that every Chartist Bbould nse hia infiaenco to support the Co-operative Store , in Chapel-lane . The meeting adjourned to Sunday next , at ten o ' clock , am

      Faddwgton . —A new locality has here been opened , and several members enrolled , and councillors appointed . The causa looks well . TODMORDBN . —Mr . R . Bairstow delivered two lectures here on Sunday last , to very numerous and respectable audiences . In his first lecture he reviewed the trials at Lancaster . His second lecture was upon" the necessity of gainiHg the Charter , and the manner in ' which tke people should oot to gain their object .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 18, 1843, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct794/page/1/