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    • ITHE I^OETHEE^ STAR ! SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1841. 1
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      _ _ r £ ET PAPERS , Nos . H and 15 . Pavey , I * " London . «^ nro nnmtwrs are of an onusuallj stirring ^^ r ^ M character , and not aa admirer of & 31 . ^ j ftesder 'hoald for a moment—they will not Bid ^ lTlb e " without them . It is not that we we n * J t froni Mr- Otstler ' a own pen in eisher j ^ re ^^ w little we We is of the usual sterling aciabe r ; j js \> err » ded with the eloquence and e&TQUifiiyi ^ artedness of the -writer ; but it is on pesi S 960 ^ very appropriate and cuttingly severe accost « , ^^ guce from the workers in Mr . J . G . q ^^ Vown mills , by way of contrast against his Jtef ® ? rmeiiXioas of tbe landed aristocracy for beatJ fe ^ " charges inea with , that the two the f ^ on us are so interesting and valuable . cna ^ j g , MaTshall has thaadertd away his _ ££ * : 3 s 1 ' r ' gzpe shop amongst the aristocracy , for ( * rtil ] s their inhumanity and want of feeling ,

      * £ <*^ -in ffieaBt terms , what will he say to tbe K&'iH % e " Old KiDg" has thrown into his bDs b e TETT shot ° f wilich tells ^^ terrible effect k ^ ' ^ ken from his own store-house ? Oastler ' »» - H ^ jnd continues his broadside : — ^ ^ mt , Hr . J- «• Marshall , the Flax-spiuner , ! ° ^^ TsiKT reTanTj . Has made Mnuelf very proirf ^ jfaKr * Eirl Rttwilliani to task . IEiBSl ' - « not my int ^ * ° interfere in their quarrel , > * i Loot penni : such an opportunity to pass an- ] tsi ¦> j I rieye to think that a noblMDan should , b * ** _ fmrvradaice , nav * given the millocra-s a . ( *> - ^ *^ f TriSea w a ^ y **» destruction of Ms I Jifi W I ' S oPe E *^* * never-to-be-snfficiently-deprecated j " ^ naaJioa ' to pay no more taxes—his close con- ; fsesss 3 ^\ aitant friendship with the Leeds re- \ ^^ bTitr ^^^ ' «» b ^ ead the King , ' and * 0 = 3 S !« ai > ed ** &B Qnsen !'— k * s * renaoTi 3 support j ¦^ ' - ^ - pojy Liir , and other matters in Earl ; < £ -4 A ][ i Bolitkal career , render him a vulnerable I

      J * , . j j i jfcall not interfere in the dispute , I -Jt ^ T rood ssrrice to my country , if , by his works , r ^ roi -rtffl *** Trt 3 t this champion of liberty is , Lf > , V nBOHtaien to thraw a lance at Earl Fits-^ ° " y-fo u fldi friend of the \ rorklng classes ? te ^ tiL libB * I reformer ? The following staters rMSui jon ia calculating the character of this y ^ - ^ yea otdet They may also serve to convince P * VJJj ^ England , * & ** nothing will be gained P Li * % { be miUocr&ts should happen , unluckily Ef < a 3 e * ci « o ^ 1 * Dc 5 eat debility—the disyraes of the ° ~ a ^ d * t thty hsve been keeping company with tl' -ttkS srlocats . aad haTe takrii some lessons ** * i ^ ai book ; e ^> Eot a nobleman could have a --kad « " *! * croJ ' ty ^""^ ' exfciable , and

      ^' co a . iK&sire , u th * accursed > ew Poor Law . ** I' tcs , tJM UnS wds of England , instead of listening n stnd ' l 3 naiS yf 3 lselTeSj With tfae mUlocraU ' J 134 ajjEateT ibe rijtts and independence of your lacureISl -4 J , in place of sacrificing tfce latter , by dcUerki flw « F *• tendtiP mercles of tbe ^ rmer , you sd tECSiwd snd prorected their labour in your fields , # shosHws bow hste witnessed a Leeds flax-spinner ai ^ ai fcMe Bsrl Etz william and his orirT Tritii JbKn bwi &ad nmrder ! It is not , however , the ts tinsdatSian las been charged with reproving I' ne &eS which 1 shall relate , selected , at the omeat & » 2 miEy irore , will prove how much brass ' cr . is-Rbes ! required to enable 3 Ir . J . G- MarshaJl -t .- ^ ssi ir the Mi as the public champion of liberty

      c sses ! " XTc « 5 d , S . T , inpublisbin ? the subjoined extracis , the ma&j soment . i 3 solely because I think it fonot to ¦• rani tbe aristocracy , aud to induce them leave c-fsrildiiEg with the philosophy of the ' libeia ! d = ^ iizaed" licto ry moTss ' . er . The XbW Poor Law czlj inbasch of the Factory yystem , intended t » : Te \ be MiJtaitnral pwr into the factories . ' ¦ 1 iiii a * had to travel far for the extracts which ioTT— ± et sre ai seleeted from o ? : e volaine . viz .- — be Rswri of it * Sdeet Committee on tbe Factories ' j £ ir , « ict , printed by order of the House of Comas , te of August , 1132 . ' Thfeie exiracta all refer 'Li ¦ sf ^ -ptopie of ill- Marshall , the fiax-spini : er of -is laj firfrsbury . If naore shoolj be required , sum TolmEs will supply them . I have no roam r-.-. i » r ^ : ; tifyiited n one : —

      My rssr is tt- ^ MsrshalL I live Leeds . I was i ii Djiisster . I am seventeen years old- 31 y : eris cai Be was guard of a coach . 31 y mother ir tj Lseds when I waa tins years old . to seek work ti . 1 rot Tcai il Mr . Marshall ' s ia mill , in : er-2 i 3 i " I left tfcsre becaus = it was 50 dusty ; it i ~ i ffiise , that 1 coaid scarcely speik . It affected health . I ihaold no : have lived long if I had not Tie fifarr-bell was a doleful sound to me , Hy = i -rzt desd , mj Eiothtr was v ^ ry poorly off , and slstsr sad I did iriit we could for h = i ^ I hare a emit a : hour in the factory . 1 could scarcely t : > zx ; I mi exceedingly fatigued at night . Sjme-= s I hid to be ' toiled' home . I have an iron on

      right kj—mj knee is contracted . It was a great try to as to wcri . 1 was straight before . My it his tsrasd me up to bed many a time . I have a sa cii-paiJSit of the l = sos Infiraaary nearly : lTr rnxii , and this las ; win : er I have b * en into IiLtarj ti" -weets . I * a under Mr . Chorley ; fc v ~ iNta on xo mj legs , -which cost the In-¦ ary £ i I hmgone with gTrat difficulty to the mill , m c-. Cidas : tell aaj-bodj viai I suffered . Xbey could K'ifttae , I xa sar * . i ! I did . My mother was to

      « 7 tmt ^ j-y see desit -Frith ; cried , but c-xi : sat leep me it home . I was obliged to go , ¦ rise fis ; i « th » streets . I went to the mills as long II coii At last I cried , and used to fall back in V vhs ± jt called me , so tha : taey could not find » M 3 lam to « ad me . I bow live with mj mother . » Ci 3 Kj fca exijuinfcd me thoroughly ; he says it ria > xz racing , ml that the marrow is dried np ¦ t = or , e the boas . He says , that when the marrow V irisd ik , it Till nsTer be farmed again- ' W Ciadsi Bcaa , sUsss - . —

      ¦ inr-B 5 a S 8 , Dake-street , Leeds . I am thirteen » = all I beaa to -work in Mr . MirshaU 's flax mill » - 1 ra aas ? eight years old ; I was then a bobbin-^ B ; - ^ 5 Torled from kj in the morning to seven > " ' l ^* ^ tortT nnsn * . es allowed for dinner : B p ^ 2 c Hb-rzaee for breakfast or » f fcemoon * drint-• I vaTgrj much tired and fatigued ;—as soon as wstraai , u > d bk by the fire , 1 fell asleep directly « - . * rwiiu » eBi io - rarkit Mi . Ltigbisn'sflax mill . B .-r . JK ^^ edto si : down in Mr . Marshall's null ¦ pS ^ Vhole day : TJ trs did , tre ihonld get « ea : n a a coauaonftjEg for the children to be »«• I hd s erter - ^ q ^ Qjfcgd &l j ^ . Marshall' s ^ s sftkOied there . Ths overlooker behaved very 0

      ¦ ' - . - * aadrea . TThaj my sister was working = ^ - 2 : ia ti 2 i « st of the children also . I * •* t « attend & night school , or a Sunday K ^ -Vij * ^^ ^ S : U 3 day moniing . I should ' tii Cr Te gone * ° n ; 'SDt school , bat I could X . *** ^^ Sais that are so over-worked conm- -aisae to be one of great hardship and suffer-K . . v ? 88 * 3 ? tnhappy indeed ; when they want ¦ " ¦ /'" p fcsai , it is so dusty , they cannot eat it ; K ^ X - ^ 0 il 6 d ' itis » ^ naty . They lose their B " ^^ thsrn *** U 1 > * ^ ^ ey ^ t 0 M ^ - ^ y of ^^ die . They are almost W \ , ~*« S their meals . B = in so dusty , they are W ' -ba the ? mat home azfin . ' l ^^ an :-

      fc b ° f ^ " ^ Tears old . I have been en-^ C ^ wVer in the flix mill of Mr . Marshall . M ^ T . . ^ ° ' ''ork are frt-m sis to seven . When iUr ' ' &om Sve to nin - night ! They M ^/^ r cikuUa for dinner ! ^ o time is allowed > K ; J ^ T "' dri ? king ;• Tie chUdren put tbe fooa ¦ t ^ -tu " ^ catL Soaietimes , -when i hiil feT ' * li'ejsr 6 PriTeated getting it at all ; , ftrtS ^ j ^! tai e ^ tome ae ^ n . Sometimes it is ; ¦ sWc « rLrt reDder *< nnfit to eat The dust ' » T& - V'V r <»« ascelyBfce each other ! In the [ z ^ xSx i ?^ hzjxss about ttieir moutha , while . Kg , i : " ^ -s ' '«> d ' Soiaetinies , in those dusry I ¦ TvJ , t ? . f * 1 ? Uien 1 apnetites . and thev cannot

      i B I-xi fejf * ^ ^ d girls with a strap , to make . are dgSft ^ "tea they are fatigued , and tired , L Ttu Zj ** " * tifcm werse to make them keep [ ^ P *<^ aSVsv , '" ^^ IPea ft : rf ' ^ children are V - ^ J > p ?! i ; ^ encovra 9 Uk orertooken I H aaa « L . KaP * are about one foot and a half W ' L - m $ ? v * itck ** the erd of BOme rf them « I ¦ ' - sisv , P- ^ cb- they beat th * m with , k H r ^ i 6 ifl ~ T € or **¦ tbongB . They are regur B- ^ S ^ ai v P ^ 1 ? 0 ^ 1 f niesa they are driven I ¦ ' » aEt feJ ' iv _ y ttEntt get the quantirr of work > » -e ^ fcT " T ^ ire Snfed M " " beat € D - g Bteir b ^ . , 'P ^ iug to one another!—for comb-^^' - ^ oT ? . ' * aihiug themselves : —or cleaning ¦ " at ^ f ™* % anything , so as to go home B . j » tlj ^ v , ^* J H 8 DO * a ° 'we < i * o do any such ^¦ Ce it ^^* * M BTiics on evt-r iui waM t -nrofonnd

      1 , »* t K" ™** Tbe children were exceedingly K 4 * Js ^ ^^ 01118 of kbour are too long for » ¦ fi 3 » u ^* J ^ ben they go home , if they get * m ~** - v « ^ ^^ ^ ^^ p ^ s few B » 2 , S ^ t- ™* spinning rooms are very much 4 - < rfco ^ <* i team . In winter , the clothes of ft . * fef * * stance ^^ be frozen to their S : 6 i ! ^! 5 f W ( 1 ! e they get home . I have 9 « Jn « lonS ^ bour , from five to nine , con-U M ^^^ W ^ moatil * together . When the chil'M ! ^^ W ^ t 0 n 5 &aDeuce of illness , from t , very w ! Bor fe ^ r ^ rr i tte master neither pays their I , 9 < w » ^ . p r ^ 0 '! ^ " ^* B o » y riaiw * are coming >; I « 8 » j j ?* ' ^ " ^ jmeraU . y to come round , rj W ' ** ^ S' * ' ° * ttU us to dean , and get cur I mfcir > 2 or Zj " * V »« Jl &e time . There irzs no J m- t 7 « eajF pwi ^ ufrg , ffe visitor * vxre I Wfvkt ^ P »* : — *^ « M 3 d thirty-iidiie ^ informed tie

      eom-I- m 7 f * nT"i . V ae factories when I was about » » A * * , J ^^ worked in nine different fac-K - « A su ^? * '> factory , there is M much 3 M !* *^ Jr ^^ 1 " 1 spoiled , as -wiil halfteep f W " ?» lk i \ LIJ Ibe' * Qit in the mills produces & ¦ " r ^ Z T ^ —it lames them . The wo : k 5 » ^ if ;^ thi Tltmost P « ssiHe we can S I * arf done ^ ibont resorting to flog-V ™« ce for acy to speai . to aaotier-

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      ThB water naed for hot-spinninf , is heated to 110 to 120 degrees . The children have almost continually to plunge their hands and arms in that water . The heat of those rooms and the steam , almost macerates their bodies , aad their clothes are steamed and wet When the masters go into the room . * , they do not IooX to the fatigue of the children ; but if every one is not doing tbeir work , there is a sharp look out after them . If they fall sick , it is hardly tbenght twice about , but they are s « nt home directly . The employers have abundant opportunity of noticing ihe excessive fatigue of the children employed ! It is not allowed to have seats at all . They are not allowed to epeak to each other . I never knew an overlooker discharged for cruel conduct If a child complains of ill-usage , Bhe gets dischargedthaH is all the redrew she can have . Tbe present system is ruining the rising generation j it ia sacrificing the children for a paltry consideration i

      " Samuel Downe , of Hunalet Car , near Leeds , reports as follows : — I am twenty-nine years of age , I am a native of Shrewsbury . I was about ten years old wh « n I began to -work , at ilr . Marshall ' s mill at Shrewsbury . When we were brisk , we used generally to begin ' at five in the morning , and run till eight at night Tbe engine never stopped , except forty mluutes at dinner time . These long hours were very fatiguing . The children were kept awake by a blow or a box 1 Very considerable Beverity * w&s used in that mill ! I -was strapped most severely , till I could not bear to sit npon achair without having pillows and I was forced to lie upon my face in bed - at one tims ! and through that I left I was strapped on my legs , and then I -was put on a man ' s back and strapped ! and then I xna strapped and bncfcled tritii two straps to an iron pillar , anu flogged !! After that , the overlooker took a piece of tow , aDd

      twisted it m the ab&pe or a cord , and put it in my mouth , aad tied it behind mj head . ' He thus gugged me , and then he ordered me to run ronnd apart of the machinery , and he stood at one end , and every time I came round , he struck , me with a stick , which I believe was an a&h . plant , and which he generally carried in bis hand , till one of the men in th © room came and begged me off . ' ! At one time I was beaten go , that 1 had not the power to cry at all ! . ' I -was then between ten and ele-ren years old ! It was winter time , and we worked by gas-light , and I could not catch the revolutions of the machinery , to take tbe tow out of the hackles ; it require * some liltl » « Tparisnoo , and I -woa timid » t it , and pricked my fingers very much with the hackles . I cannot assign » ny other reason for it . ' He -was not diacharged Jrom the rnilL We were never allowed to sit ! We were not allowed to talk!—not at all , by no means ! If this man heard us , he came to us with his stick ! Young women were beaten as well as young

      man .-" . T-nafha-n Qovme's statement follows : — ' I reside in L = eds . I am twenty-five years old . I £ rst -went to wcrk at 11 r . Marshall ' s mill -when I was seven years old . Very severe methods were adopted , in order to compel us to work their long huuis . I haTe seen boys knocked do-srn "with a strap : they have been called from their work , flogged , and then knocked down on the floor ; and whea they hava been on the floor , they have been beaten till they have risen , and when they have riien , they have been flopged to their work again ! That was very common ! 1 know many ¦ who have been bound to pillars , and then flogged—it is quite common to do so : Females were alss chastised ! Xo means were taken to remove the overlooker who

      iiflicted such extreme chastisement ! If we had complained to Mr . Marshall , we should have been discharged ; and whatever hand was turned away from Mr . Marshall's , Mi . Beayon -would not employ ; and whatever hand was turned away from Mr . Benyon ' 3 , Mr . Marshall would net employ;—and these were the only two mills ia Shrewsbury . I have known a mother of two children , in Mr . Marshall ' s employment at Shrewsbury , knocked down by the OVtrlobker ! Horseman , the manager , will go to the overlookers , and , if they have not done something severe , he will say , ' I have never heard of your doing anything —you hive never quarrelled with any ef the hands—do something , that I may hear of it , and I will stand your friend r It is the usual practice so prepare mills ,

      previous to thtir being inspected by strangers . It is a frequent thing at Mr . Marshall ' s mill , where the least children are employed , . there are plenty working at six years of age . ' , ! provided a child shonld be drowsy , the overlooker walks round the room , - with , a stick in his hacd , and he touches that child on the shoulder , and say ? , Come here . ' In the corner ot th « room , there is an iron cistern—it is filled with water ; he takes this boy up by the legs , and dips him overhead in the -cistern , and sends Mm to his werk for the remainder of the day . ' and that boy is t » stand , dripping as he is , at his w ^ rk ! he has no chance of drying liiin * felf ! That is the punishment for drowsiness !—for other offences there is a st « K > l fixed up at the end of the roem ; tb « boy who offends is put xo stand on this stool , sometimes on both legs , and sometimes on one of his legs , with the other np , a ^ id he Itas 3 lerer to bear in his handl , raised and . stretched ever hvs head -. and there be baa to

      stand , fur ten , or fifteen , or thirty minntes , just as the overlooker ehooses ; and , provided he should lower his arms , and it is a grtat weight to bear for a quarter of an hour , t I have seen the overlooker go and say , * hold cp : ¦ aid sometimes the boy will try to hold it np , and yet not have strength to raise it , and the overlooker cuts him with his stick , uatil he does actually get it np , and the -tears wilt run down his face when he is there staudicg I I haTe seen this done there frequently —it : s tbe regular practice ! We have a Tast number of cripples . Some are crippled from losing their limbs —mauy from standing too Jong Jt first begins with a pain in tbe ankle ; after that , they will ask the overlooker to Ut them sit down—but they must not Then they begin to be weak in the ki . ee—tht-n knotk-kneed —after that , their feet turn out—they become splayfooted , and-their ankles swtll aa big as ray fists . I know many deformed in the way described . '

      ' The perusal of such horribly disgusting , cruel details , showing by what means Mr . J . Q . Marshall haa been made a rich man , makes the heart sick , and throngs the mind with thoughts that require well balancing , before they are expressed in words . " ^ Vho does not f eel hi 3 blood creep through his veias at tie foregoing recitals of the deliberate , cold hearted , and barbarous slow murder of the young children of tbe factories ! Good God ! and 13 a man in prison for- exposing these enormities ; and for &&-vocating-htimaniiy to tbe pallid , deformed , wasting , and perishing victims ! We ba ? e read that our

      forefathers in Dmidical days made baskets of wicker work , rudely shaped in the form of man , and then filled them with human offerings whom thty burned alire to appease or gratify their savage gods . Here was at all events sincerity of purpose , fell though ii might be ; it had religious feeling for its basis ; and the suffering , though horrible and awful , was not very protracted : bat this devotion to the God Mammon-Moloch ia more selfish , is for mere gain onJv , and prolongs the sufferings of death for day after day , month after month , or year after year , tertoriEg its victims as the tiger does hi 3 weak prey , as if feasting on their pangs and lengthen « d

      agonies . As Mr . Marshall has figured away against Lord Fltzwiiliam , with the aid of a friend in the background , who has served him as the monkey served the cats with the chesnnts in the fable , wo would suggest the propriety of his appealing to his friend to give him a helping hand to get him out of the mire into which he haa dragg ed him . We must reserve the plums of 1 S 0 . 15 for our next .

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      " WHO WILL BELL THE CAT V Ocb comment npon the new move , in our last number , was necessarily brief . W « were not taken by surprise ; though we confess our astonishment at the manner in which our anticipations hare been realised . It is the fashion with most political writers to predict events npon their occurrence ; " thus upon subjects never thought of we not nnfreqnently find onr contemporaries launching into extravagant eulogiums npon their intuitive knowledge of facts , upon which , ' before they were known to all the world , our friends were dumb as the silent

      tombstone . However , that tee did predict the forthcoming alliance , "we snail presently submit what we trust Trill stand as nnquestionable proof . In fact , we " belled the cat" before the " cat came out of the bag . " When we attempt to prove the affirmative or the negative of any proposition for our toil-worn readers , who have not so much time to digest the whole matter as we have , they expect that we shall proceed to oar work calmly and plainly , so as to aid

      them in the formation of a ssnaible and deliberate judgment upon tbe subject . It is not enough , that we say , " * i « volo , " sicjubeo , " thus I will , and thus I command ; but we must shew wherein our will should be their will ; and then the observance of their command becomes oar hoiioars . ble duty . Such are oar reciprocal dependencies . If we axe not free , we cannot defend the rights of others ; whil » our freedom is of little use if not exeraised baldly , manfallv , and i defiance of all danger .

      We proceed , then , to shew , firstly , thit this Association b of O'CohTiKU , Hcub , and Roebuck ' s ooqepetion ; and , secondly , that we predicted it , and instantly * belled the cat , " in the Star of the 6 th . of February , underlie bead " Tae

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      " Mr . Hume submitted a definition of what he considered Household Suffrage ought to be , which was to be taksn into consideration by the Association . He stated that the leading men ol tne "Working classes generally concurred in the definition , and had promised ta give their assistance , were an agitation for aacli a Household Suffrage to be set on foot . " Mr . OConaell cordially conenrred In the suggestions of Mr . Hume . He considered it as of the first importance that the reasonable portion of the CbaitiStfl Should be got over to the aid of the Rational Reformers . He urged the necessity of some central body being established in London , for the diffusion of knowledge upon political subjects . The public mind should be saturated with facts bearing on the present gross defects in the representation of the people .

      • Mr . Roebnck said that such a body was at present in contemplation in London , and he trusted that it would very speedily be set In operation , bo as to act in concert with the Leeds Association . " Upon this announcement we proceeded to comment as follows : — " Ays , aye , we were aware that the scouts were on the look-out for fragments from the -wreck ef the good ship , ' Charter , out of which they had , in their fanciful

      imaginations , built a tight little bark for Whiggery to float a little longer on the stream ; but they have been mistaken . We were not asleep ; we knew what was to have been the sequel of a Whig triumph at LeedB . We told tbe people that it was to have been followed by a similar side-blow at Chartism at Leicester , Manchester , and Birmingham ; and by a whip in London . Hencs we saw the full value of our triumph at Leeds . "

      After a few more comments we concluded the article thus : — " Now , this is beld . We challenge tbem— -we dare them— -we defy them , and we five them every man they can crimp—every bit of « ginger tb » y can purchase , and our provincial delegates shall outnumber the H-o-u-s-ehold ambassadors . " No , no ; we were not caught napping ; nor will we be so now ! London is garrisoned ; aud so past service , even though it were half-hanging , can reconcile the troopa to one single move of a pin's point from the thiDg—the ' Charter .

      " We have long since said that agitation is now too ohoap aad unfashionable , In its new form , to arrest the attention and command the services of gentlemen too idle to work and too poor to do without it . So much for the Rotunda meeting , projected alliance , and new definition of H-o-u s-ehold Suflrage . " We imagine that no man of sound mind will for one moment doubt that the Association which has now sent forth its " Prospectus of Principle , " and which was to have acted with the Leeds Association

      Tot Household Suffrage had it been successful , ia that very Association to which Messrs . Hume and Roebuck referred , and which Mr . O'Cossbll so highly eulogised ; and that we did not for one single moment doubt who the parties were , will be abundantly proved by our close watching and immediate exposure of Mr . Collins ' s quibbles , qnirks , and shift 3 upon the qucstiou of Household Suffrage . In fact , being upon the spot , and seeing the part which he acted , it became at once plain and obvious , not only to us , but to every Chartist in Leeds , that his object was to get in the wedge , in order to split the popular party and erect a new one upon its ruins , at the head of which was to be placed the golden image , the " money-finder 3 . "

      That vre then predicted what has since taken place , reference to the whole article of Feb . 6 th -will prove ; and that we would meet the conspiracy on the threshold whenever it presented itself , the three last paragraphs which we have quoted above pledged us : and now we proceed fearlessly to redeem that pledge . Our first consideration in this painful but necessary duty , is to analyse the pretensions of those who thus lay claim to so much public confidence , as to warrant the hope that our whole temple , which has cost so much in the erection , shall be levelled , pulled to pieces , and destroyed , in order that the new architects may , from the materials , build up a better one , and more to public taste .

      Of Mr . Rogers , then , we know but little , and the Chartists know less . We know him to be what is called " a , consistent Reformer" and disciple of Cobbett—to have been Treasurer to the Convention , and to have resigned his trust : but further of his political labonrs in the Chartist cause we know nothing . Of his integrity as a man , we have the very highest opinion ; so we havo of Mr . Bai . vesbut we would be 6 orry to be placed under his leadership .

      Mr . Mitchell . If " not to know" Mr . lMiTciiELL " argues one ' s self unknown , " we must e ' en suffer tho charge of obscurity , and bear it as the penalty of our ignorance ; but positively we never heard of him before to our knowledge ; therefore if he is indeed worthy the appointment -which be seeks , or rather which he has assumed—if we are guilty of anj offence against him , it merely amounts to a want of knowledge of the fashionable Chartist world . Mr . Colli . vs we do know , and have known more of him than we could have wished of lato . Mr . Lovztt , we also know , a » d have known less of him than wo could have desired of late ; however we have before apologised for his inactivity ; we could wish it had degenerated even into neutrality .

      Messrs . Cleave and Hetheri . ngton are as well , nay better known , perhaps , to the Chartist world than ourselves ; therefore beyond the consideration of their part in the document under consideration we need make no comment . Before we comment npon the dangerous tendency of this document , let ub consider whether or not the complainants are altother free from their principal charges , and whether or no they come into Court with clean hands . The complainants , then , charge the Chartists as folJows : —

      " We have wasted glorious means of usefulness in foolish displays and gaudy trappings , seeking to captivate the sense rather than inform tbe mind , and aping the proceedings of a tinselled and corrupt aristocracy ratber than aspiring to the mental and moral dignity of a pure Democracy . Our public meetings have , on too many occasions , been arenas of passionate invectiv , party spirit , and personal idolatry . " Now , with the exception of onr very excellent and stanch friend , Dr . M'Docall , we know of no one person upon -whom so much " foolish display " and " gaudy trapping" has been wasted of late as upon Mr . John Colliss ; and , cnriously enough , when M'Douall complained of the waste Mr .

      Collins was altogether silent . We do wish that he had received this stroke of conscience before he put the warm-hearted people of Scotland to the expence of so many carriages and four greys , so many tea parties , public e » trie 3 , medals , scarfs , and all the insignia of " foolish display and gaudy trappings , " and before he put as to the expence ot some £ 40 in reporting the honour thus conferred . This complaint from Mr . Collins , therefore , very forcibly reminds us of the thrifty dame , v ? ho , after borrowing her neighbour ' s tea kettle for twenty years , at length got one of her own ; and then the good dame , good lack ! discovered that borrowing was a- most injurious practice , and lending just as bad .

      " Our public meetings have on too many occasions been arenas of passionate invective , party spirit , and personal idolatry . " Our friends , whose answer to Sir . Lovett we embodied in our last week ' s short comment , have left us little to say upon this latter charge , to which they have so perfectly , and so feelingly , and so justly replied . One portion of the subject , however , appears to have escaped the memory of Mr . Lovett's correspondent , and to which we shall direct his attention .

      This charge of M passionate invective , partyspirit , and personal idolatry , " comes with a bad , a very bad , grace from five out of the six complainants . Of late the only meetings , or nearly 90 , have been npon the subject of the Corn Laws ; indeed all , where any " passionate invective" or " party feeling" were manifested ; and here we ask if it was not the unanimous recommendation of the Convention , of which Messrs . Lotbtt , Collixs , Cubavi , HETHEatsoTon . andRoGEBS were members , that all agitation for a repeal of the Corn Laws should be resisted , overcome , and put down ! With what colour of right , or &how of jnstioe , then , can they now turn upon those -who in tb . U 3 displaying , their " personal idolatry , " have but acted upon tb © advice of the complainants themselves !

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      But , perhaps , onr friends may answer , " , bat we meantto meet the questions with coolness and argument , and not with angry feelings and passionate invective . " We ask Messrs Lovett and Collins , in turn , what was the resolution for which they suffered twelve months in Warwick Gaol ! Was it not-for the declaration that the people , while peaceably , legally , aud constitutionally ( and not passionately or intemperately ) diacussing their griev aneM , weni brutally , illegally and unconstitutionally attacked and dispersed , with " passionate invective " and " party feeling !"

      Agam , let us just enquire who in these « passionate invectives and exhibitions of party feeling" have been the a / rgressoref whether the Chartists , as the complainants most dishonourably and unjustly charge , or those hired bludgeon lecturers and the other interested parties who grew intolerant from Chartist long forbearance , until at length it became necessary to meet invective by invective , and angry feeling with angry feeling . In every single case theChanista have nobly acted apon the very suggestion of the Convention ; of which five of the complainants wore members .

      Surely Mr . Hetherington could not have joined in this denunciation of the Chartists ' conduct at public meetings , else he must have forgotten his letter of justification of their conduct to the Morning Chronicle , so recently written ; and surely Mr . Cleave did not read it , else he must have forgotten his recent part at the most angry meeting we have recorded for a long time , ( indeed , ever we may say , ) held but a few weeks since at the Crown and Anchor . But , perhaps , being in opposition to Mr . Waltek , a Tory , may constitute the difference . We are willing to do most of the gentlemen , indeed all of them , the justioe to say that they have never , to our knowledee . eviaeeri »» y « aners feeling" " party invective" at a single Whig meeting that

      has been called in the metropolis within our recollection . ' As for the " personal idolatry , " we shall only add , in addition to what has been already said , — " suur grapes S " When Mr . O'Connob worked himself nearly to death , forming committees of supply aud release for Messrs . Lov . ett ar > d Collins , we never heard a sentence in condemnation of that respect of which he literally made them idols . But , perhaps , like tho temple , tho idols too have lost their charm , aud new ones aro to ba set up in their stead .

      There are somo who would blend popular idolatry with electoral support to gain Parliamentary honours ; and , we fear , they have become golden images with new worshippers . We think , however , that tho personal idolatry may be strung with the 'foolish displays and gaudy trapping , " and hung round Mr . Collins ' s neck with his various medals , as he is the only one of that party who , of late , has been made an idol of . We shall now consider the professed object of the parties , and the means by which that object 13 to be achieved .

      Of course , in the outset , the Charter is the object : indeed nothing else wouid do to bait the trap . Any declaration short of the whole Charter , would at once strangle the infant in the cradle . The object then is to achieve the Charter , and the means are by a voluntary tax of two hundred and fifty-six thousand four hundred and eight pounds per annum . Fore Gad , this is coming it strong ! and Bmells rank of the old fox , Dan . Bat to the object .

      Now , is there one single man of the six , or one man with half an eye in England , who is not awa . re that the real object of the new move is to destroy tho old move ! Do the parties themselves not know , and know full well too , that our last course must be tho ' tTjj / st coupse—that every stone which wo have been placing with so much care , ouo on the top of the other , must be pulled down ; our top stones being their foundation stones . Do they require equality ! No ; if they did , they would join in what is already so far progressed ,

      and , by their judgment , endeavour to repair what is faulty , iu 3 tead of attempting to destroy what is sOund . They must know that two Associations , holding aloof from each othe when their professed object is identical , muat weaken each other . They must know , as indeed they plainly confess , that to arrive at that point where they invite us to stop short , would cost them years of trouble , and the nation millions of money . They cannot be ignorant of these things ; and hence , we fear that discord was in truth their object , though of course not their professed object .

      What claim , we would ask , have they to public confidence , beyond any man now acting upon the Executive of tho National Charter Association ? 0 ! " Mr . Roebuck has not yet said it is a legal body . " True , true ; we forgot that !!! These six gentlemen , while they disclaim all intention of interfering with any Association now in existence , at the samo time modestly style thomselves " The National Association of tho United Ktugdom . " After which in ten distinct clauses , the first commencing with a falsehood , they Bet forth their object ? . They disclaim any notion of interfering with any Association now established , while in section No . I , they commence thus : — To establish IN ONE GENERAL BODY persons of all creeds , " and so forth .

      Now , here again , our Metropolitan friends may turn upon us aud say , " 0 ! but we leave every man to the option of joining as many associations as he pleases . " True again ; but if it requires the enormous bum of more than a quarter of a million annually to carry out the dear objects of one , how many more caa each man efficiently suppert ? Section No . II , is a sprat to catch a mackerel ; as of course , nothing but the whole Charter will now take .

      No . Ill , at once proclaims that the organisation is to be carried on upon ' new principles , enforced by new missionaries ; as the words " seeing that the intentions of the general body are carried into effect , " has that and no other diplomatic moaning . In fact , this section savours of much authority . These three first sections we may take as declaratory of the objects set forth in the seven which follow , and in which the " modus oper * ndi " is laid down .

      But then , alas J we come to the means , £ 256 , 480 per annum . Of course , we may be told Ibat this is all voluntary , and may , or may not be raised ; that it 3 collection is merely put hypothetieally . True again ; but , if it fails tho whole fabric of which it is the very groundwork , fails also ; because all tbe plans in the Ten Commandments are declared essential to the success of the project ; and the £ 256 , 480 per annum being the means of their accomplishment , becomes an indispensable . Therefore , we shall deal , firstly , with the chanoeB of getting the momey , and , secondly , with the proposed mode of expending the money if we had it .

      We find that the number who signed the National Petition are relied upon , certainly hypothetically , as data for volunteer tax-payers . Let us , from the natural disposition of man to have a finger in his own pie , just see in how far this would suit the taste of one of the very best Radical towns in the empire , Glasgow . Suppose , then , that Glasgow <» ne up to the mark and bad 60 , 000 signatures , each signature Btanding for a Id . per week ; this would leave to Glasgow thirteen thousand pounds annually , to be spent in , and for , Glasgow . It would give tnem four

      district Halls , or Normal or industrial Schools , at £ 3000 each , and fifty libraries at twenty pounds each , every year ; whereas if they put that Bum into the National Lottery , it would be but the prico of a ticket , by which they may , or may not , b » entitled to £ 3000 . Now in the gotd old times , according t » tbe Grand Lottery scheme , a man got his « banc& of a £ 40 , 0 . 00 prize for a £ 23 ticket ; but here be gets his chance of a £ 3000 prize for a £ 13 , 600 tic ' xet , and so with many other towns . " True , agai'a , " eay th © Nationals ; " but zounds , death and tbe devil ! who will argoe Clamped , and nV / row a view of

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      patriotism ; should not all work for all ! " Yes , we answer , and so they do ; and work best by working in their own locality , under their own direction , and according to their own judgment ; not by doing what missionaries shall see fit . Bnk suppose we have tbe money . Tie object ia to flaveinda&trial hails and libraries . These placesbave to be built , and the laying the foundation stone of the first industrial hall would be like the cold creation of a new world . We think we see a poor hand-loom weaver looking wistfully at the glow fire which is destined to boil his pot , exclaiming with the fox , when he — - on heap of stones , "That will bo a good fire when it lights !"

      Will some good fellow furnish ub , next week , with an appropriate dialogue between one of the architects laying tho foundation stone of the first hallthe new temple of Liberty , aud a hand-loom weaver with nine children , waiting its completion as a means of relief I M But we have tho monoy ; the bject is , to carry the Charter , and we are quite sure that none will deny that with the Charter knowledge , temperance , and industry would progress ten thousandfold quicker than without it ; therefore , we all agree thai , ftt or unfit , tho sooner we get the Charter the better . " Well , then , we have tho money , and now let us try our hand at tho expenditure .

      " The valna of anything Is just th © price that it will bring . " What would our friends think of the following application of £ 256 , 480 } [ we love to write the sum , it looks bo TEMPTING , and " so werry TICING . " ] We have , then , the £ 256 , 480 , to be applied as follows : —Wages of one hnndred independent Members of Parliament , at £ 1 , iQO each for the Session , £ 150 , 000 ; for the support of a Morning Paper , the tamo bi z as the Morning Chronicle , to bo sold at 2 ^ d ., £ 10 , 000 ; dhto , for an Evening Paper , samesiEe and price , £ 5 , 000 ; ditto , for a

      weekly paper , largest size attotvod by law , at 3 d ., £ 5 , 000 ; for wages for a standing Parliamentary committee of seven , to sit in London during the Session , and to be elected by the whole people , at £ 10 per week each , for twenty-five weeks , and removal at pleasure of the people , £ 1 , 750—tho duties of committee to pay members at tho end of each month , stopping salary according to scale of nonattendance , or any other noglect ; 100 missionaries at £ 5 per week , for twenty weeks , £ 10 , 000 . Balance for election fund , defence fund , tract fund , and other incidental expences , £ 74 . 730 per annum .

      Now , what would our friends think of such an " Appropriation Clause , " tho enactment of which w . ould , wefancy , putu 8 , inless than two years , in joint possession of all the Town Halls , Science Halls , Union Halls , Normal and Industrious Schools ' Libraries , Parks , Pleasure Grounds , Publia Baths , Buildings , and Places of Amusement , in the kingdom , ready built , furnished , stocked , and raised to our hands ; instead of expending annually ( he sum of £ 240 , 000 , nearly tho whole amount of the annual taxes , in what the economists call " unproductive labour , " piling bricks and mortar on top of each other .

      Then the economists did not consult their brethren , although some parts of the address bear evident marks of slight disapprobation recently experienced by men who were "idols" before they threw tho idolaters upon their own resources , and would now givethem "« rashing BATHS . " We thought weshould requiro a dip for an electoral qualification , and next wo shall want perfume , what Mi . O'Connor called

      the " fashionable stink . " "True again , " say the Nationals , " but where will you get tho 100 members ?" We have them ; only give us the £ 1 , 500 a piece for them and we havo them , 200 if wo want them , ready made in the market , ayeandin the Houso . Twenty-five ten pound notes , on the first Monday of every month , would be a tempting thing ; fifty English , forty Irish , and ten Scotch ; there they are , and a contest , a violent contest for priority .

      Do our friends suppose that parties who now vote black white for the mere purpose of getting a paltry commission in the army or navy , a small living in tho church , or an appointmont to a £ 300 a year commission for a brother , friend , or cousin , would not vote that white was white , for tho pleasure of putting £ 1500 a year into their owa fob ? Sinecurif-ts , half-pay officers , little barristers , small pensioners , ministerial hacks , would scratch each others eyes out in such a contest . Government don ' t give one half tho sum to as many members for slavish work , and by which alone they keep np their majorities .

      One hundred independent gentlemen would firstly cut off all the monoy-mongers who could » ot leave the Tempk by day , by obliging the House to meet by day . Our hundred would force Government , upon all questions , and upon Supply questions , to keep the House up to a four hundred pitch , at the very least . Our hnndred members would have a double barrelled daily press , to annoy the enemy ' s flank and a weekly cannonade to defend their country

      garrisons . It is by this very system , at which tha French Chamber of Deputies has recently levelled so tremendous a blow ; that our court party is enabled to procure its ascendancy in both Houses of Parliament , by pensioning pauper Peers and bribing pauper Commons . We could pay 150 , if necessary , but we prefer keeping a sinking fund of £ 75 , 000 annually , for " incidental expences , " for which our friends reserve only £ 126 a year .

      It must be borne in mind that all our arguments are based upon the presumption that wo . have the £ 250 , 480 ; and let it be borne in mind that , failing in its acquirement , our friends' objects are all unattainable ; therefore , the only question at issue is , which plan would most speedily achieve the proposed grand object— " the Charter I" That is the whole , the sole , the only question . In fact , the naked proposition is just this : —A certain amount of abstinence

      information , self-respect , and so forth , constitutes so many requisites for the attainment of a certain object . Tho question at issue , therefore , is resolved into a narrow compass , namely , whether or no the means considered indispensable for the accomplishment of the proposed object ara attainable , and , if attainable , whether they could be applied to a more speedy achievement of the end . I is for tho country , not for us , to give tho answer to the question .

      There are some very curious facts connected with this document . It denounces idolatry , while it assumes leadership . It claims co-operation , while it respectfully resolves ^ that , with or without it , it will use every " possible effort" for the attainment of its objects . Let us just ask a question or two . If tbe names attached to the document had a right to expect so much public confidence , why keep the project secret except from the " Leading Chartists . " Apropos , vre imagined that one of the great objections to modem agitation v > a $ Leadership . Why

      assume leadership i Why not call a meeting in London , on the spot , and where the pretensions of the six gentlemen were beat known , and where , if acknowledged by a publie meeting , the thing would ha-ve h » d the stamp of publift confidtace avid the sanction of public approFal , not only of the " Leading Chartists' * but of the body of Chartists Why have a self-elfieted Board of Managemsnt 1 because w « find the following most astounding admission : " It IB also intended that the persons

      signing it shall farm a Provisional Board of Management for six or twelve months . " Is this Univereal Saffrage ? Is thia the free choice of ofiBcers ? Is this Election by Ballot 1 Is this vigilant popular contTouU Here vre have six gentlemen actually nominating a National Board , writing to and inviting whom they please , as members of that Board . Monstrous ! most monstrous ! S and asking them to keep the project a complete secret from the people , until the infernal machine shall be sufficiently

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      loaded to be discharged , ( also we suppose in tho dark , ) when tho country would be told , M O , you aro too late , ( be deed is done ; why did not yon objf ot in time i " Let this project be taken in conjunction with tha eulogiums recently passed upon tho majority of the complainants by the Chrtnicle , Sun , and all the Whig "Establishment , " and also in conjunction wiih some articles from Taif , ( who has been at . the head of tbe conspiracy , ) and we feel convinced that they have been retained as mid wives to attend the axsoowebement of " the mountain in labour . " Here

      we have the mountain going to Mahomet , instead of Mahomet to the mountain , with a vengeance : hero we hare a whole nation surrounded in the dark by half a dozen gentlemen , and handed over , neck and heals , to the tender mercies of a Provisional Government of their appointment / . ' Bat they are all for Universal Suffrage , and , as a matter of course , they have acted upon that principle , and onlyelected those whom they knew would be acceptable . In faith , it is marvellous lucky for poor . O'Cojmob that he did not even recommend to such an appointment , or offer funds to a missionary , or he would be called a " despot , " and would cease to be an " IDOL . "

      London is the place that must speak out npon this subject as to the amount of confidence to be placed in those who seek it ; and the country has but one part to act in tlie concern , namely , to say whether or no , they , tho people , a , ro prepared to commit political suicide , by cutting the throat of the only association from which they can expect a thorough union , and which they , themselves , have elected in open day . We think we have done our part calmly , tempe « rately , and boldly ; we Bay to the people " Do ye likewise . " " Out of evil comes good . "

      So f * r from the new coliomo loading to « raa . k « n at disorganise the Radical ranks , it will have the effect of paralysing the enemy , by evincing the firmness and resolution with which the "idolators" cease to worshiptheirformer"idols , " upon theslightestchange of that principle which led to adoration . Our course shall bo in this storm , —be it short or bo it leng , be it a squall or be it a hurricane , —just what it has ever been , straight forward ; resolved that the good ship Charter , shall not ba wrecked even ia the dark for want of a good look out .

      WE STAND BY THE PEOPLE . Fall they never can , save bt THE 1 B OWN BLOW . We never wrote an article with one half the pain that w « experienced in writing the foregoing ; aad if repentance , confession of error , and return to virtue , be any part of a Christian ' s duty , we cannot conclude without humbly imploring our misguided friends boldly to confess and manfully to ask pardon , and which , we feel assured , will be cheerfully and unanimously granted . But should it be otherwise , and should the sword be drawn , why then we throw away the scabbard .

      ^ r Since the preceding wa type , we have learned from Mr . Pitkethly , of Huddersfield , that Mr . Rogeks avers his name was appended to the Lovett-and-Collins' Document without his knowledge or consent . Mr . Emit ethly saw Mr . Rogkhs the other day , when ho made a declaration to tho above effect . Indeed , be pleaded ignorance of the whole thing . How many more names are thus circumstanced ?

      The following list' of names has been sent to us by Mr . Lovett for publication : — William Lovett , * 183 , Tottenham Court Road . John Collins , 6 , Court , Bread-street , Birmingham . Henry Hotherington , 13 pind 14 , Wine-office Court , Fleat-street . John Cleave , 1 , Shoe-lane , Fleet-street . George Kogers , High-street , St . Giles ' . Henry Mitchell , 67 , Red Lien-street , Holborn . Henry Tincent , 5 , Greenland Grove , Cromer-atreet . Kobeit Lowery , Nun-street , Ne-vscastte-oa-Tyne . Arthur O . 'Neil , Birniiiignam . Thomas Kaynor Smart , ' 47 , Red Cross-street , Leicester .

      John Mitchell , 23 , Queen-street , Aberdeen-John M-Crae , Kilburchan . Charles Jones , Northampton . John Richards , Hanley Potteries . Charles H . Necsom , 70 , Hare-ttreet , Bethnal-green . H . Alexander Donaldson , Chapel-street , Warwick . Edward Brown , . Birmingham . W . O . Burns , Blacfcfriar ' a-gate , Hull . Charles Westerton , 15 , Park-side , Knightsbridge . Richard liussell , Blair ' s-close , Edinburgh . William Byrne , 1 , Cloth-roarket , Newcastle-on-Tyne James Torrington , Albion Coffee House , Dudley . Edward Thorp , Gainsborough .

      James B . Austin , cbeniist , Abingdon . John Beacham , painter , Cireneester . Peter Lay ton , tiuplnte- worker , Banbury . David Buckney , Mill-street , Coventry . William Allison Whittle , Swan-street , Warwick . Edward Dyer , Church-street , Stroudwater . William Thoniason , Daveritry . William Dale , West-street , Dorking . W . J . Linton , Woodford-green , Essex . Anthony Tutton , 32 , High-street , Plymouth . Thowas Parry , PontypooL Joseph Welsh , New-street , Ledbury . Lister Smith , Braintree .

      John M'Clintock , Irvine . William Hollis , High-street , Cheltenham . W . D . Wliitehouse , Studley , Warwickshire . John T . Micklewright , Kidderminster . John Jeakinson , Baptist Minister , Kettering-Rowland Lacey , Wotton-under-Edge . J . B . Smith , Leamington . John Peck , Hull . John Garden , Mill-street , Montrose . William Taunton , Well-street , Coventry . William Martin , Alveitbovpe Schools , Wakefield . John Malcolm , West KUbride . L . Snelling , Tonbridge . ¦

      John Ayre Leatherland , Ketterint William M'Williams , Lanark . D . Scarfe , 14 , Long Wyre-street , Colchester . John Booth , Archies Park , Forfar . Thomas Baird , KirfcintUlock ,. ne » r Glasgow . James Henderson , Salcoats , Ayrshire , James Cook , Morgan ' s Lane , From ' e . Alexander Davies , Campsie , near Glasgow . Isaac Botiomley , Hyde , Lancashire . William Barker West , John-street , Sheffield . John Da-vis , 'Kidderininster . James Wiabart , 300 , High-street , Kirkaldy . Win . Young , 30 , Great Windmill-street , Golden-square

      W . J . Oaborn , Nuneaton . J . Mann , North street , Ashburton . W . Fletcher , Cbeylesmouth , Coventry . Thomas Webb , Union Place , Daventry . B . Payne , Tonbridge . Stephen Durrant Westoby , Colchester . Robert Reid , Forfar . John Murray , Kitkintillock . Robert Mugate , Campsie . David Shaw , Nuueiton . John Petrie , Loo-street , Plymouth . Thomas Wild , HulL

      BeDJamin Huggett , 1 , Chichester Place , Wandsworth Road . Alexander Smeaton , Almond Bank , Perthshire . James Grant , Luthermuier , near Montrose . John Sandy , 64 , Upper-North-street , Brighton . William Woodward , Union-place , Brighton . James Adam , Largs , Ayrshire-. J . C- Bums , ditto . John Carne , Fraddom , nearHayle , Cornwall . James Whittle , merchant , Per tb . James Robertson , High-street , Perth . Cliarlea Reynolds , Penza-ace , Cornwall . David Irvine , Kilbirnie .

      The 36 are the gentlemen , then , who constitute the "Board of Management" for the " move ?' and we ask seriously , with Ithe exception of somo half dozwi names , or less , are these the men in whom the " new movers" would themselves ha confidence ! And we are aore that rome of them will unhesitatingly say " no . " But " needs must , when the devil drives . " They -will say , perhaps , that our virtuous leagae , having

      absorbed » 11 that was worth having , they had no alternative- The effect of the project has been to enlist new powers in onr cause , and to draw forth a mass of hitherto obscured talent . We h * 7 « received a letter signed *' Cato" upon the subject , but we regret to lay not in time for publication this week . It is a production worthy of the best days of Roman independwice . " Cato" calls the new Association" The New London Association of Ratcatchkbs . "

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 17, 1841, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct851/page/3/