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      1 SICESTSR . —The deepest indignation is fe" . i here at taa conduct of the vila Whigs , as display # d in the murderous casting vole business . The nniT er-Bal feeling is , that if any Chartist should be 1 jase and treacherous enough to support a R-usrf * - * e at the approaching election , hanging and gibb atting will be too good for him .

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      TO THE ELECTORS AND £ ON-ELFXTORS OF THE BOKOUGH OF BRADFORD . n ENTLEMEN , —A Deputation haviD - $ waited ( j upon CAPTAIN WOOD , of Sajoui * . to ascertaia whether he would allow himsdf to b * put in Nomination for the Representation of th ; m Borough , in caee of an Election , he has declared his willingness to stand on the following Principles . : _ A full and real Representation of © very Male Twenty-one Years of Age , of sound Mind wad uneonTicted of Crime ; Annual Paxliam ents ; Vote by Ballot No Property Qualification f < jr Members of Parliament ; and equal Electoral Di stricts ; Repeal of the New Poor Law ; Abolition of » U Monopolies ; ud a Redress of all practical GrieT anees .

      ElECTOBS O ? TH 3 B BfflBOWJH OP BRADFORD ! Raform is now ia its Eleventh Year , and yon and tfee Masses h&Ye been in vain looking for its benefccial Results : yoor Prefects are becoming increasingly beclouded , and tie Condition of the Working dosses more wretched loan ever ; the Non-enfranchised feel degraded b ^ their Political Disabilities , and that there is no hepe for a substantial Social ImproTemest for ihem , imt through ^ Radical Reform qf the Ho %$ e of Commons . Such a Reform , it is evident , eaoftot much longer be delayed ; it is for the Electees of England to render such a Reform peaceably practicable , by returning such Men as CAPTAIN "WOOD : the alternative is fearful to eontempte * . Act , then , like Wise Men and Patriots , by giving this Gentleman your Support , And yoa will hare the consciousness of having done J obt Part towards ihe Salvation of your beloved ountry .

      Nok-Electobs ! Give preof of ihe Truth of the above Remarks as to year Views and Expectations , by standing nobly by jonr Man i you have no Vote , but you have a certain Inflaenoe which yon can exercise . Do your duty like Men who respect tneir own manhood . By Order of the Committee ,

      THOMAS ROBINSON , Chairman Committee Room , North Tavern , North Street , May 25 . 1841 .

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      " IRELAND AND " " GREAT COMMEKCIAL REFORMS /' As the co-operation of Ireland is moei emphatically required and flatteringly courted by the "Liberator" on behalf of her Majesty's advisers , in what is called their attack upon •* monopoly , " we are bound to consider what the result ot Ministerial success must inevitably produce , not for the majority of the nine millions , but for the very class who are , unfortunately , armed with the "life preserver , " and which they are now requested to use for self-destruction—we mean the electors .

      Ireland returns sixty-four County Members , two University MemberB , and thirty-nine City and Borough Members ; and , without the Bhadow of a shade of difference , the interest of the whole of the constituencies , be they county , university , city , or borough , is identical , as one great whole , in the approaching contest . Nay , more , to such an extent would the proposed alteration in the Corn Laws alone affect the whole agricultural , commercial , trading , and labouring interests of Ireland , that the greatest good anticipated by English speculators , even if realised , would be more than over-balanced by the blighting effects which the victory must inevitably produce in that country , and which must extend to this side the Channel .

      With Ireland , the Ministerial question is one of life and death . It is not br . sed on mere theoretic or speculative dogmas of political economists . It is not to be followed by aDy adjustment which may be rendered requisite and necessary , according to the subsequent working of the experiment . It is not to be accompanied by any protective power , or retributive accompaniments , to be placed in the hands of those who are asked to embark their all in the Go-Temment hulk , without masts , pilot , or even rudder , for the poor satisfaction of giving faction a triumph over partv .

      Perseverance in the path of error has reduced the old and respectable party of English Whigs to a mere faction , whilst their awkward management of their own measure , " Reform , " has actually revived the embers of their factious rivals , and blown them into a powerful party . The same breath which was to have extinguished Toryism , has but resuscitated the monster . Is the part , then , which the Irish are now invited to take in the war of self-destruction , for the mere purpose of party extermination , worthy of a great nation !

      But , after all , upon what will depend the success of the working of the measures in Ireland , should the Whigs succeed ? Why , upon the law of wills , — not of testaments , —but of landlord ' s wills ; upon the will of the broken and driving landlords of Ireland . Upon the law of " sicvolo , " " sic jubeo . " " Thus I will , thus I order . " Upon the will of men in whom i 3 now incorporated by the lauded Tithe

      Bill , all the power of landlord and parson , for the purpo 39 of rent-screwing . Upon the will of magistrates , who can select whether they will distrain as landlords , or as parsons , for the pound of rent , or the five shilling of tithe , and for whose purpose the Wh . 5 s 3 have ^ applied a large distraining staff of " * civil power" xciih muskets , bayonets , and cutlasses , and comiranded , in most instances , by half-pay officers .

      This , then , is to be the adjusting machinery placed in the hands of the " measuring cast" majority of Irish landlords . But , being a great , a very great question—in fact , an entirely national question , a whoJesale and real " Irish manufacture'' question , we are bound to enter fully into a consideration of what its effects must produce in Ireland . In order , therefore , to relieve the subject of all those technicalities , mysteries , and absurdities , with which political economists free traders and trafficking polititians would enshroud it we start upon a simple basis—upon their own

      foundation stone . Upon one point only do the several sections of " anti-monopolists , " 03 the " monopolists " wiiimsicaUy call themselves , agree . They all agree that the alteration in the Corn Laws will make bread cheap ; that the alteration in the sugar duties will make sugar cheap ; and that the altering of the timber duties will make Umber cheap . We here , then , admit , the fact , as to corn ; and join issue a 3 to the result . We ask , then , does not the whole project fail of its anticipated benefit , if bread is not reduced in price ! and , we ask , if bread is reduced in price , must not wheat , of which

      bread is made , be also reduced in price ? and if wheat is reduced in price , must not land which produces wheat , as its moEt valuable crop , be reduced in value ! and if land be reduced in value , must not rents be correspondingly reduced , as a fair accompaniment to the scheme f " 0 , yes ; yes , of course , and so they would ; everything find 3 its proper lerel , " answer the monopolists . True ; we admit it ; but why not look for your level first—why select the most uneven and hilly line , when you can pass orei

      a plain without injustice to any , or damage to the State t And what , we would ask , is to happen while the Governmeat engineers are levelling 1 We will tell our friend , Geobge Hens ? Wabd , who is so fond of precedent , just what happened in 1821 , when every house was fortified , when the working classes of Ireland were Whiteboys to a man ; when the whole strength of England ' s army , and Ireland ' s Orange yeomanry , could not resist the determination of a people roused to madness , by the very same causes which the success of the ew Government

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      plan would once more create in Ireland , and for the adjustment of which , 1821 furnishes a precedent And , let it be borne in mind , that bad as it . was , yet did Whiteboy Union and perseverance , compel the Tory Goulbubn ( being the Chancellor of the Exchequer ) to surrender to popular will , and oblige him to pass his Tithe Commutation BUI in two years after , by which all the Protestant grass-land of Ireland , theretofore exempt from tithe , was brought to bear its share of the Protestant Church impost .

      Let us now see what led to the White Boy revolution in 1821 . In 1815 we had peace proclaimed , and a partial return from high war prices for agricultural produce ; speculation upon capital made in war time , and anticipation of more blood-letting , still kept the farmer afloat , and he paid the same rent without any abatement . The harvest of 1816 , however , gare high rents a u heavy blow , " and two other bad harvests , between 1816 and 1821 , caused a demand upon the Landlords for a reduction of rent , and upon the parsons for a reduction of tithe , commensurate with the fall consequent upon agricultural produce and & return to

      cheap bread . " How was this demand answered 1 By calling out the yeomanry ; by proclaiming martial law ; by appointing special commissions ; by shooting without colour of crime , and hanging without colour of law ! "O ! true , true , " say the politicians ; " but it was the Tories !!! " No , no ; it was not ; it was the landlords , the parsons , and the magistrates , Whigs as well as Tories . It was that force which in every country , when its interests are attacked , either compels the existing Government to assume the lead in despotism to preserve its order , or deposes the Government upon refusal , and establishes one of its own in its stead .

      How did the landlords and parsons meet the emergency 1 There were two classes of landlords , without distinction of creed or politics : one class was very , very scanty indeed ; the class who made tardy reductions ; but even in the mode of making those reductions they completely paralyzed all industry among their tenantry . It was this . They held them to the old condition in their leases , and gave them receipts for the full amount , upon receiving the reduced rent , and held the old arrears over them as a drawn sword , ready upon a war , or any other

      godsend , to have the " full pound of flesh . " Thus were the farmers out of all heart , while the Irish labourers were compelled to have recourse to opera benefits patronised by the Royal Family , needlework performed by Maids of Honour , proceeds of fancy balls , and subscriptions from the English , humane and charitable , for support ; and the plague partially terminated , by an influx of Irish agricultural labourers into the English manufacturing market ; an influx greater in four years than the whole swarm of poor creatures who bad been banished for the previous century .

      The other class of landlords were those who held on by the terms of the lease as long as the last goose had a feather in her tail ; middle men , in most instances , but well backed by fee-simple proprietors . This system , coupled with Mr . Goulburn ' s Tithe Bill , of 1824 , gave rise to the plan of knocking small heart-broken farms into pasture ground , which led to another irruption of displaced labourers .

      In 1826 , the Irish currency was assimilated ; that is , land held by small farmers was again raised by 8-J p « r cent . ; the old Irish pound was compounded , being demanded in the new coin , £ 1 Is . 8 d . This the small cottier tenants , bore , as they would bear anything for a hiding hole and a " spot to work on . " But it also dislodged many . Then came the Catholic Relief Bill in 1829 , and this measure relieved the political traffickers of 380 , 000 of their live stock , whose little holdings of an acre or two were knocked into large farms of fifty or a hundred acres ; and then had we an immense exportation of the life ' s blood of the country—of the real wealth of the nation .

      These 380 , 000 heads of families constitute the whole mass of Irish pauperism , at present so humiliating to those who witneBS it without a struggle for its removal ; and also have greatly augmented the reserve in the English market . During these trying periods for the farmers , the parsons , as a body , tried shooting upon a large scale , rather than reduce one farthing of their accumulated demand , or abate it in future to peace

      prices ; and although they justified their refusal by u the trust imposed upon them for their successors " —the never failing plea of Churchmen , as expediency is of tyrants , —yet did they , in many , very many instances , refuse to take fifteen shillings in the pound of the arrears from the Catholic occupiers , while they leased them out to Protestant proctors for ton shillings in the pound , upon a strict promise not to abate one farthing of the legal demand .

      Now such are the parties to whom the Irish farmers and the Irish labourers are to loak with confidence , for the adjustment of any inequality which the " GREAT COMMERCIAL MEASURES " may create—to a party who have systematically plundered , in violation of all laws human and divine , and who , in compliance with a Government measure , will not , we imagine , surrender in proper season , the right of " doing what they please with their own . " To such a tribunal are the plundered to appeal as a last resource .

      If this calamity does not come , then does the project fail ; for bread will not be cheaper ; and if this calamity does come , then will it be met according to precedent , by shooting , hanging , and transporting , in the first instance , and then by the exportation of another million of Irish agriculturists as a further reserve for the masters ; and then another million of a loan from England for Irish parsons .

      And then , perhaps , may be applied the lever which if used in time , would have spared the weeping the wailing and the gnashing of teeth . That lever is the Charter ! which by depriving the landlords of the power of annexing destructive conditions , would oblige them to give leases for ever at a corn rent , and to bring their land into a valuable retail market to meet the wants of God ' s own flock .

      This , and this only , can make a people independent of all foreign growers . This , and this only , can in-Bure peace , plenty , and " cheap bread : " but this they will not do till forced to it , because upon the monopoly of the land depends the existence of a lucrative church establishment , a luorative army and navy establishment , a lucrative place and pension establishment ; one and all of which are so many hot beds—nurseries and provisions for the scions of the landed aristocracy .

      " Well but , " says an " anti-monopolist , " " would you not crush that faction . " We answer , No ; not if by crushing that we crush those who would be innocent sufferers , and create in its stead a more heartless Bet of " quasi" landlords , what the Irish call" Sky farmers "—domestic jobbers—who would purchase the produce of the land from Germans , Russians , Turks , Prussians or Americans , as cheap as they could , and sell it as dear as they could to those whose own land they had rendered sterile in order to hold complete dominion over their working slaves .

      We would crush them by making them rich , whether they would or no ; by taking from them the power of making themselves paupers , by impoverishing their country and their fellow-men . That we call Christian justice , and we much prefer it to the justice of political economists . The great anomaly of the corn branch of the new " commercial exotic" is this , that the Irish people are asked to join ia reducing the price of the only thing they produce—for the purpose of cheapening the thing of which they never consume a particle ! " 0 but that is a part of our complaint , " say the humanity mongers ; " we mean to make them consume more bread . " To this general fallacy we shall reply under the head " Timber Duties . " Cheap bread , then , must make cheap

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      land ; but cheap land will not follow cheap bread , so long as one of the old tenants upon any estate has one fraction left , whereby he can be "keptto bis bargain ; " while the desolation , expectation , and misery caused while the thing was finding its level , would be indescribable . So much for the "fixed duty on corn" and now for

      " SUGAR DUTIES . " Upon this subject , as regards Ireland , we require but » word . We would feel obliged by the " cool Mr . Baring" furnishing us with a " eliding scale , " by which a lot of jolly Irisk boys in a frolic may estimate the reduotion to be made upon each tumbler of punch , according to the * ' GREAT COMMERCIAL REFORM . " We want that ; because it ia the only manner in which Irish labourers or Irish

      farmers use sugar , from the 1 st of January to the 31 st of December . " O , but they must have sugar , " say the monopolists . " They shall have the Whig ' Balm of Gilead , ' the great sweetener of life ! the joy of the poor man ' s heart ! and the refiner of his morals ' . " Fudge , blarney , bother , humbug ! Give them enough of "praties" first , and they'll Sad the sugar and timber afterwards .

      "TIMBER DUTIES . " An Irish farmer , holding fifty acres of land , and even more , does not use twenty { pounds' worth of imported timber in the whole of his life , and what he does use is Canadian , , upon which the additional duty is to be laid on for his relief . An Irish labourer dees not use one plank of foreign timber in the whole of his life . He is rocked in . the arms of some native oak ; he trips through manhood with a native shillelagh , leans in hiaold age upon a native staff , and is borno to the grave upon a native " bier . " Every stick in his " mud hovel" comes from " his honour ' s wood f and thus begins and ends his use of timber !

      " O , but , " 8 ay the " anti-monopolists , " " we mean t » put an end to this . The farmers surely would use foreign timber if it was placed within their reach . " Yes , they do use foreign timber , but not muob , and as before stated , it is Canadian . The shafts of their carts axe made of " treble deals , ' ' the bodies of their carts are made of " treble deals , ' ' and that is all they use , and thai the great reform is

      to make dearer for them ! " 0 but Memel or Norway red deal is muob . better , and our GREAT COMMERCIAL REFORM' will bring the latter article within their reach . The Baltio trade , you know , the Baltic I" No ; it will not . As well may the economists tell us that a tax upon frieze would force the peasant to wear broad cloth , or that a tax upon " jaunting cars" would oblige the Irish tradesman to drive in his carriage .

      The smallest tax , injudiciously laid on , may amount to a total prohibition of the use of the taxed article . The new school of calculators would impose upon upon us the belief that the true way to make Irish farmers purchase a better artiolo is by raising its price , while at the same time they reduoe their means , by diminishing the value of their exchange . For what , then , are the Irish people to join in the new move . " Hear it , ye good men , struggling for freedom , and sorrovr ! Hear it , ye bad men , contending against justice , and blush ! " 0 ! OUR RELIGION WILL BE ATTACKED BY THE

      TORIES 2 " Sacred liberty ! what an insult ! O , Mighty knowledge , what a folly ! Merciful Creator ! what a sin ! This , then , is the real casus belli ; this is the mountain ; this is the crutch of limping , truckling , blighting , blasting , hypocrisy ! But , O knowledge tbou idol of the good man ' s worship ! thanks be to God ! tbou art fast unbinding the tight bandage which has so long obscured man ' s vision ! Thy magic influence comes like a mighty torrent in the midst of the calm , and will sweep away all the ignorance , superstition , and bigotry of darker ages . Yes , knowledge will expand the mind , mature the judgment , and unite the mighty masses in one overwhelming band of freemen .

      Under such a combination of right and might , with the knowledge which the English and Scotch now possess to direct us , we will gain liberty without a blow . But should tyranny , strong in long possession , made courageous by unopposed sway , and confident by passive obedience and non-resistance , still resist ; we will then , with one mighty blow , strike the Hydra-headed monster to the earth to rise no more !

      The tactics of Ireland as recommended by the " Liberator , " are the most dishonest , base , and flagrantly mercantile and treacherous , of his many political speculations . Must not every man with half an eye at once see that the return of Whigs by the Irish people , is the cutting of so many sticks to beat themselves soundly , when they shall first have gently whipped the Tories from the Treasury benches for six or seven years longer ? Then will Mr . O 'Cornell have entirely succeeded ; his object being to throw another stumbling block in his own way , the removal of which will be a fair excuse for raising the supplies for years from a poor deluded starving people . Never was there so rascally a juggle , and well may the Iri&h patriots

      exclaim"Alas ! poor country , Almost afraid to know itself . " We beg , in conclusion , to give the following heartrending scrap , exultingly paraded iu Monday ' s Chronicle , as the first Irish instalment of the very anticipation of the " Great commercial Reforms : "" EXTENSIVE EMIGRATION . Up to the 15 th of the present month , thirty vessels have sailed from the port of Cork alone , with 4 , 662 emigrants , for Canada , the United States , and New South Walks . " There " anti-monopolists , " won't that rate of transportation satisfy your hellish lust for removing the pressure upon subsistence ! or what more do you require , you infernal fiends !

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      DANIEL O'CONNELL AND "THE MISCREANT CHARTISTS . " By our report of the Crown and Anchor Meeting , reported in our last , and convened by MhO'Connell and his friends under a sixpenny protection , and ostensibly for the purpose of blarneying about Repeal but really with a view of feeling his way once more

      into popular society for the purpose of foisting the " bloodies" for another term upon us , it will be seen that the " miscreants" can find their way even to a ticket show in sufficient numbers to upset humbug . Never were insolence and folly more conspicuous than in the combination of both , which the learned gentleman exhibited upon the occasion . The blind followers hoped to give tone to the country by the triok : but Martin and others opened his

      eyes . It appears , however , that a Mr . Duggan , rent collector in Manchest er , has insured Dan a favourable reception

      IN MANCHESTER ; and we learn that -the walls of the town have been covered with bills , announcing Dan ' s intention to meet the factory operatives of Manchester in the Carpenter's Hall , on Tuesday next . The indignant excitement which this threat has created in Manchester , Oldham , Ashton , Stockport , and the surrounding districts , is intense ; and the Chartists are resolved to give Dan a benefit !

      Now , be it remembered that the Leeds working people are the most Master-ridden in the North of England ; and yet did they , in the depth of winter , with snow upon the ground , turn out well to meet the reviler of the " miscreant Chartists . " Manchester , therefore , owes Leeds a return of the compliment ; and Manchester , we have no doubt , will do its duty . The Piht , Dan ' s tool , and the other tools of the Irish liberal press , have paraded Dan ' s thrashing at the Crown and Anchor as a complete triumph over Chartism . Now , we ask if this is fair to our Irish

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      brethren , who are just now struggling to throw the monster from their back I Is it justice to them , we ask , while they nobly struggle against corruption , and corruption ia the very citadel , that we should allow them to suppose , for one moment , that we are about to receive the traitor whom they have expelled from their ranks 1 We rejoice to find that our London friends and others have so warmly taken up the cause of the , aged Mrs . Mkllon , and have recommended a relief

      fund for all persecuted Irish Chartists . This is as it ought to be ; and Mr . O ' Connor , notwithstanding his many annoyances , has commissioned us to publish his willingness to act as Treasurer for his oppressed countrymen . He says that he will look upon every farthing given as a gift bestowed upon himself . We ask , then , is this the time to admit the arch traitor amongst us , just as he is imposing upon the people the additional task of supporting his victims in his native land 1

      The Irish Chartist Association is likely to become the moBt powerful body everorganisedin that country ; and we expect ere long to have the inexpressible pleasure of announcing their first grand procession , and open air meeting . Can we allow such indomitable perseverance to be checked by courtship , here , of the common enemy ? No , we cannot . The country , and our Irish brethren would very properly hold the Executive responsible for any damage done to their cause by tolerating the enemy of the ** miscreant Chartists" even to attend one of their meetings .

      Have we not had enough of his oppression , and his support of the " Bloodies , " or are we , like fools , now to pardon the greatest of all our enemies!—the man whose sole aim is to fill his pockets at the expence of a starring people , and whose only object is to purchase a renewal of confidence for renewed traffic . Men of Manchester ! you were among the first and the boldest to demand a proper reception for the " miscreant" in Yorkshire ; and now , upon behalf of Yorkshire , we have a right to demand from yon a

      return of the service which was so nobly performed , and so cheerfully undertaken , in defiance of all opposing obstacles . Up , then ! and meet the enemy . Let him see that you are what you profess to be ; and if a slave class , not willingly so . Ireland expects every man to do his duty ! We expect , in our next , to be able to publish a list of subscriptions for the relief of the persecuted Irish Chartists , and the proper reception of their persecutor .

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      THE ELECTION CRISIS . At this most important and momentous period , we feel that the following nervous and well-timed address , is worthy of attention from all parties of the producing people ; and we therefore call to it their especial notice . "TO THE OPPRESSED MILLIONS THROUGHOUT THE LAND . M Haddersfield , 26 th May , 1841 . 11 Fhiends , —Monopoly or no monopoly has taken the place of the old Whig , cry of ' The Bill , the whole Bill , and nothing but the Bill , ' and with the same Whig intention , namely , to dupe , to delude * and to cheat the unsuspecting and unwary .

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      "A bill , dated the 25 th inst ., and prints \ Huddersfield , headed- 'Monopoly or no S , at that is the question ' -in favour of WhWrv f ly ' very truly , That the inhabitants shouldI reful / 1 be any longer befooled by party cries f ™«! ** party 1 ' Had they not been befooled bTthfcft faction , we should have had no mock Reform Sir we should have had no " anti-Poor Law aeit&tA I paid or unpaid ; because we should have nS none ; that crew would never have had the dowp » inflict a law bo bloody , so cruel , aud so town * ° That hypocritical bwditti could not har ^ ? ' flioted upon us ao many Commissions , ea L * Rural Police ; they could not have created J ? l immense burdenB for the industrious commnnih < hear ; they could not have added so heawan » n » ° to the National Debt ; they could n »\* KS * ^ i nn nAA * . » n . » u r \ 1 . ? " ? grantti ) vtu

      * " » ) ™ '" *"" «« ueeu , nor wooid thev K .. T had the baseness and impudence to reeoiw ^ recipes , and publish them , « s Barnes , fi ^ has . done to the free and independent laboBr ^ this enlightened jountiT . bywhiVh , from a coHeZ of garbage , eight pints of soup should be ot 22 for 4 * d . ; or that From rubbish , not fit tor ^ mess should be made , which should make a . a- ' * for five able-bodied labourers , for the chie fe Those ingenious starvation mongers-tho se refilj inventors of sktllygolee , and advocates of f « i f . 5 * -those Judases , who . for the last nine yeS h ** been engagedJn contriving the best madeTof ^ H tha lUAnlnkhAnrhw / lMi uii ) itM ^ ... "" aKing — ¦! ivuuw

      — - r ~^ r---- " — - » - ~ .-,-- »» mure , and li '»« onless andcoarserfaro—whohavebronghtth « B » r . iv starvation point , and from thence to * theuEfif and through these to their graves , by thousand ' —those Tile monsters who have been so consist * > and so successful , in the work of lowering wa enslaving , starving , and extirpating the mdnftS community ; may , with their common , audaciZ ? and barefaced effrontery , nowtbat the tra Wn ?? f over the country , are becoming bankrupts bv wiii sale , and the trade iaat a stand 6 til \ , wke raS starvation is all but universal—when theirown > £ l less cruelty and extravagance have cast thenuMn their beam ends—when they cannot progress ^ their work of havoc one step further . tLTrJ . now challenge the devil to equal tffS effrontery , when they come to ua and V 7 » " That a bold attempt has at length been % S by her Majesty ' s Ministers to revise our narti . iT . 5

      oppressiTe , &c ^ Laws . " Why , I ask , did tbTy not begin there ; and keep improving , instead of retro ! grading during the whota nine years of their m £ government ! Why at the last moment do thev &Z ! forth with the olive branch . I tell you plainly it i « to allure you—to bring you again intotheir meshes--to induce you to seat them again in nower And if you do ; if you permit yourselves to be deluded you must bid farewell to liberty ; you must exoeet a continuance of their heartless inhuman system tod must look for a renewalof their systematicarroonce " you must look for starvation , raes . «!»««'

      and premature death—you must expect a well clad and high fed army of blue bludgeoners , backed out by a red army with bullets and bayonets , and a land covered with bastilea , commissioners , and Government spies , with the foreim system of passports and centralisation , by which every germ of mercy , justice , ( to the poor ) and benevolence will be annihilated , and we are slaves for ever ! Then up , Britons , up , 'Now is tho day and now is the hour , ' andif it is the last day andthe last hoar the last opportunity which will ever be afforded von !

      let it not pass—let it not slip , for the sake of mercyfor your own , and for the sake of your families—for the sake of posterity , be up , beat your post and let Whiggery be utterly destroyed—yea extirpated—at al risks , and at all hazards , from this land , and from the face of the earth . Fear nothing but the restoration of the baneful influence of Whig faction ; drive that pestilence from the laud . " I am most truly " And most faithfully youre , " L . PlTKETHLT . "

      We are persuaded , with our excellent friend Mr . Pitkethly , that the most effective Btep to be now taken for liberty , is the crippling of the Whigsno matter how . The people ' s prospects look well , so far as the election is concerned . Several Chartist Candidates are already ia the field . Eleo tion Committtees are formed and forming everywhere , to watch the movements of the time—to bring out and support Chartist Candidates wherever itia practicable—and Tories wherever it is not . Any thing to beat down the " bloodies 1 "

      Colonel Thompson at Hull , Sharman Crawfoej at Rochdale , and Captain Wood at Bradford , art all in a fair way for invigorating the rotten carcase of St . Stephens with some really patriotic life . Let but the people bestir them , and the votes of the Chartist electors , aud the power ( rightly directed ) of the Chartist non-electors , shall now prove itself to be all sufficient for the utter annihilation of one of the two great factions by making the other worry itand then hurrah ! for the simple tug of right against might ; of a united people against the single foe ! !

      We informed our readers some time ago , that Mr . Baines did not intend to bid again for Leeds . We think the following extract from the Convention report will shew them that Sir William Molbwobth need not : — " Mr . Cullen called upon Mr . Leader , bnt did not see him . He then waited upon Sir Wm . Molesworth , and requested his support of the petition in farour of the imprisoned Chartists , and to preseut memorials for the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones . He flrst said that he would deliberate whether he would present the Leeds petition or not . He theu said that he could not support the petition , or present the memorials . "

      Will that satisfy the Chartists \ Will they permit the " Goose Club" to return Molesworth again ; even if they should dare attempt it \ We calculate not . Two Tories will go in for Leeds , to a dead certainty , if the people do their duty . The "bloodies" talk something , as we hear , about Joet Hume ! We just think we see Beown Beeid Joseph , walking arm in arm with Hekring-Soc ? Neddy , and escorted by a procession of Hand-loon weavers carrying a small brown loaf and a rotten red herring , on a pole , and playing "the Itognes March" upon " Rough Music ! " How very funnj-

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      THE PRESENTATION OF THE NATIONAL ~ . PETITION AND THE MOTION OF MB . - DUNCOMBE . The National Petition was presented on Tuesday , to the " House . " The number of agnates vns announced by Mr . Duncombk to be more than one million three huadred thousand ! ¦ At an early hour in the morning , the C ° aTen ^ Hall had been crowded with persons anxious to W

      their eyes with a last view of the stupendous eruienw of devotion to the cause of liberty afforded bj- » people in this petition , which measured upwards 1 , 460 yards in length , and which , thoug h got np « a very short period , and with little or no expensr excitement , had in reality been signed by M " THAN TWO MILLIONS OF PERSONS . !

      By one o clock , the front of theOld Baley ^ blocked up with human beings , breathing deep anxious prayers for its success . At a ^ "f ^^ three , the petition being placed upon a P > $ frame , covered with green baize , and m * « splendid flag waring over it , was mounted upo shoulders of the bearers . jj-wof It was borne tethe - House" on th ^ boul ^ eighteen " Fustian Jackets , " who P ^" ^ duty well-preceded by a procession of »•* . ^ of the Convention , and other leadin g u » amidst the deafening shouts of co " ^* r ~ 3 S sands , which , by the time it reached tnan s

      had , rendered the streets unpassable . , ap The procession passed the Horse f ^**** Parliament-street to the entrance of ™ ^ rf Where the interference of the police , w ^ ^ anxious to quarrel with the ^ ' ^ V ^ teproinpt probability have caused a row , W ^ V Js , nd and decisive interference of Dr . W _ ° _ iha some other of the leading Chartis * ^ Police were of the A ° ivi 810 ° ' deeds of iningham Bull Ring notoriety ; f ^ T ^ tiA former days seemed to cling round tbeir ^ v ^ give them strong desires fora little mow ^ -. ¦ * t- ti .. tnavfls were aiwr * . , exercise —

      _ , wowever , me »«» . v . { ed " >""' The good tem per of the people P « J \ ludge 0 B 9 having any pretext on which touse w , of which they insultingly displayed to tne 300 or more . . „ entered * After a short delay the V ^^ L . &frS lobby of the House at four , *™™ rZ & cheers . A rush was made by the Itoj *^ , ^ House to see " the Prodigy . " Mr . P ^ ^ sent for . Hi ^^ J ^ V charge of the Petition , directed it to w

      The Northern Star. Saturday, May 29, 1841.

      THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , MAY 29 , 1841 .

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      SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS . It is really amusing to see the lucubrations of the " Artful Dodger" and the Tap-tub ^ served up by the immortal Sun , for our evening repast , in one hash , under the title "Spirit of the Press , " and seasoned with the Palmeeston piquant sauce , extracted from the columns of the little " Globe . " A bit of French and a bit of Latin , and a bit of a

      joke , to constitute the balance of power of a great nation , and to guide our destinies , is quite characteristic of the "OldBeau . " It does to serve his purpose , and , in truth , as we were some time ago favoured with specimens of the poetic productions of members of the Cabinet , we see no reason why every Right Honourable Gentleman should not have his own particular paper for chronicling his own peculiar views .

      In fact , it would be but justice to others , inasmuch as the Noble Lord , whose trade is diplomacy , has certainly out-jockeyed his colleagues in his press-gang manoeuvres . By his fascinations he has won the columnB of all , while he is most heartily ridiculed by each . Yet we must bear in miad that Editors are but men , and that they may be flattered like other men ; henoe we find , that sinoe poor Easthope stretched his legs under the Premier ' s mahogany ,

      he has lost all decency as a journalist in his duty towards his host . From that fatal day to the present , if Melbourne committed murder , rape , or arson , Easthorpb would justify the not by the necessity , and would not even ( as Fouche had the honesty to do ) call his master ' s greatest butchery by the gentle title of " a political blunder . " No , Easxhorpb would not allow crime in such case to be even a blunder . Well may the conquering journalist exclaim , " but one such dinner more , and I am undone !" In the meantime , the Great Geographer continues to dot his surface with the names of newly discovered depots of popular strength heretofore unknown beyond the parish boundary , save to the literati , but now swelled into frog-like importonce , and paraded under the head

      " GREAT DEMONSTRATION ON BEHALF OF THE GREAT COMMERCIAL REFORM . " Alas ! the attempt creates no more excitement than the mere curiosity produced by a first glance at a new " atlas . " The people are not there ! The people will not be there ; because the people don't want a HOUSE OF MASTERS to complete their ruin . So the poor Chron . may dot , and dot , and dot away ; but the close of the poll will dot him out of Leicester , and his masters out of the Treasury .

      O , what a god-send the Whitsuntide holidays would have been in 1832 ! and how dry the old timbers of Bristol and Nottingham would have been for a Whig cracks ; but now , alas ! the tears of the hungry have moistened them , and even in the dogdays they would not ignite , though struck by a sudden flash of Whiggery ! The devil himself , be he black or be he white , could ' nt save the poor " bloodies ; " and as a last hope they are calling spirits from the " vasty deep ; " but alas ! the spirits are too deeply sunk in Whig poverty , Whig bastiles , and Whig dungeons , to hear the summonB . " When poverty comes in at the door , love flies out at the window "—when Whigs came in at the window , prinoiple went out at tho door .

      O , the poor , poor " bloodies 2 ! " what will become of the ** bloodies i" What shall we do with the " bloodies V How will it be with the " bloodies V " Noboby coming to help " the " bloodies . " Nobody coming to woo" u the bloodies . " So down ! down ! down ! with the " bloodies !" We are irresistibly compelled to append hereunto the most recent discoveries of depots of popular feeling by the "Artful Dodger" Hear , ye uninstructed in English localities , the places relied upon to carry Reform in 1841 ; and ask yourselves if the Reformers « f 1832 knew of the existence of one half of them .

      " GREAT DEMONSTRATIONS at Carnarvon , Corsham , Chippenham , Peterborough , Brampton Moor , Brampton , Tynemoutb , Southampton [ again 1 ] , Gosport , Rioo of Gretna [ who the devil is the Riggl ] , Honiton , Chatham , Canterbury , Epping , Dartford [ great opkn-air meeting , thirtynine present !] , Anna , " and so on ; bnt they were licked wherever they dared to meet the sinews : Stroud and Birmingham , to wit . Its all up , Chron . so you may map away , old boy , till you are black in the face ! You may just as well whistle jigs to a mile-stone , as offer your " commercial Reforms" to the penile of England now .

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      4 THE NO R T H ERN ST A R . ¦

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 29, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct857/page/4/