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TIIE EOfiTHEftK STAR. SATURDAY, MAY 16. 1C40.
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* HUDDERSFIELD BOARD ROOM , Mat ft . Immediately after ten o ' clock , when the nnrv called ever -the names of the Guardiasid ^ fffenAm in ? were present : — uwuwgta * . Ma ^ eld ^ B 6 ttomle yrW Nfey , ^ I j ; Mr . Bradbury , one of the over , ^ 3 of fladdersneld was in attendance to consr / t * , ??> , **_ rn «»^ 5 «« rating giving up the u 4 ^ fiel ? WoK £ and a stiff contest arose . t 1 » bastile crew were al on fire for possessor v ^ ti th « »« n . ; nn nf m . * HUDDERSFIELD BOARD ROOM , Mat ft
ship OBgat to uaxe . the fiace if they wished , and they should provide basses for themselves . Mr . A ' ofeon spoke on vhe Mine side . Joseph Batley seeaed as anxir . as to iave possession as if , without it , the darling scheme would T&e lost . The Chairman showed nearly tfee same-extent of feeling . Mr . Pitkethly gaid Mr . Bradbury Teas is possession only in _ virtue of his office , and that without consulting ¦ with those who appointed ban , he considered he should be acting cmwarrantaKy to deliver possession to any other without their consent , and that t-ke Archbishop , the Vicar , and others , aro trustees of the property , £ sd it was tie least they could d « to consult thi-ia ; thai Mr . Kcrth , the finer overseer , beiug frem v . oae , it was so : competent for his-eolleat . ue to » Kf « him in b > 3 absence 011 k > iicp ^ rtani
a BuDjeci , Tavomng eo-iseu . uer . ces most lemne . Mr . P ^ polevsa inquired = f Mrs . Ainsv .-orth was to be put Ibtc-: hc Lo ; : so . It ^ cs siiswered , Yt ^ , she was iha sshires ? Ic ^ f appointed by the Geuiuiissiuners . Tk :-ii , saiu hi > they wili utTer sub 2 a- to her . BiH Urijig-, oPS ' olcar , said the ' HmuhirsS'iid folk had aothing 10 do who was put in , Mr . Pij . kethly said taa : crowded all thai had been said at the Bgscd , arid indiguanily asked , hare the people cf Had&STffiold nothing to do with wh ? i&er they are to ha . v ? a harridan of a woman , wh-e had , when there *; ft » re , tenured ihe por > r inmaies and robbed the ratepayers ! is it nothing , he irked , to the ratcpsvers whether they are to have their '
unfortunate brothers and sisters under the E&anagement of a tysa-n :, who baa been chatted wkh-, and proved to have robbed she town—of having hsA feustings carried on-to t-inost scandalous extent—of LaMiu * ier visitors to go and take the poor idiots out of bed , * n £ make them -tun through the room naked as they were born ; and that they should . make old women Creak , for the purpose of hearing -them taik bawdy , filsHy , and obscene language ! If it we ^ the doctrine « f hit . Brisks ,-continued Mr .-P ., -that it laatferssoi ¦ wiiether the-j > oor were treated with justice and humanity , « ua the interests of the ratepayers attended to at the same time , he codd Touch that it was not the doctrine of the people of Gilgai , nor ¦ was it that » of Huddersfield ; on the-contrary , thw wanted justice to payer and receiver .
Jdr . Joseph Batley said , the majority = was kepi by A mere feciion ; that the respectable ratepayers wanted to-give it up ; that it was kept for . factious purposes , and that the case had been examined ^ tha t ilrs , A . Ttas to be tried for three months , and thai if she did not behave during that time , she would
fee dismissed . Mr .. Pitketh ; y said , that if ihe many was a faction * then Bailey was right ; but it was most curious , that &t at all town ' s meetings , the ratepayers decided by a majority , and Eurely a majority could not be a faction . ; vnai at the line election lor Guardians , if the majority waa ia favour of those who were for keepiug . the poorbouse in the hands of the rate payers ; and asked would £ e ( . Bailej . ) call vL&- » a faction ! And wsts it factious to keop out a woman who hadrobbeJ iheoi iu so * glorious ' a manner ; who w » s continually carrying or Bending away , bv TarioQS pi-rsons , the- our property of the Louse ; a woman vho had , a very short time before lecnii : jr , ¦ usca two stories of sugar iu preservii ; *? the fr '; : it grown in the garden , and ¦ scar , out of the whole , hid left emy cue pot . A woman who had done those thiUgi was lio ; \ v be tolerit * d ; yet in . the : ' ace of nine : . y-ulne rate-p ; - . yer 3 ou ; of evjC hur . tin .-c , a oicri .-fractloii ut a . faciiun was to furce her ui-ou tLe tw . ii
11 was moTed that the aversterjB slxrji'i have one week to consider what is best 10 be done . Mr . Pitkethly moved that the -ward fortnight might be iusened in the place of wt-. k . it wadeclared that a week only tLould be - allowed , Mr . P . now read a letter from the overseers of 2 *^ Mill , Derbyshire , complaining of Lancaster , the relieving-cS ^ r , for not paying niony due for the sap-port ordered to be giveu to a pauper ; a check : or the amount wa 3 sent oaf . Mi . Jcnkinsoa said ihat their a 5 = . 5 tar « overseer hid come to the Board os an icapoiiant case , y ; z ;—RicLarii St-ephenson , of Kojii's Hail , near iluduersfielcL bad uad his faraittue seized i- __ h : s iaauiord , Hiiigh , who hs > d gone to ihe puyr nuiu s houM ; with iciue c . 'i ^ taUici ; aad who , uu-ier ] . reteL . ct ; of lsiiaLr . v . h ^ J , k > r £ 6 Is . r £ ii r . cu * :, tsktu
aw-aj a c :, ; ^ -Jp .-co , ij ; a jenu _ y , i' 7 ; a . vrarvin ^ sa ili and rctl , £ 2 3 s ; iiEjuEtliig w zC-ti 3 j . The person OL £ . ) fin ^ xi ;^ i " uiS rumwis i-tait . of iiis circumstancts , wtui to America , and his wiie be ^ an to bake oatcake , and -w ^ s vtoii . g t « 7 well , but the landlord went again and to .-k away her tekestone and grate , also two iubs , which , with the other , v , eie sold privately , just to -cover expjiies . TiiurstonlaBd having to release them , " had taken away the remzhiiiig funmiue , witii ihe exotrption of a few things which were sold to enable tac tusbaad * . o leave V . \ q country . What monsters iu Lu-Bane fchape ! CoiiUiikmai advise was ^ iven to the overseer s .
alr . Pitkcthij said he hau a mimber of letters from various townships , cStriug to do the duties of the ssrerai efne-es for mir " , auu less than ha'i" that was paid to ; L-jSe fi . iiii ^ the uiik * . Tim . e was mctt rapiuiv pa ^ ikig ; a ^ d it woul a tn ; bcf . er to uefc r them till iater on in the day , with the exception oi one , wiiich referred to a person in waiting . He read a portion of the I ' ulIowjL-g : — 14 RushSeld , May 5 th , 1840 . " To the Guaruiaus of Iluda-. r ^ nria , & . c , 6 : c . " Gr > "T < . — 1 pray that you wek . li jrra-. t me a teariug b ^ iur-- - your r-ujr-i vii Kr . 'iay nexi , v .-.-c 3 . h i : ^ :. 1 i ^ ave neaid ^? i . u £ ¦' . < -: ' zj ~ . u * : oit t :. u : a ; v ^ m list meetiii ^ Tii ' - risaa ^ 00 JJorh . BatleYi . nd otiicr ; . - - - - - — j- _^_^ v v w fc
, , — ^ . ^^ _ ^ ^ ^ a ~* ^ A ^ 1 V fc * W *^ did , iu n ~ y absence , rncit cruelly attacs and asperse lay character , wiiicii to me is ti ' iarer tiian life . My object iu soiicitia ^ an intrrrievr , is for the ptirpo / e of defending mysuif , aud j .-r-jv " rug that I have published ihe truth o :: ly , and t :: at lay accusers are the caluiuiiiitors ; and 1 aua ready to swear , that what 1 caused to be published m the Champion&nd \ Xorthcrn Siar newspapers , vras sir . c : '; y Hue . I thail be in arKcndance oa PridaT moirotii :.
" Yours , . ke ., . : " ¥ s . S-trss , ' 1 Batley aadh ; s pany , who had condemned poor Sjkes in . his Soc ^ er , m great excitenieiit , objected . Mr . Pitkcthiy said they vz £ ii % r . . j ; to object , when a ma-u , wtom they ha . a cyn-aeuuiec ia his aboeacs , demanded to be admitted . Ima-diaiciy it muo moved " Thai ho be not admiit ^ d . " Mr . PiiketKly moved as an ameudmeut , " That he be called in . "' Ba ' . ley voted against his acjri . ^ -ic-n , and with his frieiius w-. re a majority , Su thi = may lc , vritn ^ rta ; projiricty , a-id < M t-j tlir general provrtuii- ^ s ol Klitiiioen-itrcet and Siiadlne-i : ook Christians . The Chairman now called upon Mr . Pitkethly to defer h ; s i . oticeyf eduou wiiich sio ^ a lor ika ; day ,, or to proceed . wiUi it . .
Mr . P . tketsly thc-u moved , " That the Wholo of the CO- resp'juUtjije-c t-ttwten tne Gaird aus aini the ' C : er * : j l . ;« G-iiraiaiis . t-r to a ; . y i ^ .-rson oti ^ i ^ ii . CoiiKc'tc'i v . " .- " Si := t > u ; a > -i l » uu : u " . ¦ .:.-, L > c i i > i Lt--fvrc t :. ; - iic :-. rvi :-ji t :: e : r ia : ui .-at : i . >! i u : r' g ' .- ¦ l u . r . cr . a ; : j Ti . itt ; : ;^ raru ^ , with ^ ii uiiiti p ^ j .-err b * : _ ¦ . f : L- ^ ' \< i XL .-i i 5 > : _ r' ! , v » : piici-i t'j a .-mat iv-iVrcncc-iu-jy 1-. JB 3--C i . ii-.-rci " - > , '^ 1 " --l rciisjiiiib ' ie tiia-s , bj ~ an \ Ga ^ r- ' dia . n of tue Un ; ou . " * ; The Chairixias then put the motiors , when t ' : cr <; , appcarca K > r 1 : —Messrs . Seuior , it . W ' ^ ' ey , Tvisy . i , " Wti . worth , Anderson , Graham , Woodiieati , Haiiai , I Jetikuiaua , Poppletoa , Deigbton , a ; id Pukeihiy . " Agaiust tiie movlou—Messrs . J . Batley , W . Bat-ky , Tmkcr , Brooke , Briggs , W . Wrigtey , Bo tomley , sad Iredale ; Messrs . kLej and iloD ^ ou standing neuter . i ; ; \
The numbers were—For the motion 11 Against it 8 Majority ~ 3 Next came the following salaries , said u > be due to the ttndernamed masters and matrons of ihe several workhouses , for the quarter ending the 2 oin of Ji * rch last : — £ 8 . d , Joseph Dean , Almondbury Workhouse 7 10 0 Samuel Haigh , Golcar ditto . 6 3 0 Iklrs . Brickenb&nk , Matron , Honley 3 5 0
The promised securities for Joseph Dean ' s bastard . child , of Almondbury Workhouse , were not ready Thus unfortunate women are put to all possible trouble : the promise of last meeting was public . and positive , th » t they BhonJd be ready to-day . Mr . Piikethly said some irre ^ ulaKty had taken j £ ace regarding the accounts . He saw that by the A « they were to be passed within thirty days from the 25-Jii of March , and that prior to their being passed , they should lay at the Board Room so many jiays for tae inspection of the rate-payers . Be i&erefcg-e desired to kiow if thev had so lain , and wien . Mr . floyjd said they hid so laid , out refused to say fthen . Ther ? vras a duplicate cf tae account ? , which woalu its rewey to-day .
The relieving officers were then called h , and the exaininat on o- tfe app ' . ican-. s fur reilif proceeded with , dar : nv whicn i 11112 , v . ho had gune acd married a . second wile , xdus leaving his iiiit wiie and family ch ^ rg-jable to the Ivvrs , kjj taken into cust < fuj , $ 0 be ^ i-Jaiusd ' o-iiiie Jae magistrates . : 11 ^ -
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• ^ B ^ stl&w > ^ Uppsrthong , came intofthe room in breathles 3 h&ste , ( Mrs . Ainsworth wag seen to call upon , him ml aa empty house he has in New * street just before , ) and disturbing the whole business , gave notice , at that irregular and improper time , that at the next meeting he should moTe that the salaries of Mrs . Ainsworth and of her ( Sheffield ) nephew should be paid ; they never having done one honr ' s work , nor entered upon the situation . Dr . Bradshaw was very coolly received , and bolted , no doubt to report to his favourite that he would get her the cash . It is Kotorious that Dr . Bradshaw is very partial to » little fat man ; but it is expected that the Guardians will not be bo far hoodwinked as to pay , by granting salaries for no services done to them . The meeting was then adjoorned to that day week . Dr . *«*** . «? tt ^ , _
It is heart-rending to see the crowds of miserable , starving , half-naked human beings anxious to labour for their bread , who are collected in and about the centralised "hell , prepared t » go through the Eery ordeal ; vrtile it is known that thousands remain a : home witV-their families gtaaring , rather than endure the bufletings of those arrogant and pampered Jacks in office .
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j ULDHAM , FOR THBIS CoMME . VICAHOS OF Mr . j ^" iiittle ' s Cowi « ELT Cowdbct . —I fc&ve only j to say that I thask the two working men ; but I Teqnest they will sot take any notice of the poor I -creature . Tfr * man who wrote down the j Champion will « cp-ericnee but little tlifiieuUy in I Fpeaking himself down . Daring ssy absence , 1
j lcavo him aa € myself entirely in the hands of j the working people . I rejoice they did not kick ;¦ hire , as there ia no argument in the foot . I I quite underhand the nature of his new alliance , j and his m&tive for seizing the present moment I for venting "h : 3 spleen in Laacashire . I trust i that the dead body of the Champion may not \ infect my Northern coadjutor with the mono-; mania of personality . Indeed , I am sure it wili
! not ; £ 0 my friends in Lancashire need be under ( eo apprehension . F . O'Coxsoa .
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MRS . O'BHIEN , AND THE SOUTHERN : star . ; We have no wish whatever to intermeddle in the : dispute ? , much less in the private affairs , of our con-; temporaries , and especially of our coadjutors in the I glorious cause of " right to the people ; " but i \ ie j following letter from Mrs . O'Biuen to Mr . O'Coxj nob , having been handed to us , we think it but i right to publish it . "We are authorised by Mr ! O'Co . v . Noa to say that he called once on Mrs , j - ^ -ww . ' - » fc / A » v ^ ' •"'^ J tua « i-io \^» iitu vuto vl * in . l& *
I O'BiirES , . and that he was Arranging a committee : of friends , who were induced , by the statements of the Southern Star , to think t : * eir editions unj necessary rx— 77 , Brook Street , "VW-.-t Square , Laiibcttu : Dear Si a , —I was in hopes you c-. h ; d have sp-ired , a fevr moments to call on roe , as . I hs : l ;»^ Teat deal to ; say to yoa . I -wii confined lass W ednt h <\ uv wi'J : tv boy , and am Ls . rassed out of all paiieDce Ly tiiat St&kent Siar . I th ^ ' il 1 e compelled V ) puVlkly c ^ -utnw ' . i . i tueir j fciUe asasnioLs ; indetd , 1 am very ui . equal tu tlie , task , and I hope you will not quite forget , in tlio i . urjy and anxiety of your own affairs . Tours , most truly , 1 S . O'Brien .
S ; iicc the above was in type , we have received the following letter from Mrs . 0 'Bbie . n : — London , May 12 th , 1840 . Dzj-s . Sir ., —Will youcblige me by insetting these few lines in yo :: r vriUeiy-circula . ted JouroaL ; However painful to me , still , as Mr . J . B . O'Brien 13 I not pennittcri , through the h ^ rsh a nd Texatious rcguj lations of Lant-2 .-: er Castle , to correspond -witli hU ; friends ia any shape , I fem compell-. d to assure Bron-! tsrre ' s K-d : * nl friends . &r * d ihs public in general , that I Mr . U'Brieu has n . j conooction , directly or indirvCtiy , ' ¦ With the Scx- 'hern Slur .
: That papfr stiil lives , ind may flounsk ; but I do i most « : itiactiy and j-ubliciy d . elare that the Svuihcru Star ' ¦ uck-s noi exist lor the i : it £ fcs « or bcni / fit of Ja : iies Brojtt-rr ^ -O'lir ^ ea or his family . His friends wili , I am sure , ricoliet * . a r . •¦ ti- e to the sa-. r . e « £ ect apptaring so : i : e vteks Lack fioiu himself , in the Sorihcn , Slur . Kad Ev > : il ; Bv . \ -s prevented , I should have immediately cuntradictta the fa ? se itattment which appeared in the . Swiikcra Star of May the 3 rd . Yours , laoeV obediently , Sophia O'Bribx j To the EdUor of the ] X ... t \ crn St-jr . I
I All we can ssy upon the- matter is , that to permit ! the wife of O'Biuen to suffer -waut or iiiconvtnience ' , curing the incarceration of her husband , would be a ; ahame to the whole people .
Tiie Eofitheftk Star. Saturday, May 16. 1c40.
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. THE WORTH OF UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE . ; Us oar sixth page will be found two letters from - Mr . uX ' os > oa . liie o-e to Mr . Li . i ( . H . a Mauc ^ cs ' . 'ji- Optr-uve , should be rcaa Ly every IiaOi-.-ai , j as his political pole-siar , to p . iat him to the benefits to be derived from Universal Suffrage . The mere getting of the Suffrage is not a l that we must j itrr . ^ gie for ; it Ls utterly valueless , save as a means ; to au ei * d ; aud that eud the txteniion of social ! happiness , and inairidcal comfort , amongst the '; people .
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; i ' i 1 ! f I ; j \ A GOOD EXAMPLE . : All thauks and honour to the brave Radicab of 1 Carliiie ! They have done their work well . Thev have acquitted themselves like men . They have . carried the vru into the enemies " ' camp with a ven' geance , and their \ ictory is as perfect a 3 thtir ; attack was daring . Tiie lyicg " leagKfc ' ' led i together the people , whom , on a former occasion , I they duped so easiiy . to reap laurels and gathf-r ; glery for iLe-rnsclvv- ctf the fruitful soil of popular ; crwuuhty , ou which they fancied they should find j t iiem growing in abundance ; but they were made 1 to kr . ow that the seed had been spoiled , and rendered unproductive by tae neglect of proper treatmcut of the soil m winch it had uoen &own . of
. ¦ ¦ ¦ ihe proceeGiu ^ thi * meeting are such as should infuss courage iutu the ih-jsi timid ll . iU : cil o { iIk wiiuic eiup « rc !; ivjik- uit-v aff _ -ra ^ mpi « coufiimatio :: ' - ** t ^ iS CU urUhLvi' 0 * XijC i : iLIiC Ulid ULlecri ! p Li . Od " a : c . ne ; iaji , ^ .-r . ii ^ pruht-seeki-re , who Would fjiij ptr » uade ti . s people t-o peri ' orm iiio ; licr fool ' s dance ' to tneir fiddie . It is always dang-rous for the people to ally thenij selves , on auy terms , with their natural enemies / i We should have been much le&e pleased , therefore , ; if the motion of Mr . Haxsok , which acknowledged \ -the services of the Anti-Corn Law delegates as dei serving thanks ; though it asserted the necessity oi U . vivbksal SfFFBiGz , as the only remedy for na-I tional evils had beea carried , than by the bold , manl ) , courbe taken at one * by Mr . Bowhaj * , in moving : —
(; " That no confideEoe can be placed in those persona j 1 now so prominent in agitating for & repeal * f the Coin f 1 La-ws , inaemoch as they baye frossly cheated and de-[ ceived the people in not assisting them , as they pro-| aistrd , during the agitation for the Reform Bill , to ! secure them the franchi # e ; but , ou the contrary , haTt done everything in their power to keep it from thenij and further belied Uiem in » hamefally miertprestuting - their wisLes and intsntiona . " I The appointment of their own Chairman by tht
.. I Radicals , at the beginning of die meeting , was also ; J well done . It shewed their conficence in their own : strength , and their determination to exert it . We , are glad the 4 i League" gentry stood the bittle : that ! they did cot , like their friends and co-mates in 1 cost other places , as soon as the signa of a sharp : ; contest appeared , skulk off and leave the field . The , j meeting was their own . ; they chose their own ground ; and we hope thev are satisfied with the
I evidence , afforded to them by the poople , that their ' j tactics are clearly understood , : Our readers will Sad an account of the proceed-,. iiig 3 , extracted from ene of the loc . il papers , on cur third page . We refer them to it with great pride I and satisfaction ; commending the example of the j brave Radicals of Carlisle to the imitation of their i brethren throughout ihe empire .
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ANOTHER GLEAM OJ HOPE Fife - ' IRELAND . There ia 00 man , who has thought at all on the power of the public press to clear away the mists of ignorance and give an impetus to the progression of right principles , bat mast lament the condition of the Irish nation ; without one Bingle star shining by the clear light of truth on her whole hemisphere . The whole press of Ireland is , without exception , in the pay of the factions . Not a single paper dares to advocate the cause of honest right . The Orange harpies , and the great arch harpy of " liberalism , " CCohnell , share the Whole between them , and the people are left wholly destitute . _ . « ,. =
Sometime ago a bright meteor danced for a brief period before our eyes , in the form of a truly independent Irish newspaper—the Dublin Monitor . It was , indeed , refreshing to our eyes and hearts to see a trul § liberal Irish paper—one that dared to battle for the people equally with Whigs as Tories ; that did not hesitate to beard the hoary traitor , even in his strong hold , and expose his villany ; but this was too good to hist long : a change come over the spirit of the Monitor , and it learned to bow the knee to the political Dagon of the Irish '' liberals . " Wo were disgusted , but not
surprised 4 and we looked anxiously lor the rising of another star of hope . We rejoico to find that our hope is not to be entirely cut off . From a spirited , and well-written prospectus , in which we clearly recognise our old friend of the Monitor , we learn that the same parties who conducted that paper while it maintained its political integrity are determined once more to hazard the frail boat of independent patriotism on the btovmy sea of Irish agitation . Tkey are establishing a weekly Dublin journal , to be called the " The World" the first
number of which i 3 to appear on the 16 th instant . If The . World be what th « Dublin Monitor was , we most cordially w » li that all the success and en-CGurageinsut it can desire may be experienced by it We Lope to find it an invaluabo helpmate in the good and great woik of arousing the Energies of the Irish people to a duo sense of the " injustice" of which they are the viotims , and to the exertion of those powers by which , in co-operation with their English , Scotch , aud Welsh brethren , they can speedily establish eight fob all .
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DEVIL KING LAW . Wb direct attention to a statement given in another column , from a correspondent whom we know , and on whoso veracity we have a perfect reliance , of the manner in which the three-headod Devil-King has chosen , during the present week , to exercise the despotism vested in him , by the accursed Poor Law Enactment , at Loughborough . An individual named Masset has , for some time , holden the situation of master of the workhouse in
that parish ; aud be seems to have given great satisfaction , for it appears that til » late Board of Guardiau ? , though commanded to do bo by the Commi 3-n : is 3 : oners , refused to discharge him , and that , on hi * resigning at the order of his black majesty—the Dsvil Kiug—they re-elected him . He' continued , during the whole term of their official existence , to discharge the duties- of his situation so satisfactorily , that their successors , the new Board of Guardians , retained him in his place , though in direct contravention of the commands of the Devil King . Whereupon the Devil King seeing his authority thus
slighted—ptrceiviug that the Lout-jitorough Guardians were disposed to exercise at least somo of the functions , as well as bear the navie of the office to which they had been elected , eends down , forthwith , one of his imps—a tramping pauper E ^ amp of an assistant Commissioner—to evinco the perfect despotism of his rule , and the arrant jiciGLE of the word Guardian , as applied to those whom , when they refuse to be patsire tools in his hand , he can at any moineut
reduce to mere cyphers ; and , indeed , punish heavily for disobeying his commands . Masset ^ whose fault seems , from our correspondents communication , to have been that he mwiifps ^ ed sctaui ' te ] uctance to split a potatoe rather than give a half , \ ounce of poiatoe above the epecified weight for a p « 6 r man ' s dinner , was turned off , in gpite of his patrbns , the Guardians ; and fined five pounds for obeying tie injunctions of thoso whom the law affects to constitute his masters ! \ 1
Such is the pleasure and the practice of the Devil King . What say the people to it 1 Are they in love with ihia spatting of a potatoe for the poor man ' s meal \ I If no :, why is the system permitted to continue 1 Why was it ever permitted to be established I Tho expression of the public will could have prerented this cursed law from being passed ; the expression of tlio pnbiic will could enforce the tyrant factions to repeal it , har « : ly a * would the dose be swallowed ; but that wili , to be expressed efficiently , E : Utt be expressed universally , and to be expressed at once efficiently , consistently , and rationally , must ba directed , not to the repeal of this law as an individual
grievance , but to the establishment of Universal Suffrage , which can alojio correct the evils of class legislation , and through the same medium preclude the possibility of their recurrence . Let the people then of Loughborough suffer this infamous proceeding to open wide their eyes to the necessity of an immediate , universal , and determined Btand for Universal Suffrage ; let it shew them the egregious folly of thoso wrong-headed Radicals of Leicester , who set the baleful example of yoking themselves to the car of their Poor-Law-supporting enemies under the fallacious aud cameleou-coloured banner of " Household Suffrage , " &c , with the repeal of the Corn Law , as a young cuckoo in the neBt to throw out the natire birds .
Thank God , there were not many thus besotted . A small number only of the short-sighted and weakminded were seduced from their allegiance to principle by the false glitter of expediency . We iiop-3 thikt they have even now seen their error , or at all eveiits , that this will satisfy thc-m what mauner of spirits they are aetiug with , and that they wili s& ^ rii from them the dirty fhg of truce , and i-ling to the standard of Radical consistency— "Oar juu rights ai : d nothing more—our whole rights and nothing less . Umveksal Svfi-eagk and No Sur-REHDES . "
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A JAR AMONG THE THIEVES . It is an old and trite saying , that when thieves quarrel , honest men get their own ; but we doubt if it be always true . There is a certain " House" in this land in which , if the maxim that " Taxation without representation is robbery ( as we most religiously believe ) , be true , a set of portly looking thieves assemble pretty frequently to pick the pockets of the people ; and those portly gentry have this week quarrelled wiih each other ; bat , though "tho quarrel is as pretty a quarrel as needB be , " we see small hope of much good coming from it to the honest
men . lt seems that certain of the honest and honourable middle classes—the privileged orders—tho electors , who make the lawmakers for this happy country , living at a place called Ludlow , have recently sold their votes , and are very anxious to sell them again as soon as posrible . It was proposed , therefore , to send the auctioneer among them , again , forthwith ; a portion , however , of the honowrables were opposed to the holding , or even the ordering , of the market , in the absence of my Lord
Jottx Russell ; another portion of them saw no reason why so much deference should be paid to his iittlo Lordship , and were desirous to go on with the business of the " House . " There was a trial of strength between them . What was wanting to the one party in numerical f ^ rce was made up in unity and perseverance , and as they were determined not to negotiate the Ludlow " businees , " and tho others were determined not to do anything else , they managed for two or iliiea nights to do nothing at all . There is at least this advantage to the people , that as
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tiroir -ffhol * troflcft ' mischief , they have " been so long delayed in its execution . What a pretty spectacle ! Tho repretentaiivesflj of a great people in the very midst of ruin—the K collective wisdom" of an empira tottering to its fall , unable to find anything to do , because little John was not there to lead (!) the Government . Truly things have come to a fine pass ! O ! that the people would arise , and in the greatness of their moral might , say to those worse than worthless imbeciles , " Stand clear , and make room for honest men . " ? . ,, . V . - ; m ^ ¦ ¦ : * * ¦ ,-, " "" " : ¦; . - ¦ - •
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, MESSRS . COLLINS AND LOVETT . From documents inserted elsewhere , our readers will perceive that we were misinformed , when , on a late occasion , we stated that these worthy patriots had been set at liberty . The Whigs have not so much liberality about them . It seems , however , that an offcr of releaso has been made them ; but on terms of implied insult which the " shabby set" must have known , from the character of the men , would be at onc 4 S $ ejected with scorn . The full period of their
sentence expires on the 25 th July ; and they were to have the commutation of the few remaining weeks , on condition of selling themselves to the Whig harpies "&T a whole year , with the privilege of beiug allowed to " pay their own purchase-mauey . The reply of these good meu to tho base proposal of the Burgundy pitch crew is given on our seventh page . It is worthy of the men , and the cause in which they suffer . >
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POVERTi PUNISHED AS A CRIME . Amongst our Halifax news will be found a paragraph thus headed ; from which it appears that the magistrates of that borough have recently exhibited their mild and Christian spirit in the oppression of a poor child , who was guilty of being a destitute orphan . It seems that the poor lad ( about fifteen years of age ) had no parents ; that he had no
employment , and could get none ; that he had no habitation—no means of even obtaining shelter for the night—his shirt having beea sold to procure a previous night ' s lodging . There was no charge agaiast him of having committed , or attempted , any crime—not even the crime of begging . It is merely said that the officer found him iu company with other ? , and that he found them , on inquiry , to be destitute .
Now , what is done with this poor , uncomplaining , starving , naked , perishing orphan , in a Christian country—amongst Christian people , and by a bench of Christian magistrates ! Is he , in accordance with the commandment of the Lord Jesus , warmed and fed , aud clothed , and comforted ? No ; but his suffering is gratuitously rendered doubly overwhelming by bitter censure and unmerited repreach . He is branded with infamy , because of the distress into which the villanou 3 arrangements of society have permitted him to fall , and made to suffer punishment for the sin 3 of his tormentors : — " The Bench passed a sentence of one month to Wakefield on the lad , telling him , at the same time , he might tell his compactions what they had done with him , and if they came there they would send them also . "
If this affair havo been rightly reported to us ( and wo have no reason to think otherwise ) , anything more infamous never happened . We are aorry that our correspondent has not Bent us the names of the honourable Gentlemen sitting on the liench which issued this disgraceful fiat . Where did these magistrates learn their law 1 Whence do they derire their authority to treat mere destitution as a crime 1 It does not appear from the statement ecnt to us that this poor child was accused of having douo anything wluck oven English law construes to be crime . Surely , either man or boy may ac least
starve in silence and in quietude ! So long as no one is aunoyed thereby , or even asked by him to alleviate his sufferings , Burely the bare fact of destitution cannot bo a cviine to merit the gratuitous audition of insult and contumely tothe infliction of imprisonment . We have read of cases in which magistrates bare expressed their heartfelt sorrow that the beet and only relief they cmild afford to suffering destitution was the food and shelter of a prison ! In such cases , though we detest the state of society , by which such circumstances are produced , we see something to admire in the mode of giving tho best form to a bad system : but here , in ' the conduct of these Halifax magistrates , we see nothing but a brutal heartlessness
which we are very confident would be felt to bo disgraceful by the cannibals of New Zealand . Either this is the character of their proceedings , or our correspondent has misrepresented them ,- ; in his statement ; if he have done so , vre require him , in his next communication , to correct that misrepresentation ; if he have not , wo require the men of Halifax —^ at all events the Christian part of them—to mark the magistrates who gat upon that bench , as men with whom no Christian cau or ought to associate as an equal , or to hold auy communication further than what cannot be avoided , until they have made full and ample reparation t » this poor boy , for tho wantou injustice inflicted upon him , and to society , for the outrage they have comui . toed on public morals and public decency .
MR . O'CONNOR AND HIS WHIG PROSECUTORS . Ox our first page will be found a very full report of the splendid speech of Mr . O'Connor before the Judges of the Queen ' s Bench , on Monday . That speech will cause the ears of John Campbell and the unprincipled Government to which he appertains to tingle , for yet a long period of time . Never before was it the lot of auy luckless public functionary to bo so handled . Many and many a time , as we have beeu informed by a gentleman who was present during the whole time , did he quiver aud turn pale ,
as he writhed under the fearful castigation ; while the Judges not unfrequently found it necessary to hide the mantling smile , which his evident vexation caused to rise , even on thoir grave faces . The applause manifested in the Coart , and so promptly and effectually put down by the Lord Chief Justice , originated among , and was principally sustained by , the gentlemen of the Bar , who , with tfio utmost gravity pourtrayed upou their countenances , employed their feet which were ensconced beneath the benches , as the means of venting their approbation oi the chastisement bestowed upon the " Burgundy pitch" cabinet .
The chief merit of the speech , however , ia not its eloquence , nor its causticity , but the proud picture which it gives us of the patriot struggling for the cause of right : the rare spectacle which it exhibits of the rich man suffering from the persecution of his peers for his assertion cf the poor man ' B right—the aristocrat , forgetting all the pride of birth and pomp of heraldry ; trampling beneath his feet the class distinctions , which might otherwise have given him eminence , and in the very face of his compeers unfurling the broad banner of democracy , allying himself , inevitably and irrevocably
to the common people , and demanding equal rights . We grant that , in all this , there is no more than that amount of honesty and patriotism which arises from right feeling ; but in such an age of wrong as this , in whioh we live , il is a great thing to find that . Let the whole be read aud c&nvaesed by every working man iu England , that they may all know whether their confidence in him has been misplaced He was not one thing on the platform or the hustings , while the cheers of thousands might uphold
his courage , and another thing in the dock before his judges with a priEon in prospective ; he sought not the unworthy means by which impunity has been secured by other and more noisy demagogues . He did not , like O'CoiiXELL , shrink fcom the consequences of his own writings , and put forth a substitute , a peor man , to bo imprisoned in his stead . Nothing could have been more easy than to do this , had he been so disposed . Ho need have beon in no danger of any prosecution for anything contained in this paper : there were BarretU in abundance
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who would sot have hesitated had their immolation been required ; but his soul ia too noble for a mean compromise and hence he does not even in bis speech avail himself of any mitigating circumstances ; he stands boldly forth in full proportions ; he takes all the blame which can be thrown upon him , and contends for principle alone . Why do we point out these things which are so evident that none can help seeing them 1 Why do we tell the people , who have so long known him , ...... . . V ' '
the character of Feargus O'Connor ! Simply to shew the reason why he is the object of eo much fear and hatred to the factions . 'Tis this very stern , uncompromising character that makes them fear him . 'Tis their knowledge of his incorruptibility , that makes them hate him . Hence the careful watching of his movements bo long practiced . Henca the many efforts ( now , at last , successful ) to encage him in confinement . It was seen that , unless he were taken care of , he would turn the world [ of faction ] upside down .
Let the people , then , bear this in mind—that it is because of his unalterable attachment to them and to their cause ; it is because of his known character for consistency , which leaves no hope of his being ever enlisted in the cause of faction , that the mouth of Feabgus O'Connor has been closed by tho application of the "Burgundy pitch" plaster for eighteen months ; and let that give them heart of hop 9 and courage . The time will pass over , and they will again find him at his post , unaltered and unalterable in his love of liberty . Their personal intercourse with him is for a season interrupted , but they yet live in his heart , as , we are well assured , he also does in theirs . Meantime : —
" This murderous shaft that ' s sped Hath not alighted yet . " This is but the beginning of the blessing intended for the people by their paternal Government . The closing of Mr . O'Connor's mouth is the accomplishment of a great object , but the ultimate intention is to put down the Northern Star ; to destroy the people ' s organ—the mirror of their mind and will ; in which their wants and feelings , rights and interests , are
honestly pourtrayed , asserted and defended . But we do thank God that this is beyond the power of the tyrants . From the people only doss the Korthern Star derive its power for good—by them alone it is sustained , and by them alone can it be destroyed . We have long seen , and laughed ' at , the intention and design of Government to put us down . We defy them . With tho people at our back , we fear not all tho " pitch" in Christendom .
What say the people , then ? Will they suffer their own organ to be destroyed by the foul breath of faction ? We will not believe it till w « have seen it—and we believe that wo shall never see it .
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THE OPINION OF THE PATRIOTIC PRESS ON THE SENTENCE OF MR . O'CONNOR . Since writing the above , we have received , by special favour , acopy of thi 3 day's Northern Liberator , from which we give the following comment on the treatment of Mr . O'Connor : —
" MR . FEARGUS O'CONNOR . " This gentleman has been at last sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment in Lancaster Gaol for hsving spoken certain words of' sedition , ' in his warmth for tho cause of the people of England . This savage sentence evinces the fear with which the recent movement struck the Whig G 0 verame . 1 t , and nothing else . Mr . O'Connor had neither said nor clone anything worthy , In the eyes of sensible men , of a month ' s detention . But fear ia tho mother of cruelty , and cowards alone are cruel ; and hence
because Mr . O'Connor has exerted , aud resolutely exerted , his energies to destroy that system which Whigs uphold ' , he ia to be sent to a felon's gaol for two summers and a winter—a fearful gap in the life of a man , if his summers and winters be ' three-score and ten , ' and hardly that , upon on averoge , in countries where tyranny lules , and the people are plundered to tho tune of fifty-five millions a-ycar ! Well , all thU only tends oneway cruelty and persecution only begot fortitude and resolution ; and , as old gossips say on certain occasions , ' we must be worse before we are better ! ' "
Our excellent contemporary is slightly mistaken , as to the place of Mr . O'Connor ' s incarceration ; as it will be seen from the report that his sentence was to York Castle , but that he wajfccoinmitted pro tempore to the custody of the Marshal of the Court of Queen ' s Bench . There can be no doubt that in Mr . O'Connor ' s person the words of the Liberator will be realised : — "Cruelty and persecution" will " only beget fortitude and resolution . " We have no doubt that the effect upon the people will be similar , and that the factions will yet find it a bad day ' s work .
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MAGISTERIAL COMPETENCY . We defy the most careful observation and industrious search to point out any instance of more perfect unfitness , more helpless imbecility iu , and more absolute incompet ' , > ncy for office than is exhibited by , some at least of , the RussELL-made , Poor Law Justices . Of these , Mr . Magistrate Sutcliffe , of Huddersfield , affords a bright sample . A mechanic in any ordinary trade , maybe very clumsy and awkward in tho use of his tools ; but he would assuredly be kicked out of tho shop by the veriest squad of botches in existence , if he should evince a total
ignorance even of their names , and the purposes for which they were designed . Here , however , we have Mr . Magistrate Sutcliffe , Bitting in all official dignity , as a sort of petty Judge , in a Court from whoso decisions there are , in many cases , uo appeal ; hearing and examining witnesses on oath on divers matters ; administering the law , and , at tho same time , confessing his total ignorance even of the very law by which he is empowered to administer the law . Under tho head *\ Court House , " in our Huddersfield news , will bo found a paragraph , from which it appears that , a few days ago , a complainant
appearing before this Mr . "Justice" Sctcliffb refused to swear upon the bible , because he had conscientious objections , but stated that he would affirm that he would speak the truth . The worshipful " Magistrate , " seeming utterly ignoraut of the law for receiving evidence , said he did not wish to interfere with the rights of conscience , but he sat there to administer the law . and , therefore , ho could not admit of his mere affirmation , except hewasa . Quaker . Mr Pilling , tho complainant , replied that thera was a recent Act of Parliament which permitted all persons to affirm , who objected to take an
oath . The magistrate looked at bis clerk , who immediately began looking to the Acts referring to Quakers and Moravians , and asked the complainant for tho title of the Act . He said he was not so well versed in the laws , and did not know the title ; but referred to the case of Mr . Robert Owen , at Leeds , who was allowed to affivm . After the clerk had looked over his books a short time , Mr . Sutcliffe asked Pilling what religion he was ; and the queetion being pressed , he declared he was a
Rational Religionist . The clerk immediately closed the book , and declared to hia Worship that there was no Euch Act of Parliament in existence . The worthy " Justice" then turned to the prisoner , and said , You are discharged ; you may go , my boy ;" and , after consulting again with the clerk , called upon Pilling , and said , " You must pay five shillings , Sir . " Pilling objected ; but was ultimately obliged to pay the five shillings , for the stupidity and ignorance of the magistrate and his clerk .
We have again and again pointed the attention of the " liberal" magistrates and others concerned in the administration of the laws to—almost the only good thing doue by the "liberal , " " reformed " House of Commons—the unshackling of conscience effected by the 1 st and 2 nd of Victobia , chap . 105 , by which it is enacted in plain terms : — " That , in all cases in which an oath may lawfully be administered to any per son ; such person is bound by the oath administered , provided the same shall have been administered in such form and with such
ceremonies as such person may declare to be binding ; and every such person , in case of wilful false swearing , may be oonvic ; ed of tho crime of perjury in tue same mauner as if the oath had been a'J-
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; ~ == gi ministered in the form and with the _ eeremoniea moit commonly idbpfea . **"" " ' ¦ -- •— --. . - » .. „ . This law has been acted dtf to onr knowledge in several instances ; so that it is Weil established by precedent as well as by statute . Either Mr . ScTCLiFFE knew this , « he did not . If he knew it , he is guilty of » wilful : perversion of the law wiiich he is sworn to admi nister tot the purposes of private pique or paltry bigotry ; if he did not know it , he has shown himself ignorant of that with which it is the duty of every magistrate to be most familiar , the law for receiving evidence . In either case , he has proved himself to be a disgrace to the Bench , and to the Government which appointed hin ? . ,. .. . . ¦ . ... - .. - .. . , ~
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Notice . —We are requested by Mr . O'Connor to tay that Mr . Lowery will receive £ 5 from the office , not that it is due , but because he descrvet it . The Scotch Delegates will bear in mind that when Mr . Duncan asked Mr . O'Connor , in August last , what he would give for his ( Mr . D . ' sJ speeches ! Mr . O'Connor replied , " insertion if they are tcorth it ; " but what he wantedHcas not speeches , but condensed reports of the liadical movements , and both Lowery and Duncan , without any understanding whatever , have sent ' only speeches , for which they have charged , and will now have received £ 10 . Mr . O'Connor has frequently been obliged to pay for his own speeches before the Star was established ; but now hi must pay for others . Tfiis has been written in consequence qf ihe manner in which ihe application was made . However \ Mr . O'Can-¦ nor thinks Lowery ' s exertions well worthy a higher reward , and as Loiacfy returned what he had been overpaid ly the Convention , he ha proved himself a very trust' -tcorthy and honest ¦ person , and his request is therefore granted . Ralph Ford . —His letter next week . * ' Thoughts on Monarch * " will not suit us . E . C . H , Cambbidge . —His * Address tojhe Charter " shall appear , but must await its turn . We are very full of poetry just now . DUXFRIES AND MaXWELLTOWK WORKING Mew . Their address to Daniel Q'Connell next week . u Libertt of the Press iic Danger . "— We are quite full this week ^ but will try to find room m our next . "On Spring . " ^ " On Spring dkdee ( There is not enough of merit in the ( these poems for publication . Ivijsw Poor Law . "J
"The Swallow" shall appear . Amacreon . —His extracts are received . Thanks for t / iem . They shall appear forthwith . " The Chartist Anthem . " ) r * , j " Acrostic-Ipity Frost . " ) £ > ec » n ^ ' An Irishman . —His communication is declined . L . T . Clancet . —His communication is unmercifully long . We cannot promise to insert the whele ; but will give the more important portions of tt as soon as we have room .
James Horam takes a very short-sighted view of the Corn , Law question . The rage for exportation is the curse of the country . No country acts wisely who does not provide , by means of legislation , . for the employment and sustenance of its whole population , independently of foreign aid . Lavinia E . C . Jones . —Her articles upon tlte subject of the papers to which she alludes , are respect ' fully declined .
James Bbook . —Next week . JOHN James Wall recommends that every city , town , and district , in every county , appoint a delegate , to hold e . delegate meeting in tho centre of each county , and that such delegate / meeting shall appoint a delegate to proceed tpZondan , to sit as a National Committee , and there lay down some plan , with regulations by which the people may
co-operate universally with them in carrying the "plan established by them into full operation . He a / so proposes , instead of adding a halfpenny to the price of the Star * for a Defence Fund , to add the other penny , which will be the price of halfd-pint of beer weekly . He thinks that those whose hearts is in the cause , may surely sacri fice a half-a-pint of beer weekly for one twelve montlis to come .
A . MEMBER OF THE LEEDS RADICAL UNIVERSAL SUPfrage Association recommends , as an effective means of helping on the movement , the establishment of a Chartist Tract Depit , either at London , Leeds , or Manchester , from which tract * might be had at a cheap rate , and actively circulated by every Association in the Empire . We quite agree with him . A Lover of Freedom , commenting on Mr . Lowerv ' s
plan of agitation recently published in tlte Star , calls on all Chartist Associations to send their opinions regarding the propriety of having an agitating body perambulating through the length and breadth of the land . The Secretaries of the said bodies to affix their name and address , so as they may communicate vith each other , and thereby make arrangements to ensure the election and payment of the respective delegates .
FUND FOR SUPPORT OF THE FAMILIES OF THE IMPRISONED CHARTISTS . _ _ . , s . d . From Brtstol ... ... ... 2 6 Neil Shaw , Saltcoats , Ayrshire .... 0 6 > The Female Chartists , at Loughbro \~ . 2 6 The Democratic Association . Do . 2 6
MRS . FROST AND OTHERS . From Sudbury , Suffolk , per James Wood ... ... 2 6 From Sudbury , Suffolk , per James Wood , for R . J . Richardson 2 6 Wm . Urqchart , Dalkeith . —Mr . John Frazer received all the Portraits for his subscribers , and we suppose has them yet . if not delivered . Apply to him .
R . M'Adam . —All the Plates due have been seiit . Constantine . —His letter was too late . It had gone by Rochdale instead of Halifax . J . Rickard . —Dr . Taylor . John Fletcher . —Apply to Mr . Ridley . They have all been sent , and also the number of papers ordered . J . W . ' Hammond , Rhoods . —If wehad , it was noticed in the S ; ar . Thomas Dunning . —The Plates were sent by Deacon ' s waggon . The Portraits fob . Glasgow k * t > Edinburgh were
¦ delivered to Pickersgill ' s , the carriers , on Tuesday , tlie 5 th of May . All the Plates for Wales were sent by Cockerham's ; those for the other parts of the South , by Deacon ' s , and those for Scotland , by Pickersgill ' s . AUsmall parcels were sent by post . T . R ., Birmingham . —The paper , with plate , is eharged Sd . We cannot account for his Star not being delivered . We sent as many as the agent ordered . Wm . Lee . —Too late to be inserted this week . Shalt receive attention in our next .
As Inhabitant of Monmodth , —Next week . George Lloyd . —Too late . Amcient Foresters . —The paragraph from Halifax , thus headed , would be charged to us as an advertisement . Wm . Stkks . —Arrived too late .
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Murder at Glasgow . —At the Justiciary Circuit Court , Glasgow , on Thursday , Thomas Templeton , bookbinder , was placed At the bar , accused of the crime of murder , in so far as on the night of the 8 th ,. or tho morning of the 9 th February , 1840 , within tue house occupied by him in College-street , Glasgow , he did attack and assault Mary M- ' Tafigart , or Robertson , or Templeton , his wife , by repeatedly and yiolently dashing her head against a board in the house , and aid also with his fisisaud feet , or with some instrument to the prosecutor unknown , inflict several blows upon her head and other parts of her body , by all which , or part thereof , she was mortally wounded , and soon thereof died , and was thus murdered b y the said Thomas Templeton . The Jury returned a verdict , finding , by a majority of fourteen to one , the prisoner guilty of murder . Lord Meadowbank , after commenting on the orutal nature of tho crime , ordered the prisoner to ba exeouted on Wednesday , the 27 th day of May current .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 16, 1840, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/king-y1kbzq92ze2684/page/4/
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