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      The English Chartist Circular. To The Ed...

      THE ENGLISH CHARTIST CIRCULAR . TO THE EDITOR . OP THB K 0 BTHER _3 STAR . Dear Sib , —I have just learned from -what I hare every reason to believe is good authority , that the proprietor of the _Eolith Chartist Circular does not find that encouragement -mideh the excellence of the work & sd the cheap rate at which it is published , fairly entitles him to expect It is , I am told , at present , a losing concern ; and this , _Imwtsayia a disgrace to our _extensiTe body . .

      , This work ought to be in the hands of every Chartist , and no Chartist who smokes tobacco or drinks beer , can say he cannot afford to tako it If he will not forego the price of a pipe of the one , or a small portion of the othtr , in order to find good intellectual food for himself an ., his children ; he is , in my oplnira , unworthy to be considered _a-irorxer in our glorious struggle , since he proves by his acts , that he prefers to support the revenue of a corrupt Government , rather than aid in the maintainanoe of the Chartist press .

      I hope this hint will ba _extensively acted upon . I would also propose that every Chartist Association should spend sixpence in the purchase of Circulars to be sent to the parsons , magistrates , and other influential persona in each locality . Thus , the work would be made to pay , and the glorious principles of the Charter would become more generally known . I win conclude by requesting the lecturers to _strenously recommend the work _wherever they go , I am , yours , A Ceubtist . Huaskt , Oct 5 tfi 1 lS « .

      To Thb Editor Of The Sobthebs Stab. Brad...

      TO THB EDITOR OF THE _SOBTHEBS STAB . Bradford , 5 th October , 1841 . Si » , —A letter , of which the following is a copy , being refused insertion in the York Ccvrant , you would confer a great favour upon the writers , and the public of Bradford generally , by allowing it to appear , Bpaoe permitting , in a corner of the Star .

      To The Editor Op The York Covrant. Sib,—...

      TO THE EDITOR OP THE YORK COvRANT . Sib , —In the last number but one of your journal we noticed that our respected and talented townsman , Mr . James , had resigned the post of correspondent for that paper , on account of other engagements , and that you had engaged , as his successor , Mr . Th OS . Johnson . It is an old and trite saying , that " new beesoms sweep dean , " which we found Terified oa looking into tne next column , for in the notice of the Anti-Corn Law meeting , your new correspondent has swept away the truth altogether . ' As far as we were concerned individually , we contented _ourselTes by contradicting , under

      the signatures of the respected authorities of tee town , the false assertion of our being " ejected by the constables ; " the contradiction was advertised in your last week ' s paper , and having endeavoured to rescue our characters from false aspersion , we should not again have trespassed upon your columns , but finding in the same paper , under ¦ ' Thomas Johnson ' s" own signature , the pertinacious confirmation that , with this _exception , " the whole will be correct , " we feel it due to ourselves and the public to condemn the account ( report we cannot call it ) generally as incorree ! , and request that you will give publicity to the _following instances : —

      1 st A deputation of Chartists ias stated by your correspondent ) did not wait upon > lr . Daffy , the lecturer ; neither did he enter into any stipulation or arrangement respecting the time to be occupied by him and for a reply ; for it was proposed to , _aud decided by , the meeting without any previous arrangement Sndly . There was no proof at the meeting that an anonymous placard ( alluded to in your Correspondents ' notice , ) issued from % Tory press in the town . 3 dly . The _proceedings did not ( as misstated ) commence by a motion for Hr . Richardson to take the chair , and that Mr . Ibbetson proposed an amendment : the contrary was the fact ; the lecturer having presented himself , unsupported by any of his anti-Cam Law friends . Mr . Ibbetson suggested that a _chairman aheuld preside over the meeting , and Mr Burrows proposed , and Mr . Arran seconded , the appointment of Mr . Martin as chairman , which was carried by a large majority ! an amendment for Mr . Richardson having been previously put and lost "

      Lastly . Your ' new correspondent' forgot to notice the important fact , thai , in consequence of the frequent interruptions by the anti-Corn Law gentry , Mr-Qarkson , after twice _conditionally proposing , w & s actually obliged to press a motion absolutely censuring them for their misconduct , which was seconded by Mr . T > _o £ Fy _fr _. _immif _, ¦ who also moved , and Mr . C . seconded an adjournment , after which the meeting quietly

      dispersed . Trzsting that your new correspondent will in future be careful to furnish accurate reports ; and that the importance of this subject to ourselves and the public will justify us in correcting the mistakes of his first essay , We are , Sir , Yours , most respectfully , * Wm . Martin , J . CLARK 50 N . Jas . Ibbetson . Bradford , 20 th , Sept 1 S 41 .

      Shbffzels. (From Our Oven Correspondent....

      SHBFFZELS . ( From our oven Correspondent . ) Suxdat Evening Lecture . —Mr . Julian Harney lectured in the large room , _Fig-Tree-lane , on Sunday evening last , on ** the crimes and horrors of war . ' The room was densely crowded by a most _respectable audience who listened with breathless attention and the _deepest interest to the discourse of the lectarer . At the conclusion of the lecture which occupied an hour and a half in the delivery , Mr . Hoost moved the thanks of the meeting to Mr . Harney ; the uplifted hands of all present testified the universal satisfaction of the assembly .

      Public Meeting . —The usual weekly meeting of the associated Chartists and others , was held in their room , Fig-Tree-iane , oa Monday evening , Mr . Green was called to the chair . The Secretary read a circular from the Executive Council and a letter from Mr . John Campbell . Mr . Harney gave notice that in the event of the Council not bringing forward a motion on next Monday , founded upon the circular just read , he would himself do so . Mr . Harney commented npon that part of the circular in which it is recommended to the lecturers to be unremitting in their efforts to extend the _associations ; he was ready to do his psrt ; twice be had appealed through the Northern Star to the readers of- that paper _, reading in the out-district ef the town

      and _villages around to give him their help in extending the Association ; _Ececlesneld had responded to his call , there he had held a noble meeting aid to there the National Association was extended ; he hoped Ehortly to be able to say the same of _Brigdeboases , and _Woodljouse . He ¦ was willing to give his time and " - labour in attending any meeting within a few miles of Sheffield , all he wanted on their part vt & _s that the ] should JJnd places of meeting . ( . Cheers . ) A gentle man stated he knew that at Matlock in Derbyshire the people were most anxious to hear a Chartist lee tare . They vranted Chartist lectures , Chartist tracts and Chartism in every _shai > e . He knew the ; were desirous of hearing Mr . Harney , and he hope !

      that gentleman would not make it loDg ere he pai them a visit . ( Cheers- ) Mr . Harney said he woul attend to their friend ' s information . A gentlema . considered it would be well to pay first attention t the _mmnfacturiag and mining villages , _wherere there were cutlers , weavers , tailors , = hoemak € r 3 . & c each were the places should be first agitated ; fo there was comparative independence of mind once get ihe population to understand the princi pies of the Charter and they would readily embrac them , it was not so in the agricultural viliagesground _Uown by some petty despot , and kept L ignorance and terror by the black slug of tke steeple house , the tillers of the soil dared not think fo

      themselves . He had good hopes that ultimate ; they would convert even the labourers ; bat the could not hope to do so yet . Mr . Otley , after son preliminary remarks , moved that it _is-expedient _ac necessary that a paid secretary be appointed _tokes the books and transact the business of the assor : ; tion . Mj . Ward seconded the motion , Mr . _M'Ke trick supported , and Mr . Sill opposed the _mouo which , on beiDg put , was declared by the Chairnu not carried . On the motion of Mr . Burton , _secondi by Mr . Co _^ ke , it was resolved , u That the theat should be engaged for the use of Mr . O'Brien , wi is expected to visit Sheffield , on the 13 th insl . " M Haroey , in a few introductory remarks , moved tl adoption of the following petition : —

      To ihe Honourable the Cammons of the Vniitd _Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireiand , in Parliament assem bled ; Vie petition of certain members of ihe Sationa Charier Association , residing in ihe borough of SheJ f _> e ! d , in public meeting assembled , this tfh day o _Ottober , 1841 , Shewbth , —That your petitioners have heard wit ] feelings impossible to express , that it is the intentioi of her Majesty , or rather the intention of her Majesty * Ministers , to prorogue your Honourable House , on tin 7 th day of the present month . That your petitioner * would _respectfully but . plainlj _atkyoer Honourable House , what have you done for tin _eosBtrr , that you should so soon abandon you Legis latorial _labours for the present session . '

      That your petitioner * would remind your _Honourabli Hrose , that the distress of the working classes remain . _aalleviaieid , and their wrongs _unredrwed . When thi late Administration appealed to the country , thepubli voice very properly rejected them and their measures saving no confidence hi either . And though the pre ¦ eat Administration is supported by a large majority o the members of your Honourable House , it is no because the mass of ihe people have any eonfldenc ia that _jorty ; for had the whole people recorded thei rotes ( which power is most wickedly withheld _fron them ) in the late election , it would have been seen tha wbilft one faction was rejected , another ( equally uuwoi _thj of confidence ) would not haTe been elected to fi ]

      Shbffzels. (From Our Oven Correspondent....

      their places , and subsequent events have shown that , in rejecting both factions , the people would haTe acted wisely ; for , while the late ministry proposed measures worthies * and delusive , the present ministry haTe proposed none at alL To tell the working classes of this country to wait six month * for relief , while in the meantime they see their burdens augmented to meet the profligate expenditure of the Government , and tyrannical enactments continued in all their present _deformity—the Poor law to wi : —exhibits , in the opinion of your petitioners , most culpable indifference to the sufferings of that class who would not be victims of the evils they have to contend with , had they been represented in , and therefore protected by , the legislature . '

      That your petitioners wish to inform your Honourable House that , in the Borough of Sheffield , it Is estimated there are three thousand houses , unoccupied , an unfailing index of the deplorable condition of the industrious classes , who wander the streets of the town with no plao « to shelter them worthy of the name of home , or wend their way to other towns , leaving their families burdens on the parish ; or lastly , if they can procure the means , leave the land of their fathers to seek in other climes that Justice and fair return for their toil they cannot find in this . And , while this is the state of the working class , that class see an aristocracy —landed and monied—revelling in luxury , rioting in the wantonness of profusion , and seemingly treating with contempt , the sufferings and cries of the oppressed , misgoverned people .

      That , in tills state of things , your petitioners deem it their duty to ' solemnly protest against the prorogation of the Legislature ; believing , as they do , that the dissolution , and not the adjournment of your Honourable House , is what would give satisfaction to the great majority of the people . That your petitioners are united to peaceably obtain a reform of your Honourable House , based upon the ancient principles of the Constitution , and would most sincerely deplore any violence into which the Buffering people , goaded by despair , might be driven . But , more tkan ever convinced by the wicked tyranny of

      the last Parliament , and the but too apparent indifference of the present , of the urgent necessity of the change they seek , do respectfully request of your Honourable House that you will address her Majesty , praying her not to prorogue , but to dissolve your Honourable House , and ordering that , in the electing of a new Parliament , _overy male of twenty-one years of age , of sane mind , and uneonvieted of crime , shall be allowed to give his vote for the returning of a member or members , to represent the county , city , or _borougu _, of which he is an inhabitant , as was the ancient custom and practice of these realms .

      And your petitioners will eTer pray . Mr . Fearn seconded the adoption of the petition , the reading of which had elicited repeated cheers . After a discussion , in which Messrs . Otley , Mc'Ketterick , Buxton _, Parkes , Prior and Gill took part , the petition was put by the Chairman , aud unanimously adopted . It was resoived unanimously , that the petition be sent to Mr . Sharman Crawford , for presentation . The meeting then adjourned . Post-Ofpick . —An order has been received by the Sheffield Post-Master , from the Post-Master General , authorising him to refuse to receive and forward

      any packages which apparently contain knives , scissors , or other sharp instruments of a dangerous nature , however they may be pscked . We have before noticed the intended establishment of five receiving offices for letters , in different parts of the town . We understand the arrangements are now _completed , and the offices will _faa opened on Monday next , October llih . The following are the appointments which have received the sanction of the Post-Master General : —Thomas Kay , confectioner , West End ; Pearce and Son , Shales Moor ; Mr . Dewsnap , Wicker ; Mr . Skidmore , Park ; and Mrs . Barlow , Sheffield Moor .

      Pardon . —At the last Summer Assizes , two young men , named Joseph Turner and William _Hooseley _, were found guilty of a burglary in the house of a person , named Dyson , near Eccleafield , and sentenced to fourteen years transportation . We understand that since the trial , investigation of the case has been entered inte , and the result made known to the Secretary of State . A free pardon has been granted to the two men . " Be tk Fishkbs of Mex . "— Query , Be ye Shooters of Game . '—The game lists for the county of York show , that as many as seventy-tieo _ partoiu have taken out licenses to shoot game during the ensuing season . Fire . —On Thursday week , afire broke out upon the premises of Mr . Bentley , brewer , _Rothtrham . We _understand the damage is estimated at about

      £ 100 . " Help yourselves and God will heli _> tou !"About the middle of the forenoon of Sunday last , a party of _fourteen or fifteen , from Sheffield , went into a field , belonging to Mr . Rodgers , at _Gleadleas , yoked themselves to a plough , with which they uprooted a considerable quantity of potatoes , and afterwards proceeded to fill a number of sacks . Mr . _Rodgers . and a constable , with some assistants , _eadeavoured to a put a stop to this revival of " the good old days of Robin Hood ; " bat were completely driven off by the " freebooters . " One of the party was afterwards captured , the police are on the look out for the remainder .

      The Nosthean Star Saturday, October S. 1...

      THE _NOSTHEaN STAR SATURDAY , OCTOBER S . 1841 .

      Miserable Destitution In Stockport. Symp...

      MISERABLE DESTITUTION IN STOCKPORT . SYMPATHY OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES . We are sorry to learn that there ie no improvement in the miserable condition of the working men in this town . Our Correspondent writes thus : — "Distress , isease , wretchedness , and crime are on the increase , and things are growing worse every day . Since I last wrote you , another large firm , employing not fewer than a thousand hands , are stopped . Since the late reduction , those who remained at their work at the reduced price , have not been able to earn sufficient to supply them with food , to say nothing of rent , firing , clothes , & c .

      and that of even the cheapest , because of the coarsest quality . A spinner , a very sober and hard-working man , with whom I am particularly acquainted , has only earned £ 1 Is . in three weeks , who could , but a short time ago , have earned more in one week , although his work is very labourious , and the atmosphere noxious and injurious to his _heaith . Another man whom I know worked very hard for a whole week , and because he could not make the machinery do impossibilities , not only had to go home without wages-, but had to pay 2 s . / d . out of his own pocket for firing . Since I commenced writing , this able-bodied , clean , and respectabie-looking spinner , came to the door to sell buttermilk ; another sits now by my aide , not knowing what to take

      to . I saw a number of spinners and others who positively told me they had eaten nothing that day , and wished to beg a pipe of tobacco . The shopkeepers have found out that the late reductions hare nearly rained them . Many of them are selling off and going to America . There are rows of houses in many parts of the town with only one tenant , and some not even one in them . Though such is the case , there seems to be no disposition on the part of the middle class , the shopkeepers , to sympathise or assist those unfonunate people who are out of employment , and who are literally starving to death . A committee was formed who issued an _adddrcss to the shopkeepers , and Bent a deputation to wait upon

      them with books properly signed , and would you believe that all the money collected was six shillings and a few pence . It is computed that there have no fewer than 30 , 000 left the town during the last six years , and that 7000 who were employed but a short time ago , are walking the streets for want of employment , many of whom have sold every vestige of clothing and furniture to purchase food to satisfy the _craviDgs of hunger and keep them alive . The spiancTs have been out of two very large _m'l _' s resisting the reduction , and these of another havs given notice this week , and will , without some concession be mado by the masters , be out on Monday , which will

      greatly augment the misery and distress already so prevalent . I was in company with two officers of the Odd Fellows' society , who informed me that they were sadly reducing their funds by gifts and Joans , and in consequence of members not being able to pay the contribution money . In one lodge alone , which but a very short time ago was flourishing aud laying money by , and for fear any should dispute my assertion , 1 was allowed , if 1 pleased , to mention the name of the lodge , which is , Queen Elisabeth , " held at tha Grapes , Stockport . At this lodge alone they have sunk £ 30 a quarter for the last two quarters , and the other lodges in the the same ratio . Since I wrote the last time

      information has arrived and on the best authority , that a very 6 ober and respectable dresser , named Henry Taylor , has hung himself , driven to it by being out of work ; a man whom the writer had worked with , and who he esteems as a very honest and industrious man . If something is not dene to relieve tne people who are clamming , we shall most probably bare the painful duty to record many such like case ? . It is no use blinking the question , it is impossible to over colour it . The trades of all descriptions are suffering ;

      carpenters , painters , bricklayers are walking the streets in groups from morning till night . A question arises what is the cause of this deplorable and alarming state of things . Any one who has watched the cotton masters for the last few yean will sot be at a loss to furnish the answer—viz : competition , over speculation , and the rapid improvement inmachinery . From the mixing of the cotton to the finishing of the cloth , the masters have snatched at every scheme that genius could discover , to supersede manual labour . The improved blower , the self-acting cordstripper , the improved drawing-frame , the American

      Miserable Destitution In Stockport. Symp...

      beltB _, the self-acting mules , the size work , & c , & o . have all been introduced for the purpose of setting aside manual labour which has brought down wages , destroyed the home market , glutted _others , dr iven both artizans and capital abroad , enabled others to manufacture , who hare not half the taxes to pay , and hence the masters hare overshot the mark , and are yet too ignorant to find out that they themselves have been the means of ruining the trade . "

      Such ib the awful picture sent us by one on whose veracity and judgment we plaeo the utmost reliance . And yet the middle and upper classes , the eye and soul of the country , for the protection of whose interests the Reform Bill was carried , stand coolly _byi and look with apathy , upon the mischief they have wrought . Our hearts bleed at recitals like this . We are unable to express our admiration at the noble-mindedness of the people , who can thus bear such an accumulation of misery , the consequence of wrong , or our detestation of the double-distilled hypocrisy and villany of those who wouldaffect to tell ub that

      this people are unfit to be entrusted * , on moral grounds , with the franchise . Let them , however , beware . Forbearanoe cannot last always . And let the people take heart of hope from the cheering accounts elsewhere given of the progress of the principles of liberty . Let them unite themselves in moral force and energy . Let their intellectual prowess be backed with unanimity ; and , the Charter of our rights being once established , the people exercising rightfully governmental influence and legislative power , will speedily induce a state of th _' mgs to remedy such scenes as these .

      Who Are The Aggressors 1 " You Take My L...

      WHO ARE THE AGGRESSORS 1 " You take my life , when you do take the means whereby I live . " We give in another column , from a Scotch faction paper , a narrative of a Riot" in Durness , _Sutherlandshire , in which the peace-offioers of the country , being employed , as they too often are , in support of oppressive aggression upon tho rights of the poor , were soundly beaten , and made glad to tako themselves off . " Peace , Law , and Order" _has . ever been our motto , and is so still ; and because we desire to see the law respected , we have always contended for its being so framed and administered as to give

      it a just claim to respect from those whose interests and destinies are affected by it . We cannot defend the beating of the constables by the Keanabin people , because the constables seem only to have been employed in what the law had imposed upon them as a duty . Such things , however , cannot pass without forcing us to reflect upon the causes which induce them . Tho people have always an interest in the sustentation of right , and when the law does only right , they never obstruct its operation . What then was the matter in dispute here ! what was the thing to be done , which , though the law required it , the people were determined not to suffer \ We learn this in a few words from the

      report : — " Mr . J . Anderson , at Rispond , is principal tacksman of Keanabin , and other farms in Durness , under a lease from Lord Reay , the former proprietor of that country . KeaDabin , and places adjacent , were sublet by Mr . Anderson to several people , who have small crofts of land attached to their bouses , but whose principal means of subsistence is the herring and deep sea fishing , which used to be carried on there under Mr . Anderson ' s auspices to a considerable extent . His fishing speculation * , it would appear , proved unsuccessful , and he has latterly turned his attention to sheep farming , with which view it became necessary for him to remove several of the Keanabin people .

      It is hardly possible for words to convey a fouler picture , nor z more just one , of the unnatural state of society in which we live , than does this statement . The people of Keanabin had become unnecessary to the purposes of Mr . Andeeson ; his "fishing speculations" had not brought him 60 much money has he was desirous of making ; he wanted to turn sheep fanner , and , therefore , the people must turn out . Jt was a matter of no consequence what became of them ; they might starve , or die of hunger and cold , or commit crime , and be punished . It was queit enough that they had served Mr . Anderson ' s turn , and that he didn't now need them . The law gives him as much right to dispose of his fishermen as of bis nets and boats . The fact that

      these fishermen have wives and families , that those wives and families need food and clothing , and that the whole are endowed with human passions and feelings , is never once glanced at . They are regarded by Mr . Amdebson as the tools with which he works to obtain wealth , or as the rubbiEh to be thrown out of his road to wealth ; and the law sustains him in this treatment of them . This forces upon us a consideration of how it comes to pass that men like Mr . _Aj-debson attain this power over the lives and fortunes of their fellowmen . We come to enquire how it was that the whole land

      became the property of a few individuals , to the exclusion of the whole people , and how these came to have a right—a legal right—to " clear off" in this manner the surplus population ; to make human beings turn out and starve , that sheep may feed upon their holdings . However we contemplate the subject , whether with reference to the law of nature and of right—to the equal and impartial distribution of the natural good of his providence , by the Almighty Father of us all , or to the ancient tenure of what is called the constitution , the forms and conditions upon which grants of land were originally issued by the Crown ,

      we come always to the same conclusion ; that these acts of manifest injustice and barbarous spoliation originate in , and are sustained by , an usurpation of the legislative power . We cease , then , to exhibit wonder or displeasure that the people , thus placed by the law without its pale , should have very little respect for the law which respects not them . And while we recommend them , instead of employing , as in this case , sectional and misdirected physical powers , to oppose the enforcement of bad laws , to exercise their moral energies in establishing a position for themselves , which

      will enable them to enact good ones , we cannot permit ourselves or the country to lose sight of the fearful confirmation which the proceedings out of which this riot grew afford to the assertion we have bo often made , that the " anti-bread tax" clamourers , the middle-class philanthropists , and the humanity-mongers of all grades , have no purpose but that of ministering to their own personal aud party interests ; maugre all their protestations of humanity , their " sympathy with distress , " and their " pleas for the poor . " Here are we exhorted , because our people are

      starving for lack of food , to search all the four quarters of the world for corn wherewith to feed them ; while the corn growers of our own fields are cast out into the streets to Btarve , and our corn fields converted into pasture lands , because the law says that the rich man ' s sheep shall have a right to eat the food of the poor man ' s children ! How contemptible must be the reason of any man who supposes parties to be truly anxious for the benefit of the labouring population , while they uphold a system which exposes them to a continuity of heartless spoliation , and denies them the right to defend their own property !!

      Even this act of resistance to the authorities , demonstrates very forciby the good temper and forbearance of the people . The report tella as that an ofiioer , in the month of August last , was deputed to serve these " charges of removal" on the peaceable and quiet tenantry ot Keanabin . The people then _manifested their quiet determination to hold by their own , and to defy the power of the unconstitutional law to which they had given no consent , by simply taking possession of the

      offensive legal documents , and burning them , while they sent him quietly and unharmed home again . Another messenger , on repeating the attempted outrage , was dealt with in like manner ; and , even a third repetition was borne patiently . It was not until the fourth outrage was committed by property upon labour , and that , too , under circumstances of great aggravation , with an insulting display of physioal force , intended to terrify the people to submission , that these harmless and inoffensive people

      Who Are The Aggressors 1 " You Take My L...

      thought it necessary to meet force by force . W « regret only that their force should have been thus wasted in a fruitless assertion of right by an inexpedient process . We maintain that the people are at all times morally justifiable in , opposingforcibly , if necessary—in justice and oppression . But force , and epeoially physical force , is never necessary until all moral means have been first tried ; and not then unless with a reasonable prospect of success . This it can never have whenthus exercised in sectional and isolated conflicts . The physical force arrangements of the robbers' band of the

      " middle and higher classes" are too well perfected to permit a chance of it . Let the whole people , then , see in this , as in every other event which transpires before them , renewed evidence of the necessity of unanimity , of firmness , of a oneness of pursuiti and principle , of an adhesion to the glorious Charter of our rights , by _whioh the right" to do wrong shall be taken away from the factions and the sections ; the whole shall be protected against the aggressions of individuals , and each Individual against the aggressions of his fellow ; labour and property being each invested with its own value , and the rights of each alike held sacred .

      To The Chartists Of The United Kingdom O...

      TO THE CHARTISTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND .

      Bbothee Chartists,—After A Separation Of...

      Bbothee Chartists , —After a separation of sixteen months , I have had five weeks ocular and oral demonstration of our present position ; and , O _, how cheering to my soul , to find that the result of my inquiries enables me to put this enlarged heading to my present address . Yes , I can now say , " Chartists of the United Kingdom , " as my boloved , but long-deluded countrymen , have , thanks to the immortal Father _Mathew , been enabled to look with a sober eye into the oauses of their degradation and humiliation .

      Ireland is coming to us ; and , ere long , the Irish , to a man , will be with us , because in our principles , and in them alone , they recognise the means of regenerating our common country . Brothers , a great and a last attempt will be made by the factions and their minions to divert us from the agitation for our Charter to a clamour for a repeal of the Corn Laws ; should the tricksters succeed , or in any way disunite our ranks , who will , who can , again marshal them 1 A portion of the Whig press has hitherto gone with us as far as suited the purposes of their base party ; that is , they have endeavoured to convert us into a hobgoblin to affright the Tories ; but when the struggle came between tho people and the Whigs , then the hirelings required no long period , nor muoh consideration , as to which party they should join .

      An article in last week ' s Weekly Dispatch furnishes me with a powerful illustration of the fact . That article is headed "Political Bloodhounds , " and breathes a spirit bo malicious , so hostile to Chartism , and so muoh at variance with truth , that I here insert it for your perusal . It runs thus : — < " Politigal Blood-hounds . —It ia well known that Messrs . Lovett , Hetherington , and Cleave , though they have not withdrawn their support from Chartism , have , for some time , been endeavouring to bring aboot a scheme for the successful issue of the principles contained in the Charter By a system of education , they would instil into the minds of the working classes the means of obtaining equal laws and equal rights , without

      resorting to brute force ; and for this very worthy and praiseworthy object , they have been and are persecuted by a certain section of the Chartists ; and a call , monstrous as it may appear , is now virtually made upon the great body , to assassinate these individuals . If this be Chartism ; if this be the object of the Charter , Heaven defend us from the slightest connexion with it ; but assassination is not its object ; we are sure it is not , though some of the more violent of the class would not hesitate to put a person entertaining a different opinion to death . Such men do great harm to a cause , and the more just the cause , so the damage increases in proportion . In the early part of last month , a discussion was announced to take place in the Hall of Science ,

      City Road , between two persons , named Watkins and Watson . The latter is one of the " new move , " or moderation then ; the former a fierce Chartist—on certain charges brought by Watkins against Messrs . Lovett , Hetherington , and Cleave . These charges were embodied in a sermon ! and a large body of persons , principally Watkin's friends , attended to bear it preached ; and abused Mr . Watson in very gross terms when he attempted to reply . In foot , the conduct of Watkins and his followers offered as complete a picture as could be wished , of the most diabolical passions . Watkins said that the persons he had denounced as traitors , spies , and assassins , had been prosecuted for blasphemy , and deservedly so ! Is it not astonishing

      that a man complaining of the deprivation ef his rights should halloo on the hounds of bigotry and superstition in their rabid attacks on the priceless liberty of thought and _opinion ? Is this part and parcel of the Chartist creed ? If so , the parsons can no longer couple Chartism with infidelity . But what is to be done with this Coryphaeus of Chartist ferocity ? Had Watkins the power , be would annihilate " the traitors and spies" in a breath . He would have his minions and his bowstrings , his _Bcymetars and poisoned draughts ; he would let no one live who is net of the same opinion ; and his sentiments , brutal and coarse as they were , were echoed to the roof by his Chartist confederates , who appeared ripe for any thing atrocious and cowardly . ' The

      interests of Chartism , ' observes Watkins la his sermon , ' demand that we be firm friends , and as firm foes . No truckling , no time-serving , no temporising , no surrender to the enemy , no quarter to traitors . Despots give no quarter to traitors ,, except quartering their limbs . What was the sentence on poor Frost—to be hanged by the neck ; but to be cut down , while yet alive ; his towels to be torn out before his own eyes , and his limbs to be severed from his breathless , headless , bleeding trunk . If Frost was a traitor to Government , he was true to us ; and if such was to be his fate , shall traitors to the people—the worst of traitors—be tenderly dealt with ; nay , courted , caressed ? Shall they go unpunished , uncensured ? No . let them be denounced and renounced

      —let us prevent their future treasons , and make examples of them , to deter future traitors . Washington hanged Major Andre in spite of his most urgent intercessions—hanged him for being a spy—and who will say that Washington's example should not be followed ? Wo are iu a warfare , aud must have martial law— _< short shrift , and sharp cord . ' Say these men ore respectable in private life , that should not excuse their public delinquency . Say they have great moral influence , that only mokes their political influence the more dangerous —the more fatal . Say they are personal friends , they are all the more to be denounced for being enemies to our principles , because we have a right to expect better proofs of their friendship . Though dear to us as our own eyes , let us cast out the offenders , for it is better that they perish than they should peril the cause . ' What is the foregoing but a no very gentle hint to some

      _physical-fotce Chartist to assassinate Messrs . Lovett , Hetherington , and Cleave ? Even if those individuals had herded with the ' Whig wolves ; ' even if they had recanted , which they have not , they do not merit the dagger of the _assassin . We have perused the book which was written by Messrs . Lovett and Collins , when in jail ; and , for nobility of mind , we must confess that It does honour to them . If we were Chartists , and were to be called' traitors' for joining the ' new move , ' we should rejoice in the name , because we should know _, that we had united ourselves with the really sensible section of the body , aud quitted that portion of it which is for bringing about Reform in pools of blood , and cutting of throats . We have from authority that Mr . Watkins is beyond price , or we should be inclined to believe that ho has made an engagement with the Tories to disturb tho ranks of the Chartists , and thus render them utterly powerless . "

      Brethren , that is a false and malicious libel , not odI _/ on Mr . Watkins , but upon every Chartist in the land ; and as you will at once in your keenness observe , it has been forged as a link whereon a new version of Whiggery may be hung . The article itself requires no comment from me ; you aro now , thank God , all critics , all commentators , and though not gifted with editorial power 3 , yet are you well able to judge of an Editor ' s meaning . This article was written with a double purpose .

      Firstly , to raise up a standard under which the unfaithful may fight ub as " rational Chartists , " and hiring destroyed as , then they would take a portion of public opinion in the Whig market for sale . Secondly , it was inserted at the instance of newsvenders , upon whose countenance tho Weekly Di » _- patch calculates for much of its support . It is a most atrocious article , and has been published with the basest intent ; indeed , with the doable intent of villifying a party which it has deserted , and of pandering to the spleen of individuals .

      Brothers , yon will bear in mind , that in 1838 , when we had become too' strong for the Dispatch , that journal turned upon as like a viper , and yet you are the very breath upon which it lives . In charity you pardoned the transgression : and now calculating upon a repetition of your clemency , it

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      opens its Becond fire just at the moment when peace was proclaimed and union was strengthening our ranks . It is not my business , nor yet my intention , to say what I think of Mr . Watkiss * sermon ; but I do say that the writer of the article in question has insolently and basely misrepresented its meaning and object . Let us have one word as to the principles of the Weekly Dispatch . That paper professes republican principles , and therefore is opposed to Universal Suffrage . How strange , how very Btrange ! And

      mark those are the Editor's own words . How strange , then , that a republican should object to the ba si _? upon which alone his darling form of government can be established . You , however , have - observed that ever since the proprietor lost his election for the mayoralty , that paper has lost all character for political consistency , and has become a mere anti-Times journal ; and to-morrow , if the Times advocated a republic , the Weekly Dispatch _jgrould kick against republicanism . Brothers , —It may be a bold step thus to array

      myself against so great a monBter ; but as I have never , so I never shall , turn from your defence , though the united press were my opponents You should , at all your meetings , repudiate and fling back with scorn the foul assertion , that you are other than virtuous and moral soldiers , enlisted under the bacrcd banners of liberty . If you wish to support your enemies , well and good ; but if not , you must either teach the Weekly Dispatch to be at least an open and undisguised foe , or refuse to support it in its proflgate assault npon our ranks .

      I shall say no more upon this disgusting subject , but shall turn for one moment to the present position of the Metropolitan Chartists . Some would tell you that in our London rank 3 we number no more than about 300 , I have never in my life deceived you ; and I tell yen that we can boast a great many thousands . Indeed , never was the pure principle of demooracay more triumphant or more ably advocated in London than at the present moment ; and hence the frequent attacks upon us by the press and those who despise as , because poverty upon the one hand , and dear-bought experience upon the other , has rendered it impossible for the poor to pay dearly for the golden opinions of Whig leaders revelling in the nama of " true and rational Chartists . "

      Brothers , —Poverty and knowledge , which have led to a detection of delinquency , are our great , our only crimes , and with them we mast bear to be taunted ; to remedy the one and spread the other is our object , while to preserve the former , by possessing an exclusive possession of the latter is the object of our enemies . They cannot show u 3 what is irrational in our proceedings ; yet are we called irrational by those who have no rational object in view , and no means of carrying out any object under heaven .

      Brothers , —I never beheld ; no human being ever did behold such Demonstrations of Chartist strength , of " rational" Chartist strength , as I have since my release witnessed in York , at Birmingham , Manchester , Leeds , and Sheffield ; and yet , although not one single violation of the peace occurred ; and although our doctrine was nnion , and our preaching was peace , yet have the organs of " rational Chartism" either passed us over in silent contempt , or endeavoured to cast disrepute upon our proceedings . Brothers , —How often have I told you that the moment of our perfect union would be the signal for a union of all the privileged orders to oppose us ! The most forward Whig would infinitely prefer Tory domination in its full plenitude , to the alternative of granting popular right ? .

      You can have no administrative change worth a fig to the working classes—you can have no organic change worth a farthing—save that which the Charter presents ; and our tyrants , dreading our present position , will array themselves in dread and open hostility , while they will , from your Exchequer , feed with gold the false wolves who will prowl among you in sheep ' s clothing , preaching the doctrines of what they call " rational Chartism . "

      Brothers , —For seven years I have been upon the watch tower ; and when I saw our enemies approach , I have sounded the alarum . now tell you that we must give to hypocrites no quarter , to " false fbibnds" no countenance;—and in the words of the General , who wa 9 surprised by the enemy , in his exhortation to his troops , I will say :- — " There is the enemy , and if you don ' t beat them , by G d they'll beat you . " Brothers , my time , my counsel , my purge , and my person , to tho last moment , to my best judgment , to my last farthing , and to . my life , if necessary , are at your service to beat down the injustice of faction , and raise upon its ruins the temple of right . Onward and we conquer , backward and we fall .

      " Universal Suffrage and no surrender" ever has been , and ever shall be , the motto and the watchword of Your devoted and Unpurohasable friend and advocate , _Fbaegds O'Connob . London , 6 th Oct . 1841 . P . S . Turn not one fraction of a hairVbreadth from the virtuous aud just , the righteous good old cause . The people ' s hour will never come , till the people will it ; and then stop it who can ! F . _O'C .

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      The Trowbriqe Chartists Agree With Their...

      The _Trowbriqe Chartists agree with their Newport brethren in recommending Air . O'Connor not to pay any further attention to the " newmove" men . Mr . D . Cater says that he has been very much annoyed by his Chartist brethren on account of some error appearing in his reply to the lecture delivered by W . D . Saul , Esq ., in the Chartist ' s Hall , 55 , Old Bailey , London , on the evening of the tenth of last month , which should read thus : — "He ( Mr . C . ) could assure the lecturer that the managing committee of the _sharefwlders to this institution were , in their official capacity , totally ignorant that that sermon would be of a personal nature ; that they do not encourage

      personal bickerings ; and that he , as well as many other members of the National Charier Association , were ready to forget and forgive the opposing party if they would cease their endeavours to slop the progress of Chartism . " John Bradley . — We see no necessity for outraging the feelings of the deceased man ' s relatives by inserting ( he letter which he has sent us . The London Chartists want Richard Marsden _' s address . A Chaetist . —Monies for the O ' Brien Press Fund may be sent to Mr . Wm . Brcok , 79 , West-street , Leeds . Wm . Jennings , Westminster . —His lines are not xuitahle .

      J . G . B . —It is not our practice to insert communicated reviews of books that we have never seen , and know nothing about . If authors wish their works noticed in the Northern Star they must send them , and then they would be regularly attended to . E . P . Mead . —Next week . T . _G- —The Ten Hours BUI is intended by its advoeates chiefly as a measure of relief to the infant slaves of factories ; and is advocated chief yon ihe ground of morals , humanity , and natural right . T . G's reasonings seem to regard it solely as a question of political economy . We dissent entirety from that view of the matter . We say that if the commerce of the country can be

      sustained only by inflicting savage cruelty on little children the sooner it perishes the better . Our own opinion is that if the present Factories * Regulation Act was honestly worked ( which it never yet hat been ) the greatest gainers by the enactment of Lord Ashley * measure would be the masters ; but the intricacy of ihe present measure , and the ease with which Us provisions may be evaded , render almost nugatory its best points . George Likdset , Eccles . —We heive handed his letter to the _Executive , who have the management of the petition , and from _tcAom _, we doubt not , it uill receive every attention . Bob . J . P . Mead , fate of Birmingham , it requested , _ty _^ \ s friends in that town , to communicate with

      Thb National Petition _^/ _h a wer to very many enquiries respecting the form and contents of the National Petition for 1842 , we are authorised by the Executive of the National Charter Association to say , that the document will appear at full length in our next .

      The Trowbriqe Chartists Agree With Their...

      H . Berry , _Sottoimn-Ashfield . —We have not room for the full-length report he mentions . H . D . Griffiths . — We aresorrythat our judgment f should euffer in his estimation , or that he should think us " indiscreet" in refusing to publish hit address to the Restoration Committee ; but we still retain our opinion that it could not be attended with any beneficial results . We beg Mr . Griffiths to believe , that that opinion it holden without the slightest scintilla of " contumely ?* We thank him for his notice of the Marylebone sermon , which should certainly have appeared had not a paragraph from another source been previously in type . R . H ., Col « k . —We ' have no room for his story about , the worm and the lady-clock .

      Edward Surie , _Thomais-street , Mandiester , emplains of having , a few evenings ago _^ been rudely slopped by , a drunken policeman , in Chester-street Manchester , shortly after leaving the co-operalive store kept by Mr . Gibson , where he had been purchasing some flour and other necessaries for his family . The policeman insisted upon knowing what he had got _± and on his refusing to teU him , he was dragged off to the lockups , where after his bundle had been examined , he was discharged , and told not to go there again . It was , - : not : his fault he teas there then ; and the drunken blackguard who took him there ought to have been discharged also . General Coukcil . —Lscalities sendina lists of

      nominations to _tlie General Council to be published in the Star , otms / be particular to write them plainly , and to give the residences , especially of ( lie sub-Treasurers and sub-Secretaries . Several lists have been this week omitted , these particulars not having been attended to . The parties will send them again , writing the names plainly that no _mistake may be made , and giving the residences . We shall not insert any more such lists in which these things are not attended to . Wm . Thomas . —His letter next week . Brighton ChartisiS ;— We have been under tht ntcessily of turning over the correspondence from Holberry , 8 [ c ., to next week . The Bishop ' s Soliloquy . —Wehave no room .

      Rochdale . — We received on Thursday morning a letter , without name or dale , which says " 4 public meeting is to be held on 'Friday evening next * to congratulate J . B . O'Brien , Esq ., on his release from Lancaster Castle . " We are ¦ unable , from this , to understand whether the meeting is to take place next Friday , or whether it was held yesterday . Rochdale . —The late Treasurer , Mr . Hanson _' s accounts , have been investigated , and found correct . The Bread-eaters' Advocate , iVe . _// ., has been received , and shall be noticed in our next . Will the sender let us have No . I . by about Monday ? Aberdeen . —The news-letter was received just before we went to press . G . Cudlipp — We received his long communication about half an hour be fore we went to press . It has , theref ore , not been read as yet .

      Samuel Noble , Trowbridge . —No Wiltshire Independent was received here last week . A Person signing himself M R . P ., " and dating from ( Shipping Norton Post-Office , Oxon , affords ¦ us the important information that he is " _noio quite at liberty to take the field as the representative , commander , and counsellor of the people ? as soon as he can be supplied with a sufficiency of " the needful . " We opine that he is som very silly person . Joseph Linney , 9 , Whittle-street , Manchester , desires to inform his friends that his health is now recruited , and he will be able to attend to their many lecturing invitations as soon as preparations are made , and notice to that effect sent to him . James Walker , Leeds , wishes to know whether P , M . Brophy , of Dublin , has received from him a parcel of Northern Stars , Circulars , and a variety of Chartist Tracts and periodicals .

      J. Mellor, Belfast.—Tliey Were Sent Last...

      J . Mellor , Belfast . —Tliey were sent last wtek _, v £ » London . To Agents . —Viose Agents who have received their acconnts are requested to send their amounts due , otherwise Vieir papers will be stopped . FOR THE WIVES AND FAMILIES OF IHE _INCARCERATED CHARTISTS . £ u . d . From an old Radical , Hull , being interest oa five shares in the Northern Star 0 10 d FOR THE EXECUTIVE . From John Hall , GIossop 0 10 0 TOR THE V 3 NEMPLOTED AT STOCKPORT . From Rochdale Universal Suffrage Association 0 9 8 FOR THE SPREAD OF CHARTISM IN IRELAND . From friends , Egremont 0 5 FOR O ' BRIEN'S PRESS . From James White , Cardiff ... ... 0 1 8 _ a friend , ditto ... ... ... 0 0 6

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      Bzxistom.—Watching, Praying , And Taking...

      _BZXiSTOm . —Watching , Praying , and Taking Time by Mistake . —A _piwia young man who has been for some time engaged about the Independent Chapel in this town , went a few days ago to discharge the duty of praying with a poor old man , who was then lying sick and could not attend divine service at the chapel . The pious young visitor whilst engaged in the work of prayer Btole the old man ' s watch , which being soon missed , a messenger was dispatched after him , when he was brought back and accused of the theft . He denied the charge ; but on being threatened with further trouble , lie drew the watch from his pocket , declaring he had taken it by mistake 1

      Public Meeting . —The brave colliers and foundry men of _BUstou aud its neighbourhood are making the most rapid progress of any part ot this district , and great credit is due to Mr . Stiran and the other persons who have so nobly exerted themselves to extend a knowledge of just principles amongst the manly and energetic inhabitants of this hive of industry . A public meeting was convened at the Ballcourt on Thursday evening last , to which Mr . George White of Birmingham , was invited . The meetiwt

      took place at the Ball-court , at seven o ' clock , the Court is calculated to hold five or six thousand people . Mr . Lindon was unanimonsly called io tha chair , and called upon Mr . Mogg , of Wolverhampton to address the meeting . The Chairman next introduced Mr . George White , of Birmingham , who dali vered an address upon the principles of the Charter . Mr . Henry Candy , of VVolverhampton , next addressed the meeting with his u 3 ual energy . Hamb for the brave colliers of Bilston !

      BIRMINGMATVI . —Change Ringing . —Wm rung on the 1 st instant , at St . Peter and Paul ' s Church , Aston , by the society of Change Ringers of St . Philip ' s , Birmingham , a true and complete peal of Steadman Catorg , comprising 5 , 184 changes , bj the following persons : —Mr . Wm . Andrews , treble j Mr . Joseph Deer , 2 nd ; Mr . Henry Johnson , 3 rd ; Mr . John Hopkins , 4 th ; Mr . John James , 5 th _; Mr . William Chattel , 6 th ; Mr . Thomas _ThurstanSi 7 th ; Mr . Thomas Gay , 8 th ; Mr . James Jarvis , 9 _thi Mr . Jesse Cutler , tenor . The above peal was composed and ably conducted by Mr . H . Johnson , in three hours and twenty-one minutes .

      . Whig and Tory Persecution . —We have heard several reports of working men being turned oat « their employment by tyraunical masters , for attending tha great demonstration to Feargus O'Connor , in Birmingham . It is quite certain that thousands were compelled to stay away through the threats of such people . One man , who is a shoemaker , named Edwards , was turned oat of his work by a hearties sconndrel living near Deritend Bridge , because M was a member of the Charter Association , and ffM in the procession .

      _STAImTBHUXxB . Caution to Bssan Societies . —On Saturday , the llch of September , man of the name of Thomas Cain , then residing _m Fountain Hrgh-street , Liverpool , but Jate of GIossop , in the county of Derby , a member of the Good Intent Burial Society , held at Mr . Samuel Bevan ' _e _, Fleec * Inn , Staly Bridge , presented at the above house J certificate of the death of his son , John CaiD , _agea two years and four months , wbioh certifi cate nw been obtained on the 9 th , from Mr . Lovett , Unionstreet , registrar of births and deaths for the district of Dale-street , Liverpool . The officers of the society and collectors for the district thought pr ° P « _| ° , J ! I fuse paying the money , viz . £ 4 , until they bad better satisfaction , and after further enquiry at _Liverpool they found the child still living , and that the cen _** oate was a forgery .

      KEIGHIjEY . —Shocking _AcciDEtrr . -On _&• tnrday night last , about twelve o ' clock , Jamesdse *" son Ackroyd , a little boy , upwards of eight ye _»» of age , met with his death in the following J * nen £ able manner . Ho was proceeding , along _witn n » mother , Charlotte Ackroyd , from Leeds to Ke _« n « 7 » by the waggon of Mr . Joseph _Barstow , common carrier , which had get to Serdwmill-lane-end _, » w « J mile from Keighley , when in attempting to mm * the shafts of the waggon he fell to the _« ' _» ulld _' . _^ both the near wheels passed over his he » a _^ wti 3 C"jft it in such a shocking manner as to cause his 1 | n 3 r _2 death . A short time Drevious to the accident , W ° »"

      got out of the waggon , to walk along with the _dnw who having occasion to get in again to adjust hw » of his goods before arriving in Keighley , « j ™ _£ posed he had been attempting to ' <> Uow he Jhj 2 i goner ' s example by mounting on the shafts , _ww led to the unfortunate event . The _fatoW _*! . _^ t mother , who was on the waggon at the tinWi fL / rg . better imagined thsn described . The bodyi _™*_ moved to the Red Lion public-house , _Eastwoo a _^ and an inquest held over it on Monday ' _•**? -. _* _, _» the evidence agreeing with tho above _sk _^ aniU verdict of " accidental death" was returnea _rf _^ deodandof one _bhilling laid upon the waggon _w _° _r The waggoner's name is Stele Lofthouse , a ' ™ _£ _Z ablv steady and decent man , and no blame _wa » eould be _attached to his conduct .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 9, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_09101841/page/4/