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_tfOfBMBEB 27 , 1847 . * ' _"" _^ _NaU _^ HERN r S TAR . ' 5
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_So aincb for tne cash book and the balance ; _^ _p 0 tF see how this puzzle-pated ass is _** _ j-- _con-ncted by _dates and facts . He says 5 £ _* n 184041 there were several public funds _fSved at the Star office . Now for dates . 5 r _^ s trial was in 1839 , and I paid 1 , 000 ? . _bezZgw was received for that fund ; borrowing _-JyL fiom Mr Read , some from Mr Allsop , and "Je _ftom Mr Bogers ; so that in 1840-41 Mr _jS jjj could not have been using that fund . _InApril , 1839 , 1 V ? _& 4007 . or 500 t for _defend-*^ Chartists in Liverpool—now 1839 is Sore 1840-41 ; and I never received a fraction ! f S tep hens' money- —that all went direct to _2 m from the Star . But mark what follows _, _jjj _jgio , as soon as I was sent to prison , the _jjondoneis began to cry out for a balance j _jggt of those funds—those funds , mark
, _^ _jch this ruffian says , in a previous letter , . _j _* , atX have never settled an account of yet . _ffell , though in prison , my character was de ar to me , and I requested the Manchester _people to appoint auditors to investigate those _jaunts , and I sent them those accounts with _j-copts for every fraction ; and b y whom , do jou think ? Why by Joshua Hobson !! And _^ hat was the result do you think ? "Wh y here it is , fr _° m the auditors themselves , published in the Star of the 10 th of October , 1840 , and a copy of which was enclosed to me by Joshua flobson , stating his and John Ardill * -: astonishment , surprise , and admiration , of the plain and simple manner in which I presented the _actt-unt , and the perfection of my figures ! 1 2 " ow read the
following—H BCoiAsniw ;—A special meeting of the Manchester _g-ecotivs CouncO . and ofthe Committee , appointed by sbe delegate meeting iu Manchester , to distribute the _{^ dsubscribed forthe _reliefofthe-mTMand _faroUiesof _jketap r _isoaeaCb-rSsts , bavinfc been called for tbe purp _^ _of-gswwiing _the balance _aheeU ftherecdpts _and asbursements of the 'Frost Defence Fund , ' and the « National Defence Fund , 'in consequence of certain reports Ju no j- been raised aid circulated to the prejudice of Mr feargus O'Connor , the bolder aud dUburser of those funds , such meeds ** was held thi * Monday evenine * , Oct . 5 th , 18 H ) , when after hearing the several documents read , and the balance sheets having been ixamined , it
_« as resolved unanimously *—t . This Committee having heard with deep resist of tee circulation , by gome parties in London , of rumours and reports prejudicial to Mr O'Connor's character , in relation to the Frost and General Defence Fund , highly approve ofthe steps taken by Hr O'Connor for their _refetstion _, in having corresponded with Mrs Frost , and _ofct-tining from that lady , a letter denying the charges said to have been made by her ; aud in _^ sg the whole aacnmants with fall explanations , before this committee far eramrnagon and approval , is satisfactory , preparatory to _thetrpoblication for general inspection . Moved by Jakes Wheklzb . Seconded by Ahdmw Melviile .
; . The balance sheets of the several funds having beeu attentively and _scrutinisingly examined by this committee , they beg thus _toexpress their high sense ofthe adjobable manner _inv-Hch the several accounts bave been "apt , and the judicious care and management evinced in _tbetr disbursement- From such examination tbey find tfc-tthe stnns of £ _SJS . 19 « , "Jd . on tbe General Defence fund ; and £ 46 . on tbe _"Northern Union Medal account , axe due to Mr O'Connor , he having advanced the same ; gad tbey are of opinion tbat tbe entire of tiie money tons advanced ought to be immediately subscribed by the country st large and ---turned to Mr O'Connor . . -Moved by Petes Sboxboces . Seconded by Wjc _Busbtov .
3 . This committee cannot too earnestly deprecate the _jjunv attempts , made hy certain parties in London , te _t-tupn * and _inna-iafe away the character of Mr O'Connor , in the teeth ofthe evidence of facte which proves that he bas done more in the creation and collecting of the se _.-ersl funds , whose particulars we have just examined into , ( ton any other twenty men put together ; and tbat his poise has ever been open to . and his talents ever been at _fense and command of , the suffering poor . These attempts , they think spring from any motives but tht one BappTiedby tbe love of Chartism , and evince either uissppdinted vanity or contemptible envy on the part of those who _mal-o them . Moved by Wk . Misdoces .
Seconded by jobs Milusgtok . 4 . This committee cannot separate without registering tfcar opinion , tbat tbe gratitude ofthe nation at large is doe to Mr O'Connor for the almost superhuman efforts cuds by him in the cases ofthe Dorchester labourers , fee Glasgow cotton spinners , the Welsh martyrs , and the Cinrtist victims , to secure for them the best defence the lis could furnish , or to procure their liberation after being sentenced to felons' fate ; and they have witnessed , Kith regret , the ungrateful conduct in return of those _vrho either bave not the soul to appreciate , or the honesty to acknowledge them . Moved by Axskew Meltuxe . Seconded by Wn . _Rusbtov . Jin ) _Csa-xbebui _** , chairman . Petee ShossocKs , secretary .
It was afterwards moved and carried unanimously . thst Hr Abel Heywood , of Manchester , be appointed _freann-er for tbe fund for ' the relief ofthe imprisoned Cbartists" wives and families , * in consequence of Mr O'Connor declining to act as treasurer any longer . Well , reader , what do yoa think of that ? But then , I pray yon to read the following article from the Sterof the same week , written by Mr Hill , on the representation of our publisher , Hobson . Here is the
article—6 BATITUD 1 . We this day publish a letter from our Louden _corresj-ondent , which we recer-red some time ago . It will ho _fouad in onr eighth _paee . nnder the head -O'Cosso _** . 4 kd the Fmst F _* Jtn . T , ' marked Ko . 1 . As soon as webadread the document we saw tbe _pto-• Jriety of _pladn- * it in Mr O'Connor _^ hands , for though Tte conceived it quite possible , and even probable , that Mr O'Connor migbt advise a wife , to sell or mortgage an inanity , or part with ber bed , for the purpose of defend in » snch » hnstmnd as John Frost , if fund * conld not be otherwise produced , we fenew O'Connor too well to believe that the restoration of that annuity , if promised by bim , would havebeen forgotten , or unattended to In order , therefore , that we might know the truth abont it , our publisher went off instantly to York , and tm _/? rtie _decmnent to Mr O'Connor . When Mr
O'Conjmi- had heard the communication read he smiled , and said , - VH tell you , Hobson , how far that is true . I never saw Mrs Frost ; I never wrote to Mrs Frost ;! never sent a message to Mrs Frost , except to communi-< _ate the tidings ofthe point of law saved by Sir Frederick "foBock ; ana I _nerer knew till this moment that she had an annuity . However . ' continued he , « Mrs Frost ( ban speak for _fimeH IsnaHwriteto her tbi * moment . _"Butsuwly , Hobson , -rets can understand the _di-appoiataeatand mortification ofthe London traders , at being bulked of their commission on so large a charitable fend as a _tasosand pounds , well enongh to see the spleen Of the jobber through the affected sympathy of the patriot . Those _v--iy fellows , ' he continued , ' wonld kill Mrs Frost if they conld make monev ofthe hide and fat ; « _ad wonld then debit her executor * with the expenses , wtlen wosdd be sure to exceed the receipts . '
Mr O'Connor did write to Mrs Frost . A copy of his _lettsr , marked No . 2 , is given in the same column with lie letter of theLondon correspondent . He received , by return of post , an answer from Mrs Frest , utterly _dis-< * a _£ _mln- * aH participation in the calumny ; and express-IB- ; her thanks for his exertions oa behalf of Mr Frost , ia term * which , whilethey are no more than just to Km are highly creditable to her . We have regretted few ' things more tban we do the determination of Mr _O'Cenflor not to allow this letter ta be published . It contains , however , references to a third party , whose f
-Ut- , ent of regard for Hr . - _^* _*^ _- _, _£ _~ . _" _?" Willing tobrmg into & e _vx _^& _oniasti & or _^ l _^^ Qnnh-W tb * publication of the whole letter _neeeuan _* . tooka journey to Tork purposely to press for its _publleabon , we _^ crennaWe totoduce him to relax bu resolution We give , therefore , after Mr _™™* _£ ** > _™* _extrfr _^ from Mrs Frost _- sletter _athe would _«¦*¦«*» _tare-raWshed . _Toth _^ _ata _^ i-Bkrf _^ v w _referrtereaderforthecoafinBation _** "i _£ _. , _„ _" - _^ _lottrstoir _. _'hywMehlifa London '««*• _S * °° uTubt _, to whisper away the reputation ef OCww , Uf m M , liberation from confine-neat should alio *** bim
to defend himself ! , . Th . accounts , whieh weagain _paWish thi * day . have bees several times published before ; but upon tte _aacoTfflcement ofthe Iroadon conspiracy , - _^ _° Cenn ' > desired that they might be at one view placed before _tBpsblic ; every item being first submitted to a full meeting of the Executive Council at Manchester , _sjieciaUy ooavened for the purpose ; and that _Lendon might b » _-farlj represented in the council , Mr O'Connor wrote ta Mr Moore , a member of the late Working Man s _Asso--j * _aiiim . Md _** l » _a-nemberof thtlato _Cenvention , and enclos
af the late Frost * * Committee , sitting in London , - iag £ s . tebearhisexp « nsesto MaBcbest * r . w- > K _* _£ ! _teter mirked Ko . 4 , and _als . Mr Moore ' , reply , marked He . 5 , in which he decline , attending tte meeting , and _Myexcnerateshim-elf from all _* f- _^ _J _~ J _" * ! _^ t be eounca wfll be _foonaia the _«^^ _«| _»» J body , which we alMgiTe , markedSo . t , t _™* _" _™** _-tf-wrstiattbeaationowesMt O'Connor £ _^ a . l »* . U . _^ _W if _app _« r . '' thatthe _™«<** _* _t _* J _% _** s _^ , l _« c . irwiwow thatave-7 _^^^ _" _-Wrtb . _^ _own _. tmtbe wiUnot allow -nose than thu to
_& _owtogO-Coimora swehav . teow n WmforBvBjein . _naarfoytegalaigaportion of bis _conndence for now _frJCmM cbarider » _Oeneejoa _A » _d-ject tbe _taiaat treachery to our _dtoeed frfend . Oar-feeaonfor _O'CannorU _^^* _, _^ _£ ~ fl Ofadepeac _^ tmereenary ; _••••^^ _"S ! _^ _Mntatrtgsrtforldfclatft _^ r . _noUiputoe _^ V , _havehad thel _^ t _opportunitiei of taowtoghto * _bothcapadties ; and we believe _ttatno _eonfltryevexdi' _jroduce a more x ? aloM . a more ttacer _^ e , _* mm J We , or a more duUterested pubKc _aerrMt tiun * _"Wn . _o'Co-Mr- whfl . his Dri _vata and n «« mal _««
Hon * intb . cause of »« 4 ic « lta » have ertncea ¦ « «« aroslty « f character than appertains to in » tot _a _^ ther aaa ef whom we ever hesrd or read , we aw not sorry . _ftmfore , _fcTth _»«> mpuWon wUchU wa on «* . by thb base attack oa him , to uplift » _^ _JT _^ tithe enrtain thatmnst othenria bate remained deseiy drawn aroaad Mm . of the bert porti- " _-. of bl * _***** _" ?• _tfaafe set even sorry fe * the _defsaeeletf position in _"ftieh he has been _plietd by the « eouudr » I K _«] - « j _^ whose vile tools would Urn . stab Wm while their mastcrs _fcolihl _. hands ; on tha _eontrsrj wt thank oota «»••
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_ofiaSm _^ _totbrowa o _^ _wSw _wS HS" * _* _- «« i _^ r- » _* 5 were locked np , he _vronia bave killed himself HU _«**^ _»" i « _tin « m , , for _hUhealth _-vas _^ _plal , _^ U _«« , BO _OthKOiflitiuWhsw sustained . The circumstance of his incarceration so eagerlv at which to strike ablow tbat shonld be unparried , has h ! . !? ler « " « _W > - » ii « facta illustrative
_W many _rfMr O Connor ' s character , of which we were before _ignorant , and to which this cowardly assault will _abuudantly _-asHQr our allusion . _Btfo-e his _Lnprisonraent we never Interfered in aay other than the literary ma ! nag-ment . of tbe paper . _Erery department , in whic h thecasbl .-r , the publisher , or agents were concerned , be ore- looked _ttmstlf ; aa was moat proper and _mostnatu - na . Sinee Us _imprisonaent , we have been made conversant , as his representative , with many mat . ten that we before never saw . We fonnd tba ac . eounls af the establishment pregnant with astounding revelations of wbich he had never breathed a syllable . Deductions , to an incredible amount made for
were by agent * sums ordered to ha paid by Mr O'Connor weekly , or as donations and subscriptions to the families of imprisoned Chartists , and to distressed persons , or to persons « ho had been , in various places , discharged from their employment for the assertion of thdrpiinciples . Through two agents only , he has given more to those purposes than the whole of the National Fond for tbe support of the imprisoned Chartists . And though _enjayinff , we bell-re , a . much of hi * confidence as any other roan , we bad not heard a _syllaHeabout any part « f it . The whole bad been kept profoundly secret from all but those necessarily cognisant of it from their connexion with tbe accounts . Was this mere _ostentation ! or was it that true charity which ' vaunteth not
itself !* Sucb bas been 0 'Cotnor * a conduct through bis egents in _varioa * places ; while we have bad full opportunity of seeing enongh of hi . most private acts at Leed * to know that bis character has beea one consistent whole , Kor has his steadiness of purpose beeu less tban bis munificence of soul . Throughout the whole of this hot agitation , our offioa has bean a kind of political confes . tional . We bave seen Mr O'Connors zeal , temper , and courage well tested both by friend and foe , and we bave ever seen him bear tbe same front . We have seen bim surrounded by dangers , and great dangers too ; but we have never kno-m bim shrink . Tbe time to know a politician is to watch bim at . the conflux of popular tides . We have teen O'Connor there ; and amidst all the dash _, ing of the surge he ever held fast by tbe rock of justice and consistency .-
We are not fond of personal euloglum , bnt we do love justice , and , as we know tbat we have said much 1 ? ss than the truth , we thiok that we have not said- mora than i . rrq-ured by the circumstances . Roman assassins slew _Csiiar : bat tbe Romas-, when his will was read , wept over his corpse . We thought it right that the poor of England should know something of O'Connor ' s character before tba assassins bad destroyed bim . Now , except in compliance with the request I always made of the working classes , to he jealous about their funds , and the character of their leaders , need I go farther than this ? You know I have always told you that indifference of leaders to the first blush of slander was the
thing that magnified and increased tbat slander ; and you also know , that ithas ever been my custom to sift all matters connected with character io the very bottom ; and now , I ask yon , what the veriest enemy of mine can think of this zealous advocate of Mr Ardill ' s character ? Don't you think he appears to know too much about everything , even the most minute transaction , and with which he had nothing to do ? And don't you think he ' s very tender about Mr Ardill ' s character , while he ' s very loose and indifferent abont his [ own ? This zealous advocate hasn't said one single sentence in reply to Ardill's " community" letters of the 7 th and 14 th of December , 1842 ; but I suppose he thinks defence of himself is
hopeless , and , like a drowning man , he catches at a straw . But what say you to the public funds , when I tell you that Mr John Ardill never settled any single one of these accounts with me till I was about to discharge him ? And what do you think of Josh . ' s laudation' of his friend , for not charging interest npon money due , when I tell you that it is not entered in the cash book till the day of his dismissal , and that he never paid the fraction of interest upon any of these public funds , but _, on the contrary , he took up 350 ? . . of the Star shares and charged me 352 . a year , or 10 ? . ' per cent ., np to the day of bis dismissal * and wasn ' t that a good money club ?
As far as my character is concerned I have purged it from this charge ; but what will the clients of Joshua . Hobson think of the unblushing and barefaced avowal of this caretaker of the public funds , who , with the hope of injuring me , thus audaciousl y avows that he was unscrupulously using them for private purposes 1 ! No . 3 is a long yam about Ardill ' s brother , a mechanic on strike , lending money to support the Star ; and this fellow says that I remained in Leeds three days to get 300 ? . from this brother of Ardill ' s . I did so , but it was 3007 . that
Ardill had lent him of my money ; and he wanted me to take a bill upon some flax man in Dundee , for the amount , and I remained in Leeds for three days , and was obliged to leave it without the money , receiving 1107 . on the following Monday ia cash , and receiving John Ardill ' s cheque on the Leeds and West Riding Banking Company for 1907 ., and which was dishonoured and sent back to me , and which j hold at this moment in my possession . And now I give yon the whole amount of funds received at the Star office , from John Ardill ' s own
handwriting-Folio * s . d . Frosfs Defence Fund .. .. 178 .. " 478 1 « _ClaphamFund .. .. .. 160 .. 0 12 T DereuceFund 258 .. 20715 4 Medals soli . Balance after payin-- carriage of flags , & c .. 337 .. 2 6 8 Balance of Kational Rent , after . paymgPrinting of do ... .. 837 .. 118 1 £ New Defence Fund , New book .. 99 .. 18110 19 _Ricbardssn , Manchester Defence Fund .. .. .. 99 " 4 6 2 Chartist Contested Seats .. 99 .. 8 11 0 Cleave .. .. .. Si .. 60 0 o We certify that we have seen the above in John Ardfll's hand writing . S . A . FtBllINO .
G . J . BAXmjT . D . _M-Gowak . Now , then , those funds I over-paid to the amount of between 5007 . and 6007 . Upon the Contested Seat Fund alone , never before mentioned , I paid 327- odd to Messrs Yates and Turner , on account ofthe Newcastle petition , whicb was to be bronght in favour of James Bronterre O ' Brien . How foolish it is to remind me of those things '; and yet this
lowlived , filthy fellow , who was the very man that was at the settling of these accounts , would prove my incompetency to deal with public funds , I presume because I had overpaid every one that has been entrusted to me . But what a joke , this mechanic on strike , Ardill ' s brother , being able to abstract 5001 ., as Hobson says , from his capital , to lend to me . Why , I tell yon , Ardill was always discounting bills with my money and paying those bills away on my account as cash . ast
4 There is such a thing in this world P rottng too _mwli . as well as proving too Uttle . _Snrelyy Conn ( _ir t Stile former in this instance . What ! keep a _bookketner for seven years who was making such an awful mSthebooh . as here detailed ! - _™ - _* " _£ « altered ! What J not a single page _™^* > _%£ _® dUtrations ? not _n single one ! And this incompetent , cheating clerk kept In the establishment for more tban seven years ! Tell such a pretty'yarn'to the mannesor to the men with ready _. waHow attheHallof " Science , hut tell it not to sober people . . , Yes , I abide by the above assertion , and , again , I remind the reader tbat L I did not keep the man in my employment after I had made the discovery , because I conld not make the discovery until the figures wore altered , and until I got the books , and I remind the reader of Mrs Rider ' s evidence , on oath , " Thatthe books must be altered before O'Connor saw
them . " Always bear in mind , reader , that not a column in my cash book was totted up for five years . 5 It was in 1838 that Ardill became O'Connor ' s bookkeeper . From that time up to the latterend of 1842 , Ardill eould not get O'Connor to look over the bonks , to satisfy himself of their correctness , though hs often desired is . The cash book wmtinedt » K * M _^ i » _p--"anb _* uanced —the items not having been examined . At length , at the end of 1811 , O'Connor being at I * edf , and staying at Ardill ' s h _. _oje , tbis examination was commenced . Every
item , asto as thej went , was exanunea ; tne casn vcom each agent shown to be properly posted tobisacceuntin theledeer- and each payment of cash traced through Toncber , bankbook , or _wageboelv Then the items on acb _uase ofthe cash book were added up , the totals of _i „ B column being taken on to a sheet _ofpauer reded for £ _. _« urpot « . Tbis was done by & Cetwcr himself ; * _nd th _« _fiSaddingwu tested bj Ardfll . - " Ms way they _Stuwng b _row _s-eTentJpa _-ei ofthe _whbook , striking _rKce » ttteend , asitttea _ap-xsared . The totals at _mSltea _^ _^ _nhmOtmjmi la the bwk _htdbeen
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n _«\* _aaee _^ _correct O'Connor rfvim- _IhUii f nreswera marked in _jak , Mr _randinnls _awmysSttKe . _^ * _^ atmemo . _JFZ _^ _Wa * _Reword in the above extract true . I did not see one single voucher : not a single column had its amount entered m it . I did not see a single entry In the _ledger . I never _sawlhe led ger at all , and when I did see it , I defy the devil himself to understand it . Ardill never did press me to go over the accounts . * I pressed him , and Ardill was not with me for four hours altogether while I was going over some pages in the cash book . As Rider tells you , he was sometimes four
days in the week without going tothe office while I was absent , but at the time that I remained at his house to cast up the books he always had business at the office . I did not give him any memorandum or scrap , whatever , connected with that investi gation or any other . I could not procure any Bank vouchers for two days , and Ardill gave me no assistance to get them ; but , upon one occasion , the Bank did give me two or three vouchers , and one of them was a cheque of Ardill ' s for 150 / . and with which I was charged ; and when Tasked Ardilthe meaning ofit he got very red , nnd said " It was a mistake , that it was to _| take up a bill that Mr Clarkson discounted for Hobson , ' ' and it was struck out of the account . I never
have got the _vouchers , iinot one single voucher , although tens of thousands of pounds p laced to Mr Ardill ' s credit are placed thus : —
Paid Bank .. .. .. £ 90 0 0 Paid Ditto .. .. .. 460 0 0 Paid Ditto .. .. .. 300 0 o and so on to the amount of tens of thousands of pounds . Now I have never seen a single voucher for those lodgments . I have never seen a single banker ' s book . Now the transcript that I toek of a fewpages of the cash book onl y at that time , I still fortunately have in my ' possession , and , by it , a thundering large balance appeared due to me , and at the conclusion of that partially settled account Mr Ardill was to procure 500 / . to
enable me to pay ready money for papermind , this was in 1842—and , in 1843 , Ardill and Hobson , in their reply to Hill ' s 'Scabbard , ' confess that Ardill was obliged to draw inthe monies due to him to MEET MY DEMANDS UPON HIM . Those are John Ardill ' s own words written by Joshua Hobson . That ' s one of the panels , and I shall presently , come to the others . But I may here , observe , that not a figure is altered in the cash book of those columns wbich I totted , up on that sheet of paper , and this produces the puzzle of making out the balance over a shorter range of figures .
6 . The Star was removed to London , Ardill becoming responsible to a friend for the means of getting there ; and alter we got there he had again to find money to meet a paper bill , due ia April , . 1845 . Op to this time Mr O'Connor had not been charged one penny interest on the sums belonging to John Ardill , employed in the iSiar , nor on the sums borrowed from other parties . While Ardfll ' s brother , for instance , eould have bad interest for his £ 300 . at the Bank , and could have got it when he wanted it , O'Connor had the use ofit with out a fraction of charge ; and it was not alwavs forthcoming when needed . Ia addition to this , for years O'Connor made Ardill ' _sbousehishome , when at Leeds . Hewas there at _timea for weeks together ; once , when examining the books ' as before detailed , for six weeks ; _liringrathis table , and sleeping ia his bed ; and this , too , without ever , from first tolast _, making one _' farthingrecomp nee ! A gentleman witband his
living , on , servant . Wasn ' t I charged a penny interest ? Tell that to the marines . He means I wasn ' t paid a penny interest ; and as tothe fable of my being at Ardill ' s house for six weeks together , I never was there for five days together in mv life . Just think of telling the Chartist ' s of England that I was six weeks in any one place ; and as to partaking of my servant ' s fare , I'll tell you an anecdote . —J _« b Hague , the brother-in-law of Hobson , once met me at the station in Leeds , and when I got into the cab I told the driver to driveme to Mr Ardill ' s house , at Burley-place , when Job , who was up to all the dodges ) , went back to the office and told the men , as a good joke , that he had half a mind to tell the driver to drive me " To MY OWN COTTAGES , at Burley-place . "
7 . Before this July biU became due . Hr O'Connor went of to the largestagent there was , and drew from him £ 3 0 . On bis return he told Hr Ardill that this agent would , on the succeeding Wednesday , send him ( Ardill ) £ 250 . The bill was falling due or the Saturday after . Wednesday came , bnt no £ 250 . Then Jfr Ardill wrote totbesaid agent , apprising him of wbat Mr _O'Conner had said abont the £ 250 ., and desiring it to be sent off forthwith . The answer per return of post was ,- « tbat he had uo money to send—and Jfr _ff Connor knew that he had not . ' Indignant at being thug treated _^ -TsicsEn—Mr Ardill resented . Thereupon ensued a correspondence , in which O'Connor had some truths told him which he will never forgive to bis dying day .
That bill [ The July one . 1845 , mind ] was talcen up , at last . I with this date tobe cisereed . When I come to the accounts of _the'Land Companjit will be seen why I so request . To meet the deficiency , Mr Ardill gare a cheque at a month on his bunk for £ 150—toifcft cbzqde wss never _*> au > < z- oB simitar former _ekequts had heen ; but it was kept till due , and then enclosed bv Mr O'Connor himself in a letter to Mr Ardill . r Now , here ' s a yarn ; to take up this bill , I went to Manchester , and got the money from Mr Heywood . I paid the money to Ardill ( 250 ? . ) , it is acknowledged in the cash book . Ardill was bound to take up the bill . He gave another cheque for . 150 f . which was
dishonoured , and this is the question that you are to keep particularly in view , in connexion with the Land money . 8 . Ur Ardill had been _ad-ised by his lawyers , tbat it was necessary be should keep possession of tbe Star account books under tbe agreement , as bis debt , for which that agreement and the bond were given , appeared enly in those book ? . One night , while Ardill was out of the way , all the books were removed out of the office up to Mr O'Connor _' stodgingt . That night Ardill and O'Connor had to meet to arrange for a settlement . O'Connor , having the looks , acted the bully . He stormed ; he threatened . He read a pretended counsel ' s opinion , to the effect that Ardill had broken the agreement , and could be made to suffer . ' Ardill quietly
sneered down this 'lawyers law , and told O'Connor that it was Mm that had broken the agreement , in going and obtaining £ 300 . from the agent before spoken of . On this O'Connor swore , 'By the living God , ' he had not had one sixpence from that agent since the agreement waa made . Tbe answer was , ' Then that agent owes £ 700 . ; he has had papers to that amount since the period you speak of : and tjmdeb thb aobeemkht , / will make him pay for them . ' This tamed the ' roaring lion . ' he saw himself fairly caught . He saw his double-dealing and his oath' 'by the living God / in danger of full exposure ; and he then agreed to a proposal for a settlement . Tbat proposal involved some calculations from tbe Star books . To make those
calculations , Hr Ardill , and another party who had witnessed all tbatbad passed , rrcnt to the _officex-it " - the books , They were thns again in Mr Ardill ' s posiession _, and , the calculations over , he pnt them by in a safe place . Next morning , O'Connor objected to ' the settlement he bad agreed to tiie nigbt before . "Ardill accepted bis objection ; reiterated his full demand , and would not abate one farthing . Oa this basis was a settlement at last effected ; Ardill agreeing to take bUU for the balance then due , some at more than taetee montft- * date . The Mils were accepted ; memorandum receipts _exchanged ; and thus they parted , on an arrangement that in the January following Mr Ardillshould go up , If needed , to aid in getting out tbe quarter ' s accounts .
Here , then , we have the spice of legal advice , under which the "Lucky Boy" was acting , and here , also , you have a tissue of the most absurd falsehoods that ever were printed . There isn ' t a word about the agreement in any single book . John Ardill gave a note to one of Mr Hobson ' s apprentices , to get the books from Mrs Hobson , at whose house they wpre , and he brought them to my house upon that order _, for , as Mrs Rider swore before the arbitrator , " Mrs Hobson had Mr Ardill ' s orders not to give them to any one without a note from him ;" and , it is quite true , that , when I saw them , I did storm , * for , from July till November , Mr
Ardill had snaffled every single fraction without the deduction of a farthing that was paid by the agents ; and , in three days after 1 so stormed , a bill for 556 / . was due for paper , and when I asked Mr Ardill if he had made provision for it , he told me , in presence of Mr M'Gowan and my nephew , that he couldn't give a fraction towards the bill , —that he was advised to pay himself all that was due upon the bond , and a note given for another balance in April , 1845 , and I had again to start to Manchester to receive money from Mr Heywood , which his books will show , Mr Robert _^ giving me the difference to enable me to pay the bill , wincn
Ardill , by his bond , was bound to take up . Then , in looking over the cash book , I »«»» that he had screwed the agents up to the last farthing , making those who should only pay quarterly , pay in the middle of the quarter , andafterthe receipts ofthe whole of them oney _, and when he had not one penny towards the bill , I read him counsel ' s opinion before Mr M'Gowan } and my nephew , when he got as pale as a ghost , and said , "AhI but * Mr O'Connor , _youwouldn ' t proceed as _counael recommends / ' This is the fabricated counsel a
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opinion , the original ofwhieh I will send for inspection of the curious , to the ' Registry Office for private correspondence , ' --The office of The Manchester Examiner . Then , indeed , the " roaringlion" became a sucking dove , said that he would give a cheque for 56 l . towards the bill . And now , for a curious fact ; you see how this cunning trickster is tellingyou facts which I told you before ; but which he never told you before , and which he never wouldhave told you , if I had not , —namely , that the columns of the cash book were not summed u p , and that he was advised to keep possession of the books . Now , mark one fact with regard to those books . This clerk of
mine was at . a socialist meeting at Johnstreet , one night , and when he got to his friend Josh . ' s house , between three and four miles from my office , he found that the books had been left at the office . He came at two o clock in the morning , scaled the walls , and took the books home with him ; and , whenever lie went to Leeds upon his own business , he took the books with him , and sometimes for a month and five weeks my nephew and Mr Rider had to keep the accounts upon sheets of papers . Now , then , I am statin- ? nnli _, what
can ne proved on oath , bat not half of what can be proved . And did any man ever hear such a thing as two paupers coming tome in 183 _J " Without a second coat to their backs * and in 1845 . onehaving the whole of my machinery , which cost me nearl y 1 , 000 / . ; and bringing me in debt several hundred . pounds into the bargain , and preferring the security ofthe other contless ragamuffin to that of the proprietorlocking up my books—purloining my booksnot allowing me a si ght of niy books , or allowing any one at my office to see th em ?
. 9 . Thefirst hill tbat Ardill held under this settlement was one for £ 80 ., due in the beginning of April , 181 " . On the 4 th of April , just when the bill had to be met , _O'Connoro- >« i'c" _/ r * on Ardill about the alleged defalcations and emhe-zlements . He wrote a letter on that date , dis . tinctly charging Ardill with fraud , and pointing out what he also called ' errors ' in the accounts . 'Mr Ardill ' s an . ewer was : ' That the matters complained of conld not be " loth . ' if they wero 'frauds' they were not ' errors ; ' and if * errors' they were not' frauds . '' ' However' he
conti-, nued , 'though I might take my stand on the receipt 1 hold from you as to tho correctness of these " accounts , I will not do so . Tou allege there are errors In them . As an honest man it is my duty to ascertain this . I will consent to open them again from first to last ; we will go over them together ; if , on _t-neh examination , there is anything due from _; 6 u to me , you shall pay it , if any thine due from me to you , I will pay it out of the last bill I hold , ' That fair Dronosal O'Connor declined ! be
He let the _^ 80 . bill dishonoured . Ardill immediately entered nn action for tha recovery of the amount . O'Connor pleaded all that he has since openly alleged : error ; fraud ; and defalcation _^ Ardill gave notice of trial , for the assizes at Ye _.-k , in August , 1846 . As soon aa such notice was served , « summons to stay _proceedings , on payment of debt and costs , was taken out by O'Connor ; and the man who had pleaded what would have been a certain bar to the action , had his pleas been true , now paid £ 104 . 13 s . 'd . for that £ 80 bill ; and had his own lawyers' costs to pay be . sides—probably some - £ 2 o . more .
Now , just mark this fellow ' s version of a transaction , which reall y stands in my book in Ardill's own handwriting . Besides all my machinery going to Mr Ardill , and this bond and note debt , in November , 1845 , when I was dismissing him , he brought me in debt 140 ? . upon the bond aiid note account , _lhaving received the balance from the agents , and the bills that I gave him for that , was one for 60 J . at three months , and one for 80 _Z _. at six months , and not at a year , as the biographer says . Well , the one at three months was punctually paid and taken up to the day , and my nephew , who was then with me , told me that , in looking over the books , he hnd discovered something very glaring and suspicious . I then , for the first time , submitted the books to . a practised
accountant , and also to a gentleman who had been cashier for twenty years in a large banking house * ' —the consequence was that they found tbem full of errors , and they pointed out two so glaring ( in pages 104 and 105 ofthe Cash Book , ) that 1 submitted them to counsel . In one page , niy credit is 100 J . too little , —ia tlie next page , Mr Ardill ' s credit is 1007 . too much , and the figures have been all altered for several pages on , and then altered back to square with the errors in pages 104 and 105 . At this time , the 80 / . bill was coming due , and I sent my nephew to Leeds with the book , and J got a letter from John Ardill , not such a fascinating one as stated by the biographer— -not offering to submit the books for inspection—but confessing the error , and from which 1 give you the following extract : —
I told Roger that I would allow the £ 80 . out pf ths bill _Wh ' ch will be due of Mr M'Gowan ' _s in July , for the ma . chinery ; but I don't think you have a _rijlit to claim it out of that for £ 80 . which 1 hold .. I took the letter and the books to counsel ; again Tasked counsel ifthe letterandbook would be a good set-off to tlie bill for 80 ? . He told me that the book alone would be a good set off without the letter , unless the bill was passed
out of Ardill ' s possession , into the hands ofa third party , who could not be supposed to know anything of the transaction . I , thereupon , refused to pay the bill . Ardill , under the advice of his attorneys , no doubt , passed the bill into other hands , and then , hut not till then , I paid the money ; and immediately after Ardill wrote to me consenting to allow the money to be deducted from Mr M'Gowan ' s bill due in July , he served Mr M'Gowan with notice that
that bill HAD PASSED OUT OP HIS HANDS ALSO , although in my presence he pledged his word thnt the bill should not even go into his banker ' s hands . Now , then , what does the biographer say to battle the second ? There is not one single sentence in any one comment that I have written upon the subject that is exaggerated , o _** , even coloured ; nor is there one that cannot be sworn to . 10 . But while thus shrinking from meeting John Ardill in court , where his charges could and would bnvo been investigated , O'Connor did not shrink from whispering _an-ay John Ardill's character , lie mado it a portion of his business in the country to poison the minds of those he came in contact with , by retailing the slanders ho had heaped together _.
Now , what's the fact ? You have alread y understood that Ardill wrote , to Rider trying to seduce him from my service , in the hope of getting a better situation on the railroad ; and when I went to Leeds to the Chartist Conference , in April , 1846—the Conference where Cooper acted very foolishly , impelled , I believe , by the false assertions of those men—and having heard from several parties , both at Huddersfield and Leeds , that Mr Ardill , Mr Hobson , and Mr Cleave had been slandering me in every possible manner , and trying to damage the Northern Star , I took the books with me to Leeds and Huddersfield . At Leeds I
submitted them to Mr Wm . Brook , who had heard of the slander . At Huddersfield I submitted them to a number of persons in Mr _Pithkeithte y _' s house—Mr Stead , the secretary of the Huddersfield branch of the Land Company , amongst the rest—and they were horrified . At Leeds , a man of the name of Walker , a confectioner—you see I g ive you names—held twenty shares in the Star , and was writing every week to have them taken up ; when at Leeds I saw him , and in the presence of Mr Brook , he told me that Ardill had alarmed him : he gave him such a bad character of me ,
and such a woful . account of my affairs , and the condition of the Star ; and that he asked him and pressed him , several times , to go with him to his solicitor , and that he would proceed for tlie amount without costing him ( Walker ) one farthing . Now , wasn t that cheap law ? Wasn ' t that gratitude ? Surely that wasn't slander ! but showing tlie books as an answer to this slander , was whispering away Mr Ardill ' s characler . But 1 beg to tell the biographer , that , besid s this , I have not a few more letters written by him and Ardill , as well as a large portfolio full , that Ardill left behind him by mistake at my office . Now , whoso was the poison , and whose was the antidote ?
II F . S . I shouldnot omit to state that in 1811 O'Connor presented to John Ardill his _ottmgold repeater , as a token of regard for his faithful aMl devoted services while he was ia prison , and _particnlsrly for th . exertionbe bad made to meet the heavy payments of the Star . I was the bearer of both the watch and the message from the _nriion to Leeds ; nnd when O'Connor entrusted them to me , he promised to bay me one , on bis liberation , that Bhould cost £ . 0 , for my friendly _efflces . These incidents would be incomplete without the corol . lary *•? watch I nerer got ; John's was worthless 1 To finish—Tru _» , his watch he _nerergofc , but what do you think of the meanness of th _«
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[ wretch , writing to me to remind me of the watch , several months after I dismissed him from my service . Now , then , I have answered every single assertion in this fellow ' s letter , and I trust that the people of Manchester and neighbourhood will insist upon seeing the document that I send for public inspection to the Manchester Examiner . A word upon two other points , and I have done . This fellow has told you a cock and bull story about my threatening to dismiss him if he published anything opposed to the Land Plan , in the Northern Star , and now you shall hear the real facts of that case . He was for some time trying to surround me , as he says _.
with his Socialist friends , as Directors and Secretary ; and he came to me one morning , and told me a story ' about a person entrusted with the Land monies having been seen drunk _withfsixteen sovereigns _hispockets , ( and not fifteen , as he states—for liars should have good memories ;) and he said , " Really , sir , it will be my duty to publish this fact for the protection of the _Company . " I said , " If you publish anything derogatory to the character of any person connected with the Land Company , you _shalknever write another word in the Northern Star . You want to play the' Gooddie , ' and ruin the Lnnd movement , as Hill ruined the Chartist movement , by denouncing the Directors . "
Now , that ' s the true version ; but you may judge of this fellow ' s value , for truth , by the following fact ; , A witness is sworn to tell the truth . AND THE WHOLE TRUTH ; and now , what did this fellow do ? " He writes - a letter to Mr Oastler about his character . Mr Oastler answers ' it , ' and he suppresses threefourths of it . 1 have now untangled this fellow s knotty web . and I think that all who have an interest in my character , that , after eight vears' intimacy and connexion with the
communicative , unsuspicious , and confiding master , these , niy dismissed servants , are put to great shifts , even to fabricate a word derogatory to hi 3 character / And this , my friends , is my strength—that if I was now to sever myself from every man who hns been connected with the movement , and to dismiss every man from my employment , 1 would defy all—one and all—to prove me guilty of a dishonourable , dishonest , mean ungenerous , or ungentlemanlike act , and that ' s my strength . A . nd 1 dare all the world to publish every word of conversation that they have ever had with me , or , after my long political struggle in the worldj to publish a line from under my hand , that the most sceptical or fastidious should be ashamed
of . It is my course to sift those charges always tothe bottom , laying treachery _^ conspiracy , and villainy bare , and presenting my self tothe world , if poor , yet with an unsullied , honourable , and unimpeachable character . I now leave these fellows to public investigation , and to thc odium they so justly merit , not shrinking from inquiry , but requesting all to insist upon seeing the mysterious correspondence deposited hy biographer Hobson in the archives of the Manchester Examine ! •; and I wish the proprietors and conductors of that paper joy of the " able and interesting" productions of their "Christian Minister / ' their " Convicted Thief , " and their " Beast ''— -a very pretty trinity in unity .
I remain , my friends , Your faithful and unassailable representative , _Feas * us O'Connor .
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I insert the following letters as proof of Joshua Hobson ' s _integrity . F . O'C . Sunday evenini * I shall send a letter explainin ? each sum [ think wrong , so . that yeu wiil not have much trouble , and you can have ail ready for your visit to Leeds , You will bear in mind tbat tbe same boys who aro charged for weekly , are the _pcraens layinir on and taking eff . except onoman some time ago ( William SimmoHdb ' sbrother ) , who was included inthe wetting of paper and laying on ; since he left , one young man , a compositor ( G . Palliater ) , and at present , and for some time lately , one young man , H . Ililtou . Daring the time that William ' s brother was here , he waa charged
for in paper wetting and such like "; when he left , G . Palliater began to lay on , and worked in liobson ' _s office . When _Pa-lUter was out of hia time , Henry Hilton be : an laying on . Pallisfer was sent to Star side , and Henry works on Hobson ' s _sidu when not laying on . Henry was p l aced on Stak side to learn composing , but as soon aa he could do anything , was transferred to Hobson ' s office ; and the same wiil happen to Fawley soon—but lately he has charged as much for the matter Fawley set *! , aa if a man hnd aet it , so that he will perhapsnot transfer him . It is now past time—the next will refer more particularly to the items . Tin ' s ia a general description of call it as vou like it . J . Ardill .
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Northuiw * Stab , Deo . 13 . 1842 . Sm , —Ia addition to what I have sent , we pay £ 15 yearly for insurance on £ 3 , 000 . All ia insured in Hobson ' s name , and I think the policy is either for £ 1500 en eaeh side , or £ 2 , 000 . on yours , and £ 1 , 000 . on his We pay for all coals used ; they use from our cellar , because they want their coal cellar for other purposes . They perhaps wodd not havo any o > _jcction to apportion tlio cost , but 1 like eneh to have their own , and each knows his own expensra . Tben we pay for gas about £ 25 . _ha'f-yearly ; for rent £ 81 . _yeatlv— £ 21 . quarterly . This is not ' fairly apportioned , 'bnt of course that is your fault ; you allowed Hobson the use ofthe upper room rent free ; had it been my case , I should have thought I had paid . enough when I had paid £ 20 . for a tenant to leave _.
and- been saddled with about -630 . _^ per year in rent , besides tho cost of alterations , without giving op part of the premises to another rent free . I never yet liked that business—that £ 26 . was paid by yonr order to seeure you additional precises ; the secret was , the upper room to Hobson to publish tlio Moral World . But that is past ; yet I like to refresh your memory With such folly , to prevent the B * ame occurring again . It is all the pleasure I set for paying the £ 20 ., and about £ 6 yearly in rent ; fcir though the amount is paid hy you , I feel as much in cases where I think its ill spent , as if the ciss was my own , and I quarter . * * * * There aro more payments which you will be able to recollect , perhaps—at oil events , when you look over the cash book , you will find all _downi
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• Mr Hobson—the man ofpropcrty—wbo _alwa-s speak * what is true . ' Huddersfield , Nov . 23 , 1847 .
TO THB EDITOR OP THK NORTHERN 8 T . R . Sin , —I perceive in tbo _Maschestkr Examixeb , that Mr Hobson has produced , what he considers , a fact , in the evidence of a letter , purporting to be signed bv the parties \» h _<> 3 t > ld the press , Sec , of the 'Voice of the West Riding . ' aad thus to attempt to make tho world believe he was a man of property , and had aome money . Unfortunately for Mr Hohion , there are other parties living in Huddersfield , whose memories are as fresh as his , and had he not the impudence ef hu most intimate friend , the devil , he would nevir have ventured upon such a cock and bull story .
Let ft plain , unvarnished tale ba told , and we shall then see how truthfully Mr Hobson has told his side of the tale . Wben the presses , < tc ., of the ' Voice nf the West Riding * were for sale , Hobson wanted them , _staling that he was desirous of following tho trade of a printer , ( he was too idle for his own , never '; _eln < . _j able to make a three-legged stool . ) Havins many friends amongst tho shareholders , he had the first chance given him , but he had no money . ( Proof you will say . Here itis . ) He had resource to the expedient of getting bond , for the security of the same . Messrs William Bradley and Christopher Tinker were the parties who becamo security for llobson , ( the man of money . ) Tbe time for _paym-nt _camo , hut no money from the ' pure , immaeuHte , rich ,
honest . Joss . ' Messrs Bradley and Tinker wrote to Mr Hobson at Leeds . He never even _answered their numerous letters , and they , having received notiee that an action-at- ! aw would be forthwith ' commenced against them , if not paid within a sta ' ed period , Messrs Bradley and Tinker went to Leeds to _mgb Mr Hobson personally , and after much pressing and solicitation , he promised he would settle the same ; stating he then was able ao to do . Whether ho did pay , or not , the bond hoard no more of the matter ; but one thing is certain , tho shareholders never got any money from that day to this . Now consider , tor one moment , tho conduct and behaviour of Hobson to these two menwho had
be-, friended him in tho timo of need , who had stood by hira when he had not a penny in the wholo world , to bless himself with . They had to pay their own expenses to Leeds , on his business , and he never even made them an offer then , © _raine-, in repayment for the same . Contrast this conduct with that stated in Mr O'Connor ' s lettor of Saturday las-. Hotaon charged 12 s . Cd . for going from _*^ _£ _^» 3 EiA ten miles ; and when _fiia friends go from Huddersfield to Leeds , sixteen miles , on his ( Uobum . iMewmt , _heaUom them-nothing . ' _B'n ito others , as ye _woultftbat others _shoulddo on « r does not form part ofhis ( Hobson ' s ) pr _MtiiaddoilnnB . u Parties desirous of satisfying themselves m w tht
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truth of the above , may have thoir curiosity grati fied , by addressing a note to Mr William Bndley . Tailor , Nerthgato , nuddersfield , One of the said band . How f « r any one can credit any _etatcment _Hobsi n makes after the above , I cannot conceive . I am , sir , Yours , most obedient , ' Watchman . ' One who has known Hobson from a _snotty-enffid lad to thepresent day .
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FORTHCOMING MEETINGS . _BiBMisoniM . —Thc meeting of tho National Charter Association will meet in future at six o ' clock on Sunday evenings at tbe People ' s Institute , _Lovedaystreet . The Land membera meeting at tho Ship , _aru informed that their meetings will be held at eight o ' clock instead of six , on account of the meetings _c-f the National Charter Association at tho People ' s
Hall . _BBiDPonn . —On Sunday evening a disco , sion wiU be held by the Chartists of Bradford , in tlieir room Buttcrworth-buildings , at six o ' clock in the evening . Subject : —* The best means to be adopted to procure * the adoption of the Charter by the _Legislature . ' The Chartists of Bradford will inert to reeoivc subscriptions in their roam , at two o ' clock in the _ai'ternoon of Sunday ( _lo-morrow . ) _OinnAM . —On Sunday ( to-morrow ) , _ameeting will take placo in the school room of tho Working Man ' s Hall , at six o ' clock in the evening , when tho parliamentary proceedings of the week will be read from tlie desk .
Mascubsieb . —The _sfcareholdf rs of the People ' s Institute are requested to meet to-morrow , ( Sunday ) at two o ' clock in tho afternoon . _, . Halifax . —Messrs Webber and Wilson will deliver _addres-esjn the Working Man ' s Hal ) , Halifax , on Sunday , Nov . 28 th , to commence at six o ' clock in the evening . Midolkv . —Mr ' Bowden will lecture at thia place on Sunday , November 28 th , at six o ' clock in thf _eveniflg-EtLA-vn . —Mr CIis « ett will lecture at this place , on Sunday , _November 28 th , at six o ' clock in tbe even . inn . Lowkb 'Wa ' sht .- * Messrs Rushton aFd Hodson will address the _Chartisls of this place , on Sundav , Nov . 28 tb , at six o ' clock in the evening . _Bram-oiid . —A publio meeting of the members of the Land Company will he held in the large room , Bulterworthbuildings , on Sunday , at two o ' clock in _tlin afternoon .
SriTAWiRLDs —On Sunday evening next , a discuss ion and readi . \ g will take place at Mr Garnhara ' s , Royal Oak , Fleur-de-lis Court . Wheeler-street , SdU talfields . To commence at half-past 1 o ' clock . On Tuesday evening ner . t , Mr Jones will lecture at the ab _' _-vehousp . Chair to be taken at eight o ' clock . Subject : 'State Church . ' Tb-j _Ciir-OFLosDOHAND _Fihsbibv . —Members of the Land Company meet at half past » ix every _Sunday evening ; and the members of the National Charter Association at seven o ' clock at the above place . On Sunday next , the 28 _'h , the old veteran , Preston , will deliver a lecture at the above ilace .
_Brijsswicr _liAix . LiMEnoBSK . —Mr M'Grath delivered an able and _aruuraentativo lecture on _Mondny evening last , proving thc infliction of death punishments to bo iniquitous in principle and in practice , injurious to tho feelings and morality ofthe people . Mr M'Grath was listened to with the utmost attention _, and received the thanks of the meeting » t the conclusion of _liii lecture . Hammersmith and Kbnsinoto _!* . —Up for ths Charter and the Land—A preliminary meeting for the resuscitation nf the movement , will be held at tho district office ' ( Mr _StaUwood ' _s ) 2 , Little Vale-5 lace , Hammersmith-road , on Sunday morning next fov ;' 28 tb , at ten o ' clock precisely . Manchester . —Mr W . Foster , District Secretary to tho Lnnd Company , of No . 12 , Alice-street , _Devonshire-street , Hulme , will afford every information and enrol members in tho National Co-operative Benefit Society , to residents of Manchester aiid
districts . Banburv . —A general monthly meeting of the branch will take place at the Star , _Huh-street , on Tuesday , November 30 th , at seven o ' clock in the evening . All members are requested to attend , also the members ofthe Savings Company . Towrb Hamirts . —A meeting of tbe member * and friends ofthe Whittington and Cat branch will ba held on Sunday evening next , Novomber 28 th . at the Whittington and Cat , Church-row , Bethnal Grpen , at eight o ' clock precisely . As 3 embi , t Row * v Soho . —On Sunday evening next , November 28 th , at half-past seven o ' clock precisely , Mr Thomas Clark will deliver a lecture ; subject . — 'Tho Life and Character of George _Wash-ngt-n . ' The Chartist locality and "Westminster branch of tbe _Lsnd Company wilt meet at seven o ' clock tho same evening , for the _tcnosaction of _business .
Mr T . _Pickersgill will also attend as agent oi tha Benefit Society . On Tuesday evening , _November the 30 th . the National Registration and Central Election Committee will meet , at rf ( jbt o ' clook _precisel _** . M _.-lb-Ehp—Mr E g-inllwood will deliver a publio address , at the Sir Walter Scott , Cambridge-road , near the gat * , at half-past seven precisely , on San * day evening , November 28 th . IIacknet Road . —Mr Stallwood will lecture it the Green Gate , on Sunday evoning next , at halfpast _eisht o ' ctock . _MAHTKBOKK . —Mr Ruffey Ridley lectured at tie Coach Painters * Arms , Circus-street , on _Sundsy last , en the ' Charter . '
Bkthxaii Gbbkx . — On Sunday evening Mr M'Grath addressed a crowded meeting at the Whittington and Cat Inn . The subject * were ' The Charter and the Land , ' which he handled to the enlire satisfaction of the meeting . Lambeth . —A general meeting of shareholders will take place at the South London Chartist Hall en Sunday evening next . _Lambbth- —A . t a meeting of the Chartist Council at the South London Hall , the sura of three shillings was voted to the Victim Fund . [ Mr Ball ' s re _< olution in our next . ] A Public Mertino will be held on _Sundry , Nov . 28 th , at eleven o ' clock in the forenoon , at the Good Intent coffee house , Back-hill Hatton-garden . to make known thc means when with a hall cf great dimensions may bt * obtained for the purposes of Chartism . Shares , one pound each .
Lmckster . —This branch of the National Land Company meet as usual , at 3 C , Sanvey Gate . MiDBiBTON . —Mr James Leach , of Manchester , will deliver a lecture in the Temperance Hall , * n Monday night , the 20 th of November , at © _ighc o ' clock . Subject : 'TheLand Plan and the Land and Labour Bank . ' _. _Shobhditch . —On Sunday evening next , Mr hidmund Stallnood will lecture at Mr Tomlin ' s , Green Gate , lIr . cI : _ncy-road . Chair to bo taken at half-past seven o ' clock . _Someus Town . —On _ounday evening next , Mr John Fussell will lecture at tho Bricklayers Arms , Tonbridge-street , New-road . s _. * * ¦ _Olmjubt .- _' _- ' TIio following efficers have been elected : —Benjamin Wall , treasurer ; Thomas _Uninshaw , Henry Warwood , scrutineers ; William Boll , secretary .
_DavbntRT . —The members ofthe Daventry branch of the National Land Company , held _thiir q ' uarterly _meetfng on Tuesday , "November 16 th , at tho Odd Fellows' Arms . After choosing officers for the ensuing quarter , it was resolved : — That a public _supp-r be held at the name home oa _Cliristmfts tve to celebrate the progress wo have nn ; de ia this Tory hole We now number sixty-three _membi-rs . A vote of _crmfidenco in Mr O'Connor , wa 3 unanimously adopted .
Hull . — At the weekly meeting of this branch of the Land Company , the address f om the Executive of the National _Charter Association was read ' , when the sum of three _shiilincs was collected , to assist in the agitation for the Charter . Meetings are held every Monday and Wednesday evenings , at the Ship Inn , Church-lane , at half-past seven o ' clock . The Chartists meet every Sunday evening , at six o _' _clw-k , at tho Ship Inn , Church-lane . _Buur .-On Thursday , the 18 th Nov ., Mr R . Sheldon Chrtdwick lectured on the * Land and Chatter , ' in the Ses > _ion-house , at seven o ' elock in the ovening , to an attentive audience . Some of tho shameful doings of the new Ponr Law Guardians were exposed , and met with deserved _indignation . A vote of thanks having been given to the lecturer , tho meeting _concluded at about ten o ' clock . _Mascuestek . —At a special meeting of the South Lancashire _Observatisn Committee , it was
unanimously resolved : — . , _.,,. „ _, _„» That a meeting of _dele-ates ho _conrened ;> uchinee _« Ing to beh _. ld at _Whisker ' . _Temperance Hot . I , 33 , Great An _. _oat _. _^ . re . t , on Sunday , _Vmmbsr U . _ _rwainto be taken » t ten o ' clock . Delegates are _exacted to _Jomepr % _« red with answers to _thefol . _lowinVproposition . * _- - ' Are they , _prepared to support a system oflncal or county leoturing , in . ordcr toreoi . f anise the Chartist movement in South Lancashire 1 " ' What » re the best means to be ndonted to supply the Land ond Labour Bank with funds , in order that our Directors may be enabled throngh such agency ,
to emancipate the members uf the Land Company , and place them speedier on tbe free labour soil of their fatherland ? 'What should bo done to aid Mr O'Connor in tbe righteous war he is waging against the enemies of our beloved Land Plan ; and also how the forthcoming paper the Democrat can bo sup , ported V AU localities represented at the Newton meeting are expected to send delegates to this Con . ference , and those who have no 'paid the late levy are to _sesd the same by their delegate , so as to enable ua to carry on the war of Right against Wrong U this important division cf Lancashire .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 27, 1847, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_27111847/page/5/
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