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      Star Office, Nn. 17,1m2. Mv Dear Friends...

      their consolidation and direction . Hitherto we have been seeking strength ; we must now learn to use it . Public opinion being fermed mast be directed wisely and discreetly ; and in order to this its several mouth-pieces and _developments must be closely scanned and well over-hauled . I have heretofore been very fearful of offending ; I have passed in silence man ; things which ought to have been _rebnksd , and have exercised , censure only in the gentlest terms when unavoidable ; I have allowed many acts of public men , which I thought

      most unwise and mischievous , to pass nneensured , because 1 knew their infirmities of temper , and I knew them to be useful in extending information to those who knew nothing of our principles . I calculated , therefore , for the cause , the relative magnitude of the two evils—the endurance of the mischief resulting from their follies , or the probable loss of their services , if their pride , jealousy , or vanity , should be at all touched . The time has gone by for this nursing now ; the cause is too powerful to need it , and its interests too important to bear

      it . I have long seen this to be an evil in the Star , but I thought it to be a necessary one ;—it shall now be remedied . From this time the voice of admoLition , and of criticism , or , if need be , of censure , though modulated to as smooth a toneas may comport witb circumstances and the safety of the cause , shall be at all times freely heard . My time , my talent , such a 3 it may be , and my whole power of mental and physical exertion , shall be , as heretofore , devoted to the cause : while I require from yon

      the continuance of that strengthening of my hands , by which only my exertions ca & be made effective . 1 ask this from you not as a favour , but as a right , not in consideration of my past services but in jnst'ce to your own present circumstances . Thus armed in mutual confidence , we may safely bid defiance to the furious onslaught which now menaces our cause ; and which holds in its own right , only its mane and roar , while its teeth have been borrowed from crude impetuosity and heartless treachery in our own

      Before closing this letter , I again implore you to see to the carrying out of our organisation . Without this the effouB of your lecturers and of yourselves lose more than half their value . Chartists should understand and act upon their own principles ; at least , in all cases where this can be done . I shall continue to press this subject of organisation npon you week by week until , if possible , I pester jou into paying some attention to it . Were the great mas 3 of those who hold Chartist principles now a 3 well organized as they ought long since to have been , no

      governmeDt could long wiihstand them . Whenever they become so organized , they will open to themselves a rista of success , but not till then . Let me but see the organization of onr National Society actively working through the whole country before March , and let me Eee the people using their own sense , reading and studying it for themselves , thinking and deliberating on it , observing its exact forms of working and _application , and using due vigilance to keep strictly to it all leaders , lecturers , and pnblic men ; and then if a dungeon lies before me , 1 shall walk into it with a prouder heart , and a much sweeter sense of satisfaction , than the Prime Minister of England into

      Downmg-street . Let yonr energies be roused ; your vigour braced ; and your determination made manifest ; while yonr prudence , caution and coolness predominate over all . God save you and speed the Charter . William Hill .

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      Flintofp Leatham, Pontefract, Is Informe...

      Flintofp Leatham , Pontefract , is informed that the columns of the Northern Star are sot ox sale for electioneering purposes . We believe there is not a whit of difference between the two candidates he names for the vffice of Registrar . Lascelles is as good as Hodgson , and Hodgson is as good as Lascelles . Each of them only wants the pay that _accrues from the situation without much labour . Had we imagined that there _u-as any reason why Hodgson should have been recommended to the notice of the freeholders before Lascelles , we assure Flintoff Leathim that we should not have waited for or accepted his offer of pay to induce us to give such recommendation . Both Hodgson and Lascelles are the hungry d » gs of the _fihig and Tory factions , fighting

      which of them shall have the freeholders bone lo pick ; and that is the only qualification that either of them possesses for the office they aspire to . If the Jreeholders have learned common sense they will give both these gentlemen ihe go-by , and elect to the rffice the man who can bring to their service legal knowledge and business talents : one who knows , from experience , the duties that will be required from the man who occupies the post . If the freeholders are inclined io put away the playthings of political childhood , and choose a man because of his peculiar fitness for the office now vacant , they will dismiss ihe representatives of faction , Afessrs . Hodgson and Lascelles , and elect Afr . Stephenson , who comes out as an independent man ought to do .

      All Cosjmt / nications intended for ihe Chartists of Alanchester must , till future notice , be addressed , to _tlieir secretary , Air . Arthur O'Neil , bookseller Alanchester . A _Scdbcrt Chartist sags , "That for two months he did not take any spirits , beer , tea , coffee , sugar , tobacco , nor snvff ; and ihat he sent 2 s . 6 d . lo the Executive , and 2 s . 6 a . lo the Defence Fund . " He is still continuing the system ; and advises ail others to " go and do likewise . " John _iliTCHtLL asd George Rodgers . —We have received a communication with these names as

      signatures . We have no means of knowing from whence it has come . They have neglected to cive any town or other address . _Balance-sheets — We _> cish , once for all , to inform our _correspondents that documents of this nature received at the Office after Tuesday morning in each week will be omitted from that week ' s Star altogether . We have adopted this rule with some in the current publication . JOBS H . Claejjx . —We have no room . Tbe _Execltive . —L . T . _Clancy must really excuse us . We cannot insert any more letters upon this suhject . His present , in reply to Afr . Wheeler , reiterates his opinion that the election of an Executive pro tern , was an unnecessary

      amd _uribeccming proceaure , and thai the country generally was not in favour of it . He denies that his expression in a former letter , of his _cpiriion that the election was a trick of some enerhy , was intended to app ly either to . Air . Wheeler or any of his associates : he had altogether a d ' ffereni party in his eye . This we can corroborate , as we know to whom Air . Clancy alluded : it was not Air . Wheeler , or any of the present Provisional Executive . He rebukes Air . Wheeler , and we think very justly , for the prominent exhibition in his own letter of the very fuuil ( bitterness of expression J of which his letter complains . This fault is entirely avoided in Air . Clancy ' s present letter , which is in lone moderate and gerttlemanly . We entirely agree uriih Air . _Clancy , thai there is a great leant of stability in the dir ecting power ; thai there is cross _ignorortce of the organization , or great

      dereliction of duty somewhere . Sahtel _Houtes . — Our opinions of the right of women to the suffrage have been more lhan once stared ; but we do not think that anything'but harm could result frem the introducing of that subject into the deliberations of the Birmingham Conference . A Worst . — We have no room . John Plppjeb desires us to apprise his brother and sister Chartists that he is still at large , and still working in the good cause of Chartism . J . Dean sends us a story of a Scotch Baptist parson-lawyer , noi a blacksmith , nor a whitesmith , nor a shoeing smith , but something very much tike a jobbing smith , whe recently lent himself as a tool for the ruin of a poor cobbler . Such occurrences will always be rife until the law shall be made by , and its administrator * amenable to , the people . * _. Watsok . —We have not room for John Buus

      l etter . Thomas Craven . —The sentiments of his letter are just and good , but they would be lost upon the subject io _whdm it is addressed ; and we have "Ot now room fer Us insertion . Doncaster . —Edw ard Burley , of York , will feel much obliged if the sub-Secretary at Doncaster will forward his address to him , as he wishes io correspond with him . Address , 19 , Billon , Layerthorpe , York . JL . Friend to Ireland . —Quinlin Orr , No . 3 , _Harding-ilreet , Norihamp on .

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      _Calvints , Minor . —The oath of a soldier or a sailor binds him to entire allegiance , and to unconditional . obedience lohis officers . —We suspect that if a fiftieth part of our letters and newspapers passed through his hands he would not wonder at our being unable lo say whether we received his letter , with an Edinburgh newspaper , on the 16 th ' . July . —It is quite clear that no one can be recognised by the news-agent as a purchaser of the Star but him whs pays for it . —We shall be glad to receive any communications of news which he may choose to _send us . J . H . —The lines lo M'Douall are declined . J . K . —Reserved for consideration . L . L ., "Thb self-elected Secretary , " Dundee . — We _. have answered the question he asks some forty times already : it is a merely nominal office under Government , the acceptance of which vacates an Af . P . ' s seal .

      J . Shaw —His communication is an advertisement . W . Heywood , Heywood . — We really must be excused . Addresses from every local Defence Fund would fill the paper . The better way would be to print circulars . W . H . Dyott , on behalf of the Irish Universal Suffrage Association , begs to gratefully acknowledge the receipt of a great number of Stars . He very frequently , eceives letters with them ; and did time at all permit , would , with pleasure , rep l y in each instance . Immured as he is in personal business , thus is impossible , and ihe course be fallows is this : —When papers , announced by letter , do not arrive , he writes ; when they duly come to hand he is , however regretfull y , obliged to be impartially silent . Subscriptions to the Defence Fund . —We have

      long lists of these lying by us , comprising the individual subscriptions from many places . We would gladly find room for ihem if ue could ; but to do so would displace almost every every description of mailer . Henceforth we can only give the total amount received from each p l a ce our f riends must , therefore , take some other means of satisfying themselves of the correctness of those amounts , and not wait until they see themselves in print . There wili be no departure from this rule ; our correspondents may , therefore , save themselves the trouble of writing any -more lhan a line , with the whole amount , stating what town it is from . This will , of course , apply io other funds as well . Middle-class Sympathy . — We give the following from a letter from Peter Rig by : —

      *• As i have beensurrounded with very curious circumstances during my short route in the North , permit me to bave a corner in your next number , by which _meanB many of your numerous readers may make a corrtct estimate of middle-class integrity . " Last' week , while in Cumberland , I saw a mans ' ticket for soup , ' or a ticket to go to the grocery with , and recsive , in litu of money , for wages , anything the grocer had to Bell amounting to wages . One stone of flour w _^ s equal to 2 s . 8 d . in wages ; and if the working man desired to pay bis rent in money he is not allowed to do bo , unless he

      be prepared to take a ticket for the ' bag , ' but without fiour , mind yon ; therefore , the workman must pay bis rent in fl _mr . When the man takes the flour to the landlord , ibe landlord will only give the workman 2 s . per stone , although the landlord knows full well the workman had given 2 . 8 d . per stone fer it . If tha _wsrkman ask for _m- * ney to pay rent with , his employer will answer him by saying , workmen onght to think themselves well off if tbey get something to eat , without seeking rent money . It has been known for landlords to take the stone of flour to the

      grocer again ; so tbat the stone of flour has undergone the same process of buying cheap and selling dear , and no doubt passes _through tbe same hands at a loss to the workman of more than twenty per cent . " Tbe band-loom weavers of Cumberland have undergone a reduction of wages , in money , of from 10 s . 4 J . to 7 s . 9 d- since the year 1839 , be s ides labouring under disadvantages now which then bad no existence . In Carlisle a good many of the people bave adopted a very good plan for bringing the middle class to their senses , —if ever they bad any , —so that , between Income-tax and exclusive dealing , tbe middle class of Carlisle will begin to feel something . About twenty of the workmen cinb tbeir money together , two or three times a

      week , buy their goods at the first cast , retail tbem out to each subscriber according to money paid down , at tbe said cost , and , by tb at mean s , they get their goods much cheaper , _besides stopping the supplies of those who hired _bludgeas-men to break the bead of any man who dared to stand in the street and say he was hungry , and desired to eat . The lads of Wigtou are playing the same game towards their oppressors . A large number of tbem boy a good fat cow , butcher it for themselves , and by that means have reduced butchers' meat from ~ d . to 4 d . per lb . They deal with sheep in the same manner . Although Peel ' s tariff reduced bu t ch e rs ' meat , the _shopocrscy were not willing that the poor should bave a corresponding benefit but tbe lads of Wigton are taking tbe profits into ; their own hands . "

      Thoenton.—Yes. The 3s, In Our Last, From...

      thoenton . —Yes . The 3 s , in our last , from Newport , for the Defence Fun d , should have been 3 s . 6 d . The 15 s . from Halifax , wbich appears in ecr last foi the Defence Fund , was for the Defence of EUis . FOB THE NATIONAL DEFENCE FUND . £ - 8 . d . From the Hawick Chartists 0 18 0 _ the Chartists of Truro ... ... ... 1 0 0 a poor woman , Leeds ,., ... ... 0 0 1 a fr iend ... 0 0 6 T . W . 0 0 6 a few f r iends , B . Q , 0 12 6 a few friends at Pref cot 0 10 6 the Chartists of Sowerby 0 8 0 J . P ., Portsea 0 5 0 the Chartists of Nuneaton 0 10 0 the Charists of Glasgow 2 0 0 tbe Chartists of Newcastle , per J . Sinclair 3 0 0 T . F ., per Simeon , BriBtol 0 2 6

      FOR MR . ELLIS . From Hiehtown , per Q . Lacy 0 13 * _ . a few friends in the New Town , Bishopwearmouth , per A . B . ... 0 8 7 _ a-few friends at Biahopwearmoutb , perE . J 0 12 _ Mr . Williams ' s shop ... 0 5 3 „ the _Shaksperians of Leicester 10 0 _ proceeds of Simeon ' s raffle ... ... 0 10 0 FOR THE EXECUTIVE . From twenty members of the National Chartist Association , per G . Moore , Northwitch 0 5 0 FOB THE DEFENCE OF GEOBGE WHITE . From a few friends , per Simeon , B r i s tol ... 020

      Closing Of Pbisons For Debt.—The Metropo...

      Closing of Pbisons for Debt . —The metropolitan prisons for debt have , within the last few days , presented a different appearance to what they have exhibited for some time . The Fleet and Marshalsea prisons have been closed ; the former wa 3 shut on Saturday , and the latter on Thursday last . There were seventy in the Fleet , and only three in the Marshalsea ; and their removal took place to the _Qneen ' s Prison , under an act passed during the last session , authorizing Lord _Llenroan to issue his warran *; for their _pasfage from one jail to another . From . Tuesday to Saturday the removals took place from the Fleet . Some of the prisoners had been confined a very long period , and a few upwards of 20 years . An eccentric character , named Jeremiah

      Board , had been an inmate of the Fleet 28 years , having been committed in 1814 . The case of this man , who has been removed to the Queen ' s Prison , is very singular . He was a farmer , at a place called _Newton ' s Farm , and was committed to the Fleet in 1814 , where he remained without much disturbance , except some Chancery proceedings , until 1838 , in which year the present act for the Insolvent Debtors' Court was passed , and in this act as an important alteration was made giving power to creditors to proceed against parties who preferred imprisonment to taking the btnefit of the act , by which proceeding they would be compelled to give up their _proptrty . Tke provision has been productive of considerable benefit ; persons have been

      proceeded against in the Insolvent Debtors' Court _, and compelled to _disgorge tbeir property ; others have arranged with their creditors and gone out of custody . In the case of Board , a gentleman named Richardson , as executor of Mary Chappell , filed a petition _unoer the compulsory clause , and a vesting order was made under which he was appointed assignee , and by a decisive act a good deal of property was obtained . A messenger of the court was sent to the prison , and on the person of Board , and in his possession , a large sum of money , and securities fer money were found , which , of course , the assignee seizeo . Mr . Richardson claimed to be a creditor for £ 8 , 185 , and the matter has been before Mr . Commissioner Harris . Advertisements had been inserted to discover creditors , but very few were found . Tbere was somewhere about £ 1 , 600 ,

      and a dividend was declared . Board is now sojourning in tbe Queen ' s prison , whero he is , of course , a " character . " At the present period there are in the Queen ' s Prison abont 280 persons , a very few in the rules , and those wbo had the privilege when the act consolidating the _priscm * . was passed were allowed to remain twelve months . Day rules have already ceased , and the other privilege will be denied at the time mentioned . There are 228 rooms in the prison ; and in some of these _appartments , by the recent increase , " chums" have been placed ; that is to say , two have been lodged in one room . Some alterations have been expected in the classification of prisoners , which will now probably take place . In Whitecross-street Prison there arc about 380 , and 120 in Horsemonger-lane Gaol . The total number of prisoners for debt iu London may bo now Btated at abont 7 C 0 . Some jears ago there were as many in one prison .

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      CLITHEROE . —The Thespian company of Sabden ( who are all Chartists ef the right stamp ) performed tbe drama of Wat Tyler , in the large room of the King's Arms Irn , went through and gave the greateht satisfaction to a full house , both on Saturday and Monday evenings . HULL . —The money due tbis week to the Executive from the Bale of R . Pinder's blacking is as follows : — 8 . d . Mr . Weatherhead , Keighley ... 5 o Mr . Lees , Stalyhridge 2 7 i

      7 7 h LEICESTER . —Monday was a day of unusual excitement in consequence of the arrival of our noble General , Thomas Cooper . By eight o ' clock in the morning the brave men began to wend their way towards tbe house of our late imprisoned friend , to prepare for his reception . At twelve they assembled in the Shaksperian Room , with a band of music and a banner made expressly for the occasion , bearing upon it the following inscription , — " We hail with joy the return of our noble patriot , Thomas Cooper . " On the reverse , — " The patriotic band of thb Leicester Chartist boot and shoemakers . " The band began to play some favourite airs through the streets to the Railway Station , surrounded by the Council ef tbe Shaksperian

      A sso c iati o n , where tbey met their indomitable friend , Mr . Cooper . The sight of the assembled thousands bad a wonderful effect upen him . A car was immediately engaged te convey him through some of the principal streets ot the town in the following order . The large and splendid banner that had been prepared by the boot and _sbomakers' society in the front ; tben followed the shoemakers , the band , Mr . Cooper , and the Council of tbe Shaksperian Association witb wands , attended by its members and friends to the amount of 10 , 000 of human beings . The procession has never been equalled since the great agitation for the Reform Bill . The procession moved down the London-road , up Belvoir-street , along Market-street , Market-place , Belgrave-gate , Woodboy-street , Wharf-street , up

      Huinheretone-gate , to the Amphitheatre , where Messrs . Duffy and West ( late a prisoner in Derby gaol ) delivered animated addresses to tbe assembled multitude out of the windows of the Shaksperian Room . At five o ' clock , more than 400 persons took tea on the stage of the Amphitheatre , the band playing in the orchestra during the time . After which the company delighted themselves by dancing and other amusement * in tbe Circus till eight , when tbe lectures were to commence . At half-past eight , the spacious Amphitheatre appeared one mass of human beings ; there could not be less than four thousand people . Mr . Duffy was called to the chair , who , af t er a few brief remarks , introduced Mr . West , who spoke nearly an hour in defence of those great principles contained In

      the People ' s Charter . Mr . Beealey , from North Lancashire , followed , and spoke at great length on tbe land question , showing that if the people were to lay by sixpence per week for the purchasing of land , they would soon be in tbe full p oss es sion o f tb e el e ctive franchise , and by those means they would be able to overthrow the present system of _aristocratical Government . After a few other remarks be sat down amidst loud cheers . Mr . Cooper then rose amidst loud and long protracted cheering . He bsgsn by showing tbe fallacy of asking tbe poor for sixpence per week , when they were actually starving for want . He then alluded to the Complete Suffrage and Corn Law movements . The policy of Sir Robert Peel , and tbe effects of _clnaslegislation . He then related what he had had to

      contend witb during the last eleven weeks he had beeu immured in Stafford Gaol ; gave an account of his trial , and tbe wily tricks of the Solicitor-General , who pretended to be acting with the greatest fairness , yet tbe subtleness of the silvery-tongued crocodile were stabbing him at every sentence . He then , in an eloquent strain , and tbe tears trickling down bis cheeks , related the soul-harrowing tales of the interviews between those persons who were doomed to a foreign land to perpetual slavery , and their friends . He said be would never cease agitating for those poor creatures—poor Ellia is innocent—yet he is banished . I will ge , said be , to London , to Mr . Duncombe , if I have to walk , on behalf of tbat persecuted individual . After a few other remarks be sat down amid loud cheers .

      Mr . Markham came forward and said , that he never in bis life listened to Mr . Cooper with greater pleasure than he did that night , and he hoped the day was not for distant when all reformers would join in onecampact . After a few other remarks he held out his hand to Mr . Cooper , which he took , and said , " many a time have I requested this hand , but it was refused . " They both said tbat all past _tiifferences shonld be buried from tbis time ( Great cheering . ) The following resolutions were adopted during the night Moved by Mr . _Coulston , and _stconded by Mr . Hunt— "That this meeting has the greatest confidence In the integrity and honesty of our noble patriot , Thomas Cooper , a nd r e turn him t h e i r sincere thanks for bia manly defence on bis lata trial , on behalf of those great principles contained in the People ' s Charter . " Unanimous . Moved by Mr . Beedham , seconded by Mr . Jackson— _•« That the thanks of tbis meeting be given to those persons who gave

      evidence in favour of Mr . Cooper on his late trial at Stafford . " Carried unanimously . Moved by Mr . Smith , seconded by Mr , Toone— " That the thanks of this meeting be given to Mr . Mullen of London , and Mr . Haines of Oundle , for the very liberal manner in which they bave come forward to give bail f o r our noble p a tr iot , T . Cooper . " Carried unanimously . Moved by Mr . _Wooley , seconded by Mr . Smedley : — " That the thanks of this meeting be given to tbe Defence Fund Committee for their valuable services on behalf of Mr . Cooper . " Moved by Mr . Jones , seconded by Mr . Allen .- — " Tbat the thanks of tbis meeting be given to Mr . _Thornri Winters for bis valuable services in collecting and keeping witnesses together during the lata commission on behalf of Mr . Thomas Cooper . " A vote of thanks was then given to the Chairman , and three cheers for Cooper , the Charter , and O'Connor ; three for Frost , Williams , and Jones ; aud tbe meeting dispersed .

      MBS . Cooper , of Leicester , has received jser Mr . Grant , five shillings for Mr . Ellis . NORTHAMPTONSHIRE . —A meeting was held at the house of Mr . Wingeil , of Raunds , on M o nday evening , wben addresses were delivered by Messrs . Marriott , of Stanwick ; M'Failan , of Northampton ; and others . Mr . M'FarJtan also exhorted the young men to associate themselves together by forming mutual instruction classes , and to devote their whole leisure time to assisting tbeir elder brethren in prosecuting this holy cause .

      DUBLIN . —The Irish Universal Suffrage Association met as usual , on Sunday . Mr . Woodward was called to the chair , and the minutes being read , Mr . W . Dyott , the secretary , read a communication from an American gentleman named Wright , a memb r of the Society of Friends , who waa desirous of addressing them . Mr . O'Higgins proposed and Mr . Clarke seconded the admission of three new members whoBe names were transmitted by Mr . Leeson , of Newton Mount Kennedy , in the county of Wicklow . Mr . O'Higgins paid a wellmerited compliment to their indefatigable friend , Mr . Leeson , who was beating np for recruits bo successfully ; he moved the insertion of his letter on the minutes , and hoped his example would prove a stimulus to other members to exert themselves in the propagation

      of tboFe opinions which he conscientiously believed could alone work out the political regeneration t » f Ireland—( hear . ) A certain great man had the audacity to declare publicly that there were no Chartists in Ire ' and —( laughter)—although he was sure bis friend , Mr . Dyott , would readily show him their books containing the names of 1040 good men and true pledged Repealers of the Irish Union , through the only moral means by which it could be achieved or made of any value to the public—the obtainment of Universal Suffrage , Vote by Ballot , Annual Parliament * , Equal Electoral Districts , the Abolition of the Property Qualification , and Payment of Members—( hear and cheers)—and if that was not Chartism , he ( Mr . O'Higgins ) did not know wbat it meant—( cheers . ) But

      wbat estimate did O Conneil set on the intellect of the Irish nation when he dared to enunciate without fear of _contrarfiicton from any despicable toadies tbat crawl before him in the Corn Exchange , the atrocious falsehood , that there were not in Ireland any men honest , independent , and fearless _enough to avow the creed of Richard Cartwright , Hunt , Cobbett , and O'Connor 7 Did be thick the creatures there believed what tbey wanted courage to deny ? Did he forget tbat poor Tom Steele had declared , but a week before that they were all Chartists , thoueh not O'Connorites—a distinction without any difference . ( Hear , hear . ) He believed in Mr . Sturge _' s honesty ; and he was no more a blind follevrer ot Mr . O'Connor than he was a lickspittle of Mr . O ConneH _' _s : but it was justice

      only to Mr . O Connor tu ailow that only for his energy and perseverance they would not have Mr , Sturge in the position he now occupied ; they would not bave even the stunted portion of equivocal _mlddle-cUiss sympathy tbey enjoyed ; tbey would not bave Mr . O'Connell himself re-adopting the six points . It was Mr . O Connor who thrust Annual Parliaments down his throat . —gainsay it who could : and , as to there being ' no ChaitiEts in Ireland , " be would rep ly to OConnell in his own words , addressed to the ir talented and esteemed secretary , _"Bahl" " Felly apd trashl " ( Hear , and lond cheering . ) On tbat insult , Mr . D y ott had calmly observed , that their " trash" was truth ; their "folly" tbeir having so long believed in the sincer ity of a man who had notoriously sold Ireland for Whig patronage and family aggrandisement—( loud cheering)—playing the game of a faction he had

      deservedly styled " base , _bloorfy , and brutal , " at the expence of a generous and _confiding , but duped and betrayed , people , for upwards of seven years , whi l e county after connty was given np , —in many cases bartered for offices , —and tbe liberal atrens tb at last so reduced tbat the " Liber ato r " himself wa « thrust out of Dublin , and only elected ( after bloodshed and battery ) in Cork—( hear)—all the while that a splendid registration staff fattened on tbe people ' s funds on Bur gh Quay . ( Hear . ) Why if there were not _CbarliEts in Ireland , after such experience , they would deserve to live and die slaves . ( Hear . ) For who did not perceive tbat the working classes bad got nothing by all the _rquabbles In which tbey _bad been engaged ? ( Hear ) Who did not perceive that they never would get anything till tbe franchise—their undoubted ri ght —gave _titm ( power in their own House of Assembly . ( Hear . ) And wbo , like him , would not there declare

      Closing Of Pbisons For Debt.—The Metropo...

      rwi . fi . _* L untU not on , y _^ "' » i _« d _wa ! l Chartist , hut until the people from the Giant ' s Causeway to Cape Clear , and from the Hill of Houth to the Achlll Head ,-were no longer afraid to avow their conviction , and glory in the term which would unite them with their fellow men In ' England and Scotland in one determined struggle to obtain the glorious realizv tion of that document which Mr . O'Connell himself drew Hp , and of which he declared that the man who did not acceds to It was either a knaveprofiting by the evils of misrule or a fool on whom facts and _-reasoning made no Impression . ( Hear , hear , and loud cheers . )—Mr . Clark said he hoped for the sake of Mr . O'Connell ' s reputation , O'Neil Daunt would act the part which Gil Bias did by the Archbishop of Toledo , and give him a hint to retire

      . ( Hear , and _langbter . ) It really was pitiable to see a publio man floundering as the " Liberator" waa for some time back . He could understand and cope with a man who opposed Chartism openly , but to see a man admitting how the innate utility ot Chartism and next declaring he could have no connexion with its a dvoettes—tbis day swallowing the six points and neat quibbling about Universal Suffrage , Complete Suffrage . Mannood Suffrage , & o . all of which being explained amounted to the same thing , was what he could not unravel . The man wp _** surely demented ( laughter ) , or was trying how far he could practice on the _parisites and ninnies he was _na-riduct-Ing through the tedious and labyrlnthlcal fool ' s march , In seach of repeal : which they had as much chance of getting , as he ( Mr . Clarke ) had of making a mortice without a chisel ( hear , hear . ) For himself , when he

      heard how O'Connell , in all his contradictions and absurdities was applauded aud listened to , he almost blushed for Irishmen ( cheers . ) Mr . Fowler said , that it was their _Industrry Mr . O'Connell found fault with . Let them rally at public meetings , —( hear )—and organize their electoral strength , ( hear . ) He knew they had at least _twenty-flve or thirty good votes already—( hear . ) He got hisperfected the other day , and so did Mr . Dyott their _sesretary— ( cheera ) Let them be ready for an election , no one could tell how soon that might happen—then their existence , respectibility , and influence would be most gracefully acknowledged , and they would rail themselves either to Whig or Tory , whichever would come up to their price , and give a written pledge to support no a < 4 minstration which would not support the Charter —( Charter . ) They could easily make their voters fifty—enough to turn any election . — ( Loud cheers , )

      WALTON . —Mr . Bairstow delivered two powerful and animated lectures in the Market-place , on Monday and _Tuesday evenings , when there was a remarkably good attendance , and the attention and interest paid to the lecturer , evinced an extraordinary degree of enthusiasm . NEWCASTLE . —Mr . W . Kimpster Robson delivered a lecture in the Chartist ' s Hall , Goat lun , Cloth Market , on Sunday evening , at six o ' clock , on the evils of the present system , and the good that must inevitably accrue to the working classes of tbese realms in the event of tbe People ' s Charter becoming the law of the land . The spacious Hall was crowded to the door , and Mr . Robson most enthusiastically cheered throughout bis able lecture . He did the subjects he discussed great justice , painting In their true colours the Innumerable evils Inflicted upon the wealth-producers of this

      country , proving to the satisfaction of his numerous audience that class legislation introduced and cherished them to the alarming extent to which tyranny and oppression had now arrived . He likewise proved the Charter to be the only antidote , and defied any man or body of men to come forward and prove the contrary . Mr . Sinclair , who was unanimously elected to the chair , took a show _« f hands whether they were satisfied with the arguments adduced by Mr . Robson in defence of the Charter , and that the Charter would enable the wealth producers to ameliorate their own condition . A forest of hands were held up in approval of Mr . Robson ' s opini o ns , and none to the contrary . Mr . Peter Rigby , from Chorley , will lecture In the ¦ - . me Hall on next Sunday evening , at six o ' clock ; Is . 6 d . was received for Mr . Ellis ' s defence , and Beveral names were enrolled at the conclusion of the lecture .

      The Chabtists of Newcastle and Gateshead held their weekly meeting in the Chartist ' s Hall , Goat Inn , Cloth Market , on Monday evening as usual , Mr . John Young in tho chair . The minutes of the previous meeting having been confirmed , Mi . Sinclair said he bad great pleasure in infotniing the meeting that one of the honest men ef Blaydon ( a small village near Newcastle ) called on him this morning , and banded him £ 1 5 s . from tbe friends to a fair trial in Blaydon , for the General Defence Fund , being the proceeds of four pairs of children ' s shoes , and two portraits presented and raffled for tbe good of the victims of Tory misrule , and Anti-Corn-Law treachery . The secretary was then

      instructed to remit the Bum of £ 2 to tbe general treasurer for the Defence Fund , making , with the sums formerly remitted , £ 4 forwarded by the Charter Association of Newcastle for that laudable object , and to state that as many of the collector ' s books have not been handed in yet , that we will send another remittance in the course of a few days . Men of Northumberland , and Durham look at the noble example set you by the good men and true of Cramlington , Shotley Bridge , Blaydon , some of tbe factories in Newcastle , whose names we dare net mention , ( tyranny being so rife , ) and go and do the same . Several sums were paid into the lecturer ' s fund , and aft r some local business was disposed of the meeting adjourned .

      M A N C HEST E R . —The Chartist joiners and painters held tbeir weekly meeting on Friday evening last , in the Large Anti-Room of the Carpenters' Hull , when tbey were ably addressed by Messrs . Lane and Partington . Cabfejvteb _' s Hall . —On Sunday last two lectures were delivered in tbe above tha l l , one in the afternoon by Mr . Dauiel Donovan , of Manchester , and the other in the evening by Mr . Thomas Clark , of Stockport . The attendance in the afternoon was not very numerous , owing to the rain falling without intermission . Mr . John Murray was called upon to preside , Mr . Donovan delivered a most excellent address , which was loudly applauded _throughout In the evening the hall was crowded . Mr . Jeremiah Lane was called to the chair .

      Mr . Thomas Clark on coming forward was greeted with loud cheers . He entered into a variety of topics of deep and general interest , and animadverted in severe terms upon the conduct of Lord Abinger at the late special commission at Liverpool . He then recommended the system of exclusive dealing as being in every way calculated to benefit the cause of Chartism , and called upon all persons present to _aVstain from intoxicating drinks so that they may be tbe better enabled to contribute towards the support of those friends who had become the victims of class tyranny , and concluded by calling upon tke people to support , by every means in their power , that portion of tb _« press which advocated their interests , more especially the Northern and Even ' ng Stars , A collection waa then made in support of tbe HalL Mr . Doyle was tben called upon by the Chairman to say a

      few words upon the subject of himself and colleagues being called upon to appear before her Majesty , to answer certain conspiracies and misdemeanours of which he and thoy stood charged . Mr . Doyle made his way to the platform , and exposed the many attempts made to put down and imprison those who had the manliness to come forward in opposition to tyranny and injustice , but the Government would find they nnd their emissaries bad shot wide of their mark , for he had not t he lea s t doubt , nay , he could assure that audience , both for himself and his friends , that they would , if spared , return from their dungeons to attack again , wi t h renewed vigour , the proud citadel of corruption , and never relinquish the contest till death ov victory crowned their efforts . Mr . Doyle retired amid tremendous cheers , and the meeting broke up .

      Receipts Of Tbe Exeoutive For The Week E...

      Receipts of tbe Exeoutive for the week ending March 16 th : — £ . B . d . Idle ... ... 0 1 8 London , per Mr . Simpson 0 5 0 Stafford . 050 Chatteus ... ... 0 2 6 Kuightsbridge ... ... 0 4 8 IS ' _ag'd Head , Nottingham 0 5 0 Yew Green ... ... 0 3 2

      Dalton .. ... 0 13 Almondbury ... ... 0 19 Kirkheaton ... ... 0 4 8 Honley ... ... 02 6 Brighton ... ... 1 2 10 Old Basford 8 14 6 Lambeth Youths ... 0 1 0 London , per Mr . Wheeler 0 8 4 I bave not thought it prudent to Fend tho voting lists ; God knows , even now , whether this step will give satisfaction . J . Campbell , Secretary .

      Subscriptions Received By Mr. Cleave. Po...

      SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED BY MR . CLEAVE . POLITICAL VICTIMS DEFENCE AND SUPPOBT FOND . £ _s d Previously acknowledged ... ... 112 19 10 . J . Wells ... ... ... ... 0 0 6 — Banister ... ... ... ... 0 10 Lambeth Teetotal Chartists ... ... 0 1 5 Publisher of" Voltaire ' s Dictionary" ... 0 5 0 Aberdeen ... ... ... ... 10 0 Bury St , Edmunds ... ... ... 0 10 0 Warwick and Leamington ( fourth

      remittance of sale of Raffle tickets- * ... 117 0 E . Holmes , Leicester , two Raffle Tickets 0 2 0 Wm . Smith ... ... ... ... 0 0 6 Huddertfield , _- ... ... ... 110 10 Irvine ... ... ... ... 0 10 0 Subscriptions acknowledged last week _ast ' _orEllitf ... ... ... 0 3 1 Northampton Char tit ta ... ... 0 8 4 £ 119 9 6 * The Warwick friends have deferred the raffle for the valuable painting of the " Magdalene , " until the 28 th of this month . Applications for tickets ( one shilling each only ) should be addressed to Mr . Shepherd , at Mr . Donaldson ' s , Chapel-street , Warwick . *}• The cost of bringing Ellis ' s case before tbe Judges will be defrayed out of the General Defence Fund ; there need not , therefore , be a separate fund but exertion to increase the General Fond .

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      TO THE CrIARTiSr : S OF GREAT BRITAIN . BaoTHEB . Democrats —As yonr attention has been drawn to the balance-sheet of the Executive by tbe Editor of the Northern Star , in last Saturday ' s paper , and as there has been some discussion on the subject already , I will at once explain what perhaps may be considered objectionable items in the balancesheet . Tbe first ia postage and stationery for the quarter ; averages 18 s . per week . Now , be it borne lu mind _, that out of this the whole postage expenses of the

      Executive had to be taken ; that it is not merely for letters alone , hut also for postage of cards , paying money orders , and , in many instances , parties do not pre-pay their letters . On some occasions correspondence is unusually heavy ; as at the commencement of our accepting effice , previous to the Btrike , & c _, Stationery Includes paper , pens , ink , wafers , sealin ? wax , twine , wrapping paper , < feo . If this account is satisfactory , well and good ; if not , I cannot help it . I candidly confess I cannot make it more plain .

      I must now allude to one item In my own travelling _expenses , viz . £ 2 10 s . from Manchester to London , for railway fare . The country can satisfactorily judge why the extra Its . was charged . As to Mr . Bairstow ' s travelling expenses , tbat gentemau _, I make no doubt , cau explain all satisfactorily . I can only state , from my own knowledge of the fact _, that he was a fug itive , not knowing but the harpies of power were at his heels . Mr . Leach can answer for his expences ; I am sure of that . The £ 3 5 s . in the commencement ef the sheet , bad to be expended In agitating Lancashire , around Manchester , at the commencement of the present quarter . Now for the last objection that has been made by two or three parties , viz , the Doctor ' s wages . We allowed him an extra ten shillings pur week , because we

      considered he earned it He was residing in Londonbis _exptK-ces were heavier than Leach ' s or Bairstow ' s in the country—hia talents , his honesty , h is jud g ment , his worth , Induced us to believe , instead of an objection being raised by any party to his getting two pounds per week wages , they would have balled it with delight . Moreover the Executive considered they had only acted on the plan of organiz ition . When the Executive met in Manchester on the 16 tb cf August , we bad other fish to fry than think of ten shillings per week extra er less ; but when M'Douall and I mtt afterwards , and the matter was explained to him that certain _parties objected to it , "Very well , " said he , " no more two pounds par week for me ; if the country considers that you pay me too much , why let it be as it wishes . " He had only an opportunity to receive one week's wages when he had to become an exile .

      I bave no more to _siy than this , that I consider the Association ought to continue bis wages to his familythat I cannot do . 1 advanced him ten pounds out of our funds , and was glad to find I bad an opportunity to do so . Perhaps I have exceeded my duty in so doing , if so I will repay it out of my own pocket . I am sorry I cannot pay Mrs . M'Douall her husband's wages _; this is the seventh week of the quarter , and I have been enabled to pay her tbe sum of three pounds . Leach has not received a penny of wages for the quarter ; Bairstow has received wages for nearly four weeks ; myself not one . Such are the state of the funds . We ought to meet immediately if possible . A return of the paying members ought to be made by the sub-Secretaries ; and all those parties who have received cards should either return the cards or pay for thorn .

      I have made as plain a statement of facts as I can . A further explanation I cannot give . I bave been as brief as I could . I remain , Your brother democrat , John Campbell , _Secrstiry P . S . Mr . Morgan Williams received only one week ' s _wsges for agitating in Wales . I paid it bim before I left London for Manchester , and having Manchester in my thoughts at the time , I booked it" Morgan Williams from-Merthyr Tydvil to Manchester , £ l . 10 s . " and when told of it I flatly contradicted it ; I said such an item could not be entered . But on referring to the book I found it to be such . However , parti e s wili see it was a mere _mistake . J . C .

      Robbery.—On Sunday Night Last, The Count...

      Robbery . —On Sunday night last , the countinghouse of Messrs . James Procter and Sons , Rochdale , was broken open , and a quantity of sovereigns stolen therefrom . The thieves are supposed to have concealed themselves in the factory , previously to the doors being closed on Saturday night , aa their exit was made by a- side door that was locked within the mill ; and the implements made use of to force the locks were those that belonged to the premises .

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      On Tuesday , the lSlh inst ., at St . Mary ' s church , Scarbro ' , Cockerill Mellor , Esq ., to Mary Ann , daughter of the late Thomas Atkinson , Esq On Monday , the 14 th inst .. Mr . Wm . PaTr , printer , of Knaresbro _' , to Aun daughter of Mr . Wm . Smith , farmer , of Plumpton . On Thursday , the 10 th inst ., at the parish church , Doncaster , Mr . William Milncr , tailor , of _Hickleton , to Miss Fanny Foster .

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      DEATHS . On the 12 th instant , at St . Helen ' s , Auckland , in the 17 th year of his age , much respected , Ralph , son of tho late Mr . Joseph Harker , formerly of _Arkengarthdale , in this county . On Tuesday evening , the 15 th inst ., at the house of her son-in-law , Mr . W . Kex , Low Ousegate , in her 80 th year , Mrs . Catton , relict of the _A * e Mr . Robert Catton , of Packlington , arid utotl _& m ' _mL W . Catton , of Pavement , in York . _ft'feofev On Monday last , ia this town , [ aged _G _& Amgj 3 s £ ri John Langdale , hatter , formerly ' of Ngrjfiii | r | B 0 Oj aud _eldest sou of the late Mr . _ivpRp _^ _aiftJit _^ b _, stationer , and chief constable of the _jBnjf _^ ce _. ; ' _& . ¦¦ _- ¦ ¦ ' _*

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 19, 1842, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns5_19111842/page/5/