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TO THE CHARTIST 3 OF THE EAST AND NORTH RIDING 3 OF YORKSHIRE . Brother Chartists , —We haTe been place ! by you , through you delegates , in an honourable situation , and we now call upon you to enable us to dis charge our duty alike honourably . An East and North Riding lecturer hsj been engaged , and to m he will look for that remuneration for his services to which he is entitled . We hare authorised Mr- Sfcerington to receive from , the radons localities their weekly quota towards his salary ; and , in addition to that , ire call
upon the Tarieos localities to also forward something more towards defraying his coach-f » re from Loughborough and back , as that is not calculated on in the amount already charged . We hope this will be properly understood and acted on immediately ; and that £ carbro ' , llalton , Pecklington , and Bererley will do their duty j and , should there be any overplus , it will be accounted for to the delegates at the n&zt meeting We remain , Tour's , in the bonds of Union , EDW . 4 BD Bublbt , Secretary . Williak Croft , Treasurer . Committee Room , Ebor TaTern , Fossgate , Tori , October 12 th , 184 L .
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ACCRXNGTON . 0 THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION RESIDENT IN THE NORTHERN DIVISION OF LANCASHIRE . Brother Chartists , —I have received cheering accounts from different towns visited by our talented lecturer , that the cause of Chartism is rapidly progressing ; that the numbers of the Association are greatly increasing and tfcat towns in which there vr&re no joined members of the Association , are now forming themselves , and enrolling their names as members of our great National Charter Association .
This , my fnencs , is what I expected would take place from agitation and the diffusion of political knowledge amongst the people ; but in order to keep up the fire which has now begun to burn , it is indispensably necessary that some talented lecturer should he kept continually lecturing amongst us , for assisting the formation of a union of good men and true , thai will stand against the betrayal of false friends , ani the persecution of our enemies . You are , my friends , aware that the period for which we engaged our worthy lecturer draws near a close , and in order to give you an opportunity of re electing him , or choosing some other before his time expires , it is my duty to call a delegate
meeting , to take place at Blackburn , on the 24 : h day of October , the delegates to meet at one o ' clock precise ! , at Mr . Aspden ' s , at the Temperance Hotel , Darwen-street ; and having read in last week ' s paper , with feelings of the greatest pleasure , the wise and important plans laid down by the Executive , for our fururs guidance , in getting up an agitation unparalleled in the &nnal 3 of our country , " in favour ef the glorious Charter of our rights , I coeEider it to be the duty of every man who has one spark of liberty in his bosom , to come forward at this most important crisis , and assist tie Executive in their noble exertiens they are dojt making , to drive from the hive those drones which have so losg lived upon the industry of the bees .
My friends , they have a right to expect it from ns ; for it was ourselves that elected them to fili the honourable , but important aud dangerous situation that they now ho : d ; and being n ^ n possessed of the greatest courage , honesty , and perseverance , they are entitled to the united and ztalous support of the members of the Association ; and I feel confident that the men of North Lancashire will come forward and nobly do their duty , and show to the world that the seeds of liberty sown by the immortal patriot , Henry Hunt , were sown in good ground , and have produced an abundance of good spiritj |; hat are now ready to take an active pars in making our country" Great , glorious , and free , First nower of the earth , first gem of the sea . "
I trust to call your attention to that part of the plan published by the Executive , that states their determination of summoning a Convention to . meet ear ] j the next year in London ; so that you may be able to instruct your delegates to come to the next delegate meeting that will be held on the 24 th of this month in Blaekbnrn , whether you are able and willing to elect a member to the Convention for the northern division of the county , for J perceive that they have agreed that two members shall be seat for the county . I adopt this course , my friends , to save expence , and I have no doubt you will be able to decide the question without any more meetings upon the subject . I remain , your obedient servant
wk . Beestet , District Secretary . P . S . Those place ? which have not joined the district may do so by sending either a letter or a delegate to Blickburn , if they request it ; there are several places wanted to makeup the number . 1 : Bacup , Barnowlswick , Darwen , Haslingden , or Sabden would send a delegate , they would be able io icake arrangements to have the lecturer regular at their respective places . If the Secretary for the district in which Mr . Bairstow lectures , will have the kindness to give his address to Mr . Beesley , Abbeystreet , Accrington , he will much oblige him .
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? ADDRESS TO THE MEN OF CORNWALL . Friends ajtd Brethren , —It becomes our duty to invite you , according to the country motto , " one and all , " to come forward and join in the great national struggle which now is made by men a- d women in all parts of England , Ireland , Scotland , and Wales , in order that we may gain for ourselves a fair share of political power , that our wants and our trades may be fairly protected , and that each man of sound mind , unconvicted of crime , as the age of twenty-one , may have the power of voting for members of Parliament ; for , my friends , it is not either fair or just that bricks and mortar should be allowed to vote , and that the productive classes be passive slaves , subservient tolaw 3 which they tnemteb-es have no controul over . Remember , yon " are compelled by law , made to serve the interests of your oppressors , to work hard from noon to n > ght for a mere crust , to supply a set of idle drones with money which they extort from you in the shape of taxes , which ia caused by class-legislation .
0 , my friends , were you fairly represented in the Commons' House of Parliament , by your own representatives , with power to act for the interests of the country at large ; do you suppose that , as your servants , they would act as at present , if they knew you had power over them to discharge them if they Eeglect-ed to legislate for the general welfare ? No , my friends , the country would not be satisfied without they did their duty as men ; therefore , we call on you , in the name of humanity , to come forward and help us to get rid of such a set of devouring drones that keep you in subjection only by guns and bayocet 3 and other physical-force instruments , and a Frenchified police , to carry out their black designs , to swear away your lives and Hberiy ' if it suits their purposes .
You well remember when that most detested faction , the Whigs , called on you to coma forward in the majesty of your strength , and , by your countless numbers , return them to power , and then they would obtain for you your rights , aud redress your grievances . Now , are you satisfied with th ^ m Ye-3 , Ely friends , wa think we hear yonr answern They have had nine years' power to oppress the country , by enacting some of the most base , bloody , and brutal Iaw 3 that ever disgraced a nation . " But the country has manfully done its duty by sending them about their business ; for it eVer a set of
noodles merited it , the Whig faction did . Instead of redressing your grievances , and giving to every man liberty , they gave you a most abominable Poor Law Amendment Act , which punishes poverty as a crime , separates husband from wife , and tears the weeping mother from her offspring . They have passed a most abominable Coercion Bill , established police spies , and made England a model for separate system prisons , and provided yon with masks . They have added e : sht millions of additional debt , an i imprisoned 450 of your best men for instructing tht people how to redress their grievances .
Now , my friends , the Whigs have died a mo : abominable death , and the bell has done tolling . bolder 3 et of public plunderers have seized the reii of Government , and think to reign over you , whic will and must add to your burdens , by creating ne Iaxe 3 , new emoluments , and fresh pensions , i reward your late oppressors , who have spoken eT against you . Now , we ask you , as men , are yc willing to submit to such a state of things , and i be governed by such a set of desperadoes ? If yoi answer is " No , never , " then we entreat you to con forward and lend a hand , and join the grci National Charter Association ; for bear in mind tbi unity is strength , and strength is power , " and uut we get that power we must be in the most wretch * state .
We ask you , as men , are you comfortable n ycur present situation in Cornwall ! Are y our table well supplied , your children well clad , your wive comfortable ! Is your labour protected ! If not ec are yon willing to stand by , and see your son obliged to leave the land of their birth , to scaveng through Cuba , Tan Dieman's Land , and variou ether foreign countries , to obtain a living whic ] they ought to demand from the laed of their birth a their inalienable rigkt , every day bringing fresl & ws that such a one is no more f If yonr answe is that you wish to alter your present degrade * position , then come forward with the same . unite * petition as you did when you petitioned for th "lease of your countryman , Trelawney , which peti taon was $ ra » ted by the King ,
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We want your co-operation m forwarding a National Petition , with 60 , 000 Cornish boys to sign it , to make up the number of four millions of signatures , and two men from every county to carry it to the House of corrnptibles ; and then our request will be granted , and the Corniahmen will nobly hare done their duty , and will reap the benefit of an upright Government which will make equal laws and equal rights . ( Signed ) " One and all , " In behalf of the Redruth Charter Association . Oct . 11 th , 1841 .
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Makylebone . —Mr . W . Garried will lecture at the WorkiDg Men's Hall , Circns-street , New-road , on Sunday , at half-pasl seven o ' clock in the evening . Subject , " The history , nature , and power of public opinion . " Mr . Morgan ' s Route . —Mr . Morgan lectures at Usworth , on Tuesday next ; at Fatfield , on Wednesday ; at Hebbron , on Thursday ; at Carville , on Friday , each evening at six o'clock ; and on Sunday , the 24 , 1 inst ., in vhe Chartist's Hall , Goat lun , Cloth Market , at half-past six . Basford . —The Chartists of thi 3 place have determined on a tea party , on Tuesday next , at the house of M . Sminton , Hare and Hounds Inn . Tickets for which may be had of the following persons : — John Hickling , Dobb Park , Edward Toulson , John Brown , William Brown , Parsons Fiat .
Sheffifld . —Mr . Otley will lecture in the room , Fig Tree-lane , on Sunday evening next , at seven o ' clock . Subject , " The wisdom of our ancestors . " Brombrbe O'Briew . —This gentleman will lecture in Sheffield , on the evenings of Monday and Tuesday next . At the time of sending this to the Star OiHce , the Council had notsneceedtd in getting a sufficiently large place of meeting—but , before this appears in print , a place will have been secured , and full particulars be announced by public placard . A select party of friends will honour Mr . O'Brien with a dinner on the evening of Tuesday preceedine the lecture , ( particulars as to hour and place will be s < iven in the bills . ) Tickets , Is . 6 d . each may be had at the room , Fig Tree-lane , on Sunday eTening .
Mr . Marsden ' s Route . —Mr . Marsden will lecture in the following places : —Monday , at Preston ; Tuesday and Wednesday , at Clitheroe ; Thursday , a ; Barnoldswick ; Friday , at Colne ; Saturday , at Accrington ; Monday 2 otb , at Blackburn ; Tuesday 26 th , at Sabden ; Wednesday 27 th . at Burnley ; Thursday 28 : h , at Bacup ; Friday 29 th , at Darwen ; and Saturday 30 th , at Chorley . Mr . D . Tathoh ' s Rothtk—On Sunday , at Hucknall Torkard ; Monday , Bullwell Forest ; Tuesday , Old Basford ; Wednesday , Carrington ; Thursday , Carlton . The _ friends at the above places will announce their own time of meeting , and make it as public as possible . London . —Mr . Ridley will lecture on the 21 st inst ., at nine o'clock , at the Red Lion , King-street , Golden-square .
Haslet . —It has been resolved that a ball shall take place at the large room , George and Dragon Ian , New-street , Haniey , on Monday evening , Oct . 25 ; h , the proceeds to be appropriated to Chartist purposes . Tickets , 6 d . each , may be had of the following persopB -. —Joseph Heath ' s Slack-lane , Haniey ; Jeremiah Yates , Miles Bank , and Moses Simpson , Pall Mall , Shelton . Lectcre . —Mr . G . B . Mart , will finish his lecture on the subject of the " Sins of Church and State , " on Monday eyening , in the National Charter Association Room , Haniey .
Mr . Dufft s proposed Route . —Mr . Duffy intends going to Lancaster , to visit his father , one of the exiled patriots of Ireland of 17 S 8 , aged upwards of ninety years , and has been advised to go by short stages and visit his Chartist brethren in the following places , during the next week , in his route , under the consideration that his health , although much improved , would not yet justify excesgive fatigue . Mr . D ., in accordance with this advice , will visit Ripponden on Monday next , and will be most happy io racet all the Chartists ( as well as Whigs and Tories ) of that district and explain his principles , and support them in discussion in or out of" doors , as
may be most convenient , at any hour after four o ' clock : he will call on Mr . Philip Piatt . On Tuesday , Mr . D . will be at the service of the men of Hebden Bridge , in the same way . At Todmorden ie will attend on Wednesday . At Haslingden , oil "hnrsday . At Colne , on Friday . At Burnley , on , Sa-urday . And at Blackburn , on Sunday . —Mr . D . ¦ would be glad to hear from any friends wishing him ' to visit them in the neighbourhood of Lancaster , \ while he remains there , or on his return from that ' p ' ace to Leeds . Letters to be addressed to him at : Mr . Jame 3 Duffy ' s , Sugar-house Alley , Greenaire , , Lancaster .
Newton Heath . —Mr . Wm . Booth will lecture in the Association Room , here , on Monday , October 25 th , at eight o ' clock in the evening . Rochdale , —The Demonstration Committee is requested to meet in the room , School-lane , on Sunday morning next , at ten o ' clock . Mr . Cartledge will lecture there in the afternoon , at half-past two . Nobth and East Ridings . —Mr . Skeyington , the North and East Riding lecturer , will visit the following places duriDg the next week : —Beverley , Monday the 18 th ; Hall , Tuesday the 19 th ; Scarborough , Wednesday and Thursday , the 20 th and 21 si ; and Malton , Friday the 22 nd . He will be at Leeds , on Sunday and Monday , the 24 th and 25 th .
The sbconb East aad North Riding delegate meeting will be held in the Association Room , Ebor Tavern , Straker's Passage , Fossgate , York , on Sonday , the 31 st October , at ten o ' clock in the morning , when it is hoped that every town in the above Ridings will send delegates , as business of importance will be brought forward . Those localities who cannot send delegates must send their views by letter . Any person willing to become lecturer for the East and North Riding district of Yorkshire must forward their address to the Secretary , Edward Barley , 19 , Bilton-etreet , L » yerthorp , York .
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Derbyshire . —Mr . Bairstow , the missionary , will lecture at Bonsall on Monday , and on Tuesday atMatlook . ^ ;) / . ; ' > , [ A A Bradford . —A sermon will be preached in the National Charter Association room , White Abbey on Sunday next , by Mr . J . Alderson , lit the afternoon , at half-past two o ' clock ; and in the evening , at six o ' oloci , by Mr . J . Arran , when a collection will be made for books after each sermon .
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Thb Armstrong Liver Fills are recommended as an Anti-bilious medicine , to every sufferer from bilious oomplaintB and indigestion , or from an inactive liver , and are procurable at all Druggists , and at the Northern Star office . It is only necessary to see that the stamp has "Dr . John Armstrong ' s Liver Pills" engraved on it in white letters , and to let no one put you off with any other pills . N . B . —The Pills in the boxes enclosed , in marbled paper , and marked B ., are a very mild aperient , and are particularly and universally pra ' iBed . They are admirably adapted for sportsmen , agriculturists , men of business , naval and military men ; as they contain no mercury or calomel , and require neither confinement to the house , nor restraint in diet .
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PTJ 3 LIC MEETING AT THE ROYAL BATH GARDENS , NEW ROAD , CHELSEA . On Wednesday evening , a publie meeting was held in the spiendid theatre of the above place . The meeting was got up in a- few hours' notice . The weather was unfavourable , yet at the hoar appointed , ( seven o'clock , ) the Theatre and every avenue to it was crowded to excess . These rooms are the head quarters of the anti-Corn Association , who , with all their expense and exertions , can never half fillthem ; yet a single boar dm an and fifty placards , net posted till the middle of the day , was sufficient Jo attract not only a host of working men , many of whoa were Irishmen , but also a very considerable number of middle class gentlemen .
Mr . Ridley was unanimously called to the chair He said—Brothers and Sisters , we are met here this evening for the purpose of considering the best means of obtaining justice to England and to ireland . We are not met hero to seek for ourselves what we would deny to others . We are for liberty for all , without distinction of creed , class , or colour . We take our stand on the broad principles of truth and justice . You will also remember that this 13 no inhabitant , no rate-payers' meeting . Any person willing to come forward either to speak for or against the resolutions which may be proposed shall have a fair , just , and monly hearing ; for it is my opinion that those principles which will not bear discussion are rotten at tho core . We court , we invite disouesion . We believe that our principles are just -we will place them cordially before y . > u , and leave you to decide . Two gentlemen have been
invited to attend this meeting—the one is Mr . O'Connor , the Champion of Equal Rights and Laws ; tho other is Mr . Sidney Smith , the Champion of the Cheap Bread Question . ( Mr . O'Connor hare arrived , and was greeted with great enthusiasm . ) Mr . Feargus O'Connor is here to address you , and 1 hare no doubt , from the love that Mr . Smith always professes to bear to the inhabitants of Chelsea , that he will be here also , to prove to yon , by calm reasoning and fair argument , that his principles , and the means by which he advocates them , are superior to ours ; and that you will calmly and patiently decide , according to your judgment , which plan will be most likely to ensure benefit to your order of society ; you have placed me at your head to command silence , and I know that you will give to all a fair hearing , that you will be guided by reason and justice , and determine according to the dictates of your conscience .
A gentleman in the meeting here stated that he had seen Mr . Smith at two o'clock ; and until informed by himself , Mr . Smith was not aware of the meeting , and therefore could not attend : he had not then received the letter . Mr . Dallibab moved the following resolution : — * ' That this meeting hail with delight and gratitude their noble champion Feargus O'Connor , and hereby reiterate their determination never to relax in their exertions until the People ' s Charter shall become the law , and Frost , Williams , and Jones are returned to their native land . They are also of opinion that justice will never be done to oppressed and insulted Ireland , until the Aet of Union between the two countries be repealed , and classlegislation for ever be banished our shores . "
The first part of this resolution had been entirely verified by the enthusiastic reception they had given to their noble champion , Feargos O'Connor . For what had he been taken from them ? for what had he been incarcerated 1—why for advocating the rights of the people . The Attorney-General and the Whig Government , finding they could not bring a charge of sedition against him ; finding they coulJ not accuse him of treason , either against the Sovereign , or the Sovereign People , set their invention to the rack , and accused him of the undefined crime of libel , and convicted him on an act which is a disgrace to our statute book . He trusted they would never relax in their exertions until the Charter became the law of the land . He trusted they would act upon the advice of the Whigs in 1831 , that taxation without representation was tyranny , and ought to be resisted . ( Loud cheering .
Mr . Dowling—I rise for the purpose of seconding the resolution , with which I most cordially agree . Never did the sun rise upon a man more deserving of your admiration than O'Connor . We have mueh to thank him for—we have to thank O'Connor for the restoration of tho Dorchester labourers—we have to thank him for the liberation of the Glasgow Cotton Spinners—we have to thank O'Connor for tho upright , straightforward , and consistent manner in which he has acted during our present agitation ; an agitation carried on in the most orderly and peaceful manner ; and yet we are accused of being violent men—accused too by the Whigs ! Where is their bluBh of shame when they think of Bristol in flames —of Nottingham in ruins ! But then they tell us of
Newport . My friends , John Frost fell a viotim to a most foul conspiracy—he was convinted and banished our shores contrary even to law , in the face of the decision of nine of her Majesty ' s Judges . This is what they call justice . Why , if he had been an aristocrat , he would have been tried by his peers , and a verdict returned of " Not guilty 'pon my honour . " How was it possible he could nave a fair trial , when the very jurors who oonvioted , were returningfpublic thanks to God for delivering them from his foul treason ? O'Connor had procured the return of the Dorchester Labourers—of the Glasgow Cotton Spinners , and trusted that he would soon be able to procure the return of these patriots also . In that part of the resolution , advocating the Repeal of the Union , he also agreed . Would they , the parishioners of Chelsea like the parishioners of another parish to transact their local business ? Let him refer them to America . There every State of the Union had
its local legislature , though all acknowledged ono general head . This is all we claim for Ireland ; and she will never obtain substantial justice until the Union is repealed and the Charter becomes the law of both countries . O ! but some Bay we go too far—it is too much to ask for a voice in the making of those Iaw 3 which we are compelled to support and obey . Working men , do you not adopt this plan in your benefit , in your trade and other societies ? why not then in the national society ? But they are afraid of our making a bad use of the power ; we are not educated enough . I Bay give us the power , we well know how to exercise it ; and if we do not , we will soon learn . You set the apprentice to work to learn his trade ; set us to work and we will speedily learn . You will excuse any deficiency of language in me , as I am but a bard-working man . Mr . D . sat down amid loud cheering . The resolution was then put and carried unanimously .
Mr . O'Connor rose to address them amid ? t the acclamations of the whole assembly . —Mr . Chairman and Chartists of Chelsea , it is with feelings of no slight pleasure and gratitude that I hare witnessed your enthusiastic reception of me on this my firat visit to Chelsea ; it convinces me that you are actuated by the same feelings as myself—a determination to struggle for equal rights . Although Chelsea is an isolated spot , almost out of tho metropolis , yet in common with other localities , I have had my eye upon you ; and as many fractions make up a whole , so I have been proud to see that , during my absence while in England , Scotland , and Ireland , have been rousing their myriads into action , you in Chelsea have not been asleep . You have been active
in disseminating your principles : proceed in this manly course ; proceed as your Chairman has told you , by fair argument and open discussion to meet your opponents , and you may rely upon it that though you have been maligned , and slandered , and villified , when your principles come to be known the tongue of the slanderer will be silenced , and those who have maligsed and villified you be put to rout . You have invited Sydney Smith to attend here , not as an opponent , but for the purpose of discovering truth ; wo would receive him not as an enemy , but as the staple commodity of disoussion ; and you would have passed your « pinion as to whether his principles , or my principles were most in
accordance with truth and justice . Mr . Smith complains of the short notice , and of not being properly invited ; he received nearly ai early invitation as myself ; if the letter of invitation has not reached him , still the gentleman who waited upon him informs yoa that he was not ignorant of the meeting . Inhabitants of Chelsea , Mr . Smith would have appeared before you with advantages superior to myself ; he is well known to most of you ; his principles he has laid many times before you ; while you are now listening to me for the first time . True , thanks to tire exertions of the working men , my principles are not utterly unknown to you . The stonemason who has addressed you stated that you were resolved to Mt en the advice of the premier ,
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and take your affairs into your own hands . You only needed my assistance to collect tbiB assembly togethbr , and J felt ; , it a duty and a pleasure to attend and address you . Throwing over the first part of the resolution , relative to myself , I will come to the next part , your determination to attain the Charter . Men . of Chelsea , you have tried all forms of government ; you have been ruled first by one party and then by the other party ; and what has been the result ! why poverty has increased , distress , ruin , and national bankruptcy are staring us in the face . What conclusion can we come to but that these systems ot government are based on wrong principles , and that we must return to the old plan when taxation and representation were co-extensive—when
England was happy and flourishing . Do we ask too much f We ask not for what belongs to others , we ask only for our own ; we only ask them to give us what they have found so beneficial for themselves . We find that those who have not got the vote are involved in distress , while those who have got the vote are generally strangers to distress . But they say they are afraid to trust you ; that yon would build up your principles in the destruction of others ; that you would produce anarchy and confusion . How was their Reform Bill based but on human bloodbuilt on the rains of cities , cemented by discord and confusion t Whilst , with one solitary exception , during the whole of our agitation no blood has been shed , no lives have been sacrificed ; no law has been
violated , except it be a violation of the law for the blistered hands who haye suffered from being ruled wrongfully in their endeavour to obtain the power to rule themselves . ( Hear , hear . ) I appear before you , not as an inhabitant of Chelsea , but as a citizen of the world . For three years I represented in Parliament the largest constituency in the empire ; and the result of my experience waa , that nothing but Universal Suffrage would ensure peace , justice , and prosperity to all classes of society . Yes , middlo class , it is your interest to obtain Universal Suffrage ; yet you would rather cling to the present system which is fast bringing you to ruin—which involved the wreck of your own soflial rights—which causes Saturday
night io come \ mh an empty tin ; stiii you would rather eling to thia , and allow the oligarchy of the country to drive you to ruin , than join the people in- their legal and peaceful agitation for equal rights for yourselves and for them , which would produce prosperity and plenty—which would ensure your social and political rights , and remove the evil of an empty till—which would remove the pressure of the manufacturer-from your shoulders , for the manufacturing interest is fast swamping that of tho shopkeepers , like the great pike in the fishpond , and they will speedily swallow up all the smaller fry . Its is to obviate this fatal result that we are endeavouring to obtain the People ' s Charter . We havo been aecused of turning out the Whigs .
I am a barrister , acknowledged to be in good practice ; but I have to learn one good law that the Whigs havo passed : I look through their ten years of Reformed Government , and , first , I see coercion for Ireland ; in the middlo I see starvation for England ; and at the end I see them funding Exchequer Bills to aggravate the debt in which they have involved us . The only remedy for this is the Charter . I have spent £ 10 , 000 of my own money in forwarding the cause . I am no peddling politician ; I have never travelled a single mile at the expenco of the people ; I have never had a single meal at their expence . I do not travel with a bundle of polities on my back , ready to pull out any sample of principle which may best suit my
customers . ( A printed bill was here received from Sidney Smith , shewing that he was engaged to lecture that evening . ) Cheap bread and high wages —" a large loaf and plenty t © do . " Mr . Smith promises you . We have no objection to the large loaf , but can dispense with the " plenty to do , " as we already have too much to- do ; we work too much , for others to enjoy the profit . Men of Chelsea , did you ever hear talk of a dear ox and cheap beef—of the fabrics which you produce being almost given away , and yet you to get high wages ! ( Hear , hear . ) Surely , Mr . Smith and the Corn Law Repealers must have discovered the philosopher ' s stone ; but they let out the secret too early ; they informed you they wanted cheap bread t » enable them to compete with the
foreign manufacturer ; they want you to wetk for nothing , to be their slaves , that they may be able to undersell and starve the slaves on the continent . Our Chairman truly said that we were cosmopolites ; we do not want to ruin tho foreign artizan v wo do not want you to be slaves for the whole world that a class of aristocrats may live m idleness . Bat how has this cry of cheap bread originated 1 Did they care about y « u < paying dear for your bread tHl the shoe pinched them I No ! Then , let them- fight like the two Kilkenny catB , until there is only the tail of one of them left . Yes , the landed and the manufacturing interest is fast ; swallowing up all other interests , and yet the middle classes * assist them . Is this not extraordinary ? What is the
House of Commons but the representatives of the shopocraey ? and when they asked for a Poor Law to grind the working classes to starvation point , what said the shopkeepers ? Oh yes ! and we will give lyou a rural polico too , to keep them down if they murmur ; but a change is coming . When I was in Sheffield a few days a-go at oar demonstration in tho Theatre Royal , pit , Btage , and boxes were crowded with middle-classmen and manufacturers ; in the box I sat in , I had a manufacturer on each side of me . I have been so used to the company of the blistered hands and the unshorn chins , I thought there must b-j some mistake , that I must be in the wrong box ; but ; it was all right . I askod my neighbours if they were Chartists ! " Oh yes ! "" I inquired how lone ?
" O ! since our trade has left us . " I told them that as prevention was better than cure , ib was a pity they had not been Chartists before , and then they mi ^ ht have retained their trade . This they acknowledged , but said it was better late than never , and they must make up for it by being better Chartists ; by working double tides ; and , my Chelsea friends , this you will find will be the case . ( Loud cheers . ) I never yet knew a man , I care not to what oldss he belongs , that when our principles were plaoed before him in fair language , and properly explained , that did not become a Chartist to the backbone . Why was I incarcerated ! why were nearly 580 of my fellow Chartists incarcerated , but because the Whigs
dreaded the power of our principles—because they feaied the effocts of free discussion . Ihey have attempted to raise a prejudice against us by saying we were physical-foree men . Why , if we had ever been so inclined , we never had the means . Our opponents had the bombs , the muskets , the swords , the army , tho poliee , and all the instruments of warfare . We had to oppose to this the cannons ' roar of a nation ' s voice , demanding Universal Suffrage . And when they found our weapons so ill matched—when they found that they could not uhoot a principle , nor stab a proposition , then said they we must silence these men—we must put them where their voice will not be heard—where the people may sigh in vain for the advice of their leaders . They
acted on this dastardly principle ; and how havo they succeeded ? Why , of 450- who have endured imprisonment varying from six months to two years , not one has proved a traitor : all have come out of the furnace like pure gold , without ; alloy or dross ; and we are continually adding to our ranks by dribblings from the middle classes . But we have now got the quack doctor Peel to remedy all bar diseases ; but we are on tho alert—we are not to be deceived . I have intently watched all parties ; I am well acquainted with publio affairs ; I have attended more public meetings than any man of the age ; I have deeply studied the subject ; and 1 positively declare , that if I was worth ten millions of money , whether it was in land , in funded property ,
or in hard gold , I would rather rely for its safety on a Commons' House of Parliament elected by the blistered hands , than on one elected by the professions , and the Church , and the State . The Parliament elected by these classes has been tried , and found wanting : it has ' eaten up every right of the working man ; like the large pike in the fish-pond , all ia swallowed down its ponderous jaws . They have passed statutes and acts of limitation on every possible plea ; but they have no power to foreclose tho rights of man with us ; there are no statutesof limitation , our rights are for all time . Whenever we have the power we can go into court with clean hands , and demand tho restoration of out own ; we will defy them to demur at our claims . The Whigs have said to the landlords , we will give
you 25 per cent , of the parson ' s property ; to the parsons , we will quarter your sons upon the Pension List ; and to the pensioners wo will give you pickings out of the taxes : and they have all agreed to club together , to live on the people ; but we must let them understand that they are unin vited guests , and that we are not inclined to play the hospitable host . Our ancestors , more wise than we , when the property of the Catholic hierarchy was divided , when the monasteries and the abbeys were dissolved , played their cards well ; they only allowed the aristocracy the use of this property , on the condition of their giving farm house and rights of hospitality to all eomora . We have a right to go to the Duke of Bedford ' s , at Woburn , for this ; as
much right as the landlord has to come to us for his rent ; for statutes were not made to lose all their force , when applied to the rich , and to be binding only on the poor ; your predecessors had no power to surrender your rights ; you were no parties to the bargain . It wonld have been equally consistent for a parliament sitting fifty years ago to have forbid you make use of gas , or of the invention of steam , as for them at that day to legislate away the rights of the . present day . ( Mr . O'Connor here , in a nervous and effective manner , entered into the subject of BaptiBt Noel ' s pamphlet , showing that vice , idleness , and immorality would speedily vanish before the virtuous determination of a anited and represented people . ) He also appeared before them as the advocate of a repeal of the legislative
union with Ireland . If it lay ia his power to prevent it , England should never have her rights a day , an hour , before Ireland had her rights . What must he , m afl Irishman , f « el to fee . his country ' s
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prosperity blasted—to see the children of the land he adored wanderers from the country of their birth , begging in a strange land for the alms of the benevolent 1 Was it not enough to make the floul shrink and the blood recoil to think that men dearly attached to their native soil , should be compelled to desert their birthright , from inability to procure even the barest pittance imaginable ? There is no man loves bis home and his country more than an Iriehman . Let bis cares be ever so great , bis privations ever so numerous , still he clings to his cabin , still is he content to labour for a bare subsistence , till hunger stares him in the face , and compels him to leave his much loved Emerald Isle . What is it that draws the Irishman to foreign climes ! Why . olasa
legislation . What would you say if , as our speaker , the stonemason , asked you , the inhabitants of Kensington and Hammersmith were to transact your parish business 1 But you may tell me that Ireland has a Parliament of her own , though it sits here in England . True , she has ; but their voices are controlled by the majority of the English Members ; and if they were even to sit in Ireland , the evil would be but little remedied . Ireland wants a Parliament of her own election on the broad basis of the People ' s Charter ; and then , and not till then , will Ireland get rid of her numerous grievances ; of a State Church at variance with the feelings of most of her inhabitants . ( Hear , hear . ) ( Mr . O'Con * nor here entered into an affecting detail
of the Hathoormac massacre , and that he had seeu the widowed and childless Mrs . Collins sucking the blood from out of the bosoms of her sous , two fine young men , one twenty-three , the other twenty-five years old , who had left home that morning in health and spirits , but who laid lifeless with Christian bullets in their bosoms . Yet the Whig Parliament gave a million of money to this Irish shooting Church . They never attempted to remove this mighty grievance . I would rather see my country a desert than see her energies thus prostrated . Why would not the Whigs attack this monster Church ? Why , because this Church gave pap to their younger sons , and they thought that the example might be cont&gioas , and that you
Protestants might think you paid too much foryoor own Reformed Law Church , which is drawing ten millions annually from your hard earnings . Yes , men of Chelsea , your State Church csats you three millions more than even your standing army ; and yet you are heavily burdened with that—yes , a standing army , to keep you itr vassalage , and enable them to shoot the inn « ccnt Chinese . ( Hear , hear . ) But , my frfends , you are told , if you do not like this , you can emigrate . That is much like telling a blind man to see . I too am for emigration , but I vouM select a proper cargo . I would select one of the largest steam vessels in the king&ois , and I would freight it with a cargo of bifihops , parsons , and pensionersand
, I would charter it for Australia or Van Dieaan ' s Land , or any where from whence they could never return again , and I would" give them a good sprinkling of barristers and lawyere to fill up the complement ; and with such a carg 03 entout of the country I have no fear that you would find population press upon the means of subsistence . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Bnt no , they lovo the fe , t of the land too well to emigrate ; they have got machinery as a substitute for our labour ; they have got machinery io make pocket-handkerchiefs , to meke their lace veils-, to make everything they stand in need of , and what they cannot get at home the ; want free trade to get from abroad . Do not mistake me , I am for free trade ; bat ere I embark my ship , I want the
Charter pilot on board . I would net even embark Phil potts and his-crew without having the humanity co give them' a good pilot on board ; then , with the Chartist pilot on board , and the fair wind of the Suffrage , we would soon steer our free-trade bark into the haven of prosperity ; but no T they want the free trade in corn , and they want a monopoly of legislation . Look at your local legislation ; why , you blistered hands-have to pay for gaa that lights the lamp before the nobleman ' s door > while your home is involved in darkness . You can grope your way in darkness , but the aristocrat , poor creature , he wants a lamp to light his steps ; but , then , the rate-oolleotor comes round as sure as death or quarter-day , to you for yeur quota of the expence .
—Tho policeman too , he wants a » light to enable him to distinguish tho difference between fustian and broad cloth ; and if he meets a broad cloth , whe , by some fatality , has miataken the lamp-post for his bed-post , why he takes-him up as tenderly as a basket of eggs . * ' Poor gentleman ; " see to his money , Tom , and take him safe-home ; call next day fer-your reward : but if it should happen to be a fustian , knock him down , take him to the station-hoHse , and fine him 5 s . for being drunk . ( Mr . O'Connor here west at great length-into the question of machinery ag-it affected employment , and its effect upon- the Corn Laws . ) The cant ory of the day was , throw the poor upon their own resources ; he was for this measure ; : he wanted no Poor laws .
In a country like this there ought to be no poor ; there ought to be a provision for the sick ,, and for those who were unable to work ; but all the rest he would throw on their own resources . But there should none bo allowed to quarter themselves on the poor roan ' s resources ; he would have all the lice removed from off the back of the beetle ; he would throw the bishop ? , the parsons , the pensioners , the placemen , upon their resources , or if they liked it better , they might emigrate ; he was s > friend to emigration ; but he would have the men of London , of Manchester , of Glasgow , of Dublin , emigrate to Berkshire , to Yorkshire , or any othea place where they could get land . He would compel none to go , but those who preferred Mr . Nod ' s artificial to his natural
state . He ( Mr . O'Connor ) : was acknowledged to be a good practical faamer , as good a one as ever took a plough in hand , and he had made calculations , which none could disprove , that give a man ten acres of land at a fair rent-, say £ 1 an acre , and a man and his wife and fire children should have plenty orj mutton , pork ,, bread , vegetables , eggs poultry , for his family , without their earning a farthing ,, and £ 45 clear te . spend in the manufacturing market . All are not partial to agricultural labour ; bat let ten emigrate to some of our race courses ,, parks , &o ; let some of our large farms be divided ; and then the manufacturing market would be relieved ; , masters would no longer have a reserve to fall back on . Others would-see the agricultural
success , vvoald see that they lived like princes , that thry were prosperous and happy , and would be induced ) to follow theu » example . ( . Hear , hear . ) Sydney Smith might then go to Poland or America if he liked for his breakfast ; but we could grow-good breakfasts at h « me . We should give to the landlords a good retail market for ttaeir land , instead of an unprofitable wholesale one * and they would then be interested ia eur welfare . The Times told them that more churches was the remedy for all our evils ; that we must Tast and pray . We had fasted too long : we wanted the land , aad then we could be able to feast ? but because he was opposed to this humbug religion , he was called an Infidel ; but he would leave his actions to speak whether
he- did not act more on the true principles of reliftian than the ? o professors . He was a true and sincere Christian . No man more mixed up . the practice ot pure religion with the actions of their everyday life than he did ; he longed for the establishment of the Charter to make the present wretched eountry a heaven upon earth . Mr . O'Connor then went into the conduct of the Whiga to John Frost , eulogising his conduct as a mayor , a citizen , a husband , and a father , asd asking if such a man , with such a public and private character , could bo the character he was represented to be ; and stating that a day of reckoning would yet come , when all should have to appear and be judged by their actions ; then would Frost
stand in high pre-eminence over his accus rs . Mr . O'Connor then , at some length , defended himself from the charge of being a physical force and torch and dagger man , showing that it was Attwood and Muntz , with their rifl 6 clubs and muskets , sold halfprice , had brought that stigma on the Chartist cause . Mr . O'Connor then referred to an article in last week ' s Dispatch , headed " Political Bloodhounds , " showing that they attaoked us in a similar manner in 1838 ; that they applauded the people in their agitation , till it got too far for their , party purposes ; then they turned roundandabusedthorn . He also ridiculed the idea of Publicola' being a Republican , and opposed to Universal Suffrage , snowed that when he asked tor the Ballothe was asking for the
, ladle without the soup ; blamed the working man for allowing those to live upon their resources , who maligned and abused them ; asked them when they went for a Dispatch , next Sunday , to ask for sixpenny worth of political bloodhouuds to buy sixpenny worth of abuse of their own order . He next gave them a glorious account of the demonstrations iuthe country—how they had buried Whiggism and left room for Toryism by its side—ridiculed the idea of some of tho writers for newspapers dogmatising about the Corn Laws , when they scarce knew a grain of corn when they saw it ; advised the people to
attend every description of meeting , and in a calm and manly manner move their amendments , and their opponents must speedily bow before the rushing stream of public opinion ; that like the haughty Dane , the enemy might speak but speak in vain against the will of a nation ; that as soon m ght they stop the sun in his course , as stop our agitation for the Charter ; that the Charter was the mighty magnet that would attract every other shade of" public opinion to its conquering self , and that disdaining the frown of thtrich man , the censure of the interested , the scorning of the fool , he wonld , until death , stand firm and conaUtent to our glorious principle
Mr . O'Connor was tremendously cheewd throughout the whole of his address ; both by English , Irish , and Cora-Law Repealers , and sat down amidst thunders of applause , having spoken nearly two hours . Mr . Ridlev addressed the meeting at some length ; and , in the namie of Mr . O'Connor , challenged Sidney Smith , or any other Corn-law lectnrer . Mr . WHEELBRhavingbeen calledfor . brieflyadaressed the meeting . A vote of thanks was given to the Chairman and cheers for the Star , tictims , < fec , after Wbiea th « meeting separated .
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Fatai Railway Acci&knt . —On Wednesday night a fatal accident occurred to thekeeper of a gate near Brough , named Heesom . It appears that as the last train reached the gate kept by deceased , about halfpast nine o ' clock , it being then quite dark , the engineer , a very steady man , and oneof the most valuable of the company ' s servants , found that the keeper had not opened it , and on arriving at Hull he reported the neglect of the keeper , and it was intended that he should b * very severely reprimanded the next day . Early in the morning , however ,: his body was found lying on the line , with his hand and the back of his head crushed . It is supposed that the deceased had fallen asleep in bis box at the time that the tram was coming up , and being startled by the whistle of the engine , had run to the gate , but had been too late to open it , and had been knocked down and run over by the train . From the wounds of the body it ; s supposed that deceased must have- died instantaneously .
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Leeds Com Market , October 12 rm—The arrivals of Wheat is again large to this day's market , other kinds of Grain moderate . Old Wheat has been in fair demand , and Is to 23 . per quarter higher , bat no improvement in New , that is in good con ' dition ; the damp qualities very bad to quit . There 1 ha 3- not been much doing in Barley , prices much the 1 saste . Oats have made rather more money . Beans without alteration .
THE AVERAGE PRICES FOR THE WEEK ENBfNG Oot ; 12 TH , 1841 . Wheat . Barley . Oats . Rye . Beans . Peat Qrs . Qrs . _ Qrs . Qra . Qrs . Qrs 2762 ' 331 68 B — 17 fr 75 £ 8 ; d . £ s . d . £ s . d . £ ~ s . d . £ s . d . £ a . d . 3 5 lQi 1 13 li 1 3 9 £ 0 » 0 0 2 0 10 | I 17 6 f Leeds Cloth Markets *—There has been again more business done during the week than for some time back ; the markets , on both Saturday and Tuesday ( particularly the former , ) wer # brisk , and more of the large buyers attended . The warehouses still continue fully occupied .
Yoe « Corn MAiacfffi , SATtraBis , Oct . 9 . —A good supply of Wheat at to-day ' s market is met by an equally good demand , and prices are generally improving ; the same may be said of Oats , the advancein which are fully id , per stone- Barley in request , and farmers unwilling to take less than last weeks prices . Flour has advanced 35 . per sack , our millers ) eing unable to grind the new Wheats without a large mixture of old , the value of which is relatively much higher . The weather has Been very wet , and the condition of all : descriptions- of grain affeoted by it . Eichmond Corn Market , Oct . 9 th . —We had a tolerable supply of Grain in our market to-day ; the samples of New Wheat were very good . Wheat sold from 63 6 d to-9 s 6 d ; Oats , 2 s lOd to 3 a BDd ; Barley , 46 3 d to 4 s 6 d ; Beans , 5 s to 6 s per bnahel .
Hull Corn Market , Tuesdat , Ogt . 12 . —There has been a fair steady demand for old foreign Wheat during the past week , and to-day , having several buyers down , a moderate extent of business has been transacted , at an advance of fully Is per quarter on the best qualities of English and old foreign ^ selected parcel * of the latter have rather exceeded this advance ; secondary qualities , and those wanting condition , remain without alteration . Barley is held at full prices , but not much doing in it . Old Oats support prices ; new ones are difficult to quit . Beans and Peas without alteration , and but a trifling business passing .. Linseed and Rapeseed support former prices . Cakes , both rape and in seed , unaltered . Bone * , are taken as they arrive .
Nevagasilb Cobn Market-, Oct . 9 . —We had & very large supply , of New Wheat at market from the neighbouring counties thia morning , the bulk of which was in very indifferent condition , and such sold only slow , while the better conditioned sampleswere readily bought up at last week ' s rates . Old Wheat is a free sale at an advance of Is to 2 s per quarter on the prices of this day se'nnight . Bye is in good demand , and fine qualities Is per quarterdearor . Barley is in great request for Malting , and Stettin and Rostock is selling from 84 s to 38 s per quarter . The little Norfolk offering in . the market is of inferior quality , and slow sale . Beans and Peas are a slow sale , and w&can note no alteration in their value . Fine Mali is a free sale , but other qualities hang on hand . We had a large supply of Oate- from the country to-day , which were taken off' at a decline of 6 d to Is per quarter , Flour is Is per sack dearer , and a free sale .
London Smithfieli > Market , Monday , Oct . 11 . —Our market to-day was again well supplied with Beasts , of which were of very good quality , the attendance of dealers were numerous , yet the Beef trade was heavy , and last week ' s quotations were hardly supported , and a clearance was not effected . The receipts from Scotland were limited in extent . There was a fair average number of Sheep on sale , which moved off steadily , on quite as good terms as noted on Monday last . In Calves little was doing , with a fair number on sale . The Pork trade was dull , at unvaried currencies .
London Corn Exchange . Monday , Oct . 11 th . — There was a fair supply of Wheat and Barley from . Essex ' , Kent , and Suffolk for - this day's market , but a moderate quantity of beans and peas from these counties , whilst the fresh arrival of oats was rather large , consisting mostly of Irish , having about thirtj vessels in since Friday with the latter descrip tion . There have been moderate imports of foreign grain since this day se ' nnight . Much rain has fall « i during the past week , and last night it was again very heavy , which will check the completion of harvest in the latest districts . The driest Eng lish Wheat 3 met a free sale to our millers at an advance of Is to 2 j per qr , and secondary samples were about Is per qr dearer . There was a moderately good
demand for all Foreign Wheat at an improvement of full 2 s per qr on last Monday ' s currency . Go ° * marks of Ship Flour were in iair request , and thebest of such , as well as fine French , realised full 1 » per sack higher rates , but town-made was unaltered in value . The best Malting Barley met a fair sale at last week ' s prices . Other sorts of English were dull , and rather lower , whilst dry old foreign commanded fully the rates of this day se'nnight . Mai * was without alteration in value , prime qualiti ** meeting a moderate sale . Good Beans were taken at quite as mnoh , and there was no variation in the rate * paying for any description of pea * Owing » the large supply of Irish Oats , this article met a dull sale at last week ' s currency .
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DUBLIN . —The cause of the unrepresented goes on bravely here , and from the letters daily received by Mr . Brophy , we are assured that the prinoiplea cf the People ' s Charter , are rapidly spreading in most of the large towns in Ireland , and that Dan ' s " shining" popularity is fast fading before the light of ths Northern Star . The Ieish Univebsal Scfpbage Association met on Sunday last , Mr . P . Rafter in the chair ; the minutes of the last meeting were confirmed , after which the Secretary read from the Northern Star , the report of the spread of Chartist principles in Drogheda , and remarked that similar attacks like
that which had been made on Mr . Crossby had been made on some of the members who are now present . He also stated the reasons which prompted the aristocracy to attempt to stifle the voice of the people . Mr . Atkinson rose and said , though not a member , he hoped he would not be violating any rule by the few cursory remarks he was about to make ; he said it was not often that working men in Dublin had the opportunity of hearing such truths spoken by one of their order ; he agreed with all that Mr . Brophy had said of the evils of the Government debt , and that worst of all evils , the state churah , and regmved that all the valuable information which such an Assocation as that was capable of giving to the public should be lost for want of the press .
The people of Ireland ( said he ) only want to be enlightened in the principles of the Charter , and they -would join it in greater numbers than ever they joined the great Father Mathew . Mr . Atkinson concluded by statiog that he should consider it to be his duty to give the Iriah Universal Suffrage Association all the assistance he could . ( Great chceeing . ) Mr . P . Duff said that &s an Irishman he feh it to be his duty to advocate the principles of the Charter , in order to create a union of sentiment between ths people of this country and England . He concluded a very sensible speech by propos-ns Mr . John Finn . Mr . Henry Clark read a letter , containing the names of nine persons resident in SLigo , and requesting him to propose them
as members . Mr . O'Higgins said it must be gratifying to the friends of universal liberty in England , to learn that the caa 3 e in which so many thousands are engaged , in and for which so many hundreds had suffered , was at length spreading in this once benighted but now partially enlightened countryenlighteaed by the circulation of the Northern Star . Mr . O'Higgin 3 also said that , feeling the justness of the principles of the Charter , he waited upon the editors of the Freeman and Register , and siated to them the advantage they would gain by taking np the principle Thty declined , and he had no doubt bnt these gentlemen would yet be sorry that they had
not taken it np . He" would conclude by stating to them a fact . When Mr . O'Connell made the attack on the Chartist body and on the Rev . Mr . Ryan , our numbers did not exceed eighty , and he now held in his hand the card of Mr . Finn , the number of which was 502 . ( Tremendous cheering . ) The meeting was further addressed by Messrs . O ' Toole , Dyot , Dempsey , and Clarke , on the importance of establishing a free press in Dublin . Mr . Clarke wa 3 called to the chair , and thanks were Uiven to the Chairman , when tho meeting separated , many , as they went out , declariog— " Now we are convinced that Brophy is no Orangeman . "
NEWTON HEATH . — The friends here complain of being very frequently disappoinUd by the non-attendance of the planned lecturers ; this has been the case three times within the last three months . " On Monday last , October Ihh , Mr . Linney ought to have been there , but instead of this , he went into the Potteries , and though a substitute was promised , and the people had got together a large meeting to hear him , no one came , and the assembly after waiting nearly two hours , retired greatly disappointed . These things ought not to be
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NOMINATIONS FOR THE GENERAL COUNCIL . SBLBT . ... Thomas Watson , tailor , New-atreet Richard Jakes Birch , flix-dresser , New-land . Wm . Richardson , watchmaker , Market-place . Wm . Butler , tailor , Mill-gate . Jothern Daultry , « ngin « er , Vew-Iane . John Willies , shoemaker , Mill-gate . James Brewster , ditto ; ditto . H . Rockett , grocer , Market Place , sub-Treasurer . Wm . Sutherby , shoemaker , Q owthorp , sub-Secre
STeURBRIDGE . Charles Corry , Brittl » -Iane . Frederick Qoodfellow , New-street . Samuel Welsh , Lye Waste . Richard Taylor , ditto . ~ John Chance , Old Swinford . James Chance , ditto . Francis Forbes , AmblecoaU-lane . Wm . Steele , Brittle-lane . Joseph Freeman , Hay Green . Francis Carey , Brittle-lane , sub-Treasnref Wm . Bowker , Brittle-lane , sub-Secretary .
THOB . NTON . Mr . Henry Htggins , weaver , Clayton . Mr . Thomas Rhodes , weaver , Clayton . Mr . Daniel War tratton , weaver , Clayton . Mr . Joseph Rouse , senior , stonemason , Thornton . Mr . James Leach , weaver , Thornton , sub-Treasurer Mr . Joseph Rouse , jun ., stonemason , Thornton , sub Secretary . WESTBUBY , ( WILTS . ) . James Vincent , teasle-seiter , Church-street . John Biewood , shoemaker . Brook-street
Jacob Applegate , weaver , Beurs Well . , John Cockell , jun ., porter , Church-street . Henry Wingrove , shoemaker , Church-street , West bury Leigh . Charles Flay , woofcsorter , Warminster Road . Henry Vincent , weaver , Brook-street . Benjamin Deacon , patten-maker , Gosling . John Champion , weaver , Monnt Pleasant William Tucker , shoemaker , Mount Pleasant , sdb Treasurer . Thomas Brice , bruafamaker , Alfred-street , sub-Secre tary .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 16, 1841, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1131/page/8/
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